http://www.sciforum.net/conf/fis2010 The 4th International Conference on the Foundations of Information Science The 4th International Conference on the Foundations of Information Science http://www.sciforum.net/presentation/369 n/a 2010-08-17 2010-08-17T00:00:00Z http://www.sciforum.net/presentation/368 n/a 2010-08-17 2010-08-17T00:00:00Z http://www.sciforum.net/presentation/276 Abduction, which is a kind of inference, is clearly articulated by C.S. Peirce (Peirce 1868; 1955). Although abduction is considered as reasoning with uncertainty (Finlay and Dix, 1996), it has been studied in artificial intelligence and computer science (Bylander et al 1991; Abe 2003). Recently, constructing a dynamical model which represents logical inferences, Sawa and Gunji use an arrow diagram which represents three types of inference articulated by Peirce (i.e. deduction, induction and abduction). This formalization for abduction is not only consistent with the preceding studies (Peirce 1868; Finlay and Dix 1996), but also opens up the way by which abduction can be applied to numerical function systems (Kamiura 2010). In this paper, based on the Sawa-Gunji's inference diagram, a numerical aspect of abduction is formalized as incomplete parameter estimation. 2010-08-16 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z http://www.sciforum.net/presentation/367 This paper suggests those interested in a Science of Information establish an entirely new academic and scientific discipline to be titled "Science of Information". This new discipline should be established as a meta-discipline because the new discipline will include the theoretical work of and complement the other disciplines. It should exist equally with traditional disciplines such as physical, social science, arts, and humanities. It should not compete with or replace other disciplines. It should stand alongside them and assist them, as well as conduct comparisons and consolidations amongst the disciplines regarding information theories, methodologies, practices, by adding new perspectives, resources and developments. 2010-08-06 2010-08-06T00:00:00Z http://www.sciforum.net/presentation/353 Many social researchers and economists observe changes in the structure of labor in contemporary society, pointing out information and knowledge as key elements of labor. Still analysis of that content is often hampered by the confusion of terms, and objectionable simplification. This article suggests some approaches to introduce clarity in the role of information and knowledge in the structure of labor. 2010-07-30 2010-07-30T00:00:00Z http://www.sciforum.net/presentation/354 A common usage of the concept of information requires a unique definition of it. The text expands on a proposal for an ontology of information, which will be grounded in physics. Shannon's communication theory does not conceptualize any physical variable. It will be shown that by doing so the gap between syntax and semantics can be closed by introducing the universal category of triadic information. Any informational scenario is given by the trias of a) a sender, and of b) the transformation which happens to c) the receiver. The concept of information is taken in a broader sense, and is based on physical fundaments. The gravitational force which is exploited to a physical body holds in the same sense well defined information as a spontaneous appearance of a new, algorithmically underivable structure or event: the world gets 'completed' within a continuous informational process. Any spontaneous process will always happen in order to increase the entropy of the world. That is, such fundamental information which causes this completion process is given within our universe. For those reasons we have to state, that information causes any causal process, rather than 'is' a causal process. All living species are grounded on an information-receiving, heteronomous deep structure, which includes as well the message which corresponds to further autonomy and freedom (the completion theorem). To summarize, we are enabled to create and to enter into the so called information society by ontological evidence. Based on such foundations, an adequate concept for computer science will be shortly introduced. 2010-07-30 2010-07-30T00:00:00Z http://www.sciforum.net/presentation/365 Based upon the natural limits of observation, we tackle a critical review of Dretske's approach to information, knowledge and perception. The physics of the manifestation of an arbitrary object –tackled in Part 2 as a separate article– sets forth an informational boundary stating that information cannot be enough to support our cognitive processes. The problems do not rely –as Dretske supposes- on the lacks of the channel, but on the very nature of observation. Furthermore, Dretske's approach –handcuffed to his maximalist support on information- presents some lacks concerning processual character of information, fuzziness of perception and knowledge, contents de dicto and conventional regularities. The posed limits and problems intend to settle new foundations for a more refined conjunction of information and knowledge. 2010-07-30 2010-07-30T00:00:00Z http://www.sciforum.net/presentation/364 In this second part of our inquiry into the relation between information and cognition, we delve into the physical limits of the manifestation of an arbitrary object first with independence of any observer, then considering the nature of perception. The analysis of the manifestations of an object in a homogeneous environment by means of wave phenomena shows that the information carried by such manifestations offers a constitutive fuzziness and ambiguity of the observed object. On the one hand, the details that can be specified concerning the object are strictly limited by the wave length; on the other hand, the volumetric details of the object (i.e. its bowls) are outlawed to the observer, not in virtue of the object opacity, but to the very dimension or complexity of the wave phenomenon in the space surrounding the object. The analysis of perception, considering this physical boundary and the specificity of the animal sensitivity, shows the combined role of other concurrent or previous percept and some a priori knowledge in the perception and awareness of reality. 2010-07-30 2010-07-30T00:00:00Z http://www.sciforum.net/presentation/350 The essential methodology in social science to "understand" phenomena is informed abstraction. But the way - how and what for - the abstraction process is shaped divides the economists into various schools. While mainstream economists abstract from any links of the economy to human beings - replacing them by selfish machines maximizing their profits or individual utilities, and neglecting any deeper analysis of the basic constructions they use (like prices or money), heterodox economists try to look behind the surface, link them to certain periods of history and to the source of all value: humans are social beings and cannot exist without mutuality. The paper presents a heterodox way to reconstruct contemporary capitalist economies by applying the new science of information with its evolutionary concepts. It starts the description on a very abstract level: useful things and services produced by specialized labor. Step by step new layers of information are added. At the same time economic indicators of the lower levels are modified (labor values, competition leading to prices of production, money and banks, state activities, monopoly), ending at the surface of the economy with the introduction of commodification and commercialization processes of information in the so called information society. The result of the reconstruction is used in a mathematical simulation model based on stylized facts. 2010-07-23 2010-07-23T00:00:00Z http://www.sciforum.net/presentation/351 Any living cell parasitizing a host organism is immersed into a molecular environment of unfathomable complexity. For the advancement of its life cycle in such "hostile" a territory, the cell has to carefully sense its environment, "see" the ongoing physiological processes taking place, and guide subsequently its own network of self-construction processes, pathological responses included. We will discuss how this informational matching occurs in the bacillus Mycobacterium tuberculosis, and how transcriptional programs within the global transcriptional regulatory network are deployed in response to specific signals from the environment and from within the cell itself. In the era of the bioinformatic revolution and of systems biology, it is perhaps surprising that the functional interconnection between the transcription network and the signaling system is far from clarified yet. In the extent to which the living cell can be considered as one of the central paradigms of the nascent information science, this discussion becomes one about the essential cluster of concepts which should potentially apply to the analysis of other information-based entities. 