• D. Zaharie and F. Micota - Revisiting the analysis of population variance in Differential Evolution algorithms , 2017 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC), San Sebastian, 2017, pp. 1811-1818, doi: 10.1109/CEC.2017.7969521. (PDF, slides)

• R. Dogaru, F. Micota, D. Zaharie - Searching for Taxonomy-based Similarity Measures for Medical Data, 7th Balkan Conference in Informatics, BCI 2015, 2-4 September, DOI:10.1145/2801081.2801102, 2015. (PDF)
• R. R. Dogaru, F. Micota, D. Zaharie - Taxonomy-based dissimilarity measures for profile identification in medical data , 2015 IEEE 13th International Symposium on Intelligent Systems and Informatics (SISY), DOI:10.1109/SISY.2015.7325369, pg. 149-154, 2015. (PDF)

• R.D. Moleriu, D. Zaharie, L.C. Moatar-Moleriu, A.T. Gruia, A.A. Mic, F.A. Mic - Insights into the mechanisms of thymus involution and regeneration by modeling the glucocorticoid-induced perturbation of thymocyte populations dynamics , Journal of Theoretical Biology, Volume 348, Pages 80-99, 2014.

• D. Zaharie, L. Moatar-Moleriu, V. Negru - Particularities of Evolutionary Parameter Estimation in Multi-stage Compartmental Models of Thymocyte Dynamics, GECCO’13, July 6–10, 2013, Amsterdam, pg. 303-310 (PDF)
• D. Zaharie - Constrained Evolutionary Search for Model Parameters. Case Studies in Thymocyte Dynamics, invited talk, at Doctoral Summer School ECODAM, June 23-26, Iasi, Romania (slides)
• L. Moatar-Moleriu, V. Negru, D. Zaharie - Evolutionary Estimation of Parameters in Computational Models of Thymocyte Dynamics, 9th International Conference on Large Scale Scientific Computations, Sozopol, June 3-6, 2013, Springer LNCS 8353, pg. 264-271, 2014. (PDF)

• D. Zaharie - Differential Evolution: from Theoretical Results to Practical Insights, invited talk, in Proc. of 18th International Conference on Soft Computing, June 27-29, Brno, Czech Republic(PDF)
• D. Zaharie - Differential Evolution: using Differences to Guide the Search, invited talk, at Doctoral Summer School ECODAM, June 18-23, Iasi, Romania (slides)

• D. Zaharie, L.Perian, V. Negru, F. Zamfirache - Evolutionary pruning of non-nested generalized exemplars, in Proc.of the 6th IEEE International Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Informatics, Timisoara, 19-21 mai 2011, pg 57-62, 2011. (PDF)

• D. Zaharie, L. Perian, V. Negru - A View Inside the Classification with Non-Nested Generalized Exemplars, IADIS European Conference on Data Mining, 24-26 July, Rome, Italy, pg.19-26, 2011 (PDF)

• F. Zamfirache, D. Zaharie, C. Craciun - Nature inspired metaheuristics for task scheduling in static and dynamic computing environments, Scientific Bulletin of Politehnica University of Timisoara, Transactions on Automatic Control and Computer Science, vol 55(69), nr. 3, pp. 133-142, 2010 (PDF)

• F. Zamfirache, M. Frincu, D. Zaharie - Population based Metaheuristics for Tasks Scheduling in Heterogenous Distributed Systems, in I.Dimov, S. Dimova, N. Kolkovska (eds), Proc. of NMA 2010 Conference, LNCS 6046, pg. 321-327, 2011. (PDF)

• C. Craciun, M. Nicoara, D. Zaharie - Enhancing the Scalability of Metaheuristics by Cooperative Coevolution, in I. Lirkov, S. Margenov, and J. Wasniewski (Eds.): Proc. of LSSC 2009, LNCS 5910, pp. 310–317, 2010 (PDF)

• D. Zaharie - Influence of crossover on the behavior of the Differential Evolution Algorithm, Applied Soft Computing, vol 9, issue 3, pg. 1126-1138, 2009 (PDF preprint version)

