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Annual Report 2012

Centre for

Informatics and Applied

Optimization

School of Science, Information Technology and Engineering

Prepared by: Helen Wade, SITE, CIAO Draft – Version 2 – 4/12/13


Contents Executive Summary .................................................................................... 3 CIAO Strategic Plan 2012 – 2015 ............................................................... 5 CIAO Team Members 2012...........................................................................8. Honorary Appointments ..................................................................... ……12 Students ................................................................................................... 13 Mathematics and Optimization Research Group (MAORG) ...................... 14 Pure Mathematics ..................................................................................... 16 Complex Systems Research Group .......................................................... 23 Health Informatics Laboratory (HIL) .......................................................... 29 National ICT Australia (NICTA) ................................................................. 36 Collaborative Research Network (CRN).................................................... 39 Data Mining and Informatics Research Group (DMIRG) ........................... 42 56th AustMS Conference ........................................................................... 44

• Alex Rubinov Memorial Lecture 2012 ........................... 45 Internet Commerce Security Laboratory (ICSL) ....................................... 47 Colloquiums and Research Seminars ...................................................... 49 Publication List 2012 ................................................................................. 51 Risk Management for CIAO in 2013 ........................................................ 62 SWOT Analysis for 2013 .......................................................................... 63


Executive Summary 2012: Consolidating excellence

In 2012, the Centre for Informatics and Applied Optimisation consolidated following a great deal of organisational change during 2011 to regain its position as the strongest research Centre embedded in a School at the University of Ballarat.

Significant achievements included:

• Strong publication outcomes. CIAO researchers published 89 books, book chapters and peer reviewed articles in 2012. This represents about 33% of the University’s entire research output

• Strong funded collaborative research activity. CIAO increased its funded research activity during 2012 so, at the close of 2012, CIAO researchers were leading 17 funded research projects. Sources of funding included:

o ARC. 3 Australian Research Council grants valued at over $700,000 were active in 2012;

o NICTA. National Information and Communication Technology Australia (NICTA) is the elite ICT research organisation directly funded from the Federal government directly funds CIAO research on immune system modelling.

o US Air Force. CIAO’s research in mathematics has been recognised once again with the award of the prestigious US Air Force Award. Very few of these extremely competitive awards are granted to researchers outside the US.

o WestPac, AFP, IBM. Direct funding from Westpac (5 years), Australian Federal Police (3 years), IBM (5 years) to the Internet Commerce Security Laboratory (ICSL), a key lab within CIAO

o Uni of Sydney. Direct funding from the University of Sydney’s prestigious Industrial Ecology group to perform the error minimisation optimisation and intelligent data collection for the Regional Input Output Tables project.

o State Government of Victoria DBI. CIAO leads a consortium of 14 hospitals, health care organisations and University of Melbourne groups to create 3D telemedicine technologies for field trials in tele-psychiatry, tele-dentistry, tele-wound, tele-geriatrics and tele-oncology.

o Federal Department of DCCE. CIAO’s Central Victorian Solar Cities project, funded by the Department of Climate Change and Environment entered its fourth year and is emerging as a landmark achievement in longitudinal analysis of behavioural change in household energy use.

• Strong collaborations with leading researchers and institutions globally o CIAO researchers continued impressive publication collaborations with leading

researchers in Europe, China, South America, North America, Middle East and Far East.

A/Prof Andrew Stranieri


o CIAO hosted 16 visitors during 2012 for collaborative research from 10 different countries

o CIAO’s publications illustrates a very rich network of international and national collaborations

o CIAO has formal memorandum of association or contractual arrangements with 7 universities or commercial groups

• Research capacity. CIAO researchers include: o 32 Experienced research staff members in SITE (During 2012, 7 of these staff

members left the University due to contract terminations), o 6 Post doctoral appointees in SITE (During 2012, 3 post doctoral staff left their

positions due to contract terminations) o 9 SITE staff members completing higher degrees o 13 University of Ballarat Adjunct Professors, o 1 University of Ballarat Emeritus Professor o 17 University of Ballarat Honorary Research Fellows o CIAO research was organised into four research groups

Mathematics and Optimisation Research Group (MAORG) led by Associate Professor Adil Baghirov,

Data Mining and Informatics Research Group (DMIRG) led by Dr Peter Vamplew,

Health Informatics Laboratory (HIL) led by Associate Professor Andrew Stranieri

Internet Commerce Security Laboratory (ICSL) led by Associate Professor Paul Watters. Despite the turbulence of 2011, CIAO researchers produced 89, books, journal papers and conference papers that were published. CIAO researchers created new work in 4 grants previously won including 2 Australian Research Council grants. CIAO researchers successfully won new research grants valued at over $700,000 including an ARC Linkage grant. CIAO hosted the Ninth Australasian Data Mining Conference AusDM 2011 and successfully bid to host the 2012 Australian Mathematical Society Conference. A new alliance with the elite national research centre (NICTA) was commenced.

Overall a very busy year and I would like to thank the CIAO team for their excellent work. Associate Professor Andrew Stranieri Director, Centre for Informatics and Applied Optimization

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STRATEGIC PLAN and PERFORMANCE 2012-15 The CIAO Strategic Plan is aligned with the School of Information Technology and Engineering (SITE) research plan. Targets are set to be aspirational and achievable.

Objective Indicators Measure Target

2012

Actual 2012

Target 2013

Target 2014 Target 2015

To perform quality research in mathematics FOR 01 and Computing FOR 08 renowned for its practical impact and theoretical excellence

Number of major research projects (large category 1 or 2) funded (through UB or other) research projects running during 2015 across all CIAO Number and quality of research publications Number and quality of research grants ERA ranking

No. No. high impact publications No. med/low impact publications No. & $ of Cat 1 No. & $ of Cat 2 No. & $ of Cat 3 Ranking 01 Ranking 08

3 15 70 3 $600K 5 $200K 2 $50K 2 2

4 14 75 3 $700K 5 $200K 2 $50K

4 20 65 4 $700K 6 $200K 3 $50K 3 3

5 25 60 4 $800K 6 $300K 5 $100K 3

5 30 50 5 $900K 8 $400K 5 $100K 4


Objective Indicators Measure Target 2012

Actual 2012

Target 2013


Maintain a group of diverse, capable researchers within SITE

Maintain a number and diversity and disciplines fields of researchers in CIAO Maintain a mix of ECR and Experienced researchers

No of SITE members

No of disciplines represented in CIAO

.

HDR:ECR:EXP

41

2

36:9:32

41

2

25:9:32

35

2 28:7:28

35 3

30:7:28

35

4

35:7:28 Maintain critical mass of diverse and capable of HDR’s

HDR enrolments

No. EFT HDR

25

25

28

30

35

Engage collaboratively with researchers and research communities globally

Host internationally recognised research visitors Host internationally recognised conference events Formal arrangements with leading research centres (eg NICTA, IBM, Westpac, GWMWater) Collaborate with other Research

No. of visitors from different countries (no visitors/no. countries) No. of conferences organised by CIAO No. of MOU’s or agreements with leading research centres No. of grants submitted in collaboration with

10/8 1 5

16/12 3 7

15/10 3 7

17/12 4 8

20/14 4 9


Objective Indicators Measure Target 2012

Actual 2012

Target 2013


centres at Fed Uni

other internal research centres

3 2

5 7 8

Engage with industry

Breadth of industry contacts Industry engagement in pursuing research funding Industry engagement in research projects

Number of new industry contacts made Number of applications for funding made with industry partners Number of industry partners involved in collaborative research with CIAO

10 5 7

12 5 12

15 7 10

20 9 15

25 12 20


CIAO Team Members

Prof David Gao – Alex Rubinov

Professor of Mathematics

Prof John Yearwood,

Dean, SITE

Assoc Professor Andrew Stranieri, HIL Leader and

Director CIAO

Assoc Prof Adil Baghirov (MAORG Leader)

Assoc Prof Zhiyou Wu

Assoc Prof David Yost

Assoc Prof Paul Watters,

Director, ICSL

Dr Peter Vamplew,

Deputy Director,CIAO


Dr Musa Mammadov, NICTA

Dr Julien Ugon

Dr Alex Kruger

Dr Siddi Kulkarni

Dr Charlynn Miller

Dr Zhaohao Sun

Dr Richard Dazeley


Dr Nadezda Sukhorukova

Dr Robert Layton Dr Eldar Hajilorov

Dr Changzi Wu

Dr Shamsul Huda Dr Vera Roschina

Dr Ning Ruan

Dr Fusheng Bai Dr Guillermo Pineda

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Dr Venki Balasubramanian Dr Peter Martin

Dr Long Jia Dr Sita Venkatraman Ms Sally Firmin

Mr Grant Meredith Mr Alistair Lansley Mr Sasha Ivkovic

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Honorary Appointments Adjunct Professors: Prof. Frada Burstein, Prof. Shu-Cherng Fang, Prof. John Harvey, Prof. George Kannourakis, Prof. Ray Ogden, Prof. Panos Pardalos, Prof. Tudor Ratiu, Prof Ron Chen, Prof Gerhard Wilhelm, Prof. Jiri Outrata, Prof.Michel Thera, Prof. Marco Lopez Cerda, Prof Phan Hoc Khan Principal Research Fellow: Dr Robyn Pierce Honorary Senior Research Fellows: Prof. Anatoli Ivanov, Assoc. Prof. Roberto Togneri, Dr Bahadorreza Ofoghi, Honorary Research Fellows: Dr Maen Al-Hawari, Mr Simon Brown, Dr Anthony Dekker, Dr Herbert Jelinek, Mr Richard Johnson, Mr Mark Lee, Dr Alex Ng, Ms Megan O’Neill, Dr Gavin Thoms, Mr Cameron Woolfe, Dr Mark Lee, Dr Sitalakshmi Venkatraman, Dr Zari Dzalilov

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Students Higher Degree Students: Dr Faezeh Afshar - Doctorate Awarded 2012

Ahmad Alazab

Alia Al Nuaimat

Paul Black

Yi Chen

Ravish Goyal

Ghasem Ezzati

Chengcheng Huang.

George Kadamapuzha

Christian Kopp

Qiang Long

Sara Hassani

Mofakharul Islam Chaojie Li

Jueyou Li

Helena Mala Jetmarova

Hijran Mirzayeva

Ehsan Mohebi

Nguyen Hoang Linh Sean Park

Ambika Raj

Ather Saaed

Suren Sharma

Nargiz Sultanova

Shams Tabrez Ahmed

Sona Taheri

Jing Tian

Oana Ureche

Dan Xu

Andrew Yatsko

Mahdi Zarei

Xiaojun Zhou

Honours Students:

Ngyuyen Hoang Linh


CIAO Research

Mathematics and Optimization Research Group (MAORG) Grants: LP0990908: ARC Linkage grant, Round 2, 2009. A.M. Bagirov, J. Yearwood, A. Barton. Title: Integrating dynamic and mathematical models for the optimization of pipeline system operations in an evolving water and energy market, 2009-2013, $180,000. This project formally commenced on 1 July, 2009. A delay due to the initial appointment of research assistants and PhD student meant the project was extended until the end of June 2013. So far the following results have been obtained: A new model for the minimisation of pumping costs has been developed. Unlike existing models, this new model has only continuous decision variables and so can be easily applied for minimising pumping costs in large water distribution systems. An algorithm, based on the combined use of optimisation techniques and simulation, was developed and tested using commonly used water distribution networks available in the literature. A new model for the minimisation of pumping costs has been developed where both explicit and implicit scheduling are used. Such an approach allows for a more computationally efficient way to consider different types of pumps in water distribution systems including fixed speed and booster pumps. A method, based on the combination of evolutionary algorithms with simulation was developed and tested using water distribution networks commonly available in the literature. Two new models for the minimisation of pumping costs involving water quality have been developed. In the first model, water quality is considered as a constraint (single objective approach), whereas in the second model it is one of the objective functions (multi-objective optimisation approach). Both models were implemented in MATLAB and tested using water distribution networks commonly available in the literature. Comparative analysis of six evolutionary algorithms was carried out using three water distribution networks sourced from the literature. This comparison investigated the strengths and weaknesses of each of these algorithms using the number of simulation calls and the quality of final solutions obtained. Eight papers have been produced and seven of them have been published. PhD students 2012:

1. Nargiz Sultanova 2. Hijran Mirzayeva 3. Alia Al Nuaimat 4. Andrew Yatsko 5. Qiang Long 6. Helena Mala Jetmarova 7. Jing Tian 8. Ehsan Mohebi 9. Shams Tabrez Ahmed 10. Mahdi Zarei 11. Jueyou Li

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12. Sara Hassani 13. Ghasem Ezzati 14. Sona Taheri

PhD Completion: The following two PhD students successfully completed their PhD study:

1. Andrew Yatsko. “Large Dataset Complexity Reduction for Classification: An Optimization Perspective.”

2. Sona Taheri “Improving naive Bayes classifier using conditional probabilities”

Attending conferences: Dr. A.M. Bagirov attended the XXV EURO Conference, July 8-11, 2012, Vilnius, Lithuania and the 10th EUROPT Workshop on Advances in Continuous Optimization, July 4-7, Siauliai, Lithuania.

