Poznań University of Economics and Business
The full version of the inaugural lecture by Prof. Marek Kowalkiewicz entitled “Generative Curiosity. How does generative AI change the face of creativity and innovation?” has been published in open access on the website of the Poznań University of Economics and Business Press. The lecture focuses on the importance of generative artificial intelligence (AI) for human creativity and innovation.
On October 7-8, 2024, the Common Future Congress for Reconstruction of Ukraine took place at the Poznań International Fair. The Poznań University of Economics and Business (PUEB) hosted a session as part of the Good Practices Stage on the topic of “Universities supporting digital transformation using artificial intelligence in Ukraine”. The moderator was Prof. Witold Abramowicz, Advisor to the Rector for Artificial Intelligence and Digital Transformation at PUEB.
On October 11, 2024, after the inaugural lecture entitled “Generative Curiosity”, the Intellectual Afterparty was held with Prof. Marek Kowalkiewicz – one of the leading experts in the field of the digital economy. Prof. Marek Kowalkiewicz currently serves as the Head of the Department of Digital Economy at the Business School of Queensland University of Technology (Australia) and is the founder and director of the QUT Centre for the Digital … Read More
During the ceremonial Inauguration of the Academic Year 2024/2025, a lecture titled “Generative Curiosity” will take place. The lecture will be delivered by Prof. Marek Kowalkiewicz, one of the leading experts in the field of the digital economy. He completed his master’s studies and defended his doctoral dissertation with distinction at the Poznań University of Economics and Business, where he also worked in the Department of Information Systems. The event … Read More
On October 4, 2024, a meeting of the staff of the Department of Information Systems at the Poznań University of Economics and Business took place. The meeting was led by Prof. Krzysztof Węcel, the new head of the Department, who was appointed to this position on October 1, 2024. The meeting was dedicated to presenting and discussing the Department’s strategy for the upcoming academic year in connection with the new … Read More
During the 28th International Conference on Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Information & Engineering Systems (KES 2024), Dr. Włodzimierz Lewoniewski presented a paper entitled “Exploring the Challenges and Potential of Generative AI: Insights from an Empirical Study” and a paper entitled “Supporting fact-checking process with IT tools”. The conference was held on September 11-13, 2024 in hybrid mode.
On September 9-12, 2024, scientists from the Department of Information Systems presented their works at the CLEF 2024 conference, which took place in Grenoble (France). This was the 25th edition of the CLEF (Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum), a key event in the field of information and language technologies, focusing on the evaluation of information systems. Thanks to a variety of test tasks, participants can compare and improve … Read More
An article by our scientists entitled “Combining Recommender Systems and Language Models in Early Detection of Signs of Anorexia” has been published in open access. The work describes the approach that obtained the best result according to the ERDE metric in the international competition for early risk prediction on the Internet – eRisk 2024. Authors of the work: Oskar Riewe-Perła and Prof. Agata Filipowska.
In 2024, scientists from the Department of Information Systems participated for the second time in the CheckThat! competition, part of the international CLEF conference, focused on identifying check-worthy texts. Leveraging transformer-based language models and cross-linguistic transfer learning techniques, the team secured two second-place rankings for English and Arabic submissions.
An article by our scientists entitled “OpenFact at CheckThat! 2024: Combining Multiple Attack Methods for Effective Adversarial Text Generation” has been published in open access. The paper describes the approach that won first place in an international competition in the area of information credibility.