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  • Validation of Services Supporting Healthcare Standards Conformance

    The paper presents the results of experimental validation of a set of innovative software services supporting processes of achieving, assessing and maintaining conformance with standards and regulations. The study involved several hospitals implementing the Accreditation Standard promoted by the Polish Ministry of Health. First we introduce NOR-STA services that implement the TRUST-IT methodology of argument management. Then we...

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  • Jakub Miler dr inż.

    Academic career: 2000: Master of Science - Gdansk University of Technology, Faculty of Electronics, Telecommunications and Informatics, thesis "Computer system for supporting risk management in a software engineering project", supervisor prof. Janusz Górski 2005: PhD - Gdansk University of Technology, Faculty of Electronics, Telecommunications and Informatics, thesis "A Method of Software Project Risk Identification and Analysis",...

  • SCF - a Framework Supporting Achieving and Assessing Conformity with Standards

    Standards Conformity Framework (SCF) presented in this paper encompasses methods and tools whichprovide support for application of standards and other normative documents. The approach taken focuses ondevelopment, assessment and maintenance of an electronic document which demonstrates conformity. Sucha document contains an argument structure developed in accordance with the Trust-IT methodology. Thepaper discusses details of the...

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  • Development of the System Assurance Reference Model for Generating Modular Assurance Cases

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    - Year 2023

    Assurance cases are structured arguments used to demonstrate specific system properties such as safety or security. They are used in many industrial sectors including automotive, aviation and medical devices. Larger assurance cases are usually divided into modules to manage the complexity and distribute the work. Each of the modules is developed to address specific goals allocated to the specific objects i.e. components of the...

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  • Ontology as a Tool for the IT Management Standards Support

    In this paper the authors discuss the initial idea of using ontologies to model requirements of the standards that support IT management processes. The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF) is set as an example. A need for transition from the generic model do the organization-specific one is indicated. The described example serves as a ground for considering the usefulness of such modeling approach in the wider spectrum of...

  • Comparative conformance cases for monitoring multiple implementations of critical requirements

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    The paper presents the concept and the mechanism of comparative conformance cases which support conformance monitoring in situations where a standard or other set of requirements are being implemented at multiple sites. The mechanism is enabled by NOR-STA services which implement the TRUST-IT methodology and are deployed in the cloud in accordance with the SaaS model. In the paper we introduce the concept of comparative conformance...

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  • Challenges in providing support for management of evidence-based arguments

    The paper considers selected challenges related to the application of evidence based arguments and maps them on the tool support level. In particular, we consider: communication and teamwork, handling large arguments, evidence management and integration, argument assessment and communication, change control and reporting, evidence reuse, user data security and argument portfolio management. Then we explain how these challenges...

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  • Standards Conformity Framework in comparison with contemporary methods supporting standards application

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    - Year 2008

    Achieving and assessing conformity with standards and compliance with various sets of requirements generates significant costs for contemporary economies. Great deal of this is spent on fulfilment of safety and security requirements. However, standards application is not supported sufficiently by the tools available on the market. Therefore, Standards Conformity Framework (SCF) containing methods and tools which provide support...

  • Magdalena Szuflita-Żurawska

    Head of the Scientific and Technical Information Services at the Gdansk University of Technology Library and the Leader of the Open Science Competence Center. She is also a Plenipotentiary of the Rector of the Gdańsk University of Technology for open science.  She is a PhD Candidate. Her main areas of research and interests include research productivity, motivation, management of HEs, Open Access, Open Research Data, information...

  • Standards for Quality Assurance in the European Higher Education Area versus Common Assessment Framework in education. Conflict or harmony?

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    - Year 2014

    The aim of the research was to analyze the assumptions of Standards and Guidelines for Quality Assurance in the European Higher Education Area (ENQA) and the criteria of Common Assessment Framework (CAF) for the educational sector and based on that to find out the main differences and similarities (conflicts and harmony) between them. The results of the research showed that the current trends of the quality movement evolution in...

