Journals

2024

1. Ciprian-Octavian Truică, Elena-Simona Apostol, Panagiotis Karras. DANES: Deep Neural Network Ensemble Architecture for Social and Textual Context-aware Fake News Detection. Knowledge-Based Systems, 111715, ISSN 0950-7051, March 2024 - Accepted DOI: 10.1016/j.knosys.2024.111715 (Q1 Journal) [pdf]

2. Dagmar Gromann, Elena-Simona Apostol, Christian Chiarcos, Marco Cremaschi, Jorge Gracia, Katerina Gkirtzou, Chaya Liebeskind, Liudmila Mockiene, Michael Rosner, Ineke Schuurman, Gilles Sérasset, Purificação Silvano, Blerina Spahiu, Andrius Utka, Ciprian-Octavian Truică, Giedrė Valūnaitė Oleškevičienė. Multilinguality and LLOD: A Survey Across Linguistic Description Levels. Semantic Web Journal, ISSN 1570-0844, February 2024 - Accepted DOI: 10.3233/SW-243591 (Q2 Journal) 

2023

3. Ciprian-Octavian Truică, Elena-Simona Apostol, Radu-Cătălin Nicolescu, Panagiotis Karras. MCWDST: a Minimum-Cost Weighted Directed Spanning Tree Algorithm for Real-Time Fake News Mitigation in Social Media, IEEE Access, 11:125861-25873, ISSN 2169-3536, November 2023. DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2023.3331220 (Q2 Journal) [pdf]

4. Christian Chiarcos, Purificação Silvano, Mariana Damova, Giedre Valunaite Oleškeviciene, Chaya Liebeskind, Dimitar Trajanov, Ciprian-Octavian Truică, Elena-Simona Apostol, Anna Bączkowska. Building an Owl-Ontology for Representing, Linking and Querying SemAF Discourse Annotations. Rasprave: Časopis Instituta za hrvatski jezik i jezikoslovlje, 49(1):1-20, ISSN 1331-6745,  November 2023. DOI: 10.31724/rihjj.49.1.6 [pdf]

5. Laura Judith Marcos-Zambrano, Víctor Manuel López-Molina, Burcu Bakir-Gungor, Marcus Frohme, Kanita Karaduzovic-Hadziabdic, Thomas Klammsteiner, Eliana Ibrahimi, Leo Lahti, Tatjana Loncar-Turukalo, Xhilda Dhamo, Andrea Simeon, Alina Nechyporenko, Gianvito Pio, Piotr Przymus, Alexia Sampri, Vladimir Trajkovik, Blanca Lacruz-Pleguezuelos, Oliver Aasmets, Ricardo Araujo, Ioannis Anagnostopoulos, Önder Aydemir, Magali Berland, M. Luz Calle, Michelangelo Ceci, Hatice Duman, Aycan Gündoğdu, Aki S. Havulinna, Kardokh Hama Najib Kaka Bra, Eglantina Kalluci, Sercan Karav, Daniel Lode, Marta B. Lopes, Patrick May, Bram Nap, Miroslava Nedyalkova, Inês Paciência, Lejla Pasic, Meritxell Pujolassos, Rajesh Shigdel, Antonio Susín, Ines Thiele, Ciprian-Octavian Truică, Paul Wilmes, Ercument Yilmaz, Malik Yousef, Marcus Joakim Claesson, Jaak Truu, Enrique Carrillo de Santa Pau. A toolbox of machine learning software to support microbiome analysis. Frontiers in Microbiology, 14:1-20, ISSN 1664-302X, September 2023. DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2023.1250806  (Q2 Journal) [pdf]

6. Domenica D'Elia, Jaak Truu, Leo Lahti, Magali Berland, Giorgos Papoutsoglou, Michelangelo Ceci, Aldert Zomer, Marta B Lopes, Eliana Ibrahimi, Aleksandra Gruca, Alina Nechyporenko, Marcus Frohme, Thomas Klammsteiner, Enrique Carrillo De Santa Pau, Laura Judith Marcos Zambrano, Karel Hron, Gianvito Pio, Andrea Simeon, Ramona Suharoschi, Isabel Moreno Indias, Andriy Temko, Miroslava Nedyalkova, Elena-Simona Apostol, Ciprian-Octavian Truică, Rajesh Shigdel, Jasminka Hasic Telalovic, Erik Bongcam-Rudloff, Piotr Przymus, Naida Babić Jordamović, Laurent Falquet, Sonia Tarazona, Alexia Sampri, Gaetano Isola, David Pérez-Serrano, Vladimir Tihomir Trajkovik, Lubos Klucar, Tatjana Loncar-Turukalo, Aki S Havulinna, Christian Jansen, Randi Jacobsen Bertelsen, Marcus Claesson. Advancing Microbiome Research with Machine Learning: Key Findings from the ML4Microbiome COST Action. Frontiers in Microbiology, 14:1-20, ISSN 1664-302X. September 2023. DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2023.1257002  (Q2 Journal) [pdf]

7. Diana Arsene, Alexandru Predescu, Ciprian-Octavian Truică, Elena-Simona Apostol, Mariana Mocanu. Decision Support Strategies for Household Water Consumption Behaviors based on Advanced Recommender Systems. Water, 15(14):1-13(2550), ISSN 2073-4441, July 2023. DOI: 10.3390/w15142550 (Q2 Journal) [pdf]

8. Ciprian-Octavian Truică, Andrei-Ionuț Stan, Elena-Simona Apostol. SimpLex: a lexical text simplification architecture. Neural Computing and Applications, 35(8):6265-6280, ISSN: 0941-0643, November 2023 (published online: September 2022). DOI: 10.1007/s00521-022-07905-y (Q2 Journal) [pdf]

9. Gabriel Bercaru, Ciprian-Octavian Truică, Costin Gabriel Chiru, Traian Rebedea. Improving Intent Classification Using Unlabeled Data from Large Corpora. Mathematics, 11(3):1-20(769), ISSN 2227-7390, February 2023. DOI: 10.3390/math11030769  (Q1 Journal) [pdf]

