Annual Report to the Australian Government 2008 March ... - NICTA

Annual Report to the
Australian Government 2008
March 2009
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Contents
1. Milestone Report 4
About NICTA 5
About this Annual Report 6
NICTA: from imagination to impact 8
Projects 9
Other Abbreviations 12
Chairman’s Report 13
Chief Executive Officer’s Report 15
Highlights - Summary List of Outcomes 18
Corporate Governance 26
a) Progress and Performance Report 28
People 29
Research 34
Education 36
Linkages 42
Commercialisation 48
Milestone Activity Reports 58
Milestones 2008 — Not Met 85
Performance Indicators 89
First Tier and Second Tier Performance Indicators 90
Metrics — 2007-2011 101
b) Consistency with the Intellectual Property Policy 104
c) Independent Business and Research Advice and the Mechanisms
Used to Obtain that Advice 106
d) Risk Identification and Risk Management Strategies 108
e) Financial Declaration and Reports 109
f) Audited Acquittal of Funds Payments 110
g) Breakdown of Funds Spent 111
h) Statement of Other Contributions 112
i) Audited General Purpose Financial Reports 113
j) Details of Asset Disposal 114
k) Public Acknowledgements of Funding
Made Under Subclause 23.1 115
l) Activity Taken to Communicate Research Results to the Research
Community and/or the General Public 116
m) Variation to this Agreement 134
n) Actions Taken to Meet the Requirements
Under Item 1.5(a)xxxviii) and Item1.5(a)(xxxix) 135
2. Research Themes and Projects 139
NICTA Project Index 141
NICTA Research Project Portfolio 143
3. Information Annexes 235
Research Publications and Annexes 236
Research and Teaching Visitors to Australia 308
Research or Teaching Visits to International Institutions 314
Membership of Program Committees for Major Professional Conferences
322
Membership of Editorial Boards for Journals 341
Prizes, Awards and Other Honours 345
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2008 Software Releases 348
Commercialisation Training 350
Number of advanced technical and professional courses available to NICTA
enhanced PhD students 351
Research Staff by Lab and Theme 352
Current List of NICTA PhD Students and Thesis Topics 357
Appendix A available as a separate volume
Appendix B available as a separate volume
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1. Milestone Report
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About NICTA
NICTA, National Information & Communications Technologies (ICT) Australia
Limited, was established in 2002 by our members to drive innovation through
high quality research, research training and technology transfer. NICTA’s
members are the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) Government, the Australian
National University (ANU), the New South Wales (NSW) Government, and the
University of New South Wales (UNSW). NICTA was selected in 2002 in a
competitive bid process as Australia’s ICT Centre of Excellence. It is funded by the
Australian Government as represented by the Department of Broadband,
Communications and the Digital Economy and the Australian Research Council.
Our partners include the University of Sydney, the Victorian Government, the
University of Melbourne, the Queensland Government, Griffith University, the
Queensland University of Technology and the University of Queensland.
Our researchers are housed in five laboratories located in four cities around
Australia: Melbourne, Sydney, Canberra and Brisbane. Working in project teams,
the researchers are focused on four research themes inspired by six business
areas.
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About this Annual Report
The Annual Report is a reporting obligation on the part of NICTA to the
Commonwealth of Australia stemming from the Second Funding Agreement
between the two parties. This Annual Report covers the 2008 calendar year.
The following elements are to be included in the Annual Report:
a. A declaration detailing NICTA’s progress and
performance against the activities, outputs, milestones
and performance indicators specified in the Funding
Agreement and the Annual Activity Plan 2007, or part
thereof, signed by the same person, or by a person
holding or acting in the same position as the person
who signed this Agreement on NICTA’s behalf
b. Details showing the extent to which NICTA’s activities
were consistent with its Intellectual Property Policy for
the management and commercialisation of intellectual
property rights
c. Details on independent business and research advice
received during 2008 and the mechanisms used to
obtain that advice
d. Details on risk identification and risk management
strategies used during 2008
e. A declaration certifying that all funds received were
expended for the purpose of the activity and in
accordance with this Agreement, and that the
Australian Research Council (ARC) funds were
expended only in accordance with the relevant
approved funding proposal under the ARC Act, signed
by the same person, or by a person holding or acting in
the same position as the person who signed this
Agreement on NICTA’s behalf
f. Further to clause 9.2, an audited acquittal of funds
payments for the previous calendar year up to the date
of the Annual Report, separately specifying the
departmental funds and the ARC funds paid to NICTA,
providing a breakdown of the expenditure of the
departmental funds and the ARC funds and identifying
any unexpended departmental funds and unexpended
ARC funds
g. In the statement prepared for the purposes of Item
3.6(f), a breakdown of funds spent by NICTA before the
end of the calendar year, or part thereof, and funds
spent after the end of the calendar year, or part
thereof, in respect of commitments entered into by
NICTA before the end of the calendar year, or part
thereof
h. An audited statement detailing the value of Other
Contributions achieved under Item 2.2. For in-kind
contributions, NICTA should provide an explanation of
how the value was derived
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i. Audited general purpose financial reports for NICTA as
a whole, for the previous calendar year, including an
accounting of GST paid or payable to the Australian
Taxation Office
j. Details of asset disposals in accordance with clause 7
k. Details of all public acknowledgments of funding made
under subclause 23.1
l. Any activity taken to communicate research results to
the research community and/or the general public
m. An indication of whether any changes are emerging
that may necessitate variation to this Agreement
n. Details in relation to actions taken to meet the
requirements under Item 1.5(a)(xxxviii) and Item
1.5(a)(xxxix)
o. In relation to the 2007 calendar year and all
subsequent calendar years, details as specified under
Item 1.13.
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NICTA: from imagination to impact
NICTA’s Vision
Our vision is that our imaginative research drives Australia’s Information and
Communications Technology (ICT) future.
NICTA’s Mission
Our mission is to be an enduring world-class ICT research institute that generates
national benefit.
Our PEOPLE Objective
Bring together world-class researchers and professional staff, enhance their skills
and build a culture of entrepreneurship and achievement in use-inspired basic
research, enhancing Australia’s ICT capacity and capability.
Our RESEARCH Objective
Carry out research that advances knowledge, is recognised for its excellence and
generates breakthrough, user-focused technologies.
Our EDUCATION Objective
Work with universities to provide Australia with ICT researchers who have deep
technical expertise, supported by strong professional and entrepreneurial skills.
Our LINKAGES Objective
Increase our impact and results by working with targeted research, government,
education, industry and domain partners.
Our COMMERCIALISATION Objective
Facilitate technology transfer and create channels to market for NICTA research.
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Projects
Project Abbreviation Project Title
AAESDP Automated Anatomical Structure
Extraction for Diagnosis and Population
Norms
ARIA Architectures for Intelligent Agents
ArMaTure Process Architecture, Modelling and
Technologies for Business and
Government
ATOMIC/ G12 Advanced Technologies for Optimisation
and Modelling In Constraints
AutoMap AutoMap
BANESH renamed HPI Body Area Networks for Embedded
Systems for Humans/Human
Performance Improvement
BioTALA Biomedical Text and Language
Applications
Braccetto Braccetto
CAMP Context Aware Mobility Project
CG Cancer Genomics
ComQu In Memory XML Query Processing
COSE Cognitive and Organisational Systems
Engineering
CTC Computer Colonic Polyps Detection based
on CT Colonography
DMiST Data Mining in Spatio-Temporal Sets
DPOLP Dynamic Planning, Optimisation and
Learning
DSIM Decision Support for Incident
Management
ELEFANT ELEFANT - SML Inside
- Doc ELEFANT - Documents
- VBAND ELEFANT-Vision Based Assessment of
Neurogenerative Diseases
FLoW Fundamental Limits of Wireless
FM for PEWNA Formal Methods for Performance
Evaluation of Wireless Network
Applications
GiFi Millimetre Wave Gigabit Wireless
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GOANNA Goanna
InterfereX-2 InterfereX-2: Efficient Receivers for
Wireless Communications
L4.Verified L4.verified
LIXI LIXI Business Processes
Macro Macro-Programming for Wireless Sensor
Networks
MGCC Mapping Genetic Components in Crops
NOSA NICTA Open SensorWeb Architecture
P2P Peer-to-Peer Computing
Potoroo Probablistic Temporal Analysis of
Operating Systems Code
QUSE Query under Uncertainty for a Secure and
Sustainable Environment
RESA Requirements Engineering for Strategic
Alignment
SAFE Smart Applications for Emergencies
- SAFE Sensors SAFE Sensors
- SAFE Info SAFE Information
- SAFE Agents SAFE Agents
- SAFE Networks SAFE Networks
SAFE II AS Smart Applications for Emergencies –
Advanced Surveillance
SAIL Situation Awareness by Inference and
Logic
Sel4 Secure Embedded L4
SISMS Spectral Imaging Source Mapping
Systems
STaR Smart Transport and Roads
- STaR-UI STaR - Advanced Multimodal User
Interfaces for Control Rooms
- STaR-Comm STaR- Communications
- STaR Control STaR Control
- STaR - SenSurv STaR - Sensors and Surveillance
Supercom Supercom: Model-Based Supervision of
Composite Systems
SWARM Characterisation, Diagnosis and
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Assurance of Health and Quality of Sensor
Formations
TEMPO Testbed Management Framework and its
Application to Peer-to-Peer Overlays
USS Universal Storage Scheme
VIBE Visual Processing for the Bionic Eye
WIN Water Information Networks
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Other Abbreviations
ARC Australian Research Council
ATP Australian Technology Park Laboratory
CMOS Complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor
COW Commercialisation Opportunity Workshop
CRL Canberra Research Laboratory
DBCDE Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy
DSRC Dedicated Short Range Communication
DSRD Department of State and Regional Development
DSTO Defence Science and Technology Organisation
EIR Entrepreneur in Residence
ESA Embedded Systems Australia
FTE Full Time Equivalent
IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
HFA Hannover Fairs Australia
NRL Neville Roach Laboratory
PIPSS Project Intellectual Property Searching Sessions
PMS Pavement Management Services
PVR Project Value Rating
QRL Queensland Research Laboratory
RMCC Research Management Coordination Committee
RSAC Research Strategy Advisory Council
RTA Roads and Traffic Authority
RTN Research Training Network
SICS Swedish Institute of Computer Science
SSP Summer Scholars Program
STI Science Technology and Innovation
UNSW University of New South Wales
VC Venture Capitalist
VRL Victorian Research Laboratory
WCDMA Wideband Code Division Multiple Access
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Chairman’s Report
NICTA took on its first employees at the beginning of 2003. In six years it has
grown to a national organisation employing 413 people and 298 NICTA enhanced
PhD students. There are laboratories in NSW, ACT, Victoria and Queensland and
significant research collaborations in other parts of Australia.
However staff numbers and facilities tell only part of the story of the growth of
NICTA. More important has been the evolution of our research and business
planning, the increasingly rigorous methods of selecting and reviewing projects
and the changing culture of NICTA researchers as they have embraced the use
inspired approach to our research.
This evolution has been greatly assisted by the generous and sage advice of our
International Science and Business Advisory Groups. Their encouragement,
support and constructive criticism have been welcomed by the Board,
management and researchers. Thank you to all members for making the long
journey to be with us each year for over three intensive days of lively, useful
discussion about NICTA’s research projects and education, linkage and
commercialisation activities.
NICTA reports to the Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital
Economy (DBCDE) led by the Hon. Senator Stephen Conroy and the Australian
Research Council (ARC) which comes under the Department of Innovation,
Industry, Science and Research (DIISR), led by the Hon. Senator Kim Carr.
Both Ministers have shown a keen interest in NICTA and its role in the Australian
innovation system and we thank them and their Departments for their continuing
support.
2008 was marked by a major review of the national innovation sytem, led by Dr
Terry Cutler. Familiar models of government-backed R&D were held up to
question and the review recommendations noted that both industry-led and
government-led research is vital to the health of the Australian ICT industry.
NICTA’s own mission which is to bridge the gap between business and academic
research sits well within the scope of the report’s recommendations.
I am delighted to report that NICTA CEO Dr David Skellern’s contract has been
extended for two years, until March 2011. NICTA has been headed by Dr Skellern
since May 2005. Over the last three and a half years, the NICTA Board has been
extremely impressed with Dr Skellern’s performance as CEO and welcomes his
continued passion and energy in building a strong and dynamic culture of
innovation in this country.
I would also like to recognise the contribution of the NICTA leadership team.
Firstly the NICTA Executive, who pursue NICTA’s mission to create an enduring,
world-class institute in information and communications technology that
generates national benefit. Secondly, the NICTA Board, whose dedication
remains unwavering in the realisation of NICTA’s vision. I’d particularly like to
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thank departing NICTA Board members Kelly Jones and Su-Ming Wong for their
service and welcome Loftus Harris and Chris Beare to the team.
Finally, I would like to acknowledge the contribution of the Australian Government
as well as our State Government and university members and partners. Their
support of NICTA is both valued and essential to our continued evolution into one
of the world’s leading research institutes.
Neville Stevens, AO
Chairman
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Chief Executive Officer’s Report
At NICTA, we believe that delivering national benefit requires us to set ambitious
goals, take risks and challenge conventional wisdom. This approach has led to
significant achievements in our research, education, linkages and
commercialisation activities over the past year, and positions us well for ongoing
success in the year ahead.
2008 achievements
At the close of 2008, we had over 711 people working in NICTA labs, including 67
staff contributed from partner universities, and 298 NICTA-enhanced PhD
students. In early 2009 NICTA expects to celebrate the milestone of the
graduation of its 100 th NICTA-enhanced PhD student. Our students are our next
generation of ICT experts who will strengthen the ICT skills base in Australia. With
over 70% of NICTA-enhanced graduates remaining in the country, we are steadily
and successfully building an Australian ICT capability that has deep technical
expertise supported by strong professional and entrepreneurial skills.
Over the past year, we continued to pursue measures that focus our activities and
maximise their impact.
We developed strategic plans for each of our four research themes. These plans
will shape the strategic direction of our research to ensure relevance and help us
achieve our goal of becoming one of the world’s top ten ICT research institutes by
2020. Ongoing development and implementation of these plans will continue to
be a focus for 2009.
Throughout the year, we worked towards increasing the average size of our
research projects. We now have a smaller number of larger scale activities and
are approaching our goal of $1 million average project funding.
Our collaborations in Australia have increased in number and significance, with
NICTA’s front-line research teams establishing new linkages with targeted leading
research groups, tertiary education institutions, ICT businesses and the public
sector. NICTA played a leading role in the establishment of the ICT for
LifeSciences Forum, and contributed to the ongoing success of the Embedded
Systems Australia industry cluster, which was established in late 2007. These
clusters benefit all involved by facilitating exchange of resources and indentifying
skills and synergies between organisations and facilitating a combining of
resources in joint projects.
In 2008 we saw Audinate, a NICTA spinout company, roll out its media networking
technology for Pope Benedict’s final World Youth Day Mass at Randwick
Racecourse. The technology successfully relayed the event to a crowd of 400,000
participants.
Early in the year we saw the launch of our fourth spin-out company, Monitoring
Division Inc. The total number of people employed in NICTA spin-outs continues to
grow, and is a testament to the success of our commercialisation strategy.
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International Collaboration
In 2008 NICTA took steps to increase and strengthen our international linkages to
build our positiion at the forefront of global research and to establish channels to
market for Australian innovation. A new position, Director, International Relations,
was established to develop and manage a more strategic approach to these
linkages.
Our increased focus on international collaboration has resulted in some exciting
and fruitful research collaborations that promise to make valuable contributions
to Australia’s ICT innovation environment in the future.
The Digital Economy
NICTA also increased focus over the year on the digital economy and what it
means for Australia.
So what is the digital economy, and how does Australia benefit from it? Quite
simply, it is that part of the day to day business between people, companies and
government that is transacted over the internet, and it is an ever increasing part
of THE economy.
NICTA’s researchers, students and corporate staff understand that the digital
economy is not a distant vision but a living reality.
Entrepreneurship, openness and collaboration underpin its health. I have been
particularly proud of NICTA’s expression of these qualities during 2008; from the
launch of the “GiFi” high-speed wireless chip, to the release of our Elefant and
G12 platforms as open source software, to our joint collaboration with the
Institute for Infocomm Research in Singapore.
ICT innovation has a central role to play in the digital economy and hence
Australia’s economic future. The current financial crisis should remind us that we
need to develop an economy that can weather the cycle of commodities boom
and bust, one that has innovation built into its bottom line. To build a resilient
economy, to secure the best educational and employment opportunities for our
children into the future: these are pressing tasks for our nation. At NICTA, we
continue to work hard to contribute to this national enterprise.
Our collaborations with and licensing of our research breakthroughs to existing
companies and NICTA spinouts, and our research training and engagement with
students and education are all part of this work.
I note especially our work with schools to engage younger students with ICT. To
have the best chance of building an innovation-based economy, young people
need to hear that science and technology can provide creative, exciting,
even exhilarating, careers. To this end, NICTA participates in numerous school
and regional science events, showcasing some of our more entertaining
technologies to this group.
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NICTA’s achievements over the past year leave me in no doubt that we can and
will achieve the ambitious goals that we have set ourselves for this year. NICTA’s
strength lies in its people, and I believe that we have the right people and plans in
place to ensure ongoing success in 2009. Despite difficult economic times, I am
optimistic about the year ahead.
Dr David Skellern
Chief Executive Officer
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Highlights
Summary List of Outcomes
The following points provide a summary of the general outcomes from activity
across the whole of NICTA in the period 1 January to 31 December 2008. These
outcomes are reported under NICTA’s five strategic objectives Research, People,
Education, Linkages and Commercialisation.
Research
• Toby Walsh, at the Neville Roach Laboratory, became the first
Australian researcher in 10 years to be elected Fellow of the
Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence. The election
is for “significant and sustained contributions to automated deduction
and constraint programming and for extraordinary service to the AI
community". The Association for the Advancement of Artificial
Intelligence's Fellows program started in 1990 to recognise individuals
who have made significant, sustained contributions---usually over at
least a ten-year period---to the field of artificial intelligence. Fellows'
accomplishments range from pioneering advances in the theory of
artificial intelligence, to unusual accomplishments in artificial
intelligence technology and AI applications. This is a significant honour
that provides good evidence as to the calibre of NICTA’s top
researchers. For further information see:
http://www.aaai.org/Awards/fellows.php
• The Embedded Systems Group at the Victorian laboratory has
continued development of the Gifi chip in preparation for
commercialisation. The GiFi team has developed the world’s first
transceiver integrated on a single chip which operates at 60GHz on the
CMOS (complementary metal–oxide–semiconductor) process. This
breakthrough paves the way for commodity priced ultra-highspeed
wireless networking in the home and office.
• Robert van Glabbeek, a researcher within the Managing Complexity
theme at the Neville Roach laboratory, made a significant advance in
reasoning about computer programs. This breakthrough ultimately will
be important for the design of reliable systems such as enterprise
databases. The result is relevant for understanding exactly how one
can simulate a distributed concurrent system on a single computer.
This is an example of the deep theoretical research inspired by
compelling problems of Managing Complexity.
• In October, NICTA announced the release of a beta version of its
massively multiplayer online (MMO) peer to peer (P2P) network engine,
Badunna. The software promises to slash hosting costs for games
developers and make their online environments significantly more
scalable. Badunna can support millions of users with minimal
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infrastructure and has been successfully integrated with the platform
of 3-D virtual worlds platform provider VastPark.
• NICTA is a founding research partner for d_city, a new cross-disciplinary
networked community committed to using breakthrough research,
including advanced ICT research, in urban design, development and
management. d_city aims to unite research groups around the world in
the common goal of using data technologies to build better, more
ecologically healthy cities.
• NICTA was successful in a collaborative bid for €6.3 million in
European Commission (EC) funding to support research into the design
of vital experimental facilities for network researchers. The largest of
14 projects inside the EC’s initiative for Future Internet Research and
Experimentation (FIRE), the 26-member collaborative project has a
total budget of €8.9 million. Called OneLab2, the project commenced
in September 2008 and will run over 27 months. It will address the
design of experimental facilities, or testbeds, which are used by
researchers to evaluate new technologies for large networks such as
the Internet.
• A breakthrough occurred in the Automated Anatomical Structure
Extraction for Diagnosis and Population Norms (AASEDP) project, which
has shown the statistically significant ability to discriminate Alzheimer’s
type dementia from that of a healthy ageing brain based only on
algorithms for analysing the shape of the hippocampus. This project
has filed a provisional patent for this discovery.
• In the seL4 project, a more complex and secure microkernel has been
developed. An L4 based framework has been developed, combining
NICTA research with work done by the University of California at Santa
Cruz (UCSC). The kernel has now been extended to include power
management, making it the first approach that can optimize power use
in a real-time environment.
• The LIXI project released a white paper and final version of software
‘LIXI Visible Loans’ to the public. The launch event attracted significant
media coverage including Computerworld, Infoworld, CIO Germany, and
CIO Australia (these include online media).
• The Networked Systems Research team at ATP developed and
deployed the World Youth Day '08 Mobile web site
(http://www.wyd2008.org/). The Networked Systems group was
approached by World Youth Day (WYD) organisers in the weeks leading
up to the event, and asked if they could develop the WYD site
optimised for mobile phones within a short timeframe. The NICTA group
delivered the site, optimised to the specific needs of mobile users.
• The CRL Managing Complexity group organised two international
conferences on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS) and
Automated Reasoning (IJCAR) which took place in Sydney. These
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People
conferences attracted many publications and the automated theorem
proving and planning systems paper by NICTA researchers performed
very well in the conference competitions. ICAPS and IJCAR also
attracted exceptionally high number of overseas visitors, which helped
to advance international research collaborations and establish new
linkages.
• The BioTALA project out of the Victorian laboratory is currently a semifinalist
in the Elsevier Grand Challenge: Knowledge Enhancement in
the Life Sciences (http://www.elseviergrandchallenge.com/). This is a
contest created to improve the way scientific information is
communicated and used. The contest invites members of the scientific
community to describe and develop a prototype tool to improve the
interpretation and identification of meaning in (online) journals and text
databases relating to the life sciences.
• The SAFE team from the Queensland laboratory has been invited by
the National Security Science and Technology Unit from the
Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet to submit a follow-on project
on the evaluation of Intelligent CCTV technology for Counter Terrorism
and Protection of Critical Infrastructures. This project will involve strong
collaboration with the Port of Brisbane and Queensland Rail.
• The G12 project released the MiniZinc programming language. This
world-class programming language addresses the need for a common
formal modelling language that can be used by mathematical
programmers, operations researchers, constraint programmers,
developers of genetic algorithms and Artificial Intelligence researchers.
• In the third quarter of 2008 NICTA’s Australian Technology Park (ATP)
relocation took place, following completion of the new building and
physical and IT services fit-out during second quarter. The relocation
was completed successfully over a 2-week period, and completion of
all services was undertaken during fourth quarter.
• NICTA operates five research laboratories in four states: Australian
Technology Park (NSW), Brisbane (Qld), Canberra (ACT), Kensington (NSW)
and Melbourne (Vic).
• At 31 December 2008 staff headcount was equal to 711 with 150 at ATP,
65 at Kensington, 43 in Brisbane, 71 in Canberra, 80 in Melbourne and 4
in Adelaide. There were 298 Enhanced PhD Students.
• The overall researcher base at 31 December 2008 comprised 4 themes
with a total research staff level of 239 researchers.
• The recruited base of 239 researchers was a full time equivalent of 229.
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• 58 were recruited from overseas and 181 from Australia.
• 60 research staff were contributed from ANU, UNSW, University of Sydney,
University of Melbourne, UQ, GU, and QUT for an FTE of 35.1.
• In 2008, NICTA presented two awards to staff who demonstrated
excellence in delivering against one or more of NICTA’s values. The
winners were:
Operational Excellence Award: Xi Chen and Anthony Fok for the migration
of NICTA’s new Intranet, and Dr Max Ott for his role in setting up NICTA’s
publications database.
Richard Newton Excellence in Research Award: Professor Gernot Heiser for
the embedded operating system research underpinning NICTA’s Open
Kernel Labs spin-out.
• NICTA appointed Dr John Parker to the role of Chief Technology Officer
(CTO), Implant Technologies. Dr Parker previously held the position of CTO
at Cochlear, the ASX-listed company credited with developing the world’s
first commercially viable, multi-channel Cochlear implant. Dr Parker will
spearhead NICTA’s development of breakthrough medical implant
technologies to help people who suffer from neurological disorders.
Education
• At the end of 2008 there were 298 NICTA-enhanced PhD students, 131 of
which involve a primary stipend.
• Forty-nine students graduated with a NICTA enhanced degree in 2008.
This brings the total number of graduates to 103 since the program began,
comprising 91 PhDs and 12 Masters Degrees. Thirty one theses are under
examination at the end of the reporting year.
• The 2007 – 2008 Summer Scholarship Program (SSP) was held at the ATP
and NRL, concluding in February with all 39 participating students giving
presentations.
• The Sydney and Victoria Laboratories hosted a visit by Professor Henri
Angelino, Acting Director of the Global Liaison Office at Japanese National
Institute of Informatics (NII), in order to exchange ideas on strengthening
the internship program.
• A Student Forum was introduced to Techfest 2008 in which 70 PhD and
Masters students gained up-to-date information on the NICTA enhanced
PhD, internships and advanced courses
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• Xiaonan Ji, James Bailey & Rao Kotagiri won Best Paper Award at an
International Conference on Pattern Recognition in Bioinformatics (PRIB).
The prize was awarded out of 121 submissions.
• Peter Stuckey was part of the winning team for the 15 th International
Prolog Programming Contest (ICLP2008) in Italy, December 2008. Peter,
one of the best Prolog programmers in the world, has been a member of
the winning team seven times over its history.
• PhD student, Chenyi Zhang won the CISRA (Canon Information Systems
Research Australia) best research paper award in 2008 at CSE for
“Information Flow with Schedulers”, published in the Proceedings of the
21 st IEEE Computer Security Foundations Symposium.
• Subhash Challa and Rajib Chakrovorty received the Best Paper award at
the Mosharaka International Conference on Communications, Computers
and Applications (MICCCA 2008) for the paper, “Auto Calibration in Drift
Aware Wireless Sensor Networks using The Interacting Multiple Model
Algorithm”, co-authored with UTS collaborator Maern Takruri.
Linkages
• Reflecting NICTA’s focus on increasing its international engagement and
profile, the position of Director, International Relations was created
reporting directly to the CEO.
• In November NICTA met with the I’Institute National de Recherche en
Informatique et en Automatique (INRIA) to finalise the terms of an INRIA-
NICTA collaboration to facilitate collaboration opportunities in research
priority areas.
• NICTA strengthened its strategic relationship with the Singaporean
Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R), which is part of the A-Star group,
and announced collaboration on the Maritime Mesh Networks program.
Under a new six-month agreement, NICTA will use its “go-anywhere” router
technology to supply satellite connectivity for the I2R network, which
provides data and voice communications between a collection of mobile
nodes on ships and land-based networks. The I2R network is designed to
provide communications to port authorities, container terminals and other
ships by WiMax inter-ship connectivity. However, there are impediments to
this such as distance or weather conditions that make NICTA’s technology
invaluable when shore mesh nodes cannot be reached. NICTA attended
I2R’s Techfest in late November 2008 and held a workshop on Networked
Systems research. The workshop identified future opportunities to deepen
the Maritime Mesh Network program and promote student exchange.
• A new proposal for context aware mobility project collaboration was
developed with Ericsson AB (Sweden) in December.
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• NICTA continued to work with Fraunhofer and SAP Research to explore a
three-way collaboration in freight and logistics in the form of a Living Lab at
Australian Technology Park.
• NICTA announced its participation in two EU FP7 collaborative projects.
(FP7 is the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme for
Research and Technological Development). These projects are:
Nano Data Centres (NADA) aims to revolutionise the way
information is delivered over the Internet. The project has EU
funding of €3.01 million (AUD$4.94m) over 36 months. The total
cost of the project, including contributions from each participant, is
€4.9 million (AUD$7.9m.) NICTA will invest resources worth more
than AUD$290,000.
OneLab2 will create experimental testbeds which are used by
researchers to evaluate new technologies for large networks such
as the Internet. The largest of 14 projects inside the EC's initiative
for Future Internet Research and Experimentation (FIRE), the 26member
collaborative project has a total budget of €8.9 million
(AUD$15.4m). NICTA is involved in a wireless work package inside
OneLab2 which will address the challenges the Internet faces in
connecting to a growing number of wireless devices.
• The first NICTA short course to be delivered outside Australia was held in
London on 13-14 May 2008. The course in Tracking and Data Fusion was
given by Dr. Branko Ristic of Defence Science and Technology Organisation
(DSTO).
• NICTA made its international organisational debut exhibiting at the
CommunicAsia 2008 trade fair held in Singapore.
• Managing Complexity members at VRL had the P2P team attend the
Virtual Worlds Expo and Conference in Los Angeles in September. Arising
from this, a partnership has been established with 3DInternet
(www.3dinternet.com)
• During August 2008, the Neville Roach Laboratory (NRL) hosted the
International Science Advisory Group (ISAG) and International Business
Advisory Group (IBAG) meeting. At this meeting the Advisory Groups, made
up of eminent scientists from around the world, review and make
recommendations on NICTA research.
• In September, NICTA held a stakeholder event at Parliament House in
Canberra. Approximately 200 Parliamentarians, ministerial advisers and
industry stakeholders attended the event. Ministers Kim Carr and Stephen
Conroy addressed the occasion.
• NICTA participated in CeBIT Australia held in Sydney. NICTA CEO Dr David
Skellern was also on the panel of the AusInnovate forum, held in
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conjunction with CeBIT this year, and CTO (Embedded Systems) Dr Chris
Nicol also presented at this event.
• NICTA’s annual technology showcase, Techfest 2008, was held on 30
April/1 May at the Canberra Research Laboratory and the open second
day attracted over 200 external guests.
Commercialisation
• In 2008 NICTA’s fourth spinout company, Monitoring Division Inc was
incorporated and officially launched in March 2008 by Minister Stephen
Conroy.
• In 2008, NICTA entered into more than 20 licences of technology
including: 11 open source agreements, 7 evaluation licences and 3
commercial licences – the latter were P2P (peer to peer), MAMI
(Monitoring and Managing the Internet) and ERTOS (Embedded Real-Time
and Operation Systems) technologies.
• NICTA’s expertise led to number of consulting or contract research
engagements, many in the software infrastructure area. Clients include:
Centrelink (conducted by the RESA — Requirements Engineering for
Strategic Alignment — team), Lending Industry XML Initiative, National
Electronic Conveyancing System, Queensland Health and a large financial
institution are examples where the ArMaTure team have deepened their
use-inspiration through strategically aligned research contracts. Contracts
have also been agreed and delivered with the Global Innovations Centre,
s2001 (mContext) and Railcorp NSW (SAFE).
• The Goanna project’s debugging tool is now being used by CEA
Technologies, Australia, Open Kernel Labs, the Defence Signals
Directorate (DSD), numerous project teams within NICTA and Notal Vision,
Israel. Early anecdotal feedback has been positive including one senior
executive reporting that the tool had “found a bug which could have cost
us millions”.
• Following the NICTA/UNSW team success at winning first place in the
ARTEMIS Orchestra competition in Athens with the robotically operated,
computer-driven clarinet, a release of Musical Instrument Digital Interface
(MIDI) software into the Lilypond Open Source community was completed.
• Audinate’s advanced professional audio capabilities were demonstrated
during the Papal mass at Randwick Racecourse attended by 400,000
participants. Audinate’s Dante technology provided an extremely cost
effective means of distributing audio to the venue’s extensive speaker
system, saving an estimated $200,000 in cabling costs. Dante is being
used by a growing number of large live events in Australia, the USA and the
UK.
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• NICTA spin-out Open Kernel Labs (OKL) participated in international trade
shows, conferences and exhibitions including: VERIFY 2008, APTISS 2008
and the Embedded Systems Conference in Birmingham, UK. During this
period OKL was recognised as a 2008 Golden Mousetrap Award Best
Product Finalist and achieved a milestone with the OKL Community
surpassing 1,000 members.
• Elefant is continuing a market focussed project with strategic technology
consultants Eurofin Technologies to develop a commercial application
incorporating sentiment analysis for enhanced effectiveness in web page
ad serving for news and social network sites. An extensive internet
advertising market landscape review has been undertaken and a
demonstration Topic Extraction and Sentiment Analysis system developed
for benchmarking against existing tools will be trialled in early 2009.
• The COSE project has commenced focusing on air traffic management with
Air Services Australia as a key collaborator.
The Safe Transport and Roads (STaR) project is a collection of research areas
that aspire to deliver global impact through next generation smart
infrastructure and, ultimately, significant reductions in congestion in major
metropolitan areas. Examples of the commercial interactions in place include:
• STaR DSIM Project: (Decision Support and Incident Management). The
primary remains on finalising an RTA project Agreement (generating a
$750k cash contribution over 5 years). In parallel, VeCommerce and CAE
are being pursued as potential commercial opportunities for cognitive load
monitoring capabilities developed by the research team. SalesForce (part
of the Salmat group that also owns VeCommerce) is collaborating to test
NICTA technology through a proof-of-concept (POC) prototype. Speech data
collection in one of the SalesForce’s call centres is being prepared to
validate the cognitive load monitoring technology in a pilot study.
• STaRControl/STaRSense: The proof of concept demonstration of traffic
sensing and control technologies is continuing at Albion Park, south of
Sydney, although some delay has occurred due to re-alignment of the
roadway by the NSW Roads and Traffic Authority (RTA). Discussion
continues with the Aldridge Traffic Group with a view to jointly develop
traffic controllers and sensor-enabled traffic lights.
• STaRSystem: An opportunity to apply the patented STaRSense IP to
freeway management — through Leighton Contracting — is being explored.
• NICTA is developing a Smart Water research proposal to submit to the
Victorian Government in Q3 2009. As precursors to the Smart Water
project, NICTA, in collaboration with Smart Water partners, is seeking
additional funding support from the Victorian Government, through the
Victorian Science Agenda Investment Fund, to establish WIN-2
demonstrators in the rural and urban water markets. If funding bids are
successful, the projects will commence in Q4 2009.
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Corporate Governance
The primary purpose of the Company is to establish, manage and operate a worldclass
research institute in Information and Communications Technology with the
objective of generating national benefit.
NICTA is supported by funding from the Australian Government as represented by
the Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy and the
Australian Research Council.
NICTA is also supported by the contributions of its members:
• The Australian National University
• The University of New South Wales
• The New South Wales Government
• The Australian Capital Territory Government.
NICTA is also supported by its partners:
• The University of Sydney
• The Victorian Government
• The University of Melbourne
• The Queensland Government
• Griffith University
• The Queensland University of Technology
• The University of Queensland.
The Australian Government has contributed A$124.8 million over the period
FY03-06 to establish NICTA. A further A$254.28 million has been committed
under a second funding agreement for the period FY07-11.
Governance
NICTA is a company limited by guarantee and operates independently of its
consortium members. It is governed by a board of directors, which is chaired by
Mr Neville Stevens AO. Dr. David Skellern was appointed to the role of the Chief
Executive Officer in June 2005. Dr Skellern’s contract was extended during 2008
for a further two years, extending his tenure until March 2011.
The NICTA Board in Action
The NICTA Board is assisted by four committees: Governance and Remuneration;
Audit and Finance; Evaluation; and Commercialisation. These committees are
supplemented by other advisory groups as required.
Internal Audit
NICTA’s internal audit process was outsourced in 2007 to
PricewaterhouseCoopers who have been engaged to manage this function for a
three year period.
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International Science and Business Advisory Groups
In August 2008, the International Science Advisory Group (ISAG) and the
International Business Advisory Group (IBAG) met in Sydney to provide advice to
the Board for NICTA’s future strategic direction and assess our key research and
commercialisation projects.
IBAG and ISAG provided feedback to NICTA staff, the Australian Government and
the NICTA Review Panel on our progress and results. The group reported
considerable progress and noted that our projects were showing strong results.
The group commended the increasing scale of projects in the Research portfolio
and provided valuable insights on management structure, commercialisation and
linkages.
The Research Strategy Advisory Council (RSAC) provides advice to NICTA on the
national research and innovation context and facilitates the sharing of research
directions across major national research institutions. The RSAC met twice in
2008.
The membership of the RSAC includes representatives from NICTA’s member and
partner universities:
• University of New South Wales,
• Australian National University,
• University of Melbourne,
• University of Sydney,
• Griffith University,
• Queensland University of Technology
• University of Queensland.
The RSAC includes representatives from:
• Australian Government research laboratories,
• Defence Science and Technology Organisation (DSTO),
• Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO),
• Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Centre.
The broad membership of the council provides a national overview of ICT research
and enables participants to develop partnerships, avoid duplication and add to
the Australian innovation system.
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a) Progress and Performance Report
Declaration
We declare that:
This Annual Report details progress and performance for the 12-month period to
31 December 2008 against the relevant activities, outputs, milestones and
performance indicators as specified under the Second Funding Agreement
between National ICT Australia, the Australian Government and in the Annual
Activity Plan (AAP) 2008.
…………………………(signed) ……………………(signed)
Neville Stevens, Chairman Dr David Skellern, CEO
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Objective 1. PEOPLE
Outcome: By 2010, NICTA’s people are growing Australia’s ICT
industry
NICTA has world-class researchers and an innovation system to transfer our
research results into products, services and processes for global markets. Our
researchers, engineers and industry professionals drive future technology
development and industry growth.
People Objective
Bring together world-class researchers and professional staff, enhance their skills
and build a culture of entrepreneurship and achievement in use-inspired basic
research, enhancing Australia’s ICT capacity and capability.
Our strategies are to:
• Attract outstanding people and build world-class teams
• Manage careers, succession and staff development to ensure strong
future leadership across the organisation
• Develop a culture of entrepreneurship and achievement
• Continually improve our work environment with processes that help people
achieve NICTA’s objectives
People Snapshot 2008
• Five research laboratories in four states: Australian Technology Park (NSW),
Brisbane (Qld), Canberra (ACT), Kensington (NSW) and Melbourne (Vic).
• A total headcount of 711 people, including the following staff:
- 150 at Australian Technology Park
- 65 at Kensington
- 43 at Brisbane
- 71 at Canberra
- 80 at Melbourne
- 4 at Adelaide and
- 298 NICTA enhanced PhD students across these sites.
Strategic Plan
NICTA’s Strategic Plan 2007–2011 commits the organisation to a more focused
research program based on a portfolio of research activities concentrated across
Research Themes and Business Areas. Towards the end of 2008, NICTA’s
strategic plan was updated.
Communicating our Vision and Values
During 2008, the ingural NICTA Impact Awards winners were announced. The
NICTA Impact Awards is a program to recognise and reward employees who are
making an outstanding contribution to NICTA’s visions and values.
The Awards program comprises two sections: research and operations.
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The Research Award, called the A. Richard Newton Excellence in Research Award,
was named after Professor Newton who passed away in early 2007. It has been
created to recognise research excellence as evident by the impact achieved.
Through this award, NICTA publicly recognises the individual or group who, in a
given year, best exemplifies NICTA’s vision of “imagination to impact”.
Staff receiving a nomination for the Operational Excellence Award will have
demonstrated excellence in delivering against one or more of the following
criteria: NICTA Values, Strategic Plan objectives, team work, outstanding service
to the external market, or implementation of efficiency in the workplace.
In 2008, the winners were:
• Operational Excellence Award: Xi Chen and Anthony Fok for the migration
of NICTA’s new Intranet, and Dr Max Ott for his role in setting up NICTA’s
publications database.
• Richard Newton Excellence in Research Award: Professor Gernot Heiser for
the embedded operating system research underpinning NICTA’s Open
Kernel Labs spin-out.
NICTA Value Statement
Our Vision
Our vision is that our imaginative research drives Australia’s information communications
technology (ICT) future.
Our Mission
Our mission is to be an enduring world-class ICT research institute that generates
national benefit.
Our Values
NICTA’s values represent our culture and the way we do things.
Inspiration
NICTA is an exciting, empowering and creative environment that fosters imagination.
Pursuit of Excellence
NICTA people aim high and are recognised for achieving excellence.
Entrepreneurship
NICTA people pursue new ideas, seize business opportunities and take risks.
Collaboration
NICTA cultivates partnerships and engagement across NICTA and beyond.
Openness
NICTA promotes the free exchange of knowledge and ideas.
Value People and Their Ideas
NICTA values and supports our people to enable them to contribute their best.
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NICTA Staff Learning and Development
The ICT industry is a leader in innovation and technological breakthroughs. To
support Australia in retaining its competitive position, NICTA needs to ensure that
its people have access to the highest level professional development training
covering areas across research specialisations and through courses designed to
develop their skills in commercial practice and interpersonal communication.
In 2008 NICTA supported staff learning and development initiatives through
courses tailored to the strategic needs of individuals and NICTA’s areas of
thematic focus.
A staff survey — the 2007 Open Forum Survey — identified three areas of priority
focus: Strategy and Direction, Collaboration and Teamwork, and Operational
Excellence. These priority issues are addressed by cross-organisational teams
that identify strategies and actions to meet NICTA’s milestone targets. The
company initiated an internal business process review that identified disablers in
operational processes. The outcome of this was training on process improvement
and the formation of a focused team that is implementing a series of process
reviews and transformations.
The new performance management process was implemented by incorporating
values, core responsibilities, key performance indicators and learning and
development requirements into one system.
The NICTA ‘succession map’ has been revised and successor candidates – both
internal and external – are actively managed by the current position holder with
the support of Human Resources in order to build the candidate’s skills.
Throughout 2008, professional development courses provided NICTA staff with
extensive opportunities for skill enhancement. The Learning and Development
program focused primarily on four key areas central to helping our people in the
delivery of excellence:
Commercialisation Skills Development Program
This program assists teams to deepen the impact of their research by developing
strategies and actions to achieve a commercialisation outcome.
In 2008, the following courses and workshops were held:
• Market Impact Strategies Workshop
• Successful Market Engagement Workshop Phase 2
• IP Induction Workshop
• Project Intellectual Property Searching Sessions (PIPSS)
• Big Picture Seminars
• Meet The Founder Seminars
• Role Model Seminars
Student Professional Development
NICTA’s students are integral to the company’s success and the future of the ICT
industry. As such, NICTA encourages students to participate in the many research
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specialty courses it conducts as well as the professional staff development
workshops available throughout the year.
Research Leadership and Management
In 2008, Project Leaders and corporate managers participated in professional
development activities including:
• Enhancing Managerial Effectiveness Training
• Research Leaders Retreat
• Strategic Leadership Conference
• EEO Contact Officer Training
• Workplace Relations Training
Communications Skills Development
Presentation skills development and media training sessions were held at all Labs
during the year also.
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Table 1: Full Time Equivalent (FTE) staff numbers for 2008 by quarter
Full Time Equivalent (FTE) staff numbers for 2008 by Quarters
Mar
Actual
Jun
Actual
Sep
Actual
Dec
Actual
Researchers
ATP 33.80 30.80 28.00 32.00
Kensington 25.00 26.50 26.00 24.00
Canberra 40.00 39.00 35.00 31.00
Victoria 39.89 40.38 39.78 37.18
Queensland 9.00 9.00 7.00 8.00
Total Researchers 147.69 145.68 135.78 132.18
Seconded (Contributed) Researchers
ATP 4.80 4.80 4.60 4.60
Kensington 5.60 5.60 5.60 5.60
Canberra 10.20 10.20 8.00 8.00
Victoria 10.00 10.00 10.00 10.00
Queensland 7.75 7.75 8.40 8.40
Total Contributed researchers 38.35 38.35 36.60 36.60
Research Support (Research Engineers, Programmers,
Assistants)
ATP 22.37 19.37 21.74 23.28
Kensington 17.01 18.50 17.50 18.07
Canberra 21.20 24.20 22.71 24.00
Victoria 17.80 20.80 23.80 21.80
Queensland 2.40 4.78 4.64 9.64
Adelaide 1.00 - - -
Total Research Support 81.78 87.65 90.39 96.79
Administration
ATP 3.71 4.71 5.00 5.00
Kensington 4.00 6.00 5.60 5.90
Canberra 6.80 6.80 6.80 6.80
Victoria 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00
Queensland 5.00 4.40 4.26 4.09
CHO 72.45 74.66 75.36 73.59
Adelaide 4.00 4.00 3.90 3.90
Total Administration 96.96 101.57 101.92 100.28
Seconded (Contributed) Administration
ATP
Kensington - -
Canberra - -
Victoria 5.65 5.65 5.65 5.65
Queensland - -
Total Contributed administration 5.65 5.65 5.65 5.65
Total Staff Headcount for 2008 (excl contributed staff
*) 326.43 334.90 328.09 329.25
Objective 2: Research
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Outcome: By 2020, NICTA is one of the world’s top ten ICT research
centres
Research is our core business. We have a portfolio of use-inspired research
projects with industry, government and business involvement and foundations in
basic research.
Research Objective
Our research objective is to carry out research that advances knowledge, is
recognised for its excellence, and generates breakthrough user-focussed
technologies.
Our strategies are to:
• Maintain review processes that ensure we conduct research to the highest
standards of international excellence;
• Focus our research efforts to maximise impact;
• Choose projects and partners that allow us to both advance knowledge
and underpin the development of globally competitive products, processes
and services;
• Provide NICTA researchers with world-class facilities and equipment;
• Raise funds and other contributions that ensure longevity of NICTA’s
operations so that it can achieve its mission.
Research Snapshot 2008
NICTA research spans some 30 projects plus numerous other smaller activities. A couple
of highlights from 2008 are summarised below.
Embedded Systems:
Two key projects have been L4-verified project which is nearing completion and which will
provide the world’s first formally verified implementation of an operating system and GiFi
which is building a 60GHz system-on-a-chip wireless networking transceiver. Both
projects made significant progress in 2008.
Making Sense of Data:
The ELEFANT machine learning software platform was released to the world this year. It
provides a platform for machine learning that will form the foundation for future NICTA
research in this area.
Managing Complexity:
The MiniZinc language was released this year. This is a modelling language for
constraints programming that underpins our G12/Atomic project. It is starting to get
significant international attention.
Networked Systems: The Context aware mobility project has made significant advances in
developing protocols that allow much better and more reliability across different mobile
networks that takes account of user behaviour and needs. The technology exploits
machine learning to predict future needs and optimise the use of bandwidth.
Research Themes
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Theme Strategic Plans
The theme strategic plans are ambitious visions looking some ten years out that
encapsulate the key areas within the themes where we aim to make a significant
impact. Predicting what research is needed ten years in the future is a difficult
task. Our theme plans are not detailed project plans, but rather are at a rather
higher level. We are starting to share our theme plans with partner organisations
as a way to build a higher level and more coherent shared research agenda.
A key element that arises in all of our themes is composability - the ability to be
able to glue together individual technology components. Failures of composability
occur all the time - think of plugging in ‘plug-n-play’ device into your computer to
find it ‘plug-n-fail’.
In 2008 NICTA developed its theme strategic plans and presented them to ISAG in
August. ISAG’s feedback has been taken on board and the project proposals
NICTA now receives increasingly are aligning with the theme plans. The vast
majority of our projects (15 out of 23) have recorded explicitly how they align with
the theme strategic plans and our strategy is to continue this alignment as
projects develop. This fits with ISAG’s view that the plans need to influence the
organisation. The ISAG/IBAG versions of the theme plans are at:
http://wiki.inside.nicta.com.au/display/CHNRSC/Research+Themes
Project Portfolio
NICTA continues to increase the strategic nature of its research in several ways.
We have set a target of an average projects size of $1 million/year, the logic
being that a smaller number of larger projects will achieve better impact.
Reviewing performance
To maintain its high quality of research NICTA continues to regularly monitor
research performance via a number of review mechanisms. All projects were
reviewed by an internal review panel comprising the executive team. This year
also saw the completion of the review of all 17 original Programs. As a result of
the reorganisation of NICTA into 4 research Themes, these reviews will be
replaced by four all encompassing Theme reviews.
Benchmarking
NICTA aspires to be one of the world’s top ten ICT research centres by 2020. In
order to achieve this goal we will measure our performance and benchmark
ourselves against organisations we believe to be the world’s best. The 2008
benchmarking study takes a snapshot of NICTA’s performance using our strategic
plan KPIs in conjunction with qualitative analysis and discussion.
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Objective 3. Education
Outcome: By 2010 more than 225 NICTA - enhanced PhD graduates
are contributing to Australia’s ICT industry expertise
NICTA is a unique enterprise functioning not only as a world-class research facility
and commercial partner in innovative technologies but as a key educator of
highest-level researchers and technology professionals. Through its enhanced
PhD program, it provides an educational opportunity that combines the best of
focussed research with hands-on laboratory experience, often in partnership with
Australian universities and through internships with leading international research
facilities and educational institutions.
Education Objective
Our Education objective is to work with universities to provide Australia with ICT
researchers that have deep technical expertise supported by strong professional
and entrepreneurial skills.
Our strategies are to:
• Build an enhanced PhD program in partnership with universities as an
integrated education network;
• Attract outstanding students to NICTA and to ICT generally;
• Provide students with practical research, industry and domain experience,
locally and internationally;
• Extend the benefits of NICTA’s integrated education portfolio beyond our
partner universities.
Education Snapshot 2008
• At the end of 2008 there were 298 NICTA-enhanced PhD students, 131 of which
involve a primary stipend.
• Forty nine students graduated with a NICTA enhanced degree in 2008. This
brings the total to 103 since the program began, comprising 91 PhDs and 12
Masters Degrees.
• Thirty one theses are under examination at the end of the reporting year.
The 2007 – 2008 Summer Scholarship Program (SSP) was held at the ATP and
NRL, concluding in February with all 39 participating students giving
presentations. Following the success of this program, The University of Sydney
and the University of NSW have agreed to NICTA’s proposal that the Summer
Scholarships Program be extended from 10 weeks to 12 weeks in 2008 – 2009.
This will allow students completing engineering degrees to meet professional
experience requirements of their undergraduate degrees more readily.
The Sydney and Victoria Laboratories hosted a visit by Professor Henri
Angelino, Acting Director of the Global Liaison Office at Japanese National
Institute of Informatics (NII), in order to exchange ideas on strengthening the
internship program. Further, a Student Forum was introduced to Techfest 2008
in which 70 PhD and Masters students gained up-to-date information on the
NICTA enhanced PhD, internships and advanced courses. Students
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participated in the Commonwealth Review Information Sessions for students
and researchers also.
NICTA-enhanced PhD
NICTA has 91 enhanced PhDs that have been completed to date and enrolments
are expected to remain steady in 2009.
The Universities Curriculum Development Committee is managing the coursework
aspects of the NICTA enhanced PhD and RTN and an impressive range of
advanced ICT modules were delivered to over 100 participants in the last half of
2008. Opportunities to participate in these modules were extended to students in
non-partner universities also.
Student engagement within NICTA substantially improved through a number of
initiatives:
• Focus Groups convened by the Education Director at each Lab;
• Student specific CEO Roadshows;
• Support offered to students to initiate internal networks; and
• An Inaugural Student Forum held at Techfest.
There are 298 PhD Scholarship students at NICTA as at 31 December 2008
(Table 2) and 15 Masters Students bringing the total number of students to 313
(Table 3).
Table 2: Student participation at NICTA in 2008
Students
PhD scholarship
students
Additional PhD
students under
supervision
Undergraduate
Honours and
Summer Scholars
under supervision
Student
outplacements
Sydney
ATP
Sydney
NRL
Canberra Melbourne Brisbane Total
NICTA
55 62 66 97 18 298
11 5 17 1 2 36
29 22 26 17 1 95
6 1 1 1 1 10
Table 3: Distribution of scholarships by type of scholarship support at 31
December 2008
Students
Sydney
ATP
Sydney
NRL
Canberra Melbourne Brisbane Total
NICTA
Full scholarships 22 27 51 51 3 154
Partial Scholarships 42 39 24 40 14 159
Total 64 66 75 91 17 313
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In 2008, six students won awards. There were three awards for Best Paper and
four other awards granted to students, one of whom won three awards as per the
table below.
Table 4: PhD student awards in 2008
Recipient(s) Award
Carlos Adyos Best Paper, “Experiments with Analogy-X for Software
Cost Estimation”, IEEE Australian Software Engineering
Conference
Geoffrey Chu 2 nd Place, Best Student Solver, Parallel and Sequential
Tracks, SAT-Race
Andrew Sutton Student Prize, Institute of Engineering and Technology
Andrew Sutton Dean’s Prize, ANU Computer Engineering and
Computer Science
Andrew Sutton Undergraduate Thesis Prizes in National Committee on
Automation, Control and Instrumentation (NCACI) and
Space Engineering, Engineers Australia
Byron Wicks and Chien Ta Best Student Paper, International Conference on
Microwave and Millimeter Wave Technology, China
Chenyi Zhang Best Research Paper, “Information Flow with
Schedulers”, CiSRA
Working with Partner Universities
Active participation in outreach activities in collaboration with Partner Universities
continued throughout 2008. In particular, action focussed on the development of
embedded programming materials for on-line delivery prior to and during the
National Computer Science Summer School.
NICTA also sponsored the Annual Summer Scholars Showcase to attract high
calibre undergraduates into NICTA enhanced programs.
In 2008, there was a pilot introduction of a new Scholarship allocation model
designed to enhance collaboration with member universities and align
scholarships more closely with NICTA research priorities by awarding scholarship
funds to individual academics as a grant.
Research Training Network
The Research Training Network (RTN) engaged with member and partner
universities to foster internships and exchanges during 2008.
NICTA’s program of advanced ICT (coursework) modules was delivered in Sydney
during November and December 2008. Six modules were made available to
NICTA enhanced students across all labs, and invitations were issued to ICT PhD
students in Sydney universities (UNSW, USyd, UTS, Macquarie and UWS).
Over 100 registrations were received for these courses, far exceeding expected
demand. Twenty five per cent of participants were non-enhanced students from
NICTA’s partner and member universities, whilst 15 per cent came from nonpartner
universities, including a significant cohort from UTS.
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NICTA enhanced students were able to take the modules for academic credit, as
approved by the NICTA Curriculum Committee, subject to the completion of all
assessment requirements. Positive feedback was received without exception from
all participants, emphasising the expertise, knowledge and industry connections
of the presenters. Plans for new modules to be offered in 2009 are being
finalised with prospective presenters, who include several international visiting
researchers.
Supporting Students – NICTA Internships
The framework for facilitating internships and mobility experiences established in
2007 strengthened over the course of 2008 with the relationship with National
Institute of Informatics (NII), Japan now reaching maturity following the visit of
Professor Angelino.
As a result of this successful fostering of the relationship with NII, NICTA PhD
students were again successful in gaining competitive internships in the second
round of the 2008 NII International Internship Program. This brought the total
number of NICTA interns to 15 over the last two years. In response to the
exceptional quality of our applications in this round, NII agreed to exceed the
quota set for NICTA and accommodate an additional intern.
New opportunities with the Chinese Academy of Science have been confirmed
and promoted also. These formal programs are being complemented by an
increasing number of internships established through personal contact.
In 2008 there were 29 internships and placements taken up by our PhD students
in both local and international organisations, including:
Table 5: National Student Placements & Internships 2008
Student Name Lab Research
Theme
Host Organisation Duration
Bedo, Jason CRL MSD University of Melbourne Jan - June
ongoing
Cohen, Jonathan CRL MC Macquarie University Jan - June
ongoing
Ho, Joshua ATP MSD Victoria Research Laboratory Feb ongoing
Zhang, Chenyi NRL MC Sun, Australia Aug (07) -
Feb
In 2008, 25 students completed placements in prestigious international research
organisations. The details of these are listed in the table below.
Table 6: International Student Placements & Internships 2008
Student Name Lab Research
Theme
Host Organisation Duration
Barthwal, Aditi CRL MC NII, Tokyo, Japan March - May
Blom, Michelle VRL MC Agent ART Group, University Oct - Dec
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Blom, Michelle VRL MC
of Liverpool, UK
DAMAS Research Group,
British University, Dubai, UAE October
Bui, Ngoc Bao ATP MC NII, Tokyo, Japan March - June
Chan, Jeffrey VRL MSD NII, Tokyo, Japan March - June
NII, Tokyo, Japan Dec - Feb
Djordjevic, Bojan ATP MSD
Harvard University,
(09)
Ho, Joshua ATP MSD Massachusetts, USA June - Oct
Iqbal, Ahmad ATP NS Digital Enterprise Research
Institute, Galway, Ireland Feb- July
Dec - Mar
Khan, Nazeer ATP NS Thompson Labs, Paris, France (09)
Lim, Soo Ling ATP MC NII, Tokyo, Japan Oct (07) -
March
Lim, Soo Ling ATP MC University College London, UK Sept - Sept
(09)
Nazir, Fawad ATP NS NII, Tokyo, Japan Sep (07) -
Feb
Nazir, Fawad ATP NS NII, Tokyo, Japan Dec - March
(09)
Nazir, Fawad ATP NS Knowledge Media Institute,
Open University, UK
Sept - Nov
Owen, Thomas CRL MSD Yahoo, USA Aug - Oct
Quadrianto, Novi CRL MSD Yahoo, USA Jun - Sept
Ryzhyk, Leonid NRL ES Intel, Oregon, USA June - Sept
NII, Tokyo, Japan Nov - Feb
Suleiman, Basem ATP MC
(09)
Sun, Yong ATP MSD NII, Tokyo, Japan Aug (07) -
Feb
Tan, Lishen Evan NRL MC Microsoft, Beijing, PRC March - June
Teo, Choon Hui CRL MSD Microsoft Live Labs,
Washington, USA
July - Sept
Carnegie Mellon University, Sept - March
Werner, Felix QRL ES
USA
(09)
Yang, Qi VRL NS Bell Labs, New Jersey, USA Aug - Dec
Yu, Changbin CRL MC NII, Tokyo, Japan Feb - March
Zhang, Xinhua CRL MSD Microsoft Research,
Cambridge, UK
Sept - Nov
Fostering Outstanding ICT Talent
NICTA’s education objective also includes identifying and fostering outstanding
ICT talent. In 2008, we achieved this through a number of outreach initiatives
and by supporting a range of university activities.
Artemis
NICTA continues to be a member of the ARTEMIS Programme for Embedded
Systems Research and Development in Europe. The organisation hosts the
annual ARTEMIS Orchestra contest for robots that play a musical instrument.
The contest has the aim of encouraging an understanding of embedded systems
over a broad audience, particularly the young.
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Entering the competition provides NICTA with an international platform for the
display of Australian innovation and raises the profile of NICTA within Artemis.
NICTA’s 2008 entry continued its successful participation in the competition
winning first place in the competition in Athens for the robotically operated,
computer-driven clarinet which was part of a joint project with UNSW. Working
with NICTA were Joe Wolfe from the School of Physics and Jayantha Katupitiya
from the School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering. The robot will be
used now by the UNSW School of Physics’ Acoustics Lab as a research tool to
further understanding of the clarinet and how it is played.
National Computer Science School (NCSS)
The National Computer Science School comprises a number of activities to
inspire and challenge high school students who have a talent for computing. An
aim is to encourage more students to consider higher education and careers in
the area of IT. In 2008 NICTA sponsored the Summer School, an intensive nine
day residential program held in the January, attended by 71 students. Working
with NCSS over the latter half of 2008 NICTA developed a new course to teach
high school students Embedded Programming. The course will run at the 2009
Summer School for the first time. An online version of the course is also under
development.
Summer Scholars Showcase.
NICTA’s Summer Scholars Program provided undergraduate students the
opportunity to complete research projects over a 10-12 week period during
summer at the various NICTA Laboratories.
A popular component of this Program was the fifth annual Summer Scholars
Showcase, hosted by the Canberra Research Lab on 4 th and 5 th December which
attracted over 60 participants. The Showcase comprised interactive
demonstrations and exhibits of several NICTA research projects.
Scholars were also given an insight into the collaborative work NICTA is doing
with the AIS by participating in a tour of the Institute’s facilities and a follow-up
presentation.
The Showcase was successful in meeting its objective of stimulating interest in
NICTA and its enhanced PhD program. In the post-event evaluation completed by
the scholars, over 90% of respondents said that the event had strengthened
their interest in pursuing further studies with NICTA.
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Objective 4. Linkages
Outcome: By 2010, NICTA’s national and international networks are
accelerating Australian innovation
NICTA is uniquely placed to build research and innovation networks. Its crossindustry
and multi-disciplinary specialisations ensure that it is a hub for academic,
commercial and technology researchers at a time when collaborative linkages are
crucial at both national and international levels. Its relationships with the
research, education, industry, government and ICT communities ensure that it is
able to offer excellent value to its partners in innovation.
LINKAGES Objective
Our linkages objective is to increase our impact and results by working with
targeted research, government, education, industry and domain partners.
Our strategies are to:
• Develop strong cooperative relationships and joint projects for national
and international benefit with:
� national and international research institutions;
� national and international tertiary education institutions;
� Australian ICT and related industries;
� major ICT users and domain areas; and
� Australian governments and public sector.
• Participate in and develop national clusters to grow international areas of
competitive advantage in ICT.
• Develop integrated plans per project for NICTA’s industry linkages with
clear targets that embed the project in the relevant ecosystem, enhancing
the likelihood of market adoption of research results.
• Provide advanced research and professional courses, seminars and other
events to widen engagement with Australia’s ICT industry and public
sector.
• Promote NICTA’s people, achievements and role in the ICT innovation
system.
Linkages Snapshot 2008
• NICTA strengthened its strategic relationship with the Singaporean
Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R), which is part of the A-Star group,
and announced collaboration on a Maritime Mesh Networks program.
• A new proposal for context aware mobility project collaboration was
developed with Ericsson AB (Sweden) in December 2008.
• NICTA announced its participation in two EU FP7 collaborative projects.
(FP7 is the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme for
Research and Technological Development).
• The NICTA-led Embedded Systems Australia and ICT for Life Sciences
forums were launched in Sydney and Melbourne to stimulate NICTA
engagement with industry partners and clusters.
• NICTA launched an initiative called NICTA@ to visit Multi-National
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Corporation (MNC) laboratories with researchers and students
commencing with NICTA@Google and NCITA@CiSRA.
• In September 2008, NICTA held a stakeholder event at Parliament House
in Canberra. Approximately 200 Parliamentarians, ministerial advisers and
industry stakeholders attended the event. Ministers Kim Carr and Stephen
Conroy addressed the occasion.
• The first NICTA short course to be delivered outside Australia was held in
London on 13-14 May 2008. The course in Tracking and Data Fusion was
given by Dr. Branko Ristic of the Defence Science and Technology
Organisation (DSTO).
Increasing Impact through Strong Relationships
NICTA has adopted an open model enabling the organisation to collaborate with
partners and other organisations in Australia and overseas on a strategic basis.
NICTA participates in research projects with: small-to-medium enterprises (SMEs),
Australian ICT companies, multinational ICT companies, academic institutes,
other research labs globally and large ICT users. Our goal is to achieve this in a
way that is open yet realistic about the commercialisation goals that we have
established and our negotiations reflect this balanced approach.
To nurture this goal, NICTA maintains formal exchange arrangements with
prestigious universities, corporate research laboratories and specialist research
institutes throughout Australia and internationally. This collaborative and
networked approach facilitates technology transfer and ensures that our projects
are at the leading edge of development. These relationships extend the reach of
our research and facilitate innovation by drawing together specialists from diverse
areas of expertise.
To optimize our ability to be open we maintain an approach to formal
collaborations under the following parameters.
NICTA engages in collaborative research with industry where:
• There is substantial commitment by all contributors;
• Research is based on scientific challenges;
• Research activity is aligned with NICTA’s research themes;
• There is potential to create national benefit in economic, social or
environmental areas.
This engagement with industry opens up opportunities for commercialisation and
creates a dialogue that reinforces information sharing and feedback for improved
outcomes.
To further these aims, in 2008 NICTA commissioned a survey of Australian ICT
research capability in university departments and centres of international
excellence. This information will help us to collaborate with universities nationally
and develop international collaboration opportunities in areas of Australian
expertise. The report identifies areas of research excellence in computer
communication networks, databases and information retrieval, life sciences and
machine learning.
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The broad range of industry collaboration opportunities with NICTA include:
• Collaborative projects;
• Access to IP on a commercial basis;
• Regular information from NICTA about our research outcomes, current
projects and breakthroughs;
• Sponsorship of PhD students;
• Industry short courses presented by NICTA staff;
• Industry events including seminars, breakfast briefings and industry interest
groups.
National and International Relationships
NICTA has adopted an open model enabling collaboration with partners and other
organisations in Australia and overseas on a strategic basis.
Reflecting NICTA’s focus on its international engagement and profile, the position
of Director, International Relations was created in 2008. In November NICTA met
with the I’Institute National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique
(INRIA) to finalise the terms of an INRIA-NICTA collaboration approach that will
facilitate collaboration opportunities for mutual benefit in our respective research
priority areas.
NICTA also strengthened its strategic relationship with the Singaporean Institute
for Infocomm Research (I2R), which is part of the A-Star group, and announced
collaboration on a Maritime Mesh Networks program. The Martime Mesh
collaboration seeks to demonstrate a prototype wireless mesh network for
maritime traffic. NICTA will use its ‘go-anywhere’ router technology to supply
satellite connectivity for the I2R network, which provides data and voice
communications between a collection of mobile nodes on ships and land-based
networks. NICTA attended I2R’s Techfest in late November 2008 and held a
workshop on Networked Systems research. The workshop identified future
opportunities to deepen the Maritime Mesh Network program and promote
student exchange.
A new proposal for context aware mobility project collaboration was developed
with Ericsson AB (Sweden) in December 2008 and consideration is underway to
expand collaboration in NICTA’s research focus area of machine learning also.
NICTA continues to work with Fraunhofer and SAP Research to explore three-way
collaboration in freight and logistics in the form of a Living Lab at Australian
Technology Park.
NICTA announced its participation in two EU FP7 collaborative projects. (FP7 is
the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme for Research and
Technological Development). These projects are:
• Nano Data Centres (NADA) aims to revolutionise the way information is
delivered over the Internet. The project has EU funding of €3.01 million
(AUD$4.94m) over 36 months. The total cost of the project, including
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contributions from each participant, is €4.9 million (AUD$7.9m.) NICTA
will invest resources worth more than AUD$300,000.
• OneLab2 will create experimental testbeds which are used by researchers
to evaluate new technologies for large networks on the Internet. The
largest of 14 projects inside the EC's initiative for Future Internet Research
and Experimentation (FIRE), the 26-member collaborative project has a
total budget of €8.9 million (AUD$15.4m). NICTA is involved in a wireless
work package inside OneLab2 which will address the challenges the
Internet faces in connecting to a growing number of wireless devices
Collaborators
NICTA has ongoing collaboration with organisations such as:
• DSTO
• CSIRO
• NSW Roads and Traffic Authority (RTA)
• Wilcom International
• Fluffy Spider Technologies
• Trantek
• Cooperative Research Centre in Plant Biosecurity
• SunWater
• IBM
• Ericsson AB (Sweden)
• QUALCOMM
• Pavement Management Services Pty Ltd
• ARTEMIS
• ANU Centre for Mental Health Research
• ACT Land and Planning Authority
• Bureau of Rural Sciences (BRS)
• Australian Institute of Sport
• National Electronic Conveyancing System
• Abuzz
• CEA Technologies
• Catapult Innovations
• Locatrix
• Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute for Computer Technology (CAS_ICT)
• European Union 6 th Framework
• Optium
• Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) Toulouse, France
• Power Set
• Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI), South Korea
NICTA has launched an initiative called NICTA@ outlined in the “Making NICTA
Permeable” plan. Under NICTA@, NICTA visits Multi-National Corporation (MNC)
laboratories with a number of researchers and students. A seminar is conducted
for MNC Research & Development (R&D) staff on NICTA projects of interest to the
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organisation’s R&D activities in Australia. The objective is to introduce NICTA to
the MNC lab as well as to initiate engagement and technical discussion that could
lead to future collaboration. It helps to grow the NICTA brand with key
stakeholders in the Australian ICT innovation system that also have the ability to
deploy technologies through global supply chains.
Industry Cluster: Embedded Systems Australia (ESA)
NICTA’s maintains a pivotal role with Embedded Systems Australia (ESA), an
industry cluster whose members are collaborating to strengthen the embedded
systems and related industries in Australia. Membership includes: AEEMA, BCS
Innovations, CiSRA (Canon), Cochlear, iTech, Invetech, Machinery Automation
Robotics, Microsoft, NICTA, NSW Department of State & Regional Development,
ResMed and The Warren Centre and is representative of prominent companies,
industry associations, NSW government and ICT research organisations.
The cluster aims to provide the following business benefits to participating
companies:
• expanded market opportunities;
• resource exchange;
• joint tendering;
• identification of skills and synergies; and
• development of leads in new markets.
One of the key areas of focus for this group in 2008 was a national capability
mapping survey with a launch of a capability directory for industry and research. It
was launched in conjunction with the NSW Government. The ESA also announced
a project funded by the NSW Government Department of State and Regional
Development (DSRD), contributing $100,000 seed funding over two years.
Another ESA event was held at the DSRD offices in October, 2008 where 3
projects were announced including a new funding model for attracting three levels
of ESA sponsors. Presentations were given by the winners of the Inaugural
Software and Embedded Systems Award, which is part of the Engineers Australia
Excellence Awards, proposed and sponsored by NICTA in 2008.
NICTA Showcase Event at Parliament House
In September 2008, NICTA held a stakeholder event at Parliament House in
Canberra. Approximately 200 Parliamentarians, ministerial advisers and industry
stakeholders attended the event. The Ministers Kim Carr and Stephen Conroy
addressed the occasion. Several of NICTA’s projects were showcased at the event
and there was great interest in these displays.
NICTA Short Courses – Educating the Imaginations that are Building Australia’s
ICT Future
The first NICTA short course to be delivered outside Australia was held in London
on 13-14 May 2008. The course in Tracking and Data Fusion was given by Dr.
Branko Ristic of the Defence Science and Technology Organisation (DSTO).
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Events in 2008
A core value of NICTA is ‘openness’ – to promote the free exchange of knowledge
and ideas. As a leading participant in the international ICT field, NICTA
contributed to and hosted several significant events in 2008 including:
National
This year, NICTA created a permeability plan and announced and launched the
OpenNicta brand and NICTA@ events. Two trial events were held to promote this -
NICTA@Google and NICTA@CISRA.
NICTA participated in CeBIT Australia held in Sydney. NICTA CEO Dr David Skellern
was also on the panel of the AusInnovate forum, held in conjunction with CeBIT
this year, and CTO (Embedded Systems) Dr Chris Nicol also presented at this
event.
NICTA’s annual technology showcase, Techfest 2008, was held on 30 April/1 May
at the Canberra Research Laboratory and the open second day attracted over
200 external guests.
In 2008, NICTA participated in the Science Fair with members of the Human
Performance Improvement Project and with the Robo-Clarinet that won the 2008
European Artemis Orchestra Award. NICTA staff entertained, educated and
interacted with a large component of the 10,000 school children from over 80
schools that attended the event.
In Victoria, NICTA was a key stakeholder in the creation of the ICT for Lifesciences
Forum in Melbourne. This forum was launched in October.
NICTA is a member of the ICT Roundtable with CSIRO and DSTO. In 2008, the
roundtable launched the Ausinnovate conference at the CeBit show in Sydney (to
replace the Outlook Forum of previous years). The event attracted more than 150
paid attendees and 31 media articles.
International
NICTA made its international organisational debut exhibiting at the CommunicAsia
2008 trade fair held in Singapore.
Managing Complexity members at VRL had the P2P team attend the Virtual
Worlds Expo and Conference in Los Angeles in September. Arising from this a
partnership has been established with 3DInternet (www.3dinternet.com)
During August 2008, the Neville Roach Laboratory (NRL) hosted the International
Science Advisory Group (ISAG) and International Business Advisory Group (IBAG)
meeting. At this meeting the Advisory Groups, made up of eminent scientists from
around the world, reviewed and made recommendations on NICTA research.
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Objective 5. Commercialisation
Outcome: By 2010 NICTA people and research increase Australia’s
ICT and business competitiveness
Commercialisation of our intellectual property (IP) is fundamental to our mission.
NICTA stimulates technology transfer through a range of approaches, from startup
companies and licensing, to collaboration with the Australian and global ICT
sector, and business competitiveness in industries outside the ICT sector.
Commercialisation Objective
Our commercialisation objective is to facilitate technology transfer and create
channels to market for NICTA research.
Our strategies are to:
• Develop projects to create technology platforms and domain applications
with global market potential in partnership with user industries
• Identify and fund the development of proofs of concept and working
models to demonstrate market application
• Ensure that NICTA has a clear, fast and flexible Intellectual Property (IP)
framework and set of commercialisation processes and guidelines that
facilitate licensing and efficient transfer of research results into use
• Foster the creation of spin-out companies and assist access to capital and
business partnerships
Commercialisation Snapshot 2008
• One spin-out: Monitoring Division Inc
• More than 20 licences of technology including 11 open source
agreements, 7 evaluation licences and 3 commercial licences – the
latter were P2P (peer to peer), MAMI (Monitoring and Managing the
Internet) and ERTOS (Embedded Real-Time and Operation Systems)
technologies.
• A number of consulting or contract research engagements; many in the
software infrastructure area. Contracts with Centrelink (conducted by
the RESA — Requirements Engineering for Strategic Alignment — team),
Lending Industry XML Initiative (LIXI), National Electronic Conveyancing
System (NECS), Queensland Health and a large private sector financial
institution are examples where the ArMaTure team have deepened
their use-inspiration through strategically aligned research contracts.
Contracts have also been agreed and delivered with the Global
Innovations Centre, s2001 (mobile event catalogue distribution
systems by mContext) and Railcorp NSW (SAFE).
NICTA’s innovative approach to ICT commercialisation sets the organisation apart
from many research institutes both in Australia and overseas. We provide preseed
support in the form of market validation grants to validate the commercial
potential of our research as well as funds for proof-of-concept development.
Further, when launching a spin out, NICTA’s practice to take only a minority
position, is more generous than many other institutes and private sector labs.
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NICTA’s commercialisation approach aims to:
• Enable the benefits of the centre's research to flow to the community through
commercialisation activities;
• Act as a catalyst to change practice and culture by encouraging staff as well
as industry and other research institutions to undertake ICT
commercialisation;
• Contribute to building Australia’s ICT industry through the creation of spin-outs
and licensing to existing companies.
In pursuing the commercial benefits that can emerge from our IP, NICTA adapts
the commercialisation strategy to fit the technology in order to best advantage the
outcome for all parties. Strategies that are considered include licensing usage
rights, the sale of technology, joint ventures, start-ups, and high-end consulting.
This tailoring of commercialisation tactics is one of NICTA’s strengths and key
differentiators in the market.
During 2008, the NICTA commercialisation team continued to build on processes
and procedures developed throughout 2007. These processes have now been
applied on a systematic basis across all NICTA projects emphasising:
• Active driving of the commercialisation pipeline;
• Increasing the number of projects entering commercialisation grant and
investment phases;
• Engaging with industry earlier and deeper to better obtain “use
inspiration”;
• Maintaining the flow of projects into licensing and spin-out phases, as well
as delivering under existing research contracts.
In addition, we pursued broader enabling capabilities, by:
• Developing a more comprehensive IP strategy to underpin project
formulation and development;
• Developing an engagement strategy for each of our Business Areas
(Software Infrastructure, Biomedical and Life Sciences, Mobile Systems
and Services, Safety and Security, Intelligent Transport Systems,
Environmental Management);
• Providing team-based training at appropriate stages for our research
projects; and,
• Expanding our capability to undertake contract or consulting research to
strengthen our market engagement and knowledge.
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Figure 1: The NICTA Commercialisation Process
NICTA commercial licensing agreements
A commercial licence agreement was signed between NICTA (on behalf of the
Peer2Peer Project) and VastPark, a leading virtual worlds platform provider.
The Goanna project’s debugging tool is now being used by CEA Technologies,
Australia, Open Kernel Labs (OKL), the Defence Signals Directorate (DSD),
numerous project teams within NICTA and Notal Vision, Israel. Early anecdotal
feedback has been positive including one senior executive reporting that the tool
had “found a bug which could have cost us millions”.
Following the NICTA/UNSW team success at winning first place in the ARTEMIS
Orchestra competition in Athens with the robotically operated, computer-driven
clarinet, a release of Musical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI) software into the
Lilypond Open Source community was completed.
NICTA has completed handover of the key contract deliverables to Trantek, as well
as an implementation of a Motion Detection Algorithm. The outcome of this work
potentially provides Trantek with the basis of a product that can be used to add
intelligent surveillance to legacy CCTV systems, allowing them to offer a costeffective
Australian product to Australian organisations and enterprises that wish
to strengthen their surveillance capabilities. Possible “next steps”, including
further NICTA-developed video processing algorithms, may be made commercially
available to Trantek for their rail infrastructure related projects.
Spin-out Companies and New Business Opportunities
NICTA’s fourth spinout company, Monitoring Division, was incorporated early in
2008 and officially launched in March 2008 by Minister Stephen Conroy. The new
company has moved to its premises in East Melbourne and is recruiting staff.
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Quarterly presentations to Venture Capital (VC) representatives about prospective
project investment opportunities commenced in late 2007 and continued through
2008. More than fifty individual presentations have now been made to domestic
and foreign (typically Silicon-Valley and Atlanta-based) venture capital
organisations.
In 2008, the Australian based Audinate team transitioned to a new corporate
setting in Ultimo. A dramatic and headline capturing demonstration of Audinate’s
advanced professional audio capabilities occurred during the Papal mass at
Randwick Racecourse attended by 400,000 participants. Audinate’s Dante
technology provided an extremely cost effective means of distributing audio to the
venue’s extensive speaker system, saving an estimated $200,000 in cabling
costs. Dante is being used by a growing number of large live events in Australia,
the USA and the UK.
During the third quarter NICTA spin-out Open Kernel Labs (OKL) participated in
international trade shows, conferences and exhibitions including: VERIFY 2008,
APTISS 2008 and the Embedded Systems Conference in Birmingham. During this
period OKL was recognised as a 2008 Golden Mousetrap Award Best Product
Finalist and achieved a milestone with the OKL Community surpassing 1,000
members.
In the G12/ATOMIC project (Advanced Technologies for Optimisation and
Modelling in Constraints) early industry engagements underwent further
exploration in both Victoria and NSW. It is anticipated that this might lead to one
or more spin-out companies in 2009, leveraging specific applications aimed at
solving complex and valuable industrial and infrastructure network problems.
Current focus applications include:
• Vehicle Routing protocols. The ATOMIC team in NRL is leading a
relationship with a Sydney-based SME (Angusta) to develop a solution for
cash management logistics;
• A Total Airport Optimiser (TAO) solution which is proposed for development
and trial at Melbourne Airport. The objective is to provide a total system
optimization, which would be a more compelling offering than current
solutions which optimize discrete parts only (baggage handling, check-in,
crew rostering, etc);
• A Total Rail Infrastructure Optimiser (TRIO) G12 technology underpins a
demonstrator being developed for optimization of rail infrastructure
including operations planning and management.
CRL’s Automap in-vehicle automatic map building device was built and tested with
support from an internal NICTA Proof-of-Concept grant. Given the success with
this device, AutoMap is building 5-10 of these devices and installing them in a
local ACT fleet of cars. CRL also performed trials of the device with NAVTEQ,
TeleAtlas. A Victorian manufacturer of high speed road survey equipment, Amskan
is negotiating to license the sign recognition technology for incorporation into their
product line.
Elefant is continuing a market focussed project with strategic technology
consultants Eurofin Technologies to develop a commercial application
incorporating sentiment analysis for enhanced effectiveness in web page ad
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serving for news and social network sites. An extensive Internet Advertising
market landscape review has been undertaken and a demonstration Topic
Extraction and Sentiment Analysis system for benchmarking against existing tools
will be trialled in early 2009.
The ·SAFE II – AS project at the Queensland laboratory was awarded a Market
Validation Grant as well as a Proof of Concept Grant from NICTA
commercialisation. These funds will be used to commercialise the research
outcomes of SAFE Sensors Project.
The SAFE Advanced Surveillance project has attracted significant interest from a
number of Australian and international groups including:
• National Security Science and Technology unit (NSST), PM&C – AUS,
• Global Communications and Software Systems – UAE (Defence
applications),
• Crimtrac – AUS, (National information sharing solutions for law
enforcement agencies)
• Queensland Government (Security for Port of Brisbane and Queensland
Rail, and Queensland Police Service), and
• NSW Rail Corp (Anti-Collision system).
SME engagement by the SAFE-AS team includes:
• Genautics (Licensing),
• Praetroian Asia Pacific,
• WebTaf,
• Cyber Guard,
• Sentient AI, and
• Positive Eye.
Work continues under the NIPR Market Validation Grant and Proof of Concept
Grant to clarify the market potential and best path to market. A demonstrator has
been built illustrating capability to search a low-resolution image database with
advanced facial recognition technology.
The major focus of the SAFE Networks project is an ongoing contract with NSST
on Wireless Mesh Network technology assessment and development, where the
second major milestone has been achieved. Commercialisation of SAFE1
Networks outcomes include discussions with Axis Communications on a licence to
implement wireless mesh routing functionality into their Wireless IP cameras.
CISCO, Motorola and FireTide will contribute equipment to become collaborators
in the NSST project. The team is developing a commercially-oriented project
proposal for second stage research in the area.
The COSE project has commenced focusing on air traffic management with Air
Services Australia as a key collaborator. Prospective evaluations of enterprise IT
implementations are commencing with Queensland Health as a key collaborator.
The project team is collaborating with Leximancer Pty Ltd, a Queensland Based
SME, to evaluate the impact of IT systems on work teams and communication
flows within a clinical environment.
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Substantial progress has been made toward an internal alpha release of CiteMind
(PubRes) in March 2009. The project has secured a major Australian conference
to trial beta software. A market validation grant has been used to explore revenue
models and market potential. The project is on track towards spinout in mid-
2009.
SPIN is a potential new project being developed by the SAFE Information team.
The project is engaging commercial partners to establish the potential for social
networks to address future social and business needs. Initial engagement
includes Faraday Media, BoaB Interactive, and the Simpler Business Institute.
The SPIN project intends to place a full project proposal before the RMCC in Q2
