The Information Management Unit is a multi-disciplinary Unit engaged in research and development activities in information Technology Management. IMU is a research unit of ICCS (Institute of Communication and Computer Systems), which was established in 1989 by the Ministry of Education and the School of Electrical & Computer Engineering of the National Technical University of Athens, Greece.
Our work encompasses applied research and is multi-disciplinary in nature. We adopt field-based and action research approaches.
Research in IMU addresses the whole lifecycle from data analysis to computation to decision.
Research Areas
Analyse
from Data to Insight
We mine and combine data and discover useful knowledge by using AI, machine learning and prescriptive data analytics methods
Compute
from Cloud to Edge
We address issues like resource allocation across hybrid environments (cloud, fog, edge) and context-aware security and privacy
Decide
from Intelligence to Prescription
We develop multi-criteria optimisation and collective intelligence methods that proactively recommend the appropriate decisions
IMU/ICCS is a full member of the Big Data Value Association (BDVA) (which aims to boost European Big Data Value research, development and innovation and to foster a positive perception of Big Data Value). BDVA joined CLAIRE, ELLIS, EurAI and euRobotics to create the AI, Data and Robotics Association (Adra) one of the European Partnerships in digital, industry and space. Adra is the private side of the AI, Data and Robotics Partnership in Horizon Europe
IMU is a a member of the International Data Spaces Association (IDSA), a coalition of more than 130 members that aim to design a trustworthy architecture for the data economy and guarantee data sovereignty, the trust- worthy, self-determined exchange of data.
IMU is a member of the Networked European Software and Systems Initiative (NESSI), the European Technology platform dedicated to Software and Services. IMU contributes to the Semantic Technologies, BPM and Service Science Working Groups.
IMU is a full member of GAIA-X representing ICCS. GAIA-X aims to co-create the future of the digital infrastructure for Europe across dedicated data spaces serving the most critical industries. GAIA-X will establish an ecosystem in which data is made available, collated and shared in a trustworthy federated system that links many cloud services providers and users together.
Application Domains
Factories
of the Future
Electronic Governance
Digital health & well-being
Digital
Innovation
Sustainable &
Green Economy
What we’ve been up to
Call for Papers on Digital Twins
Call for papers on the Special Issue on "Autonomous, Context-Aware, Adaptive Digital Twins" of the journal "Computers in Industry" which has an Impact Factor of 7.635 and ranks 9 out of 112 in Computer Science, [...]
New paper on Digital Twins
Interested in the state of the art and future research on Digital Twins? A new paper that reviews autonomous, context-aware and adaptive Digital Twins and proposes a roadmap for future research was just published in [...]
IMU at the 14th Maintenance Forum
Alexandros Bousdekis presented in the 14th Maintenance Forum our work on AI-based and Data Analytics for manufacturing in the COALA Your Factory Assistant project.