• D. Zaharie - Statistical properties of differential evolution and related random search algorithms, in Paula Brito (ed.) Proceedings of International Conference on Computational Statistics Porto, Portugal, August 24-29, Physica-Verlag HD, ISBN978-3-7908-2083-6, pg. 473-485, 2008 (PDF)

• D. Zaharie, D. Lungeanu, F. Zamfirache - Interactive Search of Rules in Medical Data Using Multiobjective Evolutionary Algorithms,, in Proceedings of the 2008 GECCO Conference Genetic and Evolutionary Computation (workshop MedGEC--medical applications of genetic and evolutionary computation), Atlanta august 2008, ISBN:978-1-60558-131-6, pg. 2065-2072, 2008 (PDF)

• D. Lungeanu, D. Zaharie, F. Zamfirache - Influence of Missing Values Treatment on Classification Rules Evolved from Medical Data. In I. Bichindaritz, P. Perner, L. G. Shapiro (Eds.): Advances in Data Mining. 8th Industrial Conference, ICDM 2008, Leipzig, Germany, July 2008, Poster and Workshop Proceedings. IbaI Publishing 2008, ISBN 978-3-940501-03-5, pg. 86-95, 2008 (PDF)

• R. Dogaru, D. Zaharie, D. Lungeanu, E. Bernad, M. Bari - A Framework for Mining Association Rules in Data on Perinatal Care, Proceedings of CONTI 2008 (Conference on Technical Informatics, session on Biomedical Informatics), Timisoara 4-6 iunie, vol 1, ISSN 1844-539X, pg. 147-152, 2008. (PDF)

• D. Zaharie, D. Petcu, S. Panica - A Hierarchical Approach in Distributed Evolutionary Algorithms for Multiobjective Optimization, in I. Lirkov, S. Margenov, J. Wasniewski (eds) Proc. of LSSC 2007 – 6th International Conference on Large Scale Computing, LNCS 4818, ISBN-10 3-540-78825-5 Springer, pp. 505-514, 2008 (PDF)

• D. Zaharie - A comparative analysis of crossover variants in differential evolution, in M. Ganzha, M. Paprzycki, T. Pelech-Pilichowski (eds), Proc. of International Multiconference on Computer Science and Information Technology IMCSIT 2007, 15-17 oct., Wisla, Poland, ISSN 1896-7094, pg. 171 - 181, 2007 [best paper award] (PDF)

• D. Zaharie, D. Lungeanu, S. Holban - Feature ranking based on weights estimated by multiobjective optimization. In: J.Roth, J.Gutiérrez, A.P. Abraham (eds.) , Proceedings of IADIS First European Conference on Data Mining, 5-7 iulie 2007, Lisabona, ISBN 978-972-8924-40-9, pg. 124-128, 2007, (PDF)

• D. Zaharie, F.Zamfirache, V.Negru, D.Pop, H. Popa - A Comparison of Quality Criteria for Unsupervised Clustering of Documents Based on Differential Evolution , Proc. of International Conference on Knowledge Engineering: Principles and Techniques, Cluj-Napoca, 7-8 iunie, 2007, 114-121, 2007 (PDF).

• D. Zaharie, S. Holban, D. Lungeanu, D.Navolan - A Computational Intelligence Approach for Ranking Risk Factors in Preterm Birth , In: Szakal A. (ed.). Proceedings of 4th International Symposium on Applied Computational Intelligence and Informatics - SACI2007, mai 2007, Timisoara, ISBN: 1-4244-1234-X, pg. 135-140, 2007 (PDF).

• D. Zaharie, G. Ciobanu - Distributed Evolutionary Algorithms Inspired by Membranes in Continuous Optimization Problems , in H.J. Hoogeboom, G. Paun, G. Rozenberg (eds), Pre-Proceedings of 7th Workshop on Membrane Computing, Leiden, 17-21 iulie, 2006, 522-537, extended version published in Lecture Notes in Computer Science Volume 4361, 2006, pp 536-553 (draft of the extended version: PDF).

