FuturICT – Polish Hub
Main expertise of FuturIcT- Poland
Polish scientists possess a broad expertise in applications of methods of complex systems for
ICT driven social and economic dynamics. The research includes in particular issues of
quantitative and qualitative modelling of crises and transitions in socio-economical systems.
Main expertise of FuturIcT- Poland:
Dynamics of Crisis and Transitions in Information Societies.
Coordinators
The Polish FuturICT hub will be coordinated by:
Prof. Janusz Hołyst (Warsaw University of Technology) and
Prof. Andrzej Nowak (University of Warsaw)
Polish Traditions in FuturICT related research domains.
Poland possesses a long tradition in interdisciplinary studies that are related to FuturICT research
domains Already in XVI century the famous Polish astronomer Nicolas Copernicus (1473 - 1543)
investigated the issues of money circulation at decent markets and discovered the rule known as
Copernicus - Gresham law. At the beginning of XX century Marian Smoluchowski (1872- 1917) Polish
physicist working in a Lwiw and Cracow developed the theory of Brownian motions that is
fundamental for stochastic processes and makes possible financial markets modelling.
Mathematician Stefan Banach (1892 - 1945), while working at Lwiw University gave a background for
functional analysis (Banach space) and in this way opened a new direction in abstract modelling of
dynamical systems.
Polish mathematician Mark Kac (1914 – 1984) pioneered in the mathematical theory of stochastic
processes and he was the first to study the distribution of the absolute area of Brownian motion
using what has since been known as the “Feynman-Kac formula". Stanislaw Ulan (1909-1984) worked
on Manhattan Project where he originated the Teller–Ulam design of thermonuclear weapons and
together with John von Neumann gave foundations for the Monte Carlo approach.
There were several Polish computer scientists who substantially influenced the development of
information theory. Zdzislaw Pawlak (1926 - 2006) was the author of the Theory of Rough Sets that is
important for semantic information in the case of incomplete datasets. Stefan Wegrzyn (born 1925)
introduced the concept of dynamical information and is the world authority in this domain.
R.S. Ingarden and K. Urbanik have created an axiomatic approach to information theory. R.S.
Ingarden created quantum information theory.
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Table of contents
Main expertise of FuturIcT- Poland ......................................................................................................... 1
Coordinators ............................................................................................................................................ 1
Polish Traditions in FuturICT related research domains. ........................................................................ 1
List of Polish national priorities fitting the focus areas of FuturICT ........................................................ 3
Information on national programs fitting national priorities in relation with FET Flagship Pilot Projects
................................................................................................................................................................. 5
List of FuturICT Polish Hub Group Leaders .............................................................................................. 7
Description of FuturICT Polish Hub Coordinators ................................................................................. 10
Description of FuturICT Polish Hub research groups in Complex Systems Domain .............................. 15
Description of FuturICT Polish Hub research groups in Social Sciences Domain .................................. 29
Description of FuturICT Polish Hub research groups in ICT Domain .................................................... 37
Description of FuturICT Polish Hub Business Partners (seelcted examples) ........................................ 53
FuturICT Polish Hub Selected Projects being in line with the FuturICT Project and Polish Research
Priorities. ............................................................................................................................................... 56
International research Projects ..................................................................................................... 56
National Projects ........................................................................................................................... 58
Contact details for people best connected in Polish community FuturICT supporters in each of the
following categories: ............................................................................................................................. 61
Contacts to scientific institutions: ................................................................................................. 61
Contacts to political areas ............................................................................................................. 61
Contacts to business and industry................................................................................................. 61
Key businesses in Poland which will be interested in teaming up with FuturICT (without supporting
them financially), and FuturICT would profit from this partnership ..................................................... 63
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28 May 2012
List of Polish national priorities fitting the focus areas of FuturICT
On 16 August 2011 the Polish Government established National Research Program
- Foundations of research, technical and innovation policy
(Krajowy Program Badań, Założenia polityki naukowo – technicznej i innowacyjnej państwa),
see http://www.bip.nauka.gov.pl/_gAllery/15/21/15212/20110816_zalacznik_KPB.pdf
where the following national research priorities can be distinguished:
1. New technologies in the energy
2. Lifestyle diseases, new medicaments and regenerative medicine
3. Advanced information technologies, telecommunications and mechatronic
4. Modern material technologies
5. Environment, agriculture and forestry
6. Social and economic development in Poland under conditions of global markets
7. Security and national defense
The main aims of the FuturICT project are (for details see www.futurict.eu):
FuturICT wants science to catch up with the speed at which new problems and opportunities are
arising in our changing world as consequences of globalization, technological, demographic and
environmental change, and make a contribution to strengthening our societies' adaptiveness,
resilience, and sustainability. It will do so by developing new scientific approaches and combining
these with the best established methods in areas like multi-scale computer modeling, social
supercomputing, large-scale data mining and participatory platforms.
For this, the FuturICT flagship project will promote an interdisciplinary integration of natural,
social, and engineering sciences with novel paradigms of information technology. This will
produce the synergy effects required to address many of our 21st century challenges. After the age of
physical, biological and technological innovations, FuturICT will lead Europe into the next era – a
wave of information-driven social and socio-inspired innovations.
This requires us to establish a new science of multi-level complex, global systems and a co-evolution
of ICT with society, by bringing the best knowledge of experts on information and communication
systems, complex systems and the social sciences together.
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The priorities 3, 6 and 7 of Polish National Research Programme belong to the main
research objectives of the FuturICT Project. The Polish Programme gives a priority to
“interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary research directed towards strategic aims
important for a balanced Poland development”. Below are corresponding references in
http://www.bip.nauka.gov.pl/_gAllery/15/21/15212/20110816_zalacznik_KPB.pdf
Ad. 3. Advanced information technologies, telecommunication and mechatronics
(…) IT component became an inherent element of many complex and advanced innovative projects,
such as scientific and industrial. It is information technology that often combines the scientific groups
of different fields through built tools and specifies the limits of modern solutions in information
technology. Such solutions stimulate approximate results and contribute to the progress in general.
Questions that are still without solutions drive then the basic research, its results often contribute to
development of the field that initiate the questions. Very often the wide range of solutions is so
fundamental and challenges are so significant that lay the foundations of new disciplines in the IT
branch, for example bioinformatics, image processing, multimedia processing on the mobile devices,
devices of network security and computer graphics or in past times- artificial intelligence. Many of
those fields are being successfully developed through networks of small and medium enterprises and
different cluster structures, in which business works together with research institutions in several
regions of the country.
Expectations on solutions in ICT branch are huge both in Europe and in the rest of the world. It
includes devices that count, communicate and control complex technological and business processes
as well as communicate through interfaces between computers, tools or machines at the production
line. Production processes are based on individual needs and are competitive advantage, very often
mentioned as a basis for the further development of special technologies.
Creating an intelligent sensor networks that monitor the changeability of data in environments with
difficult access, self-configuring built-in systems and adaptable systems of service robots constitutes
scientific and economic branch with large pace of development.
Ad. 6 Social and economic development in Poland under conditions of global markets
(…) Building knowledge–based economy, standing in front of difficult global challenges, is being
accompanied by uncertainty and risk, it requires many researches and analyses in terms of holistic
perception, taking into account the analytical and synthetic dimension. It demands deep reflection of
the future role of society and cultural heritage.
Building a strong human capital requires the effective education, that is adapted to the needs of
modern world. It is justified to focus on Long-life learning idea, encompassing the whole society. This
issue will place new challenges in front of public administration, therefore conducting systematic
research is necessary to create modern development strategies, which main aim is to build
competitive knowledge- based economy.
In the near future we will have to deal with a huge demographic change, concerning an aging society.
At the same time as a result of economic and scientific freedom the spatial mobility will grow, and new
digital technologies will change the forms of citizens participation in social life.
Ad. 7 Security and national defense
(…) Comprehensive approach to crisis management, regulation and assigning tasks in this field for
public administration, and creating a stable basis for their funding is a lever of growth of national safety
and an efficient tool to its realization. According to the analysis of priority operational capability one of
the technological priorities is information technology and networks. Together with other NATO
countries within the Organization of Research and Technology, the list of 20 breakthrough
technologies was identified, these include the cloud computing, intelligent autonomous systems,
virtual and extended reality, cognitive interfaces and social networks.
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Information on national programs fitting national priorities in
relation with FET Flagship Pilot Projects
CSR - Centre of Excellence for Complex Systems Research, Group of Physics in Economy and Social
Sciences, Faculty of Physics, Warsaw University of Technology,
Research area: collective dynamics of internet communities , influence of emotions on community
changes, critical phenomena in complex networks, models of information spreading. Annual budget
around 0.4 M Euro
Selected EU Projects lead in Centre of Excellence for Complex Systems Research
FP7 EU ICT Integrated Project CYBEREMOTIONS – Collective Emotions in Cyberspace, 2009-2013, 750.154 Euro
+810.293 PLN (Coordinator)
COST Action MP0801 Physics of Competition and Conflicts, 2008-2012 (v-ce Chair)
FP6 EU NEST STREP CREEN, Critical events in evolving networks, 2005-2008,
279.996 Euro + 690. 360 PLN (Coordinator)
FP6 EU NEST STREP MMCOMNET (Measuring and modelling of complex networks across domains) 2005-2008,
249.984 Euro + 612 100 PLN (Partner)
COST Action P10: Physics or Risk, 2005-2007, 390.000 PLN (v-ce Chair)
ESF Project, 167/ESF/2006/03, STOCHDYN, Stochastic dynamics: fundamentals and applications), 2006-2008,
450.858 PLN (Partner)
Coordination Action: GIACS, Complex systems (Partner)
Coordination Action: ONCE-CS, Complex systems (Partner)
CSS - Centre for Complex Systems, University of Warsaw
Interdisciplinary research team specializing in applying complexity approach to understand social
processes and phenomena, that focuses on developing theory and building models of various
processes, collecting and analysing datasets. Funding of 0,5 M Euro per year.
Mark Kac Complex System Research Centre, Jagiellonian University
Scientific Centre for advanced research in computational technologies applied to networking, in
particular to technological and social networks, with yearly budget of 1,1 M Euro.
Electronics and Information Technology, Warsaw University of Technology
Centre of computer systems studies including cognitive semantic web for future collaborative
environments, semantic integration of multimodal sources, risk an trust for decision support in
complex system, sensor swarm for holographic immersion and safety of networks, with a total
investment costs of 10 M Euro for 6 years.
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Complex Systems Group, Faculty of Physics and Applied Computer Science, AGH-UST, Cracow
Interdisciplinary association of researchers on modelling of social systems and social simulations,
preventing social conflicts. Annual funding equals 0,2 M Euro.
ISeCS - Interdisciplinary Science of Complex Systems, Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw
The Centre for Methods of Physics in Economy (Econophysics) was established in 2006 with budget
of 0,5 M Euro over 5 years, investigates changes defined by economy and sociology by means of
various theories of statistical time-series and advances numerical simulations and quantitative
modelling.
Division of Biomathematics and Game Theory, University of Warsaw
The Division of Biomathematics and Game Theory (BGT) is an interdisciplinary research team that
specialises in constructing, studying and solving mathematical models of social and biological
processes and applying complexity approach to understand social and biological processes and
phenomena in real world. Annual budget of 0,1 M Euro.
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List of FuturICT Polish Hub Group Leaders
Partner
No
First Name and
Last Name
Affiliation
E-mail
Coordinators
CS1
Prof. Janusz
Hołyst
National Hub
Coordinator
SS1
Prof. Andrzej
Nowak
National Hub
Coordinator
Centre of Excellence for Complex
Systems Research (CSR), Group of
Physics in Economy and Social Sciences,
Faculty of Physics, Warsaw University of
Technology
jholyst@if.pw.edu.pl
Centre for Complex Systems (CCS)
Institute for Social Studies, University of
Warsaw
andrzejn232@gmail.com
Partners from
Complex Systems Domain
CS2
Prof. Maciej
Andrzej Nowak
Mark Kac Complex Systems Research
Centre, Faculty of Physics, Jagiellonian
University
nowak@th.if.uj.edu.pl
CS3
Prof. Krzysztof
Kułakowski
Complex Systems Group, Faculty of
Physics and Applied Computer Science,
AGH University of Science and
Technology
kulakowski@novell.ftj.agh.
edu.pl
CS4
Prof. Ryszard
Kutner
Institute of Experimental Physics,
Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw
erka@fuw.edu.pl
CS5
Prof. Stanisław
Dróżdż
Department of Complex Systems
Theory, Institute of Nuclear Physics,
Polish Academy of Sciences
stanislaw.drozdz@ifj.edu.p
l
CS6
Prof. Tadeusz
Płatkowski
Division of Biomathematics and Game
Theory, Faculty of Mathematics,
Informatics and Mechanics, Warsaw
University
T.Platkowski@mimuw.edu.
pl
CS7
Dr. Dariusz Grech
Econophysics and Time Series Analysis
(ETSA), Institute of Theoretical Physics,
dgrech@ift.uni.wroc.pl
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University of Wrocław
CS8
Prof. Arkadiusz
Orłowski
Department of Informatics, Faculty of
Applied Informatics and Mathematics,
Warsaw University of Life Sciences SGGW
arkadiusz_orlowski@sggw.
pl
Partners from ICT Domain
ICT1
Prof. Henryk
Rybiński
Warsaw University of Technology,
Faculty of Electronics and Information
Technology
H.Rybinski@ii.pw.edu.pl
Institute of Computer Science
ICT2
Dr Robert
Olszewski
Department of Cartography, Warsaw
University of Technology, Faculty of
Geodesy and Cartography
r.olszewski@gik.pw.edu.pl
ICT3
Olaf Gajl
The Information Processing Centre (OPI)
olaf.gajl@opi.org.pl
ICT4
Prof. Włodzisław
Duch
Department of Informatics, Nicolaus
Copernicus University (DINCU)
wduch@is.umk.pl
ICT5
Prof. Wojciech
Cellary
Department of Information Technology,
Poznan University of Economics
cellary@kti.ue.poznan.pl
ICT6
Dr.Krzysztof
Kurowski
Poznan Supercomputing and
Networking Center, Poland
krzysztof.kurowski@man.p
oznan.pl
ICT7
Prof.
Wojciech
Complex Systems Team at Świerk
Wislicki
Computing Centre, National Centre for
Nuclear Research
Partners from Social Science Domain
wojciech.wislicki@ncbj.gov
.pl
SS2
Dr Wojciech
Borkowski
Centre Psychology of New
Technologies, Warsaw School for
Humanities and Social Sciences,
Institute
wborkowski@swps.edu.pl
SS3
Prof. Mirosław
Kofta
Department of Psychology, University of kofta@engram.psych.uw.e
Warsaw
du.pl
SS4
Prof. Mirosława
Marody
Department of Sociology University of
Warsaw
marodymi@is.uw.edu.pl
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Business Partners (selected examples)
BP1
Anna Borowiec
GEMIUS Spolka Akcyjna
anna.borowiec@gemius.pl
BP2
Dr Albert Hupa
Interactive Research Center
alek@ircenter.com
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Description of FuturICT Polish Hub Coordinators
National FuturIcT Hub Coordinator (Partner CS1)
Centre of Excellence for Complex Systems Research (CSR), Group of Physics in Economy and Social
Sciences, Faculty of Physics, Warsaw University of Technology
Research focus: statistical models of emotions, information and social dynamics in socio-techno
networks
Webpage:
http://www.if.pw.edu.pl/~jholyst/
Contact:
Faculty of Physics, Warsaw University of Technology
Prof. Janusz Hołyst
Address: Koszykowa 75, 00-662 Warsaw, Poland
Phone: +48 22 234 7133
Mobile: +48 607 815 854
E-mail: jholyst@if.pw.edu.pl
Prof. Hołyst, the Centre Head, will act as one of National FuturIcT Hub Coordinators.
Prof. Hołyst got his PhD in solid state physics from Warsaw University of Technology in 1985. His
current research field includes statistical physics of complex networks, internet group dynamics,
models of collective opinion and emotion formation, econophysics, non-equilibrium statistical
physics, stochastic resonance, cellular automata, self-organized criticality and phase transitions.
He is one of the pioneers in applying physical methods to economic and social systems. He was a
scientific advisor of 9 completed PhD theses on interdisciplinary applications of nonlinear dynamics
and complex systems. His list of publications includes over 120 papers (www.if.pw.edu.pl/~jholyst) in
peer reviewed journals that have been cited over 1300 times.
