Data Exchange and Service Integration with Applications in Health Information Systems. This project will research and develop an innovative new approach to facilitate real data exchange and service integration across different medical organisations. This approach will significantly improve the quality of health care by providing a solid foundation for integrated medical services, offering on demand and effective access to fragmentally stored patients medical information and minimise the number o ....Data Exchange and Service Integration with Applications in Health Information Systems. This project will research and develop an innovative new approach to facilitate real data exchange and service integration across different medical organisations. This approach will significantly improve the quality of health care by providing a solid foundation for integrated medical services, offering on demand and effective access to fragmentally stored patients medical information and minimise the number of data entry errors injected into the medical information systems. The novel integration model will also enable a new autonomous approach for demographic data collection which is essential for evidenced resource allocation, policy making and disease prevention.Read moreRead less
Defence Against Phishing Attacks. Australian businesses and citizens are losing millions of dollars in cybercrimes every year. Rural and regional businesses depend on the integrity of their Internet banking service, and yet, cybercriminals are working hard to defraud these users. This project aims to build a reliable defence against phishing attacks which rely on social engineering to steal online identities, using intelligence gathered from the brazen trade of credentials in the public domain.
Geospatial Information Processing for Quickbird Satellite Imagery. Of the new generation of commercial high-resolution earth observation satellites, the Quickbird system with its 70cm resolution has greatest potential for metric applications. The capabilities of Quickbird imagery for digital mapping, GIS and geopositioning are, however, yet to be fully established and the models, procedures and computational systems required for higher-accuracy applications require further research. The aim of t ....Geospatial Information Processing for Quickbird Satellite Imagery. Of the new generation of commercial high-resolution earth observation satellites, the Quickbird system with its 70cm resolution has greatest potential for metric applications. The capabilities of Quickbird imagery for digital mapping, GIS and geopositioning are, however, yet to be fully established and the models, procedures and computational systems required for higher-accuracy applications require further research. The aim of this project, which is a collaboration with SKM, is to develop the tools necessary to validate Quickbird imagery as a source for geospatial information collection, to develop the associated data processing systems to proof-of-concept stage and to experimentally verify these systems.Read moreRead less
Extending association rule discovery to numeric data. This project tackles a key limitation of association-rule discovery, which is one of the main techniques used in data mining. Much valuable data is numeric. However, association-rule discovery cannot satisfactorily model numeric data, a limitation that has greatly restricted its application. This project investigates a novel new technique that overcomes this limitation. Impact-rule discovery finds associations with numeric distributions. ....Extending association rule discovery to numeric data. This project tackles a key limitation of association-rule discovery, which is one of the main techniques used in data mining. Much valuable data is numeric. However, association-rule discovery cannot satisfactorily model numeric data, a limitation that has greatly restricted its application. This project investigates a novel new technique that overcomes this limitation. Impact-rule discovery finds associations with numeric distributions. This allows data analysts to discover precisely the type of information that they usually seek from numeric data, for example, how to maximize either average or aggregate measures of outcomes such as health, compliance, profit, or accuracy.Read moreRead less
User-Driven Composition of Web Services. Web service composition technology promises to revolutionise the way in which organisations interact over the Web. However existing environments for the composition of Web services are too complex to use and are usually intended for experienced application developers as they rely either on scripting languages, or on a process-modelling notations intended to be used by IT experts. However, the need for customised composition of Web services is likely to em ....User-Driven Composition of Web Services. Web service composition technology promises to revolutionise the way in which organisations interact over the Web. However existing environments for the composition of Web services are too complex to use and are usually intended for experienced application developers as they rely either on scripting languages, or on a process-modelling notations intended to be used by IT experts. However, the need for customised composition of Web services is likely to emanate from non IT-experts.
