Prof. Grzegorz J. Nalepa - Research

Currently I hold a position of Full Professor Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland.

I hold the title of full professor (2019) from the president of the Republic of Poland, as well as the degrees of habilitation (DSc, 2012), doctorate (PhD, 2004) and Master of Science (MSc, 1999) all in Computer Science in Artificial Intelligence from AGH University.

I have a Master of Arts (MA, 2012) degree in Philosophy from the Jagiellonian University.

• 2021 Victor Rodriguez-Fernandez et al. Conformance Checking for Time Series-aware Processes, https://doi.org/10.1109/TII.2020.2977126 IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics 2021

• 2020 Krzysztof Kutt, Dominika Drążyk, Szymon Bobek, Grzegorz J. Nalepa Personality-Based Affective Adaptation Methods for Intelligent Systems , Sensors 2021, 21(1), 163; https://doi.org/10.3390/s21010163
• 2020 Marcin Szpyrka, Edyta Brzychczy, Aneta Napieraj, Jacek Korski, Grzegorz J. Nalepa Conformance Checking of a Longwall Shearer Operation Based on Low-Level Events https://doi.org/10.3390/en13246630, Energies 2020, 13(24), 6630
• 2020 An Introductory Guide to Artificial Intelligence for Legal Professionals, Wolters Kluwer, 2020.

• 2019 - Grzegorz J. Nalepa, Krzysztof Kutt, Barbara Giżycka, Paweł Jemioło, Szymon Bobek Analysis and Use of the Emotional Context with Wearable Devices for Games and Intelligent Assistants, Sensors 2019, 19(11), 2509; https://doi.org/10.3390/s19112509,
• 2019 - Grzegorz J. Nalepa, Krzysztof Kutt, Szymon Bobek, Mobile platform for affective context-aware systems, Future Generation Computer Systems, Volume 92, March 2019, Pages 490-503, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.future.2018.02.033

• 2018 - Grzegorz J. Nalepa Modeling with Rules Using Semantic Knowledge Engineering, Intelligent Systems Reference Library, Vol. 130, ISBN: 978-3-319-66654-9, Pages: XXIV, 435, Springer International Publishing, 2017 (Copyright 2018), DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-66655-6

• 2018 - Grzegorz J. Nalepa and Joachim Baumeister (Eds.) Synergies Between Knowledge Engineering and Software Engineering, Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, Vol. 626, Springer International Publishing, 2017 Copyright (2018), ISBN: 978-3-319-64160-7 Pages: XIV, 294, DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-64161-4
• 2018 - Szymon Bobek, Grzegorz J. Nalepa, Mateusz Ślażyński, HeaRTDroid -- rule engine for mobile and context-aware expert systems, Expert Systems, Volume 36, Issue 1 February 2019 e12328, https://doi.org/10.1111/exsy.12328
• 2018 - Angelo Costa, Paulo Novais, Vicente Julian, Grzegorz J. Nalepa, Cognitive assistants, International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, Volume 117, September 2018, Pages 1-3, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhcs.2018.05.008

• Guest Editor, with M. Grzegorzek, J. M. Juarez, J. F. Rauthmann of Special Issue Multimodal Sensing for Understanding Behavior and Personality of Sensors, 2020
• Guest Editor (with J. Palma, M. T. Herrero) of SI on Affective Computing in Ambient Intelligence Systems of Future Generation Computer Systems, Elsevier, 2017-9
• I co-organized AfCAI 2018 Workshop: Affective Computing and Context Awareness in Ambient Intelligence - two day workshop was held in Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain, on 19-20 April 2018
• Guest Editor (with P. Novais, A. Costa, V. Julian) of SI on Cognitive Assistants of International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, Elsevier, 2017-8

My primary interests concern:

• artificial intelligence
• affective computing
• context-aware systems
• data-mining
• evaluation, verification and validation of intelligent systems
• knowledge-based intelligent systems
• knowledge engineering and design
• logic programming and Prolog
• machine learning
• rule-based expert systems
• semantic web
• semantic knowledge wikis
• software engineering