2009. Initial commercial engagement is directed toward refining and clarifying
the commercialisation objectives for the project proposal.
The ArMaTure project has numerous touchpoints with industry to validate or build
its use-inspiration, including:
• Lending Industry XML Initiative (LIXI): The team delivered a report and
publication on Standardisation as a Business Ecosystem Enabler,
maintaining ArMaTure status as LIXI’s key R&D collaboration partner, and
providing ongoing exposure to over 100 major participants in the
Australian lending industry;
• NECS (National Electronic Conveyancing System)
(a) Completion and delivery of a whitepaper and proposal for
implementing A Vocabulary and Business Rules Management
Framework. Adoption of the proposal by NECS by Q3 or Q4 2009
will result in a commercial engagement of the ArMaTure team to
work alongside contracted partners in the scoping and delivery of a
solution to support vocabulary management across eight state and
territory jurisdictions for the integration and management of land
titles in the context of a National Electronic Conveyancing System
(NECS).
(b) Delivery of a draft business process model (version 3) illustrating
business transactions for the NECS. This is a modest, paid “expert
services” (i.e. consulting) engagement and is expected to lead to
further paid modelling work. It also maintains the status of the
ArMaTure team as a key R&D partner for NECS going forward.
• ePASA: Relationships continue with a number of public sector customers,
including IP Australia, QLD Health, and the Australian Research Council
(ARC). The team also commenced a paid pilot project with a major financial
services institution in Q4, with completion and delivery to occur in Q1
2009. A successful outcome of Phase 1 of the trial is anticipated to lead
to a larger, more strategic Phase 2 engagement of the ArMaTure team by
the institution.
This latest trial extends the scope of ePASA beyond the government and
health sectors into another industry sector - banking - for validation as a
"horizontal" technology with multiple markets across many industry
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sectors. Negotiations are continuing for medium-term (2009-2010)
licensing agreements with commercial partners K. J. Ross and Associates,
Dialog, and Access Testing. Plans for further commercial trials in the
telecommunications and defence sectors have been developed.
The Safe Transport and roads (STaR) project is a collection of research areas that
aspires to deliver global impact through next generation smart infrastructure and,
ultimately, significant reductions in congestion in major metropolitan areas.
Examples of the commercial interactions in place include:
• STaR DSIM Project: (Decision Support and Incident Management). The
primary focus remains on finalising an RTA project Agreement (generating
a $750k cash contribution over 5 years). In parallel, VeCommerce and CAE
are being pursued as potential commercial opportunities for cognitive load
monitoring capabilities developed by the research team. SalesForce (part
of the Salmat group that also owns VeCommerce) is collaborating to test
NICTA technology through a proof-of-concept (POC) prototype. Speech data
collection in one of the SalesForce’s call centres is being prepared to
validate the cognitive load monitoring technology in a pilot study.
• STaRControl/STaRSense: The proof of concept demonstration of traffic
sensing and control technologies is continuing at Albion Park, south of
Sydney, although some delay has occurred due to re-alignment of the
roadway by the NSW Roads and Traffic Authority (RTA). Discussion
continues with the Aldridge Traffic Group with a view to jointly develop
traffic controllers and sensor-enabled traffic lights.
• STaRSystem: An opportunity to apply the patented STaRSense IP to
freeway management — through Leighton Contracting — is being explored.
GiFi is a cross-lab project on the next generation of multi-gigabit short range
communications with two research themes: building a radio frequency (RF) multiantenna
chip and a complementary digital baseband semi-conductor. The 60GHz
RF transceiver engineering is occurring at VRL and the DBB/MAC is happening at
the ATP Laboratory.
The most mature emerging 60GHz communications standard is WirelessHD which
is due for first products to be launched in June 2009. The IEEE 802.11 Working
Group has been investigating the adoption of 60GHz into a new standard called
802.11ad. 802.11ad is emerging at the next stage after the 802.11 b,a,g,n.
There are three main uses for 802.11ad: high speed links, hot-docking and video.
Due to the size and capacity of the WiFi industry, the market takeup for 802.11ad
is likely to be faster than WirelessHD.
The GiFi project team has been in early stage commercial conversations with
wireless product managers from Dell, HP, Apple, ASUS and ACER to understand
their product requirements. Meetings also have been held with Netgear and
Buffalo to understand solutions for early adopters with hubs and dongles.
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At the same time, the GiFi project has completed a 60GHz transceiver review by
external experts to understand the level of commercial maturity of the transceiver
technology. GiFi is now evaluating commercialisation options – one of which is a
potential spinout in 2009.
NICTA has taken the lead role in the development of the Smart Water business
case to the Victorian Government, due for submission in Q3 2009. As precursors
to the Smart Water project, NICTA, in collaboration with Smart Water partners, is
seeking additional funding support from the Victorian Government, through the
Victorian Science Agenda Investment Fund, to establish WIN-2 demonstrators in
the rural and urban water markets. If funding bids are successful, the projects will
commence in Q4 2009.
A business case and a funding proposal for the proposed Bionic Vision Australia
partnership (with BEI, CERA, UoM, and UNSW), were submitted in a draft
document to the Federal Government in late 2008 seeking approximately $40
million in funding and is awaiting approval advice.
A collaborative project agreement between WEHI and NICTA regarding the Cell
Tracking project is in an advanced stage of drafting, and is expected to conclude
in Q1, 2009.
Finally, VRL is continuing to develop a framework to provide bioinformatics
expertise and data processing for a Melbourne-based research institute. This is
expected to yield income in 2009 while providing experience in processing the
data being produced by new high-throughput sequencing techniques.
The tables below detail NICTA spin-out companies and the types of new business
opportunities they are generating.
Table 7: NICTA spin-out companies and new business opportunities
NICTA Spin
Out
Monitoring
Division,
Inc.
7-ip
Industry Business Description 2008 Outcome
Fibre optic
communications
Satellite
communications
Patented
technologies enable
telecommunications
companies to find
errors in their fibre
networks that other
systems cannot
detect.
The first integrated
ICT solution for the
mobile satellite
service industry,
delivering an ‘instant
office’ environment
anywhere on the
globe without the
need for IT staff.
Spun out of NICTA in
March after raising
Series A venture
funding.
Passed key
commercial trials with
major
telecommunications
companies.
Positive reaction to
products at several
international
tradeshows.
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Audinate
Open
Kernel
Labs
Audio/media
equipment and
installation
Low-latency method
of distributing
multiple channels of
audio and video over
CAT5 and Ethernet,
using standard
internet protocols
while preserving
sample-accurate
synchronisation.
Software Innovative research
that is dramatically
increasing the
security, reliability
and trustworthiness
of embedded
systems software.
Obtained Series A
investment from
venture capital firms.
Products were fieldproven
carrying the
audio for the Pope’s
WYD mass in
Australia. Signed 4
new strategic
customers.
Continued expansion
in mobile market;
software deployed on
over 200 million
handsets. Gained
customers in new
segment, the
consumer electronics
market.
Commercialisation Training Program
This year, NICTA has introduced Commercialisation Opportunity Workshops
(COWs). A cross-functional group of commercially experienced staff work with
individual and project teams to extract and develop commercial opportunities.
These sessions are conducted in each lab around the country with teams
participating every 2-6 months, depending on the commercial maturity of the
project and the sense of urgency in time to market. The first COWs were held in
early March across all labs, with the second and third instalments held in May and
October 2008.
Two formal training programs have been developed in house, helping teams in the
early and mid-stage of commercialisation. Structured over two days, the programs
provide a mix of information and frameworks with time to work as individual
teams, applying learning immediately to current opportunities. External experts
conduct selected sessions where their hands-on commercial experience will
enrich research teams’ understanding and provide tangible examples of the
challenges of effective technology transfer.
We also seek appropriate external training as required for individual teams. CRL
hosted the Pyksis Technology Commercialisation Workshops and industry evening
as well as a Building Markets industry seminar that provided local research teams
with opportunities to mix with and learn from other technology entrepreneurs.
Opportunities for teams to participate in the NSW Enterprise Workshop and
ANZATech are considered on a regular basis.
Patents and Intellectual Property
NICTA’s IP portfolio contains a cross section of patent applications around (inter
alia): constraints programming; facilitating mobile access to databases; facial
recognition; optimization and diagnostics for optic fibre networks; machine
learning algorithms; peer-to-peer networks optimization; software de-bugging and
business process modelling; and wireless networks.
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In order to manage costs and prioritise patent expenditure, most inventions are
formally evaluated by the IPC at least 3 times during the initial 30 months of the
patent application with increasing review at each stage on the business relevance
of the patent/invention. The patent application may be abandoned or repositioned
at any stage of the evaluation criteria if it is deemed unsatisfactory.
In 2008 PingMe filed a provisional patent for techniques that detect presence of
online users whilst preserving users’ privacy. As part of the Market Validation
Grant activity, a business consultant was engaged to explore
commercialisation options. The development of the first prototype for the
iPhone platform has continued, however, due to technical issues and delays in
receiving Apple approval (common to all AppStore developers), the release of the
application is now expected in Q1 2009.
Following a strategic review during Q4 2008 of platform and application product
readiness, anticipated development spend, market timing, market access, IP
position, and funding availability, NICTA determined to retain, prosecute and
potentially commercially exploit the “Tabanar patent” for User Response
interactive advertising on digital signage systems. Further research and
development of a fully-fledged commercial system has been suspended.
Education and IP Culture
Throughout 2008 NICTA continued to emphasize and educate its researchers and
students on the importance of identifying intellectual property and conforming to
our in-house ‘IP harvest’ processes. The IP team provided a combination of
general educational seminars about IP for new inductees combined with more
targeted IP Strategy sessions for specific researchers when a commercial
opportunity loomed.
IP Committee
The Intellectual Property Committee (comprised of commercialisation, business
development, operations, legal and Lab Directors) met in person at least once per
month to consider the IP portfolio. During 2008 researchers presented their
inventions to the committee and this process remains an effective means of
understanding each invention and providing valuable feedback to inventors.
These presentations also offer an important opportunity for vigorous business and
technical discussion, managing inventors’ expectations and brainstorming
appropriate strategies for protection and exploitation.
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MILESTONE ACTIVITY REPORTS:
PEOPLE
Strategy Activity Milestones Due Outcome
Build and
maintain worldclass
research
teams
Manage careers,
succession and
staff
development to
ensure strong
Demonstrate
researcher excellence
Performance
Management process
improvement
1: Deliver an internal
quality assessment of
NICTA research teams
comprising review and
benchmarking against
comparable global
institutions.
2. Implement new
performance
management process.
Q2 This milestone was met: This milestone was completed to the extent
possible given that it is difficult to obtain comparative data at the
research team level from other institutions.
One way to measure the calibre of a research team is to perform
citation analysis on each team member. NICTA completed a citation
analysis of all researchers, ranked and aggregated those results at the
research team level, as well as for NICTA as a whole.
These citation results have been compared against a sample selection
of research groups from other international centres. The citation
results indicate NICTA research teams are of equivalent quality to top
institutes INRIA and Max Planck Institute for Informatik. However,
NICTA has some way to go to reach the calibre of CSAIL, MIT.
The NICTA Performance and Benchmarking Report will include this
information as well as providing a narrative on how NICTA compares
with other centres at the organisational level. The Report is to be
delivered with the Q4 report at the end of March 2009.
Q4 This milestone was met. HR has implemented a new performance
management system by incorporating values, core responsibilities, key
performance indicators and learning and development requirements
into one central system. HR facilitated training sessions with all the
employees across sites on the new process. Managers were trained on
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future leadership
across the
organisation
Develop a
culture of
entrepreneurship
and achievement
Manage succession
process
3. Implement
processes to ensure
appropriate skills are
built. Review of
succession plans and
focus potential
successors through
talent management
initiatives.
Recruitment strategy 4. Implement general
Recruitment strategy.
Culture analysis and
improvement
5. Development of
action plan on staffing
and culture based on
2007 Open Forum
internal survey.
6. Implementation of
response to survey,
with particular focus on
key issues raised in
survey.
how to implement the new system.
Q4 This milestone was met. HR collaborated with managers to review and
update the succession plans for their areas. Managers reviewed the
existing plans and identified potential successors for each critical role.
They also identified gaps in skills or knowledge. HR will work with the
managers to bridge the gaps needed.
Q4 This milestone was met. HR worked with the Laboratory Directors to
address all recruitment requirements. HR created a wiki page for
Laboratory Directors so that they can update information about
vacancies or suggest potential candidates that NICTA can contact as
part of a recruitment search. Position descriptions have been updated
and behavioural-style interviewing has been implemented to ensure
that researchers with the essential skills are being hired.
Q1 This milestone was met: The 2007 survey identified Strategy and
Direction; Collaboration and Teamwork; and Operational Excellence as
key opportunities. They are being addressed by cross organisational
teams led by various business unit heads in identifying key issues as
well as strategies and actions to address these.
Q4 This milestone was met. A cross-functional team has implemented
action plans to respond to the issues and concerns raised in the 2007
Open Forum Survey however quantitative assessments through Open
Forum Survey in 2009 are needed to support the effectiveness of the
initiatives for 2008.
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Continually
improve our work
environment with
processes that
help people
achieve NICTA’s
objectives
Develop the skills of
staff and students to
maximise the impact of
use-inspired research
7. Ongoing delivery of
the 3-stage training
program.
8. Deliver a program of
locally based role
model seminars, Meet
the Founder, Big
Picture.
Impact Awards 9. First NICTA Impact
Awards Program
implemented based on
past year nominations.
Q4 This milestone was met. Project Intellectual Property Search Sessions
(PIPPS) were conducted to teach the researchers patent searching
skills that enable them to understand the patent landscape. There
were 20 sessions organised across all labs. Intellectual Property
Induction was provided to researchers also.
Commercialisation training, particularly Use-Inspired Research
Strategies, Market Impact Strategies, and Successful Market
Engagement Workshops were provided to both researchers and
students.
RESEARCH
Strategy Activity Milestones Due Outcome
Maintain review
processes that
Project Portfolio 10. Research Strategy
Group (RSG) to define
Q4 This milestone was met. Two Impact Strategy and Intellectual Property
(IP) Strategy workshops were organised to educate and develop
researchers and students in IP and commercialisation. Role Model
Seminars were facilitated also. A total of nine Big Picture and Meet the
Founder series were organised to assist in the development of
researchers’ skills in commercialisation.
Q2 This milestone was met: The first NICTA Impact Awards were
presented during Techfest at Canberra Laboratory in April 2008.
Q2 This milestone was met: The RSG has agreed on a set of targets for
NICTA’s project portfolio. A paper has been prepared outlining those
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ensure we
conduct
research to the
highest
standards of
international
excellence
Benchmarking
Review and monitor
performance
strategic targets for
balance of resources
across the project
portfolio.
11. Continued
management of
existing project portfolio
subject to standard
ongoing review
mechanisms and
completion dates.
12. Include research
performance measures
such as citation
analysis in Performance
Development Plans.
13. Benchmark study
against selected top
research institutes.
14. All projects
reviewed (internal);
Program reviews
completed;
targets and defining the dimensions that will be used to keep track of
the project portfolio.
Q4 This milestone was met. In 2008, a total of 24 projects were
completed and subsequently closed. This provided NICTA with the
opportunity to reassign resources to activities which better align with
our theme strategic plans and portfolio targets. In 2008 a total of 11
new projects were initiated.
Q1 This milestone was met: The method and instructions for such analysis
was developed and incorporated into the Performance Development
Plans (PDP) templates in March (Q1) and formally distributed to staff
in the next tranche of PDP reviews.
Q4 This milestone was met: The draft benchmarking framework document
has been completed and was submitted for final approval to the
Australian Research Council (ARC) and Department of Broadband,
Communication and the Digital Economy (DBCDE) in September 2008.
The study against the selected top research institutes was completed
by Q4. Data on each selected institute has been gathered via publicly
available information on the web or direct contact with the
organisation. The initial citation results indicate the distribution of
NICTA researchers (as measured by g index) compare well against
other institutes. The benchmarking report was submitted to DBCDE
and ARC by 31 March 2009.
Q4 This milestone was met. In 2008 all projects were reviewed by an
internal review panel comprising the executive team, including the
CEO. The purpose of the project review is to:
• provide an opportunity for other researchers in the organisation
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Institute 3 year cycle of
Theme reviews
(external).
and the executive team to learn about the project and its
outcomes;
• evaluate progress against milestones, flag any impediments and
discuss future strategies in all aspects of the project eg science,
commercialisation, linkages;
• evaluate underlying assumptions of the research and the
competitive market.
As a result of the project reviews this year:
Three projects were merged with others:
• Data Mining in Spatio-Temporal Data (DMIST) into Human
Performance Initiative (HPI)
• LIXI Business Processes into Process Architecture, Modelling and
Technologies for Business and Government (ARMATURE)
• e-government into ARMATURE
Four project extensions were approved
• Automated Anatomical Structure Extraction for Diagnosis and
Population Norms (AAESDP)Situation Awareness by Inference and
Logic (SAIL)
• SWARM (Characterisation, Diagnosis and Assurance of Health and
Quality of Sensor Formations)
• L4 verified
Two projects were recommended for closure.
• Braccetto (Collaborative project in human machine interaction)
• Query and Decision under Uncertainty for a Secure and
Sustainable Environment (QUSE).
o QUSE has been closed, but subsequent discussions with
the Braccetto partner organisations led us to keep
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Braccetto going but with a clearer direction regarding the
research.
The project review process for 2009 is being finetuned.
Within the period February 2005 to March 2008, each of the fifteen
NICTA programs was reviewed. The reviews were carried out by a
selected group of international experts especially selected per
program. The purpose of the program review was to:
Examine the coverage of the program in relation to NICTA’s mission.
Evaluate the performance of the program and provide an assessment
of the work being conducted.
As a result of the program reviews over the three year period, the
following two programs were closed:
SEACS (Systems Engineering and Complex Systems)
IMAGEN (Interfaces, Machines and Graphic Environments)
Moving into the future program reviews will be replaced by theme
reviews.
Theme review guidelines have been drafted and approved by the
RMCC and endorsed and almost formally approved by the Evaluation
Committee. The purpose of the theme review is to:
Calibrate the quality of the theme and its staff against the world’s best
ICT research centres.
Evaluate the performance of the theme against its strategic plan
Assess the work being conducted in relation to all five objectives.
Theme reviews will begin in 2010. In 2009, we will aim to confirm the
dates and review panel membership.
Focus our Identify capabilities 15. Develop research Q2 This milestone was met: All four strategic plans have been drafted.
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esearch efforts
to maximise
impact
Choose projects
and partners
that allow us to
both advance
knowledge and
underpin the
development of
globally
competitive
required for each
research Theme
Embedded Systems
Theme strategic plans. Each plan outlines:
• A description of the theme in terms of the central problems it
addresses
• Our differentiated capability
• Key current activities
• Longer term goals of the theme
The plans were submitted to ISAG/IBAG for consideration. The
feedback received was that they wondered how the plans would
16. Implement Theme
strategic plans.
17. Identify key
international partners
and initiate linkages.
18. Expand Gigabit
Wireless Access (GiFi)
project – get Digital
Base Band defined and
implementation
underway.
19. Finalise work plan
for a technology
platform project in
influence our future portfolio.
Q3 This milestone was met: Theme plans were submitted and presented
to ISAG/IBAG in August. The execution of the plans has commenced.
They are a ten year plan, as such implementation will continue over
the next ten years. The first steps (in early 2009) will be to build
engagement with all of the NICTA researchers. Another initial priority is
the development and consolidation of strategic international linkages.
Q3 This milestone was met: Some key international linkage opportunities
have been identified. Key linkages have been established within a US
consortium which has been successful in attracting National Science
Foundation funding. NICTA has also become partner of a European
Union consortium which successfully bid for funding under EU 7 th
framework program. These linkages are on-going activities and will be
strengthened throughout 2009.
Q2 This milestone was met: The GiFi project has been expanded with the
addition of the LSI team last year. The team has obtained wireless HD
specification, reviewed it and built the architecture. It is now
implementing the subcomponents.
Q4 Milestone was not met. In August 2008, a workshop was held in
Queensland to assemble a work plan for a collaborative platform
project in reconfigurable systems for computer vision applications.
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products,
processes and
services
GiFi Milestones
embedded systems. This workshop had representatives from NICTA (QRL, NRL, ATP, CRL)
as well as the University of Queensland, University of NSW and The
Chinese University of Hong Kong. Whilst good progress has been made
towards the launching of a project in this area, the workplan has yet to
be finalised. In 2009, this plan will be completed and submitted to
NICTA for funding. The group is working towards making an
appointment in Embedded Systems at the NRL lab to lead this activity
across NICTA. [An advanced strategic plan draft was presented to the
RSG in January]
20. System analysis
and Specification.
21. Algorithm
documentation drafted.
22. Architecture
complete.
23. Detailed design and
test plan completed.
Networked Systems 24. Develop the
following two project
proposals to:
• Integrate
networking
Q1 This milestone was met: In Q1 the team was required to investigate
the requirements to build a multi gigabit baseband MAC. The team has
performed this investigation and has an architecture and specification
to deliver a 4Gbps data stream wirelessly. The proposed architecture
will be able to transfer uncompressed 1080p high definition signal
wirelessly.
Q2 This milestone was met: The algorithm documentation is complete.
Most of the algorithms have been implemented in Matlab, which is a
numerical computing environment and programming language.
Q3 This milestone was met: The architecture for the Digital Baseband and
the Radio has been completed. We are now working on implementing
the new architecture. Significant progress towards implementation of
the two key components of the receiver (the digital baseband
processor and the analog radio frequency section) has been achieved
Q4 This milestone was met: A test and work plan has been completed.
Q3 This milestone was met:
Networking proposals from the Queensland Research Laboratory and
the Neville Roach Laboratory have been integrated together. A
preliminary proposal was submitted to the Research Management
Coordination Committee (RMCC) in September. After RMCC feedback,
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Managing Complexity
research across
NICTA;
• Expand scope of
peer-to-peer
project.
25. Underpin the
commercialisation of
Managing And
Monitoring the Internet
(MAMI) with a
continuing research
project.
26. Demonstration of
multi-path routing
access to multiple
nodes of NICTA’s
wireless mesh test-bed
for the Smart Transport
and Roads project.
27. Initiate
development of
Software Infrastructure
Open Platform (SIOP)
software process
platform.
28. Second academic
release of Mini-Zinc, a
Q4
a full proposal will be developed.
The RMCC approved project, TEMPO, brings together some of the peerto-peer
capability within NICTA, and the Peer-to-Peer project. The
extension will depend on the commercialisation activities of the peer-
to-peer project.
This milestone was met. To provide continued research support to
Monitoring Division (MDI), NICTA has a contract in place to provide 6.5
NICTA funded staff for three years with the management of this
contract operating from NICTA VRL.
Q1 This milestone was met: This milestone was due in Q1 but has been
subsequently met in Q2 (April) 2008.
Technical difficulties have now been overcome which delayed the
implementation of the software for multipath routing. The software has
now been developed and has passed compile stage. Integration and
verification is now underway on an emulator testbed prior to
Q2
Q2
deployment on the outdoor testbed.
This milestone was met: Initial work has commenced on
implementation of aspects of the SIOP software, including early proofof-concept
prototypes for some components. The ArMaTure project
(Process Architecture, Modelling and Technologies for Business and
Government), approved in Q2, is the host for the development of the
SIOP platform. Term sheet and budget are being developed, and are
expected to be complete for formal commencement of the project in
Q3 2008.
This milestone was met: The second academic version of Mini-Zinc
was released by the end of the quarter and is available for public
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Making Sense of Data
(MSOD)
restricted optimisation
modelling language
intended to encourage
use in the academic
community.
29. Beta release of
optimization platform
including modelling
language, mapping
language and solving
platform.
30. Usage driven
projects utilizing
constraint
programming platform
developed and
engagements in place.
31. Develop a suite of
broad, extensible and
interoperable
platforms.
download at the following link:
http://www.g12.csse.unimelb.edu.au/minizinc/download.html
There is no standard modelling language for constraint programming
(CP) problems. MiniZinc maps to a low-level solver-input language
FlatZinc close to what CP solvers support natively, thus making it
simple to create a MiniZinc frontend for an existing solver. MiniZinc is
currently supported by Eclipse Prolog
(http://eclipse.crosscoreop.com/) and Gecode (www.gecode.org) the
two leading freely available constraint programming systems, as well
as many different backends in the G12 project.
Q4 This milestone was met. A beta release version of the optimization
G12 platform is now available for use and is being used by NICTA staff
and other groups around the world. In particular G12 now runs on
native Windows, and the release includes the interactive development
environment (IDE) implemented at the Canberra lab.
Q4 This milestone was met. Extensive effort is now underway to apply the
G12 platform to a number of industrial applications including logistics
airport operations and integrated transport systems. Non Disclosure
Agreements are in place and external funding is being sought for
significant trials on large working systems. There are advanced plans
for collaborations on Total Airport Optimisation and Total Rail
Optimisation Infrastructure planning for the Victorian Department of
Transport.
Q3 This milestone was met: During 2008 NICTA made a major release of
the Elefant machine learning platform. Other platforms were also
released in the area of machine learning by the end of Q3, including
platforms in the area of optical monitoring (which led to the
development of spin-out company, Monitoring Division), and in Cancer
Genomics. These platforms were released internally and externally,
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Conduct
research to the
highest
standards of
international
excellence
Provide NICTA
researchers with
world-class
facilities and
equipment
Raise funds and
other
contributions
that ensure the
longevity of
NICTA's
operations so
that it can
achieve its
mission.
Review and monitor
performance
Provide new research
accommodation
Target sources of
external funding
32. Identification and
partnering
arrangements in place
for vertical applications
of other platforms.
33. Three Program
reviews completed.
34. Relocation of
research effort to new
facilities at ATP.
35. Achieve ‘Other
Contributions’ target of
$33.781 m.
Financial Plan 36. Update long-term
financial plan.
with development continuing into the future to enhance
interoperability and extensibility.
Q3 This milestone was met: We have a focussed existing project in the
area of Diagnostic Genomics which is being significantly expanded to
become a vertical application platform. Additionally, we have identified
document processing, especially for large government users, as
another area for vertical application platforms. Both these platforms
will be further developed, with partnerships strengthened, during
2009. Additionally, new vertical application areas will be considered.
Q1 This milestone was met: This milestone was carried over from Q4
2007. All program reviews have now been completed, with the last
review for Symbolic Machine Learning and Knowledge Acquisition
(SMLKA) being completed in March 2008. We will transition to Theme
reviews in the future.
Q3 This milestone was met: The relocation to the new ATP building was
completed successfully following completion of the new building and
physical and IT services fit-out during Q2. The relocation was
completed successfully over a 2-week period, and completion of all
services is being undertaken during fourth quarter.
Q4 This milestone was met. The overall ‘other contributions’ target was
met however the cash component was slightly below the target set.
The interim 2008 cash and in-kind estimate is $49.7m (unaudited and
in-kind has not been finalised).
Q4 This milestone was met. The overall financial plan to 2011 was
completed and presented at the December Board meeting.
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EDUCATION
Strategy Activity Milestones Due Outcome
Build an
enhanced PhD
program in
partnership with
universities as
an integrated
education
network
Research Training
Network for enhanced
PhDs
Acceptance of NICTA
Enhanced PhD
37. Introduce database
to monitor student
mobility and other
experiences.
38. PhD Student
database implemented
and tracking student
performance and
enhancement.
39. Fifty percent of
NICTA students
graduating have
undertaken
professional skills
training.
40. Units of
study/courses
effectively shared and
delivered across NICTA
laboratories and
partner universities.
41. All partners
implementing NICTA
enhancement and
study plan.
Q2 This milestone was met: The student database has been developed
and deployed and now has functionality to monitor student
participation in mobility opportunities.
Q4 This milestone was met. The student database is now fully operational
and has the functionality to monitor student mobility and track other
aspects of the enhancement.
Q3 This milestone was met: More then 50% of NICTA students who have
graduated from NICTA, have undertaken professional skills training
courses. Students are invited to attend all NICTA in-house training and
development programs. These courses include Media Training,
commercialisation training and participation in the Role Model
Seminars throughout the year.
Q4 This milestone was met. Seven academically-accredited advanced ICT
modules were offered in Q4 to NICTA enhanced students located in all
labs, and ICT PhD students in both NICTA’s partner/member and nonpartner
universities, with in excess of 100 participants.
Q1 This milestone was met: This milestone was carried over from Q4
2007. Study Plans and their implementation across NICTA were
reviewed in Q1 2007. The review showed that study plans are
implemented at the University of Sydney, the University of Melbourne,
and the Australian National University. The Queensland universities
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42. Processes and
procedures for the
education program
consolidated, providing
consistency across all
nodes.
43. Introduce an
induction program for
new students which
outlines benefit and
commitment for NICTA
enhanced PhD
students, which is run
twice a year.
Alumni tracking 44. Develop a targeted
student alumni
communication plan.
(Griffith, UQ and QUT) also agreed to implement study plans during Q4.
These took effect with the new student intake. From Q1 2009 all
partner and member universities are implementing the NICTA
enhanced program.
Q1 This milestone was met: From 2009 all partner and member
universities are implementing the NICTA enhanced program.
Q2
Q4
This milestone was met: An induction program for new students has
been developed and implemented over the first half of 2008. This
program is run twice a year, in Q1 and Q4. It was run successfully in
Q1 2008 and will be held again in Q4. This program includes a briefing
at each laboratory for new students on OH&S, IT, student rights and
responsibilities, and a laboratory tour. Additionally, existing NICTA
students attend this induction program to welcome the new students
and to also help create support networks within each laboratory.
In Q1 each lab reviewed their local procedures and the induction
process to ensure consistency where possible or appropriate, and will
run full induction programs in 2009. To complement the local
approach, in Q4 an orientation session was offered to all new students
across NICTA via video link, providing an introduction to the
organisation from a corporate perspective with presentations from
senior staff.
Q3 This milestone was not met: NICTA is currently in the process of
developing a targeted communication plan in consultation with partner
universities. This has taken slightly longer than expected as the plan
needs to encourage ongoing participation to be successful. This plan
will be launched in parallel with Techfest 2009 and ISAG/IBAG. Using
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Attract
outstanding
students to
NICTA and to ICT
generally
Enhanced Information
Communication
Technology (ICT)
research training
through improved
quality of intake of
students
Stimulate student
pipeline
45. Partner with
universities in
attracting more top
quality national and
international PhD
students.
46. Assist partner
universities in
marketing on open day
exhibitions, graduate
fairs, and international
trips.
47. Launch high school
outreach activity.
Q1
Q4
these events as a platform, we hope to successfully engage NICTA
alumni. This milestone will now be met in Q2 2009
This milestone was met: NICTA has committed to supporting at least
three major outreach activities in 2008: Artemis, National Computer
Summer School (NCSS/Sydney University) and Summer Scholars
Showcase. NICTA’s previous support of the NCSS through personnel
and sponsorship is to be expanded with the introduction of a NICTA
sponsored embedded systems programming stream in the 2009
school.
NICTA continued to support three major outreach activities in 2008;
Summer Scholars Showcase (see above), Artemis and the National
Computer Science School (NCSS/Sydney University). NICTA’s support
of the NCSS has been extended to incorporate development in Q3 and
Q4 of the “Embedded Challenge” - an introductory on-line course that
will be run in 2009 for secondary students, and course material for the
new embedded programming stream at the National School that will
be held in early January 2009. NICTA’s role in the Artemis High School
Challenge will be revisited in mid 2009.
Q4 This milestone was met. NICTA had a strong presence at recruitment
events; for example UNSW Vacation/Internship Careers Expo, UNSW
Open Day and Postgraduate Expo, University of Sydney Postgraduate
Information evening.
Q3 This milestone was met: NICTA supported the National Computer
Summer School for secondary school students, in January 2008. The
NCSS brings together talented young people for an intensive week of
computer programming, web design and related activities in the
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Provide students
with practical
research,
industry and
domain
experience,
locally and
internationally
Student research
integration
48. Artemis Orchestra
entry for 2008 with
UNSW.
49. Launch national
Artemis orchestra
competition.
50. Successful
completion of
candidature by 50
NICTA PhD students.
Student internships 51. Demonstrate at
least five concrete
examples of PhD
student internships
with international
School of Information Technologies at The University of Sydney. NICTA
contributed to the NCSS through sponsorship, speakers and project
topics. The NCSS will be held again in January 2009 and NICTA
sponsorship and personnel contributions have been confirmed.
Q3 This milestone was met: In 2008 NICTA and the University of NSW
partnered to develop an entry in the second annual ARTEMIS
Orchestra Competition. This year the team developed a clarinet playing
robot. This entry won first place in the competition due to the high level
of technical difficulty in the design of its robot “mouth”, and the
device’s unique, completely embedded computer system.
Q3 This milestone was met: NICTA launched a national Artemis
competition aimed at tertiary groups in 2008. The contest brings
together teams that NICTA sponsors to build robots that play musical
instruments. The aim is to use the competition as a means to generate
future entries into the international Artemis competition. We also hope
that this will generate a platform that can expand the competition into
high schools sometime in the future.
This year we had entries from University of Adelaide and University of
Queensland. Entries were violin (UA), concertina (UA), clarinet (UQ) and
glockenspiel (UQ). Judging of this national contest is underway, with
the winning team to be announced in late January 2009.
Q4 This milestone was met. The target has been exceeded with 91
completions as at 31 December 2008.
Q4 This milestone was met. NICTA is now fully participating in a successful
Internship program with the National Institute of Informatics (NII) in
Japan (15 internships awarded to date). We also have agreements
with Torino Wireless in Italy, and the Chinese Academy of Science
(CAS). A pilot internship program at CAS was advertised to students in
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Extend the
benefits of
NICTA’s
integrated
education
portfolio beyond
our partner
universities
Extension of Research
Training Network to
non-partner
universities
laboratories or industry. Q3 with limited success but will be revised and re-launched in 2009.
Other internships arranged through individual contact were taken up
by students in both local and international organisations such as Bell
Labs and Intel in the USA, DERI in Ireland and Microsoft in Beijing.
52. Deliver to students
from non-partner
universities
participating in the
Research Training
Network (RTN).
LINKAGES
Strategy Activity Milestones Due Outcome
Develop strong
cooperative
relationships and
joint projects for
national and
international
benefit
International 53. Form an
international research
linkage project with
major European partner
in Artemis.
Q2 This milestone was met: NICTA’s program of advanced ICT modules
was delivered in Sydney during November and December 2008. Six
modules were made available to NICTA enhanced students across all
labs and invitations were issued to ICT PhD students in Sydney
universities (UNSW, USyd, UTS, Macquarie and UWS). Over 100
registrations were received for these courses. Twenty five per cent of
participants were non-enhanced students from NICTA’s partner and
member universities, whilst 15 per cent came from non-partner
universities, including a significant cohort from UTS.
Q4 This milestone was not met. NICTA actively pursued this milestone
during 2008, however were unsuccessful in securing a place in an
Artemis project. A limited number of Artemis projects were launched
in 2008 and each project includes up to 8 members. NICTA’s
embedded systems research was aligned with only one of these
projects making it difficult to gain membership. NICTA did send
researchers to the international brokerage events but they were
unable to secure positions in the projects available. This participation
has built a better understanding of the process and based on this
experience, NICTA decided to include Embedded Systems Australia
(ESA) and Partner/Member Universities in the brokerage events for
the 2 nd Call, broadening the possible areas of engagement. To
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National
54. Develop other
international linkages
with relevant research
organisations.
55. Contributions
delivered to Braccetto
collaboration with
CSIRO and Defence
Science and Technology
Organisation.
56. Undertake survey of
Australian university ICT
Research &
Development.
57. Re-energise ICT
Outlook Forum by
aligning with CeBit.
support this, in late 2008 NICTA secured a $300,000 International
science Linkages (ISL) grant to help facilitate further Australia-EU
collaborations, including Artemis. Some of this funding is being
assigned to get partner researchers to Artemis events.
Q4 This milestone was met. In 2008, NICTA created a new role:
International Relations Director. The Director was appointed and is
developing a plan for international engagements and is committed to
Q4
Q2
Q2
delivering this plan to the Research Strategy Group by Q2 2009.
This milestone was met. The NICTA Braccetto team collaborated
closely with CSIRO and DSTO as part of the HxI initiative to achieve
the deliverables specified by the Braccetto project plan for Q4:
- (in collaboration with CSIRO and DSTO) Built first and second
design specification for “blended spaces” collaboration
environments consisting of three different meeting room
setups catering for large groups, small groups and informal
collaboration.
- (in collaboration with CSIRO) Conducted initial user study at
the Australian Animal Health Laboratory (AAHL). Focus on
roles and stakeholders in emergency response scenarios.
- (in collaboration with CSIRO and DSTO) Jointly submitted a
follow-on project proposal draft with CSIRO and DSTO to the
ICT roundtable.
This milestone was met: Professor Craig Mudge was commissioned
by NICTA to conduct a national survey of ICT research in Australia.
The findings were reported to the NICTA Board in June.
This milestone was met: The ICT Outlook forum was successfully
aligned with CeBIT Australia this year. In the past the ICT Outlook
forum has been unsuccessful in the interest it generated. This year
the Forum was aligned with the AusInnovate Conference at CeBIT –
AusInnovate08. NICTA was an executive sponsor of the Forum with
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Participate in
and develop
national clusters
to grow
international
areas of
competitive
advantage in ICT
Industry Networks and
Clusters
58. Assess scope for
extended project
engagement with NSW
RTA in Intelligent
Transport Systems (ITS).
59. Launch Embedded
Systems Australia (ESA)
industry cluster.
60. Complete and
publish mapping of
industry and academic
activities of Embedded
Systems Australia (ESA).
61. Launch a
collaborative ESA
cluster project.
CEO David Skellern on the panel and Dr Chris Nicol CTO (Embedded
Systems) presenting. Sequoia Networks, US (funders of Google) also
spoke. This Forum was well received and attended, and was
considered a success by Hannover Fairs Australia, NICTA and the
CSIRO.
Q3 This milestone was met: We have assessed the scope for an
extended project engagement in Intelligent Transport Systems with
NSW RTA. At end of Q3 NICTA submitted a discussion paper to the
RTA for consideration. The discussion paper outlines a forward
research, development and implementation plan extending to 2020.
The RTA has indicated that they will be undertaking some analysis of
their markets during Q4 08 before responding formally in 2009.
Q3 This milestone was met: The Embedded Systems Australia cluster
was officially launched with a cluster event held at the DSRD offices
on Oct 14, 2008. The event announced 3 ESA projects, a new
funding model for attracting 3 levels of ESA sponsors and invited 3
presentations by the winners of the inaugural Software and
Embedded Systems Award
Q2 This milestone was met: As a part of Embedded Systems Australia
industry cluster, a national capability mapping survey of the
embedded systems industry was conducted and the results
published in the form of a capability map on the website
www.nicta.com.au/esa. The results for over 60 companies are
contained in the survey.
Q3 This milestone was met. NICTA was informally informed it had
secured funding for a major ESA project from NSW Government
Department of State and Regional Development (DSRD) in late Q3
and DSRD officially announced this in October 2008. This project will
contain several ESA stakeholders and will focus on Dedicated Short
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Develop
integrated plans
per project of
NICTA’s industry
linkages with
clear targets that
embed the
project in the
relevant
ecosystem,
enhancing the
likelihood of
market adoption
of research
results
Provide
advanced
research and
professional
courses,
seminars and
other events to
widen the
engagement with
Australia’s ICT
industry and
public sector
researchers
Project linkage plans
Contribution to the
deep technical
expertise and
professional skills in the
workforce
62. Based on Research
Theme linkages and
Business Area linkages
develop linkage plans
for each project.
63. Offer 10 post PhD
positions to consolidate
deep technical expertise
and develop
entrepreneurial skills.
Short Course Program 64. Deliver the first
short course outside
Australia ‘Tracking and
Range Communications. NICTA may be involved with this project via
the STaR project. The project was formally launched in November
2008 through a major event held at DSRD.
Q4 Milestone partially met. This has been done for most (though not all)
of NICTA’s projects to varying levels of detail: as projects mature
through the commercialisation pipeline, their clarity regarding
optimal linkages naturally improves. Equally, as NICTA’s work on
developing research themes and business areas matures, this work
informs individual projects. Commercialisation Opportunity
Workshops and project planning and review processes help with the
knowledge transfer process. To date, NICTA’s research theme
strategies have not been developed as fully as anticipated, as the
planning process has been more extensive and consultative with
external and internal groups than originally expected. We have
modified this milestone in 2009 to focus on linkage strategies for
each research theme to allow projects to draw on these strategies to
develop their own specific linkage plans as part of ongoing project
proposal and review processes.
Q4 This milestone was met. Twenty-nine post PhD positions were offered
in various university locations. The positions were offered both on
part-time and full-time employment basis to provide support in
completion of various research projects across all labs. The positions
offered to PhDs were:
Research Assistant – 4
Research Engineer – 20
Researcher – 4
Q3
Senior Research Engineer – 1
This milestone was met: The first NICTA short course to be delivered
outside Australia was held in London, 13-14 May 2008. The course
was in Tracking and Data Fusion and was given by Dr. Branko Ristic
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Data Fusion’ in
Germany.
65. Develop Training
program for short
course delivery.
66. Courses developed
and delivered for 2 of
our Research Themes.
of the DSTO.
Q2 This milestone was met: This training program has been developed
and is ready for deployment. The first stage of rolling out the training
is to administer it to sample sets of six researchers at each site
during Q3 2008.
Q4 This Milestone was met.
THEME: Networked Systems
A three day short course, ‘Modern Digital Receiver Techniques: From
Theory to Practice” was developed jointly by Mark Reed (NICTA) and
Professor Bill Cowley of Institute for Telecommunications Research,
University of South Australia and delivered for the first time February
18 – 20 in Adelaide.
The topic was exciting, attracting an enthusiastic audience of twenty
six scientists and engineers from DSTO, DMO, Thales, The Attorney
Generals Department, Ebor Computing, The Australian Institute of
Sport and D Space.
THEME: Making Sense of Data
Tiberio Caetano developed “Machine Learning Using Graphical
Models”, a two-day short course, and delivered it for the first time
April 3 – 4 in Sydney. It was attended by eighteen research scientists
– four from DSTO in South Australia, two from CiSRA Sydney and
twelve from NICTA Labs in NSW, Queensland and Victoria. This
specialised topic was of limited appeal to an industry audience but
was received eagerly by the NICTA audience. There have been
requests for this course to be delivered in South Africa and Canada –
this has not yet happened due to costs involved.
THEME: Embedded Systems, Making Sense of Data
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Promote NICTA’s
people,
achievements
and role in the
ICT innovation
system
Briefings 67. Deliver 10-15
seminars annually, such
as breakfast and other
briefings featuring
NICTA staff and industry
leaders on ICT research
and industry.
Communication
Brian Lovell developed “Intelligent Video Surveillance” and delivered
it for the first time as a NICTA short course November 25 – 26 in
Melbourne. It was attended by thirteen engineers and research
scientists from DSTO, Raytheon, ASC, CiSRA, Info Link Australia, RTA
and three NICTA students. The audience travelled to the course from
five different states of Australia. Feedback on the course materials
was very positive, as was feedback on course delivery.
Planning was undertaken to offer these courses both in Australia and
overseas in 2009.
Q4 This milestone was met. NICTA management, commercialisation and
research management staff regularly present NICTA and our
capabilities at a variety of events and fora. These cover a broad
range of audiences, including industry cluster members (e.g. Western
Sydney ICT Cluster), industry group members (e.g. AiGroup,
Australasian Fire Authorities Council) and venture capitalists (Impact
Briefings).
In some cases NICTA hosted the events (e.g. Queensland Breakfast)
with a selected target audience and at others NICTA used the
opportunity to speak at events organised by others (e.g. World IP
Day).
68. Publish NICTA Q4
In all, NICTA was presented at over 10 seminars before more than
800 people during the year and we estimate more than 400
organisations.
This milestone was met. Four issues completed and available as of
News.
March, June, September and December 2008.
69. Produce annual Q4 This milestone was met. The annual Research Report was completed
Research Report.
and made available (in print and electronically) at the end of March
2008.
70. Produce 4 research Q4 This milestone was met. Research case studies were produced for
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Events
case studies.
71. Produce 4
commercialisation case
studies.
72. Australian Science
Festival.
COMMERCIALISATION
Strategy Activity Milestones Due Outcome
Develop projects
to create
technology
platforms and
domain
Licensing Activity 74. Three agreements
entered into for
licensing NICTA
Intellectual Property
(IP).
GiFi, BANESH, ITS and WIN v2 (this document has not been made
available externally but has been received by Government and NICTA
is awaiting direction).
Q4 This milestone was met. Research case studies were produced for
Pavement Management Services/Auto Map, OKL, MAMI/Monitoring
Division and LIXI (this document has not been made available
externally but has been received by Government and NICTA is
awaiting direction).
Q3 This milestone was met: NICTA attended the Science Fair with the
Robo Clarinet that won the 2008 European Artemis Orchestra Award,
and members of the Human Performance Improvement Project.
NICTA staff entertained, educated and interacted with over 10,000
school children from over 80 schools at this event.
73. Innovation festival. Q3 This milestone was met: In 2008, NICTA presented the following
activities as part of the Innovation Festival.
• Dr. Terry Cutler “NICTA Big Picture Seminar: Are we capable
enough to innovate?”
• NICTA Techfest 2008
• Pervasive 2008 – The 6 th International Conference on
Pervasive Computing including a day of short tutorials
Q4 This milestone was met: A total of 22 licences were entered into
during 2008, including 11 open source agreements (covering
technology emerging from the SAFE, NOSA, Smart Cars, Artemis, MSS,
ATOMIC and Camkes initiatives), 7 Evaluation licences, 1
demonstration licence and 3 commercial licences (of P2P, MAMI and
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applications with
global market
potential in
partnership with
user industries
Identify and fund
the development
of proofs-of-
Delivery of research
results under existing
contracts
Develop consulting
capability to drive useinspired
research
Grants and
Investments
75. Deliver Research
Service Agreement
(RSA) projects to OK-
Labs (SeL4, L4.
Verified, Potoroo).
76. Two strategically
aligned research
contracts or
consultancies.
77. Four Market
Validation evaluations
conducted in 2008.
ERTOS technology).
Q4 This milestone was not met.
The SeL4 and L4, Verified projects are being delivered as per the
Research Service Agreement with OK-Labs however due to the
departure of the Potoroo project leader, it is unlikely Potoroo will
continue.
o SeL4
The SeL4 project is currently proceeding well against project
milestones. As per the RSA, a report has been prepared and the group
is making minor modifications at the request of OK-Labs.
o L4, Verified
The project is delivering as per the RSA however due to the complexity
of the topic, final delivery has been delayed. It is expected that the
work will be complete in early 2009.
o Potoroo
Due to the departure of the Potoroo Project Leader, Dr. Stefan Peters,
it is unlikely that the Potoroo project will proceed. To date, Potoroo has
delivered some useful engineering solutions to OK-Labs however the
departure of Dr Peters means further work in this project will be
unlikely.
Q4 This milestone was met: A number of consulting projects were
undertaken during 2008; many in the software infrastructure area.
Contracts with Centrelink (RESA), LIXI, NEC, Queensland Health and a
large financial institution are examples where the ArMaTure team
have deepened their use-inspiration through strategically aligned
research contracts. Contracts also have been agreed and delivered
with the Global Innovations Centre, s2001 (mContext) and Railcorp
NSW (SAFE).
Q4 This milestone was met: A total of 9 MVGs were granted to, and
executed by, 8 teams during 2008: PubRes, Automap, PingMe, P2P,
Safe Sensors (Mugshot), DSIM Cognitive Load (2 grants), RESA and
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concept and
working models to
demonstrate
market
application
Strategic market
alignment of research
skills and projects
78. Four Technical
Proof of Concept grants
funded in 2008.
79. Two Commercial
Development
Investment grants
made in 2008.
80. Draft of business
plan for GiFi.
81. Engagement
strategy for each
Business area
developed.
Computer Tomography Colonography (CTC).
Q4 This milestone was met: A total of 8 POCs were granted to, and
executed by, 8 teams during 2008: AutoMap, GiFi, AI Work bench,
PubRes, Goanna, Safe Sensors (Mugshot), Interferex and mContext.
Q4 This milestone was met: 2 Commercial Development Investment (CDI)
grants were finalised during 2008 - $150,000 in Audinate and
$350,000 (in two tranches linked to performance milestones) in
Monitoring Division, Inc. Note that the CDI in Audinate was formally
approved for expenditure in the closing week of December 2007;
however the transaction occurred in 2008.
NIPR’s Investment Committee supports CDIs in companies that have
spun out of NICTA, and as only one company spun out during 2008 –
Monitoring Division Inc. – only one new CDI could have been made.
Due to the global financial crisis, there is substantially less funding
available for early stage ventures. That said, a number of NICTA
projects are in the latter stages on NICTA’s project pipeline, and most
have had detailed conversations regarding investability with domestic
(and in a number of cases global) investors. NICTA’s prospects of
exceeding this milestone were strong until availability of early stage
investment funds reduced dramatically in the second half of 2008.
Q1 This milestone was met: A draft business plan for GiFi was presented
initially to the Board Commercialisation Committee (BCC) and
subsequently to the Board at its March 2008 meeting, accompanied
with a request to support a POC proposal. The plan detailed
engineering, technical and business milestones which management
are tracking. The business plan is now being implemented by the GiFi
team.
Q2 This milestone was met: All six Business Area strategic plans have
been developed in the areas of Software Infrastructure; Biomedical
and Life Sciences; Mobile Systems and Services; Intelligent Transport
Systems; Safety and Security; and Environmental Management.
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Ensure that NICTA
has a clear, fast
and flexible
Intellectual
Property (IP)
Framework, and
set of
Actively drive
Commercialisation
pipeline.
The main goals of Business Area engagement strategies are to:
• Build relationships with industry and government
organisations to support domain understanding and useinspiration;
• Build relationships with key Australian and international
research groups to leverage key areas of external expertise
and to benchmark NICTA capability;
• Establish partnerships with industry and government
organisations to run field trials of developing research
technologies; and
• Establish partnerships with companies to run third-party
commercial trials of mature research technologies.
82. Map engagement Q3 This milestone was met: Several initiatives have been put in place
outcomes of existing
during 2008: a Contracts Legal and IP database tracks all formal
relationships.
relationships within the organisation; the External Affairs Committee
has been formed to track key relationships across NICTA projects; and
at the individual project level the commercialisation team summarises
engagement outcomes from existing projects. Commercialisation
Opportunity Workshops also identify potential and actual outcomes
from existing relationships and encourage or broker new relationships
to drive commercial outcomes.
83. Actively review Q1 This milestone was met: All RMCC-approved projects have an
commercialisation
‘assigned’ Commercialisation manager who takes responsibility to
opportunities within
guide teams to commercial outcomes. In addition, a series of lab-
projects.
based Commercialisation Opportunity Workshops (COWs) have been
conducted to progress specific and targeted commercialisation
opportunities within individual projects.
84. Prioritise and Q1 This milestone was met: The commercial pipeline is regularly
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Commercialisation
Processes and
Guidelines that
facilitate efficient
transfer of
research results
into use
manage pipeline to
generate predictable
flow of commercial
outcomes.
85. Appoint 2
Entrepreneurs in
Residence (EiR).
monitored and tracked by managers within the Commercialisation
team, through fortnightly status updates in regular team meetings;
reinforcement with project teams in Commercialisation Opportunity
Workshops (COWs) and individual face to face meetings; and ad-hoc
milestone events including IBAG/ISAG reviews, forums such as the
Commonwealth Review, and similar. The team considers all types of
commercialisation activity within this framework, factoring in the
potential needs for contract research, licensing and spin out activities.
The 8-stage pipeline management process has been updated slightly
to define where projects are placed in terms of:
o Customer engagement
o Product offering (maturity)
o Progress on the opportunity profile
o Status of their IP strategy
o Level of Investment Activity
All projects have been rated against the 8-stage process.
Q4 This milestone was met: Relationships have been developed with a
number of entrepreneurs bringing their skills into dedicated focus with
project teams during 2008. Early in the year, the Board
Commercialisation Committee supported a shift from employing EiRs,
to review all NICTA projects and selecting one to focus on, to engaging
external entrepreneurs with specific domain knowledge to accelerate
commercialisation in an individual project. External commercial
experts who have worked with project teams in 2008 include: David
Robinson (Goanna and Implant Systems), Peter Williams (elefant),
Pieter van Rooyen (IFX), Chris Fisher (IFX), James Campbell (mContext,
Goanna, RESA), Dan Pitt (mContext), Steve Telburn (P2P) and Pat Kelly
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86. Integrate
commercialisation
pipeline review process
as part of regular
project management
system.
Intellectual Property 87. Clarify basic IP
strategy and
supporting processes
in relation to open
source environment.
(GiFi).
Q2 This milestone was met: The commercialisation pipeline review
process has been integrated into the project management system. A
pipeline status report covering the current commercialisation status,
and grant status of all projects that have the potential to generate a
licence or spin-out within 18 months, is updated at minimum bimonthly
and typically on a more frequent basis. Where possible we
incorporate feedback from external parties (such as members of
venture capital organisations) to calibrate our view on the commercial
status of projects. We use this report for Commercialisation
Opportunity Workshops, which are part of the NICTA project
management system, to identify where additional resources such as
commercialisation grants (market validation grant and proof of
concept grant) or other support or resources could accelerate the
commercial status of a project.
Q2 This milestone was met: A comprehensive Intellectual Property
strategy was developed and trialled in 2008. The strategy includes a
comprehensive plan to identify and protect IP, together with
supporting processes including workshops which apply the strategies
developed.
In addition, the following processes have been developed to support
Open Source licensing:
• Authorisation procedure (4 steps) and guidelines for
OSS out-licensing published on the NICTA intranet site.
• OSS Licence (out) register is being implemented by
Legal Dept as part of the contract database;
• An OSS education seminar has been conducted by
General Counsel for researchers “Commercialisation
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Foster the
creation of spinout
companies
and assist access
to capital and
business
partnership
Engagement with
Venture Capital
industry
88. Quarterly
presentations to
Venture Capital (VC)
representatives about
prospective project
investment
opportunities.
MILESTONES 2008 – MILESTONES NOT MET
Strategies for Open Source Models”; and,
• Open Source licence (incoming) is captured as part of the IP
Inventory maintained by researchers for their respective projects.
Q1 This milestone was met: During 2008, NIPR conducted two formal
group sessions with members of the Venture Capital community. In
addition, seven NICTA projects held more than 50 discussions with
VCs in Australia and the US; other projects were showcased to VCs
through TechFest, CommunicAsia, IBAG meetings and CeBIT.
A total of 88 milestones were set out in the AAP 2008. Of the 4 milestones that were not met over the course of the year, 1 has since
been overtaken by events and is no longer being pursued and 3 are in progress to be completed during 2009. One milestone was partially
met. Detailed explanations of any milestone not met are provided in the milestones table of the Milestone Activity Reports. The following
table identifies the status and actions for each milestone that was not met.
Milestone Not Met Status Action
Research
Finalise work plan for a
technology platform project
in embedded systems
To be completed in 2009. In August 2008, a workshop was held in
Queensland to assemble a work plan for a
collaborative platform project in reconfigurable
systems for computer vision applications. This
workshop had representatives from NICTA (QRL,
NRL, ATP, CRL) as well as the University of
Queensland, University of NSW and The Chinese
University of Hong Kong. Whilst good progress
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Education
Develop a targeted student
alumni communication plan
Linkages
Form an international
research linkage project with
major European partner in
Artemis.
has been made towards the launching of a
project in this area, the workplan has yet to be
finalised. In 2009, this plan will be completed
and submitted to NICTA for funding. The group is
working towards making an appointment in
Embedded Systems at the NRL lab to lead this
activity across NICTA. [An advanced strategic
plan draft was presented to the RSG in January]
To be met in Q2 2009. NICTA is currently in the process of developing a
targeted communication plan in consultation
with partner universities. This has taken slightly
longer than expected as the plan needs to
encourage ongoing participation to be
successful. This plan will be launched in parallel
with Techfest 2009 and ISAG/IBAG. Using these
events as a platform, we hope to successfully
engage NICTA alumni. This milestone will now be
met in Q2 2009.
May be achieved in 2009, but could not be achieved in 2008 due to
circumstances beyond NICTA’s control.
NICTA actively pursued this milestone during
2008, however were unsuccessful in securing a
place in an Artemis project. A limited number of
Artemis projects were launched in 2008 and
each project includes up to 8 members. NICTA’s
embedded systems research was aligned with
only one of these projects making it difficult to
gain membership. NICTA did send researchers
to the international brokerage events but they
were unable to secure positions in the projects
available. This participation has built a better
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62. Based on Research
Theme linkages and
Business Area linkages
develop linkage plans for
each project.
Research Theme plans are available for reference at:
http://wiki.inside.nicta.com.au/display/CHNRSC/Research+Themes
This milestone has targets for achievement in 2009 and will be
reported upon as progress is made throughout the year.
understanding of the process and based on this
experience, NICTA decided to include Embedded
Systems Australia (ESA) and Partner/Member
Universities in the brokerage events for the 2 nd
Call, broadening the possible areas of
engagement. To support this, in late 2008
NICTA secured a $300,000 International
science Linkages (ISL) grant to help facilitate
further Australia-EU collaborations, including
Artemis. Some of this funding is being assigned
to get partner researchers to Artemis events.
Milestone partially met. This has been done for
most (though not all) of NICTA’s projects to
varying levels of detail: as projects mature
through the commercialisation pipeline, their
clarity regarding optimal linkages naturally
improves. Equally, as NICTA’s work on
developing research themes and business areas
matures, this work informs individual projects.
Commercialisation Opportunity Workshops and
project planning and review processes help with
the knowledge transfer process. To date,
NICTA’s research theme strategies have not
been developed as fully as anticipated, as the
planning process has been more extensive and
consultative with external and internal groups
than originally expected. We have modified this
milestone in 2009 to focus on linkage strategies
for each research theme to allow projects to
draw on these strategies to develop their own
specific linkage plans as part of ongoing project
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Commercialisation
Deliver Research Service
Agreement (RSA) projects to
OK-Labs (SeL4, L4. Verified,
Potoroo).
Some aspects of this milestone will be met in 2009 and but one
part of it cannot be completed due to the departure of the key
researcher.
proposal and review processes.
The SeL4 and L4, Verified projects are being
delivered as per the Research Service
Agreement with OK-Labs.
o SeL4
The SeL4 project is currently proceeding well
against project milestones. As per the RSA, a
report has been prepared and the group is
making minor modifications at the request of
OK-Labs.
o L4, Verified
The project is delivering as per the RSA however
due to the complexity of the topic, final delivery
has been delayed. It is expected that the work
will be complete in early 2009.
o Potoroo
Due to the departure of the Potoroo Project
Leader, Dr. Stefan Peters, the project no longer
is classified as an active RMCC project and is
considered closed. To date, Potoroo has
delivered some useful engineering solutions to
OK-Labs and aspects of the research may yet be
taken up within other projects as appropriate.
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Performance Indicators: 2007 onwards
Following the signing of the Second Funding Agreement, NICTA developed a
broader range of performance indicators and metrics to reflect its new stage and
organisation. These apply from the 2007 calendar year and have continued
through 2008.
The purpose of key performance indicators (KPIs) is to manage performance and
measure it against internally set objectives and/or external benchmarks.
The performance indicators have been developed as statements of performance
for our ‘boost phase’ as we mature towards world-class standards in research and
research training, with associated commercialisation, linkages and collaboration
activities. They are few in number so that they are accessible and inform all NICTA
staff.
The indicators are presented in two tiers. The first tier includes those which we
consider to be essential over the second funding period. The second-tier
indicators are complementary and ‘round out’ various facets of NICTA’s mission.
The indicators address the following specific aspects of NICTA’s activities:
i. research activities
ii. research training and education activities
iii. commercialisation activities
iv. linkages and collaboration; and
v. financial plan.
Four types of indicators are employed:
• Leading indicator or likely future benefits
• Real time current performance
• Lagging past performance
• Learning rate of improvement
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First Tier and Second Tier Performance Indicators
Activity Indicator Type Metric 2008
First Tier Indicators
International
standing
User led
research
Research
impacts
Comparability
with the top
ICT research
centres in
the world
Research
Focus
Number of
reported
case studies
of impact
from NICTA
research
results
translated
into use
Learning NICTA operating
within the range of
the benchmarking
outputs
Real
time
Number of
Strategic Focus
Projects
Lagging Reported case
studies of Impact
from NICTA
research
NICTA is
benchmarking its
outputs based on
how it performs
against the KPIs set
out in the NICTA
strategic plan and
how well it compares
with world class ICT
centres. The
Performance and
Benchmarking Study
completed in 2008
outlines these
measures and how
NICTA is tracking.
All NICTA projects
have been reviewed
and conform to its
goal for research to
be user led.
There were 4 case
studies in 2008:
• OKL
• GiFi
• Pavement
Management
Services/Aut
omap
• Body Area
Networks of
Embedded
Systems for
Humans
(BANESH)
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Activity Indicator Type Metric 2008
People impact Graduate
and
employee
destinations
Leading Number of
graduates and
employees
employed in
industry and
government
11 NICTA PhD
graduates have been
employed in industry
and government in
2008. NICTA’s
graduates have
secured a variety of
professional roles in
government and the
industry ICT sector.
Graduates have been
employed locally by
SMEs such as CEA
Technologies
(advanced radar &
communications
solutions), Seeing
Machines (visionary
technology) and in
government
policy/advisory roles
at the Australian
Council of
Educational
Research and the
Defence Signals
Directorate. Other
graduates have
moved into analytical
and consulting roles
with financial service
providers such as
Taylor Fry Actuaries
and Capital Markets
Surveillance
Services. Several of
our PhDs have
obtained
employment in the
USA with impressive
roles at HP Labs,
VMware Inc., and the
RJ Lee Group
(software innovation)
in Pittsburgh.
22 NICTA employees
have moved on to
employment in
industry during
2008. This includes
positions at Yahoo!
and in the NICTA spin
out company,
Monitoring Division,
Inc.
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Activity Indicator Type Metric 2008
Ability to
generate new
ventures
New venture
formation
Real
time
Number of
graduates and
employees
employed in
universities and
research
institutions
Number of joint
ventures based on
NICTA IP per
annum
19 NICTA PhD
graduates have been
employed in
universities and
research institutions
in 2008. Following
the pattern
established in 2007,
NICTA graduates
have been awarded
postdoctoral
positions in a
number of Australian
and international
research
organisations and
universities: The
Italian Institute of
Technology, Queen
Mary, University of
London, Carnegie
Mellon University,
The Max Planck
Institute, the
University of NSW
and ANU. There also
have been a number
of appointments to
academic positions
at the King Fahd
University of
Petroleum and
Minerals in Dhahran,
Petra University in
Jordan, the University
of Adelaide, and
ADFA in Canberra. A
number of our
graduates have
retained research
positions in NICTA.
22 NICTA employees
have moved on to
employment in a
variety of positions at
universities and
research institutes
during 2008.
NICTA did not enter
into any joint
ventures during
2008.
Real Number of start-up During 2008, NICTA
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Activity Indicator Type Metric 2008
Ability to
commercialise
technologies
Domestic
linkages and
collaboration
Income from
commercial
sources
Licences,
options and
assignments
National
research
collaboration
Achieve
annual
contributions
for revenue
from
commercial
sources as
given in the
Annual
Activity Plan
time ventures
established
Leading Number of
agreements
entered into for IP
Licences, options
and assignments
Lagging Aggregate value of
business from
Real
time
Real
time
NICTA IP
Number of formal
project level
collaborative
relationships with
Australian research
organisations
Number of formal
project level
collaborative
relationships with
Australian firms
Reported achieved
contributions
established 1 startup
venture:
Monitoring Division
(mdi).
During 2008, NICTA
entered into 9
agreements for IP
licences, options and
assignments.
$30,000
With Australian
research
organisations: 16;
with international ICT
research groups: 10
With Australian firms:
29; with international
industry
collaborators: 8
This milestone was
met by:
Government cash
and in-kind
contributions:
ACT 0.9M
NSW 7.5M
QLD 1.5M
VIC 4.0M
University in-kind
contributions:
ANU 5.4M
UNSW 4.6M
UOM 9.4M
Syd Uni 1.1M
Qld Uni’s 1.8M
Income from
Commercial Sources:
$12.9M
Breakdown:
Project
Collaborations cash:
$2.5M
Project
Collaborations inkind:
$9.1M
Cash Contributions
from other sources:
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Activity Indicator Type Metric 2008
$1.3M
Second Tier Indicators
Governance Completion
and
acceptance
of Annual
review of
NICTA
Strategic
Plan by
Research
quality and
output
Board
High-quality
research
publications
PhD training PhD
completions
Lagging Annual review of
Strategic Plan
accepted by Board
in December
Lagging Number of
publications in high
impact journals
Lagging Total number of
NICTA-enhanced
PhD students
whose PhD
examination
process has been
deemed
successfully
complete by the
university over the
reporting period
The Board requested
a minor edit to the
Strategic Plan and
resolved to approve
the revised plan.
Number of top tier
journal and
conference papers =
231 out of a total of
610 journal and
conference papers ie
38% of our total.
In 2008, 49 students
completed a NICTA
enhanced degree (46
PhDs and 3 Masters)
bringing the total
number of graduates
to 103. With 31
theses under
examination at the
end of the reporting
period, and a number
of students about to
submit, graduate
numbers are
expected to increase
notably in mid 2009.
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Activity Indicator Type Metric 2008
Relevance of Application Leading Proportion of During 2008 NICTA
PhD training orientation
NICTA-enhanced enhanced PhD
PhD students students were
participating in involved in a number
commercialisation of commercialisation
courses
training courses.
These included:
Communicating with
Impact; Marketing
Impact Strategies
Workshop; IP
Induction Workshop;
and Project IP
Searching Sessions
(PIPSS). While these
courses are
promoted and
offered to all
students,
approximately 12% of
students took up the
opportunity to
participate in 2008.
Proportion of Through individually
NICTA-enhanced brokered, mentored
PhD students placements and
participating in NICTA-wide formal
commercialisation internship programs,
experiences students have had
opportunities to be
involved in research
that has a
commercial or
business dimension,
in both local and
international
organisations.
Placements have
been secured in
companies such as
Yahoo! and Intel in
the USA and Sun
Microsystems in
Australia. In addition,
student involvement
in NICTA project
teams has provided
them with exposure
to various aspects of
technology transfer.
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Activity Indicator Type Metric 2008
International International Real Number of 10
linkages and research time international
collaboration collaboration
research
collaboration with
top ICT research
groups
Number of
International
industry
collaborations
8
Appropriateness Delivery of Real Delivery of SUPPORT SERVICES
of business business time business services (Facilities, IT, HR,
systems
in support of NICTA Finance, Legal,
Strategic plan and Communications):
in line with activities to support
Milestones set in
Annual Activity
the research.
Plans
2008 Finance
A new budgeting and
forecasting tool has
been implemented
and a four-year
financial plan
developed and
approved by the
NICTA board. Lab
budgets, corporate
head office (CHO),
CHO departments
and individual project
budgets were
reviewed and reapproved
as part of
the process. Changes
have been made to
the budgeting
process to speed the
preparation of
statutory accounts
and end of year
financial reporting.
Policies and
procedures that
support the travel
and procurement
processes have been
strengthened, while
the implementation
of recommendations
made by internal and
external auditors has
taken place.
2008 Facilities
The new ATP building
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Activity Indicator Type Metric 2008
was completed and
the majority of staff
moved in to the
building in
September 2008.
With expiration of the
QRL lease in
Brisbane city, the lab
has moved into
interim
accommodation
across two sites
campus at the
University of
Queensland.
Negotiations with the
University of
Queensland are
continuing for
permanent
accommodation at a
single site.
2008 IT
Achievements during
2008 include the fitout
of the new ATP
building including,
establishment of a
new data centre in
the building and the
migration of
computing services
onto the new
infrastructure.
Computing services
have been migrated
to centralised
storage area
networks at CRL and
the new ATP site;
additionally IT
supported the QRL
moving into its
interim
accommodation at
the University of
Queensland. The full
NICTA network has
been established
with all labs now
having network
connectivity. A new
Microsoft Exchange
2007 Email system
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Activity Indicator Type Metric 2008
was rolled out across
the organisation and
all users are now
using this. IT also
supported the
implementation of
new payroll and
finance tools and
began small scale
trials of a new
information
architecture tool for
sharing and reusing
corporate
information.
2008 HR
Performance
management
processes were
significantly revised
during the year to
strengthen the
alignment of an
individual’s
performance and
development plan
with organisational
objectives. Elements
such as the
alignment with
NICTA’s values,
entrepreneurial
outcomes and
learning
development
requirements are
now included in staff
performance plans.
Additionally, research
staff performance
reviews now
emphasise citation
analysis for
calibrating
publications based
on quality standards.
The NICTA Impact
awards were run
during the year to
recognise individuals
in the two categories
of operational and
research excellence.
2008 Legal & IP
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Activity Indicator Type Metric 2008
Developed a
systematic approach
to building project
level Intellectual
Property strategies
and NICTA began
rolling out workshops
to research projects
2008
Communications
The external website
was relaunched with
improved navigation
and interaction
features. The key
NICTA brand
messages were
updated and
distributed to staff in
a convenient desktop
flip chart format. A
NICTA brand
ambassador program
was implemented
thorough the year as
well as refinement of
the branding and
policy and logo usage
guidelines for
projects on the
commercialisation
path. Media training
was conducted in all
labs and
communications lead
the events of
Techfest, CeBIT,
Ausinnovate.
2008 Support and
Operations
NICTA implemented
an integrated
organisational
approach to strategic
planning by
synthesising the
2009 NICTA
roadmap, and flow
on AAP objectives.
We also
implemented
controls to improve
organisation-wide
management
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Activity Indicator Type Metric 2008
approaches and
implemented a new
contracts
management system
to manage external
contractual
relationships.
2008 Project
Management Office
Implemented the
Project Value Rating
system for the
selection of new
research projects
within NICTA
including improving
the process to
include an open
internal review
mechanism for
research by any
NICTA individual.
Managed the process
of review and
evaluation of NICTA’s
research projects
thorough out the
year. Managed the
design and building
of a new NICTA
research project
management system
for deployment
Domestic profile National
media
performance
Reporting and
planning
Completion
of obligations
for reporting
and AAP as
set out in the
second
Funding
Agreement
Real
time
Mentions in the
national press in
relation to targets
achieved for
domestic profile
Lagging Reports and AAP
delivered as set out
in Funding
Agreement
during 2009.
During 2008, NICTA
received 458
mentions in the
national and
international media.
All of NICTA’s
obligations for
reporting and the
AAP set out in the
second funding
agreement have
been delivered in
2008.
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Metrics – 2007 to 2011
The following table of metrics will be used in order to measure and report on
NICTA’s overall performance during the second funding period.
General Metrics
Research Quality and Output
2007 2008
Number of Projects completed 12 20
Number of Projects aligned with National Research
Priorities
All 9
Number of projects with Australian public sector
research agencies
13 13
Total Journal Publication 82 148
Papers published in international conference
373 462
proceedings
Technical reports published 10 2
Books published 10 16
Book Chapters published 11 30
Invitations to address and participate in international
conferences
N/A 2
Keynote or plenary address 8 10
Other conference presentations N/A 19
Positions on external program committees for major
conferences
225 254
Number of Positions on editorial boards for major 69 66
journals
Peer acknowledgements 29 33
Number of software releases 8 17
Number of technology demonstrators and/or prototypes
PhD Students
N/A 58
Number of NICTA-enhanced PhD students on
scholarships
281 298
Number of fully funded NICTA PhD scholarships 138 118
Number of other supervised Ph D students (member and
partner universities)
39 41
Number of other supervised PhD students (non-partner 4 4
universities)
Research Training Network
Number of PhD completions 35 PhD
completions;
9 Masters
completions
Number of NICTA-enhanced PhD students engaging in
mobility opportunities
Number of advanced technical and professional courses
available to NICTA-enhanced PhD students
15 28
43 37
Number of units of study offered across more than one
university or NICTA site, or taught by more than one
institution or site
4 5
Number of NICTA-enhanced PhD students named on
patents/provisional patents and patent applications
11 23
Number of publications with student author/co-author 113 204
46 PhD
completions
3 Masters
completions
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Education Outreach
Number of international students visiting NICTA
laboratories
50 73
Number of vacation research scholarships provided 59 112
Number of students gaining a NICTA experience 16 72
Secondary sector outreach contacts 11 5
Including
sessions such
as he UNSW
Careers Day
with over 150
students
attending; the
Australian
Science
Festival –
Amazing World
of Science,
with
approximately
1000 students
attending from
across
Australia; and
the Great
Engineering
Challenge with
approximately
200 students
participating.
Number of graduates employed in industry 13 11
Number of graduates employed in research/teaching 23 19
Institutions
Commercialisation focus
Number of staff and students trained in technology
transfer and commercialisation
437 193
Patents
Patents 0 0
Number of patent applications 41 55
- Australia 16 26
- USA 4 8
- Patent Cooperation Treaty 15 7
- Other
Domestic linkages
6 14
Number of Australian organisations participating in
NICTA research, training or knowledge transfer activities
98 114
Number of industry short courses offered 30 32
Attendance at industry short courses 466 528
Number of national workshops or conferences
conducted
14 15
Number of government, industry and business briefings 43 138
Industry networks and clusters established or
participating in
International linkages
1 1
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Number of international visitors 60 97
- Short stay 13 70
- Long stay 47 27
Number of teaching or research visits to international
laboratories/institutions
104 118
- Short stay 96 104
- Long stay 8 14
Number of international workshops or conferences 1 19
conducted
Number of strategic alliances 19 128
(82 nationally
46
internationally)
Other
Milestones completion rate for Annual Activity plan
Staff satisfaction index
86% 84 out of 88
milestones
were
completed
(95.45%) with
three of the
incomplete
milestones to
be achieved in
2009.
73 73 as at last
survey in
2007. (NICTA
completes the
staff
satisfaction
survey every
two years, with
the next
survey due in
2009).
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) Consistency with the Intellectual Property Policy
NICTA’s Intellectual Property (IP) Policy is administered by the Intellectual Property
Committee, which is chaired by the General Counsel. The Intellectual Property
Committee operates for the purposes of:
Providing:
• Overall supervision of the management of Intellectual Property
• Advice on IP matters to the Chief Executive Officer and the Director,
Business Development
Determining:
• Ownership of IP in cases referred to it
• Appropriate protection strategies for IP
• Appropriate commercialisation strategies for IP
Reviewing:
• This policy and other practices concerned with IP
• Procedures and protocols
• The implementation of an education strategy for staff and students to
ensure they are aware of IP rights, this policy and the relevant procedures
and protocols.
As an employer, NICTA owns IP created by full-time and part-time staff in the
course of their employment as well as certain contractors, visitors and students
who work on our research projects. NICTA is not the owner of IP created by staff
members outside the course of their employment. For scholarly publications,
posters and presentations created by our researchers and students, NICTA
requires that all such works should make appropriate acknowledgement of the
support provided by the Australian Government and the ARC.
NICTA has made provisions to support its researchers attending other institutions
as visiting scholars and researchers. Travel approvals ensure NICTA visiting
researchers are aware that the policies of the host institution may apply and
require consideration of any formal agreement between NICTA and the other
institution regarding IP ownership and disclosure. Travel agreements for inbound
visitors explicitly address whether, and to what extent, NICTA will be owner of any
IP generated by visitors (and this is sometimes the subject of a negotiation).
Where contractors are engaged, the general terms of engagement are that NICTA
will be the owner of any IP generated. Where circumstances mean that NICTA will
not own the IP, it is a requirement of engagement that NICTA is granted a licence,
on suitable terms, to use the IP.
In the case of research joint ventures, IP ownership is addressed through the
mechanisms of contracts and the IP register to ensure clarity of ownership of
background IP and certainty over the use and control of IP generated through the
collaboration. The potential impact of joint ownership is considered as part of any
collaborative project negotiation.
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NICTA makes no claim over the copyright subsisting in a student’s thesis.
Students are recognised as the owners of any IP they generate. In general, NICTA
students are asked to assign their IP to NICTA. NICTA received extensive legal and
taxation advice in 2003 to ensure that its actions with respect to the assignment
of student IP are governed by protocols that are not unconscionable.
NICTA’s publications procedure and project application procedure exist for the
identification of potentially commercially valuable IP. Under both procedures,
notification is to either the IP dept and/or the director of commercialisation. The
publications procedure was recently the subject of a detailed review which
established a more streamlined and effective approval and recording process
which is consistent across all of NICTA’s laboratories.
NICTA maintains an open approach to the publication of research results that
aims to respect and preserve both the freedom to publish and the opportunity to
maximise commercialisation. Given NICTA’s economic impact and national
interest stance, early publication of research results under an open policy will
always be preferred, except where:
• The IP was specifically generated through significant investment to support
a ‘family’ of existing NICTA IP
• Further development within NICTA can be shown to enhance the
commercialisation potential, value and benefit to Australian industry
There were no circumstances arising between 1 January 2008 and 31 December
2008 that led to any departure from the terms of the IP Policy.
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c) Independent Business and Research Advice and the
Mechanisms Used to Obtain that Advice
NICTA uses a number of sources of independent business and research advice.
These include a range of general business services such as those outlined in the
table below.
Table 8: Advisory services and providers
Advisory Service Provider
Accounts and audit Ernst & Young
Internal Audit PricewaterhouseCoopers
Legal Stan Doty, Doty Barlow Britt & Thomas LLP
(California)
Legal Blake Dawson
Legal Moulis Legal
Patents FB Rice
International Science/Business Advisory Group
NICTA’s principal sources of business and research advice are the International
Science Advisory Group (ISAG) and International Business Advisory Group (IBAG).
These groups were established under NICTA’s constitution as advisory groups to
the NICTA Board for the purposes outlined in the table below.
Table 9: Responsibilities of ISAG and IBAG
International Scientific Advisory Group The International Business Advisory Group
(i) Assist the Board in generating a long-term (i) Assist the Board in generating a long-term
strategic vision for the company
strategic vision for the company
(ii) Identify promising new research trends (ii) Advise the Board on business and
government relations
(iii) Assist the Board in selecting the CEO (iii) Advise the Board on the
when necessary
commercialisation strategy of the company
(iv) Assist the CEO in a global search for (iv) Assist the Board in identifying promising
senior researchers
new business trends
(v) Assist the Board in attracting CEO, senior
executive and Board candidates as the need
arises
Table 10: Membership of ISAG and IBAG 2008
International Science Advisory Group (ISAG)
Dr Jean Vuillemin
Ecole Normale Supérieure and former Scientific
Director, INRIA
Prof. Dieter Rombach Executive Director, Fraunhofer Institute for
Experimental Software Engineering AND
Director, Fraunhofer Institute, ICT Cluster
Prof. Jeffrey Ullman Professor Emeritus of Computer Science,
Stanford University
Prof. Rodney Brooks Director, Computer Science and Artificial
Intelligence Laboratory, MIT
Dr Stuart Feldman Vice President, Engineering, East Coast Labs,
Google
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Sir John Taylor FRS, FREng Chair, Roke Institute
International Business Advisory Group (IBAG)
Mr Duane Zitzner Retired Executive Vice President, Hewlett
Packard
Mr Narayana Murthy. Chief Mentor Officer and co-founder, Infosys
Mr Bob Bishop Former CEO & Vice Chairman, Silicon Graphics
Ms Heather Killen Founder & Managing Partner, Hemisphere
Capital
In August 2008, the International Science Advisory Group (ISAG) and the
International Business Advisory Group (IBAG) met in Sydney to provide advice to
the Board for NICTA’s future strategic direction and assess our key research and
commercialisation projects.
IBAG and ISAG provided feedback to NICTA staff, the Australian Government and
the NICTA Review Panel on our progress and results. The group reported
considerable progress and noted that our projects were showing strong results.
The group commended the increasing scale of projects in the Research portfolio
and provided valuable insights on management structure, commercialisation and
linkages.
The Research Strategy Advisory Council (RSAC) provides advice to NICTA on the
national research and innovation context and facilitates the sharing of research
directions across major national research institutions. The RSAC met twice in
2008.
The membership of the RSAC includes representatives from NICTA’s member and
partner universities – the University of New South Wales, the Australian National
University, the University of Melbourne, the University of Sydney, Griffith
University, the Queensland University of Technology and the University of
Queensland. The RSAC includes representatives from the Australian Government
research laboratories, the Defence Science and Technology Organisation (DSTO)
and the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO).
Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Centre. The broad membership
of the council provides a national overview of ICT research and enables
participants to develop partnerships, avoid duplication and add to the Australian
innovation system.
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d) Risk Identification and Risk Management Strategies
NICTA maintains a Risk Management Framework appropriate to identifying and
managing risk. The framework provides for executive ownership of specific risks
and their associated risk mitigation strategies.
The Risk Management Framework is based on the methodology described in
AS/NZS 4360:2004 Risk Management Standard and the COSO Enterprise Risk
Management Framework.
In line with our governance model, the operational management of corporate risk
is integrated under the Finance and Audit Committee.
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e) Financial Declaration and Reports
We declare that:
All Funds received were expended for the purpose of the Activity and in
accordance with the Second Funding Agreement, and that the Australian
Research Council (ARC) Funds have been expended only in accordance with the
relevant approved funding proposal under the ARC Act.
……………………………(signed) ……………………………(signed)
Neville Stevens, Chairman Dr David Skellern, CEO
109

