Software Evolution is a fact in industrial life. More than that, maintenance is one of the most expensive phases on software life cycle. Additionally, social and organizational aspects are increasingly gaining greater importance for information systems development. In this context, Organizational Semiotics has been considered a promising tool, providing the framework MEASUR for requirements gat...

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 led us into algebraic semiotics, while our effort to develop better formal methods for distributed concurrent systems led us into hidden algebra. We discuss the Tatami sys...

Sometimes, in order to mature, a methodology operates outside the mainstream for a period of time; it becomes the mainstream methodology only after this phase. This happened, for example, with neural networks, which appeared in the early 60's, but became the mainstream in research only 25 years later, after the development of the backpropagation algorithm as its learning algorithm. It happened ...

A man in a hut high above the North Wales coast points his telescope towards a similar hut 15 km to the west. He suddenly sees an array of shapes being hoisted up a mast above the hut. He notes the shapes and the angles of their display and creates the same array on the mast above his hut. And 15 km to the east someone is carefully watching and will repeat the display. This is the 1820s and the...

the present article intends to study badr shakir al sayyab poetries in descriptive – analytical method by place semiotics which is paid attention by linguists. the outcome is that the study of place semiotics assists us to find the place beauties in sayyab poetries and discover the hidden treasures inside his poetry by the cities and villages he met his beloved. this article has been done based...

Semiotics is considered fundamental to an understanding of human±computer interaction, and of all computer artifacts. Informatics should therefore be viewed as technical semiotics (or semiotics engineering). In particular, interaction between human and computer is characterized by features of communication, a sort of communication, however, that lacks decisive communicative features. It must be...

Due to the increasing sophistication of the Internet, the role of computers as mediators becomes more apparent through their interfaces. Despite being a symbolic machine, only in the last decade Semiotics has attracted the attention of researchers in studying interfaces and human-computer interaction. This paper summarises some of the main contributions in the field of Semiotics and Interfaces,...

It is not only because of a certain eclecticism in mathematics education research that semiotic ideas have begun to take root there: it is also because of the dawning recognition that key areas of interest in mathematics education genuinely have a semiotic nature. For this, one need only point to research focused on meaning, communication, language, and culture (e.g., Presmeg, 1997; Ernest,1997...

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 resea...