1. Co-Chair of the 2nd Workshop on Transparent, Explainable and Affective AI in Medical Systems (TEAAM) to be held on the ICDM 2020: 20th IEEE International Conference on Data Mining November 17-20, 2020, Sorrento, Italy
2. PC member of IDEAL 2020, the 21st International Conference on Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning, 4-6 November 2020, Guimarães, Portugal.
3. Co-Chair of 2nd ECML/PKDD 2020 Workshop on IoT Streams for Data Driven Predictive Maintenance ECML-PKDD 2020, September 14 –18, 2020, Ghent-Belgium
4. PC member of MRC – Human-Centric and Contextual Systems Eleventh International Workshop Modelling and Reasoning in Context, Held at ECAI 2020 – Mon, 8th of June/August, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
5. PC member of ICCCI 2020 (12th International Conference on Computational Collective Intelligence), Da Nang, Viet Nam, November 30-December 3, 2020
6. PC member of 20th EPIA Conference on Artificial Intelligence, September 2020, Lisbon, Portugal
7. PC member of STAIRS2020@ECAI2020 (9th Starting Artificial Intelligence Research Symposium), August 30, Santiago de Compostella, Spain
8. PC member of The 29th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence and the 17th Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-PRICAI 2020), July 11th to July 17th, 2020, Yokohama, Japan.
9. PC member of RuleML+RR 2020 (4th International Joint Conference on Rules and Reasoning), Oslo, Norway, June 29-July 1, 2020
10. PC member of IBERAMIA 2020/1 (17th Ibero-American Conference on Artificial Intelligence), Abril/May’2021 Cartagena de Indias, Colombia, 2021 - rescheduled
11. PC member of KES-2020 (24th International Conference on Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Information & Engineering Systems) 16-18 September 2020, Verona, Italy
12. PC member of WIMS 2020 (10th International Conference on Web Intelligence, Mining and Semantics), 30th June - 3rd July 2020, Casino Barrière, Biarritz, France
13. PC member of ECAI 2020, the 24th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, August 29-September 2, 2020, Santiago de Compostella, Spain
14. PC member of INISTA 2020 - International Conference on INnovations in Intelligent SysTems and Applications, August 24-26, 2020, Novi Sad, Serbia
15. PC member of 12th Asian Conference on Intelligent Information and Database Systems (ACIIDS) 23-26 March 2020 Phuket, Thailand
16. PC member of The 34th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-20), February 7-12, 2020, New York, NY, USA
17. Co-Chair, with Jacek Korski, (Famur S.A.), Edyta Brzychczy (AGH), Marcin Szpyrka (AGH) of a special session Inteligentne metody wielowymiarowej analizy danych w kopalniach podziemnych at the XXIX School of Underground Mining Conference, 24.02.2020, Kraków, Poland

1. PC member of JURIX 2019 The 32nd International Conference on Legal Knowledge and Information Systems, December 11-13, 2019, Madrid, Spain
2. PC member of IDEAL 2019: 20th International Conference on Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning, Manchester, UK, November 14-16, 2019
3. PC member of 13th International Symposium on Intelligent Distributed Computing (IDC 2019) October 7-9, 2019 in Saint-Petersburg, Russia
4. PC member and member of the DC PC of 3rd International Joint Conference on Rules and Reasoning (RuleML+RR 2019), 16-19 September 2019, Bolzano, Italy
5. PC member of 23rd International Conference on Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Information & Engineering Systems(KES2019) September 4-6, 2019, Budapest, Hungary
6. PC member of 11th International Conference on Computational Collective Intelligence (ICCCI2019), France during September 4-6, 2019
7. PC member of JCAI-19: 28th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, August 10-16, 2019, Macao, China
8. PC member of INISTA 2019: International Symposium on INnovations in Intelligent SysTems and Applications, Sofia, Bulgaria, July 3-5, 2019
9. PC member of 13th International Conference on Flexible Query Answering Systems July 2-5, 2019, Amantea, Italy
10. PC member of 9th International Conference on Web Intelligence, Mining and Semantics, June 26-28, 2019, Seoul, South Korea
11. PC member of Doctoral Consortium of International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law (ICAIL 2019) June 17-21, 2019,Montréal (Qc.), Canada
12. PC member of 11th Asian Conference on Intelligent Information and Database Systems 8-11 April 2019, Yogyakarta, Indonesia

For the list of previous conferences I was involved in see this separate page.

This includes mainly PCs on international conferences in years 2018(11), 2017(15), 2016(11), 2015(12), 2014(14), 2013(11), 2012(13), 2011(10), 2010(5), 2009(8), 2008(4), 2007(3).

• Member of the Scientific Institute Council of the Łukasiewicz Research Network – Institute of Innovative Technologies EMAG, 2019-.
• Member of the Science Council of the The Institute of Theoretical and Applied Informatics of the Polish Academy of Sciences (IITiS PAN), 2015-2018.

• Member of the Editorial Board of the Engineering Proceedings, MDPI, 2020
• Member of the Editorial Board of the Intelligent Sensors Section of the Sensors Journal by MDPI, since 2019
• Member of the Editorial Review Board of the KES Journal Innovation in Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Engineering Systems, since 2015
• Member of the Editorial Board of the International Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools, World Scientific, since 2014.
• Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Applied Computer Science Editor-in-Chief Piotr S. Szczepaniak, Lodz University of Technology, since 2014.
• Member of the Editorial Board of the Computer Science Journal (ISSN 1508-2806) published by the AGH University of Science and Technology, since 2011.

