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Proceedings, Volume 81, Issue 1

2022 IS4SI 2021 - 157 articles

The 2021 Summit of the International Society for the Study of Information

Online| 12–19 September 2021

Volume Editors:
Marcin J. Schroeder, Tohoku University, Japan
Mark Burgin, University of California, USA

Cover Story: The International Society for the Study of Information (IS4SI) organized its 2021 biannual Summit online due to the travel restrictions caused by the pandemic. The Summit had ten contributing conferences with diverse methodologies of inquiry addressing a very wide range of information-related themes of the IS4SI mission. The conferences had in their schedules a total of more than seventy plenary sessions consisting of presentations, lectures, and panel discussions with a general content addressed to the audience of all participants of the Summit and multiple parallel, more focused sessions presenting the state-of-the-art research results of interest to fellow specialists.
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Articles (157)

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,849 Views
6 Pages

In living cells, signal chains process the information that flows between the signal reception and the gene usage. This paper investigates the conjecture that logic gates play a role. In the mammalian preimplantation embryo, cells either become part...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
2,003 Views
5 Pages

Contemporary natural language processing (NLP) emphasizes comparing machine language performances to standards defined by static corpora of human text. However, despite some successes, current models remain weak in areas such as pragmatics. Using sch...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
2,198 Views
4 Pages

The emergence of holographic stage art has made the concrete space of the dance theater fragmented, the virtuality and multiplicity place the dancers’ performances in a kind of phantom space beyond the object. In this kind of cross-border coope...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,889 Views
5 Pages

Displaying search results in a vertical list, existing academic search engines do not reveal deeper insight into searched topics such as their connections with other topics. To address this issue, this paper proposes two interactive information visua...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,330 Views
5 Pages

Coworking spaces—shared work-spaces in which freelancers, entrepreneurs, but also employees ‘work alone together’—are presented as an example of the blurring of spaces within the knowledge economy. These are spaces in which ke...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
1,925 Views
4 Pages

This paper briefly sketches the ontological, epistemic, and ethical implications of three farming paradigms: 20th Century Chemico-mechanical agronomy, Microbiomic-ecological cultivation, and Algorithmic “Smart” farming. The position ultim...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
1,686 Views
4 Pages

The paper presents a solution of reconstructing the pollutant exhaust information that includes the rate of the exhaust and unknown parameters associated with pollutant dispersion required for the rate identification.

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,536 Views
5 Pages

This paper evaluates artificial texts produced by the GPT 2 and GPT 3 language models and proposes to use hermeneutic tools for their analysis, putting them on an equal footing with man-made texts. This decision is due to the intelligibility of these...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,227 Views
5 Pages

In this essay, we use the provocation of the possibility of artificial intelligence involving the physical merger of humans and machines to explore cognitive extension and the co-evolution of humans and technology. Our aim is to show that far from th...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
2,012 Views
7 Pages

Due to the past tP and the future tF being divided into a pair of opposing times by the now tN, the generation mechanism of the contradiction is attributed in this paper as the process in which the time increment Δt and Δt’ are tran...

  • Proceeding Paper
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1,622 Views
4 Pages

This paper describes analytical methods used for the elaboration of the fast algorithm for detecting unknown sources of contamination release into water and/or air network systems. In addition, an analysis of existing theoretical approaches to comput...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
1,904 Views
4 Pages

Reconciling determinism with adaptability and resilience in the design of complex distributed system is a difficult task. In this paper, we argue that theoretical biology, especially biosemiotics and morphogenesis, gives a new perspective into this p...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,825 Views
4 Pages

“Qi” plays an important role in Chinese Calligraphy Theory. “Qi” deeply embodies the spirit of Taoism and philosophical speculation with Oriental characteristics and can reflect the core and composition of traditional Chinese...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
4,606 Views
4 Pages

Marx saw that the universal application of machines in the 19th century had a double effect, that is, to promote the development of productive forces, to open new fields of production, and to realize the enrichment of labor products At the same time,...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
1,865 Views
3 Pages

Understanding the ternary structure of “subject-information entity-object” actually brings out a modern philosophical system with the connotation of “language philosophy-information philosophy-cognitive philosophy” that is, th...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
1,728 Views
3 Pages

This article proposes the substitution of artificial intelligence due to technological development: it not only includes the iteration and advancement of human-use tools of intelligent systems in the material world, and the systematic substitution of...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
1,905 Views
6 Pages

This study focuses on the relationship between the material system and information. Wiener said, “Information is information, not matter or energy”. So far, what information is still a problem for the philosophy of information. This paper...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
2,198 Views
3 Pages

Aesthetics is an important branch of philosophy. In traditional philosophy, art aesthetics tends to analyze the subjectivity and perception of knowledge. Under the framework of information philosophy, it requires us to make a fundamental transformati...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
1,975 Views
5 Pages

The creative education of future information is based on philosophical spirit education. Philosophy education should penetrate primary and secondary education, especially to improve the philosophy literacy of primary and secondary school teachers, wh...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
9 Citations
7,900 Views
5 Pages

