Full Description
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th Balkan Conference in Informatics on Advances in ICT Research in the Balkans, BCI 2025, held in Tirana, Albania, during October 13-15, 2025.
The 38 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 54 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: Cloud, Agents and Data Management; Programming and Software; Microservices; Large Language Models; Natural Language Processing and Recommender Systems; Internet of Things; Machine Learning; and Educational Issues.
Contents
.- 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.
