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 is a member of the Big Data Value Association (BDVA) , a fully self-financed non–for-profit organization, which aims to boost European Big Data Value research, development and innovation and to foster a positive perception of Big Data Value. The BDVA is the private counterpart to the EU Commission to implement the BDV public–private partnership programme.
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.
Application Domains
Factories
of the Future
Electronic Governance
Digital health & well-being
Digital
Innovation
Sustainable &
Green Economy
What we’ve been up to
UPTIME Predictive Maintenance
Join us at our next Live Webinar which focuses on the implementation of UPTIME Predictive Maintenance solution on one specific production logistics asset, “Transportation Jigs”, used in the aviation industry. Dr Alexandros Bousdekis will be [...]
MELODIC wins 2020 OW2 Best Project Market Award
We are proud to announce that our project MELODIC won the 2020 OW2 Best Project Market Award! OW2 is a global independent software community, that promotes the development of open-source middleware, generic business applications and [...]
Morphemic presentation
Yiannis Verginadis presenting our research on proactive and polymorphic adaptation of multi-cloud deployments during the 1st Horizon Cloud Summit 2020. Our work is carried out within the H2020 Morphemic research project. During the summit we provided [...]