Cristina Niculescu, PhD


Senior Research Scientist grade II

Curriculum Vitae



NAME:           Cristina V. NICULESCU

Previous Name:    Cristina V. NICOLAE

 

BORN:    Basarabi, Constanţa, România

 

EDUCATION
PRESENT POSITION

PREVIOUS POSITIONS

SCIENTIFIC TITLE 
PROFESSIONAL ADDRESS
RESEARCH INTERESTS
SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITY
TEACHING

OTHER INFORMATION

LANGUAGES
AFFILIATION

PUBLICATIONS (selection)
  

EDUCATION

·          1980 Engineer in Computing Systems Engineering, Faculty of Automatic Control and Computers, Polytechnic University of Bucharest , Romania.

·          2004 Ph.D. in the field of AUTOMATIC CONTROL, Faculty of Automatic Control and Computers, Polytechnic University of Bucharest, Romania. The subject of the thesis was: Contributions in the Development of Informatics Systems based on Distributed Collaboration (Abstract of the PhD Theses). 

 

PRESENT POSITION

Senior Researcher II at the Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence (former name of the Institute: Center for Advanced Research in Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing and Conceptual Modeling) of the Romanian Academy.

 

PREVIOUS POSITIONS

Senior Researcher III at ICIA (1997-2005); Analyst-Programmer II and Network Administrator at CCAIAPLNMC [Center for Advanced Research in Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing and Conceptual Modeling] (1995-1997); Project Head at CP-INFO [Research and Design Center for Computer Software] (1994-1995); Expert Instructor at CPPDIC [Training Center for Computer Aided Teaching] (1992-1994); Analyst-Programmer, then Researcher at ICI [Research Institute for Informatics] (1984-1992); Engineer at INMT [National Institute for Heat Engines] (1980-1984).

 

SCIENTIFIC TITLE

       Senior Scientist grade II

           

 

PROFESSIONAL ADDRESS 

ICIA, Casa Academiei, Calea13 Septembrie, No. 13, Bucharest 050711, Romania

E-mail: ncristina AT racai DOT ro, Tel.: +40 21 3188103; Fax: +40 21 3188142.

 

 

RESEARCH INTERESTS

·         Knowledge Management Systems: design of socio-technological systems for virtual organizations, organizational knowledge management, workflow management systems, project management systems;    

·         Models, Technologies and Strategies for Internet Collaboration: communication models for distributed software components, architectural structures of web cooperative systems, development of architectural frameworks for distributed computing systems, modeling of collaborative informatics systems for virtual organizations;

·         Software Technologies for Distance Education: collaborative distance education systems, XML technology in WBT (web based training) systems implementation and social aspects in designing virtual environments for collaborative learning;

·         The Impact of the Internet Technology on the Humanities. 

Experience in International & National Research Projects

Ř      2007-2010 PNII Project: CONTO – Ontology-based Competencies Management in Information technology, coordinated by the Academy of Economic Studies (coordinator of the ICIA part). (The Romanian Project Excellence Award 2010, the Award Winner: Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence.)

Ř       2005-2008 CEEX Project: SSCBI - Support Systems for Knowledge Culture based on the BI (Business Intelligence) Solutions and Tools, coordinated by the Romanian Academy Library (coordinator of the ICIA part).

Ř      2006-2008 Project of the Romanian Academy Program: Researches on KM Web Technologies dedicated to Knowledge Organizations (as coordinator).

Ř      2004-2006 'Network of Excellence' financed by the IST (Information Society Technology) Programme of the European Commission: PROLEARN (ICIA as an associate partner).

Ř       2004-2006 Project financed by European Commission (Contract No. 510475): ROMNET-ERA (ROManian Inventory and NETworking for Integration in ERA).

Ř       2003-2005 Project of the Romanian Academy Program: Researches on Knowledge Management Systems for Supporting Virtual Communities (as coordinator).

Ř       2002-2004 INFOSOC Project: UniSMART – Modular Educational Systems for Universities, Assisted by Information Technology Resources (coordinator of the ICIA part).

Ř       2002-2003 INFOSOC Project: SINTEC - Interactive Intelligent Telematic System for Continuous Education, Consulting and Training (coordinator of the ICIA part).

Ř       2000-2002 Project of the Romanian Academy Program: Development of Distributed Collaboration Systems (as coordinator).

Ř       2001-2002 INFOSOC Project: SI-SC-Strategies and Solutions for Information Society-Knowledge Society in Romania.

Ř       1997-1999 Project of the Romanian Academy Program: Developments in Net Services Architecture.

Ř       1997 ICIA: Romanian Academy Grant: Facilitating the Collaboration in Research Activity, Using some Internet Services.

Ř       1995-1999 Romanian-USA Bilateral Project: ICIA-ICASIT (International Centre for Advanced Studies in Information Technology, Washington, SUA): Internet Laboratory.

Ř       1994-1995 CP-INFO: Construction of Utility Software Modules for NetWare Systems (as coordinator) and Establishment the Criteria for Efficient Utilization of Intel Processors in Protection and Virtual Function Mode.

Ř       1992-1994 CPPDIC: software projects in computer aided teaching for various branches of science (computer aided design, chemistry, physics, ecology).

Ř       1984-1992 ICI: "Flexible Fabrication Systems" and "Integrated Systems for Computer Aided Design".

 

Design and implementation of software products

Participation in the design and implementation of software products for: collaboration educational system for virtual communities (ICIA, 2002), utility software modules for NetWare systems using distributed databases applications (CP-INFO, 1994-1995), computer aided teaching (CPPDIC, 1992-1994), interface software between computer graphics and application programs for CAD systems (ICI, 1990-1992), tools policy in management of flexible fabrication systems (ICI, 1984-1990).

 

Management and maintenance of network operating systems

Configuration, management, and maintenance of network operating systems: UNIX (SCO UNIX, 1992-1994; Solaris, Linux, 1995-2004), Novell NetWare (1994-1995). 

 

SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITY

Author of over 60 articles published in academic journals, international volume proceedings, author of one book, coauthor of 4 books and more then 50 technical reports. For more information, see PUBLICATIONS (selection).

 

TEACHING

Courses elaboration and presentations in the computer networks field:

·        Participation in the organization and teaching of "Introduction to Internet" (a course for researchers of the Institutes of the Romanian Academy), ICIA (1995-1999).

·         Participation in the Project Pilot Leonardo Da Vinci, Course:  Enterprise Internet Manager at the National Institute of Economic Development (INDE), Bucharest (2000, 2001).

·         Teaching "Development of Software Project Management Systems", course Project Management, Academy of Economic Studies (ASE), (2001, 2002).

 

OTHER INFORMATION

 ·     2000 - Participation in the course Network Knowledge Systems (NetKnowS) at the 6th CEENet (Central and Eastern European Networking Association) Workshop on Network Technology.

·    1998 - Fellow at the Session 358: "The Social and Political Implications of the Internet" of the Salzburg Seminar, Salzburg, Austria.

 

LANGUAGES

English (W, R, S - fluent);
French (W, R, S - some).

 

AFFILIATION

·                   ACM - Association for Computing Machinery

·              IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

·              FSI - Romanian Academy Forum for the Information Society

·                   SIGCHI România - Special Interest Group in Human-Computer Interaction

·              CRIFTS - Romanian Committee for History and Technical and Scientific Philosophy 

·                Participation in The Romanian Internet Academy Project, as an affiliated person (1996-1999).

 

PUBLICATIONS (selection)

Books:

Ř  Cristina NICULESCU (2008). “Sisteme de management de cunoştinţe. Concepte, studii de caz.” [Knowledge Management Systems. Concepts, Case Studies], Ed. Matrix Rom Bucureşti, ISBN 978-973-755-410-9, 400p. (Cover, Contents, Abstract (Romanian), Acronyms).

Ř  V. CRISTEA, Gh. IOSIF, A. MARHAN, C. NICULESCU, St. TRAUSAN-MATU, O. UDREA (2005).  “Sisteme inteligente de instruire pe Web” [Intelligent Web Training Systems], Ed. Politehnica Press, Bucharest 2005, ISBN: 973-8449-85-5, 206p.

