Personal Details
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Born: July 22, 1949, in Braila, Romania
Address: 2, Independentei Bd., Bloc Carmen, Et.2, Ap. 8, 700098-Iasi, Romania
Phone (home): 0040-232-261383; 0040-332803079
Office address:
"Alexandru Ioan Cuza" University
Faculty of Computer Science
16, Berthelot St.
Iasi - 700483, Romania
Phone: +40-232-201529
Fax: +40-232-201490
Email: branzeir@info.uaic.ro
URL:
http://profs.info.uaic.ro/~branzeir/
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Education and degrees
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- 1998
Ph.D. - Faculty of Mathematics, University of Bucharest, Romania
1998
Title dissertation: "Contributions in Three-person Game Theory with
Entropic Criteria
- 1967-1972
B.A. - Faculty of Mathematics-Mechanics, "Alexandru Ioan Cuza" University
(graduated with the average grade 9.85 and B.A. Diploma with the average grade 10)
- 1963-1967
Secondary school (Lyceum), Braila
- 1956-1963
Elementary school, Braila
Postgraduate Courses:
- 2004 Dutch Language, level II (April 26 - July 7)
- 2001 English Language
- 1975-1976 French Language
- 1972-1973 Computer Data Processing - COBOL
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Professional Career
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1999 -
Associate Professor, Faculty of Computer Science, "Alexandru Ioan Cuza" University,
Iasi, Romania
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1992 - 1999
Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Computer Science, "Alexandru Ioan Cuza"
University, Iasi, Romania
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1991 - 1992
Lecturer, Faculty of Mathematics, Department of Computer Science, "Alexandru Ioan Cuza"
University, Iasi, Romania
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1976 - 1991
Assistant Professor, Faculty of Mathematics, Department of Computer Science, "Alexandru Ioan Cuza"
University, Iasi, Romania
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1972 - 1976
Associate Assistant Professor, Faculty of Mathematics, Department of Computer Science, "Alexandru Ioan Cuza"
University, Iasi, Romania
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Special Recognition
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- Distinguished Assistant Professor title in 1982 ("Alexandru Ioan Cuza"
University,Iasi, Romania)
- "Grigore Moisil" Award for 2009 of the Romanian
Academy (received on December 15, 2011)
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Membership in National Councils
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- CNATDCU (Consiliul National de Atestare a Titlurilor, Diplomelor si
Certificatelor Universitare), the Computer Science Committee
- CNATDCU, the Committee of Economic Sciences and Business Administration
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Research Visits
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University of Granada, Spain (May - June 1997) (Tempus Program)
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University of Tilburg, The Netherlands (September - October 1999)
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University of Genoa, Italy (May - June 2000)
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University of Tilburg, The Netherlands (September - October 2000)
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University of Budapest, Hungary (December 2000)
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University of Bilbao, Spain (January - February 2001)
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University of Pavia, Italy (May - June 2001)
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University of Tilburg, The Netherlands (August - October 2001)
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University Federico II of Naples, Italy (November 2001)
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University of Bielefeld, Germany (January - February 2002; July - August 2002)
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Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan (September - December 2002)
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University of Genoa, Italy (January and March 2003)
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University of Tilburg, The Netherlands (February 2003)
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University of British Columbia at Vancouver, Canada (July 21 - August 15, 2003)
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University of Genoa, Italy (September - December 2003)
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University of Tilburg, The Netherlands (January - September 2004): part-time
job as a researcher at the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration
within the PARTNER European Project
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Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan (January 2005)
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University of Genoa, Italy (March - April 2005, May - June 2005)
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University of Bilbao, Spain (April 25 - May 5, 2006)
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Universita degli Studi "G. d'Annunzio", Dipartimento di Scienze, Pescara,
Italy (May 30 - June 10, 2006)
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University Of Tilburg, The Netherlands (June 27 - July 14, 2006)
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University of Tilburg, The Netherlands (January 8 - 27, 2007)
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Unversity of Tilburg, The Netherlands (March 27 - April 14, 2007)
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University Miguel Hernandez of Elche, CIO and Department of Statistics,
Mathematics and Computer Science, Elche, Spain (May 9-25, 2007)
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Middle East Technical University (METU), Department of
Applied Mathematics, Ankara, Turkey (July 18-31, 2007)
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University of Genoa, Italy (September 15-29, 2007; November 8-15, 2007; December
11-18, 2007)
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University of Tilburg, The Netherlands (February 21 - March 6, 2008)
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University of Genoa, Italy (March 26 - April 14, 2008)
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University of Genoa, Italy (May 28-June 7, 2008)
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Universita'degli Studi "G. d'Annunzio", Dipartimento di Scienze, Pescara,
Italy (May 8 - 15, 2008)
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University of Genoa, Italy (June 23-July 7, 2008)
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Universite' Lumiere Lyon 2, France (September 23-26, 2008)
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University of Tilburg, The Netherlands (October 9-12, 2008)(PhD committee,
co-advisor)
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Middle East Technical University (METU), Department of Applied Mathematics,
Ankara, Turkey (January 23-February 4, 2009) (PhD committee)
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Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an, China (March 10-April 14,
2009): invited professor for teaching master students and for research
activities.
