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Turn Benefit of Doubt to trustworthiness of MCDA | 9th international conference in operations research | june 2023 | Accepted To be published
Paper accepted to be presented and published In this work we focused not only to suggest optimal among alternate linearly formulated decisions not even to unify the better but at the same time to gain the minimum benefit of doubt, in other words the maximum trust or the confidence of decision maker(s). This is achieved with a non-linear programmed and integrated interactive e-model to resolve the ranking problem with aggregation of known ordering techniques weighted / non weighted sum, multi-criteria analysis, topsis index and dea superior index or matrix of indexes. Therefore, the novelty is that the solution satisfies different ranking methods. Furthermore, it can also adjust further the suggested weights based on relative supreme relationships according to decision maker’s preferences.
Improving voyage efficiency in the shipping 4.0 decarbonization era”, IEEE SOSE 2023, Athens, doi: 10.1109/SOSE58276.2023.00030
The objective of this work is to pave the way toward a carbon-neutral and efficient operational blueprint for the waterborne sector, through the lens of the Industry 4.0 era. In this direction, we demonstrate a cutting-edge integrated ecosystem (ARTeMIS) for operational efficiency and environmental compliance and focus on the respective building block comprising the envisaged platform. ARTeMIS incorporates an IoT suite responsible for data acquisition, as well as a multi-purpose processing pipeline for CI/CD (continuous integration/deployment) of simulation models concerning operational optimization.
Enabling Digital Twins in the maritime sector through the lens of AI JIM Elsevier 10.1016/j.jjimei.2023.100178
Sustainability and environmental compliance in ship operations is a prominent research topic as the waterborne sector is obliged to adopt ”green” mitigation strategies towards a low emissions operational blueprint. Fuel-Oil-Consumption (FOC) estimation, constitutes one of the key components in maritime transport information systems for efficiency and environmental compliance. This paper deals with FOC estimation in a more novel way than methods proposed in literature, by utilizing a reduced-sized feature set, which allows predicting vessel’s Main-Engine rotational speed (rpm).
“From STEAM to Machine: Emissions Control in the Shipping 4.0 Era”, 8th International SΟΜΕ 2023, SNAME . DOI: 10.5957/SOME-2023-020
From STEAM to Machine: Emissions’ control in the shipping 4.0 era The maritime sector is required to adhere to the IMO 2020 – mandated reduction of emissions. This reduction can be conducted by either using a compliant fuel with lower sulfur content, an alternative fuel (e.g. LNG, methanol), or clean its exhaust gasses with a “scrubber” technology to reduce the output of SOx. The objective of this paper is to present a holistic approach to continuously monitor and estimate the emissions of a vessel as well as to assess and improve the ef iciency of scrubbers.
A big data approach for Fuel Oil Consumption estimation in the maritime industry | 2022 IEEE 8th International Conference on Big Data Computing Service and Applications. DOI:10.1109 /BigDataService55688.2022.00014
2022 IEEE 8th International Conference on Big Data Computing Service and Applications. DOI: 10.1109/BigDataService55688.2022.00014. This paper deals with the challenge of estimating Fuel Oil Consumption (FOC) in the context of Weather Routing (WR). We examine how a predictive FOC scheme can be coupled with WR optimization algorithms in order to reduce the vessel’s FOC, emissions, and the overall cost of a voyage. In order to handle the amount of data required for FOC prediction, we employ a streaming pipeline that harvests data in real-time and processes them appropriately for visualization, causal analysis, and forecasting purposes.
AIS-Enabled Weather Routing for Cargo Loss Prevention | Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, 2022, 10(11), 1755. DOI://www.mdpi.com/2077-1312/10/11/1755
K. Spyrou-Sioula, I. Kontopoulos, D. Kaklis, A. Makris, K. Tserpes, P. Eirinakis, F. Oikonomou, “AIS-Enabled Weather Routing for Cargo Loss Prevention”, Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, 2022, 10(11), 1755. DOI: https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1312/10/11/1755 The operation of any vessel includes risks, such as mechanical failure, collision, property loss, cargo loss, or damage. For modern container ships, safe navigation is challenging as the rate of innovation regarding design, speed profiles, and carrying capacity has experienced exponential growth over the past few years. Prevention of cargo loss in container ship liners is of high importance for the Maritime industry and the waterborne sector as it can lead to potentially disastrous, harmful, or even life-threatening outcomes for the crew, the shipping company, the marine environment, and aqua-culture. With the installment of onboard decision support system(s) (DSS) that will provide the required operational guidance to the vessel’s master, we aim to prevent and overcome such events. This paper explores cargo losses in container ships by employing a novel weather routing optimization DS framework that aims to identify excessive motions and accelerations caused by bad weather at specific times and locations; it also suggests alternative routes and, thus, ultimately prevents cargo loss and damage
A data mining approach for predicting main-engine rotational speed from vessel-data measurements | IDEAS ’19: Proceedings of the 23rd International Database Applications & Engineering Symposium June 2019. | DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3331076.3331123
IDEAS ’19: Proceedings of the 23rd International Database Applications & Engineering Symposium June 2019. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3331076.3331123 open access In this work we face the challenge of estimating a ship’s main engine rotational speed from vessel data series, in the context of sea vessel route optimization. To this end, we study the value of different vessel data types as predictors of the engine rotational speed. ….
