Teaching Statement—Constantin Serban

Anatomy and Function of Normal Aortic Valvular Complex

How to build a QA system in your back-garden: application for Romanian

Even though the question answering (QA) field appeared only in recent years, there are systems for English which obtain good results for opendomain questions. The situation is very different for other languages, mainly due to the lack of NLP resources which are normally used by QA systems. In this paper, we present a project which develops a QA system for Romanian. The challenges we face and de...

The concept of decentralized and secure electronic marketplace

For commerce (electronic or traditional) to be effective, there must be a degree of trust between buyers and sellers. In traditional commerce, this kind of trust is based on such things as societal laws and customs, and on the intuition people tend to develop about each other during interpersonal interactions. The trustworthiness of these factors is based, to a large extent, on the geographical...

Selection of methods for determining the rotation center of the hip articulation for the design of a custom acetabular prosthesis

The design of a custom acetabular prosthesiscomponent for the hip joint is a very complex process which requires close cooperation between engineers and surgeons. In order for the prosthesis to be durable, it has to meet many mechanical and biological requirements,an important one beingthe to respect of theanatomical center of rotation[1]. This paper presents methods for determining the hip rot...

Generalized Access Control of Synchronous Communication

The security of modern networked applications, such as medical institutions or commercial enterprises, requires increasingly sophisticated access control (AC) that can support communal (e.g., enterprise wide) and stateful (i.e., sensitive to the history of interaction) policies. The Law-Governed Interaction (LGI) mechanism supports such policies, but so far only for asynchronous message passing...