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Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan (May 29 - June 12, 2009): invited professor
for teaching graduate students and for research activities.
- University Miguel Hernandez of Elche, CIO and Department of Statistics,
Mathematics and Computer Science, Elche, Spain (September 14 - 21, 2009)
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University of Texas at Arlington, USA (April 22-26, 2010)
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University of Tilburg, The Netherlands (December 15-23, 2010)
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University of Bilbao, Spain (February 9-23, 2011)
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University Miguel Hernandez of Elche, Spain (September 16-24, 2011)
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University of Tilburg, Tilburg, The Netherlands (and the University of the
Netherlands Antilles, Curacao) (January 16-29, 2012)
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Invitations for teaching at prestigious universities
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Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an, China (March 10 - April 14,
2009)
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Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan (May 29 - June 12, 2009)
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Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an, China (for 5 weeks during May
and June, 2010; postponed)
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Professional Societies Membership
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Game Theory Society
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Romanian Mathematical Society
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ANIRO (National Association of Informaticians from Romania)
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EUROPT (European Operations Research Society)
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RORS (Romanian Operations Research Society) (founding member)
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Research Interests
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- Game Theory
- Operations Research
- Project Management
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Teaching
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- Game Theory (elective, academic year: 2005-2006, 2006-2007,
2007-2008; 2008-2009)
- Operations Research (compulsory - Master Program, academic year 2008-2009)
- Banking Mathematics (elective, academic year: 2005-2006,
2006-2007, 2007-2008)
- Software Systems Design
(elective)
- Information Systems
- Game Theory
(elective)
- Algorithms' Design and Analysis
- Management Information Systems
- Classification and Pattern Recognition
- Computer-Aided Design
- Geometrical Models in Computer Graphics
- Mathematics for Economists (at "Petre Andrei" University of Iasi)
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Publications
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European Research Projects
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Procedural Approaches to Conflict Resolution, ZIF, Bielefeld, Germany,
2002.
Path Allocation Re-engineering of Timetable Networks for European
Railways (PARTNER) , The Netherlands - Italy - Spain, 2004.
Game Theory Applications in Resource Management and Socio-Economic
Problems, MTM2008-06778-C02-01, from the Ministerio de educacion of
Spain (at Miguel Hernandez University of Elche, Spain), 2009-2011.
Game Theory Applications in Resource Management and Socio-Economic
Problems, ACOMP/2010/102, from the Conselleria d'Educacio of Generalitat
Valenciana (at Miguel Hernandez University of Elche, Spain), 2010.
Game Theory Applications in Resource Management and Socio-Economic
Problems, ACOMP/2011/129, from the Conselleria d'Educacio of Generalitat
Valenciana (at Miguel Hernandez University of Elche, Spain), 2011.
Advances and Models of Strategic Decision and their Socio-Economic
Applications, MTM2011-23205, at Miguel Hernandez University of Elche,
Spain, 2012 - 2015.
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Membership in Editorial Boards
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The Open Economics Journal
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Participation in International Scientifical Meetings
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- Third Spanish Meeting on Game Theory and Applications, Barcelona,
Spain, June 1998
- XII Convegno di Teoria dei Giochi et Applicazioni, DIMA - Universita di Genova,
Italy, June 1998
- Information Sciences Colloquium, Univ. of Tsukuba, Japan,
September 1998
- XIII Conference on Game Theory and Applications,
Faculty of Economics, University of Bologna, Italy, 1-5 June 1999
- International Workshop on Variational Method and Optimization, Dipartimento di Matematica,
Genova, Italy, 1-2 June 2000
- EURO XVII, 17th European Conference on Operational Research, Budapest, Hungary, 16-19 July 2000
- Fourth Spanish Meeting on Game Theory,Game Practice II, Eighth Summer
Meeting on Game Theory, Valencia, Spain, 19-21 July 2000
- GAMES 2000, First World Congress of the Game Theory Society, Bilbao,
Spain, 24-28 July 2000
- I Reunion Grupo de Teoria de Juegos de la S.E.S.O., Sesion de
Posters, Elche, Spain, 25-27 September 2000
- LGS2 (Logic, Game theory and Social choice 2), St.
