I am a researcher working at SAP Research, Brisbane, Australia.

My research interests are: Business Process Management and Information Management.

To get in touch with me: first name at last name dot net.

Short bio

Dr. Marek Kowalkiewicz received MSc and PhD (Summa Cum Laude) degrees in Information Systems from Poznan University of Economics in 2002 and 2006 respectively. From 2003 to 2006 he was engaged in the Adaptive Services Grid (ASG) project, funded by European Commission, while completing his PhD. During that time he has also been working with the University of Queensland and Microsoft Research Asia as a visiting student. He developed a web content extraction system called myPortal, which was announced on major international conferences, including WWW and VLDB. His main areas of interest include information retrieval and filtering, web information extraction, web engineering, enterprise services, service oriented architecture. He has published 5 book chapters and over 30 research papers in proceedings of international conferences. Currently Marek is employed by SAP Research in Australia.

Current

  • Researcher at SAP Research, Brisbane, Australia (2006 - present)
  • Editor at Gazeta-IT (2003 - present)

Past

  • Researcher at Poznan University of Economics (2002 - 2006)
  • Visiting student at the University of Queensland (2003/06 - 2003/09)
  • Visiting student at Microsoft Research Asia (2006/06 - 2006/09)
  • Professional Trainer at Soft-tronik Education Center (2000 - 2002)
  • Research Assistant (graduate) at Poznan University of Economics (2001 - 2002)

Education

  • Poznan University of Economics, Poland, 2002 - MSc in Information Systems (Graded excellent)
  • Poznan University of Economics, Poland, 2006 - PhD in Information Systems (Summa Cum Laude)

Current location

  • Australia

Languages

  • English - fluent
  • German - intermediate
  • Mandarin Chinese - beginner
  • Polish - mother tongue

Research interests:

Enterprise Information Systems, Web Engineering
Knowledge representation, ontologies and semantic networks, topic maps and their applications.
Business Process Management
Semantic Web, Web Services, applications.

Conferences

  • Demo Co-chair of the 14th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA 2009)

Workshops

Program committee memberships

  • 2nd International Conference on Business Process and Services Computing (BPSC 2009), Leipzig, Germany, 23-24 March, 2009
  • 2nd workshop on Information Credibility on the Web (WICOW 2008) in conjunction with ACM 17th Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2008), Napa Valley, California, 26-30 October, 2008
  • 2nd International Workshop on Collaborative Business Processes (CBP 2008) in conjunction with the 6th International Conference on Business Process Management (BPM 2008), 1-4 September 2008, Milan, Italy.
  • 11th International Conference on Business Information Systems (BIS 2008), Innsbruck, Austria, May 5-7, 2008
  • 1st IEEE International Workshop on Semantics for Business Process Management (SemBPM 2008) in conjunction with 32nd Annual IEEE International Computer Software and Applications Conference (COMPSAC 2008), Turku, Finland, July 28 - August 1, 2008
  • Workshop on Human-friendly Service Description, Discovery and Matchmaking (Hf-SDDM) to be held in conjunction with the 8th International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering (WISE 2007)
  • 1st International Conference on Business Process and Services Computing (BPSC 2007), Leipzig, Germany, 25-26 September, 2007
  • Conference on Grid Service Engineering and Management (GSEM 2007), Leipzig, Germany, 24-26 September, 2007
  • 2005 IRMA International Conference: Managing Modern Organizations with Information Technology, San Diego, CA, USA, May 15-18, 2005
  • 2004 IRMA International Conference: Innovations Through Information Technology, New Orleans, LA, USA, May 23-26, 2004

In-press publications

  1. I. Markovic, M. Kowalkiewicz (2008) Linking Business Goals to Process Models in Semantic Business Process Modeling, Proceedings of the The 12th IEEE International EDOC Conference, München, Germany
  2. A. Filipowska, M. Kaczmarek, M. Kowalkiewicz, X. Zhou, M. Born (2008) Procedure and Guidelines for Evaluation of BPM Methodologies, Business Process Management Journal

