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Year 2007
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50+ Innowacje
PublicationProjekt MAYDAY, realizowany w ramach Inicjatywy Wspólnotowej EQUAL, ma na celu stworzenie trwałych rozwiązań minimalizujących skutki dyskryminacji pracowników 50+ na rynku pracy ze względu na kwalifikacje niedostosowane do wymagań pracodawców. Celem tej monografii jest przedstawienie problematyki związanej z wdrażaniem procesów innowacyjnych w kontekście rezultatów projektu. Rozdział pierwszy pt.: "Informacje ogólne" stanowi wprowadzenie...
Year 2021
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A Comprehensive Investigation of Knowledge Management Publications
PublicationRecent trends in knowledge management (KM) have increasingly indicated a lack of agreement, integration and classification between different KM domains. As such, experts are inadequately equipped when attempting to classify KM into their specific areas that could effectively contribute to a technocratic approach behind the organizational strategy. This paper illustrates a method of classifying KM publications by using a scheme...
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A new multi-process collaborative architecture for time series classification
PublicationTime series classification (TSC) is the problem of categorizing time series data by using machine learning techniques. Its applications vary from cybersecurity and health care to remote sensing and human activity recognition. In this paper, we propose a novel multi-process collaborative architecture for TSC. The propositioned method amalgamates multi-head convolutional neural networks and capsule mechanism. In addition to the discovery...
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Abilities, Motivations, and Opportunities of Furloughed Employees in the Context of Covid-19: Preliminary Evidence From the UK
PublicationThe Covid-19 global pandemic is a crisis like no other, forcing governments to implement prolonged national lockdowns in an effort to limit the spread of the disease. As organizations aim to adapt and remain operational, employers can suspend or reduce work activity for events related to Covid-19 and claim government support to subsidize employee wages. In this way, some employees are placed on furlough (i.e., temporary unemployment)...
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Action Plan “Women”
PublicationEmployees of a company are not the first alternative coming into one’s mind when searching suitable successor for the business. Those belonging to the company’s management group are in many cases asked for their interest in being a successor, but the lower level an employee is in the hierarchy, the less probably he/she is inquired of his/her interest in becoming a successor. The contemporary entrepreneur may have had conflicts...
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Among Friends: The Role of Friendship in Alternative Organizations
PublicationFriendship, a mutual and profound relationship, permeates history of human culture and occurs in all social situations, including professional and informal human activities. In organizations, it develops through processes of communication and generates a communication culture of kindness and support. Organizational friendship enhances work engagement and satisfaction, as well as helps to promote individual ends. This article investigates...
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Book Review
PublicationActing over the last three decades as an Editor and Associate Editor for a number of international journals in the general area of cybernetics and AI, as well as a Chair and Co-Chair of numerous conferences in this field, I have had the exciting opportunity to closely witness and to be actively engaged in the stimulating research area of machine learning and its important augmentation with deep learning techniques and technologies. From...
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Cognitive Systems, Concepts, Processes, and Techniques for the Age of Industry 4.0
PublicationThe aim of this Guest Edition of Cybernetics and Systems is to present a wide-ranging scale of concepts and processes being currently researched, developed, and evaluated in real life settings in anticipation of incoming Industry 4.0 era. With the fourth industrial revolution expectation, the broad spectrum of cognitive approaches have emerged as an attempt to mimic and augment, in some way, human intelligence. Intelligence, in...
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Company versus consumer performance: does brand community identification foster brand loyalty and the consumer’s personal brand?
PublicationThis study investigates the effect of community identification in building brand loyalty (attitudinal and behavioural) and a personal brand via social networks. The proposed model explained the main community identification antecedents and how identification can lead to enhanced company and consumer performance. This study adopts the theoretical lens of uses and gratifications theory and identifies three motivational drivers of...
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Creating Shared Value by the University
PublicationPurpose Works that link creating shared value (CSV) with the university are arising, and there is a hope for a great future of this combination. The main problem with these works is that they are based on the wrong assumptions of what CSV is. The aim of the paper is to properly explain the concept of CSV and match it with university social responsibility (USR) at a strategic level. Design/methodology/approach A literature review...
Year 2013
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A Concept of Using Knowledge Models to Secure Intellectual Capital in Enterprise
PublicationWithout a doubt, knowledge has become the most important resource for all companies in the world. Knowledge extended of our own observations and practice is being called experience. With the increase of knowledge and gained experience, the individual becomes more and more valuable employee in terms of business. The above mentioned knowledge can be gained only by self-improvement, which requires time and other necessary elements...
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A proposal for a knowledge market based on quantity and quality of knowledge
PublicationThe paper proposes an autonomous market environment in which it is possible to trade knowledge based on its quantity and quality.
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Agents in Simulation of Cyberattacks to Evaluate Security of Critical Infrastructures
PublicationIn the last years critical infrastructures have become highly dependent on the information technologies and exposed to cyberattacks. Because the effects of the attacks can be detrimental, it is crucial to comprehensively asses the security of the infrastructures' information systems. This chapter describes MAlSim - the simulator of malicious software based on software agents, developed for the needs of a testbed for critical infrastructures...
