Developing Minimum Message Length and Support Vector Machine methods to predict user behaviour. Predicting and modelling customer behaviour enables considerable savings in the telecommunications industry and elsewhere. The resulting predictive models facilitate identifying novice users, identifying fraud, responding to users' needs, guiding and advising users, and forwarding useful information.
We consider two cutting-edge data mining approaches, Minimum Message Length (developed and led by ....Developing Minimum Message Length and Support Vector Machine methods to predict user behaviour. Predicting and modelling customer behaviour enables considerable savings in the telecommunications industry and elsewhere. The resulting predictive models facilitate identifying novice users, identifying fraud, responding to users' needs, guiding and advising users, and forwarding useful information.
We consider two cutting-edge data mining approaches, Minimum Message Length (developed and led by Monash) and Support Vector Machines, in order to create efficient tailor-made software.
Our software will respond to specific groups of users, and their changes over time, rather than just the average user. Moreover, it will integrate the functionalities of existing individual data mining software.Read moreRead less
Resource-bounded adaptive inference of accurate conditional probability estimates from data. This project will develop machine learning techniques with a valuable new capability: the ability to produce estimates of complex conditional probabilities to varying levels of expected accuracy depending upon the constraints of available computational resources. This will provide significant competitive advantage to developers of many types of online application by allowing them to maximise utilisation ....Resource-bounded adaptive inference of accurate conditional probability estimates from data. This project will develop machine learning techniques with a valuable new capability: the ability to produce estimates of complex conditional probabilities to varying levels of expected accuracy depending upon the constraints of available computational resources. This will provide significant competitive advantage to developers of many types of online application by allowing them to maximise utilisation of available computational resources when making inferences from data, together with the flexibility to trade-off accuracy and computing resources during system design. Australia will also benefit by strengthening its machine learning expertise, which is central to many complex and intelligent systems and the booming data mining industry.Read moreRead less
Supporting adaptive, interactive documents. The project will improve comprehensibility of technical material, reduce paper usage, encourage collaborative science, improve the reliability of published science (by allowing post-publication annotation and correction), and improve the accessibility of technical material for readers who are blind or have poor vision. The project also holds considerable potential for supporting Australian companies in the publishing and document processing industries.
Multi-Ontologies meet UML: Improving the Software Engineering of Multi-Agent Systems. Multi-agent systems are a new style of software well suited for open, dynamic, distributed, global, heterogeneous environments such as the Internet. Systematic methods are needed to allow multi-agent systems to reason effectively with high level knowledge. This research draws on software engineering practice to develop a theory and methodology for multi-ontologies for expressing knowledge within multi-agent sys ....Multi-Ontologies meet UML: Improving the Software Engineering of Multi-Agent Systems. Multi-agent systems are a new style of software well suited for open, dynamic, distributed, global, heterogeneous environments such as the Internet. Systematic methods are needed to allow multi-agent systems to reason effectively with high level knowledge. This research draws on software engineering practice to develop a theory and methodology for multi-ontologies for expressing knowledge within multi-agent systems that facilitate adaptation and change.
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Intelligent Structured Knowledge Source Integration via Software Agents. This project aims to use flexible information agents to integrate the World Wide Web with a machine readable ontology, namely a large, consistent collection of common sense knowledge. The best developed ontology in the world is Cyc. Cyc's repository of general purpose knowledge is rich and stable, but has a major limitation in requiring its knowledge to be hand-entered by experts. The outcomes of the project will be increas ....Intelligent Structured Knowledge Source Integration via Software Agents. This project aims to use flexible information agents to integrate the World Wide Web with a machine readable ontology, namely a large, consistent collection of common sense knowledge. The best developed ontology in the world is Cyc. Cyc's repository of general purpose knowledge is rich and stable, but has a major limitation in requiring its knowledge to be hand-entered by experts. The outcomes of the project will be increased functionality for ontologies, to enable expert reasoning programs wishing to use a formal ontology such as Cyc to have access to the wealth of knowledge on the World Wide Web.Read moreRead less
Methods and software for efficiently solving the transportation crewing problem. This project will target major savings in airlines, trucking, rail and public transport, with resulting benefits for industrial logistics, travel and tourism. The results discovered within the project will enable the industrial partner, CTI, to develop solutions for major companies worldwide. The results can also be transferred to other industrial optimisation applications, such as mining, services and manufacturin ....Methods and software for efficiently solving the transportation crewing problem. This project will target major savings in airlines, trucking, rail and public transport, with resulting benefits for industrial logistics, travel and tourism. The results discovered within the project will enable the industrial partner, CTI, to develop solutions for major companies worldwide. The results can also be transferred to other industrial optimisation applications, such as mining, services and manufacturing.