10. Ciprian-Octavian Truică, Elena-Simona Apostol. It's all in the Embedding! Fake News Detection using Document Embeddings. Mathematics, 11(3):1-29(508), ISSN 2227-7390, January 2023. DOI: 10.3390/math11030508  (Q1 Journal) [pdf]

2022

11. Florentina Armaselu, Elena-Simona Apostol, Anas Fahad Khan, Chaya Liebeskind, Barbara McGillivray, Ciprian-Octavian Truică, Andrius Utka, Giedrė Valūnaitė Oleškevičienė, Marieke van Erp. LL(O)D and NLP Perspectives on Semantic Change for Humanities Research. Semantic Web Journal, 13(6):1051-1080, ISSN 1570-0844, November 2022. DOI: 10.3233/SW-222848 (Q2 Journal) [pdf]

12. Anas Fahad Khan, Christian Chiarcos, Thierry Declerck, Daniela Gifu, Elena González-Blanco García, Jorge Gracia, Maxim Ionov, Penny Labropoulou, Francesco Mambrini, John P. McCrae, Émilie Pagé-Perron, Marco Passarotti, Salvador Ros Muñoz, Ciprian-Octavian Truică. When Linguistics Meets Web Technologies. Recent advances in Modelling Linguistic Linked Data. Semantic Web Journal, 13(6):987-1050, ISSN 1570-0844, November 2022. DOI: 10.3233/SW-222859  (Q2 Journal) [pdf]

13. Florin Dumitrescu, Bogdan Ceachi, Ciprian-Octavian Truică, Mihai Trăscău, Adina Magda Florea. A Novel Deep Learning-Based Relabeling Architecture for Space Objects Detection from Partially Annotated Astronomical Images. Aerospace, 9(9):1-11(520), ISSN 2226-4310, September 2022. DOI: 10.3390/aerospace9090520 (Q1 Journal) [pdf]

14. Diana Andreea Arsene, Alexandru Predescu, Bogdan Pahonțu, Costin Gabriel Chiru, Elena-Simona Apostol, Ciprian-Octavian Truică. Advanced Strategies for Monitoring Water Consumption Patterns in Households Based on IoT and Machine Learning. WATER 14(14):1-20(2187), ISSN 2073-4441, May 2022. DOI: 10.3390/w14142187 (Q2 Journal) [pdf]

15. Erkut Erdem, Menekse Kuyu, Semih Yagcioglu, Anette Frank, Letiția Pârcălăbescu, Barbara Plank, Andrii Babii, Oleksii Turuta, Aykut Erdem, Iacer Calixto, Elena Lloret, Elena-Simona Apostol, Ciprian-Octavian Truică, Branislava Šandrih, Albert Gatt, Sanda Martinčić-Ipšic, Gábor Berend, Gražina Korvel. Neural Natural Language Generation: A Survey on Multilinguality, Multimodality, Controllability and Learning, Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, 73:1131-1207, ISSN 1076-9757, April 2022. DOI: 10.1613/jair.1.12918 (Q2 Journal) [pdf]

16. Ciprian-Octavian Truică, Elena-Simona Apostol. MisRoBÆRTa: Transformers versus Misinformation. Mathematics, 10(4):1-25(569), ISSN 2227-7390, February 2022. DOI: 10.3390/math10040569 (Q1 Journal) [pdf]

2021

17. Vlad-Iulian Ilie, Ciprian-Octavian Truică, Elena-Simona Apostol, Adrian Paschke. Context-Aware Misinformation Detection: A benchmark of Deep Learning Architectures using Word Embeddings, IEEE Access, 9:162122 - 162146, ISSN: 2169-3536, December 2021 DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2021.3132502  (Q2 Journal) [pdf]

18. Ciprian-Octavian Truică, Elena-Simona Apostol, Maria-Luiza Șerban, Adrian Paschke. Topic-based Document-Level Sentiment Analysis using Contextual Cues, Mathematics, 9(21):1-23(2722), ISSN 2227-7390, October 2021 DOI: 10.3390/math9212722 (Q1 Journal) [pdf]

19. Ciprian-Octavian Truică, Elena-Simona Apostol, Jérôme Darmont, Torben Bach Pedersen. The Forgotten Document-Oriented Database Management Systems: An Overview and Benchmark of Native XML DODBMSes in Comparison with JSON DODBMSes. Big Data Research, 25:1-14(100205), ISSN 2214-5796, July 2021 DOI: 10.1016/j.bdr.2021.100205 (Q1 Journal) [pdf]

20. Elena-Simona Apostol, Ciprian-Octavian Truică, Florin Pop, Christian Esposito. Change Point Enhanced Anomaly Detection for IoT Time Series Data. WATER, 13(12):1-19(1633), ISSN 2073-4441, June 2021. DOI: 10.3390/w13121633 (Q2 Journal) [pdf]

21. Ciprian-Octavian Truică, Elena-Simona Apostol. TLATR: Automatic Topic Labeling using Automatic (Domain-Specific) Term Recognition. IEEE Access, 9:76624-76641, ISSN 2169-3536, May 2021. DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2021.3083000 (Q2 Journal) [pdf]

22. Isabel Moreno-Indias, Leo Lahti, Miroslava Nedyalkova, Ilze Elbere, Gennady V. Roshchupkin, Muhamed Adilovic, Onder Aydemir, Burcu Bakir-Gungor, Enrique Carrillo de Santa Pau, Domenica D'Elia, Mahesh S. Desai, Laurent Falquet, Aycan Gundogdu, Karel Hron, Thomas Klammsteiner, Marta B. Lopes, Laura Judith Marcos-Zambrano, Cláudia Marques, Michael Mason, Patrick May, Lejla Pašić, Gianvito Pio, Sándor Pongor, Vasilis J. Promponas, Piotr Przymus, Julio Sáez-Rodríguez, Alexia Sampri, Rajesh Shigdel, Blaz Stres, Ramona Suharoschi, Jaak Truu, Ciprian-Octavian Truică, Baiba Vilne, Dimitrios Vlachakis, Ercüment Yılmaz, Georg Zeller, Aldert L. Zomer, David Gómez-Cabrero, Marcus J. Claesson. Statistical and Machine Learning Techniques in Human Microbiome Studies: Contemporary Challenges and Solutions. Frontiers in Microbiology. vol. 12:1-9(635781), ISSN 1664-302X, February 2021. DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2021.635781 (Q1 Journal) [pdf]

