Publications:

• V. Niculescu, F. Loulergue, A. Sterca, Reflection on the Design of Parallel Programming Frameworks, in book Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering, post-proceedings, pp. 154-181, 2021.
• R. Balanescu, A. Sterca, I. Badarinza, Removal of Unwanted Objects from Still Photographs, 28th International Conference on Software Telecommunications and Computer Networks (SoftCOM) September 17-19 2020 Croatia [local link].
• A. Sterca, D. Bufnea, V. Niculescu, IP Multihoming Throughput Maximization based on Passive RTT, 28th International Conference on Software Telecommunications and Computer Networks (SoftCOM) September 17-19 2020 Croatia [local link].
• V. Niculescu, D. Bufnea, A. Sterca, Enhancing Java Streams API with PowerList Computation, in 2020 IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium Workshops (IPDPSW), pp. 375-384, 2020.
• V. Niculescu, F. Loulergue, D. Bufnea, A. Sterca, Pattern-driven Design of a Multiparadigm Parallel Programming Framework, ENASE 2020, Czech Republic [link].
• V. Niculescu, D. Bufnea, A. Sterca, PList-based Divide and Conquer Parallel Programming, JOURNAL OF COMMUNICATIONS SOFTWARE AND SYSTEMS, Vol. 16, Issue 2, pp. 197-206, June 2020
• V. Niculescu, A. Sterca, D. Bufnea, Multi-way Divide and Conquer Parallel Programming based on PLists, IEEE SoftCom 2019, Croatia.
• I. Badarinza, A. Sterca, D. Bufnea, A Dataset for Evaluating Query Suggestion Algorithms in Information Retrieval, IEEE SoftCom 2019, Croatia [local link].
• V. Niculescu, D. Bufnea, A. Sterca, MPI Scaling Up for Powerlist Based Parallel Programs, PDP 2019, Italy.
• I. Badarinza, A. Sterca, F. Boian,The Role of the User's Browsing and Query History for Improving MPC-generated Query Suggestions, Journal of Communications Software and Systems, vol. 15, no. 1, pp. 26-33, 2019 [pdf].
• I. Badarinza, A. Sterca, F. Boian, Using the user's recent browsing history for personalized query suggestions, IEEE SoftCom 2018, Split, Croatia [link ; local link].
• R. Deak, A. Sterca, I. Badarinza, Image Stitching Using SIFT Features, Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai Series Informatica, 2017 [pdf].
• Niculescu V., Loulergue F., Bufnea D., Sterca A., A Java Framework for High Level Parallel Programming using Powerlists, in 18th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing, Applications and Technologies, Taiwan, 2017, pp. 255-262, IEEE, DOI 10.1109/PDCAT.2017.00049.
• Badarinza I., Sterca A., Custom IDF weights for boosting the relevancy of retrieved documents in textual retrieval, in Annals of the University of Craiova - Mathematics and Computer Science Series, Vol 44, No 2 (2017), pp. 238-248 [pdf].
• I. Badarinza, A. Sterca, M. Ionescu, Syntactic Indexes for Text Retrieval, Information Technology in Industry, Vol. 5, pp.24-28, 2017 [pdf].
• Bufnea D., Niculescu V., Silaghi G., Sterca A., Babes-Bolyai University's High Performance Computing Center, in Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai Series Informatica, vol LXI, 2016, no 2, pp. 54-69, 2016 [pdf].
• Niculescu V., Bufnea D., Sterca A., High Performance Computing Infrastructure of the Babes-Bolyai University, in Int. Conference on Grid, Cloud, and High-Performance Computing in Science, Bucharest-Magurele, 26-28 octombrie, 2016.
• O. Duma, A. Sterca, Augumented Reality in the Therapy of Mild Cognitive Impairment, ZAC 2016 conference, Cluj-Napoca.
• I. Badarinza, A. Sterca, M. Ionescu, Syntactic Indexes for Text Retrieval, Proceedings of ICITA 2016, Sydney, Australia, [pdf].
• A. Sterca, H. Hellwagner, F. Boian, A. Vancea, Media-Friendly and TCP-Friendly Rate Control Protocols for Multimedia Streaming, in IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (Volume: 26, Issue: 8, Aug. 2016), pp. 1516 - 1531, DOI: 10.1109/TCSVT.2015.2469075, 2016, [pdf].
• A. Moraru, A. Sterca, R. Boian, Tracking and Mapping with Surface Detection for Augmented Reality, KEPT 2015, 2015, P. 33-38; extended version published in Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai Series Informatica, Volume LXI, Number 1, pp. 41-53, 2016 [pdf].
• A. Goia, A. Sterca, R. Boian, Categorizing Aesthetic Photos from Large Photography Collections using SVM, KEPT 2015, P. 87-90.
• A. Sterca, C. Cobarzan, C. Mihaila, Choosing the best set of active sources in Peer-to-Peer video streaming, Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai Series Informatica, Vol. 59, No.2, P.98-106, 2014.[pdf]
• I. Badarinza, A. Sterca, User-weighting query terms in text retrieval, Proceedings of ZAC2014, 2014.[pdf]
• I. Badarinza, A. Sterca, Clustering, Tiered Indexes and Term Proximity Weighting in Text-Based Retrieval, Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai Series Informatica, vol LVII, no. 4, pp. 122-130, 2012 [pdf]
• I. Badarinza, A. Sterca, Clustering and tiered indexes in information retrieval, in Proceedings of the National Symposium ZAC 2012, pp. 118-123, Presa Univ. Clujeana [doc]
• I. Baltoi, M. Toderean, A. Sterca, Cepstral-based speaker recognition, Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai Series Informatica, vol LVII, no 2, pp.43-50, 2012 [pdf]
