CONSTANTIN-BALA ZAMFIRESCU
Personal data
Address:
Grogore Procopiu, 21
1000 Ramnicu Valcea
Romania
Civil status:
Married
Birth date:
16/11/1972
Email:
zbc@acm.org
Mobile:
Home:
+40+40-269241261
Highlights
 Devoted to a multidisciplinary research approach towards a humanistic information society
 Significant experience working within international R&D projects
 Excellent team-worker and experience in coordinating R&D software projects
 Well-organized, efficient and effective
 Flexible, dynamic and willing to travel
 Innovative, open-minded and committed to lifelong learning
Education
Expected 2004
1997
1996
1991
“Politehnica” University of Bucharest, Faculty of
Computer Science and Automatic Control, Romania.
 Thesis Anthropocentrical Group Decision Support Systems,
promoter Florin G. Filip (http://www.ici.ro/ici/homepage/filipf.html)
MS in Parallel and Distributed Processing Systems. “Lucian Blaga”
University, Faculty of Engineering, Department of Computer Science and
Automatic Control, Sibiu, Romania.
 Thesis Real Time Paradigms for Highly Distributed Systems at grade 10/10.
BS in Computer Science. “Lucian Blaga” University, Faculty of Engineering,
Department of Computer Science and Automatic Control, Sibiu, Romania.
 Dissertation Comparative Evaluation of a Real-Time Operating System
Developed under DOS and Win NT at grade 10/10.
Baccalaureate in Informatics. “Alexandru Lahovari” College, Ramnicu Valcea,
Romania.
 A level equivalent: Mathematics (8.89/10), Physics (9.21/10), Romanian literature
(8.75/10).
PhD in Computer Science.
Expertise/Interest
Collaborative Systems, Decision Support Systems, Human-Computer Interaction, Balanced Automation,
Manufacturing Control and Supply Chain Management Systems.
Membership in professional organizations
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Association for Computing Machinery (ACM): SIG-CHI, SIG-GROUP, SIG-ART (since 1999)
International Federation for Automatic Control - TC 5.4 Large Scale and Complex System (since 2002)
Romanian Society for Medical Informatics (since 1999)
Romanian Neural Network Society (since 2000)
Employment history
2004- present Assistant Professor. “Lucian Blaga” Univ. of Sibiu, Faculty of Engineering,
Department of Computer Science and Automatic Control, Sibiu, Romania.
2001-2003
Associate Researcher, Katholieke Univ. Leuven, Mechanical Eng. Dep. PMA,
Multi-
Agent Coordination and Control Research Group, Belgium
Main responsibilities: handle PMA participation in EU GROWTH/RTD Project:
Modular Plant Architecture (www.mpa-online.net). That includes:
 Co-ordinate within the consortium the activities for the MPA-Software-Tool;
 Keep track of consistency and integration aspects with the project partners;
 Design, develop and implement the simulation software: emulation software for the real
plant connected to a novel, self-organizing, multi-agent manufacturing controller;
 Conduct the validation and testing campaign for two real plants, i.e. Picanol and Behr;
 Disseminate the results, i.e. deliverables, conferences, technical reports;
 Prepare and report the project’s financial records, manpower follow up and forecasts.
Participation in research projects and networks of excellence:
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1996-2000
EU GROWTH/RTD Modular Plant Architecture
European NOE for Intelligent Manufacturing Systems
European NOE for Agent Based Computing
Flanders National Project, Concerted Action on Agents for Coordination and Control
Assistant Professor, “Lucian Blaga” Univ., Faculty of Engineering, Department of
Computer Science and Automatic Control, Sibiu, Romania.
Main duties:
 Teach classes for Industrial Informatics;
 Promote and lead students during the final diploma thesis;
 Academic research in human-computer interaction, integrated manufacturing and decision
support systems.
Participation in research and networks of excellence:
1997-present
 COST Action 269, User Aspects of ICTs
 European NOE Intelligent Control and Integrated Manufacturing Systems
 Copernicus "Medical Guideline Technology: Representing, Interpreting and Sharing
Cost Effective Standards" – DGXIII
 TEMPUS Project Retraining Support for Small and Medium Enterprises
 European NOE for Agent Based Computing
Research Consultant, Artificial Intelligence Research Group, Sibiu, Romania
(http://www.airg.ro)
Main contributions:
 Lead small groups (2-3 peoples) in developing two innovative software products: a webbased group decision support systems (http://www.airg.ro/sol_gdss_ro.htm) and an
integrated Internet-searching tool using users’ profiles to refine the searching content
(http://www.airg.ro/sol_sea_ro.htm);
 Active involvement in European research actions.
