Cognitive Dependability Engineering: Managing Risks in Cyber-Physical-Social Systems under Deep Uncertainty (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781032486178)

Lech A. Bukowski is a professor of Management Engineering at WSB University, Dąbrowa Górnicza, Poland. He obtained a PhD (1976) and DSc (1990) from the AGH University of Science and Technology Cracow and became a Professor of Engineering in 1998. He became a Professor Honoris Causa in the Technical University Clausthal (Germany) in 2003. He is an active member of the scientific committees of many international conferences (e.g., honorary chairman of the Carpathian Logistics Congress), he is on the editorial board of 5 scientific periodicals, and a member of the Siemens Award Chapter. His professional career which began in 1966, includes "Azoty Tarnów" (chemicals manufacturer) in and "Nowa Huta" (metals manufacturer) in Cracow. His foray in includes being academia, lecturer at the AGH University of Science and Technology in Cracow (1976); an Assistant Professor at the Technical University Clausthal in Germany (1981 to 1987). He was the Head of Department for Systems Quality and Reliability (1994 to 2003), and from 2003 to 2013 he was in the Faculty of Management, AGH University as a Head of the Systems Engineering Chair, and a Dean of the Faculty. He has been Director, Business Engineering Center at WSB University since 2013. His interests include Systems Science, especially Systems Engineering, and Industrial Logistics. He has published more than 230 scientific papers and has authored 12 monographs in Polish, English and German and has six patents.