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,
  HIPS 2020, 25th International Workshop on High-Level Parallel Programming Models and Supportive Environments, held in Conjunction With 34th IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium, 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 EuroPar 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.