23. Ciprian-Octavian Truică, Elena-Simona Apostol, Jérôme Darmont, Ira Assent. TextBenDS: a generic Textual data Benchmark for Distributed Systems. Information Systems Frontiers, 23:81-100. ISSN 1387-3326, Springer. February 2021 (published online March 2020). DOI: 10.1007/s10796-020-09999-y (Q1 Journal) [pdf]

2020

24. Alexandru Predescu, Ciprian-Octavian Truică, Elena-Simona Apostol, Mariana Mocanu, Ciprian Lupu. An Advanced Learning-Based Multiple Model Control Supervisor for Pumping Stations in a Smart Water Distribution System. Mathematics, 8(6):1-29(887), ISSN 2227-7390, June 2020. DOI: 10.3390/math8060887 (Q1 Journal) [pdf]

2018

25. Ciprian-Octavian Truică, Jérôme Darmont, Alexandru Boicea, Florin Rădulescu. Benchmarking Top-K Keyword and Top-K Document Processing with T2K2 and T2K2D2. Future Generation Computer Systems, 85:60-75, ISSN 0167-739X, August 2018. DOI: 10.1016/j.future.2018.02.037 (Q1 Journal) [pdf]

26. Alexandru Boicea, Ciprian-Octavian Truică, Florin Rădulescu, Elena-Cristina Bușe. Sampling Strategies for Extracting Information from Large Data Sets. Data & Knowledge Engineering, 115:1-15, ISSN 0169-023X, May 2018. DOI: 10.1016/j.datak.2018.01.002 (Q3 Journal) [pdf]

2017

27. Ciprian-Octavian Truică, Cătălin Adrian Leordeanu. Classification of an Imbalanced Data Set using Decision Tree Algorithms. University Politehnica of Bucharest Scientific Bulletin Series C - Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. vol. 79(4):69-84, ISSN 2286-3540. December 2017. [link] [pdf]

28. Ciprian-Octavian Truică, Florin Rădulescu, Alexandru Boicea. Building an Inverted Index at the DBMS Layer for Fast Full Text Search. Journal of Control Engineering and Applied Informatics, 19(1):94-101, ISSN 1454-8658, March 2017. [link] [pdf]

2016

29. Alexandru Boicea, Florin Rădulescu, Ciprian-Octavian Truică, Irina Vasile. Geographic Image Mining. Geographia Technica, 11(2):1-13, ISSN 1842-5135, October 2016. DOI: 10.21163/GT_2016.112.01 [pdf]

30. Alexandru Boicea, Florin Rădulescu, Ciprian-Octavian Truică, Loredana Urse. Improving Query Performance in Distributed Database. Journal of Control Engineering and Applied Informatics. 18(2):57-64, ISSN 1454-8658, June 2016. [link] [pdf]

2015

31. Ciprian-Octavian Truică, Adriana Barnoschi. Innovating HR Using an Expert System for Recruiting IT Specialists - ESRIT. Journal of Software & Systems Development. IBIMA Publishing, 2015:1-10, ISSN 2166-0824, June 2015. DOI: 10.5171/2015.762987 [pdf]

Conferences

2024

1. Dagmar Gromann, Hugo Gonçalo Oliveira, Lucía Pitarch, Elena-Simona Apostol, Jordi Bernad, Eliot Bytyçi, Chiara Cantone, Sara Carvalho, Francesca Frontini, Radovan Garabík, Jorge Gracia, Letizia Granata, Anas Fahad Khan, Timotej Knez, Penny Labropoulou, Chaya Liebeskind, Maria Pia di Buono, Ana Ostroški Anić, Sigita Rackevičienė, Ricardo Rodrigues, Gilles Sérasset, Linas Selmistraitis, Mahammadou Sidibé, Purificação Silvano, Blerina Spahiu, Enriketa Sogutlu, Ranka Stanković, Ciprian-Octavian Truică, Giedrė Valūnaitė Oleškevičienė, Slavko Zitnik, Katerina Zdravkova. MultiLexBATS: Multilingual Dataset of Lexical Semantic Relations. Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024), May 2024. (Rank B Conference)

2. Dimitar Trajanov, Elena-Simona Apostol, Radovan Garabík, Katerina Gkirtzou, Dagmar Gromann, Chaya Liebeskind, Cosimo Palma, Michael Rosner, Alexia Sampri, Gilles Sérasset, Blerina Spahiu, Ciprian-Octavian Tuică, Giedrė Valūnaitė Oleškevičienė. From Linguistic Linked Data to Big Data, Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024), May 2024. (Rank B Conference)

3. Florentina Armaselu, Chaya Liebeskind, Paola Marongiu, Barbara McGillivray, Giedre Valunaite Oleskeviciene, Elena-Simona Apostol, Ciprian-Octavian Truică, Daniela Gifu. LLODIA: A Linguistic Linked Open Data Model for Diachronic Analysis. Workshop on Linked Data in Linguistics: Resources, Applications, Best Practices (LDL) @LREC-COLING2024

2023

4. Elena-Simona Apostol, Ciprian-Octavian Truică. Efficient Machine Learning Ensemble Methods for Detecting Gravitational Wave Glitches in LIGO Time Series. International Conference on Intelligent Computer Communication and Processing (ICCP 2023), October 2023, 79-86, 2023. DOI: 10.1109/ICCP60212.2023.10398717 (Rank National: Romania Conference) [pdf]

5. Ciprian-Octavian Truică, Victor Tudose, Elena-Simona Apostol. Semantic Change Detection for the Romanian Language. International Symposium on Symbolic and Numeric Algorithms for Scientific Computing (SYNASC2023), September 2023. DOI: 10.1109/SYNASC61333.2023.00027 (Rank National: Romania Conference) [pdf]

