Elena-Simona Apostol
Elena-Simona Apostol
I am an Associate Professor of Computer Science at the Computer Science and Engineering Department, Faculty of Automatic Control and Computers, National University of Science and Technology POLITEHNICA Bucharest. I received my habilitation in computer science in 2024.
In 2022, I held a temporary teaching and research position at the Division of Computing Science, Department of Information Technology, Uppsala University, Sweden.
I received my PhD in Computer Science and Information Technology at the Computer Science and Engineering Department, Faculty of Automatic Control and Computers, University Politehnica of Bucharest, on the topic of Efficient Management of Resource-Intensive Services in Large Scale Distributed Systems. I also hold an M.Sc. Degree in Operating Systems and Distributed Processing and a B.Eng. in Computer Science from the University Politehnica of Bucharest. During my last year of bachelor’s and first year of master’s studies, I was an Intern and then a Junior Research Engineer at the Next Generation Network Infrastructures (NGNI) competence center, Fraunhofer FOKUS Institute, Berlin, Germany, where I worked on computer networking and telecommunication field with a focus on mobile and service orientated architectures.
During my PhD studies, I was an invited researcher at Inria Rennes Bretagne – Atlantique Research Centre, France, in the KerData team, where I worked on Data Management.
I was a postdoctoral researcher at the Microsoft Research Inria Joint Centre, Paris, France, where I worked on Big Data Analytics and Scientific Workflows for Multi-Site Clouds, with a use case in Bioinformatics.
My research topics include Big Data Analytics, Time Series Analysis, Data Science, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Natural Language Processing, Text Mining, Data Mining, Cloud Computing, and High-Performance Computing.
Publications
Journals
2024
Alexandru Petrescu, Ciprian-Octavian Truică, Elena-Simona Apostol, Adrian Paschke. EDSA-Ensemble: an Event Detection Sentiment Analysis Ensemble Architecture. IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, August 2024, DOI: 10.1109/TAFFC.2024.3434355 (Q1 Journal)
Elena-Simona Apostol, Ciprian-Octavian Truică, Adrian Paschke. ContCommRTD: A Distributed Content-based Misinformation-aware Community Detection System for Real-Time Disaster Reporting. Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering Journal, November 2024. DOI: 10.1109/TKDE.2024.3417232 (Q1 Journal)
Elena-Simona Apostol, Özgur Coban, Ciprian-Octavian Truică. CONTAIN: A community-based algorithm for network immunization. Engineering Science and Technology, an International Journal. 55:1-10(101728), ISSN 2215-0986, July 2024. DOI: 10.1016/j.jestch.2024.101728 (Q1 Journal)
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, 294:1-13(111715), ISSN 0950-7051, June 2024. DOI: 10.1016/j.knosys.2024.111715 (Q1 Journal)
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 (Q2 Journal)
2023
Teng Huei-Wen, Härdle Wolfgang Karl, Osterrieder Joerg, Baals Lennart John, Papavassiliou Vassilios G., Bolesta Karolina, Kabasinskas Audrius, Filipovska Olivija, Thomaidis Nikolaos S., Moukas Alexios Ioannis, Goundar Sam, Nasir Jamal Abdul, Weinberg Abraham Itzhak, Arakelian Veni, Truică Ciprian-Octavian, Akar Mutlu, kabaklarli esra, Apostol Elena-Simona, Iannario Maria, Bedowska-Sojka Barbara, Skaftadottir Hanna Kristin, Schwendner Peter, Yıldırım Özgür, Shala Albulena, Pisoni Galena, Coita Ioana Florina, Korba Szabolcs, Hafner Christian M., Molnár Bálint, Xhumari Elda, Pele Daniel Traian. Mitigating Digital Asset Risks. Elsevier SSRN, October 13, 2023. DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.4594467
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)
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
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)
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)
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)
2022
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)
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. (Q2 Journal)