Hołyst has organized or co-organized 15 international interdisciplinary workshop or conferences on
complex systems. He acts as an Editor of European Journal of Physics B and as a Guest Editor or
referee of several other journals. Hołyst maintains a close collaboration with many Institutes in
Germany, France, Italy, UK, Switzerland, Japan and USA where he spent over six years as a Visiting
Professor, Fellow of Humboldt Foundation or Guest Scientist. Hołyst has been a coordinator or
partner in seven EU projects including FP7 ICT Integrated CYBEREMOTIONS (2009 – 2013). He is the
President of KRAB (National Council for Research Projects Coordinators) and FENS (Physics in
Economy and Social Sciences – Division of the Polish Physical Society).
Other scientist involved in FuturICT research: Dr Julian Sienkiewicz (complex networks dynamics,
time series analysis), Dr Paweł Sieczka (econophysics, collective bankruptcy models)
Research Area of CSR
Role in Polish hub: collective dynamics of internet communities influence of emotions on community
changes, critical phenomena in complex networks, models of information spreading.
Centre of Excellence for Complex Systems Research (CSR) and Group of Physics in Economy and Social
Sciences belong to Faculty of Physics. In 2002 the Centre was certified as a National Competence
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Centre and it continuously extends its interdisciplinary investigations on complex systems and
application of statistical physics in economy and social sciences. The studies cover detection, analysis
and quantitative modelling of collective emotions in cyber-communities (Blogosphere, internet
discussion forums, community portals), information flows in evolving networks, collective opinion
formation, evolution of socio-economic networks, endogenous transitions and crises in networked
systems.
The Centre possesses a wide expertise in collecting data on economic and social phenomena
including public transport data and scientometrics. CSR will contribute to the FuturIcT objectives by
developing a background for a next generation emotionally intelligent Web where human-computer
interactions are improved by taking into account human affects and emotions.
The Centre has organized or co-organized several international interdisciplinary workshops or
conferences on complex systems.
Selected EU Projects lead in Centre of Excellence for Complex Systems Research
FP7 EU ICT Integrated Project CYBEREMOTIONS – Collective Emotions in Cyberspace, 2009-2013, 750.154 Euro +810.293
PLN (Coordinator)
COST Action MP0801 Physics of Competition and Conflicts, 2008-2012 (v-ce Chair)
FP6 EU NEST STREP CREEN, Critical events in evolving networks, 2005-2008,
279.996 Euro + 690. 360 PLN (Coordinator)
FP6 EU NEST STREP MMCOMNET (Measuring and modelling of complex networks across domains) 2005-2008, 249.984 Euro
+ 612 100 PLN (Partner)
COST Action P10: Physics or Risk, 2005-2007, 390.000 PLN (v-ce Chair)
ESF Project,167/ESF/2006/03, STOCHDYN, Stochastic dynamics: fundamentals and applications), 2006-2008, 450.858 PLN
(Partner)
Coordination Action: GIACS, Complex systems (Partner)
Coordination Action: ONCE-CS, Complex systems (Partner)
List of selected publication related to FuturIcT domains for the last 3 years:
Anna Chmiel, Julian Sienkiewicz, Mike Thelwall, Georgios Paltoglou, Kevan Buckley, Arvid Kappas, Janusz A. Hołyst,
Collective emotions online and their influence on community life. PLoS ONE, 10.1371/journal.pone.0022207, 13 Jul 2011
Anna Chmiel, Paweł Sobkowicz, Julian Sienkiewicz, Georgios Paltoglou, Kevan Buckley, Mike Thelwall, Janusz A. Hołyst
Negative emotions boost users activity at BBC Forum, Physica A 390, 2936, 2011
Julian Sienkiewicz, Grzegorz Siudem, Janusz A. Hołyst
External bias in the model of isolation of communities, PHYSICAL REVIEW E 82, 057101, NOV 2010
A.H. Sato, M. Nishimura, J.A. Hołyst
Fluctuation scaling of quotation activities in the foreign exchange market, PHYSICA A 389, 2793-2804, 2010
A. Chmiel, J.A. Hołyst
Flow of Emotional Messages in Artificial Social Netorks, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MODERN PHYSICS C 21, 593-602,
2010
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A. Chmiel, K. Kowalska, Janusz A. Hołyst
Scaling of human behavior during portal browsing, PHYSICAL REVIEW E 80, 066122, 2009
P. Sieczka, Janusz A. Hołyst
Collective firm bankruptcies and phase transition in rating dynamics, EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL B 71, XXX, 2009
J. Sienkiewicz, Janusz A. Hołyst
Nonequilibrium phase transition due to isolation of communities, PHYSICAL REVIEW E 80, 036103, SEP 2009
P. Sieczka, Janusz A. Hołyst
Correlations in commodity markets, PHYSICA A 388, 1621, JAN 2009
Hans-Ulrich Stark, Dirk Helbing, Martin Schönhof, Janusz A. Hołyst
Alternating cooperation strategies in a Route Choice Game: Theory, experiments, and effects of a learning scenario.
In: A. Innocenti and P. Sbriglia (eds.): Games, Rationality and Behaviour. Houndmills and New York: Palgrave McMillan,
2008.
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National FuturIcT Hub Coordinator (Partner SS1)
Centre for Complex Systems (CCS) Institute for Social Studies, University of Warsaw
Research focus: Complex systems approach in the social processes, computer models of economical
and social processes, social change.
In the Centre for Complex Systems a multidisciplinary team consisting of
psychologists, sociologists, mathematician, physicists, computer scientists, social
geographer and biologists has since 1992 been analysing data and building models of
social dynamics, especially social transitions. This team has ample experience in
computer modelling of spatio-temporal dynamics of social and economic processes,
analysing and visualising spatial patterns in economic and social data, analysis of
archival datasets and empirical studies of psychological and social processes
Webpage:
http://www.iss.uw.edu.pl/osrodki/obuz/OBUZNEW_ENG/obuz.htm
Contact:
Institute for Social Studies, University of Warsaw
Prof. Andrzej Nowak
http://www.iss.uw.edu.pl/osrodki/obuz/ANowak/
Address: Stawki 5/7, 00-183, Warsaw, Poland
Phone: +48 22 831 5153
Mobile: +48 603 795 059
E-mail: Nowak@fau.edu
Andrzej Nowak, Director, will act as one of National FuturIcT Hub Coordinators
Andrzej Nowak is Professor of Department of Psychology, University of Warsaw, and
Director of the Center for Complex Systems, Institute for Social Studies University of Warsaw also a
permanent half-time member of the Psychology Department at Florida Atlantic University. He has
over publications: books, articles and chapters. Nowak specializes in the modeling and computer
simulation of social processes. Using cellular automata, he has modeled the emergence of public
opinion in society and societal transitions. At FAU, he conducts both simulation and experimental
research in the Dynamical Social Psychology Lab in collaboration with Robin Vallacher. Current
research projects include the use of network models to simulate the emergence and maintenance of
self-concept, scenarios of societal change, social entrepreneurship, the use of networks to model
interpersonal and group dynamics, resilience of social systems, simulation of social and political
processes, behavioral finance, dynamics of large networks, and the use of coupled dynamical systems
to simulate the emergence of personality through social coordination. He is also interested in the
intersection of art and science. Nowak received his M.A. and his Ph.D. in psychology from the
University of Warsaw.
Publications:
Praszkier R, Nowak A., (in press 2012) Social Entrepreneurship, Theory and Practice, Cambridge, University Press.
Nowak A. (Ed), (2009) Applications Physics and Mathematics in Social Science, in a series: Springer Encyclopedia of
Complexity, Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag.
Nowak, A., (2004) Dynamical minimalism: Why less is more in psychology? Personality and Social Psychology Review, 8,2,
pp. 183-193
Nowak, A. & Vallacher, R. R. (2005). Information and influence in the construction of shared reality. IEEE: Intelligent
Systems.No. 1, 90-93
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Nowak A. Vallacher R.R., Kus, M., Urbaniak, J., (2005) The Dynamics of Societal Transition: Modeling Non-Linear Change in
the Polish Economic System, International Journal of Sociology. 35, 65-88.
Nowak, A., Vallacher R. and Zochowski M. (2005) The emergence of personality: Dynamic foundations of individual
variation Developmental Review, No 25, Pages 351-385
Yarri., G., Nowak A., Rakocy, K., Solomon S., (2008) Microscopic Study Reveals the Singular Origins of Growth European
Physics Journal B, 62, 4
Nowak, A., Bui-Wrzosińska, L., Coleman, P.T., Vallacher, R., Bartkowski, W., Jochemczyk, Ł. (2010). Seeking Sustainable
Solutions: Using an Attractor Simulation Platform for Teaching Multi-Stakeholder Negotiation in Complex Cases.
Negotiation Journal, 26, 49 - 68.
Nowak, A , Deutsch, M , Bartkowski, W., and Solomon, S. (2010) 'From Crude Law to Civil Relations: The Dynamics and
Potential Resolution of Intractable Conflict', Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology, 16: 2, 189 - 209
Vallacher, R, Coleman P, Nowak A., and Bui Wrzosinska L. (2010) Rethinking Intractable Conflict: The Perspective of
Dynamical Systems, American Psychologist, 65:4, 262— 278
Grants:
Nowak, A., Harnessing ICT-enabled Collective Social Behaviour, FET FP7 EU grant subcontract,
473.000 E, 2009-20012
Nowak, A., Assyst, FET FP7 EU grant subcontract 30.000 E, 2009-20012
Nowak, A., Open Collaboration for Policy Modeling, FP7 EU grant subcontract 250.000 E, 2009-20012
Nowak, A., Overcoming inequalities in access to education, Foundation Orange: 2009-2010
Nowak, A., Quality Collective, FET FP7 EU grant subcontract 420.000 E, 2009-20012
Marek Kuś (co director)
Mare Kuś is a professor of physics in the Center for Theoretical Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences,
and a co-director of the Center for Complex Systems ISS.
Marek Kus graduated from the Department of Physics of the Warsaw University in1983. He held
visiting positions in: The University of Arkansas, USA, University of New Mexico, USA, Universitat
Essen, Germany and at the Universite Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France.
He is currently also a research associate in the Department of Physics
and Astronomy, University of Maryland, USA and a visiting professor, Ecole Normale Superieure,
Paris, France
His scientific research interests are: Theoretical and mathematical physics: nonlinear phenomena,
chaos, stochastic processes, geometric methods in physics, quantum information theory. He has over
100 publications in scientific journals and books.
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Description of FuturICT Polish Hub research groups in Complex
Systems Domain
Partner CS1 National FuturIcT Hub Coordinator
Centre of Excellence for Complex Systems Research (CSR), Group of Physics in Economy and Social
Sciences, Faculty of Physics, Warsaw University of Technology, see description above
Partner CS2
Mark Kac Complex Systems Research Centre, Faculty of Physics, Jagiellonian University
Research focus: Temporal dynamics in networks and hidden correlations in complex systems
Website:
http://csrc.if.uj.edu.pl/en/
Contact:
Jagiellonian University, Faculty of Physics, Astronomy and Applied Computer Science
Prof. Maciej Andrzej Nowak, Head of the Mark Kac CSRC
Address: Reymonta 4, 30-059 Cracow, Poland
Phone: +48 12 663 5678
Mobile: +48 506 006 544
E-mail: nowak@th.if.uj.edu.pl
Prof. Maciej A. Nowak got his Ph.D. in theoretical physics from Jagiellonian University in 1984. He is
the cofounder and (since 2005) a head of the Mark Kac Complex Systems at the Faculty of Physics,
Astronomy and Applied Computer Science of the Jagiellonian University. This institution is a unique
(in Poland) scientific centre for advanced research, creating the methodology for emerging branches
of science connected to computer technologies and at the same time promoting this methodology
via practical (industrial) applications in high-tech sector and socio-economic sciences. The centre
gathers altogether 20 top scientists, working in five small task groups addressing the issue of
networking, in particular to technological and social networks (NETLAB), the analysis of correlations
and risks, including financial risk factors (RISKLAB), cognitive science, human brain and humancomputer interactions (COGNILAB), bioinformatics (BIOLAB) and new information techniques
(QUANTLAB). Prof. Maciej A. Nowak spent 10 years abroad as a postdoc and then visiting professor
(SUNY Stony Brook (USA), C.E. Saclay (France), Technical University and GSI Darmstadt (Darmstadt)
and maintains close collaboration with several institutions around the world. His specializes in
advances mathematical and physical methods applied to complex systems, in particular in random
matrix theories, free random variables techniques and risk assessment. His publication list includes
one book, ca 100 papers in top peer reviewed journals (over 1500 citations) and editing of several
proceedings, including Cracow School of Theoretical Physics Proceedings, Random Matrix Theory and
Applications series (2005, 2007, 2010) and APFA 4 Proceedings ( co-edited with J. Hołyst). He is
currently involved in the International Ph.D. Studies in Physics of Complex Systems, (2010-2013),
(total budget 1.1 M Euro), consortium C4@A4 (Complexity, Correlations, Coherence and Cognitivists
along Polish East-West Highway A4), put on the Polish Roadmap of Research Infrastructure in 2011
(budget to be specified within 2012 on the basis of competition with other centres). He was one of
the coordinators of the Correlations in Complex Systems (COCOS), Marie Curie TOK in
FP6, completed in 2009, (budget 1.5 M Euro), a member of European Network on Random Geometry
(ENRAGE), completed in 2009, (budget ca. 4 M Euro) and a member of COPIRA Project in FP5, which
granted Mark Kac Center members the status of Centre of Excellence in computer science. He was
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also serving as an expert and panel member in several European and Polish programs related to new
and emerging science and future technologies.
Other scientists involved in FuturiCT research:
Prof. Zdzisław Burda ( statistical theory of networks, dynamics on networks, econophysics)
Dr Bartłomiej Dybiec (epidemics, anomalous diffusion)
Prof. Ewa Gudowska –Nowak (Levy phenomena, matrix-valued diffusion, biosciences)
Prof. Marek Szydłowski and Dr Adam Krawiec ( growth and scientific cycle models)
Dr Paweł Góra ( Wavelets analysis, small-world networks)
Dr Michał Cieśla and dr Jakub Barbasz ( sociophysics, psychology)
Prof. Karol Życzkowski (chaos, information theory, scientometrics)
Selected publications:
Marek Szydłowski, Adam Krawiec, Growth cycles of knowledge, Scientometrics, 78(1), 99-111, 2009.
Marek Szydłowski, Adam Krawiec, Scientific cycle model with delay Scientometrics, 52(1), 83-95, 2001.
Z. Burda, A. Krzywicki, O.C. Martin, Adaptive networks of trading agents, Phys. Rev. E 78, 046106 (2008).
L. Bogacz, Z. Burda, B. Waclaw, Homogeneous complex networks, Physica A 366 (2006) 587.
B. Dybiec, Random strategies of contact tracking, Physica A 387, 4863 (2008)
J. K. Ochab, P. F. Góra, Shift of percolation thresholds for epidemic spread between static and dynamic small-world
networks, Europ. J. Phys 2011, DOI 10.1140/epjb/e2011-10975-6
J. Barbasz, Z. Stettner, M. Wierzchon,K.T. Piotrowski and A. Barbasz, How to estimate randomness in random sequence
generation tasks? Polish Psychological Bulletin 2008, vol.39(1).
Z. Burda, A. Jarosz, M.A. Nowak, J. Jurkiewicz, G. Papp and I. Zahed, Applying free random variables to random matrix
analysis of financial data. Part I: A Gaussian case, Quantitative Finance, Dec. 21 (2010) SN-1469-7688.
K. Życzkowski, Citation graph, weighted impact factors and performance indices, Scientometrics 85 (2010) 301.
Ewa Gudowska-Nowak, Romuald A. Janik, Jerzy Jurkiewicz, Maciej A. Nowak, Waldemar Wieczorek, Random walkers versus
random crowds: diffusion of large matrices, Chem. Phys.375 (2010) 380.
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Partner CS3
Complex Systems Group, Faculty of Physics and Applied Computer Science, AGH University of
Science and Technology
Research focus: Social simulations – public opinion and social norms
Webpage:
http://www.pacs.agh.edu.pl/aicp/department/complex-systems-group/
Contact:
Faculty of Physics and Applied Computer Science, AGH-UST, Cracow
Prof. Krzysztof Kułakowski
Address: Al. Mickiewicza 30, 30-059 Cracow, Poland
Phone: +48 12 617 35 39
E-mail: kulakowski@novell.ftj.agh.edu.pl
Prof Krzysztof Kułakowski - born in Zakopane, Poland, January 27, 1952. In 1975 he got MSc level at
the Faculty of Physics, Jagiellonian University in Cracow; the specialization of theoretical physics. In
1984 got PhD on solid state theory from the Silesian University, Katowice, in 1984. In 1989 a postdoctoral fellow of CNRS, Grenoble. Visiting professor at the University of Basque Country, San
Sebastian, in 1993, and at the University of Zaragoza in 1996. He is an author and co-author of more
than 160 papers in peer refereed journals. He was a scientific advisor of 8 completed Ph.D. thesis.