  • Quality Assurance of Educational Processes as the Foundation of the Quality Management System in Gdansk University of Technology

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    - Year 2011

    The paper presents a model of quality management system (QMS) developed by the author in Gdansk University of Technology (GUT). The core of the model is internal quality assurance system of educational processes based on the ENQA guidelines. Next described in the paper steps of GUT QMS development are the implementation of one of the normative QMS models (e.g. ISO 9001, ISO/IEC 17025) in selected organizational units of GUT and...

  • Supporting Assurance by Evidence-based Argument Services

    Structured arguments based on evidence are used in many domains, including systems engineering, quality assurance and standards conformance. Development, maintenance and assessment of such arguments is addressed by TRUST-IT methodology outlined in this paper. The effective usage of TRUST-IT requires an adequate tool support. We present a platform of software services, called NOR-STA, available in the Internet, supporting key activities...

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  • Hilton Environmental Reporting as a tool of Corporate Social Responsibility.

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    - Year 2006

    Artykuł ten przedstawia historię, kryteria oraz procedury wprowadzone w komputerowym systemie środowiskowym Hilton Environmental Reporting.

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  • Verification of agent system for it project management support

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    This article is a continuation of article series telling about research about possibility of using agent system to information technology evaluation. Following article presents full conception of exploiting agent system and shows how it can support some managers works, especially in taking correct management method and information tool for project management. In this article the agent system that based on knowledge and can process...

  • Sylwester Kaczmarek dr hab. inż.

    Sylwester Kaczmarek received his M.Sc in electronics engineering, Ph.D. and D.Sc. in switching and teletraffic science from the Gdansk University of Technology, Gdansk, Poland, in 1972, 1981 and 1994, respectively. His research interests include: IP QoS and GMPLS and SDN networks, switching, QoS routing, teletraffic, multimedia services and quality of services. Currently, his research is focused on developing and applicability...

  • Wojciech Wojnowski dr inż.

    Ukończył V Liceum Ogólnokształcące w Gdańsku w klasie o profilu matematyczno-fizycznym z wykładowym językiem angielskim. W 2009 roku rozpoczął studia na Wydziale Chemicznym PG na kierunku technologia chemiczna, uzyskując w 2012 roku tytuł inżyniera, a w 2013 tytuł magistra. W latach 2013–2015 studiował sinologię na Uniwersytecie w Nankinie dzięki uzyskaniu Stypendium Rządu ChRL. Po powrocie do Polski w 2015 roku rozpoczął studia...

  • Uniform Model Interface for Assurance Case Integration with System Models

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    - Year 2017

    Assurance cases are developed and maintained in parallel with corresponding system models and therefore need to reference each other. Managing the correctness and consistency of interrelated safety argument and system models is essential for system dependability and is a nontrivial task. The model interface presented in this paper enables a uniform process of establishing and managing assurance case references to various types...

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  • Interactive information and decision support system for urban and industrial air quality management based on multi-agent system

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    This article presents conception of interactive information and decision support system for urban and industrial air quality management. The emphasis of the project is on real-time analysis and multi-media information, and the support of distributed and mobile clients through the Internet. The approach integrates meteorological data and forecasts, air quality and emission monitoring, dynamic 3D simulation modelling and forecasting,...

  • Piotr Grudowski dr hab. inż.

    Professor Dr hab. Eng. Piotr Grudowski heads the Department of Quality and Commodity Management at the Faculty of Management and Economics of Gdansk University of Technology. In the years 1987-2009 he worked at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering of the Gdansk University of Technology, where he obtained a doctoral degree in technical sciences in the discipline of construction and operation of machines and he headed the Department...

