Univ.-Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr. Witold Jacak

 

 

 

 

 

Professor

Affiliation:

Head of Departments:
  Software Engineering
  Software Engineering for Medicine
  Software Engineering for Business and Finance
Polytechnic University of Upper Austria,
Hagenberg, Austria

E-mail:

Witold.Jacak@fhs-hagenberg.ac.at

 

Professor at the Inst. of Technical Cybernetics,
Wroclaw University of Technology, Wroclaw, Poland

 1991-1998

Guest professor at the Inst. of System Science,
Johannes Kepler University Linz , Linz, Austria

 

 

 

 

 

 

Research | Teaching | Education| Professional Activities

 

 

 

 

 

 

Research Interest:

 

  • Intelligent Agent Systems: Negotiation, Conflict Managament and Group Knowledge
  • Intelligent Multi-Agent Robotic Systems
  • Computational and Artificial Intelligence
  • Software Agent Technology
  • Systems and Software Engineering
  • Mathematical System Theory
  • Knowledge-based Information Systems
  • Neural Networks and Fuzzy Logic based Modelling and Control
  • Telemedicine and Telerobotics
  • Task Planning and Control of Autonomous Systems
  • Multi Sensor based Real World Modelling and Reactive Control
  • CIM and CAD/CAPP/CAM Systems in Soft-Automation

Publications

 

 

 

Teaching:

Courses taught: Polytechnic University of Upper Austria

  • Foundation of Computer Science
  • Data Engineering
  • Project Engineering: Study projects
  • Project Engineering: Practicum projects
  • Computational Intelligence
  • Systems Engineering
  • Diploma Seminar

Courses taught: Johannes Kepler University Linz (1991-1998)

  • Mechatronics Systems: Neural network based Modeling, Design
    and Control
  • CIM - Concepts, Simulation and SW-Standards
  • Intelligent Robotics Systems
  • Information Systems in CIM
  • Robot Simulation based CAD/CAM Systems

Courses taught: Wroclaw University of Technology

  • Systems Theory and Systems Engineering
  • Modeling and Simulation
  • Foundation of Robotics
  • Robot Control and Programming Systems
  • Artificial Intelligence and Task Planning in Robotics
  • Mobile Robots and Navigation Systems
  • Neural Network Approach to Intelligent Control

Other

 

Supervised 137 M.Sc. students and 19 Ph.D. students

 

Invited Lecturer at the University Karlsruhe, University Dortmund, University Magdeburg, Tsukuba Research Center, Tokyo Institute of Technology, University of Arizona, Technical University of Prague, University Innsbruck, University Linz,

 

 

 

Education:

1973

 

Master of Science (M.Sc.) in Electronics at the Wroclaw University of Technology, Wroclaw, Poland

1977

 

Ph.D. in System Engineering at the Wroclaw University of Technology, Wroclaw, Poland

1992

 

Habilitation in Intelligent Robotics Systems at the Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland

 

 

 

Professional Activities

Membership

  • Program Committee Member, ISAC'2000 Conference, Orlando, USA, 2000
  • Program Committee Member, EUROCAST'99 Conference, Wien, Austria, 1999
  • Program Committee Member, ICL'99 Conference, Villach, Austria, 1999
  • Program Committee Member, ISAC'99 Conference, Orlando, USA, 1999
  • Program Committee Member, International Conference Engineering of Computer based Systems ECBS'98 Conference, Jerusalem, Israel, 1998
  • Program Committee Member, IDIMT'97 Conference, Zadov, Chech Rep., 1997
  • Program Committee Member, International Conference Engineering of Computer based Systems ECBS'97 Conference, Monterey, USA, 1997
  • Program Committee Member, EUROCAST'97 Conference, Las Palmas, Spain, 1997
  • Member of IFIP Working Group 10.1 Computer Aided System Theory
  • Chairman of Robotics Session; IEEE International Conference on Neural Networks and Evolutionary Computing ICNN'95 and ICEC'95, Perth, Australia, 1995
  • Chairman of Robotics Session; International Conference Systems Science 95, Wroclaw, Poland, 1995
  • Program Committee Member, der EUROCAST'95 Conference, Innsbruck, Austria, 1995
  • Program Committee Member, der IRS'94 Conference on Intelligent Robotic System, Grenoble, France, 1994
  • Program Committee Member, CAST'94 Conference, Ottawa, Canada, 1994
  • Invited Participant and Program Committee Member, AIS 93 Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Simulation and Planning in High Autonomy System, Tucson, USA, 1993
  • Invited Participant and Program Committee Member, EUROCAST'93 Conference, Las Palmas, Spain, 1993
  • Program Committee Member, AIS 92 3rd Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Simulation and Planning in High Autonomy System, Perth, Western Australia, 1992
  • Invited Participant and Program Committee Member, AIS 91 Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Simulation and Planning in High Autonomy System, Florida, USA, 1991
  • Invited Participant and Program Committee Member, EUROCAST'91 Conference, Krems, Austria, 1991
  • Invited Lecturer, Chairman and Program Committee Member, AIS 90 Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Simulation and Planning in High Autonomy System, Tucson, Arizona, USA, 1990
  • Invited Participant and Program Committee Member, EUROCAST'89 Conference, Las Palmas, Spain, 1989
  • Invited Participant and Chairman, CAST Methods 1988 Workshop, University of Linz, Austria, 1988
  • Invited Participant and Lecturer, Workshop of Polish Academy of Science, ''Applications of Artificial Intelligence'',Warsaw, Poland, 1988
  • Program Committee and Editorial Board Member, The International Conference on Microcomputers, Karpacz, Poland, 1998
  • Program Committee and Editorial Board Member, 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th National Conference on Robotics, Wroclaw, Poland 1987-1996

Refereeing and Reviewing

  • IEEE Transaction on System, Man and Cybernetics SMC
  • ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation
  • Robotica. An International Journal
  • Robot Simulation Systems, John Wiley
  • International Journal of General Systems
  • Progress in Cybernetics
  • International Journal of Systems Science
  • Kluwer Academic Publishers

 

 

 

 

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