  We report the development of a pattern-recognition scheme that takes into
account both fcc and hcp adsorption sites in performing self-learning kinetic
Monte Carlo (SLKMC-II) simulations on the fcc(111) surface. In this scheme, the
local environment of every under-coordinated atom in an island is uniquely
identified by grouping fcc sites, hcp sites and top-layer substrate atoms
around it into hexagonal rings. As the simulation progresses, all possible
processes including those like shearing, reptation and concerted gliding, which
may involve fcc-fcc, hcp-hcp and fcc-hcp moves are automatically found, and
their energetics calculated on the fly. In this article we present the results
of applying this new pattern-recognition scheme to the self-diffusion of 9-atom
islands (M9) on M(111), where M = Cu, Ag or Ni.
