Semiotic cognitive maps. Part 1. Cognitive and semiotic approaches in informatics and control sciences

The new model of semiotic cognitive maps, based on principles of applied semiotics is suggested, representing a symbiosis of classical cognitive maps in the form of a cause-effect network (digraph) and a conceptual structure in the form of a qualitative conceptual framework – conceptual system – set of concepts of the subject domain connected by the relation “sort–kind”. It is shown that the suggested model allows representing the set of semiotic cognitive maps of a subject domain as partially ordered set of signs: name, content and size, defining these cognitive maps. Suggested is the subject domain interpreting conceptual template construction algorithm, directed on supporting the processes of verification and interpretation of cause-effect relations in a subject domain, set by the cognitive map.