Organizational Semiotics : Evolving a Science of Information Systems IFIP TC8 / WG8.1 Working Conference on Organizational Semiotics: Evolving a Science of Information Systems July 23–25, 2001, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

**Organizational Semiotics: Evolving a Science of Information Systems** covers such issues as: -Fundamental concepts such as 'information', 'data', 'message', 'communication', 'knowledge', 'organization', 'system' and so on; -Properties of signs vital to organizational functioning, such as their meanings, the intentions they express and the valuable social consequences they produce; -'Architecture' of organizations when they are viewed as information systems, based on their semiotics features; -Understanding language in organizational contexts, for example, the limitations on the language used to conduct business affairs; -The empirical study of communications for requirements elicitation; -Applying semiotic categories (e.g. physical, empiric, syntactic, semantic, pragmatic, social) to various problems; -Organizational knowledge representation; -Business process re-engineering methods and the design of e-commerce systems. Front Matter....Pages i-xxii Exploring the Explanatory Power of Actability....Pages 1-20 Information and Knowledge Economies....Pages 21-40 Data, Information, and Knowledge....Pages 41-50 Organisations as Practice Systems....Pages 51-70 Knowledge or Information....Pages 71-90 Translation, Betrayal and Ambiguity in IS Development....Pages 91-108 Integrating Information Systems....Pages 109-118 User-System Interface Design....Pages 119-132 Pervasive Computing and Space....Pages 133-152 Systemic Functional Hypertexts (SFHT):....Pages 153-170 The Value of Information in the “E-age”....Pages 171-188 Semiosis, Information and Knowledge....Pages 189-210 Dividing Businesses into Processes....Pages 211-230 A Semiotic Approach to Quality in Requirements Specifications....Pages 231-249 The Institutional Context of Information....Pages 251-262 Seven rules for applying Language/Action Perspective and Organizational Semiotics Successfully....Pages 263-273 Towards a Semiotic Communications Quality Model....Pages 275-285 Semiotics and Intelligent Control....Pages 287-296 Striking the Right Tone....Pages 297-300 Looking Inside....Pages 301-304 Levels of Abstraction in Maritime Maneuvering Operations....Pages 305-308 Back Matter....Pages 309-309