| This book assembles semiotics and artificial intelligence techniques in order to design new kinds of intelligence systems; it changes the research field of artificial intelligence by incorporating the study of meaning processes (semiosis), from the perspective of formal sciences, linguistics, and philosophy.
Sometimes, in order to mature, a framework operates outside the mainstream for a period of time; it becomes the mainstream only after this phase. This happened, for example, with neural networks, which appeared in the early 1960s, but became the mainstream in research only 25 years later after the development of the back-propagation algorithm as its learning algorithm. It happened also with fuzzy systems, which became popular only after the appearance of industrial fuzzy control applications in Japan. |