Cristina Morariu

Universitatea Națională de Știință și Tehnologie Politehnica București

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Cristina Morariu’s research focuses on the intersection of service-oriented architectures, cloud computing, and flexible manufacturing systems. Her major contributions lie in developing virtualization layers and integration models that enable legacy shop-floor resources to be abstracted and managed through private cloud infrastructures. Her most cited work, “Shop-floor resource virtualization layer with private cloud support” (2014, 20 citations), proposes a layered approach to virtualizing manufacturing hardware, addressing the critical challenge of bringing cloud scalability to traditionally rigid production environments. In “Manufacturing Service Bus Integration Model for Implementing Highly Flexible and Scalable Manufacturing Systems” (2012, 18 citations), she introduces a service bus model that decouples manufacturing processes from physical resources, enabling unprecedented flexibility. Her work on modeling and simulation for service-oriented agent-based systems (2012, 3 citations) tackles the lack of simulation environments for multi-agent manufacturing systems, allowing independent testing of services and business processes. Morariu’s research has been instrumental in bridging the gap between legacy manufacturing systems and modern cloud-powered paradigms, with her private cloud virtualization framework offering a practical pathway for industrial digital transformation. Her contributions are foundational for researchers and engineers working toward highly adaptable, scalable manufacturing ecosystems.