Honorius Galmeanu's Home Page

associate lecturer Electronics & Computers Department Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science 1 Politehnicii street 500024 Brasov ROMANIA Transilvania University of Brasov

Professional Education

• 2002 - 2008, Ph. D. in Computer Science, earned from Transilvania University of Brasov, Electronics & Computers Department
• 1998 - 1999, M. Sc. in Electronic Design Automation Techniques, earned from Transilvania University of Brasov, Electronics & Computers Department
• 1993 - 1998, B. Sc. in Electronics and Computer Engineering, earned from Transilvania University of Brasov, Electronics & Computers Department

Academic Position

Former full lecturer at Transilvania University of Brasov, Dept. of Electronics & Computers, March 1999 - July 2009.

Currently, associate lecturer at Transilvania University of Brasov, Dept. of Electronics & Computers, Sep 2010 - now.

Lectures

• Formal Languages and Compilers
• Operating Systems
• Data Structures in Java
• Algorithms and Calculability
  1. Evaluations (all 2012)
  2. Evaluations 2014
  3. Evaluations 2015
• Information Transmission Theory
• Parallel Architectures and Algorithms Final evaluations Evaluations 2012 Evaluations 2013 Evaluations 2014 Evaluations 2015

Professional Interests

• Data Mining, SVMs (see the IDSVM GPL implementation)
• MPEG Technology
• Parallel and Distributed Computing
• Compilers and Compiler Generators
• Fault Tolerant Computing
• Neural Networks

Representative Publications

• H. Galmeanu, R. Andonie, Implementation Issues of an Incremental and Decremental SVM, Proc. of the 18th International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (ICANN'08), Prague, Czech Republic, September 3-6, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 5163 Springer 2008, vol. 1, pp. 325-335, ISBN 978-3-540-87535-2 (ISI Proceedings, DBLP)
• H. Galmeanu, R. Andonie, Incremental and Decremental SVM for Function Approximation, Proc. of the 11th International Conference on Optimization of Electrical and Electronic Equipment (OPTIM'08), May 22-24, Brasov, vol. 3, pp. 155-160, 978-1-4244-1544-1 (ISI Proceedings, INSPEC, IEEE Xplore)
• R. Andonie, A.T. Chronopoulos, D. Grosu, H. Galmeanu, An Efficient Concurrent Implemetation of a Neural Network Algorithm Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, Vol. 18, No. 12, October 2006, pp. 1559-1573 (ISI Journal)
• H. Galmeanu, B. Dumitru - Online MPEG-2 Transport Stream Multiplexer for .NET Proc. of the 10th International Conference on Optimization of Electrical and Electronic Equipments (OPTIM 2006), Brasov, Romania, May 17-19, 2006 (ISI Proceedings, indexat IEEE Xplore)
• D. Grosu, H. Galmeanu - MPEG-2 Motion Estimation using a PC Cluster International Journal of Computers and Applications, ACTA Press, Vol. 27/2005, Issue 2, pp. 1284, ISSN: 1206-212X
• H. Galmeanu, D. Grosu - A Parallel Block Matching Technique for MPEG-2 Motion Estimation Proc. of the 3rd International Symposium on Video Processing and Multimedia Communications (VIPromCom 2001), Zadar, Croatia, June 13-15, 2001
• R. Andonie, A.T. Chronopoulos, D. Grosu, H. Galmeanu - Distributed Backpropagation Neural Networks on a PVM Heterogeneous System. Proc. of the 10th IASTED International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing and Systems (PDCS'98), Y. Pan, S.G. Akl, K. Li (eds.), October 28-31, 1998, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, pp. 555-560.
• D. Grosu, H. Galmeanu - Motion Estimation in MPEG-2 Video Encoding Using a Parallel Block Matching Algorithm. Proc. of the 6th International Symposium on Automatic Control and Computer Science (SACCS'98), Iasi, Romania, November 20-21, 1998, Vol. II, pp. 154-159.
• H. Galmeanu - Usage of harddisk as a cache memory in C++, PCReport Magazine, August 1996, Targu-Mures, Romania

Textbooks

• H. Galmeanu - Basics of Signal Transmitting and Processing II (laboratory textbook), Transilvania University Press, 2002
  
  

  	Postscript version, in Romanian
  	PDF version, in Romanian

  
  
  It contains:
  • A short MathLAB introduction.
  • The entropy of a binary source. Markov sources.
  • Discrete channels. Transinformation.
  • Discrete symbols receivers (binary case).
  • Codes for ideal channels.
  • Codes for noisy channles (group codes).
  • Codes for noisy channles (cyclic codes).
  • Digital Fast Fourier Transform.
  
  Bibliography (as they also appear on last page and in the textbook):
  1. Mateescu, A., Dumitru, N., Stanciu, L., Semnale si sisteme - Aplicatii in filtrarea semnalelor, Editura Teora, 2001
  2. Murgan, A.T., Spanu, I., Gavat, I., Sztojanov, I., Neagoe, V.I., Vlad, A., Teoria transmisiunii informatiei - probleme, Editura Didactica si Pedagogica, Bucuresti, 1983
  3. Radescu, R., Stoian, R., Teoria Informatiei si a Codurilor (Teoria Transmisiunii Informatiei 1) - indrumar de laborator, Editura PRINTECH, Bucuresti, 1998
  4. Spataru, A., Teoria transmisiunii informatiei, Editura Didactica si Pedagogica, Bucuresti, 1982
  5. * * *, The Student Edition of MATLAB - User's guide, Prentice Hall, 1996

Links

• Support Vector Machines org site
• SNNS - Stuttgart Neural Network Simulator
• MPEG.ORG Site - various MPEG papers and source programs
• Parallel Virtual Machine - home of PVM
• DVB ETSI Standardization Commitee
• Good background and references related to MPEG-2 Digital Video at University of Aberdeen
• A guide to Digital Terrestrial Television Broadcasting offered by ITU
• Usenet

Contact Address

galmeanu at (spam-goes-to-trash) vega dot unitbv dot ro

Transilvania University of Brasov
Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Electronics and Computers Department
1 Politehnicii street
500024 Brasov
ROMĀNIA