Currently he works in applications of statistical physics in social sciences. His recent topic of interest
is the dynamics of social opinions and social norms. He teaches students on basic physics, game
theory, nonlinear dynamics and statistical physics. He is the head of the group of complex systems at
the AGH University of Science and Technology. He is a member of the Polish Physical Society and of
the Polish Sociological Society.
Dr hab. Maria Nawojczyk (sociology, data analysis)
Dr Krzysztof Malarz (complex networks, cellular automata)
Dr Przemysław Gawroński (dynamical systems, agent based models)
Dr Małgorzata Krawczyk (computational physics, complex networks)
Research Area
We are interested in computational modelling of social systems and social simulations. We intend to
investigate dynamics of opinions in the context of evolving social norms. The aim of this research is
prevention of social conflicts, which are only triggered by random events, but they emerge as
consequences of collision of social aims and they are solidified by social norms of intergroup hostility.
The toolbox of modelling includes, but is not limited to: complex networks, game theory, agent
based models, Monte Carlo methods, data analysis and statistical mechanics of contact processes,
with analytical toy models as points of departure.
Collective dynamics of opinions and norms should and will be investigated on the basis of statistical
data collected by partners within the Project and by professional agencies, supplemented by
quantitative methods of analysis of documents. The research will be conducted in the frames of our
current cooperation with social scientists. This should broaden our view from sociophysics as a
branch of statistical mechanics to an interdisciplinary research.
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The group is involved in 7FP Socionical research program.
Publications related to FuturICT for the past 3 years:
P. Gawroński, K. Kułakowski, "Crowd dynamics - being stuck", Comp. Phys. Commun. 182 (2011) 1924
J. C. Santos, F. W. S. Lima, K. Malarz, „Majority-vote model on triangular, honeycomb and Kagome lattices”, Physica A 390
(2011) 359
K. Malarz, P. Gronek, K. Kułakowski, "The Zaller-Deffuant model of public opinion, ", JASSS 14, Issue 1 (2011)
M. J. Krawczyk, L. Muchnik, A. Mańka-Krasoń, K. Kułakowski, "Line graphs as social networks", Physica A 390 (2011) 2611
M.J. Krawczyk, "Application of the differential equations method for identifying communities in sparse networks", Comp.
Phys. Comm. 181 (2010) 1702
K. Kulakowski, M. J. Krawczyk, P. Gawroński, Hate - no choice. Agent simulations, in Psychology of Hate, ed. C. T. Lockhardt,
Nova Sci Publ., 2010
K.Kułakowski, "Opinion polarization in the Receipt-Accept-Sample model", Physica A 388 (2009) 469
K.Kułakowski, P. Gawroński "To cooperate or to defect? Altruism and reputation", Physica A 388 (2009) 3581
D. Stauffer, K.Kułakowski, "Simulation of majority vote disturbed by power-law noise", J. Statistical Mechanics P04021
(2008)
K.Kułakowski, M. Nawojczyk, "The Galam model of minority opinion spreading and the marriage gap", Int. J. Mod. Phys. C
19 (2008) 611
K.Kułakowski, "Cops or robbers - a bistable society", Int. J. Mod. Phys. C 19 (2008) 1105
M.J.Krawczyk, "Differential equations as a tool for community identification", Phys. Rev. E77 (2008) 065701(R)
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Partner CS4
Interdisciplinary Science of Complex Systems (ISeCS), Centre for Methods of Physics in Economy
(Econophysics), Institute of Experimental Physics, Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw
Research focus: Scenarios of financial markets evolution on macro- and microscales
Webpage:
http://www.fuw.edu.pl/~erka
Contact:
Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw
Prof. Ryszard Kutner
Address: Hoża 69, PL-00681 Warsaw, Poland
Phone: +48 22 853 6980
E-mail: erka@fuw.edu.pl
Research Area
The Centre for Methods of Physics in Economy (Econophysics) belongs to the Faculty of Physics
University of Warsaw. This Centre was established in 2006. It’s research staffs is a Group of
Interdisciplinary Science of Complex Systems (ISeCS), which makes research and teaching by offering
advanced lectures and seminars for graduate and PhD domestic and foreigner students.
Our ISeCS group tightly collaborate with several prominent scientific and academic institutions such
as University of Barcelona, ETH-Zürich and Tokyo University.
Challenges defined by economy and sociology very much enrich our scientific interest, for instance,
by various theories of statistical time-series (non-linear and non-stationary ones) as well as by
advanced numerical simulations and quantitative modelling. They are mainly based on:
Statistical
methods
including
stochastic
dynamics,
stochastic
processes,
phenomenological thermodynamics of equilibrium and non-equilibrium states, an exotic statistical
physics (non-Markovian and/or non-Gaussian), theories of phase transitions and catastrophic
theories including modelling of black swans and dragon-kings, theories of giant fluctuations and
critical phenomena (e.g. self-organized criticality and higher-order phase transitions),
Extreme value theories
Deterministic methods; this category is based, for example, on field theories or theory of
deterministic chaos.
The ISeCS group has already great and still developing experience which makes possible to construct
comprehensive models describing and forecasting complex economic and social reality full of
relations, emotions, conflicts and crashes, based on advanced empirical data analysis and
sophisticated theories.
Due to the scientific experience, achievements and sensitivity for real life challenges the ISeCS group
cooperate since one year with National Bank of Poland.
In FuturICT the ISeCS would like to find simplicity and some regularity in dynamics of complexity by
looking for the latter from complementary points of view. Our project consists of the following
complementary subjects:

From heteroagent micromodels to offer dynamics in the frame of book of orders (PhD
student Mateusz Denys).
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Correlations and dependences in offer dynamics on financial markets (Dr Tomasz Gubiec).
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Modelling of superextreme events and its application to real systems (Dr Hab. Tomasz
Werner).
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Application of catastrophe theory to financial markets (Dr Marzena Kozłowska, Dr Zbigniew
Struzik).
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Multifractality, finite-size scaling and phase transitions on financial markets (Dr Andrzej
Kasprzak, Dr Zbigniew Struzik).
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Unified model of income dynamics (PhD student Maciej Jagielski).
Of course, all given above subjects will based on advanced empirical data analysis and simulations. By
solving given above subjects ISeCS will be able to develop the universal dynamics (at least by using an
original algorithmic formulation) and propose the possible future scenarios of markets evolution.
Polish Grant awarded within the First Competition of the Committee of Economic Research,
organized by the National Bank of Poland, entitled: The preparation of methods for study the extreme
and super extreme events' influence on the stochastic dynamics of time series. An application to
analysis of some currencies dynamics due to an expectation of the Polish access to euro.
Relevant publications
R. Kutner, A. Pękalski, K. Sznajd-Weron (Eds.): Anomalous Diffusion. From Basics to Applications, Lect. Notes in Phys. Vol.
519, Springer-Verlag, Berlin 1999
R. Kutner: Stock market context of the Lévy walks with varying velocity, Physica A 314 (2002) 201
Z. R. Struzik, A. P. J. M. Siebes, Wavelet Transform Based Multifractal Formalism in Outlier Detection and Localisation for
Financial Time Series, Physica A 309 (2002) 388
R. Kutner, F. Świtała: Stochastic Simulation of Time Series within Weierstrass-Mandelbrot Walks, Quant. Finance 3 (2003)
201
M. Kozłowska, R. Kutner: Anomalous transport and diffusion versus extreme value theory, Physica A 357 (2005) 282
K. Kiyono, Z. R. Struzik, Y. Yamamoto, Criticality and PhaseTransition in Stock Price Fluctuations, Phys. Rev. Lett. 96 (2006)
068701
T. Nakamura, K. Kiyono, K. Yoshiuchi, R. Nakahara, Z. R. Struzik, Y. Yamamoto, Universal Scaling Law in Human
Behavioural Organization, Phys. Rev. L ett. 99 (2007) 138103
K. Kiyono, Z. R. Struzik, Y. Yamamoto, Estimator of Non-Gaussian Parameter in Multiplicative Log-Normal Mode, Phys. Rev.
E 76 (2007)
M. Kozłowska, A. Kasprzak, R. Kutner: Fractional Market Model and its verification on the Warsaw Stock Exchange, Int. J.
Modern Phys. C 19 (2008) 453
J. Perelló, J. Masoliver, A. Kasprzak, R. Kutner: Model for interevent times with long tails and multifractality in human
communications: An application to financial trading, Phys. Rev. E 78 (2008) 036108.
T. Gubiec, R. Kutner: Backward jump continuous-time random walk: An application to market trading, Phys. Rev. E 82 (2010)
046119
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M. Kozłowska, R. Kutner: Singular Dynamics of Various Macroeconomic Sectors, Acta Phys. Pol. A 117 (2010) 630
A. Kasprzak, R. Kutner, J. Perelló, J. Masoliver: Higher-order phase transition on financial markets, Eur. Phys. J. B 76 (2010)
513
M. Jagielski and R. Kutner: Study of Housholds' Income in Poland by using the Statistical Physics Approach, Acta Phys. Pol. A
117 (2010) 615
D. B. Saakian, A. Martirosyan, Chin-Kun Hu and Z. R. Stuzik, /Exact probability distribution function for multifractal random
walk models of stocks/, EPL 95 (2011) 28007
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Partner CS5
Department of Complex Systems Theory, Institute of Nuclear Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences
Research focus: Forecasting global financial markets and society
Webpage:
Contact:
Institute of Nuclear Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences
Prof. Stanisław Drożdż
Head of the Department of Complex Systems Theory
Address: ul. Radzikowskiego 152, 31-342 Kraków, Poland
Phone: +48 12 66 28 220
E-mail: stanislaw.drozdz@ifj.edu.pl
Research Area
Department of Complex Systems Theory is a group of scientists interested in research on structure
and dynamics of natural and society-related complex systems. Since late 1990s our principal field of
interest is physics of financial markets (econophysics). Through analysis of real financial data from
the stock, commodity and foreign exchange markets as well as through numerical simulations, we
attempt at understanding the principles governing the structure and evolution of these markets and
the human economic activity in general. In particular, we have significant experience in identification
and description of nonlinear phenomena, collective effects, and other statistical properties of
financial data. We also continuously watch the current state of principal world market indicators in
order to prepare forecasts based on deterministic models. Agent-based modelling of macroscopic
economic observables is our latest interest within econophysics. The financial markets are not a
unique field of our interest, however. As regards communication - the highlighted component of the
FuturICT project - we have growing experience in research in the field of quantitative linguistics, in
which we analyse natural language, written and spoken. Temporal correlations and lexical structure
of language samples both from completed (e.g. published books, articles) and open (internet)
sources are among the key subjects of our studies. We also try to comprehend deeper origins of
language structure buried in the brain's functional organization. A topic which connects all the above
fields is the network-based modelling which is also an active field of our research. (It should be
mentioned that these examples do not exhaust a complete list of the research areas in our
Department.) The financial-market-related and language-related topics both enter the scope of the
Project and the experience in these fields is what we intend to contribute. More specifically, our
main objective will be identification of symptoms foregoing the economic crises and exploiting
language as a carrier of content reflecting the actual state of and the processes emerging and
developing in the society.
Selected publications related to FuturICT domain:
S. Drożdż, J. Kwapień, P. Oświęcimka, J. Speth, Current log-periodic view on future world market development, Acta Phys.
Pol. A 114, 539-546 (2008)
P. Oświęcimka, S. Drożdż, J. Kwapień, A.Z. Górski, Different fractal properties of positive and negative returns, Acta Phys.
Pol. A 114, 547-553 (2008)
R. Rak, J. Kwapień, S. Drożdż, P. Oświęcimka, Cross-correlations in Warsaw Stock Exchange, Acta Phys. Pol. A 114, 561-568
(2008)
S. Drożdż, J. Kwapień, P. Oświęcimka, Criticality characteristics of current oil price dynamics, Acta Phys. Pol. A 114, 699-702
(2008)
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A.Z. Górski, S. Drożdż, J. Kwapień, Scale free effects in world currency exchange network, Eur. Phys. J. B 66, 91-96 (2008)
J. Kwapień, S. Gworek, S. Drożdż, Structure and evolution of the foreign exchange networks, Acta Phys. Pol. B 40, 175-194
(2009)
J. Kwapień, S. Gworek, S. Drożdż, A.Z. Górski, Analysis of a network structure of the foreign currency exchange market, J.
Econ. Interact. Coord. 4, 55-72 (2009)
S. Drożdż, J. Kwapień, P. Oświęcimka, R. Rak, Quantitative features of multifractal subtleties in time series, Europhys. Lett.
88, 60003 (2009)
J. Speth, S. Drożdż, F. Gruemmer, Complex systems: From nuclear physics to financial markets, Nucl. Phys. A 844, 30-39
(2010)
P. Oświęcimka, S. Drożdż, J. Kwapień, A.Z. Górski, Fractals, log-periodicity and financial crashes, Acta Phys. Pol. A 117, 637639 (2010)
A.Z. Górski, S. Drożdż, P. Oświęcimka, Modelling emergence of money, Acta Phys. Pol. A 117, 676-680 (2010)
J. Kwapień, S. Drożdż, A. Orczyk, Linguistic complexity: English vs. Polish, text vs. corpus, Acta Phys. Pol. A 117, 716-720
(2010)
S. Drożdż, J. Kwapień, P. Oświęcimka, R. Rak, The foreign exchange market: return distributions, multifractality, anomalous
multifractality and the Epps effect, New J. Phys. 12, 105003 (2010)
S. Drożdż, J. Kwapień, J. Speth, Coherent patterns in nuclei and in financial markets, AIP Conf. Proc. 1261, 256-264 (2010)
S. Drożdż, J. Kwapień, A.A. Ioannides, Asymmetric random matrices: What do we need them for?, Acta Phys. Pol. B 42, 987999 (2011)
Projects:
University of Rzeszów Research Project: Universal characteristics of financial fluctuations.
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Partner CS6
Division of Biomathematics and Game Theory, Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Mechanics,
Warsaw University
Research focus: Evolutionary game theory, multiperson games, econophysics: Minority Game,
Mathematical methods in the social sciences: social impact models
Website:
http://www.mimuw.edu.pl/~tplatk
Contact:
Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Mechanics
Prof. Tadeusz Płatkowski
Address: Banacha 2, 02-097 Warszawa, Poland
Phone: +48 22-554 4444
E-mail: T.Platkowski@mimuw.edu.pl
Research Area
The Division of Biomathematics and Game Theory (BGT) is an interdisciplinary research team that
specialises in constructing, studying and solving mathematical models of social and biological
processes and applying complexity approach to understand social and biological processes and
phenomena in real world. The SBGT is a division of the Institute of Applied Mathematics and
Mechanics at the Warsaw University. In studying social phenomena the topics covered by the team
include applications of the methods of game theory, evolutionary game theory, ordinary and partial
differential equations, delayed differential equations and other mathematical tools to selforganization of complex systems, social dilemmas, and evolution of social systems. The team has a
lot of teaching experience related to the described subjects, on the levels of MsD and PhD. We
collaborate with partners from various scientific centres in Europe, in particular from France,
Germany, Belgium, Netherland. Grant of Ministry of Science and Higher Education: Mathematical
foundation of the multiscale descriptions, No. N N201 362536 2009-05-12 -- 2012-05-11
Publications relevant to FuturICT:
T. Platkowski, J. Zakrzewski, Asymptotically stable equilibrium and limit cycles in the Rock--Paper--Scissors game in
population of players with complex personalities, accepted to Physica A: Statistical Physics and Applications, 2011
N. Bielczyk, U. Forys, T. Platkowski, Dynamical Models of Dyadic Interactions with Delay, accepted to Journ. Math.
Sociology, 2011
J. Miekisz, J. Poleszczuk, M. Bodnar and U. Forys, Stochstic Models of Gene Expression with Delayed Degradation, accepted
to Bull. Math. Biol. DOI 10.1007/s11538-010-9622-4
J. Miekisz, Stochasticity and time delays in gene expression and evolutionary game theory, Probabilistic Engineering
Mechanics, 2011 26: 31-38.
