The aim of this paper is to introduce the theoretical foundations of an approach for intelligent systems development. Derived from semiotics, a classic discipline in human sciences, the theory developed provides a mathematical framework for the concept of knowledge and for knowledge processing. As a result, a new perspective to study and to develop intelligent systems emerges. Here, Part I, the...

At its most fundamental level, semiotics helps us to understand how we assemble in our minds eye, a picture of what we imagine to be ‘the real world’. ‘Studying semiotics can assist us to become more aware of reality as a construction and of the roles played by ourselves and others in constructing it’ (Chandler, 2006). In trying to understand that reality, semiotics draws on many fields, includ...

Abstract This paper introduces the notion of speculative semiotics as a scientific project within larger umb- rella studies. The first provides brief account projects “nuclear semiotics” that investigated how to communicate across long periods time. These efforts are then connected traditions design and fiction, whose roots can be traced back situationism Italian radical design. synergy between...

Organisational Semiotics (OS) aims to provide new methodologies, techniques and tools to the development of information systems and organisations by applying semiotic theories and studies, therefore offering a new perspective on the field, which incorporates technical and social aspects. In order to apply semiotics to Information Systems (IS) and Information technology (IT) different approaches...

In the last few years, researchers have begun to study novel human communication systems in the laboratory (Experimental Semiotics, ES). The first goal of this article is to provide a primer to ES, which we will do by reviewing the experimental paradigms developed by experimental semioticians, as well as the main research themes that have emerged in the discipline. A second goal is to illustrat...

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...