Costin Bădică
Prof.univ.dr.ing.
Membru asociat al secției Tehnologia Informației și Comunicațiilor, Calculatoare și Telecomunicații
MEMBRU ASOCIAT
Tehnologia Informației și Comunicațiilor, Calculatoare și Telecomunicații
nascut in anul 1966
Biografie
După absolvirea facultății, a parcurs toate treptele didactice în cadrul Universității din Craiova, Departamentul de Calculatoare și Tehnologia Informației: Preparator (1990 – 1994), Asistent (1994 – 1996), Lector (1996 – 2001), Conferențiar (2002 – 2006), Profesor (2006 – prezent) și conducător de doctorat (2007 – prezent). În perioada 2001 – 2002, a activat ca cercetător postdoctorat în cadrul Departamentului de Știința Calculatoarelor de la King’s College London, Marea Britanie.
Opera științifică
Cӑrţi publicate / editate ca autor / editor (selectiv):
1. Costin Badica, Panos Liatsis, Latika Kharb, Deepak Chahal (Eds.): Information, Communication and Computing Technology. 5th International Conference on Information, Communication and Computing Technology, ICICCT 2020, New Delhi, India, May 9, 2020. Communications in Computer and Information Science, CCIS, volume 1170, Springer 2020, ISBN 978-981-15-9670-4, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-9671-1
2. Mirjana Ivanovic, Tulay Yildirim, Goce Trajcevski, Costin Badica, Ladjel Bellatreche, Igor V. Kotenko, Amelia Badica, Burcu Erkmen, Milos Savic, International Conference on INnovations in Intelligent SysTems and Applications, INISTA 2020, Novi Sad, Serbia, August 24-26, 2020. IEEE 2020, ISBN 978-1-7281-6799-2, https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/conhome/9184152/proceeding
3. Igor V. Kotenko, Costin Badica, Vasily Desnitsky, Didier El Baz, Mirjana Ivanovic (Eds.): Intelligent Distributed Computing XIII, 13th International Symposium on Intelligent Distributed Computing, IDC 2019, St. Petersburg, Russia, 7-9 October, 2019. Studies in Computational Intelligence 868, Springer 2020, ISBN 978-3-030-32257-1, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-32258-8
4. Rajendra Akerkar, Mirjana Ivanovic, Sang-Wook Kim, Yannis Manolopoulos, Riccardo Rosati, Milos Savic, Costin Badica, Milos Radovanovic. Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Web Intelligence, Mining and Semantics, WIMS 2018, Novi Sad, Serbia, June 25-27, 2018. ACM 2018, ISBN 978-1-4503-5489-9, https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3227609
5. Mirjana Ivanović, Costin Bădică, Jürgen Dix, Zoran Jovanović, Michele Malgeri, Miloš Savić, Intelligent Distributed Computing XI, Studies in Computational Intelligence 737, Springer 2018 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-66379-1
6. Costin Bădică, Mirel Cosulschi, Adina Magda Florea, Petia Koprinkova-Hristova, Tülay Yildirim Proceedings of the 2016 International Symposium on INnovations in Intelligent SysTems and Applications (INISTA), Sinaia, Romania, 2-5 August 2016, IEEE, 2016. URL: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/servlet/opac?punumber=7565275
7. Costin Bădică, Amal El Fallah Seghrouchni, Koen Hindriks, Aurélie Beynier, Cédric Herpson, David Camacho, Paulo Novais. Intelligent Distributed Computing X – Proceedings of the 9th International Symposium on Intelligent Distributed Computing – IDC’2016, Paris, France, October 2016, Studies in Computational Intelligence 678, Springer 2017, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-48829-5
8. Jason J. Jung, Costin Badica, Attila Kiss: Scalable Information Systems – 5th International Conference, INFOSCALE 2014, Seoul, South Korea, September 25-26, 2014, Revised Selected Papers. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering 139, Springer 2015, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16868-5
9. Costin Badica, Yannis Manolopoulos, Mirel Cosulschi, George Eleftherakis, Florin Leon: Proceedings of the 7th Balkan Conference on Informatics Conference, BCI ’15, Craiova, Romania, September 2-4, 2015 .ACM 2015, URL: http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2801081
