Towards formulating a semiotic theory of measurement information – Part 1

Cropley, David H.

doi:10.1016/s0263-2241(98)00058-x

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“…The results of the questionnaire were discussed during the Congress and also through an Internet forum [2,3]. The discussion confirmed the great interest of scientists in the foundational issues of measurement [4][5][6][18][19][20][21][22][23], which were also treated recently in some special issues of the present journal [16,17].…”

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confidence: 66%

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An attempt to interpret some problems in measurement science on the basis of Kuhn’s theory of paradigms

Rossi

2006

Measurement

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“…The role of measurement in science undergoes a decisive turn point in the sixteenth-seventeenth centuries with the birth of modern science [9][10][11][12]18,19]. The experimental method highlighted the importance of scientific instruments including those for measuring.…”

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An attempt to interpret some problems in measurement science on the basis of Kuhn’s theory of paradigms

Rossi

2006

Measurement

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“…Measurement is a process aimed at producing information, and as such can be interpreted in a semiotic perspective both at a fundamental level [25]- [29] and in specific application fields [30], [31], and this in turn provides us with a structured context for discussing about QoMI. As a preliminary assumption, let us consider that the empirical world consists of objects (physical bodies, phenomena, events, processes, individuals, organizations, etc) that have properties (we are usually adopting here the terminology of the International Vocabulary of Metrology [32]).…”

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confidence: 99%

Quality of Measurement Information in Decision-Making

Petri

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Mari

2021

IEEE Trans. Instrum. Meas.

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This paper introduces a general-purpose framework aimed at capturing the elusive concept of quality of measurement information, a critical issue for both researchers and practitioners when dealing with measurement information-enabled decision making. The framework is a blueprint for the definition, assessment, communication, and improvement of measurement information quality, as analyzed through a set of general criteria, classified according to the syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic layers of semiotics, as suggested in the ISO 8000-8:2015 technical standard. The top-down analysis, where each criterion is specified in terms of characteristics and each characteristic in terms of domain-related indicators, is complemented with a bottom-up synthesis and operationalized by means of a flow chart. An application example, about the quality of information provided by the networks of measurement instruments reporting pollutants in the air, is presented to test the usefulness and the limitations of the framework.

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“…Para Cropley (1998a), um objetivo imediato da Ciência da Mensuração deve ser o desenvolvimento de uma teoria que descreva o aspecto qualitativo da mensuração, pois esta tem sido abordada somente no aspecto quantitativo. A fim de desenvolver um sistema de mensuração que trate a informação de maneira excelente, o claro entendimento da natureza da informação e de como é gerada, processada e utilizada faz-se necessário, ou seja, a questão central no estudo da mensuração é o significado da informação, que expressa a relação entre o objeto representado e os símbolos utilizados para representá-lo.…”

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