SOCIONICS is an interdisciplinary research framework which has been recently established for six years by the German Research Foundation (DFG). Up to 16 projects cooperating in a tandem-structure with at least one partner from Computer Science and one from Sociology will form a virtual research...

Focusing on observable message signs and referencing structures, communication processes can be described and analysed as message reference networks which are characterized by dynamic pattern evolution. Computational simulation provides a way of obtaining insights into the factors driving such...

In open systems of artificial agents, the meaning of communication in part emerges from ongoing interaction processes. In this paper, we present the empirical semantics approach to inductive derivation of communication semantics that can be used to derive this emergent semantics of communication...