Paulo Novais, David Camacho, Cesar Analide, Amal El Fallah-Seghrouchni, Costin Badica: Intelligent Distributed Computing IX – Proceedings of the 9th 10. International Symposium on Intelligent Distributed Computing – IDC’2015, Guimarães, Portugal, October 2015. Studies in Computational Intelligence 616, Springer 2016, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25017-5
11. Dumitru Dan Burdescu, Rajendra Akerkar, Costin Badica, Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Web Intelligence, Mining and Semantics, WIMS ’12, ACM 2012, DOI: http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2254129
12. Costin Badica, Ngoc Thanh Nguyen, Marius Brezovan, Computational Collective Intelligence. Technologies and Applications, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 8083, Springer 2013, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-40495-5
13. David Camacho, Lars Braubach, Salvatore Venticinque, Costin Badica, Intelligent Distributed Computing VIII, Studies in Computational Intelligence 570, Springer 2015, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-10422-5
14. Filip Zavoral, Jason J. Jung, Costin Badica, Intelligent Distributed Computing VII, Studies in Computational Intelligence 511, Springer 2014, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-01571-2
15. Giancarlo Fortino, Costin Badica, Michele Malgeri, Rainer Unland, Intelligent Distributed Computing VI, Studies in Computational Intelligence 446, Springer 2012 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-32524-3
16. Frances M. T. Brazier, Kees Nieuwenhuis, Gregor Pavlin, Martijn Warnier, Costin Badica (Eds.): Intelligent Distributed Computing V, Studies in Computational Intelligence 382, Springer 2012, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-24013-3
17. Mohammed Essaaidi, Michele Malgeri, Costin Badica (Eds.): Intelligent Distributed Computing IV, Studies in Computational Intelligence 315, Springer 2010, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-15211-5
18. George Angelos Papadopoulos, Costin Badica (Eds.): Intelligent Distributed Computing III, Studies in Computational Intelligence 237, Springer 2009 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-03214-1
19. Costin Badica, Giuseppe Mangioni, Vincenza Carchiolo, Dumitru Dan Burdescu (Eds.): Intelligent Distributed Computing, Systems and Applications, Studies in Computational Intelligence 162, Springer 2008, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-85257-5
20. Costin Badica, Marcin Paprzycki (Eds.): Advances in Intelligent and Distributed Computing, Studies in Computational Intelligence 78, Springer 2008 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-74930-1
Articole (selectiv):
1. Bădică, Amelia, Costin Bădică, Ion Buligiu, Liviu Ion Ciora, and Doina Logofătu. 2021. „Dynamic Programming Algorithms for Computing Optimal Knockout Tournaments” Mathematics 9, no. 19: 2480. https://doi.org/10.3390/math9192480 WOS:000707969100001
2. Sasa Pesic, Mirjana Ivanovic, Milos Radovanovic, Costin Badica: CAAVI-RICS model for observing the security of distributed IoT and edge computing systems. Simul. Model. Pract. Theory 105: 102125 (2020) DOI: 10.1016/j.simpat.2020.102125 WOS:000571485300001
3. Amelia Badica, Costin Badica, Ion Buligiu, Liviu Ion Ciora: Exploring the Blocks World state space. Concurr. Comput. Pract. Exp. 34(14) (2022) DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/cpe.6472 WOS:000673966500001
4. Alexandra Vultureanu-Albisi, Costin Badica: A survey on effects of adding explanations to recommender systems. Concurr. Comput. Pract. Exp. 34(20) (2022) DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/cpe.6834 WOS:000744329000001
5. Elie Saad, Marcin Paprzycki, Maria Ganzha, Amelia Badica, Costin Badica, Stefka Fidanova, Ivan Lirkov, Mirjana Ivanovic: Generalized Zero-Shot Learning for Image Classification – Comparing Performance of Popular Approaches. Information 13(12): 561 (2022) DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/info13120561 WOS:000902745400001