Projects:

National eResearch Collaboration Tools and Resources (NeCTAR)

The NeCTAR grant for establishing a Industrial Ecology laboratory was awarded in 2012. A total of $1.1 million was granted to a consortium comprising the University of Sydney, the University of New South Wales, the University of Queensland, the University of South Australia, CSIRO and the University of Ballarat. The aim of the project is to develop an industrial ecology virtual laboratory, which enables researchers in Input-Output analysis to submit, extract and manipulate input-output data. NeCTAR funds the development of the input output analysis tools, the preparation of initial data feeds. The role of the University of Ballarat is:

1) to develop software to solve optimisation problems occurring in the reconciliation of constraints and conflicting data input in mapping the economy.

2) to extract data feeds from the so-called "grey literature", which comprises all data published in unformatted by non-governmental organisation.

EURO Conference, Vilnius, Spain

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Constructive Nonsmooth Analysis and Related Topics, Saint Petersburg, Russia, June 18 - 23


Pure Mathematics The research activities fell within the following branches of mathematics:

- topology, - variational analysis, - functional analysis, - combinatorial geometry , - graph theory.

AustMS2012 was held in Ballarat (A/Prof. David Yost – director). Prof. Sidney Morris and A/Prof. David Yost agreed to become joint Editors of the Gazette of the Australian Mathematical Society. Topology (Prof. Sidney Morris) Selected projects

- The work on the third edition of the 900 page book "The Structure of Compact Groups" (co-authored with Karl Heinrich Hofmann), which was published by the international publishing house Water de Gruyter in August 2013.

- A virgin research topic "Varieties of Abelian Topological Groups with Coproducts" (with Arkady Leiderman and Saak Gabriyelyan).

- Expanding online book "Topology without Tears" - A series of YouTube teaching videos to support the above book. These videos have now

had over 4,000 views. - An ongoing project on nonmeasurable subgroups of compact groups (with Karl Hofmann

and Salvador Hernández).

Visits to other universities - Visiting Ben Gurion University of the

Negev to work with Arkady Leiderman and Saak Gabriyelyan on varieties of Abelian topological groups with coproducts. The research results obtained in that visit (and in a visit in 2013) were presented at the international 2013 General Algebra and Its Applications (GAIA) Conference. The resulting joint paper has been

submitted to the journal Algebra Universalis.

- An invited research seminar at La Trobe University.

From left Prof Juan Parra, Dr Alex Kruger, Prof Maria Canovas, Prof Miguel Goberna, Prog Nguyen Dinh

at Elche University, Spain

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Collaborations

- Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany (Karl Heinrich Hofmann), - Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel (Arkady Leiderman and Saak Gabriyelyan), - Universitat Jaume I, Castellón, Spain (Salvador Hernández).

Variational analysis (Dr Alex Kruger, Dr Vera Roshchina, Nguyen Hieu Thao) Selected projects

- Stationarity and regularity properties of collections of sets (with M. A. López). - Characterizations of error bounds (with E. Bednaczuk, M. Fabian, R. Henrion, and

J. V. Outrata). - Stability of generalized equations (with R. Henrion and J. V. Outrata). - Relaxing the Mangasarian-Fromovitz constraint qualification (with L. Minchenko and

J. V. Outrata). - Convergence principles, stability and optimality conditions (with D. Klatte and B. Kummer), - Stability and well-posedness in parametric equilibrium problems (with L. Q. Anh and

T. Q. Duy). - Calmness modulus of linear semi-infinite programs (with M. J. Cánovas, M. A. López, J.

Parra, and M. A. Théra). - Extensions of metric regularity (with H. V. Ngai and M. Théra). - Generalised differentiability (with Robert Baier and Elza Farkhi).

The notion of the directed subdifferential was generalised to functions with no DC structure. - Billiard invisibility (with Alexander Plakhov).

It was proved that it is impossible to construct a two-dimensional piecewise smooth exterior billiard invisible in infinitely many directions.

- Space geometry. Pataki’s conjecture that facially exposed cones are dual facially complete (aka nice) disproved.

Grants - ARC Discovery project DP110102011 Stationarity and Regularity in Variational Analysis

with Applications to Optimization (2011-2013).

Conferences attended - 29 January – 2 February: ANZIAM 2012, Warrnambool. - 30 March – 1 April: Around scattering by obstacles and billiards, Aveiro, Portugal. - 7-11 May: From Dynamics to Complexity. A conference celebrating the work of Mike Shub,

Fields Institute, Toronto (invited attendant with a travel grant).

Research Presentation by Prof Alexander Strekalovskiy at UB

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- 18-23 June: Constructive Nonsmooth Analysis and Related Topics, Saint Petersburg, Russia.

- 2-4 July: IV Alicante - Elche - Limoges Meeting on Optimization, Limoges, France (invited talk).

- 8-11 July: 25th EURO Conference, Vilnius, Lithuania (invited talk). - 19-24 August: 21st International Symposium on Mathematical Programming (ISMP), Berlin,

Germany (invited talk). - 20-24 August: Joint Congress of the French Mathematical Society and the Vietnamese

Mathematical Society, Hue, Vietnam (invited talk). - 24-27 September: AustMS2012, Ballarat (invited talk).

Visits to other universities - 24-30 June 2012: University of Turku, Finland. - 2-6 July 2012: University of Newcastle, Australia. - 12-21 July 2012: Institute of Mathematics of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus,

Minsk, Belarus. - 14-18 August 2012: University of Bayreuth, Germany. - 30 August – 8 September 2012: University of Limoges, France. - 9-11 September 2012: Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain. - 12-19 September2012: University of Alicante, Spain. - 14 September 2012: University of Elche, Spain. - 30 September – 12 October 2012: City University of Hong Kong.

International visitors 21 June – 7 July 2012: Alexander Plakhov, University of Aveiro, Portugal.

13 July 2012: Robert Baier, University of Bayreuth, Germany.

17 July – 12 August 2012: Phan Quoc Khanh, International University of Hochiminh City, Vietnam

National University, Vietnam.

Collaborations - Belarusian State University of Informatics and Radioelectronics, Minsk, Belarus (Leonid

Minchenko), - Institute of Mathematics of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, Minsk, Belarus

(Valentin Gorokhovik), - Institute of Information Theory and Automation of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech

Republic, Prague, the Czech Republic (Jiří Outrata),

Dr Alex Kruger Research Presentation at UB


- Institute of Mathematics of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague, the Czech Republic (Marian Fabian),

- University of Turku, Finland (Marko M. Mäkelä and Yury Nikulin), - University of Limoges, France (Michel Théra and Samir Adly), - Humboldt University Berlin, Germany (Bernd Kummer), - University of Bayreuth, Germany (Robert Baier), - Tel-Aviv University, Israel (Elza Farkhi), - Systems Research Institute of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland (Ewa

Bednarczuk), - University of Aveiro, Portugal (Alexander Plakhov), - University of Alicante, Spain (Marco López Cerdá), - University of Elche, Spain (Maria Cánovas and Juan Parra), - University of Zürich, Switzerland (Diethard Klatte), - Cantho University, Vietnam (L.Q. Anh), - International University of Hochiminh City, Vietnam National University, Vietnam (Phan

Quoc Khanh), - University of Quynhon, Vietnam (Huynh Van Ngai).

HDR Students - 1 PhD student (principle supervisor), 2 PhD students (associate supervisor).

Functional analysis and combinatorial geometry (A/Prof. David Yost) Selected projects

- Approximation properties and projectional resolutions of identity for non-separable Banach spaces (with Anatolij Plichko). A study of the existence in non-separable Banach space of large families of bounded linear projections and their role in decompositions of such spaces.

- Contractive projections in Banach spaces (with Jerzy Grzybowski). A study of the “simplest” 3-dimensional unit balls, for which there is no contractive projection onto any 2-dimensional subspace. Although norms with this property are known to be dense in Banach-Mazur compactum, they are the “silent majority”, with concrete examples being hard to find.

- Decomposability of compact convex sets (with Krzysztof Przeslawski). This longstanding collaboration is now on two separate topics. Firstly, the classification, as decomposable or otherwise, of higher-dimensional polytopes according to the number of edges. Second, decomposability of the state spaces considered in quantum mechanics. These behave quite differently from polytopes. For example, the 5-dimensional state space has no faces of dimension 1, 3 or 4. However it has many 2-dimensional faces, all of which are Euclidean discs of the same radius, and which intersect pairwise.

Conferences attended - 29 January – 2 February: ANZIAM 2012, Warrnambool. - 7-10 February: Function Theory on Infinite Dimensional Spaces XII, Madrid, Spain. - 20-24 February: Convexity in Banach Spaces (homage to Piero Papini), Castro Urdiales,

Cantabria, Spain.


- 24-27 September: AustMS2012, Ballarat.

Visits to other universities

- 11-15 February: University of Murcia, Spain. - 15-18 February: University of Sevilla, Spain.

International visitors - 22-27 July: Miguel Lacruz, University of Sevilla, Spain.

Collaborations - Technical University of Krakow, Poland (Anatolij Plichko), - Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland (Jerzy Grzybowski), - University of Zielona Gora, Poland (Krzysztof Przeslawski).

HDR Students - 2 PhD students (associate supervisor).

Graph theory (Dr Guillermo Pineda-Villavicencio)

Selected projects - Analysis of large graphs with prescribed constraints (with David Wood, Mirka Miller, Hebert

Perez-Roses, Eran Nevo, Charles Delorme and Ramiro Feria-Puron). - Quadratic forms representation of elements from Euclidean rings (with Charles Delorme).

Conferences attended - 36th Australasian Conference on Combinatorial Mathematics and Combinatorial Computing

(36ACCMCC), University of New South Wales.

Visits to other universities - University of Newcastle.

From left: Prof Marco Lopez, Prof Miguel Goberno, Dr Alex Kruger & Prof Nguyen Dinh at Elche University, Spain

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Collaborations - University of Lleida (Hebert Perez-Roses), - Monash University (David Wood), - University of Newcastle (Mirka Miller, Ramiro Feria-Puron), - University Paris-Sud, France (Charles Delorme), - Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel (Eran Nevo and Mikhail Klin).

HDR Students - 1 PhD student (associate supervisor).

From left: Dr Alex Kruger, Prof Marco Lopez & Prof Michel Thera

From left: Dr Alex Kruger, Prof Ekatarina Kostina, Prof Boris Polyak, Prof Tatiana Tchemisova & Prof Olga Kostyukovc at EURO Conference in Vilnius, Lithuania

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Announcement of Dr Alex Kruger’s Presentation at Elche University

Dr Kruger presenting invited talk at CNSA 2012, St Petersburg

Researchers at UB: Front: Prof Stanislaw Migorski, Prof John Yearwood, Prof Phan Qhoc Khan, Rear: Dr Alex Kruger, Vittorio Latorre, Prof David Gao, A/Prof David Yost, Prof Ali Mert

Left Prof Phan Qhoc Khan, Dr Alex Kruger and Nguyen Hieu Thao

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Complex Systems Research Group The 2012 has been a great year for our group’s research and professional activities. We have finished more than 40 research papers (16 published), hosted 12 international/national visitors; organized/attended 19 international/national conferences/workshops including four invited/plenary lectures. After one open problem left in 2003 was solved and one minor mistake has been corrected, the canonical duality-triality theory is considered (by USA AFOSR) as a breaking-through methodological theory in the multidisciplinary fields of global optimization, computational science, industrial and systems engineering. The research leader Professor David Gao is recognized now as a “King of Duality” in the community.

RESEARCH ACTIVITIES Grants Funding Agent: USA Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR), FA9550-10-1-0487 Title: Canonical duality theory and algorithms for solving challenging problems in global optimization with applications in decision science. Amount: $75,000/year for five years

Professional Organizations A. Secretary-General and Vice President served for International Society of Global Optimization

www.isogop.org B. Funding member for International Research Centre Mathematics and Mechanics of Complex

Systems, Italy C. New Member of IEEE, Australia Mathematics Society, etc.

Vittorio Latorre with Prof David Gao

http://www.isogop.org/


Projects and Collaborations: 1. Computational Complexity and Topology Optimization

Members: Professor L. Watson, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech Professor Q. Qin, Research School of Engineering Science, Australia National University. Dr. H.A.F.A. Santos, Texas Institute of Scientific Computation, University of Texas, Austin, USA Dr. Zhen Luo, School of Electrical, Mechanical and Mechatronic Systems Sydney University of Technology Dr. Kun Cai, College of Water Resources and Architectural Engineering Northwest A&F University, Yangling, 712100, P.R.China

Achievements: Published two papers, submitted one, and preparing one.

Prof David Gao & Prof Alex Strekalovskiy

2. Global Optimization Team: Members:

Professor S.C. Fang, Department of Industrial Engineering, North Carolina State University; Professors R.L. Sheu, Department of Mathematics, National Cheng-Kun University, Taiwan; Professor Wenxun Xing, Tsinghua University. Professor Panos Pardalos, University of Florida

Achievements: Organized one international workshop held in Taiwan, July 3-6, 2012, published two papers, submitted one.

3. Modeling and Theory of Nonconvex Mechanics Team Members:

Professor Ray W. Ogden, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Aberdeen, UK


Professor D. Steigmann, Department of Mechanics Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, USA Professor Q. Qin, Research School of Engineering Science, Australia National University. Dr. S.K. Bhullar, Univ. of Victoria, Canada.

Achievements: We produced three research papers, organized one research workshop on computational mechanics and material held in April 2012 at UB

4. Nonconvex Analysis and PDEs Members:

Professor Ray Ogden, Dept. of Math, Univ. Glasgow, UK Dr. Xiaojun Lv, Dept. of Math, Chinese South East University Dr. E. Hajilarov, UB

Achievements: Finished two papers.

5. Neural Information and Network Optimization Dr. V. Latorre, Dept of Computer Science, Univ. of Roma, Italy

Achievements: Published three papers and submitted three.

