This book includes high-quality research papers presented at 24th International Conference on Informatics in Economy (IE 2025), which was held in Bucharest, Romania, during May 2025. This book covers research results in business informatics and related computer science topics, such as IoT, mobile-embedded and multimedia solutions, e-society, enterprise and business solutions, databases and big data, artificial intelligence, data mining and machine learning, quantitative economics.

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Cristian CIUREA is Professor at the Department of Economic Informatics and Cybernetics from Bucharest University of Economic Studies. He is also the Head of department. Cristian has graduated the Faculty of Cybernetics, Statistics and Economic Informatics from the Bucharest University of Economic Studies in 2007. He has a master in Informatics Project Management (2010) and a PhD in Economic Informatics (2011) from the Bucharest University of Economic Studies. Cristian has a solid background in computer science and is interested in collaborative systems related issues. Other fields of interest include intelligent systems, software metrics, data structures, object-oriented programming, windows applications programming, mobile devices programming and testing process automation for software quality assurance.

Paul POCATILU graduated the Faculty of Cybernetics, Statistics and Economic Informatics in 1998. He achieved the PhD in Economics in 2003 with thesis on Software Testing Cost Assessment Models. He has published as author and co-author over 45 articles in journals and over 40 articles on national and international conferences. He is author and co-author of 10 books, (Mobile Devices Programming and Software Testing Costs are two of them). He is professor at the Department of Economic Informatics and Cybernetics within the Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Bucharest. He teaches courses, seminars and laboratories on Mobile Devices Programming, Economic Informatics, Computer Programming and Project Quality Management to graduate and postgraduate students. His current research areas are software testing, software quality, project management, and mobile application development.

Florin Gheorghe FILIP graduated in Automation at Politehnica University of Bucharest in 1970 and received his PhD degree from the same university in 1982. He was elected as corresponding member of the Romanian Academy in 1991 and became full member of the Academy in 1999. During 2000-2010, he was vice-president of the Romanian Academy (elected in 2000, re-elected in 2004, and 2006). In 2010, he was elected president of the Information Science and Technology section of the Academy (re-elected in 2015, and 2019). He was the managing director of National Institute for R&D in Informatics-ICI, Bucharest (1991-1997). He is honorary member of the Romanian Academy of Technical Sciences, and Academy of Sciences of Republic of Moldova. His main scientific interests include optimization and control of large-scale complex systems, decision support systems (DSS), technology management and foresight, and IT applications in the cultural sector.

