Cost effective storage of massive intermediate data in cloud computing applications. For frontier technologies, the project aims at inventing novel algorithms for data storage in cloud computing applications and hence will reduce the cost by smart information use. For sustainability, the project can help with reducing energy consumption by dealing more effectively with the growth of massive data in cloud computing facilities.
Model-driven engineering of scientific software for graphical processing units. Novel visual models, model-driven engineering techniques and software engineering tools will be invented to synthesize and optimise graphical processing unit software for scientific applications. These will be validated using large data-centric applications from molecular simulation and astrophysics domains.
Enabling small businesses to more cost-effectively use big data on cloud computing platforms. This project will invent a new generic cost model for managing big data in cloud computing. This model will enable agent-based, innovative data management technologies to reduce the cost of storage, computation and bandwidth consumption in the cloud. Outcomes will enable small businesses to use big data in cloud computing more cost effectively.
Smart quality management for service-based systems in cloud environment. Cloud computing is a rapidly growing paradigm for Software-as-a-Service (SaaS). For enabling broad applications of a huge number of services available in the cloud, quality management for service-based systems is critical. This project aims to cover smart quality management for the whole lifetime of SaaS from service composition to service delivery. The project is expected to offer a novel solution for managing both build-t ....Smart quality management for service-based systems in cloud environment. Cloud computing is a rapidly growing paradigm for Software-as-a-Service (SaaS). For enabling broad applications of a huge number of services available in the cloud, quality management for service-based systems is critical. This project aims to cover smart quality management for the whole lifetime of SaaS from service composition to service delivery. The project is expected to offer a novel solution for managing both build-time service selection and runtime service monitoring and adaptation by inventing corresponding innovative efficient and effective strategies for quality management. Given the prediction that the SaaS market will grow from $13.5 billion in 2011 to $32.8 billion in 2016, the success of this project is anticipated to translate into scientific and economic value.Read moreRead less
Software debuggers for next generation heterogeneous supercomputers. Supercomputing underpins a wide range of areas of importance to the Australian economy; mining, agriculture, engineering and medical research to name a few. It is of critical importance that software solutions in these areas behave correctly. This project will develop software tools and techniques to help locate errors in such applications.
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
SenShaMart: A Trusted Internet of Things Marketplace for Sensor Sharing. This project aims to devise a novel Internet of Things (IoT) sensor sharing marketplace that permits IoT applications to discover, integrate, and pay for any IoT sensor data that is made available by other parties. The project will devise highly-scalable sensor classification, query processing, and transactions solutions and incorporate them in a pair of novel blockchains that work in tandem to securely manage all the infor ....SenShaMart: A Trusted Internet of Things Marketplace for Sensor Sharing. This project aims to devise a novel Internet of Things (IoT) sensor sharing marketplace that permits IoT applications to discover, integrate, and pay for any IoT sensor data that is made available by other parties. The project will devise highly-scalable sensor classification, query processing, and transactions solutions and incorporate them in a pair of novel blockchains that work in tandem to securely manage all the information and contracts needed by IoT applications to discover, integrate, pay, and use sensors provided by another parties. These IoT advancements will provide significant economic, environmental, and social benefits via making low-cost and immediate sensing available across the world.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
Responsive automated negotiation in open distributed environments. The outcomes of this project will be of central importance to a wide range of application areas such as service economy, smart energy grids and smart transportation. The work proposed here will enable the information technology industry to utilise distributed systems and agent technologies in developing the software-driven knowledge economy of the twenty-first-century.