The Big Data and Digital Business Lab (BDDB)
Big Data and Digital Business
Recent advancements in ICT technologies have enabled the digitalization processes for all business sectors. In the context of industry 4.0 and with increasingly maturing Big Data platforms, companies are evolving their business models from flow-centric to data-centric. Different professionals nowadays are using more and more data processing, machine learning and AI, and data visualization in their daily tasks.
The Big Data and Digital Business (BDDB) initiative was established in 2014 to meet with the challenges and needs rising from different business sectors nationally and internationally. Safety and security are important aspects in our research.
The BDBD Group’s primary research efforts focus on developing effective data-centric intelligent technologies in deep collaborations with domain experts from different sectors.
Research Topics include (not limited to):
- Data Processing and Feature Engineering
- Machine Learning and AI
- Visual Analytics
- Industrial Internet of Things
- Blockchain and Smart Contract
- Safety and Security
- Modeling and V&V
Partners
We are a member of IEEE IES Technical Committee on Industrial Informatics and constantly involved with organization of premier international academic conferences.
We collaborate primarly with academic institutions such as:
- Inria in France
- KTH in Sweden
- Tsinghua University in China
Strategic research area
The Big Data and Digital Business Lab is one the strategic research areas for the Department of ICT and Natural Sciences.
Projects
Ongoing research projects we work with:
- TEFT Lab (with IIF)
- New IoT Framework funded by ERCIM
- Smart Water Systems (with WaterCube group in IHB)
- Visual Analytics for Cancer Research (with MR Cancer group in ISB)
- Security for Auto-ships (with IIK and ITK)
- Visual Analytics for Maritime Operations
Research area coordinator
Industry partners
Industry partners
- Sparebanken Møre
- Rolls Royce Marine
- ÅKP
- Norwegian Rooms Cluster
- Blue Maritime Cluster
- H.I. Giørtz Sønner AS
- ABB Corporate Research Center, Sweden