  • Beata Krawczyk-Bryłka dr

    Psycholog, doktor nauk humanistycznych w dziedzinie zarządzania, adiunkt w Katedrze przedsiębiorczości. 2018 - 2021: Kierownik projektu NCN: „Efektuacyjny model zespołu przedsiębiorczego. Jak działają przedsiębiorcze zespoły odnoszące sukces" od 2016: Quality Standards Lead filaru People management & personal development na studiach MBA Politechniki Gdańskiej 2008 – 2012: Prodziekan ds kształcenia Wzydziału Zarządzania i Ekonomii...

  • Magdalena Apollo dr inż.

    2017 - PhD in Civil Engineering, thesis: Risk management in construction investments related to urban regeneration projects, Gdansk University of Technology IX 2012–VI 2013 - Postgraduate Studies at Gdynia Maritime University: Research Project Management (IPMA D Certificate) 2010 – MSc in Management and Marketing, Gdansk University of Technology 2007 – MSc in Civil Engineering, Gdansk University of Technology 2007-2010 - structural...

  • A method of trust case templates to support standards conformity achievement and assessment

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    - Year 2008

    Osiąganie i ocena zgodności ze standardami stanowi poważne obciążenie finansowe dla współczesnych gospodarek. Pomimo znacznej wagi tego problemu, nie znalazł on jednak zadowalającego przełożenia na rozwiązania dostępne na rynku. W tej pracy zaproponowano metodę nazwaną Standards Conformity Framework (SCF), która wspiera stosowanie standardów. Jest ona oparta na spostrzeżeniu, że osiąganie i ocena zgodności ze standardem polega...

  • IMPLEMENTING THE QUALITY ASSURANCE SYSTEM AND ASSURING HEALTH SAFETY IN THE LIGHT OF INCREASING BREAD QUALITY

    The article presents rules, requirements, and norms for quality management and health safety assurance systems among small and medium bakeries. This group of businesses does not have the obligation of implementing or certifying specific systems. They are, however, implemented in order to increase the quality of the bread or reach a better market position. Also, the results of a 2022 study of 53 bakeries’ implementation of individual...

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  • Meeting Requirements Imposed by Secure Software Development Standards and Still Remaining Agile

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    The paper introduces the AgileSafe method of selecting agile practices for software development projects that are constrained by assurance requirements resulting from safety and/or security related standards. Such requirements are represented by argumentation templates which explain how the evidence collected during agile practices implementation will support the conformity with the requirements. Application of the method is demonstrated...

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  • Ireneusz Czarnowski Prof.

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    IRENEUSZ CZARNOWSKI is a graduate of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering at Gdynia Maritime University. He gained a doctoral degree in the field of computer science at Poznan University of Technology and a postdoctoral degree in the field of computer science at Wroclaw University of Science and Technology. Since 1998 is associated with Gdynia Maritime University, currently is a professor of computer science in the Department...

  • Support for argument structures review and assessment

    Argument structures are commonly used to develop and present cases for safety, security and for other properties of systems. Such structures tend to grow excessively, which causes problems with their review and assessment. Two issues are of particular interest: (1) systematic and explicit assessment of the compelling power of an argument, and (2) communication of the result of such an assessment to relevant recipients. The paper...

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  • Standards on Cyber Security Assessment of Smart Grid

    Security evaluation of communication systems in smart grid poses a great challenge to the developers and operators. In recent years many new smart grid standards were proposed, which paradoxically results in the difficulty in finding a relevant publication in this plethora of literature. This paper presents the results of a systematic analysis which aimed at addressing this issue by identifying standards that present sound security...

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  • Supporting Compliance with Security Standards by Trust Case Templates

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    - Year 2007

    Trust Cases are used to justify that a given object (a system, an infrastructure, an organization) exhibits certain properties. One of possible applications of trust cases is related to the processes of achieving and demonstrating the compliance with standards. A Trust Case Template derived from a given standard constitutes a skeleton of justification (encompassing evidence and argumentation) of the compliance with the standard....

  • Piotr Szczuko dr hab. inż.

