Akademia Ekonomiczna w Poznaniu

The Poznan University of Economics has approximately 15,000 students. It is considered to be one of the best universities of economics in Poland. The Department of Information Technology (DIT) is an organisational unit of the University.

It is composed of 10 members: 1 full professor, 2 associate professors, 6 permanent researchers and 1 administrative person. The research staffs have technical education in computer science and engineering. The head of DIT is Professor Wojciech Cellary.

The research interests of DIT are focused on different aspects of database technology including modelling, management, transactions, collaboration, distribution, heterogeneity, interoperability, versioning, and data visualisation. More precisely the research interests include the following:

Virtual reality: Modelling virtual reality in databases, providing persistency to virtual reality worlds, data visualisation in virtual reality, high level virtual reality languages;

Dataweb Technology and Database Infrastructure: Web access to databases, database web servers, web interfaces to databases, multiversion databases;

Collaborative Systems: Strategies of human co-operation over networks, database support for collaboration, data and transaction models for co-operative systems;

Interoperability Infrastructures: Describing metadata on the Web, providing semantic interoperability through metadata.

Intelligent Agents: Agents for finding, collecting and collating data on the net, database loading by intelligent agents;

Electronic Catalogues: Tools for the creation and dynamic adaptation of electronic catalogues, electronic market research, integrated access to multiple distributed heterogeneous electronic catalogues;

Professor Wojciech Cellary

Wojciech received the M.Sc., Ph.D. and Dr. Hab. degrees from the Technical University of Poznan in 1974, 1977 and 1981, respectively, and in 1989 he received the Professor title. Since 1996, he is with the Poznan University of Economics as the head of the Department of Information Technology. He was an invited professor at 6 European universities. He was leading twelve industrial projects concerning development of hardware and software of computer systems and their applications. He was serving as a consultant to Polish Ministries, several research institutes and governmental projects.

Krzysztof Walczak

Krzysztof received the MSc degree in Electronics and Telecommunication in 1992, and in Computer Science in 1994, both from the Technical University of Poznan. From 1992 to 1996, he was an assistant in the Franco-Polish School of New Information and Communication Technologies in Poznan. Since 1996, he is with the Department of Information Technology at the University of Economics at Poznan. His research interests concern mainly Virtual Reality systems, but also multimedia systems, Internet and intranet communication, and object-oriented databases.