Published articles (selection):
- Diaconita Vlad and Dinca Laurentiu-Gabriel. 2026. “Teaching works—Support matters: Lessons for management education from student evidence.” The International Journal of Management Education 24, no. 2: 101393. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijme.2026.101393
- Diaconita Vlad, Belciu Anda, Corbea Alexandra Maria Ioana, and Simonca Iuliana. 2025. “Decoding Wine Narratives with Hierarchical Attention: Classification, Visual Prompts, and Emerging E-Commerce Possibilities.” Journal of Theoretical and Applied Electronic Commerce Research 20, no. 3: 212. https://doi.org/10.3390/jtaer20030212
- Ionescu Sergiu-Alexandru, Diaconita Vlad, and Radu Andreea-Oana. 2025. “Engineering Sustainable Data Architectures for Modern Financial Institutions.” Electronics 14, no. 8: 1650. https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics14081650
- Baroiu Alexandru Cosmin, Diaconita Vlad, and Oprea Simona Vasilica. 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
- Ducman Anca Alexandra, Diaconita Vlad, Simonca Iuliana, Belciu Anda, and Corbea Alexandra Maria Ioana. 2023. “Government Oversight and Economic Impacts: Sustainability in the Vineyard and the Evolution of Wine Regulations, Trade and Production.” Agronomy 13, no. 12: 2991. https://doi.org/10.3390/agronomy13122991
- Ionescu Sergiu-Alexandru and Diaconita Vlad. 2023. “Transforming Financial Decision-Making: The Interplay of AI, Cloud Computing and Advanced Data Management Technologies.” International Journal of Computers Communications & Control 18, no. 6. https://doi.org/10.15837/ijccc.2023.6.5735
- Diaconita Vlad, Belciu Anda, and Stoica Maria Georgiana. 2023. “Trustful Blockchain-Based Framework for Privacy Enabling Voting in a University.” Journal of Theoretical and Applied Electronic Commerce Research 18, no. 1: 150-169. https://doi.org/10.3390/jtaer18010008
- Oprea Simona-Vasilica, Bâra Adela, and Diaconita Vlad. 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
- Oprea Simona-Vasilica, Bâra Adela, Diaconita Vlad, Ceaparu C., and Ducman Anca Alexandra. 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
- Oprea Simona-Vasilica, Bâra Adela, and Diaconita Vlad. 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
- Diaconita Vlad, Bologa Ana-Ramona, and Bologa Razvan. 2018. “Hadoop Oriented Smart Cities Architecture.” Sensors 18, no. 4: 1181. https://doi.org/10.3390/s18041181
- Diaconita Vlad. 2015. “Processing unstructured documents and social media using Big Data techniques.” Economic Research-Ekonomska Istraživanja 28, no. 1: 981-993. https://doi.org/10.1080/1331677X.2015.1095110
- Lungu Ion, Bâra Adela, Diaconita Vlad, and Paraschiv Corina. 2010. “Analyzing the Performance of Data Loading and Processing in Relational Databases.” Journal of Economic Computation and Economic Cybernetics Studies and Research, no. 3: 109-123. http://www.ecocyb.ase.ro/cont32010/ABSTRACTS,%203,2010.pdf
- Lungu Ion, Velicanu Manole, Bâra Adela, Diaconita Vlad, and Botha Iuliana. 2009. “Portal Based System Integration – Foundation for Decision Support.” Journal of Economic Computation and Economic Cybernetics Studies and Research 1: 123-135. http://www.ecocyb.ase.ro/revista/Ion%20Lungu.pdf
- Lungu Ion, Velicanu Manole, Bâra Adela, Diaconita Vlad, and Botha Iuliana. 2008. “Practices for designing and improving data extraction in a virtual data warehouses project.” International Journal of Computers, Communications and Control 3: 369-375.
