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• 1. Articles
• 2. Preprints and technical reports
• 3. Communications
• 4. Monographs
• 5. Textbooks

• D.Petcu, Experiments with an ODE Solver on a Multiprocessor System, Computers & Mathematics with Applications vol. 42, no. 8-9, Oct.-Nov. (2001), Pergamon-Elsevier Science, UK, 1189-1199.
• Dana Petcu, The performance of parallel iterative solvers, Computers & Mathematics with Applications vol. 50, (2005), Pergamon-Elsevier Science, UK, 1179-1189.
• V.Gioncu, D.Petcu, Available rotation capacity of wide-flange beams and beam-columns. Part 1. Theoretical approaches, Journal of Constructional Steel Research, vol. 43, no. 1-3, July-September 1997, Elsevier Science Ltd, Oxford, 161-217.
• V.Gioncu, D.Petcu, Available rotation capacity of wide-flange beams and beam-columns. Part 2. Experimental and numerical tests, Journal of Constructional Steel Research, vol. 43, no. 1-3, July-September 1997, Elsevier Science Ltd, Oxford, 219-244.
• D.Petcu, V.Gioncu, Computer program for available ductility analysis of steel structures, Computers & Structures Volume 81, Issues 22-23 , September 2003, 2149-2164.

• D.Petcu, Implementation of some multiprocessor algorithms for ODEs using PVM, Lectures Notes in Computer Science 1332: Recent Advances in Parallel Virtual Machine and Message Passing Interface, eds. Marian Bubak, Jack Dongarra, Jerzy Wasniewski, Springer-Verlag Berlin, 375-383.
• D.Petcu, Solving Initial Value Problems with a Multiprocessor Code, Lectures Notes in Computer Science 1662: Parallel Computing Technologies, ed. Victor Malyshkin, Springer-Verlag Berlin, 452-466.
• D.Petcu, PVMaple: A Distributed Approach to Cooperative Work of Maple Processes, Lectures Notes in Computer Science 1908: Recent Advances in Parallel Virtual Machine and Message Passing Interface, eds. Jack Dongarra, Peter Kacsuk, Norbert Podhorszki, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 216-224.
• D.Petcu, Numerical Solution of ODEs with Distributed Maple, Lectures Notes in Computer Science 1988, Numerical analysis and Its Applications, eds. Lubin Vulkov, Jerzy Wasniewski, Plamen Yalamov, 666--674
• D. Petcu, Solving initial value problems with parallel Maple processes, Lectures Notes in Computer Science 2150: Parallel Processing, eds. R. Sakellariou, J. Keane, J. Gurd, L. Freeman, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 2001, pp. 926-934.
• D. Petcu, Solving large systems of differential equations with PAVIS, Lectures Notes in Computer Science 2328, Parallel Processing and Applied Mathematics, eds. R. Wyrzykowski, J. Dongarra, M. Paprzycki, J. Wasniewski, pp. 437-445
• D. Petcu, H. Popa, D. Tepeneu, A user-level interface for clustering mathematical software kernels, Lectures Notes in Computer Science 2336: Advanced Environments, tools and applications for cluster computing, eds. Dan Grigoras, A. Nicolau, B. Toursel, B. Folliot, pg. 175-182
• D.Zaharie, D.Petcu, Adaptive Pareto Differential Evolution and its Parallelization, 5th International Conference, Parallel Processing and Applied Mathematics, PPAM 2003 Czestochowa, Poland, September 7-10, 2003 Revised Papers, eds. Roman Wyrzykowski, Jack Dongarra, Marcin Paprzycki, Jerzy Wasniewski, LNCS 3019, pp. 261-268.
• D.Petcu, D.Dubu, M.Paprzycki, Towards a Grid-aware Computer Algebra System, Computational Science - ICCS 2004: 4th International Conference, Krakow, Poland, June 6-9, 2004, LNCS 3036, eds. M. Bubak, G.D. van Albada, P. Sloot, J. Dongarra, 490-495.
• D.Petcu, D.Dubu, M.Paprzycki, Grid-based parallel Maple, Recent Advances in Parallel Virtual Machine and Message Passing Interface, PVMMPI 2004, Budapest, Hungary, September 19-22, 2004, eds. Dieter Kranzmuller, P. Kacsuk, J. Dongarra, LNCS 3241, Springer Verlag, Berlin, pp. 215-223.
• D. Petcu, M. Paprzycki, M. Ganzha, Clustering Multiple and Cooperative Instances of Computational Intensive Software Tools, V. Malyshkin (Ed.): PaCT 2005, LNCS 3606, pp. 452-456, 2005.
• C. Bonchis, G. Ciobanu, C. Izbasa, D. Petcu, A Web-Based P Systems Simulator and Its Parallelization, C.S. Calude et al. (Eds.): UC 2005, LNCS 3699, pp. 58-69, 2005.
• D. Petcu, D. Vizman, M. Paprzycki, Porting CFD Codes Towards Grids: A Case Study, R. Wyrzykowski et al. (Eds.): PPAM 2005, LNCS 3911, pp. 817-824, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2006
• K. Hammond, A.Al Zain, G. Cooperman, D. Petcu, Phil Trinder, SymGrid: A Framework for Symbolic Computation on the Grid, A.M. Kermarrec, L. Bouge, and T. Priol (Eds.): Euro-Par 2007, LNCS 4641, pp. 447-456, 2007, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg 2007.
• D. Zaharie, D. Petcu, S. Panica, A Hierarchical Approach in Distributed Evolutionary Algorithms for Multiobjective Optimization, LNCS 4818, 2007, Springer, pp. 505-514.
• A. Carstea, M. Frincu, A. Konovalov, G. Macariu, D. Petcu, On Service-oriented Symbolic Computing, LASCOG 2007, Gdansk, September 2007, Procs. LNCS 4967, in print.

• D.Petcu, C.Popa, A new version of Kovariks approximate orthogonalization algorithm without matrix inversion, International Journal of Computer Mathematics, vol. 82, no. 10, October 2005, 1235-1246
• D.Petcu, M.Dragan, Designing an ODE solving environment, Lectures Notes in Computational Science and Engineering 10: Advances in Software Tools for Scientific Computing, eds. H.P. Langtangen, A.M. Bruaset, E. Quak, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 2000, 319-338.
• D.Petcu The potential for distributing computation in large initial value problems, Notes on Numerical Fluid Mechanics 73: Large Scale Scientific Computations of Engineering and Environmental Problems, eds. Michael Griebel, Svetozar Margenov, Plamen Yalamov, 180-195.
• D.Petcu, On the Kantorovich Hyphothesis for Newton's Method, Informatica, Vilnius, 1993, vol. 4, no. 1-2, 188-198
• D.Petcu, A parallel algorithm for stiff ordinary differential equations, Informatica, Vilnius, 1994, vol.5, no. 3-4, 373-384

