This paper presents a new framework to model an assessment process for a complex and multidimensional syndrome such as depression. Since the measurements of depression are inherently imprecise, we explicitly model the context of the assessment process, and we analyze various aspects of imprecision (syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic). The framework is based on fuzzy logic and semiotics. The fuz...

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...

Recent research on science education has increasingly focused on the literacy challenges posed by multimodality. While students are required by government mandated syllabi to make a successful translation between different semiotic resources, there still remains a lack of research on the grammars and functionality of the specialized modalities to develop explicit instructions to improve literac...

In this paper we discuss a set of conceptual issues regarding the synthesis of semiotic processes within artificial systems, and its technological offspring, the semionic networks. We start by putting in context what is this thing semiotic synthesis, and how and why it differs from semiotic analysis. We follow proposing the concept of a "semion", as both an elementary entity with semiotic proce...

The concept of information in ordinary language is being analysed in detail. It will be shown that information is a family resemblance concept which is not definable in a unified way. As a consequence, an integrated semiotic information processing model is postulated instead of a unified information concept.