Efficient Similarity Query Processing in High Dimensional Databases. This project studies a fundamental problem common to a wide range of applications. It contributes to smart use of information, which is vital to the modern knowledge-based economy, by providing an enabling technology to capitalise Australia's huge investment in data collection. Our research is right in the forefront of ICT research, leading the international effort of extending database technologies to support data management a ....Efficient Similarity Query Processing in High Dimensional Databases. This project studies a fundamental problem common to a wide range of applications. It contributes to smart use of information, which is vital to the modern knowledge-based economy, by providing an enabling technology to capitalise Australia's huge investment in data collection. Our research is right in the forefront of ICT research, leading the international effort of extending database technologies to support data management and query processing for very large and highly complex data.Read moreRead less
Context Exploration: An Effective Way to Enhance Duplication Detection. As a vital data quality problem, effective duplication detection has practical significance in data management, in particular in large scale information systems such as in business, health and national security. This project aims to be a unique value to virtually every information systems by providing a general, domain-independent framework which is comprehensive to significantly improve the duplication detection. The develo ....Context Exploration: An Effective Way to Enhance Duplication Detection. As a vital data quality problem, effective duplication detection has practical significance in data management, in particular in large scale information systems such as in business, health and national security. This project aims to be a unique value to virtually every information systems by providing a general, domain-independent framework which is comprehensive to significantly improve the duplication detection. The developed cutting-edge technologies are potential to be a new direction of data duplication detection study. This project will allow us to avail an opportunity to promote Australia's capability in developing sophisticated technologies and are potential to add to Australia's profile in this area. Read moreRead less
Effective and Efficient Keyword Search in Relational Databases. Effective and efficient management of information, including textual information, is at the heard of ICT objectives and requirements global wide. The project aims to be of unique value to vitually all Australian industries by providing easier and better information access to their business data. The research conducted in this project will position Australia as one of the leaders in the database and information retrieval research. Th ....Effective and Efficient Keyword Search in Relational Databases. Effective and efficient management of information, including textual information, is at the heard of ICT objectives and requirements global wide. The project aims to be of unique value to vitually all Australian industries by providing easier and better information access to their business data. The research conducted in this project will position Australia as one of the leaders in the database and information retrieval research. The project outcomes in the form of algorithms and systems will provide powerful solutions that are applicable to many Australian and international organisations. It will will also encourage more ICT within Australia and worldwide.Read moreRead less
Intelligent Agent and Semantic Web empowered eFinance: A Knowledge Management Approach to enable and sustain Innovation. This research project will build new methods for adopting and deploying emerging Intelligent Agent and Semantic Web technologies for the purpose of enabling and sustaining innovation. Intelligent Agents and the Semantic Web are frontier technologies that facilitate information sharing and knowledge integration from multiple resources, and empower complex information systems ....Intelligent Agent and Semantic Web empowered eFinance: A Knowledge Management Approach to enable and sustain Innovation. This research project will build new methods for adopting and deploying emerging Intelligent Agent and Semantic Web technologies for the purpose of enabling and sustaining innovation. Intelligent Agents and the Semantic Web are frontier technologies that facilitate information sharing and knowledge integration from multiple resources, and empower complex information systems for independent action in open unpredictable environments such as a competitive global marketplace. We apply our methods in the Wholesale Financial Services Industry. Hence, the project supports both the ARC designated priority area, Frontier Technologies, and a National Priority to establish Australia as a financial services centre in the Asia Pacific Region.Read moreRead less
Exploiting Views in Extensible Markup Language (XML) Data Processing. This project addresses an important technical issue in smart information use, which is among Australian National Research Priorities. The techniques developed in this project will enable Australian organizations to build smarter and more efficient information systems, hence making them more competitive in the global market. The problems in this project are technically challenging, solving them in Australia will enhance Austr ....Exploiting Views in Extensible Markup Language (XML) Data Processing. This project addresses an important technical issue in smart information use, which is among Australian National Research Priorities. The techniques developed in this project will enable Australian organizations to build smarter and more efficient information systems, hence making them more competitive in the global market. The problems in this project are technically challenging, solving them in Australia will enhance Australia's international research reputation. The project will also boost Australia's research capability by training PhD and honours students.
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Comparative analysis and exploration of collections of data clusterings. Data clustering is an important technique for extracting knowledge from complex datasets. It is widely used by Australian science, government and industry, in areas such as genomics, proteomics, crime analysis, marketing and customer profiling. This project will develop new techniques that will allow users to explore and analyse collections of data clusterings. This will improve the current generation of clustering softw ....Comparative analysis and exploration of collections of data clusterings. Data clustering is an important technique for extracting knowledge from complex datasets. It is widely used by Australian science, government and industry, in areas such as genomics, proteomics, crime analysis, marketing and customer profiling. This project will develop new techniques that will allow users to explore and analyse collections of data clusterings. This will improve the current generation of clustering software and allow deeper investigation of challenging and complex data.
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Monitoring online topic evolvements with near-duplicate videos. This project will make a major impact on social media mining, and open up a new research direction for topic discovery. The project's advances will bring economic/social benefits to Australia, where collaborative access of large amount of Web/media information is vital, for example, data sharing and management, broadcasting, advertising, opinion gathering, etc.
Unlocking benefits from digital investments. This project aims to address one of the most vexing questions in the management of information systems: how to unlock the value of digital investments. The project expects to develop new theory and evidence on how to achieve meaningful use of information systems at multiple levels of analysis. The project will especially benefit the health sector, and society, by helping health providers and vendors to maximise the value obtained from substantial inve ....Unlocking benefits from digital investments. This project aims to address one of the most vexing questions in the management of information systems: how to unlock the value of digital investments. The project expects to develop new theory and evidence on how to achieve meaningful use of information systems at multiple levels of analysis. The project will especially benefit the health sector, and society, by helping health providers and vendors to maximise the value obtained from substantial investment in digital technologies, and by developing evidence-based policies to optimise digital service delivery.Read moreRead less
Effective and Efficient Video Search. This project will add a much desired level of sophistication to the current data management and search technologies. Success of this project will not only establish us as an internationally leading research group but also bring significant economic and social benefits to Australia. Many Australia organizations specializing in media communication, entertainment, management and services will be benefited by saving enormous cost, improving service quality, prot ....Effective and Efficient Video Search. This project will add a much desired level of sophistication to the current data management and search technologies. Success of this project will not only establish us as an internationally leading research group but also bring significant economic and social benefits to Australia. Many Australia organizations specializing in media communication, entertainment, management and services will be benefited by saving enormous cost, improving service quality, protecting their intelligence properties, etc. It will also advance Australia's intellectual leadership in copyright compliance, benefit commercialization of research results, form strong international collaborations and networks, and underpin the National Research Priority.
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Investigating identity fraud control, management and policy: Australia in a global context. Identity fraud is recognised as a serious and significant problem in Australia by Government and industry, with estimates of losses ranging up to $4 billion per annum. This project aims to research identity fraud from an organisational and social perspective by investigating control, management and policy alternatives. Outcomes will include conceptual, effects and costing models of identity fraud, succe ....Investigating identity fraud control, management and policy: Australia in a global context. Identity fraud is recognised as a serious and significant problem in Australia by Government and industry, with estimates of losses ranging up to $4 billion per annum. This project aims to research identity fraud from an organisational and social perspective by investigating control, management and policy alternatives. Outcomes will include conceptual, effects and costing models of identity fraud, successful strategies for organisational management control, new techniques to improve prevention and detection, and comparative evaluations of social, legal and privacy implications. The research program will provide the missing research partnership that will inform control, management and policy decisions of national significance.Read moreRead less