6. Florentina Armaselu, Christian Chiarcos, Barbara McGillivray, Anas Fahad Khan, Ciprian-Octavian Truică, Giedrė Valūnaitė-Oleškevičienė, Chaya Liebeskind, Elena-Simona Apostol, Andrius Utka. Towards a Conversational Web? A Benchmark for Analysing Semantic Change with Conversational Knowledge Bots and Linked Open Data. The 4th Conference on Language, Data and Knowledge (LDK 2023), September 2023 Link: https://aclanthology.org/2023.ldk-1.35 [pdf]

7. Florentina Armaselu, Barbara McGillivray, Chaya Liebeskind, Giedrė Valūnaitė-Oleškevičienė, Andrius Utka, Daniela Gifu, Anas Fahad Khan, Elena-Simona Apostol, Ciprian-Octavian Truică. Workflow Reversal and Data Wrangling in Multilingual Diachronic Analysis and Linguistic Linked Open Data Modelling. The 3rd Workshop on Deep Learning, Relation Extraction and Linguistic Data with a Case Study on BATS (DL4LD) @LDK2023, September 2023. Link: https://aclanthology.org/2023.ldk-1.43 [pdf] 

8. Mariana Damova, Kostadin Mishev, Giedrė Valūnaitė-Oleškevičienė, Chaya Liebeskind, Purificação Silvano, Dimitar Trajanov, Ciprian-Octavian Truică, Elena-Simona Apostol, Christian Chiarcos, Anna Baczkowska. Validation of Language Agnostic Models for Discourse Marker Detection. The 2nd Workshop on Discourse studies and linguistic data science (DiSLiDaS 2023) @LDK2023, September 2023. [link] [pdf]

9. Ciprian-Octavian Truică, Neculai-Ovidiu Istrate, Elena-Simona Apostol. A Distributed Automatic Domain-Specific Multi-Word Term Recognition Architecture using Spark Ecosystem. The 22nd IEEE International Symposium On Parallel And Distributed Computing (ISPDC2023), 31-38. July 2023. DOI: 10.1109/ISPDC59212.2023.00018   (Rank C Conference) [pdf]

2022

10. Christian Chiarcos, Elena-Simona Apostol, Besim Kabashi, Ciprian-Octavian Truică. Modelling Frequency, Attestation, and Corpus-Based Information with OntoLex-FrAC. International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING2022), p. 4018-4027, October 2022 (Rank A Conference) [pdf] [link] [poster]

11. Diana-Andreea Arsene, Alexandru Predescu, Maria Stuparu, Ciprian-Octavian Truică, Mariana Mocanu, Costin-Gabriel Chiru. Predicting Consumption Events in a Water Monitoring System. International Conference on System Theory, Control and Computing (ICSTCC), p. 77-79. October 2022 DOI: 10.1109/ICSTCC55426.2022.9931811  [pdf]

12. Ciprian-Octavian Truică, Elena-Simona Apostol, Adrian Paschke. Awakened at CheckThat! 2022: Fake News Detection using BiLSTM and Sentence Transformer. Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum (CLEF2022), p. 749-757. September 2022 [pdf] [link]

13. Diana-Andreea Arsene, Alexandru Predescu, Ciprian-Octavian Truică, Elena-Simona Apostol, Mariana Mocanu, Costin-Gabriel Chiru. Consumer profiling using clustering methods for georeferenced decision support in a water distribution system. International Conference on Electronics, Computers and Artificial Intelligence (ECAI2022), pp. 6, IEEE, July 2022 DOI: 10.1109/ECAI54874.2022.9847435 [pdf] 

14. Christian Chiarcos, Katerina Gkirtzou, Maxim Ionov, Besim Kabashi, Anas Fahad Khan, Ciprian-Octavian Truică. Modelling Collocations in Ontolex FrAC. GlobaLex Workshop on Linked Lexicography @LREC2022, p. 10-18, June 2022 [pdf]

15. Purificação Silvano, Mariana Damova, Giedrė Valūnaitė Oleškevičienė, Chaya Liebeskind, Christian Chiarcos, Dimitar Trajanov, Ciprian-Octavian Truică, Elena-Simona Apostol, Anna Bączkowska. ISO-based Discourse Markers Annotated Multilingual Corpus. International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC2022), p. 2739‑2749, June 2022 (Rank C Conference) [pdf]

16. Michael Rosner, Sina Ahmadi, Elena-Simona Apostol, Julia Bosque-Gil, Christian Chiarcos, Milan Dojchinovski, Katerina Gkirtzou, Jorge Gracia, Dagmar Gromann, Chaya Liebeskind, Giedrė Valūnaitė Oleškevičienė, Gilles Sérasset, Ciprian-Octavian Truică. Cross-Lingual Link Discovery for Under-Resourced Languages. International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC2022), p. 181‑192, June 2022 (Rank C Conference) [pdf]

17. Diana-Andreea Arsene, Alexandru Predescu, Ciprian-Octavian Truică, Elena-Simona Apostol, Mariana Mocanu, Costin-Gabriel Chiru. Clustering consumption activities in a water monitoring system. International Conference on Automation, Quality and Testing, Robotics (AQTR), pp. 6, IEEE, May 2022 DOI: 10.1109/AQTR55203.2022.9801952 [pdf]

2021

18. Costin-Gabriel Chiru, Ciprian-Octavian Truică, Elena-Simona Apostol, Alexandru Ionescu. Improving WordNet using Word Embeddings. International Symposium on Symbolic and Numeric Algorithms for Scientific Computing (SYNASC2021), IEEE, p. 121-128, December 2021. DOI: 10.1109/SYNASC54541.2021.00030 (Rank National: Romania Conference) [pdf]

19. Diana-Andreea Arsene, Alexandru Predescu, Ciprian-Octavian Truică, Elena-Simona Apostol, Mariana Mocanu, Costin-Gabriel Chiru. Consumer profile evaluation in a water distribution network using clustering and classification methods. International Conference on Electrical, Computer and Energy Technologies (ICECET2021), p.1-6, December 2021. DOI: 10.1109/ICECET52533.2021.9698737 [pdf]

