WORKSHOP

SEMIOTIC MACHINES
Theory, Implementation, Semiotic Relevance

at the

8th International Conference on Semiotics

organized by

the german and the netherlands semiotic societies

in Amsterdam, Aug 5-9 1996

Final Program

(Last changes Oct-23 1996)

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TUESDAY, Aug-6 1996
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14:30 - 15:15
Gerd Doeben-Henisch (Frankfurt, Germany)

Semiotic Machines - an Introduction

TUESDAY, Aug-6 1996
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15:15 - 16:00
Gabriele Gramelsberger (Muenchen, Germany)(Cancelled)

Creativity - Ability to Define Something Well

TUESDAY, Aug-6 1996
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16:00 - 16:45
Markus Fix (Frankfurt, Germany)


Semiotic machines and endophysics

WEDNESDAY, Aug-7 1996
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10:00 - 10:45
Lauro Frederico Barbosa da Silveira (Sao Paulo, Brazil)


Some considerations about Semiotic Machines in the point of view of the Charles S. Peirce's Philosophy

WEDNESDAY, Aug-7 1996
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10:45 - 11:30
Roland Posner (Berlin, Germany)


Becoming Oneself: A Sign Process

WEDNESDAY, Aug-7 1996
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14:30 - 15:15
G.Doeben-Henisch (Frankfurt a.Main, Germany)


KIP II - A Case Study in Semiotic Machines

WEDNESDAY, Aug-7 1996
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15:15 - 16:00
Karl-Heinrich Schmidt (Essen, Germany)


Knowledge Media for Distributed Problem Solving

WEDNESDAY, Aug-7 1996
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16:00 - 16:45
Horst Kock (Bielefeld, Germany)


A 'signal' in the speaker's presuppositions and a 'future' meaning in a 'present' meaning - Two detection tasks in language understanding

THURSDAY, Aug-8 1996
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10:00 - 10:45
Burghard Rieger (Trier, Germany)


Emergence of Meaning as Simulated Semiosis. Learning to understand simple local predicates by SCIPS

THURSDAY, Aug-8 1996
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10:45 - 11:00
Oliver Lemon/ Ian Pratt (Manchester, Greatbritain, Cancelled)

``Putting Channels on the Map'': a formal semiotics for (Geo)graphical Information Systems

THURSDAY, Aug-8 1996
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14:30 - 15:15
Wolfgang Hoeppner (Duisburg, Germany, Cancelled)

Spatial Representations and Linguistic Descriptions

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