2017 IS4SI 2017 - 200 articles
Gothenburg, Sweden | 12–16 June 2017
Issue Editor: Gordana Dodig Crnkovic, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
After roughly 35 years of development in the theories of self-organization and related variants (chaos, self-organized criticality, and so forth), it is somewhat of a surprise that physics proper has not yet sufficiently found its entry into the ongo...
Habits and rituals play a fundamental role in human life [1] and are worthy to be considered also because they represent a form of embodied knowledge. According to Dubray [2], habits can be studied in general, but also with the focus on their physiol...
Morphological computing, at its core, entails that the morphology (shape + material properties) of an agent (a living organism or a machine) enables and constrains its possible (physical and social) interactions with the environment as well as its de...
Thomas Kuhn’s paradigm theory tells us that the science itself has a certain structure and the development of science has its own laws. His historicism research methodology in philosophy of science provides us a research approach having much referent...
Before the end of the XX century, the inhabitants of this little Planet Earth could meet each other, in general, only after a big effort. [...]
The International Summit is4si-2017, Digitalisation for a Sustainable Society: Embodied, Embedded, Networked, Empowered through Information, Computation & Cognition, was held 12–16 June 2017 at Chalmers University of Technology Conference Center...
In 1997, a review was published of the development of the Net (“a new social institution, an electronic commons”) pushed by the Netizens, as Michael Hauben baptised them.[...]
Information has always been important and sometimes vital for people but now it has become the most valuable asset and the strongest moving force in the contemporary society. [...]
The International Summit is4si-2017, Digitalisation for a Sustainable Society: Embodied, Embedded, Networked, Empowered through Information, Computation & Cognition, was held 12– 16 June 2017 at Chalmers University of Technology Conference Center...
Transhumanism is an international philosophical and futuristic movement aiming to enhance the intellectual and physical capabilities of human beings beyond their current limits. [...]
Information Science evolved in the last few decades from peripheral studies of other disciplines which used the concept of information with a more or less common-sense meaning, to a fully-fledged discipline with a growing toolkit of concepts and meth...
“Partition of existential field” is the highest paradigm of philosophy; and only changes in the highest paradigm can constitute the revolution of philosophy. Since philosophy of information (PI) has triggered radical change in the highest paradigm of...
Many academic disciplines and applied fields use the concepts and language of information, yet different areas talk in different ways and make different implicit or explicit assumptions about the nature of information. The Difference That Makes a Dif...
Having comprehensively investigated the research in the information discipline, we found that there exist numerous mutually isolated theories, but the knowledge about the mutual interrelations was lacking and hence also there is a lack of global theo...
Due to numerous factors two categories of methodology in scientific studies have been established till the present time, one for classical physics and the other for information science, each of which have been successful in its own domain. On the oth...
In response to “Digital Darwinism”, people, organisations and society need to adapt to the different characteristics of digital information.[...]
The existence of the cultural phenomenon indicates that social psychological patterns or behavior break through the scope of individual activities.[...]
This talk will focus on cognitive processes between conscious and subconscious awareness in order to present a slightly different definition of narrative. Rather than simply accepting that narrative is a conscious selection of stories subject to bias...
The paper reviews existing models for organizing information for machine learning systems in heterogeneous computing environments. In this context, we focus on structured knowledge representations as they have played a key role in enabling machine le...
The information really useful to humans must be the trinity of its three components, the form termed syntactic information, the meaning termed semantic information, and the utility termed pragmatic information. But the theory of information set up by...
As systems, for example vehicle systems, get increasingly autonomous and information intense, the information exchanged with the user, i.e., the operator, are increasingly becoming a designed interaction. This work investigates how interaction techno...
The universe is a constantly evolving information ecosystem, which originates from the information as the energy (the essence of information is energy), thus forming the material, life, spirit and other elements of the universe. There are only two ki...
Information is not an objective and independent concept. It is influenced by society we live in, by the culture and its historical development. States of affairs we would like to change, changeable and unchangeable components of the world are all exp...
Shannon’s Information was devised to improve the performance of a data communication channel. Since then, the situation has changed drastically and today a more generally applicable and suitable definition of information is urgently required. To meet...
The communication of health knowledge in social media plays an important role in public health literacy and health behavior promotion. But with the accumulation of user-generated health information in social media, more and more misleading health inf...
Self-driving cars are a transdisciplinary topic and well discussed in public and science. However, ethical dilemmas, such as the trolley problem, seem to dominate those discussions and consequently obfuscate much bigger ethical challenges in the deve...