f) Audited Acquittal of Funds Payments
For financial statements, please contact: Liz.Jakubowski@nicta.com.au
110

g) Breakdown of Funds Spent
For financial statements, please contact: Liz.Jakubowski@nicta.com.au
111

h) Statement of Other Contributions
Other Contributions
Member and Affiliate Contributions
Under the funding agreements with the Commonwealth of Australia, National ICT
Australia Limited and its controlled entity (the “Company”) is required to disclose
cash and in-kind contributions received from the Company’s members.
For financial statements, please contact: Liz.Jakubowski@nicta.com.au
112

i) Audited General Purpose Financial Reports
For financial statements, please contact: Liz.Jakubowski@nicta.com.au
113

j) Details of Asset Disposals
For financial statements, please contact: Liz.Jakubowski@nicta.com.au
114

k) Public Acknowledgments of Funding Made Under
Subclause 23.1
NICTA is funded by the Australian Government’s Department of Broadband,
Communications and the Digital Economy and the Australian Research Council
through the Backing Australia’s Ability initiative and the ICT Research Centre of
Excellence Program.
NICTA is also funded by the contributions of its members: the Australian National
University, the University of New South Wales, the New South Wales Government
and the Australian Capital Territory Government.
NICTA is also supported by the following partners:
• The University of Sydney
• The Victorian Government
• The University of Melbourne
• The Queensland Government
• Griffith University
• The Queensland University of Technology
• The University of Queensland.
The Australian Government has contributed A$124.80 million over the period
FY03-06 to establish NICTA. A further A$254.28 million has been committed
under a second funding agreement for the period FY07-11.
Acknowledgement of Australian Government support for NICTA is given in all
interviews and is carried into all public presentations and publications. Australian
Government support is acknowledged on the NICTA website, on NICTA exhibition
stands and in all press releases.
The form of acknowledgement used under the First Deed has been replaced by
that identified in the Second Funding Agreement.
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l) Activity Taken to Communicate Research Results to the
Research Community and/or the General Public
NICTA undertakes two principal activities to communicate its results to the
research community and the general public. The first is publishing research
results in journals, conference proceedings and other research literature. The
second is through print, radio and electronic media.
The following table lists all publications attributable to NICTA researchers which
appeared in 2008. The basis of authorship is where one or more of the authors is
a NICTA emplyed researcher or a contributed researcher (fractional or fulltime).
Where there are multiple authors the NICTA author(s) is indicated by an asterisk
(*) and the student by a hash (#). A full list of publications is provided in the
Information Annexes to this report.
The summary results for publication by Theme and Type are:
Table 11: Publications by Theme in 2008
NICTA Theme Journal
articles
published
Embedded
Systems
Making Sense
of Data
Managing
Complexity
Networked
Systems
Total by Type
Conf-erence
papers
published
in
refereed
proceed-
ing
Key-
note
add-
ress
Book
Book
chap-
ters
Book
edit.
Tech
Rep-
orts
Total
By
Theme
Publication
with
student
author/
co-
author
16 79 0 0 0 0 0 95 41*
29 120 2 5 19 1 1 177 66*
68 199 6 10 6 0 1 290 64*
35 64 2 1 5 0 0 107 33*
148 462 10 16 30 1 2 669 204*
* student author/co-author is a sub-set of the numbers in the other columns.
The following table identifies all known media reports regarding NICTA’s activities
up to 31 December 2008. During 2008 NICTA received 458 mentions in national
and international media outlets.
Table 12: Media reports regarding NICTA in 2008
Date Writer Title Media
1-Jan-08 Staff Writer Engineers Australia honours Engineers Australia
1-Jan-08 Staff Writer Movers + Shakers Voice & Data
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1-Jan-08 Staff Writer IREE Neville Thiele Award Engineers Australia
1-Jan-08 Staff Writer Is Australia innovative? Computer Reseller News
1-Jan-08 Staff Writer NICTA develops network analysis tools Voice & Data
1-Jan-08 Staff Writer Movers+Shakers Voice & Data
16-Jan- Staff Writer University of Melbourne Initiates CSO Online
08
Australia's Ultra-Resolution Global
Collaboration Laboratory
16-Jan- Staff Writer University of Melbourne Initiates PC World Online
08
Australia's Ultra-Resolution Global
Collaboration Laboratory
18-Jan- Staff Writer ACS Fellow Receives Pravasi Bharatiya Australian Computer
08
Samman Award from Indian
Government
Society Online
30-Jan- Tay, Liz Angels give wings to Australian start- iTnews
08
ups
1-Feb-08 Staff Writer Talking innovation… Australian R&D Review
1-Feb-08 Macrae, Maggie In the slow lane CFO Magazine
4-Feb-08 Rossi, Sandra NICTA researcher co-chairs W3C ComputerWorld Australia
emergency services group
Online
4-Feb-08 Kidman, Angus Open source Aussies: Not poor,
bearded loners
ZDNet Australia
4-Feb-08 Gedda, Rodney Open source IT pros earn more: survey ComputerWorld Australia
Online
5-Feb-08 Staff Writer Nations and firms succeed on a
foundation of words
Canberra Times
5-Feb-08 Staff Writer World co-operation The Age
5-Feb-08 Staff Writer world co-operation Sydney Morning Herald
6-Feb-08 Bajkowski, Julian Senators to share oversight of tech
body
Financial Review
7-Feb-08 Staff Writer Genetics help speed up Internet ScienceAlert Online
7-Feb-08 Rossi, Sandra Aussie scientists patent technology to
improve speed of optical fibres
CIO Online
7-Feb-08 Rossi, Sandra Aussie scientists patent technology to ComputerWorld Australia
improve speed of optical fibres Online
11-Feb-
08
Staff Writer In the chair Canberra Times
11-Feb-
08
Staff Writer Sound barrier Canberra Times
14-Feb- Gedda, Rodney Survey finds aussie open-sourcers Computerworld NZ Online
08
earn more
19-Feb-
08
Woodhead, Ben PREDICTIONS - Part 5 of 5 Australian
19-Feb-
08
Kennedy, Stuart DAVID SKELLERN Australian
21-Feb- Staff Writer NICTA Develops a World First in evergreeninvestments.mwo
08
Semiconductor Technology for the
Wireless Home and Office of the
Future
rld.com
21-Feb- Staff Writer NICTA Develops a World First in www.redorbit.com
08
Semiconductor Technology for the
Wireless Home and Office of the
Future
21-Feb-
08
Staff Writer NICTA debuts 60GHz Chipset Unstrung
117

