Improving Modern Programming Language Performance: A Memory-Conscious Approach. The performance of modern programming languages such as Java and C# lags that of imperative languages such as C and Fortran. A significant source of the performance gap is poor memory behavior, which future computer architectures will exacerbate. This project addresses the problem of poor memory behavior in modern programming languages such as Java and C# through an integrated attack that incorporates new garbage c ....Improving Modern Programming Language Performance: A Memory-Conscious Approach. The performance of modern programming languages such as Java and C# lags that of imperative languages such as C and Fortran. A significant source of the performance gap is poor memory behavior, which future computer architectures will exacerbate. This project addresses the problem of poor memory behavior in modern programming languages such as Java and C# through an integrated attack that incorporates new garbage collection algorithms, run-time techniques that optimize running programs, and new compiler analyses with both static and dynamic optimizations. The project will give Australia an
international presence in a research area of great academic and commercial importance.
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Security for Peer-to-Peer Systems. The importance of adequate security for Internet and online services has been underscored by recent events. The protection of information infrastructures in this ever-increasing digital world has become essential for businesses, governments and individuals. Secure interactions over the Internet have become a strategic necessity and it is critically important for Australia to possess the technology to anticipate and respond to security threats to its industry an ....Security for Peer-to-Peer Systems. The importance of adequate security for Internet and online services has been underscored by recent events. The protection of information infrastructures in this ever-increasing digital world has become essential for businesses, governments and individuals. Secure interactions over the Internet have become a strategic necessity and it is critically important for Australia to possess the technology to anticipate and respond to security threats to its industry and society. The outcomes of this research project will result in secure and trustworthy computing technologies that will enable secure e-commerce applications and on-line services and trusted interactions between users over the Internet. Read moreRead less
Techniques for the Design of Trust Enhanced Secure Distributed Applications. Security and trusted systems for on-line services and information infrastructures are now of paramount importance. Secure trustworthy computing applications have become a strategic necessity for businesses, governments and individuals in the ever-increasing digital world. It is critically important for Australia to develop technologies to anticipate and respond to security threats to its industry and society. The outcom ....Techniques for the Design of Trust Enhanced Secure Distributed Applications. Security and trusted systems for on-line services and information infrastructures are now of paramount importance. Secure trustworthy computing applications have become a strategic necessity for businesses, governments and individuals in the ever-increasing digital world. It is critically important for Australia to develop technologies to anticipate and respond to security threats to its industry and society. The outcomes of this research will result in secure and trustworthy computing technologies that will enable the design of trust enhanced secure applications and trusted platforms, which will help to achieve secure e-commerce applications and on-line services, and trusted interactions between users over the Internet.Read moreRead less
The Use of Information and Cryptographic Technology to Restrict Competition. This project will deliver the following benefits:
- Improve the understanding of how security technologies can be misapplied to restrict competition;
- Development of an early warning mechanism to assist regulators in determining when anti-competitive behaviour is occurring thorough the use of security technologies;
- provide assistance to the Australian Government, and thus the Australian economy, by developing an i ....The Use of Information and Cryptographic Technology to Restrict Competition. This project will deliver the following benefits:
- Improve the understanding of how security technologies can be misapplied to restrict competition;
- Development of an early warning mechanism to assist regulators in determining when anti-competitive behaviour is occurring thorough the use of security technologies;
- provide assistance to the Australian Government, and thus the Australian economy, by developing an international framework that can be promoted to Australia's major trading partners to achieve a harmonisation of complimentary competitive regulation.