• D. Zaharie, D. Petcu - Communication Strategies in Distributed Evolutionary Algorithms for Multi-objective Optimization , Proc. of 7th International Conference on Technical Informatics, Timisoara, june 8-9,2006, vol. 1, pp. 145-150 (PDF).

• D. Zaharie - Distributed Clustering Based on Representatives Evolved by Crowding Differential Evolution , in R. Matousek, P. Osmera (eds), Proc. of 12th International Conference on Soft Computing, Brno, may 31 - june 2, 2006, pp. 51-56 (CD version: PDF).

• D. Zaharie, F. Zamfirache - Diversity Enhancing Mechanisms for Evolutionary Optimization in Static and Dynamic Environments , Proc. of 3rd Romanian-Hungarian Joint Symposium on Applied Computational Intelligence, Timisoara, may 25-26,2006, pp. 460-471 (PDF).

• D. Zaharie - Density-based Clustering with Crowding Differential Evolution , Proc. 7 th Symposium on Symbolic and Numeric Algorithms for Scientific Computing,Timisoara, 25-29 oct. 2005, pg. 72-79(PDF).

• D. Zaharie, F. Zamfirache - Dealing with Noise in Ant-based Clustering , Proc. IEEE Congress of Evolutionary Computation 2005, Edinburgh , 2-5 sept 2005, pg. 2395-2402 (PDF)

• D. Zaharie - Extensions of Differential Evolution Algorithms for Multimodal Optimization, in D. Petcu et.al (eds.), Proc. of SYNASC'04, 6th International Symposium of Symbolic and Numeric Algorithms for Scientific Computing, Timisoara, september 26-30, pp. 523-534 (PDF)

• D. Zaharie - A Multipopulation Differential Evolution Algorithm for Multimodal Optimization, in R. Matousek, P. Osmera (eds.), Proc. of Mendel 2004, 10th International Conference on Soft Computing, Brno, june 2004, pp. 17-22. ( PDF, slides - PDF)

• C. Grosan, D. Zaharie - Base Changing Strategies in an Adaptive Representation Evolutionary Algorithm, Proc. of SACI 2004 (1st Romanian-Hungarian Joint Symposium on Applied Computational Intelligence,Timisoara, may 2004, pp. 79-88. ( PDF)

• D. Zaharie - Control of Population Diversity and Adaptation in Differential Evolution Algorithms, in R. Matousek, P. Osmera (eds.), Proc. of Mendel 2003, 9th International Conference on Soft Computing, Brno, pp. 41-46, 2003. ( PDF)

• D. Zaharie - Parameter Adaptation in Differential Evolution by Controlling the Population Diversity, Analele Univ. Timisoara, vol. XXXX, issue 2, 2002. ( PDF)

• D. Zaharie - Critical Values for the Control Parameters of Differential Evolution Algorithms, in R. Matousek, P. Osmera (eds.), Proc. of Mendel 2002, 8th International Conference on Soft Computing, Brno, pp. 62-67, 2002. PDF)

• D. Zaharie - On the Explorative Power of Differential Evolution Algorithms, The 3rd International Workshop "Symbolic and Numeric Algorithms on Scientific Computing", october 2-4, 2001, Timisoara ( PS) 

• D. Zaharie - Recombination Operators for Evolutionary Algorithms, School  of  "Mathematics and its Applications in Engineering and Economics", Sozopol, Bulgaria, june 2001 ( PS)

• D. Zaharie - On an evolutionary algorithm for global optimization,  Analele Univ. Timisoara ,vol. XXXVIII fasc. 2, 2000, pg. 203-216 ( PS )

• D. Zaharie - Iterated morphological operators implemented through cellular neural networks,  Analele Univ. Timisoara ,vol. XXXVII. 1999, pg.169-178 ( paper  (PostScript-gzip, 110.7kb))

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