6. Apoki, Ufuoma Chima, Hussein, Aqeel M. Ali, Al-Chalabi, Humam K. Majeed, Badica, Costin, Mocanu, Mihai L., The Role of Pedagogical Agents in Personalised Adaptive Learning: A Review, Sustainability 14(11), 10.3390/su14116442 WOS:000808762400001
7. Dumitru Daniel Vecliuc, Florin Leon, Costin Badica: The effect of collaborative behaviors in emergency evacuation. Simul. Model. Pract. Theory 118: 102554 (2022) DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.simpat.2022.102554 WOS:000797729400007
8. Julia Garbaruk, Doina Logofatu, Costin Badica, Florin Leon: Digital Image Evolution of Artwork Without Human Evaluation Using the Example of the Evolving Mona Lisa Problem. Vietnam. J. Comput. Sci. 9(2): 203-215 (2022) DOI: https://doi.org/10.1142/S2196888822500075 WOS:000797588800005
9. Elena-Ruxandra Lutan, Costin Badica, Emotion-Based Literature Book Classification Using Online Reviews. Electronics 11(20) (2022) DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11203412 WOS:000872498300001
10. Amelia Bădică, Costin Bădică, Ion Buligiu, Liviu I. Ciora, and Doina Logofătu. 2021. „Dynamic Programming Algorithms for Computing Optimal Knockout Tournaments” Mathematics 9, no. 19: 2480. https://doi.org/10.3390/math9192480 (IF2020 = 2.165)
11. Alexandra Vultureanu-Albişi, Costin Bădică, A survey on effects of adding explanations to recommender systems, Concurrency and Computation-Practice & Experience, First published: 19 January 2022, https://doi.org/10.1002/cpe.6834
12. Gia Thuan Lam, Doina Logofătu & Costin Bădică, A novel real-time design for fighting game AI, Evolving Systems, volume 12, 169–176, Springer, (2021) https://doi.org/10.1007/s12530-020-09351-4 (IF2020 = 1.908) WOS:000549781700001
13. Badica, Amelia; Badica, Costin; Buligiu, Ion; Ciora, Liviu Ion, Exploring the Blocks World state space, Concurrency and Computation-Practice & Experience, (IF2020 = 1.536), https://doi.org/10.1002/cpe.6472
14. Amelia Bădică, Costin Bădică, Maria Ganzha, Mirjana Ivanović, Marcin Paprzycki, Optimal Semi-Competitive Intermediation Networks. Cybernetics and Information Technologies, Volume 20, Issue 5, 2020, https://doi.org/10.2478/cait-2020-0042
15. Florin Leon, Petru Cascaval, Costin Badica, Optimization Methods for Redundancy Allocation in Large Systems. Vietnam. J. Comput. Sci. 7(3): 281-299 (2020) https://doi.org/10.1142/S2196888820500165
16. Sasa Pesic, Mirjana Ivanovic, Milos Radovanovic, Costin Badica, CAAVI-RICS model for observing the security of distributed IoT and edge computing systems. Simul. Model. Pract. Theory 105: 102125, Elsevier, (2020) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.simpat.2020.102125
17. Amelia Badica, Costin Badica, Mirjana Ivanovic, Block structured scheduling using constraint logic programming. AI Commun. 33(1): 41-57 IOS Press, 2020, 10.3233/AIC-200650
18. Kristiyan Balabanov, Tymoteusz Cejrowski, Doina Logofatu, Costin Badica, Study on population dynamics for triple-linked food chain using a simulation-based approach. Evol. Syst. 11(2): 215-226 Springer, (2020) https://doi.org/10.1007/s12530-019-09298-1
19. Costin Badica, Florin Leon, Amelia Badica, Freight transportation broker agent based on constraint logic programming. Evol. Syst. 11(3): 363-382, Springer, (2020) https://doi.org/10.1007/s12530-018-9230-3
20. Claudio Savaglio, Giancarlo Fortino, Maria Ganzha, Marcin Paprzycki, Costin Bădică, Mirjana Ivanović, Agent-based Internet of Things: State-of-the-art and research challenges, Future Generation Computer Systems, 102: 1038-1053 (2020), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.future.2019.09.016
21. Costin Bădică, Milan Vidakovic, Sorin Ilie, Mirjana Ivanovic, Jovana Vidakovic, Role of Agent Middleware in Teaching Distributed Systems and Agent Technologies. CIT 27(1): 25-42 (2019), http://doi.org/10.20532/cit.2019.1004464
22. Florin Leon, Costin Bădică, Expressing multiagent coalition structure problems for optimisation by quantum annealing. Enterprise IS 13(7-8): 959-978 (2019), https://doi.org/10.1080/17517575.2018.1552993
