The aim of this paper is to introduce a unified framework for soft computing based on the computational semiotics approach. Derived from semiotics, a classic discipline in human sciences, computational semiotics provides a mathematical foundation for the concept of knowledge and for knowledge processing that is suitable for intelligent systems design and implementation. As a result, a new persp...

Semiotics is “the mathematics of the humanities” in the sense that it provides an abstract language covering a diversity of special sign-usages (language, pictures, movies, theatre, etc.). In this capacity, semiotics is helpful for bringing insights from older media to the task of interface design, and for defining the special characteristics of the computer medium. However, semiotics is not li...

The Tatami project is building a system to support software engineering over the internet, exploiting recent advances in web technology, interface design, and specification. Our effort to improve the usability of such systems has led us into algebraic semiotics, while our effort to develop better formal methods for distributed concurrent systems has led us into hidden algebra and fuzzy logic. T...

This study demonstrates how semiotics, which constitutes the “linguistic turn” in human sciences, is a powerful tool for revealing concealed meanings in Internet marketing. Semiotics deals with symbols in the form of text and pictures, and also with their underlying meaning. Hence, since Internet marketing makes extensive use of symbols in order to affect product awareness and cultural meaning,...

This paper sets forth semiotics as a viable theoretical foundation of information design. In addition to presenting a brief history of the development of semiotics it also gives three examples of how semiotic principles are applied to specific fields of study. These areas include information systems engineering, organizational decision support systems, information intensive web interfaces, and ...

G. D. Putnik, Editorial identifies semiotics as a candidate framework for a new MSI paradigm to extend the solution space of the MSI discipline with focus on use, interpretation and communication of and about technical solutions for MSI. Semiotics comprises syntax, semantic and pragmatics. Contrary to the first two the latter is totally unknown in the MSI discipline, but all three are used in i...

The main goal of this functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) study was to identify the neural correlates of a mystical experience. The brain activity of Carmelite nuns was measured while they were subjectively in a state of union with God. This state was associated with significant loci of activation in the right medial orbitofrontal cortex, right middle temporal cortex, right inferior an...

In this and the following companion paper, Tearing Interfaces Apart, we shall present a theoretical semiotic analysis of interfaces and demonstrate how this analysis can be coupled to an empirical analysis of a work domain and its changing needs for information. The work domain is maritime maneuvering and navigation. We do this by exploiting two senses of the concept “analysis”. “Analysis” mean...