Towards a Semiotic Information Position Framework for Network Centric Warfare

Abstract

Semiotics is a field of study that deals with the relationships between representations, intended meanings, and interpretations of signs and symbols. As such, it is of particular relevance to a range of network centric warfare primitives, including data, information, knowledge, awareness, and understanding. In this paper, we apply semiotics to such primitives in the physical, information, cognitive and social network centric warfare domains from the syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic perspectives. As a result, we present the Semiotic Information Position (SIP) framework and evaluate it through a thought experiment involving a simple command and control scenario.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 2011
Accession Number
ADA546959

Entities

People

  • Sasa Baskarada

Organizations

  • Defence Science and Technology Group

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Cyber
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aircrafts
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Cognitive Science
  • Command And Control
  • Commercial Aircraft
  • Complex Adaptive Systems
  • Information Operations
  • Information Systems
  • Iraqi-War
  • Language
  • Linguistics
  • Military Operations
  • Network Centric Warfare
  • Network Protocols
  • Situational Awareness
  • Teamwork
  • Warfare

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Agent-Based Social Robotics and Mobile-Assisted Learning in Virtual Environments.
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Educational Psychology

Technology Areas

  • Fully Networked C3
  • Fully Networked C3 - Command and Control