Ethical Governance of AI in the Global South: A Human Rights Approach to Responsible Use of AI

  • Aníbal Monasterio Astobiza,
  • Txetxu Ausín,
  • Belén Liedo,
  • Mario Toboso,
  • Manuel Aparicio and
  • Daniel López

There is a growing debate on how to regulate and make responsible use of digital technologies, particularly artificial intelligence (AI). In an increasingly globalized scenario, power relations and inequalities between different countries and regions...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,267 Views
5 Pages

The main purpose of sustainable interaction design is to meet global challenges in society, the economy, and the environment to an extent that goes beyond the well-being of human beings and attempts to promote the well-being of all beings. This paper...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
1 Citations
5,421 Views
6 Pages

This is a work in progress that aims to study Semiotic Theory as the grounding to support the development of new models of mind. These models can be used to construct artificial intelligent agents to deal with several tasks in the real world. The int...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
1,973 Views
4 Pages

The problem of freedom of speech caught the attention of thinkers from the very beginning of our civilization, but it was only in the modern age that it became a central issue both in theoretical philosophy and in social practices. Freedom of speech...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
2,261 Views
5 Pages

I propose a number of principles that I believe are substantial for various faculties of the mammalian brain, such as perception, expectations, imagery, and memory. The same principles are also of interest when designing an artificial but biologicall...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
3,319 Views
3 Pages

This paper will analyze Marcia Bates’ definition on information from four perspectives, overall philosophical standpoint, ontological position, epistemological position, and methodological position. The viewpoints of four information specialist...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
2,240 Views
4 Pages

The research on the nature of life from the perspective of information can be traced back to Schrödinger’s theory on the negative entropy of life. Many system scientists and system philosophers inherited Schrödinger’s research a...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
2,311 Views
5 Pages

Dunhuang posthumous paper are a huge treasure trove of human civilization, among which the Dunhuang posthumous paper in the Wei-Jin period provides important data for the study of the development of calligraphy’s history. From the perspective o...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
2,079 Views
4 Pages

Manipulation is an important technique of Chinese martial arts, and it is the primary content of martial arts in people’s talking about boxing techniques. In Chinese martial arts, the main martial arts methods like “ hit, throw, take, sta...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,809 Views
3 Pages

Vladimir Lerner’s Information Macrodynamic (IMD) formalism is the first full application of John Archibald Wheeler’s “It from Bit” approach to physical Information processes. The IMD formalism accounts for the evolution of Inf...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
2,355 Views
6 Pages

This is an appeal for the collective reconsideration of the paradigm that be currently executed in the information discipline, because it is not a suitable paradigm for the information discipline but the one suitable for physical disciplines. The uns...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
2,039 Views
3 Pages

The basic idea of natural computing is learning from nature. Naturalist framework provides info-computational architecture for cognizing agents, modelling living organisms as informational structures with computational dynamics. Intrinsic natural inf...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,053 Views
5 Pages

It seems that intelligent complex systems will require formalisms having richer behavior than Turing machines. Very little is known about the relations (e.g., the expressiveness and/or effectiveness) between new super-Turing models of computation. Th...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,269 Views
3 Pages

New social environments are emerging as spaces and places where work and life at home are no longer separate. Digital spaces and physical places have become intertwined: the 1st space is home, the 2nd is work, the 3rd is informal meeting places, whil...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
2,858 Views
4 Pages

This presentation sketches out three scenarios of information suppression in social environments ravaged by pervasive feelings of insecurity and looming breakup. While containment (common in totalitarian regimes) strives to decrease the amount of inf...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
1,981 Views
4 Pages

Information Processing by Selective Machines

  • Mark Burgin and
  • Karthik Rajagopalan

The goal of this paper is to develop the novel automaton model of learning processes called a selective machine and to study the properties of these machines. The model is based on the analysis of the process of language acquisition by people, althou...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
2,663 Views
5 Pages

Combining earlier spatial typologies of places and communities with computer-mediated communication technologies, Hardegger developed the idea of the 4th space. Given that misinformation has become a crucial problem in many online environments over t...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,361 Views
4 Pages

Ontology and AI Paradigms

  • Roman Krzanowski and
  • Pawel Polak

Ontologies of the real world that are realized, internally, by AI systems and human agents are different. We call this difference an ontological gap. The paper posits that this ontological gap is one of the reasons responsible for the failures of AI,...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,143 Views
6 Pages

The theory of the pseudo-analysis is based on a special real semiring (called also tropical semiring). This theory enables a unified approach to three important problems as nonlinearity, uncertainty and optimization, with many applications. There are...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,494 Views
5 Pages

Social evolution has reached a point at which the continuation of human life is even at stake. The reason why that is the case lies in dysfunctionalities of the organization of social systems. Those dysfunctionalities came to the fore when hominizati...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
1,951 Views
4 Pages

From the perspective of the division of the field of existence of Philosophy of Information, the concept and scope of aesthetics are reinterpreted in this paper. Against the background of today’s anthropocentrism, the lack of significance in th...

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