Journal Contents: International Journal of Signs and Semiotic Systems (IJSSS)

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Volume 5 (2016)
Issue 1
Article 1
IMF Fiscal Surveillance during the Eurozone Crisis (pages 1-19)
Lena Golubovskaja (Maynooth University, Maynooth, Ireland)
Article 3
Inside the Presidential Speechwriting Process: Using Content Analysis to Study Changes to Speech Drafts (pages 35-57)
Ken Collier (Stephen F. Austin State University, Nacogdoches, TX, USA)
Issue 2
Article 1
Semiotic Landscapes in Commercial Communication: A Preliminary Reading of Greek-Cypriot Shop Signs (pages 1-26)
Evripides Zantides (Department of Multimedia and Graphic Arts, Cyprus University of Technology, Limassol, Cyprus), Evangelos Kourdis (Department of French Language and Literature, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece), Charikleia Yoka (Department of Architecture, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece)
Article 2
The Satiation of Natural Curiosity (pages 27-34)
Felix Schoeller (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris, France)
Article 3
Visual Graphetics and Language Ideology: Typographic Design for the Greek-Cypriot Dialect (pages 35-51)
Aspasia Papadima (Cyprus University of Technology, Limassol, Cyprus)
Volume 4 (2015)
Issue 1
Article 1
Contra-Diction: Countering Bad Press about Higher Education with Institutional Vision (pages 1-26)
Robert Abelman (Cleveland State University, Cleveland, OH, USA)
Article 2
A Corpus-Stylistic Approach of the Treatises of St. Athanasius about Idolatry (pages 27-53)
Georgios Alexandropoulos (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece)
Article 3
Discourse and Creativity Issues in EFL Creative Writing on Facebook (pages 54-81)
Reima Al-Jarf (King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia)
Issue 2
Article 1
Ontology Learning from Text: Why the Ontology Learning Layer Cake is not Viable (pages 1-14)
Abel Browarnik (Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel), Oded Maimon (Department of Industrial Engineering, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel)
Article 2
If Pandora had a Blog: Towards a Methodology for Investigating Computer-Mediated Discourse (pages 15-32)
Otilia Pacea (Ovidius University, Constanta, Romania)
Article 3
Rethinking “Oil Nationalism”: The Case of Anglo Iranian Oil Company (AIOC) (pages 33-49)
Neveen Abdelrehim (University of York, Heslington, UK & Faculty of Commerce, Port Said University, Port Said, Egypt)
Article 4
News-Seekers vs. Gate-Keepers: How Audiences and Newsrooms Prioritize Stories in Print and Online Content (pages 50-63)
Sharon E. Jarvis (University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA), Maegan Stephens (University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA)
Volume 3 (2014)
Issue 1
Article 1
Symbolic Data Analysis: A Paradigm for Complex Data Mining? (pages 1-9)
Sandra Elizabeth González Císaro (Department of Computer Sciences and System, INTIA, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, Universidad Nacional del Centro de la Provincia de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina), Héctor Oscar Nigro (Department of Computer Sciences and System, INTIA, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, Universidad Nacional del Centro de la Provincia de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina)
Article 2
A Study of Replicators and Hypercycles by Hofstadter's Typogenetics (pages 10-26)
V. Kvasnička (Faculty of Informatics and Information Technologies, Institute of Applied Informatics, Slovak Technical University, Bratislava, Slovakia), J. Pospíchal (Faculty of Informatics and Information Technologies, Institute of Applied Informatics, Slovak Technical University, Bratislava, Slovakia)
Article 3
Complexity: Quantity or Quality (pages 27-45)
Russell K. Standish (Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of New South Wales (UNSW), Kensington, NSW, Australia)
Article 4
Myth, Metaphor, and the Evolution of Self-Awareness (pages 46-60)
Terry Marks-Tarlow (Private Practice, Santa Monica, CA, USA)
Issue 2
Special Issue on the Semiosis of Cognition: Insights from Natural and Artificial Systems
Guest Editorial Preface
João Sequeira (Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon, Portugal), Isabel Ferreira (Centro de Filosofia da Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal)
Article 1
Biological Self-Organization (pages 1-11)
Guenther Witzany (Telos-Philosophische Praxis, Buermoos, Austria)
Article 2
Self-Organization and Semiosis in Jazz Improvisation (pages 12-25)