Research projects:
- Votul electronic securizat prin tehnologia blockchain– aplicabilitate în alegerile din cadrul universitatilor, ID 323, PI (director proiect)
- Intelligent system for trading on wholesale electricity market (SMARTRADE), co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF), through the Competitiveness Operational Program (COP) 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 in order to enhance the 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 şi postdoctorală, în domeniile Economic, Social şi Medical – EXCELIS” finanțat în cadrul Programului Operațional Sectorial Dezvoltarea Resurselor Umane 2007-2013, June 2014-September 2015, PI
- Intelligent system for monitoring, analyzing and prediction of performance indicators for technological and business processes in the field of renewable energies, 2014-2016, PCCA (partnerships) Grant
- IT solutions for decision support and for the development of knowledge management in public institutions, 2007-2010, PN II Project, Ideas Program, Code: 820, 500.000 RON
- Integrating database technology with Java platform in Grid Computing, 2006-2007, CNCSIS grant (A type), 42.000 RON
- Informatics technologies for integrating public institutions CNCSIS grant (A type) 2006-2007, 45.5000 RON
Published books and book chapters:
- Dinca Laurentiu, Diaconita Vlad, Enhancing the Involvement Level of Volunteer Students in the Academic Community: Efficient Usage of Digital Resources. In: Ciurea, C., Pocatilu, P., Filip, F.G. (eds) Proceedings of 23rd International Conference on Informatics in Economy (IE 2024). IE 2024. Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies, vol 426. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-96-0161-5_5, 2025
- Belciu Anda, Corbea Alexandra Maria Ioana, Diaconita Vlad, Simonca Iuliana, Exploring the Relationship Between Income Inequality and Education: An Analysis Using PISA Test Results and the Gini Coefficient. In: Ciurea, C., Pocatilu, P., Filip, F.G. (eds) Proceedings of 22nd International Conference on Informatics in Economy (IE 2023). IE 2023. Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies, vol 367. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-6529-8_5, 2024
- Diaconita Vlad, Stoica Maria Georgiana, Blockchain and Smart Contracts for Voting in a University. In: Ciurea, C., Pocatilu, P., Filip, F.G. (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, 2023
- Alexandra Maria Ioana Florea, Vlad Diaconita, Iuliana Dorobat, Business Process Modeling for Sales Processes Automation, Entrepreneurship, Business and Economics – Vol. 1, Eurasian Studies in Business and Economics, Springer, pp 375-384, ISBN 978-3-319-27569-7, ISBN 978-3-319-27570-3 (eBook), DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-27570-3, 2016,
- Vlad Diaconita, IT and economic solutions for stock market integration (in Romanian), AES Publishing House, 190 pagini, 2014, ISBN: 978-606-505-790-6
- Ion Lungu (coordonator), Anca Andreescu, Adela Bara, Anda Belciu, Constanta Bodea, Iuliana Botha, Vlad Diaconita, Alexandra Florea, Cornelia Gyorodi, Databases, Volume 2, Database management systems (in Romanian), AES Publishing House, București, 375 pagini, 2015, ISBN 978-606-505-472-1
- Ion Lungu (coord.), Adela Bâra, Constanţa Bodea, Iuliana Botha, Vlad Diaconiţa, Alexandra Florea, Anda Velicanu, Databases, Volume 1, Data Organizing, Designing and Deploying (in Romanian), AES Publishing House, 540 pagini, 2011, ISBN 978-606-505-472-1 / 978-606-505-481-3 ISBN vol.1,
- Bâra Adela, Botha Iuliana, Diaconiţa Vlad, Lungu Ion, Velicanu Anda, Databases – Programming in PL/SQL (in Romanian), AES Publishing House, 302 pagini, 2009, ISBN 978-973-594-975-4 ;
- Lungu Ion, Bologa Ana-Ramona, Diaconita Vlad, Bâra Adela, Botha Iuliana, Information systems integration (in Romanian), AES Publishing House, 302 pagini, Bucureşti 2007, ISBN 978–973–594–690–6 ;