Research Partners

Technical University of Cluj-Napoca (TUCN) is one of the most prestigious higher education institutions in Romania and dates back to 1920. Study programs in Automation and in Computer Science were started since 1977. Since its birth, the Faculty of Automation and Computer Science has earned an international reputation for its high academic standards and excellence in research. At present, the faculty has over 120 academic staff organized in three departments (Computer Science, Control Engineering and Mathematics), three bachelor programs, eight master programs and two PhD programs in which study about 2000 students. The Computer Science Department approaches a wide range of research topics which addresses fundamental issues in Computer Science and Information Technology like: design and analysis of algorithms, data communications, artificial vision and image processing, distributed systems. The Department is involved in national and international research grants and contracts in cooperation with other universities or industrial partners like Siemens, Volkwagen, Nokia, Microsoft, or HP. Technical University of Cluj-Napoca (TUCN) is assessed at the national level by ARACIS with ``high trust degree''. At the international level it was evaluated by the Associatian of European Universities as ``Advanced Research Institute``. In 2011, the research within the 9 faculties is conducted based on 165 grants from PN-II national competition, 10 FP7 European contracts, but also 73 contracts with Romanian industrial partners and 21 agreements with international economic agents.

The Technical University of Moldova (TUM ) is an institution with tradition in research, being accredited with the "A" category. Scientific investigations are given a special attention, as an essential component of education . TUM won the first places in the exhibitions " Infoinvent " held annually in Moldova and at international exhibitions. In the recent years, TUM has won over 30 gold medals, a large number of silver and bronze medals, and diplomas. TUM cooperates with more than 60 universities and scientific centers in various countries, organizing international conferences and symposiums. TUM is a member of the Black Sea Region Universities Network, which includes 11 countries of the Regional Economic Cooperation. Therefore, TUM falls within an area which will become the part of Europe's unique academic space. Of the more than 60 000 business people working in Chisinau, about 75 % are graduates of TUM .

Table 2: Team members.

Group	Position	Researcher	Expertise
Intelligent Systems Group at TUCN	Director	A. Groza	Argumentation theory, normative reasoning
	Exp. Researcher	I. A. Letia	Artificial Intelligence, Multi-agent systems
	Phd. Student	R. Slavescu	Expert systems, Trust
	Phd. Student	A. Marginean	Normative agents, Semantic Web
UTM	Director	S. Zaporojan	Decision support systems
	Exp. Researcher	V. Moraru	Models for decision problems
	Exp. Researcher	V. Dorogan	Modelling industrial processes
	Exp. Researcher	C. Plotnic	Decision support systems
	Postdoc	I. Calmicov	Business processes
	Phd. Student	V. Carbune	Rule-based systems

