Wattzup - a context-aware residential demand-response system for smart energy management. This project falls within the National Research Priorities an environmentally sustainable australia and frontier technologies for building and transforming Australian industries. This project will develop an innovative context aware smart energy management system that will effectively reduce consumption and wastage in residential energy usage among individual homes. It will also be an important new technolo ....Wattzup - a context-aware residential demand-response system for smart energy management. This project falls within the National Research Priorities an environmentally sustainable australia and frontier technologies for building and transforming Australian industries. This project will develop an innovative context aware smart energy management system that will effectively reduce consumption and wastage in residential energy usage among individual homes. It will also be an important new technology that will be able to support the Australian utility industry in terms of incorporating context-sensitive demand-response strategies. The key innovation of the system will be to leverage a range of rich contextual information that is easily accessible and available for effective residential energy management.Read moreRead less
Cloud-data centres resource allocation under bursty conditions. Cloud-data centres resource allocation under bursty conditions. The project aims to design, implement, and integrate solutions to manage resources in cloud data centres (CDCs), especially when operating under bursty workload conditions. CDCs are expected to assure performance whilst optimising resource usage at a minimum cost, but efficiently providing resources with specific performance requirements can be difficult. This project i ....Cloud-data centres resource allocation under bursty conditions. Cloud-data centres resource allocation under bursty conditions. The project aims to design, implement, and integrate solutions to manage resources in cloud data centres (CDCs), especially when operating under bursty workload conditions. CDCs are expected to assure performance whilst optimising resource usage at a minimum cost, but efficiently providing resources with specific performance requirements can be difficult. This project intends to develop scalable solutions with industry approved software plug-ins. This is expected to affect both trustworthy information and communications technology (ICT) infrastructure (delivering more resilient CDCs) and economic sustainability (reducing CDC usage cost for both users and providers) of today’s computerised society.Read moreRead less
Contention-Aware Scheduling in Cloud Data Centres. This project aims to design, implement, and integrate solutions to improve resource use of private cloud data centres (CDCs). CDCs are expected to guarantee performance while optimising resource usage at a minimum cost. This incurs technical challenges that must be tackled to efficiently provision on-demand resources with specific performance requirements. The project intends to push the applicability of both current techniques and the ones to b ....Contention-Aware Scheduling in Cloud Data Centres. This project aims to design, implement, and integrate solutions to improve resource use of private cloud data centres (CDCs). CDCs are expected to guarantee performance while optimising resource usage at a minimum cost. This incurs technical challenges that must be tackled to efficiently provision on-demand resources with specific performance requirements. The project intends to push the applicability of both current techniques and the ones to be designed in this project to industry-scale CDCs, and identify metrics and variables to holistically control service-level agreements of hosted applications. Scalable solutions with industry approved software plug-ins are the major outcomes of this project. The outcomes of this project will have a substantial impact on both environmental (lowering energy consumption to lead to greener infrastructure) and economic sustainability (reducing cloud usage cost for both users and providers) of today’s much computerised society.Read moreRead less
Secure and Efficient Communication in Vehicle-based Radio Frequency Identification Systems. The successful completion of the project will enable the deployment of RFID technologies to improve current methods of reading and processing RFID tag information in numerous real-life applications. Based on the research from this project a real-life application in asset tracking will be developed and deployed through the industry partner. Such an outcome will generate knowledge that can transform and imp ....Secure and Efficient Communication in Vehicle-based Radio Frequency Identification Systems. The successful completion of the project will enable the deployment of RFID technologies to improve current methods of reading and processing RFID tag information in numerous real-life applications. Based on the research from this project a real-life application in asset tracking will be developed and deployed through the industry partner. Such an outcome will generate knowledge that can transform and improve current logistics systems for Australian companies and their international clients and have the potential to significantly increase the efficiency of decentralised business environments such as logistics and supply chain management particularly in the fields of inventory control, distribution and transportation.Read moreRead less
Energy-Efficient Computing: Expanding the Role of Scheduling in Cloud Data Centres. Cloud data centres have become increasingly large-scale to meet ever increasing computing and storage capacity. The requirement of uninterrupted service availability has also contributed to such expansion. However, this relentless pursuit of high performance and high availability has led to serious resource over-provisioning and, in turn, low performance to energy consumption ratios. The impact of this poor resou ....Energy-Efficient Computing: Expanding the Role of Scheduling in Cloud Data Centres. Cloud data centres have become increasingly large-scale to meet ever increasing computing and storage capacity. The requirement of uninterrupted service availability has also contributed to such expansion. However, this relentless pursuit of high performance and high availability has led to serious resource over-provisioning and, in turn, low performance to energy consumption ratios. The impact of this poor resource management goes beyond the issue of cloud data centre efficiency, including excessive carbon footprint. This project aims to develop new energy-aware scheduling and resource allocation algorithms to provide energy-efficient solutions. These solutions exploit both workload and system diversity in cloud data centres.Read moreRead less
Acquiring physical skills: exploiting games technology to teach sign language. This project will investigate if games technology can be used to teach deaf children’s parents sign language. The learner would create a sign, the system would assess the accuracy of the sign and provide feedback to improve learning. If successful, the system would provide an inexpensive alternative to learning sign language.
