Enhancing privacy preserving in dynamic cyberspace. This project aims to develop a novel infrastructure operational monitoring and management strategy to reduce the redundant maintenance actions and achieve a cost-effective approach for civil infrastructure asset management. The project will use multiple social networks as a platform for the project, with the potential for the results to be extended to any dynamic cyberspace. Project outcomes will include a set of new analysis theories and tools ....Enhancing privacy preserving in dynamic cyberspace. This project aims to develop a novel infrastructure operational monitoring and management strategy to reduce the redundant maintenance actions and achieve a cost-effective approach for civil infrastructure asset management. The project will use multiple social networks as a platform for the project, with the potential for the results to be extended to any dynamic cyberspace. Project outcomes will include a set of new analysis theories and tools to facilitate government, companies, individuals, and organisations to enhance their information gathering and privacy-preserving capabilities. This is expected to enhance the credibility of the government and organisations and save the possible financial loss of companies and individuals.Read moreRead less
Effective and Efficient Data Quality Management for Data Lakes. This project aims to enhance the quality and completeness for data in data lakes by innovative and judicious use of Database and Artificial Intelligence techniques. To achieve the aim, we will develop knowledge-enhanced error correction during data ingestion, flexible and efficient data exploration, and heterogeneity-tolerant scalable data integration solutions. Its significance lies in integrating techniques from both database and ....Effective and Efficient Data Quality Management for Data Lakes. This project aims to enhance the quality and completeness for data in data lakes by innovative and judicious use of Database and Artificial Intelligence techniques. To achieve the aim, we will develop knowledge-enhanced error correction during data ingestion, flexible and efficient data exploration, and heterogeneity-tolerant scalable data integration solutions. Its significance lies in integrating techniques from both database and artificial intelligence areas to deliver effective solutions for challenging problems in data lakes. The outcome of this project will provide new knowledge in this cutting-edge domain, and provide additional value and immediate benefits to all applications built upon data lakes. Read moreRead less
Context and Activity Recognition for Personalised Behaviour Recommendation. The Internet of Things (IoT) together with the rising popularity of smartphones opens a new world for many exciting opportunities. The overall goal of this project is to develop new algorithms and data analytical techniques in an IoT environment that can accurately monitor and analyse personalised daily activities on a continuous, real-time basis. The expected result of this project will support many critical application ....Context and Activity Recognition for Personalised Behaviour Recommendation. The Internet of Things (IoT) together with the rising popularity of smartphones opens a new world for many exciting opportunities. The overall goal of this project is to develop new algorithms and data analytical techniques in an IoT environment that can accurately monitor and analyse personalised daily activities on a continuous, real-time basis. The expected result of this project will support many critical applications such as better wellness tracking and lifestyle-related illness prevention, which will be particularly critical to Australia's aging population. This project will also serve as a vehicle to educate and train Australia’s young scholars and engineers.Read moreRead less
Robust Preference Inference from Spatial-Temporal Interaction Networks. This project aims to develop innovative techniques for effectively and efficiently managing user preference profiles from less labelled, sparse and noisy interaction data. A unified novel learning framework along with a set of data analysis techniques are expected to be developed from this project, which will provide a non-intrusive way of conducting predictive analysis on user preference profiling via discovering human expl ....Robust Preference Inference from Spatial-Temporal Interaction Networks. This project aims to develop innovative techniques for effectively and efficiently managing user preference profiles from less labelled, sparse and noisy interaction data. A unified novel learning framework along with a set of data analysis techniques are expected to be developed from this project, which will provide a non-intrusive way of conducting predictive analysis on user preference profiling via discovering human explicit and implicit interest domains. The expected results of this application will not only maintain Australia's leadership in this frontier research area, but also support many important applications that safeguard Australian people and economy such as cyber security, healthcare, and e-Commerce.Read moreRead less
Efficient and Scalable Similarity Query Processing on Big Streaming Graphs . This project aims to develop novel approaches for efficient and scalable similarity queries on big streaming graphs which are large-scale graphs where graph nodes and edges may arrive or expire at high speed. Three key challenges are expected to be addressed including high speed, large variety, and big volume of streaming graphs. Expected outcomes include new theories, novel indexing and query processing techniques, an ....Efficient and Scalable Similarity Query Processing on Big Streaming Graphs . This project aims to develop novel approaches for efficient and scalable similarity queries on big streaming graphs which are large-scale graphs where graph nodes and edges may arrive or expire at high speed. Three key challenges are expected to be addressed including high speed, large variety, and big volume of streaming graphs. Expected outcomes include new theories, novel indexing and query processing techniques, and advanced distributed algorithms as well as a system prototype for evaluation and to demonstrate the practical value. Success in this project should see significant benefits for many important applications, such as e-commerce, cybersecurity, health, social networks, and bio-informatics.
