Publications
Published papers
- Maria Viorela Muntean, Andreea Florina Hîrceagă and Matei Vasile Căpîlnaș, Feature Selection Using Intelligent Agents for Time Improvement in Medical Diagnosis Systems, Electronics, 2025, 14(22), 4419, DOI: 10.3390/electronics14224419
- Maria Viorela Muntean,Multi-Agent System for Intelligent Urban Traffic Management Using Wireless Sensor Networks Data, Sensors 2024, 24, 7886, DOI: 10.3390/s22010208
- Maria Viorela Muntean,Preprocessing methods for improving phishing URL detection, The 18th International Conference on Innovations in Intelligent Systems and Applications – INISTA 2024, September 4-6, 2024, Craiova, Romania, DOI: 10.1109/INISTA62901.2024.10683836
- Maria Viorela Muntean, Improving Air Pollution Forecasting in Smart Cities using Clustering Techniques, 15th International Conference on Electronics, Computers and Artificial Intelligence (ECAI), 29-30 June 2023, Bucharest, Romania, DOI: 10.1109/ECAI58194.2023.10193934
- Maria Viorela Muntean,Multi-Agent System for Intelligent Urban Traffic Management Using Wireless Sensor Networks Data, Sensors 2022, 22, 208, DOI: 10.3390/s22010208
- Maria Viorela Muntean,Data mining models for predicting the health situation in European countries, 2021 13th International Conference on Electronics, Computers and Artificial Intelligence (ECAI), 2021, pp. 1-4, doi: 10.1109/ECAI52376.2021.9515142.
- Maria Viorela Muntean,Identifying Critical Traffic Flow Time Slots using K-means and Decision Trees, 2020 IEEE 10th International Conference on Intelligent Systems (IS), Date of Conference: 28-30 Aug. 2020, Conference Location: Varna, Bulgaria, Print on Demand(PoD) ISSN: 1541-1672, DOI: 10.1109/IS48319.2020.9200141, Published: 2020.
- Manuella Kadar, Maria Viorela Muntean, Tudor Csabai,A Multi-agent System with Self-optimization for Automated Clustering (MASAC), Agents and Multi-Agent Systems: Technologies and Applications 2019, Book Series: Smart Innovation Systems and Technologies, Volume: 148, Pages: 117-128, DOI: 10.1007/978-981-13-8679-4_10, ISBN:978-981-13-8679-4; 978-981-13-8678-7, ISSN: 2190-3018, Published: 2020.
- Maria Viorela Muntean,Car Park Occupancy Rates Forecasting Based on Cluster Analysis and KNN in Smart Cities , 11th International Conference on Electronics, Computers and Artificial Intelligence, ECAI 2019, June 27– June 29, 2019, Pitesti, Romania, ISSN: 1843-2115, DOI: 10.1109/ECAI46879.2019.9042098
- Maria Viorela Muntean, Daniela Onița,Agent for Preprocessing and Forecasting Time-Series Data, ECAI 2018 International conference on Electronics, Computers and Artificial Intelligence, 28 June - 30 June 2018, Iași, Romania, ISSN 1843-2115, DOI: 10.1109/ECAI.2018.8679048
- Maria Muntean, Alexandru Donea,A Multi-Agent System Based on Natural Language Processing Using Collective User Knowledge-Base and GPS Databases, Acta Universitatis Apulensis, No. 56/2018, pp. 27-33, DOI: 10.17114/j.aua.2018.56.03, ISSN: 1582-5329
- Maria Muntean,Intelligent Agent based Expert System for Blended Learning Evaluation , Proceedings of 16th RoEduNet Conference: Networking in Education and Research, Petru Maior University of Targu-Mures, Romania, September 21-23, ISSN 2068-1038, 2017, DOI: 10.1109/ROEDUNET.2017.8123744
- Maria Muntean, Adrian Tulbure, Corina Rotar,Data mining methods for parameters forecasting of a small solar plant, Proceedings of SPIE 10010, Advanced Topics in Optoelectronics, Microelectronics and Nanotechnologies VIII, 100101A (December 14, 2016), DOI:10.1117/12.2245896, ISSN: 0277-786X; ISSN: 1996-786X (electronic); ISBN: 9781510604247; ISBN: 9781510604254 (electronic)
