Chairs and Committees

General Chair:

Simona DZIȚAC,

University of Oradea / Software System Engineer & Researcher at R&D Agora, simona@dzitac.ro, rd.agora@univagora.ro

Dr. Simona Dzitac is an Associate Professor at Energy Engineering Department, Faculty of Energy Engineering and Industrial Management, University of Oradea, Romania and Software System Engineer & Researcher at R&D Agora. She received her B.Sc. in Mathematics (2000), Energy Engineering (2005), Economic Informatics (2007) and PhD in Energy Engineering (2008). Her current research interests include different aspects of reliability, modelling, simulation, quality management, IT management. She has published 11 books/courses and materials for students and more than 120 scientific papers in journals and conferences proceedings. Her research activity includes participation in 42 grants/projects. The impact of her published works are over 370 citations and h-index 11 in ISI Web of Science.

Program Committee Chair:

Florin Gheorghe FILIP,

President of "Information Science and Technology" Section of Romanian Academy, Romania, ffilip@acad.ro

Florin Gheorghe Filip was born in 1947 in Bucharest, Romania. He graduated in Control Engineering at Technical University of Bucharest in 1970 and received his PhD degree from the same university in 1982. He was elected as corresponding member of the Romanian Academy in 1991 and became full member of the Academy in 1999. During 2000-2010, he was vice-president of the Romanian Academy (elected in 2000, re-elected in 2004, and 2006). In 2010, he was elected president of the Information Science and Technology section of the Academy (re-elected in 2015, and 2019). He was the managing director of National Institute for R&D in Informatics-ICI Bucharest (1991-1997). He is honorary member of the Romanian Academy of Technical Sciences, and Academy of Sciences of Republic of Moldova. He was the chair of IFAC TC 5.4 (Large-scale Complex Systems) from 2002 to 2008. His main scientific interests include optimization and control of large-scale complex/collaborative systems, decision support systems, technology management and foresight, and IT applications in the cultural sector. He authored/co-authored over 350 papers published in international journals (IFAC J Automatica, IFAC J Control Engineering Practice, Annual Reviews in Control, Computers in Industry, Large-Scale Systems, Technological and Economic Development of Economy, and so on) and contributed to volumes printed by international publishing houses (Pergamon Press, Elsevier, Kluwer, Chapman & Hall and so on). He is also the author/co-author of thirteen monographs (published by Editura Tehnică, Hermès-Lavoisier, J. Wiley & Sons, Springer) and editor/co-editor of 30 volumes of contributions (published by Editura Academiei Române, Pergamon Press, North Holland, Elsevier, IEEE Computer Society, and so on). He presented invited lectures in universities and research institutes, and plenary papers at scientific conferences in Brazil, Chile, China, France, Germany, Lithuania, Poland, Portugal, Republic of Moldova, Romania, Spain, Sweden, Tunisia, and UK. More details can be found at: http://www.academiaromana.ro/sectii/sectia14_informatica/sti_FFilip.htm

Organizing Committee Chairs:

1. Misu-Jan MANOLESCU,

President of Agora University of Oradea, Romania, mmj@univagora.ro

Prof. Misu-Jan Manolescu is a Professor of Risk Management and President of Administration Council of Agora University. He is an Engineer, PhD in Energy Engineering, PhD in Management, president of Agora Foundation, Founder of Agora University and co-founder and Managing Editor of International Journal of Computers Communications & Control and co-founder of International Conference Computers Communications & Control.

His publications and research results consist in 10 books, over 60 papers and 2 inventions.

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2. Domnica DZITAC

Technical and Operational Coordinator of the Social Science Experimental Laboratory at New York University Abu Dhabi, domnica.dzitac@nyu.edu

Domnica Dzitac is a fresh graduate from New York University Abu Dhabi from where she obtained a degree in Computer Science with concentrations in Applied Mathematics and Political Science. Domnica conducted meaningful research and studied in global locations such as Abu Dhabi (UAE), Paris (France), Washington D.C. (USA) and New York City (USA). Her research interests consist of applying computational tools to answer questions about human behavior, contributing to fields such as Computational Social Science, Natural Language Understanding, Machine Learning, Data Science and Behavioural Economics.

Publication Chairs:

1. Janusz KACPRZYK,

Polish Academy of Sciences, Janusz.Kacprzyk@ibspan.waw.pl

Fellow of IEEE, IET, EurAI, IFSA, IFIP, AAIA, SMIA

Academician, Polish Academy of Sciences

Systems Research Institute

Polish Academy of Sciences

Newelska 6

01-447 Warsaw, Poland

Email: kacprzyk@ibspan.waw.pl

Janusz Kacprzyk is Professor of Computer Science at the Systems Research Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences, WIT – Warsaw School of Information Technology, and Chongqing Three Gorges University, Wanzhou, Chongqing, China, and Professor of Automatic Control at PIAP – Industrial Institute of Automation and Measurements in Warsaw, Poland. He is Honorary Foreign Professor at the Department of Mathematics, Yli Normal University, Xinjiang, China. He is Full Member of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Member of Academia Europaea, European Academy of Sciences and Arts, European Academy of Sciences, Foreign Member of the: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Spanish Royal Academy of Economic and Financial Sciences (RACEF), Finnish Society of Sciences and Letters, Flemish Royal Academy of Belgium of Sciences and the Arts (KVAB), National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and Lithuanian Academy of Sciences. He was awarded with 6 honorary doctorates. He is Fellow of IEEE, IET, IFSA, EurAI, IFIP, AAIA, I2CICC, and SMIA.

