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Congratulations to Dr. Emil Marian Pașca on Receiving His PhD Diploma!

Congratulations to our PhD student, Emil Marian Pasca, for receiving his PhD Diploma during the Doctoral Degree Award Ceremony organized by the Technical University of Cluj-Napoca as part of the UTCN Research and Innovation Conference 2026! We are proud that Emil...

DeepNeura — Turning Short Facial Videos into Actionable Neurological Signals — Pitch by Chiuzbăian Rareș

Chiuzbăian Rareș presented DeepNeura, a research project that turns short facial videos into actionable neurological signals — work that ties directly into his PhD thesis on Applications of Artificial Intelligence in the Diagnosis and Prognosis of Neurodegenerative...

DermSpectra — AI Skin Insight from a Single Photo — Pitch by Radu-Ionuț Costin

Radu-Ionuț Costin (UTCN) pitched DermSpectra, an AI application that provides skin insight from a single photo. The problem People notice changes in their skin, but often do not know when to act. With over 1.5 million skin cancer cases diagnosed each year, knowing...

AgriGuard — Instant Crop Disease Identification — Pitch by Chiuzbăian Rareș

The AgriGuard tool, developed under the COSA framework, was presented by Chiuzbăian Rareș as a solution for the instant identification of crop diseases. The challenge — protecting the food supply Plant diseases destroy up to 40% of crops worldwide, hurting farmers and...

FaceAccess — Intelligent Access and Security Based on Facial Recognition

The FaceAccess pitch presented an intelligent access and security solution based on facial recognition — applicable to a wide range of high-traffic environments. The applications Office buildings — access without physical cards, attendance monitoring, increased...

LLM-Assisted Application Security — Doctoral Pitch by Emil Marian Pașca

PhD candidate Emil Marian Pașca (UTCN, scientific coordinator Prof. Dr. Eng. Oliviu Matei) pitched his doctoral research: LLM-Assisted Application Security. The problem Modern applications expose increasingly large attack surfaces — APIs, microservices, IoT endpoints,...

Coexistence Between Modern Utilities and Traditional Mountain Agriculture — Doctoral Pitch by Maria Șevera

PhD candidate biologist Maria Șevera presented her doctoral research on the coexistence between modern utilities and traditional mountain agriculture — a topic at the heart of the sustainability question for Romanian rural communities. The challenge Mountain...

New Strategies for Recommendation Systems — Doctoral Pitch by Pascan Cristian Octavian

PhD candidate Pascan Cristian Octavian (UTCN, scientific coordinator Prof. Dr. Petrică C. Pop-Sitar) pitched his doctoral research: New Strategies and Methods for Improving Recommendation Systems. Decision in the digital era The act of choosing is a fundamental human...

Intellectual Property in Agricultural Innovation — Doctoral Pitch by Bianca Cristina (Pop) Borgyos

PhD candidate Bianca Cristina (Pop) Borgyos (Engineering and Management, year II, UTCN doctoral school) pitched her research on protecting agricultural innovation through intellectual property. The vulnerability of agricultural innovation The presentation framed...

Smart Specialization of Romanian Regions — Doctoral Research by Laura Andreica

Laura Andreica presented her doctoral research on the smart specialisation of Romanian regions — an autonomous system that determines the optimal specialisation for each locality in Romania. The problem Today, the specialisation of a region is often decided on...
COSA Project – First Meeting of 2024

COSA Project – First Meeting of 2024

If you believed we were still on vacation, you should know that we began work on the COSA project in 2024. Our first progress meeting of the year was a hive of creative debate, suggesting the beginning of something amazing. We are all set to continue our journey of...

Season Greetings

Season Greetings

Season's Greetings  - From COSA? As the winter chill embraces the fields, the Collaborative Framework for Smart Agriculture (COSA) project sends you the warmest wishes for the holiday season! This year, we've sown seeds of innovation and harvested a bounty of...

Significant Upgrade Alert! – COSA Project Website

Significant Upgrade Alert! – COSA Project Website

Significant Upgrade Alert! Our project website has just received a makeover with fresh updates and valuable content. Explore the latest developments, insights, and resources by visiting COSA project website. Stay connected and follow us for regular updates on our...

COSA workshop on Conference XGEN 2023

COSA workshop on Conference XGEN 2023

COSA Workshop  XGEN 2023 Exploring the Future of Computational Science: COSA Workshop XGEN 2023 - Unveiling Innovations in Cross-Generational Technologies and Strategies.Combining research, brainstorming, and networking..Title: Unveiling Innovations and Fostering...

Final Progress Meeting of 2023

Final Progress Meeting of 2023

Today, we held our final progress meeting of 2023, and it was a deep dive into insightful discussions about our use cases. Each use case owner rocked the presentation, sharing the latest status and the state of the art in their domain. Stay tuned for some thrilling...

Exciting Update! – COSA Progress Meeting

Exciting Update! – COSA Progress Meeting

Exciting Update! Our most recent progress meeting, held on November 8th, was really productive. We brainstormed novel concepts for the future of smart agriculture, with a particular focus on the promising landscapes of the Transylvania Plateau. The meeting's...

Wonderful News! – COSA Project Launch

Wonderful News! – COSA Project Launch

Wonderful News! Collaborative Framework for Smart Agriculture (COSA), our project concept, is intended to change the farming business. Our multidisciplinary team of computer scientists, engineers, mathematicians and agricultural scientists, is ready to build an IoT...

Our Journey Began – The COSA Project

Our Journey Began – The COSA Project

🌱 Our journey began! The COSA project – Collaborative Framework for Smart Agriculture – is now officially underway. Our team is ready to push the boundaries of agricultural innovation through IoT, AI, and smart technologies. Follow our page for updates on this...

Evaluation of Feature Selection Methods in Estimation  of Precipitation Based on Deep Learning Artificial  Neural Networks

Evaluation of Feature Selection Methods in Estimation of Precipitation Based on Deep Learning Artificial Neural Networks

Precipitation is the most important element of the water cycle and an indispensable element of water resources management. This paper aims to model the monthly precipitation in 8 precipitation observation stations. The effects and role of different feature weights pre-processing methods (Weight by deviation, Weight by PCA, Weight by correlation, and Weight by Support Vector Machine) on artificial intelligence modeling were investigated.

A Comparison of different crossover operators in genetic algorithms for clusters shortest-path tree problem

A Comparison of different crossover operators in genetic algorithms for clusters shortest-path tree problem

The clustered shortest-path tree (CluSPT) problem is an extension of the classical shortest path problem, given a graph with the nodes partitioned into several mutually exclusive and collectively exhaustive clusters looks for a shortest-path spanning tree from a predefined source node to all the other nodes of the graph, with the property that every cluster should generate a connected subgraph.

A comprehensive survey on the generalized traveling salesman problem

A comprehensive survey on the generalized traveling salesman problem

The generalized traveling salesman problem (GTSP) is an extension of the classical traveling salesman
problem (TSP), and it is among the most researched combinatorial optimization problems due to its theoretical properties, complexity aspects, and real-life applications in various areas: location-routing problems, material flow design problem, distribution of medical supplies, urban waste collection management, airport selection and routing the courier airplanes, image retrieval and ranking, digital garment manufacturing, etc.