    Piotr Szczuko received his M.Sc. degree in 2002. His thesis was dedicated to examination of correlation phenomena between perception of sound and vision for surround sound and digital image. He finished Ph.D. studies in 2007 and one year later completed a dissertation "Application of Fuzzy Rules in Computer Character Animation" that received award of Prime Minister of Poland. His interests include: processing of audio and video, computer...

  • Development of a Response Assessment Tool for a Floating Dock System

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    • J. Zhang
    • L. Li
    • M. C. Ong
    • O. El Beshbichi
    • A. Kniat

    - Year 2022

    Docking operations of ships require a response assessment to ensure structural and personnel safety. Environmental loads and improper ballast adjustments are the main threats to the docking operations. They can cause severe structural damages and stability loss to a floating dock system which includes a floating dock and a docked vessel, even if the velocities of the dock and the vessel are very low during the docking process....

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  • Deep CNN based decision support system for detection and assessing the stage of diabetic retinopathy

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    - Year 2018

    The diabetic retinopathy is a disease caused by long-standing diabetes. Lack of effective treatment can lead to vision impairment and even irreversible blindness. The disease can be diagnosed by examining digital color fundus photographs of retina. In this paper we propose deep learning approach to automated diabetic retinopathy screening. Deep convolutional neural networks (CNN) - the most popular kind of deep learning algorithms...

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  • Smart Virtual Product Development (SVPD) System to Support Product Inspection Planning in Industry 4.0

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    - Procedia Computer Science - Year 2020

    This paper presents the idea of supporting product inspection planning process during the early stages of product life cycle for the experts working on product development. Aim of this research is to assist a collaborative product development process by using Smart Virtual Product Development (SVPD) system, which is based on Set of Experience Knowledge Structure (SOEKS) and Decisional DNA (DDNA). The proposed system is developed...

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  • Conception of interactive information and decision support system for urban and industrial air management

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    - Year 2012

    This article presents the conception of interactive system for air quality management.

  • An Analysis of Airline GRI and SDG Reporting

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    - Year 2024

    This study aims to increase our understanding of the Global Reporting Initiative’s (GRI) topic-specific disclosures and the sustainable development goals (SDGs) addressed in the global passenger airline industry’s sustainability reporting (SR). Based on a quantitative content analysis of the industry’s sustainability reports from the financial year 2019 (FY19), this study reveals that airlines focused more on reporting environmental...

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  • Assurance Case Patterns On-line Catalogue

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    - Year 2017

    Assurance case is an evidence-based argument demonstrating that a given property of a system (e.g. safety, security) is assured. Assurance cases are developed for high integrity systems, as in many industry domains such argu-ment is explicitly required by regulations. Despite the fact that each assurance case is unique, several reusable argument patterns have been identified and pub-lished. This paper reports work on development...

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  • Knowledge management - decision support in a workflow system

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    Przedstawiono nowatorski model zarzadzania wiedza w procesach decyzyjnych w systemie opartym na przeplywie ''workflow''.

  • Modern Management Challenges of Floating Housing Development

    The aim of the article is to identify factors that determine the development and management models of floating housing development in the analyzed countries. The author indicates factors determining the possibility of settling on bodies of water in Poland, and restrictions connected with this type of development, as well as the need for specialized persons and companies ready to meet the challenges of the modern management of hydro-technical...

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  • Internationalization and Quality Assurance in Higher Education

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    - Management - Year 2022

    Internationalization is an inevitable phenomenon among all contemporary higher education institutions (HEIs) in a globalizing world. It is the driving force for development and progress. In course of the last 30 years, it became an inevitable element of HE management. However, it carries along a number of risks, pitfalls, and organizational challenges. To hedge those, quality assurance (QA) is called to the stage. HEIs therefore...

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  • Using Evidence-based Arguments to Support Dependability Assurance - Experiences and Challenges

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    The presentation introduces to the problem of evidence-based arguments and their applications. Then, based on the experiences collected during development and commercial deployment of a concrete solution to this problem (system NOR-STA) we overview selected challenges and the ways of addressing them.