• D.Petcu, Experiments with PVMaple and Parallel Methods for ODEs, Cluster2000: IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing, Chemnitz, Germany, 28 Nov. -1 Dec. 2000, Proceedings, IEEE Computer Society, 393-394.
• D.Petcu, Parallel explicit-state reachability analysis and state space construction, Proceedings of Second International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Computing, ISPDC 2003, 13-14 October 2003, Ljubljana, IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos (ISBN 0-7695-2069-3), 207-214.
• D.Petcu, D.Dubu, M. Paprzycki, Extending Maple to the Grid: Design and Implementation, ISPDC 2004, 5-8 July 2004, Cork, IEEE Computer Press, in print.
• M.Petcu, D.Petcu, Distributed rule-based system, SOFA 2005, 27-30 August 2005, Szeged, IEEE Computer Society Press, IEEE Hungary Section (ISBN 963 219 001 7), 257-262.
• D.Petcu, Parallel Jess, ISPDC 2005, 4-6 July 2005, Lille, IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos (ISBN 0-7695-2434-6), 307-314.
• D.Petcu, Adapting a Partitioning-based Heuristic Load-balancing Algorithm to Heterogeneous Computing Environments, SYNASC 2005, Timisoara, 25-29 September 2005, IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos (ISBN 0 7695 2453 2), 170-173.
• D.Petcu, Between Web and Grid-based Mathematical Services, ICCGI, 1-3 August 2006, Bucharest, IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos (ISBN 0-7695-2629-2), eds. P. Dini, C. Popoviciu, C. Dini, Gunter Van de Velde, E. Borcoci, CD version, 6 pages.
• D.Petcu, V. Iordan, Grid Service based on GIMP for Processing Remote Sensing Images, SYNASC 2006, Timisoara, 25-29 September 2006, IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos (ISBN 0 7695 2740 X), 251- 258
• N.Somosi, D.Petcu, A Parallel Algorithm for Rendering Huge Terrain Surfaces, SYNASC 2006, Timisoara, 25-29 September 2006, IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos (ISBN 0 7695 2740 X), 274-278
• D. Petcu, Distributed Symbolic Computations, Invited talk, ISPDC 2007, July 5-8 2007, Hagenberg, IEEE Computer Press, Los Alamitos (ISBN 0-7695-2917-8), 10-11.
• A. Carstea, Marc Frincu, G. Macariu, D. Petcu, K. Hammond, Generic Access to Web an Grid-based Symbolic Computing Services, ISPDC 2007, July 5-8 2007, Hagenberg, IEEE Computer Press, Los alamitos (ISBN 0-7695- 2917-8), 143-150
• D. Petcu, D. Zaharie, D. Gorgan, F. Pop, D. Tudor, MedioGrid: a Grid-based Platform for Satellite Image Processing, IEEE Fourth International Workshop on Intelligent Data Acquisition and Advanced Computing Systems: Technology and Applications (IDAACS2007), Dortmund, Germany, September 6-8, 2007, Paper no. #i07-056, IEEE Computer Press, CD version.
• G. Macariu, M. Frincu, A. Carstea, D. Petcu, A. Eckstein, Redesigning Parallel Symbolic Computations Packages Parallel Architecture and Compilation Techniques, PACT 2007, 16th International Conference on 15-19 Sept. 2007, ISSN 1089-795X, IEEE Computer Press, pp. 417.
• Dana Petcu, Silviu Panica, Doina Bancu, Viorel Negru, Andrei Eckstein, Optical character recognition on a Grid infrastructure, Procs. 3rd International Conference on Automated Production of Cross Media Content for Multi-channel Distribution, AXMEDIS 2007, J. Delgado, K. Ng, P. Nesi, P. Bellini (eds.), IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos, ISBN 0-7695-3030-3, 2007 pp. 21-25
• M. Frincu, D. Petcu, Remote Control for Graphic Applications, SYNASC 2007, September 2007, Timisoara, IEEE Computer Press, ISBN 0-7695-3078-8, 2007, pp. 304-309.
• G. Macariu, D. Petcu, Parallel Multiple Polynomial Quadratic Sieve on Multi-core Architectures, SYNASC 2007, September 2007, Timisoara, IEEE Computer Press, ISBN 0-7695-3078-8, 2007, pp. 59-65.
• A. Carstea, G. Macariu, M. Frincu, D. Petcu, Composing Web-based Mathematical Services, SYNASC 2007, September 2007, Timisoara, IEEE Computer Press, ISBN 0-7695-3078-8, 2007, pp. 327-334.

• D. Petcu, D. Gheorghiu, PAVIS: a parallel virtual environment for solving large mathematical problems, Parallel Computing. Advances and Current Issues, eds. G.R. Joubert, A. Murli, F.J. Peters, M. Vanneschi, Proceedings of the International Conference PARCO 2001, Napoli, Italia, 04-07.09.2001, Imperial College Press, 2002, 490-497.
• V.Gioncu, L.Tirca, D.Petcu, Interaction between in-plane and out-of-plane plastic buckling of wide-flange section members, in Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Coupled Instabilities in Metal Structures, CIMS 96, septembrie 5-7, 1996, Liege, ed. J. Rondal et al, Imperial College Press, 273-281.
• A. Moldovan, D. Petcu, V. Gioncu, Post-critical behaviour of thin-walled beams. DuctRot-TWM computer program, Proceedings of the 3th International Conference on Coupled Instabilities in Metal Structures CIMS'2000, 21-23 Sept. 2000, Lisbon, eds. Dinar Camotim, Dan Dubina, Jacques Rondal, Imperial College Press, London, 595-604.

• D.Petcu, V.Negru, Interactive system for stiff computations and distributed computing, accepted for publication International Journal of Applied Science & Computations, vol. 6, no. 2, 1999, ed. serie S.K.Dey, SUA.
• St. Maruster, V. Negru, D. Petcu, C. Sandru, Intelligent front-end for solving differential and non-linear equations, Journal of Mathematical Sciences, New York, 108 (6): 1139-1151, March 2002, Kluwer Academic Publishers, and in Zap. Nauchn. Semin. POMI, vol.258, 1999, 318-334, eds. N.N. Vasilev & A. M. Vershik, Petersburg.
• D. Petcu, M. Petcu, Concurrent Instance of a Rule- based System on a Condor Cluster, Transactions on Computers, Issue 8, Vol. 4, ISSN 1109-2750, 995-1002, 2005
• D.Petcu, M.Papryzcki, D.Dubu, Design and implementation of a grid extension of Maple, Scientific Programming, vol. 13, no. 2, 2005, ISSN 1058-9244, IOS Press, 137-149.
• D.Petcu, Speedup in solving differential equations on clusters of workstations, Int. J. Computational Science and Engineering, Vol. 1, Nos. 2/3/4, 2005, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd., 134-141
• Dana Petcu, Daniel Vizman and Marcin Paprzycki, Heuristic Load Balancing for CFD Codes Executed in Heterogeneous Computing Environments, Scalable Computing: Practice and Experience, Volume 7, Number 2, 2006, pp. 15-23.
• Dana Petcu, A Parallel Rule-based System and Its Experimental Usage in Membrane Computing, Scalable Computing: Practice and Experience, Volume 7, Number 3, 2006, pp. 3949.
• Dana Petcu, Grid Services for Satellite Image Processing, Transactions on Computers, Issue 2, Vol. 6, ISSN 1109-2750, 347-354, 2007
• Dana Petcu, Towards Automated Creation of Clients for Grid Services Wrapping CFD Codes, Transactions on Computers, Issue 3, Vol. 6, ISSN 1109-2750, 573-580, 2007

