Information

Membership Number: FCA3318

Membership Type: Fellowship

Division: Mathematics and Information Sciences

Corresponding Email: ***przyk@ibspan.waw.pl; *******kacprzyk@ibspan.waw.pl

Homepage(s): https://www.ibspan.waw.pl/en/januszkacprzyk/ 

Present and Previous Positions

Professor, Systems Research Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences (SRI PAS), Warsaw, Poland; since 1970.

Professor, WIT – Warsaw School of Applied Information Technology and Management, Poland, since 1998.

Professor, Industrial Research Institute of Automation and Measurements (PIAP), Warsaw, Poland, since 2000.

Director, Center of Information Technologies, WIT and SRI PAS, since 2012.

Honorary External Professor, Department of Mathematics, Yli Normal University, Xinjiang, China, since 2006.

Full professor, part-time, Chongqing Three Gorges University w Wangxi, P.R. of China, 2017-2021.

Full Professor, Department of Computer Science, AI Center, AGH University, Cracow, Poland, since 2021.

Past employment

Hagan School of Business, Iona College, New Rochelle, NY, USA, 1981 – 83, professor.

Department of Computer Science, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, USA, Spring, 1986; professor.

Department of Computer Science, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, NC, USA, Spring, 1988; professor.

Department of Management and Computer Sciences, University of Trento, Italy, Spring 1994; visiting professor.

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Cracow University of Technology, Cracow, Poland, 2010-2014, professor.

Department of Physics and Applied Computer Science, AGH University of Science and Technology, Cracow, Poland, 2014-15, professor. 

Fields of Scholarship and Research Interests

Original Contributions

1.    New optimization, decision making and control models for sustainable regional agriculture

Professor Kacprzyk’s works on systems modeling started in the late 1970s at the International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), www.iiasa.ac.at, one of the best known think tanks. He has developed many new decision making, optimization, and control (planning) models, mostly for regional agriculture, under uncertain and imprecise information and representation of goals and constraints. These models have been applied in many regional agricultural modelling studies all over the world over the last decades. Recently, these models have been extended with machine learning to model the temporal evolution of life quality indicators, and with an explicit account of sustainability and human specific aspects, notably Kahneman and Tverski’s cognitive biases, in the spirit of Agroculture 4.0 and precision agriculture.

2.    New models for optimal multistage control under imprecise (fuzzy) information

Professor Kacprzyk has proposed new models for multistage decision making and (optimal) control models under imprecisely (fuzzily) specified goals, constraints, termination times, and systems under control, fucused on extensions of dynamic programming. He has also developed a novel feedforward neural network for these problems. For these works he has been awarded the prestigious Fuzzy Systems Pioneer Award by the IEEE Computation Intelligence Society, and the 6-th Kaufmann Award and Gold Medal by SIGEF/FEGI for pioneering works on the use of fuzzy logic in economics and management. These models have found many applications for socio-economic systems, mobile robotics, data analyses, etc.

3.    New database queries

Professor Kacprzyk has initiated a new research direction in database queries in which, e.g., „most”, „almost all”, etc. „important” search criteria are taken into account, using a calculus of linguistically quantified propositions. This new queries have been presented  in 1996 as a new technology in a major professional IT periodical, Computer World China, followed by much interest of some commercial companies and startups.

4.    Linguistic summarization of big data sets

Professor Kacprzyk’s novel results involve the so-called linguistic summarization, i.e. an automatic summarization of a big data set (numeric, textual, multimedia) by short sentences in natural language, e.g. „most young workers have low salaries” for a personnel database. His new developments include the generation of linguistic summaries by modern AI tools and techniques of NLG (natural language generation), and elements of affective computing. His works have been applied in practice, notably in decision support systems.

5.    Group decision making, voting and consensus

Professor Kacprzyk’s research of a strong and lasting impact has been group decisions, voting, and consensus formation/reaching. He has introduced the novel concept of an imprecise (fuzzy) majority, e.g., „most”,  to account for opinions of „most” stakeholders. This  has triggered a new research area, with many new models of group decision making. voting, and consensus reaching. The use of rough sets ha salso been shown. These new results have been applied for both human groups and computer (IT) systems.

