AlexSorici
Associate Professor at the Department of Computer Science
Research Interests
  • Ambient Intelligence
  • Context Modelling and Context-Aware Computing
  • Semantic Complex Event Processing
  • Activity Recognition
  • Multi-Agent Systems and Multi-Agent Oriented Programming
Teaching

Teaching Assistant for the following Courses:

  • Artificial Intelligence (4th year Bachelor course)
  • Machine Learning (4th year Bachelor course)
  • Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (1st year Master in Artificial Intelligence course)
  • Multi-Agent Systems (1st year Master in Artificial Intelligence course)
Degrees and Experience
Education
  • 2015: Joint PhD Degree in Computer Science from University Politehnica of Bucharest and Ecole Nationale Superieure des Mines de Saint-Etienne
    • Thesis subject: Multi-Agent Based Context Management Middleware In Support of Ambient Intelligence Applications.
    • The goal of the thesis is the implementation of a middleware which allows to design and program context-aware ambient intelligence applications. Focus of the middleware lies on expressiveness in modeling and reasoning, as well as flexibility in configuration and deployment. The developed system employs techniques stemming from the semantic web and multi-agent systems domains.
  • 2011: M.Sc. Degree in Artificial Intelligence, University Politehnica of Bucharest
    • Thesis subject: Agile Governance in an Ambient Intelligence Environment.
    • Development of a mechanism for coordinated and adaptive behavior of multi-agent organizations managing an ambient intelligence environment. Integration of the mechanism within the JaCaMo multi-agent oriented programming framework.
  • 2009: B.Sc. Degree in Computer Science, University Politehnica of Bucharest
Experience
  • Technical coordinator in the CAMI and CONSERT research projects
  • Member of the Romanian Association for Artificial Intelligence (ARIA) since 2012
  • Coordinating member of the ARIA projects implementation team since 2015
  • Member in the organizing committee of the AI-MAS Winter Olympics 2012 and 2013 events
Publications

Conference & Journal Papers

2024

  • A. Olaru, A. Sorici, M. Nan, D.T. Iancu. AI Folk: Sharing Machine Learning Models in a Multi-Agent Community, 2024.
  • A. Sorici, A.M. Florea. Putting Context into Hypermedia Multi-Agent Systems. Presentation at the 21st European Conference on Multi-Agent Systems (EUMAS), Dublin, Ireland, 2024.

2023

  • Sorici, Alexandru, and Adina Magda Florea. “Towards Context-Based Authorizations for Interactions in Hypermedia-Driven Agent Environments-The CASHMERE Framework.” In International Workshop on Engineering Multi-Agent Systems, pp. 191-207. Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland, 2023.

  • Sorici, Alexandru, Lidia Băjenaru, Irina Georgiana Mocanu, Adina Magda Florea, Panagiotis Tsakanikas, Athena Cristina Ribigan, Ludovico Pedullà, and Anastasia Bougea. “Monitoring and Predicting Health Status in Neurological Patients: The ALAMEDA Data Collection Protocol.” In Healthcare, vol. 11, no. 19, p. 2656. MDPI, 2023.

  • L. Bajenaru, A. Sorici, I. Mocanu, A.M. Florea, F. Antochi, A. Ribigan. Shared Decision-Making to Improve Health-Related Outcomes for Adults with Stroke Disease. Vol. 11(12), Healthcare 2023

  • A. Triantafyllidis, S. Segkouli, S. Zygouris, C. Michailidou, K. Avgerinakis, E. Fappa, S. Vassiliades et al. Mobile App Interventions for Parkinson’s Disease, Multiple Sclerosis and Stroke: A Systematic Literature Review. Sensors Vol. 23, No. 7, 3396, 2023.

