Semionics: A Proposal for the Semiotic Modeling of Organizations

In this paper, we present Semionics, a contribution to the field of Computational Semiotics, and propose its use in order to build and simulate models of organizations. Computational Semiotics refers to a research area where semiotic techniques are used in order to synthesize semiotic processes in computers and computer-based applications. Semionics is the main technology developed by our research group, based on Peircean semiotics, with the aim of providing both modeling and simulation artifacts for the design of such semiotic systems. Here we present the main backgrounds of semionics the semionic network what it is and how it works. Further, we show an application example of a semionic network for the modeling and simulation of a small business organization.