His main research interests include the use of modern computation computational and artificial intelligence tools, notably fuzzy logic, in systems science, decision making, optimization, control, data analysis and data mining, with applications in mobile robotics, systems modeling, ICT etc.

He authored 7 books, (co)edited more than 150 volumes, (co)authored more than 650 papers, including ca. 150 in journals indexed by the WoS. He is listed in 2020 and 2021 ”World’s 2% Top Scientists” by Stanford University, Elsevier (Scopus) and ScieTech Strategies and published in PLOS Biology Journal.

He is the editor in chief of 8 book series at Springer, and of 2 journals, and is on the editorial boards of ca. 40 journals.. He is President of the Polish Operational and Systems Research Society and Past President of International Fuzzy Systems Association.

2. Horea OROS

University of Oradea, horos@uoradea.ro

Horea Oros (b. August 22, 1977) received his PhD in Computer Science (2009) from "Babeș Bolyai" University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania. Since 2001 he is working within the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Faculty of Informatics and Sciences, University of Oradea, Romania, where currently he is a lecturer. He also was a former lecturer at Agora University of Oradea for several years. He co-authored five books in the field of computer science and published twenty-one articles in several journals and proceedings of international conferences. His main research interest is in the field of cryptology and computer security.

Program Committee

• Fuad ALESKEROV, National Research University 'Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia
• Răzvan ANDONIE, Central Washington University, USA
• Valentina BALAS, Aurel Vlaicu University of Arad, Romania
• Barnabas BEDE, DigiPen University, USA
• Valeriu BEIU, Aurel Vlaicu University of Arad, Romania
• Hector BENITEZ-PEREZ, IMAS, UNAM, Mexico
• Pierre BORNE, Ecole Centrale de Lille, France
• Dominic BUCERZAN, Aurel Vlaicu University of Arad, Romania
• Felisa CORDOVA; Universiy of Finis Terrae, Chile
• Bogdan CRIVAT, Predixion Software, USA
• Gabriela CRISTESCU, Aurel Vlaicu University of Arad, Romania
• Antonio DI NOLA, University of Salerno, Italy
• Yezid DONOSO, Universidad de los Andes, Colombia
• Gintautas DZEMYDA, University of Vilnius , Lithuania
• Ömer EĞECİOĞLU, University of Santa Barbara, USA
• Florin Gheorghe FILIP, Romanian Academy, Romania
• Daniela GIFU, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University, Iasi, Romania & Romanian Academy - Iasi Branch
• Marian GHEORGHE, The University of Bradford, UK
• Enrique HERERRA-VIEDMA, University of Granada, Spain
• Kaoru HIROTA, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
• Arturas KAKLAUSKAS, Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, Lithuania
• Gang KOU, Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, Chegdu, China
• Ioana MOISIL; Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu, Romania
• Radu NICOLESCU, The University of Auckland, New Zealand
• Sorin NADABAN, Aurel Vlaicu University of Arad, Romania
• Mariana NAGY, Aurel Vlaicu University of Arad, Romania
• Shimon Y. NOF, Purdue University, USA
• Stephan OLARIU, Old Dominion University, USA
• Gheorghe PĂUN, Romanian Academy, IMAR, Romania
• Yi PENG, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China
• Mario de J. PEREZ-JIMENEZ, University of Seville, Spain
• Lorena POPA, Aurel Vlaicu University of Arad, Romania
• Radu-Emil PRECUP, Politehnica University of Timisoara, Romania (Senior Member of IEEE)
• Imre J. RUDAS, Óbuda University, Hungary (Member of IEEE)
• Yong SHI, University of Chinese Academy of Sciencies
• Milan STANOJEVIC, University of Belgrad, Serbia
• Codruța STOICA, Aurel Vlaicu University of Arad, Romania
• Athanasios D. STYLIADIS, Kavala Institute of Technology, Greece
• Ioan Alexandru ŞUCAN, Google [x] , USA
• Gheorghe TECUCI, George Mason University, USA (Full Member of Romanian Academy)
• Horia-Nicolai TEODORESCU, Technical Univ. Gh. Asachi Iasi, Romania (Full Member of Romanian Academy)
• Dan TUFIŞ, Romanian Academy – Institute of Artificial Intelligence “Mihai Draganescu”, Romania (Full Member of Romanian Academy)
• Zenonas TURSKIS,Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, Lithuania

Organizing Committee

• Dan BENTA, Agora University of Oradea, Romania
• Horea OROS, University of Oradea, Romania
• Adrian-Claudiu CHEREGI, University of Oradea, Romania
• Gabriela BOLOGA, Agora University of Oradea, Romania
• Casian BUTACI, Agora University of Oradea, Romania
• Adriana MANOLESCU, Agora University of Oradea, Romania
• Alina MANOLESCU, Agora University of Oradea, Romania
• Razvan MEZEI, Lenoir-Rhyne University, USA
• Ioana MOISIL, “Lucian Blaga” University of Sibiu, Romania
• Marius SINCA, Agora University of Oradea, Romania
• Bogdana STANOJEVIC, Mathematical Institute of the Serbian ASA, Serbia
• Oana Petrisor MATEUT, Agora University of Oradea, Romania