Research Papers

2023

• V. Niculescu, H. Grebla, A. Sterca, D. Bufnea,
  Efficient Academic Retrieval System Based on Aggregated Sources,
  in Proceedings of the 18^th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering (ENASE 2023), DOI: 10.5220/0011850600003464.

2022

• H. Grebla, C. V. Rusu, A. Sterca, D. Bufnea, V. Niculescu,
  Recommendation System for Student Academic Progress,
  in ICAART 2022, Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence, Volume 3, pp. 285-292, February 3-5, 2022, Online, ISBN 978-989-758-547-0, DOI: 10.5220/0010816300003116.

2021

• V. Niculescu, D. Suciu, D. Bufnea,
  Agile Principles Applied in Learning Contexts,
  in EASEAI 2021: Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Education through Advanced Software Engineering and Artificial Intelligence, August 2021, pp. 31-38. DOI: 10.1145/3472673.3473963;
• C. Coste, D. Bufnea,
  Advances in Clickbait and Fake News Detection Using New Language-independent Strategies,
  in Journal of Communications Software and Systems, Vol. 17 No. 3, 2021, pp. 270-280, DOI: 10.24138/jcomss-2021-0038;
• I. Bădărînză, A. Sterca, D. Bufnea, V. Niculescu,
  Integration Challenges for a Web-based Personalized Query Suggestions System in Information Retrieval,
  in Proceedings of 2021 IEEE/ACIS 19th International Conference on Software Engineering Research, Management and Applications (SERA), pp. 2-9, June 20-22, 2021, Kanazawa, Japan, DOI: 10.1109/SERA51205.2021.9509276;
• R. Nesa, V. Niculescu, A. Sterca, D. Bufnea,
  Domain Interaction in Scientific Academic Communities,
  in Proceedings of IKE’21 – The 20th Int’l Conf on Information & Knowledge Engineering, July 26-29, 2021, Las Vegas, USA.

2020

• V. Niculescu, A. Sterca, D. Bufnea,
  Agile and cyclic learning in teaching parallel and distributed computing,
  in EASEAI 2020: Proceedings of the 2^nd ACM SIGSOFT International Workshop on Education through Advanced Software Engineering and Artificial Intelligence, November 2020, pp. 27-33, DOI: 10.1145/3412453.3423198;
• V. Niculescu, A. Sterca, D. Bufnea,
  Should Decorators Preserve the Component Interface?,
  arXiv:2009.06414 [cs.SE], September 2020;
• A. Sterca, D. Bufnea, V. Niculescu,
  Bandwidth Aggregation over Multihoming Links,
  in Proceedings of the 2020 IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC), pp. 1-7, DOI: 10.1109/ISCC50000.2020.9219714, July 7-10, 2020, Rennes, France;
• A. Sterca, D. Bufnea, V. Niculescu,
  IP Multihoming Throughput Maximization based on Passive RTT Measurements,
  in Proceedings of the 28^th International Conference on Software, Telecommunications and Computer Networks (SoftCOM), pp. 1-6, DOI: 10.23919/SoftCOM50211.2020.9238192, September 17-19, 2020, Hvar, Croatia;
• C.I. Coste, D. Bufnea, V. Niculescu,
  A New Language Independent Strategy for Clickbait Detection,
  in Proceedings of the 28^th International Conference on Software, Telecommunications and Computer Networks (SoftCOM), pp. 1-6, DOI: 10.23919/SoftCOM50211.2020.9238342, September 17-19, 2020, Hvar, Croatia;
• V. Niculescu, D. Bufnea, A. Sterca,
  PList-based Divide and Conquer Parallel Programming,
  in Journal of Communications Software and Systems,
  Vol. 16, No. 2 (2020), pp. 197-206, DOI: 10.24138/jcomss.v16i2.1029;
• V. Niculescu, D. Bufnea, A. Sterca,
  Enhancing Java Streams API with PowerList Computation,
  in Proceedings of the 2020 IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium Workshops (IPDPSW), pp. 375-384, DOI: 10.1109/IPDPSW50202.2020.00072, 18-22 May, 2020, New Orleans, LA, USA;
• V. Niculescu, F. Loulergue, D. Bufnea, A. Sterca,
  Pattern-driven Design of a Multiparadigm Parallel Programming Framework,
  in Proceedings of the 15^th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering – Volume 1: ENASE, pp. 50-61, DOI: 10.5220/0009344100500061, 2020.