Online training for fuel oil consumption estimation: A data driven approach | 23rd IEEE International Conference on Mobile Data Management (MDM). doi 10.1109/MDM55031.2022.00088
D. Kaklis, I. Varlamis, G. Giannakopoulos, C.D. Spyropoulos, T.J. Varelas, “Online Training for Fuel Oil Consumption Estimation: A Data Driven Approach”, 23rd IEEE International Conference on Mobile Data Management (MDM). DOI: 10.1109/MDM55031.2022.00088 Estimating the Fuel Oil Consumption (FOC) of a vessel is a critical task for the maritime industry, affecting route planning and the overall management of the vessel’s operation and maintenance. Even when a FOC estimation model is perfectly trained on a specific vessel, its performance may degrade over time, when new weather conditions apply or when the hydrodynamics of the vessel change over time, due to fouling, aging and negligent maintenance. This work presents an online learning framework that employs a custom encoding-decoding Neural Network scheme and real-time data from various on-board sensors, to appropriately update FOC estimation models.
“Data Driven Fleet Monitoring and Circular Economy,” 2021 17th International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems (DCOSS), Pafos, Cyprus, 2021, pp. 483-488, doi: 10.1109/DCOSS52077.2021.00080.
F. Oikonomou et al., “Data Driven Fleet Monitoring and Circular Economy,” 2021 17th International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems (DCOSS), Pafos, Cyprus, 2021, pp. 483-488, doi: 10.1109/DCOSS52077.2021.00080. According to the International Maritime Organization’s (IMO) Greenhouse Gas (GHG ) strategy, the total annual GHG emissions from international shipping should be reduced by at least 50% by 2050 compared to 2008. Shipping adopts policies to comply with the set target, including ship re-design, structural retrofit, use of low-carbon material, and the installation of emission abatement technologies. All these approaches pave the way to circularity in the maritime economy, abandoning the linear model in vessel lifetime and adopting lean management, re-manufacturing, and re-usability of the asset. To this end, in the SmartShip project, we give prominence to data-driven ship monitoring by delivering an Information and Communication Technology (ICT) & Internet of Things (IoT)-enabled holistic cloud-based maritime performance and monitoring system.
Maximizing benefit of Doubt through the lens of MCDA
Decision-making is one of the much-discussed problem of operational research. The problem is formalized as linear or nonlinear multivariable objective while constraints, values, and relations are defined and finally optimization techniques are applied to unify the better decision. Frequently the solutions of existing optimization techniques to rank the dmus differ concluding to low-level trust or confidence of decision maker(s). To overcome the doubt shortcoming a model suggesting a set of composite indicators (weights) to harmonize the most popular ordering techniques weighted/ non-weighted sum, multi criteria analysis, topsis index and dea superior index is implemented. 94 EWG MCDA | 2022 | Elounda Crete
DT4GS sails to digitalized seas Naftemporiki 24.06.22
The DT4GS project aims to provide an Open Digital Twin Framework (DDF) for both shipping companies and the wider industry, to take advantage of new opportunities available through the use of DS. The project will make it easier for shipping companies to adopt the full range of IP innovations to support smart green shipping in upgrading existing ships and new vessels. The project will cover the entire life cycle of the ship including DS applications and using policies and related developments concerning the common data space in this area. The applications will focus on shipping companies, but will also provide a decision support system for reducing carbon dioxide emissions for shipyards, equipment manufacturers, port authorities and operators, energy companies and transport infrastructure companies.