6. Natural Philosophy and Duality in Complex Systems Members:

Professor Hanlin Li, College of Management Science, National Chaotung University, Taiwan Professor Wen-Ruan Zhang, University of Georgia, USA

Achievements: Finished one paper and organizing an International Symposium on Oriental Philosophy and Duality Principles in Complex Systems to be held in July, 2013.

D. International Conference/Workshop Organized • General Chair for 3rd World Congress of Global Optimization, to be held in July 7-12,

2013, the Yellow Mountains, China. • Co-Chair for 8th International Conference on Bio-Inspired Computing: Theory and

Applications, to be held in July 12-14, 2013, the Yellow Mountains, China • Organizer for CRN Workshop on Nonconvex/Nonsmooth Optimization held in

January 5, 2012. University of Ballarat • Organizer for CRN Workshop on Computational Mechanics and Materials held in

March, 2012, Univ. of Ballarat. • Organizer for CRN Workshop on Complex Systems, held in Sep. 24-27, 2012.

University of Ballarat • Scientific Committee Member for International Conference and Summer School on

Numerical Computations: Theory and Algorithms http://si.deis.unical.it/~yaro/numta2013/

• Scientific Committee Member for International Conference on Optimization Simulation and Control, July 1-4, 2013, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.

E. Plenary/Invited talks at International Conferences for 2012 1. Invited Speaker, 19th International Conference on Neural Information Processing (ICONIP2012), Nov. 12-15, 2012, Doha, Qatar. 2. Invited speaker, 2012 International Workshop on Optimization and Engineering Systems, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan, June 27-30, 2012

http://wcgo2013.csp.escience.cn/dct/page/65578

http://bicta2013.aust.edu.cn/


http://si.deis.unical.it/~yaro/numta2013/

http://www.iconip2012.org/ICONIP2012%20Program%20booklet.pdf

http://www.iconip2012.org/ICONIP2012%20Program%20booklet.pdf


3. Invited Speaker, AFOSR Joint Workshop on Cognition and Decision/Human-System Interface and Robust Decision Making/Robust Computational Intelligence, Jan 23-27, 2012, Arlington, VA

F. Plenary/Invited talks Booked for 2013 1. Plenary Lecturer, International School of Mathematics "G. Stampacchia", The 59th Workshop on Nonlinear Optimization: a Bridge from Theory to Applications. June 10-17, 2013, Erice, Italy 2. Plenary Lecturer, International Conference and Summer School on Numerical Computations: Theory and Algorithms http://si.deis.unical.it/~yaro/numta2013/ 3. Plenary Lecturer, International Conference on Optimization, Simulation and Control, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, July 1-4, 2013, http://iom.num.edu.mn/iccso2013/ 4. Tutorial Lecturer, The 8th International Conference on Bio-Inspired Computing: Theories and Applications (BIC-TA) July 12-14, 2013 http://bicta2013.aust.edu.cn

G. Contributed Talks at International Conferences 1. The 20th International Symposium on Mathematical Theory of Networks and Systems, 9-13 July 2012 at The University of Melbourne. 2. The 8th East Asian SIAM Conference, June 25-27, 2012, National Taiwan University, Taiwan. 3. The 56th AustMA Meeting, 24-27, Sep., 2012. Univ. of Ballarat, Australia 4. ANZAMP inaugural annual meeting, Lorne, 2-5 December 2012

H. Colloquium Talks Presented at Institutions 1. Colloquium lecture at Research School of Engineering, ANU, 19, October, 2012. Title: Post-buckling analysis for large deformed structures and mixed FEM solutions. 2. Colloquium lecture at S.-T. Yau Center, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan, June 21, 2012. Title: Analytical Solutions and Primal-Dual Algorithms for Certain Challenging Problems in Complex Systems 3. Colloquium lecture at College of Management, National Chiao Tung University, June 22, 2012. Title: Unified Framework in Global Supply Chain and Decision Science. 4. Colloquium lecture at Centre for Intelligent Systems Research (CISR), Deakin University, April 16, 2012. Title: Unified Framework in Modeling and Simulation of Complex Systems.

I. Organizing Committee Served for International Conferences 1. The 3rd International Conference on Computer and Management (CAMAN 2013), March10-13, 2013, Wuhan, China. 2. International Conference and Summer School on Numerical Computations: Theory and Algorithms 3. International Conference on Optimization, Simulation and Control, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, July 1-4, 2013

J. Editorial Activity 1. Editor-in-Chief, Springer Book Series on Advances in Mechanics and Mathematics. Currently, I am reforming the editorial board. 2. Co-Editor-in-Chief, Modern Mechanics and Mathematics, Taylor & Francis/CRC. I recommended two books for this series. 3. Associate Editor for the following journals and activities • J. Global Optimization, handled more than 15 submissions • Optimization Letters, handled more than 10 submissions • Mathematics and Mechanics of Solids, handled two papers • J. of Industrial and Management Optimization, handled one submission • Numerical Algebra, Control and Optimization, handled one submission

4. Reviewers for the following journals • Applied Mathematics and Computation, two papers

http://www.dis.uniroma1.it/~erice2013/


http://iom.num.edu.mn/iccso2013/


http://lattice.complex.unimelb.edu.au/anzamp/programme

http://www.camanconf.org/2013/OrganizingCommittee.aspx




• ANZIAM Journal, two papers • Computational Optimization and Applications, one paper • Electronic Journal of Partial Differential Equations, one paper • European Journal of Operational Research, one paper • Int. J. Nonlinear Mechanics, three papers • Journal of Control Science and Engineering, one paper • J. Mathematics Analysis and Applications, one paper • Mathematical and Computer Modelling, one paper • Mathematical Methods of Operations Research, one paper • Systems, Man and Cybernetics - Part B, one paper • SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization, one paper • Engineering Optimization • ZAMM, one paper • ZAMP, two papers

Web Page/Online Lecture Developed:

1. Online research workshop on Duality at http://uob-community.ballarat.edu.au/~dgao/DualityCoffee.html 2. Design and maintaining web page of International Society of Global Optimization at http://www.isogop.org/ 3. Online video lecture developed at http://medusa.ballarat.edu.au/ubtube/videos/1198/canonical-duality-workshop

International Visitors During 2012, Prof Gao hosted the following visitors.

1. Professor Alex Strekalovsky, Russian Academy of Sciences, January 12-February 12, 2012.

2. Associate Professor Ali Mert, Ege University, Turkey, February –March, 2012 3. Professor Ray Ogden, the Six Century Chair Professor at the University of Aberdeen,

March-April, 2012 4. Dr. S. Bhullar, Univ. of Victoria, Canada, April, 2012 5. Mr. Vittorio Latorre, Univ. Sapienza of Rome, April 3-October 3, 2012 6. Professor Stanislaw Migorski, Jagiellonian University in Krakow, July 8-August 4, 2012 7. Professor Jinhao Zhu, Tongji University, Shanghai, July 9-July 16, 2012 8. Dr. Xiaoju Lv, Basque Center for Applied Math, Spain, August 9. Professor Qinghua He, Central South University, and President of Sunward Equipment

Group, China. September, 2012. 10. Dr. Kun Cai, Northwest A&F University, China, August 25, 2012-July 20, 2013 11. Professor Jinghon Fan, Alford University, New York, Dec. 18-22, 2012 12. Dr. Davaa Baatar, Monash University, Dec 16-22, 2012

Honours and Awards:

• Adjunct Professor of Engineering, Australia National University. • Elected editorial board for journal of Mathematics and Mechanics of Solids • Plenary/invited lecture for three international conferences

HDR Students: 1. Yi Chen

Prof Ali Mert, Ege University, Turkey

http://uob-community.ballarat.edu.au/~dgao/DualityCoffee.html

http://uob-community.ballarat.edu.au/~dgao/DualityCoffee.html

http://www.isogop.org/

http://medusa.ballarat.edu.au/ubtube/videos/1198/canonical-duality-workshop

http://www.uj.edu.pl/

http://mms.sagepub.com/


2. Xiaojun Zhou 3. Chaojie Li

Prof David Gao with Prof Sukwinder Bhuller & Prof Ray Ogden

From left Prof David Gao with Kun Cai, Ning Ruan, Yi Chen, Xiaojun Zhou & Chaojie Li


Health Informatics Laboratory (HIL) Summary 2012 witnessed the escalation of ehealth related research within CIAO. Research projects were conducted in:

• Complementary and Alternative Medicine Informatics • Telemedicine • Support systems in health • Public Health, Safety and Well being • Data mining in Health • Technologies for Empowerment of People to Participate in Society

Highlights for 2012

• Organisation of Third International Conference on Holistic Medicine in Colombo, Sri Lanka

Projects

Complementary and Alternative Medicine Informatics Making the Case for CAM Informatics. Stranieri (CIAO), Sahama (QUT), Vaughan (Epworth), Pilapitiya (Rajarata Uni, Sri Lanka), Siribaddana (Rajarata Uni, Sri Lanka), Golden (CIAO) Although the application of informatics to Allopathic medicine is well advanced very few studies explore informatics as it applies to Holistic medicine. This project aims to explore open questions and conceptual publications that aim to identify the need and challenges for CAM informatics

Telemedicine HD3D Tele-medicine. Stranieri (UB); Collman, Borda, Myers (Versi); Consortium including GRHA, UM Psychiatry, UM Dentistry, Northern Health. A strong interdisciplinary team comprising highly-experienced individuals from relevant areas of expertise has been assembled over the last eight months. Researchers and practitioners from the University of Melbourne (UoM) Department of Psychiatry, The Victorian eResearch Initiative (VeRSI), Institute for Broadband-Enabled Society (IBES), UoM ITS Research Computing Services, Centre for Informatics and Applied Optimisation CIAO in the University of Ballarat and Australian Academic and Research Network P/L VERNet, worked closely in the integration and implementation of clinical requirements with technical equipment within a carefully-conceived project design involving tele-psychiatry, tele-oncology, tele-wound, tele-geriatrics. Telehealth in Jordan. Stranieri, Venktraman, Alnaimi, Alazab (CIAO) This project, funded by the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade’s Council for Arab-Australia Relations aims to foster collaborations between Jordanian health care professionals and researchers and their Australian counterparts to raise awareness of issues associated with tele-health.


From left A/Prof Marino, Dr Alazab, A/Prof Stranieri, Dr Ali Hyasat, Dr Alnaimi, Mr Alnaimi during visit to Jordan

Support Systems in Health Online dispute resolution for Electronic Health Record Disputes Stranieri, Venkatranum, Muecke (CIAO); Bellucci, Abernathy (Deakin). This project aims to integrate the Deakin University and University of Ballarat approaches for ODR and configure the resultant ODR approach for Electronic Health Records EHR disputes. Mobile hospital best practice protocol App. Smith, Hajilirov, Lansley (CIAO), Wolff (Wimmera Health Care Group). This project developed a mobile app that implements best practice protocols for managing hospitalised patients. The App represents a key advance toward enabling doctors and nurses to deploy evidence based medicine consistently. Enhancing and supporting deliberations within multidisciplinary decision teams Stranieri, Yearwood (CIAO), Burstein (Monash), Warren (Uni Auckland). This project explores IT support for exchange of insights and assertions by multidisciplinary community in the treatment planning for patients with multimorbidity. By analysing the reasoning of clinician groups in a hospital setting a Knowledge-Deliberation template will be developed to inform the design of a generic Deliberation Simulator (DS) and an online multi-user environment to support deliberations. The project will deepen understanding of the use of documented and non-documented knowledge in the creation of evidence-based communally accepted decisions. The online environment will provide a template for complex decision support. The Deliberation Simulator will be of immediate utility in medical education.

Public Health, Safety and Well being Decision support for occupational health and safety. Stranieri (CIAO); Lingard, Blismas (RMIT) Funded by an ARC Linkage 2012-2015. This project describes a project currently underway to design, develop and rigorously evaluate a knowledge-based decision support tool to assist construction designers to manage OHS risks in the design process. The conceptual design of the


decision support tool is described and an example provided to demonstrate the use of a Generic Actual Argument Model to represent design OHS knowledge.

Incorporating values in organisations Afshar, Stranieri (CIAO) Values have been shown to underpin our attitudes, behaviour and motivate our decisions. According to Schwartz (1992) values do not exist in isolation but have meaning in relation to other values. The Schwartz Value Survey (SVQ) is an instrument that an individual uses to identify a ranked list of values that describes his or her value system. However, values are not solely the purview of individuals as communities and organisations have core values implicit in their culture, policies and practices. Values for a group can be determined by a minority in power, derived by algorithmically merging SVQ ranked lists of participants, or set by deliberative consensus. The elicitation of values for the group by deliberation is likely to lead to widespread acceptance of values arrived at, however enticing individuals to engage in face to face discussion about values has been found to be very difficult. We present an online deliberative communication approach for the anonymous deliberation of values and claim that the framework has the elements required for the elicitation of shared values. Fault tolerant wireless sensor networks. Saeed, Stranieri, Dazeley (CIAO) Wireless sensor devices are used for monitoring patients with serious medical conditions. Communication of content-sensitive and context sensitive datasets is crucial for the survival of patients so that informed decisions can be made. Data mining in Health Data mining complications of diabetes. Huda, Stranieri, Yatsko, Kelarev (CIAO); Jelinek (CSU); Burstein, deSilva (Deakin) This project involves the application of data mining techniques to the discovery of patterns for the prediction of diabetes, ventricular fibrillation and other diseases. Using the unique CSU Discri dataset. Data mining Hospital Data. Ugon, Vamplew, Stranieri (CIAO), Martin (BHS). This project builds on a collaboration with the Ballarat Base Hospital to explore data from the last decade regarding emergency department presentations and hospital admissions with a view of discovering patterns of interest toward more efficient and effective health care. Events CAM Informatics conference ICHM 2012 CIAO was co-organiser (with QUT and University of Colombo) the The 3rd International Conference on Holistic Medicine ICHM 2012 with a CAMI Informatics stream. Over 60 delegates representing researchers in Ayurvedic medicine, Homeopathy, Allopathic medicine and Traditional Chinese Medicine presented latest research findings. A/prof Stranieri ran an Informatics for CAM workshop that was well received. The conference was chaired by University of Colombo vice chancellor, Professor Kshanika Hirimburegama. The conference resulted in the formation of the International Association for Holistic Medicine and ongoing collaboration with Sri Lankan researchers.

