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UBITECH hosts the virtual kick-off meeting of the CYGNUS Cypriot research project, officially started on June 1st, 2023. The project is co-funded by the “DUAL USE” action of the multi-annual development framework of Programmes RESTART for the support of Research, Technological Development and Innovation in Cyprus  (Grant Agreement No. DUAL USE/0922/0024) and spans on the period June 2023 – May 2025. The CYGNUS  project aims to deliver a dual use self-managing software platform targeting various civilian applications and usage scenarios under the frame of advanced areas’, citizens’ and neighbourhoods’ surveillance by using UAVs with high-precision detection modules for object(s), person(s) or vehicle(s) with georeferencing capabilities. CYGNUS will follow a product-oriented methodology (M) for realizing a self-managing software platform putting the human-in-the-loop of the decision-making process and supporting the entire Big Data and Causal Intelligence lifecycle from the IoT / Edge to the Centralized Computing.

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A scientific paper edited by researchers of University of Nicosia, INNOV-ACTS and UBITECH has been accepted for presentation at the 19th Annual International Conference on Distributed Computing in Smart Systems and the Internet of Things (DCOSS-IoT 2023) that takes place in Cyprus, at the Coral Bay near the city of Pafos. UBITECH’s Dr Sofia Karagiorgou (Head, Privacy-preserving Distributed Machine Learning Research Group) and her co-authors introduce a novel interactive and realistic VR-based serious game for training law enforcement officers in the analysis and understanding of terroristic activities.

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After a peer review process, a scientific paper from UBITECH’s Digital Security and Trusted Computing research group has been accepted for publication at the 19th Annual International Conference on Distributed Computing in Smart Systems and the Internet of Things (DCOSS-IoT 2023) that takes place in Cyprus, at the Coral Bay near the city of Pafos. UBITECH’s Dr Dimitrios Papamartzivanos, Entso Veliou, Dr Thanassis Giannetsos (Head of Group) and their co-authors suggest that the usage of explainable artificial intelligence (XAI) can lead to even more efficient performance as they tackle the limitation of conventional black box models, by enabling the understanding and interpretation of a model’s operation.

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UBITECH proudly participates in the 2023 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), the world’s largest and most prestigious event of the year in the field of Robotics and Automation, that took place from the 29th of May to the 2nd of June 2023, in London, UK and  brought  together the world’s top academics, researchers, and industry representatives of the Robotics and Automation community (https://www.icra2023.org).  Dr. Xanthi Papageorgiou, Head of UBITECH’s Robotics and Cognitive Systems Unit and member of the IEEE Robotics & Automation Society, had the opportunity to present the work entitled “Motion Tasks Representation: Extracting Knowledge from Human Experts” in a thought-provoking session that drove discussions regarding the scalability and generalization of skills in robot learning. 

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UBITECH participated at DEFEA 2023, a high-profile international defence exhibition where international companies presented land, naval, aerospace, national and cyber security defence systems,which was held in the Metropolitan Expo facilities, Athens, on May 9-11, 2023. The exhibition included over 300 exhibitors from 22 countries and counted over 12000 visitors from 54 countries over 3 days, and concluded with great success, and it was an excellent opportunity for UBITECH to communicate the company’s cyber security R&D expertise and solutions. UBITECH’s presence attracted the interest of the participants (both visitors and other exhibitors) who had the chance to visit the stands of the company and get informed about the company’s expertise, the innovative solutions being developed in-house and also the relevant research projects. 

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Dr Thanassis Giannetsos, Head of UBITECH’s Digital Security & Trusted Computing Research Group, and his co-authors present an extended comparative technical evaluation of PKI and DAA-Based Architectures for V2X Communication Security at the 2023 IEEE Vehicular Networking Conference (VNC) that is held from April 26-28, 2023, in Istanbul, Türkiye. In particular, as the emerging Cooperative Intelligent Transportation Systems (C-ITS) landscape is expanding in terms of security and trust requirements, to provide the necessary enablers for the safety of critical operations (i.e., collision avoidance), Public Key Infrastructure (PKIs) and Direct Anonymous Attestation (DAA) schemes have been proposed by the literature, in order to provide authenticity over the exchanged messages. DAA schemes can help address several challenges of centralized PKIs by offering a more scalable solution for pseudonym certificate reloading and revocation.

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UBITECH participated at and sponsored, as a Gold Sponsor, the 1st Cyber Security Conference which was held in Thessaloniki on April 27, 2023. The conference concluded its actions having great success and attracted the interest of professionals and research scientists from the cyber security and cyber insurance domains. The attendance at the 1st Cyber Security Conference exceeded all expectations, with over 200 conference attendees, as well as 400+ online participants, who followed the keynote speeches and presentations from experts around cyber security and cyber insurance domains.

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UBITECH publishes the paper titled as “Privacy-preserving Data Federation for Trainable, Queryable and Actionable Data” in the International Workshop on Databases and Machine Learning (DBML 2023). DBML 2023 is held in conjunction with the 39th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering, which addresses research issues in designing, building, managing, and evaluating advanced data-intensive systems and applications. It is a leading forum for researchers, practitioners, developers, and users to explore cutting-edge ideas and to exchange techniques, tools, and experiences.

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In an exciting development for the future of food safety and supply chain transparency, UBITECH is proud to announce its participation in the groundbreaking WATSON Research and Innovation Action. This initiative, titled “A holistic frameWork with Anticounterfeit and inTelligence-based technologieS that will assist food chain stakehOlders in rapidly identifying and preveNting the spread of fraudulent practices,” aims to significantly enhance the integrity and sustainability of food chains across the European Union. The WATSON project, co-funded by the Horizon Europe research and innovation framework of the European Commission under Grant Agreement Nr 101084265, held its kick-off meeting in Dublin, Ireland, marking the commencement of a concerted effort to deploy advanced solutions for ensuring food authenticity and safety.

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The Technical Review Meeting of the Search & Rescue action was completed online on the 2nd of March with great success. During the meeting, the progress of the project and the outstanding technical work carried out during the last year was presented by the WP leaders and relevant Task leaders in a collaborative atmosphere. In the same spirit,  the EU Project Officer together with 2 experts from the field provided their constructive feedback about the ongoing activities and expressed their enthusiasm about the outcomes and the project’s potential in the area of crisis management. In particular, the Search and Rescue project aims to design, implement and test through a series of large scale pilot scenarios a highly interoperable, modular open architecture platform for first responders or emergency response units in critical conditions, such as natural disasters, terrorist attacks etc.

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