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Part I Big Data, Cloud Computing, and IT Innovation in Cultural Institutions.- Chapter 1 SUSTAINABLE COLLABORATIVE BUSINESS ECOSYSTEMS.- Chapter 2 A SURVEY OF OLAP PERFORMANCE FOR BIG DATA SYSTEMS.- Chapter 3 CHARACTERISTICS OF LAKEHOUSE IMPLEMENTATIONS.- Chapter 4 ADVANCING LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS WITH AI AGENTS.- Chapter 5 GREEN QUBITS: EXPLORING THE SUSTAINABILITY OF QUANTUM COMPUTING.- Part II Digital Innovation for Business Transformation and Sustainable Communities.- Chapter 6 THE EUROPEAN DIGITAL INNOVATION HUBS DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION BROKERS.- Chapter 7 DIGITAL AND NON-DIGITAL TOOLS FOR CITIZENS' PARTICIPATION IN IMPLEMENTING OPEN INNOVATION IN THE BULGARIAN PUBLIC SECTOR: AN EMPIRICAL VIEW.- Chapter 8 AN OPTIMIZATION MODEL FOR ENERGY AWARE SERVER PROCUREMENT IN DATA CENTERS.- Chapter 9 ASSOCIATING PAID DIGITAL ADVERTISING WITH AI USAGE IN MARKETING AND SALES AMONG EUROPEAN SMES.- Chapter 10 ANALYSIS OF ADVERTISING RESULTS ON FACEBOOK (META) AND GOOGLE PLATFORMS ON GENERATED SALES FOR AN E-COMMERCE COSMETICS STORE.- Chapter 11 THE EVOLUTION OF BUSINESS PROCESS AUTOMATION FROM INDUSTRY 1.0 TO HYPERAUTOMATION: A LITERATURE REVIEW.- Chapter 12 ADDRESSING TECHNICAL DEBT THROUGH SCENARIO-BASED DEVELOPMENT: A COST-DRIVEN APPROACH.- Chapter 13 URBANIZATION STRATEGIES IN THE 21ST CENTURY: EVOLUTION, COMPARISON AND ARGUMENTS FOR SATELLITE CITIES.- Chapter 14 TASK LOAD BALANCING IN THE VEHICULAR EDGE COMPUTING LAYER USING TRAFFIC PREDICTION.- Part III IoT Innovations and Cybersecurity Challenges in the Digital Era.- Chapter 15 FUZZING FOR IOT SECURITY: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS.- Chapter 16 RELEVANT ARTIFACTS IN CYBER INVESTIGATIONS FOR HEALTHCARE INFRASTRUCTURES.- Chapter 17 ANALYZING GDPR COMPLIANCE IN IOT ECOSYSTEM WITH KEY DATA PROTECTION STRATEGIES AND INDUSTRY IMPACT.- Chapter 18 PRE-TRAINED NEURAL NETWORKS USING SYNTHETIC DATA FROM GENERALIZED HERMITE PROCESSES FOR TIME SERIES PREDICTION.- Chapter 19 OPTIMIZING EDGE COMPUTATION A LIGHTWEIGHT FRAMEWORK FOR LOW-POWER IOT DEVICES.- Chapter 20 BLOCKCHAIN INTEGRATION IN TRUST SERVICE PROVIDERS: TRENDS, CHALLENGES, AND FUTURE DIRECTIONS.- Chapter 21 ZKFLAG: A PRIVACY-FIRST, OPEN-SOURCE PLATFORM FOR FEATURE FLAGS USING ZERO-KNOWLEDGE PROOFS.- Part IV Cybernetic Approaches in Quantitative Economics.- Chapter 22 ARDL INSIGHTS INTO FINANCIAL CONTAGION: ASSESSING THE IMPACT OF CRUDE OIL AND BITCOIN ON EUROPEAN BANKS.- Chapter 23 MAPPING THE EVOLUTION OF FUZZY REAL OPTIONS AND DECISION-MAKING: A BIBLIOMETRIC ANALYSIS.- Chapter 24 EXPLORING THE INNOVATION CLAUDIA CURVE AND LOAD CAPACITY UTILIZATION IN FINLAND: AN AUTOREGRESSIVE DISTRIBUTED LAG APPROACH.- Chapter 25 A BIBLIOMETRIC ANALYSIS OF EVACUATION SIMULATION RESEARCH: TRENDS, COLLABORATION, AND THEMATIC EVOLUTION (20022024).- chapter 26 RANKING EU HAPPINESS: TOPSIS AND VIKOR CLASSIFICATION.- chapter 27 CIRCULAR ECONOMY AND THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE GREEN SUPPLY CHAIN. AN ANALYSIS OF THE IMPLICATIONS ON THE ACTUAL ECONOMY.- chapter 28 LSTM DEEP LEARNING NETWORK APPLIED TO STOCK MARKET.- Chapter 29 ROMANIAN NEWS ARTICLE CLASSIFICATION: A MULTI-MODEL COMPARISON WITH CLASS BALANCING.- Chapter 30 MARKET VOLATILITY PREDICTION UNDER POWERFUL GEOPOLITICAL EVENTS. A CASE STUDY ON THE LATEST EUROPEAN CONFLICT.- Chapter 31 A BIBLIOMETRIC ANALYSIS OF THE BIBLIOMETRIC PAPERS IN TRANSPORTATION SECTOR.- PART V Artificial Intelligence Theory and Applications.- Chapter 32 A SOLUTION TO UNIVERSITY COURSE TIMETABLING PROBLEM USING GENETIC ALGORITHMS.- Chapter 33 UNVEILING IT JOB MARKET SENTIMENT AND TRENDS: A REDDIT-BASED STUDY USING SENTIMENT ANALYSIS AND NAMED ENTITY RECOGNITION.- Chapter 34 DEALING WITH IMBALANCED DATA FOR LOAN DEFAULT PREDICTION: A COMPARATIVE STUDY ACROSS BALANCING TECHNIQUES FOR CNN, LSTM, RF, AND SVM MODELS.- Chapter 35 ASSESSING THE STATIC MALWARE ANALYSIS CAPABILITIES OF LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS.- Chapter 36 ASSESSING THE TRUSTWORTHINESS OF LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS: A TWO-STAGE FRAMEWORK USING RAGAS AND LLAMAINDEX.- Chapter 37 ETHICS OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN BUSINESS: CHALLENGES, APPLICATIONS AND PATHWAYS FOR RESPONSIBLE INNOVATION.- Chapter 38 AUTOMATING STUDENT ATTENDANCE USING FACIAL RECOGNITION THROUGH ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE.- Chapter 39 GENERATIVE AI IN DIGITAL BUSINESS: TRENDS AND CHALLENGES.