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Name	Zbigniew Skolicki
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Born	Poland, Kraków, 1977
Education	MSc in Computer Science, Jagiellonian University, 2000
	PhD in Computer Science, George Mason University, 2007 Title: An Analysis of Island Models in Evolutionary Computation Advisor: Prof. Kenneth De Jong
Currently	Organizing the world's information and making it universally accessible and useful ;)
Science interests	Evolutionary Computation, Artificial Intelligence
Other interests	Outdoor, Photography
Contact
LATEST NEWS
Dec-08	I moved back to Krakow, Poland :) (still at Google)
Jun-07	I moved to Mountain View, California to work for Google.
11-May-07	I defended my PhD thesis! And I have submitted it to the library (a bit later ;) !
8-Jul-06	I got married! (a color photo | a few B&W photos | Movie 15MB*)
	*Music from "Stolen Moments"

[Pro publico bono]

Power Point templates I made (GMU specific)

[Professional section]

Note: Sorry, not updated recently

Resume (pdf)

I am a member of ECLab at GMU

PUBLICATIONS (and presentations)       

2008

• Skolicki, Z.,"Linkage in Island Models", in: Y.-p. Chen, M.-H. Lim (eds) "Linkage in Evolutionary Computation", Studies in Computational intelligence, vol. 157/2008, pp.41-60, Springer, 2008 (link)

  2007

• Skolicki, Z.,"An Analysis of Island Models in Evolutionary Computation", PhD Dissertation, George Mason University, 2007 [pdf] (notes)

• Skolicki, Z., De Jong, K.,"The importance of a two-level perspective for island model design", Proceedings of the IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC 2007), pp. 4623-4630, 2007 [pdf]

  2006

• Skolicki, Z., Wadda, M. M., Houck, M. H., Arciszewski, T., "Reduction of Physical Threats to Water Distribution Systems", Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management, Special Issue: Drinking Water Systems Security, Vol. 132, Issue 4, pp. 211-217, July/August 2006

• Skolicki, Z., Arciszewski, T., Houck M. H., De Jong, K., "Co-evolution of terrorist and security scenarios for water distribution system"s, Advances in Engineering Software journal, accepted

  2005

• Skolicki, Z., Arciszewski, T., Houck, M. H., De Jong, K., “Emerging Security Patterns: Co-evolution of Terrorist and Security Scenarios”, The Eighth International Conference on the Application of Artificial Intelligence to Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering, Rome, Italy, August 30 – September 2, 2005

• Skolicki, Z., "An Analysis of Island Models in Evolutionary Computation", Proceedings of Graduate Student Workshop, GECCO 2005, Washington, DC, 2005 [pdf]

• Skolicki, Z., De Jong, K., "Survivability of Migrants' Genes in Heterogeneous Island Models", invited presentation at Theory of Representation Workshop, GECCO 2005, Washington, DC, 2005

• Skolicki, Z., De Jong, K., “The influence of migration sizes and intervals on island models”, Proceedings of Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, Washington DC, 2005 [pdf]

• Skolicki, Z., Wadda, M.M., Houck, M.H., Arciszewski, T., "Water Supply Threat Reduction Using Evolutionary Approaches", World Water Congress 2005, vol. 173, p. 61, Anchorage, Alaska, 2005

• Skolicki, Z., Venigalla, M., Arciszewski, T., “Security of Transportation Systems: An Evolutionary Approach,” a poster presentation, the Critical Infrastructure Protection Session, “Working Together: Research & Development (R&D) Partnerships in Homeland Security,” Department of Homeland Security Conference, Boston, April, 2005

• Skolicki, Z., Houck, M., Arciszewski, T., “Improving the Security of Water Distribution Systems using a Co-evolutionary Approach,” a poster presentation, the Critical Infrastructure Protection Session, “Working Together: Research & Development (R&D) Partnerships in Homeland Security,” Department of Homeland Security Conference, Boston, April, 2005

• Arciszewski, T., Skolicki, Z., De Jong, K., “Intelligent Agents: Fundamentals”, in: C.J. Anumba, O.O. Ugwu, Z. Ren, “Agents and Multi-agents Systems in Construction”, Taylor & Francis, 2005

  2004

• Skolicki, Z., De Jong, K., “Improving Evolutionary Algorithms with Multi-representation Island Models”, Proceedings of 8^th International Conference on Parallel Problem Solving from Nature – PPSN VIII, Birmingham, UK, 2004 [pdf]

• Skolicki, Z., De Jong, K., “Improving Evolutionary Algorithms with Multi-representation Island Models”, Late Breaking Papers at the 2004 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, Seattle, 2004

• Wadda, M., Skolicki, Z., Arciszewski, T., and De Jong, K. A., “Generation of Terrorist Scenarios for Water Distribution Systems: An Evolutionary Computation Approach,” Proceedings of the 11th International EG-ICE Workshop, pp. 110-119, Weimar, Germany, June, 2004

