Reliable, Secure and Resilient Logistics Networks

Introduction.- Assessment knowledge about engineered networks.- Describing engineered networks.- Designing engineered networks for the risky environment.- Evaluation of logistic networks dependability - a conceptual framework.- Application examples.- Conclusions and concluding considerations.- References.- Index.

Lech Bukowski is a Professor of Management Engineering at the University of Dabrowa Górnicza (Poland). His areas of interest include System Science, especially Systems Engineering, Reliability Engineering, Resilience Engineering, Industrial Logistics and Management Engineering. He has published more than 220 scientific papers and is the author or co-author of 12 monographs in Polish, English and German.

Bukowski graduated from the AGH University of Science and Technology Cracow (Ph.D. degree in 1976 and D.Sc. degree (Habilitation) in 1990) and was appointed Professor of Engineering in 1998. In 2003 he received an honorary professorial degree from the Technical University of Clausthal (Germany). He is an active member of the Scientific Committees of many international congresses and conferences (e.g. chairman of the Conference Total Logistic Management since 1996) and serves on the editorial boards of various scientific periodicals. He has been invited as a Visiting Professor to academic institutions in e.g. the United States, Germany, Austria, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia.

Bukowski's professional career began at the Chemical Company "Azoty Tarnów" and continued as head of the research group at the Metallurgical Company "Nowa Huta" in Cracow. From 1976 to 1994 he was a lecturer at the AGH University of Science and Technology in Cracow (Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Robotics), and from 1981 to 1987 he also served as an Assistant Professor at the Technical University of Clausthal in West Germany. From 1994 to 2003, Bukowski worked as a Professor of Engineering and Head of the Department for Systems Quality and Reliability. He worked at the AGH University of Science and Technology in Cracow as Head of the Systems Engineering Department (2003-2006), Head of the Management Engineering Department (2006-2012), and Dean of the Faculty (2005-2012). Since 2013 he has been working at WSB University as Director of the Business Engineering Center.