Semiotics in Information Systems Engineering

  holds a chair of Computing Science at the School of Computing, Staffordshire University. He leads a research group on semiotics for information systems. He has created the research (specialist) award of Information Systems with Semiotics, the first of this type in the United Kingdom. Dr Liu first worked in the Commission for Integrated Survey, China State Planning Committee and Chinese Academy of Sciences. As a programmer and later systems analyst designer, he was involved in and led a number of projects of developing information systems for regional planning and development purposes. Originally trained as a computer scientist in his university education in China, his postgraduate and doctorate education has been shifted towards management and business systems; both of them were received in the Netherlands. He is one of the main contributors to an information systems methodology, MEASUR (Methods for Eliciting, Analysis and Specifying Users’ Requirements). Dr Liu’s work is found in various computing areas, such as information systems methodologies, requirements studies, information systems engineering, human– computer communication and collaborative work.