  • I.A. Awada, A. Sorici, A.M. Florea, A. Scafa-Udriste. Enhanced Design and Functionalities for the Virtual patient Educational Platform. 24th International Conference on Control Systems and Computer Science (CSCS), IEEE. 2023

  • A. Sorici, L. Bajenaru, I. Mocanu, A.M. Florea. An Intelligent Ecosystem for Improving Brain Disease Monitoring of patients using Wearable Devices and Artificial Intelligence. 24th International Conference on Control Systems and Computer Science (CSCS), IEEE. 2023

  • Sorici, Alexandru, and Adina Magda Florea. “CASHMERE: Context-based Authorization in Hypermedia Agent Environments.” In ISWC (Posters/Demos/Industry). 2023.

2022

  • Alice Lavinia Chiru, Imad Alex Awada, Alexandru Sorici, Adina Magda Florea, Alexandru Scafa-Udrişte, A Support Module for the Virtual Patient Educational Platform, 2022 E-Health and Bioengineering Conference (EHB) 2022, IEEE

  • F. Dumitrescu, A.M. Florea, M. Trascau, A. Sorici. Intelligent Agent for Food Recognition in a Smart Fridge. 19th Workshop on Agents for Complex Systems in the framework of the 24th International Symposium on Symbolic and Numeric Algorithms for Scientific Computing, Timișoara, 12-15 September, IEEE, 2022

  • I.A. Awada, A. Sorici, M.Dragoi, A.M. Florea. Virtual Patient: A Web-Based Platform for the Training of Medical Students in Patient Consultation During a Lockdown. The 14th Annual International Conference on Education and New Learning Technologies (EDULEARN), 6491-6497, 2022

  • A. Sorici, L. Bajenaru, I. Mocanu, A.M. Florea. Health Monitoring of Adults with Brain Diseases Using Shoe Pressure Sensors, 40th IBIMA International Conference, Seville, Spain, November 2022.

  • I.A. Awada, A. Sorici, M. Drăgoi, A.M. Florea, A. Scafa-Udriște. Virtual Patient: Architecture of an Educational Web Platform for the Assessment of Consultation and Diagnosing Skills of Medical Students. Proceedings of the 15th annual International Conference of Education, Research and Innovation (ICERI), pp. 8080-8084, ISSN: 2340-1095, 2022.

2021

  • Hoteit, Bilal, Imad Alex Awada, Alexandru Sorici, and Adina Magda Florea. “Continuous Operations and Fully Autonomy of a Social Service Robotic System.” In 2021 23rd International Symposium on Symbolic and Numeric Algorithms for Scientific Computing (SYNASC), pp. 129-134. IEEE, 2021.
  • Hoteit, Bilal, Ahmad Faour, Ali Abdallah, Imad Alex Awada, Alexandru Sorici, and Adina Magda Florea. “Towards a General and Complete Social Assistive Robotic Architecture.” In Human Interaction, Emerging Technologies and Future Applications IV: Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Human Interaction and Emerging Technologies: Future Applications (IHIET–AI 2021), April 28-30, 2021, Strasbourg, France 4, pp. 59-67. Springer International Publishing, 2021.

2020

  • B. Hoteit, A. Sorici, A.M. Florea, A. Abdallah. CDDS Mechanism for Data Transmission of a Social Assistive Robot. Proceedings of the 14th Annual International Technology, Education and Development Conference (INTED), Valencia, Spain, pp. 8217-8222, DOI: 10.21125/inted.2020.2242, ISSN: 2340-1079, 2020.
  • B. Hoteit, A. Sorici, A.M. Florea, A. Abdallah. Component-Based System Architecture for a Social Service Robot. Proceedings of the 14th Annual International Technology, Education and Development Conference (INTED), Valencia, Spain, pp. 8223-8231, DOI: 10.21125/inted.2020.2244, ISSN: 2340-1079, 2020.

