My research interests
Global optimization
Differential evolution, theoretical analyses, benchmarking.
- Opara K., Hadi A., Mohamed A. Parametrized benchmarking: an outline of the idea and a feasibility study, (GECCO ’20 Companion), July 8–12, 2020, Cancún, Mexico. ACM,
- Arabas J., Opara K. Population diversity of non-elitist evolutionary algorithms in the exploration phase, IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, vol. 24, issue 6, pp. 1050-1062, December 2020.
- Opara K., Arabas J., The contour fitting property of differential mutation, Swarm and Evolutionary Computation, vol. 50, pp. 1-15, article number 100441, 2019.
- Opara K., Arabas J., Differential Evolution: A survey of theoretical analyses, Swarm and Evolutionary Computation, vol. 44, pp. 546-558, 2019.
- Opara K., Arabas J., Comparison of mutation strategies in Differential Evolution – A probabilistic perspective, Swarm and Evolutionary Computation, vol. 39, pp. 53-69, 2018.
A review of benchmarking procedures for global optimization.
- Opara K., Arabas J., Benchmarking Procedures for Continuous Optimization Algorithms, Journal of Telecommunications and Information Technology, pp. 73-80, no. 4/2011.
- Opara K., Arabas J., Procedury oceny algorytmów optymalizacji ciągłej, (in Polish) EXACT portal web article, https://exact.ipipan.waw.pl/, 2012.
Statistics and Data Mining
Clustering, uncertainty handling, time sereies; both applied and algorithmic studies.
- Owsiński J. W., Stańczak J., Opara K., Zadrożny S., Kacprzyk J., Reverse Clustering. Formulation, Interpretation and Case Studies, Studies in Computational Intelligence. Springer 2021. ISBN 978-3-030-69358-9.
- Hryniewicz O., Kaczmarek-Majer K., Opara K., Control Charts Based on Fuzzy Costs for Monitoring Short Autocorrelated Time Series, International Journal of Approximate Reasoning, vol. 114, pp. 166-181, 2019.
- Opara K., Hryniewicz O., Computation of general correlation coefficients for interval data, International Journal of Approximate Reasoning, vol. 73, pp. 56-75, 2016.
Analysis of the usage of grammatical rhymes in Polish poetry.
- Opara K., Grammatical rhymes in Polish poetry: A quantitative analysis, Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, vol. 30, no. 4, pp. 589-598, 2015.
- Opara K. Rymy częstochowskie w poezji polskiej – ujęcie ilościowe, (in Polish), Polonica XXXIII, 2014, pp. 287-298.
Road infrastructure and intelligent transportation
Road infrastructure and traffic monitoring.
- Opara K., Brzeziński K., Bukowicki M., Kaczmarek-Majer K. Road roughness estimation through smartphone-measured acceleration, IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Magazine (in press, 2021).
- Opara K. R., Zieliński J., Road temperature modelling without in-situ sensors, The Baltic Journal of Road and Bridge Engineering, Vilnius: Technika, 2017, Vol XII, No 4, p.241-247.
- Opara K. R., Skakuj M., Stöckner M., Factors affecting raveling of motorway pavements—a field experiment with new additives to the deicing brine, Construction and Building Materials, Volume 113, 15 June 2016, Pages 174-187 2016.
I am the leader of project Accelerometer System for Pavement Evaluation (ASPEN) supported by the European Space Agency.