• Wadda, M., Skolicki, Z., Arciszewski, T. “Generation of Terrorist Scenarios for Water Distribution Systems: An Evolutionary Computation Approach,” Proceedings of the workshop “Critical Infrastructure Protection Project,” Woodcock, A., Pommerening, C., (editors), George Mason University, pp. 162-170, 2004

  2003

• Arciszewski, T., DeJong, K., Sage, A., Goode, M., Kicinger, R., and Skolicki, Z., “Proactive Infrastructure Security: Evolutionary Generation of Terrorist Scenarios,” Proceedings of the workshop “Critical Infrastructure Protection Project,” Woodcock, A., Thomas, K., (editors), George Mason University, pp. 378-391, 2003

• Skolicki, Z., Arciszewski, T., “Sapient Agents – Seven Approaches”, Proceedings of International Conference Integration of Knowledge Intensive Multi-Agent Systems: KIMAS'03: Modeling, Exploration, and Engineering, Boston, 2003 [pdf] [ppt]

• Skolicki, Z., Arciszewski, T., “Intelligent Agents in Design”, Proceedings of 2003 ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conferences & The Computers and Information in Engineering Conference, Chicago, 2003 [pdf] [ppt]

• Pullmann, T., Skolicki, Z., Freischlad, M., Arciszewski, T., De Jong, K. and Schnellenbach-Held, M., “Structural Design of Reinforced Concrete Tall Buildings: Evolutionary Computation Approach using Fuzzy Sets”, Proceedings of the 10th EG-ICE Workshop, Delft, Netherlands, 2003 [pdf]

• Skolicki, Z., „Semigroups and automata”, Stanisław Sędziwy (editor), Schedae Informaticae, Vol. 11, Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego, 2003

• Skolicki, Z., “Semigroups, groups and grammar inference problem”, Computer Science, Wydawnictwo AGH, 2003

  2002

• Skolicki, Z., Kicinger, R., “Intelligent Agent for designing Steel Skeleton Structures of Tall Buildings”, Computing in Civil Engineering, Proceedings of the International Workshop on Information Technology in Civil Engineering, Washington DC, 2002 [pdf] [ppt]

  2001

• Skolicki, Z., „Moving Object Analysis with Graph Grammar Formalism”, Proceedings of KOSYR - Komputerowe Systemy Rozpoznawania, Wrocław, Politechnika Wrocławska, 2001

  2000

• Skolicki, Z., „On the Application of Linguistic Graph Methods in Qualitative Reasoning problems”, Master’s Thesis, Cracow, Poland, 2000

UNPUBLISHED PAPERS AND OTHER MATERIALS

• Skolicki, Z., “An Analysis of Island Models in Evolutionary Computation”, PhD Proposal, George Mason University, September 2004

• Skolicki, Z., “Evolving desynchronized cellular automata”, IT 910 Evolving computational devices course report, 2003

• Skolicki, Z., “One versus Many – new approaches in Computer Science”, IT 944 Process of Discovery course report, 2003

• Skolicki, Z., “Why Majority Classification is hard”, IT 910 Evolving Computational Devices – Advanced Topics in Artificial Intelligence course presentation, 2003

• Skolicki, Z., “Conceptual Desiging and Inspiration in Nature”, IT 894 Design and Inventive Engineering course presentation, 2002

• Skolicki, Z., “Altruism Gene Project”, CS 700 Quantitative Methods in Experimental Design course report, 2002

• Skolicki, Z., “Trail Planner” Project, CS 685 Intelligent Systems for Robotics course report, 2002

• Skolicki, Z., “On the noise effects in competitive co-evolution: predator-prey case study”, IT 803 Evolutionary Computations course report, 2001

• Skolicki, Z., “Próba algebraizacji zagadnienia wnioskowania gramatycznego” (“A trial of grammar inference problem algebraization”), report at the end of the second year of studies at JU, 1997

• Skolicki, Z., “Struktury algebraiczne dla schematów translacji i transdjuserów” (“Algebraic structures for translation schemata and transducers”), report at the end of the 3rd semester of studies at JU, 1997

• Skolicki, Z., “Gramatyki, a odpowiadające im struktury algebraiczne” (“Grammars and the corresponding algebraic structures”), a report at the end of the first year of studies at JU, 1996

[Personal section]

Photos:

Brasil 2000 (some pictures)

USA 2000 [in Polish]

Elbrus 2001 expedition [mostly in Polish]

Croatia 2003

Mexico 2004

Egypt 2005

some skitouring in Tatras (B/W)

My friend Safaa's new online magazine The Leader World

"Computers are useless. They can only give you answers."
Pablo Picasso

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