2010-07-21 2010-07-21T00:00:00Z http://www.sciforum.net/presentation/355 The objective world consists of material world and information world, each world has two proorties -- existence and activity, then the objective world has four inherences -- material, energy; information, and intelligence.The material science is the study of material world, which is a great disciplines and now is very considerably rich and complete. Information science is the study of information world, which is also a major disciplines, but the development of its theoretical system just started, in which there are many rules needed to be explored. In this paper, the process of building material scientific system will be reviewed carefully, from which we are able to get some important enlightenments for the development of theoretical system of information science. 2010-07-09 2010-07-09T00:00:00Z http://www.sciforum.net/presentation/356 The authors of this paper put forward an idea that humanistic informatics is a new science besides natural informatics and social informatics. Then an outline of humanistic informatics is explained. 2010-07-09 2010-07-09T00:00:00Z http://www.sciforum.net/presentation/357 In modern society, "meta-philosophy" should be faced with contemporary reality of "modern revolution of science and technology," "overall community transformation", "global thinking" and reconstruct philosophy owning newly critical logic, new way of thinking, fresh mode of transcendence to the degree of three dimensions of "theory, system, method". Information philosophy is regarded as "meta-philosophy" because great changes have occurred in the following aspects: "basic Problems of Philosophy," "epistemology" and "axiology", which brought us a fresh horizon of philosophy. Practice conditions and dependence outlets of information philosophy as meta- philosophy are that a series of attentions and methodologies will be paid at least. 2010-07-09 2010-07-09T00:00:00Z http://www.sciforum.net/presentation/267 In this paper, we mainly address three issues: externality of an agent, purpose of an agent, and a kind of "softness" of components in a system. Agents are independent of a system in an ordinary multi-agent model, hence the behavior of a system is not autonomous but influenced by the agents. If a multi-agent model is considered as a completely autonomous one, agents in the model are inevitably deprived of their externality and independence from the model. In order to treat of the completely autonomous transition of a system, we introduce an agent which is a part of a system, and has a purpose which is independent from a system. The interaction between a system and an agent transforms a random graph corresponding to the system into the graph which represents formal logic adequately. In the emergent graph, there are many complete subgraphs, which can be regarded as conceptualized things. We modify the definition of a conceptualized thing into a subgraph which is a cycle of arrows, and regard the density of arrows of each conceptualized thing as validness. We define this object with the density as a soft object. A complete graph has maximum number of arrows, hence is the most reliable soft object. In a similar way, we call an arrow with the validness a soft arrow, and treat of the relation between soft objects and soft arrows. The argument of this paper is relevant to dynamical formal logic, and at the same time, is intended to serve as a basis for an agent model. 2010-07-08 2010-07-08T00:00:00Z http://www.sciforum.net/presentation/265 Almost all flock models are constructed using a self-propelled particle system (SPPs). In an SPP method, each individual will interact with neighbors found within a certain radius. Recent investigations are forcing us to reconsider the notion of the neighborhood in flocks. Cavagna et al. found a scale-free correlation in which the sub-flocks use the same information and where their size is proportional to the flock size. This finding indicates that the flock neighborhood dynamically changes the shape and formation of the flock. They defined this state of the flock as the "noise critical phenomenon". However, is it a sufficient interpretation of the scale-free correlation? The agent of the type-token model, which we proposed, changes its neighborhood by adjusting between the type and token cognitions. These differences in the neighborhood of each agent enables their flock to rapidly change direction without external noise and shows a scale-free correlation that is supported with empirical research. The typetoken model suggests that the flock emerges as a scale-free correlation without considering noise critical phenomena. 2010-07-08 2010-07-08T00:00:00Z http://www.sciforum.net/presentation/321 In this article we show how it is possible to use Channel Theory [Barwise and Seligman, 1997] for modeling the process of information extraction realized by audiences of audio-visual contents. To do this, we rely on the concepts proposed by Channel Theory and, especially, its treatment of representational systems. We then show how the information an agent is capable of extracting from a content depends on the number of channels he is able to establish between the content and the set of classifications he is able to discriminate. The agent can endeavor the extraction of information through these channels from the totality of content; however, we discuss the advantages of extracting from its constituents in order to obtain a greater number of informational items that represent it. After showing how the extraction process is endeavored for each channel, we propose a method of representation of all the informative values an agent can obtain from a content using a matrix constituted by the channels the agent is able to establish on the content (source classifications), and the ones he can understand as individual (destination classifications). We finally show how this representation allows reflecting the evolution of the informative items through the evolution of audio-visual content. 2010-07-04 2010-07-04T00:00:00Z http://www.sciforum.net/presentation/320 This paper is about an application of rough set derived lattices onto analyzing the dynamics of literary text. Due to the double approximation nature of rough set theory, a pseudo-closure obtained from two different equivalence relations allows us to form arbitrary lattices. Moreover, such double approximations with different equivalence relations permit us to obtain lattice fixed points based on two interpretations. The two interpretations used for literary text analysis are subjects and their attributes. The attributes chosen for this application are verbs. The progression of a story is defined by the sequence of verbs (or event occurrences). By fixing a window size and sliding the window down the story steps, we obtain a lattice representing the relationship between subjects and their attributes. The resulting lattice provides information such as complementarity (lattice complement existence rate) and distributivity (lattice complement possession rate). These measurements depend on the overlap and the lack of overlap among the attributes of characters. As the story develops and new character and attributes are provided as the source of lattices, one can observe its evolution. In fact, a dramatic change in the behavior of characters in a scene is reflected in the particular shifts in the character-attribute relationship. This method lets us quantify the developments of character behavioral dynamics in a story. 2010-07-04 2010-07-04T00:00:00Z http://www.sciforum.net/presentation/325 This article is concerned with redefining the notion of information from a perspective of systems theory. In recent years, the notion of information, which was closely related to the framework of old cybernetics, has been refined in parallel with the emergence of new cybernetics, especially second-order cybernetics and autopoiesis. The systemic view of new cybernetics provides us with the notion of "informationally closed system." This notion is congruent with the epistemological implications of radical constructivism. In order to help understand this argument, we aim at highlighting the development of autopoietic systems theory in Japan. Autopoiesis has often been considered as a thoroughly closed system in Japan, where the relationships between autopoiesis and radical constructivism have frequently been overlooked. This is mainly because the importance which autopoietic systems theory originally attaches to the notion of observer and observation has been inadequately discussed, and autopoietic systems theory is regarded as distinct from second-order cybernetics and radical constructivism. However, they must be dealt with together, and Humberto Maturana should be given credit for his ontology of observing. Since the publication of his paper "Biology of Cognition," Maturana has been attempting to explain the notion of observation as a biological phenomenon in his own way. Likewise, by taking into consideration the notion of observation, we can build a unified theory of information. Fundamental Informatics, which is being developed by Toru Nishigaki, outlines a unified approach to information by putting human observers at the center of his theory. Social and mechanical information is generated only when human observers conduct observations on the basis of biological information, and this mechanism of generation of information is discussed through the notion of "hierarchical autonomous system." For an autopoietic organization to be realized, of course, no hierarchy of systems is required, but observers are likely to construct some hierarchy between two systems. The construction of certain hierarchies of systems by observers is of great use for the explanation of fictitious phenomena of information transmission. 