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, 2022. DOI: 10.3390/w14142187 (Q2 Journal)
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)
Aura-Loredana Popescu, Nirvana Popescu, Ciprian Dobre, Elena-Simona Apostol, Decebal Popescu. IoT and AI-Based Application for Automatic Interpretation of the Affective State of Children Diagnosed with Autism. Sensors 22(7):1-18(2528), ISSN 1424-8220, March 2022. DOI: 10.3390/s22072528 (Q1 Journal)
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)
2021
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 2227-739, October 2021 DOI: 10.3390/math9212722. (Q1 Journal)
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, 9:495455-495479, ISSN: 2169-3536, December 2021 DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2021.3132502 (Q2 Journal)
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)
Elena-Simona Apostol, Ciprian-Octavian Truică, Florin Pop and Christian Esposito. Change Point Enhanced Anomaly Detection for IoT Time Series Data. WATER, 13(12):1-19(1633), ISSN 2073-4441, MDPI, June 2021. DOI: 10.3390/w13121633 (Q2 Journal)
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)
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)
2020
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 2227-739, June 2020. DOI: 10.3390/math8060887 (Q1 Journal)
2018
Dan Huru, Cristian Eseanu, Catalin Leordeanu, Elena-Simona Apostol, Valentin Cristea. 2018, Bigscale: Automatic Service Provisioning for Hadoop Clusters. In UPB Scientific Bulletin, Series C, Vol. 80, Issue 1, pp. 77-88, ISSN: 2286-3540, 2018. WOS:000428622400007
2014
Elena-Simona Apostol, Valentin Cristea Virtual Resource Management for Data Intensive Applications in Cloud Infrastructures. In UPB Scientific Bulletin, Series C, Vol. 76, Issue 2, 2014, pp. 15-26, ISSN: 2286-3540
Cristina Dutu, Elena-Simona Apostol, Catalin Leordeanu, Valentin Cristea A solution for the management of multimedia sessions in hybrid clouds. In International Journal of Space Based and Situated Computing, Volume 4, Number 2, pp. 77-87, 2014, ISSN (Print): 2044-4893, DOI: 10.1504/IJSSC.2014.062468
2012
Elena-Simona Apostol, Valentin Cristea. Mobility management for multimedia services in heterogeneous environments. In International Journal of Web and Grid Services, Volume 8, Issue 3, pp. 266-278, 2012, ISSN (Online):17411114 ISSN (Print):17411106, DOI: 10.1504/IJWGS.2012.049170 (Q1 Journal)
Conferences
2024
Ciprian-Octavian Truică, Ana-Teodora Constantinescu, Elena-Simona Apostol. StopHC: A Harmful Content Detection and Mitigation Architecture for Social Media Platforms. IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Computer Communication and Processing (ICCP 2024), October 2024
Alexandru Petrescu, Ciprian-Octavian Truică, Elena-Simona Apostol. Language-based Mixture of Transformers for EXIST2024. Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum (CLEF2024). September 2024
Elena-Simona Apostol, Adrian-Cosmin Cojocaru, Ciprian-Octavian Truică. Large-Scale Graphs Community Detection using Spark GraphFrames, The 23rd International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Computing (ISPDC 2024), July 2024.
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, Ranka Stanković, Ricardo Rodrigues, Gilles Sérasset, Linas Selmistraitis, Mahammadou Sidibé, Purificação Silvano, Blerina Spahiu, Enriketa Sogutlu, Radovan Garabík, 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)
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)
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, May 2024
2023
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 (Rank National: Romania Conference)
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 (Rank National: Romania Conference)
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
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
Mariana Damova, Giedre Valunaite Oleskeviciene, Kostadin Mishev, Purificação Silvano, Dimitar Trajanov, Ciprian-Octavian Truică, Chaya Liebeskind, Elena-Simona Apostol, Anna Baczkowska, Christian Chiarcos. Validation of Language Agnostic Models for Discourse Marker Detection. The 2nd Workshop on Discourse studies and linguistic data science (DiSLiDaS 2023) @LDK2023, September 2023.