23. Amelia Bădică, Costin Bădică, Mirjana Ivanović, Doina Logofătu. Collective profitability in semi-competitive intermediation networks. Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, 37(6): 7357-7368 (2019). https://doi.org/10.3233/JIFS-179345
24. Mirjana Ivanovic, Jovana Ivkovic, Milan Vidakovic, Costin Badica: Fault-Tolerance in XJAF Agent Middleware. Trans. Computational Collective Intelligence 30: 223-241 (2018) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-99810-7_11
25. Costin Bǎdicǎ, Florin Leon, Amelia Bǎdicǎ. Freight transportation broker agent based on constraint logic programming. Evolving Systems. Springer (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12530-018-9230-3
26. Amelia Bădică, Costin Bădică, Mirjana Ivanović, Daniela Dănciulescu. Multi-agent modelling and simulation of graph-based predator–prey dynamic systems: A BDI approach. Expert Systems. Wiley (2018), DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/exsy.12263
27. Alex Becheru, Costin Bǎdicǎ. Romanian tourism portal analysis through natural language processing, network science and graph database methods. Romanian Journal of Human – Computer Interaction. Vol.10, No.4, 299-330, (2017). ISSN 1843-4460. http://rochi.utcluj.ro/rrioc/en/rrioc-2017-4.html#Romanian_tourism_portal_analysis_through_natural_language_processing_network_science_and_graph_database_methods
28. Florin Leon, Costin Bădică, An Optimization Web Service for a Freight Brokering System, Service Science, 9 (4): 324-337 INFORMS (2017), DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1287/serv.2017.0191
29. Amelia Bădică, Costin Bădică, Formal framework for distributed swarm computing: abstract model and properties. Soft Computing 21 (17): 4925-4938 Springer (2017). DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00500-016-2381-x
30. Dejan Mitrovic, Mirjana Ivanovic, Rafael H. Bordini, Costin Badica, Jason Interpreter, Enterprise Edition, Informatica-Journal of Computing and Informatics, Volume: 40 Issue: 1 Pages: 19-27, 2016. http://www.informatica.si/index.php/informatica/article/view/1167/845
31. Mirjana Ivanovic, Zoran Budimac, Milos Radovanovic, Vladimir Kurbalija, Weihui Dai, Costin Badica, Mihaela Colhon, Srdan Ninkovic, Dejan Mitrovic: Emotional agents – state of the art and applications. Computer Science and Information Systems 12(4): 1121-1148 (2015), http://dx.doi.org/10.2298/CSIS141026047I
32. Mirjana Ivanović, Dejan Mitrović, Zoran Budimac, Ljubomir Jerinić, Costin Bădică, HAPA: Harvester and Pedagogical Agents in E-learning Environments, International Journal of Computers Communications & Control, 10(2), 2015, 200-210, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.15837/ijccc.2015.2.1753
33. Jason J. Jung, Costin Badica, Ngoc Thanh Nguyen, Roman Slowinski: Semantic interoperability for automated enterprises. Enterprise Information Systems 9(3): 300-302 (2015), DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17517575.2014.985614
34. Costin Badica, Sorin Ilie, Alex Muscar, Amelia Badica, Liviu Sandu, Raluca Sbora, Maria Ganzha, Marcin Paprzycki, Distributed Agent-Based Online Auction System. Computing and Informatics 33(3): 518-552 2014, URL: http://www.cai.sk/ojs/index.php/cai/article/view/2216
35. Costin Badica, Nick Bassiliades, Sorin Ilie, Kalliopi Kravari, Agent reasoning on the web using web services, Computer Science and Information Systems 11(2): 697-721 2014, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.2298/CSIS140301038B
36. Alex Muscar, Costin Badica, Monadic Foundations for Promises in Jason. Information Technology and Control (ITC) 43(1): 65-72, 2014 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5755/j01.itc.43.1.4586
37. Katarzyna Wasielewska, Maria Ganzha, Marcin Paprzycki, Pawel Szmeja, Michal Drozdowicz, Ivan Lirkov, Costin Badica, Applying Saaty’s Multicriterial Decision Making Approach in Grid Resource Management. Information Technology and Control (ITC) 43(1): 73-87, 2014, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5755/j01.itc.43.1.4587