2010-07-04 2010-07-04T00:00:00Z http://www.sciforum.net/presentation/343 Musical performances are supposed to be body-experiences. That is to say, musicking is a contact-mediated action. In this work a unique approach is proposed, a system motivated to move on two-dimentinal space by itself making asense of body and environment, which are formalized to "concept lattice" on the Lattice theory. This Musicking Self-Motivated System (MSMS) creates senses of touch and auditory as sense of body and sense of external world, then fabricates a sense of body agency motivated by variance of those senses to determine the next movement. Trajectories of MSMS were spatially biased on environments of which partial properties are given randomly. It is suggested that MSMS has robust intentionality onto perpetually opend environment. Here debates MSMS comparing try-and-error processing of handling an unknown, i.e. potentially-instrument. 2010-07-04 2010-07-04T00:00:00Z http://www.sciforum.net/presentation/342 The article attempts to elaborate the principles of translation criticism by exploiting the definitions, characteristics and rules in Information Science. It is shown that in translation criticism, the influence of the intentionality, consciousness and the non-neutrality of value of the target text as information on translation strategies should be taken into full considerations which bring the traditional faithfulness criterion into a more tolerant and more multiple dimensions. 2010-07-04 2010-07-04T00:00:00Z http://www.sciforum.net/presentation/317 Modern revolution of information technology gave birth to a new kind of practical form - virtual practice. It has gradually penetrated into every corner of society, and profoundly changing the way of human existence. In this paper, the comparison between generation of virtual practice and traditional practice reveals the nature of virtual practice to improve human existence. 2010-07-04 2010-07-04T00:00:00Z http://www.sciforum.net/presentation/316 the thought-premise of traditional ethnics is that "human is … animal". This kind of concept could demonstrate the human's moral behavior, however, it would be faced with two difficulties in the end. The first is that it negates the need that human should "pursue to become real human", because it understand human as something "established being". The second is that it can't exceed the animal's layer to think on the standard of "real human", even though it is admitted by some people that human should "pursue to become real human". In the era of information, having great changes take place in the being manner of human, these two difficulties are more and more obviously, and even restrict the research and use to the technology of information exactly. Under these circumstances, how human should understand himself all rounds? Which standard should be set up for human "pursue to become real human"? Like these kinds of problems are becoming so important in the era of information that ethnics would have to search for seriously. Being searching after these kinds of problems, information ethnics would exceed the layer of traditional ethnics, and become a kind of philosophy that of in the era of information. 2010-07-04 2010-07-04T00:00:00Z http://www.sciforum.net/presentation/313 Development to today's information science is no longer just a single subject or just a kind of cross nature, cross-sectional nature of subject, but one has many levels and involves subject system of multidisciplinary fields. Levels of this subject system can be broadly divided into: the philosophy of information, general information theory, the field of information science, category of information science, a branch of information science and engineering informatics. Information science in essence is a transformation of scientific normal form; this transformation has led to a new modern sense, take information theory as modern scientific system of dominant knowledge mode. 2010-07-04 2010-07-04T00:00:00Z http://www.sciforum.net/presentation/312 From the philosophical angle, discussed the six problems about information: first, discussion on the concept of social information based on the theory of ontology, Second, the creation of information and the social information communication，Third, the practice and the reality of the social information, Fourth, on the turth information, Fifth, virtualization and the truth information, Sixth, on the "social information" consumption, etc. 2010-07-04 2010-07-04T00:00:00Z http://www.sciforum.net/presentation/293 This article is devoted to the study on the development of tools and machines, the important part of productivity. The author introduces the characteristics of the development process and analyzes the radical reason and the driving force for the development. Based on the effect of tools and machines on human social development, the author tries to illustrate it is the intelligence that drives the social progress and human society have entered the intelligence age and become intelligence society. 2010-07-04 2010-07-04T00:00:00Z http://www.sciforum.net/presentation/314 Form a relationship to due to differences between things, information obtained present in the different relationships, it is only through the different relationship to identify the information; in understanding the process of arising, there is no direct touch between the subject and object, interaction between subject and object is be multi-level intermediaries, such as the information field, the subject physiological structure, the subject cognitive structure, the materialized tools of subject cognitive are the form of an intermediary of interaction between subject and object; knowledge of by multi-level intermediaries is knowledge of constructed and virtual in intermediary, each intermediary link of cognitive occurred is a relatively that the nature of intermediary link to occur of information selection, transformation and construction of the device, structure through the intermediary link, the object information is bound to happen some dogleg or rebuild of distortion, also in the information processing activities in people's thinking can also create a new information of subjective design, which inevitably presents the subject to object cognitive form and content, etc to some extent has been the scene of virtualized; The essence of virtual reality through direct simulation information environment, feel the experience, direct manipulation conversion of feel the experience, so as to realize to human cognitive the virtual; virtual reality is not only for man's cognitive possible ways to open up a very broad prospects, but also helps from fundamental to clarify as a general processes and mechanisms of human cognitive activities of information activity. 2010-07-04 2010-07-04T00:00:00Z http://www.sciforum.net/presentation/315 information is a marks indirect existential philosophical category, which is self-display of the material (direct existence) existence way and status. Information including in-itself, for-itself, regenerated three basic forms, each of the basic form also consists of two basic forms. Information of these three basic forms has reached unity of the essence of itself completion in the social information. Information with nature of three different grade, informational nature of primary grade is a directly existential level objective shows, that is a level objective indirect existence; informational nature of secondary grade is directly existential multi-levels objective shows, that is a multi-level objective indirect existence; informational nature of third grade is a nature of subjective relationship of human understanding give to information. 