2019

• V. Niculescu, D. Bufnea, A. Sterca and R. Silimon,
  Multi-way Divide and Conquer Parallel Programming based on PLists,
  in Proceedings of the 27^th International Conference on Software, Telecommunications and Computer Networks (SoftCOM), pp. 1-6, DOI: 10.23919/SOFTCOM.2019.8903794, September 19-21, 2019, Split, Croatia;
• I. Bădărînză, A. Sterca and D. Bufnea,
  A Dataset for Evaluating Query Suggestion Algorithms in Information Retrieval,
  in Proceedings of the 27^th International Conference on Software, Telecommunications and Computer Networks (SoftCOM), pp. 1-6, DOI: 10.23919/SOFTCOM.2019.8903906, September 19-21, 2019, Split, Croatia;
• V. Niculescu, D. Bufnea, A. Sterca,
  MPI Scaling Up for Powerlist Based Parallel Programs,
  in Proceedings of the 27^th Euromicro International Conference on Parallel, Distributed and Network-Based Processing (PDP 2019), pp. 199-204, DOI: 10.1109/EMPDP.2019.8671597, February 13-15, 2019, Pavia, Italy.

2018

• D. Bufnea, D. Șotropa,
  A Community Driven Approach for Click Bait Reporting,
  in Proceedings of the 26^th International Conference on Software, Telecommunications and Computer Networks (SoftCOM), pp. 1-6, DOI: 10.23919/SOFTCOM.2018.8555759, September 13-15, 2018, Split – Supetar (Island of Brac), Croatia.

2017

• V. Niculescu, D. Bufnea,
  Experience with Teaching PDC Topics into Babeş-Bolyai University’s CS Courses,
  in Proceedings of the Euro-Par 2017: Parallel Processing Workshops, pp. 240-251, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-75178-8_20, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 10659. Springer, Cham;
• D. Bufnea, D. Șotropa,
  Measuring and Visualizing the Scrappiness Level of a Website,
  in Proceedings of the 19^th International Symposium on Symbolic and Numeric Algorithms for Scientific Computing – SYNASC 2017, pp. 304-311, DOI: 10.1109/SYNASC.2017.00057, September 21-24, 2017, Timișoara, Romania;
• V. Niculescu, F. Loulergue, D. Bufnea, A. Sterca,
  A Java Framework for High Level Parallel Programming using Powerlists,
  in Proceedings of the 18^th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing, Applications and Technologies (PDCAT’17), pp. 255-262, DOI: 10.1109/PDCAT.2017.00049, December 18-20, 2017, Taipei, Taiwan.

2016

• D. Bufnea, V. Niculescu, Gh. Silaghi, A. Sterca,
  Babeş-Bolyai University’s High Performance Computing Center,
  in Studia Universitatis Babeş-Bolyai, Seria Informatica, Vol. LXI, No. 2, pp. 54-69, 2016.

2014

• D. Halita, D. Bufnea,
  A Study Regarding Inter Domain Linked Documents Similarity and their Consequent Bounce Rate,
  in Studia Universitatis Babeş-Bolyai, Seria Informatica, Vol. LIX, No. 1, pp. 83-91, 2014.

2013

• D. Bufnea, D. F. Halita,
  A Server-Side Support Layer for Client Perspective Transparent Web Content Migration,
  in Proceedings of the KEPT 2013 – Knowledge Engineering Principles and Techniques Conference, Studia Universitatis Babeş-Bolyai, Volume LVIII, No. 3, pp. 78-89, 2013.

2012

• D. Bufnea,
  Tuning User Query to Search Engines,
  in Proceedings of the National Symposium “Zilele Academice Clujene 2012”, pp. 100-104, May 2012;
• D. V. Bufnea,
  Analyzing and Tuning User Queries to Search Engines,
  in Studia Universitatis Babeş-Bolyai, Seria Informatica, Vol. LVII, No. 3, pp. 41-48, 2012.

2009

• D. Bufnea,
  New Data Mining Techniques for Macroflows Delimitation in Congestion Control Management,
  in Proceedings of the KEPT 2009 – Knowledge Engineering Principles and Techniques, Studia Universitatis Babeş-Bolyai, Special Issue 2009, Volume II, pp. 288-291, July 2009.