20. Alexandru Petrescu, Ciprian-Octavian Truică, Elena-Simona Apostol, Panagiotis Karras. Sparse Shield: Social Network Immunization vs. Harmful Speech. ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM2021), p. 1426-1436, November 2021. DOI: 10.1145/3459637.3482481 (Rank A Conference) [pdf]

21. Florentina Armaselu, Elena-Simona Apostol, Anas Fahad Khan, Chaya Liebeskind, Barbara McGillivray, Ciprian-Octavian Truică, Giedrė Valūnaitė Oleškevičienė. HISTORIAE, HIStory of culTural transfORmatIon as linguistIc dAta sciEnce. A Humanities Use Case. Conference on Language, Data and Knowledge (LDK2021), p. 34:1-34:13, September 2021. DOI: 10.4230/OASIcs.LDK.2021.34 [pdf]

22. Laurentiu-Florin Neciu, Florin Pop, Elena-Simona Apostol, Ciprian-Octavian Truică. Efficient Real-time Earliest Deadline First based scheduling for Apache Spark. The 20th International Symposium On Parallel And Distributed Computing (ISPDC2021), IEEE, p. 97-104, July 2021. DOI: 10.1109/ISPDC52870.2021.9521640 (Rank C Conference) [pdf]

23. Diana-Andreea Arsene, Alexandru Predescu, Ciprian-Octavian Truică, Elena-Simona Apostol, Mariana Mocanu, Costin Chiru. Profiling consumers in a water distribution network using K-Means clustering and multiple pre-processing methods. International Conference on Electronics, Computers and Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2021), IEEE, p. 1-6, July 2021. DOI: 10.1109/ECAI52376.2021.9515193 [pdf]

24. Iulia-Maria Rădulescu, Alexandru Boicea, Ciprian-Octavian Truică, Elena-Simona Apostol, Mariana Mocanu, Florin Rădulescu. DenLAC: Density Levels Aggregation Clustering - A Flexible Clustering Method. International Conference on Computational Science (ICCS2021), Springer, p. 316-329, June 2021. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-77961-0_27 (Rank A Conference) [pdf]

25. Florin Pop, Ciprian-Mihai Dobre, Elena-Simona Apostol, Radu-Ioan Ciobanu, Ciprian-Octavian Truică, Ion-Dorinel Filip, Cătălin Negru. Working with Datasets: Experience from Research Projects. International Conference on Control Systems and Computer Science (CSCS23). IEEE, p. 401-407, May 2021. DOI: 10.1109/CSCS52396.2021.00072 [pdf]

26. Ciprian-Octavian Truică, Elena-Simona Apostol, Teodor Ștefu, Panagiotis Karras. A Deep Learning Architecture for Audience Interest Prediction of News Topic on Social Media. International Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT2021), p. 588-599. March 2021. DOI: 10.5441/002/edbt.2021.69 (Rank A Conference) [pdf]

2020

27. Radu Cristian Alexandru Iacob, Florin Brad, Elena-Simona Apostol, Ciprian-Octavian Truică, Ionel Alexandru Hosu, Traian Rebedea. Neural Approaches for Natural Language Interfaces to Databases: A Survey. International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING2020), p. 381-395, ACL. December 2020. DOI: 10.18653/v1/2020.coling-main.34 (Rank A Conference) [pdf]

28. Iulia-Maria Rădulescu, Ciprian-Octavian Truică, Elena-Simona Apostol, Alexandru Boicea, Mariana Mocanu, Daniel Popeanga, Florin Rădulescu. Density-based Text Clustering using Document Embeddings. International Business Information Management Association, p. 6222-6230, IBIMA, November 2020 [pdf]

29. Oana Stroie, Elena-Simona Apostol, Ciprian-Octavian Truică. DHE2: Distributed Hybrid Evolution Engine for performance optimizations of computationally intensive applications. International Conference on Big Data Analytics and Knowledge Discovery (DaWak2020), p. 17-27, Springer, September 2020, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-59065-9_2 (Rank B Conference) [pdf]

30. Mădălina Mitroi, Ciprian-Octavian Truică, Elena-Simona Apostol, Adina Magda Florea. Sentiment Analysis using Topic-Document Embeddings. International Conference on Intelligent Computer Communication and Processing (ICCP2020), p. 75-82, IEEE, September 2020, DOI: 10.1109/ICCP51029.2020.9266181 (Rank National: Romania Conference) [pdf]

31. Iulia-Maria Rădulescu, Ciprian-Octavian Truică, Elena-Simona Apostol, Ciprian Dobre. Enhancing Scientific Collaborations using Community Detection and Document Clustering. International Conference on Intelligent Computer Communication and Processing (ICCP2020), p. 43-50, IEEE, September 2020, DOI: 10.1109/ICCP51029.2020.9266267 (Rank National: Romania Conference) [pdf]

32. Robert-George Radu, Iulia-Maria Rădulescu, Ciprian-Octavian Truică, Elena-Simona Apostol, Mariana Mocanu. Clustering Documents using the Document to Vector Model for Dimensionality Reduction. International Conference on Automation, Quality and Testing, Robotics (AQTR), pp. 6, IEEE, May 2020, DOI: 10.1109/AQTR49680.2020.9129967 [pdf]

2019

33. Irina Andra Tache, Monica Dragoicea, Elena-Simona Apostol, Ciprian-Octavian Truică. Text Mining of Medical Records. IEEE International Conference on E-Health and Bioengineering (EHB2019), p. 1-4, IEEE, November 2019, DOI: 10.1109/EHB47216.2019.8969943 [pdf]

34. Iulia Maria Rădulescu, Ciprian-Octavian Truică, Alexandru Boicea, Elena-Simona Apostol, Florin Rădulescu, Mariana Mocanu. Performance Evaluation of DBSCAN with Similarity Join Algorithms. 34th International Business Information Management Association Conference, p. 7957-7966, IBIMA, November 2019. (Rank B Conference) [pdf]

35. Alexandru Boicea, Ciprian-Octavian Truică, Florin Rădulescu, Daniel Popeangă, Iulia Maria Rădulescu, Cristina Costea. Cryptographic Algorithms Benchmarking: A Case Study. 34th International Business Information Management Association Conference, p. 1509-1517, IBIMA, November 2019. (Rank B Conference) [pdf]

