Prof. Grzegorz J. Nalepa - Research
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
Recent Activities
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
2020
2019
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PC member of JCAI-19: 28th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, August 10-16, 2019, Macao, China
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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
Editorial Boards
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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
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Project Reviewer for
ERA NET CHIST-ERA European Coordinated Research on Long-term Challenges in Information and Communication Sciences & Technologies ERA-Net, 2012, 2014.
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Editor
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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
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Ph. D. Theses Supervisor
2015 - Krzysztof Kluza, Methods for Modeling and Integration of Business Processes with Rules, AGH w Krakowie, 04.04.2013-26.03.2015,
2015 - Krzysztof Kaczor, Knowledge Formalization Methods for Semantic Interoperability in Rule Bases, AGH w Krakowie, 04.04.2013-26.02.2015
2016 - Szymon Bobek, Methods for modeling self-adaptive mobile context-aware systems, AGH w Krakowie, 24.10.2013-14.07.2016
2018 - Krzysztof Kutt, Collaborative Knowledge Engineering. Methods and Tools for System Design, AGH w Krakowie, 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?
IN PROGRESS Mateusz Ślażyński, Methods and Tools for Declarative Modelling and Metamodelling of Discreet Optimization Problems, 24.09.2015-2020
Ph. D. Theses Reviewer
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,
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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
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2019-09: invited lecture on AI and Explainability in the Centro de Formación Permanente de la Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain
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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
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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
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2017-12: panel speaker regarding AI at the American Chamber of Commerce X-Mas event in Kraków, Poland
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2017-05: invited lecture
Sztuczna inteligencja: marzenia, obawy, nadzieje,
INSPIRO, Niepołomice
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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
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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
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2013-05 invited expert to the
Kognitive Robotik: Implikationen der Mensch-Technik program by the
Stiftung Neue Verantwortung, Berlin, Germany
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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
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
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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
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2013 – AGH-UST Rector's Prize for Scientific Achievements in 2012
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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.
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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,
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Research Projects
I have been involved in the following research projects:
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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
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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.
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HiBuProBuRul (Preludium 2 NCN Grant no. UMO-2011/03/N/ST6/00909) Methodology for designing Hierarchical Business Processes integrated with Business Rules: scientific supervisor.
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Parnas (Grant NCN N516 481240) Methods for inference control and quality management in modularized rule bases: project leader.
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BIMLOQ (Grant MNiSW N516 422338) Business Models Optimization for Quality: project coordination, visual design methods concepts and tools.
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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
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Rebit (a
POIG 1.3.1 project), Business and Technological Rules Management. Team objective: development of a business rules verification module.
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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
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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
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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
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:
DBLP,
Springer,
Google Scholar (Profile),
Scopus,
Arnetminer,
MS AR,
PubZone,
ScientificCommons,
ACM,
MetaPress,
scHolar,
CiteSeer,
QuadSearch, Web of Science - Research ID,
IEEE,
Semantic Scholar.
Professional Memberships
Habilitation Degree
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.
Doctoral Dissertation
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