Ř  C. NICULESCU, T. IONESCU (2002). “Sisteme de cooperare distribuită pentru managementul proiectelor” [Distributed Collaborative Systems for Project Management], FIATEST Publishing House, Bucharest, 2002, ISBN 973-99726-1-6, 135 p.

Ř  Gh. CONSTANDACHE, St. TRAUSAN-MATU, M. ALBU, C. NICULESCU (2002). “Filosofia şi ştiinţele cognitive” [Philosophy and Cognitive Sciences], Matrix Rom Publishing House, Bucharest 2002, ISBN 973-685-409-4, 196p; author of the chapters: „Internetul - Aspecte filosofice şi metodologice”, "Umanismul Internet” ["The Internet - Philosophical and Methodological Aspects", "Internet Humanism”] (p. 94-128) (Cover).

Ř  Gh. TECUCI, D. TUFIS, St. TRAUSAN-MATU, L. NEGREANU, D. TRIFANESCU, S. CALINOIU, C. NICULESCU, D. MARCU, M. CIOCOIU, St. BRUDA, “Introducere în INTERNET, Note de curs” [“Introduction to the Internet”] (first edition - Technical Publishing House, Bucharest, 1996, ISBN 973-31-0825-1, 136p.); second edition - Publishing House of the Romanian Academy, Bucharest, 1997, ISBN 973-27-0618-X, 167p.).

 

Books (co-editor):

Ř      A. Ioniţă, C. Niculescu, C. Lepadatu, G. Dumitrescu (Eds.), 2007. Proceedings of the workshop “Services and Software Architectures, Infrastructures and Engineering for enhancing EU Citizen’s Quality of Life”, ISBN 978-973-0-04939-8, 229p.

Ř      A. Ioniţă, C. Niculescu, C. Lepadatu, G. Dumitrescu (Eds.), 2006. Proceedings of the Workshop IST-Multidisciplinary Approaches, June 27, 2006, Bucharest, Romania, ISBN-10 973-0-04483-X, ISBN-13 978-973-0-04483-6, 88p.

Ř      A. Ioniţă, C. Niculescu, F. Filip, C. Lepadatu, G. Dumitrescu (Eds.), 2006. Proceedings of the Workshop Intelligent Embedded Systems, July 20, 2006, Bucharest, Romania, ISBN-10 973-0-04508-9 ISBN-13 978-973-0-04508-6, 109p.

Ř      C. Niculescu, A. Ioniţă (Eds.) 2005. Organisational Learning and Knowledge Work Management, Proceedings of the International Symposium OL-KWM 2005, October 13, 2005, Bucharest, Romania, CIDE Publishing House, 2005, ISBN 973-618-058-1, 112 p.

 

 

Translated Chapters in Books [in Romanian]:

 

§         John C. Mallery, Roger Hurwitz and Gavan Duffy - "Hermeneutics: From Textual Explication to Computer Understanding" [„Hermeneutica: de la explicarea textelor spre înţelegerea calculatoarelor?”], translation by Cristina Niculescu, chapter in Hermeneutica şi ontologia calculatoarelor  [Hermeneutics and Computer Ontology], coordinated by G.G. Constandache and St. Trausan-Matu, Technical Publishing House, 2001, ISBN 973-31-1585-1 (p.103-120) (Cover).

§         Patricia S. Churchland - "Can Neurobiology Teach us anything about Consciousness?" [„Poate neurobiologia să ne înveţe ceva despre conştiinţă?”],  translation by Cristina Niculescu and Ana-Maria Marhan, chapter in Filosofia şi ştiinţa conştiinţei  [Philosophy and Science of Counsciousness], coordinated by Angela Botez and Bogdan M. Popescu, "Cartea Romanească" Publishing House, 2002, ISBN 973-23-0040-X (p.207-236).

 

Published Contributions to International Scientific Conferences:

Ř  C. Niculescu, Dobre, I., “An Overview of the Online Cooperative Learning Strategies and Categories”, in ANYWHERE, ANYTIME-EDUCATION ON DEMAND, Vol. I, Proceedings of the 7th International Scientific Conference "eLearning and Software for Education", Bucharest,  April 28-29, 2011, Ed. Universitara, Editori: I. Roceanu, T. Frunzeti, V. Popescu, R. Jugureanu, V. Stefan, C. Radu, ISSN 2066-026X, Indexed by ISI Web of Science, p. 116-123, http://adlunap.ro/else2011/.

Ř  C. Niculescu, Anca Daniela Ioniţă and L. Dobre,  „Analysis and Modelling of a Framework for Collaborative Learning and Knowledge Construction”, in Natural Language Processing in Support of Learning: Metrics, Proceedings of the Second International Workshop – NLPSL 2010, Editors Ştefan Trăuşan-Matu and Philippe Dessus, 14th September 2010, Matrix Rom Publishing House, Bucureşti, ISBN 978-973-755-634-9, p. 50-64.

Ř  C. Niculescu, L. Pană, „Architecture of a Multi-Framework Set for Collaborative Knowledge Generation”, in Proceedings of the 11th European Conference on Knowledge Management, Vol 2, Ed. Eduardo Tomé, September 2-3, 2010, ISBN: 978-1-906638-71-9, Academic Publishing Limited Reading UK (Proceedings indexed Thomson ISI), p. 744-751.

Ř  C. Niculescu, Şt. Trăuşan-Matu, “An Ontology-Based Competence Management System for IT Companies”, in The Proceedings of the 4th International Conference Knowledge Management: Projects, Systems and Technologies, KIP 2009, Bucureşti, November 6-7, 2009, Editors Toma PLEŞEANU and Luiza KRAFT, © 2009 “Carol I” National Defense University, ISBN: 978-973-663-783-4, p. 91-93.

Ř  C. Niculescu, Şt. Trăuşan-Matu, Alin Mihailă, 2009. „Development of a Competence Management Ontology for IT Companies” (Poster and Abstract) in The Proceedings of the 10th European Conference on Knowledge Management ECKM 2009 (University of Padua, Vicenza, Italy, September 3-4, 2009), Edited by Ettore Bolisani, Universitŕ Degli Studi Di Padova, Italy, Published By Academic Publishing International, ISBN 978-1-906638-40-5.

Ř  Ştefan TRĂUŞAN-MATU, Cristina NICULESCU (2008). “A Framework for an Ontology-based Information System for Competence Management” in The Proceedings of the 3-rd International Conference on Knowledge Management, ASE Printing House, October 2008, ISBN 978-606-505-124-9, 7p.       

Ř  C. Niculescu, 2007. “Integrating Knowledge Management Systems as a Key Tool for Modernizing Public Services”, in Business Information Systems & Collaborative Support Systems in Business, The Proceedings of the International Conference “Competitiveness and European Integration”, October 26-27, 2007, Cluj-Napoca, Editors: L.Mocean, R. Buchmann, R. Petruşel, A.M. Ghiran, Ed. Risoprint Cluj-Napoca, ISBN 978-973-751-597-1, p. 363-367.

Ř  C. Niculescu, C. Lepădatu, D. Ştefănescu, 2007. “SSCBI - A Teleworking Environment of Support Systems for Knowledge Culture”, in the CD Proceedings of the International Conference Remote Engeneering Virtual Instrumentation (REV 2007), June 2007, Porto, Portugalia, ISBN 978-3-89958-278-9.

Ř  C. Niculescu, 2007. “Knowledge Work Management: Integration of Work and e-Learning Processes in Knowledge Organisations”, in The South-East European Space in the Context of Globalisation, Proceedings of the International Scientific Conference XXI Strategies, section 7 “E-learning and Software for Education”, coordinator prof. Ion Roceanu, “Carol I“ National Defence University Publishing House, Bucharest, 12-13 April, 2007, ISBN: 987-973-663-535-9, 987-973-663-535-8, p. 405-412.

Ř  C. Niculescu, 2007. “From Portals to Knowledge Portals”, in Proceedings of the workshop “Services and Software Architectures, Infrastructures and Engineering for enhancing EU Citizen’s Quality of Life”, Editors: A. Ioniţă, C. Niculescu, C. Lepădatu, G. Dumitrescu, ISBN 978-973-0-04939-8, p. 224 –229.