2010-07-04 2010-07-04T00:00:00Z http://www.sciforum.net/presentation/328 The transmission of the linguistic message in the communication is composed of six steps, including coding, sending, transmitting, receiving, decoding and giving feedback of the message. In this procedure, the information asymmetry is permanent while symmetry is relative. The symmetry both in the quantity and quality is the perfect state in intercommunication. There are three events which could affect the information symmetry: transmission, integration and feedback. There might be some noises exist in the linguistic message which the speaker has sent. From the attribute of the noise, it can be divided into two types: the primary noise and the secondary noise. The noise might but not certain to debase the efficiency of the transmission. It is absolutely necessary for the listener to reduce the inconveniences that the noises would cause. 2010-07-04 2010-07-04T00:00:00Z http://www.sciforum.net/presentation/311 80 years of the 20th century, a wave to problems of information go on philosophy discuss surged on the Chinese academics circles, emerged a large number of discuss, papers and several monographs of the issue associated with the philosophy of Information. The text "Outline of philosophy Information Theory "(1985) by Mr. Wu Kun published and publication of the book "Introduction of Philosophy Information Theory "(1987) has become a symbol that the philosophy of information formal established in China. Mr. Wu Kun stress in particular that as the philosophy of information set out of a whole new existence area split mode, that from fundamentally changed the specific way of expression of philosophical problems of basic, so, philosophy of Information is a kind of metaphilosophy Or a maximum of philosophy. Philosophy of Information achieved the first fundamental turn of human philosophy, and thus leads to omnibearing fundamental changes of human philosophy. 2010-07-04 2010-07-04T00:00:00Z http://www.sciforum.net/presentation/344 This article analyses the role of entropy in Bayesian Statistics, focusing on its use as a tool for detection, recognition and validation of eigen-solutions. ``Objects as eigen-solutions'' is a key metaphor of the cognitive constructivism epistemological framework developed by the philosopher Heinz von Foerster. Special attention is given to some objections to the concepts of probability, statistics and randomization posed by George Spencer-Brown, a figure of great influence in the field of radical constructivism. Keywords: Bayesian Statistics, Cognitive constructivism, Eigen-solutions, Maximum entropy, Objective-subjective complementarity, Objectice inference, Randomization, Subjective randomness. 2010-07-04 2010-07-04T00:00:00Z http://www.sciforum.net/presentation/340 The figure-ground division plays a fundamental role in all image perceptions. Although there are a lot of studies about extraction of a figure such as detection of edges or grouping of texture, a few discussions about a relationship between obtained figure and ground. We focused on double image illusions having two complementary relationships between figure and ground and analyzed them. We divided the double image illusions according to two different interpretations and using these divisions we extracted and analyzed its logical structures by lattices derived from rough sets that we had developed. As a result we discovered unusual logical structures in double image illusions. 2010-07-04 2010-07-04T00:00:00Z http://www.sciforum.net/presentation/338 Earman et al raise several objections to the Ceteris Paribus laws. In this paper, I argued that CP clauses could be ineliminable even with scientific terminology, and that it is also possible to test the contraposition of a CP law, therefore the law itself. Earman's account of differential equations may violate his MRL view of laws of nature. Again, Earman's view of laws of nature may be inconsistent with his supervenience thesis. 2010-07-04 2010-07-04T00:00:00Z http://www.sciforum.net/presentation/337 The essence of communication is to exchange and share information. Computers provide a new medium to human communication. The CMC system composed of human and computers absorbs and extends the advantages of all former formats of communication, embracing the instant interaction of oral communication, the abstract logics of printing dissemination, and the vivid images of movie and television. It establishes a series of new communication formats, such as Hyper Text, Multimedia etc. which are the information organizing methods, and cross-space message delivering patterns. Benefiting from the continuous development of technique and mechanism, the computer-mediated communication makes the dream of transmitting information cross space and time come true, which will definitely have a great impact on our social lives. 2010-07-04 2010-07-04T00:00:00Z http://www.sciforum.net/presentation/336 Briefly introduced the status and related theories foundation of Theoretical Informatics (TI) and Systems Biology (SB). These two disciplines were compared and analyzed, mainly from the background, epistemological approach, informational energy of open systems, which these three aspects can demonstrate the two disciplines be of connected or similar attributes or characteristics, to indirectly discourse the necessity, the rationality, the feasibility and the vital significance of the establishment and researches for TI. Explore how to draw, reference SB model of development to promote the prosperity and great development of TI 2010-07-04 2010-07-04T00:00:00Z http://www.sciforum.net/presentation/329 "Towards a new science of information", put forward by Wolfgang Hofkirchner, is the theme of Fourth International Conference on the Foundations of Information Science in Beijing (FIS 2010), which is a new aim for global information scientists. This paper describes main features of traditional information science and advances a framework of new information science: "1+4+3", in which "1" means theoretical informatics, "4" stands for communication theory, cybernetics, computer science, and robotics, and "3" indicates natural informatics, social informatics, and humanities informatics. The "1", "4", and "3" locate at three levels respectively: theoretical informatics, tool informatics, and domain informatics. 2010-07-04 2010-07-04T00:00:00Z http://www.sciforum.net/presentation/335 This article discusses three issues related to information carrier. (1) "Bare information" does not exist, which has nothing to do with the carriers; the evolution of information is inseparable from the evolution of information carrier. The evolution of this symbol code developed from non-coded information to coded information and from the material code to the natural language is the result of natural self-organization. (2) The emergence of words means starting other-organization evolution of information carrier, and the new information carrier can only be a human conscious creation. The main direction throughout the evolutionary history of information carrier is: the more the operation of information depends on material energy reduce, the more the efficiency of information operation improves. (3) The information carrier has different levels, caused by different strength of material carriers. The division of carrier level also means the division of information level, that is, the difference of information levels can be attributed to differences between the carrier levels. The carrier with strong materiality can load the carrier with weak materiality, not vice versa. 2010-07-04 2010-07-04T00:00:00Z http://www.sciforum.net/presentation/310 Information culture can be defined as a kind of cultural morphology in the information era which is formed through the entire revolution of human living style that is caused by social informationization process. It's based on the application of modern information technology, uses information industry and knowledge industry as its backbone, and takes the production, distribution, transmission, communication and using of information and knowledge as the contents of human activities. The definition of information culture in its broad sense is the culture in information society and information era; while in a narrow sense, it refers to the general name of new type of cultural morphology which is formed around these new technologies as modern computer technology, telecommunication technology and network technology. Though there are differences between broad-sense information culture and narrow-sense information culture, they still contain internal relation. 2010-07-04 2010-07-04T00:00:00Z http://www.sciforum.net/presentation/309 Professor Wu Kun, from Xi'an Jiaotong University of China, has been studied in philosophy of information for 30 years. He thinks information conception is one of the most fundamental areas in philosophy, and founded the information philosophy. He has done a lot of pioneering and original research in information ontology, epistemology, social information theory, information production theory, information evolution theory, the value of information and information thinking directions. And therefore he is the first person to set up a complete view of theories, systems and methods about information philosophy. 