Many interesting discussions and a lot of exciting research topics during the kick-off meeting of the ExtremeXP project. The project focuses on experiment driven and user eXPerience oriented analytics for extremely precise outcomes and decisions. The main extreme data characteristics (like volume, speed, heterogeneity, distribution, diverse quality, etc.) pose many research challenges to the state-of-the-art [...]
Happy to announce that three (3) new projects will begin in the start of 2023 on using Artificial Intelligence and Data analytics in the areas of next generation decision support, mining and mineral processing and human-AI collaboration in manufacturing. The projects are: ExtremeXP: EXPeriment driven and user eXPerience oriented analytics for eXtremely Precise outcomes and [...]
Georgia Gkioka presented our work in the METICOS research project on "Data Analytics for Technology Acceptance Monitoring of Smart Border Control Technologies" at the Data for Policy Conference. Data for Policy is a premier global forum for interdisciplinary and cross-sector discussions around the impact and potentials of the digital revolution in the government sector. Automated Border [...]
Excited to announce that we participate in a new project: NebulOus! NebulOus will develop a novel Meta Operating System and platform for enabling transient fog brokerage ecosystems that seamlessly exploit edge and fog nodes, in conjunction with multi-cloud resources, to cope with the requirements posed by low latency applications. NebulOus will accomplish substantial research contributions [...]
It is with deep sadness and heavy hearts that we inform you of the passing of our beloved colleague Thimios Bothos on 14 November 2022. Thimios was a dear friend and a valued colleague. He brought a high level of expertise and a breath of experience to the IMU team. He always showed great enthusiasm [...]
IMU's director, Prof. Mentzas, is among the top 2% of highly cited scientists in the world according to a recent list published by Stanford University and Elsevier. The ranking of the 2% of the most influential researchers in the world in all scientific disciplines for 2022 was prepared retrieving data from the SCOPUS database and [...]
We are hiring! Join us at IMU a multi-disciplinary research group in information technology management and work in challenging international research projects together with major academic institutions and well-known companies across Europe. You will work in the areas of Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence for Decision Support. IMU operates within ICCS, one of the top [...]
Today Katerina Lepenioti successfully presented her PhD thesis entitled "Prescriptive Analytics with Interactive Reinforcement Learning in Decision Making". The thesis proposes an innovative method for n AI-enabled decision making. The method employs interactive multi-objective reinforcement learning algorithms to model the decision making problem dynamically and to generate optimized decisions, and takes into account the decision maker's [...]
A review #paper on research inData Analytics in manufacturing quality has been published in the International Journal of Computer Integrated Manufacturing. In the paper we investigated the manufacturing quality research field from a data analytics perspective. Specifically, we examined the existing literature, provided clarity to the Quality 4.0 research field and synthesized the literature review [...]
We had three research papers accepted and presented at the APMS 2022 International Conference on "Advances in Production Management Systems. Smart Manufacturing and Logistics Systems: Turning Ideas into Action", IFIP WG 5.7 International Conference, APMS 2022, Gyeongju, South Korea, September 25–29, 2022. Our papers presented various aspects of our work on developing and evaluating augmented [...]
