EUGEN BAER (b. 19 August 1937). AcademicStatus: Professor of Philosophy. Mail Address: Box 4010 Scandling Center, Geneva, NY 14456, USA. E-mail: . Personal Office Tel: (315) 781-3376; Fax: (315) 781-3348. Educational Background: Ph.d, Yale University,1971. Research Interests: (I) Philosophy of medicine; (2) Philosophy of language; (3) Philosophy of Religion. Professional Backgroun...

In the following, elementary constituents of models in computational semiotics are outlined. This is done by referring to computer simulations as a framework which neither aims to describe artificial sign systems (as done in computer semiotics), nor to realize semiotic functions in “artificial worlds” (as proposed in “artificial semiosis”). Rather, the framework referred to focuses on precondit...

Communication depends on the production and interpretation of representations, but the study of representational processes underlying communication finds little discussion in computational experiments. Here we present an experiment on the emergence of both interpretation and production of multiple representations, with multiple referents, where referential processes can be tracked. Results show...

The semiotic approach to information systems development has proved over the years as a reliable framework for analyses, and it has been mainly focused on the development of organizational information systems. However, the usefulness of the approach extends beyond the organizational context to other areas of systems development. This paper presents a semiotic analysis of persuasive technologies...

Semiotic engineering Semiotics is a discipline devoted to studying signs and signification, which includes processes of representation, interpretation, sense making, and – for a number of semioticians – communication. Its object of investigation is thus strongly connected with that of various subareas of Computer Science such as: Artificial Intelligence, Human-Computer Interaction, and even The...

We might visualize a semiotic system that depended, in the absence of the power of speech,, upon the ~pperception by the hu.m,an participants o-f contextually defined logical relations among themselves in space. Let us say: the relative position of each participant to another -in a gathering, and to items in· a fixed environment. The 'elements' of the semiotic would be stated by their existenti...

An original approach to modelling internal structure of artificial cognitive agents and the phenomenon of language grounding is presented. The accepted model for the internal cognitive space reflects basic structural properties of human cognition and assumes the partition of cognitive phenomena into conscious and 'non-conscious'. The language is treated as a set of semiotic symbols and is used ...

The desideratum for the concept of a semiotic web is proposed. It combines both the recent semantic web and the pragmatic web initiatives but surpasses them in being faithful to Charles S. Peirce’s pragmatic approach to inquiry. I will address some conceptual shortcomings of the semantic and pragmatic web proposals, and suggest that in a semiotic web, one can to operationalise its basic ideas i...

Any description of the emergence and evolution of different types of meaning processes (semiosis, sensu C.S.Peirce) in living systems must be supported by a theoretical framework which makes it possible to understand the nature and dynamics of such processes. Here we propose that the emergence of semiosis of different kinds can be understood as resulting from fundamental interactions in a triad...

The objective of this article is to present a semiotic analysis of void— which in this article is the spacio-temporal empty space existing in any representation—in order to consider the representation of quality and to show how this is essential in human representation yet difficult to process computationally. First, a summary of reference to void is presented through a comparison between Weste...