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Affective Learning Manifesto – 10 Years Later
PublicationIn 2004 a group of affective computing researchers proclaimed a manifesto of affective learning that outlined the prospects and white spots of research at that time. Ten years passed by and affective computing developed many methods and tools for tracking human emotional states as well as models for affective systems construction. There are multiple examples of affective methods applications in Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS)....
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Justification of models of changing project environment for harvesting grain, oilseed and legume crops
PublicationAn analysis of the condition of implementation of projects in agricultural production is carried out. The disadvantages of existing methods and models of planning of the content and time of execution of works in the projects, which mostly do not take into account the changing components of their project environment, are substantiated. The proposed methodology for justifying the models of a changing project environment for harvesting...
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Learning design of a blended course in technical writing
PublicationBlending face-to-face classes with e-learning components can lead to a very successful outcome if the blend of approaches, methods, content, space, time, media and activities is carefully structured and approached from both the student’s and the tutor’s perspective. In order to blend synchronous and asynchronous e-learning activities with traditional ones, educators should make them inter-dependent and develop them according to...
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Data augmentation for improving deep learning in image classification problem
PublicationThese days deep learning is the fastest-growing field in the field of Machine Learning (ML) and Deep Neural Networks (DNN). Among many of DNN structures, the Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) are currently the main tool used for the image analysis and classification purposes. Although great achievements and perspectives, deep neural networks and accompanying learning algorithms have some relevant challenges to tackle. In this...
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DESIGN THINKING ORIENTED METHODOLOGY IN GROUP PROJECT AS A STEP IN THE CDIO APPROACH
PublicationRecently much scientific research and industrial work is conducted in multidisciplinary teams, where cooperation between specialists from different areas of expertise is required in order to successfully address the challenging goals. Moreover, in start-up small companies the lack of supporting departments calls for additional multidisciplinary, economic and networking skills known as T-shaped personality. Recognizing these shortcomings...
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Results of the “DPDT-Auger” Research Project on Screw Displacement Piles
PublicationThe main objective of the “DPDT-Auger” research project was to test the prototype DPDT auger for forming screw displacement piles in the ground (patented in Poland in 2020). An additional aim was to develop design methods and rules for the making of such piles. The augers and piles were first tested on a model scale, and then more extensively in the real scale on experimental field plots. The results found the overall functionality...
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Data, Information, Knowledge, Wisdom Pyramid Concept Revisited in the Context of Deep Learning
PublicationIn this paper, the data, information, knowledge, and wisdom (DIKW) pyramid is revisited in the context of deep learning applied to machine learningbased audio signal processing. A discussion on the DIKW schema is carried out, resulting in a proposal that may supplement the original concept. Parallels between DIWK pertaining to audio processing are presented based on examples of the case studies performed by the author and her collaborators....
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Architectural Project IV A.Szuta
e-Learning CoursesArchitectural Project IV A.Szuta
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MagMax: Leveraging Model Merging for Seamless Continual Learning
PublicationThis paper introduces a continual learning approach named MagMax, which utilizes model merging to enable large pre-trained models to continuously learn from new data without forgetting previously acquired knowledge. Distinct from traditional continual learning methods that aim to reduce forgetting during task training, MagMax combines sequential fine-tuning with a maximum magnitude weight selection for effective knowledge integration...
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THE METHODS OF TEACHING / LEARNING STRUCTURAL MECHANICS
PublicationStructural mechanics is a key issue to study for engineers. A high rank and high social responsibility profession requires both a high graded and intuitive approach. The evolution of learning / teaching methodology follows the novel technical achievements of every decade. The aim remains the same: to produce a professional to perform advanced relevant analysis and safe, optimal structural design
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Measurement of the Development of a Learning IT Organization Supported by a Model of Knowledge Acquisition and Processing
PublicationThe paper presents a model of knowledge acquisition and processing for the development of learning organizations. The theory of a learning organization provides neither metrics nor tools to measure its development The authors' studies in this field are based on their experience gathered after projects realized in real IT organizations. The authors have described the construction of the model and the methods of its verification...
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Zrównoważona rewitalizacja „modelowego” terenu zdegradowanego z wykorzystaniem rozwiązań projektu Unii Europejskiej Hombre
PublicationRosnąca liczba terenów zdegradowanych stanowi rosnący problem wielu krajów w Europie i na świecie. Celem pracy jest przedstawienie koncepcji zrównowazonej rewitalizacji modelowego terenu zdegradowanego w oparciu o narzędzia opracowane w ramach projektu HOMBRE (VII EU PR). Koncepcja koncentruje się na osiągnięciu najwyższych możliwych zysków ekonomicznych uwzgledniając zasady zrównowazonego rozwoju i potrzeby lokalnej społeczności....
