Professor Zdzisław Pawlak Awards

Professor Zdzisław Pawlak (1926–2006) has been regarded as one of the fathers of Computer Science in Poland. His theory of Rough Sets has been one of the most recognizable contributions made by a scientist in Poland to the area of Artificial Intelligence worldwide. In his research, Professor Pawlak has always emphasized the need for cross-disciplinary, cross-country, and cross-generation cooperation. In Computer Science, there may emerge a brilliant idea in someone’s head, but it requires collaborators to make it grow dynamically and then – a number of subject matter experts, from various fields, to develop its practical applications.

Inspired by the above, we have broadened the range of Zdzisław Pawlak Awards. The following categories of awards are eligible for all paper submitted to the FedCSIS conference:

• Best Paper Award (€600): the best out of all papers accepted to the conference.
• Young Researcher Award (€400): the best out of papers whereby all authors are younger than 40 years.
• Industry Cooperation Award (€400): the best out of papers whereby there are at least two different authors, one working in academia and another one in industry.
• International Cooperation Award (€400): the best out of papers whereby there are at least two different authors working in institutions located in two different countries.

We believe that all these new categories reflect the principles of Professor Pawlak’s work. The awards are decided by the Committee of esteemed scientists, who have had the privilege to know and cooperate with Professor Pawlak. As already mentioned, all papers – submitted to all parts of FedCSIS – are eligible. This way, the thematic integrity of FedCSIS is emphasized.

Prof. Pawlak's contributions to Computer Science

Autoportret prof. Zdzisława Pawlaka (YouTube video in Polish)

Award Committee

• Kacprzyk, Janusz, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
• Komorowski, Jan, Uppsala University, Sweden
• Kwaśnicka, Halina, Wrocław University of Science and Technology, Poland
• Maciaszek, Leszek A., Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
• Michalewicz, Zbigniew, University of Adelaide, Australia
• Pedrycz, Witold, University of Alberta, Canada
• Raś, Zbigniew, University of North Carolina, United States
• Skowron, Andrzej, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
• Słowiński, Roman, Poznań University of Technology, Poland
• Ślęzak, Dominik, University of Warsaw, Poland

Thus far the winners were:

2023:

Best Paper

Julian Premm (Universität Hamburg, Germany), Hagen Peukert (Universität Hamburg, Germany), Dennis Rössel (Technische Universität Dresden, Germany), Mareike Silber (Universität des Saarlandes, Germany) for the paper:

• Analysis of a GPT-3 chatbot with respect to its input in a sales dialogue

The Best Paper Award was sponsored by the Mazovia Branch of the Polish Information Processing Society.

Distinction Award

Giovanna Castellano (University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy), Pasquale De Marinis (University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy), Gennaro Vessio (University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy) for the paper:

• Applying Knowledge Distillation to Improve Weed Mapping With Drones

The additional Distinction Award was sponsored by the Mazovia Branch of the Polish Information Processing Society.

Young Researcher

Anastasiya Danilenka (Warsaw University of Technology, Poland) for the paper:

• Mitigating the effects of non-IID data in federated learning with a self-adversarial balancing method

The Young Researcher Award was sponsored by the Mazovia Branch of the Polish Information Processing Society.

Industry Cooperation

Mikołaj Pudo (Samsung R&D Institute Poland), Mateusz Wosik (Samsung R&D Institute Poland), Artur Janicki (Warsaw University of Technology, Poland) for the paper:

• Open Vocabulary Keyword Spotting with Small-Footprint ASR-based Architecture and Language Models

The Industry Cooperation Award was sponsored by QED Software.

International Cooperation

Samaneh Mohammadi (RISE Research Institutes of Sweden), Mohammadreza Mohammadi (RISE Research Institutes of Sweden), Sima Sinaei (RISE Research Institutes of Sweden), Ali Balador (Mälardalen University, Sweden), Ehsan Nowroozi (Queen’s University Belfast, Northern Ireland), Francesco Flammini (Mälardalen University, Sweden), Mauro Conti (University of Padua, Italy) for the paper:

• Balancing Privacy and Accuracy in Federated Learning for Speech Emotion Recognition

The International Cooperation Award was sponsored by MDPI.

