Efficient Processing of Complex Spatial Queries. Similarity search and join are two of the most popular yet complex queiries in spatial databases. They are also two of the major spatial data analysis paradigms. To complement the existing techniques, this project aims to investigate a more complex and important form of these two problems, and to develop novel framework to approach the proposed problems. The successful achievements of the project will not only bring new spatial data analysis techn ....Efficient Processing of Complex Spatial Queries. Similarity search and join are two of the most popular yet complex queiries in spatial databases. They are also two of the major spatial data analysis paradigms. To complement the existing techniques, this project aims to investigate a more complex and important form of these two problems, and to develop novel framework to approach the proposed problems. The successful achievements of the project will not only bring new spatial data analysis techniques but also deliever effective solutions to a number of real-life apllications.Read moreRead less
On effectively modelling and efficiently discovering communities from large networks. Finding and maintaining close communities from very large scale, dynamically changing networks is interesting and challenging. This project aims to develop new techniques to identify such communities as fast as possible through exploiting the rich semantics and individual relationships within the communities.
Analyzing Uncertain Data: Probabilistic Approaches. The expected research outcome includes siginificantly technical contributions to the uncertain data analysis technology development by supporting probablistic query procesing. The proposed systematic, algorithm and database centric approach to investigate the novel, ubiquitous problems will lead to a greater support, from the database community, to the advanced real applications, and creating new opportunities for the IT industry. The success o ....Analyzing Uncertain Data: Probabilistic Approaches. The expected research outcome includes siginificantly technical contributions to the uncertain data analysis technology development by supporting probablistic query procesing. The proposed systematic, algorithm and database centric approach to investigate the novel, ubiquitous problems will lead to a greater support, from the database community, to the advanced real applications, and creating new opportunities for the IT industry. The success of this project will not only further enhance us as an internationally leading research group in uncertain data analysis and provide training for high quality personnel in this important and growing area but also bring considerable economic and social benefits to Australia.Read moreRead less
Computing Order Statistcs over Data Streams. While data stream computation currently is one of the most challenging areas in IT research community, order statistics computation is a very important topic in data stream computation.
This project aims to deliver advanced techniques that promise a great impact on data stream technology. The success of this project will give another competitive edge for Australia to continue her leading role in the development of core IT technology. Moreover,
the ....Computing Order Statistcs over Data Streams. While data stream computation currently is one of the most challenging areas in IT research community, order statistics computation is a very important topic in data stream computation.
This project aims to deliver advanced techniques that promise a great impact on data stream technology. The success of this project will give another competitive edge for Australia to continue her leading role in the development of core IT technology. Moreover,
the research outcome of the project will provide generic solutions to many Australia based
industries, including e-finance, telecommunication, network management, sensor network technology
development, and environment monitoring.
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Effectively Computing and Maintaining Graph-based Statistics in Large Scale Applications. The expected research outcome includes significantly technical contributions to the graph-based query processing technology development by supporting on-line data analysis. The proposed systematic, algorithm and database centric approach to investigate the novel, ubiquitous problems will lead to a greater support, from the database community, to the advanced real applications, and to creating new opportunit ....Effectively Computing and Maintaining Graph-based Statistics in Large Scale Applications. The expected research outcome includes significantly technical contributions to the graph-based query processing technology development by supporting on-line data analysis. The proposed systematic, algorithm and database centric approach to investigate the novel, ubiquitous problems will lead to a greater support, from the database community, to the advanced real applications, and to creating new opportunities for the IT industry. The success of this project will not only further enhance us as an internationally leading research group in data statistics computation and provide training for high quality personnel in this important and growing area but also bring considerable economic and social benefits to Australia.Read moreRead less
Scalable Composition and Deployment of Business-to-Business Web-based E-Services. The ubiquity of the Internet offers far reaching opportunities for
emerging Web applications. Separate businesses may be linked into a virtual enterprise that provides a one-stop shop for users. However, there is no model available for managing electronically accessible
services (e-services) in a systematic manner which make them easy to compose and deploy. Our research proposes to address the fundamental issue ....Scalable Composition and Deployment of Business-to-Business Web-based E-Services. The ubiquity of the Internet offers far reaching opportunities for
emerging Web applications. Separate businesses may be linked into a virtual enterprise that provides a one-stop shop for users. However, there is no model available for managing electronically accessible
services (e-services) in a systematic manner which make them easy to compose and deploy. Our research proposes to address the fundamental issues related to fast and scalable composition of e-services in Web-based environments. We propose novel concepts for integrating a large number of dynamic and loosely coupled services. Another distinctive feature of our approach is the peer-to-peer collaborative execution of services.Read moreRead less
A novel Internet-based clinical trial service. The best way to test whether a clinical treatment intervention is effective is a randomised controlled trial (rct). Rcts are expensive, both in terms of resources and time. The internet may provide a method of conducting rcts which is efficent and provides access to those in remote communities. The purpose of this project is to assess the feasibility of developing a structure for conducting rcts using the internet.
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
Efficient structure search over large graphs. The project aims to develop advanced search technology to support large-scale graph applications. The success of the project not only brings a breakthrough in technology development but also provides training for high quality personnel in this important and growing area, and brings considerable economic and social benefits to Australia.
An Integrated Infrastructure for Dynamic and Large Scale Supply Chain. Efficient and scalable middlewares are an important part of our current competitive economy. This is particularly important in Australia where production and population centres are spread over large distances. As a result, inefficiencies in web-based disparate businesses are likely to have a strong impact on the national economy. This project will provide an integrated framework and solutions to urgently needed integration ....An Integrated Infrastructure for Dynamic and Large Scale Supply Chain. Efficient and scalable middlewares are an important part of our current competitive economy. This is particularly important in Australia where production and population centres are spread over large distances. As a result, inefficiencies in web-based disparate businesses are likely to have a strong impact on the national economy. This project will provide an integrated framework and solutions to urgently needed integration problems faced by current industries. The development of a reliable and flexible infrastructure will benefit small and medium-scale enterprises, as they will be able to participate in large-scale supply chains and expand their business, without having to invest in expensive new computer systems and software.Read moreRead less