Demetrios Eliades: KIOS Center of Excellence, UCY Project Idea: Water@Risk: Intelligent Decision Making for Multi-Hazard Risks

1. 30-31st of October 2019 - BluePoint Brussels
Project Ideas Presentation
Session
2019

2. KIOS Center of Excellence
University of Cyprus
Intelligent Decision Making for Natural
Multi-Hazard Risks
Project Ideas Presentation
30 & 31 of October 2019 - BluePoint Brussels

3. Project Ideas Presentation
30 & 31 of October 2019 - BluePoint Brussels
KIOS Research and Innovation Center of
Excellence
Largest international ICT research
center in Cyprus, 140+ researchers
70+ externally-funded projects
Strategic partnership with Imperial
College London
R&D for main water organizations in
Cyprus and other gov departments
Specialization in systems & control,
modelling, monitoring and fault
diagnosis, computational intelligence
25 years experience in Water & ICT
Maintaining the EPANET-MATLAB Toolkit
Real-time state-estimation, leakage &
contamination detection, optimization,
cyber-physical security
Organizers “Battle of Leakage Detection &
Isolation Methods” WDSA-CCWI2020
Proposals on emergency response &
security

4. Project Ideas Presentation
30 & 31 of October 2019 - BluePoint Brussels
What is the challenge
• Multiple hazards are not considered during
decision making
• Tools are needed to assess the risks due to
multiple hazards
• Target governments, local authorities, water
utilities etc.
Proposed approach
• Hazard modelling
• Cascading dynamics across systems
• Framework for vulnerability assessment
• Interdependencies modelling
• Hazard risk evaluation using IoT, Big Data
and AI/ML
• Tools to model systems and
interdependencies, and use to make
decisions
• Satellite information + sensors and models
to learn uncertainties and changes in time
• Conduct standardization activities for
handling multi-hazard risk assessment
• Link with H2020 DRS projects.
Increased pumping from boreholes by the sea
may affect water quality, and as a result, the
yield, which will then have a cascading effect on
the food production, as well as in the increased
use of processed water for agriculture.
H2020-2020-LC-CLA-16
Multi-hazard risk management for risk-informed
decision-making in the E.U.
RIA, 2-Stage, 5M

5. Project Ideas Presentation
30 & 31 of October 2019 - BluePoint Brussels
The project results are expected to contribute to:
• Pre-standardization and standardization activities related to multiple-
hazard risk assessment
• Help in investment prioritization for risk reduction
• Assist in identifying areas which are vulnerable to multi-hazard risks
• Support the design of what-if scenarios affected by long-term drivers
• Support decision making considering risks e.g., for water allocation
• Assist decision-makers in modeling cascading risks affected by
short/long-term environmental and social changes

6. Project Ideas Presentation
30 & 31 of October 2019 - BluePoint Brussels
- Research institutes
- SMEs/LE
- Universities
- Local authorities/governmental organizations
- Water authorities
 Disaster risk management
 Decision making & planning
 Nature-based solutions
 Standards
 Hazards (geological, hydrological, meteo, bio)

7. 30-31st of October 2019 - BluePoint Brussels
eldemet@ucy.ac.cy
www.kios.ucy.ac.cy
+357 2289-3461
Demetrios Eliades, PhD
Research Assistant Professor
Cyprus