Topirceanu, A., Udrescu, M., & Marculescu, R. (2018). Weighted Betweenness Preferential Attachment: A New Mechanism Explaining Social Network Formation and Evolution. Scientific reports, 8(1), 10871 (IF=4.122, Q1)

Topirceanu, A., Duma, A., & Udrescu, M. (2016). Uncovering the fingerprint of online social networks using a network motif based approach. Computer Communications, 73, 167-175. (IF=3.338, Q1)

Topirceanu, A., Udrescu, M., Vladutiu, M., & Marculescu, R. (2016). Tolerance-based interaction: a new model targeting opinion formation and diffusion in social networks. PeerJ Computer Science, 2, e42.

Topirceanu, A., Udrescu, M. (2016). Statistical Fidelity: A Tool to Quantify the Similarity Between Multi-variable Entities with Application in Complex Networks. International Journal of Computer Mathematics, Taylor & Francis, DOI: 10.1080/00207160.2016.1247437. (IF=1.054, Q2)

Topirceanu, A., Udrescu, M., Vladutiu, M., "Genetically Optimized Social Network Topology Inspired by Facebook", Online Social Media Analysis and Visualization (pp. 163-179). Springer International Publishing. DOI:10.1007/978-3-319-13590-8_8, 2014, ISBN 978-3-319-13590-8.

Udrescu, L., Sbârcea, L., Topîrceanu, A., Iovanovici, A., Kurunczi, L., Bogdan, P., & Udrescu, M. (2016). Clustering drug-drug interaction networks with energy model layouts: community analysis and drug repurposing. Scientific Reports, 6. (IF=5.228, Q1).

Topîrceanu, A. (2017). Breaking up friendships in exams: A case study for minimizing student cheating in higher education using social network analysis. Computers & Education, 115, 171-187 (IF=4.538, Q1)

Topîrceanu, A. (2018). Competition-Based Benchmarking of Influence Ranking Methods in Social Networks. Complexity, 2018 (IF=2.591, Q1)

Topîrceanu, A., Udrescu, M., Udrescu, L., Ardelean, C., Dan, R., Reisz, D., & Mihaicuta, S. (2018). SAS score: Targeting high-specificity for efficient population-wide monitoring of obstructive sleep apnea. PloS one, 13(9), e0202042 (IF=2.766, Q1)

Udrescu Mihai, Prodan Lucian, Vlăduțiu Mircea. Simulated Fault Injection Methodology for Gate-Level Quantum Circuit Reliability Assessment. Simulation Modelling Practice and Theory, vol. 23(1), 2012

Oana Boncalo, Alexandru Amaricai, Mihai Udrescu, Mircea Vladutiu. Quantum Circuit’ Reliability Assessment with VHDL-Based Simulated Fault Injection. Microelectronics Reliability, vol. 50(2), pp. 304-311, 2010, ISSN: 0026-2714.

Alexandru Amaricai, Mihai Udrescu, Mircea Vladutiu, Lucian Prodan, Oana Boncalo. Hardware Integer Multiplier Design Based on Booth's Algorithms. Transactions on Automatic Control and Computer Science, Universitatea Politehnica din Timisoara, Romania, vol. 54(68), 2009, pp. 25-30, ISSN 1224-600X.

Lucian Prodan, Mihai Udrescu, Mircea Vladutiu. Fault-Tolerant Memory Design and Partitioning Issues in Embryonics. In G.S. Hornby, L. Sekanina, P.C. Haddow (Eds.), Proc. 8th International Conference on Evolvable Systems: From Biology to Hardware (ICES 2008), Lecture Notes in Computer Science (Springer), vol. 5216, Prague, Czech Republic, September 21-24 2008, pp. 372-381, ISSN: 0302-9743.

Alexandru Amaricai, Mihai Udrescu, Mircea Vladutiu, Lucian Prodan, Oana Boncalo. A Radix-4 Modified Booth Multiplication Algorithm. Proceedings 8th International Conference on Technical Informatics (CONTI2008), Timisoara, Romania, June 5-6 2008, pp. 61-64, ISSN 1844-539-X.

Lucian Prodan, Mihai Udrescu, Oana Boncalo, Mircea Vladutiu. Design for Dependability in Emerging Technologies. ACM Journal of Emerging Technologies in Computing, Volume 3, Issue 2 (Article 6), July 2007, ISSN 1550-4832.

Barina Gabriel, Topirceanu Alexandru, Udrescu Mihai. MuSeNet: Natural patterns in the music artists industry. 9th IEEE International Symposium on Applied Computational Intelligence and Informatics (SACI), Timisoara, Romania, pp. 317-322, ISBN: 978-1-4799-4694-5.