2010-07-04 2010-07-04T00:00:00Z http://www.sciforum.net/presentation/331 Mosaic is originally used in architecture. As the digital publishing age comes, a number of specialists emphasize that knowledge should be broken into fragments for convenient usage. However, to break up knowledge is mere a process, not a purpose. Some measure must be taken to piece all of the fragments up for individualized construction of one's own knowledge system. This paper introduces the concept of mosaic into communication study and brings forward some principles of mosaicking one's fragment information into a whole knowledge system 2010-07-04 2010-07-04T00:00:00Z http://www.sciforum.net/presentation/332 In this paper, we advance and explain a proposition, "society thinks, therefore society is", and believe that the proposition is the logically starting point of the social epistemology and social information science. There is a Hierarchical structure in the world of life. Observing at human individual level: individual thinks with his brain but each of his cells can not think, even a nerve cell; though society consists of individuals, but it can not think because it has not a brain like individual's one. However, from the viewpoint of theoretical informatics, society, person, cell, DNA, and bio-molecule have a common feature, i.e., "input - processing - output" (IPO) of information, then they are all able to think though among them there some difference, i.e., the distinction of the structure and content of their thought. If the Descartes "I think, therefore I am" is the first assumption of individual epistemology in the industrial era, then in the information age, the first assumption of social epistemology and social information science should be "society thinks, therefore society is". 2010-07-04 2010-07-04T00:00:00Z http://www.sciforum.net/presentation/334 The quantitative measurements of the essential properties and information communication abilities of physical media and media networks are proposed in this paper. Such as the number of sub-networks, the number of lecturing sessions, the number of accepted copies, information power factor and interaction ability et al. The measurement results for media networks of broadcasting, Client/Server, phone-like, single-producer peer-to-peer and multi-producer peer-to-peer types are derived respectively. They are the scientific foundation for understanding, analysis, comparison, monitoring, management, evaluation and utilization of media networks. 2010-07-04 2010-07-04T00:00:00Z http://www.sciforum.net/presentation/283 Actual philosophical and scientifically-methodological problems of modern Informatics as fundamental science and a complex scientific direction are considered. Communication of these problems with prospects of development of Informatics and fundamental science as a whole is shown. 2010-07-04 2010-07-04T00:00:00Z http://www.sciforum.net/presentation/291 As the characteristic feature and mark in science in information age, information science plays a crucial role. However, what is information and what is information science? What are the principles governing the processes of information flow? Is there any new, and meaningful methodologies supporting the study? What is the significance of the study to human society? How to promote the study of information science in the world academic community? Some of my understandings to these questions will be presented in the paper. 2010-07-04 2010-07-04T00:00:00Z http://www.sciforum.net/presentation/289 In systems science, self-replication refers to the system or subsystem in the absence of a specific external system produces offspring related to its own structural system, such as the propagation of organisms is a self-replication, self-replication, therefore also called self-reproduction. Self-replication system is an important form of system self-organization. There is chose relationship between self-replication and self-growth、self-adaption, slightly more complex self-growth or self-adaption should contain some kind self-replication. Phenomena of self-replication exist in the internet communication system widely. Both self-growing and self-adaption in the internet communication system contain self-replication of internet communication elements. In this sense, self-replication of internet communication is the basic style of self-organization of internet communication. 2010-07-04 2010-07-04T00:00:00Z http://www.sciforum.net/presentation/288 Compared to newspapers, periodicals, radio and television and other media, Internet is a new media. Internet communication has self-organizing and heter-organizing mechanism. Although the self-organization of network communication occurs and develops in different levels of network communication system, it has similar performance and operating rules. On the basic level, elements of Internet system have their own spontaneous movement mechanism. however, the whole Internet can form a number of ordered structure and function. Therefore, like the self-organization of other systems, self-organizing network communication mechanism has the characteristics of their own as a result of dynamic behaviors. 2010-07-04 2010-07-04T00:00:00Z http://www.sciforum.net/presentation/330 This passage has recalled the formation of information ethics, the author studied analytically the current status of information ethics, general essence and special essence of information ethics, and predicted the future trends of information ethic. 2010-07-04 2010-07-04T00:00:00Z http://www.sciforum.net/presentation/296 In order to establish and improve theoretical informatics, this paper discusses the goal and special methods of the researches on theoretical informatics. These methods include driving intellectual innovation with method innovation; unifying tool informatics and field informatics; combining multi subjects in realism breadth wise and history lengthways; combining multi levels in application, theory and philosophy; and listing some programs that are pending further discussion. 2010-07-04 2010-07-04T00:00:00Z http://www.sciforum.net/presentation/308 This paper analyzes the concept of virtual community, a brief analysis of the dissipative structure theory and its four characteristics, the analysis of virtual community shows that it has the characteristics of the dissipative structure: virtual community is a dynamic and open network social system, is a non- balanced system, the nonlinear mechanism of virtual communities and the effect of the fluctuations in the nonlinear effect. Finally, the author proposes to use the endogeneity and external stipulation to achieve orderliness of the virtual community. 2010-07-04 2010-07-04T00:00:00Z http://www.sciforum.net/presentation/287 Making researches on information which is regarded as a state variable of system from the perspective of system science can promote the development of information science. In the framework of system science model, the analysis of relations among three system attributes which are information, matter (mass) and energy is to the benefit of understanding the connotation of information better. Furthermore, for the different range of researches of theoretical informatics and subject informatics, we hold that the priority should be given to the development of subject informatics to strengthen the research of information science at this stage. And based on the difference between natural information and language and word information, a trend of the research of theoretical informatics is proposed. 2010-07-04 2010-07-04T00:00:00Z http://www.sciforum.net/presentation/286 Mutually-inversistic discrete mathematics is constructed by the author, including mutually-inversistic logic, set theory, analytic geometry, calculus, abstract algebra, universal matrix, covering all branches of mathematics, including foundations of mathematics, geometry, analysis, algebra. Unlike conventional discrete mathematics, which put together the branches of mathematics needed by computer science, not interrelated to one another, the branches of mutually-inversistic discrete mathematics are interrelated to one another, and they have many applications in information sciences. 