• D.Petcu, One-step Methods for the Numerical Solution of Stiff Ordinary Differential Systems, Revue D'Analyse Num'erique et de Th'eorie de L'Approximation, Tome 23, no. 2, 1994, pp. 197-216

• D.Petcu, New Methods for Solving Stiff Differential Equation Systems, Analele Universitatii din Timisoara, vol. XXVI, fasc. 3, Seria stiinte Matematice, 1988, pg. 67-72
• D.Petcu, Search Method For One-Dimensional Minimization, Analele Universitatii din Timisoara, vol. XXVIII, fasc. 2-3, Seria stiinte Matematice, 1990, pg. 165-175
• D.Petcu, On the Error Estimate of Newton's Method for a Holder Continuous F-derivate, Analele Universitatii din Timisoara, vol. XXVIII, fasc. 2-3, Seria stiinte Matematice, 1990, pg. 149-163
• D.Petcu, One-step Discretization of Stiff Differential Equations, Analele Universitatii din Timisoara, Seria stiinte Matematice, vol. XXX, fasc. 1, 1992, pg. 59-87
• D.Petcu, A Family of Multistep Linear Methods for Solving Stiff Ordinary Differential Equations, Analele Universitatii din Timisoara, Seria stiinte Matematice, vol. XXX, fasc. 2-3, 1992, pg. 257-282
• D.Petcu, Modified Adams-Moulton Schemes for Solving Stiff Differential Equations, Analele Universitatii din Timisoara, Seria Matematica-Informatica, vol. XXXI, fasc. 1, 1993, pg. 101-112
• D.Petcu, Second Derivative Split Multistep Methods for Stiff Ordinary Differential Equations, Analele Universitatii din Timisoara, Seria Matematica-Informatica, vol. XXXI, fasc. 2, 1993, pg. 229-254
• D.Petcu, Parallel Algorithms for the Numerical Integration of Stiff ODE Systems, Analele Universitatii din Timisoara, Seria Matematica-Informatica, vol. XXXII, fasc. 2, 1994, 65-81
• D.Petcu, Implicit Runge-Kutta Methods on a Distributed Computational System, Analele Universitatii din Timisoara, Seria Matematica-Informatica, vol. XXXIII, fasc. 2, 1995, 209-220
• D.Petcu, L.Cucu, Plotting Conics and Quadrics on a Distributed Computational System, Analele Universitatii din Timisoara, Seria Matematica-Informatica, vol. XXXIII, fasc. 2, 1995, 221-231
• D.Petcu, Constructia si implementarea algoritmilor paraleli, Else Software, nr. 7-8, 1995/1996, Craiova, 19-32.
• D. Petcu, On the Design of an User Interface for Mathematical Software, Analele Universitatii din Timi\c soara, Seria Matematica-Informatica, vol. XXXVII, 1999, Fascicul special Informatica: Symposium 50 years Jubilee of Mathematical Faculty -- section Computer Science and Applications, Timisoara, November 1998, 137-142.
• D. Petcu, Parallel Solving Environment for ODEs, Analele Universitatii din Timisoara, Seria Matematica-Informatica, vol. XXXVII, 1999, Fascicul special Informatica: 1st Int. Workshop: Symbolic and Numeric Algorithms on Scientific Computing, SYNASC 99, 10-11 August 1999, Timisoara, 45-57.
• D.Petcu, A prototype system for cooperative CAS tasks, Analele Universitatii din Timisoara, Seria Matematica-Informatica, vol. XXXVIII, 2000, Fascicul special Informatica: 2nd Int. Workshop: Symbolic and Numeric Algorithms on Scientific Computing, SYNASC 00, October 4-6, 2000, Timisoara, 125-140.
• D.Petcu, D. Vizman, M. Popescu Computational Fluid Dynamic on a Cluster, Analele Universitatii din Timisoara, Seria Matematica-Informatica, vol. XXXIX, 2001, Fascicul special Informatica: 3rd Int. Workshop: Symbolic and Numeric Algorithms on Scientific Computing, SYNASC 01, October 2-5, 2001, Timisoara, 171-180.
• D.Petcu, C.Popa, On the Parallel Implementation of Kovarik's Approximate Orthogonalization Algorithm, Analele Universitatii din Timisoara, Seria Matematica-Informatica, vol. XL, 2002, Fascicul special Informatica: 4th Int. Workshop: Symbolic and Numeric Algorithms on Scientific Computing, SYNASC 02, October 2002, Timisoara, 197-212.
• D.Petcu, D.Dubu, Load Balancing in Parallel State Space Exploration, Analele Universitatii din Timisoara, Seria Matematica-Informatica, vol. XLI, 2003, Fascicul special Informatica: 5th Int. Workshop: Symbolic and Numeric Algorithms on Scientific Computing, SYNASC 03, October 2003, Timisoara, 191-202
• D.Petcu, One-step Methods for the Numerical Solution of Stiff Ordinary Differential Systems, Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai, Mathematica, XXXVIII, 1, 1993, pg. 61-85
• D. Petcu, On the speedup of parallel iterative numerical methods, Proceedings of the International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Computing, Iasi, 17-20 iulie 2001, ed. Dan Grigoras, Analele stiintifice ale Universitatii Al. I. Cuza din Iasi, Tomul XI, 2002, p. 304-317
• D. Petcu, Building a computational grid: design issues, Analele Stiintifice ale Universitatii Alexandru Ioan Cuza din Iasi, Informatica, Tomul XV, 2004, 139-152.
• C.Popa, D. Petcu, M. Petcu, On Kovarik's Orthogonalization Algorithm without Matrix Inversion, Buletinul Stiintific al Universitatii Politehnica din Timisoara, Seria Automatica si Calculatoare Periodica Politehnica, Vol.49 (63), 2004, ISSN 1224-600X, pp. pp. 223-226
• Dana Petcu, Cosmin Bonchis, Cornel Izbasa Symbolic Computations based on Grid Services, Int. Journal of Computers, Communications and Control, Vol. 1, no. 1, 2006, 44-50.
• D.Petcu, Software issues in solving initial value problems for ordinary differential equations, Creative Mathematics, North University of Baia Mare, vol. 13, 2005, 97-110.
• D. Petcu, D. Dubu, An Extension of Maple for Grid and Cluster Computing, Studies in Informatics and Control, Vol. 14, no. 1 (ISSN 1120-1766), 2005, pp. 31-36
• G. Neagu, N. Andrei, V. Sima, Al. Stanciu, N. Tapus, V. Cristea, C. Nae, R. Potolea, D. Petcu, The virtual organisation GridMOSI - a component of the national research infrastructure (in Romanian), Revista Romana de Informatica si Automatica, vol. 16, nr. 4, 2006, pp. 113-120
• D.Petcu, D.Dubu, Mapping general purpose scientific computing environments onto a computational grid, Analele Universitatii din Timisoara, Seria Matematica-Informatica, vol. XLII, 2004, 6th Int. Symposium: Symbolic and Numeric Algorithms on Scientific Computing, SYNASC 04, September 2004, Timi¸soara, 197-212.