2022:

Best paper

Kamil Rybiński (Warsaw University of Technology, Poland), Michał Śmiałek (Warsaw University of Technology, Poland) for the paper:

• Beyond Low-Code Development: Marrying Requirements Models and Knowledge Representations

Young Researcher

Eyad Kannout (University of Warsaw, Poland), Michał Grodzki (University of Warsaw, Poland) and Marek Grzegorowski (University of Warsaw, Poland) for the paper:

• Utilizing Frequent Pattern Mining for Solving Cold-Start Problem in Recommender Systems

Industry Cooperation

Ghada Moualla (Orange Labs, France), Sebastien Bolle (Orange Labs, France), Marc Douet (Orange Labs, France) and Eric Rutten (INRIA, France) for the paper:

• Self-adaptive Device Management for the IoT Using Constraint Solving

International Cooperation / Young Researcher Distinctions

There were too few candidates for the international cooperation award so instead, the award committee decided to fund two extra young researcher distinctions (200 EUR each):

• Aleksandra Bączkiewicz (University of Szczecin, Poland) for the paper: Towards Temporal Multi-Criteria Assessment of Sustainable RES Exploitation in European Countries
• Aleksandra Weiss (Scientific Circle of Robotics UWM in Olsztyn, Poland), Marcin Młyński (Scientific Circle of Robotics UWM in Olsztyn, Poland) and Piotr Artiemjew (University of Warmia and Mazury, Poland) for the paper: About Classifiers Quality Assessment: Balanced Accuracy Curve (BAC) as an alternative for ROC and PR Curve

2021:

Best paper

Anh Nguyen Mac (American School of Warsaw), Hung Son Nguyen (University of Warsaw) for the paper:

• Rotation Variance in Graph Convolutional Networks

Young Researcher

Christian Leyh (Technische Universität Dresden), Konstanze Köppel (Technische Universität Dresden), Sarah Neuschl (Fraunhofer Center for International Management and Knowledge Economy IMW), Milan Pentrack (Fraunhofer Center for International Management and Knowledge Economy IMW) for the paper:

• Critical Success Factors for Digitalization Projects

Industry Cooperation

Lov Kumar (BITS Pilani Hyderabad Campus), Mukesh Kumar (NIT Patna), Lalita Bhanu Murthy (BITS Pilani Hyderabad Campus),  Sanjay Misra (Østfold University College, Halden, Norway), Vipul Kocher (Testaing.Com), Srinivas Padmanabhuni (Testaing.Com) for the paper:

• An Empirical Study on Application of Word Embedding Techniques for Prediction of Software Defect Severity Level

International Cooperation

Arman Ferdowsi (Vienna University of Technology), Alireza Khanteymoori (University of Freiburg) for the paper:

• Discovering Communities in Networks: A Linear Programming Approach Using Max-Min Modularity

2020:

Best paper

Łukasz Sosnowski (Systems Research Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences), Tomasz Penza (OvuFriend Sp. z o.o.) for the paper:

• Generating Fuzzy Linguistic Summaries for Menstrual Cycles

Best Student Paper

Joanna Henzel (Silesian University of Technology) for the paper:

• Gradient Boosting Application in Forecasting of Performance Indicators Values for Measuring the Efficiency of Promotions in FMCG Retail

2019:

Best Paper

Przemysław Dolata and Jacek Reiner from Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland for the paper:

• Improving Real-Time Performance of U-Nets for Machine Vision in Laser Process Control

Best Student Paper

Maciej Laszczyk from Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland for the paper:

• A Specialized Evolutionary Approach to the bi-objective Travelling Thief Problem

2018:

Best Paper

Joerg Bremer and Sebastian Lehnhoff from University of Oldenburg, Germany for the paper:

• Sensitivity in Multi-Ensemble Scheduling

Best Student Paper

Tomasz Tajmajer from University of Warsaw, Poland for the paper:

• Modular Multi-Objective Deep Reinforcement Learning with Decision Values

2017:

Best Paper

Winners: Jens Dörpinghaus, Sebastian Schaaf, Juliane Fluck, Marc Jacobs for the paper:

• Document Clustering using a Graph Covering with Pseudostable Sets

Student Paper Distinctions

Paweł B. Myszkowski, Maciej Laszczyk, Dawid Kalinowski for the paper:

• Co-Evolutionary Algorithm solving Multi-Skill Resource-Constrained Project Scheduling Problem

Krzysztof Wołk, Agnieszka Wolk, Krzysztof Marasek for the paper:

• Big Data Language Model of Contemporary Polish

2016:

Best Paper

Andy Lücking for the paper:

• Modeling Co-Verbal Gesture Perception in Type Theory with Records

Best Student Paper

Jan Jakubik for the paper:

• Sparse Coding Methods for Music Induced Emotion Recognition

2015:

Best Paper

Adam Grabowski, Artur Korniłowicz, Christoph Schwarzweller for the paper:

• Equality in computer proof-assistants

Best Student Paper

Migual Ángel Abad, Ernestina Menaslvas for the paper:

• Recurrent drifts: applying fuzzy logic to concept similarity function

2014:

Best Paper

Bernadette Varga, Andrei Roth for the paper:

• LELA - A Natural Language Processing System for Romanian Tourism

Best Student Paper

Anras Bota, Miklos Kresz, Andras Pluhar for the paper:

• The Inverse Infection Problem

2013:

Best Paper

Bartosz Krawczyk for the paper:

• Combining One-Class Support Vector Machines for Microarray Classification

Best Student Paper

Kyle M. Tarplee, Ryan Friese, Anthony A. Maciejewski, Howard Jay Siegel for the paper:

• Efficient and Scalable Computation of the Energy and Makespan Pareto Front for Heterogeneous Computing Systems

2012:

Best Paper

Andrzej Janusz and Dominik Ślęzak for the paper:

• Utilization of Attribute Clustering Methods for Scalable Computation of Reducts from High-Dimensional Data

Best Student Paper

Ron Adany and Tami Tamir for the paper:

• Online Algorithm for Battery Utilization in Electric Vehicles

2011:

Best Student Paper

Dmitrij Żatuchin for the paper:

• Problem of website structure discovery and quality valuation

Best Paper Award

Mariusz Paradowski for the paper:

• Automatic Image Annotation by Image Fragment Matching

2010:

Best Paper

Mariusz Paradowski for the paper:

• Automatic Visual Class Formation using Image Fragment Matching

Best Student Paper

Katarzyna Agnieszka Olkiewicz for the paper:

• Emotion-based Image Retrieval – an Artificial Neural Network Approach

2009:

Best Paper

Urszula Markowska-Kaczmar for the paper:

• Kohonen’s Neural Network and Evolutionary Algorithms in Searching for Financial Investment Strategy

Best Student Paper

Bartosz Broda for the paper:

• Semi-supervised Word Sense Disambiguation Based on Weakly Controlled Sense Induction

2008:

Best Paper

Mariusz Paradowski for the paper:

• On Automation of Brain CT Image Analysis

Best Student Paper

Grzegorz Terlikowski for the paper:

• Computer-aided Detecting of Early Strokes and its Evaluation on the Base of CT Images

2007:

Best Paper

Daniela Zacharie for the paper:

• A Comparative Analysis of Crossover Variants in Differential Evolution

Best Student Paper

Monika Rosińska for the paper:

• Collecting Polish-German Parallel Corpora in the Internet

2006:

Best Paper

Krzysztof Jassem for the paper:

• Text Normalization as a Special Case of Machine Translation

Best Student Paper

Łukasz Słabiński for the paper:

• Implementation and Tests of Clustering over Vertically Distributed Data without Sharing their Value