Participation in research projects and networks of excellence:
 The European IST Prize, Information Society Technologies (2003)
 EU GROWTH/RTD Modular Plant Architecture
 European NOE for Agent Based Computing
Conference presentations/Professional development/Academic visits
 3rd IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Information Technology for Balanced Automation Systems in
Manufacturing, Prague, Czech Republic, August 1998.
 Advanced Summer Institute, Leuven, Belgium, September 1999.
 IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Engineering Systems, High Tatras, Slovakia, 1999.
 IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Engineering Systems, Portoroz, Slovenia, 2000.
 University of Klagenfurt, Dep. of Applied Informatics, Klagenfurt, Austria, March-April 2000.
 4th IEEE / IFIP International Conference on Information Technology for Balanced Automation Systems
in Production and Transportation, Berlin, Germany, September 2000.
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Univ. Autonoma de Barcelona, Dep. of Microelectronics, Barcelona, Spain, October-November 2000.
15TH IFAC World Congress on Automatic Control, Barcelona, Spain, July 2002.
DEXA Conference, Aix-en-Provence, France, September 2002.
Java for the Enterprise: Where New and Old Economy Meet, Brussels, Belgium, November 2002.
DEXA Conference, Prague, Czech Republic, September 2003.
JavaPolis Conference, Antwerp, Belgium, December 2003.
Technical Skills
 Project Management Tools
 Familiarized with most ERP systems
 Discrete event simulation
 Object and Agent Oriented design
 OOP (Java, C++, ADA)
 Concurrent programming
 Communication and Web technology
Languages
 Romanian: mother tongue,
 English: fluent
 French: R/W/S–good/medium/ medium
 Dutch, German, Italian: very basic.
Miscellaneous
 Certified “Brainbench” Project Manager (2000).
 Recipient of the National IT prize for the best scientific software of the year 2000 in Romania.
Hobbies
 Philosophy and sociology
 Enjoy regular sport activities – track biking across Europe, tennis, soccer
Publications
Author/co-author/contributor of over 20 papers concerning agent-based applications on different
topics published in international journals and conference proceedings. Complete list of papers, by
application domain:
A. Group support systems
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Zamfirescu, C.B., B.E. Bărbat and F.G. Filip (1998). The “coach” metaphor in CSCW decision
making systems design. In Intelligent Systems for Manufacturing: Multi-Agent Systems and Virtual
Organizations, Kluwer Academic Publishers, p. 241-250.
Zamfirescu, C.B., F.G. Filip (1999). An agent-oriented approach to team-based manufacturing
systems. In Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Intelligent Manufacturing
Systems, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Press, Belgium, p. 651-658.
Zamfirescu, C.B. and F.G. Filip (1999). From steering to coaching: a new challenge to executive
support systems. In Proceedings of the Second World Manufacturing Congress, ICSC Academic
Press, UK.
Zamfirescu, C.B. and F.G. Filip (1999). The Coach Metaphor as Lenses for Analysing Multiple
Perspectives in CSCW: Implications for System Design. In Preprints of ASI’99, Leuven, Belgium.
Zamfirescu, C.B., C. Candea and S.I. Luca (2001). On Integrating Agents Into GDSS. In Preprints
of the 9th IFAC / IFORS / IMACS / IFIP/ Symposium on Large Scale Systems: Theory and
Applications. Bucharest, Romania, p. 231-236.
Zamfirescu, C.B. and F.G. Filip (2002). Supporting Self-Facilitation in Distributed Group
Decisions. Proceedings 13th International Workshop on Database and Expert Systems Applications
- DEXA 2002, 2-6 September, Aix-en-Provence, France, IEEE Computer Society Press, p. 321-325.
Zamfirescu, C.B. (2003). An Agent-Oriented Approach for Supporting Self-Facilitation in Group
Decisions, Studies in Informatics and Control, 12(2), p. 137-148.
B. Enterprise integration and control
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Valckenaers, P., M. Kollingbaum, H.V. Brussel, O. Bochmann and C.B. Zamfirescu (2001). The
Design Of Multi-Agent Coordination And Control Systems Using Stigmergy. In Proceedings of the
3rd International Workshop on Emergent Synthesis, Bled, Slovenia.
Germain, B.S., P. Valckenaers, H. Van Brussel, Hadeli, O. Bochmann, C.B. Zamfrescu, P.
Verstraete (2003). Multi-Agent Manufacturing Control: An Industrial Case Study. In Preprints of
the 7th IFAC Workshop on Intelligent Manufacturing Systems, 6-8 April Budapest, Hungary, p.
227-332. (republished in Intelligent Manufacturing Systems, Pergamon Press, Elsevier)
Germain, B.S., C.B. Zamfirescu, O. Bochmann, P. Valckenaers, and H. Van Brussel (2003).
Benchmarking Of Manufacturing Control Systems in Simulation. In Proceedings of the 3rd IFIP
International Workshop On Performance Measurement, 19-20 June Bergamo, Italy, p. 357-369.
