Efficient spatial data management for enabling true ride-sharing. This data management project aims to examine ride-sharing as a model of a complex decision system that can be optimised to deliver better outcomes. Popular ride-sharing apps have quickly evolved into ride-sourcing services that are comparable to calling a taxi on a mobile phone. Such arrangements miss many of the key benefits of true ride-sharing for the society. The project will model incentives by helping people agree on points ....Efficient spatial data management for enabling true ride-sharing. This data management project aims to examine ride-sharing as a model of a complex decision system that can be optimised to deliver better outcomes. Popular ride-sharing apps have quickly evolved into ride-sourcing services that are comparable to calling a taxi on a mobile phone. Such arrangements miss many of the key benefits of true ride-sharing for the society. The project will model incentives by helping people agree on points of interest rather than directly seeking trips from others to set destinations. It also aims to introduce privacy-aware dynamic matching of sharers, and expand to transportation at large, to generate new shared transportation services. The expected outcome of this project is to elevate today's taxi-like ride-sharing services to true ride-sharing arrangements. This is expected to provide benefits such as reduced traffic and emissions, as well as addressing parking issues and other traffic problems.Read moreRead less
Next generation data mining techniques for analysing large evolving networks. In order to understand complex systems such as the Internet or gene interactions, we need to analyse how the networks in these systems function and evolve. This project will provide new methods for extracting knowledge from large network databases so that scientists can learn about the operation of these complex systems.
Multi source inference from heterogeneous dynamic networks. Sophisticated big data applications in engineering, the social sciences and biology are now generating flows of data across multiple sources possessing a variety of structures. An emerging challenge is how to develop data mining methods that can cope with this complexity and diversity to make inferences and provide practical insights. This project will develop methods in tensor data mining that provide a new foundation for extracting us ....Multi source inference from heterogeneous dynamic networks. Sophisticated big data applications in engineering, the social sciences and biology are now generating flows of data across multiple sources possessing a variety of structures. An emerging challenge is how to develop data mining methods that can cope with this complexity and diversity to make inferences and provide practical insights. This project will develop methods in tensor data mining that provide a new foundation for extracting useful knowledge from multi source heterogeneous data sets. This will help accelerate discoveries in the next generation of data driven science.Read moreRead less
Personalised data analytics for the Internet of Me. This project aims to develop data mining methods for extracting comprehensive personalised knowledge, without breaching trust. The Internet of Things will lead to the Internet of Me. Billions of smart devices connected to the Internet record people’s lives. Companies wish to provide highly personalised services that engage their customers, while individuals wish to understand their health, lifestyle, education and personal performance. The chal ....Personalised data analytics for the Internet of Me. This project aims to develop data mining methods for extracting comprehensive personalised knowledge, without breaching trust. The Internet of Things will lead to the Internet of Me. Billions of smart devices connected to the Internet record people’s lives. Companies wish to provide highly personalised services that engage their customers, while individuals wish to understand their health, lifestyle, education and personal performance. The challenge is to analyse individuals’ personal data, and discover how they differentiate from and overlap with others’. This project expects to enable businesses to deepen customer satisfaction and individuals to better understand their personal place in a connected world.Read moreRead less
Novel conversion process for carbon dioxide to chemicals. This project aims to develop a novel sorption enhanced material and system to convert atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) to methanol. Climate change is one of the primary long-term problems confronting humankind today. Since the production of CO2 through burning fossil fuel is far greater than the current usage of CO2, there is currently little alternative to storage. As a result, there is concerted effort globally to develop alternate use ....Novel conversion process for carbon dioxide to chemicals. This project aims to develop a novel sorption enhanced material and system to convert atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) to methanol. Climate change is one of the primary long-term problems confronting humankind today. Since the production of CO2 through burning fossil fuel is far greater than the current usage of CO2, there is currently little alternative to storage. As a result, there is concerted effort globally to develop alternate uses and conversion technologies for CO2. This project will help further this goal.Read moreRead less
Enhancing privacy preserving in dynamic cyberspace. This project aims to develop a novel infrastructure operational monitoring and management strategy to reduce the redundant maintenance actions and achieve a cost-effective approach for civil infrastructure asset management. The project will use multiple social networks as a platform for the project, with the potential for the results to be extended to any dynamic cyberspace. Project outcomes will include a set of new analysis theories and tools ....Enhancing privacy preserving in dynamic cyberspace. This project aims to develop a novel infrastructure operational monitoring and management strategy to reduce the redundant maintenance actions and achieve a cost-effective approach for civil infrastructure asset management. The project will use multiple social networks as a platform for the project, with the potential for the results to be extended to any dynamic cyberspace. Project outcomes will include a set of new analysis theories and tools to facilitate government, companies, individuals, and organisations to enhance their information gathering and privacy-preserving capabilities. This is expected to enhance the credibility of the government and organisations and save the possible financial loss of companies and individuals.Read moreRead less
Fairness in Natural Language Processing. Natural language processing (NLP) has achieved spectacular commercial successes in recent years, and has been deployed across an ever-increasing breadth of devices and application areas. At the same time, there has been stark evidence to indicate that naively-trained models amplify biases in training data, and perform inconsistently across text relating to different demographic groupings of individuals. This project aims to systematically quantify the ext ....Fairness in Natural Language Processing. Natural language processing (NLP) has achieved spectacular commercial successes in recent years, and has been deployed across an ever-increasing breadth of devices and application areas. At the same time, there has been stark evidence to indicate that naively-trained models amplify biases in training data, and perform inconsistently across text relating to different demographic groupings of individuals. This project aims to systematically quantify the extent of such biases, and develop models that are both more socially equitable, as well as less prone to expose private data in the learned representations. In doing so, it will make NLP more accessible to new populations of users, and remove socio-technological barriers to NLP uptake.Read moreRead less
Using data mining methods to remove uncertainties in sensor data streams. This project will develop key techniques for removing uncertainties in sensor data streams and thus improve the monitoring quality of sensor networks. The expected outcomes will benefit Australia by enabling improved, lower-cost monitoring of natural resources and management of stock raising.
Deep Data Mining for Anomaly Prediction from Sensor Data Streams. Sensor data streams are crucial for anomaly predictions in real-life monitoring. However, balancing efficiency and accuracy in predicting anomalies with sensor streams is a great challenge; it requires new techniques that go beyond detecting anomalies and predicting trends. This project will develop a deep mining method for anomaly prediction from sensor streams; it will comprise mining algorithms at various levels - from compress ....Deep Data Mining for Anomaly Prediction from Sensor Data Streams. Sensor data streams are crucial for anomaly predictions in real-life monitoring. However, balancing efficiency and accuracy in predicting anomalies with sensor streams is a great challenge; it requires new techniques that go beyond detecting anomalies and predicting trends. This project will develop a deep mining method for anomaly prediction from sensor streams; it will comprise mining algorithms at various levels - from compressing massive raw data, to recognition of abnormal waveforms preceding anomalies, and to retrieving and summarising similar past anomalies for creating descriptions of future anomalies. The project will demonstrate our method in health/environment monitoring applications, and its adoption will save resources, money and lives.Read moreRead less
Knowledge discovery from data in the context of prior beliefs. This project will invent user-centric technologies for discovering knowledge from data that are distinguished by taking account of the user's beliefs, enabling more useful discoveries to be made. This project will also invent methods that identify the relative potential value of those discoveries, helping the user derive greater value from their data assets.