2010-07-04 2010-07-04T00:00:00Z http://www.sciforum.net/presentation/294 It is 60 years since essential attributes of information were explored in the field of philosophy, resulting in contention of a hundred schools of thought and wide division of opinions so far. Some scholars at home and abroad have been trying to build a new system of information philosophy from the angle of ontology so as to explain the world. This paper, however, puts forward a definition of information and its mathematical expressions, and points out that information is the collection of three kinds of attributes of things, which is proved perfect after testing. It is found on analysis that the essence of information people refer to nowadays is just the interaction of matters, and the representation of the law of causality in philosophy. The paper also suggests that information is only a noun that people have customarily used and confused. Eventually, the induction, differentiation and utilization of conventionally-stated information should be applied into studying matters themselves. 2010-07-04 2010-07-04T00:00:00Z http://www.sciforum.net/presentation/295 In the paper considering the influence of node's inertia and a constant external field, we establish an public opinion evolution model in which public opinion evolution and network topological structure interact with each othe. It is found that degree distribution gradually gets away from typical power law distribution to Poisson distribution with time evolution under the infuence of node's inertia and a constant external field. With the time evolution in system, there is obvious convergence effect of the public opinions distribution, which not only relates with node's inertia but also depends on the constant external field. It can be obtained that adjusting the value of node's inertia factor and constant external field can control the opinion value's number, which even controls the rate of change. 2010-07-04 2010-07-04T00:00:00Z http://www.sciforum.net/presentation/271 We consider the current state and current problems of development of Social Informatics in Russia as an important direction in science and education, studying information processes and systems in a modern society in terms of globalization and informatization of the complex. Russian scientists set out the approach to the study of Social Informatics in the education system at the time of his substantial upgradin in terms of becoming an information society. 2010-07-04 2010-07-04T00:00:00Z http://www.sciforum.net/presentation/284 We present a logical tool that can well be used to contribute to a rational understanding of the functioning of theoretical genetics. The tool itself is a numerical Table, comparable to some tables of Triangulation or of other function values. It has been produced based on natural numbers in the range of 1 to 136. It can be easily constructed on the Reader's own PC. 2010-07-04 2010-07-04T00:00:00Z http://www.sciforum.net/presentation/285 "Space, earth, man, and computer" in Chinese words that is "Tian, Di, Ren, Ji". This paper discusses how has integrated remote sensing system (RSS), global positioning system (GPS), data collected system (DCS), geographical information system (GIS), expert information system (EIS), management information system (MIS), decision-making information system (DIS), and virtual reality system (VRS) into one network system for information society. It is an open, complex, and great system. 2010-07-04 2010-07-04T00:00:00Z http://www.sciforum.net/presentation/307 The basical spirit of Pythagoreanism is the pursuit of the mathematical harmoniousness of the universe, and it can guide scientists to characterize the internal mystery of the physical world in terms of mathematical language and mathematical formula successfully and it fit to the current computationalism. On the other hand,re-understanding natural views of teleology by means of the modes of system science can interprete the biological universe,the artifical life and the universe of self organization reasonally.We insist that the integration of the pythagoreanism and the natural views of teleology will constitute the central idea of the philosophy of computer science. 2010-07-04 2010-07-04T00:00:00Z http://www.sciforum.net/presentation/290 As an important part of human information communication system, internet communication has become progressively a system with large scale, complex constructions and perfect functions through the complicated interactions among many sub-systems and their elements. In this process, which is mainly promoted by internet users, the self–growth of internet communication system not only increases the amount of its sub-systems and their elements, it also strengthens its constructions and functions. At the same time, the self–growth of internet communication system indicates that the system is an evolving system with self-organizing property. 2010-07-04 2010-07-04T00:00:00Z http://www.sciforum.net/presentation/305 The notion of Information is one of the most essential that guides situations to flow in certain ways. Situations such as those of natural disasters, "the Haiti earthquake 2010"; the financial crisis, that of "Greece Crisis 2010"; or the environmental disasters, such as that of "oil slick in the Gulf of Mexico 2010", are just a few instances of constant growing empirical dilemmas in our global society, where information plays a central role. The meaning of what information is has clear implications on how we deal with it in our practical lives, which in turn may give rise to situations that we would prefer to be without. This way, the notion of information has evidently presented the need to question what it really means and how does it dominate the functioning of our global society. Thus, two questions emerge in this paper: what definitions of the notion of information are presented in the literature?; and, what are the differences between these definitions? To answer these questions, we have conducted a comprehensive literature survey of more than two hundred gathered publications. Detailed analyses of the content of these publications identified four forms of information notion definitions. The results show that these four forms present diverse and opposing views of the notion of information, labelled as the "quartet approach". These addressed different foci, contexts and challenges. In addition, we present an alternative, yet a novel understanding of the notion of information, associated with how information functions in our societies. This understanding is presented with a new perspective, intended to address significant needs of the information society. 2010-07-04 2010-07-04T00:00:00Z http://www.sciforum.net/presentation/304 The paper considers necessary conditions for establishing information science as a scientific autonomous discipline. The lack of commonly accepted definition of information is not as threatening as it may seem, as each study within the discipline may choose own definition, as well as own philosophical framework, when there are some alternatives to choose between. More important is development of common methodology of inquiry and some range of standard questions regarding the concept of information. Also, it is important to develop some standards of inquiry which would make information scientific studies accessible to philosophical analysis and reflection. In turn, contributions of information science to resolution of problems identified within philosophy will give a best measure of the maturity of information science as a discipline. 2010-07-04 2010-07-04T00:00:00Z http://www.sciforum.net/presentation/326 This paper discusses methodological issues related to a possible framework for a unified theory of information. The question we would like to ask here is what kind of philosophical suppositions are important as bases for a new information theory. We concentrate on the relationship between systems theory and semiotics, or to put it more concretely, the relationship between autopoiesis theory and biosemiotics. These theories give rise to two decisive viewpoints that seem potentially contradictory and consequently provoke a fruitful controversy which is conducive for the consideration of philosophical suppositions vital for a new information theory. As the first step in our analysis, we examine the cybersemiotics of Søren Brier and Fundamental Informatics (FI) of Toru Nishigaki, which are both oriented to systems theory and semiotics and look toward a new fundamental theory of information. It is pointed out that cybersemiotics eventually takes a pan-semiotic view; FI, on the contrary, is mainly based on systems theory. Next, we reveal the potential problem between systems theory and semiotics through a discussion on the treatment of the notion of information in the early autopoiesis theory. The standpoint of autopoiesis theory is fundamentally different from the standpoint of biosemiotics. The former presumes that life just keeps operating and has no concern with the difference between inside and outside of itself, whereas the latter presumes that life distinguishes its environment as the other from itself and acts autonomously. This corresponds to the gap between mechanical views on life and semiotic views on life, and constitutes an aporia of views on life. Nevertheless, a way to overcome this contradiction can be found in systems theory itself. Although semiotic explanations are evaluated as merely arbitrary views of an observer in autopoiesis theory, we have to remind ourselves of the relativity of observing that is the most important epistemological feature of second-order cybernetics and autopoiesis theory. Since any distinction implies the work of an observer, it is impossible to strictly distinguish systemic phenomenology from our description, nor can we insist that either explanation has an intrinsically superior status. Some philosophical suppositions vital for a new information theory are derived from this discussion. The following three points are given in our context as basic principles: epistemology rather than ontology, constructivism rather than metaphysics, meta-theoretical recursiveness rather than linear consistency. These three suppositions have some affinity to the features of second-order cybernetic systems theory, but we can also see similar features in certain aspects of semiotics. 