Ř  C. Niculescu, 2007. “Integrating Knowledge Management Systems in sustaining relationship between Public Administration with Citizens and Business Environment” in Proceedings of the workshop “Services and Software Architectures, Infrastructures and Engineering for enhancing EU Citizen’s Quality of Life”, Editors: A. Ioniţă, C. Niculescu, C. Lepădatu, G. Dumitrescu, ISBN 978-973-0-04939-8, p. 194-200.

Ř  C. Niculescu, 2007. “Knowledge Product Management in Knowledge based Organizations”, in Informatics in knowledge Society, the Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Informatics in Economy May 2007, ASE Printing House, ISBN 978-973-594-921-1, p. 584-589.

Ř  C. Niculescu, 2006. “Knowledge Work Management – a New Work Paradigm in Public Services Re-engineering”, in Proceedings of the International Symposium Intelligent Public Services for EU Citizens in modern Society Based on ICT, November 30, 2006, ASE Publishing House, ISBN 973-594-872-9 978-973-594-872-6, p. 306-317.

Ř  C. Niculescu, 2006. „Arhitectură generală de integrare a sistemului socio-tehnologic de management de cunoştinţe în cadrul proceselor de afaceri” [“General Architecture of Integration of the Socio-technological Knowledge Management System in Business Processes Frame”], in Proceedings of the International Symposium Intelligent Public Services for EU Citizens in modern Society Based on ICT, November 30, 2006, ASE Publishing House, ISBN 973-594-872-9 978-973-594-872-6, p. 354-371.

Ř  C. Niculescu, 2006. “Learning And Knowledge Management in the Business Context”, in Proceedings of the International Symposium Intelligent and Interactive Systems to Manage the Public Administration’s Relation with Citizens and Business Environment, November 29, 2006, ASE Publishing House, ISBN 973-594-872-9 978-973-594-872-6, p. 297-313.

Ř  C. Niculescu, 2006. “Abordări actuale în proiectarea infrastructurilor de cunoştinţe a organizaţiilor bazate pe cunoaştere” [“Actual Approaches in Design of the Knowledge Infrastructures of Knowledge Organizations”], in Proceedings of the International Symposium Intelligent and Interactive Systems to Manage the Public Administration’s Relation with Citizens and Business Environment, November 29, 2006, ASE Publishing House, ISBN 973-594-872-9 978-973-594-872-6, p. 148-170.

Ř  C. Niculescu, 2006. “Interactivity and Synergy among Knowledge Management, e-Learning and Performance Management in Virtual Organizations”, in Current Approaches in Intellectual Capital Evaluation, Vol. I of the Proceedings of the International Conference Knowledge Management – Projects, Systems and Technologies, November 9-10, 2006, ASE, Bucharest, Romania, ©INFOREC Printing House 2006, ISSN 1453-1305, p. 235-239.

Ř  C. Niculescu, M. Brut, 2006. “E-commerce Technology Nowadays in Romania”, In the CD Proceedings of the International Symposium REMOTE ENGENEERING VIRTUAL INSTRUMENTATION 2006 (REV2006), July 28-29, 2006, Maribor Slovenia, ISBN 3-89958-194-6, Editors M. Auer, R. Safaric.

Ř  C. Niculescu, 2006. “Challenges of Knowledge and Learning Management in the Business Context”. In Proceedings of the Workshop IST-Multidisciplinary Approaches, A. Ioniţă, C. Niculescu, C. Lepadatu, G. Dumitrescu (Eds.), June 27, 2006, Bucharest, Romania, ISBN-10 973-0-04483-X, ISBN-13 978-973-0-04483-6, p. 45-52.

Ř  C. Niculescu, 2005. “Research Communities’ Knowledge Sharing Platform Modular Architecture”, CD Proceedings from the ICL2005 Workshop “Industry meets research”, Editors: A. Karapidis&T. Becker FHG IAO Stuttgart, Germany at Villach, Austria, September 28, 2005, ISBN-10: 3-8167-7250-1, ISBN-13: 978-3-8167-7250-7.

Ř  C. Niculescu, 2005. „Knowledge Sharing Platform dedicated to the Research Communities”, In Organisational Learning and Knowledge Work Management, Editors C. Niculescu, A. Ioniţă, Proceedings of the International Symposium OL-KWM 2005, October 13, 2005, Bucharest, Romania, Ed. CIDE, 2005, ISBN 973-618-058-1, p. 78-87.

Ř  C. Niculescu, 2005. “Architecture of a Knowledge Management System dedicated to the Research Communities”, In the CD Proceedings of the International Symposium REMOTE ENGENEERING VIRTUAL INSTRUMENTATION 2005 (REV2005), ISBN 3-89958-137-7, Editors M. Auer, D.Ursutiu, 29 June - 1 July 2005, Brasov, Romania.

Ř  C. Niculescu, 2005.  “Scientific Collaboration Portal Architecture”, In “Information & Knowledge Age”, The Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference of Informatics in Economy, 19-20 May 2005, Bucharest, Romania, © INFOREC Publishing House, ISBN 973-8360-014-8, p.809-814.

Ř  C. Niculescu, 2005.  “UniSMART – A Solution for e-Learning Content Management”, In the Proceedings of THE 15th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON CONTROL SYSTEMS AND COMPUTER SCIENCE (CSCS15), 25-27 May 2005, Bucharest, Romania.

Ř  C. Niculescu, 2004. „Context-Based Knowledge Handling for Communities of Practice in Project Management Information Systems”, in Proceedings of E-COMM-LINE 2004, 21-22 Oct. 2004, ISBN 973-0-03671-3, Publishing House ECAS TRADE S.R.L., Bucharest, p. 124-129.

Ř  C. Niculescu, A. Marhan, D. Grosu, 2004. „Managing E-Learning Content with uniSMART System”, in CD Proceedings of the International Conference INTERACTIVE COMPUTER AIDED LEARNING 2004, (ICL2004: http://www.icl-conference.org/), ISBN 3-89958-089-3, 29 Sept.-1 Oct. 2004, Villach, Austria.

Ř  C. Niculescu, 2004. „Cooperative System for Sustaining Project Management Activities” in CD Proceedings of the International Symposium REMOTE ENGENEERING VIRTUAL INSTRUMENTATION 2004, (REV2004), ISBN 3-89958-090-7 ,28–29 Sept. 2004, Villach, Austria.

Ř  C. Niculescu, T. Ionescu, 2003. „Pilot Cooperative E-Learning System Assisting Stakeholders in Project Management Activities”, in Ioan Dumitrache (ed.), The Proceedings of The 14th International Conference on Control Systems and Computer Science (CSCS-14), July 2-5 2003, Bucharest, ISBN 973-8449-17-1, 973-8449-18-9, vol.2, p. 186-191.

Ř  C. Niculescu, R. Ion, 2003. „Pilot Cooperative System in Sustaining Project Management Activities”. In NETWORKING in Education and Research, The Proceedings of RoEduNet International Conference, Second Edition, Iaşi, June 5-6 2003, Samia Printing House, ISBN: 973-85791-9-8, p. 131-135.

Ř  C. Niculescu, 2003. „Networked Learning Environment for Project Management Information Systems”, CSCL2003-Doctoral Consortium, Computer Support for Collaborative Learning 2003, Designing for Change in Networked Learning Environments, Bergen, Norway, June 2003 (Abstract).

Ř  C. Niculescu, 2003. „Perspectives on Knowledge Management”, CD Proceedings of the International Seminar Integrating Distance Learning in Knowledge Management, SNSPA, May 2003 (Abstract).

Ř  C. Niculescu, 2003. „Cooperative Virtual Environment for Communities of Practice”, CD Proceedings of the International Seminar Integrating Distance Learning in Knowledge Management, SNSPA, May 2003.      

Ř  C. Niculescu, R. Ion, 2003. “Social Infrastructure for Project Management Information Systems”, in DIGITAL ECONOMY – The Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Economic Informatics May 2003, INFOREC Printing House, Bucharest, ISBN 973-8360-02-1 (p.1169-1173) (Abstract).

Ř  C. Niculescu, T. Ionescu, 2002. "Framework for Distributed Real-Time Project Management Information Systems", (C) IFAC 2002, Proceedings of the 15th Triennial World Congress of the International Federation of Automatic Control, Barcelona, Spain, 21-26 July 2002.