An integrative and distributed data management and workflow framework for e-research in biomedical imaging. This project will develop new tools for neuroimaging research: (i) efficient distributed infrastructure and workflow capabilities and (ii) semantic tools using existing ontological frameworks and specific neuroimaging ontologies.
These new capabilities will significantly enhance the productivity of neuroimaging research.
Development of Representation, Presentation and Interaction Models for the. The primary aims of this research are to develop representation, presentation and interaction models for the delivery of geospatial information using WAP-enabled cellular phone and mobile Internet technology and to implement these for the purposes of Australian fleet drivers. Research and testing relating to small-screen delivery of geospatial information is necessary to ensure that future products and services are usab ....Development of Representation, Presentation and Interaction Models for the. The primary aims of this research are to develop representation, presentation and interaction models for the delivery of geospatial information using WAP-enabled cellular phone and mobile Internet technology and to implement these for the purposes of Australian fleet drivers. Research and testing relating to small-screen delivery of geospatial information is necessary to ensure that future products and services are usable and satisfy user needs. Expected outcomes include a greater understanding of the requirements of the Australian market, new models that will contribute to the evolution of the geospatial mobile Internet industry and a functional prototype with the potential for commercialisation.Read moreRead less
Advanced coding techniques for next generation NAND Flash memories. Advanced coding techniques for next generation NAND Flash memories. This project aims to design low-power consuming coding schemes that can achieve the maximum coding gain for NAND Flash memories in Solid State Drives. Although these devices are replacing hard drives in laptops and provide enormous benefits in access speed and weight, they become unreliable the more they are used. Advanced coding techniques are needed to solve p ....Advanced coding techniques for next generation NAND Flash memories. Advanced coding techniques for next generation NAND Flash memories. This project aims to design low-power consuming coding schemes that can achieve the maximum coding gain for NAND Flash memories in Solid State Drives. Although these devices are replacing hard drives in laptops and provide enormous benefits in access speed and weight, they become unreliable the more they are used. Advanced coding techniques are needed to solve problems caused by the very strict reliability/cost requirements of large storage systems. Allocating memory to coding redundant information can extend these devices’ lifetime. The design of codes and decoders with a low power consumption is expected to be the key enabling technology for next generation large storage devices.Read moreRead less
Idea Sources for Product Innovation in Australian Frontier Technology: The Case of the Australian IT Industry. The source of new product ideas, and how new ideas are generated, is a research area that is not well understood in the management literature and frontier industries such as information technology. The aim of the proposed study is to identify and compare what idea sources (e.g., competitor sources or customer sources) are most useful for Australian firms to generate breakthrough product ....Idea Sources for Product Innovation in Australian Frontier Technology: The Case of the Australian IT Industry. The source of new product ideas, and how new ideas are generated, is a research area that is not well understood in the management literature and frontier industries such as information technology. The aim of the proposed study is to identify and compare what idea sources (e.g., competitor sources or customer sources) are most useful for Australian firms to generate breakthrough product innovations in frontier industries (in this case the IT industry). It also aims to improve our theoretical understanding of the link between market orientation and innovation sources.Read moreRead less