Improving Extensible Markup Language (XML) data quality using XML integrity constraints. The first benefit of the project will be the of development a new technology that will improve the data quality in Australian organizations using the rapidly growing Extensible Markup Language (XML) technology. It will also be of benefit to the Australian software industry, since the outcome of the project is a software tool for cleaning XML data that is aimed at eventual commercialisation in a quickly gro ....Improving Extensible Markup Language (XML) data quality using XML integrity constraints. The first benefit of the project will be the of development a new technology that will improve the data quality in Australian organizations using the rapidly growing Extensible Markup Language (XML) technology. It will also be of benefit to the Australian software industry, since the outcome of the project is a software tool for cleaning XML data that is aimed at eventual commercialisation in a quickly growing area of the software market. The project will also boost international research collaboration through the involvement of an overseas partner investigator, and expand Australia's expertise in the new area of XML technology through the training of a Ph.D. student.Read moreRead less
Mobile Query Processing: An Integrated Approach. Mobile communication is a frontier technology, and providing efficient mobile query services to the general public is critical in placing Australia as a leading country in mobile information services. The benefit to Australia nationally is beyond the telecommunication industry. The project will transform other Australian industries which rely on mobile information services, including emergency response services (eg. ambulance, police), mobile work ....Mobile Query Processing: An Integrated Approach. Mobile communication is a frontier technology, and providing efficient mobile query services to the general public is critical in placing Australia as a leading country in mobile information services. The benefit to Australia nationally is beyond the telecommunication industry. The project will transform other Australian industries which rely on mobile information services, including emergency response services (eg. ambulance, police), mobile workforce and mobile commerce, transportation/traffic controller, bureau of meteorology, defence/army forces, financial market, as well as tourism and news. With the enormous growing of investment in these industries, this project will become a major contribution to national productivity and growth.Read moreRead less
Information Health Monitor: An Instrument to Assess the Product and Service Quality of Information. Information quality problems are widespread in practice and have significant economic impacts. This project will refine and extend a rigorous theoretical framework for understanding information quality and develop and validate the Information Health Monitor, an instrument for assessing the quality of information within organisations. Existing approaches to information quality are mostly not rigoro ....Information Health Monitor: An Instrument to Assess the Product and Service Quality of Information. Information quality problems are widespread in practice and have significant economic impacts. This project will refine and extend a rigorous theoretical framework for understanding information quality and develop and validate the Information Health Monitor, an instrument for assessing the quality of information within organisations. Existing approaches to information quality are mostly not rigorously defined and view information as a product. This work is significant and innovative as it is soundly based in existing theory, rigorously defined and views information as both a product and service. The instrument will enable organisations to better identify and address their information quality problems.Read moreRead less
Normalizing XML Documents. Our work will be of great benefit, both to the research community and to the ICT industry. The project addresses one of the most important problems in XML usage and we expect our results to be published in important international forums, as has our preliminary research on the topic. This will significantly improve Australia's reputation in research in the ICT area. In the longer term, we intend to build commercial software tools based on the results of our research ....Normalizing XML Documents. Our work will be of great benefit, both to the research community and to the ICT industry. The project addresses one of the most important problems in XML usage and we expect our results to be published in important international forums, as has our preliminary research on the topic. This will significantly improve Australia's reputation in research in the ICT area. In the longer term, we intend to build commercial software tools based on the results of our research and this will be of direct benefit to the Australian economy and the Australian ICT industry.Read moreRead less
EPOS: Efficient Processing of Moving Object Streams in Data Management Systems. Advanced moving object data management systems are becoming a core technology for a large variety of applications such as traffic management and inventory tracking. These applications play a ubiquitous, critical role in our daily lives. In the same way as the first prototype of a relational database paved the way for successive relational database management systems, we envision that EPOS will form the foundation for ....EPOS: Efficient Processing of Moving Object Streams in Data Management Systems. Advanced moving object data management systems are becoming a core technology for a large variety of applications such as traffic management and inventory tracking. These applications play a ubiquitous, critical role in our daily lives. In the same way as the first prototype of a relational database paved the way for successive relational database management systems, we envision that EPOS will form the foundation for a new generation of moving object databases. EPOS is designed to process a large number of concurrently running continuous monitoring queries on a massive set of moving objects with frequent updates. Read moreRead less
Exploiting Views in Extensible Markup Language (XML) Data Processing. This project addresses an important technical issue in smart information use, which is among Australian National Research Priorities. The techniques developed in this project will enable Australian organizations to build smarter and more efficient information systems, hence making them more competitive in the global market. The problems in this project are technically challenging, solving them in Australia will enhance Austr ....Exploiting Views in Extensible Markup Language (XML) Data Processing. This project addresses an important technical issue in smart information use, which is among Australian National Research Priorities. The techniques developed in this project will enable Australian organizations to build smarter and more efficient information systems, hence making them more competitive in the global market. The problems in this project are technically challenging, solving them in Australia will enhance Australia's international research reputation. The project will also boost Australia's research capability by training PhD and honours students.