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ALLYING SYSTEM THINKING AND SET OF EXPERIENCE KNOWLEDGE STRUCTURE
PublicationThe approach of system thinking is completely different from traditional forms of analysis. Even the ancient meaning of word analysis is “a breaking up”. Set of Experience Knowledge Structure is an atomic record of decision event that can be grouped together and form some form of decision DNA of an organization. The question that this paper is trying to answer in how those concepts can be merged.
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Bridging challenges of clinical decision support systems with a semantic approach. A case study on breast cancer
PublicationThe integration of Clinical Decision Support Systems (CDSS) in nowadays clinical environments has not been fully achieved yet. Although numerous approaches and technologies have been proposed since 1960, there are still open gaps that need to be bridged. In this work we present advances from the established state of the art, overcoming some of the most notorious reported difficulties in: (i) automating CDSS, (ii) clinical workflow...
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Cost assessment of computer security activities
PublicationComprehensive cost-benefit analysis plays a crucial role in the decision-making process when it comes to investments in information security solutions. The cost of breaches needs to be analysed in the context of spending on protection measures. However, no methods exist that facilitate the quick and rough prediction of true expenditures on security protection systems. Rafal Leszczyna of Gdansk University of Technology presents...
Year 2020
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A Framework for Enhancing Supplier Selection Process by Using SOEKS and Decisional DNA
PublicationAbstract. Supplier selection process is one of the significant stages in supply chain management for industrial manufactured products. It plays an integral role in the success of any manufacturing organization and is an important part starting right from selecting raw material to dispatch of finished products. This paper contributes to enhance the supplier selection process by proposing a multi-criteria decision making framework...
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Assessing Industry 4.0 Features Using SWOT Analysis
PublicationThis paper assesses some features of industry 4.0 by using SWOT analysis that affects the adoption and implementation of industry 4.0. The paper identifies the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats related to industry 4.0. By the consideration of these four groups of factors, the industrial practitioners can understand how to implement industry 4.0. Moreover, industrial practitioners can use the strengths/opportunities...
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Badanie jakościowe zachowań w organizacji
PublicationPublikacja jest zbiorem specjalistycznych tekstów przygotowanych przez polskich psychologów pracy, organizacji oraz zachowań konsumenckich. To rezultat współdziałania ekspertów z wielu dziedzin, których łączy ciekawość zachowań ludzkich w przestrzeni biznesu. Publikacja prezentuje psychologię biznesu szeroko, zgodnie z aktualnymi programami kształcenia w prestiżowych ośrodkach, ale zakorzenia ją w polskich realiach, uwzględniając...
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Barriers to and Facilitators of Scientific Productivity: A Case Study from Polish Technical University
PublicationScientific productivity plays an essential role in the creation of innovation and it stimulates social and economic growth. This study aimed to identify the barriers to and facilitators of scientific productivity in engineering and technology field, as perceived from the perspective of academic managers. Along with quality approach, the study relied on semi-structured interviews with managing bodies, i.e. seven deans and deputy...
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Beyond quid pro quo: good soldiers and characteristics of their helping behaviours
PublicationPurpose – Good soldiers are people who engage in citizenship behaviours “to do good” instead of “to look good”. The purpose of this article is to explore the motivations behind and the specific characteristics of behaviours of the good soldiers in the context of work using social exchange theory (SET) as a theoretical framework. Design/methodology/approach – 47 dyadic interviews with 94 individuals from three organisations...
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Burnout as a State: Random-Intercept Cross-Lagged Relationship Between Exhaustion and Disengagement in a 10-Day Study
PublicationBackground: Burnout has been traditionally seen as a chronic and stable state in response to prolonged stress. However, measures of momentary burnout are not well established, even though the within-person approach suggests that the symptoms of burnout may vary from day to day for the same employee. The aim of this study is to examine the daily inter- and intra-personal variability of the symptoms of burnout and the cross-lagged relationship...
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Burnout as a State: Random-Intercept Cross-Lagged Relationship Between Exhaustion and Disengagement in a 10-Day Study [Response to Letter].
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Burnout as a State: Random-Intercept Cross-Lagged Relationship Between Exhaustion and Disengagement in a 10-Day Study [Response to Letter]
PublicationWe are writing in response to the Letter to the Editor by Block, Bair, and Carillo regarding our study, which took a multilevel approach to examine cross-lagged and co-existing relationships between exhaustion and disengagement, measured daily for ten consecutive working days using the Oldenburg Burnout Inventory (OLBI). We assessed the job burnout symptoms using only eight items, all of them worded negatively. Following Block,...
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Corporate social responsibility practices incomes and outcomes: Stakeholders' pressure, culture, employee commitment, corporate reputation, and brand performance. A Polish–German cross‐country study
PublicationThis study aims to compare employee perception of corporate social responsibility (CSR) practice incomes and outcomes in the construction industry in Poland and Germany. It proposes a model that examines the influence of stakeholder pressure, culture, and CSR practices on company brand performance, reputation, and employee identification. The findings suggest that the structure of relationships varies for project‐managed construction...