2010-07-04 2010-07-04T00:00:00Z http://www.sciforum.net/presentation/292 The Verb-driven Chinese natural language understanding system realizes logic-driven semantic analysis. There are two types of Chinese sentences –把(ba)- sentence and 被(bei)- sentence. In this paper we use λ-transformation to analyze them. Yan Jiang and Haihua Pan put out formal semantics theory based on the concepts of type and category [3]. We program to realize semantic level analysis and expression, try to realize the idea to algorithm, and formalize natural language to logical expressions. According category theory to analyze semantics and transform the concept of category to the "field" in corpus. Finally we program to control the flow of analysis process and realize the logic-driven semantic analysis system. 2010-07-04 2010-07-04T00:00:00Z http://www.sciforum.net/presentation/346 Social information science is a kind of rising and high-crossing discipline, the characteristic of which is complexity. The complexity of social information science accords with the features of the complexity of system science and can be studied with analytical methods of system science and system dialectics. Social information systems have their own laws and could be understood and grasped gradually. And the philosophy of information will shed some light on the study of social information science. 2010-07-04 2010-07-04T00:00:00Z http://www.sciforum.net/presentation/302 At present, information technology is developing very rapidly. Numerous traditional disciplines have to be informationized and domain informatics derived from it. It calls for the emergence of theoretical informatics because of the need of domain informatics, National Informatization and the transformation of industrial society to an information society. However, present information theory has limitation, for example, the Shannon communication theory only applies to communications. In this paper, we use the system engineering theory. Firstly we study the background of the theoretical informatics. Secondly we analyze the status of it and the limitation of present information theory. And then we discuss the hotspots of the theoretical informatics both at home and abroad. At last, we point out that the development of it should break out the shackles of theoretical paradigms. 2010-07-04 2010-07-04T00:00:00Z http://www.sciforum.net/presentation/306 The author considered that "To the newly developed informatics" prompted by Wolfgang Hofkirchner include three tasks: developing the theoretical informatics, perfecting the framework of informatics, and implement the worldview and the methodology of informatics. And the exceeding of the traditional information theories is the priority. So, in this paper, we discussed how to exceed the traditional information theories from six aspects: improving Shannon's communication theory, perfecting Wiener's Concept of "Information", supplementing Turing's "Computing Model", generalizing human "intelligence", analyzing the theory of triple factors (substance, energy and information) of the cosmic constitution, and decoding the Mind-body problem of Descartes. 2010-07-04 2010-07-04T00:00:00Z http://www.sciforum.net/presentation/297 In this paper, the authors introduce separately the "Reduction" methodology, which is mainly applied in the traditional Material Science, and the "Emergence" methodology, which is mainly applied in the Information Science. With analyzing the application scope of "Reductionism" and its restriction, we discuss how "Emergencism" is apt to improving the development of information science, and suggest a conversion from reductionism based on paradigm of material science into emergencism based on paradigm of information science. 2010-07-04 2010-07-04T00:00:00Z http://www.sciforum.net/presentation/345 In this paper, the author discusses the proposal of the social information science, the issues of social information, the theoretical orientation of the social information science, the research focus of the social information science, and the the operating mechanism of the Social Information Science Institute (SISI) at Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST). A system and framework of social information science was advanced in the paper. Generally speaking, if the social information science is to be viewed as a relatively independent subject, there should be four levels of researches. They are the philosophical level, the scientific theoretical level, the level of concrete subjects, and the level of social information technology. 2010-07-04 2010-07-04T00:00:00Z http://www.sciforum.net/presentation/298 With the application of computer technology and network technology, domain informatics have generated. Almost every combination of a basic subject and informatics can generate a new field of domain informatics by cross-study. However, the development of each discipline is in a different situation and a special degree. In this paper, the authors introduce chemical informatics, bioinformatics, medical informatics, and linguistics: their definitions, researches, and development trends. 2010-07-04 2010-07-04T00:00:00Z http://www.sciforum.net/presentation/300 This paper conducts the researches on the three laws of informatics proposed by Zong-Rong LI using the method of analogy with thermodynamics. The three laws of theoretical informatics are: the information being nonconservation; information energy increasing with time; information increasing with no upper limit. These three laws are keys of the information ontology research. They show up the character and relationship of information, entropy, negentropy, and information energy. 2010-07-04 2010-07-04T00:00:00Z http://www.sciforum.net/presentation/299 The life information evolution is a theory which runs parallel with the Darwin's theory of biological material evolution, including chemical evolution, biological evolution, and information evolution in the human evolution. The Darwinism is the theory basically about the living matter evolution. We believe that the life essence is not only the material, but also the information. The theory of life information evolution is a promoted version of the theory of biology evolution in the information age. The goal of this paper is to suggest that the theory of biological evolution should be related to the entire universal life information evolution mechanism, which is helpful for us to reveal the rule of life information evolution. 