Prof. Grzegorz J. Nalepa - Research

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prof. dr hab. inż. Grzegorz J. Nalepa

E-mail: <gjn * GJN.re>, <grzegorz.j.nalepa * uj.edu.pl>

Address: Grzegorz J. Nalepa
Institute of Applied Computer Science
Faculty of Physics, Astronomy, and Applied Computer Science
Jagiellonian University
Stanislawa Lojasiewicza 11, 30-348 Kraków, POLAND

Degrees and Position

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.

Selected Recent Publications

2022 Sabat, M., Haładus, B., Klincewicz, M., Grzegorz J. Nalepa Cognitive load, fatigue and aversive simulator symptoms but not manipulated zeitgebers affect duration perception in virtual reality Nature Sci Rep 12, 15689 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-18520-1
2022 Kutt, K., Drążyk, D., Żuchowska, L. et al. BIRAFFE2, a multimodal dataset for emotion-based personalization in rich affective game environments Nature Sci Data 9, 274 (2022) https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-022-01402-6

2021 Grzegorz J. Nalepa, Szymon Bobek, Krzysztof Kutt, Martin Atzmueller Semantic Data Mining in Ubiquitous Sensing: A Survey Sensors 21(13): 4322 (2021)
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

Selected Recent Activities

Organizing Comittee Chair of the 26th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence ECAI 2023
Polish coordinator of the international CHISTERA XPM project on eXplainable AI in Predictive Maintenance
Head of the Jagiellonian Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence Lab
International coordinator of the CHISTERA Pacmel projectl in intelligent data analytics and knowledge integration for Industry 4.0
Guest Editor, with J. Gama, O. Fink, A. Bifet, D. Camacho of Machine Learning from Heterogeneous Condition Monitoring Sensor Data for Predictive Maintenance and Smart Industry of Sensors, 2022
Guest Editor, with M. Grzegorzek, J. M. Juarez, J. F. Rauthmann of Special Issue Multimodal Sensing for Understanding Behavior and Personality of Sensors, 2020

Interests

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

Conference Committees

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).

Scientific Councils

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.

Editorial Boards

Member of the Editorial Board of the Engineering Proceedings, MDPI, 2020
Member of the Editorial Board of the Personality Science, PsychOpen, 2019
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 in Journals

Energies, MDPI, 2021
Knowledge-Based Systems, Elsevier, 2021
Information Systems, Elsevier, 2020
ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data, ACM, 2020
Neurocomputing, Elsevier, 2020
Expert Systems, Wiley, 2020
Data & Knowledge Engineering, Elsevier, 2020
Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing, Springer, 2020,1
Computers & Security, Elsevier, 2020
Neural Computing and Applications, Springer, 2020,1
AI Communications, IOS Press, 2020
Information Processing in Agriculture, Elsevier, 2020
International Journal of Computational Intelligence Systems, Atlantic Press, 2020
Engineering Proceedings, MDPI, 2020
Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, Elsevier, 2020
Processes Journal, MDPI, 2020
Artificial Intelligence Journal, Elsevier, 2020
Information Fusion, Elsevier, 2020
European Journal of Personality, Wiley, 2019
Systems Engineering, Wiley, 2019
Applied Sciences, MDPI, 2019, 2020
Information Systems Management, Taylor & Francis, 2019
Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Elsevier, 2019
Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing, Springer, 2018
Applied Computing and Informatics, Elsevier, 2018
International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, Elsevier, 2017
Applied Mathematics and Computer Science, 2017
Data & Knowledge Engineering, Elsevier, 2017
IEEE Access, IEEE, 2017
Expert Systems, Wiley, 2017
Pervasive and Mobile Computing, Elsevier, 2017
Precision Agriculture, Springer, 2016
13th ACS/IEEE International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications AICCSA 2016
I received an Elsevier Recognized Reviewer status in 2016.
Soft Computing, Springer, 2016
Expert Systems with Applications, Elsevier, 2016
Future Generation Computer Systems, Elsevier, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020
INDIN 2016 IEEE International Conference on Industrial Informatics 18-21 July 2016, Futuroscope-Poitiers, France
Computer Standards & Interfaces, Elsevier, 2016
Information Systems Frontiers, Springer, 2016
Theoretical and Applied Informatics, Polish Academy of Sciences, 2016
Journal of Universal Computer Science, 2015
Project Reviewer for the Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO), 2015, 2016
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
Special Issues of IJAIT related to WIMS 2014 and WIMS2016
New Ideas in Psychology, Elsevier, 2014, 2020
19th International Conference on Methods and Models in Automation and Control (MMAR’2014), 2014.
Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, Wiley, 2014.
International Journal Computing and Informatics, 2014, 2015.
International Journal of Web Based Communities, 2014.
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.
Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems by IOS Press, 2012.
Reviewer for Enterprise Information Systems by Taylor & Francis, 2012.
The Computer Journal by Oxford Journals, 2011.
International Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering, by World Scientific, 2011.
Knowledge-Based Systems Journal, by Elsevier, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2021
Informatica - International Journal of Computing and Informatics, by Slovenian Society Informatika, 2010.
LNCS Transactions on Computational Collective Intelligence, by Springer, 2010,11,13.
Data & Knowledge Engineering Journal by Elsevier, 2010.
TMRF e-Book Advances in Semantic Computing, 2010 by TMRF.
Handbook of Research on Emerging Rule-Based Languages and Technologies: Open Solutions and Approaches, published in May 2009 by IGI Global