- Maria Muntean, Raul Boldea,Intelligent Agents based Improved Map-Reduce Method for Multiple Databases, ECAI 2016 International Conference 8th Edition Electronics, Computers and Artificial Intelligence 30 June-02 July, 2016, Ploiesti, Romania, ISSN: Print: 978-1-5090-2046-1; DVD: 978-1-5090-2044-7, DOI: 10.1109/ECAI.2016.7861191
- Maria Muntean, Alexandru Donea,A Hybrid Intelligent Agent based Expert System for GPS Databases, ECAI 2016 International Conference 8th Edition Electronics, Computers and Artificial Intelligence 30 June-02 July, 2016, Ploiesti, Romania, ISSN: Print: 978-1-5090-2046-1; DVD: 978-1-5090-2044-7, DOI: 10.1109/ECAI.2016.7861176
- Maria Muntean, Honoriu Vălean, Lucia Căbulea,Improving classification with IF-THEN rules for multidimensional datasets, Control Engineering and Applied Informatics Journal, Vol.17, No.4, pp. 42-49, ISSN: 1454-8658, FI: 0.537
- Maria Muntean, Honoriu Vălean, Lucia Căbulea,Feature selection methods for multidimensional datasets, Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Theory and Applications of Mathematics and Informatics, ICTAMI 2015, pp. 167-177, ISBN: 978-606-613-114-8
- Manuella Kadar, Maria Muntean, Adina Cretan, Ricardo Goncalves,Automated Negotiation with Multi-Agent Systems in Business Processes, Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing 2015, Vol. 322, pp. 289-301, ISSN: 2194-5357
- Manuella Kadar, Maria Muntean,Intelligent and Collaborative Multi-Agent System to Generate Automated Negotiation for Sustainable Enterprise Interoperability, Agent and Multi-Agent Systems: Technologies and Applications, Series: Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, Springer International Publishing, 2194-5357, 296: 213-222, 2014
- Manuella Kadar, Maria Muntean,A Collaborative Environment for E-training in Archaeology, Agent and Multi-Agent Systems: Technologies and Applications, Series: Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, Springer International Publishing, 2194-5357, 296: 303-312, 2014
- Maria Muntean, Honoriu Vălean, Lucia Căbulea,A New Text Clustering Method based on Huffman Encoding Algorithm, Proceedings of 2014 IEEE International Conference on Automation, Quality and Testing, Robotics - THETA 19th edition, IEEE Catalog Number: CFP14AQT-USB, ISBN: 978-1-4799-3730-1
- Mircea Rîşteiu, Ioan Ileană, Maria Muntean, Gheorghe Marc,A redundant solution for collective residences inflammable gas leaking monitoring using ultra-low power transmission system and automatic control, Proceedings of 2014 IEEE International Conference on Automation, Quality and Testing, Robotics - THETA 19th edition, IEEE Catalog Number: CFP14AQT-USB, ISBN: 978-1-4799-3730-1
- Manuella Kadar, Maria Muntean, Adina Crețan, Ricardo Jardim-Goncalves,A Multi-Agent based Negotiation System for Re-establishing Enterprise Interoperability in Collaborative Networked Environments , Proceedings of 2013 UKSim 15th International Conference on Computer Modelling and Simulation, Cambridge University (Emmanuel College), 10 - 12 April 2013, ISBN 978-0-7695-4994-1
- Manuella Kadar, Maria Muntean,Data Mining on a Semantically Annotated Corpus, Proceedings of the 2013 International Conference on Applied Mathematics and Computational Methods in Engineering, (AMCME 2013), Rhodes Island, Greece, July 16-19, 2013, ISBN 978-1-61804-200-2
- Ioan Moise Achim, Teodora Popescu, Manuella Kadar, Maria Muntean,Developing engineering students’ creative thinking across the curriculum. A case-study of Romanian university students, 2nd World Conference on Educational Technology Researches, 27-30 Iunie, 2012, Nicosia, Cipru, published in Procedia Social and Behavioral Sciences Journal (Elsevier), 2013, ISSN: 1877-0428
- Ioan Moise Achim, Teodora Popescu, Manuella Kadar, Maria Muntean,Developing students’ educational experiences through work-based learning programmes, 3rd World Conference Learning, Teaching & Educational Leadership (WCLTA-2012), 25-28 Oct. 2012, Brussels, Belgia, published in Procedia Social and Behavioral Sciences Journal (Elsevier), 2013, ISSN: 1877-0428