T. Platkowski, Cooperation in two-person games with complex personality profiles, J. Theor. Biol. 2010, 266, 522-528
M. Ramsza, R. Seymour, Fictitious Play in an Evolutionary Environment, Games and Economic Behavior, 2010, 68, 303-324.
T. Platkowski, P. Bujnowski, Aspiration and Cooperation in Multiperson Prisoner's Dilemma, Phys. Review E, 2009, 79(3), s.
036103:1-8.
K.Mogielski, T. Platkowski, A mechanism of dynamical interactions for two-person social dilemmas, J. Theor. Biol. 2009 260,
s. 145-150.
J. Miekisz, Evolutionary game theory and population dynamics, Lecture Notes in Mathematics, 1940: 269-316 (2008).
T. Platkowski, M. Siwak, Mean Field Approximation for Two - and Three - Person Prisoner's Dilemmas. Physica A-statistical
Mechanics and its Applications 387, s. 2909-2918, 2008.
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Partner CS7
Econophysics and Time Series Analysis (ETSA), Institute of Theoretical Physics, University of
Wrocław
Research focus: Correlations, structure analysis and extreme events in financial and economic
networks
Webpage:
http://etsa.ift.uni.wroc.pl
Contact:
Institute of Theoretical Physics, University of Wrocław
Dr Dariusz Grech
Address: Pl. M. Borna 9, 50-204 Wrocław, Poland
Phone:+48 71 322 2363
E-mail: dgrech@ift.uni.wroc.pl
Research Area
The Econophysics and Time Series Analysis Group (ETSA) was established in 2007 at the Institute of
Theoretical Physics of Wrocław University. Our scientific interests focus on application of physical
methods in finance and in economy, as well as on numerical and analytical investigations of time
series properties. Our research is strongly linked to new ideas that have recently appeared in
statistical physics, nonlinear dynamics or physics of complex systems and which are based on new
universal paradigms like scaling theory, detrended fluctuation analysis, correlation dimensions,
multifractality, random matrix theory or active agents approach. These ideas are now widely used in
econophysics, statistical physics, economy, social science and finance over the world. We have
published nearly 30 papers on this subject which collected around 100 citations in last few years. We
established and conduct the econophysics (financial physics) B.Sc. course for physics students. Our
students may get their master diploma also in economy.
The scientific activities of ETSA group, strongly related to FuturIcT domains:
● Fractal and multifractal properties of time series
● Monte Carlo simulations of economic and financial processes
● Numerical and analytical study of long-range correlated processes
● Search for novel methods detecting weak signals immersed in noisy data
● Investigation of financial market In terms of complex physical system
● Prediction of financial crashes and rupture points in price evolution with the use of statistical
physics methods
● Spin models in finance and economy
● Scaling range for power laws in time series
● Practical application of power laws In financial time series
● Interdisciplinar application of physical methods and ideas
● The effects of time delay in information flow in economy
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List of most cited publications from ETSA group (University of Wrocław):
D. Grech, Z. Mazur; Can one make any crash prediction in finance using the local Hurst exponent idea? , Physica A 336
(2004) 133-145
D. Grech, Z. Mazur; Statistical properties of old and new techniques in detrended analysis of time series , Acta Phys. Pol.36B
(2005) 2403-2413
D. Grech, G. Pamuła; The local Hurst exponent of the financial time series in the vicinity of crashes on the Polish stock
exchange market, Physica A 387, 4299-4308, 2008
Ł. Czarnecki, D. Grech, G. Pamuła; Comparison study of global and local approaches describing critical phenomena on the
Polish stock exchange market, Physica A 387, (2008) 6801-6811.
J. Czarnecki, D. Grech; Multifractal dynamics of stock market arXiv: 0912.3390v1, Acta Physica Polonica A 117 (2010) 623629
J. Miśkiewicz and M. Ausloos, An attempt to observe economy globalization: the cross correlation distance evolution of the
top 19 GDP's, Int. J. Mod. Phys. C 17 (2006), 317-331
J. Miśkiewicz , Globalization - Entropy unification through the Theil index, Physica A 387 (2008) 6595-6604
M. Ausloos, J. Miśkiewicz, Introducing the q-Theil index, Brazilian Journal of Physics 39 (2009) 388-395
J. Miśkiewicz, M. Ausloos , Has the world economy reached its globalization limit?, Physica A 389 (2010) 797-806
M. Ausloos, J. Miśkiewicz , Entropy correlation distance method
applied to study correlations between the gross domestic product of rich countries, International Journal of Bifurcation and
Chaos, Vol. 20, No. 2 (2010) 381--389
Dr Dariusz Grech (group leader) – short scientific CV:
1982 - M.Sc. diploma in theoretical physics, University of Wrocław
1985-1988 - Ph.D. student at Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Sydney, Australia
1989 – Ph.D. degree in Applied Mathematics, University of Sydney, Australia
1990 – postdoc position at Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Sydney, Australia
1990-now - adiunct in the Institute of Theoretical Physics, University of Wroclaw, Poland
Other achievements:
Invited speaker at APFA 7 (Application of Physics in Financial Analysis ) conference, Tokyo 2009,
Invited lecturer at International Conference on Complex Systems and Time Series Analysis in Merida
(Mexico) , May 2006 (series of 5 lectures), Appointed reviewer of Physica A (since 2010), Founder
and leader of the research group ETSA (Econophysics and Time Series Analysis) at the Institute of
Theoretical Physics, University of Wrocław , Founder of the interdisciplinary specialization
“Econophysics” for the physics and economy students at Wrocław University (2005).
Dr Janusz Miśkiewicz: network structure evolution, time delay of information flow in economic
systems, time series distance analysis.
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Partner CS8
Department of Informatics, Faculty of Applied Informatics and Mathematics, Warsaw University of
Life Sciences - SGGW
Research focus: Modern methods of data analysis; Applications of information systems
Webpage:
http://www.wzim.sggw.pl
Contact:
Prof. Arkadiusz Orłowski
Katedra Informatyki SGGW, ul. Nowoursynowska 159, 02-776 Warszawa, Poland
Phone: +48 22 5937270
E-mail: arkadiusz_orlowski@sggw.pl
Prof. Arkadiusz Orłowski - received his MSc in fundamental problems of technology from Faculty of
Technical Physics and Applied Mathematics of Warsaw University of Technology in 1987, PhD in
physics from Faculty of Physics of Warsaw University in 1992, and DSc (habilitation) in physics from
Institute of Physics of the Polish Academy of Sciences in 1999. He was a visiting scientist of the Max
Planck Society at the Humboldt University in Berlin (1992-1994), visiting scholar at Physics
Department of Harvard University (1996), and visiting professor at University of Oregon in Eugene
(1998), University of Palermo (1999), CWI in Amsterdam (2000), Joseph Fourier University in
Grenoble (2004, 2008), University of Pierre and Marie Curie in Paris (2009). He is an author and coauthor of more than 150 papers in peer refereed journals and scientific monographs
(http://mewa.sggw.waw.pl/~aorlowski), 7 textbooks, and several expert reports for different
institutions and governmental agencies. He acts as a referee for Physical Review Letters, Physical
Review A, Physical Review E, Physica A, Acta Physica Polonica A, Acta Physica Polonica B, Reports on
Mathematical Physics, and others. He organized and co-organized about 20 national and
international workshops and conferences (devoted to chaotic dynamics, quantum information,
quantitative methods in economy and finance, e-learning, information security, and information
systems in management) and was a scientific editor of more than 20 monographs and proceedings.
He co-authored 50 half-an-hour-long television programmes popularizing science and technology
broadcasted by the First Channel of the public Polish National Television. He is a member of the
following boards (of directors): section of Physics in Economy and Social Sciences of the Polish
Physical Society (since 2004), Polish Society for Knowledge Management (since 2007), and Polish
Scientific Society for Internet Education (since 2011). He is the head of the Department of Informatics
and the director of the Center for Multimedia Education at WULS-SGGW.
Other scientist involved in FuturICT research: Dr. Krzysztof Karpio (econophysics, time series
analysis, data mining), Dr. Waldemar Karwowski (information systems, knowledge management, XML
and Workflow technologies), Dr. Piotr Łukasiewicz (econometrics, statistical methods).
Research Areas
Department of Informatics WULS-SGGW is a large research group (5 associated professors, 12
assistant professors, 5 PhD students) pursuing investigations in multidimensional statistical and
econometrical methods of data analysis; analytic information systems, business intelligence, and
data mining; modelling, simulation, and optimization of economic and business processes;
information systems security; community detection methods; XML technologies and Workflow
systems in economy and finance; econophysics; ICT in science and education.
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Department has signed several formal agreements on providing expert reports and analysis for
banks, governmental agencies, and business enterprises. Each year Department organizes a national
conference ISIM (Information Systems in Management) and publish a series of scientific monographs
in English (http://isim.wzim.sggw.pl/).
Currently we are engaged in two EU-sponsored projects:
EFS Human Capital Operational Programme, action 4.1.1 The program of modernization of education
at WULS-SGGW to ensure the competitiveness and high competence of graduates 2009-2013,
13 000 000 PLN (Coordinator).
505052-LLP-1-GR-KA3-KA3MP, „DigEm – Digital Empowerment”, 2009-2012, 489 000 EUR (Partner).
List of selected publication related to FuturIcT domains for the last 5 years:
K. Karpio, A.J. Orłowski, P. Łukasiewicz, Stock Indices for Emerging Markets, Acta Physica Polonica A, 117 (4), 619-622
(2010).
K. Zmarzłowski, P. Mazur, A.J. Orłowski, Dynamics of a Polish Internet-Based Social Network, Acta Physica Polonica
A, 117 (4), 700-702 (2010).
P. Mazur, K. Zmarzłowski, A.J. Orłowski, Genetic Algorithms Approach to Community Detection, Acta Physica Polonica
A, 117 (4), 703-705 (2010).
K. Karpio, P. Łukasiewicz, A. Orłowski, Patterns of food consumption in European countries, Polish Journal of
Environmental Studies, Vol. 18, Nr 5B, pp. 115-119, 2009.
M. Rusek, A. Wróbel, W. Karwowski, A. Orłowski, Development of a XPDL-based workflow engine, Polish Journal of
Environmental Studies, Vol. 18, Nr 4A, pp. 77-81, 2009.
M. Grudziecki, E. Gnatowska, K. Karpio, A. Orłowski, M. Załuska-Kotur, New Results on Gain-Loss Asymmetry for Stock
Markets Time Series, Acta Physica Polonica A, 114 (3), 569-574 (2008).
A. Orłowski, R. Budzyński, W. Karwowski, University courses scheduling module developed in Cocoon technology, Polish
Journal of Environmental Studies, Vol. 17, Nr 4C, pp. 307-311, 2008.
K. Karpio, M. Załuska-Kotur, A. Orłowski, Gain-loss asymmetry for emerging stock markets, Physica A, 375, 599-604 (2007).
W. Karwowski, A. Orłowski, XML and relational data mapping in business plan application, Studies & Proceedings of Polish
Association for Knowledge Management, Nr 11, pp. 80-87, PSZW, Bydgoszcz, 2007.
M. Załuska-Kotur, K. Karpio, A. Orłowski, Comparison of gain-loss asymmetry behavior for stocks and indexes,
Acta Physica Polonica B 37 (11), 3187-3192 (2006).
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Description of FuturICT Polish Hub research groups in Social Sciences
Domain
Partner SS1 National FuturIcT Hub Coordinator
Centre for Complex Systems (CCS) Institute for Social Studies, University of Warsaw, see
description above
Partner SS2
Centre Psychology of New Technologies, Warsaw School for Humanities and Social Sciences,
Institute of Informatics and Cognitive Neuroscience
Research focus: Psychology of new technologies, usability, psychology of Internet, computer
simulations of social processes
Webpage:
www.swps.edu.pl
Contact:
Warsaw School for Humanities and Social Sciences, Institute of Informatics and
Cognitive Neuroscience
Dr. Wojciech Borkowski or Dr Kamila Jankowiak-Siuda
Address: Chodakowska 19,/23 Warsaw, Poland
Phone: +48 22 517 9600
E-mail: wborkowski@swps.edu.pl; kjankowiak-siuda@swps.edu.pl
Prof Anna Grabowska
Since 2000 Professor
Work experience in Warsaw School of Social Sciences and Humanities.
Since 2006: Professor of Warsaw School of Social Sciences and Humanities
2008: Director of PhD Studies
2007: Head of Department of Experimental Neuropsychology
Acta Neurobiologiae Experimentalis - co-editor
Advances in Cognitive Psychology – member Advisory Board
Acta Neuropsychologica –member editorial bard
Member European Brain and Behaviour Society – member in 1994-1997 and 20002003
Member International Brain Research Organization
Member International Neuropsychological Society (co-chair INS Mid-Year Meeting, 2010)
Member Polish Society of Psychology
Member Polish Group Studies of nerve system.
Research Grants
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2005- 2008 Chair of structural grant EU „Special diagnostic stations for early diagnosis of dyslexia and
naurodegenerative sickness diseases in Excellence Center MIND
2008-2011 Chair of grant DBN: Brain mechanisms underlying false memories – research using
functional resonance (fMRI) and evoked potentias potencjałów wywołanych (ERPs)
2009-2010 Chair of DBN Developmental dyslexie, one disease or many? Research using the method
of evoked potentials ERP and oculography.
2009-2010 Principal Investigator of advisor’s grant DBN Brain mechnisma underlying attention
deficits in children with ADHD, Research using evoked potentials in response for emotional and
neutral auditory stimuli
Selected publications:
Rymarczyk K., Biele C, Grabowska A, Majczyński H. 2011. EMG activity in response to static and dynamic facial expressions.
International Journal of Psychophysiology 79: 330-333
Jankowiak-Siuda K, Rymarczyk K, Grabowska A. 2011. How we empathize with others: a neurobiological perspective.
Medical Monitor Science 17(1).
Marchewka A., Jednoróg K., Nowicka A., Brechmann A., Grabowska A. Grey-matter differences related to false recognition.
A voxel-based morphometry study. Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, 92: 99-105, 2009
Heim S, Tschierse J, Amunts K, Vossel S, Wilms M, Willmes-von-Hinckeldey, K, Grabowska A, Huber W. Cognitive subtypes
of dyslexia. Acta Neurobiologiae Experimentalis, 68: 73-82, 2008
Jednoróg K., Grabowska A. Behavioral manifestations of brain plasticity in blind and low-vision individuals. Acta Neurobiol
Exp., 68: 83-90, 2008.
Marchewka A., Brechmann A., Nowicka A., Jednoróg K., Scheich H.,Grabowska A. False recognition of emotional stimuli is
lateralised in the brain: an fMRI study. Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, 90: 280-284, 2008
Szatkowska I., Szymanska O., Bojarski P., Grabowska A. Cognitive inhibition in patients with medial orbitofrontal lesions.
Experimental Brain Research, 187 (1), 109-119, 2007
Rymarczyk K., Grabowska A. Sex differences in brain control of prosody. Neuropsychologia, 45(5): 921-930, 2007
Gut M., Urbanik A, Forsberg L., Binder M., Rymarczyk K., Sobiecka B., Kozub J., Grabowska A. Brain correlates of righthandedness. Acta Neurobiologiae Experimentalis, 67: 43-51, 2007
Biele C., Grabowska A. Sex differences in perception of emotion intensity in dynamic and static facial expressions.
Experimental Brain Research, 171 (1): 1-6, 2006
Bednarek B. D., Tarnowski A., Grabowska A. Latencies of stimulus-driven eye movements are shorter in dyslexic subjects.
Brain and Cognition, 60: 64-69, 2006
Dr Kamila Jankowiak-Siuda,
Dr Max Bielecki
They have been involved in several projects:
dr Kamila Jankowiak-Siuda
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State Committee for Scientific Research NN106361740, Factors modulating empathy of pain –
imaging studies using fMRI 2011-2014, 123 500 PLN (Chair)
WP/BST/04/09, Factors modulating empathy 2009-2010 (Chair)
WP/BST/07/10, Empathy of pain and moral behavior of children
(Chair)
2010-2011
dr Max Bielecki
State Committee for Scientific Research N 106 452133 Working memory capacity, task time
parameters, and temporal self-regulation as of attentional control (Chair) 2009-2011
State Committee for Scientific Research N106 360840 Brain activity related to the perceptual tactile
training - modulating effects of temperament and negative feedback: an fMRI study (Partner)
N R11 0016 10 New consumer research method for testing industrial design prototypes in computergenerated (virtual) environment (Partner)
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Partner SS3
Department of Psychology, University of Warsaw
Webpage:
Contact:
Department of Psychology, University of Warsaw
Prof. Mirosław Kofta
Stawki 5/7, 00-183 Warszawa
kofta@engram.psych.uw.edu.pl
Research role in FuturICT
Psychological processes in crisis, Dynamics of escalation and de-escalation of conflict, social
stereotype activation in crisis, psychological processes in social transitions
Main researchers:
Prof. Mirosław Kofta
Mirosław Kofta, professor of psychology; University of Warsaw, Psychology Faculty @ Institute for
Siocial Studies
Major duties:
National Center for Science, Council Member (Polish equivalent of NSF in US or ERC in Europe)
2006-2010: director of Center for Research on Prejudice, University of Warsaw, Psychology Faculty
1995-present: Director of Center for Psychological Studies, University of Warsaw, Institute for Social
Studies
1996-2005: Head of Personality Department, University of Warsaw, Psychology Faculty.
