About Us
SCIO association was founded in 2014 by prominent international scientists and university professors.
History
SCIO association was established in 2014 as the European Centre for Operational Research (ECOR), operating under the umbrella of the Regional Association for Security and Crisis Management (RABEK). Over the past decade, ECOR has evolved beyond its initial role as an internal center within RABEK through numerous activities and international collaborations. Given the increasing scope of its responsibilities, the natural decision was to separate ECOR as an independent association. In 2023, it was renamed Scientific Oasis (SCIO Association).
SCIO association was founded in 2014 by prominent international scientists and university professors.
SCIO Association is focused on the following areas:
Advanced Engineering Systems with focus on research and development of innovative engineering solutions, advancements in automation, robotics, and smart manufacturing technologies.
Decision Science and Analytics with focus on leveraging data-driven approaches, machine learning, and artificial intelligence to enhance decision-making processes. We develop predictive models and optimization frameworks for strategic planning and problem-solving.
Operational Research and System Optimization with focus on optimization of complex systems, including supply chains, logistics, and resource management. Also, we are focused on designing algorithms and mathematical models to improve efficiency, reduce costs, and maximize productivity.
Activities
The Scientific Oasis (SCIO) – Association for Engineering, Decision Making, and Operational Research operates as a nonprofit scientific association (code 5811) dedicated to advancing research, knowledge sharing, and practical applications in engineering, decision sciences, and operational research. It publishes scientific books, organizes conferences, workshops, and webinars; publishes scientific papers and technical reports; fosters collaboration among academics, industry professionals, and policymakers; and provides training programs to enhance scientific and professional skills. SCIO serves as a global hub for interdisciplinary collaboration, enabling its members to exchange ideas, develop innovative solutions, and contribute to the advancement of science for societal benefit.
SCIO sustains its activities through a diversified funding model aligned with nonprofit principles, including membership fees with tiered pricing for students, professionals, and institutions; competitive research and educational grants; sponsorship from industry partners; and income from specialized training programs, certification courses, and event registrations. The association also receives donations, endowments, and collaborative project funding to support its initiatives while maintaining affordability and accessibility for participants. By reinvesting all surplus into scientific programs, publications, and community engagement, SCIO ensures long-term impact, global reach, and the continued development of knowledge in its focus areas.
In the past period, SCIO published 25 periodical issues (21 scientific/professional books and four scientific conference proceedings) and five scientific journals.
Basic bibliographic data on all SCIO editions are available on the COBISS platform, where all editions referenced in the National Library are permanently stored.
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Organization of SCIO Association
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CHARIMAN OF THE MANAGEMENT BOARD
Radu-Emil Precup (M IEEE ’03 – SM IEEE ’07 – F IEEE ’25) was born in Lugoj, Romania, in 1963. He received the Dipl.Ing. (Hons.) degree in automation and computers from the “Traian Vuia” Polytechnic Institute of Timisoara, Timisoara, Romania, in 1987, the Diploma in mathematics from the West University of Timisoara, Timisoara, in 1993, and the Ph.D. degree in automatic systems from the “Politehnica” University of Timisoara, Timisoara, in 1996. From 1987 to 1991, he was with Infoservice S.A., Timisoara. He is currently with the Politehnica University of Timisoara, Romania, where he became a Professor in the Department of Automation and Applied Informatics, in 2000, and he is currently a Doctoral Supervisor of automation and systems engineering. From 2022, he is also a senior researcher (CS I) and the head of the Data Science and Engineering Laboratory of the Center for Fundamental and Advanced Technical Research, Romanian Academy Timisoara Branch, Romania. From 2016 to 2022, he was an Adjunct Professor within the School of Engineering, Edith Cowan University, Joondalup, WA, Australia. He is currently the Director of the Automatic Systems Engineering Research Centre with the Politehnica University of Timisoara, Romania. From 1999 to 2009, he held research and teaching positions with the Universitde Savoie, Chamby and Annecy, France, Budapest Tech Polytechnical Institution, Budapest, Hungary, Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria, and Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Budapest, Hungary
He has been an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems (2018-2022), is an Executive Co-Editor-in-Chief of Information Sciences (Elsevier), the Editor-in-Chief of Romanian Journal of Information Science and Technology, and is an editorial board member of several prestigious journals including IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence (Elsevier), Applied Soft Computing (Elsevier), Expert Systems with Applications (Elsevier), Evolving Systems (Springer), Applied Artificial Intelligence (Taylor & Francis), Healthcare Analytics (Elsevier), and Communications in Transportation Research (Elsevier).
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Valentin L. Popov is full professor at the Technische Universität (TU) Berlin. He studied physics and obtained his doctorate in 1985 from the Moscow State Lomonosov University. 1985-1998 he worked at the Institute of Strength Physics and Materials Science of the Russian Academy of Sciences. After that, he was a guest professor in the field of theoretical physics at the University of Paderborn (Germany) from 1999 to 2002. Since 2002 he is the head of the Department of System Dynamics and the Physics of Friction at the TU Berlin. He has published over 400 papers in leading international journals and is the author of the book “Contact Mechanics and Friction: Physical principles and applications” which appeared in tvelve editions in German, English, Chinese, Russian, Spanish, Japanese, French and Uzbek.