Grants Australian Research Council Linkage. ($280,000) Stranieri (CIAO), Blismas, Lingard (RMIT). Toolshed. Knowledge based systems for design safety in the construction industry Dept Business and Innovation (BEIP) ($555,000) HD3D Telemedicine Stranieri (CIAO), Consortium (UniMelb, Horsham Hospital, Nhill Hospital, Northern Hospital, Heritage Aged Care)


Council of Arab Australia Relations ($23,000) Telehealth in Jordan. Stranieri, Venkatranum, Muecke (CIAO); Bellucci, Abernathy (Deakin) UB-Deakin Collaboration Grant ($35,000) Online dispute resolution for health records Stranieri, Venkatraman (CIAO), Bellucci, Aberwathy (Deakin) Telematics Trust. Meredith, Groothuis, Stranieri Stimulating simulation: Bridging barriers and empowering lives Collaborative Research Network Small Grant ($5,000) Stranieri, Yearwood (CIAO), Burstein (Monash) Higher Degree Students Dr Faezeh Afshar - Doctorate Awarded 2012 Mr Ather Saaed

University of Colombo, Sri Lanka which hosted ICHS 2012

Opening Address at ICHM 2012


Technologies for Empowering People for Participation in Society (TEPPS)

Programme leader: Grant Meredith

The TEPPS programme aims to enable the lives of people the world over through the radical design of software and hardware solutions. TEPPS are designed through close target user collaboration and have the aim of empowering peoples' lives. The TEPPS programme focuses on researching, designing, implementing and evaluating simple, accessible and cost-effective enabling systems. Another focus of the TEPPS programme is to research equity in terms of health support provision and quality of life issues.

Close target user informed design and key stakeholder collaboration are key priorities for any ventures that the TEPPS programme decides to explore. Universal design is a priority in order to create appeal and to encourage uptake for a product beyond the intended target audience. By carefully simplifying design you can maximise the user experience and enhance interaction.

Projects range in nature from immersive virtual worlds with rich interactions and three dimensional environments, through to DVD-based applications and simple web-based interfaces.

TEPPS sought to form collaborative partnerships within industry, government bodies, community organisations and academics. Examples of past and current relationships, and collaborations include Australian Speak Easy Association; The Australian McGuire Programme; and The Australian Stuttering Research Centre.

Projects under TEPPS Scenari-Aid During 2012 Scenari-Aid with the help of a grant from the Telematics Trust Grant began its second stage of development. The first stage of development was creating Scenari-Aid as an interactive DVD. This second stage involves transferring the DVD concept into an interactive website (www.scenariaid.com). This will enable greater reach to the benefits that Scenari-Aid offers and also will reduce costs in terms of deployment. The planning for Scenari-Aid included feedback from the users of the DVD and enabled us to create a much richer experience via a website. Development features of the website include:

• An expanded scenario base of over 100 individual scenarios; • Registration ability for users. This will enable us to track and record the behaviours of users

beyond simple web-statistics. Release of Scenari-Aid as a website is aimed for mid-2013 and future funding will be looked at to further enhance and expand its capabilities. Fluency Fun Land Fluency Fun Land (http://sitevm1.ballarat.edu.au/fluencyfunland/) was a website designed y a project capstone team in 2011. Fluency Fun Land (FFL) has been designed as a series of mini-games to encourage children who stutter to practise their learnt fluency techniques with family support. The novel idea behind FFL is not the games themselves but the hopeful inclusion of them


into fluency practise in the future in family and clinical settings. The idea is to use the games to build spoken narratives around the gameplay. These games can be played both in a private home setting and also a clinical setting. During the narratives built around the game play proper use of speech management technique will be encouraged. During 2012 FFL was appraised for its future benefits and appropriateness to continue on with as a project. Grant has been working with Assoc. Prof. Ann Packman (USYD) from the Australian Stuttering Research Centre on this project. It has been decided that FFL is a worthy platform to continue working on and it is planned to update it slightly during 2013 and to make its functionality stable in order for it to be tested by the target audience. Target audience feedback will give us a case for future expansion and research. Funding During 2012 TEPPS was awarded a Telematics Trust Grant of $20,086 for the project titled “Stimulating simulation: Bridging barriers and empowering lives”. Co-contributors for this application were: Assoc. Prof. Andrew Stranieri, Kylie Turville & Marijke Groothuis Research Collaborations University of Sydney During 2013 some discussions were had with the Australian Stuttering Research Centre (USYD) the use of “apps” for children who stutter. These discussions will be around how apps may be able to encourage active practise and participation for children within fluency programmes. We may also discuss the use of apps for remote monitoring of client progress by speech pathologist. This will lead to further discussions in 2013. Also up for discussion were some possible future studies looking at the phycology behind online scamming in terms of stuttering support and techniques. Engagement

• 8th February – Grant Meredith presented at the Having a Say conference in Geelong. The presentation was titled “Empowering technologies” and discussed the use of video-based scenarios to address issues of social anxiety and speech therapy.

• 17th February – Grant Meredith & Assoc. Prof. Ann Packman (USYD) were invited to speak at the 14th Bi-Annual Speak Easy convention in Sydney about novel uses of interactive technologies for people who stutter. The presentation was titled “Simple software for complex purposes”.

• October – Grant Meredith and Anthony Gunn (USYD) co-authored a paper for the International Stuttering Awareness Day online conference. The paper focused on the dangers of the World Wide Web in terms or propagating scams and misinformation about speech therapy treatments. The paper was titled “Digital Snake Oil: The emergence of online stuttering scams and shams. Paper can be found at http://www.mnsu.edu/comdis/isad16/papers/meredith16.html.

• 18th October – Grant Meredith was invited to do a guest presentation to staff & students at Shaoguan University (China). The presentation was titles “Asserting the world using assertive technologies”.

http://www.mnsu.edu/comdis/isad16/papers/meredith16.html


Grant Meredith presenting at Shaoguan University

Media appearances Meredith, G. (2012, Winter). An enabled future: Resistance is futile. Speaking Free Rossi, D. (Producer). (2012). Stuttering conferences in India and Australia [Audio podcast]. Retrieved from http://stutteringiscool.com/podcast/stuttering-conferences-in-india-and-australia/

http://stutteringiscool.com/podcast/stuttering-conferences-in-india-and-australia/

http://stutteringiscool.com/podcast/stuttering-conferences-in-india-and-australia/


National ICT Australia (NICTA) Musa Mammadov has been working on several projects as part of our ongoing collaboration with National ICT Australia (NICTA).

These projects include the stability of optimal solutions in control problems with the major focus on applications to medicine and biology as well as development of new optimal control models.

The project undertaken in collaboration with R. Evans (NICTA) and C. Wellard (WEHI) considers the population dynamics of system of identically prepared B cells whose proliferation trajectories have been individually tracked using live-cell imaging techniques. This is a very innovative approach where the main goal is to investigate whether the system behaviour follows some optimality criteria over the period of existence. It assumes the existence of an intra-cellular mechanism that controls all cell divisions after initial stimulation with the aim of optimising some objectives within predefined constraints that include the initial number of cells in system, as well as the total number of cell divisions observed in the response.

The following represents some of the work occurring in this area.


Some results are presented in the following graphs: see also http://www.optimization-online.org/DB_HTML/2013/12/4147.html

http://www.optimization-online.org/DB_HTML/2013/12/4147.html


Currently we have two NICTA funded PhD students – Sara Hassani and Ghasem Ezzati.

Sara’s research is about necessary and sufficient conditions of optimality for non-smooth and non-convex problems. The notion of subdifferential plays an important role in optimisation theory. It was first introduced as a generalization of the concept of ordinary derivative to deal with optimisation problems involving convex and nonsmooth functions. One of the main approaches to derive necessary conditions of optimality for nonsmooth and nonconvex problems, is the generalization of the notion of subdifferentials and normal cones. This research will focus on such generalizations of subdifferentials and normal cones for nonconvex and nonsmooth functions and their applications. Various kinds of subdifferentials and normal cones have been introduced which are applicable for different classes of optimization problems. These concepts (normal cones, subdifferentials) in order depend on the properties of the variable space as well as on the objectives of the study. In this thesis, we will develop the notion of subdifferentials and normal cones based on the concept of augmented normal cones and weak subdifferentials.

Ghasem works mainly on the development of new methods that can be applied to solve Reliability-based design optimization problems. Structural optimization is one of the most important fields in the applied mathematics that has been increasingly used in engineering projects. Reliability-based design optimization (RBDO) can be considered as a significant class in the structural optimization. Applications of the RBDO in the engineering projects are very wide such as vehicle side impact model, short column design, truss with multiple failure modes, etc. This thesis will mainly concentrate on development of new optimization methods that can be applied to solve RBDO problems. Since they are global optimization problems, both global and local optimization algorithms will be considered. As a global search the methods developed at the University of Ballarat will be used and further modified taking into account peculiarities of these optimisation problems. As a local optimization algorithm, the conjugate gradient will mainly be adopted.


Collaborative Research Network (CRN) • A workshop was held on the 12th April 2012 at the University on Modern Mechanics and

Materials to bring together mathematicians , engineers and scientists to discuss some challenging problems in interdiscip;linary fields of theoretical mechanics, modern materials and computational sciences with rea;l-world applications. Presentations by Prof Ray Ogden, University of Scotland, Glasgow; Prof Quinhua Qin, Australia National University, Dr Sukwinder Bhullar, UVic, Canada, Prof David Gao, UB and Dr Asim Bhatti, Deakin University

• Vittoro Lattore presented a seminar titled ‘Canonical duality theory for solving problems in learning machines’ on May 7, 2012, at the University of Ballarat (UB).

• CRN international guest, Alexander Plakhov from the University of Aveiro, Portugal presented ‘Billiards, optimization of resistance, and invisibility’ on June 27, 2012, at UB.

• The 56th Annual Meeting of the Australian Mathematical Society was held 24 to 27 September, 2012, at the University of Ballarat. Element 1 researchers attended and presented. A CRN Dinner was held in conjunction with the AMS meeting, on Monday September 24, 2012, at the United States Hotel, Sovereign Hill, Ballarat. The dinner was used as an opportunity to further build on research opportunities in Australia and with other universities.

Information Analysis and Optimization of Systems was held on Monday 19 November at the Centre for Intelligent Systems Research (CISR), Deakin University, Waurn Ponds campus. The workshop was a joint effort between researchers at Deakin University and UB and covered the topics of applied optimization, informatics and systems modelling, manufacturing and production systems, decision support methodologies, technologies and products. The workshop recommended commercial applications and capacity building relevant to Australia as well as its international markets. Participants (DU): Prof Saeid Nahavandi, Dr Doug Creighton, Dr Asim Bhatti, A/Prof Chee-Peng Lim, Dr Samer Hanoun, Dr Hamid Abdi, Dr Hailing Zhou, others? Participants (UB): Prof David Gao, Dr Jonathan Wearne, Dr Ning Ruan, Dr Vera Roshchina, Dr Kun Cai (visitor), Dr Zari Dzalilov, Dr Shamsul Huda, Yi Chen (Phd student) and Xiaojun Zhou (PhD student). Discussions between UB researchers lead by Prof Gao, and Prof Hodgson (Deakin) have identified the following three possible research topics involving the optimisation of complex systems: 1. Topology Optimization for Lightweight Design for Green Car Project. 2. Data Analysis and Clustering for Atom Probe Tomography Problem 3. Optimal Shape/Weight Design of Advanced Jet Turbine. This collaboration will be very important for UB's theoretical research to have direct industrial applications. Prof. Qinghua Qin from ANU and Prof. Ray Ogden from Glasgow have been invited to join this project. In addition, Dr Roshchina (UB), Dr Bhatti (Deakin) and Prof Plakhov (University of Aveiro, Portugal) have initiated a project in the area of optical invisibility. This project aims to develop applications of mathematical results on mirror invisibility and to contribute to the understanding of the cyclic behaviour of dynamical systems (billiards). The telehealth component identified in the original objective has grown in both importance and scope, and a strong collaborative team has formed around the broad area of “eHealth: knowledge management and information technology for wellbeing”. This project will apply computational techniques from the fields of knowledge management and intelligent decision support to enhance


the wellbeing and health of residents. Health care in Australia is in crisis. The proportion of gross domestic product currently spent on the provision of health in this country is unsustainable. The shortage of health care professionals, particularly in rural areas is pressing. The burden of an ageing population with increasingly prevalent chronic conditions can clearly not be managed without a great deal of change and innovation. This project focuses on the development of sophisticated information portals and mobile technologies that aim to empower individuals to effectively manage their own wellbeing, and the health of loved ones. This project combines the information portal and knowledge management capability at Monash University with the intelligent decision support system track record at University of Ballarat. Multiple sub-projects within the eHealth field have been identified, and plans are in place to develop each of thse, as listed below: • Complaints management. CI’s Members of the project team plus Emilia Bellucci (Deakin

University) Plan: Broaden ODR project to complaints management. Publish a complaints management survey paper early year.

