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Intersecţii

In: Ledeanu, A (Ed.) Solomon Marcus. “Zero şi Infinit sunt fraţi.” Special issue of Secolul 21 dedicated to the work of the mathematician Solomon Marcus. Bucarest: Fundaţia Culturală Secolul 21, 1-6:2017, 166-177
http://secolul21.ro/arhive/2262
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Meaning in the Age of Big Data

Empirical Research on Semiotics and Visual Rhetoric (M. Danesi, Ed.) pp. 86-127. Hershey PA: IGI Global Publishers, 2018. DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-5622-0.ch006
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We don’t need more data to make better decisions

Interview in Nimirium Insights
#222 15/05/2018


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Machine Intelligence: a chimera

AI & SOCIETY
© Springer-Verlag London Ltd., part of Springer Nature 2018
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Honouring the 80th Birthday of Professor Mihai Nadin

Comitetul Român de Istoria şi Filosofia Stiinţei şi Tehnicii
Romanian Committee for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology…


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Anticipation and Semiotics: One Cannot Not Interact

Lecture for the Tartu Summer School of Semiotics

Lecture Slides (PDF)


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Semiotic Engineering – An Opportunity or an Opportunity Missed?

S.D.J. Barbosa, K. Breitman (eds.), Conversations Around Semiotic
Engineering, DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-56291-9_6
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Reporting on Anticipatory Systems: A Subject Surviving Opportunism and Intolerance.

Autobiographical retrospective in recognition of major contributions to the systems movement. International Journal of General Systems, June 23, 2017 (online), 46:2, pp 93-122.
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Enslaved by Digital Technology

Interview with Roberto Simanowski in Digital Humanities and Digital Media. Conversations on Politics, Culture, Aesthetics, and Literacy, pp. 184-205 (Open Humanities Press, 2016, Series Fibreculture Books)
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Presentation: Anticipation and Semiotics – One Cannot Not Interact


Presentation by Dr. Mihai Nadin at the Tartu International Semiotics Summer School, August 19, 2015.
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Language as a Cognitive Process – Review

Book review of Language as a Cognitive Process by Terry Winograd in Artificial Intelligence 27 (1985), pp. 353-361.
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Semiotics is Fundamental Science

in Knowledge discovery, transfer, and management in the information age / Murray E. Jennex, Editor, IGI Global book series Advances in Knowledge Acquisition, Transfer, and Management, 2014
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One Cannot Not Interact: Semiotic Approaches to User Interface Design

Presentation in the session Semiotic Approaches to User Interface Design at CHI 2000: The Future is Here
The Hague, Netherlands, April 1-6, 2000.
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Reassessing the Foundations of Semiotics: Preliminaries

International Journal of Signs and Semiotic Systems, 2(1), 1-31, January-June 2012
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Processos semioticos e de informacao a semiotica da computacao.

Published in: TECCOGS—Revista Digital de Tecnologias Cognitivas, Edicaos 5, 2011, pp. 89-120

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Computation, Information, Meaning. Anticipation and Games

International Journal of Applied Research on Information Technology and Computing (IJARITAC), Vol. 2, Issue 1, 2011. pp. 1-27

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Information and Semiotic Processes: The Semiotics of Computation

In Cybernetics and Human Knowing. Vol. 18, nos. 1-2, pp. 153-175.
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Where Is Semiotics When You Need It Most?

in SemiotiX. A Global Information Bulletin, 4, July 2005
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Semiotic Machine

in The Public Journal of Semiotics 1(1), January 2007, pp. 85-114,
http://www.semioticon.com/seo/S/semiotic_machine.html#
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We Are What We Do

Design – The Basic Paradox (Wolfgang Jonas, Matthias Götz, Eds.) January, 2003
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One cannot NOT Interact (Knowledge-based systems)

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One cannot NOT Interact

(The Future is Here) Workshop: Semiotic Approaches to User Interface Design, The Hague, 2 April 2000
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The Aftershocks Before the Earthquake

review article of Archive Fever (by J. Derrida), Semiotica, 128-1/2 (2000). pp. 137-153

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What Kind Of Sign Is A Bit?