38. Alex Muscar, Costin Badica, Towards a declarative framework for the specification of agent-driven auctions, Engineering Intelligent Systems, Volume 21, Issue 2-3, 75-87, CRL Publishing, ISSN 0969-1170, 2013. URL SCOPUS: http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84890494683&partnerID=40&md5=ef8d540a2085c5438f8afbeb92c0e9eb
39. Sorin Ilie, Costin Badica. Multi-agent approach to distributed ant colony optimization, Science of Computer Programming, 78(6): 762-774, Elsevier, 2013, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scico.2011.09.001
40. Elvira Popescu, Costin Badica: Creating a Personalized Artificial Intelligence Course: WELSA Case Study. International Journal of Information Systems and Social Change (IJISSC) 2(1): 31-47, 2011. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/jissc.2011010103
41. Radu Burete, Amelia Badica, Costin Badica, Florin Moraru: Enhanced Reputation Model with Forgiveness for E-Business Agents. International Journal of Agent Technologies and Systems (IJATS) 3(1): 11-26, 2011. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/jats.2011010102
42. Costin Badica, Zoran Budimac, Hans-Dieter Burkhard, Mirjana Ivanovic: Software agents: Languages, tools, platforms. Computer Science and Information Systems 8(2): 255-298, 2011, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.2298/CSIS110214013B
43. Amelia Badica, Costin Badica: FSP and FLTL framework for specification and verification of middle-agents. Applied Mathematics and Computer Science 21(1): 9-25, 2011, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/v10006-011-0001-6
44. Elvira Popescu, Costin Badica, Lucian Moraret, Accommodating Learning Styles in an Adaptive Educational System. Informatica (Slovenia) 34(4): 451-462 (2010), URL: http://www.informatica.si/PDF/34-4/06_Popescu-Accommodating%20Learning%20Styles%20in%20an%20Adaptive%20Educational%20System.pdf
45. Amelia Badica, Costin Badica, Formalizing Agent-Based English Auctions Using Finite State Process Algebra. Journal of Universal Computer Science 14(7): 1118-1135 (2008), URL: http://www.jucs.org/jucs_14_7/formalizing_agent_based_english
46. Elvira Popescu, Costin Badica, Philippe Trigano, Learning Objects’ Architecture and Indexing in WELSA Adaptive Educational System. Scalable Computing: Practice and Experience 9(1) (2008), URL: http://www.scpe.org/index.php/scpe/article/view/517
47. Adriana Dobriceanu, Laurentiu Biscu, Amelia Badica, Costin Badica, The design and implementation of an agent-based auction service. International Journal of Agent-Oriented Software Engineering (IJAOSE) 3(2/3): 116-134 (2009), DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1504/IJAOSE.2009.023633
48. Grzegorz Frackowiak, Maria Ganzha, Maciej Gawinecki, Marcin Paprzycki, Michal Szymczak, Costin Badica, Yo-Sub Han, Myon-Woong Park, Adaptability in an agent-based virtual organisation. International Journal of Agent-Oriented Software Engineering (IJAOSE) 3(2/3): 188-211 (2009), DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1504/IJAOSE.2009.023636
49. Costin Badica, Maria Ganzha, Marcin Paprzycki, Implementing Rule-Based Automated Price Negotiation in an Agent System. Journal of Universal Computer Science 13(2): 244-266 (2007), URL: http://www.jucs.org/jucs_13_2/implementing_rule_based_automated
50. Costin Badica, Amelia Badica, Elvira Popescu, Ajith Abraham, L-wrappers: concepts, properties and construction. Soft Computing 11(8): 753-772, Springer, 2007, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00500-006-0118-y
Activitatea didactică
Activitatea didactica s-a desfășurat la Facultatea de Automatică, Calculatoare și Electronică, în principal pentru cursurile de Inteligenţă artificială, Proiectarea algoritmilor, Sisteme concurente si distribuite, dar şi pentru alte cursuri, precum Dezvoltarea aplicaţiilor ȋn reţele de calculatoare şi Comerţ electronic. A elaborat îndrumare de laborator, culegeri de probleme şi manuale.
