Integrating deep-earth and surface processes for frontier-basin exploration. It is well-known that mantle convection has a profound influence on basin evolution, and the next step will be to quantify this relationship and provide the science that will make these concepts applicable to exploration. To do this, we will develop a workflow to link plate-reconstruction software with the mantle convection modelling to link plate motions mantle convection and the history of sedimentation systematically ....Integrating deep-earth and surface processes for frontier-basin exploration. It is well-known that mantle convection has a profound influence on basin evolution, and the next step will be to quantify this relationship and provide the science that will make these concepts applicable to exploration. To do this, we will develop a workflow to link plate-reconstruction software with the mantle convection modelling to link plate motions mantle convection and the history of sedimentation systematically for the first time for frontier basin-scale applications. We will apply these emerging technologies to the evolution of basins in the Arctic borderlands frontier for resource exploration and on the Australian continent.Read moreRead less
Dynamic Load Balancing for Systems under Heavy Traffic Demand and High Task Size Variation. Current computer systems cannot cope with extremely heavy traffic demands. A solution to such a difficult problem is to dynamically balance the load across the system's servers. Several solutions have been proposed and demonstrate advances in certain limited conditions (e.g. uniform distribution). However fundamental research work must be undertaken beyond the current way of dealing with the core issues o ....Dynamic Load Balancing for Systems under Heavy Traffic Demand and High Task Size Variation. Current computer systems cannot cope with extremely heavy traffic demands. A solution to such a difficult problem is to dynamically balance the load across the system's servers. Several solutions have been proposed and demonstrate advances in certain limited conditions (e.g. uniform distribution). However fundamental research work must be undertaken beyond the current way of dealing with the core issues of load balancing. Accounting for realistic conditions is a theoretical and practical challenge. This project aims at developing theoretical and computational models for dynamic task distribution for the studied systems. The benefits include substantial improvement of the system response time.Read moreRead less
Development and Application of Techniques for Detecting Equivalent Documents. The web is a vast collection of data, such as text and images, but contains large numbers of duplicates - the same document or picture may be present many times. Even personal collections of information, such as the documents and digital photos people keep on their home computers, often have many versions of the same item. However, detecting such duplicates is not straightforward, as they may have been edited, or may, ....Development and Application of Techniques for Detecting Equivalent Documents. The web is a vast collection of data, such as text and images, but contains large numbers of duplicates - the same document or picture may be present many times. Even personal collections of information, such as the documents and digital photos people keep on their home computers, often have many versions of the same item. However, detecting such duplicates is not straightforward, as they may have been edited, or may, for example, be shown in different forms; for example, the quality of a photo may be reduced for display on a mobile phone. In this project we plan to detect such duplicates, and use the results to improve search and management of data.Read moreRead less
New Directions in Mining Complex Spatial Relationships in Large Scientific Databases. International and Australian organizations are investing in large projects involving the collection of terabytes of scientific data. The Anglo-Australian Galaxy Redshift Survey in eastern Australia has obtained data for a quarter of a million galaxies. Similarly the Tropical Ocean Global Atmophere(TOGA) program is being expanded to collect data from the equatorial pacific region which will help better understa ....New Directions in Mining Complex Spatial Relationships in Large Scientific Databases. International and Australian organizations are investing in large projects involving the collection of terabytes of scientific data. The Anglo-Australian Galaxy Redshift Survey in eastern Australia has obtained data for a quarter of a million galaxies. Similarly the Tropical Ocean Global Atmophere(TOGA) program is being expanded to collect data from the equatorial pacific region which will help better understand the El Nino/Southern Oscillation Cycle. We are developing powerful spatial data mining tools which will go a long way in finding potential nuggets of useful information in these large databases and help Australian and international scientists hypothesise new theories to explain the underlying phenomenon.Read moreRead less
Efficient Algorithms for In-memory Sorting, Searching and Indexing on Modern Multi-core Cache-based and Graphics Processor Architectures. This project clearly belongs to one of the national research priority
goals, Smart Information Use. The copy-based techniques and work on sorting and searching will considerably impact the development of in-memory algorithms in cutting-edge computer architectures. Efficient suffix trees and suffix sorting have myriad applications in string-processing and will ....Efficient Algorithms for In-memory Sorting, Searching and Indexing on Modern Multi-core Cache-based and Graphics Processor Architectures. This project clearly belongs to one of the national research priority
goals, Smart Information Use. The copy-based techniques and work on sorting and searching will considerably impact the development of in-memory algorithms in cutting-edge computer architectures. Efficient suffix trees and suffix sorting have myriad applications in string-processing and will be of high interest to bioinformatics companies. The sortdex project will develop novel algorithms that will be used by enterprise search engine companies to develop applications for libraries and organisations dealing with large databases. Algorithms using the graphics processor as a co-processor have important applications in the high-growth field of computer graphics and games. Read moreRead less
