Unpublished paper – written 12/1/98)

 

The Autonomous Organization of Data through Semiotic Methods

(Draft: 12/1/98)

Paul S. Prueitt

 

Abstract

Semiotically grounded information technologies can be built with a model that has (1) metadata, (2) mechanisms for computational reasoning, and (3) a formal theory about human interpretation of information in context. Our theory of interpretation is informed by historical developments from experimental neuropsychology and from Russian applied semiotics. Computational reasoning is supported by the data structures of Quasi Axiomatic Theory (QAT), related computational voting procedures and adaptive technologies. The metadata in information is developed through situational based Structural Activity Relationship (SAR) analysis on the class of types developed from decomposition of examples into substructural classes of causes. This model produces the means for real time situational analysis about open complex systems and their control.

 

Full Paper

Section 1: Introduction

1.1: Implications to Information Retrieval

1.2: QAT and computational argumentation

1.3: Applied semiotics and neuropsychology

1.4: Outline of unfinished work

1.5: Knowledge Management

1.6: Ecological perception and thermodynamics

Section 2: The nature of rules

2.1: The use of adaptive technologies in the market place

2.2: Block diagram for situational analysis

2.3: The five interpretations

2.4: Notes on iconic representation

Section 3: The Voting Procedure

3.1: The use of Mill’s logic

3.2: Data structure for recording the votes

3.3: A second data structure to record weighted votes

3.4: Data structure to record the results

Section 4: Assembly, disassembly and structure activity relationship analysis

Section 4: Assembly, disassembly and structure activity relationship analysis

4.1: Memory and learning

4.2: Knowledge

4.3: Pospelov’s notation

4.4: Steady states and the first order cybernetic system

4.5: The Russian Design for Applied Semiotic System.

Section 5: Concluding remarks

References (not complete)