21-Feb-
08
21-Feb-
08
21-Feb-
08
21-Feb-
08
21-Feb-
08
21-Feb-
08
22-Feb-
08
22-Feb-
08
22-Feb-
08
22-Feb-
08
22-Feb-
08
22-Feb-
08
22-Feb-
08
22-Feb-
08
22-Feb-
08
22-Feb-
08
22-Feb-
08
22-Feb-
08
22-Feb-
08
22-Feb-
08
22-Feb-
08
22-Feb-
08
22-Feb-
08
22-Feb-
08
22-Feb-
08
Staff Writer NICTA Develops a World First in
Semiconductor Technology for the
Wireless Home and Office of the
Future
DiGiTAL50 Online
Staff Writer NICTA Develops a World First in
Semiconductor Technology for the
Wireless Home and Office of the
Future
Yahoo - Canada
Staff Writer NICTA develops a world first in
semiconductor technology for the
wireless home and office of the future
Earth Times Online
Mathas, Carolyn First 60GHz single-chip CMOS
transceiver out from down under
www.rfdesignline.com
Mathas, Carolyn First 60GHz single-chip CMOS
www.mobilehandsetdesignl
transceiver out from down under ine.com
Mathas, Carolyn First 60GHz single-chip CMOS
transceiver out from down under
AUDIO Design Line Online
Zaharov-Reutt, NICTA's new chip promises true ITWire
Alex
wireless revolution
von Fuchs,
Teresa
Boost Mobile rebrands for consistency www.wirelessweek.com
Staff Writer A $10 chip may turn your mobile into
PC
rediff.com
Staff Writer Soon, a mere $10 chip may turn your
mobile into a fully-fledged computer
Yahoo - India
Staff Writer Semiconductor breakthrough a world
first for wireless
CIO Online - Germany
Staff Writer NICTA Develops a World First in
Semiconductor Technology for the
Wireless Home and Office of the
Future
Business Wire
Staff Writer Chip offers 5Gbps short-range wireless www.electronista.com
Staff Writer Wall Street rallies on Ambac bailout www.stockhouse.com
Staff Writer A $10 chip may turn your mobile into
PC
rediff.com
Staff Writer Soon, a mere $10 chip may turn your
mobile into a fully-fledged computer
Australian News Online
Rossi, Sandra Aussie scientists unveil 5Gps
ComputerWorld Australia
turbocharged wireless chip
Online
Rossi, Sandra Aussie scientists unveil 5Gps
turbocharged wireless chip
goodgearguide.com.au
Rossi, Sandra Aussie scientists unveil 5Gps
turbocharged wireless chip
PC World Online
Rossi, Sandra Aussie scientists unveil 5Gps
turbocharged wireless chip
CIO Online
Osborne, Darren Chip will replace wiring Courier Mail Online
Osborne, Darren One chip to take place of all wires from
home entertainment system
Miller, Nick $10 chip puts Australia on the fast
track
Miller, Nick $10 chip puts Australia on the fast
track
Miller, Nick $10 chip puts Australia on the fast
track
Adelaide Advertiser Online
Brisbane Times Online
Sydney Morning Herald
The Age Online
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22-Feb- Miller, Nick $9.00 chip puts Australia on the fast The Agonist Online
08
track
22-Feb- Koblentz, Evan Wireless Transceiver Serves up 5 Gb www.wirelessweek.com
08
Rate
22-Feb-
08
Kennedy, Stuart NICTA chip moves large files wirelessly Australian Online
22-Feb- International Soon, a mere $10 chip may turn your The Sun- Malaysia
08
mobile into a fully-fledged computer
22-Feb- Hruska, Joel Aussie team claims 5Gbps wireless arstechnica.com
08
breakthrough
22-Feb-
08
Guest Writer NICTA unveils wireless future DMasia.com
22-Feb- Guest Writer 60GHz wireless chip promises 5Gbps www.blogjunkies.com
08
of throughput, instant tumors
22-Feb- Gonsalves, Aussie Researchers Build GiFi, A Tiny Information Week Online
08 Antone
Chip With Big Wireless Capabilities
22-Feb-
08
Dutta, Sourav NICTA unveils wireless future DMasia.com
22-Feb-
08
AAP Aussies develop wireless breakthrough Ninemsn
22-Feb-
08
AAP Aussies develop wireless breakthrough The Age Online
22-Feb- AAP Chip offers wireless home
West Australian Online
08
entertainment systems
23-Feb- Staff Writer NICTA's 5GB/s Wireless Chip to www.presentationtek.com
08
Transform Home Entertainment
Industry
23-Feb- Staff Writer Aussie scientists develop wireless Ballarat Courier
08
breakthrough
23-Feb-
08
Staff Writer Chip speeds up data transfer Adelaide Advertiser
23-Feb- Miller, Nick Inventors have the world at their The Age Online
08
fingertips and it's down to this little
chip
23-Feb- Miller, Nick Inventors have the world at their The Age
08
fingertips
23-Feb-
08
Kennedy, Stuart Download in seconds with NICTA chip Australian Online
23-Feb-
08
Kennedy, Stuart Download in seconds with NICTA chip Weekend Australian
23-Feb- Guest Writer GiFi wireless chip to bring 5Gb per www.slipperybrick.com
08
second
23-Feb- AAP How a chip is set to end the tangle Sunshine Coast Daily
08
behind the TV...
25-Feb- Wilton, Petroc NICTA's 60GHz chip key to gigabit Communications Day
08
wireless
25-Feb-
08
Thistleton, John Big new car park for ACT lakeside Canberra Times
25-Feb-
08
Staff Writer NICTA claims chip breakthrough Computer Daily News
25-Feb- Staff Writer Australians produce 5Gbs short range TelecomTV
08
radio chip
25-Feb- Staff Writer 5Gbps Wireless Breakthrough claimed HardwareZone
08
by Australian Team
25-Feb- Serpo, Alex Australia's $10 'GiFi' chip promises Builder AU Online
08
wireless 5Gbps
25-Feb- Serpo, Alex Australia's $10 'GiFi' chip promises ZDNet Australia
119

08 wireless 5Gbps
25-Feb- Serpo, Alex Australian 'GiFi' chip promises wireless ZDNet Asia
08
5Gbps
25-Feb- McNevin, Greg Aussie Chip Achieves Scorching idm.net.au ( Image & Data
08
Wireless Data Speeds
Manager )
25-Feb-
08
Guest Writer Chipping away: GiFI news.com.au
25-Feb-
08
Clark, Robert The new age of wireless telecomasia.net
25-Feb-
08
Bushell, Sue Blog: Talent Management Blues CIO Online
25-Feb- Botezatu, Australia's NICTA Team to Give news.softpedia.com
08 Bogdan
WirelessHD Data Transfer Boost
25-Feb-
08
Barak, Sylvie Aussies speed up wireless chips www.theinquirer.net
25-Feb-
08
AAP Chip's quick off the block Canberra Times
26-Feb-
08
Staff Writer Revolutionary chip a really fast talker West Australian Online
26-Feb- Staff Writer ALT Software Unlocks 2D/3D Graphics www.marketwire.com
08
for Freescale's MPC5121e
26-Feb- Staff Writer ALT Software Unlocks 2D/3D Graphics Manager Magazin Online
08
for Freescale's MPC5121e
26-Feb- Staff Writer ALT Software Unlocks 2D/3D Graphics www.moneyspecial.de
08
for Freescale's MPC5121e
26-Feb- Staff Writer ALT Software Unlocks 2D/3D Graphics Individual.com Online
08
for Freescale's MPC5121e
26-Feb- Staff Writer NICTA Develops 60GHZ Technology for Individual.com Online
08
the Wireless Home and Office of the
Future
26-Feb- Osborne, Darren; Revolutionary chip a really fast talker West Australian
08 Miller, Nick
27-Feb- Staff Writer NICTA Develops 60GHZ Technology for TMCnet.com
08
the Wireless Home and Office of the
Future
27-Feb- Kotadia, Munir; Ubuntu tops desktop, server Linux ZDNet Australia
08 Duckett, Chris enthusiast poll
27-Feb- Kotadia, Munir Ubuntu tops desktop, server Linux Builder AU Online
08
enthusiast poll
28-Feb- Staff Writer Wireless ways for high-speed file The Hindu Online
08
swaps
28-Feb-
08
Staff Writer Monitoring Raises $3.85M Light Reading Online
29-Feb-
08
Staff Writer IntraPower takes control of Wavenet The Rust Report
1-Mar-08 Staff Writer LIXI offers 'simple' solution for product
updates
Australian Broker Online
1-Mar-08 Smith, Paul GROWTH IN QUICK TIME MIS Magazine
3-Mar-08 Staff Writer Australian Monitoring Division sets up East Bay Business Times
Sunnyvale HQ
Online
3-Mar-08 Staff Writer Fourth Spin-Out Company for NICTA Digital News Direct Online
3-Mar-08 Staff Writer Australia's NICTA Spins Out Network
Monitoring Company
eFinancialCareers.com.au
3-Mar-08 Staff Writer NICTA spins out 4th technology
company
Digital Media Asia
3-Mar-08 Staff Writer NICTA Develops Semiconductor ECN Asia Mag
120

3-Mar-08 Corner, Stuart
Technology for Wireless
NICTA technology to quadruple
bandwidth on long haul fibres
ITWire
4-Mar-08 Staff Writer Federal government announces
technology research grants
CIO Online - Germany
4-Mar-08 Rossi, Sandra NICTA establishes its fourth tech start- Australian Reseller News
up company
Online
4-Mar-08 Rossi, Sandra NICTA establishes fourth tech start-up
company
CIO Online
4-Mar-08 Miller, Nick Start me up Sydney Morning Herald
4-Mar-08 Miller, Nick Yeah, you can start me up Sydney Morning Herald
Online
4-Mar-08 Miller, Nick Start me up The Age Online
4-Mar-08 Han, Sonia NICTA spins out Monitoring Division Communications Day
5-Mar-08 Staff Writer NICTA Spins-Out Another Tech
Company
TMCnet.com
5-Mar-08 Staff Writer NICTA Spins Off Startup 'Monitoring
Division'
TelecomWeb
5-Mar-08 Staff Writer 60 GHz CMOS Transceiver Integrated
On A Single Chip Developed
RF Globalnet
5-Mar-08 Staff Writer 60 GHz CMOS Transceiver Integrated Semiconductor Today
On A Single Chip Developed
Online
6-Mar-08 Staff Writer NICTA launches Yankee spinoff Computer Daily News
6-Mar-08 Serpo, Alex Aussie monitoring increases
broadband width
ZDNet Australia
7-Mar-08 Rust, Len ComOps continues with acquisitions The Rust Report
7-Mar-08 Kennedy, Stuart Canberra eyes EU research project Australian
7-Mar-08 Kennedy, Stuart Canberra eyes EU research project Australian Online
8-Mar-08 Staff Writer Backward in looking forward on
innovation
Sydney Morning Herald
8-Mar-08 Ramachandran, Backward in looking forward on Sydney Morning Herald
Arjun
innovation
Online
10-Mar- Staff Writer NICTA develops a 'world first in EDN Asia
08
semiconductor technology' for the
wireless home and office of the future
10-Mar- Staff Writer Australia: NICTA technology to
Tenders Info Online
08
quadruple bandwidth on long Haul
Fibres
10-Mar- Guest Writer 60 GHz of Promise Land...or is it? Wireless Systems Design
08
Online
10-Mar- Browne, Marcus Australian IT mission to cash in on ZDNet Australia
08
Euro billions
10-Mar- Beer, Stan Open Source professionals higher ITWire
08
skills, higher paid: survey
11-Mar- Cox, John CMOS radio chip reaches 5Gbps, Network World Online
08
researchers say
12-Mar- Cox, John CMOS radio chip reaches 5Gbps, CIO Online
08
Aussie researchers say
12-Mar- Cox, John CMOS radio chip reaches 5Gbps, PC World Online
08
Aussie researchers say
14-Mar- Tindal, Suzanne Defence tracks soldiers' guts to boost ZDNet Australia
08
performance
17-Mar- Staff Writer NICTA Develops Industry's First CMOS analoganddsp.com
08
Single Chip Transceiver Operating at
60GHZ
121

17-Mar- Rossi, Sandra Federal government announces CIO Online
08
technology research grants
17-Mar- Rossi, Sandra Federal government announces ComputerWorld Australia
08
technology research grants
Online
18-Mar-
08
Staff Writer Cancer cure may boost bandwidth Buynet Plus Online
18-Mar- Staff Writer ALT SOFTWARE UNLOCKS 2D/3D PR-USA.NET Online
08
GRAPHICS FOR FREESCALE'S
MPC5121E
18-Mar-
08
Staff Writer MISAustralia.com Financial Review
18-Mar-
08
Rust, Len UXC ramps up with Getronics buy The Rust Report
18-Mar-
08
Rust, Len IntraPower takes control of Wavenet The Rust Report
18-Mar- Mathas, Carolyn First 60GHz single-chip CMOS
www.mobilehandsetdesignl
08
transceiver out from down under ine.com
18-Mar- Coleman, Luke Wireless network project scores Communications Day
08
National Security funding
20-Mar- Rossi, Sandra Licensing agreement creates a virtual CIO Online
08
revolution in MMO
20-Mar- Rossi, Sandra Licensing agreement creates a virtual ComputerWorld Australia
08
revolution in MMO
Online
20-Mar- Rossi, Sandra Licensing agreement creates a virtual Techworld Online
08
revolution in MMO apps
20-Mar- Fraser, Andrew What a difference winning makes to Canberra Times
08
factional warriors
21-Mar-
08
Rust, Len Petrosys wins Indian supporter The Rust Report
24-Mar-
08
Grose, Simon Double header Canberra Times
24-Mar-
08
Grose, Simon New light Canberra Times
25-Mar-
08
Han, Sonia NICTA licenses virtual world technology Communications Day
27-Mar-
08
Fadaghi, Foad Lifecycle Business Review Weekly
28-Mar-
08
Rust, Len Chinese Net attracts Aussie dollars The Rust Report
1-Apr-08 Staff Writer Genetic Approach to Fibre Optic
Interference
Australasian Science
1-Apr-08 Foo, Fran Open source increases its share The Australian
1-Apr-08 Staff Writer Licence for virtual world engine Engineers Australia
1-Apr-08 Staff Writer AGIMO explores next-generation Web
2.0 technologies
Government News
1-Apr-08 Staff Writer WELL CONNECTED Trends
1-Apr-08 Tung, Liam Open source barred from Australian
government
ZDNet Australia
1-Apr-08 Winterford, Brett Open source an AU$500m industry in
Australia
ZDNet Australia
2-Apr-08 Rossi, Sandra Home grown tools to support
emergency services agencies
CIO Online
2-Apr-08 Rossi, Sandra Home grown tools to support
ComputerWorld Australia
emergency services agencies
Online
2-Apr-08 Contributing FST To Showcase Advanced GUI and Embedded Technology
Writer
High Performance Multimedia Platform Journal Online
122

at ESC
2-Apr-08 Woodhead, Ben Tower Software founder in line for
$29m
Australian Financial Review
2-Apr-08 Staff Writer NICTA teams with Locatrix
Communications
Geoconnexion Online
3-Apr-08 Rossi, Sandra Homegrown tools to support
emergency services agencies
Central
3-Apr-08 Han, Sonia NICTA to bring next generation Communications Day
emergency services tools
Online
4-Apr-08 Staff Writer NICTA to speed emergency information
delivery
Exchange
4-Apr-08 Staff Writer HP storms Aussie Tower The Rust Report Online
7-Apr-08 Gedda, Rodney Aussie open source report now a free
download
CIO Online
7-Apr-08 Rossi, Sandra WA launches blueprint for Australia's
biggest ICT precinct
ComputerWorld Australia
7-Apr-08 Gedda, Rodney Aussie open source report now a free ComputerWorld Australia
download
Online
7-Apr-08 Staff Writer Jeff Waugh: Australian Open Source
Industry & Community Report 2008
feeds4all.com
10-Apr- Rossi, Sandra NSW government announces $25 CIO Online
08
million funding boost to ICT research
10-Apr- Rossi, Sandra NSW government announces $25 ComputerWorld Australia
08
million funding boost to ICT research Online
10-Apr-
08
Woodhead, Ben NICTA gets $25m boost Australian Financial Review
10-Apr- Tay, Liz Australia's first Open Source Census iTnews
08
published
10-Apr- Tay, Liz NICTA to receive $45 million from iTnews
08
Iemma government
10-Apr- Staff Writer Nicta receives AUD 25 million funding Telecom Paper Online
08
from NSW govt
10-Apr- Staff Writer NICTA weak at the knees over $25m ZDNet Australia
08
funding
11-Apr- Han, Sonia NICTA's $25 million funding from NSW Communications Day
08
government
Online
11-Apr-
08
Staff Writer NICTA scores $25 million Computer Daily News
14-Apr-
08
Richiardi, Paul Genetic analysis aids faster internet The Age
16-Apr-
08
Staff Writer Good Bad Ugly ComputerWorld Australia
23-Apr-
08
Staff Writer Audinate's $4m to fund US expansion Business Spectator Online
23-Apr-
08
Woodhead, Ben Audinate's $4m to fund US expansion MIS Online
23-Apr-
08
Woodhead, Ben Audinate's $4m to fund US expansion Australian Financial Review
23-Apr- Miller, Nick Eye builders develop a vision of the The Age
08
future
24-Apr- Wilton, Petroc What the people want: addressing end Communications Day
08
user needs for broadband
Online
28-Apr- Staff Writer NICTA APPOINTS TWO NEW BOARD Communications Day
08
MEMBERS
Online
28-Apr-
08
Staff Writer People, people Computer Daily News
123

