Presentation of the IMU / ICCS lab

http://imu.iccs.gr
enabling the knowledge organization
IMU is a research unit of ICCS
Institute of Communication and Computer Systems
of the National Technical University of Athens
information
management
Unit
imu.iccs.gr

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Institute of Communication & Computer Systems
• Research Institute
• associated to the School of Electrical & Computer Engineering (SECE) of the National
Technical University of Athens (NTUA), the oldest and most prestigious educational
institution of Greece in the field of technology
• Established in 1989 by the Ministry of Education and NTUA
• Carries out RTD activity in the fields of
• Computer and telecommunications systems and techniques
• their applications in a variety of domains
• The active research personnel of ICCS consist of
• 80 faculty of SECE/NTUA, 25 senior researchers and more than 250 researchers
• ICCS is active in basic and industrial research activities
• ICCS ranked with the top 100 Horizon 2020 champion players
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IMU - Information Management Unit of ICCS
IMU is a multi-disciplinary unit engaged in research and technology development
activities in Information Technology Management.
IMU carries out research and innovation activities within ICCS
Our mission is to enable the development of knowledge-driven organisations
• We design, develop and validate innovative models, methods and
tools that leverage the creation, sharing and use of information
and knowledge at the individual, team and organisational levels
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European Partnerships
AI, Data and Robotics Association (DAIRO)
ETP Software and Services
Made in Europe (formerly EFFRA) International Data Spaces Association (IDSA)
Alliance for Internet of Things
Sustainable Process Industry through
Resource and Energy Efficiency

Research areas
n Compute: from Cloud to Edge
Ø Cloud service modeling and management
Ø Resource allocation in hybrid environments
Ø Real-time event-driven service management
Ø Security and privacy in cloud environments
Ø Context awareness and situation management
n Decide: from Intelligence to Prescription
Ø Mathematical programming, simulation and optimization
Ø Multiple Criteria Decision Making
Ø Probabilistic, fuzzy and linguistic techniques
Ø Information aggregation and prediction markets
Ø Crowdsourcing and human computation
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n Analyse: from Data to Insight
Ø Data and knowledge discovery, sharing and exchange
Ø Machine learning and prescriptive data analytics
Ø Personalization and recommender Systems
Ø Data harmonization and semantic interoperability
Ø Linked Open Data and FAIR data management
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Application domains
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Factories of the
future
Smart
manufacturing
Supply chain
management
Predictive
maintenance
Quality
management
Electronic
governance
E-participation &
e-consultation
Citizen-centric
services
Policy modeling
Citizen
engagement
Digital health
and well-being
Innovative
healthcare
Mobile health
management
Personalised
nutrition
Secure e- health
data exchange
Digital
innovation
E-learning and
knowledge
management
Idea
management
Open innovation
Social creativity
support
Sustainable and
green economy
Smart and green
mobility
Digital solutions
for water
management
ICT-enabled
energy efficiency
Behavioural
change support

Research activities
• Since its establishment in 1997
IMU has contributed actively in
fifty-three (53) research and
innovation projects
– Forty-five (45) projects were
completed during the 1997-2019
period
– Eight (8) projects are active during
the 2020-2023 period
• The total funding of IMU since
1997 exceeds 16,0 million euros
n Our work is funded by these programs
and institutions:
Ø Horizon 2020 (previously FP5, FP6, FP7)
the research Framework Programs of the
European Union
Ø Operational Program for the Information
Society of the Greek Ministry of Economy
and Finance
Ø Research programs of the General
Secretariat for Research and Technology
of the Greek Ministry of Development
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Recent research in data-driven and
augmented human-AI decision making

PREDICTIVE
ANALYTICS
Real time &
Historical data
Predictions
PRESCRIPTIVE ANALYTICS
Interactive Multi-objective
Reinforcement Learning
AI AGENT
Prescriptive
Model Building
Prescriptions
Feedback
ENVIRONMENT
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We research human-AI collaboration e.g. by integrating human feedback
with rules and interactive reinforcement learning

