Cross-domain knowledge transfer for data-driven decision making. This project aims to develop a set of cross-domain knowledge transfer methodologies to support Data-Driven Decision-Making (D3M) systems. D3M is essential in business, particularly for ever-changing environments in today’s big data era, but D3Ms for solving new problems may face in-domain data insufficiency. The challenge is to effectively transfer knowledge from multiple heterogeneous source domains. The outcomes are expected to t ....Cross-domain knowledge transfer for data-driven decision making. This project aims to develop a set of cross-domain knowledge transfer methodologies to support Data-Driven Decision-Making (D3M) systems. D3M is essential in business, particularly for ever-changing environments in today’s big data era, but D3Ms for solving new problems may face in-domain data insufficiency. The challenge is to effectively transfer knowledge from multiple heterogeneous source domains. The outcomes are expected to transfer implicit and explicit knowledge, handle discrete and continuous outputs, and support business decision-making, which should advance the discipline of transfer learning and data-driven DSS in dynamically changing environments.Read moreRead less
Advanced planning systems for vertically integrated supply chain management. This project will integrate various algorithms into an adaptive, dynamic and intelligent system that deals with the vertically integrated supply chains. The outcomes include publications in the quality outlets, generation of intellectual property, and dissemination of this research amongst the research and business communities.
Enhancing and supporting deliberations within multidisciplinary decision teams. A group’s knowledge and reasoning processes are rarely conducted or recorded systematically; a problem particularly pressing for medical decisions made by multidisciplinary teams. This project will perform the first integration of knowledge management principles with group reasoning process models to create an online environment for enhancing the quality of group decisions and their documentation. The online environm ....Enhancing and supporting deliberations within multidisciplinary decision teams. A group’s knowledge and reasoning processes are rarely conducted or recorded systematically; a problem particularly pressing for medical decisions made by multidisciplinary teams. This project will perform the first integration of knowledge management principles with group reasoning process models to create an online environment for enhancing the quality of group decisions and their documentation. The online environment will help medical teams use documented and non-documented knowledge when more than one medical condition is present and no formal guidelines are applicable. The project advances theories of knowledge in groups and is extendable to any deliberations on complex problems.Read moreRead less
Fuzzy Transfer Learning for Prediction in Data-Shortage and Rapidly-Changing Environments. Collecting sufficient up-to-date data to train a learning model for data analysis and prediction is difficult and expensive. This project will develop a Fuzzy Transfer Learning methodology, using Information Granularity theory, that exploits data with different features and/or distributions available in other, similar systems, to provide accurate learning-based prediction for current problems. It will esta ....Fuzzy Transfer Learning for Prediction in Data-Shortage and Rapidly-Changing Environments. Collecting sufficient up-to-date data to train a learning model for data analysis and prediction is difficult and expensive. This project will develop a Fuzzy Transfer Learning methodology, using Information Granularity theory, that exploits data with different features and/or distributions available in other, similar systems, to provide accurate learning-based prediction for current problems. It will establish a new research direction, Fuzzy Transfer Learning for Prediction, and the outcomes will enable government and industry to better use past experience to make more accurate predictions and decisions. Highly significant benefits will also accrue in the data analytics, business intelligence and decision making research fields.Read moreRead less
Cost-effective App Service Management in Edge Computing Environment. This project aims to deliver a framework and a suite of approaches for cost-effective app service management in the edge computing (EC) environment facilitated by the 5G mobile network. Edge computing offers great promises for rapidly advancing mobile and IoT apps in many active domains in Australia, e.g., self-driving cars, medical services, etc. Using a variety of optimization techniques and game theory, this project attacks ....Cost-effective App Service Management in Edge Computing Environment. This project aims to deliver a framework and a suite of approaches for cost-effective app service management in the edge computing (EC) environment facilitated by the 5G mobile network. Edge computing offers great promises for rapidly advancing mobile and IoT apps in many active domains in Australia, e.g., self-driving cars, medical services, etc. Using a variety of optimization techniques and game theory, this project attacks the new challenges in the deployment, delivery and adaptation of app services in the EC environment. The outcomes of this project will significantly promote new mobile and IoT apps over Australia's 5G mobile network by allowing app vendors to manage their services cost-effectively with ease in the EC environment.Read moreRead less
