Staff

Professors

Dariusz M. Badura (e-mail: dariusz.badura@us.edu.pl)

Ph.D.: Algorithm for selection of nonhazardous sequences in asynchronous sequential circuits.
Habilitation: Shift registers in self and easy testable digital circuits.
Position: Professor.
Main fields of research interest:
Automatic testing of digital systems, CAD systems for digital circuit design.
Selected publications:

Badura D., Design of BIST using stochastic model of pseudorandom test sequence and genetic algorithm, Proc. of the XXIInd International Autumn Workshop Advanced Simulation of Systems ASIS 2000, Czech Republic, Svaty Hostyn, (September 12-14, 2000), 341-346.

Badura D., Design of condensed BIST using genetic algorithm with variable length of chromosome, Proc. of the XXIIIrd International Autumn Workshop Advanced Simulation of Systems ASIS 2001, Velke Losiny, Czech Republic, (September 11-13, 2001), 159-164.

Badura D., Chodacki M., The evolutionary BIST design in LAN multi-population environment, Proc. of the XXVth International Colloquium, Advanced Simulation of Systems ASIS 2003, Czech Republic, Sv. Hostyn (September 8-10, 2003), 327-332.

Badura D., Genetic programming for design of autonomous BIST structure, Proc. of the XXVIth International Autumn Colloquium, Advanced Simulation of Systems ASIS 2004, Czech Republic, Hostyn, (September 22-24, 2004), 212-216.

Chodacki M., Badura D., The stochastic model pseudorandom testing of digital sequential circuits, Proceedings of XXVIII th International Autumn Colloquium ASIS 2006 Advanced Simulation of Systems, Vranov near Brno, (September 12-14, 2006), Czech Republic, 148-151.

Mariusz Boryczka (e-mail: mariusz.boryczka@us.edu.pl)

Ph.D.: Application of the rough sets theory to the optimization of decision tables and
to the analysis of multicriteria decision problems.
Habilitation: Ant colony programming in the process of the automatic approximation of functions.
Position: Assistant professor.
Main fields of research interest:
Artificial intelligence, evolutionary computation, optimization, automatic programming.
Study visits:
None
Selected publications:

Boryczka M., Czech Z.J., Solving Approximation Problems by Ant Colony Programming, in: GECCO-2002, Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, (2002).

Boryczka U., Boryczka M., Chapter 5: Multi-cast ant colony system for the bus routing problem, in: METAHEURISTICS: Computer Decision-making, Kluwer Academic Publishers (2003), 91–125.

Boryczka M., Czech Z.J., Wieczorek W., Ant Colony Programming for Approximation Problems, in: Genetic and Evolutionary Computation — GECCO-2003, Springer-Verlag, LNCS, Vol. 2723-2724, (2003), pp. 142–143

Boryczka M., Eliminating Introns in Ant Colony Programming, Fundamenta Informaticae, (2005), Vol. 68(1, 2), 1–19.

Boryczka M., Ant Colony Programming with the Candidate List, in: Agent and Multi-Agent Systems: Technologies and Applications, Springer Verlag, LNCS, Vol. 4953, (2008), 302–311.

Zbigniew J. Czech (e-mail: zbigniew.czech@us.edu.pl)

Ph.D.: Operating systems and languages for sequential control.
Habilitation: A region analysis algorithm for the data flow analysis problems.
Position: Professor.
Main fields of research interest:
Design and analysis of serial and parallel algorithms, parallel computing, discrete optimization problems.
Study visits:
University of York, Great Britain (1983-84), University of California, Santa Barbara, U.S.A. (1988),
Indiana-Purdue University, Indianapolis (1988-89) University of Queensland, Australia (1994),
University of Kent, Canterbury, Great Britain (1995).
Selected publications:

Czech Z.J., Havas G., Majewski B.S., Perfect hashing, Theoretical Computer Science 182, (1997), 1-143.

Wieczorek W., Czech Z.J., Grammars in genetic programming, Control and Cybernetics 29, 4, (2000), 1019-1030.

Czarnas P., Czech Z.J., Gocyła P., Parallel simulated annealing for bicriterion optimization problems, Proc. of the 5th International Conference on Parallel Processing and Applied Mathematics PPAM'03, Poland, Częstochowa, (September 7-10, 2003), 233-240.

Czech, Z.J., Wieczorek, B., Solving bicriterion optimization problems by parallel simulated annealing, Proc. of 14th Euromicro Conference on Parallel, Distributed and Network-based Processing, Montbeliard-Sochaux, France, (February 15-17, 2006), 7-14.

Czech, Z.J., Co-operation of processes in parallel simulated annealing, Proc. of the 18th IASTED International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing and Systems, Dallas, Texas, USA, (November 13-15, 2006), 401-406.