Year 2022
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A New Critical Risk on the Block: Cyber Risks as an Example of Technical Knowledge Risks in Organizations
PublicationThe breakout of the COVID-19 pandemic has intensified the appearance of many additional technical knowledge risks in organizations. Cyber risks in particular are becoming a great challenge for organizations. At the same time, academic research on cyber risks, their costs, consequences and ability of overcoming them is still scarce and fragmented. In order to fill this gap, the paper is aimed to identify different types of cyber...
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Adding Interpretability to Neural Knowledge DNA
PublicationThis paper proposes a novel approach that adds the interpretability to Neural Knowledge DNA (NK-DNA) via generating a decision tree. The NK-DNA is a promising knowledge representation approach for acquiring, storing, sharing, and reusing knowledge among machines and computing systems. We introduce the decision tree-based generative method for knowledge extraction and representation to make the NK-DNA more explainable. We examine...
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AMO model for neuro-inclusive remote workplace
PublicationPurpose The aim of this article is to extend current debates on organizational equality, diversity and inclusion to a consideration of neurodivergence in the remote workplace context. Design/methodology/approach Drawing on the ability, motivation, and opportunity (AMO) model and an emerging strength-based approach to neurodiversity, this conceptual paper integrates research on neurodiversity at work and remote working to provide...
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An Analysis of Sustainability Reporting Practices of the Global Airline Industry
PublicationSustainability reporting (SR) has become a standard practice for many organisations worldwide. The purpose of this paper is to explore and develop our understanding of the global airline industry’s SR practices. Content analysis was employed to map which reporting frameworks the global commercial airline industry has recently used to report their non-financial impacts. Additionally, comparisons were made in the application of SR...
Year 2019
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A Novel IoT-Perceptive Human Activity Recognition (HAR) Approach Using Multi-Head Convolutional Attention
PublicationTogether with fast advancement of the Internet of Things (IoT), smart healthcare applications and systems are equipped with increasingly more wearable sensors and mobile devices. These sensors are used not only to collect data, but also, and more importantly, to assist in daily activity tracking and analyzing of their users. Various human activity recognition (HAR) approaches are used to enhance such tracking. Most of the existing...
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A Set of Experience-Based Smart Synergy Security Mechanism in Internet of Vehicles
PublicationIn this article, we introduce a novel security mechanism, the Smart Synergy Security (3S). The mechanism uses the Set of Experience Knowledge Structure (SOEKS) and the synergy of security methods in different domains to provide the global optimal security strategy. The proposed strategy is taking into account the characteristics of information security (i.e. confidentiality, integrity, availability, controllability, and reviewability)...
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Benefit of the doubt approach to assessing the research performance of Australian universities
PublicationThis paper proposes a benefit of the doubt (BoD) approach to assess the research performance of 37 public Australian universities based on data from 2015. The primary activities of Higher Education institutions are teaching and research, but the prestige of a university depends mainly on the results of its research activities. The BoD method is rooted in the data envelopment analysis methodology, which enables the flexible and...
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Building collective intelligence through experience: a survey on the use of the KREM model
PublicationThis article presents a survey on the use of KREM, a generic knowledge-based framework for building collective intelligence through experience. After a discussion on the disadvantages of the traditional architecture used to deploy intelligent systems, the KREM architecture (Knowledge, Rules, Experience, Meta-Knowledge) is presented. The novelty of the proposal comes from the inclusion of the capitalisation of experience and the...
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Comparative Greenness Evaluation
PublicationGreenness of analytical procedure is multivariable aspect as many greenness criteria should be taken into consideration. On the other hand, modern analytical chemistry offers dozens of analytical procedures, based on different sample preparation and final determination techniques that are used for the determination of a given analyte in a given matrix. For such complex decision-making processes, multi-criteria decision analysis...
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Computational collective intelligence for enterprise information systems
PublicationCollective intelligence is most often understood as a kind of intelligence which arises on the basis of a group (collective) of autonomous unites (people, systems) which is taskoriented. There are two important aspects of an intelligent collective: The cooperation aspect and the competition aspect (Levy 1997). The first of them means the possibility for integrating the decisions made by the collective members for creating the decision of...
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Context-Aware Indexing and Retrieval for Cognitive Systems Using SOEKS and DDNA
PublicationVisual content searching, browsing and retrieval tools have been a focus area of interest as they are required by systems from many different domains. Context-based, Content-Based, and Semantic-based are different approaches utilized for indexing/retrieving, but have their drawbacks when applied to systems that aim to mimic the human capabilities. Such systems, also known as Cognitive Systems, are still limited in terms of processing...
Year 2017
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A Semiautomatic Experience-Based Tool for Solving Product Innovation Problem
PublicationIn this paper we present the idea of Smart Innovation Engineering (SIE) System and its implementation methodology. The SIE system is semi-automatic system that helps in carrying the process of product innovation. It collects the experiential knowledge from the formal decisional events. This experiential knowledge is collected from the group of similar products having some common functions and features. The SIE system behaves like...