28-Apr-
08
Solley, Ross Breakfast - 8:34am Radio - ABC 666 - Canberra
28-Apr- Staff Writer - OS Virtualisation : Open Kernel Labs fete Electronique.biz Online
08
sa premiere annee
29-Apr-
08
Staff Writer CORRECTION Canberra Times
1-May-08 Staff Writer Software group takes up 'visible loans'
challenge
Australian Broker
1-May-08 Staff Writer AUSINNOVATE AT CEBIT Business Acumen
Queensland
1-May-08 Staff Writer This is the REAL WORLD Dynamic Business
Magazine
1-May-08 Staff Writer People Engineers Australia
1-May-08 Staff Writer 08:30 News Radio - 2CC - Canberra
1-May-08 Staff Writer Quick Connections Voice & Data
2-May-08 Staff Writer Linux-friendly microkernel OS tightens
mobile security
Linux Devices Online
5-May-08 Contributing Open Kernel Labs Joins EEMBC Breitbart Online
Writer
Hypervisor Workgroup
5-May-08 Staff Writer 3D-Welten im Peer-to-Peer-Verfahren Heise Online
5-May-08 Staff Writer Open Kernel Labs Joins EEMBC
Hypervisor Workgroup
Smartbrief Online
5-May-08 Staff Writer - Peer-to-Peer-Netze sollen virtuelle winfuture.de GER
Germany Welten entlasten
6-May-08 Han, Sonia Approval of NICTA as Registered Communications Day
Research Agency
Online
6-May-08 Woodhead, Ben Research tag for NICTA Australian Financial Review
6-May-08 Clark, Ashley NICTA recognised to fuel Aussie
innovation
iTnews
6-May-08 Naone, Erica 3D-Welten im Peer-to-Peer-Verfahren derwesten.de GER
7-May-08 Staff Writer Science Foundation Arizona names
Mel Slater VP, COO
Bizjournals Online
12-May- Staff Writer FST To Showcase Advanced GUI And Embedded Online
08
High Performance Multimedia Platform
At ESC
13-May- Contributing A book dedicated to nine scientists italianmedia.com.au ITA
08 Writer
14-May- Staff Writer Piracy Protection: Open Kernel Labs Broadcast Newsroom
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Eliminates Threat of IP Theft in
Consumer Electronics Devices
Online
14-May- Staff Writer Piracy Protection: Open Kernel Labs PR-inside Online
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Eliminates Threat of IP Theft in
Consumer Electronics Devices
14-May- Staff Writer Arte e storia per promuovere la scienza italianmedia.com.au ITA
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e "regalare" la bellezza della ricerca
scientifica
15-May- Freestone, Lin Headplay uses the protection of OK iptv-watch Online UK
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Labs' OKL4
16-May- Staff Writer Open Kernel Labs Threat Of IP Theft ARM Online
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On Consumer Devices
16-May- Staff Writer Headplay Group Chooses OK Labs TMCnet Online USA
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Software
19-May- Staff Writer Oracle gets on board as CeBIT show Computer Daily News
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gears for record year
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20-May- Bushell-Embling, Ready for the green light Sydney Morning Herald
08 Dylan
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Blog Writer - USA CeBIT Sydney Recap calacanis.com - BLOG
21-May- Coleman, Luke Conroy praises NICTA, CSIRO Communications Day
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Online
21-May- Contributing Address to the CeBIT Ausinnovate Egovmonitor Online
08 Writer
Conference, Sydney - By Hon Stephen
Conroy
21-May- Bajkowski, Julian Chiefs and geeks swell CeBIT figures Australian Financial Review
08 / Woodhouse,
Ben
24-May- Grayson, Ian No Header - Other examples include Daily Telegraph
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Bluetooth-equipped
24-May-
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Grayson, Ian Striding towards a wireless world Daily Telegraph
29-May- Staff Writer Open Kernel Labs Wins eg3.com TMCnet Online USA
08
Editors' and Readers' Tech Choice
Awards in the Embedded Virtualiztion
Category
30-May-
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Staff Writer Heading down under calacanis.com
30-May- Staff Writer Open Kernel Labs joins EEMBC EDN Asia
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Hypervisor Workgroup
31-May-
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Staff Writer Open Kernel Labs Garners Awards TMCnet Online USA
1-Jun-08 Georg, Dietrich Leaders in many fields Engineers Australia
1-Jun-08 Staff Writer Chris Nicol, 41 Engineers Australia
1-Jun-08 Staff Writer David Skellern, 57 Engineers Australia
1-Jun-08 Staff Writer Graham Davies, 61 Engineers Australia
4-Jun-08 Staff Writer Open Kernel Labs Named 'Cool Vendor'
in 2008 Report by Leading Analyst
Firm
PR-inside Online
5-Jun-08 Contributing Open Kernel Labs Named "Cool TechWhack
Writer
Vendor" in 2008 Report by Leading
Analyst Firm
6-Jun-08 Staff Writer NICTA RESEARCHER ELECTED AS AAAI Communications Day
FELLOWSHIP
Online
6-Jun-08 Staff Writer People, people Computer Daily News
9-Jun-08 Staff Writer Open Kernel Labs Tapped as a 'Cool
Vendor' in 2008 Report by Gartner
TMCnet Online USA
10-Jun- Staff Writer Open Kernel Labs to Conduct
EDA Geek Online
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Embedded Systems Research with
$2.5M Grant
11-Jun- Baburajan, Open Kernel Labs Receives $2.5M for TMCnet Online USA
08 Rajani
Commercial Ready Program
14-Jun- Staff Writer Open Kernel Labs Gets Grant to TMCnet Online USA
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Research Embedded Systems
Software Technology for Mobile
Devices
19-Jun- Staff Writer Linus-powered, clarinet-playing robot Congoo News Online
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wins prize
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08 Spencer
19-Jun- Svendsen, Soren Robot spiller klarinet Itsvar - Web (www.itsvar.dk
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20-Jun-
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Staff Writer NICTA toots the flute Computer Daily News
20-Jun-
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Jenkinson, Pete Jazzy robot gives us a tune Electricpig Online
20-Jun- Hendry, Andrew Linux-powered, clarinet-playing robot PC World NZ Online
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wins prize
21-Jun- Staff Writer Linux-Powered Clarinet Playing Robot Redtram Online
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Wins International Prize
21-Jun-
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Staff Writer Roboclarinet Synthtopia Online
23-Jun- Staff Writer Australia: Linux robot plays frenetic Tenders Info Online
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clarinet
24-Jun- Foreshew, Employers pay more for staff as skills Australian
08 Jennifer crunch bites hard
24-Jun-
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Staff Writer Virtualization stack adds Vista support WindowsForDevices Online
25-Jun-
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O'Brien, Kerry 7:30 Report 7.30 Report - National
25-Jun-
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Staff Writer The New Inventors ABC - National
27-Jun- Staff Writer Nicta's QLD lab receives AUD 10 Telecom Paper Online
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million from state govt
28-Jun- Staff Writer Innova.- Un total de 21 tecnologos de europa press - Web (
08
Ainia se forman en centros y
universidades "de reconocido prestigio
mundial"
www.europapress.es )
30-Jun-
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Staff Writer Qld backs NICTA research Computer Daily News
30-Jun-
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Adams, Geoff Irrigation study grant Country News Insert
30-Jun- LeMay, Renai Qld offers $180m for broadband in Australian Financial Review
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bush
30-Jun- Scott, Katie VIDEO: Robot wins comp playing Flight Pocket-lint Online
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of the Bumblebee
1-Jul-08 Staff Writer One Big Knowledge Cluster Australian Anthill
1-Jul-08 Staff Writer Linux Clarinet? Don't Laugh. Apparently
The Robot Swings
OSTATIC Online
1-Jul-08 Staff Writer This is the REAL WORLD Australian Anthill
1-Jul-08 Staff Writer NEW SOUTH WALES Australian Anthill
1-Jul-08 Staff Writer Movers + Shakers Voice & Data
1-Jul-08 Staff Writer Integration in a 'century of information' Canberra Times
1-Jul-08 Staff Writer NICTA TO RECEIVE $25M FUNDING
OVER FIVE YEARS
Australian Anthill
2-Jul-08 Staff Writer SensorWeb 2.0 software released Primeur Magazine Online (
enterthegrid.com)
4-Jul-08 Rust, Len Telstra ventures back into Asia The Rust Report
4-Jul-08 Gedda, Rodney Aussie open-source report now a free
download
LinuxWorld USA Online
15-Jul-08 Foo, Fran Set-top box to cut energy consumption Australian Online
15-Jul-08 Crawford,
Michael
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16-Jul-08 Woodhead, Ben NICTA's European role Financial Review
16-Jul-08 Tay, Liz NICTA invests $290,000 in EU
collaboration
iTnews
16-Jul-08 Hendry, Andrew Set top boxes to revolutionise internet
architecture
CIO Online
16-Jul-08 Hendry, Andrew Set top boxes to revolutionise Internet
architecture
Techworld.com
16-Jul-08 Coleman, Luke NICTA wins spot on internet framework
project
Communications Day
16-Jul-08 Staff Writer NICTA joins Euro research team Computer Daily News
17-Jul-08 Staff Writer Fajlcserelokkel valtanak fel a jovo Heti Világgazdaság HVG
adatkozpontjait
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17-Jul-08 Staff Writer Will Smartphones Inspire M&A? Deal Book Online
18-Jul-08 Staff Writer Surveillance expert is new head of University of Adelaide
research
Online
18-Jul-08 Staff Writer NICTA joins European 'nano data
centre' R&D project
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18-Jul-08 Staff Writer Genetics cracks fibre-optic problem ScienceAlert Online
21-Jul-08 Staff Writer Old money Canberra Times
21-Jul-08 Serpo, Alex Photos: NICTA robot plays the clarinet ZDNet Australia
21-Jul-08 Smith, Paul Bright minds put the future in sight Individual.com Online
21-Jul-08 Staff Writer Australian and international
researchers strive to produce a
working bionic eye
ABC News - Online
22-Jul-08 Staff Writer Bionic eye team sees far into future Australian Online
22-Jul-08 Staff Writer IT diary Australian
22-Jul-08 Smith, Paul Bright minds put the future in sight Financial Review
23-Jul-08 Rogers, Andrew National research involves former local Loddon Times
24-Jul-08 Tay, Liz Can 'soul-less' robots make us weep? iTnews
25-Jul-08 Rust, Len Altium moves to tighten its grip on
China
The Rust Report
28-Jul-08 Hendry, Andrew First Aussie astronaut launches
National ICT Careers Week
CIO Online
28-Jul-08 Hendry, Andrew First Aussie astronaut launches ComputerWorld Australia
National ICT Careers Week
Online
29-Jul-08 Staff Writer Adelaide appoints surveillance expert Campus Review
29-Jul-08 Foreshew, Researchers tap speedier data Australian Online
Jennifer downloads
30-Jul-08 Corner, Stuart Coming soon: wireless technologies for
the high bandwidth home
ITWire
1-Aug-08 Stokely, Sarah Open Season MIS Magazine
5-Aug-08 Staff Writer AARNet Runs First IPv6 Multicast With
Asia-Pacific on its Network
PC World Online
5-Aug-08 Staff Writer Open Kernel Labs Fortifies Sony Embedded Technology
Ericsson XPERIA Smartphone
Journal Online
13-Aug-
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Staff Writer ActewAGL's Amazing World of Science Canberra Times
15-Aug- Bingemann, Ex-Cochlear CTO heads to NICTA Australian Online
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Staff Writer NICTA CEO gets two more years Computer Daily News
18-Aug- Yates, Ian Opinion: Brain drain Computer Reseller News
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19-Aug- Staff Writer O'Brien to push high-performance for Australian
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Rowbotham, Jill Artificial Bolero music to their ears Australian Online
27-Aug- Rowbotham, Jill Engineer John Judge creates robotic Australian Online
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1-Sep-08 Staff Writer Kazacos cleans up at CSIRO ICT
industry awards
Australian Anthill
1-Sep-08 Grose, Simon Geek's toy Canberra Times
3-Sep-08 Staff Writer "What if they never existed?" Il Globo Online
8-Sep-08 Staff Writer Fertile Farming Future The Age
9-Sep-08 Foo, Fran Robots to take load as the world ages Australian Online
9-Sep-08 Foo, Fran Robots to take load as the world ages Australian
9-Sep-08 Bingemann,
Mitchell
NICTA team looks to internet's future Australian Online
9-Sep-08 Staff Writer NICTA to design global Internet testbed iTnews
9-Sep-08 Jenkins, Chris NICTA fires up Euro funding MIS Online
9-Sep-08 Staff Writer NICTA team looks to internet's future Tech News Review Online
9-Sep-08 Bingemann,
Mitchell
NICTA team looks to internet's future Australian
10-Sep-
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Smith, Paul NICTA wins EC funding Financial Review
10-Sep- Wilton, Petroc NICTA may help shape tomorrow's Communications Day
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internet
10-Sep- Guest Writer Award winning Robotic clarinet Western Advocate -
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11-Sep- Staff Writer NICTA to design global Internet testbed Computer Reseller News
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11-Sep-
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Guest Writer Award winning Robotic clarinet Western Times - Bathurst
12-Sep-
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Foo, Fran Government must deliver NBN: Cutler Australian Online
12-Sep-
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Rust, Len Pearcey medal to Neville Roach The Rust Report
12-Sep- Staff Writer Solar power expert named inaugural Business NSW
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Staff Writer Reptile rounds Computer Daily News
15-Sep- Staff Writer Cutler digs at NBN delays Computer Daily News
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Foo, Fran NICTA chief to stay on Australian
16-Sep- Staff Writer NICTA extends contract with CEO David Communications Day
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Skellern
16-Sep-
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Smith, Paul Federal use of tech contractors halved Financial Review
17-Sep- Pauli, Darren NICTA CTO wins NSW computer CIO Online
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scientist award
17-Sep-
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Staff Writer Contract extended Herald Sun
17-Sep- Staff Writer Open Kernel Labs Community
Embedded Technology
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Journal Online
17-Sep- Staff Writer Open Kernel Labs Community
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Surpasses 1,000 Members
18-Sep- Staff Writer NICTA CTO wins NSW computer Communications Day
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scientist of the year
19-Sep-
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Corner, Stuart appointments… Exchange
21-Sep- Heath, David NICTA Tunes into Computer Science ITWire
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Students with ARTEMIS
22-Sep-
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Grose, Simon Top techie Canberra Times
22-Sep- Staff Writer Open Kernel Lab Delivers OKL5 www.marketwire.com
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Embedded Hypervisor and
Virtualization Technology to the
Symbian Community
22-Sep- Staff Writer Open Kernel Labs - Open Kernel Labs www.investegate.co.uk
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Delivers O...
22-Sep- Stafford, Alan Telstra research a national 'disgrace': Computer Daily News
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NICTA chief's blast
23-Sep-
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Boyd, Tony Australia's R&D shortfall Business Spectator Online
25-Sep- Staff Writer Monitoring Division completes Lightwave Online
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customer trials of multi-impairment
monitoring device
25-Sep-
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Wilton, Petroc Conroy sings NICTA's praises Communications Day
29-Sep- Chase, Brendon NICTA: Aussies should focus on Builder AU Online
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embedded programming not VB
29-Sep-
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Grose, Simon Praise for ICT Canberra Times
30-Sep-
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Kennedy, Stuart EU discussions on joint research Australian
1-Oct-08 Staff Writer PEOPLE Australian R&D Review
1-Oct-08 Contributing Open Kernel Labs Embedded
Virtualization Technology
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Hypervisor Enriches First Android
Phone
News & Information
1-Oct-08 Contributing Open Kernel Labs Embedded
Device Management Forum
Writer
Hypervisor Enriches First Android
Phone
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Open Kernel Labs Embedded
Hypervisor Enriches First Android
Phone
Embedded Technology
Journal Online
3-Oct-08 Staff Writer Open Kernel Labs Hypervisor
Embedded In First Android Phone
Virtualization.com
5-Oct-08 Staff Writer Open Kernel Labs' Hypervisor
Deployed in Android Phone
tradingmarkets.com
5-Oct-08 Staff Writer Open Kerne Labs' Hypervisor Deployed
in Android Phone
TMCnet.com
15-Oct-
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Denham, Kim A first for the ACS Information Age Online
21-Oct- Staff Writer Challenges for Future Web Bring DiGiTAL50 Online
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Experts Together at W3C Global
Plenary
21-Oct-
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Staff Writer Microkernel boasts more "robust" SDK Linux Devices Online
21-Oct-
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Staff Writer Virtual worlds can come cheap Computer Daily News
21-Oct- Staff Writer NICTA releases P2P MMO network Telecom Paper Online
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engine
21-Oct- Staff Writer NICTA slashes hosting costs for MMO iTnews
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P2P networks
21-Oct- Kidman, Angus NICTA Preps P2P Engine For Game Lifehacker - BLOG
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Developers
21-Oct- Contributing Challenges for Future Web Bring Oceania Online
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Experts Together at W3C Global
Plenary
22-Oct- Largillet, Jean- Mandelieu: experts of the W3C vis-s-vis Sophianet.com
08 Pierre
the challenges of the Web of the future
22-Oct- Contributing Open Kernel OKL4 3.0 Solution Embedded Computing
08 Writer
Enables Mobile Device Development
From Simple to Smart
Design Online
22-Oct- Contributing Open Kernel Labs OKL4 3.0 Solution News Blaze -Online
08 Writer
Enables Mobile Device Development
From Simple to Smart
22-Oct- Bantick, Mike P2P based massive multiplayer engine ITWire
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to slash hosting costs
23-Oct-
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Staff Writer Microkernel boasts more "robust" SDK linux.com
23-Oct-
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Cincotta, Katie We have the technology The Age
24-Oct-
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Staff Writer ICT meets life sciences Computer Daily News
24-Oct-
08
Rust, Len Azurn partners with US giant The Rust Report
26-Oct- Wighton, David MDI opens new operations center in CNBC Online
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Melbourne
26-Oct- Staff Writer MDI OPENS NEW OPERATIONS TMCnet.com
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CENTER IN MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA
27-Oct- Contributing MDI opens new operations center in PR-inside Online
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Melbourne
27-Oct- Contributing MDI opens new operations center in DiGiTAL50 Online
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Melbourne
28-Oct-
08
Woodhead, Ben Millions for Monitoring Australian Financial Review
28-Oct-
08
Wilton, Petroc NICTA spinoff open for business Communications Day
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Staff Writer ICT enters city planning Computer Daily News
29-Oct-
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Staff Writer NICTA spinoff scores $2 million Computer Daily News
29-Oct- Staff Writer ROBOTS AND RADARS AND BUGS. OH Central
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MY
29-Oct- Contributing Open Kernel Labs Launches OKL4 3.0 TMCnet.com
08 Writer
Solution
29-Oct- Contributing Students Showcase Ageing Research, MediLexicon Online
08 Writer
Australian National University
31-Oct-
08
Rust, Len Aussie developer agrees to Oracle bid The Rust Report
31-Oct- Corner, Stuart NICTA spin-off scores $2m funding and Exchange
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first customer
1-Nov-08 Staff Writer Strong sense of history Convention, Incentive
Marketing
1-Nov-08 Contributing Broadband on the water - NICTA teams Embedded Computing
Writer
with Singapore's Institute for Infocomm
Research to create a wireless mesh
network for ships
Design Online
10-Nov- Ferguson, Scott VMWare plans to Port Virtualization to PC Magazine Online
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Phones
10-Nov- Ferguson, Scott VMWare wants to bring Virtualization eWeek Online
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to Your Smart Phone
11-Nov-
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Staff Writer Look who's talking: cars Computer Daily News
11-Nov- Pauli, Darren Cloudy days for Sunshine State ComputerWorld Australia
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Online
12-Nov- Staff Writer NSW puts tech park up for sale, trims Computer Daily News
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e-govt spending
12-Nov- Han, Sonia NSW invests in in-car wireless
Communications Day
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technologies
12-Nov- Contributing Research 'A' team to fast track Bionic FirstScience Online
08 Writer
Eye, Australian consortium announced
13-Nov-
08
Staff Writer Sight for sore eyes The Engineer Online
13-Nov-
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Staff Writer Bionic Eye Fast-Tracked Photonics Online
13-Nov- Staff Writer World-Leading Australian Research azom.com
08
Institutes to Fast Track Development
of Bionic Eye
13-Nov- Gome, Amanda More venture capital money for start smartcompany Online
08
ups
13-Nov- Contributing Research "A" Team to Fast Track Medical News Today Online
08 Writer
Bionic Eye - Australian Consortium
Announced today
14-Nov- Staff Writer Research 'A' team to fast track Bionic Bionity News Online
08
Eye, Australian consortium announced
14-Nov- McConnel, Toni Open Kernel Labs tailors OKL4 3.0 ee Product Center
08
RTOS hypervisor to mobile device apps
14-Nov- McConnel, Toni SOFTWARE TOOLS: Open Kernel Labs DSP Design Line
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tailors OKL4 3.0 RTOS hypervisor to
mobile devices apps
14-Nov- Corner, Stuart NSW Gov't back in-car wireless Exchange
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technology R&D
15-Nov- Gunn, Angela Virtualization is poised to give mobile BetaNews Online
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Staff Writer Five WA engineers honoured Business News WA
17-Nov-
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Lebihan, Rachel Nurturing next generation of whiz-kids Australian Financial Review
18-Nov- Vervloesem, Open Kernel Labs verbetert
Bits & Chips Online
08 Koen
microkernel
18-Nov-
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Staff Writer Open Kernel Labs investegate Online
18-Nov- Sainsbury, Innovation fund better bet than car Australian
08 Michael black hole
19-Nov- Tung, Liam Queenslanders debate cloud
ZDNet Australia
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computing
21-Nov-
08
Staff Writer Nautical network The Engineer
21-Nov-
08
Staff Writer Mesh radio all at sea Computer Daily News
24-Nov- Staff Writer Australian institutes team to develop medGadget Online
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bionic eye
24-Nov- Staff Writer NICTA and I2R collaborate on maritime SearchNetworking Online
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wireless mesh
25-Nov-
08
Staff Writer IT diary The Australian
25-Nov-
08
Maher, Louise Drive - 4:06pm Radio - ABC 666 - Canberra
27-Nov-
08
Staff Writer Audinate Business Review Weekly
28-Nov-
08
Rust, Len Nicta navigates into Singapore deal The Rust Report
28-Nov- Corner, Stuart Australian research enhances ship-to- Exchange
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shore WiFi mesh
1-Dec-08 Staff Writer Bionic news Australian R&D Review
2-Dec-08 Staff Writer MISaustralia.com Australian Financial Review
6-Dec-08 Grayson, Ian Making movies as cheap as chips Weekend Australian
11-Dec- Staff Writer - OK Labs opens European HQ EPN Online
08 France
11-Dec- Staff Writer - Anti-Monopoly and Competition Law China Media Online
08 China
Forum to be held in Hong Kong
11-Dec- Staff Writer - Anti-Monopoly and Competition Law China Newswire Online
08 China
Forum to be held in Hong Kong
12-Dec- Corner, Stuart Race for the 5Gbps wireless LAN heats ITWire
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up
15-Dec- Staff Writer Open Kernel Labs Secure HyperCell DiGiTAL50 Online
08
Technology Targets Smartphones and
Featurephones Built on Multicore ARM
Chipsets
15-Dec- Staff Writer Open Kernel Labs Secure HyperCell NewsTin Online
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Technology Targets Smartphones and
Featurephones Built on…
15-Dec- Staff Writer Open Kernel labs Virtualization Technology
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News & Information
18-Dec-
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Staff Writer CFP - SSv 09 eventseer.net
19-Dec- Staff Writer Open Kernel Labs Supporting
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Advanced Mobile Chipsets
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Staff Writer FROCOS'09 CALL FOR PAPERS eventseer.net
Staff Writer ICT - MOBISEC 2009 - CALL FOR
PAPERS
Staff Writer 2ND CFP - DASFAA 2009 PHD
WORKSHOP
Staff Writer ACM GIS 08 CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
(NOV 5-7, IRVINE, CA)
Staff Writer IEEE TKDE SPECIAL ISSUE: 2ND CALL
FOR CONTRIBUTIONS
Staff Writer Opne Kernel Labs secure HyperCell
technology targets smartphones and
featurephones
Staff Writer Summer Series: "The Smarts" - Cheap
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m) Variation to this Agreement
No changes are emerging that would necessitate any variations to the Second
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n) Actions Taken to Meet the Requirements Under Item
1.5(a)(xxxviii) and Item 1.5(a)(xxxix)
Financial Management and Corporate Support Systems
Financial Management Systems
1. Finance Department
The NICTA Finance department uses the Sun-Systems general accounting
package. The chart of accounts structure in the Sun-Systems package is designed
to report in different dimensions appropriate to NICTA’s needs e.g. by income and
expense categories, laboratories, cost centres, locations, etc. The software
packages consist of a general ledger and various add-on modules including
accounts payable, fixed assets, accounts receivable, reporting and analysis, bank
reconciliation and budgeting. The system has the capability for electronic
payments of suppliers. During 2008, automated interfaces from the payroll
system to the general ledger were implemented.
2. Human Resources Department
The NICTA Human Resources department uses a specialised payroll software
package called CHRIS-21. This package calculates the amount to be paid to
NICTA staff, and the provision for annual leave, as well as storing non-financial
information. The relevant financial transactions are passed on to the Finance
department to process in Sun-Systems.
3. Procurement Department
The NICTA Procurement department ensures all orders raised have been
authorised by the relevant person(s) in line with the organisation’s authorisation
policy.
4. Internal Audit Department
NICTA’s internal audit process was outsourced in 2007 to
PricewaterhouseCoopers who have been engaged to manage this function for a
three year period. This process ensures NICTA’s financial management system
operates in line with the organisation’s policies.
5. Project Management Office
The NICTA Project Management Office (PMO) ensures all the research projects are
managed in line with the organisation’s policies.
Finance, Project and Performance Management Systems
Project Management
As all information relating to projects is readily available within the PMO, it is the
first point of contact for all queries regarding projects, whether from research
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staff, management or external parties and whether relating to project progress,
project budget or general queries on the portfolio.
At a high level, NICTA’s project management systems:
• Act as central repositories for all information relating to NICTA’s research
activities and assist in satisfying our reporting requirements to
stakeholders
• Enable senior management to review NICTA’s research portfolio and make
informed strategic decisions
• Help improve project management capabilities among NICTA’s research
teams by providing a comprehensive view of project status
• Ensure a consistent approach to the adoption of best-practice project
management processes across NICTA
• Provide NICTA with an auditable project management process and
demonstrate appropriate governance and due diligence
NICTA’s main tool for providing effective project management is a project portfolio
management system called Centric. Centric captures core project information,
stores all documentation related to a project and tracks project progress in the
form of milestones and tasks.
Company Data & Integration
2008 saw NICTA continue towards the consolidation of all information centrally.
Much of the data held by individual departments is now available through the
PMO making it easier to produce strategic information on NICTA’s research
portfolio allowing the ready monitoring of how we are tracking against the targets
set by the Research Strategy Group (RSG).
As part of this initiative, NICTA is integrating project management information
currently held by the PMO with information which had previously been distributed
across other departments such as commercialisation, project financials,
intellectual property, linkages and contract management details. This enables
consolidated management reports to be produced containing all possible project
information necessary to make accurate and informed decisions.
Two new systems were implemented during 2008 to further improve this
capability:
1. Contracts, Linkages, IP (CLIP) system.
During 2008 the PMO worked closely with operations, the legal department and IT
to specify and implement a contract management/linkages/IP system, CLIP. This
provides NICTA with a structured and reliable way to manage and report on these
activities as opposed to the spreadsheets used previously. Functionality of the
system includes:
a) Contract management. As the level of engagement with third parties increases,
it was clear that NICTA needed to track these contractual obligations/deliverables
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in the same way as it does research milestones. The system captures details of all
of our project related contracts including project agreements, consultancy
agreements, NDA’s, MOU’s etc. It will also allow us to quantify, both cash and inkind,
the value of these contracts. The system was fully functional in 2008 and in
2009 we will be fine tuning the system with internal processes to systematically
track obligations including reminders and producing comprehensive reports on
the status of our contracts.
b) Linkages. NICTA recognises the need to be able to comprehensively manage,
evaluate and make strategic decisions regarding its linkages with external
organisations. As much of the information is common with that for contract
management it was decided that it should be captured in one system, with extra
fields added to capture key linkage attributes.
c) Intellectual Property (IP). CLIP is used to manage NICTA’s IP. All invention
disclosures and patents are entered into the system including descriptions, core
attributes, inventors, key dates, costs, etc, giving us a comprehensive overview of
our patent portfolio.
CLIP has the facility to upload all documents relating to contracts and IP allowing
them to be stored centrally and easily shared by the management team.
2. Forecasting and budgeting tool. During 2008, a Budgeting and Forecasting
system was implemented to address the need for efficient reforecast and
modelling of NICTA’s portfolio. As a result, the 2008 budgeting process was more
timely and transparent. The second stage of the implementation has commenced,
and involves defining and implementing an efficient forecasting process, training
site users to allow access to system and defining portfolio reporting requirements
to ensure accurate and efficient reporting. The system allows the tracking of
expenditure and resources to be much simpler and more effective allowing
decisions to be made quickly on any future direction.
Both tools will automate and standardise the collection of critical information and
allow meaningful and accurate reports to be produced efficiently.
Towards the end of 2008 a project was initiated to make all of this information
available centrally through a single portal. All of our management systems have
been designed to be consistent with NICTA’s integrated information architecture
so that these details can be combined with any other across the organization.
During 2009 we will develop a complete information repository combining project
management, high-level financials, commercialisation, IP, contracts and other
portfolio information. This will allow better sharing of information across NICTA,
more immediate decisions to be made on our project portfolio and more timely
and accurate production of reports.
Project Selection and PVR
In 2008 all new projects continued to be assessed against the criteria outlined in
the Project Value Rating (PVR) Method to determine its eligibility for funding.
Building on experience gained from using the PVR in 2007 some changes to
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streamline the process were made in 2008. All projects are assessed against the
following five factors:
• Technology and science
• Commercialisation (including end-user impact and industry linkages)
• National benefits for Australia
• Research portfolio balance
• Education.
Facilitating the process involves: assisting proponents in preparing their
proposals; collecting and checking all submissions; obtaining referees reports;
working with the RMCC and review panels; and circulating and communicating
outcomes and recommendations.
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2. Research Themes and Projects
NICTA’s research objective is to deliver research that is recognised for its
excellence, generates knowledge breakthroughs, creates user-focused
technologies and progresses scientific and engineering knowledge. During 2008
we have focused our research portfolio into Projects across Research Themes and
Business Areas to make the most of our expertise and capabilities.
2008 has been an excellent year for research at NICTA. Our researchers have won
some outstanding awards and competitions. Or research teams are making
excellent progress. Research Projects that are moving to or already engaged in
commercialisation include:
· 7-ip (Office in a Box)
· Open Kernel Labs
· Audinate
· Automap
· Managing and Monitoring the Internet (MAMI)
· Advanced Technologies for Optimisation and Modeling IN Constraints
(ATOMIC)
· InterfereX
· Goanna
· L4.verified
· Millimetre Wave Gigabit Wireless (GiFi)
· Secure Embedded L4 (seL4)
· Smart Transport and Roads
· Spectral Imaging Source Mapping Systems (SISM)
· Tabanar
· Universal Storage Scheme (USS)
· Water Information Networks (WIN)
NICTA research spans some 30 projects plus numerous other smaller activities. A
couple of highlights from 2008 are summarised below.
Embedded Systems:
Two key activities have been the L4-verified project which is nearing completion
and which will provide the world’s first formally verified implementation of an
operating system, and the GiFi project which is building a 60GHz system-on-a-chip
wireless networking transceiver. Both projects made significant progress in 2008.
Making Sense of Data:
The ELEFANT machine learning was released to the world this year. It provides a
platform for machine learning that will form the foundation for future NICTA
research in this area.
Managing Complexity:
The MiniZinc language was released this year. This is a modeling language for
constraints programming that underpins our G12/Atomic project. It is starting to
get significant international attention.
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Networked Systems:
The Context aware mobility project has made significant advances in developing
protocols that allow much better and more reliability across different mobile
networks that takes account of user behaviour and needs. The technology
exploits machine learning to predict future needs and optimise the use of
bandwidth
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NICTA Project Index
Project Abbreviation Project Title Page
AAESDP Automated Anatomical Structure Extraction for
Diagnosis and Population Norms
160
ARIA Architectures for Intelligent Agents 157
ArMaTure Process Architecture, Modelling and
Technologies for Business and Government
211
ATOMIC/ G12 Advanced Technologies for Optimisation and
Modelling In Constraints
155
AutoMap AutoMap 159
BANESH renamed HPI Body Area Networks for Embedded Systems for
Humans/Human Performance Improvement
191
BioTALA Biomedical Text and Language Applications 162
Braccetto Braccetto 164
CAMP Context Aware Mobility Project 174
CG Cancer Genomics 166
ComQu In Memory XML Query Processing 194
COSE Cognitive and Organisational Systems
Engineering
170
CTC Computer Colonic Polyps Detection based on CT
Colonography
172
DMiST Data Mining in Spatio-Temporal Sets 176
DPOLP Dynamic Planning, Optimisation and Learning 180
DSIM Decision Support for Incident Management 178
ELEFANT ELEFANT - SML Inside 182
- Doc ELEFANT - Documents
- VBAND ELEFANT-Vision Based Assessment of
Neurogenerative Diseases
FLoW Fundamental Limits of Wireless 187
FM for PEWNA Formal Methods for Performance Evaluation of
Wireless Network Applications
185
GiFi Millimetre Wave Gigabit Wireless 239
GOANNA Goanna 189
InterfereX-2 InterfereX-2: Efficient Receivers for Wireless
Communications
195
L4.Verified L4.verified 197
LIXI LIXI Business Processes 198
Macro Macro-Programming for Wireless Sensor
Networks
199
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MGCC Mapping Genetic Components in Crops 201
NOSA NICTA Open SensorWeb Architecture 205
P2P Peer-to-Peer Computing 207
Potoroo Probablistic Temporal Analysis of Operating
Systems Code
209
QUSE Query under Uncertainty for a Secure and
Sustainable Environment
212
RESA Requirements Engineering for Strategic
Alignment
214
SAFE Smart Applications for Emergencies 220
- SAFE Sensors SAFE Sensors 221
- SAFE Info SAFE Information 222
- SAFE Agents SAFE Agents 223
- SAFE Networks SAFE Networks 224
SAFE II AS Smart Applications for Emergencies – Advanced
Surveillance
225
SAIL Situation Awareness by Inference and Logic 218
Sel4 Secure Embedded L4 216
SISMS Spectral Imaging Source Mapping Systems 230
STaR Smart Transport and Roads 226
- STaR-UI STaR - Advanced Multimodal User Interfaces for
Control Rooms
- STaR-Comm STaR- Communications
- STaR Control STaR Control
- STaR - SenSurv STaR - Sensors and Surveillance
Supercom Supercom: Model-Based Supervision of
Composite Systems
203
SWARM Characterisation, Diagnosis and Assurance of
Health and Quality of Sensor Formations
168
TEMPO Testbed Management Framework and its
Application to Peer-to-Peer Overlays
232
USS Universal Storage Scheme 234
VIBE Visual Processing for the Bionic Eye 236
WIN Water Information Networks 237
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NICTA Research Project Portfolio
NICTA’s research project portfolio reduced during 2008 as projects were
completed. 20 projects were completed. The number of active projects at the
start of 2008 was 36 and 23 at the end of the year.
Table 13: Projects completed in 2008
N o . Project Title Q Q Q Q
1 2 3 4
1. NICTA Open SensorWeb Architecture (NOSA) �
2. Secure Embedded L4 (SeL4) �
3. Dynamic Planning Optimisation and Learning (DPOLP) �
4. Formal Methods for Performance Evaluation for
Wireless Applications (PEWNA)
�
5. Fundamental Limits of Wireless (FLOW) �
6. LIXI Business Processes (LIXI) �
7. Macro-programming for Wireless Sensor Networks
(Macro)
�
8. Mapping genetic Components in Crops (MGCC) �
9. Smart Applications for Emergencies (SAFE) �
10. Situation Awareness by Inference and Logic (SAIL) �
11. Water Information Networks (WIN) �
12. Automated Anatomical Structure Extraction for
Diagnosis and Population Norms (AASEDP)
�
13. Architectures for Intelligent Agents (ARIA) �
14. Computer Colonic polyps Detection based on
Computed Tomographic Colonography (CTC)
�
15. Data Mining in Spatio-Temporal Data Sets (DMiST) �
16. Model-based Supervision of Composite Systems
(SuperCom)
�
17. Probabilistic Temporal Analysis of Operating Systems
Code (POTOROO)
�
18. Query under Uncertainty for a Secure and Sustainable
Environment (QUSE)
�
19. Requirements Engineering for Strategic Alignment
(RESA)
�
20. Universal Storage System (USS) �
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Table 14: Active Projects at the end of 2008 and Completion Status
23 projects were active at the end of 2008.
No. Project Title Acronym
Due for
Completion
2 2 2
0 0 0
0 1 1
9 0 1
1. Wireless Gig E GiFi �
2. Braccetto Bracetto �
3. Cancer Genomics CG �
4. Context Aware Mobility Project CAMP �
5. Goanna Goanna �
6. In Memory XML Query Processing ComQu �
7. InterfereX-2: Efficient Receivers for
Wireless Communications
Interferex-2 �
8. L4.Verified L4.Verified �
9. Peer-to-Peer Computing P2P �
10. Spectral Imaging Source Mapping
Systems
SISMS �
11. AutoMap AutoMap �
12. Advanced Technologies for Optimisation
and Modeling In Constraints
ATOMIC �
13. Biomedical Text and Language
BioTala �
Applications
14. Characterisation Diagnosis and
Assurance of Health and Quality of
Sensor Formations II
15. Cognitive and Organisational Systems
Engineering
16. Decision Support for Incident
Management
SWARM �
COSE �
DSIM �
17. Process Architecture, Modeling and
Technologies for Business and
Government
ArMaTure �
18. SAFE II – Advanced Surveillance SAFE II AS �
19. Smart Transport and Roads STaR �
20. Testbed Management Framework and TEMPO �
its Application to Peer-to-Peer Overlays
21. Visual Processing for the Bionic Eye VIBE �
22. Elefant Elefant �
23. Human Performance Improvement HPI
2
0
1
2
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New Projects
NICTA evaluates new project proposals against the criteria in the Project Value
Rating (PVR) method three times per year. Submissions in Round 1 were in March
2008 with outcomes in May 2008, Round 2 had submissions in May 2008 with
outcomes in July 2008 and Round 3 submissions were in September 2008 with
outcomes in November 2008.
This is a competitive process and in Round 1 nine applications were received.
The following were approved:
New Project:
• Decision Support for Incident Management (DSIM)
Extensions:
• Goanna
• L4.Verified
• Probabilistic Temporal Analysis of Operating Systems Code (Potoroo)
• Coordination, Control, Localization and Health Characterization of
Autonomous Multi- Agent Swarms (SWARM-2)
• ATOMIC-Q
In the 2 nd round, 5 project proposals were received of which 3 new projects were
approved and 2 extensions.
New Project:
• Cognitive and Organisational Systems Engineering (COSE)
• Testbed Management Framework and its Application to Peer-to-Peer
Overlays (TEMPO)
• Visual Processing for the Bionic Eye (VIBE)
Extensions:
• Smart Transport and Roads project was scheduled to complete in Q3
2008 was extended to Q3 2011 with one new sub project STaRSystems
• Advanced Surveillance is a continuation of the SAFE project which was
scheduled to complete in Q2 2008
In the 3 rd round, 6 project proposals were received of which 2 new projects were
approved and 1 extension.
New Projects:
• AutoMap
• Microscopic Image and Data Analytics System (MIDAS)
Extension:
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• Cancer Genomics was scheduled to complete in Q4 2008 was extended
to Q1 2009.
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Table 15: The following matrix maps projects active in 2008 to the theme and business application areas.
Project Title Project Short
Theme Business Area
Name MSD ES NS MC Biomed ITS SS EM MSS SI
Advanced Technologies for Optimisation
and Modelling In Constraints
ATOMIC/CPP
1.00 0.50 0.25 0.25
AutoMap AutoMap 1.00 1.00
Automated Anatomical Structure
Extraction for Diagnosis and Population
Norms
AAESDP 1.00 1.00
Biomedical Text and Language
Applications
BioTALA
1.00 1.00
Braccetto Braccetto
Hxi
0.33 0.33 0.33 1.00
Cancer Genomics CG 1.00 1.00
Characterisation, Diagnosis and
1.00 1.00
Assurance of Health and Quality of
Sensor Formations II
SWARM II
Computer Colonic Polyps Detection
based on CT Colonography
CTC 1.00 1.00
Cognitive and Organisational Systems
Engineering
COSE
0.80 0.20
COSE - Ecological Human Operator
Modeling
ECHOMOD
0.80 0.20
COSE - Prospective Evaluation of ICT PICTE 0.80 0.20
COSE - Communications Leximancer COMLEX 0.80 0.20
Context Aware Mobility Project CAMP 1.00 1.00
Data Mining in Spatio-Temporal Sets DMiST 1.00 0.50 0.50
Dynamic Planning, Optimisation and
Learning
DPOLP 1.00 0.50 0.50
Decision Support for Incident
Management
DSIM
1.00 1.00
ELEFANT ELEFANT 1.00 0.50 0.10 0.10 0.10 0.10 0.10
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ELEFANT - Code Code 1.00 0.50 0.10 0.10 0.10 0.10 0.10
ELEFANT - Documents Doc 1.00 0.50 0.10 0.10 0.10 0.10 0.10
ELEFANT-VBAND VBAND 1.00 0.50 0.10 0.10 0.10 0.10 0.10
Formal Methods for Performance
Evaluation of Wireless Network
Applications
FM for
PEWNA
0.50 0.50 1.00
Fundamental Limits of Wireless FLoW 1.00 1.00
Goanna GOANNA 0.50 0.50 1.00
Human Performance Improvement HPI 0.50 0.15 0.30 0.05 0.70 0.30
In Memory XML Query Processing ComQu 1.00 1.00
InterfereX-2: Efficient Receivers for
Wireless Communications
Interferex
0.50 0.50 1.00
L4.verified L.4 Verified 0.50 0.50 0.50 0.50
LIXI Business Processes LIXI 0.50 0.50 1.00
Macro-Programming for Wireless Sensor
Networks
Macro 0.50 0.50 0.50 0.50
Mapping Genetic Components in Crops MGCC 1.00 1.00
NICTA Open SensorWeb Architecture NOSA 1.00 0.50 0.50
Peer-to-Peer Computing P2P 1.00 1.00
Probabliistic Temporal Analysis of Potoroo 1.00 0.50 0.50
Operating Systems Code
Process Architecture, Modelling and
0.20 0.80 1.00
Technologies for Business and
Government
ArMaTure
Query under Uncertainty for a Secure
and Sustainable Environment
QUSE 1.00 0.50 0.50
Requirements Engineering for Strategic
Alignment
RESA 1.00 1.00
Secure Embedded L4 Sel4 1.00 0.50 0.50
Situation Awareness by Inference and
Logic
SAIL 1.00 1.00
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Smart Applications for Emergencies SAFE 0.25 0.25 0.25 0.25 1.00
SAFE Sensors SAFE
Sensors
0.25 0.25 0.25 0.25 1.00
SAFE Information SAFE Info 0.25 0.25 0.25 0.25 1.00
SAFE Agents SAFE Agents 0.25 0.25 0.25 0.25 1.00
SAFE Networks SAFE
Networks
0.25 0.25 0.25 0.25 1.00
SAFE 2 - Advanced Surveillance SAFE 2 Adv
Surv
0.25 0.25 0.25 0.25 0.90 0.10
Smart Transport and Roads STaR 0.25 0.25 0.25 0.25 1.00
STaR - Advanced Multimodal User
Interfaces for Control Rooms
STaR-UI 0.25 0.25 0.25 0.25 1.00
STaR- Communications STaR-Comm 0.25 0.25 0.25 0.25 1.00
STaRControl STaRControl 0.25 0.25 0.25 0.25 1.00
STaRSense STaRSense 0.25 0.25 0.25 0.25 1.00
STaRSystem STaRSystem 0.25 0.25 0.25 0.25 1.00
Spectral Imaging Source Mapping
Systems
SISMS
1.00 0.50 0.50
Supercom: Model-Based Supervision of
Composite Systems
Supercom 1.00 0.50 0.50
Testbed Management Framework and its
Application to Peer-to-Peer Overlays
TEMPO
1.00
Universal Storage Scheme USS 0.50 0.50 0.50 0.50
Visual Processing for the Bionic Eye VIBE 0.80 0.20 1.00
Water Information Networks WIN 0.25 0.25 0.25 0.25 1.00
Wireless GigE GiFi 0.50 0.50 1.00
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Advanced Technologies for Optimisation and Modeling in
Constraints (ATOMIC)
Topic: The information processing revolution has enabled organisations large and
small to capture and access accurate and up-to-date information about all their
activities and resources.
Aim: To develop scalable, accurate, flexible technologies for resource
optimisation; that allows organisations to optimise the utilisation of their
resources, increase profitability, and minimize loss. The project is developing a
new modelling languages software platform and industrially focused technology
demonstrators to pave the way into key markets.
Duration: 5 years (20.2 FTE over 5 years).
Project Leaders: Peter Stuckey (VRL), Andrew Verden (NRL).
Participants:
• Making Sense of Data group
• Monash University
Key points:
o Alpha release of G12 software technology platform incl. Zinc modelling
language, compiler & mercury backend.
o Completion of initial Cadmium system prototype
o Development of finite domain solver in Mercury
Progress:
• A high percentage of the proposed milestones have been completed on
time.
• Industrial application 1 will be completed this year and has been delayed
largely from commercial changes in the business partner involved.
Milestones:
Date Milestone
G12 Platform
23/04/2007 Zinc Alpha Release
30/09/2007 Language specifications of Zinc, Mini-Zinc, Cadmium Spec
30/09/2007
Mini-Zinc compiler release as licenced academic version
30/04/2008 Mini-Zinc to Cplex and Mini-Zinc to SAT solvers
31/07/2008 Cadmium default mapping for all Zinc models
31/01/2008 MIP Search, generic depth-first, branch-and-bound, (and branchand-price)
search interfaced to all the constraint solvers
31/01/2008 A language for controlling search in G12, comprising annotations in
Zinc, and extensions to support search in Cadmium and Mercury
31/07/2008 A high-level Cadmium mapping and Mercury implementation
supporting column generation and Lagrangian relaxation
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31/10/2008 Zinc Beta Release
31/01/2009 Local search, Generic control facilities, in Cadmium and Mercury,
model supporting hill-climbing, simulated annealing, and GSAT
31/10/2008 Logical Transformation, Cadmium definition of Zinc-to-Zinc problem
model transformations
31/10/2008 Advanced Propagation, Propagation in Mercury using Binary
Decision Diagrams and application-specific techniques
30/04/2009 Approaches in G12 for generating solutions that are minimally
disrupted by changes to the problem data
28/02/2009 Type checked C-Interface generated by Zinc compiler
30/04/2009 MiniZinc major release: Flatzinc specifications of how solutions are
output XML versions of FlatZinc, and data input and solutions
improvements to handle negation
30/04/2010 Zinc Final Release
Visualisation
01/07/2007 Visualisation Toolkit (static and dynamic)
31/03/2008 IDE Design Spec
(development environment + debugger + visualisation)
31/07/2008 Zinc Visualisation, user-oriented interfaces visualisation of search
31/07/2008 Zinc Visualisation, search tree viewer and performance monitor
31/07/2008 Zinc debugging Support for “correctness” debugging of Zinc model
31/10/2008 IDE for Beta Release
(interactive development environment)
30/04/2010 IDE Final Release
Routing
30/09/2008 Zinc Vehicle Routing Examples
31/10/2008 Vehicle Routing construction solver
30/09/2009 Vehicle Routing local-search solver interfacing with invariants
engine and CP engine
31/12/2011 Government driven application of scheduling and vehicle routing in
Queensland using G12 platform and local search / routing solvers
Local-Search Solvers
31/10/2008 Interface to SAT local-search solver gNovelty+ developed at QRL
31/10/2008 Invariants engine I: for use in vehicle routing local-search
31/07/2009 Invariants engine II: for use in generic local-search
31/01/2010 Invariants engine III: for optimised hybrid generic local search
SOA & Graphic
30/04/2009 Graphic Libraries for AJAX based Gantt / SOA Alpha
30/04/2010 Graphic Libraries for AJAX based Gantt / SOA Alpha
Industry
31/03/2007 WILCOM Capacity Planning
30/11/2007 WILCOM Production Scheduling
30/04/2008 Dynamic Planning for Maritime Surveillance I
31/12/2008 Dynamic Planning for Maritime Surveillance II
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Architectures for Intelligent Agents (ARIA)
Topic: Many systems require intelligent control to maximise performance. While
many parts of these systems need to be tuned for the specific application, much
of the system is generic and can be transferred across applications. ARIA is
conducting fundamental research into these transferrable aspects of intelligent
agent architectures.
Aim: To develop intelligent agent architectures for the purpose of building real
time adaptive multi sensor systems that can develop rich understanding of
complex environments, accumulate knowledge and act to achieve specified goals.
To demonstrate that our architectures are effective, we will work closely with
application projects. The main application project we are working closely with in
the pilot is the Smart Transport and Roads (STaR) project.
Duration: 1 year pilot project (2.5 FTE over 1 year).
Project Leader: William Uther
Participants:
� Making Sense of Data group
Key points:
� We are continuing to develop a new higher-order logic based programming
language, Bach, to represent the knowledge we need in the agent.
� We are developing mechanisms to represent uncertainty (probability
theory) in our logical language. This is important for agent perception of
the current state of its environment using noisy sensors.
� We are developing mechanisms for both exact and approximate reasoning
using our probabilistic/logical representation.
� We are formalising research into hierarchical control within higher order
logic. This will allow us to integrate perception and control.
� We are continuing to investigate hierarchical perception and control
independent of the higher-order logic where appropriate.
Progress:
� A 90% complete prototype of the Bach language interpreter
� A 50% complete long-term implementation of the Bach language
interpreter
� Initial understanding of how to represent and reason exactly with
probability theory within a logic.
� Initial models of traffic flow in higher order logic
� Initial formalisation of hierarchical control within higher order logic
� We have developed a preliminary agent architecture.
� We have a new mechanism for learning asynchronous hierarchical
controllers.
� We have discovered how to do stochastic reasoning using a higher-order
logical language.
� Pilot project completed December 2008 and a follow on project proposal is
being prepared
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Milestones:
Date Milestone
31/12/2008 Technical work on the Bach language interpreter
31/12/2008 Efficient probabilistic inference with the Bach language
31/12/2008 Model of a simple STaR domain
31/12/2008 Demonstration of perception in the STaR domain
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AutoMap
Topic: The AutoMap project is developing technologies and systems for the
purpose of automatically creating and updating maps in support of the rapidly
growing data requirements of the personal navigation market.
Aim: The project is focused on producing digital maps with superior Freshness,
Richness, Accuracy, Cost and Coverage for sale to Digital Map publishers, part of
the global supply chain for personal navigation devices. Global shipments of GPSenabled
mobile handsets are expected to reach 250 million units by 2010. The
demand for 3D information is similarly expected to increase significantly.
Duration: 3 years
Project Leader: Lars Petersson
Participants:
• Embedded Systems Group
• Logic & Computation
• Contributed staff from ANU
Key points:
• Build the foundation for a globally competitive commercial entity which will
use research as its primary source of competitive advantage to exploit the
digital mapping opportunity.
• Leverage off NICTA’s multi-disciplinary research capabilities in embedded
systems, computer vision and automated reasoning to develop
technologies and systems operating at a level that is “best-in-class”.
Progress:
• Algorithms and software systems for automatic detection and geopositioning
of a large class of sign types in video data has been developed
and tested.
• A first prototype of an in-vehicle data collection unit has been built and
tested.
• Market validation of the technology/concepts has been done which
showed a great interest among the world’s leading mapping companies.
• License of parts of the technology has been sold to an Australian Road
Asset Manager.
• Automatic processing of 100.000km of video data for a large Australian
mapping company (imminent)
Milestones:
Date Milestone
30/04/2008 Deployment of a single collection unit
28/02/2009 2009 Milestones to be negotiated
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Automated Anatomical Structure Extraction for Diagnosis and
Population Norms (AASEDP)
Topic: Current brain imaging techniques cannot detect the early signs of
debilitating conditions such as Alzheimer’s disease and dementia.
Aim: Studying the shape of neuro-anatomical structures to produce mathematical
models that isolate discriminative features between normal and pathology as aid
in diagnosis of early onset Alzheimer’s disease (AD).
Duration: 2.92 years (1.25 FTE over 2.92 years).
Project Leader: Paulette Lieby.
Participants:
• Embedded Systems Group
• Centre for Mental Health Research, ANU, owners of the PATH data
• Neuro-psychiatric Institute at the Prince of Wales Hospital.
Key points
• Mathematical representation of hand-traced neuro-anatomical structures
to permit their subsequent analysis
• Application of mathematical modelling to these structures to study their
variability over population and time
• Determine discriminative attributes dividing the data into
normal/pathology
Timeline
• Commenced February 2005
• Project Completed December 2008
Who we are
• Paulette Lieby 100%, Nick Barnes 20%, Richard Hartley 5%
• Two PhD students commenced February 2005 and June 2006
• Acquired a NICTA collaborator from another program in 2006, same
collaborator left a few months after that
• Acquired a software engineer for the year 2007 who proved ineffective
Basis processing
• Completed the (automatic) extraction and mathematical representation of
the hand-traced neuro-anatomical structures
• consistent orientation of all MRI scans and corresponding tracings across
two data sets (today approx 2 approx 2 * 1300 scans) :
o the PATH data set – population representative in the 40s and 60s
age range
o the (publicly available) OASIS data set – approx 198 scans, 100 of
which are diagnosed with AD
• development and maintenance of a common development platform and
data repository
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Research
• Fast hypothesis testing (Luping Zhou, Miccai 07)
• Efficient shape morphing between population classes (Luping Zhou, Miccai
07 & 08)
• A new shape alignment technique based on L1norm fitting (Luping Zhou)
• A new shape alignment technique based on MRF-based optimization
(Pengdong Xiao)
• Computation of genus 0 surface (Paulette Lieby, Miccai 06)
• A new shape index-based shape descriptor (Paulette Lieby)
Outcomes
• Discrimination for pathology on the basis of hippocampal shape alone
(OASIS data)
• Discrimination for sex on the basis of hippocampal shape alone (PATH
data)
• Correlation with shape index-based shape descriptor and clinical memory
diagnoses
• First results in ability to localize difference in shapes for sex (PATH data)
Milestones
Date Milestone
31/03/2006 Computation of genus 0 surface
30/06/2006 Investigation of optimisation strategies
30/10/2006 Begin investigation of techniques for shape modelling
31/07/2007 Develop one or more methods that are able to characterise the
surface shape of the hippocampus and discriminate for sex
31/07/2007 Investigate alternative supplementary funding models eg NHMRC.
25/06/2008 Refine the methods in M04 to attempt to discriminate for pathology
25/06/2008 CMHR collaborative investigation
25/06/2008 Establish effective methods of registration of hippocampi
25/06/2008 Investigate alternative shape representation (MDL)
25/06/2008 Develop alternative methods from M04 and M05 for shape
discrimination (based on curvature)
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Biomedical Text and Language Applications (BioTALA)
Topic: Developing Text Mining techniques to support knowledge discovery from
documents by clinicians and biomedical researchers.
Aims: (i) Working with current and future biomedical partners to identify
bottlenecks in information extraction and knowledge discovery; (ii) developing
novel Information Retrieval, Language Technology, and Information Extraction
technologies to enable effective text mining from biomedical documents; (iii)
building applications that use those technologies to address the needs of
clinicians and biomedical researchers.
Duration: 4 years (5.5 FTE over first year; 6.5 FTE requested over next 3 years)
Project Leader: Lawrence Cavedon
Participants:
• Making Sense of Data group
• Global Evidence Mapping Initiative (GEM)
• Human Variome Project (HVP)
• other future biomedical partners
Key points:
• Basic IR techniques originally developed around news media datasets for
geographical IR, now being applied to collections of biomedical literature
• Will employ scalable methods for linguistic annotation and indexing of text
data
• Will feature task-oriented query, information-extraction and visualisation
• Will support text-mining, multi-document summarisation, and topic-based
visualisation of document collections for creating clinical surveys
• Will deliver flexible text-processing platform as part of MSoD strategic plan
Progress:
Major accomplishments, July 2007—Dec 2008:
• Proposal for new project prepared and accepted
• New Postdoc Researcher commenced May 2008; new Senior Researcher
to commence in Jan 2009; new Researcher to commence March 2009; 3
new NICTA research students
• Probabilistic geospatial IR engine re-implemented for Genomic IR and
submitted to Genomics track of TREC evaluation – ranked 3 rd (of 22
systems) on effectiveness
• Semi-finalist in Elsevier Grand Challenge (competition to develop tools for
information access to Life Sciences literature); finalists to be announced in
Dec 2008
o Topic-based visualisation integrated with search engine as part of
this task
• Multiple external biomedical ontologies and tools integrated into query-
and document-processing pipeline
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• Evaluation of various techniques and their impact on IR performance;
research paper accepted to IR Journal
• Work commenced on applying language-parsing to extracting biomedical
information
• New techniques developed for more effective interactive search for clinical
queries for systematic reviews
• Web-based tools for manual annotation and query-collection implemented
for HVP
• Interactive workflow-management tool developed to support current GEM
practice – also to be used to automatically collect data for developing
research techniques
• UIMA-based text processing platform and GUI: alpha-version complete;
collaboration for sharing UIMA components established with international
research centres
Milestones:
Date Milestone
31/07/2008 Genomic IR engine: implementation and analysis
31/07/2008 Bio Text Processing UIMA-based toolkit
31/12/2008 Curation support tool: passage highlighting, topic-based visualisation
31/12/2009 Integrated ML / text processing toolkit
31/12/2009 Genomic and clinical IR engine: interactive IR analysis
Document classification by geo / demographics; integrated into
31/12/2009 curation tool
31/12/2009 Information extraction tool: NLP-based relationship detection
31/12/2009 Interactive Genomic/Clinical IR engine with topic-based browsing
31/07/2010 ML / text platform: common formats, integrated operability
Clinical synopsis preparation tool: IR, info presentation, summary
31/12/2010
support
Fact extraction / text mining: parser-based extraction of multiple
31/12/2010 entities and relationships
30/06/2011 Curation tool: multi-dimensional fact-extraction tool
30/06/2011 Genomic-biomedical text-annotation / data-mining toolkit
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Braccetto
Topic: Design and study of collaborative meeting environments supporting intense
collaboration. Support for multi-touch, multi-device interaction across several
sites.
Aim: To deliver a suite of interactive environments combining architecture,
furniture and technology (blended spaces) allowing remote teams to effectively
visualise and concurrently interact with information resources without the time,
financial and environmental costs of travel. The specific goal of the technology
development is to connect the every day computing resources used by
participants (e.g. laptops, desktop machines, specialist data clusters) to the
shared workspace allowing user to work with their existing applications and move
fluidly from individual work to collaborative work.
Duration: 2.92 years (5.3FTE over 2.92 years)
Project Leader: Markus Rittenbruch
Participants:
We closely collaborate with CSIRO and DSTO under the HxI Initiative (Team
consists of 5FTE’s from each organisation). Further collaboration with Bruce
Thomas (UniSA), Judy Kay (USyd), Masahiro Takasuka (USyd).
Key points:
• Design instances of shared virtual spaces (Blended spaces)
• Build a distributed application framework for blended spaces (Tapestry)
• Study collaboration in an emergency response context and deploy Tapestry
Progress (since 06/2008):
• M1.1: v0.1 of Tapestry was developed and demonstrated at lab level at
CSIRO and DSTO
• M2.1: Initial scenario definition covering the physical setup of three
concepts (informal meeting space, small group space and large group
space) was released
• M2.2: Medium-fidelity prototypes of the meeting design concepts were
demoed at internal workshop, covering connection with handheld devices
and GUI concepts for managing virtual sessions.
• M4.1: Initial user study at Animal Health laboratory (AAHL) conducted.
Interviews with stakeholders and site visits. Final report to be released
13/03/09.
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Milestones:
Date Milestone
30/06/2009 M1 Tapestry core technology development
15/12/2008 M1.1 Tapestry V 0.1
27/03/2009 M1.2 Tapestry V 1.0
30/06/2009 M1.3 Tapestry V 2.0
30/06/2009 M2 Tapestry UI development / prototyping
15/10/2008 M2.1 Scenario definition and v1 UI design
24/12/2008 M2.2 V2 UI design
26/05/2009 M3 Blended spaces implementation
11/05/2009 M3.1 Blended space #1 (Informal workspace)
26/05/2009 M3.2 Blended space #2 (Small group space)
30/06/2009 M4 Collaboration engagement
13/03/2009 M4.1 AAHL: scenario #1 (CCEAD) – Emergency response (workplace
study)
29/04/2009 M4.2 AAHL: scenario #1 (CCEAD) – Emergency response (build
requirements specification)
30/06/2009 M4.3 AAHL: scenario #2 – High security collaboration (initial report)
30/06/2009 M5 Defence engagement
29/06/2009 M5.1 Battlelab deployment of Tapestry
27/03/2009 M5.2 Integrator demo development
30/06/2009 M6 Auxiliary development
30/06/2009
31/03/2009
M6.1 Teamscope development v2 (development, testing and
deployment)
M6.2 Multi-user gesture interfaces (review & feasibility)
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Cancer Genomics (CG)
Topic: Micro-array technology offers significant opportunities for progress in the
diagnosis, early detection, prediction of response to treatments and resistance to
drugs, and general understanding of the biology of cancer.
Aim: To develop software tools enabling conversion of genetic profiles of tissue
into clinically useful knowledge to assist oncologists and pathologists.
Duration: Three years (2.5 FTE over 3 years).
Project Leader: Dr Adam Kowalczyk.
Participants:
Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre.
Key points:
• Add to the understanding of the origin and treatment of cancer
• Algorithms and software tools will support prediction of individual
responses to therapy and improve selection of treatments
• It will develop expertise in genomic medicine aimed at ultimately bringing
into clinical practice techniques for personalised treatment for patients
based on individual genetic profiles.
Progress:
2007 Activities:
• Discovery and development of IT methodology for discerning of biologically
meaningful and medically useful knowledge from microarray profiles of tissue,
with a focus on cancer diagnosis and treatment:
• Learning from a very small number of samples (VSS-learning)
• Kernel machines and regularisation techniques
• Learning from structured data
• Feature Selection.
• Development of practical algorithms and development of software tools for
operational testing, demonstration and operational implementation of the
discovered solutions.
• Application of the results to cancer research and clinical oncology. Here we
have identified a few separate sub-projects which will generate separate
streams of data (this list will inevitably proliferate):
• Carcinoma of Unknown Primary
• Response to Chemoradiotherapy for Oesophageal Cancer
• Cancer Cell Micro-environment
• Gastric Cancer
• Ovarian Cancer
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• Sarcoma
• Breast Cancer.
2008 Activities:
• Methodology for classification of anti-learnable data
• Development of diagnostic test for carcinoma unknown primary (CUP)
• Prototype GTB implemented in two versions (Matlab & R)
• Detection of consensus cancer DNA micro-aberrations
• In silico cis-regulatory module selection
• Unsupervised approach to detection of critical biology
Milestones:
Date Milestone
31/01/2006 Agreed plan for infrastructure facilitating long term cooperation
31/01/2006 An extension and in-vivo confirmation of gene lists
31/07/2006 Agreed plan for development of algorithms
31/07/2006 Agreed update of plan of applications for the next 12 months
31/07/2006 Benchmark of predictive models
31/07/2006 Definition of gene expression module
31/07/2006 Development and benchmark of prototype of Genomic Test Bench
(GTB) against selected of the shelf tools for a range of applications
to cancer genomics
31/07/2006 Development and verification of operational differential test
31/07/2006 Identification of marker genes for mesothelioma detection
31/07/2006 Identification of genomic regions of LOH associated with inherited
breast cancer predisposition
31/07/2006 Initial confirmation of utility of gene expression profiling
31/07/2006 Initial identification of cDNA and CGH markers
31/07/2006 Initial identification of gene expression and LOH markers
31/07/2006 Survey and initial evaluation of dedicated third party software tools
31/07/2007 Comprehensive benchmarking of GTB software
31/07/2007 Joint review of project
31/08/2007 Algorithm for classification of anti-learnable signatures in
oesophageal cancer
31/12/2008 Refinement and verification of operational differential test for CUP
31/12/2008 Techniques for detection of cancer DNA micro aberrations in ovarian
cancer
31/12/2008 Detection of critical DNA micro aberrations in early detection of
gastric cancer
31/12/2008 In silico cis-regulatory module discovery in humans
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Characterisation, Diagnosis and Assurance of Health and
Quality of Sensor Formations (SWARM)
Topic: One of the current priority areas for military and defence is the use of
autonomous vehicles or agents, often in formation, and more often than not
moving, to execute various missions. The requirements of autonomy and
formation (i.e. agents must in some way interact with one another) have
generated a need to study information and control architectures that can
underpin the ability to achieve the desired tasks. Some similar needs arise in
considering sensor networks, which will be stationary in many cases, though often
detecting moving agents.
Aim: To develop health/quality characterisation, diagnosis and assurance
techniques for autonomous multi-agent formations and sensor networks, in
conjunction with the projects and research interests of DSTO and the Australian
Defence Force. A specific focus is cooperative passive localization of emitters.
Duration: 2.92 years (1.95 FTE over 2.92 years).
Project Leader: Brian Anderson.
Participants:
• Managing Complexity
• DSTO
Key points:
• Positive comments from last two managers on the DSTO side. A sample
comment is: “NICTA’s contributions have exceeded expectations” (S Drake,
DSTO)
• Achieving milestones and solving a series of problems posed by DSTO.
• International plenary speaker invitations for 06 and 07 in area related to
project
• Aggregate of publications from this and any associated program research
• Significant number of joint papers between NICTA and DSTO, and NICTA
Canberra and Sydney labs.
Progress:
• The milestones scheduled for dates up till now have all been achieved. The
last milestone below is completed in the form of, ”Collection of real world
specification and demonstration via simulation of applicability of tools
developed to meet the specification”.
• More than 100 relevant publications by project members
published/accepted/submitted
• Positive evaluations of NICTA work by DSTO end-user have been obtained.
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Milestones:
Date Milestone
31/10/2006 Characterisation of Health of General Formations/Sensor
Networks/SWARMS - 2 publications submitted
31/10/2006 Quality of Formations and their control - 2 publications submitted
31/10/2006 Specific tasks related to the DSTO/NICTA emitter localisation
scenario - 2 publications submitted
11/10/2007 Characterisation of Health of General Formations/Sensor
Networks/SWARMS - 2 publications submitted based on completion
of most work.
11/10/2007 Collection of real world specification and demonstration via
simulation of applicability of tools developed to meet the
specification
11/10/2007 Quality of Formations and their control - 2 publications submitted
11/10/2007 Specific tasks related to the DSTO/NICTA emitter localisation
scenario - 2 publications submitted
30/09/2008 Characterisation of Health of General Formations/Sensor
Networks/SWARMS - 2 publications submitted based on completion
of most of the work
30/09/2008 Quality of Formations and their control - 2 publications submitted
30/09/2008 Specific tasks related to the DSTO/NICTA emitter localisation
scenario - 2 publications submitted
30/09/2008 Use of realworld data to actually test and improve real system
performance, depending on security issues being resolved and the
schedule of trials, including slippage, and DSTO funding.
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Cognitive and Organisational Systems Engineering (COSE)
Topic:
The goal of the COSE project is to develop better techniques and tools for
evaluating the integration between people, the ICT systems that they use, and the
environments in which they work. We focus on two work domains in which there is
rapid technical change--health informatics and air traffic management. We will
develop decision support techniques and software tools for the evaluation of firstof-a-kind
technical systems much earlier in the system development life cycle
than is now possible. As a result, the next generation of large-scale ICT systems,
such as those supporting healthcare and air traffic management, should match
the needs and capabilities of their users more effectively.
The COSE project will draw together themes from three subprojects to create an
integrated architecture and ontology for assessing human-system integration. In
the Prospective ICT Evaluation (PICTE) subproject, we will develop techniques and
tools for assessing the fit of healthcare ICT to evolving contexts of use, in order to
support acquisition and procurement decisions. In the Ecological Human Operator
Modeling (ECHOMOD) subproject we will develop ways of modelling the cognitive
demands that new air traffic management regimens will impose on air traffic
controllers, and how best to design controllers’ work tasks. In the
Communications Lexi-vision (COMLEX) subproject we will develop means for
rapidly capturing and analysing large bodies of healthcare text or discourse better
to support communications. As an integrated architecture and ontology emerge
for analysing human-system integration, each subproject will use formalisms and
envisionments developed under the other subprojects.
Duration: 3.0 years (15.65 FTE)
Project Leader: Professor Penelope Sanderson
Participants:
• Making Sense of Data group
• Managing Complexity Group
• Airservices Australia
• Queensland Health
• Defense Research and Development Canada
Key points:
• Project responds to a need for better integration of systems engineering
methods and human-system integration techniques that has been
advocated by national academies within the US such as the National
Academy of Engineering and the Institute of Medicine.
• Very strong support from Queensland Health and Air Services Australia
• Intense engagement with the healthcare and air traffic management
domain helps to ensure that the resulting theories, techniques and tools
are truly use-inspired
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Progress:
• ECHOMOD Research Engineering staff hired.
Milestones:
Communications Lexi-vision (COMLEX).
Date Milestone
31/10/2009 Initiation Phase - recruitment and skill development
31/08/2009 Specification
31/08/2009 Develop prototype
31/10/2010 Perform cognitive work analysis to support template development
30/11/2010 Perform field studies to test prototype and extract information
requirements for templates
28/02/2011 Develop pilot templates for ICU/ED handovers
31/08/2011 Empirical clinical evaluation of the ICU/ED templates
Ecological Human Operator Modeling (ECHOMOD).
Date Milestone
31/12/2008 Initiation Phase - recruitment
30/06/2009 Review of existing work
30/06/2010 Construction of prototype human performance model
30/11/2010 Development of theory of human adaptive control
28/02/2011 Proof of concept demonstration of human performance model
running with adaptive control
31/12/2009 Collection of data from human-in-the-loop trials of new operational
concepts
31/12/2011 Demonstration of workload analysis methodology for future ATM
systems
31/12/2011 Integrate ECHOMOD methods with PICTE and COMLEX
Prospective ICT Evaluation (PICTE)
Date Milestone
31/01/2009 Initiation Phase - recruitment
31/08/2009 Review and summary of existing work
30/10/2009 Specification and sizing of Queensland Health (QH) eHealth focus for
PICTE project
31/12/2009 Perform cognitive work analysis of the broader QH context into which
eHealth systems will be introduced
31/03/2010 ICT capability capture for longitudinal HIS evaluation
31/12/2010 Define the PICTE “audit and evaluation” process
31/08/2011 Test PICTE process and supporting tool “in vitro”
31/12/2011 Prepare for the first use of PICTE process and tool and run
evaluation
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Computer Colonic Polyps Detection based on Computed
tomographic Colonography (CTC)
Topic: Colon cancer is a significant cause of death globally. Currently, the only
definitive examination of the colon is a fibre optic colonoscopy. This is an invasive,
expensive and risky procedure. Computed tomographic colonography is
potentially less costly and invasive, but still impractical due to the time required to
review hundreds of images/patient studies.
Aim: To develop computer aided detection/localisation algorithms to examine the
large amount of CTC data in order to appreciably decrease the false positive rate
affecting existing algorithms.
Duration: 3.25 years (0.3 FTE over 3.25 years).
Project Leader: Dr Abd-Krim Seghouane.
Participants:
• Making Sense of Data group
• Canberra Imaging Group
Key points:
• Use techniques from differential geometry and wavelet methods to build a
statistical shape model from the 2D CT scans that characterizes colon
polyps or anomalous growths in the colon.
• Extract optimal parameters from the statistical shape model to build an
algorithm for optimal screening for colorectal cancer. This algorithm will be
characterized by small false alarm rate and a high rate of correct
detection.
• The final software will reduce the radiologist examination time and
therefore will reduce the diagnosis cost.
• This software will reduce the number of unnecessary invasive procedure
for colon cancer screening.
Progress:
• Project started in January 2006.
• 3D Colon segmentation algorithm from the 2D scans developed.
• Centerline extraction algorithm and fly through procedure view of the colon
developed.
• A first approach for polyps characterization and feature selection has been
developed and tested, initial results are available as references.
• Demonstration software has been developed
• New algorithms based are under development.
• A demonstration software is available.
• Project completed December 2008
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Milestones:
Date Milestone
30/10/2006 Image segmentation and colon reconstruction
31/12/2007 Polyps characterisation and candidates detection
31/12/2008 Candidates classification and test on real data
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Context Aware Mobility Project (CAMP)
Topic: Using context to optimize resource selection for delivering mobile services.
Aim: Mobile users have access to a range of devices, such as mobile phones,
PDAs, and laptops during the course of their day. This, combined with a
multiplicity of access technologies such as Wi Fi, UMTS, Bluetooth, and GPRS
creates a broad range of potential channels across which data may be carried to
and from mobile users. The challenge is to select and maintain the best
technologies to deliver a service given the current context.
Duration: 3 years (2.9FTE over 3 years)
Project Leader: Max Ott
Participants:
• Network Systems group
• Ericsson Research, Sweden
Key points:
• Develop a system which uses context information, such as user location,
preferences, access network policies and usage patterns to optimize
network resource usage.
• Unique approach (machine learning, semantic web technology) draws on
cross-disciplinary expertise within NICTA.
• Close research collaboration with Ericsson will ensure that the developed
solution (and IPR) can impact future mobile systems and services.
Progress:
• Defined technology roadmap in close collaboration with Ericsson
• Developed context sensing services and performed experiments to collect
context of different users, in different situations over various time periods.
• Developed and delivered to all partners a proof-of-concept prototype
• Developed and tested a simple context prediction engine.
• Developed and tested a simple network selection engine based on the
above prediction engine and a rules engine.
• Developed a series of usage scenarios for further testing
• Integrated Ericsson and NICTA developed components into a joint
prototype
• Ported key components to Android platform
Milestones:
Date Milestone
31/12/2006 Initial test bed design and implementation including support for
mobility management protocols Mobile IPv6, NEMO and HIP
01/09/2007 An initial implementation of a context architecture based on
semantic web technology which can be run on laptops. The
architecture enables network selection based on static and dynamic
context information.
01/12/2007 Development of a context gathering tool and methodology for
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gathering traces from sensors.
01/04/2008 Development of an initial prediction mechanism for selecting
network interface, integration into the context aware mobility
architecture and experimental evaluation.
01/05/2008 Development of a demonstrator of context aware mobility
management.
01/09/2009 Second prototype of a context based mobility architecture suitable
for running on a mobile phone platform. The prototype integrates the
components developed at Ericsson and NICTA.
01/04/2009 Porting of the CAMP software stack to a mobile phone platform
(Android) developing of an API for context aware Java applications.
01/10/2009 Third prototype of the system providing a flow scheduling
mechanism based on prediction of network availability, application
requirements and user preferences.
31/12/2009 Evaluation of the third prototype using empirical and user studies.
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Data Mining in Spatio-Temporal Data Sets (DMiST)
Topic: Data mining in spatio-temporal data sets.
Aim: The movement of objects (e.g. cars, people and animals) can be represented
by trajectories. The aim is to analyse these to detect for example migration
behaviour, commuting patterns or smuggle routes.
Duration: 3.0 years (2.4 FTE over 3 years).
Project Leader: Joachim Gudmundsson.
Participants:
• DSTO C31 Division
• Making Sense of Data group.
Key points:
• Develop a set of query tools for spatio-temporal data that are provably
correct and scales well for very large data sets.
• Develop a prototype containing the analytical tools that easily can be used
and evaluated by clients.
Progress:
• DSTO installed a prototype within client's computing environment. Clients
expressed a strong desire to continue the collaboration
• Several spatio-temporal pattern algorithms implemented and evaluated
• Agreement with DSTO C3I division signed
• Collaboration plan with DSTO C3I division finalised
• New collaboration with DSTO’s L&O division initialised
• 35 scientific papers, out of which 10 are journal publications
• Discussions initiated with Tenix and the AIS
• Efficient algorithms for 6 basic patterns implemented
• Toolbox delivered and evaluated
• Project Completed December 2008
Milestones:
Date Milestone
26/06/2006 Project staff recruitment
10/07/2006 Project progress report
01/07/2006 First scientific paper produced
19/09/2006 First algorithm tool designed
31/11/2006 Project review + progress report
10/07/2007 Project progress report
01/09/2007 Main algorithm tools implemented
04/09/2007 Collaboration plan with DSTO
02/11/2007 Second algorithm tool implemented
31/12/2007 Progress report
31/05/2008 Complex patterns clearly defined
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31/05/2008 Efficient algorithms for 6 basic patterns implemented
30/06/2008 Project progress report
30/10/2008 Possibilities to generalise
30/11/2008 Algorithms developed for the complex patterns
30/11/2008 New spin off projects
30/11/2008 Toolbox delivered and evaluated
31/12/2008 End of project report
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Decision Support for Incident Management (DSIM)
Topic: Intelligent decision support for incident management based on human
cognitive state.
Aim: To research and develop key technologies of a decision support system
(DSS) for incident management, with focus on road traffic incident management
to make a noticeable contribution to congestion reduction, bringing significant
economic, environmental and community benefits.
Duration: 3 years (2.5 FTE)
Project Leader: Fang Chen
Participants:
• Roads and Traffic Authority of NSW
• Bushfire Cooperative Research Centre (CRC)
• Australian Institute of Sport (AIS)
Key points:
• Significant $350K in-kind contributions and cash funding of $150K per
annum from the Roads and Traffic Authority (RTA), NSW.
• Robust and automatic measurement of human cognitive load (CL).
• Theoretical and practical advances for human cognition-aware decision
support.
• Novel methods and algorithms for development and retrieval of incident
response plans.
Progress:
• Formal project agreement between RTA and NICTA is being drafted.
• Design of a user study for traffic control operators inside the Traffic
Operations Room (TOR) of RTA Transport Management Centre (TMC) is
being carried out.
• TMC project documents, including Project Plan, Project Initiation Document
and Product Description, are being finalised.
• An offsite TOR workstation is being setup at NICTA ATP Lab for carrying out
pilot experiments and validation of algorithms.
• Large-scale workshop has been organised to gather requirements for a
decision support system for traffic incident management.
• Significant effort is being undertaken to establish linkages with other
incident management sectors and application domains. E.g. engagement
with Bushfire CRC, AIS, call centres etc.
Milestones:
Date Milestone
28/02/2009 NICTA/RTA Project Agreement signed
30/06/2009 TOR user study and analysis competed
31/12/2009 Methods/Algorithms for robust real-time Cognitive Load
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measurement based on speech features
31/12/2009 Methods to reduce incident management operators’ cognitive work
load
30/06/2010 Mechanisms for improving the development, retrieval and
implementation of incident response plans
31/12/2010 Assessment of viability of decision support based on awareness of
task context and user cognitive state
31/12/2010 Design of new user interfaces for traffic control operators and
managers
30/06/2011 Design of innovative DSS architecture and key modules for incident
management
31/08/2011 3 year project report for first stage and project plan for next stage to
2013
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Dynamic Planning Optimisation and Learning (DPOLP)
Topic: Automated operations (military) and business planning algorithms and
tools.
Aim: To develop automated planning algorithms and apply them to areas like
military operations planning and project planning.
Duration: 4.92 years (2.45 FTE over 4.92 years).
Project Leader: Jussi Rintanen.
Participants:
• Managing Complexity group
• University of Adelaide
• Defence Science and Technology Organisation (DSTO)
• University of South Australia
• University of Aarhus (Denmark).
Key points:
• 46 international publications and counting.
• World’s first look at quantum planning.
• Interactions across 5 institutions.
• KRR now one of the world’s top planning groups.
• Important factor in attracting ICAPS’07.
• Prov. patent covering interface aspects.
Progress:
• FPG: automated planning system
• Paragraph: automated planning system
• Prottle: automated planning system
• Brazil: a front-end for FPG for project scheduling
• Pup/Petrify/Directed Mole: automated planning system
• Scientific works on planning under uncertainty, adversarial planning,
temporal planning
• Project Completed June 2008
Milestones: Defined by annual workshop of participants.
Date Milestone
20/02/2006 Complete 2005 annual report
01/04/2006 Sign contracts with UofSA, Aarhus
03/05/2006 Workshop 6
03/05/2006 Review DPOLP goals
21/10/2006 05/06/2007 First Workshop working demonstrator
30/10/2006 28/11/2007 UniSA Workshop contract extension
30/11/2006 29/12/2007 Workshop Annual report
31/12/2006 30/05/2008 Annual Workshop report
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31/06/2008 Final Project Report
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Efficient Learning, Large-scale Inference, and Optimization
Toolkit (ELEFANT)
Topic: The information revolution has led to the explosive growth of unstructured
documents available for analysis. This data glut leads to the need to understand
this data and transform it into knowledge.
Aim: Making machine learning practical, in particular for documents and
corporate information
Duration: 5 years
Project Leader: Wray Buntine
Participants:
Making Sense of Data group
Progress:
• Various convex solvers developed for general use in Elefant.
• 2nd release of Elefant software
• Use of semi-Markov models in image analysis and human activity data
(e.g., HPI)
• DORM patent being applied for.
• “Kernel Statistical Test of Independence”, NIPS 2008
• 3 papers in ICML 2008, 3 papers in NIPS 2008
Milestones:
CODE
Date Milestone
31/12/2008 Release version 0.3 of Elefant with major new features
Complete first stage of commercialisation engagement with Eurofin,
30/11/2008
30/06/2009
shared with Docs and Vision.
Develop machine learning algorithm to complex problem using
multiple components of the platform, arguing that the platform
supported rapid development
Establish framework for semi-automatic integration of C/C++ code
into Elefant with the purpose of accelerating integration of new
30/09/2009
C/C++ code. Apply framework also to move Python coded algorithms
into C/C++ libraries.
31/12/2009 Integration of advanced algorithms for image processing
Promote Elefant to other NICTA groups as a common infrastructure
31/12/2009
for code reuse inside of NICTA
Complete second stage of commercialisation engagement, shared
30/11/2009
with Docs and Vision.
Prototype for Elefant using concurrent algorithms (multithreaded,
31/08/2010
31/12/2010
multicore, multiprocessor).
Integrate code of other NICTA groups into Elefant (non-concurrent
code)
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31/12/2010
31/07/2011
31/12/2011
31/12/2011
Milestones:
Contingent on need, develop documentation and tutorial materials
for Elefant, and supporting web material and content to support
Elefant externally to NICTA.
Providing most of the algorithms in Elefant in a concurrent variant
running at least on multicore systems, but possibly extending to
multiprocessor systems
Integrate code of other NICTA groups into Elefant (non-concurrent
code)
Contingent on need, develop documentation and tutorial materials
for Elefant, and supporting web material and content to support
Elefant externally to NICTA.
DOCS
Date Milestone
Stabilise document processing pipeline based on conferring with VRL
and BioTala. The basic pipeline does named-entity tagging, including
31/12/2008
geo-tagging, allows basic dependency parsing , and does keyword
extraction. It should cope with a range of doc sources
Finalize and Demonstrate high-performance (multicore, multithread)
31/12/2008 Latent Dirichlet Allocation code and incorporate into Elefant 0.3
release
30/11/2008 Complete first stage of commercialisation engagement with Eurofin
Complete first stage of NAA engagement. This stage involves
demonstrating proof of concept classification of their general
30/11/2008
working documents in terms of their function and activity according
to the NAA Record Plan
Demonstrate semantic-based search engine on eGovernment
content. This includes an alternative interface (not just a search
31/12/2009
box), and allows access to tagged content. The demonstration
should be adequate for external NICTA showing.
Complete second stage of NAA engagement. This stage would be
30/11/2009 based on NAA expectations, but is expected to involve a more robust
presentation of the previous years work
Complete second stage of commercialisation engagement, shared
30/11/2009
with Docs and Vision
Incorporate range of document analysis components into Elefant
including (1) topic modelling extending LDA component (see 2008)
31/12/2010
with document link analysis, named entities and parts of speech, (2)
document partitioning based on semantic and topical method
Demonstrate large-scale combined search for text and images on
31/12/2010 Internet data. The demonstration should be adequate for external
NICTA showing
An unknown at this stage will be the continuation of NAA or
31/12/2010
Commercialisation. Only one of these should continue in 2010.
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VISION
Date Milestone
Finalize and Demonstrate high-performance (multicore, multithread)
31/12/2008 Latent Dirichlet Allocation code and incorporate into Elefant 0.3
release
Complete first stage of commercialisation engagement with Eurofin,
31/11/2008
shared with Docs and Vision
Incorporate dedicated Vision modules into Graphical Models toolbox.
31/06/2009 Incorporate into Elefant. Demonstration adequate for external NICTA
showing.
Develop and Demonstrate image-based search engine on
31/12/2009 eGovernment content. Integrate with Elefant-Docs search engine.
The demonstration should be adequate for external NICTA showing.
Develop and Demonstrate design of visual stimuli to be used in the
31/12/2009
first clinical trial in the VBAND project.
Complete second stage of commercialisation engagement, shared
30/11/2009
with Docs and Vision.
Develop and Demonstrate large-scale image-based search engine on
30/06/2010 Internet content. The demonstration should be adequate for external
NICTA Showing.
Develop and Demonstrate large-scale combined search for text and
31/12/2010 images on Internet data. The demonstration should be adequate for
external NICTA showing.
Develop and Demonstrate design of visual stimuli to be used in the
31/12/2010
second clinical trial in the VBAND project.
Finalize and Demonstrate on large-scale Internet data the Graphical
Models toolbox. Incorporate into Elefant. This should be able to tag
31/08/2011
images and possibly videos using joint information from image/video
content and text. Exploration of commercialization.
Initial steps of commercialization of VBAND outcomes (possibly new
31/08/2011
visual test for Multiple Sclerosis).
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Formal Methods for Performance Evaluation for Wireless
Network Applications (PEWNA)
Topic: The technological constraints imposed by hardware in wireless networks
and their intended applications give rise to significant challenges and
unpredictable network behaviours that the design of network and application
protocols must accommodate.
Aim: To apply formal methods techniques to a new application area of wireless
networks to advance both wireless network protocol engineering and formal
methods.
Duration: 4.0 years (1.5 FTE over 4 years).
Project Leader: Ansgar Fehnker.
Participants:
• Embedded Systems group
• Network Systems group
• Annabelle McIver NICTA Fellow (Macquarie University).
Key points:
• Will improve network protocol designer understanding of the ramifications
of design by providing a formal modelling framework
• Automated tools to support protocol design that give access to formal
modelling and verification, thus exploring a wider range of network
behaviour than current state-of-the-art technology
Progress:
• Project successfully completed in May 2008
• Publications on probabilistic optimisation and performance analysis of
wireless and the comparison with non-probabilistic analysis networks.
• Completed and published non-probabilistic worst-case analysis for LMAC
• Implemented CaVI, a visualisation front-end for simulator Castalia and
probabilistic model checker Castalia.
• Integrated a formal channel model based on empirical channel models
from the wireless domain.
Milestones:
Date Milestone
01/09/2005 Non-probabilistic worst-case analysis
31/01/2006 Probabilistic analysis for various QoS measures
31/12/2006 Develop and implement a modelling notation and editor
31/12/2006 Implement a translator from the modeling language to the input
language of existing model checkers, and evaluate it on two case
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studies
30/09/2007 Develop web presence for the FM PEWNA project
30/07/2007 Extend the counter-example-guided extraction approach to “probability
1” reachability and demonstrate it experimentally.
31/12/2007 Integrate proof-based methods (such as validated abstractions) with
model checking and demonstrate its effectiveness on QoS properties.
31/12/2007 Further evaluation and development of M4, M5 with further case
studies.
31/12/2007 Extend front-end capabilities incl. visualisation of results and PRISM
templates for automated translation
30/03/2008 Final Project Report
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Fundamental Limits of Wireless (FLOW)
Topic: Wireless technology is vulnerable to interference from buildings,
geographic features and other radio signals.
Aim: To increase our understanding of the constraints imposed on wireless
communications.
Duration: 2.92 years (1.2 FTE over 2.92 years).
Project Leader: Leif Hanlen.
Participants:
• Network Systems group.
• University of South Australia.
Key points:
• Investigation of the constraints on wireless communications
• Medium to long-term view of wireless futures
Progress:
• Reviewed by RMCC and recommended for commencement
• Coursework elements completed
• Project plan under final negotiation with partners
• Agreement in place with the University of South Australia
• Agreement in place between NICTA and the Australian Institute of Sport
(AIS).
• Development of MIMO testbed in University of South Australia underway
• 2 PhD students completed, additional 1 scheduled to complete by Jan
2008
2006:
• Thirty-one publications, including seven journal articles
• Two IP disclosures
• Interaction with the AIS interaction through rowing and swimming.
2007:
• Thirteen publications including 2 journal publications
2008
• Project Completed June 2008, total of 51 publications and 12 additional
tech-reports.
Milestones:
Date Milestone
10/11/2005 Preparation of coursework
23/11/2006 AiS in agreement to scope of project plan.
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23/11/2006 Formal industry agreement in place with either Locata or another
entity
24/11/2006 List of research outcomes and papers produced
24/11/2006 Address writing questions posed in the scientific challenges
section of the project application
31/01/2007 18th month review point
30/06/2008 Journal submissions of work
30/06/2008 Application of MIMO channel tracking theory to testbed (moved to
BANESH)
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Goanna
Topic: Software bugs are expensive: It takes a lot of time track them down, they
delay the software development process, and once a product they might
eventually lead to a recall. This is in particular true for embedded systems
software as in mobile phones, medical devices, or cars.
For embedded systems software the Goanna project develops a fast, scalable and
automatic technology to detect software bugs at development time.
Aim: Goanna aims at delivering a competitive advantage for software developing
enterprises by increasing code robustness, and decreasing time-to-market and
software development costs by detecting source code software bugs and security
vulnerabilities automatically in an early implementation stage.
Duration: 3 years (3 FTE over 3 years).
Project Leader: Ralf Huuck.
Participants:
• Managing Complexity group
Key points:
• Development of technology to detect software bugs automatically.
• Reduces software development costs.
• Create the basis for techniques and tools that can also be applied to
embedded system software in the long term.
• Will increase trust in embedded software and deliver competitive edge to
software developing companies.
Progress:
• Initial ARM assembly integration completed.
• Developed unique techniques to reduce number of false alarms.
• Achieved scalability to large code bases.
• Development of a unique analysis approach from the ground up that is
vastly
different to what people have done for the last 30 years.
• Developed novel modular approach for whole program analysis.
• Developed first solution to integrate multi-language analysis.
• Unique solution to add custom checks.
• Implementation of a demonstrator that showed top performances in
run-time and scalability of the analysis.
• Prototype testing on source code with several international companies
• Development of commercialisation strategy
Milestones:
Date Milestone
31/09/2006 Implementation of counter examples, framework for precision
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enhancement, optimisation XPath implementation
31/03/2007 Integration of EDG, general framework for counter examples,
prototype analysis for ARM assembly
31/03/2008 Development of precision enhancement and inter-procedural
analysis, implementation of inter-language C/C++ assembly
analysis, completed specification language.
30/06/2009 Develop proof-of-concept tool for market engagement and test
business model
31/12/2009 Create sales channel for Goanna tool distribution
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Human Performance Improvement (HPI)
Topic: Small, smart devices collecting, interpreting and transmitting biometric
data reliably to those who need it in a form they can use, when they need it.
Aim: Develop a communication network for in and around the body.
Duration: 3 years
Project Leader: Leif Hanlen.
HPI
Participants:
• Australian Institute of Sport
• DSTO
• Additional participants being approached
Key points:
• Investigation of applications of “making sense of data” to human
performance (understanding)
• Investigation of the constraints on communications surrounding humans
(transmission)
Progress:
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• Reviewed by RMCC and recommended for commencement (28 Aug 2007)
• Reviewed by RMCC (7 May 2008)
Publications and Patents
• 4 journal papers
• 7 conference papers
• 1 patent application and an IP disclosure being considered for a patent
application.
AIS Projects
• 2 sub-projects with AIS completed. Additional $120,000 funding received.
• Algorithms and Demonstrator for a swimming application developed.
• IP disclosure being explored.
DSTO Project
• DSTO Project formalised in agreement. $30,000 funding received.
• Initial Demonstrator completed.
Wireless and Networking
• Completed initial channel model measurements.
• Dino Miniutti is a member of the IEEE Channel Model committee had has
made several presentations to the committee.
• Comprehensive report was presented to IEEE on channel model
measurements.
• Daniel Lewis was elected Chair of the Applications Committee and has
completed a comprehensive report on applications on behalf of the
committee.
Milestones:
Date Milestone Outcome
14/03/2008 Human Performance
Technologies
workshop
Workshop with DSTO held in late 07.
Combined Human Performance
Technology Workshop held in March 08.
31/12/2008 Scoping reports Complete
31/12/2008 Time-series feature
extraction (TSFE)
system Initial
demonstrator
Complete
28/02/2009 Agreements DSTO agreement completed and funding
received.
AIS agreement completed as well as AIS-
Catapult Agreement. Extension of the
swimming project is being negotiated.
31/03/2009 Defence Capability
Technology
Demonstrator
Proposal
Discussions with CTD program taken
place, but application delayed indefinitely
due to NICTA funding uncertainty and
from NICTA executive advice.
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31/08/2009 Demonstrators Initial demonstrators cancelled by
stakeholders.
31/08/2009 BAN system
(preliminary) design
31/08/2010 Antenna and prelim.
RF design for BAN
3 replacement demonstrators completed.
IEEE modelling completed. Presentation
to IEEE and accepted as channel model
document. Network-level measurements
commenced
Initial simulation work commenced.
Placed on hold due to staff limitations
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In Memory XML Query Processing (ComQu)
Topic: Conducting searches on large XML repositiories is a resource-intensive task
requiring complex and expensive databases and powerful hardware.
Aim: to find recurring patterns in large tree-structured data (such as XML), with
the purpose of building and querying small memory representations of the data.
Duration: 3 years (1.8 FTE over 3 years).
Project Leader: Sebastian Maneth
Participants:
• Making Sense of Data group
Key points:
• Implementation of succinct data format for SLT grammars. Major
improvement of the succinct representation wrt our earlier design (as used
in the selectivity work with Damien Fisher)
• Prototype of Implementation of both (1)(a): add data values into grammar
and (1)(b): separate data values from grammar. Our measurements show
that (1)(b) is more effective.
• Size measurements of succinct XML storage: size requirement is approx.
less than one half of the best available product on the market.
• New experiments to use serialization of succinct format for XML file
compression. Results show that for some large documents our methods
can give major improvements over XMill; the latter is *the* XML file
compressor which has been around for ca. 7 years and since then has not
been challenged whatsoever!) Thus, we might be able to build an XML file
compressor that outperforms the best available compressor!
Milestones:
Date Milestone
19/02/2008 Performance analysis of performance
30/06/2008 Low level programming library
31/03/2009 High-level programming library
30/06/2009 Navigational XPath search over Compressed String/Tree XML
Representation
31/12/2009 Full XPath Search over Compressed String/Tree XML
Representation
31/03/2010 Full XPath/XML Search Engine
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InterfereX - 2
Topic: The challenge for next generation mobile wireless is to develop lower cost,
highly efficient signal processing architectures to maximise coverage and
capacity. This will be essential as these networks move to providing high-speed
data and the cost per transmitted bit is driven down.
Aim: To develop a real-time, high-capacity demonstrator, investigate research
problems, integrate solutions into the design, evaluate performance and
functionality and compare the results to a conventional receiver design. Utilise
the outcomes of the research to commercialise the work.
Duration: Two years (7 FTE over 2 years).
Project Leader: Dr Mark Reed.
Participants: NS.
Key points:
• Capacity and coverage boost for 3G/4G systems
• Re-focussed on WCDMA/3GPP/HSPA femtocells for the world market,
developing an advanced real-time demonstrator
• Wireless system results show the benefit of applying our advanced
techniques, including longer battery life for handsets, further range and
robustness, as well as significantly less interference onto existing
infrastructure.
Progress:
• Five PhD qualified engineers working on the project
• Three full-time engineers working on project
• Transmitter has been developed and validated in a real-time test.
• Receiver under Development
• Research and development into advanced Acquisition and Tracking
Algorithms.
• Publications and Research into receiver techniques continuing.
Milestones:
Date Milestone
19/09/2007 Complete real-time validation of a prototype wireless modem
through field trials
31/10/2007 First Draft of a Business Plan following market validation
31/01/2008 Final Draft of Business Plan (for external use with investors)
31/06/2008 Transmitter validation
31/06/2008 Begin to engage with Operators and OEMs
31/11/2008 Receiver Lab demo of modem
01/01/2008 Changed focus to WCDMA femtocells based on extensive
market research
01/08/2008 WCDMA/3GPP compliant femtocell transmitter validated in
real-time on hardware
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30/01/2009 WCDMA/3GPP validation with an off-the-shelf WCDMA cell
phone
30/03/2009 WCDMA/3GPP validation of InterfereX receiver
30/06/2009 High speed receiver validation of InterfereX receiver
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L4.verified
Topic: Embedded systems are vital infrastructure elements in information and
communications technology. They drive mobile phones, entertainment devices,
cars, toys, appliances, smart cards, medical devices, network switching gear,
sensors, industrial robots and many other applications. The topic of the
L4.verified project is the L4 microkernel that drives embedded systems.
Aim: To provide a mathematical, machine-checked proof of the functional
correctness of the L4 microkernel, the minimum set of interfaces that are used by
the operating system, with respect to a high-level, formal description of its
expected behaviour.
Duration: Three years (6.4 FTE over 3 years).
Project Leader: Dr Gerwin Klein.
Participants:
• Managing Complexity (NRL and CRL)
• Embedded Systems (NRL)
Key points:
• Will develop a model of the kernel that is suitable for formal reasoning
about software components to be built on top, and to verify the
implementation of the kernel itself
• A successful proof will constitute a major scientific breakthrough in the
areas of operating systems and formal methods
• Provide the basis for achieving genuinely trustworthy systems and
supporting industrial interest in a formally verified kernel.
Progress:
• All specifications and hardware models completed
• First level refinement proof completed
• Several software releases completed
• Completed 1 year partnership with external partner Galois, Inc.
Milestones:
Date Milestone
01/12/2005 Application program interface
15/04/2006 Hardware model
15/04/2006 Parser
31/07/2006 EQ Checker
31/07/2006 Tool prototypes
10/04/2007 Security
03/07/2007 Hardware model
03/07/2007 Security Mechanisation
01/10/2007 Follow up project plan
17/10/2007 Tools finished
27/11/2007 First refinement
30/10/2008 Second refinement complete (final system)
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31/12/2008 Technology transfer to OKL complete
LIXI Business Processes (LIXI)
Topic: Transactions worth more than $100 billion are carried out in the Australian
lending industry each year. Lending processes are complex and add to the cost of
the transaction for lenders and borrowers.
Aim: To improve lending processes and reduce the marginal costs of loan
transactions through the analysis of data related to lending practices, leading to
enhancement of LIXI standards.
Duration: 2.92 years (1.7 FTE over 2.92 years).
Project Leader: Paul Mackie.
Participants:
• Lending Industry XML Initiative.
• Making Sense of Data group.
• Managing Complexity group.
Key points:
• Will establish the grounds for how business processes can be defined to
improve performance in the Australian lending industry
• Will establish the grounds for how formal software processes can be
defined to achieve processes that are powerful and usable
• World-class software engineering applied to enhance the effectiveness,
efficiency and competitiveness of this key Australian industry.
Progress:
• Completed reference business process model for the Formal Loan
Approval process
• Completed and updated the LIXI BProcess Handbook
• LIXI Valuations reference architecture and implementation
• LIXI Visible Loans reference implementation
• Reference process models for NECS
• Soya, an o/source software kit for BP coordination
• First commercial engagement with RPG Valuers, Nov 2007
• 19 publications and conference presentations
• Initial objectives of project complete. Ongoing activities to be migrated to
ArMaTure.
Milestones:
Date Milestone
31/08/2005 Initiation
31/12/2007 Formal Industry Case Study
30/04/2008 Process Model Development
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30/04/2008 Reference Architectures
30/04/2008 Solutions Development
Macro-programming for Wireless Sensor Networks
Topic: Programming models and platforms for wireless sensor networks (WSN).
Aim: This project aims to overcome the difficulties associated with WSN
programming by introducing the right abstraction models and tools to program
WSN at the global, network level.
Duration: 2.58 years (0.65 FTE over 2.58 years).
Project Leader: Athanassios Boulis.
Participants:
• University of Western Australia.
• Embedded Systems group.
• Network Systems group.
Key points:
• The creation of the Castalia simulator and its release as an open source
tool.
• The building of a community around the tool and the efforts to make it one
of the prime simulators for Networked Embedded Systems.
Progress:
• Castalia simulator for Wireless Sensor Networks enhanced and released
as an open source software.
• Investigation of communication parameters effect in statistical data
delivery in real deployments.
• Comparison and analysis of simulation results with real deployment results
in statistical data delivery.
• Selection and study of various WSN algorithms to extract desirable and
non-desirable characteristics.
• Model for macro-programming WSN supporting distributed estimation
algorithms.
• Adaptively tunable MAC protocol to support model. Tune multiple cross
layer parameters to achieve statistical data delivery.
• A simulator for WSN and similar networked embedded systems (low-power,
interact with environment).
• Project completed April 2008
Milestones:
Date Milestone
08/08/2006 Study existing algorithms
11/09/2006 Communication methods
31/12/2006 New algorithms
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31/12/2006 Programming model
31/03/2007 Node-level representation
31/07/2007 Model revision
30/09/2007 Global–local compilation
12/12/2007 Implementation of the node-level representation
31/03/2008 Integrate application development and simulation
environment
31/03/2008 Real platform testing
30/04/2008 Overall integration
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Mapping Genetic Components in Crops (MGCC)
Topic: Genomics is an information science dependent on the deployment of
advanced techniques in computing to achieve optimal analysis of phenomena of
large data sets, such as physical characteristics and disease conditions
(phenotypes).
Aim: To apply machine learning technology to the mapping of genotype–
phenotype characteristics so that knowledge of the whole genome DNA profiles of
crops can be applied to the selection of parents for improved breeding lines.
Duration: Three Years (0.8 FTE over 3 years).
Project Leader: Dr Adam Kowalczyk.
Participants:
• Diversity Arrays Technology, Canberra
Key points:
• Applies a powerful predictive tool – machine learning – to better
understand genetic variation in plants
• Will support increased effectiveness in crop improvement strategies for a
range of plants
• Addresses specific ecological issues important for Australian agriculture
such as crop resistance to salinity and drought
• Building national expertise in plant genomics and molecular breeding.
Progress:
2007 Activities:
• Delivery to the research partner of a prototype system for interpreting
genetic data to identify significant trait markers in crops.
• Currently finalising introductory review.
2008
• Machine learning techniques for QTL detection.
• Development of an unsupervised technique for design of production
microarrays (HSIC based)
• Development of a software implementing recursive feature elimination
approach to QTL detection
• Project complete June 2008
Milestones:
Date Milestone
31/10/2005 Definition, development and testing of evaluation metrics
31/10/2005 Development of linear models using various regression techniques
Introductory review of existing methodologies for linking DART marker
31/10/2005
data with agronomic information
31/01/2006 Start of benchmarking of machine learning algorithms
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Development and adaptation of basic software for batch processing of
30/04/2006
data
benchmarking of classical feature selection algorithms for feature
30/04/2006
reduction
31/07/2006 Development of long term plan (12 months)
Initial selection and benchmarking of machine learning algorithms
31/07/2006 against existing methodologies for linking DART marker data with
agronomic information for selected crops
31/07/2006 Medium term project plan
31/07/2007 Extension of methods developed in the 1st year in 2 directions
30/06/2008 Extend approach to sugar cane
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Model-based Supervision of Composite Systems (SuperCom)
Topic: A new generation of autonomous composite systems constructed from
simple components organised into a highly configurable and modular architecture
is emerging with important social, environmental and economic potential.
Autonomy in these systems – web and grid services, energy distribution systems,
industrial plant control systems, telecommunications and computer networks –
will depend on adequate supervision tools that will confer the ability to selfdiagnose
and self-organise (assemble, reconfigure) for optimal performance.
Aim: Develop theories, efficient algorithms and tools for the supervision of
composite systems represented by discrete-event models, drawing on and adding
to the fields of discrete-event systems, model-based diagnosis, A1 planning, and
symbolic model checking.
Duration: 2.92 years (1.95 FTE over 2.92 years).
Project Leader: Jussi Rintanen
Participants:
• Managing Complexity group.
Key points:
• Will help improve the quality of service in composite systems through
online monitoring systems and decision support to the supervision
operator
• Offers reduced supervision costs as networks evolve
• Utilises model-based reasoning to support accurate diagnosis and
principled reconfiguration plans.
Progress:
• A formal framework and a language to describe composite systems
• A diagnosis query language
• Decentralised methods for diagnosis and diagnosability analysis
• Symbolic diagnosis and diagnosability analysis methods
• Decentralised method for generating reconfiguration plans
• Implementations of the above within a common software platform.
• Demonstrators in the areas of power distribution, manufacturing, and mail
servers
• 10 papers in top AI conferences such as IJCAI and AAAI.
• junction-tree based diagnosis methods
• diagnosis and reconfiguration system implementation
• Project completed December 2008, successor project starting in 2009,
addressing issues arising when supervisory control and diagnosis are
embedded in a system and have to work in real-time.
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Milestones:
Date Milestone
Work package 1: modeling
01/06/2006 Decentralised models
01/06/2006 Functionalities
Work package 2: reconfiguration/restoration
01/06/2008 Reconfiguration
01/06/2008 Implementations
Work package 3: diagnosis, diagnosability
16/09/2007 Diagnosis
16/09/2007 Diagnosability analysis
19/11/2007 Implementation
Work package 4: integration diagnosis/reconfiguration
01/01/2009 Sensible integration policies
01/01/2009 Synthesis of diagnosable composite system
01/01/2009 Implementation
Work package 5: Application
01/04/2007 Demonstrator
01/01/2009 Refined methods
01/01/2009 Prototype software
01/01/2009 Integration
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NICTA Open SensorWeb Architecture (NOSA)
Topic: As sensor network deployments begin to grow there is an increasing need
to overcome the obstacles of connecting and sharing heterogeneous sensor
resources. Common data operations and transformations exist in deployment
scenarios, which can be encapsulated into a layer of software services that hide
the complexity of the underlying infrastructure from the application developer.
Aim: To develop a framework and tools for building applications on a distributed
computing infrastructure, with a focus on developing applications for wireless
sensor networks.
Duration: 2 years (3.35FTE over 2 years)
Project Leader: Chris Leckie
Participants:
• Network Systems group
Key points:
• This project is based on two complementary research activities –
distributed algorithms for sensor networks, and the development of
software services to support application developers on sensor networks.
• The first research activity is to develop distributed algorithms for common
processing tasks in sensor networks. The key challenge in the design of
these distributed algorithms in this context is how to exploit in-network
processing to overcome the power and bandwidth constraints of sensor
networks.
• The second research activity is to develop a layer of software services that
encapsulate common tasks that are required when integrating sensor
networks with Internet-based applications. By developing this NOSA
services layer, our goal is to hide low level details from application
developers, thus making it easier to build applications that integrate data
from different types of sensor networks.
Progress:
2007:
• Developed core NOSA software services to comply with the OGC Sensor
Web Enablement standard (SensorML and Observation & Measurement
data models, Sensor Collection Service, Sensor Repository Service, Web
Notification Service).
• Prototype application developed and demonstrated using NOSA Core
Services for remote querying and sensor fusion in heterogeneous sensor
environments, e.g., using Crossbow and NICTOR sensors.
• Distributed algorithms research for sensor networks has lead to a range of
new algorithms for (1) query optimization in wireless sensor networks (e.g.,
location-based aggregation, efficient query processing for moving objects
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in sensor fields, and Bloom filters for data dissemination in sensor
networks), as well as (2) network management tasks (e.g., collaborative
problem solving for fault diagnosis, distributed anomaly detection, and
attack detection)
2008:
• A revised version of the NOSA middleware was completed, which was
tested using a variety of sensor platforms such as the Mica2, MicaZ and
Imote2 running TinyOS, the NICTOR sensors running Linux, and the TinyDB
database for accessing sensor networks. A client application was also
developed to demonstrate the functionality of the middleware. The NOSA
Core Services middleware, the client application, and the appropriate
documentation has been captured and prepared for an initial alpha
release.
• A form of caching mechanism has been developed and tested with the
NOSA Core Services to provide an ability to handle multiple concurrent
queries by (1) storing the results of historical queries, (2) analyzing the
relationship between current queries with cached queries, and (3) reusing
entire or part of the historical results to reduce the query traffic.
• Project Completed February 2008
Milestones:
Date Milestone
31/08/2006 Develop SensorML data model
31/12/2006 Investigate WIN requirements
31/12/2006 Undertake auto-sending modeling
31/08/2007 Data dissemination
28/02/2008 Deployment on a larger-scale sensor network testbed
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Peer to Peer (P2P)
Aim: Investigate decentralised techniques to manage the network and data in
order to provide complex applications efficiently and economically. In particular,
develop a distributed server-less technology for Massively Multi-player Online
(MMO) applications that is highly scalable, cost effective, robust and secure.
Value of opportunity: Virtual Worlds popularity continues to grow. However,
limitations of client-server architecture continue to slow main stream adoption.
Some of the major problems experienced by using client-server architecture are:
• High server costs: The cost of server farms is quite high. On an average it
costs approximately US$5/user/month.
• Single point of failure: A server failure forces the entire MMO application to be
down. Many popular MMOs have an extremely high downtime (approximately
10%).
• Server overload: As servers can only handle a fixed number of users, they
can’t support a sudden increase in the number of users and therefore cannot
handle flash crowds.
Industry owners and technology purchasers are actively looking for real solutions
to these “holy grail” problems.
Duration: 4 years (Jan 2006 – Dec 2009)
Project Leader: Santosh Kulkarni
Participants:
• Scott Douglas
• Dave Churchill
• Artem Vorobiev
Key points:
• Unique distributed spatial indexing techniques have been developed by
the team to efficiently index millions of users in a virtual world.
• Designed distributed broadcasting protocols to broadcast messages to the
users in a scene/group.
• A distributed network engine for MMO applications is currently being
developed.
• The network engine will provide a cost-effective, secure, fault tolerant and
highly scalable platform to deploy MMO applications.
Progress:
• All base algorithms have been completed and finetuned to optimise the
system and improve performance under various settings.
• Beta launch (field trials with VastPark). World-first decentralised virtual
worlds platform launched in partnership with VastPark on 20 th October
2008.
• Work is in progress on the distributed network security and validation.
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Milestones:
Date Milestone
31/04/2008 Improving the user experience for high density spaces - Completed
30/09/2008 Beta launch (field trials with VastPark) - Completed
31/04/2009 Distributed network security
31/12/2009 Final release of the product
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Probabilistic Temporal Analysis of Operating Systems Code
(POTOROO)
Topic: Embedded systems often have strict real-time operating requirements that
must be met. In order to satisfy these, the kernel’s temporal behaviour must be
well understood. This takes the form of a model of the worst-case execution time
(WCET) of each component of the kernel’s functionality.
Aim: To extend an existing WCET method and toolset to allow analysis of kernel
code, provide a timing model for the L4 microkernel, reduce significantly the
overestimation inherently introduced by the tool and provide a consistent means
to estimate the pre-emption delay.
Duration: 2.75 years (0.7 FTE over 2.75 years).
Project Leader: Stefan Petters.
Participants:
• Embedded Systems group
Key points:
• Reduction of overestimation compared to previous work of up to 98%
dependent on the target architecture
• Integration of static analysis and measurement based analysis, as
proposed in extension proposal very promising
• world first kernel with memory protection analysed for its WCET
Progress:
• Toolset implemented, current work towards analysing OKL4, some
adaptations appear to be necessary, to cope with new features in the
kernel
• Static analysis work is stalled due to the Research Engineer with expert
knowledge in the area being on leave effectively since late 2007.
• Code debugging and application to current OKL4 code
• Project Completed December 2008
Milestones:
Date Milestone
31/10/2005 CFG parser (XML interfaces)
14/11/2005 Progress report
31/01/2006 Trace parser (refinement)
30/03/2006 Timing program generator
31/05/2006 Separation of concerns (usability, parameterise method)
09/06/2006 Trace generation mechanisms for Xscale
31/10/2007 Function describing of cache misses of a given input program
02/12/2007 Analysis of kernel
03/12/2007 C++ source code parser
31/07/2008 Validation of results
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15/09/2008 Static Analysis User Interface
30/09/2008 Loop dependency refinement
30/11/2008 Coverage analysis with counter examples and evaluation of results
31/12/2008 Static Dependency Analysis
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Process Architecture, Modelling and Technologies for
Business and Government (ArMaTure)
Aim: To develop a new software infrastructure open platform for developing high
quality software implementations of business and government processes faster
and cheaper.
Duration: 3 years from January 2009
Project Leader: Ross Jeffery
Participants:
• Managing Complexity at ATP and CRL
Progress:
• ePASA Field Trials and Commercial Trials
• Initial market assessment study reported
• Successful collaborations within financial and government sectors
Milestones:
Date Milestone
31/04/2009 Updated market assessment and market targeting plan
20/05/2009 NICTA project review
30/06/2009 Updated Armature project plan
31/12/2009 ePASA base technology trials complete
31/12/2009 ePASA field trials commenced for additional technology opportunities
as identified in ePASA roadmap
31/12/2009 Market-validated adaptation solution
31/12/2009 Commercial ready vocabulary management prototype
31/12/2009 Updated milestones for 2010
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Query under Uncertainty for a Secure and Sustainable
Environment (QUSE)
Topic: QUSE project performs research and development of generic, robust,
expressive and efficient models, algorithms/prototypes to interpret and query
(incomplete) data under uncertainty,
Aim: Many problems that face modern society involve utilizing evidence from
multiple spatio-temporal sources to make decisions or plans about the state of
our natural and man-made environments, particularly under uncertainty. The
QUSE Project focuses on two such domains: digital forensics and environmental
management. Inspired by such uses, the QUSE project performs research and
development of generic, robust, expressive and efficient models and algorithms to
interpret and query data under uncertainty and include situations of incomplete
data using such frameworks as (Dynamical) Bayesian Networks.
In other way, QUSE will develop efficient models to represent a scenario and a
method to interpret and query data for better diagnosis of a situation and
prediction of the future.
Duration: 3 years (2.0FTE over 3 years)
Project Leader: Nianjun Liu.
Participants:
• DSTO
• Australian Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, Bureau of
Rural Sciences
• ACT Department of Planning and Land Authority (ACT-PLA)
• Making Sense of Data Group
• Embedded Systems Group
Key points:
• Explores how different Bayesian Networks and Dynamic Bayesian Nets can
be applied to open problems in analysing digital forensic data
• Software which implements the learning, summarisation and querying of
time-varying relations from data for the purpose of digital forensic
investigations.
• Exploring intelligent land planning and decision support related to
relational spatial data used in town planning
o Developing tools for querying and decision support for Australian
Environmental GIS Spatial Mapping Data and focused on land use
management.
Progress:
• Project commenced Oct 2006
• Initial literature review for reports is underway
• Software package is currently under development
• Prototype and techniques delivered to DSTO
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• Prototypes and techniques currently design for AusBRS and ACTPLA.
• Developed a stratified dynamical Bayesian Network and stand-alone
projection tool on the projections of population and demographic
composition of small areas (suburb level)
• Prediction models for Australian Environmental Distribution Maps for land
use management And Query and decision support by intelligent analysis of
remotely sensing imagery, with BRS/DAFF and Geoscience Australia.
• Developed data mining techniques to analyze complex, interactive and
dynamical internet communications such as the Honeypot paradigm and
data sets, and designed an embedded dynamical Bayesian Network for
summarization and querying digital forensic data with the aim of detecting
digital crime
• Project Completed December 2008
Milestones:
Date Milestone
15/10/2007 Building and learning domain-driven model from temporal -spatial
data/databases
15/10/2008 Developing model query algorithms that will support general
uncertainty queries on the models about spatial-temporal data
15/10/2009 Querying uncertainty from large spatial-temporal data
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Requirements Engineering for Strategic Alignment (RESA)
Topic: Requirements engineering modelling frameworks and methodologies in
aligning business strategy with its supporting ICT.
Aim: The objective of the RESA project is to develop a software tool that supports
a scientifically validated requirements engineering methodology for the strategic
alignment of organisational ICT.
Duration: 3.17 years (2.6 FTE over 3.17 years).
Project Leader: June Verner.
Participants:
• Commonwealth Bank
• Nomura Research Institute, Japan
• NTT, Japan
• Centrelink
Key points:
• Develop and test an integrated methodology supported by a software tool
to perform requirements analysis for large scale enterprise IT that ensures
alignment of IT with the organization’s business strategy.
• Methodology elicits an organisation’s competitive business strategy and
context and progressively decomposes this into requirements for the IT
systems the organisation needs to support its strategy.
Progress:
• Methodology developed
• Tested methodology in multiple industry case studies, e.g., CBA, NTT Data
and NRI
• Results reported in both scientific literature and confidential technical
reports
• First stage Market validation completed
• Research prototype tool completed and tested
• POC approved
• Requirements specification for Alpha POC completed
• Contract signed for proof of concept software development
• Submitted two invention disclosures with 6 distinct inventions
• Provisional patent application lodged with 12 claims
• Successfully achieved stage two milestone in March 2007
• Stage 3, 70% completed, March 2008. Research budget is $18,000 p.a.,
beyond TRP which was insufficient to develop prototype commercial tool.
POC grant ($100,000) used to develop commercial prototype. However,
prototype not completed until June 2008. Paid engagement with
Centrelink, to test revised methodology completed June 2008. Also used
methodology for review of internal NICTA project.
• Provisional patent application re-lodged May 2008
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• Developed comprehensive requirements for large graphical integrated
product, successfully built prototype software product, built pipeline of 20
trial partners, and 2 commenced
• Project completed December 2008
Milestones:
Date Milestone
Completion of stage 1
• Completion of elicitation and analysis of requirements from
31/03/2006
Commonwealth Bank of Australia that enables preliminary
validation of RESA framework.
• Completed pilot study
• Completion of research paper for submission
Completion of stage 2
• Prototype software tool
• Revised framework
01/04/2007 • Development of RESA methodology
• A number of completed case studies in Australia and overseas
• Completion of 2 research papers for submission
• Post mortem review on CBA
Completion of stage 3
• A number of completed field trials of software prototype and
methodology in Australia and overseas.
01/04/2008 • Prototype software tool for commercialisation
• Revised methodology
• Post mortem reviews of case studies in Stage 2
• Completion of 2 research papers for submission
Completion of stage 4
• Production and publication of guidelines for methodology and
31/12/2008
•
use of tool.
Post mortem reviews of field trials is Stage 3
• End of project report
• Completion of further research papers for submission
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Secure Embedded L4 (seL4)
Topic: Strong security is a fundamental requirement for many current and
emerging embedded application devices, including mobile phones and set-top
boxes. A microkernel provides a minimal and efficient basis for constructing
operating system software for a broad range of systems, from single-purpose
embedded devices to multi-processor servers.
Aim: To develop a new microkernel-based secure software platform upon which
further secure software layers (system and application services) can be composed
to form a trustworthy embedded system. Additionally, the design and
implementation should be readily amenable to formal assurance techniques.
Duration: 3.08 years (1.4 FTE over 3.08 years).
Project Leader: Dr Kevin Elphinstone.
Participants:
• Embedded Systems group.
Key points:
• The seL4 microkernel provides a minimal and general basis for
constructing operating system software for a broad range of application
domains.
• It enables the secure use of data that users and system vendors may wish
to control access to and usage of.
• Enables the safe use of third-party applications whose origin, quality and
functionality is not controlled by the embedded-device vendor.
• Aims for to enable a high degree of assurance through mathematical
rigour by formally modelling the kernel’s programming interface, and
formally verifying the implementation of the modelled interface.
Progress:
• Successfully developed and applied a novel operating system development
technique using functional languages to reduce formal verification
complexity.
• Produced mathematical proof of isolation guarantees using a model of the
kernel.
• Produced a software implementation that has comparable performance to
existing state of the art microkernels, but with much stronger security
guarantees.
• Project completed March 2008 and technology licensed to NICTA spin-out
‘Open Kernel Labs’
Milestones:
Date Milestone
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28/02/2006 Initial API
31/08/2006 Initial implementation and performance evaluation
31/01/2007 Initial
31/12/2007 IPC Trad, Kmem, Exc and Int work packages complete
31/12/2007 IPC Sem, CSpace, VSpace and Sys Mon work packages complete
31/12/2007 Sys Batch, Snch and Async work packages. Mature native seL4 and
Iguana/seL4 implementation
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Situation Awareness by Inference and Logic (SAIL)
Topic: Situation awareness is the problem of representing and reasoning with
objects in a limited volume of time and space. Most prominent applications are
within disaster recovery and military decision making.
Aim: To develop formal techniques for inputting, representing, reasoning, fusing
and querying information obtained from diverse information sources for decision
support systems.
Duration: 1 year (Pilot project)
Project Leader: Peter Baumgartner (NICTA) and Dale Lambert (DSTO)
Participants:
• Managing complexity groups in Canberra and Kensington
• DSTO Adelaide
Key points:
• Advance techniques for information fusion built on top of logical
representations of domains and information sources under consideration
• Develop automated reasoning techniques for information fusion of large
volumes of data and under temporal aspects; develop a controlled natural
language interface as the primary means of interaction.
• Devise a prototype platform demonstrating the successful application of
the above techniques in a military domain.
• Developed techiques are expected to be general enough to be applied also
in other application domains, like E-government.
Progress:
• Formalized aspects of the test scenario using Description Logics and Logic
Programming.
• Designed and implemented the SAIL platform to a degree that key points
above can be demonstrated.
• Successful experiments with the SAIL platform in the military domain.
• Novel Architecture implemented. Allows “plug and play” modularity with
ontologies for domain representation.
• Demonstrator close to completion:
1. Automatic alerts when conditions of interest emerge
2. Q&A interaction using Controlled Natural Language
3. Semantic domain representation using Description Logic
ontologies; concrete domains for
space & time.
4. Sensor data, Geographic Information System and Databases
information aggregated to
basic assertions using first-order logic automated reasoning
• Project Completed: July 2008
Milestones:
Date Milestone
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28/02/2008 Case study
28/02/2008 Conceptual Structure
30/06/2008 Computational
30/06/2008 Controlled Natural Language for bidirectional human interface
30/06/2008 Formal
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Strategic Project: Smart Applications for Emergencies (SAFE)
Topic: The SAFE project is a major focus of the Queensland Research Laboratory
and addresses the national priority of “Safeguarding Australia” which was a key
driver in the establishment of the Lab in Queensland.
Aim: SAFE aims to develop new technologies, systems and services that provide
significant improvements to the devices, systems, information and human
processes that enable the management and mitigation of, and response to,
natural disasters and man-made emergencies. The research project is being
undertaken in collaboration with the Queensland Government as a key
stakeholder.
Duration: 2.92 years (21.95 FTE over 2.92 years)
Project Manager: Charlie Robinson
Participants:
• Making Sense of Data group
• Embedded Systems group
• Network Systems group
• Managing Complexity group
• Queensland State Government
Key points:
• Project is developing a Demonstrator to showcase research outcomes to
industry and end-users.
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SAFE Sensors
Topic: Hardware and software computer vision and pattern recognition
technologies to enhance video surveillance for counter-terrorism, personal and
property security, and vehicle monitoring.
Aim: Main focus is on technologies for intelligent CCTV surveillance. This includes
advanced non-intrusive identity management systems such as robust real-time
face recognition and appearance modelling.
Duration: 3 years (2.45 FTE over 3 years).
Project Leader: Brian Lovell.
Participants:
Praetorian Systems, Iomnicient, Sun Microsystems, Axis, Sony, Clarity, Sentient,
Queensland Transport.
Key points:
• Exceptionally strong support from industry and government including
$634k grant from NSST Unit in Dept of PM&C
• Over $1.5 million in cash and in-kind support attracted.
Progress:
• Installed a CCTV surveillance system capable of real-time monitoring of
cameras spread across Australia
• Now have live video feeds from multiple cameras in Sydney and a major
port facility
• Excellent R&D team formed
• Obtained external funds from PM&C to support three additional research
Fellows appointed from early 2007
• Linkages with top international research groups in India and the US
established.
Milestones:
Date Milestone
30/09/2006 Review of Existing Work and Smart Camera Architectures
31/10/2006 Review of existing work on location services
10/05/2007 Construction of Smart Sensor Prototype
31/12/2007 Development of Novel Location Services
30/06/2008 CV algorithms for development on smart sensor platforms
30/06/2008 Smart Camera Demonstrator
30/06/2008 Multiple Camera Smart Camera Demonstrator
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SAFE Information
Topic: Crisis Information Management Systems Interoperability
Aim: This research covers the development of new technologies for semantic data
and web information engineering applied to the emergency management sector.
The goal is to develop innovative techniques to delivery information to right
people at the right time in the right format at the right place to better manage
major disasters.
Duration: 3 years (4.5 FTE over 3 years).
Project Leader: Renato Iannella.
Participants:
• QLD Department of Emergency Services (DES)
• Emergency Management Australia (EMA)
• Faulker Technologies
Key points:
• Research on more comprehensive early warning message formats
• Information Integration of key disaster information
• Resource Management work has been standardised by international group
Progress:
• Finalised demonstrator for resource messaging and management and
shown interoperability with commercial vendor (Faulker Technologies)
• Finalised demonstrator for “situational reports” integration and
visualisation with Google maps
• Co-chair new W3C standards group on “Emergency Information
Interoperability Framework” supported by IBM and Google.
• Milestone “Decision Making Framework” was closed to due loss of key
staff member
• All other Milestones completed
Milestones:
Date Milestone
30/06/2008 Formal Representation of Information
30/06/2008 Decision Making Framework
30/06/2008 Information Framework & Architecture
30/06/2008 Information Integration
30/06/2008 Spatiotemporal Information Integration
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SAFE Agents
Topic: Addresses formal modelling and understanding of dynamically changing
environments in emergency and disaster services.
Aim: The research aims to formally represent and efficiently reason with
meaningful knowledge from natural and human engineered emergencies. The
focus is on developing an automated system that will assist in making timely,
informed and intelligent decisions that accommodate the resource and other
constraints inherent in emergency situations.
Duration: 3 years (3.3 FTE over 3 years).
Project Leader: Prof. Abdul Sattar.
Participants:
• QLD Department of Emergency Services (DES)
• Queensland Police Service
Key points:
• The project team is significantly advancing the state-of-the-art in SAT
solving; won three major international awards:
o Distinguished Paper: Building Structures into Local Search, IJCAI
2007; the premier conference in the field; and
o Gold Medal SAT 2007 & 2005 international competition for solving
random SAT problems.
• Two PhD graduates completed successfully.
• Three students currently confirmed PhD candidates will submit within 1-2
years.
• 26 referees papers (10 A+ and 5 A according to CORE ranking).
Progress:
• Target applications: planning problems in uncertain and dynamic
environment such as evacuation of crowded shopping malls, effectively
navigating emergency vehicles, etc.
Milestones:
Date Milestone
30/06/2008 Solving Decision Problems
30/06/2008 Representation & Reasoning with Ontologies
30/06/2008 Reasoning with Spatio-temporal information
30/06/2008 Handling Over-Constrained Problems
30/06/2008 Cooperating Cognitive Agents
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SAFE Networks
Topic: New communications technologies and applications for emergency
response and disaster recovery applications, including wireless mesh networks
and models and development of context aware, adaptive emergency applications
and services.
Aim: Main focus is on developing robust, efficient and context-aware
communication technology and applications for emergency response and disaster
recovery situations.
Duration: 3 years (3.85 FTE over 3 years).
Project Leader: Jadwiga Indulska.
Participants:
• Department of Emergency Services
• Queensland Police
• Locatrix, Axis, ivolve
Key points:
• Routing protocol protected by NICTA patent
• Attracted $728K grant from NSST Unit in Dept of PM&C
• Solutions for context-awareness are generic and therefore applicable to
other domains (transport, health, education)
Progress:
• Developed a multi-radio routing protocol for hybrid wireless mesh networks
o interference, congestion and node type aware routing
• Developed a mesh network prototype and 20 nodes indoor test-bed
• Developed models and a prototype for a distributed, fault tolerant context
management system
Milestones:
Date Milestone
30/09/2007 Model of context information
30/06/2008 Scalable and resilient management of context information
30/06/2008 Autonomic network/communication reconfiguration
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SAFE II: Advanced Surveillance (SAFE AS)
Topic: International usage and interest in Closed-Circuit Television (CCTV) for
surveillance of public spaces is growing at an unprecedented pace in response to
global security issues.
Aim: to develop and integrate technologies to leverage the value of existing
surveillance systems to increase effectiveness and reduce costs. Core
technologies being developed are integrated identity analysis, including robust
face in the crowd recognition, and multi-camera tracking.
Duration: 3 years
Project Leader: Brian Lovell
Participants:
• Making Sense of Data group
• Embedded Systems group
• Queensland Transport
• Queensland Rail
• Port of Brisbane
• Department of PM&C (NSST)
• Praetorian, Sun Microsystems, Sony, Sanyo, Axis, Iomnicient, Sentient,
Clarity, CISCO
Key points:
• The research employs advanced pattern recognition techniques to
determine a person’s identity despite significant changes in pose,
illumination, expression, age, and photo resolution.
Progress:
• NICTA Mugshot System has been built which can rapidly find a person’s
identity from a single snapshot quality photograph.
Milestones:
Date Milestone
31/03/2009 Forensic CCTV Face Recognition
31/12/2009 Port of Brisbane Demonstrator
30/06/2010 Robust person tracking in crowds
30/06/2011 Integrated Identity using multiple CCTV-based biometrics
30/06/2011 Queensland Rail Demonstrator
31/12/2011 Real-time CCTV Face Recognition
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Smart Transport and Roads (STaR)
Topic: New intelligent transport systems technologies.
Aim: To use intelligent sensors and wireless mesh communications to support
developments in traffic control algorithms and multimodal user interfaces to ease
congestion and extend the life of Australia’s investment in roads infrastructure.
Duration: 3 years
Project Manager: Geoff Goeldner.
Participants:
• NSW Roads and Traffic Authority (RTA).
Key points:
• Exceptionally strong support from NSW RTA
• NSW RTA providing strong in-kind support in terms of traffic engineering
involvement and provision of traffic infrastructure and implementation
support for NICTA on-street video testbeds.
• Initial deployment of traffic sensing and traffic control technologies has
been established at a live site (signalised roundabout) south of Sydney.
• RTA has agreed in principle to the provision of $750 in cash over 5 years
to support on-going work in Decision Support and Incident Management
under the DSIM Project.
• NICTA is beginning to win consulting engagements from RTA and Austroads
Progress:
• Formal Research Collaboration Agreement remains in place with NSW RTA
• Following RMCC approval in November, approved STaR projects now
comprise STaRControl, STaRSystem and DSIM.
• STaRSense is continuing subject to review in Q2 2009.
• Video testbeds are operational and an initial technology evaluation has
been conducted. The video processing model will provide key input to the
traffic control model.
• An initial implementation of NICTA traffic sensing and control technologies
is continuing at Albion Park, south of Sydney.
• Bi-directional technology transfer between RTA and NICTA is being
maintained.
• Links with national and international ITS research groups continue to
strengthen.
• NICTA completed the design of communications protocol for RTA School
Zone Alert Systems.
• RTA has international patents pending on STaRControl discoveries.
• NICTA has patents pending on technologies emerging from STaRUI and
StaRSense.
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Milestones:
STaR – Control
Date Milestone
Model Stack
31/01/2009 1.1 Interface definition: Object / Intersection
30/04/2009 1.2 Sense/Control Interface demonstration
31/08/2009 1.3 Develop Single-link model
31/08/2009 1.4 Develop Multi-intersection model
31/12/2009 1.5 Regional Model development
31/12/2009 1.6 High-level interfaces
31/08/2010 1.7 Improve Single Link and Multi-intersection models
Single Intersection Control
31/08/2009 2.1 Simplified constraint specification
31/08/2010 2.2 Verification software
30/04/2009 2.3 Combined GOBA/Patterns controller
31/08/2009 2.4 Approximate Dynamic Programming controller
31/12/2009 2.5 System refinement
Multi-intersection Control
31/05/2009 3.1 Markov Decision Process modelling
30/04/2010 3.2 Multi-intersection controller based on networked local
controllers
31/08/2010 3.3 Cooperative Multi-intersection control
31/12/2010 3.4 Improved Markov Decision Process modelling
31/12/2010 3.5 System refinement
TestBeds
30/04/2009 4.1 Develop algorithms for Albion Park incorporating vision
31/03/2010 4.2 Single intersection simulation
30/04/2010 4.3 Single intersection deployment
31/03/2011 4.4 Sydney Arterial simulation
30/06/2011 4.5 Multi-intersection deployment
STaR Metrics
31/05/2009 5.1 Project definition
31/12/2011 5.2 Economic cost estimation
Documentation
31/12/2009 6.1 Year 1 report
31/12/2010 6.2 Year 2 report
31/12/2011 6.3 Final report
30/10/2011 6.4 System specification
STaR - Sensors and Surveillance
Date Milestone
01/07/2006 Draft technical scope report and white paper
Initial test data acquisition and camera positioning analysis
01/09/2006 Resolution and frame rate of video capturing and integration
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Date Milestone
01/11/2006 Stage 1: Queue length estimation and vehicle counting (limited
conditions)
Stage 1: Traffic flow estimation (limited conditions)
Stage 1: Stationary vehicle detection on M4 Motorway
Research strategy development
Stage 1: Tech show and demonstration
01/03/2007 Stage 2: Refinement of models
01/09/2007 Stage 2 refinement:
• Queue length estimation and vehicle counting (limited
conditions)
• Traffic flow estimation (limited conditions)
• Stationary vehicle detection
New technologies show including:
• Stage 1: Feature-based vehicle and pedestrian detection
• Stage 1: Vehicle detection with 3D calibration
30/06/2009 Multi-camera operation at Albion Park (NSW RTA) for traffic
sensing and surveillance Multi-camera operation at Albion Park
(NSW RTA) for traffic sensing and surveillance
30/06/2009 Project completion and review
STaR - System
Date Milestone
Architecture definitions
31/12/2008 1.1 Single Intersection system architecture defined
30/04/2008 1.2 Multi-intersection system architecture defined
31/12/2009 1.3 Regional system architecture defined
Intersection Control
31/05/2009 Implement single intersection architecture described in 1.1 in
conjunction with STaRControl and STaRSense
30/04/2009 Implement sufficient part of multi-intersection system
architecture described in 1.2 in conjunction with STaRControl
and STaRSense (for demonstration)
31/12/2009 Single intersection system ready for on-street trial
30/04/2010 Implement the full multi-intersection system architecture
described in 1.2 in conjunction with STaRControl and
STaRSense
31/12/2010 First multi-intersection system ready for on-street trial (c.f.,
STaRControl Task 3.3)
30/04/2011 Enhanced multi-intersection control system demonstrated (c.f.,
STaRControl Task 3.4)
30/09/2011 Second multi-intersection system ready for on-street trial (c.f.,
STaRControl Task 3.4)
Support
31/05/2009 Hardware requirements for arterial demonstrator defined and
installation schedule negotiated with RTA
30/06/2009 At least one intersection installed
31/12/2009 Arterial hardware install complete
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31/05/2009 Hardware selection for automatic multi-vehicle position
determination (ground truth)
30/08/2009 Installation of equipment for ground truth multi-vehicle position
determination
31/12/2009 Calibrate single-intersection model
30/06/2010 Calibrate multi-intersection model
30/04/2011 Assist STaRControl in developing a multi-sensor platform for
demonstration purposes.
30/04/2011 Implement alpha version of “internet traffic radar”
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Spectral Image Source Mapping Systems (SISMS)
Topic: New spectral imaging technologies have opened up the possibility for
computer vision to directly infer properties of materials from their spatial spectral
signatures.
Aim: Advancing Australian capabilities in key emerging imaging and sensing
technologies beyond the visible spectrum with a strong focus in national
prosperity and well being. The project promotes research and development of
spectral imaging technology for diagnostic instruments and methods for
biosecurity, ecology and agriculture. It also develops new methods for 3D
thermography towards applications with national benefit.
Duration: 4.92 years (2.5 FTE over 4.92 years).
Project Leader: Antonio Robles-Kelly.
Participants:
• Embedded Systems group
• ANU
Key points:
• Offers significant new sensor systems for forensics, biometrics and
surveillance capable of identifying very specific material sources and
unique human characteristics more robustly than current normal colour
video
• Research leading to a new class of relatively cheap, non-invasive methods
for material analysis, human and veterinary diagnosis and agriculture
monitoring
• Provides strong theoretical basis to spectral decoding, feature extraction,
inverse modelling of spectral images and multi-camera imaging
technologies.
Progress:
• The initial purchase of equipment and setup of the lab has been
completed.
• The development of a new integrated wavelet-based hidden Markov
random field spatial spectral feature encoding has been completed.
• In parallel with the point above, we have also completed a benchmark of
current popular robust feature extraction models.
• First results for spectral feature encoding have been completed.
• Obtained initial results on hyperspectral absorption recovery.
• We have explored band selection so as to develop cheap sensors or
multiplex light.
• We have commenced the analysis of the information provided by each
band and the impact of reducing their number and resolution for cheap
sensor production.
• We have developed a robust spectral signature descriptor for recognition
and compression.
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• We have developed a method for retrieval in large databases aimed at
providing a proven measure of confidence for identification of targets in
hyperspectral imaging.
Milestones:
Date Milestone
31/12/2007 Subproject 1 - SmarTraps
31/12/2008 Subproject 2 - Early Detection of Plant Pathogens
31/12/2009 Subproject 4 - Spectral Multi-camera tracking for Sentient
Environments
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Testbed Management Framework and its Application to Peerto-Peer
Overlays (TEMPO)
Topic: Using common framework to control and manage networking experimental
platform worldwide, Using energy consumption constraints to optimize service
delivery in a distributed managed environment.
Aim: Experimental platforms (testbeds) are instrumental in the development and
evaluation of new Internet and networking technologies. Many local and
international research team currently deploy, use and manage such testbeds in
an ad-hoc independent manner. Large-scale service and content distribution is a
key challenge for the future Internet. Many deployed industry solutions are based
on distributed schemes optimizing resources such as bandwidth or delay. In this
context, TEMPO has two complementary goals. First, it will develop a unified
control, management, and measurement framework for networking testbeds, and
deploy it on large number worldwide sites. Second, it will develop energy-aware
schemes for distributed content delivery platforms, which will be evaluated on
testbeds using the aforementioned framework.
Duration: 3 years (4.6 FTE over 3 years)
Project Leader: Thierry Rakotoarivelo
Participants:
• Networked Systems Group
• OneLab2 Consortium (EU FP7 project)
• NADA (NanoDataCenters) Consortium (EU FP7 project)
• Winlab, Rutgers University USA (GENI-NSF project)
• UNSW
Key points:
• Development of a unified control, management, and measurement
framework for networking testbeds
• Close partnership in EU and US initiatives on future Internet research
(OneLab2 and Winlab/GENI) will ensure that the developed testbed
framework will be deployed and used on multiple worldwide sites.
• Novel approaches to content distribution will address the challenge of
energy consumption in distributed environment. This is an issue, which
can no longer be ignored in current economic and political context.
• Close partnership with the NADA project will provide a direct path for the
developed content distribution solution to be used in real customer settop-box
(STB) products.
Progress:
• Definition of baseline reference of energy consumption in current set-topboxes
• Extension of current testbed framework to support experiment portability
and heterogeneous testbeds
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• Development of initial energy-aware content distribution schemes, and
evaluation on testbeds using the developed control, management, and
measurement framework.
• Teaching of testbed-based laboratory activities as part of a networking
course in university
• Extension of testbed framework to support cross-testbed experiment and
more different type of resources
• Development and evaluation of improved energy-aware content
distribution schemes
• Integrate content distribution schemes to STB prototypes
Milestones:
Date Milestone
30/04/2009 Analysis of energy consumption of set-top-boxes and review of
related regulatory policies.
30/09/2009 Release of the first version of the testbed control, management, and
measurement framework.
31/03/2010 Release and evaluation of the first version of the energy-aware
content distribution schemes.
Release and teaching of the first version of the testbed-based lab
activities at university
30/09/2010 Release of the second version of the testbed control, management,
and measurement framework.
31/03/2011 Release and evaluation of the second version of the energy-aware
content distribution schemes.
30/09/2011 Release of the final version of the testbed control, management, and
measurement framework.
Integration and potential licensing of the energy-aware schemes into
the NADA STB prototypes.
Release and teaching of the second version of the testbed-based lab
activities at university.
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Universal Storage Scheme (USS)
Topic: Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a de facto information representation
standard as it has the flexibility to describe data from a huge variety of sources.
Aim: Develop a succinct way of representing XML which uses space efficiently and
yet without compromising both query and update performance.
Duration: 4 years (2005 1.5 FTE, 2006 2.0 FTE, 2007 3.0 FTE, 2008 4.5 FTE).
Project Leader: Raymond Wong.
Participants:
• Making Sense of Data group
• Managing Complexity group
• Database start-up.
Key points:
• A succinct XML representation storage scheme has been defined
o Small storage footprint
o Small runtime footprint
o Fast and consistent performance on navigational access
o Superior query performance
o Further indexing / query optimization can be added
o Superior update performance
o Extensive benchmarks shown that it outperforms related work.
• A full text version of Wikipedia has been compressed and stored on a
mobile phone, efficient search and update are supported.
• Mobile exhibition catalogs (e.g., profile and contact of each exhibitor in
CeBIT Australia) had been compressed and deployed to exhibition visitors
Progress:
• Proof-of-concept prototype completed
• Key patent application filed
• A complete software library has been built
• The project is positioned for & undergoing commercialisation
• Research outcomes published in top conferences and some best paper or
best student awards have been obtained.
• Trade Show Catalogs deployed in the Macau’s Jewelry tradeshow and
CeBIT Australia.
• Completion of Mobile Wikipedia for Window and Jave phones.
• Project completed December 2008
Milestones:
Date Milestone
31/12/2005 XML information storage
30/06/2006 1st prototype of XML storage
31/12/2006 Sub-optimal solutions of storing XML
30/06/2007 1st prototype of updatable succinct XML storage system
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31/03/2008 Optimisation of updatable succinct storage
31/12/2008 Final report and demonstration
230