• Reviewer for Processes Journal, MDPI, 2020
• Reviewer for Artificial Intelligence Journal, Elsevier, 2020
• Reviewer for European Journal of Personality, Wiley, 2019
• Reviewer for Systems Engineering, Wiley, 2019
• Reviewer for Applied Sciences, MDPI, 2019, 2020
• Reviewer for Information Systems Management, Taylor & Francis, 2019
• Reviewer for Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Elsevier, 2019
• Reviewer for Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing, Springer, 2018
• Reviewer for Applied Computing and Informatics, Elsevier, 2018
• Reviewer for International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, Elsevier, 2017
• Reviewer for Applied Mathematics and Computer Science, 2017
• Reviewer for Data & Knowledge Engineering, Elsevier, 2017
• Reviewer for IEEE Access, IEEE, 2017
• Reviewer for Expert Systems, Wiley, 2017
• Reviewer for Pervasive and Mobile Computing, Elsevier, 2017
• Reviewer for Precision Agriculture, Springer, 2016
• Reviewer for 13th ACS/IEEE International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications AICCSA 2016
• I received an Elsevier Recognized Reviewer status in 2016.
• Reviewer for Soft Computing, Springer, 2016
• Reviewer for Expert Systems with Applications, Elsevier, 2016
• Reviewer for Future Generation Computer Systems, Elsevier, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020
• Reviewer for INDIN 2016 IEEE International Conference on Industrial Informatics 18-21 July 2016, Futuroscope-Poitiers, France
• Reviewer for Computer Standards & Interfaces, Elsevier, 2016
• Reviewer for Information Systems Frontiers, Springer, 2016
• Reviewer for Theoretical and Applied Informatics, Polish Academy of Sciences, 2016
• Reviewer for Journal of Universal Computer Science, 2015
• Project Reviewer for the Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO), 2015, 2016
• Reviewer for International Journal of Computer Science and Information Systems, 2014.
• Project Reviewer for the Spanish National Evaluation and Foresight Agency (Agencia Nacional de Evaluación y Prospectiva (ANEP)), 2014
• Reviewer for Special Issues of IJAIT related to WIMS 2014 and WIMS2016
• Reviewer for New Ideas in Psychology, Elsevier, 2014.
• Reviewer for 19th International Conference on Methods and Models in Automation and Control (MMAR’2014), 2014.
• Reviewer for Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, Wiley, 2014.
• Reviewer for International Journal Computing and Informatics, 2014, 2015.
• Reviewer for International Journal of Web Based Communities, 2014.
• Reviewer for 13,4,5,6,7,8th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing ICAISC 2014-19, 2020
• Project Reviewer for National Science Center - Narodowe Centrum Nauki - NCN, 2011, 2013.
• Project Reviewer for Portugese FCT Foundation for Science and Technology, 2012.
• Project Reviewer for ERA NET CHIST-ERA European Coordinated Research on Long-term Challenges in Information and Communication Sciences & Technologies ERA-Net, 2012, 2014.
• Reviewer for 18th Intl Conference on Methods & Models in Automation & Robotics, 26-29 August 2013, Międzyzdroje
• Reviewer for Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems by IOS Press, 2012.
• Reviewer for KEOD 2012 - 4th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Ontology Development, 2012
• Reviewer for Enterprise Information Systems by Taylor & Francis, 2012.
• Reviewer for The Computer Journal by Oxford Journals, 2011.
• Reviewer for 8th IFAC Symposium SAFEPROCSS-2012, 2012.
• Reviewer for International Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering, by World Scientific, 2011.
• Reviewer for Knowledge-Based Systems Journal, by Elsevier, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015
• Reviewer for Informatica - International Journal of Computing and Informatics, by Slovenian Society Informatika, 2010.
• Reviewer for LNCS Transactions on Computational Collective Intelligence, by Springer, 2010,11,13.
• Reviewer for Data & Knowledge Engineering Journal by Elsevier, 2010.
• Reviewer for TMRF e-Book Advances in Semantic Computing, 2010 by TMRF.
• Reviewer for 2nd Asian Conference on Intelligent Information and Database Systems, 24-26 March 2010, Hue City, Vietnam.
• Reviewer for 17th Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation (MED'09), June 24-26, 2009, Makedonia Palace, Thessaloniki, Greece
• Reviewer for European Control Conference 2009 (ECC’09), 23-26 August 2009, Budapest, Hungary
• Reviewer for Handbook of Research on Emerging Rule-Based Languages and Technologies: Open Solutions and Approaches, published in May 2009 by IGI Global

