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Modeling Computing and Data Handling for Marine Transportation
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Modeling Computing and Data Handling for Marine Transportation

A special issue of Algorithms (ISSN 1999-4893).

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 October 2018) | Viewed by 20388

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Prof. Dr. Charalampos Konstantopoulos

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Department of Informatics, University of Piraeus, 185 34 Pireas, Greece
Interests: design and analysis of algorithms; parallel and distributed computing; mobile ad hoc networks; sensor networks
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Prof. Dr. Grammati Pantziou

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Department of Informatics and Computer Engineering, University of West Attica, 122 43 Athens, Greece
Interests: design of algorithms; parallel and distributed computing; pervasive computing; sensor networks; security and privacy issues in pervasive environments
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Maritime transportation is the major conduit of international trade. In terms of cost, maritime transport is very competitive relative to land and airborne transport, increasing only by a few percent the total product cost. On the other hand, maritime transportation takes longer or may cause harbor congestion, which further increases voyage times. Furthermore, there are difficulties in integrating this transportation mode efficiently with other transport or distribution options. On top of that, the safety and the environmental impact of maritime transportation, in particular, in the case of sea accidents, are always two challenging issues.  

As recent advances on maritime transportation require the synergy of both computer science and maritime science, the main focus in this special issue will be upon the latest developments on IT methodologies for maritime transportation. Computational intelligence, data mining and knowledge discovery/representation, risk assessment methodologies as well as combinatorial optimization are the IT fields that have gain importance in maritime studies because of their potential in giving solutions for effective sea transportation.

In particular, the topics of interest in this Special Issue covers the scope of the 3rd workshop on modeling computing and data handling for marine transportation (MCDMT 2018) (http://iisa2018.unipi.gr/mcdmt/). Extended versions of papers presented at MCDMT 2018 are sought, but this Special Issue is also open to all who wish to contribute by submitting a research paper relevant to the area.

Dr. Charalampos Konstantopoulos
Prof. Dr. Grammati Pantziou
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Keywords

  • Graph and Network algorithms for Marine Transportation
  • Combinatorial optimization techniques for Marine Transportation
  • Weather Routing
  • Environmentally Safe Shipping
  • Safety and Security of Maritime Shipping
  • Risk and Safety Analysis, Assessment and Prediction
  • Piracy Protection
  • GIS in Maritime Applications
  • Spatiotemporal and Marine Data Handling
  • Route Planning and Monitoring
  • Maritime Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery Applications: surveillance, maritime traffic control, anomaly detection, emergency management, situation recognition, etc.
  • Decision Support Tools for Marine Transportation
  • Integration of Heterogeneous Marine Data Sources