Visual Processing for the Bionic Eye (VIBE)
Topic:
Aim: develop algorithms for the real-time understanding of dynamic scenes as
applied to the needs of people with low vision.
Duration: 3 years
Project Leader: Nick Barnes
Participants:
• Embedded Systems Group
• ARC Centre of Excellence for Vision Sciences (ACEVS)
• Australian Visual Prosthetic Group (AVGP)
• Centre for Eye Research Australia (CERA)
• ANU, UQ, QUT, and the NRMA through an ARC Linkage grant
Milestones:
Date Milestone
31/12/2009 Run second round focus groups with CERA to examine potential
impact of devices
31/12/2009 Identify 1 or 2 main target applications from focus groups
31/12/2009 Clinical trial of divergence-based hazard detection with ARC Linkage
31/12/2009 Investigate whether commercial collaboration with ESA is possible
31/12/2009 Assess usage of possible interface devices with vision impaired
consumers
31/12/2009 Complete basic design for wide angle body mount camera rig
31/12/2009 Develop algorithm for dynamic joint calibration of non-overlapping
cameras
31/12/2009 Develop lab prototype overhanging obstacle detection system
31/12/2009 Develop prototype face detector/face recognition system
31/12/2009 Explore face/object detectors can be developed that circumvent the
boosting patents
31/12/2009 Develop an input-output model for the retina based on image
information
31/07/ Investigate NHMRC application for vision system modelling
2009
31/12/2009 Prototype framework for scene classification for ambulatory motion
31/07/2009 Develop a unified build test development framework, including
type/thread-safe image
stream serving and wrapping for Open CV
231

