Intelligent Transformative Technologies

The book delves into how edge AI, combined with technologies like 6G, is transforming industries by enabling decentralized decision-making and faster responses to data-intensive tasks. The book discusses how AI-driven cybersecurity tools are being developed to detect, mitigate, and prevent cyberattacks, ensuring that systems remain resilient in the face of evolving threats. The book also addresses the ethical implications of AI and big data, particularly as these technologies become more pervasive. Issues such as data privacy and the societal impacts of automation are explored in detail. Finally, the book covers the advancements in AI-enabled and autonomous systems, which are playing an increasingly vital role in sectors such as manufacturing, healthcare, and transportation. By covering the latest innovations, the book enables researchers, students, and professionals to explore emerging technologies and apply them to solve complex problems across industries.

• Discusses the integration of intelligent technologies across industries, including AI, big data, and advanced networking;
• Presents challenges associated with the rapid deployment of these technologies, particularly in cybersecurity;
• Addresses ethical implications of AI and big data, particularly as these technologies become more pervasive.

Dr. Athina Bourdena received her Doctoral degree from the department of Information & Communication Systems Engineering of the University of the Aegean in 2013. She serves as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Business Administration and Tourism and as a research associate at the Hellenic Mediterranean University (HMU). She is a member of the Research and Development of Telecommunications Systems laboratory. Her research interests are in the fields of network resource optimisation techniques and their exploitation over cognitive radio systems, intelligent technologies, dynamic spectrum access technologies and transport mechanisms. She has more than 60 publications in international journals, conference and workshop proceedings, in the above areas.

Constandinos X. Mavromoustakis is currently a Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Nicosia, Cyprus, and leads the Mobile Systems Lab (MOSys Lab, http://www.mosys.unic.ac.cy/). Professor Mavromoustakis served as the Chair of the IEEE R8 regional Cyprus section from November 2019 to January 2023. Since May 2009, he has also served as the Chair of the C16 Computer Society Chapter of the Cyprus IEEE section. Prof. Mavromoustakis has an extensive body of research work in mobile and wearable computing systems and the Internet-of-Things (IoT), which includes patents and numerous refereed publications (over 400), as well as several books published by IDEA/IGI, Springer, and Elsevier. He has served as a consultant to various industrial bodies, including Intel Corporation LLC (www.intel.com), and is a member of technical committees such as the European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA). Moreover, he is a management committee member of the IEEE Communications Society (ComSoc) Radio Communications Committee (RCC) and a board member of the IEEE-SA Standards IEEE SCC42 WG2040. Professor Mavromoustakis has served as a certified member for different academic external accreditation panels for higher education institutions and has participated in several FP7/H2020/Eureka and national projects.

Dr. Evangelos Markakis holds a PhD in P2P Constellations in Broadcast Networks from the Department of Information & Communication Systems Engineering of the University of the Aegean and serves as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Hellenic Mediterranean University, Greece. He has actively participated in more than 40 EU FP5/FP6/FP7/Horizon2020, Horizon Europe funded projects (IST/ICT/Health/ Security) and over 20 Greek funded research and Development projects. Evangelos is the Technical Manager for the Horizon Europe TRUSTEE Project and in the past, he was the Technical Manager for the HORIZON 2020 DRS-19-2014 “EMYNOS". He has worked Numerous times as WP Leader in European funded projects. His research activities include Cybersecurity, Wireless Networks, distributed systems and P2P applications, design of large-scale Heterogeneous Networks, Fog Computing & Networking, as well as in network management and virtualisation techniques, including SDN/NFV concepts. He has more than 90 publications in international journals, conference, and workshop proceedings, in the above areas. He is a Member in EENA a Member of IEEE and IEEE ComSoc, editor of the IET Book on “Cloud and Fog Computing in 5G Mobile Networks: Emerging Advances and Applications” and the Panel Co-Chair for the IEEE SDN-NFV Conference. He is an Expert on Contract from European Commision, the European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA) and the European Telecommunications Standard Institute (ETSI) in the work he is doing in Evaluation of Proposals, Cybersecurity and Public safety respectively. He is the Chairman of the Pan-European Emergency Application Consortium paving the way for supporting Emergency Communication Application in all European Member States, and acts as co-chair of Operation Testbeds of IEEE Public safety task force. 

Dr. George Mastorakis received his B.Eng. (Honours) in Electronic Engineering from UMIST (University of Manchester Institute of Science & Technology) in 2000, his M.Sc. in Telecommunications from UCL (University College London) in 2001 and his Ph.D. in Telecommunications from University of the Aegean in 2008. He currently serves as an Associate Professor in the Department of Management Science and Technology at the Hellenic Mediterranean University in Greece and as a Director of e-Business Intelligence Laboratory. He has actively participated in a large number of EU funded research projects (FP6, FP7, Horizon2020, Horizon Europe) and national research ones. He has also acted as a technical manager in many research projects funded by GSRT (General Secretariat for Research & Technology, Ministry of Development, Greece). He has more than 300 publications at various international conferences proceedings, workshops, scientific journals and book chapters. He has acted as a reviewer for several scientific journals and member of conferences technical program committees. He is also author/editor of more than ten books. His research interests include cognitive radio networks, IoT applications, IoE architectures, radio resource management, Artificial Intelligence applications, Internet of Vehicles technologies and 5G mobile networks.