The short paper entitled “Enabling the Big Data Pipelines on the Computing Continuum”, co-authored by UBITECH, has been accepted by the 15th International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science (RCIS 2021), held online between 11-14 May, 2021. Mr. Giannis Ledakis, Head of the Computing Systems, Software and Services research group of UBITECH, and his co-authors present the overall vision of the DataCloud Research and Innovation Action, which is the creation of a novel paradigm for Big Data pipeline processing over heterogeneous resources encompassing the Computing Continuum, covering the complete lifecycle of managing Big Data pipelines.

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Each year over 250, 000 children slip through the net in the European Union. For this sensitive issue, Ubitech has stepped forward with an innovative solution that can help the investigation of missing children as well as unaccompanied refugee minors cases. The successful case of the ChildRescue project was presented in the CORDIS magazine (Harnessing collective intelligence to find missing children | Results In Brief | CORDIS | European Commission (europa.eu), the European Commission’s primary source of results from the EU projects framework, as a strong example that the combination of novel technologies and initiatives with powerful social impact can bring about outstanding results to society. 

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The first SPIDER 5G Cyber Range workshop for EU CERT/CSIRTs took place virtually on Wednesday 21, 2021, and was attended by more than 20 participants. The SPIDER project partner FORTH, with the support of UBITECH, as the organizer and host of this event, while among the participants were representatives from organizations such as BU-CERT, CYPRUS NATIONAL CSIRT, HELLENIC CSIRT and the GR.NET CERT. This event’s aim was to establish operational connections with CERT/CSIRTs, discuss, interchange information, present SPIDER tools and training material, and receive feedback on the current technical status of the project. Continue reading UBITECH supports the 1st SPIDER 5G Cyber Range Workshop for EU CERT/CSIRTs

The PUZZLE H2020 Innovation Action will help SMEs to dynamically monitor, forecast, assess and manage security, privacy, and personal data protection risks through the usage of targeted cybersecurity management services. In order to provide truly valuable services through the PUZZLE Marketplace, the PUZZLE consortium needs first to discover the cybersecurity needs of SMEs, both from the perspective of cybersecurity service consumers but also from the side of service providers. Thus, the PUZZLE consortium organizes a webinar series (in two parts), wherein PUZZLE is looking for answers and conversation to raise cybersecurity awareness and help everyone be safeguarded against cyber-threats. In this context, UBITECH co-organizes, today, the first part of the webinar series that will be especially focused on exploring the current cybersecurity landscape and status of SMEs. Through the PUZZLE value propositions, the audience will get a taste of some of the cutting-edge technologies in cybersecurity and discover new ways to adopt or provide cybersecurity services.

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The Final Review of the UPTIME H2020 project, held virtually  on the 16th 2021, was completed with great success, marking the end of the three-year project. In a friendly and collaborative atmosphere, the consortium members presented the project’s Thachievements and integration results to their EU Project Officer and Reviewers and specifically the differentiating value proposition of the UPTIME Platform. The project aims to a) to reframe predictive maintenance strategy in a systematic and unified way so as to fully exploit the advancements in ICT and maintenance management by examining the potential of big data in an e-maintenance infrastructure, b) to deliver various novel e-maintenance services and tools that support the daily work of maintenance engineers as well as the overall maintenance management with the aim to optimize in-service efficiency, and c) to analyse and widely exploit results generated from the use of UPTIME solution in order to exhibit its benefits to manufacturing companies for maintenance utility maximization along with industrial operations management improvement.

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The virtual mid term review of the CyberSANE H2020- 833683 project was successfully held by the European Commission on the 13th of April 2021. UBITECH presents the integrated Dark Web Crawler and Cybersecurity Data Analytics Services (DarkNet) introducing novelties in the area of textual analysis, data cleansing and cyber-concepts mining and heatmap correlations from dark web sites and unstructured text. The cybersecurity analytics services incorporated in DarkNet are part of the MEDUSA Cyber Web Intelligence Platform developed within the UBITECH Team.

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UBITECH participates at the virtual kick-off meeting hosted by ICCS (April 7 & 16, 2021) of the REGALE EuroHPC Innovation Action, officially started on April 1st, 2021. The project is funded by the European Commission and the EU Member States under the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking (Grant Agreement No. 956560) and spans on the period April 2021 – March 2024. The REGALE project aspires to pave the way of next-generation HPC applications to exascale systems. To accomplish this, REGALE defines an open architecture, builds a prototype system and incorporate in this system appropriate sophistication in order to equip supercomputing systems with the mechanisms and policies for effective resource utilization and execution of complex applications.

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The virtual final review of the ChildRescue H2020-780938 project was successfully held by the European Commission on the 31st of March 2021. UBITECH presented the novel secure technological approaches and data anonymisation policies that have been adopted in the context of the project, which led to the implementation of the anonymisation framework. Additionally, UBITECH demonstrated the mobile app, compatible with both Android and iOS operating systems, which enables the public to act as social sensors, allowing them to receive information and provide feedback to the responsible organisations, in order for the location of a missing child to be effectively identified.

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As Guest Editor, Dr Thanassis Giannetsos, Head of Digital Security and Trusted Computing Research Group of UBITECH, co-edits a Special Issue on Cybersecurity in the Internet of Things for the Sensors journal – the leading international, peer-reviewed, open access journal on the science and technology of sensors, published semimonthly online by MDPI. This Special Issue will focus on advanced IoT cybersecurity technologies that not only take into account the per-device security but also their grid-interconnected network as a whole towards establishing “communities of trust”. Its main target is to modernize the approach of cybersecurity in IoT schemas with outreaches to edge and fog computing.

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The paper “Weighted Load Balancing Mechanisms over Streaming Big Data for Online Machine Learning” has been accepted for presentation at the “1st International Workshop on Data Analytics and Machine Learning Made Simple” (SIMPLIFY 2021) workshop jointly held with the 24th International Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT 2021) that is collocated with the 24th International Conference on Database Theory (ICDT 2021). The UBITECH’s Privacy-preserving Distributed Machine Learning research group designed and implemented a prototype collection of microservices consisting of containerized and deployed pods on Kubernetes, named as Information Aware Networking Mechanisms.

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