• Guest Editor, with M. Grzegorzek, J. M. Juarez, J. F. Rauthmann of Special Issue Multimodal Sensing for Understanding Behavior and Personality of Sensors, 2020
• Co-Editor of the Proceedings of the EXplainable AI in Law Workshop (XAILA 2018) - CEUR-WS Vol. 2381, Groningen, The Netherlands, December 12th, 2018; Edited by: Grzegorz J. Nalepa, Martin Atzmueller, Michał Araszkiewicz, Paulo Novais
• Co-Editor of the Proceedings of the Workshop on Affective Computing and Context Awareness in Ambient Intelligence (AfCAI 2018), Valencia, Spain, April 19-20, 2018; Edited by: Grzegorz J. Nalepa, Vicente Julian, José Tomás Palma Méndez, Angelo Costa, Carlos Carrascosa, Paulo Novais
• Guest Editor (with J. Palma, M. T. Herrero) of SI on Affective Computing in Ambient Intelligence Systems of Future Generation Computer Systems, Elsevier, 2019
• Co-Editor (with M. T. Herrero, J. T Palma) Proceedings of the Workshop on Affective Computing and Context Awareness in Ambient Intelligence (AfCAI 2016), CEUR WS vol. 1794, 2017
• Guest Editor (with P. Novais, A. Costa, V. Julian) of SI on Cognitive Assistants of International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, Elsevier, 2017
• Member of the Editorial Board of Enterprise Big Data Engineering, Analytics, and Management, Martin Atzmueller, Samia Oussena, Thomas Roth-Berghofer, Editors, IGI Global 2016
• Co-Editor (with N. Bassiliades, P. Fodor, A. Giurca, G. Gottlob, T. Kliegr, M. Palmirani, A. Paschke, M. Proctor, D. Roman, F. Sadri, N. Stojanovic) Challenge+DC@RuleML 2015 Rule Challenge and Doctoral Consortium @ RuleML 2015, CEUR WS vol. 1417, 2015
• Co-Editor (with J. Baumeister) KESE10 Workshop Proceedings, CEUR WS vol. 1289, 2014
• Co-Editor (with J. Baumeister, K. Kaczor) KESE9 Workshop Proceedings, CEUR WS vol. 1070, 2013
• Co-Editor (with H. Aït-Kaci, Y-J. Hu, M. Palmirani, D. Roman) RuleML2012@ECAI Challenge and Doctoral Consortium 6th International Rule Challenge, CEUR WS vol. 874, 2012.
• Co-Editor (with J. Cañadas, J. Baumeister) KESE8 Workshop Proceedings, CEUR WS vol. 949, 2012
• Co-Editor (with J. Cañadas, J. Baumeister) KESE7 Workshop Proceedings, CEUR WS vol. 805, 2011
• Guest Editor (with A. Ligęza) of Special Section on Semantic Knowledge Engineering International Journal of Applied Mathematics & Computer Science (AMCS), Vol. 21, No. 1, 2011.
• Guest Editor (with J. Baumeister) of International Journal of Knowledge Engineering and Data Mining (IJKEDM): Special Issue on: "Knowledge and Software Engineering for Intelligent Systems", Vol. 1, No. 3., 2011.
• Co-Editor (with J. Baumeister) of KESE6 Workshop Proceedings, CEUR WS vol. 636, 2010.
• Co-Editor (with A. Ligęza) of DERIS2009 Workshop Proceedings, CEUR WS vol. 545, 2009.
• Co-Editor (with J. Baumeister) of KESE2009 Workshop Proceedings, CEUR WS vol. 486, 2009.
• Co-Editor (with A. Giurca and G. Wagner) of RuleApps2009 Workshop Proceedings, CEUR WS vol. 511, 2009.
• Co-Editor (with M. Szpyrka, A. Ligęza, and T. Szmuc) of the CSL Technical Reports series, since 2009.
• Co-Editor (with J. Baumeister) of KESE2008 Workshop Proceedings, CEUR WS vol. 425, 2008.

1. 2015 - Krzysztof Kluza, Methods for Modeling and Integration of Business Processes with Rules, AGH w Krakowie, 04.04.2013-26.03.2015,
2. 2015 - Krzysztof Kaczor, Knowledge Formalization Methods for Semantic Interoperability in Rule Bases, AGH w Krakowie, 04.04.2013-26.02.2015
3. 2016 - Szymon Bobek, Methods for modeling self-adaptive mobile context-aware systems, AGH w Krakowie, 24.10.2013-14.07.2016
4. 2018 - Krzysztof Kutt, Collaborative Knowledge Engineering. Methods and Tools for System Design, AGH w Krakowie, 29.05.2013-27.09.2018
5. 2019 - Artur Gunia, Wzmocnienie poznawcze w kontekście transhumanistycznym. Teoria, praktyka, oraz konsekwencje wpływu technologii kognitywnych na człowieka, Jagiellonian University, thesis in philosophy, supervised together with prof. M. Ostrowicki, 24.09.2015-05.10.2019?
6. IN PROGRESS Mateusz Ślażyński, Methods and Tools for Declarative Modelling and Metamodelling of Discreet Optimization Problems, 24.09.2015-2020

1. 2019 - Víctor Rodríguez Fernandez, Automated Methods for the Evaluation and Analysis of Training Operations in an Unmanned Aircraft System, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Supervisors: Prof. David Camacho Fernandez, Dr Antonio Gonzalez Pardo (Role: International Committee Member)
2. 2019 - Bernardo Cánovas Segura, Medical Informatics Approaches for Decision Support in Antimicrobial Stewardship, Universidad de Murcia, Supervisors: Manuel Campos Martínez, José Manuel Juárez Herrero
3. 2019 - Cristian Ramirez Atencia, Automated Mission Planning and Decision Support Systems for Multiple Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Supervisor: Prof. David Camacho Fernandez (Role: International Committee Member)
4. 2018 - Alejandro Martín García, Machine learning techniques for Android malware detection and classification, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Supervisors: Prof. David Camacho Fernandez, Dr. Raul Lara Cabrera
5. 2017 - Ludwig Ostermayer, Integration of Prolog and Java with the Connector Architecture CAPJA, University of Wurzburg, Supervisor: Prof. Dietmar Seipel
6. 2016 - Tiago José Martins Oliveira, Clinical Decision Support: Knowledge Representation and Uncertainty Management, University of Minho, Supervisors: Prof. Paulo Jorge Freitas de Oliveira Novais, Prof. Jose Carlos Ferreira Maia Neves (EU Doctoral Degree in Biomedical Engineering)
7. 2016 - Fábio André Souto Silva, Ambient Intelligence and Affective Computing: A contribute to energetic sustainability, University of Minho, Supervisor: Prof. Cesar Analide (EU Doctoral Degree in Informatica)
8. 2014 - Eduardo Lupiani, Temporal Case-Base Maintenance, University of Murcia, Supervisor: Prof. Jose Palma Mendez.
9. 2013 - Jarosław Bąk, Rule-based query answering method for a knowledge base of economic crimes, Politechnika Poznańska, Supervisor: prof. dr hab. Czesław Jędrzejek,
10. 2013 - Marcin Maleszka, Metody integracji danych o strukturze hierarchicznej, Politechnika Wrocławska, Supervisor: prof. dr hab. inż. Than Ngoc Nguyen,
11. 2013 - Bartosz Jasiul, Modeling of Selected Cyber Threats with Ontology and Petri Nets, AGH w Krakowie, Supervisor: dr hab. Marcin Szpyrka, prof. AGH,
12. 2010 - Sergey Lukichev, Towards Rule Interchange and Rule Verification, BTU Cottbus 2010. Supervisor: prof. Gerd Wagner, BTU Cottbus Germany, Referee: prof. Pascal Hitzler, Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio, USA.