Semiotics and the Information Sciences, Victoria College, University of Toronto, 13-15 October 1998
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Design – The Encyclopedia of Semiotics

The Encyclopedia of Semiotics (Paul Bouissac, Ed.).
New York, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998.
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Structure – The Encyclopedia of Semiotics

The Encyclopedia of Semiotics (Paul Bouissac, Ed.).
New York, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998.


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Parallelism – The Encyclopedia of Semiotics

The Encyclopedia of Semiotics (Paul Bouissac, Ed.).
New York, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998.
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Interface – The Encyclopedia of Semiotics

The Encyclopedia of Semiotics (Paul Bouissac, Ed.).
New York, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998.

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Eugen Coseriu – The Encyclopedia of Semiotics

The Encyclopedia of Semiotics (Paul Bouissac, Ed.).
New York, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998.
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Computer – The Encyclopedia of Semiotics

The Encyclopedia of Semiotics (Paul Bouissac, Ed.).
New York, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998.
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Ernst Cassirer – The Encyclopedia of Semiotics

The Encyclopedia of Semiotics (Paul Bouissac, Ed.).
New York, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998.
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Max Bense – The Encyclopedia of Semiotics

The Encyclopedia of Semiotics (Paul Bouissac, Ed.).
New York, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998.
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Visible Signs – the language of Multimedia

Signs and Systems. A semiotic introduction to Systems Design, Cambridge: University Press, Summer/1997.
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Signs and System

Signs and Systems. A Semiotic Introduction to Systems Design, Cambridge: University Press Summer/1997.
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The Computer as Semiotic Machine

Dagstuhl International Seminar and Research Center for Information Science, Germany, 19-23 February 1996


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Understanding Pre-Historic Images in the Post-Historic Age: A Cognitive Project.

Semiotica, 100:2-4, 1994. Berlin/ New York: Mouton de Gruyter. pp. 387-405
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Another page in the foundation of semiotics

(Giordano Bruno’s De Imaginum, Signorum et Idearum Compositione),
The American Journal of Semiotics,
Vol. 10, No. 1-2, 1993, pp. 271-284

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The Bearable Unbearability of the Rational MIND

(Die erträgliche Unerträglichkeit des rationalen -Mind- )
Die erträgliche Leichtigkeit der Zeichen. Ästhetik, Semiotik, Informatik (Frieder Nake, Ed.).
Baden-Baden: Agis Verlag, 1993, pp. 63-102
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Semiotics in action: The pragmatic level

Pragmatik, Vol. IV, Philosophy of language, linguistic pragmatics, and formative pragmatics (Prof. Dr. phil. habil. Herbert Stachowiak, Ed.). Hamburg: Felix Meiner Verlag, 1993, pp. 219-250.
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A conceptual framework for human-machine interaction

International Interactive Communication Society, New York, 14 November 1990


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The Significance of Semiotics for Designers

Graduate Seminar, School of the Arts, Department of Communication Arts and Design, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, 30 March 1990


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Design and Semiotics

Semiotics in the Individual Sciences, Vol. II (W.A. Koch, Ed.). Bochum: Brockmeyer, 1990, pp. 418-436.
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The Paradigm of Self-Organization

IV Congress of the International Association of Semiotic Studies. Barcelona/Perpignan,
31 March-4 April 1989
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Interface design and evaluation

Advances in Human-ComputerInteraction, Vol. 2 (R. Hartson, D. Hix, Eds.). Norwood, NJ: Ablex Publishing Corp, 1988
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Interface design: A semiotic paradigm

Semiotica 69-3/4. Amsterdam: Mouton de Gruyter, 1988, pp. 269-302.
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Sign and value-The authority of authority

Semiotic Theory and Practice (M. Hertzfeld, L. Metazzo, Eds.). Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 1988, pp. 799-803.