Refereed conference papers

  1. D. Lincourt, H. Peukert, M. Kowalkiewicz (2008) Situational Common Operating Picture for Collaborative Sensemaking, Proceedings of the 13th International Command and Control Research and Technology Symposium, Seattle, WA.
  2. M. Kowalkiewicz,  R. Lu,  S. Baeuerle, M. Kruempelmann,  S. Lippe (2008) Weak Dependencies in Business Process Models, Proceedings of Business Information Systems 2008 Conference, Innsbruck, Austria
  3. M. Born, J. Hoffmann, T. Kaczmarek, M. Kowalkiewicz, I. Markovic, J. Scicluna, I. Weber, X. Zhou (2008) Semantic Annotation and Composition of Business Processes with Maestro, Proceedings of 5th European Semantic Web Conference 2008, Tenerife, Spain
  4. A. Filipowska, T. Kaczmarek, M. Kowalkiewicz (2007) IT Tools supporting Public Relations campaigns, IRMA 2007, Vancouver, Canada
  5. M. Momotko, M. Gajewski, A. Ludwig, R. Kowalczyk, M. Kowalkiewicz, J. Y. Zhang (2006) Towards Adaptive Management of QoS-aware Service Compositions - Functional Architecure, 4th International Conference on Service Oriented Computing, Chicago, USA: Springer Verlag.
  6. W. Abramowicz, M. Kowalkiewicz (2006) Ekstrakcja i agregacja treści z wykorzystaniem zmodyfikowanej metody XPath, NTIE 2006, Warszawa, Poland
  7. W. Abramowicz, T. Kaczmarek, M. Kowalkiewicz, K. Wieloch (2006) A Brief Survey of Web Service Description Efforts, NTIZ 2006 Conference, Wroclaw, Poland
  8. Kowalkiewicz, M. (2006). Expected Utility of Content Blocks in Web Content Extraction. in W. Abramowicz (Ed.), Technologies for Business Information Systems. Springer Verlag
  9. Abramowicz, W., Filipowska, A., Kaczmarek, M., Kaczmarek, T., Kowalkiewicz, M., Rutkowski, W., et al. (2006). Service interdependencies: insight into usecases for service composition. in J. Debenham (Ed.), Professional Practice in Artificial Intelligence. IFIP 19th World Computer Congress, TC 12: Professional Practice Stream (pp. 101-110). Santiago - Chile: Springer Verlag.
  10. Kowalkiewicz, M., Kaczmarek, T. and Abramowicz, W. (2006). myPortal: Robust Extraction and Aggregation of Web Content. in Proceedings of the 32nd International Conference on Very Large Data Bases. Seoul, Korea: ACM Press.
  11. Abramowicz, W., Kaczmarek, M., Kowalkiewicz, M. and Zyskowski, D. (2006). Architecture for Service Profiling. in Modeling, Design, and Analysis for Service-oriented Architecture Workshop: mda4soa'06 in conjunction with the 2006 IEEE International Conferences on Services Computing (SCC 2006) and Web Services (ICWS 2006). Chicago: IEEE.
  12. Kowalkiewicz, M., Orlowska, M., Kaczmarek, T. and Abramowicz, W. Robust Web Content Extraction. in Proceedings of the 15th International World Wide Web Conference, ACM Press, Edinburgh, Scotland, 2006
  13. Kowalkiewicz, M. (2006). Expected Utility of Content Blocks in Web Content Extraction. in W. Abramowicz (Ed.), Proceedings of Business Information Systems 2006 Conference. Klagenfurt, Austria: Gesellschaft fuer Informatik.
