Practical methodologies for agent-oritented conceptual modelling. Conceptual modelling involves using knowledge representation techniques to support the requirements engineering phase of the software life-cycle. Agent-oriented conceptual modelling is a relatively new technique that offers significant benefits in modelling complex organisational information systems. However, several problems need to be addressed with current agent-oriented conceptual modelling languages and methodologies. In the ....Practical methodologies for agent-oritented conceptual modelling. Conceptual modelling involves using knowledge representation techniques to support the requirements engineering phase of the software life-cycle. Agent-oriented conceptual modelling is a relatively new technique that offers significant benefits in modelling complex organisational information systems. However, several problems need to be addressed with current agent-oriented conceptual modelling languages and methodologies. In the context of a PhD dissertation, this project will develop an improved agent-oriented conceptual modelling framework and related requirements elicitation techniques drawing on advances in Artificial intelligenct, Requireents Engineering and Organisational Semiotics. The practical deliverables of this project will address the needs of a large complex government organisation.Read moreRead less
Integrated Intelligent Decision Support for Field Design and Management of Census Operations in Australia. This project contributes to a more reliable and accurate measurement of the number and key characteristics of Australian people by supporting a more efficient and effective field design and management of the Census operations. As the Census provides a snapshot of Australia and is crucial to communities, private institutions and all levels of government in the planning of services and facili ....Integrated Intelligent Decision Support for Field Design and Management of Census Operations in Australia. This project contributes to a more reliable and accurate measurement of the number and key characteristics of Australian people by supporting a more efficient and effective field design and management of the Census operations. As the Census provides a snapshot of Australia and is crucial to communities, private institutions and all levels of government in the planning of services and facilities, this project not only addresses the research priority of smart information use, but also contributes to strengthening Australia's social and economic fabric. This project will also train highly qualified IT specialists critical to Australia's scientific and industrial development, thus increasing our competitiveness in information technology R&D.Read moreRead less
Learning strategies for personal agents to assist professional users in searching the Web. Many professional groups have large unmet information needs, with significant consequences for the public. We will take a novel strategy-based approach to the design of agents that assist humans in information search tasks, which represents a significant departure from the dominant paradigm of content-based retrieval. Our goal is to develop automated methods to learn task specific search strategies, embed ....Learning strategies for personal agents to assist professional users in searching the Web. Many professional groups have large unmet information needs, with significant consequences for the public. We will take a novel strategy-based approach to the design of agents that assist humans in information search tasks, which represents a significant departure from the dominant paradigm of content-based retrieval. Our goal is to develop automated methods to learn task specific search strategies, embed them in agents, and use them to guide human-agent interactions and search behaviours. To discover the effectiveness of our approach we will evaluate our methods with health care professionals.Read moreRead less
Special Research Initiatives - Grant ID: SR0354584
Funder
Australian Research Council
Funding Amount
$10,000.00
Summary
ARC Research Network in Multimedia Technology and Applications (MTA). Multimedia Information Technology is becoming a major stream for modern computers, networks, and new platforms (e.g. embedded-systems, mobile-phones, PDAs, digital-TV) in various applications, including media production and e-healthcare where Australia has tremendous strengths. This proposal aims to bring top researchers in the related areas, including IT, Healthcare, Architecture and Visual-arts, to push a new technological w ....ARC Research Network in Multimedia Technology and Applications (MTA). Multimedia Information Technology is becoming a major stream for modern computers, networks, and new platforms (e.g. embedded-systems, mobile-phones, PDAs, digital-TV) in various applications, including media production and e-healthcare where Australia has tremendous strengths. This proposal aims to bring top researchers in the related areas, including IT, Healthcare, Architecture and Visual-arts, to push a new technological wave in Australia, to provide its value promised to Australian business, and to take international leadership in multimedia computing. Its outcome includes the formation of research teams, coordinated by a board, for 10 programs, and a CSCW-system & related website to facilitate the group work.Read moreRead less
Information Health Monitor: An Instrument to Assess the Product and Service Quality of Information. Information quality problems are widespread in practice and have significant economic impacts. This project will refine and extend a rigorous theoretical framework for understanding information quality and develop and validate the Information Health Monitor, an instrument for assessing the quality of information within organisations. Existing approaches to information quality are mostly not rigoro ....Information Health Monitor: An Instrument to Assess the Product and Service Quality of Information. Information quality problems are widespread in practice and have significant economic impacts. This project will refine and extend a rigorous theoretical framework for understanding information quality and develop and validate the Information Health Monitor, an instrument for assessing the quality of information within organisations. Existing approaches to information quality are mostly not rigorously defined and view information as a product. This work is significant and innovative as it is soundly based in existing theory, rigorously defined and views information as both a product and service. The instrument will enable organisations to better identify and address their information quality problems.Read moreRead less
Competition and Collaboration in the Market for Digital Publishing. This is a pioneer, in-depth analysis of the shifting relationships and alliances between key stakeholders in digital publishing, in a context of complexity, rapid technological change and Australian involvement in high value electronic information service markets. Using a multi-staged approach, the project aims to identify the fundamental requirements and expectations of key stakeholders in digital publishing. The outcomes will ....Competition and Collaboration in the Market for Digital Publishing. This is a pioneer, in-depth analysis of the shifting relationships and alliances between key stakeholders in digital publishing, in a context of complexity, rapid technological change and Australian involvement in high value electronic information service markets. Using a multi-staged approach, the project aims to identify the fundamental requirements and expectations of key stakeholders in digital publishing. The outcomes will include an ecological analysis of the digital publishing space and a redefinition of value propositions and business models with practical significance for Australia's participation in the information economy in general, and for the development of the digital publishing industry in particular. Read moreRead less
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
Improving Extensible Markup Language (XML) data quality using XML integrity constraints. The first benefit of the project will be the of development a new technology that will improve the data quality in Australian organizations using the rapidly growing Extensible Markup Language (XML) technology. It will also be of benefit to the Australian software industry, since the outcome of the project is a software tool for cleaning XML data that is aimed at eventual commercialisation in a quickly gro ....Improving Extensible Markup Language (XML) data quality using XML integrity constraints. The first benefit of the project will be the of development a new technology that will improve the data quality in Australian organizations using the rapidly growing Extensible Markup Language (XML) technology. It will also be of benefit to the Australian software industry, since the outcome of the project is a software tool for cleaning XML data that is aimed at eventual commercialisation in a quickly growing area of the software market. The project will also boost international research collaboration through the involvement of an overseas partner investigator, and expand Australia's expertise in the new area of XML technology through the training of a Ph.D. student.Read moreRead less