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  • Review of sewage sludge management: standards, regulations and analytical methods

    This article presents the most popular methods of sewage sludge management and associated unit operations and processes referring to them. The most popular methods are: Reclamation and adaptation of lands to specific needs; plant cultivation not intended for consumption or for production of food; usage in agriculture; usage in building; recovery of phosphorus, rare earth metals or fats and usage in industry; producing combustible...

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  • Quality Assurance of Educational Processes as the Foundation of the Quality Management System in Gdansk University of Technology

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    - Year 2011

    W opracowaniu przedstawiono rozwojowy model systemu zarządzania jakością w dużej uczelni technicznej. Punktem wyjścia dla tego projektowania tego modelu jest wewnętrzny system zapewnienia jakości kształcenia oparty na wytycznych ENQA a kluczowym czynnikiem wspierającym systemowo prowadzone zarządzanie wiedzą oraz samoocena.

  • Cognition and Decisional Experience to Support Safety Management in Workplaces

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    Hazards are present in all workplaces and can result in serious injuries, short and long-term illnesses, or death. In this context, management of safety is essential to ensure the occupational health of workers. Aiming to assist the safety management process, especially in industrial environments, a Cognitive Vision Platform for Hazard Control (CVP-HC) is proposed. This platform is a Cyber Physical system, capable of identifying...

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  • Supporting Cybersecurity Compliance Assessment of Industrial Automation and Control System Components

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    The chapter presents a case study demonstrating how security requirements of an Industrial Automation and Control System (IACS) component can be represented in a form of Protection Profile that is based on IEC 62443 standards and how compliance assessment of such component can be supported by explicitly representing a conformity argument in a form based on the OMG SACM meta-model. It is also demonstrated how an advanced argument...

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  • Aspect-Oriented Management of Service Requests for Assurance of High Performance and Dependability

    A new approach to service requests management in case of insufficient hardware resources is proposed. It is based on wide aspects of requests analysis and it assures reliable and fast access to priority services. Requests are analyzed for, among others, time of occurrence, category of user who made the request, type of service, current system load and hardware utilization. Deterministic but dynamic rules help to manage system load...

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  • Representing Process Characteristics to Increase Confidence in Assurance Case Arguments

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    An assurance case is a structured, evidence-based argument demonstrating that a safety or other quality objective of a high integrity system is assured. Assurance cases are required or recommended in many industry domains as a means to convince the regulatory bodies to allow commissioning of such system. To be convincing, an argument should address all potential doubts and thus cover numerous additional issues, including the processes...

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  • Experience-Based Decisional DNA (DDNA) to Support Product Development

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    - CYBERNETICS AND SYSTEMS - Year 2018

    Knowledge and experience are important requirements for product development. The aim of this paper is to propose a systematic approach for industrial product development. This approach uses smart knowledge management system comprising of Set of Experience Knowledge Structure and Decisional DNA (DDNA) along with Virtual Engineering Tools (Virtual engineering object, Virtual engineering process, and Virtual engineering factory)....

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  • Visual Management as the support in building the concept of continuous improvement in the enterprise

    The following article presents one of the selected tools of the Lean Management concept – visual management. This method enables enterprises to strengthen their process of continuous improvement. Due to the support of visual management, it is possible to manage information more effectively by the managerial board and to improve communication process within in the particular company. In the first part, the author describes the concept...

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  • A Novel Framework for Decision Support System in Human Resource Management

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    - Procedia Computer Science - Year 2020

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  • Knowledge-Based Management as the Key Success Factor for Research and Development Organizations

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    A key to achieving success in project organizations lies in exemplary management of processes within those organizations, while the ongoing projects are mainly characterized by their uniqueness. The situation is no different in commercial research and development organizations (R&D) where accuracy and repeatability of elementary processes guarantees efficient and productive realization of all enterprises. R&D organizations are...

  • International Journal of System Assurance Engineering and Management

    Journals

    ISSN: 0975-6809 , eISSN: 0976-4348