- Manuella Kadar, Teodora Popescu, Ioan Moise Achim, Maria Muntean,BLIS – Brain Lateralisation Information System for personalised and individualised education programmes offered to students of engineering, 3rd World Conference Learning, Teaching & Educational Leadership (WCLTA-2012), 25-28 Oct. 2012, Brussels, Belgia, published in Procedia Social and Behavioral Sciences Journal (Elsevier), 2013, ISSN: 1877-0428
- Maria Munten, Honoriu Vălean,Wrappers for Web Access Logs Feature Selection, Proceedings of 2nd International Conference on Web Intelligence, Mining and Semantics, June 13-15, 2012, Craiova, Romania, ISBN: 978-1-4503-0915-8
- Maria Muntean, Honoriu Vălean, Ioan Ileană,Improving classification with boundary instances multiplier algorithm based on IF-THEN rules, Proceedings of 2012 IEEE International Conference on Automation, Quality and Testing, Robotics, May 24-27, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, pp. 272-277, ISBN: 9781-1-4673-0702-4, IEEE Cat. Nr.: CFP12AQT-PRT
- Ioan Ileană, Maria Muntean, Mircea Rîşteiu,Short term wind speed forecasting based on cluster analysis and ANN in wind farms, Proceedings of SPIE. Advanced Topics in Optoelectronics, Microelectronics, and Nanotechnologies, Noiembrie 2012, Vol. 8411, 84110U-1, doi: 10.1117/12.966393
- Manuella Kadar, Maria Muntean,Automated Knowledge Acquisition and Discovery: of Semantically Annotated Corpus of Ancient Artefacts, Proceedings of 13th European Conference on Knowledge Management - ECKM 2012, Cartegena, Spain, CD version ISBN: 978-1-908272-64-5, CD version ISSN: 2048‐898X, September 6-7, 2012
- Maria Muntean, Honoriu Vălean, Corina Rotar, Mircea Rîşteiu,Knowledge Discovery in a SCADA System Database, Acta Universitatis Apulensis, Seria Mathematics-Informatics, 2012 Special Issue, pp. 37-54, ISSN: 1582-5329
- Maria Muntean, Honoriu Vălean,Improving Fault Diagnosis for Wireless Sensor Network's Data using Support Vector Machines, Annals of the University of Craiova, Series: Automation, Computers, Electronics and Mechatronics, Vol. 8 (35), No. 1, 2011, pp. 37-43, ISSN 1841-0626
- Maria Muntean, Honoriu Vălean, Remus Joldeş, Emilian Ceuca,Feature selection for classifier accuracy improvement, Acta Universitatis Apulensis, Seria Mathematics-Informatics, pp. 203-216, ISSN: 1582-5329, No. 26/2011
- Maria Muntean, Honoriu Vălean, Ioan Ileană, Corina Rotar,Improving classification with Cost-Sensitive approach for distributed databases, Ubiquitous Computing and Communication Journal, Canada, Volume: Special Issue of RoEduNet, Publishing date: 10.01.2011, pp. 642-649, ISSN 1994-4608
- Maria Muntean, Honoriu Vălean, Ioan Ileană, Corina Rotar,Improving classification with Support Vector Machines, Control Engineering and Applied Informatics Journal, Vol. 12, Number 3, September 2010, pp. 23-33, ISSN 1454-8658
- Maria Muntean, Honoriu Vălean, Ioan Ileană, Corina Rotar,Improving Classification with Support Vector Machine for Unbalanced Data, Proceedings of 2010 IEEE International Conference on Automation, Quality and Testing, Robotics, THETA 17th edition, pp.234-239, ISBN 978-1-4244-6722-8, May 28-30, 2010, Cluj Napoca, Romania
- Maria Muntean, Honoriu Vălean, Corina Rotar, Ioan Ileană,Learning Classification Rules with Genetic Algorithm, Proceedings of 2010 8th IEEE International Conference on Communications, Volume 1, pp. 213-216, ISBN 978-1-4244-6361-9, Bucharest, Romania, 10-12 June 2010
- Maria Muntean, Ioan Ileană, Corina Rotar, Honoriu Vălean,Improving Classification with Cost-Sensitive Approach and Support Vector Machine, Proceedings of 9th RoEduNet IEEE International Conference, Sibiu, Romania, 24-26 June, 2010, pp.180-185, ISSN 2068-1038