ORISMA | J Coustas – T.Varelas et al
ORISMA the operation research and information science in e-maritime covers holistically the theory and solving problems of ships management optimization based on authors’ selected papers and EU research projects contribution with the intention to be used by academia and maritime professionals to face up problems as challenges for continuous improvement
Real-Time Ship Management through the Lens of Big Data | 2020 IEEE Sixth International Conference on BigDataService 10.1109/BigDataService49289.2020.00029
In this paper we describe a scenario from the Shipping industry, that employs analytics, stream processing, monitoring, alerting and vessel route optimization over big data. This includes the business process modelling, infrastructure management and monitoring along with dimensioning and deployment of focused services requiring different stakeholders roles for their parameterization and enactment.
Maritime sector looks at reducing emissions DANAOS Shipping outlines the future | Revolve magazine
Will innovation in shipping reduce carbon emissions by 2050? Interview with Prof Takis Varelas DANAOS RESEARCH CENTER (DRC) Revolve fall 2019 pg 52-53
Danaos leads maritime entrance in Shipping 4.0 | Kathimerini newspaper 2021
Danaos Revolutionists early anticipated the potential of maritime digitalizing and leads the 4th generation shipping transformation
Protected: Orisma : Takis Varelas, Sofia Archontaki, John Dimoticalis, Orestis Varelas |
Optimizing Ship routing to maximize fleet revenue at Danaos | Interfaces vol 43,issn 1526-551x Awarded by INFORMS 2012
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Maritime Information Systems in zone of Lykofos Guest Speech: Operational dromena |29th symposium of managerial thinking | Delphi
Takis Varelas
A KPIs archetype for ships management continuous improvement (2007) Trends & Developments in shipping management pp 43- 50, ISBN 978-9608592-3-2 | Awarded by EBA (European Business Award) 2010
Takis Varelas, Sofia Archontaki, John Dimoticalis
Emulation in intelligent management systems (2011), Kathimerini Album pp20-25 | Greece Innovates! Applied Research award winner
John Coustas, Takis Varelas, Sofia Archontaki, Myrto Livadioti
Optimizing long term feet wide crew assignment (2014) 3rd international symposium in OR | ISBN 978-618-80631-4-7 pp191-195 Part of SEAHORSE Project awarded with Maritime safety award by LR +RINA (2016)
Fotis Oikonomou, Sofia Archontaki, Takis Varelas
RE-ALARM(into): Crew resilience abilities assessment(2016) SEAHORSE Conference Maritime Safety and Human Factors conference , Glasgow 21-23 Sep 2016
Sofia Archontaki, Takis Varelas, Myrto Livadioti
Minimizing subjectivity noise at sea, 5TH International symposium in OR Pp 008-012 | ISBN 978-618-80631-6-2 | Presented by TV in his award of excellence in applied operational research ceremony
Takis Varelas, Sofia Archontaki
Intelligence in crew option systems cos(i) (2011) 3rd International symposium on ships operations, management and economics / SNAME ISBN 978-1-61839-1 pp 291-296
Dimitris Theodosiou, Takis Varelas
Intelligence in maritime Risk Management ras(i) (2011) 3rd International symposium on ships operations, management and economics / SNAME ISBN 978-1-61839-1 pp 23-28
Sofia Archontaki, Takis Varelas, Fotis Oikonomou
Implementation of SMART methodology to maximize resilience performance (2016b) SEAHORSE Conference Maritime Safety and Human Factors conference , Glasgow 21-23 Sep 2016
Takis Varelas, Sofia Archontaki, John Dimoticalis, Iraklis Lazakis, Orestis Varelas
Intelligent Algorithm for fuel oil supply (Iafos) 3rd International symposium on ships operations, management and economics SNAME ISBN 978-1-61839-1 pp 264-268
Sofia Archontaki, Pavlos Eirinakis, Takis Varelas
Fermat minimizes fuel cost in anisotropic passages (2015b) 4th International symposium in OR | Chania | 978-618-80361-4-7 pp 191-195
Takis Varelas, Sofia Archontaki
Definition of waiting point | 1st symposium EME/IFORS(2011) Athens www.eme-eeee.teipir.gr
Orestis Varelas, Sofia Archontaki, D. Moutsikopoulou
CHAOS (I) intelligence in chartering option summary. (2010b) 9th Internat. Conf. Hellenic Oper. Res. Soc. (HELORS), Agios Nikolaos, Crete.
Takis Varelas, Sofia Archontaki
Intelligent voyage planning for emission lowering, LCS June 2011, University of Strathclyde pp135-140 | Awarded by EU ICT 2007
Yiannis Raptodimos, Iraklis Lazakis
FTA & ann modelling fora predictive ship machinery maintenance methodology Royal institution of naval architects (RINA), smart ship technology conference proceedings, 24-25 January 2017, london, uk isbn: 978-1-909024-63-2

 

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