BSCT 2021 – the 4th Workshop on Blockchain and Smart Contract Technologies

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.

QOD 2021 – the 4th international workshop on Quality of Open Data

The fourth edition of the scientific workshop QOD (Quality of Open Data) was conducted on June 14, 2021 in conjunction with the BIS 2021 conference. The event was hosted by TIB – Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology and University Library in Hanover, Germany.

BSCT 2020 – the 3rd Workshop on Blockchain and Smart Contract Technologies

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.

QOD 2020 – the 3rd international workshop on Quality of Open Data

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

Workshops at the Children’s University

On December 1 and December 15, Włodzimierz Lewoniewski conducted the workshops at the University of Children entitled "Is the clock accurate?". During the workshops various types of clocks were presented: electronic, mechanical, solar, hourglass (sand, water), candles. During practical assignments, students of the Children’s University measured time using some of them, and finally answered questions about the choice of a particular type of clock depending on the situation in everyday … 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

BSCT 2018 – the first international workshop on blockchain

On 19-20 July 2018 the first workshop on Blockchain and Smart Contract Technologies (BSCT 2018) was held. The workshop was organized during the 21st edition of the Business Information Systems Conference at the Fraunhofer Institute for Open Communication Systems FOKUS in Berlin. The introduction of the bitcoin protocol in 2008 was a landmark event that initiated a new era of decentralization in information systems. After a ten-year incubation period, blockchain … Read More

Researchers’ Night 2017

As a part of the Researchers’ Night, which took place on September 29, 2017, scientists from the Department of Information Systems organized workshops “WHAT DO YOU THINK? GUIDE FOR SMALL PROGRAMMERS “(MSc. Piotr Kałużny, Dr. Bartosz Perkowski) for children aged 8 to 12 and “WHAT DO YOU THINK? INTERNET WITHOUT SECRETS” (Dr. Agnieszka Figiel, MSc. Agata Szyszko, MSc. Włodzimierz Lewoniewski) for people over 15 years old. Researchers’ Night is an … Read More