<STRONG>Organizational Semiotics: Evolving a Science of Information Systems</STRONG> covers such issues as: <BR>-Fundamental concepts such as 'information', 'data', 'message', 'communication', 'knowledge', 'organization', 'system' and so on; <BR>-Properties of signs vital to organizational functioning, such as their meanings, the intentions they express and the valuable social consequences they produce; <BR>-'Architecture' of organizations when they are viewed as information systems, based on their semiotics features; <BR>-Understanding language in organizational contexts, for example, the limitations on the language used to conduct business affairs; <BR>-The empirical study of communications for requirements elicitation; <BR>-Applying semiotic categories (e.g. physical, empiric, syntactic, semantic, pragmatic, social) to various problems; <BR>-Organizational knowledge representation; <BR>-Business process re-engineering methods and the design of e-commerce systems.