Terms such as ‘data processing system’, ‘management information system’, ‘decision support system’, ‘expert system’ and ‘executive support system’ are widely used. However, there appears to be no generally accepted way to distinguish among these classes of information systems due to the vagueness that has existed in traditional classification schemes of information systems. The purpose of this ...

Model mapping faces many challenging tasks and contemporary work seems to focus on computational issues. As a result it seems to lack an overarching theoretical framework whereby all aspects of model mapping can be investigated systematically. We maintain that the principles of semiotics may well provide theoretical foundations for developing such a framework. In this chapter we report our prel...

This article reflects upon the recent return to linear history writing in medical history. It takes as its starting point a critique of the current return to constructivist ideas, suggesting the use of other methodological choices and interpretations to the surviving archival and textural sources of the sixteenth century pox. My investigation analyses the diagnostic act as an effort to bring to...

The semantic normal forms of organizational semiotics extract structures from natural language texts that may be stored electronically. In themselves, the SNFs are only canonic descriptions of the patterns of behavior observed in a culture. Conceptual graphs and dataflow graphs, their dynamic variety, provide means to reason over propositions in first order logics. Conceptual graphs, however, d...

women as half of human societies have different roles in different areas of social life. so content analysis of the media is necessary in the about of women. this study uses two methods: content analysis and semiotics. so content analyzed a statistical week from the first six months of 1393 kayhan, iran and shargh newspapers. then by using semiotics, printed images of women in these newspapers ...

yuri lotmn (1993-1922) is the founder of the moscow-tartu school. he has a distinguished role in introducing and developing the “theory of intercultural semiotics”. in lotman’s opinion, cultural semiotics considers each text as a cultural totality. the existing signs in the text could indicate the way in which the significances are produced to achieve a certain specific meanings in a culture. h...

The aim of this paper is to introduce a cognitive semiotic approach, which offers a clearer understanding of how interactive design products communicate their meaning to users. The ongoing shift in contemporary design towards making user interfaces aesthetically more engaging (tangible, intuitive, etc.) challenges traditional design semiotics on a number of its basic assumptions about meaning c...

Semiotics is the study of signs and sign systems. While linguistics concerns itself specifically with human speech, semiotics investigates " the processes and effects of the production and reproduction, reception and circulation of meaning in all forms, used by all kinds of agent[s] of communication. " 1 Semiotic thought developed into its own distinctive field of inquiry in the late-nineteenth...

I would like to present some new perspectives on the reciprocal foundational links which are discernable between general semiotics, anthroposemiotics and biosemiotics. To that end I offer an examination of the peculiar place occupied by temporal relations within the relational framework of semiotics. I support these considerations by drawing on previous work about a relational standpoint presen...

Semiotics also includes the general principles that underlie all sign systems. It is thus more comprehensive than linguistics--very much more, because there is a semiotic dimension to practically every human artifact. (Indeed, since we can 'read in' meanings to natural events, e.g., as in 'the lack of rain shows God's displeasure,' semiotics is not even limited to human artifacts.) In recent ye...