A Semiotic Approach to Geographical Space

A Semiotic Approach to UML models

In this paper we are trying to clarify, with the aid of some semiotic notions, the confusions that lie around the widely used terms “analysis model” and “design model” in sofware engineering. In our experience, these confusions are the root of some difficulties that practitioners encounter when doing modeling, and sometimes lead to bad engineering practices. When software engineers say “analysi...

A Semiotic Approach to Integrative Negotiation

An analysis of two-party integrative negotiation reveals the potential of this type of bargaining for being interpreted as a conceptualization process. Past research on a semiotic model of human processing shows the possibility of a definition of a uniform representation of knowledge. In this paper we suggest that by combining the above results integrative negotiation can be positioned as an ab...

A Semiotic Approach to Critical Reasoning

Information can be interpreted as in-formation, which refers to the potential of the form for a mediation of meaning. In this paper we focus on reasoning information and consider the question how form involved in reasoning can be used for an analysis of accounting narratives in corporate disclosures. An evaluation of experimental results is included.

A Semiotic Approach to Conceptual Modelling

The work on Conceptual Modelling performed by our group at PUCRio is surveyed, covering four mutually dependent research topics. Regarding databases as a component of information systems, we extended the scope of the Entity-Relationship model, so as to encompass facts, events and agents in a three-schemata specification method employing a logic programming formalism. Next we proceeded to render...

A Semiotic Approach to Jazz Improvisation