Wiesław Kotarski (e-mail: kotarski@gate.math.us.edu.pl)

Ph.D.: Application of conical approximations to optimal control problems for parabolic systems.
Habilitation: Some problems of optimal and Pareto optimal control for distributed parameter systems.
Position: Assistant professor.
Main fields of research interest:
Optimal control theory, multicriterial optimization, applications of computer algebra systems (MAPLE V) to simulation, fractal modeling and image theory.
Study visits:
Stefan Banach International Mathematical Center, Warsaw, Poland (1980), International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy (1985), The African University, Aswan, Egypt (1990),
The Fields Institute, Waterloo, Canada (1992).
Selected publications:

Kotarski W., Some problems of optimal and Pareto optimal control for distributed parameter systems, Reports of the University of Silesia, Poland, Katowice, (1997), No. 1669, 1-93.

Kotarski W., Lisowska A., On bezier-fractal modeling of 2D shapes, International Journal of Pure and Applied Mathematics, (2005), Vol. 24, No. 1, 123-134.

Kotarski W., Lisowska A., Chaikin’s approach to fractal modeling of contours, Proceedings of EUROCON ’05 Conference, Belgrad, (November 21-24, 2005), 1192-1195.

Kotarski W., El-Saify H.A., Optimality of the boundary control for n x n parabolic lag system, Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications, Vol. 319, (2006), No. 1, 61-73.

Kotarski W., Lisowska A., Fractal rendering of 3D shapes, Proceedings of IECON '06 Conference, Paris, (November 7-11, 2006), 3391-3396.

Mikhail Moshkov (e-mail: mikhail.moshkov@us.edu.pl)

Ph.D.: Test approach to extremal combinatorial problems.
Habilitation: Time complexity of decision trees.
Position: Professor.
Main fields of research interest:
Test theory, rough set theory, decision tree theory and their mathematical applications.
Study visits:
Mathematical Institute of Warsaw University, Warsaw, Poland (1990, 1991, 1993, 1994, 2003),
Stefan Banach International Mathematical Center, Warsaw, Poland (1985, 1991, 1996).
Selected publications:

Moshkov M.Ju., Compressible infinite information systems, Fundamenta Informaticae, (2003), Vol. 55, No. 1, 51-61.

Moshkov M.Ju., Classification of infinite information systems depending on complexity of decision trees and decision rule systems, Fundamenta Informaticae, (2003), Vol. 54, No. 4, 345-368.

Moshkov M.Ju., Chikalov I.V., Consecutive optimization of decision trees concerning various complexity measures, Fundamenta Informaticae, (2004), Vol. 61, No. 2, 87-96.

Moshkov M. Ju., Time Complexity of Decision Trees (research monograph), J.F. Peters and A. Skowron (Eds.): Transactions on Rough Sets III, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3400, Springer-Verlag, (2005), 244-459.

Moshkov M. Ju., Piliszczuk M., Zielosko B., On construction of partial and irreducible partial decision rules, Fundamenta Informaticae, Vol. 75, (2007), 357-374.

Piotr Porwik (e-mail: piotr.porwik@us.edu.pl)

Ph.D.: Utilization of the Walsh functions in diagnostics of digital devices.
Habilitation: Orthogonal transforms for binary data features extraction.
Position: Assistant professor.
Main fields of research interest:
Spectral and discrete representations of multiple-valued and binary functions, digital logic design,
digital signal and image processing, biometrics and biomedical imaging.
Selected publications:

Porwik P., Walsh coefficients distribution for some types of Boolean function, Archives of Theoretical and Applied Informatics, Polish Acad. Sci, (2004), Vol. 16, No. 2, 109-120.

Porwik P., Efficient spectral method of identification of linear Boolean function. International Journal Control and Cybernetics, (2004), Vol. 33, No. 4, 663-678.

Porwik P., The three-valued sign Walsh coefficients calculation for an affine Boolean function recognition, Archives of Theoretical and Applied Informatics, Polish Acad. Sci., (2005), Vol. 17, No. 3, 199-212.

Porwik P., Wróbel K., Zaczkowski P., Some practical remarks about Binary Decision Diagram size reduction, IEICE International Journal Electronics Express, Japan, (2006), Vol. 3, No. 3, 51-57.

Porwik P., Stanković R.S., Dedicated spectral method of Boolean function decomposition. International Journal of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science, (2006), Vol. 16, No. 1, 271-278.

Andrzej J. Szewc (e-mail: andrzej.szewc@us.edu.pl)

Ph.D.: Employee’s invention in Polish law.
Habilitation: Right to obtain a patent for invention.
Position: Professor.
Main fields of research interest:
Industrial and intellectual property, information activity (especially – patent information).
Study visits:
Universita degli Studi di Firenze (1983), Universita di Bologna (1990).
Selected publications:

Szewc A., Ochrona własności intelektualnej w Polsce, w: Ochrona praw własności przemysłowej w Polsce i w Unii Europejskiej (w świetle obowiązujących ustaw, traktatów i dyrektyw), Materiały szkoleniowe, Warszawa: Biuro Promocji Inwestycji i Technologii Organizacji Narodów Zjednoczonych ds. Rozwoju Przemysłowego UNIDO (United Nations Industrial Development Organization) w Warszawie, (2004), 1-48.

