Research – diaconita.ase.ro

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Published articles (selection)

Vlad Diaconita and Laurentiu-Gabriel Dinca (2026). “Teaching works—Support matters: Lessons for management education from student evidence.” The International Journal of Management Education, 24(2), 101393. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijme.2026.101393
Sergiu-Alexandru Ionescu, Vlad Diaconita, Andreea-Oana Radu, Laurentiu-Gabriel Dinca, and Ioana Nagit (2026). “Deterministic Data Governance in Hybrid Financial Architectures.” Electronics, 15(8), 1716. https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics15081716
Vlad Diaconita, Anda Belciu, Alexandra Maria Ioana Corbea, and Iuliana Simonca (2025). “Decoding Wine Narratives with Hierarchical Attention: Classification, Visual Prompts, and Emerging E-Commerce Possibilities.” Journal of Theoretical and Applied Electronic Commerce Research, 20(3), 212. https://doi.org/10.3390/jtaer20030212
Sergiu-Alexandru Ionescu, Vlad Diaconita, and Andreea-Oana Radu (2025). “Engineering Sustainable Data Architectures for Modern Financial Institutions.” Electronics, 14(8), 1650. https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics14081650
Alexandru Cosmin Baroiu, Vlad Diaconita, and Simona Vasilica Oprea (2023). “Bitcoin volatility in bull vs. bear market—insights from analyzing on-chain metrics and Twitter posts.” PeerJ Computer Science, 9, e1750. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj-cs.1750
Anca Alexandra Ducman, Vlad Diaconita, Iuliana Simonca, Anda Belciu, and Alexandra Maria Ioana Corbea (2023). “Government Oversight and Economic Impacts: Sustainability in the Vineyard and the Evolution of Wine Regulations, Trade and Production.” Agronomy, 13(12), 2991. https://doi.org/10.3390/agronomy13122991
Sergiu-Alexandru Ionescu and Vlad Diaconita (2023). “Transforming Financial Decision-Making: The Interplay of AI, Cloud Computing and Advanced Data Management Technologies.” International Journal of Computers Communications & Control, 18(6), 5735. https://doi.org/10.15837/ijccc.2023.6.5735
Vlad Diaconita, Anda Belciu, and Maria Georgiana Stoica (2023). “Trustful Blockchain-Based Framework for Privacy Enabling Voting in a University.” Journal of Theoretical and Applied Electronic Commerce Research, 18(1), 150–169. https://doi.org/10.3390/jtaer18010008
Simona-Vasilica Oprea, Adela Bâra, and Vlad Diaconita (2022). “A motivational local trading framework with 2-round auctioning and settlement rules embedded in smart contracts for a small citizen energy community.” Renewable Energy, 193, 225–239. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.renene.2022.04.149
Simona-Vasilica Oprea, Adela Bâra, Vlad Diaconita, C. Ceaparu, and Anca Alexandra Ducman (2021). “Big Data Processing for Commercial Buildings and Assessing Flexibility in the Context of Citizen Energy Communities.” IEEE Access, 9, 168715–168730. https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2021.3137352
Simona-Vasilica Oprea, Adela Bâra, and Vlad Diaconita (2019). “Sliding Time Window Electricity Consumption Optimization Algorithm for Communities in the Context of Big Data Processing.” IEEE Access, 7, 13050–13067. https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2019.2892902
Vlad Diaconita, Ana-Ramona Bologa, and Razvan Bologa (2018). “Hadoop Oriented Smart Cities Architecture.” Sensors, 18(4), 1181. https://doi.org/10.3390/s18041181
Vlad Diaconita (2015). “Processing unstructured documents and social media using Big Data techniques.” Economic Research-Ekonomska Istraživanja, 28(1), 981–993. https://doi.org/10.1080/1331677X.2015.1095110
Ion Lungu, Adela Bâra, Vlad Diaconita, and Corina Paraschiv (2010). “Analyzing the Performance of Data Loading and Processing in Relational Databases.” Economic Computation and Economic Cybernetics Studies and Research, 44(3), 109–122.
Ion Lungu, Manole Velicanu, Adela Bâra, Vlad Diaconita, and Iuliana Botha (2009). “Portal Based System Integration—Foundation for Decision Support.” Economic Computation and Economic Cybernetics Studies and Research, 43(1), 123–134.
Ion Lungu, Manole Velicanu, Adela Bâra, Vlad Diaconita, and Iuliana Botha (2008). “Practices for Designing and Improving Data Extraction in a Virtual Data Warehouses Project.” International Journal of Computers, Communications & Control, 3(Suppl.), 369–374.

