Development and Validation of Conceptual Models and Transferable Architectures to Support Self-Sustainable Community Portals. There is growing worldwide interest in the study of community portals because of their potential to bridge the 'digital divide' and promote community innovation. However, community portals are still poorly understood and often fail due to lack of adequate sustainability mechanisms. The proposed research extends our knowledge about community portals by developing formal co ....Development and Validation of Conceptual Models and Transferable Architectures to Support Self-Sustainable Community Portals. There is growing worldwide interest in the study of community portals because of their potential to bridge the 'digital divide' and promote community innovation. However, community portals are still poorly understood and often fail due to lack of adequate sustainability mechanisms. The proposed research extends our knowledge about community portals by developing formal conceptual models and transferable architectures for community portals. The project aims to use emerging modelling techniques to model the complex environment of a local community and derive an architecture based on that model. The project outcomes will include a conceptual model and transferable architecture for community portals.Read moreRead less
Formalising and automating the elicitation and reconciliation of requirements from multiple stakeholders. It is well recognised that requirements specifications are often error-prone and that it is much cheaper to detect and fix these errors early in the software development life cycle than later. A major problem with requirements determination is that each and every stakeholder has his/her own representation of the enterprise reality. This project seeks to take these views and use set-theore ....Formalising and automating the elicitation and reconciliation of requirements from multiple stakeholders. It is well recognised that requirements specifications are often error-prone and that it is much cheaper to detect and fix these errors early in the software development life cycle than later. A major problem with requirements determination is that each and every stakeholder has his/her own representation of the enterprise reality. This project seeks to take these views and use set-theoretical techniques from Formal Concept Analysis (FCA) to automatically generate and compare the underlying conceptual models. A process model based on FCA has been proposed which we will extend and empirically evaluate in this project. The result will be a more rigorous and yet pragmatic approach to requirements engineering which offers the greatest economic leverage.Read moreRead less
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
Federated Cloud Services Configuration and Orchestration. Cloud computing allows organisations to expand or contract their computing footprint based on existing demand. However, existing cloud delivery models support individual segregated and heterogeneous functionalities, which prevent effective coordinated combination of on-premise and off-premise applications, services, and resources. This project aims to significantly contribute to the scientific foundations for the model-driven and elastic ....Federated Cloud Services Configuration and Orchestration. Cloud computing allows organisations to expand or contract their computing footprint based on existing demand. However, existing cloud delivery models support individual segregated and heterogeneous functionalities, which prevent effective coordinated combination of on-premise and off-premise applications, services, and resources. This project aims to significantly contribute to the scientific foundations for the model-driven and elastic configuration and orchestration of resources over heterogeneous cloud services. The outcomes of the project aim to contribute to lifting productivity and economic growth through interoperable and elastic cloud service technologies as well as delivering appropriate skills for the new digital economy.Read moreRead less
Discovery Early Career Researcher Award - Grant ID: DE170101415
Funder
Australian Research Council
Funding Amount
$365,000.00
Summary
Life-long learning in the understanding of big data. This project aims to design and develop computational systems and algorithms that learn as humans do (life-long learning). This will enable systems to automatically interpret Big Data from social media, social network and public surveillance. This project will apply the knowledge learned in auxiliary Big Data sources to effectively interpret target tasks and analyse the communication network (one variant of social network). This project is exp ....Life-long learning in the understanding of big data. This project aims to design and develop computational systems and algorithms that learn as humans do (life-long learning). This will enable systems to automatically interpret Big Data from social media, social network and public surveillance. This project will apply the knowledge learned in auxiliary Big Data sources to effectively interpret target tasks and analyse the communication network (one variant of social network). This project is expected to benefit science, society and the economy, and help governments to better serve the public by improving transport logistics, modelling and regulation, and preventing crime and terrorism.Read moreRead less