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Big Data-driven Smart Factories
n Turn big manufacturing data into insights…
Ø Integrate predictive analytics in operational processes
to
§ fuel continuous situation awareness
§ predict what is likely to happen
§ recognize possible undesired situations (e.g.
breakdowns)
§ before these actually happen
n …and use them for proactive decision making
Ø Advanced probabilistic decision methods to
§ alter the likelihood that undesired situations will occur
§ and/or mitigate their effect
§ by intervening prior to their occurrence
§ proactively recommend what action to take and when
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IoT Big Data at the Edge & the Cloud
Ø Example data-intensive application areas
§ Logistics management, mobile journalism, UAVs security video feed mgmt.
n Fog Computing & Big-data
Ø Research topics
§ Event-driven situation management, context-aware
adaptation, cluster and edge resources management
Ø Software and open-source frameworks
§ Situation awareness, Situation Action Networks, Event
subscription, ESR, SAR, application fragmentation and
deployment recommenders
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”Small” and “Big” Data-driven Behavioral Change
n We use Personal and Collective Big Data…
Ø Urban sensing, resource consumption, environmental
sensors aggregate social media data
Ø Quantified self data
§ self-tracking of biological, physical, behavioral, or
environmental information
§ IoT and wearable sensors, mobile apps, online communities
n … to support behavioral change
Ø for sustainability and well being
§ Indicative domains: health, diet, exercise, energy efficiency, waste
reduction, green mobility, water conservation
Ø delivering timely, personalized and context aware interventions
Ø coupling data science, HCI and psychology research
§ machine learning, personalization & recommendation systems
§ intelligent user interfaces and visualizations
§ persuasive techniques (rewards, goal-setting, social comparison, choice
architecture, suggestions, self-monitoring)
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Optimising Data-intensive multi-Cloud computing
n Cloud Computing & data-intensive
applications
Ø Research topics
§ Cloud service brokerage, resource allocation, location-
aware processing, security and privacy in hybrid multi-
cloud environments
Ø Software and open-source frameworks
§ Intelligent recommenders, Multi-Criteria Decision
Making approaches, Probabilistic, fuzzy and linguistic
preference modelling systems
§ PULSAR, Data-intensive reasoners and adaptation
managers
Ø Indicative data-intensive application areas
§ xRM (anything Relationship Management), crisis management, genome data analysis
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Collective Intelligence
n Collective action and crowdsourcing
Ø Research topics
§ Hybrid human and agent computation, probabilistic
belief modelling
Ø Example application areas
§ Macro-economic and environmental policy modelling,
citizen participation
Ø Software (and related Projects)
§ Policy Oracle (SYMPHONY)
n Prediction markets
Ø Research topics
§ Information aggregation, opinion aggregation
§ Event prediction, preference aggregation
§ IDEM (LABORANOVA), SPEAR
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Knowledge Management
n Knowledge codification and sharing
Ø Research topics
§ Ontology engineering, Folksonomies,
Linked Open Data
§ Process-aware enterprise knowledge
management, e-government
Ø Related Projects
§ KnowNet, DÉCOR, SAKE, FIT, Organik
n Collaboration Pattern Management
Ø Research topics
§ Virtual enterprise collaboration, cross-enterprise
workflow management
§ Product development, logistics
§ CPA + Companion ontology (SYNERGY)
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Indicative research and innovation projects
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For a complete list please visit: http://imu.iccs.gr/wp/projects/

