Dear Reader, it is our pleasure to present to you Position Papers of the 2017 Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems (FedCSIS), which took place, for the first time outside of Poland, in Prague, Czech Republic, on September 3-6, 2017.

We consider position papers to be important enough to recognize them as a separate publication. As you will see, they comprise two categories of contributions—challenge papers and emerging research papers. Challenge papers propose and describe research challenges in theory, or practice, of computer science and information systems. Papers in this category are based on deep understanding of existing research or industrial problems. Based on such understanding and experience, they define new exciting research directions and show why these directions are crucial to the society at large. Emerging research papers present preliminary research results from work-in-progress based on sound scientific approach but presenting work not completely validated as yet. They describe precisely the research problem and its rationale. They also define precisely the intended future work including the expected benefits from solution to the tackled problem. Subsequently, they may be more conceptual than experimental.

FedCSIS 2017 was Chaired by prof. Pavel Tvrdik, while prof. Jan Janousek acted as the Chair of the Organizing Committee. This year, FedCSIS was organized by the Polish Information Processing Society (Mazovia Chapter), IEEE Poland Section Computer Society Chapter, Systems Research Institute Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw University of Technology, Wrocław University of Economics, and Czech Technical University in Prague.

FedCSIS 2017 was technically co-sponsored by: IEEE Region 8, IEEE Czechoslovakia Section, IEEE Poland Section, IEEE Computer Society, IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Intelligent Informatics, IEEE Czechoslovakia Section Computer Society Chapter, IEEE Poland Section Gdańsk Computer Society Chapter Poland, SMC Technical Committee on Computational Collective Intelligence, IEEE Poland Section Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society Chapter, IEEE Poland Section Control System Society Chapter, IEEE Poland Section Computational Intelligence Society Chapter, ACM Special Interest Group on Applied Computing, Łódź ACM Chapter, International Federation for Information Processing, Committee of Computer Science of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Polish Operational and Systems Research Society, Mazovia Cluster ICT Poland, Polski Klaster Badań i Rozwoju Internetu Rzeczy, and Eastern Cluster ICT Poland. FedCSIS 2017 was sponsored by Intel, Profinit and Abra.

FedCSIS 2017 consisted of the following events (conferences, symposia, workshops, special sessions). These events were grouped into FedCSIS conference areas, of various degree of integration. Specifically, those listed without indication of the year 2017 signify "abstract areas" with no direct paper submissions to them (but with submissions to their enclosed events).

• AAIA'17 – 12th International Symposium Advances in Artificial Intelligence and Applications
  • AIMA'17 – 7th International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence in Medical Applications
  • AIRIM'17 – 2nd International Workshop on AI aspects of Reasoning, Information, and Memory
  • ASIR'17 – 7th International Workshop on Advances in Semantic Information Retrieval
  • JAWS'17 – 11th Joint Agent-oriented Workshops in Synergy
  • LTA'17 – 2st International Workshop on Language Technologies and Applications
  • WCO'17 – 10th International Workshop on Computational Optimization
• CSS - Computer Science & Systems
  • CANA'17 – 10th Computer Aspects of Numerical Algorithms
  • C&SS'17 – 4th International Conference on Cryptography and Security Systems
  • CPORA'17 – 2nd Workshop on Constraint Programming and Operation Research Applications
  • MMAP'17 – 10th International Symposium on Multimedia Applications and Processing
  • WAPL'17 – 6th Workshop on Advances in Programming Languages
  • WSC'17 – 9th Workshop on Scalable Computing
• iNetSApp – International Conference on Innovative Network Systems and Applications
  • INSERT'17 – 1st International Conference on Security, Privacy, and Trust
  • IoT-ECAW'17 – 1st Workshop on Internet of Things – Enablers, Challenges and Applications
  • WSN'17 – 6th International Conference on Wireless Sensor Networks
• IT4MBS – Information Technology for Management, Business & Society
  • AITM'17 – 15th Conference on Advanced Information Technologies for Management
  • ISM'17 – 12th Conference on Information Systems Management
  • IT4L'17 – 5th Workshop on Information Technologies for Logistics
  • KAM'17 – 23nd Conference on Knowledge Acquisition and Management
• SSD&A – Software Systems Development & Applications
  • IWCPS'17 – 4th International Workshop on Cyber-Physical Systems
  • LASD'17 – 1st International Conference on Lean and Agile Software Development
  • MIDI'17 – 4th Conference on Multimedia, Interaction, Design and Innovation
  • SEW-37 – The 37th IEEE Software Engineering Workshop
• DS-RAIT'17 – 4th Doctoral Symposium on Recent Advances in Information Technology

Each paper, found in this volume, was refereed by at least two referees.

The program of FedCSIS required a dedicated effort of many people. Each event constituting FedCSIS had its own Organizing and Program Committee. We would like to express our warmest gratitude to all Committee members for their hard work in attracting and later refereeing 497 regular submissions.

We thank the authors of papers for their great contribution to research and practice in computing and information systems. We thank the invited speakers for sharing their knowledge and wisdom with the participants. Finally, we thank all those responsible for staging the conference in Prague. Organizing a conference of this scope and level could only be achieved by the collaborative effort of a highly capable team taking charge of such matters as conference registration system, finances, the venue, social events, catering, handling all sorts of individual requests from the authors, preparing the conference rooms, etc.

We hope you had an inspiring conference and an unforgettable stay in the beautiful city of Prague. We hope to meet you again for FedCSIS 2018 in Poznań, Poland.

Co-Chairs of the FedCSIS Conference Series:

Maria Ganzha, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland and Systems Research Institute Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland.

Leszek Maciaszek, Wrocław University of Economics, Wrocław, Poland and Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia.

Marcin Paprzycki, Systems Research Institute Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw Poland and Management Academy, Warsaw, Poland.

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