Petersburg, Russia, 21-24 June, 2001
- EURO XVIII, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 9-11 July, 2001
- IMGTA (The XIV Italian Meeting on Game Theory and Applications),
Ischia, Italy, 11-14 July, 2001
- The XII International Conference on Game Theory, Stony Brook,
USA, 16-20 July, 2001
- International ZIF-Workshop "Modeling Group Decision Processes",
Bielefeld, Germany, October 11-13, 2001
- The Second Twente Workshop on Cooperative Game Theory, University of
Twente at Enschede, Enschede, The Netherlands, 19-21 June 2002
- Advances in Game Theory and Related Topics, Hilvarenbeek, The
Netherlands, June 23-25, 2002
- The Fifth Spanish Meeting on Game Theory, Sevilla, Spain, July 1-3, 2002
- Workshop on Procedural Approaches in Conflict Resolution,
Bielefeld, Germany, August 8-9, 2002
- Workshop on Procedural Approaches in Conflict Resolution,
Bielefeld, Germany, August 15-17, 2002
- Workshop on Game Theory: Autumn Meeting in Sendai, Sendai,
Japan, September 21-22, 2002
- RIMS Symposium on Mathematics for Decision-making under
Uncertainty, Kyoto, Japan, November 13-15, 2002
- Game Theory Workshop, Tsukuba, Japan, December 1-3, 2002
- IMGTA (The XV Italian Meeting on Game Theory and Applications),
Urbino, Italy, 9-12 July, 2003
- Summer School on Operations Research Games, Lavagna, Italy,
September 2003
- The Dutch Belgian Mathematical Conference, Tilburg,
The Netherlands, April 16-17, 2004
- PARTNER Workshop, Tilburg, The Netherlands, April 2004
- VI Spanish Meeting on Game Theory and Practice, Elche, Spain, July 12-15,
2004
- Game Theory and Mathematical Economics, Warsaw, Poland, September 6-10, 2004
- GFS Conference on Optimization, Avignon, France, September 20-24, 2004
- PARTNER Workshop, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, October 21-22, 2004
- International Workshop on Cooperative Game Theory, Waseda
University, Tokyo, Japan, January 22, 2005 (invited speaker).
- First Spain-Italy-Netherlands Meeting on Game Theory (S.I.N.G.1),
University of Maastricht, The Netherlands, June 24-26, 2005
- The 4-th Twente Workshop on Cooperative Game Theory joint with 3rd
Dutch-Russian Symposium, University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands, June 28-30,
2005.
- The 2nd Workshop on Game Theory and Engineering, DIPTEM, Genoa,
Italy.December 13, 2005 (invited speaker).
- Workshop "New Models in Cooperative Game Theory", University of
Sevilla, Spain, January 27-28, 2006 (invited speaker).
- Special Seminar on Game Theory, Free University of Amsterdam,
Amsterdam, The Netherlands, February 10, 2006.
- Special Seminar on Game Theory, University of Nijmegen,
Nijmegen, The Netherlands, August 24, 2006.
- Third Spain-Italy-Netherlands Meeting on Game Theory (S.I.N.G.3),
University Complutense of Madrid, Madrid, Spain, 4-5-6 July, 2007.
- The Fourth Spain-Italy-Netherlands Meeting on Game Theory
(S.I.N.G.4), Technical University, Wroclaw, 27-29 June, 2008.
- The Third World Congress of the Game Theory Society (GAMES 2008),
Evanston, 13-17 July, 2008.
- Game Theory Day, Department of Applied Mathematics, University
of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands, August 29, 2008 (invited speaker).
- AIRO, Ischia, September 7-12, 2008.
- International Workshop "Games and Social Choice", GATE, Ecully, Lyon,
September 25-26, 2008 (invited speaker).
- EUROPT Workshop, METU, Ankara, January 30, 2009 (invited speaker).
- SING5, Free University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, July 1-3, 2009.
- EURO XXIII, Bonn, Germany, July 5-8, 2009 (Stream Organizer).
- International Meeting "New Trends in Cooperative Game Theory",
Sanlucar de Barrameda, Spain, October 1-4, 2009 (invited speaker).
- SING6, University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy, July 7-9, 2010.
- EURO XXIV, Lisbon, Portugal, July 10-14, 2010.
