Qualitative Analysis Group in Warsaw

Qualitative Analysis Group

The Qualitative Analysis Group functions (as yet informally) within the Department of Computational Science. We are interested in the problems of qualitative analysis and simulation of physical systems, especially, though not exclusively, in the fields of mechanics and engineering.
The work in this field started in our Institute as early as in mid-eighties, and culminated recently with drawing together a group of researches working together in this area, with some colaborators from outside the Institute. The work of the Group was supported (in part) by the following reasearch grants from KBN (the State Committee for Scientific Research):

No. 8 T11F 006 08 on "Hybrid reasoning systems in qualitative analysis of physical systems" (for the period Jan 1995 - Dec 1997);
Principal Investigator: Zenon Kulpa;
Co-principal Investigators: Michal Kleiber, Olaf Gajl;
Other Group members and collaborators supported: Aleksander Radomski, Iwona Skalna.
No. 8 T11F 006 15 on "Interval and qualitative methods of modelling uncertainty in physical systems" (for the period July 1998 - June 2001);
Principal Investigator: Prof. Jerzy Skrzypczyk Department of Theoretical Mechanics, Silesian University of Technology in Gliwice);
Co-principal Investigator: Zenon Kulpa;
Other Group members and collaborators supported: Andrzej Pownuk, Karol Roslaniec, Iwona Skalna.
No. 5 T07F 002 25 on "Graph transformations in design of diagrammatic reasoning systems" (for the period Sep. 2003 - Sep. 2006);
Principal Investigator: D.Sc. Ewa Grabska (Institute of Computer Science, Jagiellonian University in Cracow);
Co-principal Investigator: Zenon Kulpa;
Other Group members and collaborators supported: Truong Lan Le.

The group participates also in MONET - The European Network of Excellence in Model-Based & Qualitative Reasoning Systems.

Our research interests and activities span the following areas:

qualitative analysis of physical systems, especially mechanical, with emphasis on hybrid approaches integrating qualitative, model-based, quantitative, diagrammatic and logical (rule-based) analysis, simulation and reasoning;
interval analysis and computation, i.e. the theory and use in numerical computation of the notion of intervals and arithmetic operations on intervals, especially theoretical analysis in the field of interval algebra and interval equations, extensions of the algebra to directed intervals and Kahan intervals, especially using diagrammatic tools, and construction and analysis of practical computational algorithms for various applications;
diagrammatics, or diagrammatic knowledge representation and reasoning, especially its applications in qualitative reasoning, interval analysis and mathematics, and including data presentation and graphical man-machine interfaces;

Members of the Group:

Michal Kleiber, Ph.D., Professor, Department Head
Zenon Kulpa, Ph.D. (currently at Department of Intelligent Technologies)
Truong Lan Le, M.Sc., postgraduate student

Collaborators:

Andrzej Pownuk, Ph.D., Department of Theoretical Mechanics, Silesian University of Technology and Department of Mathematical Sciences, The University of Texas at El Paso
Iwona Skalna, Ph.D., University of Mining and Metallurgy in Cracow
Svetoslav Markov, Ph.D., Professor, Institute of Mathematics and Informatics of Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia
Evgenija D. Popova, Ph.D., Institute of Mathematics and Informatics of Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia

Former members:

Olaf Gajl, Ph.D.
Aleksander Radomski, M.Sc.
Karol Roslaniec, M.Sc.

Location:

: Department of Computational Science
Center of Mechanics and Information Technology
Institute of Fundamental Technological Research
Polish Academy of Sciences
ul. Swietokrzyska 21
00-049 Warszawa, Poland
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