Curriculum Vitae

Agata Sawicka was born in Warsaw, Poland, in 1974. She graduated summa cum laude, with Master of Science and Engineering degrees in information systems and management, from Technical University of Warsaw, Poland, in 1998.

In Spring of 1999 she was working as a software test engineer at Microsoft European Product Development Centre in Dublin, Ireland. From 2000 to 2004 she was employed as a doctoral student at Agder University College in Grimstad, Norway. In 2004 she received a Ph.D. degree from University of Bergen, Norway. In her doctoral dissertation she applied system dynamics and experimental approach to explore psychological mechanisms of individual compliance. The investigations were carried out in the context of IT-based work environments.

Since July 2004 she has been a postdoctoral fellow at Agder University College in Grimstad, working on the research project investigating communication of system dynamics models to a broader audience. The postdoctoral research project is funded by the Research Council of Norway.

Her current research interests include learning about complex and dynamic phenomena with system dynamics models and psychological mechanisms governing human behavior in risky environments.

Publications

Books, book chapters

1.        Gonzalez, Jose J., and Agata Sawicka. 2003

The Role of Learning and Risk Perception in Compliance. In From Modeling to Managing Security: A System Dynamics Approach, edited by J. J. Gonzalez. Kristiansand, Norway: Norwegian Academic Press.

2.        Sawicka, Agata, and Jose J. Gonzalez. 2003

Choice under risk in IT-environments according to cumulative prospect theory. In From Modeling to Managing Security: A System Dynamics Approach, edited by J. J. Gonzalez. Kristiansand, Norway: Norwegian Academic Press.

3.        Melara, Carlos, Jose Maria Sarriegui, Jose J. Gonzalez, Agata Sawicka, and David L. Cooke. 2003

A system dynamics model of an insider attack on an information system. In From Modeling to Managing Security: A System Dynamics Approach, edited by J. J. Gonzalez. Kristiansand, Norway: Norwegian Academic Press.

Journals

1.     Gonzalez, Jose J., and Agata Sawicka. 2005

        Compliance - A tension between conditioning and cognition. Technology, Instruction, Cognition and Learning 3, in prep.

Conferences

 Conference Publications/Presentations (peer-reviewed) – Ph.D. research on human factors in security systems:

1.       Sawicka, Agata, Jose J. Gonzalez, and Ying Qian. 2005

        Managing a CSIRT,

        Proceedings of the 23^rd International Conference of the System Dynamics Society, at Boston, USA.

 

2.        Sawicka, Agata and Jose J. Gonzalez. 2003

Choice Under Risk In IT-Environments According To Cumulative Prospect Theory,

Proceedings of the 21st International Conference of the System Dynamics Society, 2003 at New York, USA.

3.        Gonzalez, Jose J. and Agata Sawicka. 2003b

The role of learning and risk perception in compliance,

Proceedings of the 21st International Conference of the System Dynamics Society, 2003, at New York, USA.

4.        Melara, Carlos, Jose Maria Sarriegi, Jose J. Gonzalez, David L. Cooke and Agata Sawicka. 2003

A system dynamics model of an insider attack to information systems,

Proceedings of the 21st International Conference of the System Dynamics Society, 2003, at New York, USA.

5.        Sawicka, Agata. 2003

Compliance as choice under risk: Investigating cumulative prospect theory in a risky work environment,

Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Cognitive Modeling (ICCM 2003), at Bamberg, Germany.

6.        Gonzalez, Jose J. and Agata Sawicka. 2003

Modeling compliance as instrumental conditioning,

Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Cognitive Modeling (ICCM 2003), at Bamberg, Germany.

7.        Gonzalez, Jose J. and Agata Sawicka. 2002

Modeling instrumental conditioning – The behavioral regulation approach,

Proceedings of the Hawai'i International Conference on System Sciences, January 6-9, 2003, at Big Island, Hawaii, USA.

8.        Gonzalez, Jose J. and Agata Sawicka. 2002

A Framework for Human Factors in Information Security,

2002 WSEAS International Conference on Information Security (ICIS'02), at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

 Conference Publications/Presentations (peer-reviewed) – System dynamics methodology:

9.        Gonzalez, Jose J. and Agata Sawicka. 2004

System dynamics student project as quality improving process,

Proceedings of the 22nd International System Dynamics Conference, at Oxford, U.K.

10.     Sawicka, Agata and Dawn Campbell. 2001

Facilitating learning in system dynamics practice,

Proceedings of the 19th International System Dynamics Conference, at Atlanta GA, USA

11.     Sawicka, Agata. 2001

Experts facing complexity: An investigation into the system dynamics method,

Proceedings of the 19th International System Dynamics Conference, at Atlanta GA, USA.

12.     Gonzalez, Jose J. and Agata Sawicka. 2000

Fragmented knowledge and group model building,

Proceedings of the 18th International System Dynamics Conference, at Bergen, Norway.

 Thesis

Ph.D. Thesis:

1.        Sawicka, Agata. 2004

Dynamics of Security Compliance: Case of IT-based Work Environments,

Unpublished Ph.D. Thesis, University of Bergen, Norway.

 Master Thesis & Other Papers:

2.        Sawicka, Agata. 1998

Modernization of the Information System of VI Department of Real-Estate Register, Regional Court of Justice for Warsaw-Mokotow. M.Sc., Thesis (Summa Cum Laude)

Faculty of Industrial Engineering, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland

Working papers related to software testing, usability engineering and IT-diffusion.

3.        Sawicka, Agata. 1998

Report from testing and evaluation of SOW 4.0 module of information systems of VI Department of Real-Estate Register, Regional Court of Justice for Warsaw-Mokotow,

Research report. Institute of Information Systems and Organization, Faculty of Industrial Engineering, Warsaw University of Technology.

4.        Sawicka, Agata 1998

Report on development and role of telecommunities in the rural areas for Sparta Institute,

Research report. National University of Technology in Athens.