Włodzimierz Lewoniewski received PhD with distinction

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

HANSA Project meeting in Oldenburg

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

QOD 2018 – the first international workshop on quality of open data

On 20 July 2018 the first workshop on Quality of Open Data (QOD 2018) was organized. It took place during the 21st edition of the Business Information Systems Conference (BIS 2018) at the Fraunhofer Institute for Open Communication Systems FOKUS in Berlin. The aim of the workshop was to gather a community dealing with the subject of information quality in portals like Wikipedia, DBpedia, Wikidata and other open knowledge bases. … Read More

The award for the most innovative article at the NATCON 2018 Conference

On the 25-27 June 2018 Dominik Filipiak and Milena Stróżyna participated in the 8th International Tech-Science Conference NATCON “Naval Technologies for Defence and Security”, in Gdańsk. The Conference was organized by the Polish Naval Academy and the International Gdańsk Fair. The article prepared for the Conference “Big Data for Anomaly Detection in Maritime. Surveillance: Spatial AIS Data Analysis for Tankers “, whose authors are: Dominik Filipiak, Milena Stróżyna, Dr. Krzysztof … Read More

Wikimania 2018 – the most important findings of the year

On July 18-22 Wikimania 2018 conference took place, during which the results of the most important findings of Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects for the last year were presented. In particular, the research of scientists from the Poznań University of Economics and Business has been presented – “Relative Quality and Popularity Evaluation of Multilingual Wikipedia Articles” (authors: Włodzimierz Lewoniewski, Krzysztof Węcel, Witold Abramowicz). The research concerns the automatic evaluation of … Read More

Best Paper Award at ICIST 2017 Conference

On October 14th, Włodzimierz Lewoniewski received the Best Paper Award at the 23rd International Conference on Information and Software Technologies (ICIST 2017). The paper “Analysis of References Across Wikipedia Languages” was prepared together with Dr. Krzysztof Węcel and Prof. Witold Abramowicz. MSc. Lewoniewski is a PhD student at the Department of Information Systems and works on his doctoral thesis related to the comparing and enriching of information in various language … Read More

Wikipedia References & Citations challenge

Dr. Krzysztof Węcel received the award for the best paper in the Wikipedia Citations and Reference Challenge on September 15, 2016, as part of the DBpedia Community Meeting organized at the SEMANTiCS2016 conference in Leipzig. The materials for the presentation entitled “(Not only) Polish citations – analysis, comparison, directions” were largely collected during the summer student internships organized by the Department of Information Systems under the Pro-Quality Grant. Apart from … Read More

BIS 2002 conference

On 24-25 April 2002, the fifth edition of the International Conference on Business Information Systems (BIS 2002) was held at the Poznań Academy of Economics. In the photo, the organizing committee of the BIS 2002 conference (from the left): Krzysztof Węcel, Marek Kowalkiewicz, Andrzej Bassara, Agata Filipowska, Tomasz Jakubowski, Piotr Słowikowski, Grzegorz Głowacki, Tomasz Kaczmarek.