Prof. Janusz Kacprzyk, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland

   Bio: Janusz Kacprzyk graduated from the Department of Electronic, Warsaw University of Technology in Warsaw, Poland with M.Sc. in automatic control, his Ph.D. in systems analysis and D.Sc. ("habilitation") in computer science from the Polish Academy of Sciences. He is Professor of Computer Science at the Systems Research Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences, Professor of Computerized Management Systems at WIT - Warsaw School of Information Technology, and Professor of Automatic Control at PIAP - Industrial Institute of Automation and Measurements, in Warsaw, Poland, and Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Cracow University of Technology, in Cracow, Poland. He is Honorary Foreign Professor at the Department of Mathematics, Yli Normal University, Xinjiang, China, and Visiting Scientist at the RIKEN Brain Research Institute in Tokyo, Japan. He is Full Member of the Polish Academy of Sciences, and Foreign Member of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and Spanish Royal Academy of Economic and Financial Sciences (RACEF). He is Fellow of IEEE and of IFSA.
   He was a frequent visiting professor in the USA, Italy, UK, Mexico and China. His main research interests include the use of computational intelligence, notably fuzzy logic, in decisions, optimization, control, data analysis and data mining, with applications in databases, ICT, mobile robotics, etc.
   He is the author of 5 books, (co)editor of ca. 70 volumes, (co)author of ca. 500 papers. He is the editor in chief of 6 book series at Springer, and of 2 journals, and a member of editorial boards of more than 40 journals. He is a member, a member of Adcom (Administrative Committee) of IEEE CIS, of Award Committee of IEEE CIS, and a Distinguished Lecturer of IEEE CIS.
   He received many awards, notably: The 2006 IEEE CIS Pioneer Award in Fuzzy Systems, The 2006 Sixth Kaufmann Prize and Gold Medal for pioneering works on soft computing in economics and management, and The 2007 Pioneer Award of the Silicon Valley Section of IEEE CIS for contribution in granular computing and computing in words, and Award of the 2010 Polish Neural Network Society for exceptional contributions to the Polish computational intelligence community, IFSA 2013 Award for outstanding academic contributions and life time achievement in the field of fuzzy systems, and a continuous support of IFSA, WAC (World Automation Congress) 2014 Lifetime Achievement Award in Soft Computing..
   Currently he is President of the Polish Society for Operational and Systems Research and Past President of IFSA (International Fuzzy Systems Association).

Keynote Title: "A crucial role of coordination, cooperation and collaboration in distributed human centric IT/ICT systems based on information and knowledge sharing"

Abstract: We are concerned with broadly perceived distributed information systems, networks, etc. the very essence of which is reflected in, for instance, many modern technological and social phenomena like social networks, the internet of things, etc. We assume that such systems can involve technical devices (e.g. robots, computer systems), human beings (individuals, groups and maybe even organizations), software agents, etc. They constitute a (possibly) synergistic combination of technology, people and organization aimed at facilitating the communication, cooperation, collaboration, coordination, etc. They should possibly contribute to a more effectively and efficiently functioning to attain some common/shared goal, with mutual benefits for the participating parties.
   First of all, we discuss the three crucial issues that are related to the functioning of such human centric systems: (1) coordination that boils down to how to making different constituents of the systems work together for fulfilling desired overall goals, (2)  collaboration that boils down to a joint functioning of the constituents with each other to attain shared goals, and (3) cooperation that boils down to a joint acting of the constituents for their common/mutual benefit. Basically, we will consider these three (and mention some other, less important types of joint behavior) from various viewpoint, notably a decision theoretic, systems theoretic, information theoretic, cognitive, psychological, etc. We will indicate how some inspirations from social behavior can be very useful for the type of systems relevant to the conference topic.
   As a key element for all the above forms of goal oriented types of functioning and behavior (coordination, collaboration and cooperation) we present, first, information sharing, as it is common in distributed systems considered, and is supported by already established IT/ICT technology. Then, we stress that information sharing, as important as it is, is not enough and should ultimately be complemented by knowledge sharing. We present first some modern views on knowledge sharing in the context of management, knowledge based economy, human affects, judgments and biases, etc. Then, we show how new developments in IT/ICT, notably in broadly perceived ontologies, can help solve an immensely relevant yet very difficult problem of knowledge sharing.
   We finish with a message that what has been so far considered as a collaborative or cooperative system approach, sometimes depending on the author’s preference. should be meant in fact as a coordinative-collaborative-cooperative systems approach to be able to grasp more aspects and issues related to a crucial role of human beings in the system, who is however working with inanimate beings like robots, software agents, etc., in a complex setting of common, shared, competitive, conflicting, etc. preferences, goals, etc., and a variety of selfish, and fair, or even altruistic, types of attitudes and behaviors.