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I am a professor of Artificial Intelligence (Intelligent Systems Group), Department of Computer Science, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca. Current work involves research on logic, natural language understanding, ontology engineering, deductive social games. More recently, my research has focused on: 1) modelling puzzles in first order logic; 2) designing deduction games for teaching logic; Previous research interests lie in the areas of non-monotonic logics, legal reasoning, safety assurance of software systems by means of argumentation, description logics, and their applications in artificial intelligence.

Topics for interested students: Modelling in First Order Logic, Explainable AI, Ontologies and reasoning, Knowledge graphs, Epistemic reasoning, Natural Language Understanding

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Selected Publications All Publications»

h-index: 12   Google Scholar   ORCID   Scopus   ResearcherID

• Diagnostics "Predicting Visual Acuity in Patients Treated for AMD" Beatrice-Andreea, Adrian Groza, George Muntean, and Simona Delia Nicoara Diagnostics ,2022; 12(6):1504. https://doi.org/10.3390/diagnostics12061504
• Diagnostics "Interleaving automatic segmentation and expert opinion for diagnosing Diabetic Macular Edema",Bilc S., Groza A., Muntean, G.A., Nicoara, S. D. , Proceedings of the Diagnostics , 2(1):22. Published 2021 Dec 23. doi:10.3390/diagnostics12010022

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Grants

• DeLArMaD Principal investigator, New Optical Coherence Tomography Biomarkers Identified with Deep Learning for Risk Stratification of Patients with Age-related Macular Degeneration, PED616, 2022-2024
• Romanian AI Strategy Expert tehnologii, Strategic framework for adopting innovative technologies in public administration, 2021 - 2027, cod SIPOCA 704
• ARGCLIME Principal investigator , Increasing understanding on climate change through public discourse analyse and stakeholders modelling, Sep-Dec 2016, EEA-Grant
• LELA Principal investigator , Collaborative Recommendation System in the Tourism Domain Using Semantic Web Technologies and Text Analysis in Romanian Language, Dec. 2013- Mai 2014, UEFSCDI (with Recognos).
• GREEN-VANETS Principal investigator , Improving transportation using Car-2-X communication and multi agent systems, Oct 2013- Sep 2014,
• GREEN-VANETS Principal investigator , Using Argumentation for justifying safeness in complex technical systems, Romania-Argentina Bilateral Contract, July 2013-June 2015.
• ASDEC Principal investigator , Ontology enrichment and evaluation. Romania-Moldova Bilateral Contract
• AODR Principal investigator , Automating Online Dispute Resolution for B2B using multi-agent systems, TD7, CNCSIS-534, 2007-2008
• Meditech 2020 Best paper , Groza, Adrian, Liana Toderean, George Adrian Muntean, and Simona Delia Nicoara. Agents that argue and explain classifications of retinal conditions.
• FedCsis 2014 Best paper , B. Varga, A.Trambitas-Miron, A. Roth, A. Marginean, R. Slavescu, A. Groza - A natural language processing system for Romanian tourism, ASIR@ Fedcsis., Warsaw, Polonia, 7-10 September, 2014.

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Courses

• Artificial Intelligence 2022 (Fall)
• Intelligent Systems 2023 (Fall)
• Knowledge Based Systems 2023 (Fall)
• Functional Programming 2009
• Multi-agent systems 2009

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Courses

• 1st Workshop on Artificial Intelligence @ UTCN Intelligence 2024 (Fall)
• MIKE 2018 2018 (Fall)

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Systems More »

• FACE Fact checker with explanations (Fake news, Ontologies, Reasoning, Description Logics, Natural Language Processing)
• ARGSENSE Making sense of arguments (online debate sites, subjective logic, textual entailment)
• ARGMED Argument mining in medical documents
• AHP-OntoEval An ontology selection and ranking system based on analytical hierarchy process (AHP, ontology, ranking, description logics)
• SAFED Translating the Goal Structuring Notation (GSN) into description logic (goal structuring notation, description logics, formal verification)
• OntoRich Ontology enrichment and evaluation (ontology evaluation, description logics)
• OntoEG Ontology enrichment and evaluation (ontology evaluation, description logics)
• EMKA Agent-based mediation of conflicting medical information (textual entailment, fuzzy argumentation)
• DEMCA Dispute resolution (agents, legal doctrines, supply chain)

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Editorial Boards

Conference Committees

• IEEE ICCP: 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 [Cluj-Napoca, Romania[
• BCI: 2019 [9th Balkanic Conference in Informatics 26-28 Sep 2019, Sofia, Bulgaria]
• SAC: 2023 [ACM SAC 2023 Special Track on Knowledge and Natural Language Processing, Tallin, Estonia]
• IDC: 2019 [13th Int. Symp. on Intelligent and Distributed Computing, Saint-Petersburg, Russia, 7-9 Oct. 2019]
      2023 [13th Int. Symp. on Intelligent and Distributed Computing, Hamburg, Germany, 13-15 Sep. 2023]
      2022 [13th Int. Symp. on Intelligent and Distributed Computing, Bremen, Germany, 14-16 Sep. 2022]

Workshop and Symposia Committees

• KG4SDSE: 2023 [Knowledge Graphs for Semantics-driven Systems Engineering (Workshop@CAiSE23), Zaragoza, Spain]
• ASA: 2019 [9th Int. Workshop on Applications of Software Agents, 3-5 July 2019, Sofia, Bulgaria]

Journal and Magazine Referee

• Journal Referee: Elsevier's ESWA (3), MDPI's Diagnostics (2)
• Magazine Referee:

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Advising More »

• Ph.D. (2020-2023) Roxana Szomiu, Improving textual entailment using ensemble logics
• Ph.D. (2021-2024) Loredana Coroama, Evaluation metrics of explainability in artificial intelligence
• Ph.D. (2022-2025) Adrian Pop, Simulating cell behaviour for retina conditions
• Ph.D. (2022-2025) Alexandru Lecu, Automated reasoning and causality for term extraction
• Ph.D. (2022-2025) Ioana Cheres, Merging Aesthetic Principles with Knowledge Graph Construction and Explainable Search
• Ph.D. (2022-2025) Istvan Attila Csaszar, Declarative programming in cybersecurity
• Ph.D. (2022-2025) Marcel Huseras, utomated and secure governance of cloud resources using decision support systems

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• Research Group Intelligent Systems Group

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