• Dana Petcu, Challenges concerning symbolic computations on grids, Scalable Computing: Practice and Experience journal, Vol. 6, No. 3, 2005

• D.Petcu, On the Kantorovich Hypothesis for Newton's Method, Universitat Heidelberg, IWR, Preprint 92-17
• D.Petcu, Some A-stable and L-stable One-step Methods for Stiff Differential Equations, Matarom, EU periodical, nr. 3, July 1993, pg. 68-86.

• D.Petcu, Hybrid Methods for Stiff Differential Equations, Universitat Heidelberg, IWR, Preprint 92-20
• D.Petcu, R. von Schwerin, On the Integration of Stiff Systems Using Split Adams-Moulton Methods, Preprint Universitat Heidelberg 43-93.
• D.Petcu, On the Exponential Fitting of Some Linear Multistep Methods, Preprint Universitat Heidelberg 48-93.
• D.Petcu, Numerical Solution of ODEs with Distributed Maple, RISC-Linz Technical Report Series No. 00-09, eds. RISC-Linz Faculty: E.S. Blurock, B.Buchberger et al., February 2000, 12 pages
• D.Petcu, Working with multiple Maple kernels connected by Distributed Maple or PVMaple, RISC-Linz Technical Report Series No. 01-18, eds. RISC-Linz Faculty: E.S. Blurock, B.Buchberger et al., March 2001
• Dana Petcu, Diana Dubu, Parallel State Space Construction on a Cluster, IeAT Technical Report 03-02
• Daniela Zaharie, Dana Petcu, Parallel Implementation of multi-population differential evolution, IeAT Technical Report 03-07
• Dana Petcu, Adrian Oprean, Constructing a Grid Portal IeAT Technical Report 03-08
• Dana Petcu, Building a Computational Grid: Design Issues, IeAT Technical Report 03-09
• Dana Petcu, Speedup Involving Differential Equations on Cluster Workstations, IeAT Technical Report 04-02
• Dana Petcu, Diana Dubu, An Extension of Maple for Grid and Cluster Computing, IeAT Technical Report 04-03

• D.Petcu, A distributed implementation of Runge-Kutta methods, 5th International Colloquim on Numerical Analysis, Plovdiv, Bulgaria, 13-17 august 1996.
• D.Petcu, V.Gioncu, DUCTROT '97, Ductility of rotation -- Rotation Capacity of Steel Beams and Beam Columns, Roma, Napoli, Salerno and Lecce, 16.10.97-30.10.1997, TEMPUS JEP 11297.
• D. Petcu, ODE solving environment with distributed computing facilities, Advanced Environments and Tools for High Performance Computing: EuroConference on Problem Solving Environments for Numerical Mathematics, Science and Engineering Applications, Castelvecchio Pascoli, 16-21.07.2001.
• D.Petcu, Experiments with ODE and CFD Codes on Clusters,, Dagstuhl Seminar nr. 03211, May 18-23 2003, published in IJPDEC in 2005, no. 3/4.
• D.Petcu, Extending Computer Algebra Systems to the Grids: State-of-the-art, Design and Implementation, invited lecture 28.01.2005, Seconda Universita di Napoli, Italy.
• D.Petcu, Integrated Network and Application QoS for GRID Applications, Expert panel, ICCGI 2006, July 30, 2006, Bucharest
• D.Petcu, Mathematics on the net: state-of-the-art and challenges, 8th French-Romanian Colloquium on Applied Mathematics, 28-31 August 2006, Chambery, France
• D. Petcu, Distributed Symbolic Computations, Invited talk, ISPDC 2007, July 5-8 2007, Hagenberg, IEEE Computer Press, Los Alamitos (ISBN 0-7695-2917-8), 10-11.