36. Corina Radu, Alexandru-Florin Gavril, Ciprian-Octavian Truică, Elena-Simona Apostol. Integrated System for Efficiently Managing IoT Data from Robots. IEEE RoEduNet Conference: Networking in Education and Research (RoEduNet), p 1-5, IEEE, October 2019, DOI: 10.1109/ROEDUNET.2019.8909620 [pdf]

37. Alexandru Petrescu, Ciprian-Octavian Truică, Elena-Simona Apostol. Sentiment Analysis of Events in Social Media. International Conference on Intelligent Computer Communication and Processing (ICCP 2019), p. 143-149, IEEE, September 2019, DOI: 10.1109/ICCP48234.2019.8959677 (Rank C Conference) [pdf]

2018

38. Ciprian-Octavian Truică, Olivera Novović, Sanja Brdar, Apostolos N. Papadopoulos. Community Detection in Who-calls-Whom Social Networks. International Conference on Big Data Analytics and Knowledge Discovery (DaWaK2018), p. 19-33, Springer, September 2018. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-98539-8_2 (Rank B Conference) [pdf]

2017

39. Ciprian-Octavian Truică, Elena Simona Apostol, Cătălin Adrian Leordeanu. Topic modeling using contextual cues. International Symposium on Symbolic and Numeric Algorithms for Scientific Computing (SYNASC2017), p. 203-210, IEEE, September 2017. DOI: 10.1109/synasc.2017.00041 (Rank C Conference) [pdf]

40. Ciprian-Octavian Truică, Jérôme Darmont. T2K2: The Twitter Top-K Keywords Benchmark. European Conference on Advances in Databases and Information Systems (ADBIS2017), p. 21-28, Springer, September 2017. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-67162-8_3 (Rank B Conference) [pdf]

41. Alexandru Boicea, Florin Rădulescu, Ciprian-Octavian Truică, Cristina Costea. Database encryption using asymmetric keys: a case study. International Conference on Control Systems and Computer Science (CSCS21), p. 317-323, IEEE, May 2017. DOI: 10.1109/CSCS.2017.50 [pdf]

2016

42. Ciprian-Octavian Truică, Jérôme Darmont, Julien Velcine. A Scalable Document-based Architecture for Text Analysis. International Conference on Advanced Data Mining and Applications (ADMA2016), p. 481-494, Springer, December 2016. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-49586-6_33 (Rank B Conference) [pdf]

43. Alexandru Boicea, Florin Rădulescu, Ciprian-Octavian Truică, Elena Mihaela Grigore. New Scytale - Improving Encryption Technique. International Business Information Management Association Conference on Vision 2020: Sustainable Growth, Economic Development, and Global Competitiveness, p. 2755-2761, IBIMA, November 2016. (Rank B Conference) [pdf]

44. Alexandru Boicea, Florin Rădulescu, Ciprian-Octavian Truică, Elena Mihaela Grigore. Comparative Study over the Encryption and Non-Encryption of the MySQL Database. International Business Information Management Association Conference on Vision 2020: Sustainable Growth, Economic Development, and Global Competitiveness, p. 18-23, IBIMA, November 2016. (Rank B Conference) [pdf]

45. Ciprian-Octavian Truică, Florin Rădulescu, Alexandru Boicea. Comparing different term weighting schemas for Topic Modeling. International Symposium on Symbolic and Numeric Algorithms for Scientific Computing (SYNASC2016), p. 307-310, IEEE, September 2016. DOI: 10.1109/SYNASC.2016.055 (Rank C Conference) [pdf]

46. Ciprian-Octavian Truică, Adrien Guille, Michaël Gauthier. CATS: Collection and Analysis of Tweets made Simple. ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW2016), p. 41-44, ACM, February 2016. DOI: 10.1145/2818052.2874320 (Rank A Conference) [pdf]

47. Adrien Guille, Edmundo-Pavel Soriano-Morales, Ciprian-Octavian Truică. Topic modeling and hypergraph mining to analyze the EGC conference history. Actes de la conférence française sur l'Extraction et la Gestion des Connaissances (EGC2016). p. 383-394, January 2016 Best paper award - challenge track [pdf]

2015

48. Ciprian-Octavian Truică, Julien Velcine, Alexandru Boicea. Automatic Language Identification for Romance Languages using Stop Words and Diacritics. International Symposium on Symbolic and Numeric Algorithms for Scientific Computing (SYNASC2015), p. 243-246, IBIMA, September 2015. DOI: 10.1109/SYNASC.2015.45 (Rank C Conference) [pdf]

49. Ciprian-Octavian Truică, Florin Rădulescu, Alexandru Boicea, Ion Bucur. Performance evaluation for CRUD operations in asynchronously replicated document oriented database. International Conference on Control Systems and Computer Science (CSCS20), p. 191-196, IEEE, May 2015. DOI: 10.1109/CSCS.2015.32 [pdf]

2014

50. Ciprian-Octavian Truică, Adriana Barnoschi. Innovating HR Using an Expert System for Recruiting IT Specialists - ESRIT. International Business Information Management Association Conference on Vision 2020: Sustainable Growth, Economic Development, and Global Competitiveness, p. 1671-1680, IBIMA, May 2014. (Rank B Conference) [pdf]

51. Ciprian-Octavian Truică, Alexandru Boicea, Florin Rădulescu. Performance Time For E-Learning Applications With Multiple Databases. International Scientific Conference "eLearning and Software for Education" (ELSE2014), p. 121-128, April 2014. DOI: 10.12753/2066-026X-14-017 [pdf]

2013

52. Ciprian-Octavian Truică, Alexandru Boicea, Florin Rădulescu. Asynchronous Replication in Microsoft SQL Server, PostgreSQL and MySQL. International Conference on Cyber Science and Engineering (CyberSE2013), p. 50-55, December 2013 [pdf]

53. Ciprian-Octavian Truică, Alexandru Boicea, Ionuț Trifan. CRUD Operations in MongoDB. International Conference on Advanced Computer Science and Electronics Information (ICACSEI2013), p. 347-350, July 2013. DOI: 10.2991/icacsei.2013.88 [pdf]