Editor

Guest Editor of a special issue, with with J. Gama, O. Fink, A. Bifet, D. Camacho of Machine Learning from Heterogeneous Condition Monitoring Sensor Data for Predictive Maintenance and Smart Industry Sensors, MDPI, 2022
Co-Editor SEDAMI 2021 International Workshop on Semantic Data Mining Proceedings of the Workshop on Semantic Data Mining (SEDAMI) 2021 co-located with the 30th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2021) Montreal-themed virtual reality, August 20, 2021 (Virtual Workshop), Edited by Martin Atzmueller, Grzegorz J. Nalepa, Szymon Bobek, Nada Lavrac
Co-Editor Proceedings of the 3rd EXplainable AI in Law Workshop (XAILA 2020) co-located with 33rd International Conference on Legal Knowledge and Information Systems (JURIX 2020) Prague, Czech Republic, December 9th, 2020. CEUR-WS Vol-2891, edited by Grzegorz J. Nalepa, Michał Araszkiewicz, Martin Atzmueller, Bart Verheij, Szymon Bobek,
Guest Editor of a special issue with M. Grzegorzek, J. M. Juarez, J. F. Rauthmann of Multimodal Sensing for Understanding Behavior and Personality of Sensors, 2020
Co-Editor XAILA 2019 EXplainable AI in Law 2019 Proceedings of the 2nd EXplainable AI in Law Workshop (XAILA 2019) co-located with 32nd International Conference on Legal Knowledge and Information Systems (JURIX 2019) Madrid, Spain, December 11, 2019. Edited by Grzegorz J. Nalepa, Martin Atzmueller, Michał Araszkiewicz, Paulo Novais
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 of a special issue 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 of a special issue 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.