• D.Petcu, Problem solving environment for ordinary differential equations, NMDE'98: 2nd Meeting on Numerical Methods for Differential Equations, Coimbra, 25-27 February 1998, Proceedings, ed. P.Oliveira et al. The Press of the University of Coimbra, \hbox{177-186.
• D.Petcu, Parallel quadric renderind with load balancing strategy, VECPAR'98: 3rd International Meeting on Vector and Parallel Processing, Porto, 21-23 June 1998, Proceedings, Part III, FEUP Press, Porto, 763-776.
• D.Petcu, M.Dragan, Parallel rendering algorithm for curved surfaces, PARELEC'98: International Conference on Parallel Computing in Electrical Engineering, Bialystok, 2-5 September 1998, The Press of the Technical University of Bialystok, 191-196.
• D.Petcu, Computer environment for numerical ODE solvers, Proceedings of DIFFEQ98: 2nd International Conference on Differential Equation and Applications, Saint-Petersburg, 15-20 June 1998, ed. G.Osipenko, Russian Foundation for Basic Research, The Press of State Technical University from Saint Petersburg, 72-85.
• St. Maruster, V. Negru, D. Petcu, C. sandru, Intelligent front-end for solving differential and non-linear equations, POMI Journal, vol.258, 1999, 23-34, eds. N.N. Vasilev & A. M. Vershik, Petersburg (also as extended abstract in proceedings of CASC Computer Algebra and Symbolic Computations, p. 89-92).
• D.Petcu, On the Use of Multiprocessor Systems for Initial Value Problems, Proceedings of the 3th International Conference on Parallel Procesing & Applied Mathematics, PPAM'99, Kazimierz Dolny, Poland, 14-17 September 1999, eds. Roman Wyrzykowski, Bohdan Mochnacki, Henryk Piech, Janusz Szopa, Puhw Axon S.C., Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science, Technical University of Czestochowa, 306-318.
• D.Petcu, Towards the automatic numerical solution of ODEs, ITI'2000: 22nd International Conference on Information Technology Interfaces, Pula, Croatia, June 13-16 2000, eds. D. Kalpic, V. Hljuz Dobric, SRCE Publication (ISBN 953-96769-1-6), Zagreb, 2000, 171-176.
• D.Petcu, Anatomy of an Automatic Solution Generator for Differential Equations, Algoritmy 2000: 15th Conference on Scientific Computing, Proceedings, Vysoke Tatry - Podbanske, Slovakia, 10-15 September, 2000, eds. Angela Handlovicova, Magda Komornikova, Karol Mikula, Daniel Sevcovic, Vydavatel'sto STU (ISBN 80-227-1391-0), Bratislava, 217-226.
• D. Petcu, Connected mathematical software kernels: a solution for large IVP integration, HERCMA 2001: 5th Hellenic - European Conference on Computer Mathematics and its Applications, 20-22.09.2001, Atena, Grecia, Proceedings, ed. E.A. Lipitakis, LEA (ISBN 960-85176-7-2) Hellas, 2002, 613-620
• D.Petcu, D.Vizman, J.Friedrich, M.Popescu, Crystal Growth Simulation on Clusters, Proc. of HPC2003: High Performance Computing Symposium 2003, ed. I. Banicescu, March 30-April 3, Orlando, Florida, Simulation Councils Inc. San Diego (ISBN 1-56555-264-4), 2003, 41-46
• D.Petcu, D.Tepeneu, M.Paprzycki, T.Mizutani, T.Ida, Survey of Symbolic Computations on the Grid (invited talk), Procs. SETIT 2005, 3rd International Conference: Sciences of Electronic, Technologies of Information and Telecommunications March 27-31, 2005 - Tunisia.
• D.Petcu, M. Petcu, Distributed Jess on a Condor Pool, Procs. ICCOMP05, 9th WSEAS International CSCC Multiconference - Computers05, July 11-16, 2005, Vouliagmeni, Greece, ed. N. E. Mastorakis, K. Passadis, ISBN: 960-8457-29-7, CD version, paper 497-315.
• G. Ciobanu, D. Petcu, P accelerators: Parallelization of sequential simulators, in Cellular Computing: complexity aspects, M.A.Gutierrez-Naranjo, Gh.Paun, M.J.Perez-Jimenez (Eds.), ESF PESC Exploratory Workshop, Fenix Editora, Sevilla, 2005, 177-186.
• D. Petcu, Improving Computer Algebra Systems by Using Grid Services, in 1st Austrian Grid Symposium, J. Volkert, T. Fahringer, D. Kranzlm\uller, W. Schreiner (eds.), Austrian Computer Society, Band 210, ISBN 3-85403-210-2, 2006, 102-110
• D.Petcu, A Solution for Satellite Image Processing on Grids, Procs. DNCOCO06, 5th Int. Conf. on Data networks, Communications and Computers, Bucharest, October 16-18, 2006, ISBN 960-8457-54-8, pp. 75-80
• D.Petcu, Automatic Generated Clients of Grid Services for Computational Fluid Dynamics, Procs. MATH06, 10th International Conference on Applied Mathematics, Dallas, Texas, USA, November 1-3, 2006, ISBN 960- 8457-55-6, pp. 96-101
• D.Petcu, S. Panica, A. Eckstein, Satellite Image Processing on Computational Grids, Procs. ACMOS07, 9th International Conference on Automatic Control, Modeling & Simulation, Istanbul, Turkey, May 27-29, 2007, ISBN 978-960-8457-72-0, pp. 216-221
• D.Petcu, A. Eckstein, C. Giurgiu, Reengineering a software system implementing parallel methods for differential equations, Procs. 7th Int. Conf. on Software Engineering, Parallel and Distributed Systems (SEPADS08), University of Cambridge, UK, Feb. 20-22, 2008, ISSN: 1790-5177, ISBN: 9878-960-6766-42-8, pp. 95-100.
• S.Panica, D. Petcu, D. Zaharie, Evolutionary multi-objective optimization on Grid environments, Procs. PDCN 2008, Parallel and Distributed Computing and Networks - 2008, Acta Press, editor H. Burkhart, 81-86,
• K. Hammond, D. Petcu, P. Trinder, A.Al Zain, S. Linton, and G. Michaelson, Using Parallel Functional Programming Technology to achieve Heterogeneous Symbolic Computing on the Grid, Procs. 8th Symposium on Trends in Functional Programming (TFP 2007), Marco T. Morazan, Henrik Nilsson (Eds.), TR-SHU-CS-2007-0-1, pp. 22-34
• D. Petcu, K. Hammond, P. Trinder, A. Al Zain, SymGrid: Symbolic Computations on Grids, EGEE User forum, Manchester, May 2007, Books of Abstracts, pp. 241-242.
• D. Zaharie, S. Panica, M. Stoia-Djeska, M. Dragan, D. Petcu, Airfoil shape optimization by coupling computational fluid dynamics with evolutionary multiobjective optimization, Procs. Proceedings of the International Multiconference on Computer Science and Information Technology (IMCSIT 2007), October 15 17, 2007, Wisla, Poland, vol. 2, M. Ganzha, M. Paprzycki, T. Pelech-Pilichowski (eds), ISSN 1896-7094, Polskie Towarzystwo Informatyczne, Katowice, 323-325.
• V.Gioncu, D.Petcu, Corrugated Hypar Structures, in Lightweight Structures in Civil Engineering, ed. J.B. Obrebski, International Conference, Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland, 25-29 Sept. 1995, 637-644.
• V.Gioncu, D.Petcu, Obliczenia, projektowanie i zastosowania blach faldowych w postaci faldodowej paraboloidy hyperbolicznej, Sympozjum Blachy Faldowe, zasosowania i rozwiazania, Rzeszow, grudzien 1995, 109-123 (last article in Polish).
• V.Gioncu, D.Petcu, Numerical Investigations on the Rotation Capacity of Beams and Beam-Columns, Proceedings of International Colloquim Stability of Steel Structures. Further Direction in Stability Research and Design, European Session, 21-23 Sept. 1995, vol. I, ed. M. Ivanyi, B. Veroci, Akademiai Kiado, Budapest, 163-174.
• V.Gioncu, L.Tirca, D.Petcu, Rotation capacity of rectangular hollow section beams, 7th International Symposium on Tubular Structures, 28-30 Aug. 1996, Miskolc, Ungaria, ed. M. Ivanyi, Akademiai Kiado, Budapest, 345-356.

• A.Moldovan, D.Petcu, V.Gioncu, Ductility of Thin-Walled Members, SDSS'99: Proceedings of the 6th International Colloquium on Stability and Ductility of Steel Structures, Timisoara, Romania, 9-11 September 1999, eds. Dan Dubina, Miklos Ivanyi, Elsevier Science Ltd., 299-308.
• D. Petcu, D. Vizman, M. Popescu, Computational fluid dynamics on a cluster, SYNASC 01: 3rd International Workshop on Symbolic and Numerical Algorithms for Scientific Computing, Timisoara, 02-05.10.01, Proceedings, Risc-Linz Report Series No. 01-20, 15-21.
• D.Petcu, Numerical Solution of ODEs with Distributed Maple, RISC-Linz Technical Report Series No. 00-09, eds. RISC-Linz Faculty: E.S. Blurock, B.Buchberger et al., February 2000,
• D.Petcu, Working with multiple Maple kernels connected by Distributed Maple or PVMaple, RISC-Linz Technical Report Series No. 01-18, eds. RISC-Linz Faculty: E.S. Blurock, B.Buchberger et al., March 2001
• D.Zaharie, D.Petcu, Parallel implementation of multi-population differential evolution, CIPC 2003, Concurrent Information Processing and Computing, Nato Advanced Research Workshop, Sinaia, July 2003, eds. D. Grigoras et al, A.I.Cuza University Press, 262-269. Revised paper in CIPC Post-Proceeding, eds. Dan Grigoras, Alex Nicolau, IOS Press, pp. 223-232.