2010-07-04 2010-07-04T00:00:00Z http://www.sciforum.net/presentation/264 Reconciling Justus Buchler's theory of natural complexes with the Peircean triadic categorial schema, a theory of semiotic radiance is articulated that elaborates the nature of identity with regard to informatic control over objects in a museum collection. The model is deployed in the context of Edwina Taborsky's description of the historical transformation of the cultural syntax of museums. It is argued that the pattern of transformation is not random, but rather follows a specific and recognizable pattern. This pattern is consistent with a general trend in culture, identified by Heidegger, that becomes particularly problematic in its later stages. A theory of the commons derived from Hardt and Negri is articulated that looks to regenerate the space of the museum with regard to its informatic structures in order to renegotiate humanism in terms of a liberation ethic. The rubric of fundamental informatics is borrowed from Toru Nishigaki to describe the inquiry that pursues that end. 2010-06-28 2010-06-28T00:00:00Z http://www.sciforum.net/presentation/349 Abstract The recent history of information theory and science shows a trend in emphasis from quantitative measures to qualitative characterizations. In parallel, aspects of information are being developed, for example by Pedro Marijuan, Wolfgang Hofkirchner and others that are extending the notion of qualitative, non-computational information in the biological and cognitive domain and include meaning and function. However, there is as yet no consensus on whether a single accepted definition or theory of the concept of information is possible, leading to many attempts to view it as a complex, a notion with varied meanings or a group of different entities. In my opinion, the difficulties in developing a unified theory of information (UTI) that would include its qualitative and quantitative aspects and their relation to meaning are a consequence of implicit or explicit reliance on the principles of standard, truth-functional bivalent or multivalent logics. In reality, information processes like those of time, change and human consciousness are contradictory: they are regular and irregular; consistent and inconsistent; continuous and discontinuous. Since the indicated logics cannot accept real contradictions, they have been incapable of describing the multiple but interrelated characteristics of information. The framework for the discussion of information in this paper will be the new extension of logic to real complex processes that I have made, Logic in Reality (LIR)[1], which is grounded in the dualities and self-dualities of quantum physics and cosmology. LIR provides, among other things, new interpretations of the most fundamental metaphysical questions present in all discussions of information at physical, biological and cognitive levels of reality including, especially, those of time, continuity vs. discontinuity, and change, both physical and epistemological. I show that it can constitute a novel and general approach to the non-binary properties of information, including meaning and value. These properties subsume the notion of semantic information as well-formed, meaningful and truthful data as proposed most recently by Luciano Floridi. LIR supports the concept of 'biotic' information of Stuart Kauffmann, Robert Logan and their colleagues and that of meaningful information developed by Christophe Menant. Logic in Reality does not pretend to the level of rigor of an experimental or mathematical theory. It is proposed as a methodology to assist in achieving a minimum scientific legitimacy for a qualitative theory of information. My hope is that by seeing information, meaning and knowledge as dynamic processes, evolving according to logical rules in my extended sense of logic, some of the on-going issues on the nature and function of information may be clarified. [1] Brenner, J. E. 2008. Logic in Reality. Dordrecht: Springer. 2010-06-17 2010-06-17T00:00:00Z http://www.sciforum.net/presentation/339 There are four ways of thinking: reductionism, projectivism, disjunctivism, integrativism. The gap between the "hard" science perspective and the "soft" science perspective on information reflect these ways of thinking. The paper discusses how this gap might be bridged by applying the fourth way of thinking. 2010-06-17 2010-06-17T00:00:00Z http://www.sciforum.net/presentation/322 There are many different mathematical definitions of information that have their various uses, but I will be concerned with notions of information used in applications in various branches of science that are distinguished by their topic, i.e., what they apply to. I describe the major uses information, and show their relations to each other. I will argue that the various uses form a nested hierarchy, in which each is a restriction on the previous, inheriting the properties of its predecessor, but adding in new features that make it a special case. The lowest level is physical information determined by distinctions and the highest is explicit representation in linguistic social communication. Is there anything common to information at all these levels? I will argue that there is, and that information in each case is what Donald MacKay (1969) called a distinction that makes a difference. What distinguishes the use of information at each level is what distinctions make a causal difference at that level. At each successive level distinctions that make a difference at a previous level make no difference at that level. In order to create this sort of filter new levels have to be formed by cohesion peculiar to the identifying characteristics at that level. A consequence of this view is that information must have causal powers, and that there is a tight connection between information and causation. 2010-06-14 2010-06-14T00:00:00Z http://www.sciforum.net/presentation/275 The perspective from which information processing is pervasive in the universe has proven to be an increasingly productive one. Phenomena from the quantum level to social networks have commonalities that can be usefully explicated using principles of informatics. We argue that the notion of scale is particularly salient here. An appreciation of what is invariant and what is emergent across scales, and of the variety of different types of scales, establishes a useful foundation for the transdiscipline of informatics. We survey the notion of scale and use it to sort out characteristic features of information statics (data), kinematics (communication), and dynamics (processing). We then explore the analogy to the principles of plenitude and continuity that feature in Western thought, under the name of the "great chain of being", from Plato through Leibniz and beyond, and show that the pancomputational turn is a modern counterpart of this ruling idea. We conclude by arguing that this broader perspective can enhance informatics pedagogy. 2010-06-14 2010-06-14T00:00:00Z http://www.sciforum.net/presentation/282 The objective of the present paper is to contextualize the impact of the expansion of digital culture in the on-going discussions about the relations between sustainability and information technology. In order to relate the development of a global digital communication web, its effects on cultural processes and the issues of ecosystem and human sustainability that humanity is facing, I will relate and elaborate on three aspects: 1) A Batesonean perspective on sustainability 2) The recent evolution of the technosphere, and 3) Yuri Lotman's notion of Semiosphere and his semiotic theory of culture. This path will lead me to delineate some of the eco-ethical dimensions implied in the development of pervasive digital-interactive-immersive-representational technologies. 2010-06-14 2010-06-14T00:00:00Z http://www.sciforum.net/presentation/278 A trans-disciplinary frame is proposed, aimed at addressing the very understanding of information in all its variety. It aims at unifying perspectives and integrating techniques from different fields of knowledge and practice, searching for the most overarching account of information phenomena, a better formalization of real processes and a global stance towards problems concerning information. Such research frame might try to answer: Which are the basic distinct accounts of information to be applied in fields from telecommunication to philosophy, from biology to documentation, from logic to quantum physics? Which are the minimum primitive concepts that may cover all of them? Is a unified theory feasible? Could a better information measure be found? Could the societal and practical interest be better preserved in an integrated perspective of information? The methodological proposal aims at opening a space for the interweaving of different scientific frameworks (characterized by specific paradigms and methodologies) to delve into the very landscape of information, searching for a transdisciplinary treatment of theoretical, technical and practical problems concerning information. It is based on an already active interdisciplinary International community and a critical mass of research groups at the global level. By means of bridging these communities, a new transdisciplinary science of information might emerge as an integrated framework in which information will be considered in all its formal, natural, cognitive, social, technical, ethical and philosophical aspects. 2010-06-14 2010-06-14T00:00:00Z http://www.sciforum.net/presentation/263 The quantitative measurements of the essential properties and information communication abilities of physical media and media networks are proposed in this paper. Such as the number of sub-networks, the number of lecturing sessions, the number of accepted copies, information power factor and interaction ability et al. The measurement results for media networks of broadcasting, Client/Server, phone-like, single-producer peer-to-peer and multi-producer peer-to-peer types are derived respectively. They are the scientific foundation for understanding, analysis, comparison, monitoring, management, evaluation and utilization of media networks. 2010-06-03 2010-06-03T00:00:00Z