Ashley Walton (Department of Psychology, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, USA), Michael J. Richardson (Department of Psychology, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, USA), Anthony Chemero (Departments of Philosophy and Psychology, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, USA)
Article 3
Robot Friendship: Can a Robot be a Friend? (pages 26-42)
Claus Emmeche (Department of Science Education, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark)
Article 4
The Concept of [Robot] in Children and Teens: Some Guidelines to the Design of Social Robots (pages 43-57)
João Sequeira (Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon, Portugal), Isabel Ferreira (Centro de Filosofia da Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal)
Volume 2 (2012)
Issue 1
Article 1
Reassessing the Foundations of Semiotics: Preliminaries (pages 1-31)
Mihai Nadin (University of Texas at Dallas, USA, and Hanse Institute for Advanced Study, Germany)
Article 2
Semiotic Systems, Computers, and the Mind: How Cognition Could Be Computing (pages 32-71)
William J. Rapaport (University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, USA)
Article 3
The Concept of Exaptation Between Biology and Semiotics (pages 72-87)
Davide Weible (Tartu University, Estonia)
Issue 2
Article 1
Genetic Programming for Robust Text Independent Speaker Verification (pages 1-22)
Peter Day (d-fine Ltd., London, UK), Asoke K. Nandi (University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK)
Article 2
Nature That Breeds Solutions (pages 23-44)
Raymond Chiong (Swinburne University of Technology (Sarawak Campus), Sarawak, Malaysia), Ferrante Neri (University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland), R. I. McKay (Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea)
Article 3
From the Real Ant to the Artificial Ant: Applications in Combinatorial Optimization, Data Clustering, Collective Robotics and Image Processing (pages 45-68)
Moussa Diaf (Université Mouloud Mammeri, Tizi-Ouzou, Algeria), Kamal Hammouche (Université Mouloud Mammeri, Tizi-Ouzou, Algeria), Patrick Siarry (Université Paris 12 Val de Marne, Créteil, France)
Article 4
Biological Traits in Artificial Self-Reproducing Systems (pages 69-83)
Eleonora Bilotta (Università della Calabria, Cosenza, Italy), Pietro Pantano (Università della Calabria, Cosenza, Italy)
Volume 1 (2011)
Issue 1
Article 1
The Semiotics of Cybernetic Percept-Action Systems (pages 1-17)
Peter Cariani (Harvard Medical School, USA)
Article 2
A Model of Complexity Levels of Meaning Constitution in Simulation Models of Language Evolution (pages 18-38)
Andy Lücking (Bielefeld University, Germany), Alexander Mehler (Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, Germany)
Article 3
Minds and Machines: Limits to Simulations of Thought and Action (pages 39-48)
James H. Fetzer (University of Minnesota - Duluth, USA)
Article 4
Solutions and Open Challenges for the Symbol Grounding Problem (pages 49-54)
Angelo Cangelosi (University of Plymouth, UK)
Article 5
Research Commentaries on Cangelosi’s “Solutions and Open Challenges for the Symbol Grounding Problem” (pages 55-79)
Stevan Harnad (University of Quebec at Montreal, Canada, and University of Southapton, UK), Luc Steels (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium, and Sony Computer Science Laboratory, France), Tony Belpaeme (University of Plymouth, UK), Carol J. Madden (Inserm, France), Stéphane Lallée (Inserm, France), Peter Ford Dominey (Inserm, France), Stephen J. Cowley (University of Hertfordshire, UK), Juyang Weng (Michigan State University at East Lansing, USA), Alberto Greco (University of Genova, Italy), Barbara Giolito (Università Vita-Salute San Raffaele, Italy), Domenico Parisi (National Research Council, Italy), Vincent C. Müller (Anatolia College/ACT, Germany), Angelo Loula (State University of Feira de Santana, Brazil), João Queiroz (Federal University of Juiz de Fora, Brazil), Ricardo Gudwin (UNICAMP, Brazil), Angelo Cangelosi (University of Plymouth, UK)
Issue 2
Article 2
Representation and Reference According to Peirce (pages 28-39)
Winfried Nöth (Universität Kassel, Germany)
Article 3
Signs Conveying Information: On the Range of Peirce’s Notion of Propositions: Dicisigns (pages 40-52)
Frederik Stjernfelt (Aarhus University, Denmark)
Article 4
Self-Organization and Peirce’s Notion of Communication and Semiosis (pages 53-61)
João Queiroz (Federal University of Juiz de Fora, Brazil), Angelo Loula (State University of Feira de Santana, Brazil)