Towards a Semiotic Information Position Framework for Network Centric Warfare

摘要

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.