1991-1993: Co-founder and first director of the Institute for Social Studies, University of Warsaw
(affiliated with the Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan, USA).
Research Interests:
control deprivation, affect and behavior (cognitive approach to learned helplessness and depression;
the role of control deprivation in implicit negative mood and intergroup relations);
intergroup relations (dehumanization of out-group members; overcoming traumatic past in
intergroup history: the role of collective guilt in reconciliation; social stereotypes and prejudice in the
period of systemic change with particular stress on anti-Semitism; psychological threat and prejudice;
sexism and attitudes toward feminists; authoritarianism and social dominance orientation)
Publications
Bilewicz, M., Kofta, M., Winiewski, M., & Wójcik, A. (under review). The power of conspiracy beliefs: Antecedents, structure
and consequences of anti-Semitism in Poland.
Kofta, M. & Slawuta, P. (under review). Thou shall not kill…your brother. Victim-perpetrator closeness and moral
disapproval of Polish atrocities against Jews after the Holocaust.
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Bilewicz, M. & Kofta, M. (in press). Less biased under threat? Self-verificatory reactions to social identity threat among
groups with negative self-stereotype. Journal of Applied Social Psychology
Piber-Dąbrowska, K., Sędek G., & Kofta, M. (2010). The cognitivie nature of prejudiced individuals. In T. Maruszewski, M.
Fajkowska, & M. W. Eysenck (Eds.), Personality from biological, cognitive, and social perspectives (pp. 145-171). New York:
Eliot Warner Publications.
Castano, E. & Kofta, M. (2009). Dehumanization: Humanity and its Denial. Group Processes & Intergroup Relations, 12(6), 1–
3.
Castano, E. & Kofta, M. (Eds.)(2009). Special issue of Group Processes & Intergroup Relations on Dehumanization,12(6).
Kofta, M. & Sędek, G. (2005). Conspiracy stereotypes of Jews during systemic transformation in Poland. International
Journal of Sociology, 35, No. 1, 40-64.
McIntosh, D. N., Sedek, G., Fojas, S., Brzezicka-Rotkiewicz A. & Kofta, M. (2005). Cognitive performance after preexposure
to uncontrollability and in a depressive state: Going with a simpler plan B. In R.W. Engle, G. Sedek, U. von Hecker & D.N.
McIntosh (Eds.), Cognitive limitations in aging and psychopathology (pp. 219-246). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Grants:
2007-2010 On “Psychological Threat and Intergroup Relations”. From the Ministry of Science, Poland
(about 400 000 PLN = 100 000 Euro).
Dr. Michal Bilewicz
Bilewicz, M. & Kofta, M. (in press). Less biased under threat?
Self-verificatory reactions to social identity threat among groupswith negative self-stereotype. Journal of Applied Social
Psychology
Vollhardt, J. & Bilewicz, M. (Eds.)(in press). Special Issue on the Psychology of Genocide and it's Aftermath. Journal of Social
Issues
Bilewicz, M., Imhoff, R. & Drogosz, M. (2011). The humanity of what we eat. Conceptions of human uniqueness among
vegetarians and omnivores. European Journal of Social Psychology, 2, 201-209
Bilewicz, M., & Krzemiński, I. (2010). Anti-Semitism in Poland and Ukraine: The belief in Jewish control as a mechanism of
scapegoating. International Journal of Conflict and Violence, 4, 234-243
Wójcik, A., Bilewicz, M. & Lewicka, M. (2010). Living on the ashes. Collective representations of Polish-Jewish history among
people living in the former Warsaw Ghetto area. Cities. The International Journal of Urban Policy and Planning, 27, 195-203
Bilewicz, M. & Bocheńska, A. (2010). How language affects two components of racial prejudice? A socio-psychological
approach to linguistic relativism. In: U. Okulska, P. Cap (eds.) Perspectives in Politics and Discourse. Amsterdam: John
Benjamins, pp. 385-396
Bilewicz, M. & Wójcik, A. (2010). Does identification predict community involvement? Exploring consequences of social
identification among the Jewish minority in Poland. Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology , 22, 72-79
Bilewicz, M. (2009). Perspective taking and intergroup helping intentions: The moderating role of power relations. Journal
of Applied Social Psychology , 39, 2779-2786
Bilewicz, M. (2007). History as an obstacle: Impact of temporal-based social categorizations on Polish-Jewish intergroup
contact. Group Processes & Intergroup Relations, 10, 551-563
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Bilewicz, M. (2006). Polish-Jewish intergroup communication: The mediating role of personalized cognition. Psychology of
Language and Communication, 10, 95-100
Grants:
Foundation for Polish Science FOCUS grant (300,000 PLN)
Ford Foundation and Rothschild Foundation Grant Programme to Study and
Prevent Antisemitism, Racism and Xenophobia in Europe (25.000 GBP)
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Partner SS4
Department of Sociology University of Warsaw
Contact:
Department of Sociology University of Warsaw
Prof. Miroslawa Marody
Karowa 18, 00-927 Warszawa
marodymi@is.uw.edu.pl
Role in FuturICT:
Social theories of crisis and change, empirical research concerning social transitions, crisis social
networks, bottom up social processes, social process on internet,
Reasearch areas:
Socialties
Social networks
Socialchangen and transitions
Delibarativedemocracy
Chages in socialcommunication
Localdemocracy
Research team: Prof. Mirosława Marody:
dr hab. Anna Giza-Poleszczuk
dr Mikołaj Lewicki
dr Sławomir Mandes
dr Cezary Trutkowski
dr Anna Przybylska
mgr. Mateusz Halawa
Resaerch grants
2007-2010 – grant MNiSW „Shapingself-awarness of Poles by public disourse”
2005-2008 - grant KBN: „New rules of social life”
2004- 2007 – EurpoeanComission Grant„Easternenlargement - Western enlargement. Culture Shocks
and Coping Strategies in the European Economy after the Accession”
Recent publications:
M. Marody, A.Giza-Poleszczuk,Przemiany więzi społecznych. Zarys teorii zmiany społeczne(Transformations of socialties. A
sketch of thetheory of socialchange.)(2004)
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C. Trutkowski, S. Mandes,, Kapitał społeczny w małych miastach (Socialcapital in largecities)(2005)
A. Giza-Poleszczuk (Ed.), , Kształtowanie samowiedzy Polaków w dyskursie publicznym Shapingself-knowledge of Poles in
public discourse (in press)
M. Marody, Jednostka w społeczeństwie po-nowoczesnymIndividudal in post moderninstsocety (in press)
A. Przybylska, Internet we wspólnocie lokalnej (Internet in localcommunites) (in press)
M. Lewicki, Polski dyskurs transformacyjny w perspektywie teorii modernizacji i czasu(Polishtransformationdiscourse in the
perspective of modernizationtheory) (in press)
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Description of FuturICT Polish Hub research groups in ICT Domain
Partner ICT1
Warsaw University of Technology, Faculty of Electronics and Information Technology
Institute of Computer Science
Research focus: Semantic computing, knowledge discovery, sensor swarms, risk models, future
Internet
Webpage:
http://www.ii.pw.edu.pl/english/index.html (Institute of Computer Science),
http://www.elka.pw.edu.pl (Faculty)
Contact:
Warsaw University of Technology, Faculty of Electronics and Information Technology
Institute of Computer Science, Prof. Henryk Rybinski, Director
Address: Nowowiejska 15/19, 00-665 Warsaw, Poland
Phone: +48 22 234 7432
E-mail: H.Rybinski@ii.pw.edu.pl
Research Area
The Faculty main research areas include studies related to computer graphics, computer systems'
architectures, software engineering and information systems. The FuturIcT will benefit from the
scientific skill and expertise of several world recognized research teams working on interdisciplinary
applications of software and hardware technology. Senior team members include:
Prof. Mieczysław Muraszkiewicz, expert in cognitive semantic web for future collaborative
environments;
Prof. Henryk Rybiński - semantic integration of heterogeneous multimodal knowledge sources;
Prof. Marzena Kryszkiewicz – knowledge discovery from uncertain/heterogeneous sources;
Prof. Piotr Gawrysiak - natural language processing, web/text mining, information society
development & modelling;
Prof. Władysław Skarbek - sensor swarms and for holographic VR interfaces;
Prof. Włodzimierz Ogryczak - integrated models of risk and trust for decision support in complex
systems;
Prof. Mirosław Słomiński - future Internet, safety of the network and services.
Henryk Rybiński, is a professor of computer science at the Institute of Computer Science of Warsaw
University of Technology, Director of the Institute of Computer Science, and a co-founder of the
Institute for Computer Information and Engineering. His main research has been focused on
information systems, knowledge representation and management, information retrieval, data mining
and knowledge discovery. He is the author/co-author of more than 100 publications, including
papers, international conference presentations and 4 books. Moreover, he has prepared some 40
technical reports and many teaching aids for UNIDO, FAO, UNESCO.
Prof. Rybiński has been a leader or member of over 50 IT projects for UN organizations (UNIDO, FAO,
UNEP, UNESCO, IFAD, WFP, UNDP), EC, governmental, and non-governmental institutions in Austria,
Denmark, Italy, Belgium, Germany, Poland, as well as for industry (e.g. Polska Telefonia Cyfrowa,
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Polkomtel, Fujitsu, France Telecom). He has been member in a number of scientific/programme
committees of international conferences.
Projects:
SYNAT/PASSIM (http://www.synat.pl) – national project aimed at creation of open repository
platformfor hosting and communication of network science, education and open society resources
Engineering of the Future Internet (POIG)https://www.iip.net.pl/project - elaboration and testing of
infrastructure and services for new generation Internet (IPv6).
EFIPSANS – usage of IPv6 protocol for autonomous networks.
POBICOS
AMI-SME (http://www.ami-sme.org/)
KNOW-IT (http://www.know-it-project.eu/)
FuturICT relevant publications
AndruszkiewiczPiotr: Classification with Meta-learning in Privacy Preserving Data Mining, in: Lecture Notes In Computer
Science, vol. LNCS 5667, 2009, pp. 261-275
GawrysiakPiotr, ProtaziukGrzegorzMichał, RybińskiHenryk, Delteil Alexander: Text onto miner - a semi automated ontology
building system, in: Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, vol. LNAI 4994, 2008, pp. 563-573, DOI:10.1007/978-3-54068123-6_61
KołaczkowskiPiotr: Memory efficient algorithm for mining recent frequent items in a stream, in: Lecture Notes in Artificial
Intelligence, vol. LNAI 4585, 2007, pp. 485-494
KryszkiewiczMarzena: Compressed disjunction-free pattern representation versus essential pattern representation, in:
Lecture Notes In Computer Science, vol. LNCS 5788, 2009, pp. 350-358
KryszkiewiczMarzena: Non-derivable item set and non-derivable literal set representations of patterns admitting negation,
in: Lecture Notes In Computer Science, vol. LNCS 5691, 2009, pp. 138-150
Lewandowski JacekMarek, RawskiMariusz, RybińskiHenryk: Application of Parallel Decomposition for Creation of Reduced
Feed-Forward Neural Networks, in: Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, vol. LNAI 4585, 2007, pp. 564-573
OgryczakWłodzimierz, Śliwiński Tomasz Roman: On Efficient WOWA Optimization for Decision Support Under Risk, w:
International Journal of Approximate Reasoning, vol. 50(2009), 2009, ss. 915-928
RybińskiHenryk, KryszkiewiczMarzena, ProtaziukGrzegorzMichał, Kontkiewicz Aleksandra, MarcinkowskaKatarzybna, Delteil
Alexander: Discovering word meanings based on frequent termsets, in: Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, vol. LNAI
4944, 2008, pp. 82-92
Santos Dorabella, De Sousa Amaro, Alvelos Filipe, Dzida Mateusz, PióroMichał: Optimization of link load balancing in
multiple spanning tree routing networks, w: Telecommunication Systems, Springer, 2010, ss. 1-16, DOI:10.1007/s11235010-9337-8
Strąkowski Tomasz, RybińskiHenryk: A new approach to distributed algorithms for reduct calculation, in: Lecture Notes In
Computer Science, vol. LNCS 5390, 2008, pp. 365-378
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Partner ICT2
Department of Cartography, Warsaw University of Technology, Faculty of Geodesy and
Cartography
Research focus: Modelling and visualization of geographic information, complex spatial analyses
Webpage:
http://zk.gik.pw.edu.pl/
Contact:
Warsaw University of Technology, Faculty of Geodesy and Cartography, Department
of Cartography
DrDr Robert Olszewski, Director Dr Pawel Pedzich
Address: Pl. Politechniki 1, 00-661 Warszawa
Phone: +48 22 234 7440
E-mail:r.olszewski@gik.pw.edu.pl
Research Area
Department of Cartography (Warsaw University of Technology) specializes in the issue of geoinformation and GIS, in development of spatial databases, multi-criterion spatial analyses, modelling
geographic information and in geo-statistics. Staff members conduct research in geo-information
technology related to utilisation of computing intelligence (artificial neural networks, fuzzy systems,
decision trees), for the needs of classification and generalisation of spatial data. Scientists employed
in the Department of Cartography also deal with visualisation of spatial data, collected in geoportals,
as well as their integration, harmonisation etc.
On-going research are focused mainly on the utilisation of wide statistical methods for modelling,
analysis and classification of multi-feature spatial data, for example spatial data analysis basing on
many features, generalisation of geographic information, GIS projects, Kohonen self-teaching
networks, application of cellular automaton (CA) and self-organising systems for processing of
spatially located data. Some works are also linked with optimisation techniques, development of
forecasting systems related to spatial data, flood modelling, GIS systems programming and
clarification of spatial diversification of results of parliamentary and municipal elections, basing on
statistical, demographic and economic data, as well as on historical impacts.
Prof. Robert Olszewski Scientific achievements
Representing Poland in the Commission for Generalisation and Multirepresentation of the International Cartographic
Association (since 2003) and Commission for Exploration Analysis of Spatial Data (since 2005).
Participations in several dozens of national and international conferences, presentation of about 50 papers, publication of
more than 100 scientific papers,
Managing works of the technological team developing the novelty of GIS-3 and GIS-4 Guidelines (soil and hydrographic
databases), integrated with VMap LS databases, for the Head Office of Geodesy and Cartography,
Participation in creation the Act on the Spatial Information Infrastructure in Poland, invitation from the General Surveyor of
Poland to manage the team of experts, elaborating the Administrative Decree to the Act on the Spatial Information
Infrastructure „on the methods and modes of acquisition, updating and distributions of thematic SOZO and HYDRO
databases, as well as development of soils and hydrographic thematic maps”,
Expert works for the Head Office of Geodesy and Cartography in the field of Geographic Information Systems (GIS), digital
terrain model, general geographic database, numerical topographic maps, topographic database, VMap L2 database,
Expert works in the field of development of technology of determining flood zones for areas hazarded by floods (the World
Bank Project),
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The member of the National Committee for the International Cartographic Association, for the cadence 2008-2011,
Participation in research projects of the Scientific Research Committee and the Ministry for science and Higher Education:
„Development of the methodology of supplying, generalisation, visualisation and performing spatial analysis in the
environment of the BDG multiresolution, topographic database” – project manager,
„Development of the methodology of generalisation of the digital terrain relief model with the use of the artificial
intelligence methods” – project manager,
„Methodology and procedures of integration, visualisation, generalisation and standardisation of reference databases,
accessible in resources of geodetic and cartographic data and their use for development of thematic databases” – the main
contractor,
„An attempt to develop the methodology of cartographic modelling statistical surfaces with the use of non-linear
algorithms (multi-fractal interpolation methods, neural interpolation methods) – project manager.
