Department of Information Systems
Poznań University of Economics and Business
The OpenFact project is run by the team of our Department in cooperation with technological and substantive partners, including: Google, Facebook, Bright Data, Harvard University, as well as leading fact-checking organizations in Poland. During the evaluation of the first phase of the INFOSTRATEG program of the National Center for Research and Development, in the field of fake news detection using artificial intelligence, the OpenFact project received the highest number of … Read More
Scientific article on effectiveness of the Relative Strength Index (RSI) signals in timing the cryptocurrency market was published in the “Sensors” journal. The journal’s Impact Factor for 2021 was 3.847, the five-year Impact Factor was 4.050. Authors of the publication: Marek Zatwarnicki, Krzysztof Zatwarnicki, Piotr Stolarski.
During the 9th of the National Scientific Conference “Knowledge and information technologies in creating entrepreneurship” (WiTIwKP), representatives of our Department presented the SocialScan tool supporting the verification of credibility of information on social networks. This year’s edition of the conference was held on October 6-7 in a hybrid mode (stationary in Olsztyn near Częstochowa and remotely).
During the Researchers’ Night 2022, the employees of our Department conducted workshops entitled “Truth or fake news? How not to be fooled on the Internet“. Each participant of this event could learn how complex and interesting research in the field of identifying false information can be.
During the eleventh edition of the Professor Zbigniew Czerwiński National Scientific Conference “Mathematics and IT at the services of economics” (MIUE 2022), a lecture entitled “Can social media defend against fake news?” was delivered. The presentation cointained department’s research on the detection of fake news using artificial intelligence methods. This year’s edition of the MIUE conference was held on September 16 remotely.
The fourth edition of the scientific workshop BSCT (Blockchain and Smart Contract Technologies) was held on June 16, 2021. The event was held remotely as part of the international conference on Business Information Systems (BIS), and it was hosted by TIB – Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology and University Library in Hanover, Germany.
The aim of the workshop is to closely explore emerging challenges and opportunities in the field of blockchain technologies. Moreover, this time the audience attention was especially turned toward issues related to blockchain architectures, new business models as well as innovative applications, use-cases based on distributed ledger environments and standardization initiatives.
The scientific work presents different approaches to investigate the possible relationships between the largest crowd-based knowledge source and the market potential of particular cryptocurrencies.
The second edition of the BSCT workshop took place on 27 June 2019 as part of the BIS 2019 conference in Seville (Spain).
On December 6, at the Poznan University of Economics and Business, an organizational meeting of the Student Research Group “Data Science” took place, attended by over 100 people. During the meeting, the key directions of the student research group development were discussed. Members Board of the SRG Data Science in particular presented the following topics: Action program for the coming year (Ksawery Smoczyński) Conferences and meetings about data science (Alex … Read More