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EKOSYSTEM PRZESTRZENI ZAMIESZKIWANIA W UJĘCIU AUTORSKICH POSZUKIWAŃ FORMY DOMU OPARTYCH O KONCEPCJĘ ZGODNOŚCI
PublicationCelem artykułu jest prezentacja efektów projektu autorskiego realizowanego w oparciu o koncepcję zgodności. Przeprowadzone zostały kilkuletnie studia lokalnych uwarunkowań przyrodniczych skutkujących powstaniem zbioru rysunków i rzeźb oraz fotografii dokumentujących ich aranżację in situ. Badania prowadzono na terenie Pojezierza Kaszubskiego w obszarze południowego brzegu Jeziora Wdzydzkiego. Działania artystyczno-projektowe o...
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Computer-assisted assessment of learning outcomes in the laboratory of metrology
PublicationIn the paper, didactic experience with broad and rapid continuous assessment of students’ knowledge, skills and competencies in the Laboratory of Metrology, which is an example of utilisation of assessment for learning, is presented. A learning management system was designed for manage, tracking, reporting of learning program and assessing learning outcomes. It has ability to provide with immediate feedback, which is used by the...
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Exploring Impact of Requirements Engineering on Other IT Project Areas – Case Study
PublicationRequirements Engineering (RE) is recognized as one of the most important (yet difficult) areas of software engineering that has a significant impact on other areas of IT projects and their final outcomes. Empirical studies investigating this impact are hard to conduct, mainly due to the great effort required. It is thus difficult for both researchers and industry practitioners to make evidence-based evaluations about how decisions...
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A Highly Scalable, Modular Architecture for Computer Aided Assessment e-Learning Systems
PublicationIn this chapter, the authors propose a novel e-learning system, dedicated strictly to knowledge assessment tasks. In its functioning it utilizes web-based technologies, but its design differs radically from currently popular e-learning solutions which rely mostly on thin-client architecture. The authors' research proved that such architecture, while well suited for didactic content distribution systems is ill-suited for knowledge...
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Designing acoustic scattering elements using machine learning methods
PublicationIn the process of the design and correction of room acoustic properties, it is often necessary to select the appropriate type of acoustic treatment devices and make decisions regarding their size, geometry, and location of the devices inside the room under the treatment process. The goal of this doctoral dissertation is to develop and validate a mathematical model that allows predicting the effects of the application of the scattering...
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The Idea of a Student Research Project as a Method of Preparing a Student for Professional and Scientific Work
PublicationIn the paper we present the idea and implementation of a student research project course within the master’s program at the Faculty of Electronics, Telecommunications and Informatics, Gdansk Tech. It aims at preparing students for performing research and scientific tasks in future professional work. We outline the evolution from group projects into research project and the current deployment of both at bachelor’s and master’s levels...
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Self-Supervised Learning to Increase the Performance of Skin Lesion Classification
PublicationTo successfully train a deep neural network, a large amount of human-labeled data is required. Unfortunately, in many areas, collecting and labeling data is a difficult and tedious task. Several ways have been developed to mitigate the problem associated with the shortage of data, the most common of which is transfer learning. However, in many cases, the use of transfer learning as the only remedy is insufficient. In this study,...
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Predicting emotion from color present in images and video excerpts by machine learning
PublicationThis work aims at predicting emotion based on the colors present in images and video excerpts using a machine-learning approach. The purpose of this paper is threefold: (a) to develop a machine-learning algorithm that classifies emotions based on the color present in an image, (b) to select the best-performing algorithm from the first phase and apply it to film excerpt emotion analysis based on colors, (c) to design an online survey...
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Internet photogrammetry as a tool for e-learning
PublicationAlong with Internet development, there were interactive applications which allow for remote sensing and photogrammetric analysis. An example of an application that can provide Earth images and make it possible to measure distances in these images is Google Earth. The authors, who have experience from 2001-2015 argue that it is possible and it is important to create more advanced photogrammetric network applications. In this there...
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Advancing Solar Energy: Machine Learning Approaches for Predicting Photovoltaic Power Output
PublicationThis research is primarily concentrated on predicting the output of photovoitaic power, an essential field in the study of renewable energy. The paper comprehensively reviews various forecasting methodologies, transitioning from conventional physical and statistical methods to advanced machine learning (ML) techniques. A significant shift has been observed from traditional point forecasting to machine learning-based forecasting...
