This book offers a radical new theoretical approach for the understanding of communication. The theory is operationalized by the application of certain computer programs, namely Soft Computing programs like cellular automata and artificial neural nets. In many examples the authors demonstrate how it is possible to model and analyze communicative processes, such as social combined with cognitive ones.
Author(s): Jurgen Kluver, Christina Kluver
Series: Theory and Decision Library, Series A, vol. 40
Edition: 1
Year: 2007
Language: English
Pages: 241
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TABLE OF CONTENTS......Page 6
PREFACE......Page 8
CHAPTER 1 / Introduction: Communication – Problems of a Concept and a New Methodical Approach......Page 9
2.1. General Concepts......Page 15
2.2. Universal Modeling Schemas and Models of Soft Computing......Page 23
2.3. Complex Systems Approach and Systems Dynamics......Page 29
3.1. The Meaning of Meaning......Page 32
3.2. Information and the Vector of Expectation......Page 49
3.3. A Computational Model......Page 62
3.4. Relevance and Evaluation of Messages......Page 69
CHAPTER 4 / The Social Dimension of Communication......Page 73
4.1. The Modeling of Social Interactions......Page 74
4.2. Social Topology and Communication: An Example of Opinion Formation......Page 87
4.3. The Emergence of Social Order by Communicative Processes of Typifying......Page 96
4.4. Social Dimensionality and Communication: The Theory of Social Differentiation......Page 110
4.5. The sd-Parameter......Page 117
4.6. Semiotic Production Rules......Page 128
CHAPTER 5 / The Cognitive Dimension of Communication......Page 135
5.1. The Story of Tom......Page 137
5.2. Was it Murder? The Formation of Analogies......Page 144
5.3. Cognitive Functions, Meaning Processing Capacities, and Local Attractors......Page 149
5.4. The Meaning of Learning......Page 157
5.5. Sub Symbolic and Symbolic Cognitive Processes......Page 173
CHAPTER 6 / The General Equations of Communicative Processes......Page 185
CHAPTER 7 / Examples: Computer Models as Operationalization......Page 198
7.1. The Determination of Communication by Meaning, Degrees of Information, and Relevance......Page 199
7.2. The Impact of Social Structure on Semantical Correspondence......Page 204
7.3. Expanded Models......Page 218
CHAPTER 8 / Epilogue: The Mathematical Conditions of Human Cognition and Communication......Page 230
BIBLIOGRAPHY......Page 235
D......Page 239
R......Page 240
Z......Page 241