Szewc A., Komputerowe wspomaganie procesów uchwałodawczych w samorządzie terytorialnym, in: Systemy Wspomagania Decyzji, Institute of Computer Science of the University of Silesia, Poland, Katowice, (2004), 164-171.

Szewc A., Gajos M., Wspomaganie procesów decyzyjnych przez systemy informacji przestrzennej, in: Systemy Wspomagania Decyzji, Institute of Computer Science of the University of Silesia, Poland, Katowice, (2005), 300-306.

Szewc A., Jyż G., Pławecki Z., Samorząd gminny, Komentarz, Wyd. 2, Dom Wydawniczy ABC, Warszawa, (2005) 1-949.

Szewc A., Zioło K., Grzesiczak M., Umowy jako prawne narzędzie transferu innowacji, Warszawa: Polska Agencja Rozwoju Przedsiębiorczości, (2006), 1-285 http://www.polpanel.strefa.pl/Umowy_jako_prawne_narzedzie_transferu_innowacji.pdf.

Lech Tomawski (e-mail: lech.tomawski@us.edu.pl)

Ph.D.: New method of the measurement of dielectric permeability based on the phase demodulation.
Habilitation: Negative resistances, capacitances and inductances in applications for measurement of capacitances
and inductances with high dissipation factor.
Position: Professor.
Main fields of research interest:
Resonant bridges with negative immitances, transformation of immitances, resonance phenomena
in higher order circuits with digital control.
Selected publications:

Janik P., Paluch M., Tomawski L., Zioło J., RC-model of stretched relaxation, Eur. J. Phys., 21, (2000), 233-237.

Janik P., Tomawski L., Zioło J., Apparatus for low-frequency study of high-loss dielectrics, Review of Scientific Instruments, (2001), Vol. 72, No. 7, 3019-3024.

Tomawski L., Gabrek S., Oleś S., Inverting current conveyor from an OPA 1662 & Idquo, Electronics World, (October 2001), 792.

Tomawski L., Górnicki M., Nearly ideal parallel resonant circuit-computer controlled, Electronics World 111(1834), (October 2005), 48-49.

Tomawski L., Kukuła Z., Resonant Frequency Division, Electronics World, (July 2006), 26-32.

Alicja Wakulicz-Deja (e-mail: alicja.wakulicz-deja@us.edu.pl)

Ph.D.: List instructions analysis in the concept of generic machine.
Habilitation: Foundations of information retrieval systems. Analysis of methods.
Position: Professor.
Main fields of research interest:
Expert systems, support systems for decision process, application of the rough sets theory.
Selected publications:

Ilczuk G., Wakulicz-Deja A., Attribute selection and rule generation techniques for medical diagnosis systems, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 3642, Springer-Verlag, (2005), 352-361.

Simiński R., Wakulicz-Deja A., Circularity in rule knowledge bases - detection using decision unit approach, Advances in Soft Computing, Springer-Verlag, (2005), 273-279.

Nowak A., Wakulicz-Deja A., Bachliński S., Optimization of speech recognition by clustering of phones, Fundamenta Informaticae 72, IOS Press, (2006), 283-293.

Nowak A., Simiński R., Wakulicz-Deja A., Towards modular representation of knowledge base, Intelligent Information Processing and Web Mining, Springer-Verlag, Advances in Soft Computing, (2006), 421-428.

Wakulicz-Deja A., Ilczuk G., Selection of important attributes for medical diagnosis systems, Springer-Verlag, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, (2006).

Zygmunt Wróbel (e-mail: zygmunt.wrobel@us.edu.pl)

Ph.D.: Electrical properties of solid solution of Pb (Zr_x Ti _1-x)O₃.
Habilitation: Synthesis of passive canonical structure in analogue electronic circuits.
Position: Professor.
Main fields of research interest:
Computer analysis and biomedical signal and image processing. Biomedical Engineering
Computer Systems.
Selected publications:

Koprowski R., Wróbel Z., The cell structures segmentation, 4th International Conference on Computer Recognition Systems CORES'05, Advances in Soft Computing, Springer-Verlag, (2005), 569-576.

Koprowski R., Izdebska-Straszak G., Wróbel Z., Adamek B., The cell structures segmentation with using of decision trees, Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis, (2005), Vol. 15, No. 4, 635-628.

Koprowski R., Izdebska-Straszak G., Wróbel Z., Adamek B., Wiczkowski A., The photometric analysis of selected cell structures, Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis, (2005), Vol. 15, No. 4, 629-632.

Koprowski R., Wróbel Z., Automatic segmentation of biological cell structures based on conditional opening or closing, Machine Graphics & Vision, (2005), Vol. 14, 285-307.

Binkowski M., Dyszkiewicz A., Wróbel Z., The analysis of densitometry image of bone tissue based on computer simulation of X-ray radiation propagation through plate model, Computers in Biology and Medicine, (2006), 245-250.