The Department aspires to be a dynamic new academic unit of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA) in research and innovation as well as in effective interfacing with businesses, providing top quality academic and research services to its students.
In the Department, the implementation of research training and development programs has started since the first day of its establishment and goes hand in hand with the educational process.
The Department actively participates in the promotion of research in the fields of Shipping, Transport and New Information Technology and Communications, participating and/or organizing international scientific conferences, while its members have numerous publications in international scientific journals and conferences.
Projects
Description
The aim of #AdaptPorts is to develop an Action Plan for integrating adaptive policies in ports by introducing innovative tools for prioritizing adaptation measures. By investigating primary data from 5 study ports (case studies) and applying machine learning methods to a pilot case port, #AdaptPorts constitutes an innovative project that examines the adaptability of ports to CC and develops modern tools to assess climate change impacts, both physical and economic.
Port's Climate Mitigation & Adaptation Strategy
Funding Source: Priority Axis 3 “Research and Application”, “Natural Environment & Innovative Actions”, GREEN FUND
Start Date: 15/04/2023
End Date: 14/04/2025
Director: K. Karditsa
Status: Active
More Info: www.adaptports.gr
Description
HORSE will demonstrate how applications can leverage the ongoing evolution of 6G capabilities, as well as deal with the technology solutions, and system evaluation not yet foreseen, towards an omnipresent, smart and secure network service provisioning in the future network-of-networks landscape. HORSE project will address the challenge towards 6G infrastructure operation for smart connectivity and service management, and beyond, showing its effectiveness at the intersection of 6G connectivity, computing infrastructure management and security.
Holistic, Omnipresent, Resilient Services for future 6g Wireless and Computing Ecosystems
Funding Source: Horizon Europe
Start Date: 01/01/2023
End Date: 31/12/2025
Director: P. Trakadas
Status: Active
More Info: www.horse-6g.eu
Description
TaRDIS’s primary goal is to significantly ease the complexity and reduce the effort of building correct and efficient heterogeneous swarms.
TaRDIS focuses on supporting the correct and efficient development of applications for swarms and decentralised distributed systems, by combining a novel programming paradigm with a toolbox for supporting the development and execution of applications.
Trustworthy and Resilient Decentralised Intelligence for Edge Systems
Funding Source: Horizon Europe Framework Programme
Start Date: 01/01/2023
End Date: 31/12/2025
Director: P. Trakadas
Status: Active
More Info: www.project-tardis.eu
Description
The OASEES project will deliver a European, fully open-source, decentralized, and secure Swarm programmability framework for edge devices and leveraging various AI/ML accelerators (FPGAs, SNNs, Quantum) while supporting a privacy-preserving Object ID federation process.
Open Autonomous programmable cloud apps & Smart EdgE Sensors
Funding Source: Horizon Europe Framework Programme
Start Date: 01/01/2023
End Date: 31/12/2025
Director: P. Trakadas
Status: Active
More Info: www.oasees-project.eu
Description
The ICOS project aims to address the challenges of the continuum paradigm by creating an IoT-to-cloud Operating System (ICOS). Its main objective is to design, develop, and validate a meta operating system that tackles: i) device volatility and heterogeneity, infrastructure virtualization, and network connectivity; ii) optimized service execution, performance, and resource consumption, including power; iii) trust, security, and privacy; and iv) integration cost reduction and cloud provider lock-in mitigation, based on openness, adaptability, data sharing, and a future edge market for services and data.
Towards a functional continuum operating system
Funding Source: Horizon Europe Framework Programme
Start Date: 01/09/2022
End Date: 31/01/2023
Director: P. Trakadas
Status: Active
More Info: www.icos-project.eu
Description
The AI REGIO “Regions and Digital Innovation Hubs alliance for AI-driven digital transformation of European Manufacturing SMEs”, will build a one-stop-shop platform that enables access to resources for AI-based solutions in efficient and sustainable manufacturing, with particular emphasis on resources that can lower the AI adoption barriers for SMEs.
Pressious Data Spaces
Funding Source: Horizon 2020 Framework Programme
Start Date: 01/06/2022
End Date: 31/08/2025
Director: P. Trakadas
Status: Completed
More Info: www.airegio-project.eu
Description
Affordable5G aims at creating a 5G network that will deliver a complete, disaggregated and affordable solution covering the needs of private and enterprise networks through technical innovation that span across all parts of the 5G network including Radio Access, Edge, 5G Core and Orchestration.
High-tech and affordable 5G network roll-out to every corner
Funding Source: Horizon 2020
Start Date: 01/09/2021
End Date: 30/11/2022
Director: P. Trakadas
Status: Completed
More Info: www.affordable5g.eu
Description
EFPF is a federated smart factory ecosystem and a digital platform that interlinks different stakeholders of the digital manufacturing domain. The EFPF platform enable users to utilise innovative functionalities, experiment with disruptive approaches and develop custom solutions to maximise connectivity, interoperability and efficiency across the supply chains.
European Connected Factory Platform for Agile Manufacturing
Funding Source: Horizon 2020
Start Date: 01/09/2021
End Date: 31/05/2022
Director: P. Trakadas
Status: Completed
More Info: www.efpf.org
Description
ZDMP aims at providing an extendable platform for supporting factories with a high interoperability level to cope with the concept of connected factories to reach the zero defects goal. In this context, ZDMP will allow end-users to connect their systems (i.e. shopfloor and ERP Systems) to benefit from the features of the platform. These benefits include products and production quality assurance among others.
Zero Defect Manufacturing Platform
Funding Source: Horizon 2020
Start Date: 15/09/2021
End Date: 14/06/2022
Director: P. Trakadas
Status: Completed
More Info: www.zdmp.eu