A Formal Framework for Developing and Managing Adaptable Service Oriented Business Collaboration. Business collaboration and integration 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 collab ....A Formal Framework for Developing and Managing Adaptable Service Oriented Business Collaboration. Business collaboration and integration 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 collaboration area. The project outcomes in the form of framework, formal models and specifications will provide generic solutions that are applicable to many Australian and international companies involved in business process development and management in particular and e-business technologies in general.Read moreRead less
A New Approach to Air Traffic Management to Deliver Significantly Reduced Environmental Impact and System-wide Efficiencies. Aviation is often cited as a major contributor to harmful emissions in the upper atmosphere. The primary outcome of this project is the development of tools that will enable aviation industry stakeholders to optimise the deployment of 4-Dimensional User Preferred Trajectories across Australian airspace. It is expected that this will result in significant environmental bene ....A New Approach to Air Traffic Management to Deliver Significantly Reduced Environmental Impact and System-wide Efficiencies. Aviation is often cited as a major contributor to harmful emissions in the upper atmosphere. The primary outcome of this project is the development of tools that will enable aviation industry stakeholders to optimise the deployment of 4-Dimensional User Preferred Trajectories across Australian airspace. It is expected that this will result in significant environmental benefit, through reductions in fuel burn for each flight, and increases in system effectiveness. The project will enable better analysis of Australian aviation environmental effect, whilst at the same time allowing the aviation industry to continue to contribute to Australia's sustainable economic growth. Read moreRead less
Asynchronous Continuous Time Conditioning. Methodology for reasoning about Asynchronous Temporal Conditional Events (ATCE) obtains, complete with logical calculus for causal relations, reasoning about continuous time belief change, and markov chain algorithms calculating joint distributions of ATCE's.
Current techniques, including bayesian nets, are oblivious to temporal aspects; within our model they can be enhanced to recognize dynamic time changes. Ours is the first such unified model and ....Asynchronous Continuous Time Conditioning. Methodology for reasoning about Asynchronous Temporal Conditional Events (ATCE) obtains, complete with logical calculus for causal relations, reasoning about continuous time belief change, and markov chain algorithms calculating joint distributions of ATCE's.
Current techniques, including bayesian nets, are oblivious to temporal aspects; within our model they can be enhanced to recognize dynamic time changes. Ours is the first such unified model and first to link conditional objects with continuous time constraints.
Need for structures we propose arises in diagnostic reasoning, bayesian learning, temporal databases, and time-dependent data mining. Several commercial products (like Microsoft Office Assistant)could apply them forthwith.Read moreRead less
Integrated Financial Fraud Detection in Enterprise Applications. Fraud costs the Australian economy at least $3 billion per year. The incidence of fraud within the Australian economy is increasing. Australian entities are ill-prepared to detect and prevent fraud against their businesses with very few developing or implementing any form of fraud control strategy (AS 8001-2003). The growing use of the Internet by organisations for electronic commerce increases their exposure to fraudulent activiti ....Integrated Financial Fraud Detection in Enterprise Applications. Fraud costs the Australian economy at least $3 billion per year. The incidence of fraud within the Australian economy is increasing. Australian entities are ill-prepared to detect and prevent fraud against their businesses with very few developing or implementing any form of fraud control strategy (AS 8001-2003). The growing use of the Internet by organisations for electronic commerce increases their exposure to fraudulent activities. Inevitably much of the cost of fraud is passed on to the customers and the community at large. By providing large organisations with an approach to assist in detecting fraudulent behaviour in accounting systems, it is envisaged that this research will assist in reducing the impact of fraud on society.Read moreRead less
Integrating Global Multidimensional Datasets to Underpin Subduction Process Modelling During the Past 60 Million Years. Subduction zones are the sites for massive sulphide, orogenic vein gold and porphyry deposits. As Australia derived 47% of it merchandise exports from its mineral and energy resources in 2001, ore-deposits constitute an important component of the Australian economy. Understanding the environment of subduction initiation and development as well as the signal that it imparts on ....Integrating Global Multidimensional Datasets to Underpin Subduction Process Modelling During the Past 60 Million Years. Subduction zones are the sites for massive sulphide, orogenic vein gold and porphyry deposits. As Australia derived 47% of it merchandise exports from its mineral and energy resources in 2001, ore-deposits constitute an important component of the Australian economy. Understanding the environment of subduction initiation and development as well as the signal that it imparts on the magmatic (ore-forming) arc, will provide improved efficiency for targeting Australia's deep-earth ore-deposits.Read moreRead less