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Analysis of Learning Outcomes in Medical Education with the Use of Fuzzy Logic
PublicationThe national curricula of the EU member states are structured around learning outcomes, selected according to Bloom’s Taxonomy. The authors of this paper claim that using Bloom’s Taxonomy to phrase learning outcomes in medical education in terms of students’ achievements is difficult and unclear. This paper presents an efficient method of assessing course learning outcomes using Fuzzy Logic.
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Social Learning in Cluster Organizations and Accumulation of Technological Capability
PublicationThe purpose of the paper is to present how members of cluster organizations perceive their role in the accumulation of technological capability through social learning. The paper presents the results of a qualitative study of four cluster organizations. The theoretical foundation of the study are the communities of practice and the organizational inertia theories. The study indicates that the dynamics of technological capability...
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Machine Learning Techniques in Concrete Mix Design
PublicationConcrete mix design is a complex and multistage process in which we try to find the best composition of ingredients to create good performing concrete. In contemporary literature, as well as in state-of-the-art corporate practice, there are some methods of concrete mix design, from which the most popular are methods derived from The Three Equation Method. One of the most important features of concrete is compressive strength, which...
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Introduction to the special issue on machine learning in acoustics
PublicationWhen we started our Call for Papers for a Special Issue on “Machine Learning in Acoustics” in the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, our ambition was to invite papers in which machine learning was applied to all acoustics areas. They were listed, but not limited to, as follows: • Music and synthesis analysis • Music sentiment analysis • Music perception • Intelligent music recognition • Musical source separation • Singing...
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Research project BRIK: development of an innovative method for determining the precise trajectory of a railway vehicle
PublicationIn the paper the essential assumptions regarding a research project implemented by a consortium of Gdansk University of Technology and Gdynia Maritime University are presented. The project has been commissioned by National Center of Research and Development with cooperation with Polish Railways (PKP Polskie Linie Kolejowe S.A.). The project is focused in implementation of modern measurement techniques using Global Navigation Positioning...
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Identyfikacja instrumentu muzycznego z nagrania fonicznego za pomocą sztucznych sieci neuronowych
PublicationCelem rozprawy jest zbadanie algorytmów do identyfikacji instrumentów występujących w sygnale polifonicznym z wykorzystaniem sztucznych sieci neuronowych. W części teoretycznej przywołano podstawy przetwarzania sygnałów fonicznych w kontekście ekstrakcji parametrów sygnałów wykorzystywanych w treningu sieci neuronowych. Dodatkowo dokonano analizy rozwoju metod uczenia maszynowego z uwzględnieniem podziału na sieci neuronowe pierwszej,...
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Personal bankruptcy prediction using machine learning techniques
PublicationIt has become crucial to have an early prediction model that provides accurate assurance for users about the financial situation of consumers. Recent studies have focused on predicting corporate bankruptcies and credit defaults, not personal bankruptcies. Due to this situation, the present study fills the literature gap by comparing different machine learning algorithms to predict personal bankruptcy. The main objective of the...
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Deep learning techniques for biometric security: A systematic review of presentation attack detection systems
PublicationBiometric technology, including finger vein, fingerprint, iris, and face recognition, is widely used to enhance security in various devices. In the past decade, significant progress has been made in improving biometric sys- tems, thanks to advancements in deep convolutional neural networks (DCNN) and computer vision (CV), along with large-scale training datasets. However, these systems have become targets of various attacks, with...
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Enterprise Gamification - Learning as a Side Effect of Competition
PublicationGmification in companies can be used for driving desired employees behaviour that are advantageous to their development and performance improvement. This paper presents tools acquired from online social networking services and game mechanisms to encourage managers to compete by providing extended statistics and user profiles features in e-learning system.
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Tacit Knowledge Sharing and Personal Branding. How to Derive Innovation From Project Teams?
PublicationInnovation, relationships, cooperation, and knowledge are key factors which determine a competitive advantage in the networked economy. A network serves as a contemporary form of market process coordination. Network economy, according to the idea of prosumerism, is founded on collaboration of individual creators based on a network of values instead of hierarchical dependencies. Another feature of a network is that it imposes symmetry...
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IT Project Manager Selection Review
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Natalia Sokół dr inż.
PeopleBACKGROUND Master of Science in Light and Lighting (2008-2009/11) The UCL Bartlett School of Graduate Studies, Faculty of the Built Environment, London, UK, www.bartlett.ucl.ac.uk MA Degree in Interior Architecture (1999-2004), The Academy of Fine Arts, Poznan, Poland, www.uap.edu.pl MA Degree in Art Education (1997-2002), Academy of Fine Arts, Poznan, Poland, www.uap.edu.pl MAIN RESEARCH AREAS · ...