Topirceanu Alexandru, Udrescu Mihai, Vladutiu Mircea. Network Fidelity: A Metric to Quantify the Similarity and Realism of Complex Networks. 3rd IEEE International Conference on Cloud and Green Computing (CGC), Karlsruhe, GERMANY, pp. 289-296, ISBN 978-0-7695-5114-2 .

Agnola Liviu, Vlăduțiu Mircea, Udrescu Mihai, Prodan Lucian. Simplified selective fault tolerance technique for protection of selected inputs via triple modular redundancy. 7th IEEE International Symposium on Applied Computational Intelligence and Informatics (SACI), Timisoara, Romania, pp. 267-262, ISBN: 978-1-4673-1013-0.

Agnola Liviu, Vlăduțiu Mircea, Udrescu Mihai, Prodan Lucian. Improving performance of robust Self Adaptive Caches by optimizing the switching algorithm. 2011 IEEE 14th International Symposium on Design and Diagnostics of Electronic Circuits and Systems (DDECS), Cottbus, Germany, pp. 297 - 300, ISBN 978-1-4244-9753-9.

Agnola Liviu, Vlăduțiu Mircea, Udrescu Mihai, Prodan Lucian. Improving performance and area overhead by reducing the switching table for Self Adaptive cache Memories. IEEE 17th International Symposium for Design and Technology in Electronic Packaging (SIITME), Timisoara, Romania, pp. 173-178, ISBN: 978-1-4577-1276-0.

Cristian Ruican, Mihai Udrescu, Lucian Prodan, Mircea Vladutiu. Adaptive vs. Self-Adaptive Parameters for Evolving Quantum Circuits. In Gianluca Tempesti, Andy M. Tyrrell, Julian F. Miller (Eds.), 9th International Conference on Evolvable Systems: From Biology to Hardware (ICES 2010), York, UK, September 6-8 2010, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (Springer), vol. 6274, pp. 348-359, ISSN: 0302-9743.

Flavius Opritoiu, Mircea Vladutiu, Mihai Udrescu, Lucian Prodan. Concurrent Error Detection for Multiplicative Inversion of Advanced Encryption Standard. Proceedings 10th IEEE International Conference on Computer and Information Technology (CIT 2010), Bradford, UK, June 29 - July 1 2010, pp. 582-588, ISBN 978-0-7695-4108-2.

Flavius Opritoiu, Mircea Vladutiu, Lucian Prodan, Mihai Udrescu. A High-Speed AES Architecture Implementation. Proceedings 7th ACM International Conference on Computing Frontiers (CF'10), Bertinoro, Italy, May 17 - 19 2010, pp. 95-96, ACM Press, ISBN 978-1-4503-0044-5.

Cristian Ruican, Mihai Udrescu, Lucian Prodan, Mircea Vladutiu. Performance Analysis for Genetic Quantum Circuit Synthesis. Proceedings Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing (ICAISC 2010), Zakopane, Poland, June 13 - 17 2010, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (Springer), vol. 6114, pp. 205-212, ISBN 978-3-642-13231-5.

Cristian Ruican, Mihai Udrescu, Lucian Prodan, Mircea Vladutiu. Genetic Algorithm Based Quantum Circuit Synthesis with Adaptive Parameters Control. IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC 2009), Trondheim, Norway, May 18-21 2009, pp. 896-903, ISBN 978-1-4244-2959-2.

Flavius Opritoiu, Mircea Vladutiu, Lucian Prodan, Mihai Udrescu. Built-In Self Test Applicability for the Non-Linear Operations of Advanced Encryption Standard. Proceedings 5th International Symposium on Applied Computational Intelligence and Informatics (SACI 2009), May 28-29, 2009, Timisoara, Romania, pp. 307-312, ISBN: 978-1-4244-4478-6.

Cristian Ruican, Mihai Udrescu, Lucian Prodan, Mircea Vladutiu. Performance Analysis of Genetic Operators Applied for Quantum Circuit Sysnthesis. Proceedings EuroGP2009, Tubingen, Germany, April 15-17 2009, LNCS 5481, pp. 339-350, ISBN 978-3-642-01180-1.

Flavius Opritoiu, Mircea Vladutiu, Mihai Udrescu, Lucian Prodan. Round-Level Concurrent Error Detection Applied to Advanced Encryption Standard. Proceedings 12th IEEE Symposium on Design and Diagnostics of Electronic Systems (DDECS 2009), April 15-17, 2009, Liberec, Czech Republic, pp. 270-275, ISBN 978-1-4244-3339-1.

