Horia Popa

Horia Popa is a Lecturer at the Faculty of Computer Science, West University of Timișoara. He has taught courses such as Artificial Intelligence, Network Administration, and Functional and Logic Programming since the 2022-2023 academic year, with additional historical courses dating back to 2011-2012. His teaching emphasizes hands-on lab work, software tools (Jess, CLIPS, WEKA), and project-based learning.

• Education: Not explicitly mentioned in the text.
• Research: Focuses on multi-agent systems, distributed constraints, asynchronous search algorithms, and system administration.

Research Interests:
Horia Popa specializes in Artificial Intelligence and Multi-agent Systems, particularly in asynchronous search techniques and constraint satisfaction problems. His work explores scale-free networks, nogood processors, and distributed execution environments. He also investigates Network Administration (DHCP, firewall configuration, kernel recompilation) and Knowledge Discovery through agent-based modeling.

Article Trends:
His publications (2001-2015) span Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, and Multi-agent Systems. Key subfields include Asynchronous Algorithms, Constraint Networks, Protein Folding Simulation, and Kernel-Level System Management. He frequently uses NetLogo for large-scale simulations and integrates Samba/ldap for networked environments.

Teaching and Projects:
Students in his courses work on projects involving Jess, Prolog, and JADE. Assignments include implementing search algorithms (A*, Hill Climbing, RBFS), configuring NIS and Samba servers, and analyzing system monitoring tools like sar and top. He emphasizes practical implementation and cross-language diversity (e.g., Racket, Prolog).