• Automated categorisation of SIP pages to support Expert ratings CI’s Frada, Daswin, Sita, Andrew. Plan: Masters by coursework project to implement text parsing algorithms to analyse domain expert pages for semi-automated categorisation. A group of 3 UB Masters students have liaised with Daswin to design forms and implementations

• Complementary medicine informatics in SIPS. CI’s Frada, Daswin, Sita, Andrew, Isaac. CRN funding used to employ Sita to develop a user query ontology with Isaac and others at Endeavour. This will enable the HeartHealth Online Portal to be instated as the first with holistic medicine knowledge, leading to a journal article in 2013

• Multi-disciplinary meeting support project. CI’s Frada, Daswin, Jim, Andrew, John. The formulation of a Discovery project is taking shape and will be consolidated in December when face to face meetings funded by CRN Small grant will be possible

• Mining Cardiovascular Disease CI’s Shamsul, Daswin, Herbert, Andrew, Frada, Juhi Plan: roll PhD student Juhi’s topic, predicting ventricular fibrillation into the CRN Update: Juhi has deferred her candidature for family reasons

• Web Systems for Diabetes Management using TCM. CI’s Zhaohao, Andrew. Honours student has commenced a lit survey article on viability of CBR for management of Diabetes T2 with TCM

• Data warehouse, data mining and Decision Guidance System. Frada, Daswin, Andrew, Herbert. Daswin has created a clinical data warehouse with Herbert’s Diabetes Screening Unit data for exploration of diabetes

• Healthy Aging health portal project – Frada, Daswin and the group from HARU and the Stage Library of Victoria plan a project, which will create a health information portal for aging people with culturally diverse background. Two internal pilot grant applications were un-successful.

• NICTA connection – Frada and Daswin identified a link with the NICTA group working in the area of biomedical informatics. A scope for PhD project was defined. The research will start as soon as the suitable candidate is identified

For reasons outlined elsewhere in this report, the research relevant to this objective has moved away from the focus on energy efficiency and carbon neutrality, and instead is focused on the application of optimisation and intelligent systems to aid regional industry and communities more generally (although energy efficiency remains a potential area of application). Several potential projects have been identified in this area, mostly in conjunction with industry partners: • Optimisation of freight forwarding operations • Optimisation of hospital emergency department operations • Optimisation of the scheduling of processes within a highly-automated pathology testing

laboratory • Optimisation the design of a ceramic fuel cell


In addition the researchers in this area are also collaborating on theoretical work with potential applicability to supply chain problems – notably the use of canonical duality theory to develop new approaches for solving the travelling salesman and multiple travelling salesmen problems. Monash researchers (Smith-Miles and Baatar) have also spent time understanding the canonical duality theory of Prof. Gao (UB), and have an AMSI summer vacation student working in this area who will be visiting Ballarat in December with Baatar. Researchers from the eHealth and supply chain logistics projects have engaged with external organisations in pursuit of collaborative opportunities including: Cal2Cal Australia (Health informatics company) Epworth Hospital Alfred Hospital Endeavour College of Natural Health Australasian College of Hahnemanian Homeopathy Visa Global Logistics Ballarat Health Services Leica Biosystems

The collaborative network has been established, and research activities have been initiated and sustained through regular meetings at several levels: Targeted workshops have been held at both the Element and Project levels, including: • CRN Research Day held at UB on 24th July 2012, where planning was carried out at a whole

element level – this workshop was attended by representatives from all partners/projects. • CRN Workshop on Complex Systems: Modeling, Simulation, and Optimization held from 24-27

September 2012. This workshop brought together experts from Australian leading universities including University of Melbourne, Monash University, Deakin University, NICTA, and the University of Adelaide. The workshop reinforced UB's relation with these experts and stimulated future collaborations.

• Food Technology workshop held at UB on Friday 2nd November 2012, involving researchers from UB and Deakin.

• Optimization Workshop to be held at Deakin on Nov 19th 2012. There have also been regular Project Meetings, both face-to-face and via telephone and videoconference facilities. These have identified potential projects and industry partners, planned joint publications and grant applications, and coordinated research activity at a project level. These meetings have been augmented by ad-hoc Research Leader Meetings between project and element leaders, where opportunities for cross-fertilisation between projects have been explored – for example, the application of canonical duality optimization methods associated with Element 1.1 to theoretical problems of relevance to Element 1.3. Applications for grants • The eHealth group lead by Assoc Prof Stranieri and Prof Burstein have prepared an ARC

Discovery for 2013 submission in collaboration with Prof Jim Warren (University of Auckland), Prof Frada Burstein (Monash University), Prof John Yearwood (University of Ballarat)

• Dr Vamplew and Dr Creighton along with Dr Adam Berry (CSIRO Energy Technology) have submitted an application for funding through the CSIRO Flagship Collaboration fund


Data Mining and Informatics Research Group (DMIRG) Selected Projects: Reasoning Communities Work continued on the Reasoning Community Project which aims to design information and communication technologies together groups of geographically dispersed individuals, either synchronously or asynchronously to access information, deliberate and ultimately make informed group decisions. This research can be applied to support reasoning in groups exemplified by multi-disciplinary teams of medical experts or next generation democracies where citizens actively participate in policy decisions. Reinforcement Learning Algorithms and Applications 2012 saw the continuation of ongoing work by DMIRG researchers investigating new developments in algorithms for reinforcement learning. In particular DMIRG researchers have developed world-leading expertise in the extension of reinforcement learning methods to handle problems with multiple conflicting objectives, such as balancing economic and environmental objectives. DMIRG research in this area continues to investigate new means for incorporating expert advice into a reinforcement learning agent, and the use of reinforcement learning in various robotics applications. Dr Zhaohao Sun Collaborations • Dr Sun is an Adjunct Professor of Hebei Normal University, China • Associate Professor Dong Dong, College of Mathematics and Information Sciences, Hebei

Normal University (HNU), China. We have collaborated for a few years, and published three articles listed in the Publication Section in 2012.

• President, Prof Jianqiang Li, Hebei Normal University, China. We discussed the cooperation between UB and HNU. He promised to visit our University in 2014.

• Professor Paul P. Wang, Duke University, USA. I have collaborated with Prof Wang to organize a Special Issue on Scientific Chinese Trinity for Journal of New Mathematics and Natural Computation (World Scientific) in 2012. This Special Issue is being finalized. We also coauthored a book on A Computing Approach on Scientific Chinese Trinity. IGI Global agreed to published this book with some conditions. I hope that this book can be published soon.

Conferences attended and other events • Attended ACIS 2012 Geelong, 3-5 Dec 2012, and presented my accepted paper: Sun Z, Firmin

S, Yearwood J (2012) Integrating online social networking with e-commerce based on CBR, in 23rd ACIS 2012 Proceedings, Geelong, 3-5 Dec 2012.

• Attended ISMIS 2012, Salamanca, Spain in July and presented our accepted paper: Sun, Z, Firmin S (2012) A Strategic Perspective on management intelligent systems and I also chaired a session at the conference there.

• Dr Sun has been working as an associate editor of International Journal of Intelligent and Fuzzy Systems, Journal of New Mathematics and Natural Computation, and International Journal of Systems and Service-Oriented Engineering, and serving on the editorial board of


International Journal of Business Intelligence Research and the International Journal of u- and e- Service, Science and Technology.

• Dr Sun worked as PC Member for ICE-B 2012, ICAART 2012, iCETS2012 and has reviewed a large number of articles for international conferences and journals including ACIS2012 and IEEE Pervasive Computing.

• Examined a PhD thesis for University of Technology Sydney Higher Degree Students George Kadamapuzha, Chengcheng Huang,. Honours Student Nguyen Hoang Linh


56th Annual Meeting of the Australian Mathematical Society 2012 The 56th Annual Meeting of the Australian Mathematical Society was hosted by the School of Science, Information Technology and Engineering of the University of Ballarat from September 24 to 27, 2012. In all, 227 mathematicians from Australia and overseas descended on the University’s main campus at Mt Helen for a full four-day program covering a wide range of topics in pure and applied mathematics. The meeting was again held between two independently organised workshops. It was preceded by the Early Career Workshop, held at the Novotel Resort in Creswick on the weekend 22–23 September. Useful career advice was presented by Sean Carmody from Westpac, Arun Ram from the University of Melbourne and Jacqui Ramagge from the University of Wollongong. Immediately after the end of the conference was another ALTC Professional Development Workshop was held at Mt Helen 27–28 September.

AustMS Conference Dinner

The conference proper began off campus on the Sunday evening with a registration desk and welcome reception at the Mercure Hotel, Ballarat. The official opening was conducted by Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Research Frank Stagnitti who welcomed participants, and spoke on the the University of Ballarat’s history of mathematics research and teaching. This was followed by presentation of the Australian Mathematical Society medal to Stephen Keith (in absentia) and Anthony Henderson, and the George Szekeres medal to Ross Street and Neil Trudinger, with short talks by each of them. A report on the medal winners, with their citations, appeared in the AMSI Gazette. The 11 plenary lectures were given by internationally renowned mathematicians were broadly accessible, and provided an opportunity for all participants to learn of developments outside their own specializations. The speakers included four overseas visitors (Assaf Naor, Narutaka Ozawa,


Michel Brion and Henning Haahr Andersen) and some of Australia’s best (Mary Myerscough, Sid Morris, Fedor Sukochev, Neil Trudinger, Kate Smith-Miles, Scott Morrison and Aidan Sims). The special sessions are a major reason people keep coming back to these meetings, providing everyone an opportunity to interact with mathematicians in their own speciality. There were 18 in all this time, with particularly large sessions in Mathematical Physics, Geometry & Topology, and Group Actions. The meeting is always an important opportunity for students to present their work, with 50 short talks by PhD students altogether. The $1000 Neumann prize for the best student talk was awarded to Imam Tashdid ul Alam from ANU for his talk entitled ‘The Interplay between Discrete Holomorphicity and Integrability in the ZN model’.

Peter Taylor (left) and Imam Tashdid ul Alam (right) Following a recent tradition, there was again an Education Afternoon on the Tuesday, aimed at undergraduates, teachers, and prospective mathematics teachers. This public event included two general interest talks, and a panel discussion on primary mathematics. It was attended not only by conference registrants, but also a few dozen secondary school teachers and students. The University of Ballarat’s annual Alexander Rubinov Memorial Lecture was incorporated into this event, thus serving as the traditional Public Lecture of the AustMS Annual Meeting. The lecture was presented by Prof. Manfred Lenzen, with the topic ‘Think global—act local: a new quantitative view on how our actions affect the environment worldwide’ provided a serendipitous introduction to the general theme of the Mathematics of Planet Earth. It can be accessed at http://www.ballarat.edu.au/schools/school-of-science-and-technology/ research/centre-for-applied-informatics-and-optimization-ciao/rubinov-lectureseries . Other social events at the conference included a Women’s Lunch on the Monday, and the Conference Dinner on the Wednesday evening. Entertainment at the dinner was provided by the mathematician/comedian Simon Pampena.


Aust MS Conference Photos

Prof Frank Stagnitti welcoming conference participants Conference participants at a presentation

Prof Frank Stagnitti Enthusiastic participant

Prof Neil Trudinger A/Prof David Yost and Prof Peter Stacey


Internet Commerce Security Laboratory 2012 was a busy year for the ICSL, as the initial 5 year work programme drew to an end, and funding renewals were signed with Westpac and the Australian Federal Police. This funding ensured that ICSL would continue to operate into the new future. At the same time, some breakthrough research was performed in several areas, including: * Collaborative research with the University of Tasmania identifying new subcultural norms on the Internet that may lead to increases in the viewing of child exploitation material (published in JASIST, ERA A*) * Identification of social, economic and educational changes in Russia and Eastern Europe that can almost perfectly all year-on-year changes in cybercrime volumes in Australia since 2005 * The development of open source intelligence gathering techniques that revealed illicit drugs being traded openly on the Internet and specifically targeting Australians. * The application of authorship analysis techniques to IRC chat logs and similar open source data for cybercrime attribution Director, Associate Professor Paul Watters.

Selected Projects A grant was received from the Attorney General's Department to undertake a review of video matching technologies. Dr Robert Layton and A/Prof Paul Watters also received a Telematics Trust Grant with the aim of preventing social networks being used for identity theft.

Aaron Herps & Stephen McCombie at 3rd CTC Workshop


Stephen McCombie presenting best paper award at CTC Workshop to Mamoun Alazab

Collaborations and other news

A/Prof Watters completed a one semester Outside Studies Program with the Australian Federal Police.

Conferences attended and visits to other universities

Conferences attended included the 12th International Symposium on Communications and Information Technologies (ISCIT), Fourth International Symposium on Cyberspace Safety and Security and ICSL also hosted the 3rd Workshop on Cybercrime and Trustworthy Computing

International visitors and visits from other universities Dr Richard Clayton (University of Cambridge)

HDR Students at ICSL Mofakharul Islam Ahmad Alazab Oana Ureche Paul Black Suren Sharma Ambika Raj Ravish Goyal Dan Xu Sean Park Christian Kopp .