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Adding Intelligence to Cars Using the Neural Knowledge DNA
PublicationIn this paper we propose a Neural Knowledge DNA based framework that is capable of learning from the car’s daily operation. The Neural Knowledge DNA is a novel knowledge representation and reasoning approach designed to support discovering, storing, reusing, improving, and sharing knowledge among machines and computing devices. We examine our framework for drivers' classification based on their driving behaviour. The experimental...
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Assessment and Optimization of Air Monitoring Network for Smart Cities with Multicriteria Decision Analysis
PublicationEnvironmental monitoring networks need to be designed in efficient way, to minimize costs and maximize the information granted by their operation. Gathering data from monitoring stations is also the essence of Smart Cities. Agency of Regional Air Quality Monitoring in the Gdańsk Metropolitan Area (pol. ARMAAG) was assessed in terms of its efficiency to obtain variety of information. The results on one-month average concentrations...
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Charakterystyka powiązań sieciowych przedsiębiorstw w aspekcie zarządzania strategicznego
PublicationW artykule przedstawiono wyniki analizy literatury w zakresie identyfikacji możliwych powiązań sieciowych przedsiębiorstw. Zwrócono uwagę na powiązania sieciowe w aspekcie doskonalenia zarządzania na poziomie strategicznym. W oparciu o przeprowadzone analizy literatury oraz analizę przypadków z praktyki gospodarczej sformułowano wytyczne do zarządzania strategicznego w przedsiębiorstwie funkcjonującym w sieci
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Client co-production in knowledge-intensive business services (KIBS): Case study analysis
PublicationPurpose: This paper aims to explore the topic of client co-production in knowledge-intensive business services (KIBS). The paper first sketches a theoretical background and reviews previous studies on factors affecting successful client co-production in such companies and then examines these factors via case study research among a small KIBS company and its five customers. Methodology: The paper is based on an in-depth analysis...
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Company Culture, Knowledge Sharing and Organizational Performance. The Employee’s Perspective
PublicationKnowledge sharing, as a basic prerequisite for knowledge creation, is a dynamic social process characterized by profound human interactions. The process of knowledge sharing can be supported by organizational culture which is a set of values and norms giving identity to each enterprise. As a valuable element of intellectual capital, organizational culture contributes to achieving strategic business goals. The purpose of this article...
Year 2016
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A standard analytical method as the common good and pollution abatement measure
PublicationA standard method can be considered as a common-good “resource,” and the solution to “the commons” problems usually lies in societal self-organization. The multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA) was applied to model complex phenomena, such as the standard selection for imidacloprid determination. In this process, the standard was self-selected by the analytical chemistry society. The results show that analytical chemistry is a...
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Budowania kapitału społecznego można się nauczyć
PublicationAutorzy wskazali zasadność rozszerzenia trzeciej misji uczelni o kształtowanie relacji z otoczeniem społecznym, w tym z organizacjami trzeciego sektora. Rozważania zilustrowano przykładami.
Year 2012
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A Survey of Ongoing Activities of Best Agers in latvia, Lithuania and Poland: The main Results and lessons from Germany
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Advancing Knowledge Quality and Quantity in Knowledge Markets
PublicationZaproponowano modelowe podejscie do oceny jakosci i ilosci wiedzy na powstajacych rynkach wiedzy. Przedstawiony model oparty jest na systemach wieloagentowych.
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An example of the fuzzy internet mortgage market sub-models implementation
PublicationPrzedstawiono implementacje rozmytego modelu do wspomagania zarządzania internetowym rynkiem kredytów hipotecznych
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Applying fuzzy logic to decisional DNA digital TV
PublicationWprowadzono wspomaganie oparte na logice rozmytej do modelu telewizji wykorzystujacej decyzyjny DNA.
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Business process modelling and simulation using formal experience record
PublicationZaproponowano modelowanie procesow biznesowych w oparciu o formalny zapis doswiadzcen. Przedtswiono softwerowa implementacje zaproponowego modelu.
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Centers of Excellence - initial conception
PublicationIn literature, the most basic definition of centers of excellence is " CoE is a team of people that promote collaboration and use best practices around a specific focus area to drive business result". More broadly, center of excellence is defined as " a premier organization providing an exceptional product or service in an assigned sphere of expertise and within a specific field of technology, business, or government, consistent...
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Conditions of the fuzzy internet mortgage market submodels implementation
PublicationPrzedstawiono submodele internetowego rynku pozyczek w ujeciu rozmytym. Omowiono warunki stosowania poszczegolnych modeli.
Year 2002
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ABC
PublicationAutor dostrzega konieczność podejmowania prób adaptacji nowoczesnych narzędzi stosowanych w biznesie do oceny efektywności funkcjonowania instytucji akademickich. W artykule wskazano możliwość wykorzystania do tego celu rachunku kosztów działań ABC. Podstawowymi warunkami wdrożenia tej metody jest przekonanie środowiska akademickiego a zwłaszcza kierownictwa akademickiego uczelni o celowości przeprowadzenia szczegółowej analizy...