- Maria Muntean, Honoriu Vălean, Liviu Miclea, Arpad Incze,A Novel Intrusion Detection Method Based on Support Vector Machines, Proceedings of the 11th IEEE International Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Informatics, 2010, November, 18-20, Budapest, Hungary, pp.47-52, ISBN: 978-1-4244-9278-7
- Arpad Incze, Grigor Moldovan, Maria Muntean,From pixel sieve to bit sieve. Bit level based secret sharing cryptographic method, Proceedings of the 11th IEEE International Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Informatics, 2010, November, 18-20, Budapest, Hungary, pp.81-85, ISBN: 978-1-4244-9278-7
- Corina Rotar, Mircea Rîşteiu, Maria Muntean, Manuella Kadar, Ileană Ioan,Optimal Layout of Wireless Sensors Networks using Guided Hyperplane Evolutionary Algorithm, Proceedings of 8th Telecommunications Forum TELFOR 2010, November, 23-25, Belgrade, Serbia, pp.420-423, ISBN: 978-86-7466-392-9
- Maria Muntean, Honoriu Vălean, Adrian Tulbure, Ioan Ileană, Manuella Kadar,Data mining algorithms for wireless sensor network`s data, Proceedings of SPIE. Advanced Topics in Optoelectronics, Microelectronics, and Nanotechnologies, ISBN 978-0-8194-7670-8, 2011, Vol. 7821
- Ioan Ileană, Corina Rotar, Maria Muntean, Emilian Ceuca,The recognition of graphical patterns invariant to geometrical transformation of the models, Proceedings of SPIE. Advanced Topics in Optoelectronics, Microelectronics, and Nanotechnologies, ISBN 978-0-8194-7670-8, 2011, Vol. 7821
- Maria Muntean, Honoriu Vălean, Ioan Ileană, Mircea Rîşteiu, Manuella Kadar,Feature selection for Wireless Sensor Network`s Data, Automation, Computers and Applied Mathematics, pp. 509-514, ISSN: 1221-437X, Volume 19, Number 4, 2010
- Maria Muntean, Ioan Ileană, Corina Rotar, Mircea Rîşteiu,Data Mining Learning Models and Algorithms on a SCADA System Data Repository, BRAIN. Broad Research in Artificial Intelligence and Nanoscience Journal, Vol. 1, 2010, pp. 91-99, ISSN: 2067-3957
- Maria Muntean, Honoriu Vălean, Ioan Ileană, Mircea Rîşteiu, Iulian Joldeş,Improving Classification with Cost-Sensitive Metaclassifier, Proceedings of the 21st International DAAAM Symposium "Intelligent Manufacturing & Automation: Focus on Interdisciplinary Solutions", 20-23rd October 2010, Zadar, Croatia, pp. 875-876, ISBN: 978-3-901509-73-5; ISSN: 1726-9679
- Corina Rotar, Mircea Rîşteiu, Maria Muntean,Guiding Hyperplane Evolutionary Algorithm for Optimal Layout of Wireless Sensors Networks, Proceedings of the 21st International DAAAM Symposium "Intelligent Manufacturing & Automation: Focus on Interdisciplinary Solutions", 20-23rd October 2010, Zadar, Croatia, pp. 879-880, ISBN: 978-3-901509-73-5; ISSN: 1726-9679
- Maria Muntean, Ioan Ileană, Remus Joldeş, Emil Olteanu, Manuella Kadar,Improving IF-THEN Rules with Genetic Algorithm, Proceedings of the 21st International DAAAM Symposium "Intelligent Manufacturing & Automation: Focus on Interdisciplinary Solutions", 20-23rd October 2010, Zadar, Croatia, pp. 873-874, ISBN: 978-3-901509-73-5; ISSN: 1726-9679
- Rotar Corina, Ileana Ioan, Kadar Manuella, Muntean Maria,Evolutionary Optimization in Dynamic Environment, Proceedings of IEEE 5th International Conference on Intelligent Computer Communication and Processing, pp.11-18, ISBN 978-1-4244-5007-7, August 27-29, 2009, Cluj Napoca, Romania
- Ioan Ileană, Maria Muntean, Manuella Kadar, Corina Rotar, Mircea Rîşteiu,Decision support system built in fuzzy logic, Proceedings of the 6-th International Conference on Theory and Applications in Mathematics and Informatics - ICTAMI 2009, pp. 165-181,ISBN 1582-5389, Alba Iulia, Romania, September, 3-6, 2009