Dr Richard Clayton, University of Cambridge, Computer Laboratory providing research presentation.


Colloquiums and Research Seminars In 2012 CIAO continued its strong promotion of research through a range of seminars and colloquium speakers including:

Name Research Presentation Topic

Prof George Weir, University of Strathclyde, March 2012

Toward Music-Based Data Discrimination for Cybercrime Investigations

Dr Ning Ruan, CRN Research Fellow, UB, April 2012

Supply Chain Optimization: Challenging Problems & Canonical Duality Solutions

Prof Stanislaw Migorski, Jagiellonian University Poland, July 2012

Evolution of nonlinear PDEs in optimal shape design

Prof Phan Quoc Khan, Vietnam National University, August 2012

Stationarity and Regularity in Variational Analysis with Applications to Optimisation

Prof John Grundy - Health of Computer Science & Software Engineering at the Swinburne University of Technology, June 2012

Model-driven software engineering: Engineering or not?

Prof. Pascal Van Hentenryck, Leader of Optimisation Research Group, NICTA, June 2012

Seminar and a collaborative session with Optimization research group of SITE

Prof. Fernando Jose Martin Sanchez, Chair of Health Informatics, Melbourne Medical School, June 2012

Health and Biomedical Informatics: information processing for preventative Medicine

Prof. Natashia Boland, School of Mathematical & Physical Sciences, University of Newcastle, July 2012

Challenges in Supply Chain Plannin g: Problems in Maintenance Schedule Optimisation

Prof. Martin Savelsbergh, School of Mathematical & Physical Sciences, University of Newcastle

Incremental Network Design Problems

Prof Sidney Morris, Emeritus Professor, University of Ballarat, August 2012

Colloquium

Mr Vittorio Latorre, University of Rome, Italy, May 2012

Canonical duality theory for solving problems in learning machines

Xiaojun Zhou, PhD student UB, August 2012 Methods on optimal design of water distribution network

Dr Xiaojun Lv, South East University, China, August 2012

Duality Method for Solving Non-convex Variational Boundary Value Problems


Dr Prabhu Manyem, Shanghai University, China, August 2012

Expressibility at the machine level versus structure level: ESO universal Horn Logic and the class P

Prof Joe Dong, University of Newcastle, September 2012

Towards an intelligent future energy grid

Dr Kun Cai, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, China, September 2012

Topology Optimization of Continuum Structures and Applications

Yi Chen, PhD Student UB, September 2012 Canonical Duality Approach for Bitmatrix Games

Prof Manfred Lenzen, University of Sydney, September 2012

Annual Alex Rubinov Memorial Lecture: Think Global – Act Local: a new quantitative view on how our actions affect the environment worldwide.

Dr Sandra Herbert, Deakin University, September 2012

From country girl to academic

Prof David Gao, UB, October 2012 Research Workshop

Prof Ken Kirby, University of Tasmania, October 2012

Colloquium

Vera Roshchina, CRN Research Fellow, UB, October 2012

From optimization to invisibility

Dr Paul Watters, Director, Internet Commerce Security Laboratory, October 2012

Open Problems in Open Source Intelligence Analysis

Mr Chaojie Li, Ph D Student UB. November 2012

Impulsive Synchronization of State Delayed Discrete Complex Networks with Switching Topology

Dr Richard Clayton, University of Cambridge, Computer Laboratory, December 2012

Measuring Cybercrime

Prof Jinghon Fan, Alfred University New York, December 2012 –Behaviour

New Type of Multiscale Analysis: Bridging Defects of GB and Interphases to Material

Dr Davaa Bataar, Monash University, December 2012

Personal Task Scheduling


Publications: CIAO Centre for Informatics & Applied Optimization (SITE) Books: Authored Research Yearwood, J. & Stranieri, A. (2012). Approaches for Community Decision Making and Collective Reasoning: Knowledge Technology Support. (Hershey, PA) IGI Global 978-1-4666-1818-3 Editorship and Edited Compilation Kulkarni, S. (2012). Machine Learning Algorithms for Problem Solving in Computational Applications: Intelligent Techniques. Machine Learning Algorithms for Problem Solving in Computational Applications, pp.1-388. (Hershey PA) Information Science Reference 9781466618336. Fang, S-C, Floudas, C., and Gao, D.Y., Recent Developments in Global Optimization, Special Issue: the 1st World Congress of Global Optimization, Journal of Global Optimization. 54(2), 2012 Book Chapters: HERDC Alazab, M., Watters, P.A., Venkatraman, S., Alazab, M. and Alazab, A. (2012). Malware Forensics: The Art of Detecting Hidden Maliciousness in Mellado, D., Sánche, L.E., ), Fernández-Medina, E., and Piattini, M. G., IT Security Governance Innovations: Theory and Research,. IGI Global. 11, 293-315. Deb, S. & Kulkarni, S. (2012). Emergence Phenomenon and Fuzzy Logic in Meaningful Image Segmenation and Retrieval. Machine Learning Algorithms for Problem Solving in Computational Applications: Intelligent Technique, pp.167-178. (Hershey PA) IGI Global Information Science Reference One Siddhivinayak Kulkarni Firmin, S. & Sun, Z. (2012). A Strategic Perspective on Management Intelligent Systems. Management Intelligent Systems, pp.3-14. (Berlin, Gremany) Springer 1 Janusz Kacprzyk Gao, D., Ruan, N. & Pardalos, P. M. (2012). Canonical Dual Solutions to Sum of Fourth-Order Polynomials Minimization Problems with Applications to Sensor Network Localization. Sensors: Theory, Algorithms, and Applications Optimization and Its Applications, pp.37-56. (International) Springer Vol 61 Boginski, V.L.; Commander, C.W.; Pardalos, P.M.; Ye, Y. Kulkarni, S. (2012). Machine Learning Approach for Content Based Image Retrieval. Machine Learning Algorithms for Problem Solving in Computational Applications: Intelligent Technique, pp.1-11. (Hershey PA) IGI Global Information Science Reference Siddhivinayak Kulkarni Meredith, G. D., Miller, C. & Simmons, G. (2012). Stuttering Support and Nursing Education: Two Case Studies in Second Life. Engaging the Avatar: New Frontiers in Immersive Education, pp.217-254. (Charlotte, North Carolina) Information Age Publishing Inc. Hindricks, R. & Wankel, C. Stranieri, A. & Zeleznikow, J. (2012). Insights from Jurisprudence for Machine Learning in Law. Machine Learning Algorithms for Problem Solving in Computational Applications: Intelligent Technique, pp.85-98. (Hershey PA) IGI Global Information Science Reference Siddhivinayak Kulkarni


Sun, Z., Zhang, P. & Dong, D. (2012). Customer Decision Making in Web Services. Handbook of Research on E-Business Standards and Protocols: Documents, Data and Advanced Web Technol, pp.210-232. (Hershey, USA) Business Science Reference 1 Heather Probst Sun, Z., Zhao, S. & Li, Y. (2012). Trust, Deception and Security in E-Commerce. E-Commerce Coming Into Its Own, pp.107-143. (New York, USA) Nova Science Publishers, INC Blanton K. Nescott Torney, R. A., Yearwood, J., Vamplew, P. & Kelarev, A. V. (2012). Applications of Machine Learning for Linguistic Analysis of Texts. Machine Learning Algorithms for Problem Solving in Computational Applications: Intelligent Technique, pp.133-148. (Hershey PA) IGI Global Information Science Reference Siddhivinayak Kulkarni Yearwood, J., Baghirov, A. & Kelarev, A. V. (2012). Machine Learning Algorithms for Analysis of DNA Data Sets. Machine Learning Algorithms for Problem Solving in Computational Applications: Intelligent Technique, pp.47-58. (Hershey PA) IGI Global Information Science Reference Siddhivinayak Kulkarni Journal Articles: Refereed Article in a Scholarly Journal Adly, S., Hantoute, A. & Thera, M. (2012). Nonsmooth Lyapunov pairs for infinite-dimensional first-order differential inclusions. Nonlinear Analysis, 75 (3), pp.985-1008. Alhyari, S., Alazab, M., Venkatraman, S., Alazab, M. & Alazab, A. (2012). Six Sigma Approach to Improve Quality in E-Services: An Empirical Study in Jordan. International Journal of Electronic Government Research, 8 (2), pp.57-74. Atazadeh, I. & Sharifi, M. (2012). Influence of zinc on productivity and species composition in algal periphyton communities. Algological Studies, April pp.57-74. Baier, R., Farkhi, E., & Roshchina, V., The directed and Rubinov subdifferentials of quasidifferentiable functions. Part I: Definition and examples. Nonlinear Anal. 75 (2012), 1074–1088. Baier, R., Farkhi, E., & Roshchina, V., The directed and Rubinov subdifferentials of quasidifferentiable functions. Part II: Calculus, Nonlinear Anal. 75 (2012), 1058–1073. Bednaczuk, E. & Kruger, A. (2012). Error Bounds for Vector-Valued Functions on Metric Spaces. Vietnam Journal of Mathematics, 40 (2-3), pp.165-180. Bednarczuk, E. & Kruger, A. (2012). Error bounds for vector-valued functions: Necessary and sufficient conditions. Nonlinear Analysis, 75 (3), pp.1124-1140. Beliakov, G., Kelarev, A. V. & Yearwood, J. (2012). Derivative-free optimization and neural networks for robust regression. Optimization: a journal of mathematical programming and operations research, 61 (12), pp.1467-1490. Beliakov, G., Yearwood, J. & Kelarev, A. V. (2012). Application of rank correlation, clustering and classification in information security. Journal of Networks, 7 (6), pp.935-945. Burstein, F., De Silva, D., Jelinek, H. & Stranieri, A. (2012) ‘Multivariate Data-Driven Decision Guidance for Clinical Scientists’ in 2012 ICDE Workshop on Data-Driven Decision Support and Guidance Systems (DGSS12).


Collmann, R., Stranieri, A. & Borda, A. (2012). High definition 3D telemedicine: The next frontier?. Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, 189 pp.133-141. Cucker, F., Peña, J. & Roshchina, V., Round-off estimates for second-order conic feasibility problems. C. R. Math. Acad. Sci. Paris, 350 (2012), 639–641. Dekker, A., Perez-roses, H., Pineda-villavicencio, G. & Watters, P. A. (2012). The Maximum Degree & Diameter-Bounded Subgraph and its Applications. Journal of Mathematical Modelling and Algorithms, 11 (3), pp.249-268. Dong, D, Xie J, Zhang C, Sun, Z., (2012) Cases Design for “Information Systems Engineering. Journal of Computer Education (in Chinese), No. 5. 33-27 Fang, S-C, Floudas, C., and Gao, D.Y.(2012). Preface on Recent Developments in Global Optimization, Special Issue of Journal of Global Optimization. 54(2), 219-220. Feria-puron, R. & Pineda-villavicencio, G. (2012). On bipartite graphs of defect at most 4. Discrete Applied Mathematics, 160 (1-Feb), pp.140-154.

Gao, D.Y., Layne T. Watson, L.T., Easterling, D. R., and Thacker, W.I. (2012), Canonical Dual Approach for Solving Box and Integer Constrained Minimization Problems via a Deterministic Direct Search Algorithm, Optim. Methods and Software. 28 ( 2), pp. 313-326 DOI:10.1080/10556788.2011.641125

Gao, D.Y. and Ruan, N. Complete solutions to nonconvex fractional programming problems, published online at http://arxiv.org/abs/1211.4664

Gao, D.Y., Ruan, N. and Pardalos, P.M. (2012), Canonical dual solutions to sum of fourth-order polynomials minimization problems with applications to sensor network localization, Sensors: Theory, Algorithms, and Applications, V. Boginski, P.M. Pardalos, Y.Y. Ye, and C. Commander (eds). Springer Optimization and Its Applications 61, DOI 10.1007/978-0-387-88619-0, pp.37-56. Gao, D. & Wu, C. (2012). On the triality theory for a quartic polynomial optimization problem. Journal of Industrial & Management Optimization, 8 (1), pp.229-242. Haslinger, J., Outrata, J. V. & Patho, R. (2012). Shape Optimization in 2D Contact Problems with Given Friction and a Solution-Dependent Coefficient of Friction. Set-Valued and Variational Analysis, 20 (1), pp.31-59. Henrion, R., Outrata, J. V. & SUROWIEC, T. (2013). ON REGULAR CODERIVATIVES IN PARAMETRIC EQUILIBRIA WITH NON-UNIQUE MULTIPLIERS. Mathematical Programming: Series B, 136 (1), pp.111-131. Hernandez, S., Hofman, K.H. & Morris, S. A., The weights of closed subgroups of a locally compact groups, Journal of Group Theory, 15 (2012) 613-630 Hofmann, K.H. & Morris, S. A., (2012), Compact groups are profinite, Topology and its applications, 159 (2012), 2453-2462.

