This survey paper discusses opportunities and threats of using artificial intelligence (AI)
technology in the manufacturing sector with consideration for offensive and defensive uses …

The increase in cyber-attacks impacts the performance of organizations in the industrial
sector, exploiting the vulnerabilities of networked machines. The increasing digitization and …

During the first years of the so called fourth industrial revolution, main attempts that tried to
define the main ideas and tools behind this new era of manufacturing, always end up …

Abstract The recent White House report on Artificial Intelligence (AI)(Lee, 2016) highlights
the significance of AI and the necessity of a clear roadmap and strategic investment in this …

The exhaustive digitalization of the economy, and to be more specific, of industrial
production systems results in a new quality of information transparency. This is the basis for …

The advent of the Industry 4.0 initiative has made it so that manufacturing environments are
becoming more and more dynamic, connected but also inherently more complex, with …

A first subsection defines artificial intelligence–then, the chapter introduces recent AI
initiatives in the private sector and on the state level. A third subsection moves on to outline …

Today's factories are considered as smart ecosystems with humans, machines and devices
interacting with each other for efficient manufacturing of products. Industry 4.0 is a suite of …

Taking into account the technological evolution of the last decades and the proliferation of
information systems in society, today we see the vast majority of services provided by …

Although the concept of Industry 4.0 was introduced in 2011 at the Hannover Fair, it was
only recently that it gained major attention. The fourth industrial revolution, referred to as …