Ř  T. Ionescu, C. Niculescu, 2001. "Team Roles for Effective Cooperative Learning in Virtual Groups", CD Proceedings  SACCS 2001 (The 7th International Symposium on Automatic Control and Computer Science), 26-27 October 2001, Iaşi.

Ř  C. Niculescu, T. Ionescu, 2001. "Model for Project Management Information Systems Integration", Proceedings SIMSIS-11 (The 11-th International Symposium on Modeling, Simulation and System's Identification), 12-13 October 2001, Publishing House of University Foundation 'Dunarea de Jos', Galaţi, 2001, ISBN 973-8139-98-8 (p. 154-159).

Ř  C. Niculescu, 2000. "Models of the Human-Computer Interaction in the Context of Distributed Collaboration", Doctoral Colloquium, Forth International Conference on the design of Cooperative Systems, COOP'2000, Sophia Antipolis, France, May 23-26, 2000, Conference Supplement, (page 67-71).

Ř  C. Niculescu, 1999. "<<Internet and Education>> - one of the Issues of the Salzburg Seminar", ROMANIAN INTERNET LEARNING WORKSHOP 1999 (RILW'99), Cluj-Napoca, Romania, August 16-22, 1999, "Internet as a Vehicle for Teaching - Proceedings", ISBN 973-99287-4-9 (p. 16-30).

Ř  M. Guran, D. Trifanescu, C. Niculescu, 1999. "Network Services for Mobile Users", CSCS-12 (12th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON CONTROL SYSTEMS AND COMPUTER SCIENCE), Bucharest, Romania, May 26-29, 1999; Proceedings, Vol. 2, ISBN 973-96609-5-9 (p. 292-298).

Ř  C. Niculescu, 1997. "Learning to Use Internet. A Case Study", in Internet as a Vehicle for Teaching - Proceedings, ROMANIAN INTERNET LEARNING WORKSHOP, 1997, Ilieni, Romania (p. 27-34).

 

Published Contributions to National Scientific Conferences:

 

·           C. Niculescu, Şt. Trăuşan-Matu, „Sistem interactiv de management al competenţelor bazat pe ontologii, pentru companiile de IT” [“An Ontology-Based Competence Management Interactive System for IT Companies”], in Interacţiune Om-Calculator 2009 [Human-Computer Interaction 2009], Proceedings of the Sixth Conference of Human-Computer Interaction ROCHI 2009, Cluj-Napoca, September 3-4, 2009, Editors Dorian Gorgan, Adriana Mihaela Guran, MATRIX ROM Publishing House, Bucharest 2009, ISSN 1843-4460, p. 83-89.

·           C. Niculescu, 2007. „Crearea lanţurilor generatoare de valoare pentru proiectarea portalurilor” [“Portal Value Chain Creation”], in Interacţiune om-calculator 2007 [Human-Computer Interaction 2007], Proceedings of the Forth Conference of Human-Computer Interaction – RoCHI 2007, Constanţa, September 20-21, 2007, Editors: D.M. Popovici, A.M. Marhan,  Matrix ROM Publishing House Bucharest, ISSN 1843-4460, p. 51-54.

·           C. Niculescu, 2006. “Proiectarea unei platforme web dedicată centrelor de competenţă virtuale” [“Design of a Web Platform dedicated to Virtual Competence Centers”], in Interacţiune Om-Calculator 2006 [Human-Computer Interaction 2006], Proceedings of the Third Conference of Human-Computer Interaction – RoCHI 2006, Academy of Economic Studies Bucharest, September 21-22, 2006, Editors: APOSTOL Constantin-Gelu, Dorian GORGAN, ©INFOREC Publishing House 2006, ISSN 1453-1305, p.87-94.

·           C. Niculescu, 2005, „Arhitectura unui sistem experimental de management de cunoştinţe, dedicat comunităţilor virtuale de cercetare” [“Architecture of an Experimental Knowledge Management System dedicated to Research Virtual Communities”], in Interacţiune Om-Calculator 2005 [Human-Computer Interaction 2005], Proceedings of the Second Conference of Human-Computer Interaction – RoCHI 2005, Cluj-Napoca, September 15-16, 2005, Editors: Pitariu, H. & S.C. Buraga, ASCR Publishing House, 2005, ISBN 973-7973-24-0, p. 41-46.

·           C. Niculescu, 2005. „Instrumente de e-learning pentru construirea mediului de lucru inteligent şi interactiv” [“E-learning Instruments for building an Intelligent and Interactive Working Environment”], in Interacţiune Om-Calculator 2005  [Human-Computer Interaction 2005], Proceedings of the Second Conference of Human-Computer Interaction – RoCHI 2005, Cluj-Napoca, September 15-16, 2005, Editors: Pitariu, H. & S.C. Buraga, ASCR Publishing House, 2005, ISBN 973-7973-24-0, p. 179-180.

·           C. Niculescu, A. Marhan, D. Grosu, 2004. „Dezvoltarea interfeţei tutor în cadrul implementării soluţiei de e-learning uniSMART” [“Tutor Interface Development in the implementation of E-learning Solution uniSMART”], in Interacţiune Om-Calculator 2004 [Human-Computer Interaction 2004], Proceedings of the First National Conference of Human-Computer Interaction – RoCHI 2004, Editors: Şt. Trăuşan-Matu and C. Pribeanu, ISBN 973-718-053-4, Printech Publishing House, September 2004, Bucharest, p. 304-314. 

 

Papers in Journals:

§  C. Niculescu, Şt. Trăuşan-Matu, „An Ontology-centered Approach for Designing an Interactive Competence Management System for IT Companies”, în INFORMATICA ECONOMICA Journal, No. 4, 2009, Categoria CNCSIS B+ , Ed. INFOREC, ISSN 1453-1305.

§  C. Niculescu, Şt. Trăuşan-Matu, „O abordare bazată pe ontologii în proiectarea unui sistem interactiv de management al competenţelor pentru companiile de IT” [“An Ontology-centered Approach for Designing an Interactive Competence Management System for IT Companies”], in Revista Română de Interacţiune Om-Calculator 2 (2009), MATRIX ROM Publishing House, Bucharest, ISSN 1843-4460, p. 73-88.

§ Ştefan TRĂUŞAN-MATU, Cristina NICULESCU (2008). “A Framework for an Ontology-based Information System for Competence Management”, in INFORMATICA ECONOMICA Journal, No. 4, 2008, INFOREC Publishing House, ISSN 1453-1305, p. 105-108.        

§ C. Niculescu, 2006. “Proiectarea unei platforme web dedicată centrelor de competenţă virtuale” [“Design of a Web Platform dedicated to Virtual Competence Centers”], in Romanian Journal of Informatics and Control, vol.16, no.1, 2006, Ed. ICI, ISSN 1220-1758, p.77-94.

§         C. Niculescu, 2003. “Rolul neurobiologiei în explicarea conştiinţei - viziunea Patriciei Churchland” [“Patricia Churchland about the Role of Neurology in Explaining Consciousness”], Romanian Academy Philosophy Journal, no. 3-4/2003, Publishing House of the Romanian Academy, Bucharest, ISSN 0034-8260, p. 369-377.

§         C. Niculescu, 2002. „Perspective ontologice în modelarea sistemelor informaţionale de colaborare ale organizaţiilor virtuale” ["Ontological Aspects in Modeling Collaborative Information Systems for Virtual Organizations"], in "Informatica Economica" Review of the Academy of Economic Studies, INFOREC Publishing House, No.3 (23) 2002, ISSN 1453-1305, Bucharest, Romania, p.59-66.

§         C. Niculescu, 2002. „Rolul sistemelor de management de cunoştinţe în integrarea sistemelor informaţionale de management de proiect” ["The Role of the Management Knowledge Systems in the Project Management Information Systems Integration"], Romanian Journal of Informatics and Control, no.3, 2002, ISSN 1220-1758, ICI Publishing House, p. 31-45.