2008

• D. Bufnea,
  A New Method for Macroflows Delimitation from a Receiver’s Perspective,
  in the International Journal of Computer, Communication & Control – proceedings of the IEEE 2^nd
  International Conference on Computers, Communications & Control (ICCCC 2008), Felix Spa, Romania, Vol. III (2008), ISSN 1841-9836, pp. 201-205;
• D. Bufnea, F. Boian,
  Duplicate Transfer Problem inside a Proxy’s Cache,
  in Proceedings of the 7^th International Conference RoEduNet 2008, pp. 30-33, Cluj-Napoca, Romania;
• F. Boian, D. Bufnea,
  A New Mechanism for Fast Delivery of Proxy Cache Objects,
  An. Univ. de Vest Timisoara, Seria Matematica-Informatica, Vol. XLVI, No. 2, pp. 27-35, 2008.

2007

• F. Boian, D. Bufnea, Al. Vancea, A. Sterca, D. Cojocar, R. Boian,
  Some Formal Approaches for Dynamic Life Session Management,
  in Proceedings of the Knowledge Engineering Principles and Techniques Conference, KEPT 2007, Cluj-Napoca, pp. 227-235, June 2007;
• A. Sterca, C. Cobarzan, D. Bufnea, F. Boian,
  Evaluating Dynamic Client-Driven Adaptation Decision Support in Multimedia Proxy-Caches,
  in Proceedings of Knowledge Engineering Principles and Techniques, KEPT 2007, Cluj-Napoca, pp. 298-306, June 2007.

2006

• F. Boian, R. Boian, D. Bufnea, D. Cojocar, Al. Vancea,
  A Model for Efficient Session Object Management in Web Applications,
  in Proceedings of the Symposium “Colocviul Academic Clujean de Informatica”, pp. 137-142, June 2006;
• A. Sterca, D. Bufnea, F. Boian, C. Cobarzan,
  Supporting Multimedia Streaming Applications inside the Network,
  in Studia Universitatis Babeş-Bolyai, Seria Informatica, Vol. LI, No. 1, pp. 37-48, 2006;
• D. Bufnea, F. Boian, Al. Vancea,
  Shared Bottleneck Detection from the Receiver Point of View,
  in Proceedings of the Symposium “Colocviul Academic Clujean de Informatica”, pp. 125-130, June 2006.

2005

• A. Campan, D. Bufnea,
  Delimitation of Macroflows in Congestion Control Management Using Data Mining Techniques,
  in Proceedings of the 4^th ROEDUNET International Conference, Education/Training and Information/Communication Technologies – ROEDUNET ’05, Romania, pp. 225-234, 2005;
• D. Bufnea, A. Campan, A. S. Darabant,
  Fine-Grained Macroflow Granularity in Congestion Control Management,
  in Studia Universitatis Babeş-Bolyai, Vol. L(1), pp. 79-88, 2005;
• D. Bufnea, A. Campan,
  New Aspects in Congestion Control Management,
  in Proceedings of the Symposium “Colocviul Academic Clujean de Informatica”, pp. 123-128, 2005.

2004

• D. Bufnea, A. Sterca, C. Cobarzan, F. Boian,
  TCP State Variables Sharing,
  in Proceedings of the Symposium “Zilele Academice Clujene”, pp. 129-133, Cluj-Napoca, 2004;
• A. Sterca, D. Bufnea, F. Boian, C. Cobarzan,
  Active Queue Management for Multimedia Streams,
  in Proceedings of the Symposium “Zilele Academice Clujene”, pp. 117-122, Cluj-Napoca, 2004;
• D. Bufnea, A. Sterca, C. Cobarzan, F. Boian,
  Improving the Round Trip Time Estimation in Internet Routers,
  Carpathian Journal of Mathematics, ISSN: 1584-2851, Vol. 20, No. 2, pp. 149-154, 2004.

2003

• D. Bufnea, F. Boian,
  Challenges in today network routing,
  in Proceedings of the Symposium Colocviul Academic Clujean de Informatica, pp. 19-24, 2003.

2002

• F. Boian, D. Bufnea,
  Filters, a new powerful feature of Java Servlets,
  in Proceedings of the Symposium “Zilele Academice Clujene”, Computer Science Section, pp. 19-25, Cluj-Napoca, 2002.

2001

• A. Campan, D. Bufnea,
  A Secure Model, Web-based, for Client/Server Applications,
  in Babeş-Bolyai University, Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, Seminar on Computer Science, Preprint, Vol. 2001, pp. 33-40, 2001.

2000

• A. Campan, D. Bufnea,
  Automatic Support for Improving Interaction with a Web Site,
  Studia Universitatis Babeş-Bolyai, Seria Informatica, Vol. XLV, No. 2, pp. 95-103, 2000.