Advances in ICT Research in the Balkans

.- Cloud, Agents and Data Management
.- Comparison of rating functions for establishing trust in multi-agent systems.
.- Decentralized intelligence in the service of heterogeneous swarms.
.- Advances in Kubernetes scheduling for efficient resource utilization and environmental impact mitigation: A review.
.- Column-oriented databases and their industry impact: Insights from a literature review.
.- NexusChat: Enabling privacy-preserving AI through decentralized data objects on the Sui Blockchain.
.- Programming and Software
.- Towards automated vulnerability detection in Erlang codebases using static code analysis.
.- Analysing the energy consumption of Erlang programs based on the Savina benchmark.
.- A practical guide for application security and quality baselines in the software deployment process.
.- Recursion vs. dynamic programming: An experimental evaluation on illustrative examples.
.- Microservices
.- Pantheonix: A microservice-based distributed online judge system.
.- Nicusor Dumitru Sami Barbut-Dica (University of Craiova); Mirel Cosulschi (University of Craiova) Schema evolution and isolation in decentralized microservice datastores: A controlled experiment on service resilience and deployment independence.
.- CPU consumption in microservices-based and monolithic applications.
.- Memory consumption in microservices based and monolithic applications.
.- Micro-frontend architecture: A qualitative study of practical implementations.
.- Large Language Models
.- Fine-tuning LLMs from textual documents: Performance, cost, and integration analysis.
.- Performance of large language models in automatic generation of logic programs.
.- The problem-solving capabilities of modern LLMs in the competitive programming context.
.- Comparison of RAG-enhanced open-source quantized lightweight LLMs for C# code smell detection.
.- ValidoAI tax regulation search module for legal-tax orientation by using GPT-based natural language models for financial analysis.
.- Natural Language Processing and Recommender Systems
.- Understanding and establishing natural language understanding and natural language generation technologies for reliable, ethical AI systems that don't impoverish the human languages.
.- Sentiment analysis of public opinion on the 2025 national elections in Kosovo using NLP techniques and machine learning algorithms.
.- A hybrid model for movies recommendations, utilizing SBERT and collaborative filtering.
.- Application of vector databases in recommender systems: BISIS case study.
.- Internet of Things
.- Smart waste management in urban Tetovo using IoT sensor networks.
.- Real-time optimization of IoT-based control systems for concentrated solar power using edge-AI and hybrid simulation.
.- A review of digital twin architectures in IIoT-driven manufacturing.
.- Low-cost edge-enabled sensor system for small farms and households.
.- Machine Learning
.- Leveraging open innovation and systems thinking to enhance the success of AI-driven HealthTech ventures: A case study of Baby FM in south-east Europe.
.- A scoring app for the efficient recording, analysis and documentation of pest infestation on plants.
.- Melanoma detection based on deep learning networks.
.- Brain tumor detection using U-Net and Res-UNet convolutional neural networks.
.- From data to decisions: Applying ML algorithms to optimize resource allocation in Kosovo's tax system.
.- Exhaustive convergence analysis of label propagation algorithm for community detection in complex networks.
.- Educational Issues
.- Student success in computer literacy: A longitudinal study of midterm and exam performance at the Faculty of Philosophy in Novi Sad, Serbia.
.- Inter-Mediterranean Peace and Collaboration Experiences.
.- Is one shot prompting enough for reliable essay evaluation by large language models?.
.- TINKER: A robotics curriculum to fostering 21st-century skills.
.- Ethical hacking approaches for securing learning management systems: A case study with GlassWire and Log Analysis.