Title : 
Maritime Clouds for the European Ports
         
        
            Author : 
Dellios, Kleanthis ; Polemi, Despina
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
Dept. of Inf., Univ. of Piraeus, Piraeus, Greece
         
        
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
The adoption of Cloud Computing technology can lead to a new revolution in the maritime field, offering trustworthy cross-border, interoperable, secure e-port services to all maritime participants. In this paper, cloud technology is introduced in the maritime sector, maritime cloud delivery and deployment models are proposed in order to provide a holistic, harmonized European secure maritime environment.
         
        
            Keywords : 
cloud computing; marine engineering; sea ports; security; European port; cloud computing technology; maritime cloud delivery; maritime deployment model; maritime environment security; Biological system modeling; Cloud computing; Computational modeling; Organizations; Security; Maritime Cloud (MC); Ports´ Information Communication and Technology (PICT) systems; e-port services;
         
        
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
Informatics (PCI), 2012 16th Panhellenic Conference on
         
        
            Conference_Location : 
Piraeus
         
        
            Print_ISBN : 
978-1-4673-2720-6
         
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1109/PCi.2012.39