Constraints in XML Schema Integration. This project will produce worldwide leading technologies for designing XML data integration system. With the technologies, the well designed integration systems will be able store data with rich semantics and thus provide accurate and understandable information to users. In this way, Australia and communities will be benefited both financially and informatively. The research of this project will also add to the research reputation of Australia in data integ ....Constraints in XML Schema Integration. This project will produce worldwide leading technologies for designing XML data integration system. With the technologies, the well designed integration systems will be able store data with rich semantics and thus provide accurate and understandable information to users. In this way, Australia and communities will be benefited both financially and informatively. The research of this project will also add to the research reputation of Australia in data integration areas. At the same time, the knowledge capacity of Australia on data integration will be enlarged which further improves frontier research activities in the area. Through the research of the project, PhD students will be trained.Read moreRead less
Investigations into machine learning applications in link analysis. Link analysis is an emerging tool for the detection of patterns in structured data. The detection of pattern in such data can lead to the detection of fraud occurrence, security breaches in computer systems, and patterns of social interactions with a community. It is also popularly applied to applications such as Web search engine designs and marketing analysis. This project aims to advance the area of link analysis by allowing ....Investigations into machine learning applications in link analysis. Link analysis is an emerging tool for the detection of patterns in structured data. The detection of pattern in such data can lead to the detection of fraud occurrence, security breaches in computer systems, and patterns of social interactions with a community. It is also popularly applied to applications such as Web search engine designs and marketing analysis. This project aims to advance the area of link analysis by allowing the incorporation of contextual information which accounts for relationships among actors properly. Advances in link detection will allow improvements in security and Web services on which a wide field of national bodies rely. This project can help to place Australia at the forefront of this research area.Read moreRead less
XML Views of Relational Databases: Semantics and Update Problems. XML is the standard for representing, publishing and exchanging data over the Internet and relational database is the dominant technology for data management. Updating XML views over relational data is fundamental to bring these two technologies together to serve Internet-based applications. Australia has been a leading country in both developing and applying internet technologies. The theoretic outcomes of this project will contr ....XML Views of Relational Databases: Semantics and Update Problems. XML is the standard for representing, publishing and exchanging data over the Internet and relational database is the dominant technology for data management. Updating XML views over relational data is fundamental to bring these two technologies together to serve Internet-based applications. Australia has been a leading country in both developing and applying internet technologies. The theoretic outcomes of this project will contribute to the advance in database and web research communities and establish us as an internationally leading group in this research area. The technological outcomes will help organisations in Australia effectively and efficiently conduct e-Business on the Internet. Read moreRead less
Dynamic Index Maintenance for Text Search Engines. Text retrieval systems such as internet search engines use high-performance indexes to rapidly locate documents that match user queries. In recent years there have been major improvements in query evaluation and index construction techniques. As the data changes, it is necessary to keep the index up to date, but current methods for maintaining indexes are slow and costly. The aim of this project is to develop methods that provide on-the-fly u ....Dynamic Index Maintenance for Text Search Engines. Text retrieval systems such as internet search engines use high-performance indexes to rapidly locate documents that match user queries. In recent years there have been major improvements in query evaluation and index construction techniques. As the data changes, it is necessary to keep the index up to date, but current methods for maintaining indexes are slow and costly. The aim of this project is to develop methods that provide on-the-fly update at much lower cost, thereby improving the performance of text retrieval systems. This work involves both practical development and innovation in fundamental algorithms.Read moreRead less
Special Research Initiatives - Grant ID: SR0566892
Funder
Australian Research Council
Funding Amount
$220,000.00
Summary
The EarthByte software and database system. Earth processes over geological timescales cannot be understood outside of a plate tectonic context. However, no standard tool exists to explore the causes and effects of lithosphere-mantle interaction in accordance with past plate configurations. Our aim is to develop a Palaeo-Geographic Information System called EarthByte that will connect the open source and architecture-independent GPlates and GMT software, and implement XML-based service interfac ....The EarthByte software and database system. Earth processes over geological timescales cannot be understood outside of a plate tectonic context. However, no standard tool exists to explore the causes and effects of lithosphere-mantle interaction in accordance with past plate configurations. Our aim is to develop a Palaeo-Geographic Information System called EarthByte that will connect the open source and architecture-independent GPlates and GMT software, and implement XML-based service interfaces and databases. EarthByte will create the foundation for an e-geoscience framework for grid-based data access and Earth process modelling by linking geological and geophysical observations to palaeogeographic models for constraining mantle convection and lithospheric deformation.Read moreRead less