1. 2015 - Bogdan Rębiasz, Andrzej Macioł, Advanced methods in Investment Projects Evaluation, Wydawnictwo AGH
2. 2014 - Adam Meissner, Konstruowanie systemów wnioskujących klasy lean dla logiki pierwszego rzędu, Wydawnictwo Politechniki Poznańskie

• 2019-10: invited talks Can a machine understand how you feel by watching you? and Affective Patterns in (Serious) Game Design in the Engineering Design Centre Seminars of the University of Cambridge
• 2019-10: invited panelist on Commerce Transformation Days Conference, 10-11 October, Kraków, Poland
• 2019-09: invited lecture on AI and Explainability in the Centro de Formación Permanente de la Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain
• 2019-08: panel discussion on AI and Frankenstein during the Literacki Sopot 2019 British Edition festival, Sopot, Poland
• 2019-01: panel speaker at the Conference of the Polish Ministry of Industry and Technology regarding the “AI roadmap for Poland” representing Polish AI Society, Warsaw, Poland
• 2018-11: invited presentation AI: Mirroring Humanity and panel discussion at the mini-conference related to the 200 years of Mary Shelley Frankenstein, Jagiellonian Univeristy, Kraków, Poland
• 2018-11: invited presentation on Knowledge processing, Affective Computing Understandable AI in Society at the YESI (PL-UK Year of Entrepreneurship, Science and Innovation) Workshop 2 on Artificial Intelligence, 19 – 21 November 2018, Oxford, UK
• 2018-11: invited seminar presentation (Human) Decision Making: From Knowledge Engineering to Affective Computing and Explainability at the Faculty of Physics, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland
• 2018-11: invited keynote lecture Building trust and credibility for AI systems at the workshop „Emotional Impact on Cognitive Systems“ on 8 and 9 November 2018 at FoKoS University of Siegen, Germany
• 2018-10: participation in panel discussion on the first Polish AI Community meeting (PP-RAI 2018), Poznań, 2018
• 2018-08: invited report regarding affective computing and computer-based detection of emotions for the National Information Processing Institute, Warsaw, Poland
• 2018-06: invited lecture on Computer-based modelling of emotions on the conference "Przyszlość w nowym wymiarze. Jak technologie AR i VR zmieniają oblicze edukacji, nauki i biznesu", Fundacja Szkoła Medialna, Kraków, Poland
• 2018-06: invited lecture AI: Technological Opportunities and Ethical Challenges. An Overview, Universidad de Murcia, 21 June 2018
• 2018-06: invited talk in the panel Man and machine: competences of tomorrow and ethics of research as challenges of the future. Ethical norms and transhumanism, 4e Forum franco-polonais de la recherche et de l’innovation/4. Polsko-Francuskie Forum Nauki i Innowacji, Warsaw June 12 2018
• 2018-06: invited talk AI – Opportunities and Challenges Should we be afraid of AI? at the XVI Podlaski Festiwal Nauki i Sztuki, Białystok, Poland, June 07 2018
• 2018-02: invited seminar talk From Knowledge Engineering to Affective Computing: There and Back Again, in the TiCC Colloquium in the Tilburg center for Cognition and Communication (TiCC), Tilburg, The Netherlands, 28.02.2018
• 2017-12: panel speaker regarding AI at the American Chamber of Commerce X-Mas event in Kraków, Poland
• 2017-11: keynote talk I know what you feel! Making Computers (more) Emotional at the 11th International Conference on the Philosophy of Computer Games: PCG2017: Action in Computer Games, Kraków, Poland, November 28th, 2017
• 2017-10: invited talk Context, Autonomy, Affect. Methodological and Ethical Challenges of Today's AI on special seminar Poland-Taiwan Seminar on Artificial Intelligence NCBR, Warsaw, 2017
• 2017-09: invited tutor to the Declare 2017: Conference and Summer School on Declarative Programming: Advanced Concepts for Databases and Logic Programming, series of lectures: Semantic Knowledge Engineering, Rule Bases on Mobile Devices, in connection with Java, JavaScript, and Python, University of Würzburg, Germany
• 2017-06: interview Interview in Bozen-Bolzano on AfC, June 2017
• 2017-06: a series of lectures Affective Computing, Context and Processing - A cycle of lectures with Grzegorz J. Nalepa, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
• 2017-06: invited keynote From big data to useful knowledge: challenges and opportunities in smart factories at the CHIST-ERA 2017 conference, Krakow, Poland
• 2017-05: invited lecture Sztuczna inteligencja: marzenia, obawy, nadzieje, INSPIRO, Niepołomice
• 2017-05: invited lecture Cognitive assistants need to understand emotions. On the integration of context-aware and affective systems., University of Würzburg, Germany
• 2017-05: invited panelist Trendy rynkowe - dokąd zmierza sztuczna inteligencja? Rewolucja czy ewolucja? on the conference Sztuczna inteligencja przyszłością nowoczesnego biznesu, Małopolski Festiwal Innowacji, Kraków
• 2017-04 invited lecture Czy komputer zrozumie, co czujesz? Nieco o Affective Computing at II Studencko-Doktoranckie Warsztaty z Nauk o Poznaniu i Komunikacji Kognikacja2017, Pobierowo, Poland, supported by the Polish Cognitive Science society
• 2017-01 invited talk Artificial Intelligence & ROI on an industrial conference Marketing is (un)predictable. Introducing Synerise State Of The Art Marketing Intelligence Cloud, Microsoft Poland, Warsaw.

