Ontology of functional synergetics in virtual cognitive-semiotic design of information processes and systems

Abstract

Objectives . In view of the currently expanding practice of applying methods for configuring ontologies of designing information processes and systems, information technology (IT) specialists need to disclose the definition of such a new concept as functional synergetics. This concept is actualized by the course of development of virtual information technologies, forming the system foundation for methods of design ontologies and indicating attributes for the correct formation of design ontologies of relevant dynamic information processes and systems. In the present work, this is done by means of analytical review. Methods . The analytical review is based on the authors’ vision of deepening the concept of synergetics as applied to a variety of modern information processes and systems. This context concessionally conjugates the combined use and consideration of such approaches as the method of ontologies (the major component of the resulting concession of methods), methods of cognitive semiotics, autopoiesis, and other manifestations of synergetics with related methods and techniques of emergent evaluation of the role and effectiveness of any occurring systemic changes. It is this combined dynamics of information processes and systems that allows the authors to put forward a developing treatment of the methods of synergetics as functional. Results . The concept of functional synergetics was clarified and deepened based on the method of ontologies. In the theory of information processes and systems, it is manifested in updating ontologies accompanying scientific and engineering projects that use synergetics as an initial methodological basis. It turns out that the functional features of synergetics in the context of assessments and functional ordering of modern IT devices give it new opportunities in highlighting the significant indicators of system changes: properties, attributes, and manifestations of functionalsynergistic nature. It is these three concepts, revealed by synergetics as a functional eyepiece, that distinguish functional synergetics from the generally accepted definition of synergetics as such. Matching form to content, autopoiesis, development, and transformations occurring with informational processes and systems with their emergent consequences are the essence and feature of functional synergetics. Tracing what is happening in dynamics, in the inseparability of assessments and regulations of the set of properties, attributes, and manifestations of the analyzed processes to an even greater extent clarifies the essence and role of the concept introduced by the authors in the general classical theory of information processes and systems. In the related analysis, virtual reality, augmented reality, mixed reality, expanded reality, composite reality, coupled reality, geoinformation systems, multidimensional computer graphics, fractal graphics, holographic graphics, computer teletype games, X-reality, etc., which have essential dynamic characteristics and properties, are included here as objects of research and design. Conclusions . Improvement of the theory and practice of creating and using information processes and systems from the position of recognizingthe accelerating speed and dynamics of how their properties and indicators are modified leads the synergistic methodology of assessments and control mechanisms to the emergence of a clarifying concept of functional synergy. This is a complex and dynamic concept, which includes its interpretation of the positions of classical synergetics and related paradigms of cognitive semiotics, etc. The method of ontologies, which is gaining more and more popularity, is the main means and tool of such unification. When combined with cognitive semiotics, functional synergetics becomes a powerful science-intensive tool for further development of the theory and practice of modern multimedia intensified information systems and their information fields described by both imperative and convivial paradigms.