Programme Committee Member

former OTMA Accompanying Professor  (2009, 2010)

Adam Wierzbicki, Ph.D.

Contact details

Polish-Japanese Institute of Information Technology
Ul. Koszykowa 86
02-008 Warsaw, Poland
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Web page: http://inflacja.net/adamw/home/index_en.php

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Areas of interest

• peer-to-peer computing
• information security
• trust management and fairness in distributed systems
• social informatics
• knowledge management and e-learning

Short Bio

Adam Wierzbicki received his B.S. in mathematics and M.S. in informatics from the University of Warsaw, in 1997 and 1998. In June 2003, he received a Ph.D. degree from the Institute of Telecommunications of the Warsaw University of Technology. His Ph.D. thesis titled “Content Distribution and Streaming Media Communication on the Internet” concerned design of content delivery networks for improved quality and performance of streaming media communication.
Adam Wierzbicki is an expert in Peer-to-Peer computing. He has published several research papers on this subject and has been on the Program Chair of the International IEEE Peer-to-Peer Conference, as well as acted as co-editor of several journal issues on this subject. Apart from Peer-to-Peer computing, he is a specialist in the field of information security and trust management. His current research interests focus on trust management and fairness in distributed systems. Dr Wierzbicki heads the project mTeam (Mobile Team), financed by a research grant of the Polish-Singaporian research program. See mTeam.pjwstk.edu.pl/ for further details. Dr Wierzbicki also heads the project uTrust (Universal Trust), financed by a research grant of the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education. See uTrust.pjwstk.edu.pl/ for further details. Dr Wierzbicki has published several papers on applications of the theory of equity to providing fairness in open distributed systems. He is also interested in knowledge management and e-learning.
His professional experience includes a research contract with Philips, Natlab and a two-year employment as a systems designer for Suntech, Ltd, a software company that specializes in telecom management. Adam Wierzbicki is currently employed at the Polish-Japanese Institute for Information Technology, where he has the position of Vice-Dean of the Department of Informatics. He is also a team member of the European 6th Framework Research project “eGov-Bus”.

Some recent publications:

• A. Wierzbicki, Trust Enforcement in Peer-to-peer Massive Multi-player Online Games, Proc. Grid computing, high-performAnce and Distributed Applications, GADA'06), Springer, LNCS, 2006

• M. Morzy and A. Wierzbicki, The Sound of Silence: Mining Implicit Feedbacks to Compute Reputation, Proc. 2nd international Workshop on Internet & Network Economics (WINE'06), Springer, LNCS, 2006

• K. Rzadca, D. Trystram, A. Wierzbicki, Fair Game-Theoretic Resource Management in Dedicated Grids, Proc. of the 7th IEEE International Symposium n Cluster Computing and the Grid, CCGrid 2007

• Adam Wierzbicki, Radoslaw Nielek: Fairness Emergence through SimpleReputation. TrustBus 2008: 79-89 

Principal investigator in the research projects:

uTrust (Universal Trust) http://uTrust.pjwstk.edu.pl.
The goal of the uTrust project is the creation of a library of universal Trust Management algorithms and methods. The library is an opensource project, and already contains practical algorithms that are used in the support of Internet auctions. In the future, Trust Management may be viewed as a service of information security that can be offered to diverse
applications using the uTrust library.

mTeam http://mTeam.pjwstk.edu.pl
The mTeam project has two research goals: the creation of a P2P middleware for collaborative applications running on mobile devices (especially targeting the Android platform) and the creation of algorithms for team recommendation based on implicit social networks discovered from communication history. Currently, the mTeam project has produced a first implementation of the P2PP/RELOAD standards for P2P protocols in Java for the Android platform. This implementation (currently in the alpha version, a
late beta is expected in September, 2009) will be the basis of an advanced P2P middleware.