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Visual Aducation (with R. Zakia)

Semiotic Theory and Practice (M. Hertzfeld, L. Metazzo, Eds.).
Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 1988, pp. 1237-1243.
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Semiotics, Advertising and Marketing

(with R.D. Zakia), The Journal of Consumer Marketing, 4 (2), 61-80. Spring 1987

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Writing is Rewriting

The American Journal of Semiotics, Vol. 5, No. 1, 1987, pp. 115-133
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User interface-a semiotic paradigm

Battelle Memorial Institute, Human Factors Society, Southern Ohio Chapter, Columbus, April 1986
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Aesthetic Value. The Semiotic Identification of Value

College of Architecture, Planning and Design, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, 10 April 1986


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Infinite Semiosis

Art Academy of Cincinnati, OH, 12 March 1986


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Pragmatics in the semiotic framework

Pragmatik, Vol. II, The rise of pragmatic thought in the 19th and 20th centuries
(Prof. Dr. phil. Herbert Stachowiak, Ed.). Hamburg: Felix Meiner Verlag, 1986.

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Can field theory be applied to the semiotics of communication?

Communications (The European Journal of Communication) 3, 1986, pp. 61-80.
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Visual semiosis applied to computer graphics

Annual Conference Proceedings of the ASEE.
Hanover, PA: The Sheridan Press, 1986.

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Representation

Graduate School of Architecture, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 28 January 1986


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Interface Design. A Semiotic Paradigm

(keynote address) Fourth Annual Computer Graphics Conference: Applications on the Leading Edge, University of Oregon Continuation Center, Eugene, 27-29 October 1985
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The Discipline of Interdisciplinarity (Introduction)

Semiotics of the Visual: On Defining the Field. (Mihai Nadin, Ed.) = Semiotica, Vol. 52, No. 3/4 (1984), Amsterdam: Mouton, 1985.
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On the meaning of the visual: 12 theses regarding the visual and its interpretation

Semiotics of the Visual: On Defining the Field. (Mihai Nadin, Ed.) = Semiotica, Vol. 52, No. 3/4 (1984), Amsterdam: Mouton, 1985
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Semiotic and Cognitive Aspects of Computer Animation

Graduate seminar, Computer Graphics Research Group/Cranston Center, Ohio State University, Columbus, February, 1985


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The Semiosis of Man-Machine Communication

9th Annual Meeting of the Semiotic Society of America, Indiana University, Bloomington, 11-14 October 1984


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The Semiosis of Conceptual Art

in Semiosis (Eddie Ma, Ed.). Providence: Institute for Visual Communication and Semiotics, 1984 (6 pages)
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Sign and Value

3rd Congress of the International Association for Semiotic Studies, Palermo, Italy, 25-29 June 1984


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The semiotic model of artificial intelligence – a shift in paradigm

Colloquium on Artificial Intelligence, Rochester Institute of Technology, NY, 12 May 1984


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The semiosis of conceptual art

Semiosis (Eddie Ma, Ed.). Providence: Institute for Visual Communication and Semiotics, 1984.


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The semiotic processes of the formation and expression of ideas

The Sociogenesis of Language and Human Conduct (B. Bain, Ed.). New York: Plenum, 1983.
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The designer-a semiotic animal

Fall Lecture Series, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, 3 November 1982


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The meaning of the visual

The Semiotics of the Visual: On Defining the Field (Special Session), 7th Annual Meeting of the Semiotic Society of America, SUNY-Buffalo, 21-24 October 1982


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Visual semiotics: methodological framework for computer graphics and computer-aided design

The Designer and the Technology Revolution, Rochester Institute of Technology, NY, 13-15 May 1982


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Problem-solving strategies: the semiotic approach to industrial design

Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, 17 March 1982


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Consistency, completeness, and the meaning of sign theories. The semiotic field.

The American Journal of Semiotics, 1:3, 1982, pp. 79-88
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Semiology: is it nonsense?