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Hernández, S., Hofmann, K. H. & Morris, S A. (2012). The weights of closed subgroups of a locally compact group. Journal of Group Theory 15, no. 5, 613-630. Huang, T., Gao, D., Li, C. & Xiao, M. (2012). Anticipating synchronization through optimal feedback control. Journal of Global Optimization, 52 (2), pp.281-290. Issabekov, R. & Vamplew, P. (2012). An Empirical Comparison of Two Common Multiobjectives Reinforcement Learning Algorithms. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 7691 pp.1-11. Karmitsa, N., Makela, M. & Baghirov, A. (2012). Comparing different nonsmooth minimization methods and software. Optimization Methods and Software, 27 (1), pp.131-153. Karmitsa, N. & Baghirov, A. (2012). Limited memory discrete gradient bundle method for nonsmooth derivative-free optimization. Optimization: a journal of mathematical programming and operations research, 61 (12), pp.1491-1509. Kelarev, A. V., Yearwood, J., Watters, P. A., Wu, X., Ma, L., Abawajy, J. & Pan, L. (2012). A Grobner-Shirshov Algorithm for Applications in Internet Security. Southeast Asian Bulletin of Mathematics, 36 pp.87-100. Kelarev, A. V., Stranieri, A., Jelinek, H. F. & Yearwood, J. (2012). A comparison of machine learning algorithms for multilabel classification of can. Advances in Computer Science and Engineering, 9 (1), pp.1-4. Kelarev, A. V., Zi, L. & Yearwood, J. (2012). Optimal rees matrix constructions for analysis of data. Journal of the Australian Mathematical Society, 92 (3), pp.357-366. Kelarev, A. V., Yearwood, J., Vamplew, P., Abawajy, J. & Chowdhury, M. (2012). Optimization and matrix constructions for classification of data. New Zealand Journal of Mathematics, 42 pp.1-8. Keogh, K. & Sonenberg, E. A. (2012). Adaptive Coordination in Distributed and Dynamic Agent Organizations. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), 7254 pp.38-57 Kruger, A.Y., Comments on:Stability in linear optimization and related topics. A personal tour, TOP, 20 (2012) no. 2, 255-257. Kruger, A., Klatte, D. & Kummer, B. (2012). From Convergence Principles to Stability and Optimality Conditions. Journal of convex analysis, 19 (4), pp.1043-1072. Kruger, A. & Lopez, M. A. (2012). Stationarity and regularity of infinite collections of sets. Applications to infinitely constrained optimization. Journal Of Optimization Theory And Applications, 155 (2), pp.390-416. Lakshtanov, E., Roshchina, V., On finiteness in the card game of war. American Mathematical Monthly, 119 (2012), 318–323. Layton, R., Watters, P. A. & Dazeley, R. (2012). Recentred local profiles for authorship attribution. Natural Language Engineering, 18 (3), pp.293-312. Leicester, P. & Kulkarni, S. (2012). Challenges of deploying RFID technology for reducing identity theft. International Journal of Infonomics, 3/4 pp.597-602.

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Missing paper: A. Y. Kruger and M. A. López, Stationarity and regularity of infinite collections of sets, J. Optim. Theory Appl., 154 (2012), no. 2, 339-369.


Lopez, M. A., Ridolfi, A., Vera, D. & Serio, V. (2012). On coderivatives and Lipschitzian properties of the dual pair in optimization. Nonlinear Analysis, 75 (3), pp.1461-1482. Lu, D. & Li, C. (2012). Exponential Stability of Stochastic High-Order BAM Neural Networks With Time Delays and Impulsive effects. Neural Computing and Applications, 1 (1), pp.1-8. Mammadov, M., Zhao, L. & Zhang, J. (2012). The effect of regularization on drug-reaction relationships. Optimization: a journal of mathematical programming and operations research, 61 (4), pp.405-422.

Morales-Silva, D., Gao D.Y. Complete Solutions and Triality Theory to a Nonconvex Optimization Problem with Double-Well Potential in R^n, published at http://arxiv.org/abs/1110.0285

Morales-Silva, D., Gao D.Y. On the minimal distance between two surfaces, submitted to Optimization and published online at http://arxiv.org/abs/1210.1618 Morris, S. & Hofmann, K. H. (2012). Compact homeomorphism groups are profinite. Topology and its Applications, 159 (9), pp.2453-2462. Ngai, H. V., Kruger, A. & Thera, M. (2012). Slopes of Multifunctions and Extensions of Metric Regularity. Vietnam Journal of Mathematics, 40 (2&3), pp.355-369. Peña, J. & V. Roshchina, V., A complementarity partition theorem for multifold conic systems. Mathmatical Programing., online first (2012), DOI: 10.1007/s10107-012-0577-0.

Ruan, R., and Gao, D. Y.,(2012) Canonical duality approach for non-linear dynamical systems, IMA J. Appl. Math, doi:10.1093/imamat/hxs067

Ruan, N. and Gao, D.Y., Canonical solutions to nonconvex minimization problems over Lorentz cone, published 10/2012 online at http://arxiv.org/abs/1210.5300

Ruan, N., Gao, D. (2012) ‘Global Minimizer of Large Scale Stochastic Rosenbrock Function: Canonical Duality Approach’ in Neural Information Processing, Springer, pp.678-682. Ruan, N., Gao, D. (2012) ‘Global optimal solutions to nonconvex euclidean distance geometry problems’ in International Symposium on Mathematical Theory of Networks and Systems, The University of Melbourne, pp.1-8. Saeed, A., Stranieri, A. & Dazeley, R. (2012). Fault-Tolerant Energy-Efficient Priority-Based Routing Scheme for the Multisink Healthcare Sensor Network. ISRN Sensor Networks, 2012 pp.1-11. Santos, H. A. & Gao, D. (2012). Canonical dual finite element method for solving post-buckling problems of a large deformation elastic beam. International Journal of Non-Linear Mechanics, 47 (2), pp.240-247. Seifollahi, S., Yearwood, J. & Ofoghi, B. (2012). Novel weighting in single hidden layer feedforward neural networks for data classification. Computers & Mathematics with Applications, 64 (2), pp.128-136. Sun, Z., Weiwei, Z. & Dong, D. (2012). A Personalized Composition Of Web Services Based On CBR and Mmulti-Agents. Computer applications and Software, 29 (1), pp.145-149.

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Sun, Z., Sun, J. & Meredith, G. (2012). Customer Decision Making in Web Service with an Integrated P6 Model. Physics Procedia, 24 pp.1553-1559. Sun Z, Meredith G, and Stranieri, A., (2012) TEA: A Strategic Architecture for Customer Decision Making in Web Services, International Journal of Systems and Service Oriented Engineering, 3(3): 41-63. Taheri, S. & Mammadov, M. (2012). Solving systems of nonlinear equations using a globally convergent optimization algorithm. Global Journal of Technology & Optimization, 3 pp.132-138. Torney, R. A., Vamplew, P. & Yearwood, J. (2012). Using psycholinguistic features for profiling first language of authors. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 63 (6), pp.1256-1269. Venkatraman, S. & Wadhwa, B. (2012). Cloud computing A research roadmap in coalescence with Software Engineering. SOFTWARE ENGINEERING: AN INTERNATIONL JOURNAL, 2 (2), pp.7-18. Vu, H., Sukhorukova, N., Beliakov, G., Liu, S., Philippe, C., Amiel, H., Ugon, A. & Li, G. (2012). K-complex detection using a hybrid-synergic machine learning method. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics Part C: Applications and Reviews, 42 (6), pp.1478-1490. Wang, Z., Fang, S-c., Gao, D. & Xing, W. (2012). Canonical dual approach to solving the maximum cut problem. Journal of Global Optimization, 54 (2), pp.341-351. Weber, G-w., Cavusoglu, Z. & Ozmen, A. (2012). Predicting default probabilities in emerging markets by new conic generalized partial linear models and their optimization. Optimization: a journal of mathematical programming and operations research, 61 (4), pp.443-457. Wu, Z., Quan, J., Li, G. & Tian, J. (2012). Necessary Optimality Conditions and New Optimization Methods for Cubic Polynomial Optimization Problems with Mixed Variables. Journal Of Optimization Theory And Applications, 153 (2), pp.408-435. Yearwood, J., Mammadov, M. & Webb, D. (2012). Profiling phishing activity based on hyperlinks extracted from phishing emails. Social Network Analysis and Mining, 2 (1), pp.5-16. Yost, D. (2012). Quasilinear Mappings, m - Ideals and Polyhedra. Operators and Matrices, 6 (2), pp.279-286. Yu, T., Ugon, J. & Yu, W. (2012). A modified parallel optimization system for updating large-size time-evolving flow matrix. Information Sciences: An international journal, 194 pp.57-67. Yuan, Y-b., Fang, S-c. & Gao, D. (2012). Global optimal solutions to a class of quadrinomial minimization problems with one quadratic constraint. Journal of Global Optimization, 52 (2), pp.195-209. Zhang, J. & Mammadov, M. (2012). A new method for solving linear ill-posed problems. Applied Mathematics and Computation, 218 (20), pp.10180-10187. Zhou, X.J., Gao, D.Y., and Yang, C.H.. Discrete State Transition Algorithm for Unconstrained Integer Optimization Problems, published online at http://arxiv.org/pdf/1209.4199v1.pdf

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Zhou, X. J., Gao, D.Y., and Yang, C.H.., Global solutions to a class of CEC benchmark constrained optimization problems published online at http://arxiv.org/pdf/1210.3765v1.pdf

Zhou, XJ, Gao, D.Y., and Yang, C.H., Global solutions to general polynomial benchmark optimization problems, published online at http://arxiv.org/pdf/1207.6490v1.pdf

Zhou, X.J., Gao, D.Y., and Yang, C.H.. Improved canonical dual algorithms for the maxcut problem, submitted to Optimisation Methods and Software, published online at http://arxiv.org/pdf/1210.3962v1.pdf Zhu, J., Wu, D. & Gao, D. (2012). Applying the canonical dual theory in optimal control problems. Journal of Global Optimization, 54 (2), pp.221-233. Conference Publications: Full Written Paper - Refereed Abawajy, J. & Kelarev, A. V. (2012). A multi-tier ensemble construction of classifiers for phishing email detection and filtering. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), 7672 LNCS pp.48-56. (Berlin, Germany) Springer Verlag Melbourne, Australia, 12/12/2012 CIAO Xiang, Yang, Lopez, Javier, Kuo, C.C. Jay, Zhou, Wanlei Abawajy, J., Kelarev, A. V., Stranieri, A. & Jelinek, H. F. (2012). Empirical Investigation of Multi-tier Ensembles for the Detection of Cardiac Autonomic Neuropathy Using Subsets of the Ewing Features. New Trends of Computational Intelligence in Health Applications, pp.1-11. (Australia) CIHEALTH Sydney, Australia 4/12/2012 CIAO Al-Jumaily, Adel., Bennamoun, M. and Al-Ani, A. Abawajy, J., Beliakov, G., Kelarev, A. V. & Yearwood, J. (2012). Performance evaluation of multi-tier ensemble classifiers fir Phishing websites. Workshop Proceedings of ATIS 2012, pp.1-22. (Melbourne, Australia) School of Information Systems, Deakin University Deakin University, Melbourne 7/11/2012 CIAO Matthew Warren Azab, A., Watters, P.A. and Layton, R. (2012). Characterising network traffic for Skype forensics. Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Cybercrime and Trustworthy Computing Baghirov, A., Barton, A., Al Nuaimat, A. M., Ahmed, S. T., Sultanova, N., Yearwood, J. & Mala Jetmarova, H. (2012). A Novel Approach to Optimal Pump Scheduling in Water Distribution Systems. WDSA 2012: 14th Water Distribution Systems Analysis Conference, pp.618-631. (Barton A.C.T.) Engineers Australia Adelaide South Australia 24/09/2012 CIAO Engineers Australia Baghirov, A., Ahmed, S. T., Barton, A., Mala Jetmarova, H., Al Nuaimat, A. M. & Sultanova, N. (2012). Comparison of Metaheuristic Algorithms For Pump Operation Optimization. Engineers Australia, 2012, pp.887-896. (Barton, ACT) Engineers Australia Adelaide, SA 24/09/2012 CIAO Engineers Australia Baghirov, A., Al Nuaimat, A. M., Ahmed, S. T., Sultanova, N., Barton, A. & Mala Jetmarova, H. (2012). Minimization of pumping costs in water distribution systems using explicit and implicit pump scheduling. Proceedings of 34th Hydrology and Water Resources Symposium, pp.1298-1305. (Sydney Australia) Engineers Australia Sydney Australia 19/11/2012 CIAO Engineers Australia Bellucci, E., Venkatraman, S., Muecke, N., Stranieri, A. & Abawajy, J. (2012). The role of emotional intelligence on the resolution of disputes involving the Electronic Health Record. Volume 129 - Fifth Australasian Workshop on Health Informatics and Knowledge Management, 129 pp.3-12. (Sydney)