§         C. Niculescu, 2002. "Integrarea prototipurilor şi produselor groupware în activitatea organizaţiilor virtuale" ["Integration of Groupware Prototypes and Applications in Virtual Organizations' Activity"], Romanian Journal of Informatics and Control , vol. 12, no. 1, 2002, ISSN 1220-1758, ICI Publishing House, p. 53-66.

§         C. Niculescu, 2002. "Sinergia de competenţe prin Internet, o viziune holistă" ["Synergy of Competencies by Internet, a Holistic Vision"], Romanian Academy Philosophy Journal, no. 1-2 / 2002, Publishing House of the Romanian Academy, Bucharest, ISSN 0034-8260, p. 107-122.

§         C. Niculescu, 2001. "Noi tipuri de sisteme educaţionale pentru societatea informaţională - societatea cunoaşterii" [“New Educational Systems Types for Information Society-Knowledge Society”], chapter in Information Society Knowledge Society - Concepts, Solutions and Strategies for Romania, coordinated by Florin Gh. Filip, Expert Publishing House, Bucharest, 2001, ISBN 973-8177-42-1, p. 209-225.

§         C. Niculescu, A. Marhan, 2001. „Medii pentru instruire prin colaborare la distanţă” ["Collaboration Environments for Distance Learning"] , "Informatica Economica" Journal of the Academy of Economic Studies, No. 3 (19) / 2001, INFOREC Publishing House, ISSN 1453-1305, Bucharest, Romania, p. 118-127.

§         C. Niculescu, 2001. „Modalităţi evoluate ale interacţiunii om-calculator” ["Advanced Modes for Human Computer Interaction"], Romanian Journal of Informatics and Control, vol. 11, no. 2, 2001, ISSN 1220-1758, ICI Publishing House, p. 37-51.

§         C. Niculescu, 2001. „Sistemele interactive - prezentare din perspectivă istorică” ["Interactive Systems - A Historical View"],  Romanian Journal of Informatics and Control, vol. 11, no.1, 2001, ISSN 1220-1758, ICI Publishing House, p. 53-66.

§         C. Niculescu, 1998. „Implicaţiile sociale şi politice ale Internetului, Sesiunea 358 a Seminarului de la Salzburg” ["<<The Social and Political Implications of the Internet>>, Session 358 of the Sazburg Seminar"] in the Romanian Academy Sociological Journal, No. 3-4, 1998, Publishing House of the Romanian Academy, ISSN 1224-9262, p. 341-347.

§         C. Niculescu, 1997. „Internetul în cercetarea academică din România” ["Internet in Romanian Academic Research"] in the Romanian Academy Sociological Journal, No. 3-4, 1997, Publishing House of the Romanian Academy, ISSN 1224-9262, p. 439-448.

 

Technical Reports for PROLEARN- Network of Excellence in Professional Learning (European Commission Sixth Framework Project IST-507310), Editor Alexander Karapidis, Cristina Niculescu as contributor, January 2005:

 

D7.2 Identification (assess) of best practices of exiting transfer projects between research and industry in the knowledge work management key issues, 11p.

D7.4 Draft recommendation report for action to business and politics, 30p.

D8.2 Standardized European competence centers transfer channels, 11p.

D8.3 Connect VCC activities with other competence centers, 41p.

D8.4 Benchmarks of the transfer channels: Benchmarks for the controlling of the transfer channels between the PROLEARN Academy, the industry requests, the external competence centres and the PROLEARN Benchmarks Virtual Competence Centre, 11p.

D8.5 Control of the transfer channel: first sep towards a competence map, 22p.

D8.8 Information services: Offering evaluated services like catalogues, search engines, offer publication, brokerage, negotiation, delivery of learning materials, delivery of live or tutored learning activities etc. in PROLEARN VCC in cooperation with currently running suppliers, 40p.

 

 

Technical Reports [in Romanian]

 

Ř  C. Niculescu, 2011, „Studiu privind probleme ale dezvoltării sistemelor de management de cunoştinţe pentru îmbunătăţirea cercetării în domeniul umanist”,  in the Romanian Academy program Sisteme inteligente [Intelligent Systems], subprogram no. 3 Cercetări privind sistemele de management de cunoştinţe – abordări bazate pe ontologii,  RR-ICIA, June 2011, 42p.

Ř  C. Niculescu, 2011, „ Definirea unei arhitecturi generale a unei infrastructuri de resurse digitale pentru Dicţionarul General al Literaturii Române (DGLR)”, in the Romanian Academy program Sisteme inteligente [Intelligent Systems], subprogram no. 3 Cercetări privind sistemele de management de cunoştinţe – abordări bazate pe ontologii,  RR-ICIA, November 2011, 25p.

Ř  C. Niculescu, 2010, „Raport de cercetare privind tehnici de implementare şi aplicaţii de sisteme bazate pe ontologii pentru gestiunea competenţelor în managementul proiectelor”, in the Romanian Academy program Sisteme inteligente [Intelligent Systems], subprogram no. 3 Cercetări privind sistemele de management de cunoştinţe – abordări bazate pe ontologii, RR ICIA, November 2010, 39p.

Ř  C. Niculescu, 2010, „Studiu privind probleme ale implementării sistemelor bazate pe ontologii pentru gestiunea competenţelor în managementul proiectelor”, in the Romanian Academy program Sisteme inteligente [Intelligent Systems], subprogram no. 3 Cercetări privind sistemele de management de cunoştinţe – abordări bazate pe ontologii, RR ICIA, June 2010, 41p.

Ř  C. Niculescu, Şt. Trăuşan-Matu, 2009, „Realizarea sistemului de managementul competenţelor bazat pe ontologii, partea a II-a”, in PNII project Managementul competenţelor în domeniul tehnologiei informaţiei, o abordare bazată pe ontologii - CONTO [CONTO – Ontology-based Competencies Management in Information technology], RR ICIA, December 2009, 30p.

Ř  C. Niculescu, Şt. Trăuşan-Matu, 2009, „Realizarea sistemului de managementul competenţelor bazat pe ontologii, partea I”, in PNII project Managementul competenţelor în domeniul tehnologiei informaţiei, o abordare bazată pe ontologii - CONTO [CONTO – Ontology-based Competencies Management in Information technology], RR ICIA, September 2009, 94p.

Ř  C. Niculescu, 2009, „Realizarea sistemului bazat pe ontologii pentru managementul competenţelor în domeniul IT”,  in the Romanian Academy program Sisteme inteligente [Intelligent Systems], subprogram no. 3 Cercetări privind sistemele de management de cunoştinţe – abordări bazate pe ontologii, RR ICIA, November 2009, 102p.

Ř  C. Niculescu, 2009, „Proiectarea sistemului bazat pe ontologii pentru managementul competenţelor în domeniul IT” [“Design of a System founded on Ontologies for Competence Management in IT Domain”], in the Romanian Academy program Sisteme inteligente [Intelligent Systems], subprogram no. 3 Cercetări privind sistemele de management de cunoştinţe – abordări bazate pe ontologii, RR ICIA, June 2009, 21p.

Ř  C. Niculescu, 2008, „Definirea cadrului metodologic de realizare a sistemului de managementul competenţelor bazat pe ontologii” [„Definition of a Methodological Frame for development of the Competence Management System based on Ontologies”], in the Romanian Academy program Sisteme inteligente” [Intelligent Systems], subprogram no. 3 Cercetări privind tehnologiile Web suport pentru managementul cunoştinţelor în organizaţii bazate pe cunoaştere [Researches on KM Web Technologies dedicated to Knowledge Organizations], RR ICIA, November 2008, 74p.

Ř  C. Niculescu, 2008, „Studiul orientărilor bazate pe ontologii în managementul competenţelor” [“Study of the Orientations founded on Ontologies in Competence Management”], in the Romanian Academy program Sisteme inteligente [Intelligent Systems], subprogram no. 3 Cercetări privind tehnologiile Web suport pentru managementul cunoştinţelor în organizaţii bazate pe cunoaştere [Researches on KM Web Technologies dedicated to Knowledge Organizations], RR ICIA, June 2008, 57p.