• A. Seredinschi, A. Sterca, Enhancing the Stack Smashing Protection in the GCC, in Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai Series Informatica, vol LVI, no 4, 2011, pp.95-110 [pdf]
• A. Sterca, A. Vancea, A study of TCP-friendliness on the short term with an application to media-friendly congestion control, ìn Proceedings of KEPT 2011, Cluj-Napoca, pp.389-399 [pdf]
• A.Sterca, D. Miron, Metadata for content-based image retrieval, in Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai Series Informatica, vol LV, No. 4, pp. 93-102, December 2010 [pdf]
• A. Sterca, C. Cobarzan, Introducing VAST: a Video-Audio Streaming Tester, in Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai Series Informatica, vol LV, September 2010, pp. 87-94 [pdf]
• A. Sterca, C. Cobarzan, VAST: A Video-Audio Streaming Tester Package based on FFMPEG, in Proceedings of Zilele Academice Clujene, pp. 122-126, Cluj-Napoca, 2010
• A. Sterca, Marian Zs., Al. Vancea, Distortion-based Media-friendly Congestion Control, Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai, series Informatica, special issue, Proc. of the Int. Conf. Kept 2009, pp. 265-268, 2009. [pdf]
• A. Craciun, A. Sterca, RDDNS . Resource-based Dynamic DNS, Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai, series Informatica, special issue, Proc. of the Int. Conf. Kept 2009, pp. 312-315, 2009.
• A. Sterca, UTFRC - Utility-driven TCP-Friendly Rate Control for Multimedia Streams, in Proc. of the 17th Euromicro International Conference on Parallel, Distributed and Network-Based Processing, IEEE Computer Society, Germany, February 2009. [pdf]
• A. Sterca, A media-friendly TFRC for multimedia streaming, Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), IEEE Communications Society, accepted, Budpest, Hungary, 2009.
• A. Sterca, Choosing the level of stream adaptation in TCP-friendly congestion controlled video streaming servers, in the Proc. of the 10th IEEE Symposium on Multimedia, IEEE Computer Society, 15-17 December 2008, Berkeley, California, USA. [pdf]
• A. Sterca, Primal Congestion Control Algorithms for Multimedia Streams, post-proceedings of 10th Int. Symposium on Symbolic and Numeric Algorithms for Scientific Computing, Timisoara, September 2008, IEEE Computer Society. [pdf]
• A. Sterca, Improving Media Sensitivity of TCP-Friendly Rate Control for Multimedia Streaming Applications, Proc. of the 6th International Conference on Advances in Mobile Computing and Multimedia (MoMM2008), published by ACM, ISBN 978-1-60558-349-5/978-1-60558-269-6, pp. 351-354, Linz, Austria, November 2008. [pdf]
• A. Sterca, Optimized adaptation of video streams in streaming servers, in Proc. of the 7th Int. RoEduNet Conference, pp. 113-116, August 2008, Cluj-Napoca, Romania.
• A. Sterca, Window-based Congestion Control Algorithms for Multimedia Streams, 6th Int. Conference on Applied Mathematics, September 2008.
• A. Sterca, An Adaptation Model for Video Streaming Servers in Best-Effort Networks, 7th Joint Conference on Mathematics and Computer Science, Cluj-Npoca, July 2008.
• A. Sterca, Towards an utility-based TCP-friendly Rate Control, in Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai, series Informatica, vol. LII, No. 2, pp. 129-134, 2007.
• A. Sterca, C. Cobarzan, F. Boian, D. Bufnea, Evaluating Dynamic Client-Driven Adaptation Decision Support in Multimedia Proxy-Caches, in Proc. of Int. Conf. on Knowledge Engeneering: Principles and Technologies, KEPT 2007, pp. 298-306, Cluj-Napoca, June 2007.
• F. Boian, D. Bufnea, A. Vancea, A. Sterca, D. Cojocar, R. Boian, Some Formal Approaches For Dynamic Life Session Management, Proc. of Int. Conf. On Knowledge Engeneering, Principles and Techniques, pp.227-235, KEPT 2007, Cluj-Napoca, 2007.
• A. Sterca, D. Bufnea, F. Boian, C. Cobarzan, Supporting multimedia streaming applications inside the network, 5th Joint Conference on Mathematics and Computer Science, Debrecen, Hungary, June, 2004; published in Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai, series Informatica, vol. LI, pp. 37-48, 2006.
• F. Boian, D. Bufnea, A. Vancea, A. Sterca, D. Cojocar, R. Boian, A Model for Efficient Session Object Management in Web Applications, Proc. of the Symposium .Colocviul Academic Clujean de Informatica. Cluj-Napoca, 2006, pp. 131-136.
• Darius Bufnea, Sterca Adrian, Cobarzan Claudiu, Boian Florian, Improving the Round Trip Time Estimation in Internet Routers, in Carpathian Journal of Mathematics, 20(2), Proc of the 4th International Conf. on Applied Mathematics (ICAM4), Baia Mare, Romania, pp 149-154, 2004.
• D. Tofan, I. Zeng, C. Cobarzan, A. Sterca, A Flexible Multimedia Retrieval System, in Proceedings of the Zilele Academice Clujene, 2005.
• A. Sterca, D. Bufnea, F. Boian, C. Cobarzan, Active Queue Management for Multimedia Streams, in Proceedings of the Zilele Academice Clujene, pp. 117-122, Cluj-Napoca, 2004.
• D. Bufnea, F. Boian, A. Sterca, C. Cobarzan, TCP State Variable Sharing, in Proceedings of the Zilele Academice Clujene, 2004, pp. 129-132.
• A. Sterca, A survey of fault-tolerant systems, in Proceedings of the Symposium Colocviul Academic Clujean de Informatica, 2003, pp. 31-38.
• A. Sterca, F. Boian, Using EJB to develop enterprise applications, in Proceedings of the Symposium Colocviul Academic Clujean de Informatica, 2002, pp. 41-50.

