Education, Research and Business Technologies

Micro-Services as Key Enabler of a Cloud-Native Architecture.- The Importance of Security and Safety in a Smart City.- Cyber Range Technology Stack Review.- IOT Security Challenges for Smart Homes.- An Overview of Security Issues in Smart Contracts on the Blockchain.- Agile Business Systems Development Paradigms - Technological and Human Resource Perspectives.- Identification of Qualitative Weak Signals Coming from Asset Management Working Practices to Feed Forward-Looking Investment Pensions Funds Models.- Digital Competences in the Public Sector - Challenges for Universities.- Transport System in Bucharest.- General Characteristics of the Assisted E-Learning System in Computer Science.- E-Learning in Romania: An Overview on Software Solutions from Private Initiatives.

Cristian Ciurea is a professor at the Department of Economic Informatics and Cybernetics from Bucharest University of Economic Studies. He is also the head of the department. Cristian has graduated the Faculty of Economic Cybernetics, Statistics and Informatics from the Bucharest University of Economic Studies in 2007. He has a master's degree in Informatics Project Management (2010) and a Ph.D. in Economic Informatics (2011) from the Bucharest University of Economic Studies. Cristian has a solid background in computer science and is interested in collaborative systems related issues. Other fields of interest include intelligent systems, software metrics, data structures, object-oriented programming, windows applications programming, mobile devices programming and testing process automation for software quality assurance.

Paul Pocatilu graduated the Faculty of Cybernetics, Statistics and Economic Informatics in 1998. He achieved the Ph.D. in Economics in 2003 with thesis on Software Testing Cost Assessment Models. He has published as author and co-author over 45 articles in journals and over 40 articles on national and international conferences. He is the author and co-author of 10 books, (Mobile Devices Programming and Software Testing Costs are two of them). He is a professor at the Department of Economic Informatics and Cybernetics within the Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Bucharest. He teaches courses, seminars and laboratories on Mobile Devices Programming, Economic Informatics, Computer Programming and Project Quality Management to graduate and postgraduate students. His current research areas are software testing, software quality, project management and mobile application development.

Florin Gheorghe Filip was born in 1947 in Bucharest, Romania. He graduated in Automation at Politehnica University of Bucharest in 1970 and received his Ph.D. degreefrom the same university in 1982. He was elected as a corresponding