Abstract Critical Discourse Analysis as an interdisciplinary approach aims at making transparent the connections between discourse practices and social practices and provides ways of looking into translations from a critical standpoint.Farahzad is among the scholars who presented her specific CDA model inspired by Fairclough’s approach. The present Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA)-based s...

Within the IS research field, there are many views on how to understand the use of IT systems. Within the community of organisational semiotics, Stamper’s semiotic framework has been used as a tool to understand information systems at different abstraction levels. Another theory related to organisational semiotics, Information Systems Actability Theory (ISAT), argues that social action theories...

The existing diversity of languages for special purposes leads to their their commonly highly complex and thoroughly differentiated terminologies. Getting an overview has become almost impossible without appropriate terminology management systems. Existing terminology management systems cannot effectively accommodate regular changes, updates of or additions to multilingual terminologies. While ...

This paper presents semiotics as a framework for unders tanding and designing computer systems as sign systems. Although semiotic methods can be applied to all levels of computer systems, they view computer systems under a particular perspective, namely as targets of interpretations. When we need to see c o m p u t e r systems as automata, semiotics has little to offer. The main focus of the pa...

Approaches to artificial intelligence research based on autonomous agents have thus far primarily relied on cognitive science and other psychologically motivated approaches to the social world. These approaches have been a logical outcome of the researchers' concentration on agent building. However, recent developments in the field have revealed the need for a wider and primarily socially cente...

abstract purpose of this paper: this paper presents an analysis toward understanding the business value components that a health care organization can drive by adopting rfid technology into its system. this researcher proposes a framework for evaluating the business value of rfid technology. to do so, emphasis is put on delivering business value through refining business processes and expanding...

The paper presents two semiotic models for a description of development stages of indicators, including generation processes of expert knowledge about developed indicators. For the description of stages of these processes, a new notion of “Frege’s space“ is introduced. The authors described two applied semiotic models of knowledge acquisition. Those processes were studied in the context of form...

As software agents get more sophisticated, it becomes difficult to understand and model such systems. In this paper, we contend that all developers bring to the task of development some implicit or explicit assumptions of the agent communication pattern. This issue is not readily addressed in current literature and represents a gap in knowledge. For this purpose a generic pattern of inter-agent...