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)
Christian Chiarcos, Anas Fahad Khan, Maxim Ionov, Elena-Simona Apostol, Ciprian-Octavian Truică, Besim Kabashi, Katerina Gkirtzou. OntoLex-FrAC: Standardizing the Corpus-Lexicon Interface. The 1st General Meeting of UniDive (COST Action CA21167: Universality, diversity and idiosyncrasy in language technology), March 2023
2022
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). October 2022 (Rank A Conference)
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
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
Purificação Moura Silvano, Mariana Damova, Giedrė Valūnaitė Oleškevičienė, Chaya Liebeskind, Christian Chiarcos, Dimitar Trajanov, Ciprian-Octavian Truică, Elena-Simona Apostol, Anna Baczkowska. ISO based Discourse Markers Annotated Multilingual Corpus. International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC2022), p. 2739‑2749, June 2022 (Rank C Conference)
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)
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
2021
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), p. 121-128, December 2021. DOI: 10.1109/SYNASC54541.2021.00030 (Rank National: Romania Conference)
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), December 2021. DOI: 10.1109/ICECET52533.2021.9698737
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)
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, September 2021. DOI: 10.4230/OASIcs.LDK.2021.34
Laurentiu-Florin Neciu, Florin Pop, Elena-Simona Apostol, Ciprian-Octavian Truică. Efficient Real-time Earliest Deadline First based scheduling for Apache Spark. International Symposium On Parallel And Distributed Computing (ISPDC 2021), IEEE, July 2021. DOI: 10.1109/ISPDC52870.2021.9521640 (Rank C Conference)
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, July 2021. DOI: 10.1109/ECAI52376.2021.9515193
Iulia-Maria Rădulescu, Aalexandru 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, 2021. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-77961-0_27 (Rank A Conference)
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
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)
2020
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)
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
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)
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)
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)
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
2019
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
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)
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
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)
2018
Dan Huru, Cătălin Leordeanu, Elena Apostol, Valentin Cristea, BigClue: Towards a generic IoT cross-domain data processing platform, IEEE 14th International Conference on Intelligent Computer Communication and Processing (ICCP), p. 427-434, 2018, WOS: 000517560800054, DOI: 10.1109/ICCP.2018.8516597 (Rank C Conference)
Dan Huru, Cătălin Leordeanu, Elena Apostol, Mariana Mocanu, Valentin Cristea, BigClue Analytics: A Middleware Component for Modeling Sensor Data in IoT Systems, 2018 IEEE 20th International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC/SmartCity/DSS), United Kingdom, p. 891-896, 2018, WOS:000468511200116, DOI: 10.1109/HPCC/SmartCity/DSS.2018.00148 (Rank B Conference)
2017
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)
2016
Cristian Radu, Elena Apostol, Catalin Leordeanu, Mariana Mocanu. Integrated Cloud Framework for Farm Management. International Conference on Complex, Intelligent, and Software Intensive Systems (CISIS), p. 290-295, 2016. ISBN:978-1-5090-0987-9, WOS:000391528700045, DOI: 10.1109/CISIS.2016.136 (Rank C Conference)
Andrei Dincu, Elena Apostol, Cătălin Leordeanu, Mariana Mocanu, Dan Huru. Real-Time Processing of Heterogeneous Data in Sensor-Based Systems. International Conference on Complex, Intelligent, and Software Intensive Systems (CISIS), p. 290-295, 2016. ISBN:978-1-5090-0987-9, WOS:000391528700043, DOI: 10.1109/CISIS.2016.133 (Rank C Conference)
Andreea Pintilie, Elena Apostol, Ciprian Dobre. Efficient storage and replication solutions for healthcare applications. In Black Sea Conference on Communications and Networking (BlackSeaCom), p. 1-5, Publisher: IEEE. 2016. ISBN:978-1-5090-1925-0, WOS:000402537300027, DOI: 10.1109/BlackSeaCom.2016.7901566