Ph. D. Theses Supervisor

2015 - Krzysztof Kluza, Methods for Modeling and Integration of Business Processes with Rules, AGH University in Krakow, Poland, 04.04.2013-26.03.2015,
2015 - Krzysztof Kaczor, Knowledge Formalization Methods for Semantic Interoperability in Rule Bases, AGH University in Krakow, Poland, 04.04.2013-26.02.2015
2016 - Szymon Bobek, Methods for modeling self-adaptive mobile context-aware systems, AGH University in Krakow, Poland, 24.10.2013-14.07.2016
2018 - Krzysztof Kutt, Collaborative Knowledge Engineering. Methods and Tools for System Design, AGH University in Krakow, Poland, 29.05.2013-27.09.2018
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
2023 - Mateusz Ślażyński, Formal representation and Automatic Synthesis of Local Search Neighborhoods, AGH University in Krakow, Poland, 24.09.2014 - 13.12.2023
2024 - Bartlomiej Nawara, Filozoficzne interpretacje badań opartych na big data, Jagiellonian University, thesis in philosophy, supervised together with Dr. P. Zieba, 08.09.2022-17.06.2024
2025 - Maciej Szelążek, Semantic Data Mining methods for decision support in smart manufacturing, AGH University in Krakow, Poland, 01.10.2020-28.04.2025
2025 - Jakub Jakubowski, Explainable Predictive Maintenance in Steel Rolling, AGH University in Krakow, Poland, 01.10.2021-24.06.2025

Ph. D. Theses Reviewer

2022 - Paweł Matyszok, Indukcja reguł akcji na podstawie metody sekwencyjnego pokrywania , Supervisor: Prof. Marek Sikora, Silesian University of Science and Technology
2022 - Marek Drewniak, Metody analizy efektywności i jakości procesów produkcji dyskretnej wykorzystujące wzorce technologiczne i wybrane mechanizmy eksploracji danych, Supervisor: Prof. Rafał Cupek, Silesian University of Science and Technology
2020 - Łukasz Białek, Actions in information-rich environments: a paraconsistent approach, University of Warsaw, Supervisor: Prof. Andrzej Szałas
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)
2019 - Bernardo Cánovas Segura, Medical Informatics Approaches for Decision Support in Antimicrobial Stewardship, Universidad de Murcia, Supervisors: Manuel Campos Martínez, José Manuel Juárez Herrero
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)
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
2017 - Ludwig Ostermayer, Integration of Prolog and Java with the Connector Architecture CAPJA, University of Wurzburg, Supervisor: Prof. Dietmar Seipel
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)
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)
2014 - Eduardo Lupiani, Temporal Case-Base Maintenance, University of Murcia, Supervisor: Prof. Jose Palma Mendez.
2013 - Jarosław Bąk, Rule-based query answering method for a knowledge base of economic crimes, Politechnika Poznańska, Supervisor: prof. dr hab. Czesław Jędrzejek,
2013 - Marcin Maleszka, Metody integracji danych o strukturze hierarchicznej, Politechnika Wrocławska, Supervisor: prof. dr hab. inż. Than Ngoc Nguyen,
2013 - Bartosz Jasiul, Modeling of Selected Cyber Threats with Ontology and Petri Nets, AGH w Krakowie, Supervisor: dr hab. Marcin Szpyrka, prof. AGH,
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.

Monograph/Book Reviewer

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

Invited Talks, Lectures, Panels, Scholarships, Interviews, Reports

2023-02: invited talk Semantic Data Mining approaches. Applications in Smart Industry. Wrocław University of Science and Technology
2022-10: invited talk in the special session Real and Virtual Reality, Artificial Intelligence during the The International Scientific Conference to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences 18–20 October Kraków 2022
2022-09: keynote lecture 14th International Conference on Computational Collective Intelligence 28-30 September, Hammamet, Tunisia, 2022
2022-04: invited talk in the special seminar Computer science and automation facing challenges of the digital transformation of industry (Informatyka i automatyka wobec wyzwań cyfrowej transformacji przemysłu) Polish Academy of Sciences in Poznan, online
2021-06: invited panelist in AI@Enterprise Summit 2021 in the panel discussion - Does AI need state support? online
2020-11: invited talk Explaining Data with Knowledge. Emotions and Industry. in the Silesian University of Technology online
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

International visits

2021-06: University of Murcia, 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.