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Advances in soft modelling techniques and decision support
PublicationPostępy w technikach miękkiego modelowania i wspomagania decyzji. W edytorialu przybliżono najnowsze osiągnięcia w zakresie miękkiego modelowania opartego na teorii zbiorów rozmytych i systemów z bazami wiedzy. Omówiono postępy teoretyczne w tej dziedzinie, jak również obszary obecnych i przyszłych zastosowań.
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Analiza Big Picture i mapa Systemu. Jak uzyskać informacje o procesie i możliwościach jego doskonalenia.
PublicationPrzedsiębiorstwa podejmujące próby modelowania systemów często zapominają o tym, że podstawą budowy modelu systemu czy procesu jest rzetelne rozpoznanie istniejącego stanu systemu i czynników go warunkujących. Dlatego też wiele tych prób kończy się niepowodzeniem. Opisany w niniejszym rozdziale sposób analizy systemu pozwala uzyskać informacje, które staną się elementami wejściowymi dla procesu modelowania skierowanego na dowolnie...
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Applications of soft modelling and intelligent techniques
PublicationW edytorialu omówiono szeroko obecne praktyczne zastosowania modelowania miękkiego oraz technik inteligentnych, rozumianych jako takie techniki, które potrafią wspomagać podejmowanie decyzji w zmiennych warunkach otoczenia.
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Atrybuty społeczeństwa informatycznego w zrównoważonym rozwoju i ich wykorzystanie w zarządzaniu.
PublicationCzym jest społeczeństwo informacyjne i na czym polega jego doniosła rola w gospodarce XXI wieku to pytania, które zadajemy sobie w Polsce na początku nowego wieku. Definicja tego pojęcia zapewne przekracza możliwości wielu dziedzin nauki, które w mniejszym lub większym stopniu próbują nam przybliżyć ten problem. Niemniej jednak to z czym nam kojarzy się rozwinięte społeczeństwo informacyjne w sposób bardzo ogólny, to pewien...
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Conceptual system development in a concurrent environment
PublicationW artykule omówiono możliwości wspomagania jednego z najważniejszych obszarów projektowania, a mianowicie projektowania koncepcyjnego. Rozważania te odniesiono do otoczenia inżynierii wspozadaniowej, co dodatkowo skomplikowano problemy decyzyjne podejmowane na tym etapie projektowania. Zaproponowano szereg elementów wspomagania projektowania koncepcyjnego ze szczególnym uwzględnieniem możliwości praktycznej implementacji takiego...
Year 2023
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Adaptive Dynamical Systems Modelling of Transformational Organizational Change with Focus on Organizational Culture and Organizational Learning
PublicationTransformative Organizational Change becomes more and more significant both practically and academically, especially in the context of organizational culture and learning. However computational modeling and a formalization of organizational change and learning processes are still largely unexplored. This paper aims to provide an adaptive network model of transformative organizational change and translate a selection of organizational...
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Algorytmizacja tworzenia i dystrybucji treści medialnych a doświadczenie liminalne i zawodowa tożsamość dziennikarska
PublicationW cyfrowym środowisku współczesnych mediów algorytmy mogą tworzyć tekstowe i wizualne treści dziennikarskie oraz wiele wersji tego samego artykułu z uwzględnieniem potrzeb poszczególnych odbiorców/użytkowników . Algorytmizacja dziennikarskiej pracy jest coraz chętniej wykorzystywana w zarządzaniu organizacjami mediów, a analizy danych o czytelnikach, widzach i słuchaczach decydują o podejmowanych tematach zastępując tradycyjnego...
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Compact global association based adaptive routing framework for personnel behavior understanding
PublicationPersonnel behavior understanding under complex scenarios is a challenging task for computer vision. This paper proposes a novel Compact model, which we refer to as CGARPN that incorporates with Global Association relevance and Adaptive Routing Pose estimation Network. Our framework firstly introduces CGAN backbone to facilitate the feature representation by compressing the kernel parameter space compared with typical algorithms,...
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Computational Analysis of Transformational Organisational Change with Focus on Organisational Culture and Organisational Learning: An Adaptive Dynamical Systems Modeling Approach
PublicationTransformative Organisational Change becomes more and more significant both practically and academically, especially in the context of organisational culture and learning. However computational modeling and formalization of organisational change and learning processes are still largely unexplored. This chapter aims to provide an adaptive network model of transformative organisational change and translate a selection of organisational...
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Computational Simulation of the Effects of Different Culture Types and Leader Qualities on Mistake Handling and Organisational Learning
PublicationThis chapter investigates computationally the following research hypotheses: (1) Higher flexibility and discretion in organisational culture results in better mistake management and thus better organisational learning, (2) Effective organisational learning requires a transformational leader to have both high social and formal status and consistency, and (3) Company culture and leader’s behavior must align for the best learning...
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Connected early-career experiences of equality in academia during the pandemic and beyond: Our liminal journey
PublicationIn this paper, we draw on our subjective experiences as two female early-career academics during the global COVID-19 pandemic. While we acknowledge that the pandemic had negative implications for many female scholars due to compulsory telework or increased family responsibilities, we also want to shed light on the empowering experiences shaped by collegial support that became an important part of our pandemic story. We build on...
