An X-Ray of ICISO Portrayed through the Lens of Actor-Network Theory -- Studies in Organisational Semiotics: A Systematic Literature Review -- Vitalizing Semiotics -- Semiotics of Interactions and Socially Aware User Interface Design: The Roles and Challenges of Semiotics Unraveling Big Data in the Glocal Contemporaneity Ruled by Dromocracy -- Preliminary Reflections on Affective Affordance in HCI: A Semiotic-Informed Perspective -- Robust Social Recommendation Techniques: A Review -- SAwD - Socially Aware Design: An Organizational Semiotics-Based CASE Tool to Support Early Design Activities -- Service Innovation in Business Ecosystem: The Role of Enablers and Formation Cycle -- Evolution of Norms in the Emergence of Digital Business Ecosystems -- Open Digital Business Ecosystems: A Pathway for Value Co-Creation -- Making Sense of Non-Compliance: A Semiotic Approach -- Semiotic Analysis of E-Document as a Composite Digital Sign: The Case of E-Boarding Pass -- Organisational Responsiveness through Signs -- Research on Association Rules Reasoning and Application of Geosciences Data Based on Ameliorated Trapezoidal Cloud Transformation -- Interactive Data Visualisation: Facilitate the Accountability Disclosure through the Lens of Organisational Semiotics -- A Pragmatic Approach to Disambiguation in Text Understanding -- A Study of Complication Identification Based on Weighted Association Rule Mining -- A Study on the Individualized Information Service Mode and its Application in the Manufacturing and Supply Chain -- Trends, Challenges and New Issues in Education, Health and eScience Systems Using Stakeholder and Pragmatic Analyses to Clarify the Scenario of Data Sharing in Scientific Software -- Meaning Construction and Evolution: A Case Study of the Design-in-Use of a System for Inclusive Education Teachers -- SIERA: Improving Data Visualization for Learning Assessment in Educational Organisations -- An Organisational Semiotics Perspective to Co-Design of Technology Enhanced Learning -- Design of Therapeutic Information Systems as Indicating through Signs -- Analysis and Representation of Illocutions from Electronic Health Records -- Characterisation of an Electronic Booking System in the National Health Service: A Semiotic Perspective -- A Preliminary Study on Information Sharing Practice Between Police and Private Security Companies in the United Arab Emirates -- The Role of Actors in the Adoption of Emerging ICT in SMEs: An Actor Network Theory Analysis -- From Heidegger onwards Why Data Science is Social Semiotics? E-leadership Takes the Lead -- Multicultural Interaction Redesign Using a Semio-Participatory Approach -- Optical Wireless Communications for Ubiquitous Computing -- A Semantically-Based Big Data Processing System Using Hadoop and Map-Reduce.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 17th IFIP WG 8.1 International Conference on Informatics and Semiotics in Organisations, ICISO 2016, held in Campinas, Brazil, in August 2016. The 16 full papers and 9 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 30 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: organisational semiotics: theory and research; semiotics of interactions and socially aware user interface design; digital business ecosystems; knowledge management and engineering; and trends, challenges and new issues in education, health and eScience systems