Prizes and Awards

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 – Jagiellonian University Rector's Prize for Organizational Achievements
2015 – AGH-UST Rector's Prize for Scientific Achievements in 2014
2014 – Jagiellonian University Rector's Prize for Organizational Achievements
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 – Jagiellonian University Rector's Prize for Organizational Achievements
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''

Software Tools

I have been involved in creation of a number of software tools resulting form research projects. See GEIST page for more updates.

Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) Tools

InXAI is a Python library for Intelligible XAI that allows to evaluate, compare and analyse different explainable AI algorithms
LUX is a Python library for generating uncertain local explanations in a form of human understandable (and executable) rules.
KnAC is a Python library for Knowledge Augmented Clustering. It allows for human-in-the-loop conformance checking between domain expert and automatic clustering.
CLAMP ia a Python library for Cluster analysis with multidimensional bounding boxes. It allows for in-depth cluster analysis with state-of-the-art XAI algorithms.

Affective Computing tools

Several prototypes of affective games for conducting affective research in rich but controllable game-based environment
BandReader is a software simplifying physiological data acquisition from wristbands as well as other measurement platforms such as Bitalino

Semantic wikis for collaborative knowledge engineering

Loki is a novel semantic wiki platform offering strong reasoning capabilities of Prolog, support for business processes and rules, and support for collaborative knowledge engineering.

Knowledge base editors (stable, supported 2009-2016)

HWEd is online web editor for creating XTT2 models, that are run by HeaRTDroid inference engine.
HQEd is an advanced visual editor for modularized rule bases developed with the XTT2 knowledge representation for rules. Originally developed within the HeKatE project. Extended during the BIMLOQ to include support for rules integrated with business processes. Enhanced wrt GUI within the Parnas project.
VARDA is a tool for fast conceptual prototyping of rule bases ARD+ method
HJEd is a visual prototyping of rule bases with the ARD+ method

Reasoning engines (stable, supported 2009-2016)

HeaRTDroid is a rule-based inference engine both for Android mobile devices, and desktop solutions supported by visual web editor HWEd. It is distributed under the GNU General Public License
HeaRT is a hybrid rule inference engine for modularized rule bases developed with the XTT2 knowledge representation for rules. It also supports practical rule verification. Originally developed within the HeKatE project. Later on extended towards reasoning with business processes as well as in integrated in a semantic wiki.
PelletHeart a prototype inference engine linking the HeaRT rule engine with Pellet, the Description Logics reasoner.

Knowledge base translators (supported 2009-2016)

HaThoR is rule base translator tool from the XTT2 format to RIF, OWL (partially) and UML

Research Projects

During 2018-2023 I have been involved in different roles 6 large R&D project with polish SMEs funded by the polish The National Centre for Research and Development.

Moreover, I have been involved in the following research projects in the universities:

2023→2027 - PEER (hyPEr ExpeRt) EU HORIZON HORIZON-CL4-2022-HUMAN-02 (RIA) (Proposal 101120406) role: PI of the Polish team
2022→2024 - ODR e-Justice EU HORIZON JUST-2021-EJUSTICE Call (101046468) role: Polish co-PI in the area of AI
2021→2024 - eXplainable Predictive Maintenance - CHIST-ERA 2019 XAI: polish team PI/leader and principal investigator (National Science Centre, Poland (2020/02/Y/ST6/00070), under CHIST-ERA IV programme, which has received funding from the EU Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme, under Grant Agreement no 857925.
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 (NCN UMO-2018/27/Z/ST6/03392)
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 and consortium coordinator
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

Teaching Projects

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.

Papers

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:

Google Scholar (Profile), DBLP, ORCID, Springer, Scopus, Arnetminer, MS AR, PubZone, ScientificCommons, ACM, MetaPress, scHolar, CiteSeer, QuadSearch, Web of Science - Research ID, IEEE, Semantic Scholar.

Professional Memberships

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.

Main Degrees: professorshp, habilitation, PhD

2019 - full state profesorship, see related book: 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
2012 - Habilitation degee, 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

Master Students

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

Bios

a bio data (the same at the GEIST page)
a short bio

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