Oana Boncalo, Mihai Udrescu, Lucian Prodan, Mircea Vladutiu, Alexandru Amaricai. Assessing Quantum Circuits Reliability with Mutant-Based Simulated Fault Injection. Proceedings 8th International Conference on Nanotechnology (IEEE Nano 2008), Arlington TX, USA, August 18-21 2008, ISBN 978-1-4244-2104-6.

Alexandru Amaricai, Mircea Vladutiu, Mihai Udrescu, Lucian Prodan, Oana Boncalo.Floating point multiplication rounding schemes for interval arithmetic. Proceedings 19th IEEE International Conference on Application-Specific Systems, Architectures and Processors (ASAP 2008), Leuven, Belgium, July 2-4 2008, pp. 19-24, ISBN 978-1-4244-1898-5.

Virgil Petcu, Alexandru Amaricai, Mircea Vladutiu. A Dual-Threaded Architecture for Interval Arithmetic Coprocessor with Shared Floating Point Units. Proceedings IEEE Workshop on Design and Diagnostics of Electronic Circuits and Systems (DDECS 2008), Bratislava, Slovakia, April 16-18 2008, pp. 146-149, ISBN 978-1-4244-2276-0.

Mihai Udrescu, Oana Boncalo, Lucian Prodan, Mircea Vladutiu, Alexandru Amaricai. Towards a Hybrid Methodology for Reliability Assessment of Quantum Circuits. Proceedings 11th EUROMICRO Conference on Digital System Design (DSD 2008), Parma, Italy, September 3-5 2008, ISBN 978-3-902457-20-3.

Alexandru Amaricai, Mircea Vladutiu, Lucian Prodan, Mihai Udrescu, Oana Boncalo.Floating Point Divide-Add Fused Unit for Newton's Interval Method. Proceedings 11th EUROMICRO Conference on Digital System Design (DSD 2008), Parma, Italy, September 3-5 2008, ISBN 978-3-902457-20-3.

Cristian Ruican, Mihai Udrescu, Lucian Prodan, Mircea Vladutiu. Software Architecture for Quantum Circuit Synthesis. Proceedings on Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing (ICAISC 2008), Zakopane, Poland, June 22-26 2008, published in Computational Intelligence: Methods and Applications, pp. 562-573, ISBN: 978-83-60434-50-5.

Cristian Ruican, Mihai Udrescu, Lucian Prodan, Mircea Vladutiu. A Genetic Algorithm Framework Applied to Quantum Circuit Synthesis. In N. Krasnogor, G. Nicosia, M. Pavone, D. Pelta (Eds.), Studies in Computational Intelligence (Springer), vol. 129, Proc. International Workshop on Nature Inspired Cooperative Strategies for Optimization (NICSO’07), Acireale, Italy, November 8-10 2007, pp. 419-429, ISBN: 978-3-540-78986-4.

Oana Boncalo, Mihai Udrescu, Lucian Prodan, Mircea Vladutiu, Alexandru Amaricai. Assessing Quantum Circuits Reliability with Mutant-Based Simulated Fault Injection. Proceedings 18th European Conference on Circuit Theory and Design (ECCTD'07), Seville, Spain, August 26-30 2007, pp. 942-945, ISBN 1-4244-1342-7.

Oana Boncalo, Mihai Udrescu, Lucian Prodan, Mircea Vladutiu, Alexandru Amaricai. Saboteur Based Fault Injection for Quantum Circuits Fault Tolerance Assessment. Proceedings 10th EUROMICRO Conference on Digital System Design, Architectures, Methods and Tools (DSD 2007), Lübeck, Germany, August 29 - 31 2007, pp. 634-640, ISBN 0-7695-2978-X.

Alexandru Amaricai, Mircea Vladutiu, Lucian Prodan, Mihai Udrescu, Oana Boncalo. Exploiting Parallelism in Double Path Adders’ Structure for Increased Throughput of Floating Point Addition. Proceedings 10th EUROMICRO Conference on Digital System Design, Architectures, Methods and Tools (DSD 2007), Lübeck, Germany, August 29 - 31 2007, pp. 132-137, ISBN 0-7695-2978-X.

Alexandru Amaricai, Mircea Vladutiu, Lucian Prodan, Mihai Udrescu, Oana Boncalo. Hardware Support for Combined Interval and Floating Point Multiplication . Proceedings 14th Mixed Design Of Integrated Circuits and Systems, Ciechocinek, Poland, June 21-23 2007, pp. 278-282, ISBN: 83-922632-4-3.

