Department of Information Systems
Poznań University of Economics and Business
In the jubilee 15th edition of the PUEB Foundation competition for the best doctoral dissertations defended at the Poznań University of Economics and Business in the 2018/2019 academic year, the members of the Department of Information Systems took the first two places. Each work was assessed according to the following criteria: the scientific value of the dissertation, the originality of the research issues undertaken in the dissertation, the importance of … Read More
The scientific article of the team of the Department of Information Systems has been published in the BISE journal. The journal’s Impact Factor for 2019 was 5.837 and the five-year impact factor was 7.361. Authors of the work: Dominik Filipiak, Krzysztof Węcel, Milena Stróżyna, Michał Michalak, Witold Abramowicz.
The goal of the QOD workshop is to bring together different communities working on quality in Wikipedia, DBpedia, Wikidata, OpenStreetMap, Wikimapia and other open knowledge bases and data sources. The workshop calls for sharing research experience and knowledge related to quality assessment in open data. The third edition of the QOD workshop took place on 9 June 2020 as part of the BIS 2020 conference. The organisers of the QOD … Read More
On 12 May 2020 the Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences of the University of Potsdam awarded the degree of doctor habilitated in economic informatics to Krzysztof Węcel, employed in the Department of Information Systems at the Institute of Informatics and Quantitative Economics. The lecture and the habilitation colloquium took place in the form of a video conference, which was an unprecedented event at the University of Potsdam. The basis … Read More
One of the most important factors impacting quality of content in Wikipedia is presence of reliable sources. By following references, readers can verify facts or find more details about described topic. A Wikipedia article can be edited independently in any of over 300 languages, even by anonymous users, therefore information about the same topic may be inconsistent. This also applies to use of references in different language versions of a … Read More
On 22-23 January 2020 Poznań University of economics and Business hosted the kick-off meeting of the SIMMO II project: System for Intelligent Maritime Monitoring II. PUEB was represented by the Department of Information Systems: prof. Witold Abramowicz, Dr. Milena Stróżyna, Dr. Krzysztof Węcel and Dominik Filipiak, who are members of the project’s team. SIMMO II is a research and development project, ordered by the European Defense Agency (Cat B Project) … Read More
The international conference SEMANTiCS 2019 took place in Karlsruhe (Germany) from 9th to 13th September and was attended by more than 400 participants. During the conference Dr. Włodzimierz Lewoniewski presented the research “Reference Extraction from Wikipedia Infoboxes“. The SEMANTiCS conference is the leading European conference on semantic technologies and artificial intelligence. Researchers, industry experts and business leaders can develop a deep understanding of trends and application scenarios in machine learning, … Read More
The second edition of the QOD workshop took place on 28 June 2019 as part of the BIS 2019 conference in Seville (Spain).
By decision of the Council of the Faculty of Computer Science and Electronic Economy at the University of Economics in Poznań of March 8, 2019, the degree of doctor in the field of economic sciences was awarded to a member of our department Włodzimierz Lewoniewski. At the same time, the Faculty Council, supporting the proposal of the Doctoral Committee, recognized the doctoral dissertation as distinctive. Public defense of a doctoral … Read More
On 12-13 February 2019 representatives of the Department of Economic Informatics: prof. Witold Abramowicz, Dr. Milena Stróżyna and Dr. Krzysztof Węcel participated in the HANSA project meeting in in Oldenburg (Germany). The meeting was attended by representatives of all HANSA consortium members: OFFIS e.V. (Germany), Sprint SA (Poland), NAVTOR AS (Norway) and In-innovative navigation GmbH (Germany). The host of the meeting was OFFIS, who in addition to the meeting itself, … Read More