Oriod Malo, Alexandre Xavier Falcão, Laurent Najman, : A Novel Lightweight Multi-Scale Branching Encoder for Few-Shot Image Classification
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/11745420

Alfred Aga, Aranit Shkurti, Kristian Pacaj, Petrit Mollsi, Armida Kosta, Guardmond Ajasllari: Modified transoral CO2 laser posterior cordotomy for bilateral vocal fold paralysis: surgical and functional outcomes
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00405-026-10543-y

Anxhelo Shehu; Kleida Mati; Renà Natowicz: Assessing breast density: Are convolutional neural networks the only path?
https://ascopubs.org/doi/10.1200/JCO.2026.44.16_suppl.e12558

Evis Plaku; Arben Çela; Erion Plaku: Generating Diverse Trajectories Using Roadmap Search and Sampling-Based Motion Planning
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/11506360

Mohammad Amin Rezaei, Mohammad Rajabi Nasab, Luca De Cicco, Silviu-Iulian Niculescu, Arben Cela, Saverio Mascolo, Marco Liserre: Consensus Strategy for State-Aware Coordination of Renewable Energy Sources and Battery Storage Systems in Islanded DC Microgrids

M Fragola, S Romano, D Peccarrisi, L Pepkolaj: Exploring the spatial variability of airborne bacterial and fungal communities: A comparative study across five central Mediterranean areas https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666765725000523

Ev. Plaku, A. Çela and Er. Plaku, Enhancing Robot Navigation: Integrating Safety Zones into Path Planning, Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering Series by Springer, to appear,https://umt.edu.al/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Abstract.pdf

Meri Papavangjeli; Lorena Skufi; Adam Geršl: DO LENDING STANDARDS MATTER FOR NON-FINANCIAL CORPORATE CREDIT? EVIDENCE FROM ALBANIA
https://ies.fsv.cuni.cz/sites/default/files/uploads/files/wp_2026_04_papavangjeli%2C%20skufi%2C%20gersl.pdf

A.Qosja, D. Georges, E. Gjika, L. Nikolla, A. Cela, A novel approach to electricity demand forecasting: an optimized Kalman filter-based RBF model, International Journal of Dynamics and Control, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, Springer Nature, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s40435-025-01638-1

J. You, A. Cela, R. J. Ouanounou, P. Siarry, Kernel-U-Net: Multivariate Time Series Forecasting using Custom Kernels, IEEE INISTA 2024, 4-6 September 2024, Craiova, Romania, https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.01479

J. You, A. Cela, R. J. Ouanounou, P. Siarry, Anomaly Prediction: A Novel Approach with Explicit Delay and Horizon, IEEE ICCP 2024, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10793012

S. Romano, L. Pepkolaj, M. Fragola,D. Peccarrisi, J. Dhimitri, A. Buccolieri, A. Talà, P. Alifano, G. Quarta, L. Calcagnile, Comparative Analysis of Airborne Bacterial and Fungal Communities in South-Eastern Italy and in Albania Using the Compositional Analysis of 16S and ITS rRNA Gene Sequencing Datasets, Atmosphere 2024, https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos15101155

A.Qosja, D. Georges, E. Gjika, L. Nikolla, A. Cela, Daily Electricity Consumption Forecasting: A Comparative Study of Neural Network and Radial Basis Function Models, Codit, July 01-04, 2024, Valletta Malta, https://hal.science/hal-04745876v1/file/CoDIT_final%20Agresa%20Qosja%20.pdf

E. Plaku, K. Jahaj, A. Cela, N. Civici, ‘A Machine Learning Framework for Automated Albanian News Article Title Classification, IEEE INISTA 2024, 4-6 September 2024, Craiova, Romania, https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/A-Machine-Learning-Framework-for-Automated-News-in-Plaku-Jahaj/f2216f2b95e3c01579780327538757d7dd9090b1.

A.Qosja, D. Georges, E. Gjika, L. Nikolla, A. Cela, Comparative Analysis of Neural Network and Radial Basis Functions Approaches for Electricity Consumption Forecasting in five different regions in Albania, IEEE INISTA 2024, 4-6 September 2024, Craiova, Romania, https://hal.science/hal-04746293/document

E. Domnori, D. Elmazi, G. Tace, Enhancing Water Resource Management through IoT-Enabled Smart Water Monitoring Systems, IEEE INISTA 2024, 4-6 September 2024, Craiova, Romania, https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Enhancing-Water-Resource-Management-through-Smart-A-Domnori-Elmazi/4715a2af6b864c708a414934420a5909a4db7c55

A. Kura, D. Elmazi, Automated Machine Learning Model Selector with Improved Exploratory Data Analysis using Artificial Intelligence, IEEE INISTA 2024, 4-6 September 2024, Craiova, Romania, https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/10683857

Ev. Plaku, A. Cela, Er. Plaku, Robot Path Planning with Safety Zones, 20th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics 2023, https://www.scitepress.org/Papers/2023/121621/121621.pdf

Ev. Plaku, Er. Plaku, P. Simari, Clearance-driven motion planning for mobile robots with differential constraints, Robotica, Cambridge University Press, 2018, https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/robotica/article/abs/clearancedriven-motion-planning-for-mobile-robots-with-differential-constraints/CB43DEBD1F61C1DF4385EEE467D2922A

Ev. Plaku, Er. Plaku, P. Simari, Direct Path Superfacets: An Intermediate Representation for Motion Planning, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2017, https://www.researchgate.net/publication/309302554_Direct_Path_Superfacets_An_Intermediate_Representation_for_Motion_Planning

Publications

Articles, conference papers, and book chapters resulting from doctoral research conducted in the laboratory. Publications by academic staff and partners are also available through the “Source” filter. Laboratory members are indicated in bold.