2015
Elena Apostol, Cătălin Leordeanu, Mariana Mocanu, Valentin Cristea. Towards a Hybrid Local-Cloud Framework for Smart Farms. Proceedings of the 2015 20th International Conference on Control Systems and Computer Science (CSCS20), p. 820-824, Publisher: IEEE, 2015. ISBN:978-1-4799-1780-8, WOS:000380375200119, DOI: 10.1109/CSCS.2015.122
Adriana Horelu, Cătălin Leordeanu, Elena Apostol, Dan Huru, Mariana Mocanu, Valentin Cristea. Forecasting Techniques for Time Series from Sensor Data. International Symposium on Symbolic and Numeric Algorithms for Scientific Computing (SYNASC), p. 261-264. Publisher: IEEE, 2015. ISBN:978-1-5090-0461-4, WOS:000384643800042, DOI: 10.1109/SYNASC.2015.49 (Rank C Conference)
2014
Elena Apostol, Iulia Baluta, Alexandru Gorgoi, Valentin Cristea. A Parallel Genetic Algorithm Framework for Cloud Computing Applications. In Adaptive Resource Management and Scheduling for Cloud Computing (ARMS-CC) session; in ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing (PODC). July 2014, p. 113-127, ISBN (Print): 978-3-319-13463-5, WOS:000354692100009, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-13464-2_9 (Rank A* Conference)
Razvan Nitu, Elena Apostol, Valentin Cristea. An Improved GPU MapReduce Framework for Data Intensive Applications. In 10th International Conference on Intelligent Computer Communication and Processing (ICCP). 2014. Publisher: IEEE, 345 E 47TH ST, NEW YORK, NY 10017 USA, p. 355-362, ISBN: 978-1-4799-6568-7, WOS:000348677300052, DOI: 10.1109/ICCP.2014.6937021 (Rank National: Romania Conference)
2013
Marian Cristian Rotariu, Elena Apostol. High-Level GPU Multi Purpose Profiler. In The Eighth International Conference on P2P, Parallel, Grid, Cloud and Internet Computing (3PGCIC). Publisher: IEEE, NEW YORK, NY 10017 USA, p. 549-553. 2013, WOS:000329179100087, DOI: 10.1109/3PGCIC.2013.94 (Rank B Conference)
Cristina Dutu, Elena Apostol, Cătălin Leordeanu, Valentin Cristea. Efficient Service Management for Multimedia Sessions in Hybrid Clouds. The 27th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications. p. 632-637 , Publisher: IEEE, NEW YORK, NY 10017 USA. 2013. ISBN (Print): 978-1-4673-6239-9, WOS:000327181600104, DOI: 10.1109/WAINA.2013.209
2012
Elena Apostol, Alexandru Gorunescu, Valentin Cristea. Advanced Service Management and Visualization for multiple Cloud environments. International Conference on Emerging Intelligent Data and Web Technologies, p. 326-329. 2012. ISBN: 9780769544564, DOI: 10.1109/EIDWT.2012.60
2011
Elena Apostol, Cătălin Leordeanu, Valentin Cristea. 2011, Policy Based Resource Allocation in Cloud Systems, International Conference on P2P, Parallel, Grid, Cloud and Internet Computing, p.: 285-289. 2011. ISBN: 9780769545318, DOI: 10.1109/3PGCIC.2011.51
Elena Apostol, Valentin Cristea. Multimedia Mobility Service across Heterogeneous Environments. International Conference on Emerging Intelligent Data and Web Technologies, p. 172-177. 2011. ISBN: 9780769544564, DOI: 10.1109/EIDWT.2011.36
Elena Apostol, Iulia Baluta, Alexndru Gorgoi, Valentin Cristea. Efficient Manager for Virtualized Resource Provisioning in Cloud Systems. IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Computer Communication and Processing, p. 511-518. 2011. ISBN (Print): 978-1-4577-1479-5, DOI: 10.1109/ICCP.2011.6047924 (Rank C Conference)
2009
Alexandru Radovici, Elena Simona Apostol. Distributed hybrid storage partially mountable file system. International conference on Artificial intelligence, knowledge engineering and data bases, p. 35-40, Stevens Point, Wisconsin, USA, Publisher: World Scientific and Engineering ACAD and SOC, 2009. ISBN: 9789604740512, WOS:000265147200002
Presentations
Florentina Armaselu, Elena-Simona Apostol, Christian Chiarcos, Anas Fahad Khan, Chaya Liebeskind, Barbara McGillivray, Ciprian-Octavian Truică, Giedrė Valūnaitė Oleškevičienė. Tracing Semantic Change with Multilingual LLOD and Diachronic Word Embeddings. International Scientific Interdisciplinary Conference LLOD approaches for language data research and management (LLODREAM2022), September 2022