Water Information Networks (WIN)
Topic: Water-related ICT infrastructure consisting of networks of sensor platforms,
actuators and software can be constructed to greatly enhance efforts to achieve
sustainable usage of the world’s fresh water resources.
Aim: To develop innovative sensor network technology, based on the NICTOR
sensor network platform, that can enhance efficient management of water
resources, improve farm productivity and support sustainable use of this critical
national resource.
Duration: 3 years (6.65 FTE over 3 years).
Project Manager: Gavin Thoms.
Participants:
• Making Sense of Data group
• Embedded Systems group
• Network Systems group
• Managing Complexity group
• Melbourne Water Research Centre
• Rubicon Systems Australia
• Daintree Networks
• Chipcon
• DPI
Key points:
• Development of the NICTOR wireless sensor network system for monitoring
and control of water in agriculture, horticulture & viticulture, Field and Pilot
Trials completed.
• Development of gamma version of plant model based closed loop control
for irrigation (successful testing in dairy & viticulture environments).
• Demonstration of compatibility of NICTOR systems with solenoid valves &
flow sensors for high pressure irrigation in horticulture & viticulture
environments.
• 5 farms under NICTOR control, 45 ha dairy farm by end 2007. Large rice
farming district in 2008
• Development of alpha version of NOSA middleware platform for multiple
NICTOR network operation.
• Development of theory of fundamental limits of closed-loop control over
low data-rate networks
Progress:
• All major milestones to date under the STI grant and development of
NICTOR have been achieved
• Scoping for WIN-2 research, “Enable supply-on-demand in water supply
chains and improve the efficiency of large-scale irrigation networks and
dam-river systems by leveraging innovations in remote sensing, distributed
closed-loop control and optimization.”
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• Project Completed July 2008
Milestones:
Date Milestone
01/06/2005 Completion of initial NICTOR design
15/01/2006 Commencement of 2005/2006 irrigation season initial WSN
field trials
30/06/2006 Completion and evaluation of 2005/2006 irrigation season
initial WSN field trials
30/06/2006 Identification of sites for pilot WSN field trials for 2006/2007
irrigation season
31/07/2006 Installation, testing, commissioning and operation of prototype
2nd Generation WSN for horticulture trials
15/10/2006 Installation, testing, commissioning and operation of prototype
2nd generation WSN for dairy and viticulture trials
15/01/2007 Completion of Implementation Plan for Demonstrators,
incorporating results from field and pilot trials
31/08/2007 Commencement of demonstrator trials of NICTOR sensor
networks and Smart Water Control Systems in horticulture,
viticulture & dairy operations
31/08/2007 Re-engineering of prototype systems to satisfy essential
adaptations
30/06/2008 Completion of Demonstrator trials of NICTOR sensor networks
and Smart Control Water Systems
30/12/2008 Completion of on-going field tech support of NICTOR wireless
sensor network
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Wireless Gig E (GiFi)
Topic: Millimetre-wave radios will experience very challenging propagation issues,
including multi-path propagation, a rapidly changing transmission environment,
and high attenuation by walls and windows as well as atmospheric absorption.
The creation of a transmission system in CMOS operating in the 60-GHz band
requires research on all levels from algorithms, channel modelling, simulation,
architecture development and implementation to physical device modelling.
Aim: To develop novel remote frequency (RF) technologies and baseband
algorithms for a complete transceiver design for emerging millimetre-wave
communication systems.
Duration: 2.92 years (6.15 FTE over 2.92 years).
Project Leader: Stan Skafidas.
Participants:
• Embedded Systems group
• Network Systems group
• DSTO, IBM, Princeton University, Peregrine Semiconductor, Synopsys,
Cadence Design Systems, Suss Microtech, Anritsu, Agilent Technologies,
MOSIS, UTAC.
Key points:
o Worlds First 60GHz T/R Switch on Bulk 130nm CMOS
o Worlds First Integrated BPF on CMOS
o Worlds First Double Balanced Gilbert Cell Mixer
o Design of LNA,PA,Mixer,T/R Switch,VCO, BPF,Frequency Dividers
o Devices Layed, Fabricated and Tested
Progress:
• To submit for fabrication an integrated 60GHz radio on CMOS.
• Delivery of Integrated Transceiver,
• Integrated On Chip Antenna
• Integrated CMOS Amplifier at 60GHz
• Integrated Passive Filters
• Digital Calibration Circuitry
Milestones:
Date Milestone
30/11/2005 Baseband design stage 1
31/12/2005 Channel modelling II
22/03/2006 Baseband simulator I
22/03/2006 Channel modelling I
30/03/2006 Complete Lab Set Up
30/04/2006 Baseband design stage II
31/05/2006 Complete Initial Design for BPF
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31/05/2006 Complete Initial Design for PA
31/05/2006 Complete Initial Design for LNA
31/05/2006 Complete Initial Design for MIXER
31/05/2006 Complete Initial Design for Balun
31/05/2006 Complete Initial Design for T/R Switch
30/06/2006 Baseband simulator II
30/06/2006 Submit Parts for Fabrication
15/11/2006 Complete Second Design for Balun
24/11/2006 Complete Second Design for PA
27/11/2006 Complete Second Design for MIXER
27/11/2006 Complete Second Design for T/R Switch
30/11/2006 Complete Second design for BPF
30/12/2006 Complete Second Design for LNA
31/12/2006 Test Parts (BPF, PA, LNA, MIXER, Balun)
31/12/2006 Complete Initial design for 1.5Gbps (6bit A/D)
28/01/2007 Submit parts for fabrication
30/05/2007 Complete the Implementation of Baseband Transmitter in
Verilog
09/06/2007 Test parts (BPF, PA, LNA, MIXER, Balun/AD)
20/07/2007 Baseband standard submission
20/08/2007 Receiver design
30/12/2007 Integrated RF Chain
28/02/2008 Test Integrated Receive Chain
30/07/2008 Complete Second Integrated Receiver
30/09/2008 Complete the Verilog implementation of Baseband
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3. Information Annexes
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Research Publications and Annexes
The following table lists all publications attributable to NICTA researchers which
appeared up until 31 December 2008. The basis of authorship is where one or
more of the authors is a NICTA employed researcher or a contributed researcher
(fractional or fulltime). Where there are multiple authors the NICTA author(s) is
indicated by an asterisk (*). A normalised publication score is determined that
takes account of the contribution by authors not formally associated with NICTA.
Publications accepted during the reporting period but which are yet to appear
have not been listed. The summary results for publications by Program and by
type of publication are:
Table 16: 2008 Publications by Theme and Type of Publication
NICTA Theme Journal
articles
published
Embedded
Systems
Making Sense
of Data
Managing
Complexity
Networked
Systems
Total by Type
Conf-erence
papers
published
in
refereed
proceed-
ing
Key-
note
add-
ress
Book
Book
chap-
ters
Book
edit.
Tech
Rep-
orts
Total
By
Theme
Publication
with
student
author/
co-
author
16 79 0 0 0 0 0 95 41*
29 120 2 5 19 1 1 177 66*
68 199 6 10 6 0 1 290 64*
35 64 2 1 5 0 0 107 33*
148 462 10 16 30 1 2 669 204*
During 2008 NICTA published a total of 669 publications.
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Ranking
In 2008 NICTA's journals have been ranked according to impact factor, which
were developed by Computing Research Education (CORE) www.core.edu.au.
NICTA's top-tier journal publications have been indicated and ranked as follows:
* A+ and A are journals with high impact factors, high quality expert editorial
boards, sound refereeing policies and low acceptance rates.
B are good journals below A or A+. Some of them are new and would be expected
to reach a higher rank in a year or two as their reputation builds."
Table 17: Ranking of Conference Publications
Type Theme A+ A B Other TOTALS
Conference ES 2 17 7 53 79
MC 18 48 23 110 199
MSOD 17 39 21 43 120
NS 4 7 9 44 64
Top Tier 41 111
Total 152
Table 18: Ranking of Journal Publications
Type Theme A+ A B Other TOTALS
Journal ES 5 5 2 4 16
MC 13 21 10 24 68
MSOD 4 8 6 11 29
NS 9 14 7 5 35
Top Tier 31 48
Total 79
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Embedded Systems
Journal Articles
Ranking = (A+)
1. #McCarthy, C., *Barnes, N., Mahony, R., A robust docking strategy for a mobile
robot using flow field divergence, IEEE Transactions on Robotics, August, 2008,
Vol. 24, No. 4, pp.832-842
2. *Kahl, F., *Hartley, R., Multiple view geometry under the L-infinity norm, IEEE
Transactions on PAMI, September, 2008, Vol. 30, No. 9, pp.1603 - 1617
3. *Shen, C., Li, H., Brooks, M., Supervised Dimensionality Reduction via
Sequential Semidefinite Programming, Pattern Recognition, December, 2008,
Vol. 41, No. 12, pp. 3644-3652, Elsevier
4. *Vidal, R., *Hartley, R., Three-view multibody structure from motion, IEEE
Transactions on PAMI, February, 2008, Vol.30, No. 2, pp.214 - 227
5. *Vidal, R., Tron, R., *Hartley, R., Multiframe motions segmentation with
missing data using Power Factorization and GPCA, International Journal of
Computer Vision, August, 2008, Vol.79, No. 1, pp.85 - 105
Ranking = (A)
6. #Mo, Y., 50 GHz static frequency divider in 130 nm CMOS, Electronics Letters,
February 2008, Vol. 44, pp: 285-286.
7. *Yang, B., *Skafidas, E., *Evans, R.J., 60 GHz compact integrated crosscoupled
SIR-MH bandpass filter on bulk CMOS, Electronics Letters, Vol. 44, (12),
June, 2008. pp.738–740.
8. *Chung, M., *Hartley, R., Dalton, K., Davidson, R.J., Encoding cortical surface
by spherical harmonics, Statistica Sinica, October, 2008, Vol. 18, No. 4, pp. 1269
– 1292
9. *Kleinsteuber, *Seghouane, M.A., On the Deterministic CRB for DOA
Estimation in Unknown Noise fields Using Sparse Sensor Arrays, IEEE
Transactions on Signal Processing, February, 2008, Vol. 56, No. 2, pp.860-864
10. *Seghouane, A., A note on image restoration using Cp and MSE, IEEE Signal
Processing Letters, January, 2008, Vol. 15, pp.61-64
Ranking = (B)
11. *Barnes, N., Zelinsky, A., Fletcher, L., Real-Time Speed Sign Detection Using
the Radial Symmetry Detector, IEEE Trans on Intelligent Transportation Systems,
June, 2008, Vol. 9, No. 2, pp.332-321,
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http://ieeexplore.ieee.org.virtual.anu.edu.au/xpl/tocresult.jsp?isYear=2008&isnu
mber=4538004&Submit32=Go+To+Issues
12. *Eidehall, A., *Petersson, L., Statistical threat assessment for general road
scenes using Monte Carlo sampling, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent
Transportation Systems, March, 2008, Vol. 9, No. 1.
Ranking = (other)
13. de Bruijn, W., Bos, H., PipesFS: Fast Linux I/O in the Unix Tradition. Operating
Systems Review, Special Issue on Research and Developments in the Linux
Kernel, No. 5, Vol. 42, pp. 55--63, July, 2008
14. #Fu, Z., *Robles-Kelly, A., A Quadratic Programming Approach to Image
Labeling, IET Computer Vision, Vol 2, Number 4, pp. 193-207, December, 2008.
15. *Li, J., Hua, W., Jin, H., Yong, J., Current Developments of k-anonymous data
releasing, Electronic Journal of Health Informatics, March, 2008, Vol. 3, (1),
pp.1446-4381, http://ejhi.net/ojs/index.php/ejhi/issue/view/5
16. *Shen, C., #Paisitkriangkrai, S., Zhang, J., Performance Evaluation of Local
Features in Human Classification and Detection, IET Computer Vision, December,
2008, Vol. 2, No. 4, pp. 236 – 246.
Conference Papers
Ranking = (A+)
17. *Shen, C., Welsh, A., Wang, L., PSDBoost: Matrix-generation linear
programming for positive semidefinite matrices learning, Advances in Neural
Information Processing Systems (NIPS'08), Vancouver, Canada, December, 2008,
http://nips.cc/Conferences/2008/
18. *Zhou, J., Cheng, L., Bischof, W.F., Prediction and Change Detection In
Sequential Data for Interactive Applications, Twenty-Third AAAI Conference on
Artificial Intelligence, Chicago, USA, July, 2008,
http://www.aaai.org/Conferences/AAAI/aaai08.php
Ranking = (A)
19. *Shen, C., #Paisitkriangkrai, S., Zhang, J., Face Detection From Few Training
Examples, IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP'08), San
Diego, USA, October, 2008, http://www.icip08.org/
20. *Tan, R., Visibility in Bad Weather from a Single Image, IEEE Conference on
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Anchorage, Alaska, USA, June, 2008,
http://vision.eecs.ucf.edu/
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21. *Li, H., *Hartley, R., #Kim, J., A Linear Approach to motion estimation using
generalized camera models, CVPR, Anchorage, Alaska, USA, June, 2008,
http://vision.eecs.ucf.edu/
22. #Kim, J., Li, H., *Hartley, R., Motion Estimation using Global optimization,
CVPR, Anchorage, Alaska, USA, June, 2008, http://vision.eecs.ucf.edu/
23. *Zhou, J., *Robles-Kelly, A., A Quasi-random Sampling Approach to Image
Retrieval, IEEE Conference on Pattern Recognition and Computer Vision,
Anchorage, USA, June, 2008, http://vision.eecs.ucf.edu/
24. #Lim, J., *Barnes, N., Directions of Egomotion from Antipodal Points, IEEE
CVPR, Anchorage, Alaska, USA, June, 2008, IEEE Press, pp. 1-8,
http://vision.eecs.ucf.edu/
25. #Huynh, C.P., *Robles-Kelly, A., A NURBS-Based Spectral Reflectance
Descriptor with Applications in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, IEEE
Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Anchorage, Alaska,
U.S.A, June, 2008, http://vision.eecs.ucf.edu/
26. #Fu, Z., *Robles-Kelly, A., A Fast Hierarchical Approach to Image
Segmentation, International Conference on Pattern Recognition, Tampa, Florida,
USA, December, 2008, http://www.icpr2008.org/
27. #Fu, Z., *Robles-Kelly, A., Fast Multiple Instance Learning Via L_{1,2} Logistic
Regression, International Conference on Pattern Recognition, Tampa, Florida,
USA, December, 2008, http://www.icpr2008.org/
28. *Wang, L., #Zhou, L., Shen, C., A fast algorithm for creating a compact and
discriminative visual codebook, European Conference on Computer Vision,
Marseille, France, October, 2008, http://eccv2008.inrialpes.fr/index.html
29. #Paisitkriangkrai, S., Shen, C., Zhang, J., Real-time pedestrian detection using
a boosted multi-layer classifier, 8th IEEE International Workshop on Visual
Surveillance, in conjunction with European Conference on Computer Vision
(ECCV'08), Marseille, France, October, 2008, http://eccv2008.inrialpes.fr/
30. #Maccarthy, C., *Barnes, N., Anstey, K., Horswill, M., Towards a Hazard
Perception Assistance System Using visual Motion, CVAVI workshop at the
European Conference on Computer Vision, Marseille, France, October, 2008,
http://eccv2008.inrialpes.fr/
31. *Hartley, R., Seo, Y., Finding verifiably global minima to L2 minimization
problems, IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR
2008), June, 2008, Anchorage, Alaska, USA, http://vision.eecs.ucf.edu/
32. *Silpa-Anan, C., *Hartley, R., Optimized KD-trees for fast image descriptor
matching, IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR
2008), June, 2008, Anchorage, Alaska, USA, http://vision.eecs.ucf.edu/
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33. *Hartley, R., Vidal, R., Perspective nonrigid shape and motion recovery, 10 th
European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV 2008), Marseille, France,
October, 2008, http://eccv2008.inrialpes.fr/
34. *Perriollat, M., *Hartley, R., Bartoli, A., Monocular template-based
reconstructin of inextensible surfaces, British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC
2008), Leeds, UK, September, 2008, http://www.comp.leeds.ac.uk/bmvc2008/
35. *Zhang, F., *Yang, B., *Wicks, B., *Liu, Z., *Ta, C.M., *Mo, Y., *Wang, K.,
*Felic G., *Nadagouda, P., *Walsh, T., *Shieh, W., *Mareels, I., *Evans, R.J., and
*Skafidas, E., A 60-GHz Direct-Conversion Transmitter on 130-mm CMOS, IEEE
Asian Solid-State Circuits Conference (A-SSCC), Fukuoka, Japan, November,
2008, pp.137-140, ISBN:978-1-4244-2605-8, http://www.asscc.org/welcome.html
Ranking = (B)
36. *Jin, H., DeVel, O., Zhang, K., Liu, N., Knowledge Discovery from Honeypot
Data for Monitoring Malicious Attacks, 21st Australasian Joint Conference on
Artificial Intelligence, Auckland, New Zealand, December, 2008,
http://www.ai08.org/
37. *Cole, L., *Barnes, N., Insect Inspired Three Dimensional Centring,
Australasian Conference on Robotics and Automation, Canberra, Australia,
December, 2008, http://www.araa.asn.au/acra/acra2008/
38. #Overett, G.M., *Petersson, L., On the Importance of Accurate Weak Classifier
Learning for Boosted Weak Classifiers, IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium,
Eindhoven, The Netherlands, June, 2008,
http://www.iv2008.utwente.nl/downloads/IV2008_flyer.pdf
39. #Overett, G.M., Petersson, L., #Brewer, N., Pettersson, N., *Andersson, L., A
New Pedestrian Dataset for Supervised Learning, IEEE Intelligent Vehicles
Symposium, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, June, 2008,
http://www.iv2008.utwente.nl/
40. *LeVasseur, J., Uhlig, V., Yang, Y., #Chapman, M., Chubb, P., #Leslie, B.,
*Heiser, G., Pre-virtualization: soft layering for virtual machines, 13 IEEE Asia-
Pacific Computer Systems Architecture Conference, Hsinchu, Taiwan, August,
2008, Springer, http://www.ccrc.nthu.edu.tw/acsac2008/
41. #Chen, Y., Zhang, A., New Training Sequence Structure for Zero-Padded SC-
FDE System in Presence of Carrier Frequency Offset, IEEE 68th Vehicular
Technology Conference, Calgary, Canada, September, 2008,
http://www.ieeevtc.org/vtc2008fall/
42. B-#Werner, F., Gretton, C., Maire, F., Sitte, J., Induction of Topological
Environment Maps from Sequences of Visited Places, IEEE/RSJ International
Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Nice, France, September, 2008,
IEEE Computer Society, http://iros2008.inria.fr/
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Ranking = (other)
43. #Paisitkriangkrai, S., Shen, C., Zhang, J., An Experimental Study on Pedestrian
Classification Using Local Features, IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and
Systems (ISCAS'08), Seattle, Washington, USA, May, 2008,
http://www.iscas2008.org/
44. *Hergenhan, A., Heiser, G., Operating Systems Technology for Converged
ECUs, 6 th Embedded Security in Cars Conference, Hamburg, Germany, November,
2008, pp. 1 – 3, https://www.escar.info/
45. #Ong, J.L., *Seghouane, A., Polyp detection in CT Colonography based on
Shape Characteristics, International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging, Paris,
France, May, 2008, pp. 636-639
46. Lawitzky, M., *Snowdon, D., *Petters, S., Integrating Real Time and Power
Management in a Real System. Fourth International Workshop on Operating
Systems Platforms for Embedded Real-Time Applications, Jim Andersson (Ed.),
Prague, Czech Republic, July, 2008
http://www.cs.unc.edu/~anderson/meetings/ospert08/OSPERT.html
47. #Elkaduwe, D., Klein, G., *Elphinstone, K., Verified Protection Model of the
seL4 Microkernel, Verified Software: Theories, Tools, and Experiments (VSTTE
2008), Toronto, Canada, October, 2008, Springer, pp. 99-115, ISBN
3540878726, http://qpq.csl.sri.com/vsr/vstte-08
48. #Zhao, M., Shi, Z., *Reed, M., Modified Schnorr-Euchner Sphere Decoding for
Iterative Spatial Multiplexing MIMO Receiver, 10th International Symposium on
Spread Spectrum Techniques and Applications. (ISSSTA2008), Alessandro `anelli-
Coralli, Bologna, Italy, August, 2008 http://www.isssta2008.org/
49. *Pettersson, N., Petersson, L., Andersson, L., The Histogram Feature - A
Resource-Efficient Weak Classifier, IEEE Intelligent Vehicle Symposium,
Eindhoven/Netherlands, June, 2008, http://www.iv2008.utwente.nl/
50. #Du, L., Jin, H., de Vel, O., Liu, N., A Latent Semantic Indexing and WordNet
based Information Retrieval Model for Digital Forensics, IEEE International
Conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics, Taipei, Taiwan, June, 2008,
pp.70-75, ISBN 1-4244-2415-3
51. #Son, P.T., #Du, L., Jin, H., de Vel, O., Liu, N., *Caelli, T., A Simple WordNet-
Ontology based Email Retrieval System for Digital Forensics, Pacific Asia
Workshop on Cybercrime and Computer Forensics, Taipei, Taiwan, June, 2008,
pp. 217-228
52. *Qiao, S., Tang, C., Jin, H., Constrained K-Closest Pairs Query Processing
Based on Growing Window in Crime Databases, IEEE International Conference on
Intelligence and Security Informatics, Taipei, Taiwan, June, 2008, pp. 58-63, ISBN
1-4244-2415-3
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53. *Heiser, G., The Role of Virtualization in Embedded Systems, First Workshop
on Isolation and Integration in Embedded Systems, Glasgow, UK, April,
2008,http://ess.cs.uni-dortmund.de/workshops/iies/2008/
54. #Tuch, H., Structured Types and Separation Logic, 3rd International
Workshop on Systems Software Verification (SSV 08), Sydney, Australia, February,
2008, Elsevier http://ertos.nicta.com.au/publications/papers/Tuch_08.pdf
55. #Zhou , L., Hartley, R., Wang, L., Lieby, P., Barnes, N., Regularized
Discriminative Direction for Shape Difference AnalysisZhou, International
Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted
Intervention,MICCAI08, New York University, NY, USA, September, 2008,
http://miccai2008.rutgers.edu/
56. #Elkaduwe, D., Derrin, P., *Elphinstone, K., Kernel design for isolation and
assurance of physical memory, 1st Workshop on Isolation and Integration in
Embedded Systems, Glasgow, UK, April, 2008, ACM, ISBN 978-1-60558-126-2,
http://ess.cs.tudortmund.de/workshops/iies/2008/
57. #Huynh, C.P., *Robles-Kelly, A., Optimal Solution of the Dichromatic Model for
Multispectral Photometric Invariance, Joint IAPR International Workshops on
Structural and Syntactic Pattern Recognition (SSPR 2008) and Statistical
Techniques in Pattern Recognition (SPR 2008), Orlando, Florida, USA, December,
2008, http://ml.eecs.ucf.edu/ssspr/submission.php
58. *Huang, J., Zia, A., Zhou, J., *Robles-Kelly, A., Content-based Image Retrieval
via Subspace-projected Salient Features, Digital Image Computing Techniques
and Applications, Canberra, December, 2008, http://dicta2008.rsise.anu.edu.au/
59. #Fu, Z., *Robles-Kelly, A., On Mixtures of Linear SVMs for Nonlinear
Classification, 7th International Workshop on Statistical Pattern Recognition,
Orlando, Florida, USA, December, 2008, http://www.ssspr.org/2008
60. #Zhao, M., Shi, Z., *Reed, M., The Performance of Sphere Decoders for
Iterative Spatial Multiplexing MIMO Receiver, International Symposium on Turbo
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74. #Yedidya, T., *Hartley, R., Tracking of blood vessels in retinal images using
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75. #Yedidya, T., Hartley, R., Guillon, J., Automatic detection of pre-ocular tear film
break-up sequence in dry eyes, DICTA 2008, December, 2008, Canberra,
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85. *Qiu, W., and *Skafidas, E., Subspace-based Methods for Crosstalk
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5. #Paisitkriangkrai, S., Shen, C., Zhang, J., Fast Pedestrian Detection Using a
Cascade of Boosted Covariance Features, IEEE Transactions on. Circuits and
Systems for Video Technology TCSVT, August, 2008, Vol.18, No.8, pp.1140-1151
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21. *Ahn, H., Bae, S., Cheong, O., Gudmundsson, J., Aperture-Angle and
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to Nonsmooth Convex Optimization, 25th Annual International Conference on
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46. *Sanner, S., Goetschalckx, R., Driessens, K., Real-time Bayesian Search
Control for MDPs, Neural Information Processing Systems - Workshop on Model
Uncertainty and Risk in Reinforcement Learning, Vancouver, Canada, December,
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47. #Shi, Q., Li, W., Cheng, L., Smola, A., Discriminative Human Action
Segmentation and Recognition using Semi-Markov Model, IEEE Computer Society
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Classification Algorithm for LifeLog Multimedia Applications, IEEE International
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49. *Cheng, L., Vishwanathan, S., #Zhang, X., Consistent Image Analogies using
Semi-supervised Learning, IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern
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Measurement of Cognitive Load, IEEE 2008 International Workshop on
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formations and sensor networks, Proc 16th Mediterranean Conference on Control
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243. #Siddiqi, S., Huang, J., Probabilistic Sequential Diagnosis by Compilation,
Tenth International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics (ISAIM-
08), Fort Lauderdale, USA, January, 2008, http://isaim2008.unl.edu/
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244. *Fehnker, A., Huuck, R., Felix, R., Seefried, S., Some Assembly Required -
Program Analysis of Embedded System Code, Eighth IEEE International Working
Conference on Source Code Analysis and Manipulation, Beijing, China,
September, 2008, IEEE Computer Society, pp. 15-24, ISBN 978-0-7695-3353-7,
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245. #Bui, N.B., Zhu, L., Liu, Y., Tosic, V., Jeffery, R., Automating Web Service
Development Using a Unified Model, Modeling, Design, and Analysis for Serviceoriented
Architecture Workshop (MDA4SOA), Munich, Germany, September,
2008, pp. 22-29
246. *Governatori, G., #Pham, D.H., Raboczi, S., Newman, A., Thakur, S., On
Extending RuleML for Modal Defeasible Logic, International Symposium on Rule
Interchange and Applications RuleML 2008, Orlando, October, 2008, Springer,
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247. *Governatori, G., Thakur, S., #Pham, D.H., A Compliance Model of Trust,
International Conference on Legal Knowledge and Information Systems Jurix,
Florence, December, 2008, IOS Press, pp. 118-127, ISBN 978-1-58603-952-3
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Intellectual Rights in the Mashup Ecosystem, 6th International Workshop for
Technical, Economic and Legal Aspects of Business Models for Virtual Goods
incorporating the 4th International ODRL Workshop, Poznan, Poland, October,
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249. *Harabor, D., Botea, A., Hierarchical path planning for multi-size agents in
heterogeneous environments, IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence
and Games, Perth, Australia, December, 2008, pp. 258-265
250. *Sitbon, L., Bellot, P., A readability measure for an information, Adaptive
Information Retrieval, London, UK, October, 2008,
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251. *Bannerman, P., Zhu, L., Standardization as a Business Ecosystem Enabler,
Workshop on Enabling Service Business Ecosystems, Sydney, Australia,
December, 2008, http://eventseer.net/e/8032/
252. *Slind, K., *Norrish, M., A Brief Overview of HOL4, 21 st International
Conference on Theorem Proving in Higher Order Logics(TPHOLs), Montréal,
Canada, August, 2008, Springer, pp. 28-32
253. *Baader, F., Bauer, A., Tiu, A., Matching linear and non-linear trace patterns
with regular policies, 22nd International Workshop on Unification (UNIF), Linz,
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254. *Bauer, A., Pinchinat, S., A Topological Perspective on Diagnosis, 9th
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255. *Bauer, A., Jürjens, J., Security Protocols, Properties, and their Monitoring,
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Germany, May, 2008, ACM Press, pp. 33-40, ISBN 978-1-60558-042-5,
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256. *Governatori, G., Rotolo, A., An Algorithm for Business Process Compliance,
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952-3
257. *Bauer, A., Juerjens, J., Yu, Y., Tools for Traceable Security Verification,
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258. *Yu, C., Chee, H., *Anderson, B.D.O.., Noisy localization on the sphere: a
preliminary study, 4 th International Conference on Intelligent Sensors, Sensor
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2008, pp. 43-48, http://www.elec.uow.edu.au/issnip2008/
259. Bryant, A.L., Clark, R., Bennell. K., Bartold, S., Hohmann, E. Murphy, A.,
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Achilles Tendon Behaviour Are Not Reflected In Leg Stiffness, Medicine & Science
in Sports & Exercise. 40(5) Supplement: 55 th Annual Meeting of the American
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260. Bryant, A.L., Clark, R., Bennell. K., Bartold, S., Hohmann, E. Murphy, A.,
Marshall, S., Payne, C., & *Crossley, K.M. (2008) Estrogen alters the mechanical
behaviour of the human Achilles tendon in vivo . Medicine & Science in Sports &
Exercise. 40(5) Supplement: 55 th Annual Meeting of the American College of
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261. Dixon, S.J., Creaby, M.W., Hinman, R.S., Kemp, G., *Crossley, K.M.,
Functional knee joint stiffness in medial tibiofemoral osteoarthritis Arthritis and
Rheumatism 58(9) S604, American College of Rheumatology Annual Scientific
Meeting, October, 2008, San Francisco, USA
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262. Collins, N., *Crossley, K., McPoil, T., Vicenzino, B., Contoured prefabricated
foot orthoses are superior to flat inserts in the short term management of
anterior knee pain. ASICS Australian Conference of Science and Medicine in
Sport, Hamilton Island, October, 2008, Hamilton Island, Queensland, Australia
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263. Child, S., *Crossley, K.M., Bryant, A., Clark, R., Stiffness of the human
Achilles tendon is altered in people with Achilles tendinopathy. ASICS Australian
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264. Pope, J., Schache, A., *Crossley, K., Payne, C., Child, S., Creaby, M., Effects
of medially posted orthotics on ankle joint complex kinematics and torques in
runners with symptomatic Achilles tendinopathy. ASICS Australian Conference of
Science and Medicine in Sport – Hamilton Island, October, 2008, Hamilton
Island, Queensland, Australia
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265. Alexander, B.C., *Crossley, K.M., Schache, A.G., *Pandy, M.G., Comparison
of hip and knee biomechanics during gait for “good” and “poor” performers on a
single leg squat task: a pilot study, ASICS Australian Conference of Science and
Medicine in Sport, Hamilton Island, October, 2008, Hamilton Island, Queensland,
Australia
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266. Schache, A.G., *Crossley, K.M., Pandy, M.G., Immediate effects of acute
experimental anterior knee pain on knee joint biomechanics during gait, ASICS
Australian Conference of Science and Medicine in Sport, Hamilton Island,
October, 2008, Hamilton Island, Queensland, Australia
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267. *Crossley, K.M., Marino, G., Macilquham, Schache, A.G., Hinman, R.S., The
effect of patellar tape on patellar malalignment associated with patellofemoral
osteoarthritis. ASICS Australian Conference of Science and Medicine in Sport,
Hamilton Island, October, 2008, Hamilton Island, Queensland, Australia
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Keynote address
268. *Iannella, R., The Policy-Aware Web meets Virtual Goods, 6th International
Workshop for Technical, Economic and Legal Aspects of Business Models for
Virtual Goods incorporating the 4th International ODRL Workshop, October, 2008,
Poland,http://www.virtualgoods.org/2008/
269. *Iannella, R., Emergency 2.0: The Emerging Phenomenon for Crisis
Management, Korea/ Australia / New Zealand - KANZ Broadband Summit 2008,
June, 2008, Seoul, Korea,
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19
270. *Iannella, R., Emergency 2.0 - From Standards to Social Networking , Joint
ISCRAM-CHINA and GI4DM Conference on Information Systems for Crisis
Management, August, 2008, Harbin, China,
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2
271. *Governatori, G., Labelled Modal Tableaux, Advances in Modal Logic 2008,
September, 2008, Nancy, France, pp. 87-110
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272. *Crossley, K., Patellofemoral pain: Advances in physiotherapy management,
PHYSIO DUBAI, 2nd International Emirates Physiotherapy Conference. United Arab
Emirates, April, 2008
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273. *Crossley, K., Consequences of knee pain and injury on muscle function:
Implications for rehabilitation, PHYSIO DUBAI, 2nd International Emirates
Physiotherapy Conference. United Arab Emirates, April, 2008
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274. *Sakr, S., An Experimental Investigation of XML Compression Tools, NICTA,
2008, August, http://arxiv.org/abs/0806.0075
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275. *Huuck, R., Klein, G., Schlich, B., Proceedings of the 3rd International
Workshop on Systems Software Verification (SSV 2008), ENTCS, Ralf Huuck,
Gerwin Klein and Bastian Schlich, 217, Elsevier, July, 2008,
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/15710661
276. Beckert, B., *Klein, G., 5th International Verification Workshop – VERIFY'08,
Bernhard Beckert and Gerwin Klein, 372, CEUR Workshop Proceedings, August,
2008, http://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/Publications/CEUR-WS/Vol-372/
277. *Rintanen, J., Nebel, B., Beck, J.C., Hansen, E., Proceedings of the 18th
International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling, Rintanen,
Nebel, Beck, Hansen, NA, AAAI Press, September, 2008,
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278. *Tosic, V., Göschka , K.M., van Moorsel , A., Warren, I., Wong, R.,
Proceedings of the EDOC 2008 Workshop Middleware for Web Services (MWS)
2008, Vladimir Tosic, Karl Michael Göschka, Aad van Moorsel, Ian Warren,
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279. *Baumgartner, P., Armando, A., Dowek, G., Automated Reasoning - 4th
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Alessandro Armando, Peter Baumgartner, Gilles Dowek (Eds.), 5195, Springer,
August, 2008, ISBN 3-540-71069-8
280. *Bassiliades, N., Governatori, G., Paschke, A., Rule Representation,
Interchange and Reasoning on the Web, LNCS, Nick Bassiliades, Guido
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281. *Grastien, A., Mayer, W., Stumptner, M., Proceedings of the Nineteenth
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282. *Göschka, K.M., Dustdar, S., Leymann, F., Tosic, V., Middleware for Service
Oriented Computing (MW4SOC 2008), Karl M. Göschka, Schahram Dustdar,
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284. *Keung, J., Proceedings of 2nd International Workshop on Software
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Multimedia Services in Intelligent Environments, 120, Springer, June, 2008, ISBN
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286. *Thiebaux, S., Buffet, O., Planification d'operations, Processus de Decision
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287. *Brebner, P., RFID Data Management: Issues, Solutions, and Directions, The
Internet of Things: From RFID to the Next-Generation Pervasive Networked
Systems, CRC Press, February, 2008, ISBN 978-1420052817
288. *Cohn, A., Renz, J., Qualitative Spatial Representation and Reasoning,
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289. *Böttcher, S., Lohrey, M., Maneth, S., Rytter, W., 08261 Abstracts Collection
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Dagstuhl - Leibniz-Zentrum fuer Informatik, Germany, Dagstuhl, Germany,
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290. *Mao, G., *Anderson, B., *Fidan, B., Fang, J., Morse, S., On the critical
connectivity radii in WM2SNets, Wireless Mesh Networking, McGraw-Hill,
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1. Subrata, R., *Zomaya, A., *Landfeldt, B., A Cooperative Game Framework for
QoS Guided Job Allocation Schemes in Grids. IEEE Transactions on Computers,
Vol. 57, Issue 10, pp. 1413-1422. September, 2008
2. Shepherd, D., Braennstroem, F., *Shi, Z., *Reed, M.C., Adaptive Optimization of
an iterative multiuser detector for turbo-coded CDMA. IEEE transactions on
Wireless communications, 2008, Vol. 7 (1), No. 11, pp. 4284-4293, ISSN 1536-
1276
3. Hassan, J., Sirisena, H., *Landfeldt, B., Trust-Based Fast Authentication for
Multiowner Wireless Networks. IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, no. 2,
Vol. 7, pp. 247-261, February, 2008
4. *Smith, D.B, *Hanlen, L., New Group Product Differential Unitary Space-Time
Codes with Simplified Design and Detection, IEEE Transactions on Wireless
Communications, IEEE Transactions on, Vol. 7, No. 12, pp. 4825 – 4830,
December, 2008,
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5. #Zhao, M., Shi, Z., *Reed, M., Iterative Turbo Channel Estimation for OFDM
System over Rapid Dispersive Fading Channel, IEEE Trans on Wireless Comms,
July, 2008, Vol.7, No.7, pp. 11
6. *Yang, Q., *Shieh, W., and *Ma, Y., Guard-band influence on orthogonal-bandmultiplexed
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2008.
7. *Shieh, W., and Ho, K.P., Equalization-enhanced phase noise for coherentdetection
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8. *Shieh, W., *Yang, Q., and *Ma, Y., 107 Gb/s coherent optical OFDM
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computation, Optics Express, Vol. 16, Issue 14, pp. 10529-10534, July, 2008
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297

10. *Perera, E., Boreli, R., A mobility toolbox architecture for All-IP networks: An
Ambient Networks approach, IEEE Wireless communication magazine, April,
2008, Vol. 15, Issue: 2, pp. 8-16, ISSN: 1536-1284,
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11. *Bakaul, M., *Nadarajah, N., *Nirmalathas, A., and Wong, E., Internetworking
VCSEL-Based Hybrid Base Station Towards Simultaneous Wireless and Wired
Transport for Converged Access Network, IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, Vol.
20, No. 8, pp. 569-571, April, 2008. [Digital Object Identifier
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12. *Bakaul, M., Low-Cost PMD-Insensitive and Dispersion Tolerant In-Band
OSNR Monitor Based on Uncorrelated Beat Noise Measurement, IEEE Photonics
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13. #Li, M., *Pendock, J.G., and *Evans, R.J., Spectral recovery for
low-resolution optical spectrum monitors, IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, Vol.
20, No. 13, pp.1109-1111, July, 2008.
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14. *Herborn, S., *Seneviratne, A., Dial ‘M’ for Middlebox Managed Mobility, IEEE
Network, September, September – October, 2008, Vol. 22 Issue 5, pp. 41-47,
ISSN: 0890-8044
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15. Gamage, P., *Nirmalathas, A., *Lim, C., *Wong, E., Novak, D., Waterhouse, R.,
Performance Comparison of directly modulated VCSEL and DFB Lasers in Wired-
Wireless Networks, Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE, Vol. 20, Issue 24, pp.
2102-2104, December, 2008.
16. Tong, Z., *Yang, Q., *Ma, Y., and *Shieh, W., 21.4 Gbit/s transmission over
200 km multimode fibre using coherent optical OFDM, Electronics Letters, Vol.
44, pp. 1373-1375, November, 2008.
17. *Yang, Q., *Shieh, W., and *Ma, Y., Bit and power loading for coherent optical
OFDM, IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, Vol. 20, pp.1305-1307, July – August,
2008.
18. *Tang, Y., Ho, K.P., and *Shieh, W., Coherent optical OFDM transmitter
design employing predistortion, IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, Vol. 20, pp.
954-956, May – June, 2008.
19. *Yi, X., *Shieh, W., and *Ma, Y., Phase noise effects on high spectral
efficiency coherent optical OFDM transmission, Journal of Lightwave Technology,
Vol. 26, pp. 1309-1316, May – June, 2008.
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20. *Tang, Y., and *Shieh, W., Transmission of 100 Gbit/s WDM systems with
coherent optical OFDM, Electronic Letters, Vol. 44, pp.588-589, April, 2008.
21. Zhang, F., *Skafidas, E., and *Shieh, W., 60 GHz double-balanced upconversion
mixer on 130 nm CMOS technology, Electronics Letters, Vol. 44, pp.
633-634, May, 2008.
22. Pendock, G.J., *Yi, X., and Yu, C., and *Shieh, W., Dispersion-monitoring in
WDM systems by injecting modulated ASE, IEEE Photonics Technology Letters,
Vol. 20, pp. 821-823, May – June, 2008.
23. *Shieh, W., Maximum-likelihood phase and channel estimation for coherent
optical OFDM, IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, Vol. 20, pp. 605-607, March –
April, 2008.
Ranking = (B)
24. *Landfeldt, B., Wei, B., Zeadally, S., End-to-end Support over Heterogeneous
Wired-Wireless Networks. Elsevier Computer Communications, No. 11, Vol. 31,
July, 2008
25. *Zaidi, Z., Landfeldt, B., Monitoring assisted robust routing in wireless mesh
networks, ACM MONET, April, 2008, Vol. 13, pp.54-66
26. *Pirzada, A.A., Portmann, M., Indulska, J., Performance analysis of multi-radio
AODV in hybrid wireless mesh networks, Elsevier Computer Communications,
March, 2008, Vol. 31, No. 5, pp. 885-895
27. *Reed, M.C., *Hanlen, L., Corazza, G., Return Link Code Acquisition for 1-D
and 2-D DS-CDMA for High Capacity Multiuser Systems, IEEE Transactions on
Vehicular Technology, January, 2008, Vol. 57, No.1, pp. 324-334
28. #Yang, T., Yuan, J., Shi, Z., *Reed, M.C., Convergence behaviour analysis
Analysis and Detection Switching for the Iterative Receiver of MIMO-BICM
Systems, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology , May, 2008, Vol.57, No.4,
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29. *Jourjon, G., Lochin, E., Senac, P., Design, implementation and evaluation of
a QoS-aware transport protocol , Computer Communications, June, 2008, Vol.31,
No.9, pp.1713-1722,
http://dx.doi.org.wwwproxy0.nun.unsw.edu.au/10.1016/j.comcom.2007.11.015
30. *Nadarajah, N., Control Packet Signaling Mechanism using Electronic Code
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31. #Nagy, O., *Reed, M.C., Shi, Z., Performance analysis of a generic system
model for uncoded IDMA using serial and parallel interference cancellation,
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32. *Nadarajah, N,, and *Nirmalathas, A., Novel Schemes for Upstream Access
and Local Customer Network Emulation in Passive Optical Networks using a
Single Reflective Semiconductor Optical Amplifier, OSA Journal of Optical
Networking, Vol. 7, No. 5, pp. 513 - 532, May, 2008, http://jon.osa.org/Issue.cfm
33. Su, Y., Tian, Y., *Wong, E., *Nadarajah, N., and #Chan, C.C.K., All-Optical
Virtual Private Network in Passive Optical Networks, Journal of Lasers & Photonics
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34. Kim, J.G., Chae, C-J., Vu, H.L., and Kang, M-H., Deflection-based transmission
protocol for LAN operation in a PON system, Journal of Photonic Networks and
Communications, Springer Netherlands, published on line, October, 2008.
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36. *Arya, V., Duffield, N.G., *Veitch, D., Temporal delay tomography, IEEE Joint
Conference of the IEEE Computer and Communications Societies, (INFOCOM
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978-1-4244-2025-4
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37. #Ali, M.E., Zhang, R., *Tanin, E., *Kulik, L., A Motion-Aware Approach to
Continuous Retrieval of 3D Objects, IEEE 24th International Conference on Data
Engineering, ICDE 2008, April 2008, pp. 843-852, Cancun, Mexico, ISBN: 978-1-
4244-1836-7, INSPEC Accession Number: 9963698
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38. #Hu, P., Indulska, J., Robinson, R., An Autonomic Context Management
System for Pervasive Computing, the Sixth IEEE Annual Conference on Pervasive
Computing and Communication (PerCom'08), Hong Kong, March, 2008,
http://www4.comp.polyu.edu.hk/~percom08/
39. #Hu, P., Robinson, R., Portmann, M., Indulska, J., Context-Aware Routing in
Wireless Mesh Networks, The 2nd Workshop on Context-Awareness for Self-
Managing Systems International Conference on Pervasive
Computing(Pervasive'08 Workshop), May, 2008, Sydney, Australia,
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40. #Senanayake, B., *Reed, M., Shi, Z., Timing Acquisition for Multi-User IDMA,
2008 IEEE International Conference on Communications, Beijing China, May,
2008, pp. 5077-5081
41. #Tan, F., #Borghol, Y., Ardon, S., EMO: A Statistical Encounter-based Mobility
MOdel for Simulating Delay Tolerant Networks, IEEE International Symposium on
a World of Wireless Mobile and Multimedia Networks (WoWMoM 2008), Newport
Beach, California, USA, June, 2008, ISBN 978-1-4244-2099-5,
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42. *Tan, E., Chen, J., Ardon, S., Lochin, E., Video TFRC, IEEE International
Conference on Communications (ICC 2008), Beijing, China, May, 2008,
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43. #Tsai, J., Moors, T., Minimum Interference Multipath Routing Using Multiple
Gateways in Mesh Networks, Fifth IEEE International Conference on Mobile Adhoc
and Sensor Systems, Atlanta, Georgia, USA, October, 2008, pp. 519-520
44. #Rathnayake, U., Ott, M., Predicting Network Availability Using User Context,
MobiQuitous 2008, Dublin, Ireland, July, 2008, http://www.mobiquitous.org/
45. *Smith, D., Super-Orthogonal Co-ordinate Interleaved Orthogonal Designs,
IEEE International Conference on Communications 2008, ICC'08, Beijing, China,
May, 2008, http://www.ieee-icc.org/2008/
46. *Zhang, M., Abhayapala, T.D., Jayalath, D., *Smith, D., Athaudage, C.,
Multirate Space-Time-Frequency Linear Block Coding, IEEE International
Conference on Communications 2008, ICC'08, Beijing, China, May, 2008,
http://www.ieee-icc.org/2008/
Ranking = (B)
47. #Ta, X., Mao, G., Anderson, B., Phase Transition Properties in K-connected
Wireless Multi-hop Networks, Globecom, New Orleans, USA, November, 2008, pp.
1-6
48. *Zhang, A., Reduced Rank Equalization for Precoded OFDM Systems, IEEE
International Symposium on Personal and Indoor Mobile Radio Communications
(PIMRC 08), Cannes, France, August - September, 2008
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=2
49. #Luo, L., Zhang, A., Shi, Z., Iterative (Turbo) Joint Channel Estimation and
Signal Detection for Quadrature OFDMA Systems, IEEE PIMRC 2008, Cannes,
France, September, 2008, http://www.pimrc2008.org/
50. #Luo, L., Zhang, A., Shi, Z., BER Analysis for Asymmetric OFDM Systems,
GlobeCom, New Orleans, USA, December, 2008,
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51. *Xiong, L., Libman, L., Mao, G., Optimal Strategies for Cooperative MAC-Layer
Retransmission in Wireless Networks, IEEE Wireless Communications and
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54. #Xu, D., An analysis of different backoff functions for an IEEE 802.11 WLAN,
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55. *Chan, C.A., Attygalle, M., *Nirmalathas, A.,Global Telecommunications
Conference, Active Remote Node with Layer Two Forwarding for Improving
Performance of EPON, IEEE GLOBECOM 2008, November – December, 2008,
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56. #Hakami, S., Zaidi, Z., Landfeldt, B., Moors, T., Detection and identification of
anomalies in wireless mesh networks using Principal Component Analysis (PCA),
International Symposium on Parallel Architectures, Algorithms and Networks (I-
SPAN 2008), Sydney, Australia, May, 2008,
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57. *Li, J.C., Hinton, K., *Dods, S.D., Farrell, P.M., Novel Outage Probability Based
RWA Algorithm, Optical Fiber Communication Conference (OFC/NFOEC '08), San
Diego, February, 2008.
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OFCNFOEC-2008.aspx
58. *Hewitt, D.F., *Tran, A.V., *Chae, C.J., 10 Gb/s Long-Reach Optical Access
with Multi-Mode Fiber Distribution Using Baseband Single-Sideband OFDM,
Optical Fiber Communication Conference (OFCNFOEC), San Diego, CA. February
2008, Paper JWA111 http://www.osa-opn.org/Blog/post/2008/02/Greetings-from-
OFCNFOEC-2008.aspx
59. #Li, M., *Pendock, G.J., and *Evans, R.J., Channel Identification with Low-
Resolution Optical Spectrum Monitors, OECC/ACOFT, June, 2008, Sydney,
Australia
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302

60. *Qiu, W., *Pham, M.H., and *Skafidas, E., Routing and Localization for
Extended Lifetime in Data Collection Wireless Sensor Networks, 3rd International
Workshop on Wireless Community Networks, Hangzhou, China August, 2008,
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61. *Chang, L., Combined Transmission of Baseband OFDM and PON Signals for
Integrated Access Network, Opto-Electronics and Communications Conference
(OECC), Sydney, Australia, July, 2008,
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62. #Chang, L., *Chae, C.J., and *Nirmalathas, A., Selective delivery of DSB and
SSB OFDM-based video signals over WDM PON, Microwave Photonics, MWP2008,
Gold Coast, Australia, September - October, 2008
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63. *Nadarajah, N., *Tran, A., and *Chae, C.J., 10 Gb/s Upgrade for High Split
and Long Reach PON using remote Repeater, Proceedings of 13th
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64. *Nadarajah, N., *Chae C.J., Lee, A., and *Nirmalathas, A., Local Area
Networking in Passive Optical Networks with Wavelength Switching VCSEL,
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87, Sydney, Australia, June, 2008
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65. *Hewitt, D., and *Nadarajah, N., Comparisons between Single and Double
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October, 2008, pp.15-18, Gold Coast, 2008, Australia
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74. Gamage, P., *Nirmalathas, A., *Lim, C., *Wong, E., Novak, D., Waterhouse R.,
Multi-services distribution using power-efficient low-cost VCSELs, 2008 Asia-
Pacific Microwave Photonics Conference, MWP/APMP, September – October,
2008, pp.169-172, Gold Coast, 2008, Australia, http://www.mwp2008.org/
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subcarrier channel, International Conference on Optical Communications and
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80. *Yi, W., *Shieh, W., and *Ma, Y., Experimental demonstration of optical
performance monitoring in coherent optical OFDM systems, 2008 Optical Fiber
Communication Conference/National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference, San
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81. Yu, C., Pendock, G.J., *Yi, X., and *Shieh, W., Dispersion measurement
through WDM systems with modulated background ASE, 2008 Optical Fiber
Communication Conference/National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference, San
Diego, California, USA, February, 2008, pp. 646-648, 2008
http://www.comsoc.org/confs/ofc/2008/index.html
82. Tong, Z., *Yang, Q., and *Ma, Y., 21.4 Gb/s coherent optical OFDM
transmission over 200 km multimode fiber, 2008 Joint Conference of the Opto-
Electronics and Communications Conference (OECC) and the Australian
Conference on Optical Fibre Technology (ACOFT), Sydney, Australia, July, 2008
http://www.iceaustralia.com/OECC_ACOFT2008/
83. *Yang, Q., *Shieh, W., and *Ma, Y., Bit and power loading for coherent optical
OFDM, 2008 Joint Conference of the Opto-Electronics and Communications
Conference (OECC) and the Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technology
(ACOFT), Sydney Australia, July, 2008.
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84. Pendock, G.J., *Shieh, W., and *Yi, X., and Yu, C., Measuring dispersion in
WDM links with modulated background ASE, 2008 Joint Conference of the Opto-
Electronics and Communications Conference (OECC) and the Australian
Conference on Optical Fibre Technology (ACOFT), Sydney, Australia, July, 2008
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85. #Nazir, F., Takeda, H., Extraction and Analysis of Tripartite Relationships from
Wikipedia, 2008 IEEE International Symposium on Technology and Society, New
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Brunswick, Canada, June, 2008, http://envirotechweb.org/2007/11/02/cfp-
2008-ieee-international-symposium-on-technology-and-society-istas-08/
86. #Sarwar, G., Boreli, R., Jourjon, G., Lochin, E., Improvements in DCCP
congestion control for satellite links, 2008 International Workshop on Satellite
and Space Communications (IWSSC 2008), Toulouse, France, October, 2008,
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87. *Herborn, S., Petander, H., *Ott, M., Predictive Context Aware Mobility
Handling, International Conference on Telecommunications, St Petersburg,
Russia, June, 2008, pp. 1-6, ISBN 978-1-4244-2035-3
88. #Nagy, O., *Hanlen, L., Capacity Bounds for LTI Channels, Australian
Communication Theory Workshop, Christchurch, New Zealand, February, 2008,
pp. 29-32,
89. #Salehin, S.M.A., *Hanlen, L., Dimensionality for Two Ring Scattering Model,
Australian Communication Theory Workshop (AusCTW), Christchurch, New
Zealand, January, 2008, pp.12-16, http://ausctw.anu.edu.au/
90. #Marwaha, S., Indulska, J., Portmann, M., Challenges and Recent Advances in
QoS Provisioning in Wireless Mesh networks: A survey, IEEE International
Conference on Computer and Information Technology (CIT 2008), Sydney,
Australia, July, 2008 http://attend.it.uts.edu.au/cit2008/
91. #Ta, X., Mao, G., Anderson, B.D.O., On the Connectivity Properties of Wireless
Multi-hop Networks, The Third International Conference on Communications and
Networking in China, China, August, 2008,
http://www.chinacom.org/2008/index.html
92. #Kannan, A., Fidan, B., Mao, G., Robust Distributed Sensor Network
Localization Based on Analysis of Flip Ambiguities, IEEE Globecom, New Orleans,
USA, December, 2008, http://www.comsoc.org/confs/globecom/2008/
93. *Ylitalo, J., Melen, J., Salmela, P., Petander, H., An Experimental Evaluation of
a HIP based Network Mobility Scheme, 6th International conference on
Wired/Wireless Internet communications,Tampere, Finland, May, 2008, Springer
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94. *Husain, I., Yuan, J., Zhang, A., Channel shortening through bit error rate
minimization for UWB systems, Communications Theory Workshop, AusCTW
2008, Australian, New Zealand, January, 2008, pp. 130-134
95. *Smith, D., *Hanlen, L., *Miniutti, D., Zhang, A., Rodda, D., Gilbert, B.,
Statistical characterization of the dynamic narrowband body area channel, First
International Symposium on Applied Sciences in Biomedical and Communication
Technologies, Aalburg, Denmark, October, 2008, http://isabel2008.es.aau.dk
96. #Mehani, O., *Boreli, R., Adapting TFRC to Mobile Networks with Frequent
Disconnections, Conference on Emerging Networking EXperiments and
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Technologies, CoNext, Madrid, Spain, December, 2008,
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97. #Timo, R., Grant, A., Chan, T., Kramer, G., Source Coding for a Simple Network
with Receiver Side Information, International Symposium on Information Theory
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in QoS Provisioning, Signaling, Routing and MAC in MANETs, Australasian
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Keynote or Plenary Address
100. *Ott, M., Resource Description: *The Cornerstone of Federation, FIREworks
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101. *Ott, M., Global Experimental Testbeds for Studying Future Internet
Technologies. International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing,
Applications and Technologies, 1-4 December 2008, Dunedin, New Zealand
Book Chapter
102. *Indulska, J., Henricksen, K., Context Awareness, The Engineering
Handbook on Smart Technology for Aging, Disability and Independence, Computer
Engineering Series, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, New Jersey, USA, January,
2008, Chapter 31, pp. 585-605 http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgibin/bookhome/117902358/
103. *Van Wambeke, N., Exposito, E., *Jourjon, G., Lochin, E., Enhanced
Transport Protocols, End-to-End Quality of Service Over Heterogeneous Networks,
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104. #Pedrasa, J., *Seneviratne, A., Perera, E., Context Aware Mobility
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105. *Zhang, A., Ultra Wideband Systems - A research overview, Advances in
Broadband Communication and Networks, River Publishers, Denmark,
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106. #Ali, M.E., *Tanin, E., Zhang, R., and *Kulik, L., Load Balancing for Moving
Object Management in a P2P Network, Lecture Notes in Computer Science,
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107. *Indulska, J., Patterson, D., Rodden, T., Ott, M., Pervasive Computing, 6th
International Conference, Pervasive 2008, LNCS 5013, Springer, May, 2008,
ISBN 3-540-79575-8
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Research and Teaching Visitors to Australia
(Short Stay Visits)
Name of Visitor
(last name, first
name)
Organisation Country Length of
visit
Reason for visit/
relevant project
collaboration
Labs
visited
Anandan, P Microsoft Research India 10 days SISM CRL
Angelino, Acting Director
Japan 1 day Education VRL
Henri
Research Organisation of
Information and Systems,
National Institute of
Informatics, Tokyo, Japan.
September 2008.
Bacon, Jean Cambridge University UK 2 weeks Pervasive
computing/
SAFE II
Bae, Sang-
Won
Korea Advanced Institute of
Science and Technology
South
Korea
Networks
1 week Collaborate with
DMiST project
Barthes, Jean- CRR France 2 days Managing CRL
Paul
Complexity
Boff, Ken AOARD USA 1 day Fact finding QRL
Bolon, Philippe University of Savoie, School France 1 day Managing VRL
of Engineering, Annecy ,
Head of the Computer
System Information and
knowledge Processing
Research Lab
Complexity
Box, Hendrik
Nether- 12 VR NRL
Jaap
lands months
Cambazard, University of Cork Ireland 2 weeks Attending CP NRL
Hadrian
Conference/G12
Project
Chao, Lu Dept of Electronic and HK 1 month Network VRL
Information Engineering, HK
Polytechnic University, Hung
Hom, Kowloon, HK
Systems
Chellappa,
Ramalingam
University of Maryland USA 8 days SISM CRL
Cheng, W.H Institute of Electro-Optical
Engineering, National Sun
Yat-sen University
Taiwan 3 days WIN VRL
309
QRL
ATP

Chiu, Y.J Institute of Electro-Optical
Engineering, National Sun
Yat-sen University
Taiwan 3 days WIN VRL
Collier, Nigel National Institute of
Informatics
Japan 1 week MSD VRL
Das, Gautam University of Texas USA 3 weels Research
collaboration
with DMiST
project
ATP
Dasgupta,
Soura
University of Iowa USA 18 days SWARM CRL
Depret, Villetaneuse Institute of France 1 day Managing VRL
Antoine Technology (University
Paris), Telecommunication
Department
Complexity
Faltings, Boi EPLF Switz- 1 day Exchange of NRL
erland
ideas
Franconi, Faculty of Computer
Italy 3 months Colloborate on NRL
Enrico Science, Free University of
SAIL Project
Bozen Bolzano
and teach a
short course
Gerevini, Brescia University Italy 8 days Managing CRL
Alfonso
Complexity
Hancock,
Edwin
University of New York UK 20 days SISM CRL
Harris, Fred San Diego State University, USA 1 day Big Picture VRL
USA
Seminar
Hebrard, University of Cork Ireland 2 weeks Attending CP NRL
Emmanuel
Conference/G12
Project
Helmert, Malte Friebourg University Germany 3 weeks Supercom CRL
Heydecker,
Benjamin
University College London UK 2 weeks STaR NRL
Hseih, Robert Independent Consultant UK 2 weeks Research
collaboration on
the PingMe
project
ATP
Huang, Y.C Institute of Electro-Optical
Engineering, National Sun
Yat-sen University
Taiwan 3 days WIN VRL
Hustadt, Ulrich University of Liverpool UK 2 weeks Managing
Complexity
CRL
Ismailov, Yuri Ericsson Research Sweden 1 week Conduct NICTA
short course on
"Mobility
Management" at
ATP
ATP
Jarvelin, Pentti
Kalervo
University of Tampere Finland 3 weeks MSD VRL
Kanchanasut, Asian Institute of Technology Thailand 2 weeks Discuss use of ATP,
Kanchana
distance CRL,
310

Kanchanasut,
Kanchana
education on
R&E network in
ASEAN
VRL
Asian Institute of Technology Thailand 1 week Organising
CanalAVIST
forum. The twoday
forum is an
onset for the
ICT stream of
CanalAVIST
and aims to
provide ICT
knowledge and
information to
the ASEAN and
Asia-Pacific
audience.
ATP
Fronhaufer IAIS Germany 15 days MSD CRL
Kersting,
Kristian
Kumar, Mohan University of Texas at
Arlington
US 1 week pervasive and
opportunitic
computing/
SAFE II
Networks
Kwantes,
Peter
DRDC Canada 1 week collaboration QRL
Langerman, Université libre de
Belgium 1 week Collaborate with ATP
Stefan Bruxelles
DMiST project
Lee, C.C Dept of Optics and Photons,
National Sun Yat-sen
University,
Taiwan 3 days WIN VRL
Leguernic,
Guruan
INRIA France 2 days Supercom CRL
Liao, H.K Dept of Electronic
Engineering, National Taiwan
University
Taiwan 3 days WIN VRL
Loffler, Utrecht University Nether- 2 weeks Collaborate with ATP
Maarten
lands
DMiST project
Mahanti, Indian Institute of Tech, Delhi India 2 days As a potential ATP
Anirban
Researcher
candidate for
the NS Theme
Meyer, Meraka Institute South 2 weeks Attending CP NRL
Thomas
Africa
Conference/G12
Project
Mihaylov, EPFL in Lausanne,
Switz- 6 months Intern on NRL
Nikolay Switzerland
erland
CompQu Project
Miltersen, University of Aarhus, Denmark 1 week MSD theme ATP-
Peter Bro Denmark
DMiST project Usyd
research
collaboration
Lab
Moody, Ken Cambridge University UK 2 weeks pervasive
computing/
SAFE II
Networks
QRL
Morin, Patrick Carleton University Canada 1 week MSD theme ATP-
DMiST project Usyd
311
QRL

esearch
collaboration
Lab
Nicklas,
Daniela, Prof.
Oldenburg University Germany 3 days SAFE Networks QRL
Paindavoine, University of Bourgogne , France 1 day Managing VRL
Michel Dijon
Complexity
Petteri, Nurmi Helsinki Institute for
Finland 1 week Develop ATP
Information Technology
application
adaptation for
the Context
aware mobility
project.
Pissaloux, University of Rouen, School France 1 day Managing VRL
Edwige of Physics
Institute of intelligent systems
and robotics of University
Paris
Complexity
Porikli, Faith Mitsubishi Research USA 10 days SISM CRL
Quimper,
Claude-Guy
Roscoe,
Andrew
Rossi,
Francesca
The University of Waterloo Canada 3.5 weeks Attending CP
Conference/G12
Project
Oxford University United 3 weeks exchange of
Kingdom
ideas
University of Padova Italy 2 weeks Attending CP
Conference/G12
Project
Freie University Berlin Germany 1 week Collaborate with
DMiST project
University of Copenhagen Denmark 4 days Managing
Complexity
Institut Fur Informatik Germany 4 days Managing
Complexity
Scharfenberg,
Marc
Schuermann,
Carsten
Schulz,
Stephan
Senac, Patrick Institut Supérieur de
l'Aéronautique et de l'Espace
(ISAE)
Resulting from the
rapprochement of SUPAERO
and ENSICA
Seylan, Inanc Free University of Bozen-
Bolzano
Toulouse,
France
NRL
NRL
NRL
ATP
CRL
CRL
4 days ATP
Italy 5 Days description
logics and their
application to
database
systems, and
automated
reasoning
(especially
tableau
methods) which
are the topics of
the PhD thesis.
312
NRL

Shen, M.T Dept of Electronic
Engineering, Tung Ta
Institute of Technology and
Commerce
Shih, T.T Dept of Electronic
Engineering, National
Kaohsiung University of
Applied Science
Taiwan 3 days WIN VRL
Taiwan 3 days WIN VRL
Smid, Michiel Carelton University Canada 2 weeks Collaborate with
DMiST project
ATP
Song, Dawei Open University UK 5 days Embedded
Systems
CRL
Sonntag,
David
AOARD Japan 1 day fact finding QRL
Sperduti, University of Padova Italy 2 weeks Attending CP NRL
Alessandro
Conference/G12
Project
Varzinczak, CSIR Entabeni South 1 week Attending CP NRL
Ivan
Africa
Conference/G12
Project
Vincent, Nicole René Descartes University, France 1 day Managing VRL
Paris
Complexity
Yang, H.M Dept of Communication
Engineering, I Shou
University,
Taiwan 3 days WIN VRL
York-Smith,
Niel
SRI International USA 1 day exchange of
ideas/ CP
conference
Zillies, Sandra University of Alberta Canada 4 days MSD CRL
(Long Stay Visits)
Name of
Visitor
(last name,
first name)
Organisation Country Length of
visit
Reason for
visit/project
collaborating
on
NRL
Labs
visited
Alfares, Jose University of Porto Portugal 30 days Managing
Complexity/SAIL
CRL
Bernardi, Rozen University Italy 7 weeks Managing CRL
Rafaella
Complexity
Bos, Hendrik Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Nether- Feb 2008 CAmkES NRL
Jaap
lands - Feb
2009
Cassez, Franc Institut de Recherche en France 2 years Working on NRL
Communications et
"Theory Applied
Cybernétique de Nantes
to Real
Embedded
Systems"
Chao, Lu HK Polytechnic University Hong 1 month Thas
VRL
Kong
Nirmalathas
Chitre, Surbhi VU Netherlands Nether- 6 months Honours, NRL
lands
Student
Clarke, Lori A University of Massachusetts USA 5 weeks research
collaboration
ATP
Cottrill, Caitlin University of Illinois, Chicago USA 3 weeks STaR NRL
313