Increasing data quality with group associations in outsourcing environments. Outsourcing of data storage is increasingly common, but poses major problems for data utility and confidentiality. This project aims to discover how tuples (data structures) in fragments can be grouped to increase the utility of queries executed over fragments. The project will create a framework that satisfies information protection goals while achieving utility for queries. The developed algorithms and techniques will ....Increasing data quality with group associations in outsourcing environments. Outsourcing of data storage is increasingly common, but poses major problems for data utility and confidentiality. This project aims to discover how tuples (data structures) in fragments can be grouped to increase the utility of queries executed over fragments. The project will create a framework that satisfies information protection goals while achieving utility for queries. The developed algorithms and techniques will formally specify and develop a model to validate loose association rules while minimising data leakage risks. The outcomes will benefit Australians through enabling sharing and linking increasingly large datasets securely and cheaply.Read moreRead less
Sequential decision-making in dynamic and uncertain environments. Current machine learning and optimisation methods cannot well support sequential prediction and decision-making due to the dynamic nature and pervasive presence of big data. This project aims to create a foundation and technology for sequence and uncertainty learning, sequential and dynamic optimisation, and their integration. It is expected to improve robustness and mitigate the vulnerabilities of machine learning algorithms, to ....Sequential decision-making in dynamic and uncertain environments. Current machine learning and optimisation methods cannot well support sequential prediction and decision-making due to the dynamic nature and pervasive presence of big data. This project aims to create a foundation and technology for sequence and uncertainty learning, sequential and dynamic optimisation, and their integration. It is expected to improve robustness and mitigate the vulnerabilities of machine learning algorithms, to increase prediction accuracy and reliability in dynamic sequences, and to support decision-making in complex situations to achieve robust and adaptive results. Anticipated outcomes can help data scientists with state-of-the-art skills to manage sequential data and benefit data-enabled innovation in Australia.Read moreRead less
Smart micro learning with open education resources. This project aims to enhance personalised learning systems for mobile device users . Open online education is gaining in popularity with its ease of use. The project tackles the problems in relation to more and more popular mobile and ‘micro learning’, where people learn on the move and within small units of time. Ontology and machine learning technologies used in this project will help to optimise the offering of open education resources, by p ....Smart micro learning with open education resources. This project aims to enhance personalised learning systems for mobile device users . Open online education is gaining in popularity with its ease of use. The project tackles the problems in relation to more and more popular mobile and ‘micro learning’, where people learn on the move and within small units of time. Ontology and machine learning technologies used in this project will help to optimise the offering of open education resources, by providing solutions meeting each individual learner’s needs. The main outcome will consolidate a cloud based micro learning framework through integrating a group of novel algorithms.Read moreRead less
Robust meta learning for risk-aware recommender systems. Recommender systems are the core of many online services but they are highly vulnerable to risks like shilling attacks, privacy leaks, and unexpected change. This project aims to develop new adversarial Bayesian-based, privacy-preserved and self-adaptive fuzzy meta learning methods and meta recommender systems that are robust to these risky, uncertain and dynamic environments. The anticipated outcomes should significantly improve the relia ....Robust meta learning for risk-aware recommender systems. Recommender systems are the core of many online services but they are highly vulnerable to risks like shilling attacks, privacy leaks, and unexpected change. This project aims to develop new adversarial Bayesian-based, privacy-preserved and self-adaptive fuzzy meta learning methods and meta recommender systems that are robust to these risky, uncertain and dynamic environments. The anticipated outcomes should significantly improve the reliability of recommender systems with particular benefits for online personalised service systems, e.g., e-government, e-business and e-Learning. The outcomes will also advance machine learning knowledge with a new robust meta learning schema for general data analytics and applications.Read moreRead less
Drift learning for decision-making in dynamic multi-stream environments. This project aims to provide application-ready real-time decision support systems for big data situations. Real-time support for organisational decisions is crucial in fast-changing environments that are highly dependent on data from multiple large streams. Unforeseen changes in data distribution (drift) are inevitable. The ability to learn drift in dynamic environments with multiple large data streams will benefit innovati ....Drift learning for decision-making in dynamic multi-stream environments. This project aims to provide application-ready real-time decision support systems for big data situations. Real-time support for organisational decisions is crucial in fast-changing environments that are highly dependent on data from multiple large streams. Unforeseen changes in data distribution (drift) are inevitable. The ability to learn drift in dynamic environments with multiple large data streams will benefit innovation and decision quality in challenging data situations. The project will have wide applications, such as in cybersecurity, telecommunications, bushfire control and logistics. The project will advance machine learning knowledge, providing a foundation and technologies to support real-time decision-making in big data environments.Read moreRead less