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Taming Large-Volume Dynamic Graphs in the Cloud. This project aims to develop efficient and scalable algorithms to process large-volume dynamic graphs in the cloud. The project expects to address key challenges and lay theoretical foundations in large-volume dynamic graph processing, which plays an important role in developing general-purpose, real-time structural search engines. Expected outcomes of this project include theoretical foundations and scalable algorithms to process big graphs that ....Taming Large-Volume Dynamic Graphs in the Cloud. This project aims to develop efficient and scalable algorithms to process large-volume dynamic graphs in the cloud. The project expects to address key challenges and lay theoretical foundations in large-volume dynamic graph processing, which plays an important role in developing general-purpose, real-time structural search engines. Expected outcomes of this project include theoretical foundations and scalable algorithms to process big graphs that evolve rapidly over time. These enable users to monitor and analyse structural information in large dynamic networks in real time. The project expects to open up a new research direction for graph processing to enrich frontier technologies and benefit many key applications in Australia.Read moreRead less
Efficient and Scalable Processing of Dynamic Heterogeneous Graphs . This project aims to develop efficient and scalable algorithms to process large-scale dynamic heterogeneous graphs where graph nodes and edges are of multiple types and the graph structure updates dynamically. Key challenges are expected to be addressed including complex structure, high speed, and large volume of dynamic heterogeneous graphs. The anticipated outcomes include novel computing paradigms, algorithms, indexing, incre ....Efficient and Scalable Processing of Dynamic Heterogeneous Graphs . This project aims to develop efficient and scalable algorithms to process large-scale dynamic heterogeneous graphs where graph nodes and edges are of multiple types and the graph structure updates dynamically. Key challenges are expected to be addressed including complex structure, high speed, and large volume of dynamic heterogeneous graphs. The anticipated outcomes include novel computing paradigms, algorithms, indexing, incremental computation, distributed algorithms as well as a system prototype to demonstrate the practical value. Success of this project will open up a new research direction to enrich frontier technologies and benefit many key applications in Australia including cybersecurity, e-commerce, health and social networks.Read moreRead less
Directionality-Aware Cohesive Subgraph Search over Directed Graphs. Searching cohesive subgraphs around a set of user-specified seed vertices in big graphs has many applications including cybersecurity, crime detection, social marketing and public health. This project aims to investigate directionality-aware search of cohesive subgraphs over directed graphs by designing effective models and developing efficient and scalable algorithms. This project expects to address key challenges and lay scien ....Directionality-Aware Cohesive Subgraph Search over Directed Graphs. Searching cohesive subgraphs around a set of user-specified seed vertices in big graphs has many applications including cybersecurity, crime detection, social marketing and public health. This project aims to investigate directionality-aware search of cohesive subgraphs over directed graphs by designing effective models and developing efficient and scalable algorithms. This project expects to address key challenges and lay scientific foundations for searching big directed graphs. The expected outcomes include novel models, computing paradigms, algorithms, indexing techniques, and distributed solutions. The success of the project will not only provide technological breakthroughs but also benefit the development of key industries in AustraliaRead moreRead less
Advanced search of cohesive subgraphs in big graphs. This project aims to study advanced cohesive subgraph searches, as well as design efficient and scalable techniques to conduct such searches. Cohesive subgraph search over big graphs is demanded by many applications, such as risk management, analysis of users’ behaviours, cybersecurity, crime detection, social marketing and community search. This project will develop, analyse, implement, and evaluate novel indexing and data processing techniqu ....Advanced search of cohesive subgraphs in big graphs. This project aims to study advanced cohesive subgraph searches, as well as design efficient and scalable techniques to conduct such searches. Cohesive subgraph search over big graphs is demanded by many applications, such as risk management, analysis of users’ behaviours, cybersecurity, crime detection, social marketing and community search. This project will develop, analyse, implement, and evaluate novel indexing and data processing techniques to support a set of advanced cohesive subgraph searches. This will provide significant benefits to many applications such as the next generation of fintech, cybersecurity, e-commerce, crime detection and social network analysis.Read moreRead less
Effective, efficient and scalable processing of the graph of graphs. This project aims to develop novel approaches to realise the value of the graph of graphs (GoG), which has been widely used to capture the relations among the structured entities. Several key challenges will be addressed: better models to capture the similarity and cohesiveness of the structured entities, increased efficiency, and greater scalability of the processing and analytics of the GoG. The novel models and algorithms de ....Effective, efficient and scalable processing of the graph of graphs. This project aims to develop novel approaches to realise the value of the graph of graphs (GoG), which has been widely used to capture the relations among the structured entities. Several key challenges will be addressed: better models to capture the similarity and cohesiveness of the structured entities, increased efficiency, and greater scalability of the processing and analytics of the GoG. The novel models and algorithms developed within this project will be incorporated into a prototype for both evaluation and to demonstrate real-world practical value for business, industry, and academia. Success in this project should see significant benefits for many important applications such as health, cyber-security and e-commerce.Read moreRead less