Research projects

Votul electronic securizat prin tehnologia blockchain—aplicabilitate în alegerile din cadrul universităților, ID 323; principal investigator (project director), 2022–2023.
Intelligent System for Trading on the Wholesale Electricity Market (SMARTRADE); co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) through the Competitiveness Operational Programme 2014–2020, Priority Axis 1—Research, Technological Development and Innovation (RD&I) to Support Economic Competitiveness and Business Development, Action 1.1.4—Attracting High-Level Personnel from Abroad to Enhance RD Capacity; contract ID P_37_418, no. 62/05.09.2016.
Distributed Analysis of Large Volumes of Data for Decision Support, POSDRU/159/1.5/S/138907, “Excelență în cercetarea științifică, interdisciplinară, doctorală și postdoctorală, în domeniile Economic, Social și Medical—EXCELIS”; funded through the Sectoral Operational Programme Human Resources Development 2007–2013; June 2014–September 2015; principal investigator.
Intelligent System for Monitoring, Analyzing and Predicting Performance Indicators for Technological and Business Processes in the Field of Renewable Energy; PCCA (Partnerships) grant, 2014–2016.
IT Solutions for Decision Support and for the Development of Knowledge Management in Public Institutions; PN II, Ideas Programme, project code 820, 2007–2010; RON 500,000.
Integrating Database Technology with the Java Platform in Grid Computing; CNCSIS grant (type A), 2006–2007; RON 42,000.
Information Technologies for Integrating Public Institutions; CNCSIS grant (type A), 2006–2007; RON 45,500.

Published books and book chapters

Laurentiu-Gabriel Dinca and Vlad Diaconita (2025). “Enhancing the Involvement Level of Volunteer Students in the Academic Community: Efficient Usage of Digital Resources.” In C. Ciurea, P. Pocatilu, and F. G. Filip (Eds.), Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Informatics in Economy (IE 2024), Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies, vol. 426, pp. 49–58. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-96-0161-5_5
Anda Belciu, Alexandra Maria Ioana Corbea, Vlad Diaconita, and Iuliana Simonca (2024). “Exploring the Relationship Between Income Inequality and Education: An Analysis Using PISA Test Results and the Gini Coefficient.” In C. Ciurea, P. Pocatilu, and F. G. Filip (Eds.), Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Informatics in Economy (IE 2023), Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies, vol. 367, pp. 51–59. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-6529-8_5
Vlad Diaconita and Maria Georgiana Stoica (2023). “Blockchain and Smart Contracts for Voting in a University.” In C. Ciurea, P. Pocatilu, and F. G. Filip (Eds.), Education, Research and Business Technologies, Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies, vol. 321. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-6755-9_14
Alexandra Maria Ioana Florea, Vlad Diaconita, and Iuliana Dorobat (2016). “Business Process Modeling for Sales Processes Automation.” In Entrepreneurship, Business and Economics—Vol. 1, Eurasian Studies in Business and Economics, pp. 375–383. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-27570-3_29
Vlad Diaconita (2014). IT and Economic Solutions for Stock Market Integration (in Romanian). ASE Publishing House, 190 pages. ISBN 978-606-505-790-6.
Ion Lungu (Coordinator), Anca Andreescu, Adela Bâra, Anda Belciu, Constanța Bodea, Iuliana Botha, Vlad Diaconita, Alexandra Florea, and Cornelia Gyorodi (2015). Databases, Volume 2: Database Management Systems (in Romanian). ASE Publishing House, Bucharest, 375 pages. ISBN 978-606-505-472-1.
Ion Lungu (Coordinator), Adela Bâra, Constanța Bodea, Iuliana Botha, Vlad Diaconita, Alexandra Florea, and Anda Velicanu (2011). Databases, Volume 1: Data Organization, Design and Deployment (in Romanian). ASE Publishing House, 540 pages. ISBN 978-606-505-472-1; volume 1 ISBN 978-606-505-481-3.
Adela Bâra, Iuliana Botha, Vlad Diaconita, Ion Lungu, and Anda Velicanu (2009). Databases: Programming in PL/SQL (in Romanian). ASE Publishing House, 302 pages. ISBN 978-973-594-975-4.
Ion Lungu, Ana-Ramona Bologa, Vlad Diaconita, Adela Bâra, and Iuliana Botha (2007). Information Systems Integration (in Romanian). ASE Publishing House, Bucharest, 302 pages. ISBN 978-973-594-690-6.