1DDS, PhD, Oral Pathology, Piracicaba Dental School, State University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Piracicaba/SP, Brazil. 2DDS, MSc, Dentistry Service, Center of Hematology and Hemotherapy (HEMOCENTRO), State University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Campinas SP, BRAZIL. 3DDS, PhD, Associate Professor, Semiology, Piracicaba Dental School, State University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Piracicaba/SP, Brazil. 4DDS, P...

On the belief that the universe is a semiosic web Sebeok placed no limits on semiotic inquiry as he chose to conduct it. In terms of fields of semiosis and objects of analysis Sebeok’s interests ranged from his studies in biology to his reflections relatively to lingusitics, cybernetics, and artificial intelligence, his musements relatively to narrative esthetic signs, his interest in ecology a...

Inserting the human element into an Information System leads to interpreting the Information System as an information field. Organizational semiotics provides a means to analyze this alternate interpretation. The semantic normal forms of organizational semiotics extract structures from natural language texts that may be stored electronically. In themselves, the SNFs are only canonic description...

Traditional information behavior studies in library and information science (LIS) research have focused on primarily two trends: one is to provide physical access to material objects and the other is to direct users to certain thoughts and ideas. Both focuses are two sides of the same problem that LIS researchers have worked to address: how to provide a better system or service to accommodate p...

Signs, symbols, and signals are essential to the survival and evolution of all complex functional organizations that utilize "information." We discuss basic semiotic relations inherent in signalling systems (communication), scientific models (epistemology), adaptive devices (control), and biological organisms (construction). For each of these different functional realms, basic syntactic, semant...

Traditional information systems theory and practice assumes a tight coupling or integration between workpractices in organisations and the information systems which are notionally built to support them. The relationship between the integration and the separation of workpractices and system features has been theorised as dialectical. It has also been argued that the goal of system design would b...

Both the discourse and practice of science are fundamentally related to the idea of translation. The multi-semiotic nature of scientific texts makes this explicitly visible. Even at the foundational level, science is possible only because it sees the world as the given original; the response of science to the original-world shares common features with the concerns of translation. In this paper,...