Alexandru Amaricai, Mircea Vladutiu, Lucian Prodan, Mihai Udrescu, Oana Boncalo. Design of Addition and Multiplication Units for High Performance Interval Arithmetic Processor. Proceedings IEEE Workshop on Design and Diagnostics of Electronic Circuits and Systems, Krakow, Poland, April 11-13 2007, pp. 223-226, ISBN: 1-4244-1161-0.

Oana Boncalo, Mihai Udrescu, Lucian Prodan, Mircea Vladutiu, Alexandru Amaricai. Using Simulated Fault Injection for Fault Tolerance Assessment of Quantum Circuits. Proceedings IEEE 40th Annual Simulation Symposium, Norfolk VA, USA, March 26 - 28, 2007, pp. 213-220, ISSN: 1080-241X, ISBN: 0-7695-2814-7.

Cristian Ruican, Mihai Udrescu, Lucian Prodan, Mircea Vladutiu. Automatic Synthesis for Quantum Circuits using Genetic Algorithms. Proceedings ICANNGA’07 “Adaptive and Natural Computing Algorithms”, LNCS 4431 (Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg), Warsaw, Poland, 2007, pp. 174–183, ISBN: 978-3-540-71589-4.

Lucian Prodan, Mihai Udrescu, Mircea Vladutiu. A Dependability Perspective on Emerging Technologies. 3rd ACM International Conference on Computing Frontiers (CF'06), Ischia, Italy, May 2 - 5 2006, pp. 187-198, ACM Press, ISBN 1-59593-302-6.

Mihai Udrescu, Lucian Prodan, Mircea Vladutiu. Implementing Quantum Genetic Algorithms: A Solution Based on Grover's Algorithm. 3rd ACM International Conference on Computing Frontiers (CF'06), Ischia, Italy, May 2 - 5 2006, pp. 71-82, ACM Press, ISBN 1-59593-302-6.

Lucian Prodan, Mihai Udrescu, Mircea Vladutiu. Survivability of Embryonic Memories: Analysis and Design Principles. IEEE NASA/DoD Conference on Evolvable Hardware (EH'05), Washington DC, USA, June 29 - July 1, 2005, pp. 280-289, ISBN 0-7695-2399-4 [conference presentations].

Lucian Prodan, Mihai Udrescu, Mircea Vladutiu. Multiple-Level Concatenated Coding in Embryonics: A Dependability Analysis. GECCO (ACM / SIGEVO), Washigton DC, USA, June 25-29, 2005, pp. 941-948, ACM Press ISBN 1-59593-010-8.

Lucian Prodan, Mihai Udrescu, Mircea Vladutiu. Reliability Assessment in Embryonics Inspired by Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computation. 2nd ACM International Conference on Computing Frontiers (CF'05), Ischia, Italy, May 4 - 6 2005, pp.323-333, ACM Press ISBN 1-59593-018-3.

Mihai Udrescu, Lucian Prodan, Mircea Vladutiu. Improving Quantum Circuit Dependability with Reconfigurable Quantum Gate Arrays. 2nd ACM International Conference on Computing Frontiers (CF'05), Ischia, Italy, May 4 - 6 2005, pp. 133-144, ACM Press ISBN 1-59593-018-3.

Mihai Udrescu, Lucian Prodan, Mircea Vladutiu. Simulated Fault Injection in Quantum Circuits with the Bubble Bit Technique. In Bernardete Ribeiro et al., eds., Proceedings International Conference "Adaptive and Natural Computing Algorithms", Coimbra, Portugal, March 21 - 23, 2005, SpringerWienNewYork, pp. 276-279, ISBN 3-211-24934-6.

Mihai Udrescu, Lucian Prodan, Mircea Vladutiu. The Bubble Bit Technique as Improvement of HDL-Based Quantum Circuits Simulation. IEEE 38th Annual Simulation Symposium, San Diego CA, USA, April 2 - 8, 2005, pp. 217-224, ISBN 0-7695-2322-6.

Lucian Prodan, Mihai Udrescu, Mircea Vladutiu. Self-Repairing Embryonic Memory Arrays. IEEE NASA/DoD Conference on Evolvable Hardware (EH'04), Seattle WA, USA, June 24 - 26, 2004, pp. 130-137, ISBN 0-7695-2145-2 [conference photos].

