Applying semiotic analysis to the design and modeling of distributed multimedia systems

Authors:
Mangtang Chan;Kecheng Liu
Affiliations:
Department of Computer Science, City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon, Hong Kong SAR, PRC;Department of Computer Science, School of Systems Engineering, University of Reading, Reading, Berkshire, United Kingdom
Venue:
CSCWD'04 Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work in Design I
Year:
2004

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Abstract

Semiotics is the study of signs. Application of semiotics in information systems design is based on the notion that information systems are organizations within which agents deploy signs in the form of actions according to a set of norms. An analysis of the relationships among the agents, their actions and the norms would give a better specification of the system. Distributed multimedia systems (DMMS) could be viewed as a system consisted of many dynamic, self-controlled normative agents engaging in complex interaction and processing of multimedia information. This paper reports the work of applying the semiotic approach to the design and modeling of DMMS, with emphasis on using semantic analysis under the semiotic framework. A semantic model of DMMS describing various components and their ontological dependencies is presented, which then serves as a design model and implemented in a semantic database. Benefits of using the semantic database are discussed with reference to various design scenarios.