Books:

• F.M. Boian, P. Mitrea, A. Sterca, E.N. Todoran (Editors), Proceedings of GlobalComp: Workshop on Models, Semantics, Logics and Technologies for Global Computing, U.T. Press, ISBN: 978-973-662-443-8, 2008.
• Anca Gog, Andreea Sabau, Darius Bufnea, Adrian Sterca, Darabant Adrian, Alexandru Vancea, Programarea in limbaj de asamblare 80x86. Exemple si aplicatii., ed. Risoprint, Cluj-Napoca, 2005.
• Boian, F., Vancea, A., Boian, R., Bufnea, D., Sterca, A., Cobarzan, C., Cojocar, D., Sisteme de operare, ed. Risoprint Cluj-Napoca, 2006.

Research grants:

• CNCSIS grant PN II, TD-371/13.10.2007, 2007-2008, director.
• CNMP grant PN II, P4 nr 11-052/18.09.2007, 2007-2010, membru.
• Grant CNCSIS, tema nr. 77, cod CNCSIS 1064, contractul nr 31400/7053/2001, membru.
• Grant CNCSIS, tema nr. 60, cod CNCSIS 19, contract nr.33523/17.07.2002, membru.
• Grant CNCSIS, tema nr. 20, cod CNCSIS 171, contract nr.33965/08.07.2003, membru.