- The provision of criteria for consideration by Australian industry in developing new products that may incorporate security technologies
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Mathematics of Elliptic Curve Cryptography. The Australian society and economy requires fast, reliable, and secure digital infrastructure. First-generation security solutions cannot support the efficiency and scalability requirements of wireless and embedded consumer applications. New security infrastructures are emerging and must be carefully, but rapidly, defined and analysed. Thus developing a new framework in this area is one of the most important and urgent tasks. Besides, the intended wor ....Mathematics of Elliptic Curve Cryptography. The Australian society and economy requires fast, reliable, and secure digital infrastructure. First-generation security solutions cannot support the efficiency and scalability requirements of wireless and embedded consumer applications. New security infrastructures are emerging and must be carefully, but rapidly, defined and analysed. Thus developing a new framework in this area is one of the most important and urgent tasks. Besides, the intended work advances our knowledge of the theory and the quality of our culture. As such, it will promote the Australian science and will also have many practical applications in Computer Security and E-Commerce.Read moreRead less
Trust-Oriented Social Relation Analysis and Social Relation Aware Rating Analysis in Trust Management. Trust management is an emerging field offering critical challenges on evaluating the quality and trustworthiness of objects, services and raters. Thus it requires the development of novel techniques and solutions to address these challenges both conceptually and practically. This project will develop innovative techniques to infer trust in complex social networks, detect bias in trust ratings a ....Trust-Oriented Social Relation Analysis and Social Relation Aware Rating Analysis in Trust Management. Trust management is an emerging field offering critical challenges on evaluating the quality and trustworthiness of objects, services and raters. Thus it requires the development of novel techniques and solutions to address these challenges both conceptually and practically. This project will develop innovative techniques to infer trust in complex social networks, detect bias in trust ratings and its dependencies with social relations. They can greatly contribute to breakthrough techniques enabling trust-oriented social network analysis and more objective trust management systems that can be transferred to the Australian IT industry to promote the trustworthiness of Web services and reduce monetary loss.Read moreRead less
Number Theoretic Methods in Cryptography. It is well known that Number Theory, besides its intrinsic beauty, provides many powerful tools for modern Cryptography. The aim of the project is to formulate and solve new and important mathematical problems, which lie in the background of modern cryptography. They are also of independent value for pure mathematics because they very often stimulate new approaches to and new surprising points of view on classical results and methods. The main outcome w ....Number Theoretic Methods in Cryptography. It is well known that Number Theory, besides its intrinsic beauty, provides many powerful tools for modern Cryptography. The aim of the project is to formulate and solve new and important mathematical problems, which lie in the background of modern cryptography. They are also of independent value for pure mathematics because they very often stimulate new approaches to and new surprising points of view on classical results and methods. The main outcome will be advancing our theoretical knowledge about several major cryptosystems. The project will extend and enrich the area of applications of mathematics to cryptography and related areas.Read moreRead less
Security for Mobile Agent Based Systems. Mobile agents are emerging to be a significant technology in networked computing and pose fundamental challenges in security, for which no suitable solutions exist today. This research project addresses the theory, architecture and design of secure mobile agent systems. It achieves key conceptual advances by proposing a comprehensive security mode and a novel computational trust model for mobile agents. It develops new schemes for dynamic privilege man ....Security for Mobile Agent Based Systems. Mobile agents are emerging to be a significant technology in networked computing and pose fundamental challenges in security, for which no suitable solutions exist today. This research project addresses the theory, architecture and design of secure mobile agent systems. It achieves key conceptual advances by proposing a comprehensive security mode and a novel computational trust model for mobile agents. It develops new schemes for dynamic privilege management and offers new insights into the open research problem of protection against malicious hosts. It considers a novel calculus to formally reason about security properties and demonstrates practical secure agent based Internet applications.Read moreRead less
Mathematics of Cryptography. The Australian society and economy requires fast, reliable, and secure communication. First-generation security solutions are not capable of supporting the efficiency and scalability requirements of mass-market adoption of wireless and embedded consumer applications. New security infrastructures are emerging and must be carefully, but rapidly, defined. Thus developing new mathematically solid tools in this area is one of the most important and urgent tasks. Besides, ....Mathematics of Cryptography. The Australian society and economy requires fast, reliable, and secure communication. First-generation security solutions are not capable of supporting the efficiency and scalability requirements of mass-market adoption of wireless and embedded consumer applications. New security infrastructures are emerging and must be carefully, but rapidly, defined. Thus developing new mathematically solid tools in this area is one of the most important and urgent tasks. Besides, the intended work advances our knowledge of the theory and the quality of our culture. As such, it will promote the Australian science and will also have many practical applications in Cryptography, Computer Security and E-Commerce.Read moreRead less
Privacy Protection in Distributed Data Mining. Information and Communications Technology (ICT) has dramatically altered the world's social and economic landscape. 'From data to knowledge' is one of the priority challenges recognized by National ICT Australia. However, privacy concerns may prevent it from realization. This project aims to fulfil 'from data to knowledge' without breaching privacy of data from distributed resources held by different parties. The outcomes of this project will create ....Privacy Protection in Distributed Data Mining. Information and Communications Technology (ICT) has dramatically altered the world's social and economic landscape. 'From data to knowledge' is one of the priority challenges recognized by National ICT Australia. However, privacy concerns may prevent it from realization. This project aims to fulfil 'from data to knowledge' without breaching privacy of data from distributed resources held by different parties. The outcomes of this project will create new directions in the research of privacy-preserving distributed data mining and are applicable to Australian counter-terrorism and homeland defence in detecting bio-terrorism from privacy sensitive data.Read moreRead less