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• COALA provides a solution for cognitive assistance that consists of a composition of
trustworthy AI components with a voice-enabled digital intelligent assistant as an
interface.
– The COALA solution will transform how workers perform their jobs and it allows companies
to maintain or increase the quality of their production processes and their products
Cognitive Assisted Agile manufacturing
for a labor force supported
by trustworthy Artificial Intelligence
• From 01/10/2020 to 30/09/2023
• url: https://www.coala-h2020.eu
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• The MARBEL project aims to design and develop an innovative and competitive
lightweight battery with increased energy density and shorter recharging times
– IMU will be responsible for the data analytics tasks, the computation of SoX (State of
Charge, State of Health, etc.) variables and the development of an AI-based system with
early failure detection functionality.
Manufacturing and Assembly of Modular and Re-
usuable EV Battery for Environment-friendly and
Lightweight Mobility
• From 01/01/2021 to 30/06/2024
• url: https://marbel-project.eu
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• For the vast majority of industries, water is used during some stages of the
production process.
– It is estimated that 20% of all fresh water consumption globally is used by industry and this share is
increased to 50% in industrialised countries
• AquaSPICE aims at realising circular water use in the European Process Industries,
fostering awareness in resource-efficiency and delivering compact solutions for
industrial applications.
Advancing Sustainability of Process Industries
through Digital and Circular Water Use Innovations
• From 01/12/2020 to 31/05/2024
• url: https://aquaspice.eu
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• MORPHEMIC is a unique way of adapting and optimizing Cloud computing
applications.
– The project is an extension of MELODIC which is a multi-cloud platform.
– This open source platform is extended to MORPHEMIC with 2 main innovative pillars:
• Polymorphing architecture: when a component can run in different technical forms,
i.e. in a Virtual Machine (VM), in a container, as a big data job, or as serverless
components.
• Proactive adaptation: aims to forecast future resource needs and possible
deployment configurations -adaptation can be done effectively and seamlessly for the
users of the application.
Modelling and Orchestrating heterogeneous Resources and
Polymorphic applications for Holistic Execution and
adaptation of Models In the Cloud
• From 01/01/2020 to 31/12/2022
• Url: https://www.morphemic.cloud
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• MELODIC is a multicloud optimization platform and automatic deployment solution
of the application to different cloud providers without changing configuration – full
cloud agnostic approach.
– The selection of cloud providers and cloud resources is fully optimized, instead of prices,
performance, reliability instead of other factors.
– After the initial deployment the application is continuously monitored for checking the
business goals fulfilment and appropriately reconfigured to always maintain the optimal
operation.
Multi-cloud Execution-ware for
Large-scale Optimized Data-Intensive Computing
• From 01/12/2016 to 30/11/2019
• Url: https://melodic.cloud
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Unified Predictive Maintenance System
• UPTIME provides a unified predictive maintenance framework and an associated
unified information system in order to enable predictive maintenance strategy in
manufacturing firms
• Validation in 3 industrial cases: (a) White Goods - Home appliances (b) Steel
Industry - Cold rolling (c) Aviation Industry
• From 01/09/2017 to 31/08/2020
• url: https://www.uptime-h2020.eu and
https://www.uptime-predictive-maintenance.com
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A holistic water ecosystem for digitization
of urban water sector
• NAIADES supports the modernization and digitization of the water sector by
providing a holistic solution for the control and management of water ecosystems.
• The project aims to address the increased need for sustainable and eco-friendly
water methodologies by defining a new ICT framework, with a wider scope than a
sole technical proposition.
• Driven by the need to yield an end-to-end, uniform approach, NAIADES redefines water
management by taking into consideration issues pertaining to cost, safety, complexity,
vulnerability, societal acceptance, user behaviour and ethics.
• From 01/06/2019 to 31/05/2022
• url: https://naiades-project.eu
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Holistic Approach for Providing Spatial &
Transport Planning Tools and Evidence to Lead a
Sustainable Transition to a New Mobility Era
• Harmony’s vision is to enable metropolitan area authorities to lead a sustainable
transition to a low-carbon new mobility era.
• Our spatial and multimodal transport planning tools will update the Sustainable
Urban Mobility Plans of the future.
• HARMONY is demonstrating electric AVs and drones in real-life conditions integrating them
with the traditional transport modes to understand the requirements, reactions, barriers
and collect real-world data.
• From 01/06/2019 to 31/05/2022
• url: https://harmony-h2020.eu
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• PrEstoCloud targets a dynamic and distributed software architecture that manages
proactively cloud and fog resources, while reaching the extreme edge of the network
for an efficient real-time Big Data processing.
– Three use cases demonstrate pro-activeness, self-adaptation, orchestration of distributed
processing nodes and processing on the edge: (a) vehicle fleet management (b) media
prosumer platform (c) surveillance solution
Proactive Cloud Resources Management at the Edge
for efficient Real-Time Big Data Processing
• From 01/01/2017 to 31/12/2019
• url: http://prestocloud-project.eu
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• M-Resist helps predict patient’s behaviour and allows the establishment of a reaction
alert system, as well as to draw up protocols and recommendations to give doctors
support in the clinical decisions.
– During the m-resist project, a model of analysis was implemented, in order to move
forward in understanding resistant schizophrenia.
Mobile Therapeutic Attention for Patients with
Treatment Resistant Schizophrenia
• From 01/01/2015 to 31/12/2017
• url: http://www.mresist.eu
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• The vision of ProaSense is a new class of proactive enterprises that will be
continuously aware of that what “might happen” in the relevant business context
and will optimize their behaviour to achieve what “should be the best action”
• ProaSense’s core goal is to pave the way for an efficient transmission from Sensing
into Proactive enterprises.
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The Proactive Sensing Enterprise
• From 01/11/2013 to 31/01/2017
• url: http://www.proasense.eu/
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• OPTIMUM aims to unveil state-of-the-art solutions to improve transit, freight
transportation and traffic connectivity throughout Europe.
• OPTIMUM established a scalable distributed architecture for the management and
processing of multi-source big data, enabling monitoring of transportation system
needs and proposing proactive decisions and actions in a (semi-)automatic way.
– OPTIMUM follows a cognitive approach based on the Observe–Orient–Decide–Act loop of
the big data supply chain for continuous situational awareness.
Multi-source Big Data Fusion Driven
Proactivity for Intelligent Mobility
• From 01/05/2015 to 30/04/2018
• Url: http://www.optimumproject.eu
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