  14. Kowalkiewicz, M., Orlowska, M., Kaczmarek, T. i Abramowicz, W. (2006). Towards more personalized Web: Extraction and integration of dynamic content from the Web. in Proceedings of the 8th Asia Pacific Web Conference APWeb 2006. Harbin, China: Springer Verlag.
  15. Abramowicz, W., Kliber, A., Gwizdała, J., Jakubowski, T., Kaczmarek, M., Kowalkiewicz, M., et al. (2005). A Survey of QoS Computation for Web Service Profiling. in S. Dascalu (Ed.), Proceedings of the ISCA 18th International Conference on Computer Applications in Industry and Engineering (pp. 192-197). Hawaii: ISCA (International Society for Computers and their Applications).
  16. Kowalkiewicz, M. (2005). Current challenges in non-functional service description - state of the art and discussion on research results. in Proceedings Net.ObjectDays 2005 (pp. 91-96). Erfurt, Germany: transIT GmbH.
  17. Abramowicz, W., Kaczmarek, T. and Kowalkiewicz, M. (2005). Sekwencjonowanie obiektów uczących w inteligentnych systemach nauczania na odległość. in Prace Naukowe Akademii Ekonomicznej we Wrocławiu (Vol. 2005/1064, pp. 13-22). Wrocław, Poland: Akademia Ekonomiczna we Wrocławiu.
  18. Kowalkiewicz, M., Filipowska, A. and Jakubowski, T. (2005). The Adaptive Services Grid Project (FP6-IST-004617) - best practices and experiences of Information Dissemination and Knowledge Transfer in FP6 Integrated Projects. in Academic Internet Television Network Showcases. The Best of Good Practice Activities (pp. 22-26). Warsaw, Poland: SOWA druk.
  19. Kowalkiewicz, M. (2005). From traditional markets to electronic markets for learning - opportunities and threats. in A. Janc and R. I. Zalewski (Ed.), Economy in its theory and practice. Problems, Solutions, Cases. Proceedings of Lubniewice 2003 and Lubniewice 2004 (pp. 321-332). Poznań: Wydawnictwo Akadeimi Ekonomicznej w Poznaniu.
  20. Kowalkiewicz, M., Kaczmarek, T. and Piskorski, J. (2005). Information Extraction from CV. in W. Abramowicz (Ed.), 8th International Conference on Business Information Systems (pp. 185-189). Poznań: Wydawnictwo Akademii Ekonomicznej w Poznaniu.
  21. Abramowicz, W., Kaczmarek, T. and Kowalkiewicz, M. (2004). Ekwiwalencja wiedzy i usług w informatycznych systemach zarządzania wiedzą: metody jej reprezentacji oraz aspekty ekonomiczne. in Konferencja "Pozyskiwanie wiedzy i zarządzanie wiedzą" : Materiały konferencji z 2004 roku. Wrocław, Poland: Wydawnictwo Akademii Ekonomicznej im. Oskara Langego (AE) we Wrocławiu.
  22. Abramowicz, W., Kaczmarek, T. and Kowalkiewicz, M. (2003). Tworzenie map tematów wspomagane hierarchiczną analizą skupień oraz analizą współwystąpień. in Nowoczesne technologie informacyjne w zarządzaniu (NTIZ) 2003 (pp. 17-29). Wrocław, Poland: Wydawnictwo Akademii Ekonomicznej we Wrocławiu.
  23. Automatic topic map creation using term crawling and clustering hierarchy projection / Kaczmarek Tomasz, Abramowicz Witold, Kowalkiewicz Marek. // W : 12th International Conference on Information Systems Development : Materiały konferencji z 2004 roku - Melbourne : Monash University, Australia, 2003. s. pp - Summ. - Bibliogr.