• D.Petcu, Some Stiff Stable Methods for the Numerical Integration of Ordinary Differential Equations, Proceedings of the 9th ROmanian SYmposium on Computer Science, ROSYCS '93, 12-13 November 1993, editori V.Felea, G.Ciobanu, Universitatea A.I.Cuza Iasi, pg. 447-454
• D.Petcu, L.Cucu, Distributed plotting of curves and surfaces, in Proceedings of ROSYCS '96: Romanian Symposium on Computer Science. Concurrent Systems and Formal Languages. Evolutionary Computing, eds: T.Juncan, H.Luchian, C. Masalagiu, F.L.Tiplea, pg. 215-224.
• D. Petcu, Building a computational grid: design issues, Proceedings of ROSYCS 2004 on Web Technologies, Iasi, July 21-23, 2004, Eds. S.Buraga, Gh. Grigoras, C. Masalagiu, pp. 138-151
• D.Petcu, On the Hypothesis for the Error Estimate of Newton's Method, Lucrarile celui de-al IV-lea Simpozion de Matematici si Aplicatii al Universitatii Tehnice din Timisoara, Ed. Mirton, Timisoara, ed. N.Boja, 1991, pg. 130-140
• D.Petcu, Efficient Methods for Numerical Solution of Ordinary Differential Equations, Proceedings of the 5th Symposium of Mathematics and its Applications, 29-30 October 1993, ed. N.Boja, Ed. Mirton, Timisoara, 1993, pg. 234-240
• D.Petcu, Solving differential equations on a multiprocessor machine, Proceedings of the 6th Symposium of Mathematics and its Applications, Timisora, 2-5 november 1995, Editura Mirton, ed. N.Boja, 289-297
• D.Petcu, A numerical software product for solving ordinary differential equations, Proceedings of the 7th Symposium of Mathematics and its Applications, 6-9 November 1997, Tipografia Universitatii Politehnica Timisoara, pg. 217-222
• St.Maruster, V.Negru, D.Petcu, C.Sandru, INTENSE - Intelligent non-linear algebraic and differential equations solver, SINTES9: International Symposium on System Theory, Robotics, Computers and Process Informatics, Craiova, 4-6 June 1998, Vol. I: System Theory, pg. 38-45.
• D.Petcu, Experiments with the method of line for time-dependent nonlinear partial differential equations, Proceedings of the 8th Symposium of Mathematics and its Applications,Politehnica University of Timisoara, 4-7 November 1999, eds. N.Boja, P. Corsini, P. Gavruta, G. Milovanovic, Tipografia Politehnica Timisoara, 121-126.
• D.Petcu, M.Petcu, Efficiency model for parallel methods solving ODEs, Proceedings of the 9th Symposium of Mathematics and its Applications,Politehnica University of Timisoara, 3-6 November 2001, eds. N.Boja, P. Corsini, R. Mirfolic, P. Gavruta, O. Lipovan, Centru de Multiplicare al UPT, ISSN 1224-6069, p. 376-381.
• D.Petcu, Distributed and Parallel Implementations of Runge-Kutta methods, Proceedings of ICAOR: International Conference on Approximation and Optimization, Cluj-Napoca 29 July - 1 August 1996, ed. D.D. Stancu, Gh. Coman, W. Breckner, P. Blaga, vol. II, Transilvania Press, 1997, pg. 193-202
• D.Petcu, Connecting scientific computing environments, Proceedings CSCS-13, 13th International Conference on Control Systems and Computer Science, May 31- June 2, 2001, Editura Politehnica Press, ISBN 973-85237-1-0, 388-393.
• D.Petcu, C.Popa, On the parallel implementation of Kovarik approximate orthogonalization algorithm, Proceedings SYNASC02, 4th International Workshop Timisoara, October 9-12, 2002 eds. D.Petcu, V.Negru, D.Zaharie, T.Jebelean, Ed.Mirton, ISBN 973-585-785-5, Timisoara, 2002, 263- 274
• D.Petcu,D.Dubu, Parallel state construction on a cluster, Proceedings CSCS-14, 14th International Conference on Control Systems and Computer Science, 2-5 July, 2003, Editura Politehnica Press, ISBN 973-8449-18-9, 192-198.
• D.Petcu,D.Zaharie, Parallel implementation of multi-population differential evolution, CIPC 2003, Concurrent Information Processing and Computing, Nato Advanced Research Workshop, Sinaia, July 2003, eds. D. Grigoras et al, A.I.Cuza University Press, 262-269.
• D.Petcu, D.Dubu, Load Balancing in Parallel State Space Exploration, Proceedings SYNASC03, 5th International Workshop Timisoara, October 1-4, 2003 eds. D.Petcu, V.Negru, D.Zaharie, T.Jebelean, Ed.Mirton, ISBN 973-661-104-3, Timisoara, 2003, 211- 221
• D.Petcu, A.Oprean, Constructing a grid portal, Proceedings SYNASC03, 5th International Workshop Timisoara, October 1-4, 2003 eds. D.Petcu, V.Negru, D.Zaharie, T.Jebelean, Ed.Mirton, ISBN 973-661-104-3, Timisoara, 2003, 324- 328
• D. Petcu, D. Dubu, An extension of Maple for grid and cluster computing, Procs. of the International Conference on Computers and Communications -ICCC 2004, eds. I.Dzitac,T. Maghiar, C.Popescu, Oradea, Baile Felix SPA, May 27-29 2004 (ISBN 973-613-542-X), Metropolis SRL, Oradea, 355-360
• D.Petcu, D.Dubu, Mapping General Purpose Scientific Computing Environments onto a Computational Grid, Proceedings SYNASC04, 6th International Symposium Timisoara, Workshop: Symbolic Computation on Grids, September 26-30, 2004, eds. D.Petcu, V.Negru, D.Zaharie, T.Jebelean, Ed.Mirton, ISBN 973-661-441-7, Timisoara, 2004, 574-585
• D.Petcu, Faster Computer Algebra Systems via Parallel and Grid Extensions, Proceedings SACCS04, 8th International Symposium on Automantic Control and Computer Science, October 22-23, 2004, eds. Mitica Crauss, Corneliu Lazar, Ed. Politehnium, ISBN 973-621-086-3, Iasi, 2004, 42-45.
• D.Petcu, C. Bonchis, M. Radu, Applying Task Farming Model over Grids, in Procs. International Conference on Computers, Communications & Control June 1-3, 2006, Baile Felix -Oradea, Romania, eds. I.Dzitac, Florin-Gheorghe Filip, Misu-Jan Manolescu, Publisher: Agora University, 382-386.
• D.Petcu, Building a Portal for Grid-based Services, in Procs. 7th International Conference on Technical Informatics - CONTI2006, eds. O. Prostean, M. Crisan, E.E. Precup, D. Andreescu, D. Pescaru, M. Stratulat, Ed. Politehnica, 2006, vol. 2: Computer and Software Engineering, 143-148
• D. Zaharie, D. Petcu, Communications Strategies in Distributed Evolutionary Algorithms for Multi-objective Optimization, in Procs. 7th International Conference on Technical Informatics - CONTI2006, eds. O. Prostean, M. Crisan, E.E. Precup, D. Andreescu, D. Pescaru, M. Stratulat, Ed. Politehnica, 2006, vol. 1: Automation and Applied Informatics, 151-156
• D. Petcu, D. Zaharie, H. Popa, M. Frincu, A. Eckstein, Grid Services Based on Heuristic Methods for Multi- Objective Optimization Problems, Procs. CSCS-16, 16th Intern. Conference on Control Systems and Computer Science, 22-25 May, 2007, Editura Printech, vol. 2, ISBN 978-973-718-743-7, 136-141.
• Dana Petcu, Andrei Eckstein, Claudiu Giurgiu, Using Statefull Web Services to Expose the Functionality of Legacy Software Codes, Procs. SACCS 2007, Iasi, 9th Internat. Symposium on Automatic Control and Computer Science, Proceedings, CD version, ISSN 1843-665-X
• Silviu Panica, Dana Petcu, Daniela Zaharie, A Grid-enabled Framework for Evolutionary Multiobjective Optimization, Procs. SACCS 2007, Iasi, 9th Internat. Symposium on Automatic Control and Computer Science, Proceedings, CD version, ISSN 1843-665-X
• Dana Petcu, Trends in Grid Computing, Procs. SACCS 2007, Iasi, 9th Internat. Symposium on Automatic Control and Computer Science, Proceedings, CD version, ISSN 1843-665-X