Year 2011
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Age management in the Baltic Sea Region
PublicationThis chapter takes a broader view on the issues connected with age management. In its first part, some demographic processes in the European Union countries are described. Those processes contribute to the ageing of the society and an increasing need for age management at various levels. Furthermore, situation in selected Baltic Sea Region countries is presented. In the next section, age management from organizational perspective...
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Bariery w zarządzaniu międzykulturowym. Perspektywa filii zagranicznych korporacji transnarodowych
PublicationGłównym celem tej książki jest poszerzenie wiedzy na temat zarządzania międzykulturowego w filiach zagranicznych korporacji transnarodowych w aspekcie barier kulturowych.Główne obszary tematyczne to:zarządzanie międzykulturowe jako dyscyplina badawcza - jego definicja, fazy rozwoju, znaczenie i przedmiot zainteresowań,klasyfikacja barier kulturowych, skuteczne mechanizmy ich przełamywania, w tym metody adaptacji w otoczeniu wielokulturowym,model...
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Barriers of cross-cultural interactions according to the research findings
PublicationThe aims of this article are to label major cultural barriers and to present results of empirical findings referring to barriers to intercultural interactions in foreign subsidiaries of transnational corporations (TNCs). The qualitative research was conducted in TNCs'foreign subsidiaries operating in Poland in winter 2009/2010. The article describes how respondents perceive the problems in cooperation with foreigners, their sources,...
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Challenges for universities in the face of knowledge-based economy - directions for higher education institutions in the Baltic Sea Region
PublicationThe aim of this paper is to present new challenges that are faced by universities in the knowledge-based economy. There are several phenomena that can presently be observed like the need for life-long learning or interdisciplinary approach, and universities should prepare their graduates for those challenges. One of the crucial questions that universities need to ask is how to teach and what to teach. Knowledge becomes obsolete...
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Challenges for universities in the face of the knowledge-based economy - Directions for higher education institutions in the Baltic Sea Region
PublicationThe aim of this paper is to present new challenges that are faced by universities in the knowledge-based economy. There are several phenomena that can presently be observed like the need for life-long learning or interdisciplinary approach, and universities should prepare their graduates for those challenges. One of the crucial questions that universities need to ask is how to teach and what to teach. Knowledge becomes obsolete...
Year 2004
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Akredytacja i co dalej
PublicationAutor wskazuje, że najbliższe lata nie będą łatwe dla wielu kierunków studiów, w tym również tych, które uzyskały pozytywną oceną Państwowej Komisji Akredytacyjnej i spoczną na laurach. Gra o pozyskanie kandydatów na studia bowiem trwa, a rynek usług edukacyjnych jest coraz bardziej konkurencyjny.
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Chatter-boty - nowe narzędzie w e-commerce
PublicationCelem artykułu jest przedstawienie technologii chatter-bot, czyli tzw. wirtualnych konsultantów - systemów informatycznych, które potrafią odpowiadać na pytania zadawane w języku naturalnym. Zaprezentowano obszary zastosowania botów w biznesie oraz przegląd światowego rynku systemów charter-bot.
Year 2009
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Aktywizacja zawodowa osób w wieku 50+ - szanse i zagrożenia
PublicationKonieczność aktywizacji starszych pracowników wynika bezpośrednio z prognoz demograficznych. Przyczyn niskiej aktywności zawodowej starszych pracowników jest wiele. Aby pomóc osobom 50+ w znalezieniu lub utrzymaniu pracy, należy stosować jednocześnie różne instrumenty oddziaływania: prawne, finansowe, edukacyjne, psychologiczne.
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Analiza SWOT jako metoda oceny pozycji konkurencyjnej apteki
PublicationW artykule opisana jest metoda analizy SWOT i jej zastosowanie w zarządzaniu apteką.
Year 2005
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Algorytm porządkowania tablic wynikowych informacji statystycznych
PublicationW artykule przedstawiono algorytm filtrowania danych służący do porządkowania tablic wynikowych. Celem artykułu jest zdefiniowanie miary ilości informacji, tak aby możliwe stało się wyselekcjonowanie takich tablic, które niosą największy ładunek informacyjny - największą ilość informacji. Autorzy skoncentrowali się na badaniu ilości informacji strukturalnej zawartej w tablicach statystycznych. Zadaniem proponowanej miary ilości...
Year 2024
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An Adaptive Network Model for a Double Bias Perspective on Learning from Mistakes within Organizations
PublicationAlthough making mistakes is a crucial part of learning, it is still often being avoided in companies as it is considered as a shameful incident. This goes hand in hand with a mindset of a boss who dominantly believes that mistakes usually have negative consequences and therefore avoids them by only accepting simple tasks. Thus, there is no mechanism to learn from mistakes. Employees working for and being influenced by such a boss...
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An Analysis of Airline GRI and SDG Reporting
PublicationThis 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...