Brown University, Providence RI, 24 March 1982


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Architecture as a Sign System

Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, 17 March 1982


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The integrating function of the sign in Peirce’s semiotic

Proceedings of the C.S. Peirce Bicentennial International Congress (K.L. Ketner, J. M. Ransdell, C. Eisele, M. Fisch, C. Hardwick, Eds.) No. 23, Sept. 1981 pp. 363-366.
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A semiotic procedural approach to dramatic literature

Empirical Semantics. Bochum: Brockmeyer Verlag, 1981.
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The energy crisis: a topic for semiotics? (Introduction)

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Sign and value in the energy crisis

Signs of the Energy Crisis (Kodikas/Code 3:3). Tü bingen: G. Narr Verlag, 1981.
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Aesthetic sign processes and aesthetic value

[Ästhetische Zeichenprozesse und der ästhetische Wert]
Ästhetik und Semiotik. Tü bingen: G. Narr Verlag, 1981…


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The Semiotics of Risk

International Symposium on Risk Theory, Center for Interdisciplinary Studies, Bielefeld, Germany, November, 1980


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The logic of vagueness and the category of synechism

The Monist, 63:3, 1980
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Why semiotics at a Congress of Aesthetics? (Introduction)

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Aesthetic sign processes

Aesthetics and Semiotics (Kodikas/Code 2:3). Tü bingen: G. Narr Verlag, 1980.


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Semiotics and Human-Computer Interaction (since 1980)

Computers are semiotic machines. Signs are what a computer processes as electrons pass through the various components of the machine.…


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The aesthetic sign and aesthetic value

Colloquium on Semiotics and Aesthetics: The Constitution of Aesthetic Signs, University of Essen, Germany, 9-11 November 1979


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Interpretivity

Working Group on the Semiotics of the Performing Arts, 2nd Congress of the International Association of Semiotic Studies, Vienna, Austria, July 2-6, 1979


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Fuzzy Sign Processes and the Value Continuum

2nd Congress of the International Association for Semiotic Studies, Vienna, Austria, 2-6 July 1979


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Ivanov and the semiotic circle from Novosibirsk

Colloquium on Semiotics, Berlin Technical University and the Working Group for Semiotics, Berlin, May 1979


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Sign functioning in performance

Drama Review T84, 1979, pp. 231-256.


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Sign, Fuzzy, Continuity

2nd Semiotic Colloquium, German Semiotic Society, Regensburg, Germany, September 1978


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Concrete poetry as sign functioning

1st International Study Seminar, Urbino, Italy, July 1978


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Sign and Ideology

6th European Colloquium on Semiotics, University of Perpignan, Perpignan, France, April 1978


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On the semiotic nature of value

Ars Semeiotica, No. 3, 1978.
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Zeichen und Wert (Sign and value)

Grundlagende Studien aus Kybernetik und Geisteswissenschaft, 19:1, March, 1978.


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Sign and aesthetic systems (with application to Brancusi’s aesthetics)

in Die Einheit der semiotischen Dimensionen. Tübingen: G. Narr Verlag. 1978

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Sign and value: a formalization

Seminar for Information Aesthetics and Semiotics, Institut fü r Philosophie und Wissenschaftstheorie, Stuttgart, Germany, December 1977


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Aesthetic Systems

5th European Colloquium on Semiotics, Aachen, Germany, October, 1977


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Sign and fuzzy sets

4th European Colloquium on Semiotics, University of Stuttgart, Germany, October 1977


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Sign and fuzzy sets: fuzzy categories

International Semiotic Days, Suzette, France, September 1977


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On the semiotic nature of Brancusi’s sculpture

International Brancusi Seminar, Bucharest, Romania, April 1977


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Sign and fuzzy automata

in Semiosis, Heft 1, 5, 1977
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The set of signs

Cahiers de Linguistique Theorique et Appliquée XIV, 1, 1977.
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The repertory of signs

Semiosis, Heft 1, 1976, pp. 29-35


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The Repertory of Signs

Semiosis 1:1, pp. 29-34, 1976
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Zeichen und Wert (Sign and Value)

Grundlagenstudien aus Kybernetik und Geisteswissenschaft (Foundations of Cybernetics and the Humanities), 19:1, pp. 19-28. 1978 (In German)

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