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A Mammography Data Management Application for Federated Learning
PublicationThis study aimed to develop and assess an application designed to enhance the management of a local client database consisting of mammographic images with a focus on ensuring that images are suitably and uniformly prepared for federated learning applications. The application supports a comprehensive approach, starting with a versatile image-loading function that supports DICOM files from various medical imaging devices and settings....
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E-Learning Service Management System For Migration Towards Future Internet Architectures
PublicationAs access to knowledge and continuous learning are among the most valuable assets in modern, technological society, it is hardly surprising that e-learning solutions can be counted amongst the most important groups of services being deployed in modern network systems. Based on analysis of their current state-of-the-art, we decided to concentrate our research and development work on designing and implementing a management system...
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Towards Scalable Simulation of Federated Learning
PublicationFederated learning (FL) allows to train models on decentralized data while maintaining data privacy, which unlocks the availability of large and diverse datasets for many practical applications. The ongoing development of aggregation algorithms, distribution architectures and software implementations aims for enabling federated setups employing thousands of distributed devices, selected from millions. Since the availability of...
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Rapid development of custom web application with ruby on rails framework on the example of group project system
PublicationTechnology industry labor market requires engineers with a good preparation for work with project's tasks and team cooperation skills. One of the way for achieve that abilities during technical university education are students group projects. Running of group projects at university brings new challenges, from recruitment of students with required skills for par-ticular project, to lack of industrial procedures and ready to use...
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Divide and not forget: Ensemble of selectively trained experts in Continual Learning
PublicationClass-incremental learning is becoming more popular as it helps models widen their applicability while not forgetting what they already know. A trend in this area is to use a mixture-of-expert technique, where different models work together to solve the task. However, the experts are usually trained all at once using whole task data, which makes them all prone to forgetting and increasing computational burden. To address this limitation,...
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Architectural project III, 2022/23
e-Learning CoursesArchitectural project III
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Corporate social responsibility and project management: towards a better understanding of their relationship
PublicationThe main purpose of this article is to identify the fields of convergence, if any, between two management concepts and business practices, namely Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and Project Management (PM). To achieve the formulated goal, a systematic literature review (SLR), including bibliometric analysis, LOESS regression analysis, and text mining, was performed. This analysis allowed us to distinguish five categories...
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Limitations of Emotion Recognition from Facial Expressions in e-Learning Context
PublicationThe paper concerns technology of automatic emotion recognition applied in e-learning environment. During a study of e-learning process the authors applied facial expressions observation via multiple video cameras. Preliminary analysis of the facial expressions using automatic emotion recognition tools revealed several unexpected results, including unavailability of recognition due to face coverage and significant inconsistency...
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Assessment of student language skills in an e-learning environment
PublicationThis article presents the role of various assessment structures that can be used in a VLE. e-Learning language courses offer tutors a wide range of traditional and computer-generated formative and summative assessment procedures and tools. They help to evaluate each student’s progress, monitor their activities and provide varied support, which comes from the tutor, the course structure and materials as well as other participants....
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The project of pull system for storehouse and production line in a company provides electronics
PublicationThe chapter below presents how to reduced delivery of the material to production by using a "Kanban schedule board" and related tools from 48 hours and 59 minutes to 41 minutes in a company provides electronics. The solution was found through analysis of the current way of supplying stands and using Just In Time idea, the reduction of ''muda''. To solve the problem was used Kanban card", which has the shape of two triangles joined...
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[ILiT, IŚGiE] Reliability-Based Optimization (RBO) - 2022/23
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[ILiT, IŚGiE] Reliability-Based Optimization (RBO) - 2023/24
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Antenna Optimization Using Machine Learning with Reduced-Dimensionality Surrogates
PublicationIn modern times, antenna design has become more demanding than ever. The escalating requirements for performance and functionality drive the development of intricately structured antennas, where parameters must be meticulously adjusted to achieve peak performance. Often, global adjustments to geometry are necessary for optimal results. However, direct manipulation of antenna responses evaluated with full-wave electromagnetic (EM)...
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System identification 2023/24 - project
e-Learning CoursesThis is the project part of the System Identification subject.
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Architectural project IV, 2023/24
e-Learning CoursesArchitectural project IV, 2023/24
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Architectural project III, 2024/25
e-Learning CoursesArchitectural project III, 2024/25