- Game Theory Seminar in Honor of Stef Tijs, Tilburg University,
The Netherlands, December 17, 2010 (invited speaker).
- First Caribbean Game Theory Conference, University of the
Netherlands Antilles, Curacao, January 23-25, 2012.
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Conferences and Seminars held
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Contributions to Three-person Game Theory with Entropic Criteria,
Hirosaki University, Hirosaki, September 18, 1998, Japan
Entropic Decision Criteria for Random Behavior Systems, Niigata
University, September 25, 1998, Japan
Information Collecting Situations and Games, Napoli, Italy, May
13, 2000
Cooperative Games Arising from Information Collecting Situations,
Bergamo, Italy, May 19, 2000
Information Collecting Games, Castellanza, LIUC, May 26, 2000
IC-Games, Siena, Italy, June 16, 2000
Classes of Cooperative Games Arising from Information Collecting
Situations, Genoa, Italy, June 23, 2000
Cooperative Games Arising from Information Sharing Situations,
Tilburg, The Netherlands, September 7, 2000
Strict Hierarchical Situations and Peer Games, Tilburg, The
Netherlands, October 6, 2000
Information Collecting Games, Budapest, Hungary, December 11,
2000
Tree-Connected Peer Group Situations and Peer Group Games,
Bilbao, Spain, February 7, 2001
Cooperative Games with a Simplicial Core, Genoa, Italy, June 4,
2001
Compensations in IC situations, Pavia, Italy, June 7, 2001
Sharing Delay Costs in Joint Projects, Tilburg, The Netherlands,
September 27, 2001
Game-theoretical Approaches to the Problem of Sharing Delay Costs in
Joint Projects, Elche, Spain, October 3, 2001
Cooperative Games related to Delayed Joint Projects, Barcelona,
Spain, October 8, 2001
Cooperation and Information, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, October
18, 2001
Two Game Theoretic Approaches to the Problem of Sharing Delay Costs in
Joint Projects, Naples, Italy, November 21, 2001
Convex Fuzzy Games: Characterization and Solution Concepts,
Sendai, Japan, September 22, 2002
On Convex Fuzzy Games, Kyoto, Japan, November 13, 2002
Cooperative Fuzzy Games, Kyoto, Japan, November 14, 2002
On Cooperative Fuzzy Games, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan,
November 20, 2002
On Fuzzy Clan Games, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan,
November 30, 2002
Solution Concepts for Cooperative Fuzzy Games, Tsukuba, Japan, December
2, 2002
Cost Sharing in Joint Projects, Tilburg University, Tilburg, The
Netherlands, February 27, 2003
The Egalitarian Split-Off Set for TU-Games, Santiago de
Compostela, Spain, October 18, 2004
The Egalitarian Split-Off Set for Coalitional Games with Transferable
Utility, Genoa, Italy, October 25, 2004
Egalitarianism in Cooperative Games, Tokyo Institute of
Technology, Tokyo, Japan, January 14, 2005
Auctions and Cooperative Games, University of Barcelona,
Barcelona, Spain, May 11, 2005
Joint Project Management and Bankruptcy Theory, University of
Genoa, Genoa, Italy, June 1, 2005
Communication and Information in Games, DIPTEM, Genoa, Italy,
December 13, 2005
Egalitarianism in Cooperative Game Theory", University of
Sevilla, Sevilla, Spain, January 27, 2006
Egalitarian Solutions for Cooperative Games with Transferable
Utilities, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy, March 31, 2006
Models in Cooperative Game Theory and Related Egalitarian Solution Concepts,
University of Bilbao, Bilbao, Spain, April 28, 2006
Egalitarian Criteria and Game-Theoretic Solution Concepts,
Universita degli Studi "G. d'Annunzio", Pescara, Italy, June 9, 2006
On the State-of-the Art of Solution Concepts for Cooperative Games
with Crisp, Fuzzy and Multi-Choice Coalitions, University Miguel Hernandez
of Elche, Elche, Spain, May 14, 2007
On Convex Multi-Choice Games, Middle East Technical University
(METU), Ankara, Turkey, July 24, 2007
Classes of Cooperative Multi-Choice Games and Monotonic Allocation
Schemes, University Complutense, Madrid, Spain, July 5, 2007
Solution Concepts for Multi-Choice Cooperative Games, University
of Genoa, Italy, September 24, 2007
On Solution Concepts for Multi-Choice Cooperative Games,
University Paris 1, France, December 14, 2007
On Solution Concepts for Convex Multi-Choice Games, Tilburg
University, The Netherlands, February 29, 2008
Convex Multi-Choice Games: Characterizations and Solution
Concepts, University of Genoa, Italy, March 27, 2008
Properties of Solution Concepts on the Class of Convex Multi-Choice
Games, University "G. d'Annunzio", Pescara, Italy, May 13, 2008
Convex Interval Games, Twente University, August 29, 2008, Twente,
The Netherlands; GATE, Ecully (Lyon), September 25, France.