Publications
Olszewski R., Ostrowski W., Głażewski A., Kowalski P., New approach to cartographic presentation of Georeference
Database in Poland, Proceedings of ICA Conference Paris, 2011
Olszewski R., Andrzejewska M., Ostrowski W., Bielawski B., Gotlib D., Głażewski A., Kowalski P., Study of standardisation of
the cartographic modelling process in official reference data bases in Poland, Proceedings of ICA Conference Paris, 2011
Olszewski R., Andrzejewska M., Ostrowski W., Bielawski B., Pillich A., The development of derivative reference database in
Poland, Proceedings of ICA Conference Paris, 2011
Olszewski R., Cartographic modelling of terrain relief using computational intelligence methods, Proceedings of ICA
Conference, Santiago de Chile, 2009
Olszewski R., Kowalski P. Bac-Bronowicz J., A concept and development of geoinformation web services for voivodships in
Poland, Proceedings of ICA Conference, Santiago de Chile, 2009
Olszewski R., Tyszka I., Classification of spatial data using decision trees, Proceedings of 3rd ICA Workshop on Geospatial
Analysis and Modeling, Gävle, Sweden, 2009
Olszewski R., Bac-Bronowicz J., Gotlib D., A multiresolution, reference and thematic database as the NSDI component in
Poland - the concept and management system, Proceedings of ICA CEE Symposium, Wien, 2009
Olszewski R., Bac-Bronowicz J., Głażewski A., Kowalski P., New approach to cartographic visualization of reference and
thematic databases in Poland, Proceedings of ICA CEE Symposium, Wien, 2009
Olszewski R., Synchronisation of MRDB reference database, thematic databases and hierarchical DTM within the concept of
the NSDI, The 4th International Symposium on LBS & TeleCartography, Hong-Kong, 2007
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Partner ICT3
The Information Processing Centre (OPI)
Research focus: Processing of information relevant to science administration, computer modelling of
social and economic process, usability studies
Webpage:
http://www.opi.org.pl/pl/english/
Contact:
Olaf Gajl
Address: Niepodległości 188 b, 00-608 Warsaw, Poland
Phone: +48 22 570 1400
Fax: +48 22 825 3319
E-mail: opi@opi.org.pl, olaf.gajl@opi.org.pl
Research Area
The Information Processing Centre (OPI) was called into being in 1990 as a research and
development unit supervised by the State Committee for Scientific Research, at present the Ministry
of Science and Higher Education. of scientific research and the research and development sphere,
The activities of the OPI:

development and implementation of information systems on the organization and financing
of scientific research and the research and development sphere

keeping the record of the results of the completed research and R&D projects (Polish Science
Databases: Scientific Institutions, Doctoral and Qualifying Dissertations, Learned Societies
and Scientific Associations etc.)

propagation of the results of the completed research and R&D projects,

running the international exchange of scientific and technical information in the range
resulting from inter-governmental agreements and the current needs of the State
authorities,

elaboration of developmental trends for the national activities of international computer
networks of scientific and technical information,

propagation and dissemination of information on Polish science and technology both in
Poland and abroad,

the Operator of the Polish-Norwegian Research Fund
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implementing EU Funds: Innovative Economy and Infrastructure and Environment;
As the implementing institution OPI works on - priority 1 „Research and development of new
technologies” within the Programme Innovative Economy. There are three measures under this
priority:
1.1.1 – Research projects performed with application of a method called foresight (forecasting of
the research directions which may incline the largest influence on the social and economical
development of the country)
1.3.1 – Development projects (engineered at direct practice application)
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1.3.2 – Support of industry property protection created in scientific units as a result of research and
development works (industry property protection)
Futur ICt relevant publications:
Agnieszka Szóstek, Panos Markopoulos, Berry Eggen Attaining mutual awareness of the availability status in ComputerMediated Communications: VoIP, Email, and Instant Messaging (book chapter), Nova Publishers, 2011
Marta Oseka, Agnieszka Szóstek Jak odkrywac róznorodnosc w danych statystycznych? Analiza danych o nauce polskiej przy
uzyciu interaktywnych technik wizualizacyjnych. Monografia wydana przez Ministerstwo Nauki i Szkolnictwa Wyzszego oraz
Portal Naukowy Wiedza i Edukacja EU – to be published
Agnieszka Szóstek, Evangelos Karapanos Introducing VERO: Visual Experiential Requirements Organizer, in CHI extended
abstracts, ACM Press, 2011
Karolina Chmiel, Agnieszka Szóstek What would the parents like to know about children but are afraid to ask designing
reports about child development in online games, in CHI extended abstracts, ACM Press, 2011
Agnieszka Matysiak Szóstek, Natalia Romero, Panos Markopoulos Grounding Social Signals in Mediated Communication,
Zeszyty Naukowe Politechniki Poznanskiej - to be published
Agnieszka Matysiak Szóstek, Panos Markopoulos, Berry Eggen, The nature of availability, special issue of The Ergonomics
Open Journal, Bentham Open, 2011
Agnieszka Szóstek Trendy w ICT dla przemysłu polskiego do roku 2030: wstepna analiza rozwoju dla Polski, prognosis report
for the Polish Ministry of Economics, 2010
Agnieszka Matysiak Szóstek, `Dealing with My Emails': Latent User Needs in Email Organization. In Computers in Human
Behaviour Journal, 2010
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Partner ICT4
Department of Informatics, Nicolaus Copernicus University (DINCU)
Research focus: computer models of cognitive processes, learning and decision making, cognitive
Informatics, data mining and visualization, social interaction of cognitive agents.
Webpage:
http://www.is.umk.pl/~duch
Contact:
Prof. Włodzisław Duch, Department of Informatics, School of Physics, Astronomy and
Informatics, Nicolaus Copernicus University
Address: Grudziadzka 5, 87-100 Torun, Poland
E-mail: wduch@is.umk.pl
Phone: +48-56-622 1543 or 611 3267 (office); fax:+48-56-622 1543 (office)
or +48-56-622 5397 (head office)
Research Area: DINCU is devoted to interdisciplinary research based on computational methods,
focusing in particular on understanding human decisions, cognitive informatics, machine learning,
neurocognitive approach to language and cognitive architectures, natural language understanding
and humanized ICT interfaces, understanding the link between neurodynamics and behaviour,
factors influencing human decisions, causes of autism, ADHD, epilepsy, suicidal tendencies and other
diseases important for social health, assistive technologies for aging population, development of
theory and applications of computational intelligence methods, visualization of multidimensional
data and activity of high-dimensional systems, visualization and analysis of large repositories of texts,
automatic knowledge acquisition and data mining. This group has developed many original
algorithms for data mining, their Ghostminer software is marketed by Fujitsu and used in many
institutions around the world. The interest of DINCU is at the very root of FuturICT flagship project,
which has to be based on cognitive models of social actors and natural interactions with ICT
technologies.
The group has helped to organize many conferences on cognitive and computational intelligence
subjects. As the President of the European Neural Network Society (2005-2011) the head of the
group was involved in various capacities in many international organizations, projects and
conferences.
Key Personel: Włodzisław Duch, since 1990 the head of DINCU, is also working part time at the
School of Computer Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore as the Nanyang
Visiting Professor. He started as theoretical physicist and moved to computational intelligence and
cognitive science at beginning of 1990s. Ph.D. in quantum chemistry (1980), postdoc at Univ. of
Southern California, Los Angeles (1980-82), habilitation (D.Sc.) in applied math (1987). President of
the European Neural Network Society (2005-11), member of the IEEE Computational Intelligence
Society TC, was member of the Board of Governors of the Int. Neural Network Society. He worked at
the University of Florida; Max-Planck-Inst, Munich, Germany, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Meiji
and Rikkyo Universities in Japan, and several other institutions. He is/was on the editorial board of
IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, Int. J. of Neural Systems, J. of Mind and Behaviour, Computer
Physics Communications, Int. J. of Transpersonal Studies, and 9 other international journals; cofounder of the Polish Cognitive Science Society and “Polish Cognitive Science and Media” journal;
written 4 and edited 18 books, published over 430 scientific and popular articles. His long-term vision
is to endow artificial agents with personalities and wisdom. To access his pages type “W. Duch” in
Google.
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Recent publications connected with FuturICT.
Book: Jankowski N, Duch W, Grąbczewski K, Meta-learning in Computational Intelligence. Studies in Computational
Intelligence, Vol. 358, 1st Edition, pp. X + 362, 127 illus, 76 in color, Springer 2011
Book: Duch W, Mandziuk J (Eds.), Challenges for Computational Intelligence. Springer Studies in Computational Intelligence
Series, Vol. 63, 2007, pp. 488
Blachnik M, Duch W, LVQ algorithm with instance weighting for generation of prototype-based rules. Neural Networks 2011
DOI: 10.1016/j.neunet.2011.05.013.
Dobosz K, Duch W, Visualization for Understanding of Neurodynamical Systems. Cognitive Neurodynamics 5(2), 145-160,
2011
Szymański J, Duch W, Information Retrieval with Semantic Memory model. Cognitive Systems Research 2011 (in print).
Duch W, Free Will and the Brain: Are we automata? In: Ethics and Science for the Environment, 3rd European Forum. Ed.
M.Jaskula and B.Buszewski, Societas Humboldtiana Polonorum, 2011, pp. 1-18.
Dobosz K, Duch W, Understanding Neurodynamical Systems via Fuzzy Symbolic Dynamics. Neural Networks 23 (2010) 487496, 2010
Matykiewicz P, Duch W, Pestian J.P, Clustering semantic spaces of suicide notes and newsgroups articles. Association for
Computational Linguistics BioNLP Workshop, pp. 179-184, 2009.
Duch W, Matykiewicz P, and Pestian J, Neurolinguistic Approach to Natural Language Processing with Applications to
Medical Text Analysis. Neural Networks 21(10), 1500-1510, 2008
Duch W, Intuition, Insight, Imagination and Creativity. IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine 2(3), August 2007, pp. 4052
DINCU projects connected to FuturICT:
Argumentation as a cognitive process, UMK-Rutgers University, 2008-2010, 50.000 PLN
Cognitive Science Department, Philosophy Institute).
(with
Similarity-based reasoning systems with applications in science and medicine. IBMBF-KBN POL-04098, 1999-2001, 40 000 DM, PI on the Polish side, in collaboration with Max Planck Institute of
Astrophysics.
CEC TEMPUS Office "Computer Based Education", 1992-1995, coordinated by W. Duch, 785.000 ECU.
Participating institutions: Nicolaus Copernicus University (main beneficiary), University of Cambridge,
University of Leeds, Paul Sabatiér University, Universite de Champagne in Reims, Max Planck Institute
of Astrophysics, Technical University of Munich.
Current and recently finished national projects coordinated by DINCU:
Autism: comprehensive approach. MNiSW, 2010-2012,
Universal meta-learning algorithms in computational intelligence. MNiSW, 2010-2013, 414.000 PLN
Selection of information. KBN, 2005-2007,
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Meta-learning. KBN, 2005-2007,
Theory and applications of computational intelligence. KBN, 2000-2002, 188.000 PLN
W. Duch serves currently as co-PI in two relevant on-going projects:
Heterarchical methods of information search supported by lexical networks. MNiSW, 2010-2013, PI J. Szymanski.
Prototype-based logical rules with applications for data exploration. MNiSW, 2010-2013, PI - M.
Blachnik
Research projects of interest to ICT:
Cognitive neurodynamics as a theoretical basis of memetics.
Natural Language Processing: searching for potential psychiatric patients in blogs and discussion
groups, analysing suicide notes (with Children’s Hopsital Research Foundation, Cincinnati, OH, USA).
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Partner ICT5
Department of Information Technology, Poznan University of Economics
Research focus: multimedia, virtual reality and interactive television, e-business, e-economy,
e-government, agent systems, Internet of Things
Webpage:
http://www.kti.ue.poznan.pl/en (Department), http://ue.poznan.pl (University)
Contact:
Department of Information Technology, Poznan University of Economics
Prof. Wojciech Cellary, Head of the department
Address: Mansfelda 4, 60-854 Poznań, Poland
Phone: +48 61 848-0549
Mobile: +48 601 519 611
E-mail:cellary@kti.ue.poznan.pl
Research Area
The mission of the Department of Information Technology is to contribute to the development of the
e-economy, which is understood as an economy where business processes are realized through
computer and communication networks. The e-economy requires both new information
technologies and new business models. DIT is involved with the development of both with an
emphasis on technology, as the DIT research staff has technical qualifications in computer science
and engineering. The integration of computer science and management science is a challenge for the
development of e-business. DIT is involved in seeking solutions to this challenge. Senior team
members include:
Prof. Wojciech Cellary, expert in technologies of electronic business and electronic government,
Internet technologies: web search, negotiations and cooperation via Internet, object-oriented,
distributed and heterogeneous databases;
Dr Willy Picard – virtual organizations, social cooperation via Web;
Dr hab. Jarogniew Rykowski – Internet of Things, Distributed Systems, Calm computing, Ad-hoc and
multi-hop networking, including telematic applications;
Dr hab. Krzysztof Walczak – Virtual Reality, Multimedia Systems, Interactive television, Internet and
Intranet Systems, Databases.
Projects:
Web20ERC (http://www.web20erc.eu/) – enabling the mass of educators who find ICT confusing to
have a simple and secure ICT environment by means of Web2.0 tools.
ITSOA (http://www.soa.edu.pl/) – new information technologies for electronic economy and
information society based on service-oriented architecture.
ARCO (http://www.wirtualne-muzea.pl/en/) – a solution for virtual content creation and
management of virtual museums, from cultural objects digitalization, up to presentation with various
interfaces.
DYNAMIC GROUPWARE – DynG is a research project aiming at designing and implementing a
collaborative platform for electronic negotiations.
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Project SOWA – the goal of this project is to design and implement a modern Enterprise Resource
Planning (ERP) solution for Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) supporting advanced information
exchange.
PISTE Personalized, Immersive Sports TV Experience (http://piste.itranet.gr) – the goal of the PISTE
project is to build a system, addressing the needs of broadcasters and home viewers that will
transform TV watching into an interactive experience during the sports events.
COSMOS Common Open Service Market fOr SMEs – ESPRIT project with seven European Union
partners, aiming at the development of an integrated support platform for Internet business
transactions in their three phases: information, negotiation and execution.
INTUITION - Network of Excellence on Virtual Reality and Virtual Environments Applications for
Future Workspaces. Major objective is to bring together leading experts and key actors across all
major areas of VE understanding, development, testing and application in order to overcome
fragmentation and promote VE establishment within product and process design.
Multimedia4All (http://getconveyor.org/) – developing a software application called Conveyor and
demonstrating it to the cultural heritage community in their state. Conveyor is an online application
that enables users to build an interactive presentation that can be saved and later played back in a
browser window.
FuturICT relevant publications
Wójtowicz, A., and Cellary W. Access Control Model for Dynamic VR Applications, in: Security in Virtual Worlds, 3D Webs,
and Immersive Environments: Models for Development, Interaction, and Management, ed. Rea, A. , IGI Global, 2011, pp.
284-305, ISBN 9781615208913.
Walczak, K. ARCO: Building Virtual Museum Exhibitions with Flex-VR , in: Handbook of Research on Technologies and
Cultural Heritage: Applications and Environments , vol. 1, ed. Styliaras, G., D. Koukopoulos, and F. Lazarinis , IGI Global,
2011, pp. 427-445, ISBN 13: 9781609600440.
Walczak, K. Modeling Secure 3D Web Applications , in: Security in Virtual Worlds, 3D Webs, and Immersive Environments:
Models for Development, Interaction, and Management , vol. 12, ed. Rea, A. , IGI Global, 2011, pp. 263-283, ISBN
9781615208913.
Paszkiewicz, Z., and W. Picard MAPSS, a Multi-Aspect Partner and Service Selection Method , in: Collaborative Networks for
a Sustainable World, ed. Camarinha-Matos, L. M., X. Boucher, and H. Afsarmanesh , Springer, 2010, pp. 329-337, ISBN 9783-642-15960-2, DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-15961-9_39.
Cellary, W. Rozwój społeczeństwa informacyjnego a informatyzacja sektora publicznego , in: Czas informacji, vol. 0(1) 2010 ,
Centrum Promocji Informatyki, 2010, pp. 5-9.
Picard, W. Computer Support for Agile Human-to-Human Interactions with Social Protocols , in: Lecture Notes in Business
Information Processing, vol. LNBIP 21, ed. Abramowicz, W. , Springer Verlag, Berlin, Heildelberg, 2009, pp. 121-132, ISBN
978-3-642-01189-4, DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-01190-0_11.