Christian Chiarcos, Purificação Silvano, Mariana Damova, Giedrė Valūnaitė Oleškevičienė, Chaya Liebeskind, Ciprian-Octavian Truică, Dimitar Trajanov, Elena-Simona Apostol, Anna Bączkowska. An OWL Ontology for ISO-based Discourse Marker Annotation. International Scientific Interdisciplinary Conference LLOD approaches for language data research and management (LLODREAM2022), September 2022
Chaya Liebeskind, Purificação Moura Silvano, Mariana Damova, Giedrė Valūnaitė Oleškevičienė, Christian Chiarcos, Dimitar Trajanov, Ciprian-Octavian Truică, Elena-Simona Apostol, Anna Bączkowska. ISO-based Discourse Markers Annotated Multilingual Corpus. The Israel Seminar on Computational Linguistics (ISCOL 2022). September 2022
Book Chapters
Christian Chiarcos, Maxim Ionov, Elena-Simona Apostol, Katerina Gkirtzou, Besim Kabashi, Anas Fahad Khan, Ciprian-Octavian Truică. Multiword expressions, collocations and the OntoLex vocabulary. Multiword expressions in lexical resources: Linguistic, lexicographic, and computational perspectives, Language Science Press, ISBN 978-3-96110-470-3, p. 187–227. July 2024, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10998641
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 9780367407131, CRC Press, ISBN 978-0-367-40713-1, p. 108-138, July 2021. DOI: 10.1201/9780367814397-6
Christian Esposito, Zhongliang Zhao, Gianluca Rizzo, Florin Pop, Elena Apostol, Cătălin Leordeanu, Stefan Preda.. Routing in Post-Disaster Scenarios. In Guide to Disaster-Resilient Communication Networks (p. 605-628). Springer, Cham. ISBN: 978-3-030-44684-0, 2020 DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-44685-7_24
Claudia Ifrim, Andreea-Mihaela Pintilie, Elena Apostol, Ciprian Dobre, Florin Pop. The Art of Advanced Healthcare Applications in Big Data and IoT Systems. In Advances in Mobile Cloud Computing and Big Data in the 5G Era, p. 133-149. Springer International Publishing, vol. 22, 2017
Elena Apostol, Iulia Băluţă, Alexandru Gorgoi, Valentin Cristea. A Parallel Genetic Algorithm Framework for Cloud Computing Applications. In Adaptive Resource Management and Scheduling for Cloud Computing, vol 8907. p. 113-127, Publisher: Springer, Cham, 2014
Books
Valentin Cristea, Mariana Mocanu, Silvia Anton, Florin Pop, Ciprian Dobre, Elena Apostol, Cătălin Leordeanu. Insights and views in smart data and e-services for water management. Bucureşti Politehnica Press, ISBN 978-606-515-843-6, 2018
Valentin Cristea, Florin Pop, Ciprian Dobre, Cătălin Leordeanu, Alexandru Costan, Eliana Tirsa, Elena Apostol, Corina Stratan. Models and Techniques for Ensuring Reliability, Safety, Availability and Security in Large Distributed Systems (RO), Ed. Politehnica Press, pp. 364, ISBN: 978-606-515-343-1, 2012
Research
International Projects
2021-2023: TrainRDM - Open Science and Research Data Management Innovative and Distributed Training Programme, Program: Erasmus+ (ID: 020203286), Position: Member (Researcher)
2021: Deep-Learning Anomaly Detection for Human and Automated Users Behavior, DAAD Research Stays for University Academics and Scientists, No. 91809358, Research Institute: Fraunhofer FOKUS Institute, Berlin, Germany, Position: PI
2015-2018: Data4Water: Excellence in Smart Data and Services for Supporting Water Management. Research Institute: University POLITEHNICA of Bucharest, Romania; H2020-TWINN-2015, Position: Member
2013–2014: Z-CloudFlow: Data Workflows in the Cloud. Research Institute: Microsoft Research - INRIA Joint Center, France, Position: Member
2010–2011: DataCloud@work. Research Institutes: INRIA Rennes-Bretagne Atlantique and University POLITEHNICA of Bucharest; INRIA Associate Teams Program, Position: Member
2008–2009: XPoser (eXtended POlicy-based, Semantically enabled sErvice bRoker). Research Institute: Fraunhofer FOKUS Institute, Berlin, Germany, Position: Member
2008–2009: Vertical Handover 2. Research Institute: Fraunhofer FOKUS Institute, Berlin, Germany (project in collaboration with Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology, South Korea), Position: Internship
National Projects
2024-Present: SCAN-NEWS: Smart system for deteCting And mitigatiNg misinformation and fake news in social media, Program: The Academy of Romanian Scientists, AOȘR-TEAMS-III, Position: PI
2023-Present: StopXocial: Smart system for analyzing and stopping antisocial behavior in online communities, Program: GNAC2023 ARUT, Position: PI