Oriod Malo, Alexandre Xavier Falcão, Laurent Najman: A Novel Lightweight Multi-Scale Branching Encoder for Few-Shot Image Classification

IEEE Access (IEEE Xplore)

Alfred Aga, Aranit Shkurti, Kristian Pacaj, Petrit Mollsi, Armida Kosta, Guardmond Ajasllari: Modified transoral CO2 laser posterior cordotomy for bilateral vocal fold paralysis: surgical and functional outcomes

European Archives of Oto-Rhino-Laryngology (Springer)

Anxhelo Shehu, Kleida Mati, René Natowicz: Assessing breast density: Are convolutional neural networks the only path?

ASCO Publications

Evis Plaku, Arben Çela, Erion Plaku: Generating Diverse Trajectories Using Roadmap Search and Sampling-Based Motion Planning

IEEE Xplore

Mohammad Amin Rezaei, Mohammad Rajabi Nasab, Luca De Cicco, Silviu-Iulian Niculescu, Arben Çela, Saverio Mascolo, Marco Liserre: Consensus Strategy for State-Aware Coordination of Renewable Energy Sources and Battery Storage Systems in Islanded DC Microgrids

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M. Fragola, S. Romano, D. Peccarrisi, L. Pepkolaj: Exploring the spatial variability of airborne bacterial and fungal communities: A comparative study across five central Mediterranean areas

ScienceDirect

Evis Plaku, Arben Çela, Erion Plaku: Enhancing Robot Navigation: Integrating Safety Zones into Path Planning, Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, Springer.

Springer — kapitull libri

Meri Papavangjeli, Lorena Skufi, Adam Geršl: Do Lending Standards Matter for Non-Financial Corporate Credit? Evidence from Albania

Dokument pune (PDF)

Agresa Qosja, D. Georges, E. Gjika, L. Nikolla, Arben Çela: A novel approach to electricity demand forecasting: an optimized Kalman filter-based RBF model, International Journal of Dynamics and Control.

DOI / Springer Nature

J. You, Arben Çela, R. J. Ouanounou, P. Siarry: Kernel-U-Net: Multivariate Time Series Forecasting using Custom Kernels, IEEE INISTA 2024, Craiova, Romania.

arXiv

J. You, Arben Çela, R. J. Ouanounou, P. Siarry: Anomaly Prediction: A Novel Approach with Explicit Delay and Horizon, IEEE ICCP 2024, Cluj-Napoca, Romania.

IEEE Xplore

S. Romano, L. Pepkolaj, M. Fragola, D. Peccarrisi, J. Dhimitri, A. Buccolieri, A. Talà, P. Alifano, G. Quarta, L. Calcagnile: Comparative Analysis of Airborne Bacterial and Fungal Communities in South-Eastern Italy and in Albania Using the Compositional Analysis of 16S and ITS rRNA Gene Sequencing Datasets, Atmosphere, 2024.

DOI / Atmosphere

Agresa Qosja, D. Georges, E. Gjika, L. Nikolla, Arben Çela: Daily Electricity Consumption Forecasting: A Comparative Study of Neural Network and Radial Basis Function Models, CoDIT 2024, Valletta, Malta.

PDF i punimit

Evis Plaku, K. Jahaj, Arben Çela, N. Civici: A Machine Learning Framework for Automated Albanian News Article Title Classification, IEEE INISTA 2024, Craiova, Romania.

Semantic Scholar

Agresa Qosja, D. Georges, E. Gjika, L. Nikolla, Arben Çela: Comparative Analysis of Neural Network and Radial Basis Functions Approaches for Electricity Consumption Forecasting in five different regions in Albania, IEEE INISTA 2024, Craiova, Romania.

HAL — dokumenti

E. Domnori, D. Elmazi, G. Tace: Enhancing Water Resource Management through IoT-Enabled Smart Water Monitoring Systems, IEEE INISTA 2024, Craiova, Romania.

Semantic Scholar

A. Kura, D. Elmazi: Automated Machine Learning Model Selector with Improved Exploratory Data Analysis using Artificial Intelligence, IEEE INISTA 2024, Craiova, Romania.

IEEE Xplore

Evis Plaku, Arben Çela, Erion Plaku: Robot Path Planning with Safety Zones, 20th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics, 2023.

PDF i punimit

Evis Plaku, Erion Plaku: Clearance-driven motion planning for mobile robots with differential constraints, Robotica, Cambridge University Press, 2018.

Cambridge Core

Evis Plaku, Erion Plaku, P. Simari: Direct Path Superfacets: An Intermediate Representation for Motion Planning, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2017.

ResearchGate

Conferences and scientific activities organized or co-organized by UMT

This past week, the campus of University Metropolitan Tirana was transformed into a dynamic hub of innovation, dialogue, and global collaboration during the 3rd edition of The Power; Data Science, AI & Technology Summit.

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For two consecutive days in 2024, the University Metropolitan Tirana hosted the international two-day conference IEEE CoNTESA ’24, which gathered researchers, academics, and professionals worldwide to share the latest developments in technology, telecommunications, and engineering.

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The Conference is part of the annual “Design in the City” event, which is held in Tirana, Albania, by the Department of Architecture, Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, University Metropolitan Tirana since 2022 For more information