The Technical University of Crete was founded in 1977
in Chania (Crete) and received its first students in 1984. The mission of the institution
is to promote research and education in old and new engineering fields, as well as to develop
links with Greek industry. The teaching and research staff and postgraduate students are
involved in research in various scientific-technical areas within the more than
70 well-equipped
laboratories of the Technical University of Crete as well as in other associated research
institutes.
The Dynamic
Systems and Simulation Laboratory (DSSL) belongs to the Decision
Sciences Division of the School of Production Engineering and Management. DSSL
was founded in 1988; its founding director, Prof. Michael N. Katehakis,
introduced the modern (for the time) computation equipment; after his leave in
1992, DSSL was headed by Assist. Prof. Constantinos Melolidakis, succeded
in 1994 by Prof. Markos Papageorgiou. Since 2021 Prof. Ioannis Papamichail has been the Laboratory’s director. The staff of DSSL includes
currently some
15 professors, lecturers, researchers, graduate and undergraduate students and has
profound knowledge and broad experience in the theories of modelling, simulation,
optimisation, automatic control, and their practical application to traffic
and transportation systems, water networks, production systems, and further areas. DSSL
has been involved in numerous research, development, and demonstration projects at a
national, European, and international level; its highest related achievments
being the ERC Advanced Investigator Grants TRAMAN21 (2013-2018) and TrafficFluid
(2019-2024). In particular, the DSSL has gained a
remarkable experience through the implementation in real conditions, the testing, and the
evaluation of its several techniques and tools in various European and
non-European sites.
Former members of DSSL
hold significant positions in academia and industry around the world. The DSSL is located in the campus
of the Technical University of Crete and disposes of modern technological equipment, which
is continuously updated and enlarged.
This Site presents
briefly the most significant teaching, research, and other activities of the Laboratory
during the period 1994-2021.