A efectuat stagii de specializare la Universitatea din Padova (1994, Italia) , University of Paris Sud (1997, Franţa), Dagstuhl Seminar 14181 (2014, Germania). Ȋn perioada 2001-2002 a fost cercetător postdoctoral la King’s College London, Department of Computer Science, UK.
În activitatea de cercetare științifică principalele teme de interes au fost abordate în domeniile: Artificial Intelligence, Multi-agent Systems, Distributed Systems, Software Engineering, Formal Representations.
Prezentări ȋn calitate de „keynote / invited speaker”
1. 2002, Introduction to XML, Brunel University, London, UK (Prof. Mark Hartman)
2. 2006, Information extraction using XML and logic programming, Université de Technologie de Compiègne, France (Prof. Philippe Trigano)
3. October 2008, FSP and FLTL Framework for Specification and Verification of Middle-Agents, AGH University, Krakow, Poland (Prof. Antoni Ligeza, Prof. Grzegorz J. Nalepa)
4. June 19-21, 2010, Using Logic Programming and XML Technologies for Data Extraction from Web Pages, Koreu-EU Forum 2010, Gyeongju, Korea (Prof. Jason J. Jung)
5. September 13-23, 2010, Agent Technology for Disaster Management, Invited lecture, NATO Advanced Study Institute, Software Agents, Agent Systems and Their Applications, Tangiers, Morocco (Prof. Mohammad Essaaidi)
6. May 4-7, 2011, Dynamic Negotiations in Multi-Agent Systems for Disaster Management, Invited lecture, http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-716/ICTERI-2011-CEUR-WS-Preface-p-2-3.pdf, http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-716/ICTERI-2011-CEUR-WS-Invited-1-p-8-22.pdf, International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in Education, Research, and Industrial Applications: Integration, Harmonization, and Knowledge Transfer (ICTERI 2011), Kherson, Ukraine (Prof. Vadim Ermolayev)
7. 27-30 September 2012, Negotiations in Multi-Agent Systems, Invited tutorial, 8th IFIP International Conference on Artificial Intelligence Applications and Innovations (AIAI 2012) Greece (Prof. Lazaros Iliadis, Prof. Yannis Manolopoulos)
8. April 2017, Erasmus Teaching Mobility, Introduction to Multi-Agent Systems (MSc. Course in Telecommunications Engineering), Engineering Technical School (ETSE), University of Valencia, Spain (Prof. Jaume Segura Garcia)
9. November 2017, Erasmus Training Mobility, Invited Research Talk: Intelligent Agent Programming: from Theory to Practice (Applied Intelligence & Data Analysis research group – AI+DA, http://aida.ii.uam.es/)Escuela Politécnica Superior/Departamento de Ingeniería Informática, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain (Prof. David Camacho Fernández)
10. June 19, 2018, Invited lecture: „Agent Programming. Multi-Agent Systems and Learning Agents”, Summer School LeMAS-2018, AI-MAS research group, http://aimas.cs.pub.ro/lemas-2018/presentations, „Politehnica” University of Bucharest, Romania (Prof. Adina-Magda Florea, Prof. Andrei Olaru)
11. August 1, 2018, Invited lecture „Constraint Logic Programming: from Declarative Modeling to Problem Solving”, Workgroup for Soft Computing, Programming and Algorithms, https://www.informatik.fb2.frankfurt-university.de/~logofatu/2nd%20Research%20Session.pdf, Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Frankfurt am Main, Germany (Prof. Dr. Doina Logofătu)
