- Posted 15-Dec-2020
THE CYPRUS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY: NEW BOOK RELEASE ON MARITIME INFORMATICS
The first book on Maritime Informatics has been published by Springer edited by Mikael Lind, Michalis Michaelides, Robert Ward, and Richard Watson.
This book describes the potential for Maritime Informatics to enhance the shipping industry. It examines how decision making in the industry can be improved by digital technology and introduces the technology required to make Maritime Informatics a distinct and valuable discipline. It addresses the identified need within the maritime industry for smarter collaboration to enhance operations, satisfy clients’ expectations of transparency and predictability and respond to societal concerns. Maritime Informatics can be defined as “the application of information systems to increase the efficiency, safety, and ecological sustainability of the world’s shipping industry”.
The book's chapters are co-authored by 81 academics and leading practitioners in the shipping industry from 20 nations. Among these are several academics and researchers from the Cyprus University of Technology (CUT) including Sheraz Aslam, Herodotos Herodotou and Michalis Michaelides from the Department of Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering and Informatics; Stelios Alexandrou and Photis Panayides from the Department of Department of Commerce, Finance and Shipping; leading practitioners from the Cyprus maritime industry including Andreas Chrysostomou (MarineFields), Daniel Hayes (Cyprus Subsea Consulting and Services), Despina Theodossiou (Tototheo Maritime and WISTA), Socrates Theodossiou (Tototheo Maritime), Zacharias Siokouros (CMMI); as well as leading academics and practitioners from the international maritime industry including Trond Andersen (NOFO), Michael Bergman (BM Bergmann-Marine), Albert Gonzalez (Barcelona Port Authority), Mikael Lind (Research Institutes of Sweden (RISE)), and Robert Ward (Hydrographic Advisor). All the aforementioned academics and practitioners are actively involved in the STEAM project either as members of the consortium, or as members of the STEAM Associated Stakeholder Network, or as members of the STEAM Advisory Board.
STEAM (Sea Traffic Management in the Eastern Mediterranean) is a three-year project that has started in Jan. 2019 with a budget of approximately one million EUR and coordinated by the Cyprus University of Technology (CUT). The primary goal of STEAM is to develop the Port of Limassol to become a world-class transshipment and information hub adopting modern digital technologies brought to the maritime sector, as well as a driver for short sea shipping in the Eastern Mediterranean.
For more information on the STEAM project: https://steam.cut.ac.cy/. To read the book, visit the following site: www.maritimeinformatics.org
Source: Cyprus University of Technology News (https://bit.ly/34gTnBg)