Australian Computer Socieity Inc. Melbourne 31/01/2012 CIAO Kerryn Butler-Henderson and Kathleen Gray Birkett, D. & Mala Jetmarova, H. (2012). Are Risk Mitigation Strategies of Water Critical Infrastructure Adequate within a European Environment of 21st Century?. Proceedings of 10th International Conference on Hydroinformatics, pp.1-8. (Germany) HIC 2012 Organising Committee Hamburg, Germany 14/07/2012 CIAO HIC 2012 Organising Committee De Silva, D. and Burstein, F. 2012, Reaching the Masses and Sceptics: Role of Smart Health Information Portals in Holistic Medicine, 3rd International Conference on Holistic Medicine ICHM'2012, pp29-36. De Silva, D., Burstein, F. and Fisher, J. 2012, Supporting personalised content management in smart health information portals, Proceedings of the 23rd Australasian Conference on Information Systems 2012, ACIS. Dzalilov, Z., Baghirov, A. & Mammadov, M. (2012). Application of Optimisation-based Data Mining Techniques to Medical Data Sets: A Comparative Analysis. IMMM 2012: The Second International Conference on Advances in Information Mining and Management, pp.41-46. (Venice, Italy) IARIA Venice, Italy 21/10/2012 CIAO Petre Dini Fabian, M. J., Henrion, R., Kruger, A. & Outrata, J. V. (2012). About error bounds in metric spaces. Operations Research Proceedings 2011, pp.33-38. (Berlin) Springer-Verlag Zurich, Switzerland 30/08/2011 CIAO Diethard Klatte, Hans-Jacob Luthi and Karl Schmedders Gregory, S., Jacka, L., Stokes-Thompson, F., Farley, H., Scutter, S., Neuendorf, P., Mathews, S., Garcia, J., Meredith, G. D., Grant, S., Giovanangeli, A., Cram, A., Muir, T., Grenfell, J., Williams, A., Gregory, B., McCarthy, A., Schutt, S., Wood, D., Orwin, L., Warren, I., Bower, M., Butler, D., Jegathesan, J., Muir-Cochran, E., Atkins, C., Le Rossignol, K., Linegar, D., Cleland, B., Hay, L., Simoff, S., Hillier, M., Ellis, D., Masters, Y., Stupens, I., Steel, C., Miller, C., Hearns, M., Brown, R., Flintoff, K., Gaukrodger, B., Larson, I., Wang, X., Paillat, E., Gu, N. & Bogdanovych, A. (2012). Sustaining the future through virtual worlds. Proceedings of ascilite 2012 Future Challenges:Sustainable Future, pp.1-8. (New Zealand) Massey University Wellington, New Zealand 25/11/2012 CIAO Brown, M., Hartnett, M. and Stewart, T. Jones, A. & Miller, C. (2012). Online learning in ACSEducation: using online learning tools in professional education. Future Challenges, Sustainable Futures. Proceedings of ascilite Wellington 2012, pp.409-413. (Wellington, NZ) Massey University & ascilite Wellington, NZ 25/11/2012 CIAO Brown, M., Hartnett, M. & Stewart, T. Kelarev, A. V., Dazeley, R., Stranieri, A., Yearwood, J. & Jelinek, H. F. (2012). Detection of CAN by Ensemble Classifiers Based on Ripple Down Rules. Proceedings of the 12th Pacific Rim Knowledge Acquisition Workshop 2012 in Lecture Notes in Computer Science Series, 7457 pp.147-159. (Berlin Heidelberg) Springer Kuching, Malaysia 5/09/2012 CIAO Richards, Deborah & Kang, Byeong Ho Kelarev, A. V., Stranieri, A., Yearwood, J. & Jelinek, H. F. (2012). Empirical investigation of consensus clustering for large ECG data sets. Proceedings of CBMS 2012 - The 25th IEEE Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems, pp.1-4. (United States) I E E E Computer Society Rome, Italy 20/06/2012 CIAO Paolo Soda & Francesco Tortorella


Kelarev, A., Stranieri, A., Yearwood, J and Jelinek, H. (2012) ‘Empirical Study of Decision Trees and Ensemble Classifiers for Monitoring of Diabetes Patients in Pervasive Healthcare’ in Barolli, L., Taniar, D., Enokido, T., Rahayu, W. and Takizawa, M. (Eds), Proceedings of the 2012 15th International Conference onNetwork-Based Information Systems, NBIS 2012, IEEE Press. Kelarev, A., Stranieri, S., Abawajy, J, Yearwood, J & Jelinek, H. (2012) ‘Empirical Investigation of Consensus Clustering for Large ECG Data Sets’ to appear in The 25th IEEE International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems, Rome June, 2012. IEEE Press. Pages c1-c4. Kulkarni, S. & Kulkarni, P. (2012). Colour Image Annotation using Hybrid Intelligent Techniques for image retrieval. International Conference on Hybrid Intelligent Systems, pp.115-119. (Singapore) Research Publishing Services Pune, India 4/12/2012 CIAO Ajith Abrahim, Albert Zomaya, Vijay Wadhai, Ronald Yager, Azah Kamilah Muda, Mario Koeppen Kulkarni, S. & Kulkarni, P. (2012). Texture feature extraction and classification by combining statistical and neural based technique for efficient CBIR. Communications in Computer and Information Science, 353 pp.106-113. (Heidelberg) Springer Berlin Heidelberg Korea 16/12/2013 CIAO T.H. Kim et al Layton, R., McCombie, S. & Watters, P.A. (2012). Authorship attribution of IRC messages using inverse author frequency. Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Cybercrime and Trustworthy Computing Layton, R., Watters, P. A. & Dazeley, R. (2012). Unsupervised authorship analysis of phishing webpages. 2012 International Symposium on Communications and Information Technologies, ISCIT 2012, pp.1104-1109. (Queensland) IEEE Gold-Coast, Australia 2/10/2012 CIAO Communications and Information Technologies (ISCIT),

Li, C.J., Gao, D.Y. and Li, C.D. (2012) Global Minimizer of Large Scale Stochastic Rosenbrock Function: Canonical Duality Approach, Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Neural Information Procession, Nov. 12-15, 2012, Doha, Qatar, T. Huang, and C.D. Li (eds). Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer

Li, C.J. and Gao, D.Y. (2012) Impulsive Synchronization of State Delayed Discrete Complex Networks with Switching Topology, Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Neural Information Procession, Nov. 12-15, 2012, Doha, Qatar, T. Huang, and C.D. Li (eds). Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer

Long, Q. & Huang, J. (2012). A new hybrid method combining genetic algorithm and coordinate search method. 2012 IEEE 5th International Conference on Advanced Computational Intelligence, ICACI 2012, pp.1072-1077. (Nanjing, China) IEEE Nanjing, China 18/10/2012 CIAO IEEE Mala Jetmarova, H., Baghirov, A. & Barton, A. (2012). Framework for Multi-objective Optimisation of the Operation of Water Distribution Networks including Water Quality. Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Hydroinformatics, pp.1-8. (Germany) International Conference on Hydroinformatics Hamburg, Germany 14/07/2012 CIAO HIC Organising Committee Maruatona, O. O., Vamplew, P. & Dazeley, R. (2012). RM and RDM, a Preliminary Evaluation of Two Prudent RDR Techniques. Knowledge Management and Acquisition for Intelligent Systems: 12th Pacific Rim Knowledge Acquision workshop, LNCS7457 pp.188-194. (Berlin) Springer Malaysia 5/09/2012 CIAO BH Kang and D Richards


Meredith, G. D., Achterbosch, L. S., Turville, K. & Venkatraman, S. (2012). Virtual worlds: Not the final frontier for games-based nursing education. ascilite 2012: Futrue Challenges, Sustainable Futures. Proceedings, pp.1-5. (Wellington, NZ) Massey University Wellington, New Zealand 25/11/2013 CIAO Brown, M., Hartnett, M. & Stewart, T. Nankervis, S., Meredith, G. D., Vamplew, P. & Fotinatos, N. (2012). Taming the Devil: A game based approach to teaching immunology. ASCILITE 2012: Future challenges, sustainable futures, pp.703-707. (Massey University of New Zealand) Massey University Wellington, NZ 25/11/2012 CIAO Brown, M. Harlnett, M. & Stewart, T. Ruan, N. & Gao, D. (2012). Canonical duality theory and algorithm for solving challenging problems in network optimisation. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), 7665 (3), pp.702-709. (Heidelberg) Springer Berlin Heidelberg Doha, Qatar 12/11/2012 CIAO Huang, T. Zeng, Z., Li, C. & Leung, C.S. Ruan, N. & Gao, D. (2012). Global optimal solutions to nonconvex euclidean distance geometry problems. Internationa Symposium on Mathematical Theory of Networks and Systems, pp.1-8. (Melbourne, Australia) The University of Melbourne Melbourne 9/07/2012 CIAO Unknown Stranieri, A., Kelarev, A. V., Yearwood, J. & Jelinek, H. (2012). Empirical Study of Decision Trees and Ensemble Classifiers for Monitoring of Diabetes Patients in Pervasive Healthcare. NBiS-2012, Network-Based Information Systems, pp.441-446. (Los Alamitos, California) IEEE Computer Socetiy Conference Publishing Services La Trobe University, Melbourne 26/09/2012 CIAO Leonard Barolli, David Taniar, Tomoya Enokido, Wenny Rahahu, Makota Takizawa Stranieri, A. & Sahama, T. (2012). Data Mining Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM): Lessons Learnt from Mining in Law and Allopathic Medicine. Fourteenth International Conference on E-Health, Networking Application and Services, pp.41-46. (USA) IEEE Conference Publications Beijing 10/10/2012 CIAO unknown Stranieri, A. & Venkatraman, S. (2012). Unification of Electronic Health Records and Holistic Medicine. International College of Holistic Cedicine, pp.53-59. (Sri Lanka) University of Colombo University of Colombo, Sri, Lanka 17/11/2012 CIAO Prof. Kshanika Hirimburegama, Prof. Rohan W Jayasekara, Prof. Sabu Thomas, Dr Tony Sahama, A/Prof Andrew Stranieri Sun, Z., Zhao, S., Sun, J. & Li, Y. (2012). A Strategic Model of Trust Management in Web Services. Physics Procedia, 24 pp.1560-1566. (SciVerse ScienceDirect) Elsevier Unknown 1/01/2012 CIAO Dehuai Yang Sun, Z., Firmin, S. & Yearwood, J. (2012). Integrating Online Social Networks with E-Commerce: A CBR Approach. CBR Integrates, pp.1-11. (Geelong, VICTORIA) ACIS Deakin University Geelong, Australia 3/12/2012 CIAO John Lamp Taheri, S. & Mammadov, M. (2012). Structure Learning of Bayesian Networks Using a New Unrestricted Dependency Algorithm. The Second International Conference on Advances in Information Mining and Management, pp.54-59. (Italy) Xpert Publishing Services Venice Italy 21/10/2012 CIAO Unknown Turville, K., Meredith, G. D. & Smith, P. A. (2012). Understanding novice programmers: their perceptions and motivations. Proceedings of ascilite 2012 Future Challenges:Sustainable Futures,


pp.1-5. (Wellington, New Zealand) Massey University Wellington, New Zealand 25/11/2012 CIAO Brown, M., Hartnett, M. & Stewart, T. Venkatraman, S. & Kulkarni, S. (2012). MapReduce Neural Network Framework for Efficient Content Based Image Retrieval from Large Datasets in the Cloud. International Conference on Hybrid Intelligent Systems, pp.63-68. (Singapore) Research Publishing Services Pune, India 4/12/2012 CIAO Ajith Abrahim, Albert Zomaya, Vizay Wadhai, Ronald Yager, Azah Kamilah Muda, Mario Koeppen Watters, P.A. (2012). Challenges to Automated Allegory Resolution in Open Source Intelligence. Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Cybercrime and Trustworthy Computing Watters, P. A. & Phair, N. (2012). Detecting illicit drugs on social media using Automated Social Media Intelligence Analysis (ASMIA). Cyberspace Safety and Security, 7672 pp.66-76. (ONLINE) Springer Verlag MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA 12/12/2012 CIAO Yang Xiang, Javier Lopez, C.-C. Jay Kuo, Wanlei Zhou

Dr Alex Kruger, Dr Musa Mammadov & A/Prof Adil Baghirov at 2012 School Retreat


Risk Management for CIAO for 2013: Identified Risk Why a risk to CIAO? Category

H,M,L Risk Mitigation or Management

Falling number of HDR students

Loss of income which impacts on staff and research capacity

H Look at options for scholarships to attract new students. Increase CIAO marketing through newsletter, new website and showcases of CIAO research.

ERA Score Need to raise scores. CIAO has been successful with ARC grants but this is not reflected in ERA score.

H Meet DVC Research Services to discuss potential for nominating papers and to what score.

Proposed merger with Monash Gippsland Campus in 2013

Unknown at this stage but may have potential for merger or closure of CIAO

L/M Dean to keep CIAO Core informed on developments White paper to be developed outling proposed future directions for CIAO.

Contract staff Lack of continuity for staff. Loss of skills and knowledge and relationships through uncertainty of tenure.

M Advocate for clear HR policies in new university. Ensure that staff receive support to meet performance requirements.

Administrative procedures Too many layers and number of forms for approvals for projects, professional development, visitors and travel.

H Discuss with SITE School Business Manager and Coordinator of Operations how administrative procedures can be streamlined. Develop visitor policy and protocol that supports visitors to CIAO. Liaise with other areas of UB eg: to discuss improvement in performance and processes. Review travel document approval process.

Workloads Limited time for some staff to conduct research due to school commitments

H Representations at School and UB committees


CIAO SWOT Analysis for 2013 Strengths: • Strong knowledgebase and skilled staff • Different to other UB Research centres by providing a diversity of

research. • International reputation and collaborations • Industry engagement • Cross discipline collaboration and membership creates a strong

research environment. • Success rate in ARC grants • Publication success in high impact publications. • Performance is not dependent upon a single individual.

Weaknesses: • Financial arrangements for CIAO. • Excellence was not recognised in ERA • Impact of School workloads on research capacity

Opportunities: • Proposed merger with Monash Gippsland for increasing collaboration

with Information Technology researchers. • e-Health collaborations • Internet Security alliances. • Increasing strong collaborations with other UB Research staff. • Opportunities for high impact research with NICTA • Increasing Australia China collaborations • Integration of research into undergraduate teaching

Threats: • Proposed merger with Monash Gippsland may provide instability and

possible potential for restructure/closure. • Financial resources • Reducing HDR numbers • Loss of key staff due to contractual arrangements • Onerous approval and administrative procedures for projects, visitors,

grants and staff travel. • UB Commercialisation policies make us uncompetitive