Workshop

COMPUTATIONAL SEMIOTIC SYSTEMS II
Theory, Implementation, Semiotic Relevance

as part of the

9th International Semiotic Congress of the German Semiotic Society

and

7th International Congress of the IASS-AIS


LOCATION: Dresden, Technical University
DATE: October 4-5,7-8
ORGANIZATION: Dr. Gerd Döben-Henisch
BOARD:
  • Rodney Clarke (Wollongong, Australia)
  • Gerd Döben-Henisch (Frankfurt, Germany)
  • Louwrence Erasmus (Pretoria, South Africa)
  • Ricardo Gudwin (Campinas, Brazil)
  • Alexander Mehler (Trier, Germany)
  • Burghard Rieger (Trier, Germany)

OBJECTIVES

This workshop is considered as a further exploration of the paradigm of computational semiotic systems. In this we are following especially the discussions of Amsterdam96 and ISAS98.

THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK

According to the paradigm of COMPUTATIONAL SCIENCE we are applying algorithms which are backed up by formal theories. These theories can be PURE theories like a mathematical structure or EMPIRICAL ones; in that case we need additionally methods of measurement and hypothesis testing.

According to the paradigm of SEMIOTICS we need a concept of what is a sign or a sign process. Ideally, not everything should be called a 'sign'. We prefer to use the concept of 'sign' in the context of 'sign processing systems'. A system (a human person, a machine, a plant...) can have internal states which allow the 'processing of signs'.

It is one of the goals of the conference to sharpen the commonly shared opinion about what could/ should be the main elements of a 'Computational Semiotic System [CSS]'.
(For more information about a possible scientific framework for CSSs see A POSSIBLE SCIENTIFIC FRAMEWORK FOR COMPUTATIONAL SEMIOTIC SYSTEMS).

POSSIBLE TOPICS


  • The philosophy of science point of view
  • The epistemological point of view
  • Formal mechanisms to represent formal theories for semiotic systems
  • Formal mechanisms to realize concrete semiotic systems
  • Relationship between formal theories and concrete systems
  • Relationship between traditional concepts of sign/ sign function and the concept of semiotic systems
  • Semiotic systems and pragmatics
  • Possible implications of semiotic systems for semiotics as a discipline
  • Semiotic systems related to empirical theories
  • Semiotic systems related to philosophical theories
  • Concept formation triggered by perception
  • Generation of meaning structures triggered by sign expressions
  • Meaning structures and their relationship to the experience of the world
  • Meaning structures and planned behavior
  • The role of drives/ desires/ emotions in the generation of meaning structures
  • The role of memory within meaning
  • Role of the actual situation with regard to memory, planning and meaning.
  • The concept of space within meaning and world experience
  • The concept of time within meaning and world experience
  • Reflection as an overall implicit structure of semiotic systems
  • Types of inference processes within world experience, meaning, planning and language learning
  • A formal model of learning functions related to the acquisition of sign systems
  • Software architecture of semiotic systems
  • Semiotic systems distributed in networks
  • The world interface of semiotic systems as constraint for possible world experience
  • The study of the inter-relationship among "signs", "knowledge" and "information"
  • Knowledge representation using the semiotic paradigm


IMPORTANT DATES

March 15, 1999: Submissions deadline for paper

May 1, 1999: Notification of acceptance or rejection

July 30, 1999: Printable versions received



SUBMISSION DETAILS

Abstract (max. 300 words) and paper (up to 25 pages, 12points, 1.5 lines) have to be written in English and have to be accompanied by the address of the main author. The papers have to be transmitted by email in the MS-Word95 Format (this is what the Congress Organizers want)

PUBLICATIONS

Planned by the Congress Organizers

ORGANIZATION of the WORKSHOP

INM - Institut für Neue Medien
Dr. Gerd Döben-Henisch
Daimlerstr.32
60314 Frankfurt
TEL: +49-(0)69-941 963 -10 (or -34)
FAX: +49-(0)69-941 963 - 22
EMail: gerd_doeben-henisch@ieee.org


ORGANIZATION of the CONGRESS

Prof. Dr. Walter Schmitz
Vice-President for Education
Technical University Dresden
Mommsenstrasse 13
D--01062 Dresden
mailto:wschmitz@rek.tu-dresden.de
TEL: +49-(0)351-463-6201
FAX: +49-(0)351-463-7769

URL: 9th International Semiotic Congress of the German Semiotic Society
URL: 7th International Congress of the IASS-AIS