2023-Present: DEPLATFORM: Intelligent interactive system for detecting the veracity of news published on social platforms, Program: GNAC2023 ARUT, Position: Member
2023-Present: DECIP - Developing the Institutional Capacity of Politehnica University, Program: PFE-CDI (No. PFE ID 574), Position: Member
2021: Developing an innovative mechanism for transforming the implementation processes of the RDI (Research Development and Innovation) projects in the UPB University, Program: CNFIS-FDI-2021-0294, Position: Member
2017–2018: ANDESITE: Real-time analysis of heterogeneous data. Research Institute: University POLITEHNICA of Bucharest, Romania; Program: GEX # 24/25.09.2017, Position: PI
2016–2017: PADClouds: Privacy and Anonymity for Data Clouds. Research Institute: University POLITEHNICA of Bucharest, Romania; Program: GEX #16/2016, Position: Member
2015–2019: DataWay - Real-time Data Processing Platform for Smart Cities: Making sense of Big Data. Research Institute: University POLITEHNICA of Bucharest, Romania; Project Code PN-II-RU-TE-2014-4-2731, Position: Member
2014–2017: CLUeFARM - Solutions for Intelligent Farming. Research Institute: University POLITEHNICA of Bucharest, Romania; National Program PN-II-PT-PCCA-2013-4, Position: Member
2013–2014: SideSTEP: Scheduling Methods for Dynamic Distributed Systems: a self-* approach. Research Institute: University POLITEHNICA of Bucharest, Romania; Program: PN-II-CT-RO-FR-2012-1-0084, Contract # 718/11.04.2013, Position: Member
2010–2013: ERRIC: Empowering Romanian Research on Intelligent Information Technologies. Research Institute: University POLITEHNICA of Bucharest, Romania; FP7-REGPOT-2010-1, ID:264207, Position: Member
2010–2011: DEPSYS- Models and Techniques for Ensuring Reliability, Safety, Availability, and Security for Large Scale Distributed Systems. Research Institute: University POLITEHNICA of Bucharest, Romania; National Program PN-II IDEI, Position: Member
2009–2010: GEEA–High-performance multi-core GRID Resource Centre. Research Institute: University POLITEHNICA of Bucharest, Romania, Position: Member
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 CA19122 European Network for Gender Balance in Informatics (EUGAIN). 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
2019-2023: COST Action CA18131 Statistical and machine learning techniques in human microbiome studies (ML4Microbiome). 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
2019-2023: COST Action CA18209 European network for Web-centred linguistic data science (NexusLinguarum). Position: Working Group Member
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 CA15127 Resilient communication services protecting end-user applications from disaster-based failures (RECODIS). Position: Management Committee
2015-2019: COST Action CA15140 Improving Applicability of Nature-Inspired Optimisation by Joining Theory and Practice (ImAppNIO). Position: Management Committee Substitute
2013-2017: COST Action IC1302 Semantic keyword-based search on structured data sources (KEYSTONE). Position: Working Group Member
Short terms scientific missions
2020: Short-Term Scientific Mission at Aarhus University. Supported by COST Action CA17137 A network for Gravitational Waves, Geophysics and Machine Learning
Research visits
01.02.2022 - 01.09.2022: Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
17.12.2019 - 01.02.2020: Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
18.08.2019 - 31.08.2019: Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
20.04.2018 - 28.04.2018: IHE Institute for Water Education, Delft, Netherlands
17.07.2018 - 25.07.2018: Fraunhofer FOKUS, Berlin, Germany
03.10.2018 - 08.10.2018: University Milano-Bicocca, Milano, Italy
22.11.2017 - 26.11.2017: Fraunhofer FOKUS, Berlin, Germany
09.06.2016 - 13.06.2016: IHE Institute for Water Education, Delft, Netherlands
04.06.2012 - 28.09.2012: Inria Institute, Rennes-Bretagne, France
16.06.2011 - 17.09.2011: Inria Institute, Rennes-Bretagne, France
Teaching
Undergraduate Courses (B.Sc.)
Parallel and Distributed Algorithms (3rd year Bachelor course)
Graduate Courses (M.Sc)
Advanced Distributed Algorithms (1st year Master course)
Distributed Software Engineer (1st year Master course)
Security Protocols (1st year Master course)
Advanced Computer Security (2nd year Master course)