Cellary, W. Trzy wyzwania elektronicznej gospodarki opartej na wiedzy: biznesowe, administracyjne, społeczne , in: GOW wyzwanie dla Polski, vol. VIII, ed. Kotowicz-Jawor, J. , Polskie Towarzystwo Ekonomiczne, Warszawa, 2009, pp. 23-47, ISBN
978-83-88700-29-3.
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Cellary, W., and W. Picard Agile and Pro-active Public Administration as a Collaborative Networked Organization , The 4th
International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance ICEGOV 2010, Beijing (China), October 25-28,
2010, ACM, 2010, pp. 9-14, ISBN 978-1-4503-0058-2, DOI 10.1145/1930321.1930324.
Cellary, W., and S. Strykowski E-Government Based on Cloud Computing and Service-Oriented Architecture , ed. Janowski, T.,
and J. Davies , The 3rd International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance ICEGOV 2009, Bogota
(Colombia), November 10-13, 2009, ACM Press, 2009, pp. 5-10, ISBN 978-1-605558-663-2.
Cellary, W. Paid Content a Way to Electronic Knowledge Based Economy , ed. Hansen, H R., D. Karagiannis, and H-G. Fill , 1st
CEE Symposium on Business Informatics, Vienna, 25-27 February 2009, Austrian Computer Society, 2009, pp. 11-18.
National and Regional Reports (supervising)
Poland and the Global Information Society On the basis of the knowledge available today, this report sets out to show
developmental tendencies of Poland’s transition to the information society.
Global Information Society in the Wielkopolska Region (Raport e-Wielkopolska) A strategy for building and developing
Global Information Society in the Wielkopolska Region, proposed by the Board of the Wielkopolska Region
Partner ICT6
Applications Department, Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center
Research focus: large-scale complex system simulations, parallel and high performance computing,
advanced visualization, large volume data analysis, resource and data management
Webpage:
Contact:
http://www.psnc.pl
Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center, Poland
Dr Krzysztof Kurowski
Head of Applications Department
Dabrowskiego 79A Street, Room 1405
60-529 Poznan, Poland
Phone: +48 61 858 20 72,
Mobile: +48 601 403 597
Email: krzysztof.kurowski@man.poznan.pl
Research Area
The main aim of Applications Department at Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center is to
conduct multi-disciplinary research and development activities within the scope of innovative
computing and communication technologies. In many national and international R&D projects we
demonstrated how to help researchers and users dealing with problems requiring the use of
advanced applications, simulations, data analysis, advanced visualization and supercomputing
technologies. Consequently, our solutions enable users today to conduct research with support from
state-of-the-art supercomputing and networking infrastructures. Applications created in close
collaboration with well-known institutions and partners can be applied to both natural and social
scientific fields, in particular computational science, biology, chemistry, material science,
bioinformatics, engineering or medicine. Our world-class simulation modelling research activities
include also Socio-inspired ICT innovations, e.g. complex system modelling. Many researchers have
defined complex systems as systems with many interdependent parts that give rise to non-linear and
emergent properties determining the high-level functioning and behavior of such systems. To
complement the conventional experimental and engineering approaches, computer-based
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simulations of complex natural phenomena and complex man-made artifacts are increasingly
employed across a wide range of sectors. Such simulations require computing and data environments
that meet very high specifications in terms of processing units, primary and secondary storage, and
communication. Supercomputers, Grids, Clouds on the top of high-speed networks constitute the de
facto technology to deliver the required specifications. Our team has been leading many initiatives to
support complex system researchers and communities in the cases of computationally-demanding
and data-intensive research.
Senior team members include:
Krzysztof Kurowski, PhD, leads the Applications Department at Poznan Supercomputing and
Networking Center in Poland. His research is focused on the modelling of advanced applications,
scheduling, and resource management in networked environments.
Ariel Oleksiak is a deputy manager of the Applications Department at PSNC where he has been
working since 2002. He received his M.Sc. degree in Computer Science, Intelligent Decision Support
Systems, from the Poznań University of Technology, Poland (approved by the University of ParisDauphine, France ) in 2001, and PhD from the same institution in 2009.
Juliusz Pukacki was involved in a number of Grid related EU projects and R&D activties among which
GridLab, and ACGT (Advancing Clinico Genomic Trial on Cancer) were the most important. Other
European projects in which he participated are: InteliGrid, HPC-Europa and QosCosGrid, and national
ones: Progress, SGI Grid, and Clusterix. He was conducting research on delivering innovative ICT
solutions, in particular in the area of resource and data management.
R&D Projects:
The aim of the Quasi-Opportunistic Supercomputing for Complex Systems in Grid Environments
(QosCosGrid) project was to provide a distributed computing e-Infrastructure for the advanced
simulation of complex systems. It enables users to develop modelling applications without the need
to access supercomputers. By harnessing the available supercomputing resources in a better than
opportunistic way, it will be possible to provide a service solution to systems science that is
computationally comparable to a supercomputer, at a greatly reduced cost.
InteliGrid project addressed the lack of integrated computing environment that would providing the
engineering industries with challenging integration and interoperability needs with a flexible, secure,
robust, ambient accessible, interoperable, pay-per-demand access to (1) information, (2)
communication and (3) processing infrastructure.
The HPC-Europa 2 project aimed at providing European scientists who need high-performance
computing with state-of-the-art computing infrastructure. There are 7 leading computing centers in
different parts of Europe which constitute the research consortium and their role is to provide
resources and services within a special program – Transnational Access.
The goal of the UCoMS project is an integration of the Polish national grid infrastructure with highly
efficient computing resources provided by the PIONIER, Geant3 and Internet2 infrastructures in
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Poland, Europe, and the United States respectively to support scientists in the cases of
computationally-demanding research
The aim of the SYNAT project is the development of universal, open source hosting and
communication platform for knowledge and information storage and, as a result, providing society
with the widest possible access to knowledge.
FuturICT relevant publications
Kravtsov, V., Schuster, A., Carmeli, D., Kurowski, K., Dubitzky, W. (2008). Grid-enabling complex
system applications with QosCosGrid: An architectural perspective. In Proceedings of the 2008
International Conference on Grid Computing & Applications, 14-17.
Kurowski, K., de Back, W., Dubitzky, W., Gulyás, L., Kampis, G., Mamonski, M., Szemes, G., & Swain,
M. (2009). Complex System Simulations with QosCosGrid. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 5544,
387-396.
P.M. Burrage, K. Burrage, K. Kurowski, M. Lorenc, D.V. Nicolau Jr, M. Swain, & M.A. Ragan. (2009). A
Parallel Plasma Membrane Simulation. In Proceedings of the International Workshop on High
Performance Computational Systems Biology (pp. 105-112). Washington: IEEE Computer Society.
Katz, D. S., Callaghan, S., Harkness, R., Jha, S., Kurowski, K., Manos, S., & Pamidighantam, S. (2010).
Science on the TeraGrid. Computational Methods in Science and Technology, Special issue 2010, 8197.
Kopta, P., Kulczewski, M., Kurowski, K., Piontek, T., Gepner, P., Puchalski, M., & Komasa, J. (2011).
Parallel application benchmarks and performance evaluation of the Intel Xeon 7500 family
processors. Procedia Computer Science, 4, 372-381.
Kurowski, K., Oleksiak, A., Piatek, W., & Weglarz, J. (2011). Hierarchical Scheduling Strategies for
Parallel Tasks and Advance Reservations in Grids. Journal of Scheduling. To appear.
Blazewicz, M., Kurowski, K., Schnetter, E., Tao, J., Brandt, S.R., Diener, P., Loffler, F., & Koppelman,
D.M. (2011). A Massive Data Parallel Computational Framework on Petascale/Exascale Hybrid
Systems. In Proceedings of the Parallel Computing Conference. To appear
Kurowski, K., Dziubecki, P., Grabowski, P., Krysinski, M., Kuczynski, T., & Szejnfeld, D. (2011). Modern
Portal Tools And Solutions with Vine Toolkit for Science Gateways. In Proceedings of the International
Workshop on Science Gateways (IWSG). To appear
Partner ICT7
Complex Systems Team at Świerk Computing Centre, National Centre for Nuclear Research
Webpage: http://www.cis.gov.pl
Contact:
National Centre for Nuclear Research
Prof. Wojciech Wiślicki
Andrzeja Sołtana 7, 05-400 Otwock-Świerk, Poland
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Phone: +48 22 55 32 164
E-mail: wojciech.wislicki[AT]ncbj.gov.pl
Research focus: The group is based on the multidisciplinary personnel involved in high-performance
computing and doing research in the relevant application fields in complex systems and in econoand social sciences. We conduct research in game theory, graph theory, Bayesian networks, multiagent modeling, non-extensive thermodynamics, mutual relations between various types of markets,
to name just a few. Recently very active investigations have been performed in minority games and
their economic applications as well as in social modeling. Earlier, for choice models on graphs,
thermodynamics-based model was developed in cooperation of the University of Warsaw with
Boeing Commercial Aircrafts, Inc., for description of air-traffic networks.
The group works in the framework of the Computing Centre Świerk (CIS) project at the National
Centre for Nuclear Research in Poland (http://www.cis.gov.pl). The CIS is EU- and governmentfinanced project (25 M € in 2010-15) aimed at building computing infrastructure for the energy
program in Poland. The CIS comprises of the complete HPC and networking infrastructure and
employment of personnel in several service and application areas: IT security, equipment operations
and support, nuclear security, hazards (pollution), econo- and socio-sciences, multi-agent games,
energy distribution, ab-initio research in physics, free-electron lasers, high-energy physics. The group
collaborates with institutions in Poland, EU and USA, and international organizations (CERN, IAEA,
XFEL).
We were involved in grid projects CROSS-GRID, EGEE I/II/III, IntEuGrid, Pl-grid, building computing
and services, especially for high-energy physics at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN.
Wojciech Wiślicki is professor of physics, employed at the National Centre for Nuclear Research and
currently project director of the Computing Centre Świerk (20 M€ in 2010-2015). His scientific
interests include experimental high-energy particle and nuclear physics (heavy-ion reactions, particle
interferometry, spin structure of the nucleon, dsicrete symmetries, foundations of quantum
mechanics), complex systems (multi-agent systems: choice models and games, statistical
thermodynamics and its extensions), applied mathematics and high-performance computing
(distributed and grid computing). He authors and coauthors above 140 papers in journals and
numerous conference reports, was a visiting scientist at many institutes worldwide (CERN Geneva,
JINR Dubna, GSI Darmstadt, NIKHEF Amsterdam, University of Lund, University of Warsaw, LAL Orsay,
INFN Frascati). Wojciech Wiślicki lead many projects, of various time extension and finance scale (EU,
Polish ministeries, commercial companies, internal institutional), in particle physics and computing
(building and running grid computing environment for Large Hadron Collider experiments, building
national computing and service infrastructure for energy programs and related research).
FuturICT relevant publications
1 K. Wawrzyniak and W. Wislicki, Mesoscopic approach to minority games in herd regime, Physica A,
391 (2012), 2056, Multi-market minority game: breaking the symmetry of choice, Adv. Complex
Systems 12(2009)423, Phenomenology of minority games in efficient regime, Adv. Complex Systems
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12(2009)619, Grand canonical minority game as a sign predictor in time series, submitted to J. Evol.
Econom.
2 A. Majka and W. Wislicki, Uniformity of the phase space and fluctuations in thermal equilibrium,
Physica A 322(2003)313A. Majka and W. Wislicki, Statistical thermodynamics for choice models on
graphs, Physica A 337(2004)645, A. Majka and W. Wislicki, Equation of state for agents on graphs,
Eur. Phys. J. B48(2005)27
3 O.Stark, M.Jakubek et al., The Merger of Populations, the Incidence of Marriages, and Aggregate
Unhappiness, submitted to J. Evol. Econ., O.Stark, M.Jakubek et al.,Is Population Growth Conducive
to the Sustainability of Cooperation, Econ. Hum. Biol. 9(2011)443, O.Stark, M.Jakubek et al., A
concern about low relative income, Econ. Lett. 114(2012)235
4 R. Gokieli, K. Nawrocki, A. Padee, D. Stojda, K. Wawrzyniak and W. Wislicki, Polish grid
infrastructure for science and research, Proceedings of the IEEE Eurocon 2007, Warsaw, Poland, 9-12
Sep. 2007, p. 446, arXiv:0710.1436 [cs.DC], ISBN 1-4244-0813- X, J.Gomes,..., K.Nawrocki, W.Wislicki
et al., Interactivity and Parallelism in Grids: support of advanced applications across distributed
infrastructures, IEEE Conference Proceedings, Advanced Engineering Computing and Applications in
Sciences, 29 Sep 2008, Valencia, Spain, IEEE Catalogue 08PR3369, IEEE Number CFP0891C-PRT, ISBN:
978-0-7695-3369-8, Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/ADVCOMP. 2008.39, J. Gomes, K.Nawrocki,
W.Wislicki et al., A grid infrastructure for parallel and interactive applications, Computing and
Informatics, 27(2008)173, J. Marco, K.Nawrocki, W.Wislicki et al., The interactive European grid:
project objectives and achievements, Computing and Informatics, 27(2008)161, J. Gomes,
K.Nawrocki, W.Wislicki et al., Experience with the International Testbed in the CrossGrid Project,
Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 3470(2005)98
Selected EU Projects:
Wiślicki, W. (collaboration), Pl-grid, CROSS-GRID, EGEE I/II/III, IntEuGrid
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Description of FuturICT Polish Hub Business Partners (selected
examples)
Partner BP1
GEMIUS Spolka Akcyjna
Research focus: Online research agency
Webpage:
http://www.gemius.pl
Contact:
Gemius SA
Anna Borowiec
Address: Woloska 7, 02-675 Warszawa, Poland
Phone:+48 22 390 90 90
E-mail: anna.borowiec@gemius.pl
Gemius SA is the largest online research agency in Central and Eastern Europe. The company has
been dedicated to Internet market research since its founding in 1999. By focusing the business on
maximizing credibility, quality and accuracy the company has been able to grow into the largest
online market research agency in Central and Eastern Europe in less than 5 years.
Gemius SA provides a wide range of Internet research to brand name clients throughout Eastern
Europe. Gemius provides data on Internet users' behavior (gemiusTraffic), Internet audience profiles
(gemiusProfile), or online advertising campaign effectiveness (gemiusEffect). Gemius'
gemiusAudience research is the online advertising currency across Eastern Europe, where by working
with key joint-industry committees and other market players Gemius provides accurate, high-quality
measurement of online audiences for media planners, buyers and sellers.
The company's goal is to go beyond statistics and to provide thorough knowledge to our clients,
helping them to make the most of their investments in the online marketing channel.
For example, gemiusTraffic is Eastern Europe’s leading web analytics service. It is a research tool
designed to analyze how Internet users use your web site.
gemiusTraffic provides companies of all sizes data on their web site's usage, helping them optimize
their online marketing. gemiusTraffic helps to identify new potential clients and to determine what
information potential clients seek most frequently. It helps to improve your business performance.
Currently, gemiusTraffic is the most popular site-centric research in Central & Eastern Europe. The
gemiusTraffic platform monitors over 10 000 web sites across several countries, including all Polish,
Lithuanian & Latvian horizontal portals, most niche-market vertical portals and many commercial and
private web sites. Currently, gemiusTraffic monitors approximately 30 billion Page Views per month,
which translates into a peak of almost 20 000 Page Views per second.
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Partner BP2
Interactive Research Center
Research focus:
Online research agency
Webpage:
http://www.ircenter.com
Contact:
IR Center
Dr Albert Hupa
Address:
Phone:+48 696 435 672
E-mail: alek@ircenter.com
Interactive Research Center is gathering online data for biggest Social Networking sites in Poland
(Facebook, Grono.net) and maintains commercial contacts with most important Polish web
communities (Nasza-Klasa, Gadu-Gadu Blip etc.). In the scope of the analysis there are analyzed
forums, blogs, microblogs and social networking sites. Data is gathered with the means of crawling
algorithms maintained by IRC and aggregated with external data providers.
IRC is focusing on interdependence of communicated content and network of interactions. We are
interested on whether particular types of messages exert changes in networks of interactions.
When possible we confront spontaneously User Generated Content with users declarations gathered
in questionnaires and posted by users on their profiles.
After tracking diffusion of information and changes in attitudes and opinions we analyze most
influential individuals in terms of:
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Their position in social network of interactions
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Content of their publications
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History of their activity.
