Peircean semeiotic: a new engineering paradigm for automatic and adaptive intelligent systems design

The purpose of this paper is to draw the attention of the Information Fusion community to Peircean Semeiotic-as defined by Charles Sanders Peirce. An attempt is made to show that Peircean Semeiotic has potentially a very revolutionary role to play in the further development of information fusion and in the advanced development of Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Science, Natural Intelligence Science, and Information Processing Science and Technology in general. The transition to the Information Age and the explosive growth in knowledge are occurring simultaneously with the decline of the traditional Western humanistic philosophies and scientific philosophies. These philosophies have run their course and are increasingly unable to provide adequate scientific guidance for the development of Open-System, Human Centered, Inquiry-based Information Processing Systems.