Zamfirescu, C.B., P. Valckenaers, Hadeli, H. Van Brussel, and B.S. Germain (2003). A Case Study
for Modular Plant Control. In Holonic and Multi-Agent Systems for Manufacturing, Springer
Verlag, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, 2744, p. 268-279.
Hadeli, P. Valckenaers, C.B. Zamfirescu, H. Van Brussel, and B.S. Germain (2003). Self-organising
in Multi-agent Coordination and Control using Stigmergy. In Self-Organising Applications: Issues,
challenges and trends. Springer Verlag, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, 2977.
C. User modelling
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Linguraru, M.G. and C.B. Zamfirescu (1999). Medical Decision Systems: A Human-Centred
Approach. In Proceedings of 22nd Romanian Conference on Medical Informatics with International
Participation, Sibiu.
Linguraru, M.G. and C.B. Zamfirescu (1999). The Cultural Impact of Anthropocentrical Systems in
Medical Decision Making. In Proceedings of 3rd IEEE International Conference on Intelligent
Engineering Systems, High Tatras, Slovakia, p. 473-478.
Zamfirescu, C.B., M. Staicu and M. Luca (1999). SEA: Search engine agents. Acta Universitatis
Cibiniensis, Sibiu, XXIX, p. 139-144.
Bărbat, B.E. and C.B. Zamfirescu (1999). A3ckm: Anthropocentric Agent Architectures for complex
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knowledge management. Acta Universitatis Cibiniensis, Sibiu, XXIX, p. 19-25.
Bărbat B., C.B. Zamfirescu and G. Costache (2000). Agent-Oriented Captology For Medical
Informatics. In Proceedings of MIE2000 and GMDS2000, Hanover, IOS Press, p. 465-469.
Cândea, C., M. Staicu and C.B. Zamfirescu (2000). An agent-based system for modelling the
searching process on the Web. In Proceedings of 4th IEEE International Conference on Intelligent
Engineering Systems, Portoroz, Slovenia.
Barbat, B.E. and C.B. Zamfirescu (2001). Polymorphic Agents for Modelling E-Business Users. In
Proceedings of the International NAISO Congress on Information Science Innovations, Symposium
on E-Business And Beyond (EBB'2001), ICSC Academic Press, p. 1018-1024.
D. Multi-agent systems design
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Barbat, B.E., C. Cândea, C.B. Zamfirescu (2001). Holons and Agents in Robotic Teams. A
Synergistic Approach. In Proceedings of the International NAISO Congress on Information Science
Innovations ISI'2001 (ENAIS'2001), ICSC Academic Press Canada/The Netherlands, p. 654-661.
Cândea, C. et al. (2001). Coordination in multi-agent RoboCup teams. Robotics and Autonomous
Systems, 36, Elsevier, Amsterdam, p. 67-86.
Valckenaers, P., H.V. Brussel, Hadeli, O. Bochmann, B.S. Germain and C.B. Zamfirescu (2002) On
the design of emergent systems. Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, Elsevier
Science, 16(4), p. 377-393.
Boldur, B.E., C.B. Zamfirescu and S.C. Negulescu (2004). The Best form Ants and Humans:
Synergy in Agent-Based Systems. Studies in Informatics and Control, 13(1), 47-59.
E. Technical reports
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Zamfirescu, C.B. (1996). Comparative Evaluation of a Real-Time Operating System Developed
under DOS and Win NT. BSc Thesis, “Lucian Blaga” University of Sibiu.
Zamfirescu, C.B. (1997). Real Time Paradigms for Highly Distributed Systems. MSc Thesis, ,
“Lucian Blaga” University of Sibiu.
Zamfirescu, C.B. (2000). Group Decision Support Systems. PhD Technical Report, University
“Politehnica” of Bucharest, Faculty of Computer Science.
Zamfirescu, C.B. (2000). Agent-based computing for information retrieval. Technical Report IWAS2000-01, Klagenfurt University, Department of Applied Informatics, Austria.
Zamfirescu, C.B. (2001). Active support for Group Decisions. PhD Technical Report, University
“Politehnica” of Bucharest, Faculty of Computer Science.
Creanza, P, P. Valckenaers, C.B. Zamfirescu and B. Tateo (2001). System Requirements
Specification for Emulation and Control. Deliverable 2.1.b. for EU – GROWTH Project GRD 12000-25065 MPA.
Creanza, P, C.B. Zamfirescu and B. Tateo (2002). Emulation and Control Basic Version.
Deliverable D.2.3.a for EU – GROWTH Project GRD 1-2000-25065 MPA
Zamfirescu, C.B. (2002). Anthropocentrical Group Decision Support Systems. PhD Technical
Report, University “Politehnica” of Bucharest, Faculty of Computer Science.