Bogdan Wiszniewski graduated from Gdansk University of Technology in 1977 and was awarded an MSc in computer science and engineering with honours. In 1984 and 1998, respectively, has got his PhD and DSc. In 2006 was awarded a Professor title by the President of Poland. Lectured at the universities in Canada, US and UK.  Principal investigator or coordinator in many national and international R&D projects with the significant industrial content. Author or co-author of many publications in national and international journals and conferences, including several national and international monographs. Awarded twice by the Polish Minister of Higher Education and Science for his scientific merits. His current research focus has been distributed processing, in particular open multi-agent systems and eCollaboration using methods and tools of document engineering.