Mihai Udrescu, Lucian Prodan, Mircea Vladutiu. Using HDLs for Describing Quantum Circuits: A Framework for Efficient Quantum Algorithm Simulation. 1st ACM / SIGMICRO Conference on Computing Frontiers, Ischia, Italy, April 14 - 16, 2004, pp. 96-110, ACM Press, ISBN 1-58113-741-9.

Mihai Udrescu, Lucian Prodan, Mircea Vladutiu. A New Perspective in Simulating Quantum Circuits. GECCO LBP, Chicago IL, USA, July 12-16, 2003, pp. 283-290, ISBN 3-540-40603-4.

L. Prodan, G. Tempesti, D. Mange, A. Stauffer. Embryonics: Electronic Stem Cells. In R.K. Standish, M.A. Bedau, and H.A. Abbass, Eds., Artificial Life VIII, Proc. 8th International Conference on Artificial Life, Bradford Book, The MIT Press, Cambridge MA, 2003, pp.101-105, ISBN 0-262-69281-3.

L. Prodan, G. Tempesti, D. Mange, A. Stauffer. Embryonics: Artificial Cells Driven by Artificial DNA. In Y. Liu, K. Tanaka, M. Iwata, T. Higuchi, M. Yasunaga (eds.), Evolvable Systems: From Biology to Hardware, Proc. 4th International Conference on Evolvable Systems (ICES2001), Tokyo, Japan, Lecture Notes in Computer Science vol. 2210, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 2001, pp. 100-111, ISBN 3-540-42671-X.

L. Prodan, G. Tempesti, D. Mange, A. Stauffer. Biology Meets Electronics: The Path to a Bio-Inspired FPGA. In J. Miller, A. Thompson, P. Thomson, T.C. Fogarty (eds.), Evolvable Systems: From Biology to Hardware, Proc. 3rd International Conference on Evolvable Systems (ICES2000), Edinburgh, Scotland, Lecture Notes in Computer Science vol. 1801, Springer, Berlin, 2000, pp. 187-196, ISBN 3-540-67338-5.

L. Prodan, G. Tempesti, D. Mange, A. Stauffer. Embryonics: Artificial Cells Made of Artificial Molecules. Proc. 4th International Conference on Technical Informatics (CONTI'2000), Transactions on Automatic Control and Computer Science, Vol. 45(59), No. 4, Universitatea Politehnica din Timisoara, Romania, 2000, pp. 99-104, ISSN 1224-600X.

C. Ciressan, L. Prodan. On NICAM Datacasting. Proc. 3rd International Conference on Technical Informatics (CONTI'98), Transactions on Automatic Control and Computer Science, Vol. 43(57), No. 4, Universitatea Politehnica din Timisoara, Romania, 1998, pp. 88-92, ISSN 1224-600X.

Cristian Ruican. Developing Automatic Synthesis Methodologies for Quantum Circuits using Genetic Algorithms. Ph.D. Thesis, Universitatea "Politehnica" din Timisoara (UPT), June, 2009.

Lucian Prodan. Self-Repairing Memory Arrays Inspired by Biological Processes. Ph.D. Thesis, Universitatea "Politehnica" din Timisoara (UPT), October 14, 2005 [Full text as Acrobat PDF file, 12 469 043 bytes, 190 pages A4, or Abstact and Acknowledgements].

Mihai Udrescu. Quantum Circuits Engineering: Efficient Simulation and Reconfigurable Quantum Hardware. Ph.D. Thesis, Universitatea "Politehnica" din Timisoara (UPT), November 25, 2005 [Full text as Acrobat PDF file, 5 500 928 bytes, 176 pages A4, or Abstract].

Lucian Prodan, Daniel Mange, Gianluca Tempesti. The Embryonics Project: Specifications of the Muxtree Field Programmable Gate Array. Technical Report 200203, School of Computer and Communication Sciences, Logic Systems Laboratory, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), Lausanne, January 2002.

Alexandru Amaricai. On the Design of Floating Point Units for Interval Arithmetic. PhD Proposal, "Politehnica" University of Timisoara, September 4, 2007.

Oana Boncalo. Simulation-Based Assessment of Quantum Circuits Reliability. PhD Proposal, "Politehnica" University of Timisoara, September 4, 2007.

Mihai Udrescu, Lucian Prodan, Mircea Vladutiu. Grover's Algorithm and the Evolutionary Approach of Quantum Computation. ACSA Report, "Politehnica" University of Timisoara, October 15, 2004.

Mihai Udrescu. A Hardware Engineering View on Dependable Quantum Computation: Reliability Improvement and Simulated Fault Injection. PhD Report, "Politehnica" University of Timisoara, December 22, 2004.