• 2016-09–12 I was awarded a 3 month long scholarship Jiménez de la Espada by SeNeCa Foundation, Murcia, Spain
• 2016-06 invited seminar talk Affective computing - new opportunity for context awareness in the Escuela Politécnica Superior in the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain
• 2016-05 invited lecture Emocje Maszyn (Affective Computing) on the XIV Podlaski Festiwal Nauki i Sztuki, University of Bialystok, Poland
• 2016-05 invited seminar talk From Context-Awareness to Affective Computing in the Corporate Semantic Web Group in the Freie Universitat Berlin, Germany
• 2016-01 invited talk Introduction do Decision Support Models at the 3rd Workshop on Smart Media Systems, 28.01.2016, Chosun University, Gwangju, South Korea
• 2016-01 invited panelist at the The First International Joint Workshop on Intelligent Data Analytics, 29.01.2016, Chung-Ang University, Seoul, South Korea
• 2014-11 invited lecture on special session on neuroeconomics during the Inter-Mix 2014 by lub Stypendystów Fundacji na rzecz Nauki Polskiej (FNP), Wojanów, Poland
• 2014-08 panel moderator at WIC 2014 Artificial Intelligence in Poland and Worldwide
• 2014-07 invited talk Representing Knowledge with Rules. Overview of the Semantic Knowledge Engineering Approach., Universitat Siegen, Germany
• 2014-03 invited lecture on innovative projects with SMEs Małopolska TOWARDS INNOVATIONS - Innovation Broker conference
• 2013-05 invited expert panelist to the Trends in Brain-Computer Interfaces panel at the Małopolska Technology Trends Conference, at Krakow Technology Park, Kraków, Poland
• 2013-05 invited expert to the Kognitive Robotik: Implikationen der Mensch-Technik program by the Stiftung Neue Verantwortung, Berlin, Germany
• 2012-09 invited tutorial on FedCSIS 2012 entitled Semantic Knowledge Engineering for Business Intelligence: concepts and tools
• 2011-11 invited lecture on Introduction to Semantic Knowledge Engineering given during the seminar of the Polish Chapter of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society, Poznan, Poland
• 2011-06 series of invited lectures in Aspects of Knowledge Engineering given during a MSc courses, within the framework of the Masters in Computer Science program, University of Almeria, Spain

• 2019-09: Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain
• 2018-06: University of Murcia, Spain
• 2018-02: Tilburg, The Netherlands
• 2017-11: Universidad Politecnica de Valencia & University of Murcia, Spain
• 2017-09: University of Wuerzburg, Germany, Declare summer school
• 2017-06: Free university of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
• 2016-09–12: University of Murcia, Spain, (3m)
• 2016-04: University of Murcia, Spain,
• 2016-01: Chung-Ang University, Seoul, Rep. of South Korea
• 2015-04: University of Wuerzburg, Germany,
• 2014-07: University of Siegen, Germany, (3w)
• 2014-05: University of Murcia, Spain,
• 2013-01: University of Kassel, Germany,
• 2012-04: University of Almeria, Spain.
• 2011-06: University of Almeria, Spain.