For every influential individual we asses characteristics similar to other individuals and traits
differentiating them from other members of the community.
We aim at detecting commercial influencers conducting hidden marketing actions.
Publications relevant to FuturICT:
Journals
T. Kaszuba, A. Wierzbicki, A. Hupa, Comment classification for Internet auction platforms, Lecture Notes in Computer
Science 5739, Springer, 2009, pp. 129-137.
Adam Wierzbicki and Tomasz Kaszuba, Practical trust management without reputation in peer-to-peer games., Multiagent
and Grid Systems, 3 (2007), no. 4, 411–428.
World Wide Web i społeczeństwo obywatelskie, (w:) „3 Sektor”, XIV/2007.
Badania orientacji politycznych w Internecie, (w:) „Studia socjologiczne”, 3/2007.
Grupy, sieci, roje, (w:) „Societas/Communitas”, 2/2007.
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Karnawał w cyberprzestrzeni, (w:) J. Kurczewski (red.), Wielka sieć. E-seje z socjologii Internetu, Trio, Warszawa 2006.
Zwierciadło sieci, (w:) „Kultura Popularna”, 1/2005.
Mózgi w wannie, (w:) „Kultura Popularna”, 2/2003.
Hupa, K. Rządca, A. Wierzbicki and A. Datta, Interdiciplinary Matchmaking:, Choosing Collaborators by Skill, Acquaintance
and Trust, in: A. Abraham, A. Hassanien, V. Snasel (eds.) Computational Social Network Analysis. Trends, tools, and research
advances, Springer, pp. 319-348.
Adam Wierzbicki, Tomasz Kaszuba, Radosaw Nielek, and Anwitaman Datta, Handbook of research on p2p and grid systems
for service-oriented computing: Models, methodologies and applications, ch. Trust and Fairness Management in P2P and
Grid systems, IGI Global, December 2009, Released: December 2009. ISBN-13: 978-1615206865.
Tomasz Kaszuba, Krzysztof Rzadca, Adam Wierzbicki, and Grzegorz Wierzowiecki, A blueprint for universal trust
management services, Tech. report, Polish-Japanese Institute of Information Technology, Warsaw, Poland, 2008.
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FuturICT Polish Hub Selected Projects being in line with the FuturICT
Project and Polish Research Priorities.
International research Projects supported from EU and other international funds
Holyst J, FP7 EU ICT Integrated Project CYBEREMOTIONS – Collective Emotions in Cyberspace, 20092013, 750.154 Euro (Coordinator)
Holyst, J, FP7 EU ICT STREP Project DYNANETS-EnlargedEU, Computing Real-World Phenomena with
Dynamically Changing Complex Networks - Enlarged European Union, 2011-2012, 225 .000 Euro
(Partner)
Holyst J, FP6 EU NEST STREP CREEN, Critical events in evolving networks, 2005-2008, 279.996 Euro +
690. 360 PLN (Coordinator)
Holyst J, FP6 EU NEST STREP MMCOMNET (Measuring and modelling of complex networks across
domains) 2005-2008, 249.984 Euro + 612 100 PLN (Partner)
Holyst J, COST Action P10: Physics or Risk, 2005-2007, 390.000 PLN (v-ce Chair)
Holyst J, ESF Project,167/ESF/2006/03, STOCHDYN, Stochastic dynamics: fundamentals and
applications), 2006-2008, 450.858 PLN (Partner)
International Ph.D. Studies in Physics of Complex Systems, (2010-2013), (total budget 1.1 M Euro)
C4@A4 (Complexity, Correlations, Coherence and Cognitivistics along Polish East-West Highway A4),
Correlations in Complex Systems (COCOS), Marie Curie TOK in FP6, (budget 1.5 mln),
European Network on Random Geometry (ENRAGE), completed in 2009, (budget ca. 4 mln Euro)
COPIRA Project in FP5, which granted Mark Kac Center members the status of Centre of Excellence in
computer science.
Socionical, FP7
SYNAT/PASSIM (http://www.synat.pl) – national project aimed at creation of open repository
platform for hosting and communication of network science, education and open society resources
Engineering of the Future Internet (POIG)https://www.iip.net.pl/project - elaboration and testing of
infrastructure and services for new generation Internet (IPv6).
EFIPSANS – usage of IPv6 protocol for autonomous networks.
POBICOS
AMI-SME (http://www.ami-sme.org/)
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KNOW-IT (http://www.know-it-project.eu/)
CEC TEMPUS Office "Computer Based Education", 1992-1995, coordinated by W. Duch, 785.000 ECU.
Web20ERC (http://www.web20erc.eu/) – enabling the mass of educators who find ICT confusing to
have a simple and secure ICT environment by means of Web2.0 tools.
ITSOA (http://www.soa.edu.pl/) – new information technologies for electronic economy and
information society based on service-oriented architecture.
ARCO (http://www.wirtualne-muzea.pl/en/) – a solution for virtual content creation and
management of virtual museums, from cultural objects digitalization, up to presentation with various
interfaces.
DYNAMIC GROUPWARE – DynG is a research project aiming at designing and implementing a
collaborative platform for electronic negotiations.
PISTE Personalized, Immersive Sports TV Experience (http://piste.itranet.gr) – the goal of the PISTE
project is to build a system, addressing the needs of broadcasters and home viewers that will
transform TV watching into an interactive experience during the sports events.
COSMOS Common Open Service Market fOr SMEs – ESPRIT project with seven European Union
partners, aiming at the development of an integrated support platform for Internet business
transactions in their three phases: information, negotiation and execution.
INTUITION - Network of Excellence on Virtual Reality and Virtual Environments Applications for
Future Workspaces. Major objective is to bring together leading experts and key actors across all
major areas of VE understanding, development, testing and application in order to overcome
fragmentation and promote VE establishment within product and process design.
Multimedia4All (http://getconveyor.org/) – developing a software application called Conveyor and
demonstrating it to the cultural heritage community in their state. Conveyor is an online application
that enables users to build an interactive presentation that can be saved and later played back in a
browser window.
Qlectives (Quality Collectives), call: FP7-ICT-2007-3, project ID: 231200,
ICTeCollective (Harnessing ICT-enabled Collective Social Behaviour ), call: FP7-ICT-2009-C, project ID:
238597,
Ocopomo (Open collaboration for Policy Modelling), call: FP7, Theme 7.3 (ICT for Governance and
Policy Modelling),
Assyst (Action for the science of complex systems for socially intelligent ICT), call: FP7-ICT-2007-3
project ID: 231710,
Ford Foundation and Rothschild Foundation Grant Programme to Study and Prevent Antisemitism,
Racism and Xenophobia in Europe (25.000 GBP)
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Nowak, A., Harnessing ICT-enabled Collective Social Behaviour, FET FP7 EU grant subcontract,
473.000 E, 2009-20012
Nowak, A., Assyst, FET FP7 EU grant subcontract 30.000 E, 2009-20012
Nowak, A., Open Collaboration for Policy Modeling, FP7 EU grant subcontract 250.000 E, 2009-20012
Nowak, A., Overcoming inequalities in access to education, Foundation Orange: 2009-2010
„Special diagnostic stations for early diagnosis of dyslexia and naurodegenerative sickness diseases in
Excellence Center MIND 2005- 2008
Brain mechanisms underlying false memories – research using functional resonance (fMRI) and
evoked potentias (ERPs) 2008-2011
Developmental dyslexie, one disease or many? Research using the method of evoked potentials ERP
and oculography. 2009-2010
DBN Brain mechnisma underlying attention deficits in children with ADHD, Research using evoked
potentials in response for emotional and neutral auditory stimuli 2009-2010
National Projects
(1 Euro= 4 PLN)
CYBEREMOTIONS – Collective Emotions in Cyberspace, 2009-2013, matching fund from Polish
Ministry of Science and Higher Education for Warsaw University of Technology, 810.293 PLN
Project DYNANETS-EnlargedEU, Computing Real-World Phenomena with Dynamically Changing
Complex Networks - Enlarged European Union, 2011-2012, , matching fund from Polish Ministry of
Science and Higher Education for Warsaw University of Technology, 75.000 Euro
Physics of Competition and Conflicts, 2008-2012, special fund from Polish Ministry of Science and
Higher Education for Warsaw University of Technology PLN related to COST Action MP0801, 470.000
PLN
Physics or Risk, 2005-2007, special fund from Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education for
Warsaw University of Technology related to COST Action P10 390.000 PLN
STOCHDYN, Stochastic dynamics: fundamentals and applications), 2006-2008, special fund from
Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education for Warsaw University of Technology related to ESF
Project,167/ESF/2006/03, 450.858 PLN
Project CREEN, Critical events in evolving networks, 2005-2008, matching fund from Polish Ministry
of Science and Higher Education for Warsaw University of Technology 690. 360 PLN
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Project MMCOMNET (Measuring and modelling of complex networks across domains) 2005-2008,
matching fund from Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education for Warsaw University of
Technology 612 100 PLN
Project The preparation of methods for study the extreme and super extreme events' influence on the
stochastic dynamics of time series. An application to analysis of some currencies dynamics due to an
expectation of the Polish access to euro, grant from National Bank of Poland for University of
Warsaw, 100 000 PLN/year
University of Rzeszów Research Project: Universal characteristics of financial luctuations.
Grant of Ministry of Science and Higher Education: Mathematical foundation of the multiscale
descriptions, No. N N201 362536 2009-05-12 -- 2012-05-11
Implementing EU Funds: Innovative Economy and Infrastructure and Environment;
„Research and development of new technologies” within the Programme Innovative Economy. There
are three measures under the priority: 1.1.1 – Research projects performed with application of a
method called foresight (forecasting of the research directions which may incline the largest
influence on the social and economic development of the country); 1.3.1 – Development projects
(engineered at direct practice application); 1.3.2 – Support of industry property protection created in
scientific units as a result of research and development works (industry property protection)
Argumentation as a cognitive process, UMK-Rutgers University, 2008-2010, (with Cognitve Science
Department, Philosophy Institute).
Autism: comprehensive approach. MNiSW, 2010-2012, 290.000 PLN
Universal meta-learning algorithms in computational intelligence. MNiSW, 2010-2013, 414.000 PLN
Selection of information. KBN, 2005-2007, 251.000 PLN
Meta-learning. KBN, 2005-2007, 252.000 PLN
Theory and applications of computational intelligence. KBN, 2000-2002, 188.000 PLN
Heterarchical methods of information search supported by lexical networks. MNiSW, 2010-2013, PI J. Szymanski, 456.400 PLN.
Prototype-based logical rules with applications for data exploration. MNiSW, 2010-2013, PI - M.
Blachnik
Project SOWA – the goal of this project is to design and implement a modern Enterprise Resource
Planning (ERP) solution for Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) supporting advanced information
exchange.
State Committee for Scientific Research NN106361740, Factors modulating empathy of pain –
imaging studies using fMRI 2011-2014, 123 500 PLN (Chair)
WP/BST/04/09, Factors modulating empathy 2009-2010 (Chair)
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WP/BST/07/10, Empathy of pain and moral behaviour of children 2010-2011 (Chair)
State Committee for Scientific Research N 106 452133 Working memory capacity, task time
parameters, and temporal self-regulation as of attentional control (Chair) 2009-2011
State Committee for Scientific Research N106 360840 Brain activity related to the perceptual tactile
training - modulating effects of temperament and negative feedback: an fMRI study (Partner)
N R11 0016 10 New consumer research method for testing industrial design prototypes in computergenerated (virtual) environment (Partner)
N N106 220038 Electrophysiological correlates of attentional deficits in ageing Chair)
Intractable Conflict as a Dynamical System: A Multi-Disciplinary Approach Program Area/Grant Type:
21st Century Initiative: Studying Complex Systems, James Mc Donnel Foundation
Multi University Research Initiative: Intercultural Assessment of Collaboration in Teams and in
Ongoing Negotiations,
Foundation for Polish Science FOCUS grant (300,000 PLN)
2007-2010 On “Psychological Threat and Intergroup Relations”. From the Ministry of Science, Poland
(about 400 000 PLN = 100 000 Euro).
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Contact details for people best connected in Polish community
FuturICT supporters in each of the following categories:
Contacts to scientific institutions:
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Prof. Janusz Hołyst
Faculty of Physics, WarsawUniversity of Technology
Address: Koszykowa 75, 00-662 Warsaw, Poland
Phone: +48 22 234 7133
Mobile: +48 607 815 854
E-mail: jholyst@if.pw.edu.pl
Prof. Andrzej Nowak
Institute for Social Studies, University of Warsaw
Address: Stawki 5/7, 00-183, Warsaw, Poland
Phone: +48 22 831 5153
Mobile: +48 603 795 059
E-mail: Nowak@fau.edu
Contacts to political areas
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Prof. dr Łukasz Turski, Center for Theoretical Physics of Polish Academy of Sciences
Al. Lotnikow 32/46, PL- 02-668 Warsaw, Poland
Phone: +48 22 8436601- 1311
E-mail: laturski@cft.edu.pl
Prof. ŁukaszTurski is a well known national expert on science politics and Chairman of the
Programme Council of Copernicus Science Centre in Warsaw.
Prof. Włodzimierz Kurnik
Rector of Warsaw University of Technology
Address: Pl Politechniki 1, 00-661 Warsaw, Poland
Phone: +48 22 234 7220
E-mail: jmr@rekt.pw.edu.pl
Prof. Katarzyna Chałasinska – Macukow
Rector of Warsaw University
Address : Krakowskie Przedmiescie 26/28, 00-927 Warsaw, Poland
Phone : +48 22 55 20 355
E-mail : kmacukow@adm.uw.edu.pl
Contacts to business and industry
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Prof. Ryszard Kutner,
Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw Address: Hoża 69, PL-00681 Warsaw, Poland
Phone: +48 22 853 6980
E-mail: erka@fuw.edu.pl
Prof. Kutner will support the Project by his contacts to Institute of Economic Research of
National Bank of Poland.
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Prof. Henryk Rybinski, Director of Institute of Computer Science, Faculty of Electronics and
Information Technology, Warsaw University of Technology.
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Address: Nowowiejska 15/19, 00-665 Warsaw, Poland
Phone: +48 22 234 7432
E-mail: H.Rybinski@ii.pw.edu.pl
Prof. HenrykRybiński will support the Project by his contacts to FAO, UNIDO, UNEP SAS
and IBM.
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Prof. Mieczysław Muraszkiewicz,Faculty of Electronics and Information Technology, Warsaw
University of Technology.
Address: Nowowiejska 15/19, 00-665 Warsaw, Poland
E-maiL mietek@ n-s.pl
Prof. Muraszkiewicz will support the Project by his contacts to T-Mobile, Orange / France
Telecom, and Huawei.
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Key businesses in Poland which will be interested in teaming up with
FuturICT (without supporting them financially), and FuturICT would
profit from this partnership, selected examples
Allegro, largest Polish e-auction portal, contact person: Prof. Wojciech Cellary (PUE/DIT)
Rodan Systems S.A., one of the most advanced companies and software house for e-administration
and e-business support, contact person: Prof. Wojciech Cellary (PUE/DIT)
City of Poznań, one of the most advanced cities in Poland regarding e-administration support, contact
person: Prof. Wojciech Cellary (PUE/DIT)
Gadu-Gadu – Company developing Internet communicators and Portals,
contact persons: Mr. Tomasz Baran, Director for Research and Prof. Andrzej Nowak (National Hub
Coordinator)
Infovide Matrix, ICT Consulting Company, contact persons: Mr. Borys Stokalski, Vice-President, and
Prof. Andrzej Nowak (National Hub Coordinator)
Onet – Group , largest Polish portal owners, contact person: Prof. Janusz Hołyst (National Hub
Coordinator)
Krakowski Park Technologiczny (Cracow Technology Park) clusters of high tech SME in the sector of
ICT, contact person: Prof. Janusz Hołyst (National Hub Coordinator)
Institute of Economic Research of National Bank of Poland carries out analyses and research aimed at
performing the NBP tasks related to the monetary policy and preparation of materials for the
Monetary Policy Council; contact person: Prof. Ryszard Kutner
IBM Poland contact person: Prof. Henryk Rybiński
T-Mobile – one of the biggest polish telecommunication company, contact person: Prof. Mieczyslaw
Maruszkiewicz
Orange – one of the biggest polish telecommunication company, contact person: Prof. Mieczyslaw
Maruszkiewicz
Samsung Electronics, contact person: Piotr Gawrysiak
Microsoft Poland, contact person: Piotr Gawrysiak
Polish Public Opinion Research Center, contact person: Prof. Krzysztof Kułakowski
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