  24. Document structure discovery / Kowalkiewicz Marek, Kaczmarek Tomasz. // W : 6th International Conference on Business Information Systems, BIS 2003 : Materiały konferencji z 2003 roku - Department of Management Information Systems, The Poznan University of Economics, 2003. S. CD - Summ. - Bibliogr. ISBN 83-916842-1-0
  25. Price assessment in electronic knowledge marketplaces / Kowalkiewicz Marek, Kaczmarek Tomasz. // W : 6th International Conference on Business Information Systems, BIS 2003 : Materiały konferencji z 2003 roku - Department of Management Information Systems, The Poznan University of Economics, 2003. S. CD - Summ. - Bibliogr. ISBN 83-916842-1-0
  26. E-Collaboration System Designed to Improve Learning Processes / Abramowicz Witold, Kaczmarek Tomasz, Kowalkiewicz Marek. // W : Informing Science + IT Education Conference : Materiały konferencji z 2003 roku / red. Eli Cohen, Elizabeth Boyd - Pori : University Pori, 2003. s. 767-777 ISSN 1535-0703
  27. Technologically comprehensive e-collaboration platform / Abramowicz Witold, Kaczmarek Tomasz, Kowalkiewicz Marek. // W : The Information Resources Management Association International Conference : Materiały konferencji z 2003 roku / red. Mehdi Khosrow-Pour - Philadelphia : Information Resources Management Association, 2003. S. 260-262 ISBN 1-59140-097-x
  28. Rozpowszechnianie informacji prawno-ekonomicznej w instytucjach finansowych. / Tomaszewski Tadeusz, Kowalkiewicz Marek, Kaczmarek Tomasz, Abramowicz Witold. - Zastosowania rozwiązań informatycznych w instytucjach finansowych - Akademia Ekonomiczna (AE) we Wrocławiu, 2002. s. 243-250 - Summ. - Bibliogr.
  29. Podniesienie efektywności dystrybucji wiedzy na rynkach elektronicznych / Abramowicz Witold, Kowalkiewicz Marek, Zawadzki Piotr. // W : XIV Górska Szkoła PTI - Szczyrk 2002 - Efektywność zastosowań systemów informatycznych : Materiały konferencji z 2002 roku / red. Janusz K. Grabary, Jerzy S. Nowak - Wydawnictwa Naukowo-Techniczne (WNT) w Warszawie, 2002. S. 113-128 ISBN 83-204-2755-X
  30. Tell me what you know or I`ll tell you what you know. Skill map ontology for information technology courseware / Abramowicz Witold, Kowalkiewicz Marek, Zawadzki Piotr. // W : Issues & Trends of Information Technology Management in Contemporary Organizations (Seattle, USA) : Materiały konferencji z 2002 roku / red. Mehdi Khosrow-Pour (ed.) - IRM Press, 2002. S. 7-10 - Summ. - Bibliogr. ISBN 1-930708-39-4
  31. Corporate knowledge vs. knowledge within corporation / Kowalkiewicz Marek, Abramowicz Witold. // W : World Conference NL 2002 - Networked Learning in a Global Environment: Challenges and Solutions for Virtual Education, : Materiały konferencji z 2002 roku - NAISO Interdisciplinary Research, 2002. 0 s. - Summ. - Bibliogr.
  32. Enhancing Searching and Navigation of Knowledge Repositories Using Skill Maps Technology / Kowalkiewicz Marek, Abramowicz Witold. // W : 5th UICEE Annual Conference on Engineering Education, Chennai, India, 6-9 February 2002, Monash Engineering Education Series, UNESCO International Center for Engineering Education : Materiały konferencji z 2002 roku - Monash Engineering Education Series UICEE, 2002. s. pp - Summ. - Bibliogr.

