The Poznan University of Economics, Department of Management Information Systems

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Introduction

The Poznan University of Economics ranks as one of the best universities in central/eastern Europe. Since the early 1990s, the University has been involved in many EC research and development programmes like COPERNICUS, ACE, CRIT, CNET, TEMPUS and Jean Monet. Currently the University participates in the following programmes: SOCRATES, PHARE ACE, Leonardo da Vinci, 5th Framework Programme: with projects - PISTE, ARCO and EURAREA. The representatives of Poznan University of Economics sit in the Information Society Forum (an independent advisory body to the European Commission) and in the Committee for "Improving the human research potential and the socioeconomic knowledge base", established under the EC 5th Framework Programme for RTD. The University is a member of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development - Institutional Management in Higher Education (OECD - IMHE), the European Association for International Education (EAIE) and the European University Association (EUA).

The research work carried out at the Department of Management Information Systems of the Poznan University of Economics focuses on widely understood information and knowledge representation, processing and management. This comprises all activities connected with knowledge of the whole corporation and every individual working for it. Therefore we concentrate our efforts on enhanced information technologies, namely on filters capable of supplying a variety of information systems with relevant information acquired from the Web. The projects carried out at the Department of Management Information Systems are strongly settled in ontologies. Ontologies are considered a key enabling technology for the Semantic Web. Thanks to them, it is possible to represent knowledge that is understandable for humans and readable for computers. New directions of research show that information agents together with ontologies can provide breakthrough technologies for Web applications.

Role

Main Tasks in the USE-ME.GOV Project
The Poznan University of Economics is mainly responsible for coordination of WP5 and the following tasks:
- platform architecture design (task 5.3),
- user contextualization (in collaboration with Uni Minho),
- mobile information filtering and retrieval from heterogenous sources,
- meta-protocol of service types.

Key Personnel

Witold Abramowicz is professor of Computer Science at the Poznan Univeristy of Economics and Chair of the Department of Management Information Systems. He has published over a hundred papers, nine books in the area of information retrieval and filtering and several book chapters. He is a member of many program committees of conferences in the area of information processing and the Chair of the Business Information Systems Conference. He has twelve years experience of teaching and research at three universities in the Switzerland and Germany. He is a principal researcher in projects carried at the Department of Management Information Systems - enhanced Knowledge Warehouse, D-Leap, mobileIF, eVEREst. He was also a supervisor of the enhanced Data Warehouse project, which is described in book Filtering the Web to Feed Data Warehouses (Springer 2002).

Andrzej Bassara is a Research Assistant and on PhD track at the Poznan University of Economics, Department of Management Information Systems. His current research covers ontologies for information systems, personalisation and data warehousing. He is the member of the eVEREst (enhanced Value Estimation of Real Estates) project team and Organizing Committee of the annual BIS Conference. His experience as a project manager and a software developer is documented in a number of publications and solutions for SME.

Agata Filipowska is a Teaching and Research Assistant and on PhD track at the Poznan University of Economics, Department of Management Information Systems. Her main area of interests covers e-government, data warehousing, information retrieval and filtering . She is the Chair of the Organizing Committee of the BIS2004 Conference and the member of the eVEREst (enhanced Value Estimation of Real Estates) project team.

Krzysztof Wecel received his PhD in the topic of profiling the data warehouses for business information filtering. He was a co-chair of the OntoBIS special session in conjunction with BIS2003 Conference and the member of the program committee of BIS2003 Conference. He is experienced Java programmer. He holds an internationally recognized certificate of SAS Certified Developer, and also participated in courses covering data warehouse technologies organized by SAS Institute. His main interests are ontologies, semantic web, knowledge representation and management.

Marek Wisniewski is a Research Assistant and on PhD Track at the Poznan University of Economics, Department of Management Information Systems. He is a member of the eVEREst project team. His area of interests coupled with current research involves ontologies in the context of semantic interoperability, ontology integration, Mobile Agents, Information Retrieval and Filtering. He is continuously involved in the organisation of BIS conference series. His experience derived from the research is well documented in a number of publications.

Pawel Zebrowski is a Research Assistant and PhD Candidate at the Department of MIS. He is a member of mobileIF team that undertook research in the field of mobile information filtering. Therefore, he has delved into areas of information retrieval and filtering, context awareness, mobility, ontologies, semantic web, and web services. During his studies he has participated in several successful projects carried out at the department. Currently he is working on eD2D Platform for Administration Section of The Poznan University of Economics. He was a member of the Organizing Committee of Business Information Systems 1998, 1999 and 2000 Conferences.