The project aims at designing, implementing, and evaluating an environment for the specification and execution of composite Web services by non-expert.Read moreRead less
Privacy-preserving Web Services Composition. Web services composition is emerging as a promising technology for the
effective automation of business-to-business collaborations. It allows
organizations to form alliances by connecting their applications and systems, in order to offer ``one-stops shops'' for their customers. However, several important issues (e.g., security and privacy) need to be properly addressed before Web services technology meets the requirements of critical applications s ....Privacy-preserving Web Services Composition. Web services composition is emerging as a promising technology for the
effective automation of business-to-business collaborations. It allows
organizations to form alliances by connecting their applications and systems, in order to offer ``one-stops shops'' for their customers. However, several important issues (e.g., security and privacy) need to be properly addressed before Web services technology meets the requirements of critical applications such as e-goverment. This project aims at providing privacy preserving Web services composition techniques. The anticipated outcome of this project is a service composition framework that provides seamless interoperability between different Web services without violiating citizens and organisations privacy.Read moreRead less
Design-Driven Requirements for Internet-Enabled System Development. The nature of Web system development is significantly different from conventional, software and IT development. Amongst other factors, there is substantial uncertainty in both clients' understanding of their needs and developers' understanding of the systems domain. We will develop an uncertainty model relevant to the development model relevant to the development of internet-enabled systems, and then use this model to adapt th ....Design-Driven Requirements for Internet-Enabled System Development. The nature of Web system development is significantly different from conventional, software and IT development. Amongst other factors, there is substantial uncertainty in both clients' understanding of their needs and developers' understanding of the systems domain. We will develop an uncertainty model relevant to the development model relevant to the development of internet-enabled systems, and then use this model to adapt the design process to support elicitation of requirements, as well as developing support for this adapted process. This will facilitate the development of systems that more accurately reflect clients' needs, and result in an understanding of what would be involved in reducing development costs.Read moreRead less
Supporting co-evolution of business processes and Web systems. This research will provide significant benefit to the Australian Internet and e-commerce industries (valued by the ABS as in excess of $11b/year). It will result in improved products that better satisfy specific business needs (and hence improved competitiveness in a global market). Development cycles will shorten (as the likelihood of redevelopment decreases) and costs of development will fall. Finally, the models and tools to be ....Supporting co-evolution of business processes and Web systems. This research will provide significant benefit to the Australian Internet and e-commerce industries (valued by the ABS as in excess of $11b/year). It will result in improved products that better satisfy specific business needs (and hence improved competitiveness in a global market). Development cycles will shorten (as the likelihood of redevelopment decreases) and costs of development will fall. Finally, the models and tools to be developed will facilitate the transition of traditional organisations into the new economy, as the outcomes of this research will provide a transparent cost-effective approach for identifying and clarifying the evolving business domain and the requirements of companies.Read moreRead less
Generalized Information Fusion and Scheduling for Effective Situational Awareness. Research on the generalized information fusion will lead to better surveillance,monitoring & situational awareness technologies that will significantly enhance our national security and contribute to the strategic directions set by the Nation. It will deliver generic integrated uncertainty reasoning models, algorithms and implementations and will lead to enhanced interoperation capability across multiple collabora ....Generalized Information Fusion and Scheduling for Effective Situational Awareness. Research on the generalized information fusion will lead to better surveillance,monitoring & situational awareness technologies that will significantly enhance our national security and contribute to the strategic directions set by the Nation. It will deliver generic integrated uncertainty reasoning models, algorithms and implementations and will lead to enhanced interoperation capability across multiple collaborating organizations that have surveillance and situational awareness as their prime responsibilities (defence, police and the road transport authority). It will position the nation to use its relatively small defence force to maximum effectiveness in combating terrorism, crime and natural disasters like Tsunami & Earth quakes.
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A Framework for Supporting Consistent and Reliable Collaborative Business Transactions. Business integration and enterprise computing is at the heart of ICT objectives and initiatives global wide. The project aims to be of unique value to Australian industry and provide a means to achieve excellence in the field of research that promises to shape the future of e-business technology. The research conducted within this project will position Australia as one of the leaders in the business transacti ....A Framework for Supporting Consistent and Reliable Collaborative Business Transactions. Business integration and enterprise computing is at the heart of ICT objectives and initiatives global wide. The project aims to be of unique value to Australian industry and provide a means to achieve excellence in the field of research that promises to shape the future of e-business technology. The research conducted within this project will position Australia as one of the leaders in the business transaction area. The project outcomes in the form of specifications and formal models will provide generic solutions that are applicable to many Australian and international companies involved in distributed computing and e-business technologies. Read moreRead less