	Adrian Groza received his Phd in 2008 from Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania. He is member in Open Agent Based Modeling Consortium (din 2013), Int. Assoc. for Artificial Intelligence and Law (din 2012), Computer Science Teacher Assoc@ACM (din 2011), Special Interest Group on Human Computer Interaction ROCHI@ACM (din 2004). He served on several program committees of international conferences: ICCP (Cluj-Napoca, RO), CT (Praga, Cehia,), CDT (Venetia, Italia), SSW (Barcelona, Spania), MCCSIS (Lisabona, Portugalia), ICCT (Freiburg, Germania), ICITST (Londra, UK), NDT (Ostrava, Cehia), RoCHi (Iasi, RO). He has been a reviewer for some international journals: International Journal on Semantic Web and Inf. Systems, Argument Computation, Information Technology Research. His research interests are multi-agent systems, normative reasoning and knowledge representation.
	Ioan Alfred Letia is a key person of the research team. He is a full professor in the Department of Computer Science of the Technical University of Cluj-Napoca and head of the Intelligent Systems Group. He is a correspondent member of the Academy for Technical Sciences in Romania since 1999. He received his Ph.D. in 1975 from the City University, London, UK. He is also member of the Association for Computing Machinery (1995-1998, 2004-Date), Gesellschaft fur Informatik, Artificial Intelligence, Germany (since 1991), IEEE, Computer Society (1992-1994, 2006-2008). His professional activities include: guest Resercher, National University of Singapore, Singapore (April 2002), guest Researcher, McGill University, Montreal, Canada (May 2001), Course on ''Simulation of Organizations`` taught at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands (2000-2001), guest Researcher, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (Sep 2000), Tempus Programme Visitor, Hamburg University, Germany (Nov 1999 ), RoboCup Championship, Paris, France, place 18 in class ''simulated soccer`` (July 1998), local Organizer of the 1st ACM Summer School for Central and Eastern Europe, Belis-Fintinele, Romania (July 1996), Adjunct Faculty; Course on Object-Oriented Technology in Information Systems Analysis and Design, Loyola College in Maryland, Baltimore, USA (Jan-May 1996), Tempus Programme Visitor Southampton University, UK (Nov. 1995), Guest Researcher Universities of Saarland and Konstanz, Germany (Oct-Nov.1994), Tempus Programme Visitor Exeter University and University of Edinburgh, UK (Nov. 1993). He served on several program committees of international conferences and has been a reviewer for some international journals. He is the program chair of the annual IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Computer Communication and Processing held in Cluj-Napoca since 2006. His current research interests include flexible multi-agent communication, and checking the normative processes.
	Radu Razvan Slavescu is a Phd. student at Technical Universitty of Cluj-Napoca, Department of Computer Science and member of the Intelligent Systems Group. His current research interests regard trust in e-commerce and multi-agent systems.
	Anca Marginean is a Phd. student at Technical Universitty of Cluj-Napoca, Department of Computer Science and member of the Intelligent Systems Group. Her research includes semantic web services and semantic web.
	Bogdan Iancu is a Lecturer at the Computer Science Department. My main research interests are in computer networks, network management, Quality of Service in homogeneous and heterogeneous networks, NGNs, sensor networks, VANETS and smart grids.
	Sergiu Zaporojan received the MSc degree (1984) in Computer Science from the Polytechnical Institute of Ulyanovsk, Russia. In 1986-1990 he was with the Department of Computer Science and Engineering of the Electrotechnical Institute of Sankt-Petersburg, Russia. In 1991 he joined the Department of Computer Science and Engineering of the Technical University of Moldova, Republic of Moldova. He received the PhD degree from the Technical University of Moldova (1995). His specialist research and engineering experience is in the field of Computer Science and Engineering. He has been actively involved with design of digital and specialized microprocessor systems since 1984. His current research interests include knowledge-based intelligent systems and their application to complex industrial processes. Currently, he is Associate Professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering and the head of the Department of R&D, Technical University of Moldova. In August 2011, he became associate fellow of the International Institute for Advanced Studies in Systems Research and Cybernetics.
	Vasile Moraru received the MSc degree (1975) in Mathematics and Cybernetics from the State University of Moldova, Republic of Moldova. In 1976-1979 he did doctoral studies and received the PhD degree (1982) from the Institute of Cybernetics of Academy of Science of Ukraine, Kiev. Work experience: Associate Professor (1987- present), head of the Department of Applied Informatics, Technical University of Moldova (2007- present); Vice-dean of the Faculty of Computers, Informatics and Microelectronics, Technical University of Moldova (1998 - 2007). Training: Universite ''Mediterranee``, Aix-Marseille II, France (2002 and 2007), University ''Politehnica'' of Bucharest, Romania (1998). His research interests include numerical methods for solving decision problems, and effective methods for solving the optimization problems.
	Constantin Plotnic received the MSc degree (1974) in Mathematics and Cybernetics from the State University of Moldova, Republic of Moldova. In 1977-1991 he worked as Analytical and System Programming Engineer, and Director of Computer Center of the Department of Construction, Republic of Moldova. From 1991 to 2002 he was with the Department of Computer Science, Republican College of Microelectronics and Computer Engineering, Republic of Moldova. In 2002 he joined the Technical University of Moldova, Republic of Moldova. Currently, he works as Senior Lecturer at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering. His main research interests include three-dimensional modeling, and industrial applications based on fuzzy logic.
	Igor Calmicov received the MSc degree in Computer Science from Technical University of Moldova, Republic of Moldova, in 2007. His applied research interests include digital system design based on microcontrollers and FPGA, intelligent control systems, signal and image processing. Currently, he works as Senior Lecturer at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Technical University of Moldova, Republic of Moldova.
	Viorel Carbune received the MSc degree in Computer Science from Technical University of Moldova, Republic of Moldova, in 2009. His applied research interest includes knowledge-based intelligent systems and their applications. Currently, he works as R&D Engineer at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Technical University of Moldova, Republic of Moldova.