• D.Petcu, Noi metode numerice de rezolvare a sistemelor de ecuatii diferentiale stiff, Lucrarile SNIC, Al IV-lea Simpozion National de Informatica in Constructii, vol. 2, Timisoara, 26-27 mai 1988, pg. 287-294.
• D.Petcu, L.Cucu, Concurrent drawing of curves and surfaces, 5th Simposium in Descriptive Geometry, Design, Engineering and Computer Graphics, Graphics, a scientific language, 17-19 June 1996, Timisoara, vol. IV: Grafica si proiectare asistata, procesarea imaginilor, partea a II-a, 861-868.
• D.Petcu, A tool for evaluating numerical methods for differential equations, Proceedings CITTI 2000: Prima Conferinta de Informatica Teoretica si Tehnologii Informatice, Constanta, 25-27 Mai 2000, pg. 1-7.
• D. Petcu, Adapting software applications to Grid environments (in Romanian), MedioGrid workshop, eds. D.Gorgan, C.Meleti, Ed. Mediamira, Cluj-Napoca, 2006, 136-145.
• G. Neagu, N. Andrei, V. Sima, V. Cristea, C. Nae, R. Potolea, D. Petcu, Al. Stanciu, Grid Enabled Applications for Modelling, Simulation and Optimization, Procs. Conferinta AMCSIST, Brasov, October 2007 (Best Session Technical Paper Award)

• D.Petcu, Numerical experiments with parallel methods for differential equations, 11th Romanian Symposium on Computer Science, ROSYCS'98: Iasi, 38-31 May 1998, accepted for publication in Analele Univ. Al.I.Cuza Iasi.

• D.Petcu, V.Negru, T.Jebelean, EPODE, a prototype ExPert system for solving initial value problems of ODEs, SNADE '97, Praga, 11-17 iunie 1997, Proceedings, Extended Abstract, 19-21.
• D.Petcu, Application du calcul parallele aux systemes des equations differentielles, 4eme Colloque Franco-Roumain, Metz, 31 August-4 September 1998, 21-23.
• D.Petcu, Experiments with Parallel Methods for ODEs, NUMDIFF-9: 9th Seminar on Numerical Solution of Differential and Differential-Algebraic Equations, 4-8 September 2000, Proceedings, Extended Abstract, 29-30.
• D. Petcu, ODE-solving environment with distributed computing facilities, ICCAM 2000: 9th International Congress on Computational and Applied Mathematics, Leuven, Belgia, 17-21 July, 2000, Extended Abstract, 78-80.
• Dana Petcu, On the performance of parallel iterative solvers, NMCM'2002, Miskolc, 15-20 iulie 2002, Extended Abstract, 77-79 (submitted to Computers & Math. with Applications)
• D. Petcu, D. Dubu, Parallel and distributed computing in model checking, CaVIS 2003: Computer Aided Verification of Information Systems, Timisoara, February 2003, Extended Abstract, 47-50
• D. Petcu, D. Dubu, Augmenting computer algebra systems through grid, CaVIS 2004: Computer Aided Verification of Information Systems, Timisoara, February 2004, Extended Abstract, 36-39
• C.Badica, D. Petcu, Parallel state space exploration and partial order reduction for model based diagnosis of static systems, CaVIS 2004: Computer Aided Verification of Information Systems, Timisoara, February 2004, Extended Abstract, 40-43
• D. Petcu, D.Zaharie On applying random and genetic search in model checking, CaVIS 2004: Computer Aided Verification of Information Systems, Timisoara, February 2004, Extended Abstract, 62-65

• D.Petcu, Parallel Calculus for Solving Differential Equations, PARADIS 96, International Summer School on parallel and distributed systems, Vatra Dornei, 26-30.08.1996, 1-19.
• D.Petcu, V.Negru, EPODE, front-end user interface for solving ODEs -- implementation of some parallel algorithms, PARADIS 97, Advanced Informatics Summer School, Parallel and Distributed Computer Systems, 21-25.07.1997, Mangalia, 1-10.
• D. Petcu, Aplicatii ale multiprocesarii in rezolvarea numerica a ecuatiilor diferentiale, invitat special, Simpozion Intinerant, Sectiunea Matematica Aplicata si Informatica, Constanta, 16.01.2002, apare periodic Institut de Marina Constanta.
• D.Petcu, Software issues in solving initial value problems for ordinary differential equations, ICAM04, Baia Mare, to be published in Carpathian Journal of Mathematics, vol. 20, no. 1, 2004
• Dana Petcu, Trends in Grid Computing, Invited Talk, Procs. SACCS 2007, Iasi, 9th Internat. Symposium on Automatic Control and Computer Science, Proceedings, CD version, ISSN 1843-665-X

• D.Petcu, D. Tepeneu, M.Paprzycki, T.Ida, Symbolic Computations on Grids, invited chapter 6 in the book Engineering the Grid: status and perspective, eds. Beniamino di Martino, Jack Dongarra, Adolfy Hoisie, Laurence Yang, and Hans Zima, American Scientific Publishers, ISBN: 1-58883-038-1, 2006, pp. 91-107
• D. Petcu, V.Gioncu, DUCTROT computer program, in Ductility of Seismic-Resistant Steel Structures, V. Gioncu, F.M. Mazzolani, E &FN Spon, Londra (2002), 673-682, ISBN 049225501.
• CD-ROM with Demo program in the above mentioned book
• V.Gioncu, G. Mateescu, D. Petcu, A. Anastasiadis, Prediction of available ductility by means of local plastic mechanism method: DuctRot computer program, in Moment resistant connections of steel frames in seismic areas. Design and Reability, ed. F.M. Mazzolanni, E &FN Spon, Londra, 2000, 95-146.