Journal papers

  1. M. Momotko, M. Gajewski, A. Ludwig, R. Kowalczyk, M. Kowalkiewicz, J. Y. Zhang (2007) Towards Adaptive Management of QoS-aware Service Compositions, International Journal of Multiagent and Grid Systems
  2. Supporting topic map creation using data mining techniques. / Kaczmarek Tomasz, Abramowicz Witold, Kowalkiewicz Marek. - AJIS Australian Journal of Information Systems / Special Edition 2004/10 - AJIS, 2004. s. 63-78 - Summ. - Bibliogr.

Books

  1. Flejter D., Kaczmarek T., Kowalkiewicz M., Plessers P., Wecel K., Zyskowski D. (Eds.), Proceedings of BIS 2007 Workshops on Social Aspects on the Web (SAW 2007) Ontology Evolution (OnE 2007) Web Services Interactions, Quality and SLA (WS-IQS 2007)
  2. Flejter D., Grzonkowski S., Kaczmarek T., Kowalkiewicz M., Nagle T., Parkes J. (Eds.), BIS 2008 Workshops Proceedings: Social Aspects of the Web (SAW 2008), Advances in Accessing Deep Web (ADW 2008), E-Learning for Business Needs

Book chapters

  1. Marketing Activites of Polish Internet Retailers / Drygas Piotr, Kowalkiewicz Marek, Paprzycki Marcin. // W : Applied Computing - Algrave : International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2005. - Summ. - Bibliogr.
  2. Automatic topic map creation using term crawling and clustering hierarchy projection / red. Henry Linger, Julie Fisher, Wita Wojtkowski et al. [Aut.] Kowalkiewicz Marek, Abramowicz Witold, Kaczmarek Tomasz. // W : Constructing the Infrastructure for the Knowledge Economy. Methods and Tools, Theory and Structure - New York : Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, New York, 2004. S. 555-567 - Summ. - Bibliogr. ISBN 0-306-48554-0
  3. Nowoczesne technologie wspierające rozwój człowieka uczącego się i tworzącego / red. Witold Abramowicz, Adam Nowicki, Mieczysław Owoc. [Aut.] Kowalkiewicz Marek, Abramowicz Witold, Kaczmarek Tomasz. // W : Zarządzanie wiedzą w systemach informacyjnych - Wrocław : Wydawnictwo Akademii Ekonomicznej im. Oskara Langego (AE) we Wrocławiu, 2004. S. 257-274 - Summ. - Bibliogr. ISBN 83-7011-722-8
  4. Ontology frames for IT courseware representation / red. Elayne Coakes. [Aut.] Zawadzki Piotr, Abramowicz Witold, Kowalkiewicz Marek. // W : Knowledge Management: Current Issues and Challenges - London : IRM Press, 2003. S. 1-11 - Summ. - Bibliogr. ISBN 1-931777-51-9
  5. Towards user centric e-learning systems / Abramowicz Witold, Kowalkiewicz Marek, Zawadzki Piotr. // W : Web Services, E-Business, and the Semantic Web: Foundations, Models, Architecture, Engineering and Applications - Springer-Verlag London, 2002. S. 109-120 ISBN 3-540-00198-0 (Lecture Notes in Computer)

Reports

  1. Kowalkiewicz, M., Kaczmarek, M., Ludwig, A. and Zyskowski, D. (2006). Documented mechanisms and proof-of-concept prototype for Dynamic Service Profiling and Agreement Life-cycle Management, ASG Deliverable FP6-IST-004617. Potsdam, Germany: Hasso Plattner Institute for IT-Systems Engineering.
  2. Kowalkiewicz, M., Kaczmarek, M., Ludwig, A. i Zyskowski, D. (2005). Report on the requirement analysis and evaluation of dynamic service profiling and agreement life-cycle management, ASG Deliverable FP6-IST-004617. Potsdam, Germany: Hasso Plattner Institute for IT-Systems Engineering.
  3. Kowalkiewicz, M., Kaczmarek, M., Ludwig, A. i Zyskowski, D. (2005). Evaluation of state-of-the-art in dynamic service profiling and agreement life-cycle management, ASG Deliverable FP6-IST-004617. Potsdam, Germany: Hasso Plattner Institute for IT-Systems Engineering.

Published Reviews

  1. Kowalkiewicz, M. (2006). Building Web Services and .NET Applications. IEEE Distributed Systems Online, 7(6).

Non-refereed publications

  1. Kowalkiewicz M. (2004) Sprawozdanie z konferencji “Budowanie przewagi konkurencyjnej — strategie i technologie zarządzania wiedzą” Gazeta IT
  2. Kowalkiewicz M. (2004) Mapy myśli – spróbuj sam! Gazeta IT
  3. Jakubowski T., Kowalkiewicz M. (2003) Sposoby prezentacji wiedzy - Mapy Tematów i Mapy Umiejętności. Gazeta IT
  4. Kowalkiewicz M. (2003) Glob blogów. Gazeta IT
  5. Kowalkiewicz M. (2003) Wiedza niejedno ma imię. Gazeta IT
  6. Kowalkiewicz M. (2003) Czym jest wiedza? Gazeta IT also eGov.pl & BiznesNet.pl & Gazeta.pl
  7. Kowalkiewicz M. (2003) Sieć wolnych strzelców. Gazeta IT
  8. Kowalkiewicz M. (2002) Zabezpieczenia uslug bankowych poprzez Internet po stronie klienta – rozwiązania stosowane w Polsce. Gazeta IT
  9. Kowalkiewicz M. (2002) Bezprzewodowy Internet – konieczność czy moda? Gazeta IT
  10. Kowalkiewicz M. (2002) Wiadomości z Google. Gazeta IT