Roman Słowiński (born 16 March 1952) is a Polish
computer scientist
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and professor.
From 2019 to 2022 he was Vice President of the
Polish Academy of Sciences
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.
He is a Professor and Founding Chair of th
Laboratory of Intelligent Decision Support Systemsat the Institute of Computing Science,
Poznań University of Technology
Poznań University of Technology, PUT () is a university in Poznań, Poland. Poznań University of Technology is known as one of the best technical university, technical universities in Poland. University Ranking by Academic Performance, UR ...
, Poland.
Since 2003 he is also a professor at the Systems Research Institute of the
Polish Academy of Sciences
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in Warsaw.
His research focuses on the methodology and techniques of
intelligent decision support, combining
Operational Research
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and
Artificial Intelligence
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.
Education and employment
Roman Słowiński was born in Poznań, Poland, on 16 March 1952 into the family of
Lech Słowiński
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Lech may also refer to:
People
* Lech (name), a name of Polish origin
* Lech, founder of Poland, the figure from the legendary Lech, Czech, and Rus
* Lech (Bohemian prince) (d. 8 ...
, a professor of Polish philology, and Melania née Michalska.
He earned his undergraduate degree from the Electrical Engineering Faculty of the Poznań University of Technology in 1974, followed by his doctorate (PhD) in 1977, his habilitation (DSc) in 1981.
He got the professor title in 1989, and since 1991 he has held the post of Full Professor at the Poznań University of Technology.
Since 2003 he also works as a professor at the Systems Research Institute of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw.
He became a Corresponding Member of the Polish Academy of Sciences in 2004, and an Ordinary Member in 2013.
Since 2013 he has been a member of
Academia Europaea
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.
In 2024, he was elected as a Foreign Correspondent Academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Institute of Bologna (L'Accademia delle Scienze dell'Istituto di Bologna). In 2011-2018 he held the post of Chairman of the Poznań Branch of the Polish Academy of Sciences.
In 2015 he was elected Chairman of the Committee on Computer Science of the Polish Academy of Sciences.
In 2019 he was elected by the General Assembly of the Polish Academy of Sciences to the post of Vice President of the Academy for the 2019–22 term.
Other posts he has held include:
* Deputy Director of the Institute of Automatics, Poznań University of Technology (1984–87),
* Vice Dean of the Electric Faculty, Poznań University of Technology (1987–93),
* head of the Laboratory of Intelligent Decision Support Systems, Institute of Computing Science, Poznań University of Technology (1989-2022),
* ''professeur en chaire européenne'' at
Paris Dauphine University
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(2003–09),
* coordinator of the European Work Group for Multiple Criteria Decision Aiding,
EURO – Association of European Operational Research Societies (since 2007);
* president (2010-2012) of the
International Rough Set Society;
* expert panel member of the
European Research Council
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, PE6-Computer Science (2009–13).
Research activity
Roman Słowiński is a paradigm-creator in the field of intelligent decision support.
He has authored or co-authored 14 books and more than 550 research articles, including more than 400 in major scientific journals (Web of Science ''h''=63, Scopus ''h''=71, Google Scholar ''h''=95).
He has been the advisor for 28 PhD students, of whom 16 have themselves gone on to become professors.
Aside from the Poznań University of Technology, he has also lectured at the
Paris Dauphine University
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, ,
University of Catania
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,
University of Osaka
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,
Yokohama National University,
University of Missouri
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,
Laval University
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* Laval (surname)
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in Quebec and several others.
Since 1999 he has been the editor-in-chief of the
European Journal of Operational Research
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.
[.] H
Słowiński's research is on the topic of using rough sets in decision analysis. He started this work in 1983 with the founder of the rough set concept, the late
Zdzisław Pawlak, and continued with
Salvatore Greco and
Benedetto Matarazzo since the early 1990s. He organized the First International Workshop on Rough Set Theory and Applications that took place in Poznań in 1992.
Non-scientific activity
Since 2006 he has been a member of the Social Council to the
Metropolitan Archbishop of Poznań; in 2006-2010 he was a board member of the Polish section of the
Aid to the Church in Need
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organization.
Awards and distinctions
Prof. Słowiński has been decorated with the following awards and distinctions:
* the EURO Gold Medal (European Association of Operational Research Societies) – 1991
* the Golden Cross of Merit (1994)
* the F. Edgeworth and V. Pareto Award of the
International Society on Multiple Criteria Decision Making, Cape Town (1997)
* the Knight's Cross (2001) and Officer's Cross (2012) of the
Polonia Restituta Order
* the title of "Outstanding Personage of Organic Work" (2017) from the
Hipolit Cegielski Society (named after the 19th-century Polish positivist
Hipolit Cegielski)
* the title of "Distinguished Citizen of the City of Poznań" (2018) from the City Council of Poznań
* IRSS Fellow (
International Rough Set Society) – 2015
* IEEE Fellow (
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) – 2017
* INFORMS Fellow (
Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences
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Operations research () (U.S. Air Force Specialty Code: Operations Analysis), often s ...
) – 2019
* IFIP Fellow (
International Federation for Information Processing
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Established in 19 ...
) – 2020
* IFORS Fellow (
International Federation of Operational Research Societies
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) – 2022
* IAITQM Fellow (
International Academy of Information Technology and Quantitative Management) – 2022
* AAIA Fellow (
Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association) – 2022
* AIIA Fellow (
International Artificial Intelligence Industry Alliance) – 2024
* The EURO Award for the Best EJOR Paper in the Theory & Methodology category - 2024
For his scientific activity, he has received numerous awards and honors, including the
EURO Gold Medal in 1991, the
Foundation for Polish Science Award in 2005, the
Humboldt Research Award
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by Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in 2022, the
Prime Minister's Science Award in 2020, the
Polish Academy of Sciences Science Award in 2016. In 2003, he received the
Scientific Award of the City of Poznań, and in 2018, the title of "Meritorious for the City of Poznań".
He received 6 Honorary Doctorates: from
Faculté Polytechnique de Mons
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Before the 2009 merger of the Faculté Polytechnique de Mons and the University of Mons-Haina ...
(Belgium) in 2000, from
Université Paris Dauphine
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(France) in 2001, from
Technical University of Crete
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(Greece) in 2008, from
Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics
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(China) in 2018, from
Hellenic Mediterranean University (Greece) in 2022, and from
University of West Attica
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(Greece) in 2024.
In 2022, he was promoted by the Prime Minister of France to the rank of "Officier dans l'Ordre des Palmes Academiques" ("Officer in the Order of Academic Palms").
References
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Members of the Polish Academy of Sciences
Fellows of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences
Polish computer scientists
Poznań University of Technology alumni
1952 births
Living people
Academic staff of the Poznań University of Technology