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Systems analysis

Semiotic cognitive maps. Part 1. Cognitive and semiotic approaches in informatics and control sciences

A. A. Kulinich

V. A. Trapeznikov Institute of Control Sciences of Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow

Abstract: The new model of semiotic cognitive maps, based on principles of applied semiotics is suggested, representing a symbiosis of classical cognitive maps in the form of a cause-effect network (digraph) and a conceptual structure in the form of a qualitative conceptual framework – conceptual system – set of concepts of the subject domain connected by the relation “sort–kind”. It is shown that the suggested model allows representing the set of semiotic cognitive maps of a subject domain as partially ordered set of signs: name, content and size, defining these cognitive maps. Suggested is the subject domain interpreting conceptual template construction algorithm, directed on supporting the processes of verification and interpretation of cause-effect relations in a subject domain, set by the cognitive map.

Keywords: cognitive map, cognitive modeling, sign, sign system, semiotics, applied semiotics, conceptual framework, conceptual system.

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