• 2018 – I received a prize for the outstanding monograph in computer science from the Committee of Computer Science of the Polish Academy of Sciences
• 2018 – I received (together with Barbara Giżycka) the Popular Choice Award for the paper of the workshop HAI2018 at IJCAI2018
• 2012 – I received a prestigious scholarship and scientific award of POLITYKA weekly for the most promising scientific achievements in technical sciences in Poland. Also covered by the AGH UST.
• 2020 – AGH-UST Rector's Prize for Scientific Achievements in 2019
• 2019 – AGH-UST Rector's Prize for Scientific Achievements in 2018
• 2018 – AGH-UST Rector's Prize for Scientific Achievements in 2017
• 2017 – AGH-UST Rector's Prize for Scientific Achievements in 2016
• 2016 – AGH-UST Rector's Prize for Scientific Achievements in 2015
• 2015 – AGH-UST Rector's Prize for Scientific Achievements in 2014
• 2014 – AGH-UST Rector's Prize for Scientific Achievements in 2013
• 2014 – I was awarded a title of ambassador of polish congresses POT Announcement, Announcement, AGH UST
• 2013 – AGH-UST Rector's Prize for Scientific Achievements in 2012
• 2013 – AGH-UST Rector's Prize for Didactic Achievements in 2012 for the organization of the Engineering of Intelligent Systems (EIS) program in computer science
• 2013 – AGH-UST Rector's Prize for Didactic Achievements in 2012 for the book edited by Jan. Werewka on Management of software projects
• 2012 – AGH-UST Rector's Prize for Scientific Achievements in 2011
• 2011 – AGH-UST Rector's Prize for Scientific Achievements in 2010
• 2010 – AGH-UST Rector's Prize for Scientific Achievements in 2009
• 2009 – Best paper award at the ICCCI2009, together with Weronika T. Furmanska, for the paper Proposal of a New Rule-based Inference Scheme for the Semantic Web Applications, published in, New Challenges in Computational Collective Intelligence Series: Studies in Computational Intelligence, Vol. 244, Nguyen, Ngoc Thanh; Katarzyniak, Radoslaw; Janiak, Adam (Eds.), Springer, 2009.
• 2009 – AGH-UST Rector's Prize for Scientific Achievements in 2008
• 2008 – AGH-UST Rector's Prize for Scientific Achievements in 2007
• 2005 – AGH-UST Rector's Prize for Scientific Achievements in 2004
• 2004 – my Ph.D. dissertation was awarded by the AGH-UST Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Automatics, Computer Science and Electronics
• 1999 – I was awarded 2nd prize by Polish Information Processing Society in contest for the best M.Sc. Thesis in computer science, for my MSc Thesis entitled ,,Graphical user interface for Kheops rule-based expert system''

• BPwiki and SBVRwiki – work with K. Kutt, K. Kaczor, K. Kluza – are semantic wiki plugins supporting collaborative design of business processes with rules,
• Context Simulator and Viewer – work with Szymon Bobek – Context Simulator and Viewer are tools that allows to simulate and visualize context events stored in SQL database in real time. They are designed to work with AWARE framework.
• HeaRTDroid – work with Szymon Bobek – HeaRTDroid is a rule-based inference engine for Android mobile devices, that is based on HeaRT inference engine.
• PelletHeaRT – a prototype of a hybrid rule reasoner for ontologies (see LNCS/LNAI 6359/2010 Paper: Pellet-HeaRT – Proposal of an Architecture for Ontology Systems with Rules (2010) based on the DAAL concept, see Springer SCI vol. 244/2009 Paper: Proposal of a New Rule-Based Inference Scheme for the Semantic Web Applications (2009) and TCCI II, LNCS/LNAI 6450/2010 Paper: Integration Proposal for Description Logic and Attributive Logic – Towards Semantic Web Rules (2010) together with W. T. Adrian (de domo Furmańska).
• Loki (PlWiki) – a semantic wiki using strong logic-based knowledge representation, a prototype Dokuwiki plugin using Prolog → concept, design, implementation, supervision; extended implementation by MSc. student: M. Kotra, revised version by M. Ozgowicz (publicly available prototype soon, early spring 2011), see LNCS/LNAI 5796/2009 Paper: PlWiki – A Generic Semantic Wiki Architecture (2009), JUCS paper: Collective Knowledge Engineering with Semantic Wikis (2010), as well as TCCI III LNCS paper: Loki ­ Semantic Wiki with Logical Knowledge Representation (2011,
• HeaRT – custom hybrid rule inference engine → concept, design, implementation, supervision; together with Prof. A. Ligęza; extended implementation by MSc. students: S. Bobek and M. Gawędzki, see LNCS/LNAI 6114/2010 Paper: Architecture of the HeaRT Hybrid Rule Engine (2010)
• HJed – visual editor for conceptual rule prototyping → concept, requirements, supervision; design and implementation by MSc. student Sz. Książek, see CEUR WS 511 RuleApps2009 Paper: HeKatE Rule Runtime and Design Framework (2009)
• HQed – visual editor for decision rules (XTT-tables/trees) → concept, requirements, extensions, supervision; design and implementation by K. Kaczor, MSc., see CEUR WS 511 RuleApps2009 Paper: HeKatE Rule Runtime and Design Framework (2009)
• PlNXT – a Prolog control library for LEGO Mindstorms NXT: → prototype by P. Hołownia, extensions by M. Makowski, aimed at integration with the XTT2 visual rule-based layer, prototype → B. Biesiada, see the LNCS/LNAI 5243/2008 Paper: Prototype Prolog API for Mindstorms NXT (2008) as well as the LEGO Mindstorms lab by GEIST
• VARDA – semi-visual tool for conceptual rule prototyping → concept, design, implementation; together with I. Wojnicki, Ph.D., see LNCS/LNAI 5243/2008 Paper: VARDA Rule Design and Visualization Tool-Chain (2008)
• Mirella – visual editor for decision rules → concept, design, implementation; part of my Ph. D. Thesis, no longer supported, see Systems Science Journal: A graphical tabular model for rule-based logic programming and verification (2005, vol. 2), Systems Science Journal: A visual edition tool for design and verification of knowledge in rule-based systems (2005, vol. 3), and AGH UST Computer Science journal paper: A New Approach to the Rule-Based Systems Design and Implementation Process (2004)

