Team leader

Professor Czesaw Smutnicki, czeslaw.smutnicki@pwr.edu.pl.

Website: http://www.zsk.ict.pwr.wroc.pl/zsk/.

Scientific and research activities

The team's employees carry out scientific research in the field of computer science, which should be mentioned here:

• reliability and safety of computer systems and networks - functional-reliability models, measures, evaluation, computer tools - original scientific school Theory of System Dependability, methods for modelling the impact of preventive maintenance on the service life of technical (power) systems, methods for optimising maintenance policies of technical (power) systems
• modelling and simulation of complex technical systems, primarily computer systems and networks (e.g. participation in the FP6 project Dependability and Security by Enhanced Reconfigurability) and discrete transport systems (e.g. computer networks or transport systems),
• image recognition, including acoustic images, using neural network apparatus and statistical methods (research for national defence),
• data mining and bioinformatics, in particular, microarray research for genetics (methods for feature selection from high-dimensional data, methods for building classifiers from very high-dimensional data, methods for the analysis of expression microarray data / RT-PCR / CGH, methods for the analysis of signal pathways),
• computer graphics and image processing, particularly in forensic applications (methods of recognising writing from geometrical features, methods of recognising inks from spectral information),
• programmable digital circuits,
• e-learning and computer-assisted learning systems,
• automation of industrial processes.

The team has been involved in several research projects:

• National,
• sponsored by the European Union:
  • under the framework programmes,
  • as part of the Tempus project;

He has also organised several series of international conferences.

Team members are authors, co-authors or editors of numerous publications.

Didactics

The team's employees teach primarily at the Facult of Information and Communication Technology at the Wrocaw University of Science and Technology. The course includes both engineering (first degree), master's (second degree) and master's (second degree) studies in English (Internet Engineering).

The team is also running a new specialisation in the Technical Computer Science course: Graphics and Multimedia Systems.

Laboratories

• Digital Elements and Devices Laboratory (016/C-3),
• Laboratory of Microcontrollers, Data Warehousing and Exploration, Parallel and Distributed Applications (019a/C-3),
• Artificial Intelligence and Deep Learning Laboratory (229/C-3),
• Computer Graphics and Image Processing Laboratory (L2.7/C-16).