Peer Group Situations and Games, Middle East Technical University
(METU), Ankara, Turkey, January 30, 2009
Monotonicity and Additivity Properties of Interval Solutions for
Convex Interval Games, Middle East Techical University (METU), Ankara,
Turkey, February 3, 2009
Multi-Choice Cooperation under Interval Uncertainty, S.I.N.G. 5,
Amsterdam, The Netherlands, July 3, 2009
Monotonicity Properties of Interval Solutions for Convex Interval
Games, EURO XXIII, Bonn, July 7, 2009
Coalitional Games with Interval-Type Payoffs, Sanlucar de
Barrameda (organized by Sevilla University), Spain, October 2, 2009
Models in Cooperative Game Theory (Colloquim),UTA,
Arlington,U.S.A, April 23, 2010
Monotonicity Properties of Interval Solutions for Cooperative Games
with Interval Coalition Values, University of Bilbao, Spain, February
15, 2011
The constrained Egalitarian Solution for Convex Multi-choice
Games, University of the Netherlands Antilles, Curacao, January 24, 2012
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Membership in Ph.D. committees
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- Judith Timmer, Tilburg University, Tilburg, The Netherlands, September
28, 2001.
- Natividad Llorca, "Miguel Fernandez" University of Elche, Spain, October
2, 2001.
- Stefano Moretti (Ph. D. co-advisor), Tilburg University, The
Netherlands, October 10, 2008.
- Sirma Zeynep Alparslan Gok, METU, Ankara, January 26, 2009.
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Referee activities
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- European Journal of Operational Research (EJOR)
- Annals of Operations Research (ANOR)
- International Journal of Game Theory (IJGT)
- Games and Economic Behavior (GEB)
- Fuzzy Sets and Systems (FSS)
- Economic Theory (ET)
- Mathematical Reviews (MR)
- Mathematical Social Sciences (MaSS)
- Teoria Operativa (TOP)
- International Game Theory Review (IGTR)
- Mathematical Methods of Operation Research (MMOR)
- Computers and Mathematics with Applications (CAM)
- International Journal of Uncertainty, Fuzziness and Knowledge-Based
Systems (IJUFKS)
- Journal of Economic Theory (JET)
- Social Choice and Welfare (SCW)
- Central European Journal of Operations Research (CEJOR)
- Operational Research: An International Journal (ORIJ)
- Journal of Global Optimization (JOGO)
- Wiley Encyclopedia of Operations Research and Management Science
- Broad Research in Accounting, Negotiation, and Distribution(BRAND)
- Revista de la Union Matematica Argentina
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Other Activities
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- A contributor in 6 scientifical projects based on applied mathematics in Economy and Industry using computers.
- A four week mobility in TEMPUS project No. S-JEP 11168-96, upon the restructuring of the (re)training of school teachers in Computer Science, May, 5 - June, 2 1997, Granada, Spain
- Cooperative Game Theory stream organizer for EURO XXIII, Bonn,
Germany, July 5-8, 2009.
- Cooperative Game Theory stream organizer for EURO XXIV,
Lisbon, Portugal, July 11-14, 2010.
- Cooperative Game Theory stream organizer for EURO XXV,
Vilnius, Lithuania, July 8-11, 2012.
More than 85 presented papers at International and National Conferences,
Colloquia and other Scientifick Meetings.
Special Skills
- Languages:
- English, Spanish, Italian, French, Dutch
- Romanian - native language
- Driving Licence (qualified since 1981)
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Hobbies
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- Travelling
- Art and culture in civilization
- Music
- Walking in nature
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Information
for students (in Romanian)
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LUCRARI DE LICENTA PENTRU ANUL 2:
- Algoritmi pentru calcularea de solutii pentru jocuri cooperative cu structura ierarhica a multimii
agentilor
- Algoritmi pentru calcularea de solutii pentru jocuri cooperative cu date
de tip interval
- Algoritmi pentru calcularea de solutii pentru jocuri cooperative de tip
Multi-choice
- Algoritmi pentru alocarea costurilor si/sau beneficiilor proiectelor complexe cu ajutorul teoriei jocurilor
- Implementarea protocoalelor de tip C&C pentru alocarea costurilor in
retele de tip mcst
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