The article you cited contains minimal information about the DCT PCM capabilities. The pertinent info I read in the article is, "Honda's Dual Clutch Transmission features advanced electronic control technologies to achieve smooth and precise acceleration, including a learning function that finds the most suitable start, gear change and running operations for a motorcycle."
From that I don't see any explanation or suggestion that the DCT PCM "tracks the operation parameters and creates trends", or can "formulate predictions based on the trends and then create shifting schedules", as you stated. Since that level of detail is not contained in this article, what publication did you find that describes the theory of operation in such detail? I have not seen one myself.
I could theorize myself that "a learning function that finds the most suitable start, gear change and running operations for a motorcycle" could simply mean the clutch free play is automatically and continuously calibrated much in the way I would keep my clutch cable properly adjusted. But, in the absence of any technical explanation for that phrase, it's meaning is quite ambiguous.
I am an engineer (as you often point out about yourself, Bruce), at least that word is in my job title. I've learned not to take a marketing pitch and attempt to extrapolate a solid theory on how something works. So again, if you can cite a technical publication that describes the details of the DCT learning function to the degree that you have, that would be very helpful.
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