Kecheng LiuSemiotics in Information Systems Engineering
1. Introduction
Part I. Semiotic Framework and Methods: 2. Understanding semiotics
3. A semiotic framework for information systems
4. A semiotic approach to information systems development
5. Knowledge representation and information analysis
6. Semantic analysis
7. Pragmatics and communication
8. The social layer: modelling organisations as information systems
Part II. Applications: 9. From semiotic analysis to systems design
10. Semantic temporal databases
11. Normbase: a new approach to information management
12. Case study: development of a land resources information system
13. Case study: development of a test construction system
Appendix A. Semantic templates and surrogate specification
Appendix B. LEGOL applications in the CRIS case
References
Index.