Ř  C. Niculescu, 2008, “Evaluare şi recomandări pentru construcţia infrastructurii instrumentelor KMS” [“Evaluation and Recommendations for building KMS Tools Infrastructures”], in CEEX project SSCBI-Sisteme suport pentru cultura cunoaşterii bazate pe soluţii şi instrumente din domeniul BI (Business Inteligence) [SSCBI - Support Systems for Knowledge Culture based on the BI (Business Intelligence) Solutions and Tools], RR ICIA, August 2008, 30p.

Ř  C. Niculescu, Şt. Trăuşan-Matu, 2008, “Studiul ontologiilor şi al orientărilor bazate pe ontologii în management. Definirea cadrului metodologic de realizare a sistemului de managementul competenţelor bazat pe ontologii” [“Study of the Ontologies and Orientations founded on Ontologies in Management. Definition of a Framework for a Competence Management System based on Ontologies”], in PNII project Managementul competenţelor în domeniul tehnologiei informaţiei, o abordare bazată pe ontologii - CONTO [CONTO – Ontology-based Competencies Management in Information technology], RR ICIA, December 2008, 58p.

Ř  C. Niculescu  „Metodologii şi tehnologii de proiectare a unor aplicaţii specifice pentru soluţii de management de cunoştinţe în organizaţii bazate pe cunoaştere” [“Design Methodologies and Technologies for Specific Applications for Knowledge Management Solutions in Knowledge Organizations”], in the Romanian Academy program Sisteme inteligente [Intelligent Systems], subprogram no. 3 Cercetări privind tehnologiile Web suport pentru managementul cunoştinţelor în organizaţii bazate pe cunoaştere [Researches on KM Web Technologies dedicated to Knowledge Organizations], RR ICIA, November 2007, 63 p.

Ř  Niculescu C., 2007, „Metodologii si tehnologii de proiectare a instrumentelor KMS si descrierea unor aplicaţii specifice” [“Design Methodologies and Technologies for Specific Applications”], CEEX Project SSCBI-Sisteme suport pentru cultura cunoaşterii bazate pe soluţii şi instrumente din domeniul BI (Business Intelligence)  [SSCBI - Support Systems for Knowledge Culture based on the BI (Business Intelligence) Solutions and Tools], RR ICIA, November 2007, 80 p.

Ř  Niculescu C., D. Ştefănescu, 2007, “Specificaţii pentru dezvoltarea  instrumentelor de tip Web, destinate vizualizării pe Internet a rezultatelor” [“Specifications for Web Tools Development aimed to Results Internet Visualization”], CEEX Project SSCBI, RR ICIA, June 2007, 45 p.

Ř  C. Niculescu, 2007, “Modelarea interfeţelor Web specifice sistemelor socio-tehnologice de susţinere a managementului cunoştinţelor în organizaţii bazate pe cunoaştere” [“Web interface Modeling for Knowledge Management Socio-technological Systems in Knowledge Organizations”], in the Romanian Academy program Sisteme inteligente [Intelligent Systems], subprogram no. 3 Cercetări privind tehnologiile Web suport pentru managementul cunoştinţelor în organizaţii bazate pe cunoaştere [Researches on KM Web Technologies dedicated to Knowledge Organizations], RR ICIA, June 2007, 34 p.

Ř  C. Niculescu, 2006, „Modelarea unui sistem de management al datelor stocate dedicat organizaţiilor bazate pe cunoaştere” [„Data Warehouse Management System Modeling dedicated to Knowledge Organizations”], in the Romanian Academy program Sisteme inteligente [Intelligent Systems], subprogram no. 3 Cercetări privind tehnologiile Web suport pentru managementul cunoştinţelor în organizaţii bazate pe cunoaştere [Researches on KM Web Technologies dedicated to Knowledge Organizations], RR ICIA, November 2006, 56 p.

Ř  C. Niculescu, 2006, „Definirea unui cadru conceptual al domeniului tehnologiilor Web suport pentru KM în organizaţii bazate pe cunoaştere” [“Definition of a Conceptual Framework of the KM Web Technologies in Knowledge Organizations”], in the Romanian Academy program Sisteme inteligente [Intelligent Systems], subprogram no. 3 Cercetări privind tehnologiile Web suport pentru managementul cunoştinţelor în organizaţii bazate pe cunoaştere [Researches on KM Web Technologies dedicated to Knowledge Organizations], RR ICIA, June 2006, 61p.

Ř  C. Niculescu, 2006, “Analiza cerinţelor utilizatorilor finali privind instrumentele moderne bazate pe KMS” [“Analysis of final Users Requirements concerning modern KMS Tools”], CEEX Project SSCBI, RR ICIA, March 2006, 60 p.

Ř  C. Niculescu, 2006, “Modele de infrastructuri pentru dezvoltarea instrumentelor KMS” [“Infrastructures Models for KMS Tools Development”], CEEX Project SSCBI, RR ICIA, September 2006, 58 p.

Ř  C. Niculescu, 2005, „Definirea arhitecturii infrastructurii software pentru o platformă Web dedicată centrelor de competenţă virtuale europene”, in the Romanian Academy program Sisteme inteligente [Intelligent Systems], subprogram no. 4 Cercetări privind sistemele de management de cunoştinţe pentru susţinerea comunităţilor virtuale [Researches on Knowledge Management Systems for Supporting Virtual Communities], RR ICIA, November 2005, 51 p.

Ř  C. Niculescu, 2005,  „Studiu asupra ontologiilor de colaborare pentru sistemele de management de cunoştinţe dedicate comunităţilor virtuale” [„Study on the Ontologies of Knowledge Management Systems for Virtual Communities”], in the Romanian Academy program Sisteme inteligente [Intelligent Systems], subprogram no. 4 Cercetări privind sistemele de management de cunoştinţe pentru susţinerea comunităţilor virtuale [Researches on Knowledge Management Systems for Supporting Virtual Communities], RR ICIA, June 2005.

Ř  C. Niculescu, 2004, „Specificaţii de realizare ale unor module din cadrul sistemului experimental de management de cunoştinţe dedicat comunităţilor ştiinţifice” [„Realisation Specifications of some KMES Modules”], in the Romanian Academy program Sisteme inteligente [Intelligent Systems], subprogram no. 4 Cercetări privind sistemele de management de cunoştinţe pentru susţinerea comunităţilor virtuale [Researches on Knowledge Management Systems for Supporting Virtual Communities], RR-99 ICIA, November 2004.

Ř  C. Niculescu, 2004, „Raport tehnic asupra implementării metodologiei uniSMART în procesele inovative ale educaţiei şi învăţământului” [„Technical Report of the uniSMART Methodology Implementation”], INFOSOC Project uniSMART – Sisteme modulare educaţionale asistate de resurse ale tehnologiei informaţiei pentru învăţământ universitar [UniSMART – Modular Educational Systems for Universities, Assisted by Information Technology Resources], RR ICIA, August 2004.

Ř  C. Niculescu, 2004,  „Definirea arhitecturii unui sistem experimental de management de cunoştinţe dedicat comunităţilor virtuale de cercetare ştiinţifică” [„Architectural Design of an Experimental Knowledge Management System dedicated to the Virtual Scientific Communities”], in the Romanian Academy program Sisteme inteligente [Intelligent Systems], subprogram no. 4 Cercetări privind sistemele de management de cunoştinţe pentru susţinerea comunităţilor virtuale [Researches on Knowledge Management Systems for Supporting Virtual Communities], RR-90 ICIA, June 2004.

Ř  C. Niculescu, 2004, „Studiu de evaluare a utilizabilităţii sistemului de e-learning uniSMART” [“Usability Study for uniSMART e-learning System”], INFOSOC Proiect uniSMART–Sisteme modulare educaţionale asistate de resurse ale tehnologiei informaţiei pentru învăţământ universitar [UniSMART – Modular Educational Systems for Universities, Assisted by Information Technology Resources], RR ICIA, June 2004.

Ř  D. Grosu, (LITE-FUMN), C. Niculescu (ICIA), D. Iancu, A. Matei (SNSPA), 2003. „Raport de testare preliminar asupra solutiei uniSMART” [„Preliminary Testing Report of the uniSMART Solution”], INFOSOC Project UniSMART–Sisteme modulare educaţionale asistate de resurse ale tehnologiei informaţiei pentru învăţământ universitar [UniSMART – Modular Educational Systems for Universities, Assisted by Information Technology Resources], RR ICIA, December 2003.