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Comparative analysis and exploration of collections of data clusterings. Data clustering is an important technique for extracting knowledge from complex datasets. It is widely used by Australian science, government and industry, in areas such as genomics, proteomics, crime analysis, marketing and customer profiling. This project will develop new techniques that will allow users to explore and analyse collections of data clusterings. This will improve the current generation of clustering softw ....Comparative analysis and exploration of collections of data clusterings. Data clustering is an important technique for extracting knowledge from complex datasets. It is widely used by Australian science, government and industry, in areas such as genomics, proteomics, crime analysis, marketing and customer profiling. This project will develop new techniques that will allow users to explore and analyse collections of data clusterings. This will improve the current generation of clustering software and allow deeper investigation of challenging and complex data.
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Escaping the concurrency trade-off: a new approach to enterprise software. Enterprise software manages the operations of all business and government organisations. Designers of this often rely on their intuition or luck, by using high-performance database facilities whose correctness is not guaranteed. This project will show designers how to use these facilities while still having the assurance that the data will not be corrupted. This will improve the quality of the data used by Australian ent ....Escaping the concurrency trade-off: a new approach to enterprise software. Enterprise software manages the operations of all business and government organisations. Designers of this often rely on their intuition or luck, by using high-performance database facilities whose correctness is not guaranteed. This project will show designers how to use these facilities while still having the assurance that the data will not be corrupted. This will improve the quality of the data used by Australian enterprises, and thus improve their operations. Australian software designers will also benefit, as they will be able to produce software that combines high performance with assurance that concurrency errors will not occur.Read moreRead less
Effective and Efficient Video Search. This project will add a much desired level of sophistication to the current data management and search technologies. Success of this project will not only establish us as an internationally leading research group but also bring significant economic and social benefits to Australia. Many Australia organizations specializing in media communication, entertainment, management and services will be benefited by saving enormous cost, improving service quality, prot ....Effective and Efficient Video Search. This project will add a much desired level of sophistication to the current data management and search technologies. Success of this project will not only establish us as an internationally leading research group but also bring significant economic and social benefits to Australia. Many Australia organizations specializing in media communication, entertainment, management and services will be benefited by saving enormous cost, improving service quality, protecting their intelligence properties, etc. It will also advance Australia's intellectual leadership in copyright compliance, benefit commercialization of research results, form strong international collaborations and networks, and underpin the National Research Priority.
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Real-time and self-adaptive stream data analyser for intensive care management. The clinical benefit of this project will be in improved success rates and reduced mortality and risk in surgery and intensive care units. The Information and communication technology (ICT) benefit of this project is associated with the novel online algorithms and models aligned with the stream data research, and will be enhanced by our stream compression techniques. The stream data analyser developed in this projec ....Real-time and self-adaptive stream data analyser for intensive care management. The clinical benefit of this project will be in improved success rates and reduced mortality and risk in surgery and intensive care units. The Information and communication technology (ICT) benefit of this project is associated with the novel online algorithms and models aligned with the stream data research, and will be enhanced by our stream compression techniques. The stream data analyser developed in this project will be suitable for more than medical surveillance data; it will also improve the processing of other kinds of massive stream data (for example data from remote sensors, communication networks and other dynamic environments). The project involves a scientifically rich collaboration that will enhance the skills of PhD students and staff and drive the field forward.Read moreRead less