SEMIOTICA

Journal of the International Association for Semiotic Studies

Revue de l'Association Internationale de Semiotique

Editor-in-Chief: Thomas A. Sebeok
ISSN 0037-1998

Volume 125 - 1-3 (1999)

Special Issue: Notational Engineering
Guest Editor: Jeffrey G. Long

CONTENTS

JEFFREY G. LONG
Editor's note

Evolution and effects of notational systems

ROBERT K. LOGAN
The social, economic, and educational impacts of notational systems

JEFFREY G. LONG
How could the notation be the limitation?

Foundations of notation

JACK ENGSTROM
G. Spencer-Brown's Laws of Form as a revolutionary, unifying notation

PETER WINIWARTER
A periodic system of system concepts

J. RICHARD McFERRON
Information theory in notational systems: A review of a dissertation proposal

Biology and notation

W.C. WATT
How to recognize extraterrestrial symbols, when and if

HANS FRIINDT
Echolocation: The prelinguistic acoustical system

JERRY L.R. CHANDLER
Semiotics of complex systems and emergence within a simple cell

Logic and images as notational systems

NOBUHIRO INUZUKA
A study of descriptions from a viewpoint of finite awareness

TIZIANO TELLESCHI
The image and its own symbolic logic

Mathematics and notation

VLADISLAV A. SHAPOSHNIKOV
Mathematical notational systems and the visual representation of metaphysical ideas

WOLFRAM KAHL
Explicit graphs and computer-aided notation

CHARLES R. LEAKE
Hidden symbolism in verbal problems taught to students in mathematics classes

W. DOUGLAS MAURER
The influence of the computer upon mathematical notation

Knowledge and rule notation

MICHAEL MOHAMMED
Meta-principles of business knowledge representation

FELIPE LARA-GARCIA and FELIPE LARA-ROSANO
Visual art and metaphors in complex knowledge representation

GARY OVERGARD
An Object-Oriented variation on Ultra-Structure

ALEXANDER SHOSTKO
Design of an automatic course-scheduling system using Ultra-Structure

Proposed new notational systems

JEFFREY G. LONG
A new notation for representing business and other rules

WOJCIECH M. JAWORSKI
Representing processes, schemata, and templates with jMaps

Copyright (c) 1999 by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG (IX.99)

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