Consumer-centric Adaptive Quality-assured Cloud Services Brokerage. This project aims to create a consumer-centric brokerage solution for managing cloud service provision. This aims to ensure consumers can receive cloud services that best satisfy their quality requirements in the most cost-effective manner in the presence of constant changes in performance and cost of cloud services available from different cloud providers. The intended outcome is a novel cloud brokerage framework and the associ ....Consumer-centric Adaptive Quality-assured Cloud Services Brokerage. This project aims to create a consumer-centric brokerage solution for managing cloud service provision. This aims to ensure consumers can receive cloud services that best satisfy their quality requirements in the most cost-effective manner in the presence of constant changes in performance and cost of cloud services available from different cloud providers. The intended outcome is a novel cloud brokerage framework and the associated mechanisms for proactive identification, prevention and mediation of cloud service-level agreement violation in the best interest of the cloud users. The findings of the project will support enterprises across Australian economy in shifting from traditional IT systems to the ubiquitous cloud computing that has already been recognised as a core enabling IT technology in addressing the societal challenge of lifting productivity and economic growth in a rapidly changing world economy.Read moreRead less
Spoken conversational search: contextual interactive techniques to support effective information search over a speech-only communication channel. This project will develop new techniques for effective information search using speech only, supporting improved information access for visually impaired people or in situations that require focused visual attention (e.g. driving). The techniques are based on a conversational approach to information search and presentation of results.
Integrated Planning for Uncertainty-Centric Pilot Assistance Systems. This project aims to deliver a novel pilot assistance system to improve the viability, speed and safety of Helicopter Emergency Medical Services (HEMS) and Search and Rescue (SAR) missions. It will advance fundamental algorithms for probabilistic planning in partially observable scenarios to form the core technology of a pilot assistance system that accounts the various types of uncertainty faced by pilots in a typical HEMS/S ....Integrated Planning for Uncertainty-Centric Pilot Assistance Systems. This project aims to deliver a novel pilot assistance system to improve the viability, speed and safety of Helicopter Emergency Medical Services (HEMS) and Search and Rescue (SAR) missions. It will advance fundamental algorithms for probabilistic planning in partially observable scenarios to form the core technology of a pilot assistance system that accounts the various types of uncertainty faced by pilots in a typical HEMS/SAR missions. It will exploit recent advances in Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes (POMDPs) to recommend robust, safe, and pilot-aware mission and manoeuvring strategies to make HEMS/SAR operations safer for helicopter crews, and more effective for those in need of the service.Read moreRead less