He is the editor-in-chief of the Journal Frontiers in Mechanical Engineering/Tribology, member of editorial boards of many international journals and is organizer of more than 20 international conferences and workshops over diverse tribological themes. Prof. Popov is Honorary Professor of the Tomsk Polytechnic University, of the East China University of Science and Technology, and of the Changchun University of Science and Technol-ogy and Distinguished Visiting Professor of the Tsinghua University. His areas of interest include tribology, nanotribology, tribology at low temperatures, biotribology, the influence of friction through ultrasound, as well as the numerical simulation of contact and friction, earthquakes, or synovial joints regenerative rehabilitation.
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Goran Šimunović is a full professor with tenure at the Mechanical engineering Faculty in Slavonski Brod, Croatia. He is Vice-Editor-in-Chief of the journal “Tehnicki vjesnik-Technical Gazette”. His areas of interest include modelling, simulation, prediction, optimization, multi-criteria analysis and application of AI in the field of machining and process planning.
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Sergey V. Dmitriev was born in Tomsk, Russia, and graduated from Tomsk State University in 1983. He received his Ph.D. in Mechanics in 1991 and his Habilitation in Physics in 2008. Currently he is the Head of the Laboratory at the Institute of Molecule and Crystal Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences in the city of Ufa. In 1995-2007 he worked in Japan at the University of Electro-Communications under the JSPS program and later at the Institute of Industrial Science of the University of Tokyo in the last position of full Professor. He is author and co-author of more than 450 publications in leading international journals. His areas of interest include mechanical engineering, electroplasticity, nanomaterials, crystal lattice defects, and nonlinear dynamics.
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Babak Safaei currently is working as Associate Professor at Department of Mechanical Engineering at Eastern Mediterranean University. Presently, he is director of Nanotechnology and Multifunctional Structures Research Center (NMSRC) at Eastern Mediterranean University. Also, he has honorary position as Visiting Professor at University of Johannesburg since 2021. He received his PhD. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Department of Mechanical Engineering at Tsinghua University. He is the editor-in-chief of the Archives of Advanced Engineering Science, and member of editorial boards of many international journals. He was listed in the World’s Top 2% Scientists in the Career-Long Impact List and in the single-year Category published by Stanford University and Elsevier in 2021, 2022 and 2023. His research area is as follow: Computational Mechanics, Micro and Nano Mechanics, Composite Materials, Advanced Manufacturing Process in Materials, Lightweight Structures, and Energy Harvesting.
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Hamid M. Sedighi is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz. He earned his Ph.D. and M.S. degrees from Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz and his B.S. degree from Shiraz University. His research interests encompass MEMS/NEMS, nonlinear vibrations, piezo/magneto materials, and thermoelasticity. He has published numerous papers in leading international journals, including works on the lateral vibration of quintic nonlinear beams and the dynamic pull-in instability of micro-beams. Prof. Sedighi serves as the Editor-in-Chief of the “Journal of Applied and Computational Mechanics” and is an editorial member for the “International Journal of Applied Mechanics” and “Part C: Journal of Mechanical Engineering Science.” He leads the Metamaterials Lab at Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz, focusing on the development and application of metamaterials in engineering.
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Fischer Szabolcs graduated in 2008 from the Faculty of Engineering Sciences at Széchenyi István University (SZE) with a degree in structural and transportation engineering. From 2008 to 2012, he pursued his doctoral studies at the SZE Multidisciplinary Technical Sciences Doctoral School (MMTDI), where his research focused on analyzing the effects of geogrids installed directly beneath railway ballast. He successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation in civil engineering in August 2012. Beginning in September 2009, he held successive academic positions at SZE’s Department of Transportation and Urban Engineering (and its successor departments): first as an assistant lecturer, then as a senior lecturer (2012), associate professor (2016), habilitated associate professor (2018), and finally full professor (2022). Since 2021, he has also worked part-time as a habilitated associate professor at the Department of Road and Railway Engineering, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME). His teaching focuses on railway design, construction, and maintenance. A member of the Hungarian Chamber of Engineers since 2009, he served as the technical editor of Közlekedésépítési Szemle (Transportation Engineering Review) from 2010 to 2011 and as secretary of the Győr-Moson-Sopron County Regional Division of KTE in 2011. Since 2013, he has been a public committee member of the Transportation and Vehicle Science Committee at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (MTA).
Since 2016, he has been an editor of the journal Acta Technica Jaurinensis and served as the scientific secretary of SZE MMTDI until 2024. That same year, he earned a degree in business engineering from SZE’s Kautz Gyula Faculty of Economics. He has also been a board member of the Railway Division within the Transportation Section of the Hungarian Chamber of Engineers since 2016. In 2017, he joined the civil engineering BSc program committee, and in 2018, he obtained his habilitation (post-doctoral degree) in civil engineering at SZE MMTDI. Since 2021, he has been a guest editor for special issues of Acta Polytechnica Hungarica. To date, he has supervised nine Ph.D. students (MTA point value: 7.0), with continuous activity since 2015. One of his supervisees, Attila Németh, earned his Ph.D. in civil engineering in 2020. Since November 2021, he has been a core member of SZE MMTDI in civil engineering sciences and a member of the SZE MMTDI Doctoral School Council since 2022. He frequently serves on evaluation committees for institutional and national student research conferences (TDK, OTDK) as well as professional and scientific conferences. Additionally, he regularly peer-reviews articles for over 20 international journals. He has chaired and participated in numerous Ph.D. defense committees at SZE, BME, and the University of Debrecen, including habilitation defenses. He maintains strong international collaborations with universities in Germany, Poland, Slovakia, Ukraine, Serbia, and Iran.