Book Chapters

2021

• Ciprian-Octavian Truică, Elena-Simona Apostol. NoSQL Environments and Big Data Analytics for Time Series. Data Science and Big Data Analytics in Smart Environments, CRC Press, ISBN 978-0-367-40713-1, p. 108-138, July 2021. DOI: 10.1201/9780367814397-6 [pdf]

2019

• Sanja Brdar, Olivera Novović, Nastasija Grujić, Horacio González-Vélez, Ciprian-Octavian Truică, Siegfried Benkner, Enes Bajrovic, Apostolos N. Papadopoulos. Big Data Processing, Analysis and Applications in Mobile Cellular Networks. High-Performance Modelling and Simulation for Big Data Applications: Selected Results of the COST Action IC1406 cHiPSet, Springer International Publishing, ISBN 978-3-030-16271-9, ISSN 0302-9743, p. 163-185, Martie 2019, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-16272-6_6 [pdf]

2017

• Ciprian-Octavian Truică, Emanuel-Adrian Antonache, Alexandru Boicea, Florin Rădulescu. Procesare de documente folosind tehnologii distribuite (Document processing using distributed technologies). Inventivitate, Management și Inginerie (ed. Bogdan Dumitru Țigănoaia). Editura FREE, ISBN 978-606-94468-7-4, December 2017 [pdf]

International Projects

• 2021-2023: TrainRDM - Open Science and Research Data Management Innovative and Distributed Training Programme, Program: Erasmus+ (ID: 020203286), Position: Researcher

• 2021: AWAKEN: content-Aware and netWork-Aware faKE News mitigation (Founded through German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), grant no. 91809005). Position: Principal Investigator

• 2019: Innovative Use of Big Data (European Regional Development Fund for Denmark, grant no. RFM-16-0014). Position: Researcher

National Projects

• 2023-2024: DEPLATFORM: Intelligent interactive system for detecting the veracity of news published on social platforms (GNaC ARUT grant no. 63/10.10.2023) Position: Principal Investigator

• 2022-2023: AI-based conversational agent for misinformation fact-checking project financed through the OPTIM Research framework (POCU grant no. 62461/03.06.2022, SMIS code 153735). Position: Principal Investigator 

• 2021-2023: HOLOTRAIN,  no. 29/221_ap2/07.04.2020. Position: Researcher

• 2020-2022: AI4GENDARED, no. 58PTE/2020. Position: Researcher

• 2021: Development of an innovative mechanism for transforming the management of the implementation processes of RDI projects into UPB, no. CNFIS-FDI-2021-0294. Position: Researcher

• 2020-2021: IntAli (subsidiary contract from the NETIO) no. 53/5.09.2016. Position: Researcher

• 2018-2020: Self-learning cognitive systems for autonomous vehicles, no. 72PCCDI/01.03.2018. Position: Researcher

• 2017-2018: Analysis of heterogeneous data in real-time, GEX 2017 no. 24/2017, Position: Researcher

• 2016-2017: Privacy and anonymity for Data Clouds, GEX 2016 no. 16/2016, Position: Researcher

• 2016-2017: Applying machine learning techniques in time series analysis, GEX 2016 no. 09/2016, Position: Researcher

Scientific networks

• 2022-2026: COST Action CA21167 Universality, diversity and idiosyncrasy in language technology (UniDive). Position: Working Group Member 

• 2021-2025: COST Action CA20134 Traces as Research Agenda for Climate Change, Technology Studies, and Social Justice (TRACTS). Position: Working Group Member

• 2020-2024: COST Action CA19134 Distributed Knowledge Graphs (DKG). Position: Management Committee Substitute

• 2020-2024: COST Action CA19102 Language In The Human-Machine Era (LITHME). Position: Working Group Member

• 2020-2024: COST Action CA19130 Fintech and Artificial Intelligence in Finance - Towards a transparent financial industry (FinAI). Position: Working Group Member

• 2019-2024: COST Action CA18209 European network for Web-centred linguistic data science (NexusLinguarum). Position: Management Committee

• 2019-2023: COST Action CA18131 Statistical and machine learning techniques in human microbiome studies (ML4Microbiome). Position: Management Committee

• 2019-2023: COST Action CA18231 Multi-task, Multilingual, Multi-modal Language Generation (Multi3Gen). Position: Management Committee Substitute

• 2019-2023: COST Action CA18232 Mathematical models for interacting dynamics on networks (MAT-DYN-NET). Position: Working Group Member

• 2018-2022: COST Action CA17137 A network for Gravitational Waves, Geophysics, and Machine Learning (G2Net). Position: Management Committee

• 2015-2019: COST Action IC1406 High-Performance Modelling and Simulation for Big Data Applications (cHiPSet). Position: Management Committee Substitute

• 2014-2018: COST Action IC1307 The European Network on Integrating Vision and Language (iV&L Net). Position: Working Group Member

• 2013-2017: COST Action IC1302 Semantic keyword-based search on structured data sources (KEYSTONE). Position: Working Group Member

• 2010-2014: COST Action IC1002 Multilingual and multifaceted interactive information access (MUMIA). Position: Working Group Member

Short terms scientific missions

• 2019: Anomaly and Change Point Detection in LIGO Time Series data using Machine Learning, STSM at University Politehnica of Bucharest. Supported by COST Action CA17137 A network for Gravitational Waves, Geophysics and Machine Learning (G2Net)

• 2018: Benchmarking Big Data Frameworks for processing and analyzing mobile phone data, STSM at BioSense Institute, University of Novi Sad. Supported by COST Action IC1406 High-Performance Modelling and Simulation for Big Data Applications (cHiPSet)

Scholarships

• 2016: Erasmus+ ​Scholarship at ERIC Laboratory, University of Lyon 2 (France)​

• 2015: Erasmus+ ​Scholarship at ERIC Laboratory, University of Lyon 2 (France)

Research Awards

• 2023: UEFISCDI PRECISI award for the article titled "Context-Aware Misinformation Detection: A benchmark of Deep Learning Architectures using Word Embeddings"