• D.Petcu, Multistep Methods for Stiff Initial Value Problems, Mathematical Monographs 50, Tipografia Universitatii din Timisoara, 1995, 186 pages.
• D.Petcu, Parallel Numerical Algorithms. Part I: Solving systems of linear, nonlinear or differential equations, Mathematical Monographs 60, Tipografia Universitatii din Timisoara, 1996, 148 pages.
• D.Petcu, Parallel Numerical Algorithms. Part II: Solving partial differential equations, Mathematical Monographs 61, Tipografia Universitatii din Timisoara, 1996, 134 pages.
• D.Petcu, Parallelism in solving ordinary differential equations, Mathematical Monographs 64, Tipografia Universitatii, 1998, 232 pages

• D.Petcu, Calcul paralel, Editura de Vest, Timisoara, 1994, ISBN 973-36-0227-2, 160 pages.

• D.Petcu, V.Negru, D. Zaharie, T. Jebelean, Proceedings of SYNASC 2002, 4th Int. Symp. on Symbolic and Numeric Algorithms for Scientific Computing, October 9-12, 2002, Timisoara, Ed. Mirton, Timisoara, ISBN 973-585-785-5, 2002, 400 pages
• D.Petcu, V.Negru, D. Zaharie, T. Jebelean, Proceedings of SYNASC 2003, 5th Int. Symp. on Symbolic and Numeric Algorithms for Scientific Computing, October 1-4, 2003, Timisoara, Ed. Mirton, Timisoara, ISBN 973-661-104-3, 334 pages
• D.Petcu, V.Negru, D. Zaharie, T. Jebelean, Proceedings of SYNASC 2004, 6th Int. Symp. on Symbolic and Numeric Algorithms for Scientific Computing, September 26-30, 2004, Timisoara, Ed. Mirton, Timisoara, ISBN 973-661-441-7, 600 pages
• D.Zaharie, D.Petcu, V.Negru, T.Jebelean, G.Ciobanu, A. Cicortas, A. Abraham, M. Paprzycki, Proceedings of SYNASC 2005, 7th Int. Symp. on Symbolic and Numeric Algorithms for Scientific Computing, September 25-29, 2005, Timisoara, IEEE Computer Press, Los Alamitos, ISBN 0-7695-2453-2, 2005, 470 pages
• D.Petcu, B.Foliot, D.Grigoras, J.Morrison, M.Paprzycki, Isaac Scherson, B.Toursal, M.Tudruj, Proceedings of ISPDC 2006, 5th Int. Symp. on Parallel and Distributed Computing, Timisoara, July 6-9, 2006, IEEE Computer Press, Los Alamitos, ISBN 0-7695-2638-1, 2006, 370 pages
• Abramson, D.a , Alexandrov, V.b , Ashworth, M.c , Buyya, R.d , Coddington, P.e , Deelman, E.f , De Roure, D.g , Hawick, K.h , King, C.-T.i , Laforenza, D.j , Lau, F.C.M.k , Moore, R.l , Morrison, J.m , Ong, H.n , Paprzycki, M.o , Parastatidis, S.p , Petcu, D.q , Rana, O.r , Uthayopas, P.s , Wang, C.-L.k , Williams, R.t , Yang, J.u , Yunck, T.v , Zhang, L.-J.w , Katz, D.S.x , Baker, M.n, Proceedings of the International Conference on Parallel Processing Workshops Volume 2005, 2005
• V.Negru, D.Petcu, D.Zaharie, A. Abraham, B. Buchberger, A. Cicortas, D. Gorgan, J. Quinqueton, Proceedings of SYNASC 2006, 8th Int. Symp. on Symbolic and Numeric Algorithms for Scientific Computing, September 25-29, 2006, Timisoara, IEEE Computer Press, Los Alamitos, ISBN 0-7695-2740-X, 2006, 460 pages
• V.Negru, D.Petcu, D.Zaharie, A. Abraham, B. Buchberger, A. Cicortas, D. Gorgan, J. Quinqueton, Proceedings of SYNASC 2007, 9th Int. Symp. on Symbolic and Numeric Algorithms for Scientific Computing, September 25-29, 2007, Timisoara, IEEE Computer Press, Los Alamitos, ISBN 0-7695-3078-8, 2007, 500 pages.

• Dana Petcu, Parallel Numerical Applications on Grid Environments, IEEE Distributed Systems Online, vol. 6, no. 4, Apr., 2005

• D.Petcu, D.Pop, Modeling three-dimensional world, Ed. Eubeea, Timisoara, ISBN 973-673-011-5, 2004, 182 pages.
• D.Petcu, Grid architectures and technologies , Ed. Eubeea, Timisoara, ISBN 973-673-056-7, 2006, 292 pages.
• L.Cucu, V.Iordan, V.Negru, D.Petcu, G.Petrov, P.Popovici, D.Zaharie, Tests for informatics exams, Ed. Mirton, Timisoara, ISBN 973-661-844-7, 2006, 166 pages.
• D.Petcu, L.Cucu, Computer graphics principles, Editura Excelsior, Timisoara, 1995, ISBN 973-9015-51-4, 190 pages.
• D.Petcu, Mathematics assisted by computers, Colectia Informatica, Editura Eubeea, 2000, Timisoara, ISBN 973-9479-13-8, 310 pages.
• D.Petcu, Parallel processing, Editura Eubeea, 2001, Colectia Informatica, Timisoara, ISBN 973-9479-48-0, 414 pages.
• D.Petcu, V.Negru, Distributed processing, Editura Universitatii de Vest, Seria Alef, 2002, Timisoara, ISBN 973-85552-8-0, 420 pages
• D.Pop, D.Petcu, Modelarea lumii tridimensionale, Editura Eubeea, 2004, Colectia Informatica, Timisoara, ISBN 973-673-011-5, 182 pages.
• O.Dogaru, D.Petcu, Gh.Petrov, Turbo Pascal. Exercises and problems, Timisoara, Editura de Vest, 1995, ISBN 973-36-0200-0, 376 pages.
• O.Dogaru,Gh.Bocsan,I.Despi,A.Ionica,V.Iordan,L.Luca,D.Petcu,P.Popovici, Informatics for teachers, Editura de Vest, Timisoara, 1998, ISBN 973-36-0308-2, 357 pages.
• D.Petcu, Parallel algorithms, Tipografia Universitatii Timisoara, 1994, 205 pages.
• D.Petcu, Maple, a standard for computer assisted mathematics, Tipografia Universitatii Timisoara, 1997, 230 pages.
• D.Petcu, L.Cucu, Computer Graphics, Tipografia Universitatii Timisoara, 1999, 230 pages.
• D.Petcu, Grid architectures and technologies,, Ed. Eubeea, Timisoara, ISBN 973-673-056-7, 2006, 292 pages.
• L.Cucu, V.Iordan, V.Negru, D.Petcu, G.Petrov, P.Popovici, D.Zaharie, Tests for informatics exams, Ed. Mirton, Timisoara, ISBN 973-661-844-7, 2006, 166 pages