I have been involved in the following research projects:

• 2019→2021 - Process-aware Analytics Support based on Conceptual Models for Event Logs Call (PACMEL) CHIST-ERA-2017-BDSI: project leader, principal investigator, coordinator of the international consortium
• 2015→2017 - KnowMe (Preludium 7 NCN Grant no. UMO-2014/13/N/ST6/01786) Uncertain and incomplete knowledge modelling for mediation in mobile context-aware systems (KnowMe): scientific supervisor.
• 2012→2015 - Prosecco (Grant NCBiR 1. Program Badań Stosowanych, no. PBS1/B3/14/2012) Processes Semantics Collaboration for Companies: project leader.
• 2012→2014 - SaMURaI (Preludium 2 NCN Grant no. UMO-2011/03/N/ST6/00886) Semantic Method for Unified Rules Interoperability in Knowledge-Based Systems: scientific supervisor.
• 2012→2014 - HiBuProBuRul (Preludium 2 NCN Grant no. UMO-2011/03/N/ST6/00909) Methodology for designing Hierarchical Business Processes integrated with Business Rules: scientific supervisor.
• 2011→2012 - Parnas (Grant NCN N516 481240) Methods for inference control and quality management in modularized rule bases: project leader.
• 2010→2012 - BIMLOQ (Grant MNiSW N516 422338) Business Models Optimization for Quality: project coordination, visual design methods concepts and tools.
• 2009→2015 - INDECT (FP7-218086, FP7:Collaboration/Security) Intelligent information system supporting observation, searching and detection for security of citizens in urban environment. (See the official information at CORDIS)
  Direct team involvement in WP4, mainly in Task 4.6 Tools to process the information provided by citizens via emergency website, i.e. tools for filtering, validation and classifying textual information
• 2009→2011 - Rebit (a POIG 1.3.1 project), Business and Technological Rules Management. Team objective: development of a business rules verification module.
• 2007→2009 - HeKatE (Grant MNiSW N516 024 32/2878) Hybrid Knowledge Engineering: project coordination, XTT2 and ARD+ design methods concepts and tools
• 2005→2006 - Adder (Grant KBN 4 T11C 035 2) research on formal methods in design of correct real-time and embedded systems, including rule-based systems: rule-based security systems design and analysis methods and tools
• 2003→2004 - Mirella (Grant KBN 4 T11C 027 24) Meta-Level Approach to Integrated Process of Design and Implementation of Rule-Based Systems: proposal of an integrated process of visual design, formal analysis and implementation of rule-based expert systems, supported by a CASE tool
• 1999→2001 - Regulus (Grant KBN 8 T11C 019 17) research on formal methods in knowledge engineering and artificial intelligence: analysis of Prolog-based rule-based systems design methods

• 2013 – 2018 EIS - Engineering of Intelligent Systems we created a pioneering Master track in Computer Science studies at AGH UST, which I've supervised since then.

• over 200 reviewed scientific papers in artificial intelligence, knowledge and software engineering
• two monographs
• one edited volume
• three special issues of journals
• professional training materials concerning GNU/Linux administration and security

For the external lists my papers see: for all the papers → AGH UST BPP

See my papers on other sites:

• PP-RAI: Polish Alliance for the Development of Artificial Intelligence, member of the coordination board since 2018
• Asociación Española para la Inteligencia Artificial (AEPIA) since 2018
• Associazione Italiana per l’Intelligenza Artificiale (AI*IA) since 2015
• KES International since 2014
• Polish Process Mining Group since 2013
• IEEE, including IEEE Technical Committee on Computational Collective Intelligence – I have been member of the TC on CCI since 2011
• Polish Artificial Intelligence Society (PAIS/PSSI) – in 2009 I was elected the President of the Polish Artificial Intelligence Society (PAIS) (polish Polskie Stowarzyszenie Sztucznej Inteligencji (PSSI)) established in 2009 for supporting and promoting AI in Poland.

2012 – Based on the monograph, Semantic Knowledge Engineering. A Rule-Based Approach, AGH, 2011 as well as the set of important papers, I successfully passed the habilitation procedure, and received the habilitation degree (DSc) in Computer Science, at AGH UST on 2012.05.10.

2004 – Ph.D. in Computer Science – My dissertation entitled “Meta-Level Approach to Integrated Process of Design and Implementation of Rule-Based Systems” presents a new approach to rule-based system design, implementation and verification. See: the webpage

Since 2005 I have supervised 36 master students that graduated. Currently I am supervising 5 MSc theses.

• 2016, my master student Patryk Kiepas received a 1st prize for his e-learning notes (“Notatki w Internecie) from the AGH Rector
• 2015, my master student Olgierd Grodzki received a honorable mention in the PTI contest for best MSc theses
• 2010, my master student Weronika T. Furmańska received a prize in the PTI contest for best MSc theses

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