6.    Symbiotic autonomous systems (SASs)

The recent novel results of Professor Kacprzyk concern the symbiotic autonomous systems (SASs) which   are complex intelligent and cognitive systems that exhibit a symbiosis in human-machine interactions.  His new approaches, notably based on trustworthiness, have opened new perspectives. These works are extremely crucial for, e.g., autonomous driving, and for artificial intelligence in general.

Honors, Awards and Other Membership

•      Enrique Ruspini Award for Meritorious Service, Computational Intelligence Society, IEEE, 2023.

•      Medal of the President of Taiwan (ROC) for scientific achievements, Taipei, 2019.

•      The 2017 Award of HAFSA (Hispanic American Fuzzy Systems Association) for pioneering contributions to the areas of fuzzy logic and systems.

•      The 2016 Award of the International Neural Network Society – Indian Chapter for Outstanding Contributions to Computational Intelligence

•      Medal of ECSC (European Centre of Soft Computing) for contributiins to the etsblishment and activities of the European Centre of Soft Computing, Mieres, Spain, 2015

•      Lifetime Achievement Award in Soft Computing, WAC (World Automation Congress), 2014.

•      IFSA 2013 Award for outstanding academic contributions and life time achievement in the field of fuzzy systems, and a continuous support of IFSA, IFSA (International Fuzzy Systems Association), 2013.

•      Distinguished Lecturer, IEEE CIS, 2010 – 2012.

•      Medal of the Polish Neural Network Society for exceptional contributions to the advancement of computational intelligence in Poland, 2010.

•      Pioneer Award for Outstanding Contributions to Granular Computing and Computing with Words, Silicon Valley Chapter IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Computational Intelligence Society), 2007.

•      Pioneer Award, IEEE CIS (IEEE Computational Intellligence Sciety) for pioneering works on multistage fuzzy control, in particular fuzzy dynamic programming, 2006.

•      6-th Kaufmann Award and Gold Medal for pioneering works on the use of fuzzy logic in economics and management, SIGET and FEGI Foundation,  2006.

•      AutoSoft Journal Lifetime Achievement Award in recognition of pioneering and outstanding contributions to the field of soft computing, 2000.

•      Award of Scientific Secretary of the Polish Academy of Sciences for the book Janusz Kacprzyk, Fuzzy Sets in Systems Analysis (in Polish), PWN, Warsaw, 1987.

•      Award of Department IV (Engineering Sciences) of the Polish Academy of Sciences for the book Janusz Kacprzyk, Multistage Decision Making under Fuzziness, Verlag TÜV Rheinland, Cologne, 1984.

•      Medal of the University of Liège, Belgium, 1981.

Memberships of Academies

Full member, Polish Academy of Sciences, since 2010 (Member correspondent since 2002).

Member, Academia Europaea (Informatics), since 2014.

Member, European Academy of Sciences and Arts (Class VI – Technical Sciences), since 2015.

Member, International Academy of Systems and Cybernetic Sciences (IASCYS), since 2020.

Member, European Academy of Sciences, since 2020.

Member, Academy of Engineering in Poland, since 2021.

Foreign member, Spanish Royal Academy of Economic and Financial Sciences (RACEF), since 2007.

Foreign member, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, since 2013.

Foreign member, The Finnish Society of Sciences and Letters (Societas Scientiarum Fennica), since 2017.

Foreign member, Flemish Royal Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts (KVAB), since 2019.

Foreign member, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, since 2021.

Foreign member, Lithuanian Academy of Sciences, since 2021.

Foreign Member, Russian Academy of Sciences, since 2022.

Foreign Member, Accademia Nazionale di Scienze, Lettere e Arti (Palermo, Italy), since 2023.

Honorary professorships

Honorary Professor, Department of Mathematics, Yli Normal University, Xinjiang, P.R. of China, since 2006.