• 2023: UEFISCDI PRECISI award for the article titled "Neural Natural Language Generation: A Survey on Multilinguality, Multimodality, Controllability and Learning"

• 2023: UEFISCDI PRECISI award for the article titled "LL(O)D and NLP perspectives on semantic change for humanities research"

• 2023: UEFISCDI PRECISI award for the article titled "When Linguistics Meets Web Technologies. Recent advances in Modelling Linguistic Linked Open Data"

• 2023: UEFISCDI PRECISI award for the article titled "A Novel Deep Learning-Based Relabeling Architecture for Space Objects Detection from Partially Annotated Astronomical Images"

• 2021: UEFISCDI PRECISI award for the article titled "Topic-based Document-Level Sentiment Analysis using Contextual Cues"

• 2021: UEFISCDI PRECISI award for the article titled "The Forgotten Document-Oriented Database Management Systems: An Overview and Benchmark of Native XML DODBMSes in Comparison with JSON DODBMSes"

• 2021: UEFISCDI PRECISI award for the article titled "Change Point Enhanced Anomaly Detection for IoT Time Series Data"

• 2021: UEFISCDI PRECISI award for the article titled "TLATR: Automatic Topic Labeling Using Automatic (Domain-Specific) Term Recognition"

• 2021: UEFISCDI PRECISI award for the article titled "Statistical and Machine Learning Techniques in Human Microbiome Studies: Contemporary Challenges and Solutions"

• 2021: UEFISCDI PRECISI award for the article titled "TextBenDS: a Generic Textual Data Benchmark for Distributed Systems"

• 2021: UEFISCDI PRECISI award for the article titled "An Advanced Learning-Based Multiple Model Control Supervisor for Pumping Stations in a Smart Water Distribution System"

• 2016: Best Paper Award (Prix du défi EGC 2016) for the article titled "Topic modeling and hypergraph mining to analyze the EGC conference history" awarded by the Association Internationale Francophone d'Extraction et de Gestion des Connaissances (EGC), February 2016

• 2013: 1st Prize for presentation "Database Asynchronous Replication", Scientific Communications Session, University Politehnica of Bucharest, May 2013

• 2012: Honorable Mention for presentation "Data virtualization in Cloud Computing", Scientific Communications Session, University Politehnica of Bucharest, May 2012

Undergraduate Courses (B.Sc.)

• Database Systems (4th year Bachelor course)

Conference/Workshop Organizer

• 2023: International workshop on Smart Services for Edge and Cloud Computing (SSeCC-2023) 

• 2022: 2nd Workshop on Discourse studies and linguistic data science (DisLiDas)

• 2021: International workshop on Smart Services for Edge and Cloud Computing (SSeCC-2021) 

• 2018: 34ème Conférence sur la Gestion de Données – Principes, Technologies et Applications

Conference/Workshop Programme Committee

• 2023: The 4rd Conference on Language, Data and Knowledge, 12-15 September 2023 Vienna, Austria

• 2023: The 3rd Workshop on Deep Learning, Relation Extraction and Linguistic Data with a Case Study on BATS (DL4LD), 12-15 September 2023 Vienna, Austria

• 2022: The 3rd INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON SECURE MOBILE CLOUD COMPUTING (IWoSeMC-22), 16-19 May 2022, Taormina (Messina), Italy

• 2021: The 3rd Conference on Language, Data and Knowledge, 1-4 September 2021, Zaragoza, Spain  

• 2021: The 5th Workshop on Benchmarking, Performance Tuning and Optimization for Big Data Applications, 15-18 December 2021, Virtual 

• 2021: The 2nd INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON SECURE MOBILE CLOUD COMPUTING (IWoSeMC-21), 10-13 May 2021, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

• 2020: The 1st INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON SECURE MOBILE CLOUD COMPUTING (IWoSeMC-20), 11-14 May 2020, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

• 2020: The 36th International Business Information Management Association Conference, 4-5 November 2020, Granada, Spain

• 2020: The 35th International Business Information Management Association Conference, 1-2 April 2020, Seville, Spain

• ​2019: The 34th International Business Information Management Association Conference, 13-14 November 2019, Madrid, Spain

• 2018: The 31st International Business Information Management Association Conference, 25-26 April 2018, Milan, Italy

• 2017: The 29th International Business Information Management Association Conference, 3-4 May 2017, Vienna, Austria

• 2016: The 28th International Business Information Management Association Conference, 9-10 November 2016, Seville, Spain

• 2016: The 27th International Business Information Management Association Conference, 4-5 May 2016, Milan, Italy

• 2015: The 26th International Business Information Management Association Conference, 11-12 November 2015, Madrid, Spain

Conference/Workshop Reviewer

• 2022: Artificial Intelligence and Statistics 2022 

• 2022: The 3rd INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON SECURE MOBILE CLOUD COMPUTING (IWoSeMC-22)

• 2021: The 5th Workshop on Benchmarking, Performance Tuning and Optimization for Big Data Applications 

• 2021: International workshop on Smart Services for Edge and Cloud Computing (SSeCC-2021) 

• 2021: The 2nd INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON SECURE MOBILE CLOUD COMPUTING (IWoSeMC-21)

• 2020: The 1st INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON SECURE MOBILE CLOUD COMPUTING (IWoSeMC-20)

• ​2019: The 34th International Business Information Management Association Conference

• 2018: The 31st International Business Information Management Association Conference

• 2017: The 29th International Business Information Management Association Conference

• 2016: The 28th International Business Information Management Association Conference

• 2016: The 27th International Business Information Management Association Conference

• 2015: The 26th International Business Information Management Association Conference

Journal Reviewer

• 2020-present: Soft Computing: A Fusion of Foundations, Methodologies and Applications 

• 2019-present: ​IEEE Access

• 2022: Machine Learning with Applications 

• 2022: Big Data and Cognitive Computing

• 2021: Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking 

• 2021: Applied Sciences 

• 2020: International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction 

• 2020: The Scientific Bulletin - University POLITEHNICA of Bucharest 

• 2019: Computational Intelligence

• 2017: International Journal of Business Intelligence and Data Mining