12. December 2-9, 2018, Invited lecture „Agent-Oriented Programming. From Theory to Practice” in Seminar at Systems Research Institute. Polish Academy of Aciences IBS-PAN, Warsaw, Poland http://www.ibspan.waw.pl/aktualnosci/aktualnosci1/seminar_with_the_presentations_of_our_partners_from_romania_university_of_craiova-12, Systems Research Institute. Polish Academy of Aciences IBS-PAN, Warsaw, Poland (Prof. Marcin Paprzycki, Prof. Maria Ganzha)
13. September 4, 2019, Keynote talk: „Agents and optimization for collective profitability, freight transportation brokering and structured project scheduling” at 11th International Conference on Computational collective Intelligence, Hendaye – France, http://iccci.sigappfr.org/keynote-speakers/, Auditorium Antoine d’Abbadie, Hendaye – France (Prof. Ngoc Thanh Nguyen, Prof. Richard Chbeir)
14. May 9, 2020, Keynote talk: „Intelligent Distributed Systems Interplay of: AI, MAS & Soft.Eng.” at 5th International Conference on Information, Communication & Computing Technology, New Delhi, India , http://www.jimsindia.org/icicct2020, 5th ICICCT 2020, Jagan Institute of Management Studies (JIMS), New Delhi, India (Dr. Praveen Arora, Dr. Deepak Chathal)
15. December 3, 2020, Keynote talk: „Synergies of Artificial Intelligence, Multi-Agent Systems & Software Engineering Research” at 5th IEEE International Conference on Recent Advances and Innovations in Engineering – ICRAIE 2020, Jaipur, India. IEEE Conference Record #50510, https://conferences.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/conferencedetails/51050, 5th ICRAIE 2020, Poornima College of Engineering, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India (Prof. Mahesh Bundele)
16. March 10, 2021, Keynote talk: „Applications of the Multi-Agent Paradigm” at 5th IEEE Information Communication Technology and Society – ICTAS 2021, Durban, South Africa. IEEE Conference Record #50510, https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/conhome/9394949/proceeding, 5th ICTAS 2021, Durban University of Technology, Durban, South Africa (Prof. Richard C. Millham), https://www.dut.ac.za/the-2021-ictas-ieee-online-conference-was-a-great-success/
17. April 26, 2021, Invited Talk: „Applications of Artificial Intelligence for Automotive Engineering” at Erasmus+ Automotive Academy, Kazimierz Pułaski University of Technology and Humanities in Radom, Poland, https://eaa.uniwersytetradom.pl/, Kazimierz Pułaski University of Technology and Humanities in Radom, Radom, Poland (Prof. Krzysztof Górski)
18. September 16, 2021, Invited Talk: „Intelligent Distributed Systems Synergies of Artificial Intelligence, Multi-Agent Systems, Distributed Systems & Software Engineering” at 14th Intelligent Distributed Computing Conference – IDC’2021, Reggio Calabria, Italy, http://idc2021.unirc.it/program.html, University Mediterranea of Reggio Calabria, Reggio Calabria, Italy (Prof. Giuseppe M.L. Sarnè)
19. July 23, 2025, Invited Talk: „Generalized Similarity Measures for Boolean Models” at 1st International Conference on Computational Intelligence in Engineering Science – ICCIES’2025, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, https://iccies.tdtu.edu.vn/2025/keynotes/, Ton Duc Thang University, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam (Prof. Trong Dao Tran)
20. November 5, 2025, Invited Talk: „Contemporary Agent Technology: LLM-Driven Advancements vs. Classic Multi-Agent Systems” at Smart Diaspora 2025. Frontiere în Inteligența Artificială: Provocări și Perspective, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, https://diaspora-stiintifica.ro/documents/Wks2025/Program_wk_16_v2.pdf, Universitatea Tehnica din Cluj-Napoca, Romania (Prof. Ionuţ Anghel, Prof. Tudor Cioară)