Year 2014
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Analiza dochodów z udziału we wpływach z podatku dochodowego od osób fizycznych w gminach województwa pomorskiego
PublicationArtykuł poświęcony jest analizie dochodów z tytułu udziału w podatku dochodowym od osób fizycznych. Badanie zawężono do szczebla gminnego województwa pomorskiego i lat 2009-2012. Część teoretyczna poświęcona jest charakterystyce dochodów gmin, głównie dochodów własnych. Tam również przeprowadzono dyskusję dotyczącą przesłanek i przyczyn przyporządkowania wpływów z PIT do dochodów własnych oraz przedstawiono wady takiego rozwiązania....
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Application of composite indicators and nonparametric methods to evaluate and improve the efficiency of the technical universities
PublicationPublicly funded universities, like commercial organizations are obliged to ensure their efficiency. This article presents a model to measure and assess the relative efficiency of technical universities. The analysis was performed using publically available data from 2011 for 18 universities using the Composite Indicators method and the SBM Data Envelopment Analysis model. Fourteen indicators for efficiency were defined in the five...
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Application of IT tools in Educational Project Dissemination – Example of the INNOCASE Project
PublicationThe chapter presents innovative approaches (based on IT) to educational project dissemination. The appearance of the Internet and various tools based on it allowed using new methods and channels of getting to target groups and project beneficiaries. The chapter describes a great deal of dissemination means based on IT tools that are available to contemporary project manager of an educational project. These tools might be applied...
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Bio-inspired Decisional DNA in Machinas and other Man-made Systems: The Way Forward
PublicationArtificial bio-inspired intelligent techniques and systems supporting smart, knowledge-based solutions of real world problems which are currently researched very extensively by research teams around the world, have enormous potential to enhance automation of decision making and problem solving for a number of diverse areas including design, manufacturing, Information Technology (IT), social communities of practice, and economics...
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Conditions of Best Practice Transfer - Results of the Quick IGA Project
PublicationThe Quick IGA project supports the development of working and organizational structures in SMEs in order to increase the employment rate of women and elderly and concurrently increases innovation capacities. One of the main project’s tasks was to find best practices from SMEs in Nordic countries in that field (in the first step) and identify (in second step) possibilities and conditions of their implementation in SMEs in other...
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Continuous learning as a method of raising qualifications – the perspective of workers, employers and training organizations
PublicationContinuous learning is discussed in strategic documents of Poland and the European Union. In Poland, the idea of continuous learning is not very popular. However, in the context of strong competition in the labour market and the progressive globalization processes, the skills issue takes on new meaning — both for employees and employers. In order to adapt skills to labour market needs it is necessary to conduct adequate studies...
Year 2015
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Analiza kultury organizacyjnej wybranej placówki sieci sklepów sportowych - raport z badań
PublicationW artykule podjęto próbę diagnozy kultury organizacyjnej wybranej placówki sieci handlowej branży artykułów sportowych, posługując się metodą wartości konkurujących zaproponowaną przez Kima Camerona i Roberta Quinna, która pozwala na „pomiar” istniejącej i oczekiwanej kultury organizacyjnej. Celem opracowania jest poszukiwanie odpowiedzi na pytania, jakie działania można podjąć, aby kultura organizacyjna wybranej firmy stała się...
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Applying Decisional DNA to Internet of Things: The Concept and Initial Case Study
PublicationIn this article, we present a novel approach utilizing Decisional DNA to help the Internet of Things capture decisional events and reuse them for decision making in future operations. The Decisional DNA is a domain-independent, standard and flexible knowledge representation structure that allows its domains to acquire, store, and share experiential knowledge and formal decision events in an explicit way. We apply this approach...
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Approaching Secure Industrial Control Systems
PublicationThis study presents a systematic approach to secure industrial control systems based on establishing a business case followed by the development of a security programme. To support these two fundamental activities the authors propose a new method for security cost estimation and a security assessment scheme. In this study they explain the cost evaluation technique and illustrate with a case study concerning the assessment of the...
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Biznes w środowisku globalnym
PublicationCelem artykułu jest zwrócenie uwagi na elementy biznesu globalnego istotne w procesie podejmowania strategicznych decyzji. W pracy przedstawiono istotę procesu globalizacji wraz z charakterystyką biznesu globalnego i jego otoczenia. Podkreślono znaczenie nowych strategicznych form zarządzania związanych z budowaniem globalnych sieci zależności w dynamicznym środowisku konkurencyjnym bazującym na wiedzy i innowacjach.
Year 2008
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Analiza przydatności wybranych algorytmów opartych na ewolucji populacji do szeregowania zadań produkcyjnych
PublicationW pracy omówiono konstrukcję trzech algorytmów opartych na ewolucji populacji: ewolucyjnego, uczenia populacji i mrówkowego do szeregowania zadań produkcyjnych. Zaprezentowano wyniki eksperymentu dla trzech trudnych obliczeniowo problemów deterministycznych. Na podstawie otrzymanych wyników przeanalizowano przydatność przedstawionych metod do szeregowania zadań.
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Budowa przewagi konkurencyjnej regionu na przykładzie Regionalnej Strategii Innowacji dla województwa pomorskiego - RIS-P
PublicationArtykuł przedstawia i omawia główne założenia i kierunki działań zawarte w strategii innowacji dla województwa pomorskiego z punktu widzenia budowy przewagi konkurencyjnej. Rozważania poprzedzono analizami na temat interpretacji i znaczenia we współczesnej gospodarce następujących pojęć: konkurencyjność, przewaga konkurencyjna, innowacje, a także miejsca i roli regionalnych strategii innowacji, stanowiących jeden z ważniejszych...