Finally the project will build on Australia's international prominence in data analysis and combinatorial optimisation, and capitalise on a major opportunity for the Australian software industry.Read moreRead less
Quantitative measurement of Schizophrenia using Electrovestibulography. Schizophrenia was estimated to cost approximately $1.85billion in 2001 (0.3% of GDP and nearly $50k for each of the 37,000 Australians with the illness). Over one third of the cost is borne by sufferers and their carers. Misdiagnosis and incorrect therapy are common. To date quantitative assessment of Schizophrenics has been impossible making this tool potentially invaluable. An accurate diagnostic test could facilitate earl ....Quantitative measurement of Schizophrenia using Electrovestibulography. Schizophrenia was estimated to cost approximately $1.85billion in 2001 (0.3% of GDP and nearly $50k for each of the 37,000 Australians with the illness). Over one third of the cost is borne by sufferers and their carers. Misdiagnosis and incorrect therapy are common. To date quantitative assessment of Schizophrenics has been impossible making this tool potentially invaluable. An accurate diagnostic test could facilitate earlier diagnosis, more accurate treatment plans, and prevention of debilitating psychotic episodes for the sufferer. By being able to monitor drug efficacy the community can benefit by reduced drug costs, confinement times and hastened new drug development. Read moreRead less
Personalised Content Delivery for Assisted Navigation of Information Rich, Physical Environments such as a Museum. The research will yield improved international standing through scientific advances disseminated through high impact refereed publications and open source software. The collaborations within the project will make Melbourne a hub for research in user modeling and language technology. This will attract post-graduate students in these areas, and potentially commercialisation interest. ....Personalised Content Delivery for Assisted Navigation of Information Rich, Physical Environments such as a Museum. The research will yield improved international standing through scientific advances disseminated through high impact refereed publications and open source software. The collaborations within the project will make Melbourne a hub for research in user modeling and language technology. This will attract post-graduate students in these areas, and potentially commercialisation interest. The demonstration prototypes will provide proof of concept of eventual applications that improve the capabilities of the environments in which we live. These applications, which can be investigated by follow-up projects, will in turn encourage collaborations with Australian companies seeking to build innovative software applications.Read moreRead less
Agent-Based Frameworks for Coordinated Activities in E-Business: Supply Chain Management and Workflow Applications. As e-commerce over the Internet expands, the level of integration of businesses and consumers will increase, necessitating innovative approaches to decision-support and information management to facilitate within-business, business-to-consumer and business-to-business transactions. In conjunction with a local designer of business solutions, Agent Oriented Software Pty. Ltd., this p ....Agent-Based Frameworks for Coordinated Activities in E-Business: Supply Chain Management and Workflow Applications. As e-commerce over the Internet expands, the level of integration of businesses and consumers will increase, necessitating innovative approaches to decision-support and information management to facilitate within-business, business-to-consumer and business-to-business transactions. In conjunction with a local designer of business solutions, Agent Oriented Software Pty. Ltd., this project aims to build agent-based frameworks for the support of selected within-business and business-to-business activities in supply chain management, implement an agent-based workflow system based around document management, and provide research training in this key area of technology through joint university-industry supervision of two research students. This will enhance Australia's competitiveness in the provision of leading edge technologies to support e-commerce.Read moreRead less
Transaction Oriented Computational Models for Multi Agent Systems. Agent systems are a very promising technology for constructing complex, large-scale software. Australian researchers have made key
contributions in this area, particularly with reference to one mature and commonly adopted agent architecture known as BDI (Belief, Desire, Intention). To make this technology suitable for use in advanced applications, it has to be provided with robust and predictable behaviour. This project wil ....Transaction Oriented Computational Models for Multi Agent Systems. Agent systems are a very promising technology for constructing complex, large-scale software. Australian researchers have made key
contributions in this area, particularly with reference to one mature and commonly adopted agent architecture known as BDI (Belief, Desire, Intention). To make this technology suitable for use in advanced applications, it has to be provided with robust and predictable behaviour. This project will address that need by designing and implementing a novel agent language for BDI, based on contributions using transactional concepts for agents developed at The University of Melbourne. This will contribute to the development of robust and predictable agent software, that can be used in complex and large scale applications of the future.
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