Ř  C. Niculescu, 2003, “Modele de arhitecturi pentru sisteme informatice de susţinere a managementului de cunoştinţe în cadrul comunităţilor virtuale” [„Architectural Models of Knowledge Management Systems for Supporting Virtual Communities”], in the Romanian Academy program Sisteme inteligente [Intelligent Systems], subprogram no. 4 Cercetări privind sistemele de management de cunoştinţe pentru susţinerea comunităţilor virtuale [Researches on Knowledge Management Systems for Supporting Virtual Communities], RR-84 ICIA, November 2003.

Ř  C. Niculescu, 2003, „Studiul asupra dezvoltării sistemelor de management de cunoştinţe dedicate comunităţilor virtuale” [„Study on the Management Knowledge Systems Development for Virtual Communities”], in the Romanian Academy program Sisteme inteligente [Intelligent Systems], subprogram no. 4 Cercetări privind sistemele de management de cunoştinţe pentru susţinerea comunităţilor virtuale [Researches on Knowledge Management Systems for Supporting Virtual Communities], RR-77  ICIA, June 2003.

Ř  C. Niculescu (ICIA), A. Marhan, D. Grosu, I. Dima (LITE-FUMN), D. Iancu, A. Matei (SNSPA), 2003. “Specificaţii de proiectare pentru prototipul soluţiei uniSMART” [„Design Specifications for the uniSMART Prototype Solution”], INFOSOC Project UniSMART–Sisteme modulare educaţionale asistate de resurse ale tehnologiei informaţiei pentru învăţământ universitar [UniSMART – Modular Educational Systems for Universities, Assisted by Information Technology Resources], June 2003.

Ř  C. Niculescu, 2002, „Studiu asupra tehnologiei, metodologiei şi standardizării în domeniul instruirii asistate de calculator” ["Study on the Technology, Methodology and Standardization in the Computer Assisted Instruction Field"], INFOSOC Project UniSMART–Sisteme modulare educaţionale asistate de resurse ale tehnologiei informaţiei pentru învăţământ universitar [UniSMART – Modular Educational Systems for Universities, Assisted by Information Technology Resources], RR ICIA, December 2002.

Ř  C. Niculescu, R. Ion, 2002, „Aspecte sociale ale educaţiei în medii virtuale de învăţare colaborative; specificaţii de proiectare pentru un sistem CSCL” ["Social Aspects of the Virtual Environments for Collaborative Learning; Design Specifications for a CSCL System"], INFOSOC Project SINTEC–Sistem telematic inteligent şi interactiv pentru educaţie continuă, consultanţă şi instruire [SINTEC–Interactive Intelligent Telematic System for Continuous Education, Consulting and Training], RR ICIA, December 2002.

Ř  C. Niculescu, 2001, „Noi tipuri de sisteme educaţionale pentru societatea informaţională - societatea cunoaşterii" ["New Educational Systems Types for the Information Society-Knowledge Society"], INFOSOC Project SI-SC-Strategii şi soluţii pentru societatea informaţională-societatea cunoaşterii în România [SI-SC-Strategies and Solutions for Information Society-Knowledge Society in Romania], RR CCAIAPLNMC (ICIA), December 2002.

Ř  C. Niculescu, R. Ion, 2002, „Implementarea unor instrumente software în cadrul unui sistem educaţional pilot, bazat pe colaborare, pentru comunităţi virtuale” ["Software Tools Implementation of a Pilot Collaboration Educational System for Virtual Communities", in the Romanian Academy Program Sisteme inteligente [Intelligent Systems], subprogram Contribuţii la dezvoltarea sistemelor de colaborare distribuită [Development of Distributed Collaboration Systems], RR-73 CCAIAPLNMC (ICIA), December 2002.

Ř  C. Niculescu, R. Ion, 2002, „Modelarea unui sistem educaţional bazat pe colaborare prin Web, pentru sisteme informaţionale de management de proiect” ["Modeling a Web Collaboration Educational System for PMIS", in the Romanian Academy Program Sisteme inteligente [Intelligent Systems], subprogram Contribuţii la dezvoltarea sistemelor de colaborare distribuită [Development of Distributed Collaboration Systems], RR-69 CCAIAPLNMC (ICIA), June 2002.

Ř  C. Niculescu, R. Ion, 2001, „Cercetări privind aplicarea tehnologiei XML pentru sistemele WBC (Web Based Course)” ["Researches in XML Technology Application for WBC Systems"], in the Romanian Academy Program Sisteme inteligente [Intelligent Systems], subprogram Contribuţii la dezvoltarea sistemelor de colaborare distribuită [Development of Distributed Collaboration Systems], RR-65 CCAIAPLNMC (ICIA), December 2001.

Ř  C. Niculescu, 2001, „Cercetări privind sistemele de colaborare pentru educaţia la distanţă” ["Researches in Collaborative Systems for Distance Education"],  in the Romanian Academy Program Sisteme inteligente [Intelligent Systems], subprogram Contribuţii la dezvoltarea sistemelor de colaborare distribuită [Development of Distributed Collaboration Systems], RR–61 CCAIAPLNMC (ICIA), June 2001.

Ř  C. Niculescu, 2000, „Structuri şi arhitecturi pentru sistemele de colaborare distribuită” ["Structures and Architectures for Distributed Collaboration Systems"], in the Romanian Academy Program Sisteme inteligente [Intelligent Systems], subprogram Contribuţii la dezvoltarea sistemelor de colaborare distribuită [Development of Distributed Collaboration Systems], RR-53 CCAIAPLNMC (ICIA), December 2000.

Ř  C. Niculescu, D. Trifănescu, 2000, „Studiu asupra problemei dezvoltării sistemelor de colaborare distribuită" ["Study on the Development of Internet Collaboration Systems"], in the Romanian Academy Program Sisteme inteligente [Intelligent Systems], subprogram Contribuţii la dezvoltarea sistemelor de colaborare distribuită [Development of Distributed Collaboration Systems], RR-53 CCAIAPLNMC (ICIA), June 2000.

Ř  D. Trifănescu, C. Niculescu, V. Pătraşcu, 1999, „Aplicaţie personalizată de regăsire de informaţii, bazată pe agenţi mobili” ["Mobile Agents based Application for Information Retrieval"], in the Romanian Academy Program Sisteme inteligente [Intelligent Systems], subprogram Dezvoltări în arhitectura serviciilor din reţelele de calculatoare [Developments in Net Services Architecture], RR-49 CCAIAPLNMC (ICIA), December 1999.

Ř  C. Niculescu, 1999, „Problema <<ANUL 2000>>” ["Y2K Problem"], in the Romanian Academy Program Sisteme inteligente [Intelligent Systems], subprogram Dezvoltări în arhitectura serviciilor din reţelele de calculatoare [Developments in Network Services Architecture], RR-35 CCAIAPLNMC (ICIA), September 1999.

Ř  D. Trifănescu, C. Niculescu, 1999, „Studiu asupra sistemelor de regăsire a informaţiei bazate pe utilizarea meta-informaţiei asociate documentelor” ["Study on the Information Retrieval Systems, Based on the Meta-information Associated to the Documents"], in the Romanian Academy Program Sisteme inteligente [Intelligent Systems], subprogram Dezvoltări în arhitectura serviciilor din reţelele de calculatoare [Developments in Net Services Architecture], RR-34 CCAIAPLNMC (ICIA), June 1999.

Ř  D. Trifănescu, C. Niculescu, 1998,  „Sistem de agenţi mobili pentru asistarea regăsirii informaţiei pe reţea” ["Mobil Agents System for the Assistance of Information Retrieval on the Net"], in the Romanian Academy Program Sisteme inteligente [Intelligent Systems], subprogram Dezvoltări în arhitectura serviciilor din reţelele de calculatoare [Developments in Net Services Architecture], CCAIAPLNMC (ICIA), December 1998.

Ř  D. Trifănescu, C. Niculescu, 1998, „Model teoretic pentru sisteme de agenţi mobili” ["Theoretical Model for Mobil Agents Systems"], in the Romanian Academy Program Sisteme inteligente [Intelligent Systems], subprogram Dezvoltări în arhitectura serviciilor din reţelele de calculatoare [Developments in Net Services Architecture], RR CCAIAPLNMC (ICIA), June 1998.

