Christophe Menant

Bordeaux France. E-mail: [email protected]

Received: 10 January 2003 / Accepted: 12 February 2003 / Published: 30 June 2003

Abstract: We propose here to clarify some of the relations existing between information and meaning by showing how meaningful information can be generated by a system submitted to a constraint. We build up definitions and properties for meaningful information, a meaning generator system and the domain of efficiency of a meaning (to cover cases of meaningful information transmission). Basic notions of information processing are used.

Keywords: Meaning, Information, System, Constraint, Generation, Efficiency.