- Maria Muntean, Honoriu Vălean, Ioan Ileană, Remus Joldeş,Data mining on a SCADA system data Repository, Proceedings of the 6-th International Conference on Theory and Applications in Mathematics and Informatics - ICTAMI 2009, pp. 1007-1020, ISBN 1582-5389, Alba Iulia, Romania, September, 3-6, 2009
- Manuella Kadar, Ioan Ileană, Mircea Rîşteiu, Maria Muntean,Towards territorial intelligence through collective intelligence integrated in Web applications, Proceedings of the 6-th International Conference on Theory and Applications in Mathematics and Informatics - ICTAMI 2009, pp. 991-1006, ISBN 1582-5389, Alba Iulia, Romania, September, 3-6, 2009
- Iuliana Ungur, Ioan Ileană, Loredana Boca, Bogdan Croitoru, Maria Muntean,The control of an industrial robot by using the Prolog programming procedures, Proceedings of the 6-th International Conference on Theory and Applications in Mathematics and Informatics - ICTAMI 2009, pp. 879-888, ISBN 1582-5389, Alba Iulia, Romania, September, 3-6, 2009
- Rotar Corina, Ileană Ioan, Muntean Maria, Kadar Manuella, Tulbure Adrian,Evolutionary Optimization in Dynamic Environment, Proceedings of the 20th International DAAAM Symposium, "Intelligent Manufacturing & Automation: Theory, Practice & Education", ISBN 1726-9679, 25-28th November 2009, Vienna, Austria, pp. 1251-1252
Published books
- Inteligenţă artificială (Artificial intelligence) , Ioan Ileană, Corina Rotar, Maria Muntean, Aeternitas Publishing House, ISBN 978-973-1890-49-4, 2009
- Data mining. Teorie şi aplicaţii (Data mining. Theory and applications), Muntean Maria, Aeternitas Publishing House, ISBN 978-606-613-015-8, 2011
- Baze de date relaţionale (Relational databases) , Emil Olteanu, Maria Muntean, Aeternitas Publishing House, ISBN 978-973-1890-86-9, 2010
- Sisteme de gestiune a bazelor de date. Aplicaţii (Database Management Systems. Applications) , Maria Muntean, Mircea Rîşteiu, Aeternitas Publishing House, ISBN 978-606-613-052-3, 2013
- Developing a personalized and adapted curriculum for engineering education through an ambient intelligence environment, chapter in Engineering Education: Curriculum, pedagogy and didactic aspects, Manuella Kadar, Maria Muntean, Lucian Marina, CP, Elsevier, 978 1 84334 687 6 (print), 978 1 78063 358 9 (online), Cambridge, pages 25-63, 2014
Published courses
- Baze de date. Aplicaţii (Databases. Applications) , Maria Muntean, Emil Olteanu, Seria Didactica Publishing House, 2014
- Sisteme de gestiune a bazelor de date. Note de curs (Database Management Systems. Lecture notes) , Maria Muntean, Seria Didactica Publishing House, 2014
- Algoritmi fundamentali. Note şi aplicaţii (Fundamental Algorithms. Notes and applications) , Adriana Bîrluţiu, Maria Muntean, Ovidiu Domşa, Seria Didactica Publishing House, 2015
- Informatică (Informatics) , Remus Joldeş, Maria Muntean, Seria Didactica Publishing House, 2010
Teaching
Courses at UAB
Artificial intelligence (in Romanian and English)
Data mining (in Romanian)
Databases (in Romanian and English)
Database management systems (in Romanian and English)
Invited courses
- Learning classification rules with genetic algorithms, May, 2010, Visiting teaching staff, Uludag University, Bursa, Turkey
- Support Vector Machines models, 10th-17th May, 2011, Visiting teaching staff, Caen, Basse-Normandie University, IUT Cherbourg Manche, France
- Cost-Sensitive metaclassification models, 1st-7th June, 2013, Visiting teaching staff, Istanbul, Arel University, Turkey
- IF-THEN rules models, 5th-11th May 2014, Visiting teaching staff, Alexander Technological Educational Institute of Thessaloniki - ATEITH, Greece
- Applications of Artificial Intelligence, 28th September–4th October 2015, Training Mobility within ERASMUS+, Action 1, Istanbul Gelișim University, Istanbul, Turkey