21. November 11, 2025, Invited Talk: „Contemporary Agent Technology: LLM-Driven Advancements vs. Classic Multi-Agent Systems”. Seminar at Technical School of Computer Systems Engineering (E.T.S. de Ingeniería de Sistemas Informáticos) of the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, AIDA Research Group https://aida.etsisi.upm.es/, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain (Prof. David Camacho)
Membru ȋn societӑţi, organizaţii profesionale şi colective editoriale
1. Membru Asociat al Academiei de Științe Tehnice din România, 2024. Section „Information and Communication Technology – Computers and Telecommunications”
2. Membru al Asociației Generale a Inginerilor din România
3. Membru IEEE. Member number: 90451842, IEEE Computational Intelligence Society, IEEE Computer Society, IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society
4. Membru fondator of the Romanian Association of Artificial Intelligence (ARIA)
5. CNATDCU National Committee Member, Committee 15, Computer and Information Technology & System Engineering, din 2020 până ȋn prezent
6. TC Co-Chair of Technical Committee on Computational Collective Intelligence, IEEE SMC Society (https://www.ieeesmc.org/technical-activities/cybernetics/computational-collective-intelligence)
7. Membru ȋn colectiovul editorial al revistei: Computer Science and Information Systems. ComSIS. ISSN 1820-0214 (WoS)
8. Membru ȋn colectiovul editorial al revistei: System Theory, Control and Computing Journal. ISSN: 2810–4099
9. Membru ȋn colectiovul editorial al revistei: Cybernetics and Information Technologies (CIT). The Journal of Institute of Information and Communication Technologies of Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. eISSN1314-4081 (WoS)
10. Membru ȋn colectiovul editorial al revistei: Simulation Modelling Practice and Theory, ISSN 1569-190X (WoS)
11. Membru ȋn colectiovul editorial al revistei: Vietnam Journal of Computer Science, ISSN (print): 2196-8888 | ISSN (online): 2196-8896 (WoS)
Premii şi distincții
1. 25-29 June 2006, Best Presentation Award for the paper „Rule-Based Automated Price Negotiation: Overview and Experiment”, 8th Int. Conf. on Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing, ICAISC’2006, Zakopane, Poland
2. 18.03.2011, Certificate of Achievement 1991 – 2011, Bucharest, IEEE Romania Section
3. 28-30 September 2016, Best Paper Award for the paper „Collective Profitability and Welfare in Selling-Buying Intermediation Processes”, 8th International Conference on Computational Collective Intelligence, ICCCI 2016, Halkidiki, Greece
4. 7-9 October 2015, Honorable Mention for the paper „FSP Modeling of a Generic Distributed Swarm Computing Framework”, 9th International Symposium on Intelligent Distributed Computing – IDC’2015, Guimarães, Portugal
5. 2021, Most Active SMC Technical Committee Award in Cybernetics for TC on „Computational Collective Intelligence”, IEEE SMC Society
6. 2024, Most Active SMC Technical Committee Award in Cybernetics for TC on „Computational Collective Intelligence”, IEEE SMC Society
Sinteză publicații şi citări
1. Peste 300 de lucrări ȋn Google Scholar
2. Peste 200 de lucrări ȋn Web of Science
3. Peste 250 de lucrări ȋn Scopus
4. Hirsch index = 26 (Google Scholar), peste 3500 citări
5. Hirsch index = 16 (Scopus), peste 1219 citări fără auto-citări
6. Hirsch index = 14 (WoS), peste 750 citări fără auto-citări