2019

  • A. Sorici, A. Olaru, A.M. Florea. Towards Enabling Internet-Scale Context-as-a-Service. The 2019 World Wide Web Conference, San Francisco, USA — May 13 – 17, p.668-671, ACM-DL, 2019.
  • A.F. Gavril, A.Ș. Ghiță, A. Sorici, A.M. Florea. Towards a Modular Framework for Human-Robot Interaction and Collaboration. 22nd Int. Conf. on Control Systems and Computer Science, Bucharest, Romania, IEEE, p.667-674, 2019.
  • D.T. Iancu, A. Sorici, A,M. Florea. Object detection in autonomous driving – from large to small datasets. ECAI 2019. International Conference on Electronics, Computers and Artificial Intelligence, 27 June-29 June, Pitesti, Romania, IEEE, 2019.
  • A. Mihalea, R. Samoilescu, A. Nica, M. Trascau, A. Sorici, A.M. Florea. End-to-end models for self-driving cars on UPB campus roads. IEEE 15th International Conference on Intelligent Computer Communication and Processing (ICCP 2019), September 5 – 7, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, IEEE, 2019.
  • M. Nan, A.Ș. Ghiță, A.F. Gavril, M. Trăscău, A. Sorici, B. Cramariuc, A.M. Florea. Human Action Recognition for Social Robots. 22nd Int. Conf. on Control Systems and Computer Science, Bucharest, Romania, IEEE, p. 675 – 681, 2019.
  • A.C. Nica, M. Trăscău, A.A. Rotaru, C. Andreescu, A. Sorici, V. Bacue, A.M. Florea. Collecting and processing a self-driving dataset in the UPB campus. 22nd Int. Conf. on Control Systems and Computer Science, Bucharest, Romania, IEEE, p.202–209, 2019.
  • A. Olaru, A. Sorici, A.M. Florea. A Flexible and Lightweight Agent Deployment Architecture. 22nd Int. Conf. on Control Systems and Computer Science, Bucharest, Romania, IEEE, p.251-258, 2019.
  • A. Sorici, A. Olaru, S. Flonta, S. Enyedi, A.M. Florea. Towards Enabling Context-as-a-Service for Social Assistive Robotics. 22nd Int. Conf. on Control Systems and Computer Science, Bucharest, Romania, IEEE, p.228-235, 2019.

2018

  • A.S. Ghiţă, M.S. Barbu, A. F. Gavril, M. Trăscău, A. Sorici, A. M. Florea. User Detection, Tracking and Recognition in Robot Assistive Care Scenarios. The Annual Conference Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems (TAROS), pp. 271-283. Springer, Cham, 2018.
  • M. Trascau, A. Sorici, A. M. Florea. Detecting Activities of Daily Living using the CONSERT Engine. The 9th International Symposium on Ambient Intelligence (IsAmI 2018), Toledo, Spain. In Ambient Intelligence – Software and Applications, Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing Series, Springer, p.94-102, 2018.

2017

  • A. Kunnappilly, A. Sorici, I. A. Awada, I. Mocanu, C. Seceleanu, A. M. Florea. A Novel Integrated Architecture for Ambient Assisted Living Systems, 41st IEEE Computer Society International Conference on Computers, Software & Applications, Turin, Italy, IEEE, p.465-472, 2017. DOI: 10.1109/COMPSAC.2017.28.

2016

  • A. Sorici, I. A. Awada, A. Kunnappilly, I. Mocanu, O. Cramariuc, L. Malicki, C. Seceleanu, A. M. Florea. CAMI-An Integrated Architecture Solution for Improving Quality of Life of the Elderly. 3rd EAI International Conference on IoT Technologies for HealthCare (Healthy IoT), Västerås, Sweden, Springer, Cham, p.141-144, 2016.