In his search for the ‘essence’ of continuity, Richard Dedekind (1872) discovered the notion of cut. Epistemologically speaking, a cut produces a separation of a simply infinite system into two parts (Stücke) such that all the elements of one part ar...
In this study we present a new ecosystem for urban planning which highly depended on a variety of basic information. From information ecology view, the urban planning process could be seen as an ecological chain with the conversion of “survey—analysi...
This work proposes an error-resilient video coding scheme for improving the ecosystem of Wireless Visual Sensor Network (WVSN). In order to optimize the video information communication over WVSN, this work first provides a discussion on ecology techn...
Quantitative analysis of messages from the Foundations of Information Science (FIS) mailing list posted from between 6 December 1997 and 29 November 2016. Messages, their authors and dates are taken from the official FIS website. Messages are classif...
The moral principle that Mr. Floridi merely judges the Good and Evil with the amount of entropy is based on the simplicity and unipolar way of thinking. If practicing in accordance with his principle of Goodness that absolutely excluding entropy, the...
Information studies pursuing a unified theory of information are now trapped in dilemmas because of the hard problems of information, which involve purpose, function, referen, value, etc. Pan-informationalism takes information for granted and conside...
Information is usually in strings, like sentences, programs or data for a computer. Information is a much more general concept, however. Here I look at information systems that can be three or more dimensional, and examine how such systems can be arr...
This paper aims to present a new way of understanding and elaborating the current state of the reality which remains in the substantial dependency on the technology. An example of such a relatively mature technology is the internet. This paper shows...
Mining the inherent emotional feature of life is of great significance, and the method to extract the inherent emotional feature with a small number of samples is explored based on neonatal cry in this study. The minimum embedding dimension is taken...
A combination of directed homotopy topological and Morse theoretic methods can significantly extend control and information theories, permitting deeper understanding of `developmental’ pathologies afflicting a broad spectrum of biological, psychologi...
Scientific methodology is widely accepted as macroscopic reflect of the scientific view on one hand and as the general guideline to a certain class of research works on the other hand. Therefore, methodology employment is extremely crucial in scienti...
Confounding effects of climatic factors temporally contribute to the prevalence of malaria. In this study, we explore a new framework for assessment and identification of hidden ecological factors to the incidence of malaria. A statistical technique,...
Social Information Science (or Social Informatics) is a new and inter-discipline branch subject in China and even in the world. This paper probe the emergence of social information science and the research outline of us.
As the scale of computations become large and as both people and machines demand communication, collaboration and commerce at the speed of light, rapid fluctuations in the demand for computing performance and fluctuations in available resource pools,...
Natural and morphological forms of computing have diverse conceptualizations. This paper presents an alternative view on morphological computing based on a slightly generalized form of a Turing machine in which one-way action of head on tape is repla...
In this paper we analyze our current understanding of genes, neurons and the neocortex and draw a parallel to current implementations of cognitive computing in Silicon. We argue that current information technologies have evolved from the original sto...
Interactions between sub-systems and their environment are everywhere. In this paper, logistic map is applied, which felicitously stimulates the chaotic behavior of gene, to make analogy of a health DNA sequence and a mutation DNA sequence. By succes...
A transdisciplinary theory for cognition and communication has at least been described from the following paradigms (1) An objective information processing view or info-mechanicism; (2) A social constructivist view; (3) A systemic cybernetic view of...
This paper explores the difference between companion animals and domestic livestock from the viewpoint of neo-cybernetical informatics, referring to an educational trial which was to raise a young pig for eating. The problem in this trial is based on...
Evaluation of the chosen mathematical model of a physical system (phenomena) is considered within the framework of thermodynamic theory and Mark Burgin’s general theory of information. The finiteness of the model cased by the limited number of chosen...
The purpose of the paper is trying to make a strong appeal to information researchers for taking serious concern with the issue of scientific methodology employed in the discipline so far. Whether it is appropriate? Or it is needed for changing?
We analyze advantages and new opportunities, which the general theory of information (GTI) provides for information studies.
The externalization/disembodiment of mind is a significant cognitive perspective able to unveil some basic features of abduction and creative/hypothetical thinking, its success in explaining the semiotic interplay between internal and external repres...
Transhumanism is interrogated from critical race theoretical and decolonial perspectives with a view to establishing its ‘algorithmic’ relationship to historical processes of race formation (or racialization) within Euro-American historical experienc...
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