Year 2010
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Assessment of port facilities security in crisis management
PublicationZ punktu widzenia transportu międzynarodowego oraz przemysłowego charakteru systemu portowego, bezpieczeństwo obiektów portowych stanowi ważny element zarówno w zarządzaniu strategicznym portów morskich, jak również element ogólnej koncepcji zarządzania kryzysowego w ujęciu lokalnym, regionalnym, krajowym i międzynarodowym. W celu zapewnienia bezpieczeństwa portów morskich, muszą być prowadzone działania w celu przygotowania administracji...
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Autorytet i umiejętności pomogą w zarządzaniu
PublicationArtykuł omawia znaczenie autorytetu i umiejętności w pracy kierownika.
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Barriers of Cross-cultural Interactions According to the Research Findings
PublicationThe aim of this article is to label major cultural barriers and to present results of empiricalfindings referring to barriers to intercultural interactions in foreign subsidiaries oftransnational corporations (TNCs). The qualitative research was conducted in TNCs'foreign subsidiaries operating in Poland in the winter of 2009/2010. The articledescribes how the respondents perceived the problems in cooperation with foreigners,defines...
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Bezpośrednie inwestycje zagraniczne a czynniki kulturowe
PublicationCelem artykułu jest analiza teorii bezpośrednich inwestycji zagranicznych (BIZ) pod kątem stopnia, w jakim uwzględniają czynniki kulturowe w wyjaśnieniu tej formy internacjonalizacji. Na początku zdefiniowane zostało pojęcie BIZ. Następnie przeprowadzono przegląd teorii BIZ. Zwrócono uwagę, iż najpełniej uwarunkowania kulturowe analizowane są w zmodyfikowanej wersji koncepcji produkcji międzynarodowej oraz tzw. modelu uppsalskim....
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Budowanie relacji partnerskich
PublicationArtykuł opisuje rzemieślniczą sztukę budowania relacji partnerskich na polskich uczelniach. W tym celu posłużono się doświadczeniami Politechniki Gdańskiej - opracowano trójkąt relacji partnerskich pod kątem braku relacji partnerskich pomiędzy poszczególnymi grupami relacji uczelnianych: "Obserwując zmiany zachodzące w społeczeństwie można zauważyć, iż wśród ludzi wzrasta świadomość znaczenia dobrych relacji wzajemnych. Trend ten...
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Conceptual fuzzy model of the polish internet mortgage market
PublicationThe aim of this paper is to present the conceptual structure of basic fuzzy model representing Polish Internet mortgage market. The paper starts with introduction describing the market complexities and challenges, and description of previously created rule based model. Then the steps of the process of proposed model fuzzyfication are presented. Final part of the paper consists of conclusions and directions for future research.
Year 2003
Year 2018
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Be fearless: Positive affect as a mediator between venturesomeness and self-efficacy in future entrepreneurs and managers
PublicationIntroduction and objectives Self-efficacy, personality and different affect states in entrepreneurs and managers are important factors for effectiveness and well-being. The aim of the study was to examine in young adults during entrepreneurship-related education, the relationships between venturesomeness and self-efficacy, and the mediating effects of positive affect and positive emotions (joviality, self-assurance, attentiveness)...
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Celebrities’ personal brand authenticity in social media: an application in the context of football top-players. The Robert Lewandowski case
PublicationThe aim of the study is to explore personal brand authenticity in social media through sentiment analysis. A survey has been conducted in the context of football players with respect to Robert Lewandowski – the most valuable Polish football-celebrity brand. Authors first assess antecedents of his brand authenticity basing on an international sample of social media users, made of 219 cases from 22 countries (intentionally excluding...
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Cognition and Decisional Experience to Support Safety Management in Workplaces
PublicationHazards 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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Community of Practice for Product Innovation Towards the Establishment of Industry 4.0
PublicationThe aim of this paper is to present the necessity of formulating the Community of Practice for Product Innovation process based on Cyber-Physical Production Systems towards the establishment of Industry 4.0. At this developing phase of Industry 4.0, there is a need to define a clear and more realistic approach for implementation process of Cyber-Physical Production Systems in manufacturing industries. Today Knowledge Management...
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Contextual Knowledge to Enhance Workplace Hazard Recognition and Interpretation in a Cognitive Vision Platform
PublicationThe combination of vision and sensor data together with the resulting necessity for formal representations builds a central component of an autonomous Cyber Physical System for detection and tracking of laborers in workplaces environments. This system must be adaptable and perceive the environment as automatically as possible, performing in a variety of plants and scenes without the necessity of recoding the application for each...
Year 2006
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Concept of Regional Plans
PublicationW pracy omówiono zagadnienia związane z regionalnym planowaniem rozwoju przestrzeni aktywności morskich w miastach w celu osiągnięcia zrównoważonego rozwoju całego regionu.