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Prof. Wojciech Cellary attended a conference The 29th National Symposium on Telecommunications and Computer Communications “Time for Smart Cities”, which took place in Gdańsk from 4 to 6 September, 2013. Prof. Cellary served as a panelist in a panel discussion “How to create smart cities in Poland?”

Dr. Wojciech Wiza participated in a working meeting of the partners of the European project "Ed2.0Work - European network for the integration of Web2.0 in education and work (KA3 network)". The meeting was hosted by a leader of the Project, University of the West of Scotland, Paisley (Scotland).

Dr. Michał Wódczak attended a closed meeting on Autonomic Networking, taking place the 1st August 2013, in Berlin (Germany), in co-location with the 87th IETF Meeting. The goal of the meeting was to discuss how to bring Autonomic Networking into the IETF, and how to link the efforts of the ETSI AFI working group to the IETF.

A group of students called TapBoarders from the .NET Group Student Association was representing Poland in the word finals of the Imagine Cup 2013 competition. The team was presenting the project Multiboard and won the AFT (App Fast Track) Excellence Award for the best applicaton working on Windows 8. The project was also nominated for AppCampus award sponsored by Nokia and Aalto University. The idea of the AppCampus competition was to appreciate the best solutions working on mobile devices. World finals took place in St. Petersburg (Russia) from 8th to 11th of July 2013 with 87 teams coming from 78 countries. Before taking part in the world finals, TapBoarders won the Polish finals competing with mote than 50 projects developed in various Polish universities.
Multiboard project is a platform for creating, distributing and running multiplayer electronic board games. The game is played on multiple mobile electronic devices creating one interactive environment for players. The developed standard for game description allows fast and cheap creation of new games.


Team members:

  • Tadeusz Makuch (4th year student, minor: Information Systems for Business and Administration), team captain;
  • Bartosz Matuszewski (4th year student, minor: Electronic Business);
  • Aleksandra Olejniczak (4th year student, minor: Information Systems for Business and Administration);
  • Stefania Tempłowicz (4th year student, minor: Business Analysis); and
  • mgr inż. Zbigniew Paszkiewicz (Research assistant in the Department of Information Technology), team mentor.
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Prof. Wojciech Cellary participated at the Expert Group Meeting entitled Governance, Public Administration and Information Technology for Post 2015 Development, which took place in Geneva from 3 to 5 July 2013. The meeting was organized by United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA) and the Center for Electronic Governance at United Nations University International Institute for Software Technology (UNU-IIST). During the meeting prof. Cellary gave a lecture entitled “Building IT Infrastructure for Post-2015 e-Governance Development: Cloud Computing and Service-Oriented Architecture”.

Dr. Rafał Wojciechowski participated in The 16th International Conference on Business Information Systems BIS 2013, hosted this year by the Poznan University of Econmics. During the conference dr Wojciechowski presented a paper entitled “Conceptual Architecture of Knowledge Base for Administrative Procedure Execution” (authors: Strykowski, S., and R. Wojciechowski), published by Springer Verlag in "Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing”.

Prof. Wojciech Cellary participated in The 8th Congress of the Electronic Economy organized in Warsaw by the Association of Polish Banks in cooperation with the Center for Banking Law and the Financial Information and the monthly "Bank". Prof. Cellary partcipated in a panel discussion: What the Ministry of Administration and Digitization and the Ministry of Economy did for electronic economy?

Dr. Adam Wójtowicz attended two international conferences: The 3rd International Workshop on Information Systems Security Engineering WISSE 2013. and The 25th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering CAISE 2013, which took place in Valencia (Spain)n June 17 - 21, 2013. During the WISSE conference dr. Wójtowicz presented a paper entitled „Security Model for Large Scale Content Distribution Applied to Federated Virtual Environments”. He served also as a “main discussant” to Christos Kalloniatis presenting a paper "Privacy in the Cloud: Bridging the Gap between Design and Implementation”.

Mr. Jakub Flotyński attended The 6th International Conference on Human System Interaction HSI 2013, which was held in Sopot (Poland) on June 6 – 8, 2013. During the conference Jakub Flotyński presented a paper entitled “Harvesting of Semantic Metadata from Distributed 3D Web Content” recognized with The Best Paper Award in the field of Human Machine Interaction.

Willy Picard, PhD, attended an International School and Conference on Network Science NetSci 2013 which took place on June 3 – 7, 2013 at the Royal Library in Copenhagen, Denmark and the Technical University of Denmark. NetSci is the main conference gathering researchers interested and involved in network science.

Mr. Zbigniew Paszkiewicz attended an international conference Process Mining Camp 2013, which took place in Eindhoven (Netherlands). The conference is an one day event offering practice talks, keynote speeches and expedition workshops in the field of mining process.

Dr. Michał Wodczak gave an invited lecture “Resource Management in Cooperative Networking” to PhD students and young researchers attending Training School on Cooperative Communications, organized in Prague, May 21 – 23, 2013, by the National Inter-University Consortium for Telecommunications in the framework of the Program COST IC1004 Action WG3 (Radio Network).

The Department of Information Technology hosted Dr. Benjamin Gâteau, Senior R&D Engineer at the Public Research Centre Henri Tudor in Luxembourg. During the visit Dr. Gâteau has been working together with Dr. Jarogniew Rykowski on a common proposal to be submitted in the framework of the POLLUX Program, launched by The National Research Fund (FNR) in Luxembourg and the National Centre for Research and Development (NCBR) in Poland.

The Department of Information Technology and The Inspector General for Personal Data Protection (GIODO) organized together a conference “Legal and economic aspects of personal data processing” which was held at the Poznan University of Economics. The conference was organized in the framework of The 3rd Open Day of GIODO, a series of events celebrated each year in different city devoted to the popularization of citizens knowledge on personal data protection and processing. During the conference prof. Wojciech Cellary gave a lecture entitled “e-Privacy”, he chaired also a session on private data processing in enterprises and public institutions.