2015

  • A. Sorici, O. Boissier, G. Picard, A.M. Florea. Policy-based Adaptation of Context Provisioning in AmI, Ambient Intelligence – Software and Applications, Vol. 376 of the series Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing Springer, pp 33-43, 2015.
  • A. Sorici, G. Picardb, O. Boissier, A. Zimmermann, A. M. Florea. CONSERT : Applying Semantic Web Technologies to Context Modeling in Ambient Intelligence. Computers & Electrical Engineering, Springer, Vol. 44, p.280-306, 2015.
  • A. Sorici, G. Picard, O. Boissier, A. M. Florea. Multi-Agent Based Flexible Deployment of Context Management in AmI Applications. Advances in Practical Applications of Agents, Multi-Agent Systems, and Sustainability: The PAAMS Collection, Vol. 9086, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer International Publishing, p. 225-239, 2015.
  • A. Sorici, O. Boissier, G. Picard, A. M. Florea. Multi-Agent based Context Provisioning Deployment in AmI Applications. 13th International Conference on Practical Applications of Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (PAAMS’15), Jun 2015, Salamanca, Spain. Springer International Publishing, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence Vol. 9086, p.225-239, 2015.
  • A. Sorici, G. Picard, A. M. Florea. Multi-Agent Based Context Management in AmI Applications, AgTAmI: International Workshop on Agent Technology for Ambient Intelligence, in conjunction with CSCS 20, 27-29 May 2015, Bucharest, IEEE, 2015. DOI: 10.1109/CSCS.2015.65.
  • A. Sorici, G. Picard, O. Boissier, A .M. Florea. Gestionnaire multi-agent de contexte pour les applications d’intelligence ambiante. 23es Journées Francophones sur les Systèmes Multi-Agents (JFSMA’15), Jun 2015, Rennes, France. Cépaduès, 2015.

2013

  • A. Sorici, O. Boissier, G. Picard, A. Zimmermann. Applying Semantic Web Technologies to Context Modeling in Ambient Intelligence. 3rd International Workshop on Pervasive and Context-Aware Middleware (PerCAM 2013) in conjunction with Fourth International Joint Conference on Ambient Intelligence (AmI 2013), Dublin, Irlanda, 3-5 Dec. 2013.

2012

  • A. Sorici, G. Picard, O. Boissier, A. Santi, J. F. Hübner. Multi-agent oriented reorganisation within the jacamo infrastructure. In Proceedings of The Third International Workshop on Infrastructures and tools for multiagent systems: ITMAS, 135-148, June 2012.

2011

  • Alexandru Sorici, Olivier Boissier, Gauthier Picard, Andrea Santi. Exploiting the JaCaMo Framework for Realising an Adaptive Room Governance Application. SPLASH ’11 Workshops Proceedings of the compilation of the co-located workshops on DSM’11, TMC’11, AGERE!’11, AOOPES’11, NEAT’11, & VMIL’11, Portland, USA, 24 Octombrie, 2011, 239-242.

Books & Book Chapters

2024

  • A. Sorici. CASHMERE – Context Management in Hypermedia Multi-Agent Systems. Editura Sfântul Ierarh Nicolae, p.1-77, 2024, ISBN: 978-606-30-5294-1.

2020

  • I.A. Awada, I. Mocanu, A. Sorici, A.M. Florea. An Integrated System for Improved Assisted Living of Elderly People. H. Costin, B. Schuller, A.M. Florea (eds) Recent Advances in Intelligent Assistive Technologies: Paradigms and Applications, Intelligent Systems Reference Library Vol. 170, pp. 111-141, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-30817-9_5, ISBN: 978-3-030-30817-9, Springer, 2020.

2015

  • Alexandru Sorici – Multi-Agent Based Context Management Middleware in Support of Ambient Intelligence Applications, Ph.D. Thesis, 2015.
Grants

Coordinated Grants

  • Context-Aware Search and Discovery in Hypermedia-Driven Multi-Agent Environments – CASHMERE (2022 – 2024). Development of a framework enabling dynamic means of controlling access to web resources in Web-of-Things (WoT) applications.

  • NemoDrive (2018 – 2020) – Title in Romanian: “Sistem inteligent de decizie și predicție pentru conducerea autonomă a vehiculelor electrice – AutoDrive”. The general objective of the project is the development of an autonomous driving solution capable of offering a solid baseline for further R&D perspectives of PRIME Motors.

Last updated December 2024