Ř  D. Trifănescu, C. Niculescu, O. Popescu, 1997, „Analiza interfeţei om-calculator în contextul particular al serviciilor de reţea” ["The Analysis of the Human-Computer Interface in the Particular Context of Net Services"], in the Romanian Academy Program Sisteme inteligente [Intelligent Systems], subprogram Dezvoltări în arhitectura serviciilor din reţelele de calculatoare [Developments in Net Services Architecture], RR CCAIAPLNMC (ICIA), December 1997.

Ř  D. Trifănescu, C. Niculescu, 1997, „Studiu comparativ al CDE, CORBA şi Java prin prisma facilităţilor oferite pentru realizarea de servicii de reţea cu arhitectură client-server” ["Comparative Study of DCE, CORBA and Java from the Point of View of the Net Services Facilities with Client-Server Architecture"], in the Romanian Academy Program Sisteme inteligente [Intelligent Systems], subprogram Dezvoltări în arhitectura serviciilor din reţelele de calculatoare [Developments in Net Services Architecture], RR CCAIAPLNMC (ICIA), June 1997.

Ř  D. Trifănescu, C. Niculescu, 1997, „Facilitarea colaborării în activitatea de cercetare prin intermediul unor servicii Internet” ["Facilitating the Collaboration in Research Activity, Using some Internet Services"], Romanian Academy Grant CCAIAPLNMC (ICIA), December 1997.

Ř  C. Niculescu, 1999, „Modele de interacţiune om-calculator”, ["Human-Computer Interaction Models"], the First Doctoral Paper, Polytechnic University Bucharest (PUB), May 1999.

Ř  C. Niculescu, 2000, „Tehnologii si strategii de colaborare prin Internet” ["Technologies and Strategies for Internet Collaboration"], the Second Doctoral Paper, PUB, April 2000.

Ř  C. Niculescu, 2000, „Structuri arhitecturale ale sistemelor de cooperare prin Web” ["Architectural Structures of Web Cooperative Systems"], the Third Doctoral Paper, PUB, December 2000. 

 Presentations:

·    C. Niculescu, L. Pană, (2010). „Architecture of a Multi-Framework Set for Collaborative Knowledge Generation”, The 11th European Conference on Knowledge Management ECKM 2010, Universidade Lusíada de Vila Nova de Famalicăo, Famalicăo, Portugal, September 2-3, 2010.

·         Şt. Trăuşan-Matu, C. Niculescu (2008). “A Framework for an Ontology-based Information System for Competence Management”, The 3-rd International Conference on Knowledge Management, ASE, October 2008.

·         C. Niculescu, 2005. „Research Communities’ Knowledge Sharing Platform Modular Architecture”, Joint Workshop “Industry meets research” with focus on middle and eastern Europe, organized by FHG IAO Stuttgart, Germany & FH Kärnten Villach, Austria, September 28, 2005, International Conference Interactive Computer Aided Learning (ICL 2005), Villach, Austria.

·        C. Niculescu, 2004. „RACAI – Recent Research Results in the Field of Professional Learning”, NoE PROLEARN WP8 Workshop3: Virtual Competence Centre, Institut Arbeitswirtschaft und Organisation Fraunhofer, Stuttgart, November 18, 2004.

·        C. Niculescu, 2004. „RACAI – Recent Research Results in the Field of Knowledge Work Management”, NoE PROLEARN WP7 Workshop3: Knowledge Work Management, Institut Arbeitswirtschaft und Organisation Fraunhofer, Stuttgart, November 19, 2004.

·        C. Niculescu, 2004. „Sisteme socio-tehnologice în managementul cunoaşterii”, CRIFST Romanian Academy Session, October 2004.

·       C. Niculescu, 2004. „R&D Offers of RACAI for ProLearn”, PROLEARN WP8 Workshop 1: Virtual Competence Centre, Institut Arbeitswirtschaft und Organisation Fraunhofer, Stuttgart, April 6, 2004.

·        C. Niculescu, 2004. „RACAI Activities in the Key Issue Areas of Knowledge Work Management”, PROLEARN WP7 Workshop: Knowledge Work Management, Institut Arbeitswirtschaft und Organisation Fraunhofer, Stuttgart,April  5,  2004.

·        C. Niculescu, R. Ion, 2003. “Education Colaborative System for Sustaining Project Management Activities”, symposium: Web Educational Intelligent Collaborative Systems, UPB, December 2003.

·        C. Niculescu, 2003. “Knowledge Based Organizations in the Context of Business Globalization”, CRIFST Romanian Academy Session, October 2003.

·        C. Niculescu, 2003. “Cooperative Virtual Environment for Communities of Practice” and “Perspectives on Knowledge Management”, International Seminar Integrating Distance Learning in Knowledge Management, National School of Political Studies and Public Administration, May 2003.

·        C. Niculescu, R. Ion, 2003. “Social Infrastructure for Project Management Information Systems”, Sixth International Conference on Economic Informatics, Academy of Economic Studies, May 2003.

·        C. Niculescu, 2002. “Patricia Churchland about the Role of Neurology in Explaining Consciousness”, CRIFST Romanian Academy Session: Philosophy of Science and Philosophy of Consciousness, April 2002.

·        C. Niculescu, 2002. "Ontological Aspects in Modeling Information Systems", CRIFST Romanian Academy Session, April 2002.

·        D. Tufiş, Şt. Trăuşan-Matu, C. Niculescu, 2002. "E-learning Intelligent Technologies", Romanian Academy Session: E-learning, March 2002.

·        C. Niculescu, 2002. "Internet Facilities in Sustaining Cognitive Activities", Romanian Academy Session: Book and Education in the New Era", February 2002.

·        C. Niculescu, 2001. "The Role of the Management Knowledge Systems in Virtual Organisations", CRIFST  Romanian Academy Session, October 2001

·        C. Niculescu, T. Ionescu, 2001. "Model for Project Management Information Systems Integration", SIMSIS-11, University 'Dunarea de Jos', Galati, October 2001.

·        C. Niculescu, A. Marhan, 2001. "Collaboration Environments for Distance  Learning", RoCHI Session (Special Interest Group in Computer-Human Interaction, SIGCHI Romania), ASE, Sept. 2001.

·        C. Niculescu, 2001. "Synergy of Competencies by Internet, a Holistic Vision", Symposium  Virtual Environments  Ontology, Cognition and Linguistic Paradigm, May 2001.

·        C. Niculescu, 2001. "Humanistic Aspects of the Internet Technologies", CRIFST  Romanian Academy Session, February 2001.

·        T. Ionescu, C. Niculescu, 2000. "Software Technologies for Distance Education", UPB Session "Strategia universitatii in domeniul educatiei continue", November 2000.

·        C. Niculescu, 2000. "Synergy of Competencies by Internet, a Holistic Vision" (Abstract), Romanian Academy Session: "Philosophy of Science at the End of the 20th Century", October 2000.

·        C. Niculescu, 2000. "Some Implications of the Internet", Colocviul "Fenomenul Internet", Biblioteca Municipala Bucuresti, October 2000.

·        C. Niculescu, 2000. “Virtual Work Groups Self-Organisation", The Forth Romanian Academy Conference: "Structural-Phenomenological Modelling", Theme: "Self-Organisation", June 2000.

·        C. Niculescu, 2000. "HCI Metaphors for CSCW Systems", Doctoral Colloquium, Forth International Conference on the design of Cooperative Systems, COOP'2000, Sophia Antipolis, France, May, 2000.

·        C. Niculescu, 2000. "Global Communication. Regulation in Internet: a Local or a Global Problem?", Romanian Academy Session: "Action, Opinion and Argumentation", May, 2000.

·        C. Niculescu, 1999. "Human-Computer Interaction Models for Internet Collaborations", Romanian Academy Session "Logic Models of Human Relationships in Cooperation, Competition and Conflict", June 1999.

·        C. Niculescu, 1998. "Developing Skills for Internet Users", Education Working Group of the Session 358 of the Salzburg Seminar, Salzburg, Austria, July 1998.

 Updated: January 19, 2011