Honorary Professor, Odlar Yurdu University, Baku, Azerbaijan, since 2024.

Honorary doctorates

Honorary Doctorate (Dr. honoris causa), Széchenyi István University, Győr, Hungary, 2014.

Honorary Doctorate (Dr. honoris causa), Óbuda University, Budapest, Hungary, 2016.

Honorary Doctorate (Dr. honoris causa), Professor Asen Zlatarev University, Bourgas, Bulgaria, 2017.

Honorary Doctorate (Dr. honoris causa), Lappeenranta University of Technology, Lappeenranta, Finland, 2017.

Honorary Doctorate (Dr. honoris causa), Petro Mohyla Black Sea National University, Mykolaiv, Ukraine, 2020.

Honorary Doctorate (Dr. honoris causa), Azerbaijan State Oil and Industry University, Baku, Azerbaijan, 2021.

Honorary Doctorate (Dr. honoris causa), Częstochowa University of Technology, Częstochowa, Poland, 2022.

Honorary Doctorate (Dr. honoris causa), Aurel Vlaicu University, Arad, Romania, 2022,

Fellowships

Fellow, IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers), since 2006.

Fellow, IET (Institution for Engineering and Technology), since 2017.

Fellow EurAI (ECCAI) -European Association for Artificial Intelligence, since 2014.

Fellow, IFSA (International Fuzzy Systems Association), since 1997.

Fellow, SMIA (Mexican Society for Artificial Intelligence), since 2015.

Fellow, IFIP (International Federation for Information Processing), since 2020.

Fellow, I2CCCI (International Institute of Cognitive Informatics and Cognitive Computing), since 2021.

Fellow, Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association (AAIA), since 2021.

Fellow, International Artificial Intelligence Industry Alliance (AIIA), since 2024.

Fellow, International Academy of Information Technology and Quantitative Management (AIITQM), since 2024.

Honorary memberships

Honorary Member, Polish Society for Measurement, Automatic Control and Robotics (POLSPAR), since 2014

Permanent Honorary Member, Mexican Association for Artificial Intelligence (SMIA), since 2015.

Honorary Member, EUSFLAT (European Society of Fuzzy Logic and Technology, since 2016

Honorary Member, Polish Information Processing Society (PTI), since 2019.

Service to the society and the scientific community

Professor Kacprzyk has held many administrative functions in the national and international scientific structures, notably:

Administrative functions held

At the national level:

•      Chairman of the Provosts’ Council, Department IV of Technical Sciences, Polish Academy of Sciences: Supervising and evaluating 13 research institutes and 21 national scientific committees, 2011-2014.  

•      Coordinator of MIR (Machine Intelligence Research) Labs Poland, since 2009.

At the institutional level:

•      Head of Intelligent Systems Laboratory, Systems Research Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences, since 1988.

•      Deputy Director for Research, Systems Research Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences, 1998 – 2006.

•      Head of Doctoral Studies, Systems Research Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences, 1992-1998.

Current functions in national and international organizations:

President, Polish Operational and Systems Research Society (PTBOiS), since 2007.

Past President, International Fuzzy Systems Association (IFSA), 2009-2011.

Vice President for Research, Polish Information Processing Society (PTI), 2018 – 2020.

Member, IEEE CIS (Computational Intelligence Society) Administrative Committee – 2011 - 2016, since 2018.

Member, IEEE SMCS (Systems, Man and Cybernetics Society) Boad of Givernors (BoG), since 2023.

Chair, Award Committee, IEEE CIS (Computational Intelligence Society), 2016.

Members of many IEEE Committees, since 2011.

Member, PE6 (Computer Science and Informatics), Advanced Grants, European Research Council, 2015-2022.

Chair, Fellows Committee, IFSA (International Fuzzy Systems Association), since 2017.

Selected Publications

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=TbaynVoAAAAJ&hl=pl 

Other Information

aas-short-2025.pdf

list-publ012-2024.pdf