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An INS-UWB Based Collision Avoidance System for AGV
by Shunkai Sun, Jianping Hu, Jie Li, Ruidong Liu, Meng Shu and Yang Yang
Algorithms 2019, 12(2), 40; https://doi.org/10.3390/a12020040 - 18 Feb 2019
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As a highly automated carrying vehicle, an automated guided vehicle (AGV) has been widely applied in various industrial areas. The collision avoidance of AGV is always a problem in factories. Current solutions such as inertial and laser guiding have low flexibility and high [...] Read more.
As a highly automated carrying vehicle, an automated guided vehicle (AGV) has been widely applied in various industrial areas. The collision avoidance of AGV is always a problem in factories. Current solutions such as inertial and laser guiding have low flexibility and high environmental requirements. An INS (inertial navigation system)-UWB (ultra-wide band) based AGV collision avoidance system is introduced to improve the safety and flexibility of AGV in factories. An electronic map of the factory is established and the UWB anchor nodes are deployed in order to realize an accurate positioning. The extended Kalman filter (EKF) scheme that combines UWB with INS data is used to improve the localization accuracy. The current location of AGV and its motion state data are used to predict its next position, decrease the effect of control delay of AGV and avoid collisions among AGVs. Finally, experiments are given to show that the EKF scheme can get accurate position estimation and the collisions among AGVs can be detected and avoided in time. Full article
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Data Analysis, Simulation and Visualization for Environmentally Safe Maritime Data
by Manolis Maragoudakis
Algorithms 2019, 12(1), 27; https://doi.org/10.3390/a12010027 - 21 Jan 2019
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Marine transportation in Aegean Sea, a part of the Mediterranean Sea that serves as gateway between three continents has recently seen a significant increase. Despite the commercial benefits to the region, there are certain issues related to the preservation of the local ecosystem [...] Read more.
Marine transportation in Aegean Sea, a part of the Mediterranean Sea that serves as gateway between three continents has recently seen a significant increase. Despite the commercial benefits to the region, there are certain issues related to the preservation of the local ecosystem and safety. This danger is further deteriorated by the absence of regulations on allowed waterways. Marine accidents could cause a major ecological disaster in the area and pose big socio-economic impacts in Greece. Monitoring marine traffic data is of major importance and one of the primary goals of the current research. Real-time monitoring and alerting can be extremely useful to local authorities, companies, NGO’s and the public in general. Apart from real-time applications, the knowledge discovery from historical data is also significant. Towards this direction, a data analysis and simulation framework for maritime data has been designed and developed. The framework analyzes historical data about ships and area conditions, of varying time and space granularity, measures critical parameters that could influence the levels of hazard in certain regions and clusters such data according to their similarity. Upon this unsupervised step, the degree of hazard is estimated and along with other important parameters is fed into a special type of Bayesian network, in order to infer on future situations, thus, simulating future data based on past conditions. Another innovative aspect of this work is the modeling of shipping traffic as a social network, whose analysis could provide useful and informative visualizations. The use of such a system is particularly beneficial for multiple stakeholders, such as the port authorities, the ministry of Mercantile Marine, etc. mainly due to the fact that specific policy options can be evaluated and re-designed based on feedback from our framework. Full article
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A Forecast Model of the Number of Containers for Containership Voyage
by Yuchuang Wang, Guoyou Shi and Xiaotong Sun
Algorithms 2018, 11(12), 193; https://doi.org/10.3390/a11120193 - 28 Nov 2018
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Container ships must pass through multiple ports of call during a voyage. Therefore, forecasting container volume information at the port of origin followed by sending such information to subsequent ports is crucial for container terminal management and container stowage personnel. Numerous factors influence [...] Read more.
Container ships must pass through multiple ports of call during a voyage. Therefore, forecasting container volume information at the port of origin followed by sending such information to subsequent ports is crucial for container terminal management and container stowage personnel. Numerous factors influence container allocation to container ships for a voyage, and the degree of influence varies, engendering a complex nonlinearity. Therefore, this paper proposes a model based on gray relational analysis (GRA) and mixed kernel support vector machine (SVM) for predicting container allocation to a container ship for a voyage. First, in this model, the weights of influencing factors are determined through GRA. Then, the weighted factors serve as the input of the SVM model, and SVM model parameters are optimized through a genetic algorithm. Numerical simulations revealed that the proposed model could effectively predict the number of containers for container ship voyage and that it exhibited strong generalization ability and high accuracy. Accordingly, this model provides a new method for predicting container volume for a voyage. Full article
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Numerical Modeling of Wave Disturbances in the Process of Ship Movement Control
by Piotr Borkowski
Algorithms 2018, 11(9), 130; https://doi.org/10.3390/a11090130 - 31 Aug 2018
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The article presents a numerical model of sea wave generation as an implementation of the stochastic process with a spectrum of wave angular velocity. Based on the wave spectrum, a forming filter is determined, and its input is fed with white noise. The [...] Read more.
The article presents a numerical model of sea wave generation as an implementation of the stochastic process with a spectrum of wave angular velocity. Based on the wave spectrum, a forming filter is determined, and its input is fed with white noise. The resulting signal added to the angular speed of a ship represents disturbances acting on the ship’s hull as a result of wave impact. The model was used for simulation tests of the influence of disturbances on the course stabilization system of the ship. Full article
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