Fabre, Eric IRISA France 23 days
Collaboration
Posible
research
collaboration in
the area of
automated
monitoring,
diagnosis and
planning
CRL
Flickenger, Stanford University USA 3 months Lawrence VRL
Dan
Cavedon
Franconi, Free University of Bozen Italy 3 months Work on the NRL
Enrico Bolzano
SAIL project
Frisch, Alan University of York UK 3 months MSD VRL
Hsieh, Robert Individual UK 10 Research ATP
months collaboration
with NS Theme
Joao, Leite Universidade Nova de Lisboa Portugal 3 Months exchange of
ideas
NRL
Kalh, Frederik Lund University Sweden 33 days Embedded
Systems/Vision
CRL
Lawitzky, Technical University of Germany 6 months Intern ES NRL
Martin
Munich
Theme
Morin, Patrick Carleton University Canada Sep 08 - Research Usyd
Aug 09 collaboratio with
the DMiST
project
Nebel,
Bernhardt
Friebourg University Germany 13 weeks SUPERCOM CRL
Osterweil, University of Massachusetts USA 5 weeks Fulbright ATP
Leon J
specialist;
research
collaboration
Palande, VU Netherlands Nether- 6 months Honours, NRL
Ameya
lands
Student
Pencole,
Yannick
CNRS France 53 days Supercom CRL
Schmidt, University of Manchester UK 15 weeks Managing CRL
Renate
Complexity/SAIL
Stokes, Nicola University of Dublin Ireland 1 month MSD VRL
Tan, Chee Pin Monash University, Sunway Malaysia 2 months Thas
VRL
campus
Nirmalathas
Tuytelaars,
Tinne
Katolik University Belgium 13 weeks MSD/Elefant CRL
Zhang,
Xiaohong
Chongqing University China 6 months SAFE AS QRL
Ziegler, Technical University of Germany 7 weeks Honours, NRL
Sussane Munich
Student
314

Research or Teaching Visits to International Institutions
Name
Reason
(i.e. research,
teaching or
invited talk
etc)
Laboratory
Institution visited
Baldwin, Tim Research Baldwin T. - visit to
Turing Centre,
University of
Washington
De
Koninck, Leslie
Location
Research TU Braunschweig Braunschweig,
Germany
Dur.
in
wks
USA

Prof Shaogang
Gongn by Dr
Donald (Glenn)
Geers
Prof Benjamin
Heydecker by Dr
Donald Geers
Visit Dr. Tao
Xiang and Dr.
Shaogang Gong
by Yang Wang
Visit Dr. Peng Li
by Yang Wang
Visit Prof. Liqing
Zhang
Visit Prof Yi
Zhang
Visit Prof
Shiqiang Yang
Meeting to
discuss
Student
Exchanges
Meeting to
discuss
upcoming
visit
Meet and
give seminar
talk
Meet and
give seminar
talk
Meeting and
give seminar
talk
Meeting and
give seminar
talk
Meeting and
give seminar
talk
Dr Glenn Geers Discuss
MOU
Dr Glenn Geers Meeting and
seminar
Drs Glenn
Geers and
Bernhard
Hengst
Drs Glenn
Geers and
Bernhard
Hengst
Meeting and
seminar
Meeting
(MOU) and
workshop
Queen Mary
University
University College
London
Queen Mary
University
University College
London
Dept. Of Computer
Science and
Engineering,
Shanghai Jiaotong
University, China
Dept. of Automation,
Tsinghua Univ. of
China
Dept. of Computer
Science and
Technology,
Tsinghua Univ. of
China
UCLA (Dr Giovanni
Pau and Prof Mario
Gerla)
UMN (Prof Shashi
Shekhar)
University of Arizona
(prof Pitu
Merchandani)
University of
Chicago, Illinois
(Assoc. Prof Vonu
Thakuriah)
London, UK

Drs Glenn
Geers and
Bernhard
Hengst
Meeting to
discuss MOU
UCLA (Dr Giovanni
Pau)
Dr Glenn Geers Invited Talk World Congress on
Intelligent Transport
Systems 2009
Dr Glenn Geers Invited
Keynote
Visit Prof
Shiqiang Yang
Visit Prof. He
Yun
Visit Prof.
Xinggang Lin
Meeting and
give seminar
talk
Meeting and
give seminar
talk
Meeting and
give seminar
talk
Walsh, Toby Continue
ongoing
research
collaboration
Walsh, Toby Ongoing
research
collaboration
and teaching
Rob van
Glabbeek
Rob van
Glabbeek
Rob van
Glabbeek
Rob van
Glabbeek
Rob van
Glabbeek
International
Workshop on
Computational
Transportation
Science
Dept. of Computer
Science and
Technology,
Tsinghua Univ. of
China
Dept. of Electronic
Engineering,
Tsinghua Univ. of
China
Dept. of Electronic
Engineering,
Tsinghua Univ. of
China
LA

Gernot Heiser Keynote
speaker
Leonid Ryzhyk Research
(internship)
Petters Stefan
M.
Explore
potential
linkage
opportunity
Gernot Heiser "Virtualizatio
n in
Embedded
Systems"
Talk
Gernot Heiser "Trusted

Anbulagan Research
and
Teaching
Anbulagan,
Anbu
Invited
Speaker
Anderson, Brian Research
and talks
Anderson, Brian Research
and talks
Anderson, Brian Research
and talks
Anderson, Brian Research +
Inv Talk
Anderson, Brian Research
and talk
IUT de Lens and
CRIL-CNRS (UMR
8188)
Swiss Federal Inst of
Tech,
Univ of California at
Santa Barbara
Univ catholique de
Louvain
Lens, France 3+ May-
08
Jakarta,
Indonesia
Lausanne,
Switzerland
Santa
Barbara, CA,
USA
Louvain la
Neuve,
Belgium
Yale Uni New Haven,
CT, USA
Tech Univ of Vienna Vienna,
Austraia
Fidan, Baris Research Uni of California San
Diego
Fidan, Baris Research Uni of Southern
California
Fidan, Baris Research +
Inv Talk
Fidan, Baris Research +
Inv Talk
Fidan, Baris Research +
Inv Talk
TOBB Uni of
Economics and
Technology
Delft University of
Technology
Uni of Souther
California
San Diego,
CA, USA
Los Angeles,
CA, USA
Ankara,
Turkey
Delft,
Netherlands
Los Angeles,
CA, USA

Seghouane,
Karim
Joachim
Gudmundsson
Research,
invited talk -
customize
wavelet
approach to
conditional
monitoring
Research
visit
Thomas Wolle Research
visit
Joachim
Gudmundsson
Joachim
Gudmundsson
Joachim
Gudmundsson
Petroleum Insitute Abu Dabhi,
UAE
Korean advanced
Institute of Science
and Technolog
Department of
Information and
Computing Sciences
Daejeon
Korea
Utrecht
Netherlands

Tosic, Vladimir Discussion of
possibilities
for research
collaboration
University of
Stuttgart
Jacky Keung Research Lab of Software
Engineering, Chong
Ching Universit
Jacky Keung Research ISCAS Chinese
Academy of Science
Stuttgart
Germany
Chong Ching
China
Beijing
China
Leif Hanlen Research IMEC-Nederlands Eindhoven
Nederlands
Leif Hanlen Research Fraunhofer Kaiserstlautern
Germnay
Leif Hanlen Research Fraunhofer Erlangen
Germany

Roksana Boreli Collaboration
, cotutelle
PhD student
INRIA Paris, France

Membership of Program Commitees for Major Professional Conferences
Name Lab Position Conference Name (in
full)
Anbulagan CRL Program
Committee
Member
Baldwin, T. VRL Program
Committee
Baldwin, T. VRL Program
Committee
Baldwin, Tim VRL Technical
Committee
Member
Baldwin, Tim VRL Programme
committee
Baldwin, Tim VRL Programme
committee
for LREC
Bannerman,
Paul
Bannerman,
Paul
Bannerman,
Paul
2008
ATP Program
Committee
Member
ATP Program
Committee
Member
ATP Program
Committee
Member
Barnes, Nick CRL Program
committee
Barnes, Nick CRL Program
Committee
Baumgartner,
Peter
Baumgartner,
Peter
CRL Conference
Chair and
Program
Committee
Co-Chair
CRL Program
Committee
Member
International
Workshop on
Symmetry and
Constraint
Satisfaction Problems
(SymCon)
Australasian
Language Technology
Workshop
Australasian
Conference on
Artificial Intelligence
(AI)
International
Conference on
Language Resources
and Evaluation (LREC)
Workshop on
Language Technology
for Cultural Heritage
Data (LaTeCH)
Workshop: Towards a
Shared Task for
Multiword Expressions
(MWE)
Australian Software
Engineering
Conference
Euromicro Software
Engineering and
Advanced Applications
Australian Software
Engineering
Conference (ASWEC)
Australasian
Conference on
Robotics and
Automation (ACRA)
International
Conference on Vision
Systems
International Joint
Conference on
Automated Reasoning
(IJCAR)
Logic for Programming
Artificial Intelligence
and Reasoning (LPAR)
()
Location Year
Appt’d
Theme
Sydney,
Australia
2008 MC
Australia *2008 MSD
*2008 MSD
Morocco *2007 MSOD
Morocco 2007 MSOD
Morocco *2007 MSOD
Perth,
Australia
Parma,
Italy
Gold
Coast,
Australia
Canberra
Australia
Santorini,
Greece
Sydney,
Australia
Doha,
Qatar
2007 MC
2008 MC
2008 MC
2003 ES
Jun-05 ES
2008 MC
2008 MC
Baumgartner, CRL Program The Australasian Joint Auckland, 2008 MC
323

Peter Committee
Member
Baumgartner,
Peter
Bezerianos,
Anastasia
CRL Program
Committee
Member
ATP Program
Committee
Member
Conference on
Artificial Intelligence
(AI)
Workshop on Logic
and Search (LaSh
2008)-- Computation
of structures from
declarative
descriptions, 2nd
international
workshop
Collaborative
Information
Visualization on
Interactive Surfaces
(CIVIS)
SIG Computer Human
New
Zealand
Leuven,
Belgium
Florida
USA
2008 MC
2008 MSOD
Bezerianos, ATP Interactivity
Boston 2008 MSOD
Anastasia
Chair Interaction (CHI) USA
Bigdeli, Abbas QRL Program Reconfigurable Miami, 2008 ES
Committee Architectures Florida,
Member Workshop
USA
Boreli, Roksana ATP TPC member International
I-Lan 2008 NS
Workshop on Mobile
IPv6 and Networkbased
Localizes
Mobility Management
(MobiWorld)
Taiwan
Botea, Adi CRL Program Conference of the Chicago, Jun-05 MC
Committee American Association USA
Member for Artificial
Intelligence
Conference (AAAI)
Boulis,
ATP TPC International
Leuven, 2008 NS
Athanassios
Workshop on
Middleware for Sensor
Networks (MidSens)
Belgium
Boulis,
ATP TPC IEEE International Montreal, 2008 NS
Athanassios
Workshop on Practial
Issues in Building
Sensor Network
Applications
Canada
Boulis,
ATP TPC member International
http://ww 2008 NS
Athanassios
Workshop on
w.comp.la
Middleware for Sensor ncs.ac.uk/
Networks (MidSens) computing
/midsens
08/
Brand,
VRL Program Conference of the Chicago, 2008 MC
Sebastian
Committee American Association Illinois,
Member for Artificial
Intelligence
Conference (AAAI)
USA
Brebner, Paul CRL Program IEEE International Munich, 2006 MC
Committee EDOC Conference on Germany
Member Enterprise
324

Brebner, Paul CRL Program
Committee
Member
Brebner, Paul CRL Program
Committee
Member
Brebner, Paul CRL Organising
Committee
Brebner, Paul CRL Program
Committee
Member
Computing/Middlewar
e For Web Services
Workshop
ACM/IFIP/USENIX
International
Middleware
Conference/
Middleware for
Service Oriented
Computing Workshop
SOFtware SEMinar:
Conference on
Current Trends in
Theory and Practice of
Computer Science
International
Conference on Service
Oriented Computing/
Quality-of-Service
Concerns in Service
Oriented Architectures
Workshop
IEEE International
Conference on Web
Services/ IEEE
International
Workshop onSoftware
Engineering for
Adaptive Software
Systems
Brebner, Paul CRL Member IEEE International
Workshop on Software
Engineering for
Adaptive Software
Buntine, Wray CRL Senior
Program
Committee
Buntine, Wray CRL Senior
Program
Committee
Systems
Conference on
Uncertainty in Artificial
Intelligence (UAI)
International
Conference on
Machine Learning
(ICML)
Buntine, Wray CRL Area Chair European Conference
on Machine Learning
and Principles and
Practice of Knowledge
Discovery in
Cassez, Franck NRL Program
Committee
Co-Chair &
Program
Committee
Member
Databases
International
Conference on Formal
Modelling and
Analysis of Timed
Systems (FORMATS)
Leuven,
Belgium
Špindlerův
Mlýn,
Czech
Republic
Sydney,
Australia
Beijing,
China
Beijing
China.
Helsinki,
Finland
Helsinki,
Finland
Antwerp
Belgium
Saint-
Malo,
France
2006 MC
2008 MC
2008 MC
2008 MC
2008 MC
Jan-08 MSOD
Jan-08 MSOD
Jan-08 MSOD
Sep-08 MC
Cassez, Franck NRL Program International Budapest Sep-08 MC
325

Committee
Member
Cassez, Franck NRL Program
Committee
Member
Chen, Fang ATP Program
Committee
Member
Chen, Fang ATP Program
Committee
Member
Chen, Fang ATP Technical
Program
Committee
Chen, Jing NRL Program
Committee
Choi, Eric ATP Program
Committee
Member
Choi, Eric ATP Program
Committee
Member
Cregan, Anne NRL Program
Committee
Member
Cregan, Anne NRL Program
Committee
Member
Dods, Sarah VRL Member,
Technical
Subcommitt
ee
Doudar, Manfred CRL Program
Committee
Member
Evans, Rob VRL International
Program
Committee
Evans, R. VRL International
Program
Committee
Evans, R. VRL International
Program
Committee
Conference on Formal
Modelling and
Analysis of Timed
Systems (FORMATS)
International
Symposium on
Temporal
Representation and
Reasoning (TIME)
IEEE International
Conference on Signal
Processing
International
Conference on
Intelligent User
Interfaces
IEEE International
Workshop on
Multimedia Signal
Processing
Pacific-Rim on
Multimedia (PCM).
IEEE International
Workshop on
Multimedia Signal
Processing
Australasian
Language Technology
Association Workshop
Experiences and
Directions OWLED
Workshop Series
Semantic Scientific
Knowledge Integration
- AAAI/SSS Workshop,
Stanford University
Optical Fiber
Communication
Conference
ISO C++ International
Standards Committee
IEEE RADAR
Conference
International
Federation of
Automatic Control
(IFAC) World Congress
International
Information Fusion
Conference
Hungary
Brixen-
Bressanon
e, Italy
Beijing
China
Florida
USA
Cairns
Australia
Tainan,
Taiwan
Cairns
Australia
Tasmania
Australia
Sydney,
Australia
California
USA
San Diego,
USA
Inria,
Sophia
Antipolis,
France
Adelaide,
Australia
Seoul,
Korea
Cologne,
Germany
Jun-08 MC
2008 MSOD
2008 MSOD
2008 MSOD
Jul-08 MSOD
2008 MSOD
2008 MSOD
Jan-08 MC
2007 MC
*2008 NS
Jun-05 ES
Sep-08 ES
July
2008
MSOD
Jul-08 MSOD
Evans, R. VRL International International Seattle, Jul-09 MSOD
326

Evans, Rob VRL
Program
Committee
Member,
International
Program
Committee
Evans, Rob VRL International
Program
Committee
Fehnker, Ansgar NRL Program
Committee
Member
Fehnker, Ansgar NRL Program
Committee
Member
Fidan, Baris CRL International
committee
member
Geers, Glenn NRL Program
Committee
Information Fusion
Conference
International
Conference on Data
Fusion
International Radar
Conference
Australasian
Computer Science
Conference
Systems Software
Verification (SSV)
IEEE Intelligent
Vehicles Symposium
(IV)
International
Workshop on
Computational
Transportation
Science
Geers, Glenn NRL Organiser Workshop on
Computational
Transportation
Science (part of
Smart Transport
2009)
Geers, Glenn NRL Organiser Schloss Dagstuhl
proposal for Summer
School on
Computational
Transportation
Science
Governatori,
Guido
Governatori,
Guido
Governatori,
Guido
Governatori,
Guido
Governatori,
Guido
Governatori,
Guido
QRL PC member International
Conference on
Artificial Intelligence
and Law
QRL PC member Annual European
Semantic Web
QRL Steering
Committee
Advisor
Conference
Pacific Rim
International
Conference on Multi
Agent Systems
QRL PC member Australasian Joint
Conference on
Artificial Intelligence
QRL PC member Advances in Modal
Logic
QRL PC member IEEE International
EDOC conference
USA
Cologne,
Germany
Rome,
Italy
Wellington,
NZ
Sydney,
Australia
Eindhoven,Netherlands
2008 MC
2008 MC
Sep-08 MC
Feb-08 MC
Jun-05 MC
2008 MSOD
Brisbane Nov-08 MSOD
Germany Aug-08
(tentati
vely
approv
ed
March
Barcellona,
Spain
ErakliionG
reece
MSOD
2010)
2008 MC
2008 MC
Hanoi 2008 MC
Auckland 2008 MC
Nancy 2008 MC
Munchen 2008 MC
327

Governatori,
Guido
Governatori,
Guido
QRL PC member IEEE International
Conference on
Information Reuse
and Integration
QRL PC Chair The International
RuleML Symposium
on Rule Interchange
and Application
Las Vegas 2008 MC
Orlando 2008 MC
Grayden, David VRL Treasurer Interspeech Brisbane,
Australia
Sep-08 ES
Gretton, Charles QRL PC member Australian Artificial New 2008 MC
Intelligence
conference
Zealand
Gudmundsson, ATP Program Computing: The Wollon- 2007 MSOD
Joachim
Committee Australasian Theory gong,
Member Symposium (CATS) Australia
Gudmundsson, ATP Program Algorithm Engineering San 2007 MSOD
Joachim
Committee and Experiments Francisco
Member (ALENEX)
USA
Gudmundsson, ATP TPC European Symposium Karlsruhe 2007 MSOD
Joachim
on Algorithms Germany
Gudmundsson, ATP TPC Canadian Conference MontrealC 2007 MSOD
Joachim
on Computational
Geometry
anada
Gudmundsson, ATP TPC chair Scandinavian Gothen- 2007 MSOD
Joachim
Workshop on
burg
Algorithm Theory Sweden
Hanlen, Leif CRL TPC Chair Australian
Sydney 2008 NS
Communication
Theory Workshop
Australia
Hanlen, Leif CRL Editor BodyNets Tampa
Florida
2005 NS
Hartley, Richard CRL Area Chair European Conference Marseille, 2003 ES
on Computer Vision France
Haslum, Patrik CRL PC member Conference of the Chicago, 2008 MC
/ reviewer American Association
for Artificial
Intelligence
Conference (AAAI)
USA
Haslum, Patrik CRL PC
European Conference Patras, 2008 MC
Member/rev
iewer
on AI (ECAI)
Greece
Haslum, Patrik CRL PC
International
Sydney, 2008 MC
Member/rev Conference on Australia
iewer Automated Planning
and Scheduling
(ICAPS)
Heiser, Gernot NRL PC Member European Conference Glasgow, 2007 ES
on Computer Systems
(EuroSys)
UK
Heiser, Gernot NRL PC Member IEEE Real-Time and St Louis, 2007 ES
Embedded Technology
and Applications
Symposium (RTAS
2008)
MO, USA
328

Hengst,
Bernhard
NRL Program
Committee
Hueper, Knut CRL Organiser of
Minisymposi
um and
Speaker
Hutter, Marcus CRL Program
Australasian joint
conference on
artificial intelligence
(AI)
SIAM Conference on
Optimization (OP)
Auckland,
New
Zealand
Boston
USA
Nov-08 MSOD
10/5/ MSOD
08-
13/5/
08
Jan-08 MSOD
Algorithmic Learning Budapest
Committee Theory (ALT)
Hungary
Huuck, Ralf NRL Program International
Nether- Jun-09 MC
Committee/ Symposium on Formal lands
Chair Methods and 2nd
World Congress
Theory
Huuck, Ralf NRL Program International
Germany Jan-00 MC
Committee/ Workshop on Systems
Chair Software Verification
(SSV)
Huuck, Ralf NRL Chair Systems Software Sydney, 2005 MC
Verification (SSV08) Australia
Iannella, R QRL Program Joint International Suzhou, 2008 MC
Committee Conferences on Asia-
Pacific Web
Conference (APWeb)
and Web-Age
Information
Management (WAIM),
China
Iannella, R QRL Program International
Gothen- 2008 MC
Committee Conference on burg,
Information Systems
for Crisis Response
and Management
(ISCRAM).
Sweden
Iannella, R QRL Program International
London, 2008 MC
Committee Workshop on
Information Forensics
and Security
UK
Iannella, R QRL Program International
Linz, 2008 MC
Committee Conference on
Database- and Expert
Systems Applications
Austria
Indulska, QRL General Co- International
Brisbane 2008 NS
Jadwiga
chair Conference on
Autonomic and
Trusted Systems
Indulska, QRL PC member IEEE International Hong 2007 NS
Jadwiga
Conference on
Pervasive Computing
and Communications
(PerCom)
Kong
Indulska, QRL PC Co-chair International
Sydney, 2007 NS
Jadwiga
Conference on
Pervasive Computing
(Pervasive)
Australia
329

Indulska,
Jadwiga
Indulska,
Jadwiga
Indulska,
Jadwiga
Indulska,
Jadwiga
Indulska,
Jadwiga
Indulska,
Jadwiga
Indulska,
Jadwiga
Indulska,
Jadwiga
Indulska,
Jadwiga
Indulska,
Jadwiga
Indulska,
Jadwiga
QRL PC member International
Conference on Mobile
and Ubiquitous
Systems
(Mobiquitous)
QRL PC member International
Conference on Smart
Homes and Health
Telematics (ICOST)
QRL PC member International
Conference on
Embedded and
Ubiquitous Computing
(EUC)
QRL Co-Chair IEEE Workshop on
Context Modelling and
Reasoning
(CoMoRea'08)
QRL PC member International
Conference on
Distributed
Applications and
Interoperable Systems
(DAIS)
QRL Co-Chair IEEE Workshop on
Context Modelling and
Reasoning (CoMoRea)
QRL PC member International
Conference on
Architecture of
Computer Systems
QRL PC member International
Conference on
Ubiquitous Computing
(Ubicomp)
QRL PC member IEEE International
Conference on
Pervasive Computing
and Communications
QRL Symposium
Co-Chair
QRL General Cochair
Jin, Huidong CRL Program
Committee
Keung, Jacky ATP Program
Committee
(PerCom)
Symposium on
Middleware for Sensor
Systems (MISS)
International
Conference on
Ubiquitous
Intelligence and
Computing (UIC'09)
Pacific-Asian
Conference on
Knowledge Discovery
and Data Mining
Australian Software
Engineering
Conference (ASWEC)
Dublin,
Ireland
Iowa State
University
USA
ShanghaiC
hina
Hong
Kong
Oslo,
Norway
Galveston,Texas
USA
Delft,
Netherlands
Orlando,
Florida, US
Galveston,
Texas,
USA
Sydney,
Australia
2007 NS
2007 NS
2007 NS
2007 NS
2007 NS
2007 NS
2008 NS
2008 NS
2008 NS
2008 NS
Brisbane 2008 NS
Osaka,
Japan
Gold Coast
Australia
Jun-05 ES
2008 MC
330

Keung, Jacky ATP Chair Software Cost
Estimation and
Keung, Jacky ATP Session
Chair
Kilby, Philip CBR Program
Committee
Kilby, Philip CRL Program
Committee
Member
Productivity Workshop
Asia Pacific Software
Engineering
Conference
Conference of the
American Association
for Artificial
Intelligence
Conference (AAAI)
Australasian Joint
Conference on
Artificial Intelligence
(AI)
Beijing
China
Beijing
China
Chicago,
USA
Gold Coast
Qld
2008 MC
2008 MC
2008 MC
2008 MC
Klein, Gerwin NRL Chair Verification Workshop, Sydney, Aug-08 MC
(VERIFY)
Australia
Klein, Gerwin NRL Program Workshop on Formal Paphos, Jul-08 MC
Committee Techniques for Java- Cyprus
Member like Programs (FTfJP)
Klein, Gerwin NRL Chair International
Sydney 2008 MC
Workshop on Systems
Software Verification
2008 SSV08
Australia
Kuz, Ihor NRL PC Member International
Venice, 2007 ES
Conference on Self-
Adaptive and Self-
Organizing Systems
(SASO)
Italy
Libman, Lavy ATP Track Chair International
St 2007 NS
Conference on Thomas,
Computer
US Virgin
Communications and
Networks (ICCCN)
2008
Islands
Libman, Lavy ATP TPC member IEEE International Atlanta 2008 NS
Conference on Mobile
Ad-hoc and Sensor
Systems (MASS) 2008
USA
Libman, Lavy ATP TPC member IEEE Conference on Montreal 2008 NS
Local Computer
Networks (LCN)
Canada
Liu, Yan ATP Program Australian Software Gold Coast 2008 MC
Committee Engineering
Australia
Member Conference (ASWEC)
Liu, Yan ATP Program International
San 2008 MC
Committee Conference on Francisco
Member Software Engineering
and Knowledge
Engineering (SEKE)
USA
Liu, Yan ATP Program Annual IEEE
Turku 2008 MC
Committee International
Finland
Member Computer Software
and Applications
Conference
331

Liu, Yan ATP Program
(COMPSAC)
Australian Software Perth 2008 MC
Committee Engineering
Australia
Member Conference (ASWEC)
Liu, Yan ATP Organizing IEEE International Beijing 2008 MC
Committee Workshop on Software
Engineering for
Adaptive Software
Systems (SEASS)
China
Lovell, Brian QRL Technical e-Forensics Adelaide, 2007 MSOD
Committee
Australia
Lovell, Brian QRL Area Chair Advances in
St. Luce, 2008 MSOD
Computer-Human Martini-
Interaction
que
Lu, Sijun NRL Program International
Cairns Jun-05 MSOD
Committee Workshop on
Multimedia Signal
Processing
Australia
Maher, Michael NRL PC Member International
Udine, Aug-07 MC
Conference on Logic
Programming
Italy
Maher, Michael NRL Program International ACM Valencia, Jan-08 MC
Committee SIGPLAN Symposium Spain
Member on Principles and
Practice of Declarative
Programming
Maher, Michael NRL Program Pacific Rim
Hanoi, Jan-08 MC
Committee Conference on Vietnam
Member Artificial Intelligence
Maher, Michael NRL Program International
Sydney, Jan-07 MC
Committee Conference on Australia
Member Principles and
Practice of Constraint
Programming
Maire, Frederic QRL Technical Advances in
St. Luce, 2007 ES
Committee Computer-Human Martini-
Member Interaction
que
Maneth, NRL Program ACM SIGPLAN San
MC
Sebastian
Committee Workshop on
Francisco
Member Programming
Language
Technologies for XML
(PLAN-X 2008)
USA
Maneth, NRL Organiser Dagstuhl Seminar on Dagstuhl 2007 MC
Sebastian
Structure-Based
Compression of
Complex Massive
Data
Germany
Moffatt, Alistair VRL Member, ACM SIGIR
Singapore Jun-08 MSOD
organising Conference on
committee Research and
Development in
Information Retrieval
Moffatt, Alistair VRL Member, ACM CIKM Conference USA Oct-08 MSOD
organising on Knowledge and
332

committee Information
Management
Nirmalathas, VRL Chair of IEEE Topical Meeting Gold *Oct NS
Ampaluanapillay Steering on Microwave Coast, 08
Committee Photonics collocated
with Asia Pacific
Microwave Photonics
Australia
Nirmalathas, VRL Chair of Asia Pacific
Gold Sep-08 NS
Ampaluanapillay Steering Mircrowave
Coast,
Committee Photononics
Australia
Nirmalathas, VRL Member, Conference on Optical Tokyo, Oct-08 NS
Ampaluanapillay Steering
Committee
Internet (COIN) Japan
Nirmalathas, VRL Member of IEEE Lasers and N/A N/A
Ampaluanapillay Technical
Sub
committee
Network and
Systems
Electro-Optics Society
Norrish, Michael CRL Program IEEE Symposium on Pitts- Jun-05 MC
Committee Logic in Computer burgh,
Member Science
USA
Norrish, Michael CRL Program IEEE Symposium on Pitts- 2007 MC
Committee Logic in Computer burgh,
member Science
USA
O'Brien, Liam CRL Program International
Beijing, 2008 MC
Committee Conference on China
Member Software Maintenance
O'Brien, Liam CRL Chair Service Oriented Midrand, 2008 MC
Architecture (SOA) South
Africa
O'Brien, Liam CRL Program European Conference Athens, 2008 MC
Committee on Software
Greece
Member Maintenance and
Reengineering
O'Brien, Liam CRL Program Systems Development Leipzig, 2008 MC
Committee in Service Oriented Germany
Member Architecture
Environments
Workshop at The
International
Conference on
Software Engineering
O'Brien, Liam CRL Program Software product Line Limerick, 2008 MC
Committee
Member
Conference
Ireland
O'Brien, Liam CRL Program Working Conference Antwerp, 1998 MC
Committee on Reverse
Belgium
Member Engineering
Ott, Max ATP General International
Sydney 2008 NS
Chair Conference on
Pervasive Computing
(Pervasive)
Ott, Max ATP TPC Member IEEE International Hong 2008 NS
Conference on Kong
333

Pervasive Computing
and Communications
(PerCom)
Ott, Max ATP TPC Member ACM International
Conferenee on
emerging Networking
Experiments and
Petters, Stefan
M.
Petters, Stefan
M.
Petters, Stefan
M.
Petters, Stefan
M.
Pham, Duc
Nghia
Pham, Duc
Nghia
Portmann,
Marius
Portmann,
Marius
Portmann,
Marius
Portmann,
Marius
Portmann,
Marius
Technologies (CoNext)
NRL PC Member Euromicro Conference
on Real-Time Systems
(ECRTS)
NRL PC Member IEEE International
Symposium on
Industrial Embedded
Systems (SIES)
NRL PC Member IEEE International
Conference on
Embedded and Real-
Time Computing
Systems and
Applications (RTCSA)
NRL PC Member Real Time and
Networked Embedded
Systems Track at IEEE
Conference on
Emerging
Technologies and
Factory Automation
QRL PC member Australian Artificial
Intelligence
QRL Workshop
Chair
conference (AI)
Pacific Rim
International
Conference on
Artificial Intelligence
QRL PC member International
Symposium on
Mobility Management
and Wireless Access
(MobiWAC)
QRL PC member IEEE International
Workshop on
Ubiquitous Network
Computing (UNC)
QRL PC member IEEE Workshop on Hot
Topics in Mesh
Networking (Hotmesh)
QRL PC member International
Conference on
Multimedia and
Ubiquitous
QRL Program Cochair
Engineering (MUE)
International
Conference on
Ubiquitous
Madrid 2008 NS
Prague,
Czech
Republic
Lisbon,
Portugal
Kaohsiung,
Taiwan
Hamburg,
Germany
New
Zealand
Hanoi
Vietnam
Vancouver,
Canada
Yilan,
Taiwan
Qingdao,
China
2007 ES
2007 ES
2007 ES
2007 ES
2008 MC
2008 MC
2008 NS
2008 NS
2008 NS
2008 NS
Brisbane 2008 NS
334

Renz, Jochen CRL/
ANU
Renz, Jochen CRL/
ANU
Renz, Jochen CRL/
ANU
Renz, Jochen CRL/
ANU
Program
Committee
Member
Program
Committee
Member
Program
Committee
Member
Program
Committee
Member
Rintanen, Jussi CRL Program
Committee
Member
Rintanen, Jussi CRL Program
Committee
Member
Rintanen, Jussi CRL Program
Committee
Member, Co-
Chair of the
Program
Rittenbruch,
Markus
Committee
ATP Project
Leader
Robinson, Ricky QRL Technical
Program
Committee
Intelligence and
Computing (UIC)
International
Conference on
Geographic
Information Science
(AGILE)
European Conference
on Artificial
Intelligence
IEEE Conference on
Artificial Intelligence
(AAAI)
Australasian Joint
Conference on
Artificial Intelligence
European Conference
on Artificial
Intelligence
IEEE Conference on
Artificial Intelligence
(AAAI)
International
Conference on
Automated Planning
and Scheduling
(CAPS)
International
Conference on
Advance Human
Computer Interaction
(ACHI)
Symposium on
Middleware for Sensor
Systems (MISS)
Robinson, Ricky QRL PC member IEEE Workshop on
Context Modelling and
Reasoning
Robles-Kelly,
Antonio
CRL General
Chair
Sanderson, P QRL Program
Committee
Sanner, Scott CRL Program
Committee
Sanner, Scott CRL Program
Committee
(CoMoRea'09)
Digital Image
Computing:
Techniques and
Applications (DICTA
2008)
International
Ergonomics
Association
European Conference
on Artificial
Intelligence (ECAI)
International
Conference on
Automated Planning
and Scheduling
Girona,
Spain
Patras,
Greece
Chicago,
USA
Auckland,
New
Zealand
Patras,
Greece
Chicago,
USA
Sydney,
Australia
Sainte
Luce
Martinique
Sydney,
Australia
Galveston,
Texas,
USA
Canberra,
Australia
Beijing,
PRC
Patras
Greece
Sydney
Australia
2008 MC
2008 MC
2008 MC
2008 MC
2008 MC
2008 MC
2008 MC
2007 MSOD
2008 NS
2008 NS
2005 ES
2008 MSOD
Jan-08 MSOD
Jan-08 MSOD
335

Sattar, Abdul QRL Senior PC
member
Sattar, Abdul QRL Senior PC
member and
Steering
committee
member
Shi, Yu ATP Program
Committee
Shi, Yu ATP Technical
Program
Committee
Shivanajay,
Marwaha
(ICAPS)
Australian Artificial
Intelligence
conference
Pacific Rim
International
Conference on
Artificial Intelligence
IEEE Workshop on
Embedded Computer
Visio
IEEE International
Workshop on
Multimedia Signal
Processing
QRL PC member International
Conference on
Ubiquitous
Intelligence and
Computing (UIC)
Smith, David CRL TPC Australian
Communication
Smola, Alex CRL Program
Committee
Staples, Mark ATP Program
Committee
Member
Staples, Mark ATP Program
Committee
Member
Staples, Mark ATP Technical
Program
Committee
Member
Staples, Mark ATP Program
Committee
Member
Staples, Mark ATP Program
Committee
Member
Staples, Mark ATP Program
Committee
Member
Staples, Mark ATP Program
Committee
Member
Theory Workshop
Annual Conference on
Learning Theory (COLT
2008)
International
Workshop on
Intelligent E-
Government
IEEE International
Workshop on Software
Engineering for
Adaptive Software
Systems (SEASS)
IEEE International
Conference on
Engineering of
Complex Computer
Systems (ICECCS)
International
Workshop on Enabling
Service Business
Ecosystems (ESBE)
Asia-Pacific Software
Engineering
Conference
Australian Software
Engineering
Conference (ASWEC)
Software and Systems
Engineering Process
Group Conference
SEPG(SM)
New
Zealand
Hanoi
Vietnam
Miami
USA
Cairns
Australia
2008 MC
2008 MC
2008 MSOD
2008 MSOD
Brisbane 2008 NS
Sydney
Australia
Helsinki
Finland
Sydney
Australia
Beijing
China
Belfast
Northern
Ireland
Sydney
Australia
Beijing
China
Perth
Australia
Melbourne
Australia
2008 NS
Jan-08 MSOD
2008 MC
2008 MC
2008 MC
2008 MC
2008 MC
2008 MC
2008 MC
336

Staples, Mark ATP Program
Committee
Member
Staples, Mark ATP Program
Committee
Member
Stuckey, Peter VRL Program
Chair
Stuckey, Peter VRL Program
Chair
Thiebaux, Sylvie CRL Area Chair of
the Program
Committee
Thiebaux, Sylvie CRL Program
Committee
Member
International
Conference on
Engineering of
Complex Computer
Systems
Australian Software
Engineering
Conference
International
Conference on
Principles and
Practice of Constraint
Programming.
International
Conference on
Principles and
Practice of Constraint
Programming
European Conference
on Artificial
Intelligence (ECAI)
International
Conference on
Automated Planning
and Scheduling
(ICAPS)
Thornton, John QRL PC member Australian Artificial
Intelligence
Tosic, Vladimir ATP Program
Committee
Member
Tosic, Vladimir ATP Member of
the Program
Committee
Tosic, Vladimir ATP Member of
the Program
Committee
Tosic, Vladimir ATP Co-chair and
proceedings
co-editor
Tosic, Vladimir ATP Standards
Panel
Discussion
Chair and
Member of
the Program
Committee
Tosic, Vladimir ATP Member of
the Program
Committee
Conference
Computer Engineering
and Applications (CEA)
IEEE/IFIP Workshop
on Business Driven IT
Management
International
Workshop on Social
and Legal Aspects
Middleware for Web
Services (MWS)
workshop
IEEE International
Enterprise Computing
Conference (EDOC)
IEEE Conference on E-
Commerce Technology
(CEC) and Enterprise
Computing, E-
Commerce and E-
Services (EEE)
Belfast
Northern
Ireland
Perth
Australia
Adelaide,
Australia
Sydney,
Australia
Patras,
Greece
Sydney,
Australia
New
Zealand
Acapulco
Mexico
Salvador
Brazil
Athens
Greece
Munich
Germany
Munich
Germany
Washington,
USA
2008 MC
2008 MC
Sep-08 MSOD
2008 MC
2008 MC
2008 MC
2008 MC
2007 MC
2008 MC
2008 MC
2008 MC
2008 MC
2008 MC
Tosic, Vladimir ATP Local International Sydney 2008 MC
337

Organization
Co-chair and
Session
Chair
Tosic, Vladimir ATP Co-chair and
proceedings
co-editor
Uther, William NRL Program
Committee
van Glabbeek,
Rob
van Glabbeek,
Rob
NRL Program
Committee
Member
NRL Member of
PC
Verner, June ATP Program
Committe
Member
Vladimir Tosic ATP Member of
the Program
Committee
Walsh, Toby NRL Senior
Program
Committee
Member
Walsh, Toby NRL Program
Committee
Member
Walsh, Toby NRL Program
Committee
Member
Walsh, Toby NRL Program
Committee
Member
Walsh, Toby NRL Program
Committee
Member
Walsh, Toby NRL Program
Committee
Member
Walsh, Toby NRL Program
Committee
Member
Conference on Service
Orientated Computing
(ICSOC)
Workshop on
Middleware for
Service Oriented
Computing (MW4SOC)
Australasian joint
Conference on
Artificial Intelligence
(AI)
International
Conference on
Concurrency Theory
(CONCUR)
International
Conference on
Concurrency Theory
(CONCUR)
Australian Conference
on Software
Engineering
IEEE International
Workshop on Software
Engineering for
Adaptive Systems
(SEASS)
Conference of the
American Association
for Artificial
Intelligence
Conference (AAAI)
Canadian Conference
on Artificial
Intelligence
International
Symposium on
Artificial Intelligence
and Mathematics
International
Conference on
Artificial Intelligence:
Methodology,
Systems, Applications
International
Conference on
Artificial Intelligence
(ICAI)
International Joint
Conference on
Automated Reasoning
European Conference
on Logics in Artificial
Intelligence (JELIA)
Australia
Leuven
Belgium
Auckland,
New
Zealand
Bologna,
Italy
Toronto
Canada
Perth
Australia
Beijing
China
Chicago,
USA
Windsor,
Canada
Ft.Lauderdale,
Florida
Varna,
Bulgaria
Nevada
USA
Sydney
Australia
Dresden,
Germany
2008 MC
Nov-08 MSOD
2008 MC
Jun-07 MC
2007 MC
2008 MC
Jul-08 MC
May-
08
MC
Jan-08 MC
Sep-08 MC
Jul-08 MC
Aug-08 MC
Sep-08 MC
338

Walsh, Toby NRL Program
Committee
Member
Walsh, Toby NRL Senior
Program
Committee
Member
Walsh, Toby NRL Program
Committee
Member
Walsh, Toby NRL Program
Committee
Member
Walsh, Toby NRL Program
Committee
Member
Walsh, Toby NRL Program
Committee
Member
Walsh, Toby NRL Program
Committee
Member
Brazilian Symposium
on Artificial
Intelligence (SBIA)
Australasian Joint
Conference on.
Artificial Intelligence
(AI)
Pacific Rim
International
Conference on
Artificial Intelligence
(PRICAI-08)
ERCIM Workshop on
Constraint Solving and
Constraint Logic
Programming (CSCLP)
International
Symposium on
Search Techniques in
Artificial Intelligence
and Robotics
International
Conference on
Autonomous Agents
and Multiagent
Systems
International
Conference on Theory
and Applications of
Satisfiability Testing
Bahia,
Brazil,
Auckland,
New
Zealand
Hanoi,
Vietnam
Rome,
Italy
Illinois,
USA
Estoril,
Portugal
Guangzhou,
China
Oct-08 MC
Nov-08 MC
Dec-08 MC
Jun-08 MC
Jul-08 MC
Watson, M QRL Program SimTect Healthcare Brisbane, 2008 MSOD
Committee
Australia
Wishart, Ryan QRL PC member International
Conference on
Ubiquitous
Intelligence and
Computing (UIC)
Brisbane 2008 NS
Wong, Raymond NRL Program ACM Symposium on Brazil 2008 MSOD
Committee Document
Engineering
Wong, Raymond NRL Program ACM Symposium on Hawaii 2008 MSOD
Committee Applied Computing
Wong, Raymond NRL Program Australasian Database New 2008 MSOD
Committee Conference
Zealand
Wong, Raymond NRL Program International
New 2008 MSOD
Committee Conference on Web
Information Systems
Engineering
Zealand
Ye, Getian NRL Local International
Cairns Jun-05 MSOD
Arrangement Workshop on
Australia
s Chair Multimedia Signal
Processing
Zaidi, Zainab ATP Program IEEE International Virgin 2008 NS
Committee Conference on Islands
Member Computer
USA
May-
08
May-
08
339
MC
MC

Zaidi, Zainab ATP Program
Communications and
Networks (ICCCN)
ACM International Van- 2008 NS
Committee Symposium on couver
Member Mobility Management
and Wireless Access
(MobiWac)
Canada
Zaidi, Zainab ATP Program IEEE Workshop on Yilan 2008 NS
Committee Vehicular Networking Taiwan
Member (VON)
Zainab Zaidi ATP TPC member IEEE International St. 2008 NS
Conference on Thomas
Computer
US Virgin
Communications and
Networks (ICCCN)
Islands
Zhang, Andrew CRL TPC IASTED International Banff, 2008 NS
Conference on
Wireless and Optical
Communications
Canada
Zhang, Andrew CRL TPC International
Melbourne 2008 NS
Symposium on
Wireless and
Pervasive Computing
Australia
Zhang, Jian NRL Technical IEEE International Cairns Jun-05 MSOD
Program Workshop on
Australia
Chair Multimedia Signal
Processing
Zhang, Jian NRL Technical Workshop on
San Deigo, Jan-08 MSOD
Program Multimedia
USA
Chair Information Retrieval
in conjunction with
IEEE International
Conference on Image
Processing
Zhang, Jian NRL Program IEEE Workshop on Newport Apr-08 MSOD
Committee Mobile Video Delivery Beach, CA,
USA
Zhou, Jun CRL Local Digital Image
Canberra, Jan-08 ES
Arrangement Computing:
Australia
s Chair Techniques and
Applications (DICTA)
Zhu, Liming ATP Program International
Hawaii 2008 MC
Committee Workshop on
USA
Member Methodologies for
Non-functional
Properties in Services
Computing
Zhu, Liming ATP Organizing International
Sydney 2008 MC
Committee Workshop on
Intelligent Egovernment
Australia
Zhu, Liming ATP Program Middleware for Web Munchen 2008 MC
Committee
Member
Services workshop Germany
Zhu, Liming ATP Program Middleware for Leuven 2008 MC
340

Zhu, Liming ATP
Committee
Member
Program
Committee
Member
Zhu, Liming ATP Program
Committee
Zhu, Liming ATP Program
Committee
Zhu, Liming ATP Program
Committee
Zobel, J. VRL Member,
organising
committee
Service Oriented
Computing (MW4SOC)
Quality-of-Service
Concerns in Service
Oriented Ar
Australian Software
Engineering
Conference (ASWEC)
Working IEEE/IFIP
Conference on
Software Architecture
(WICSA)
European Conference
on Software
Architecture (ECSA)
String Processing and
Information Retieval
Symposium (SPIRE)
Belgium
Sydney
Australia
Gold Coast
Australia
Cambridge
UK
2008 MC
2008 MC
2008 MC
Cambridge
UK
2008 MC
Australia Nov-08
341

Membership of Editorial Boards for Journals
Name Lab Journal Editorial Position Year
Appt’d
Theme
Anderson, Brian CRL Communications in
Information and
Systems
Editorial Board 1999 MC
Anderson, Brian CRL Applied and
Computational Control,
Signals and Circuits
Editorial Board 1998 MC
Anderson, Brian CRL International Journal of
Robust and Nonlinear
Control
Editorial Board 1989 MC
Anderson, Brian CRL Multidimensional
Systems and Signal
Processing
Editorial Board 1989 MC
Anderson, Brian CRL International Journal of
Adaptive Control and
Signal Processing
Editor at Large 1987 MC
Anderson, Brian CRL Optimal Control
applications and
methods
Editorial Board Unkn’wn MC
Baldwin, Timothy VRL Computational
Linguistics
Board member 2006 MSOD
Baumgartner, CRL Journal of Automated Guest Editor of a 2008 MC
Peter
Reasoning
special issue
Buntine, Wray CRL Statistics and
Editorial Board 2005 MSOD
Computing
Member
Buntine, Wray CRL Data Mining and Editorial Board 2005 MSOD
Knowledge Discovery Member
Gallois, Cindy QRL Journal of Cross- Associate Editor Jan-05 MSOD
Cultural Psychology (action editor)
Governatori, QRl IEEE Transaction on Guest editor 2008 MC
Guido
Data and Knowledge
Engineering
Governatori, QRL Journal of Applied Guest editor 2008 MC
Guido
Logic
Gudmundsson, ATP International Journal of Editorial board 2008 MSOD
Joachim
Computational
Geometry and
Applications
Hartley, Richard CRL International Journal of
Computer Vision
Editor 2003 ES
Haslum, Patrik CRL Journal of Artificial Editorial board 2008 MC
Intelligence Research
(JAIR)
member / reviewer
Hutter, Marcus CRL Journal of Artificial Editorial Board 2007 MSOD
General Intelligence Member
Huuck, Ralf NRL Journal of Automated
Reasoning
Guest Editor Jun-05 MC
Huuck, Ralf NRL Journal of Automated
Reasoning: Special
Issue On Operating
Systems Verification
Co-editor 2008 MC
342

Jadwiga,
Indulska
Jadwiga,
Indulska
Jadwiga,
Indulska
Jadwiga,
Indulska
QRL Journal of Pervasive
and Mobile Computing
QRL Journal on Pervasive
Computing and
Communication
QRL Journal of Pervasive
and Mobile Computing
QRL Book series on
Ambient Intelligence
and Smart
Environments
Jian Zhang NRL IEEE Transactions on
Systems & Circles for
Video Technology (T-
CSVT)
Jian Zhang NRL EURASIP Journal on
Image and Video
Processing
Klein, Gerwin NRL Journal of Automated
Reasoning
Editorial Board
Member
Editorial Board
Member
Guest editor of
special issue on
context modelling
and reasoning
Editorial Board
Member
ongoing
since
2007
NS
ongoing NS
since
2004
2007 NS
2008 NS
Associate Editor Jan-06 MSOD
Associate Editor Jun-06 MSOD
Guest Editor Jan-08 MC
Landfeldt, Bjorn ATP International Journal of
Computer
Communications
Guest Editor 2008 NS
Libman, Lavy ATP Journal of
Communications (JCM)
Editor 2008 NS
Lovell, Brian QRL Pattern Recognition
Letters
Associate Editor 2007 MSOD
Lovell, Brian QRL IGI Global Advisory Board 2008 MSOD
Maher, Michael NRL Theory and Practice of
Logic Programming
Editorial Advisor 2000 MC
Maher, Michael NRL Journal of Applied Scientific Area Editor 2005 MC
Logic
Maher, Michael NRL Journal of Algorithms in
Cognition, Informatics
and Logic
Moffatt, Alistair VRL ACM Transactions on
Information Systems,
Springer Information
Retrieval
Nirmalathas, VRL Journal of Lightwave
Ampaluanapillay
Petters, Stefan
M.
Technology
NRL Journal of Systems
Architecture
Renz, Jochen CRL/ Spatial Cognition and
ANU Computation
Renz, Jochen CRL/ Spatial Cognition and
ANU Computation
Renz, Jochen CRL/ Earth Science
ANU Informatics
Rintanen, Jussi CRL Journal of Artificial
Intelligence Research
Editorial Board
member
Editorial Board
Member
2008 MC
Jan-00 MSOD
Associate Editor *08 NS
Area editor REALTIME
& EMBEDDED
SYSTEMS
2008 ES
Editorial Board 2008 MC
Guest Editor of a
special issue
2008 MC
Associate Editor 2007 MC
Editorial Board
Member
2007 MC
343

Robles-Kelly,
Antonio
Sanderson,
Penelope
Sanderson,
Penelope
Sanderson,
Penelope
CRL IET Computer Vision
Journal (DICTA 2008
Special Issue)
Invited Associate
Editor
2005 ES
QRL Human Factors Editorial Board Jan-05 MSOD
QRL Journal of
Experimental
Psychology: Applied
QRL Journal of Cognitive
Engineering and
Decision Making
QRL Cognition, Technology,
and Work
Consulting Editor Jan-07 MSOD
Editorial Board Jan-06 MSOD
Sanderson,
Penelope
Editorial Board Jan-97 MSOD
Smola, Alex CRL Statistics and
Editorial Board 2005 MSOD
Computing
Member
Smola, Alex CRL Journal of Machine Editorial Board 2005 MSOD
Learning Research Member
Stuckey, P. VRL Logic Methods in
Computer Science
Editorial Position MSD
Stuckey, Peter VRL Theory and Practice of Constraint area 2008 MSOD
Logic Programming editor
Stuckey, Peter VRL Constraints Editorial board 2008 MSOD
Thiebaux, Sylvie CRL Journal of Artificial Editorial Board 2007 MC
Intelligence Research Member
Thiebaux, Sylvie CRL Artificial Intelligence Editor, special issue
on Automated
Planning Systems
2007 MC
Tosic, Vladimir ATP International Journal of Editorial Board 2007 MC
Business Process
Integration and
Management (IJBPIM)
Member
Tosic, Vladimir ATP Service Oriented Managing Editor (only 2008 MC
Computing and for some papers,
Applications (SOCA) delegated from the
regular Managing
Editor)
van Glabbeek, NRL Information and Editorial Board 1991 MC
Rob
Computation
Member
van Glabbeek, NRL Theoretical Computer Editorial Board 2004 MC
Rob
Science
Member
Walsh, Toby NRL Journal of Artificial
Intelligence Research
Editor in Chief 2007 MC
Walsh, Toby NRL Constraints, an
International Journal
Editorial Board 2003 MC
Walsh, Toby NRL Journal of Automated
Reasoning
Editorial Board 2001 MC
Walsh, Toby NRL Logical Methods in
Computer Science
Editorial Board 2005 MC
Walsh, Toby NRL Journal of Applied
Logic
Area Editor 2003 MC
Walsh, Toby NRL Journal of Logic and
Computation
Area Editor 2007 MC
344

Zhang, Andrew CRL International Journal of
Ultra Wideband
Communications and
Systems
Zobel, Justin VRL Asia & Australasia,
Information Retrieval
Zobel, Justin VRL ACM Transactions on
Information Systems
Zobel, Justin VRL Information Processing
& Management
Editorial Board
Member
2008 NS
Editor in Chief 2008 MSOD
Associate Editor 2008 MSOD
Associate Editor 2008 MSOD
345

Prizes, Awards and Other Honours
Recipient Award/prize/other
honours
Silvia Richter & 1
Matthais
Westphal
st place Action-Cost
Satisficing Track
Patrik Haslum 2 nd and 3 rd place Cost
Optimal Tracking
Peter
Baumgartner
2nd and 3rd place in
international theorem
prover competition
Geoffrey Chu 2 nd place Best Student
Solver
Dods, Sarah Alexander Schwarzkopf
Prize for Technological
Innovation
Gernot Heiser;
Peter Chubb
Organisation/Institute Date
International Conference
on Automated Planning
and Scheduling (ICAPS),
Germany
International Conference
on Automated Planning
and Scheduling (ICAPS),
Germany
International Joint
Conference on
Automated Reasoning
(IJCAR)
Parallel and Sequential
Tracks, SAT-Race 2008
competition
Industry/University
Cooperative Research
Centres (I/UCRC)
Association
Best Paper 13 th IEEE Asia-Pacific
Computer Systems
Architecture Conference,
Hsinchu, Taiwan
Jacky Keung Best Paper Award 19 th Australian Software
Engineering Conference
Xiaonan Ji, James
Bailey & Rao
Kotagiri
Adyos, Carlos
(NICTA student)
Subhash Challa &
Rajib Chakrovorty
with UTS coauthor,
Maern
Takruri
Qiao, Shaojie;
Tang, Changjie;
Jin, Huidong; Dai,
Shucheng &
Chen, Xingshu
(ASWEC), Perth
Best Paper Award International Conference
on Pattern Recognition in
Best Paper Award,
Experiments with
Analogy-X for Software
Cost Estimation
Best Paper, “Auto
Calibration in Drift Aware
Wireless Sensor
Networks using The
Interacting Multiple
Model Algorithm”
Best Paper, Constrained
K-Closest Pairs Query
Processing Based on
Growing Window in Crime
Databases.
Alex Smola Best Paper, Improving
Maximum Margin Matrix
Factorization
Bioinformatics (PRIB)
19 th Australian Software
Engineering Conference
(ASWEC), Perth
Mosharaka International
Conference on
Communications,
Computers and
Applications (MICCCA)
IEEE International
Conference on
Intelligence and Security
Informatics (ISI)
European Conference of
Machine Learning and
Principles and Practice of
Knowledge Discovery in
Databases (ECML/PKDD)
29/10/2008
29/10/2008
08/2008
02/06/2008
01/2008
01/08/2008
04/03/2008
03/2008
06/2008
09/2008
David Smith, Leif Best Paper, Statistical First International 10/2008
346

Hanlen, Dino
Minuitti, Andrew
Zhang, David
Rodda & Ben
Gilbert
Reza Rafeh; Kim
Marriott; Maria
Garcia de la
Banda; Nicholas
Nethercote; Mark
Wallace
Byron Wicks;
Chien Ta (NICTA
student)
characterisation of the
dynamic narrowband
body area channel
Symposium on Applied
Sciences in Biomedical
and Communication
Technologies
Best Poster Association for Constraint
Programming, Sydney
Best Student Paper International Conference
on Microwave and
Millimeter Wave
Technology (ICMMT),
China
Andrew Sutton Dean’s Prize Australian National
University, Computer
Engineering and
Computer Science
Phil Robertson Fellowship Australian Academy of
Technological Sciences
and Engineering (ATSE)
Brian Lovell Fellowship International Association
for Pattern Recognition
(IAPR)
Toby Walsh Fellowship Association for the
Advancement of Artificial
Chris Nicol NSW Computer Scientist
of the Year
Intelligence (AAAI)
NSW Department of State
and Regional
Development
Ott, Max Order of Merit Australian Institute of
Company Directors
(AICD),Company
David Everitt Outstanding Service
Award to the VTS Board
of Governors
BioTALA Project Semi-Finalist, Elsevier
Grand Challenge
Directorship Course
IEEE Vehicular
Technology Society
Knowledge Enhancement
in the Life Sciences,
Elsevier
01/09/2008
19/05/2008
18/08/2008
13/10/2008
23/06/2008
03/03/2008
09/2008
01/2008
09/2008
08/09/2008
Andrew Sutton Student Prize Institute of Engineering
and Technology
18/07/2008
Stan Skafidas Top 100 People of 2008, The Age, Melbourne 15/12/2008
The Age Melbourne
Magazine
Magazine
Andrew Sutton Undergraduate Thesis
Prizes in National
Committee on
Automation, Control and
Instrumentation (NCACI)
and Space Engineering
Engineers Australia 06/06/2008
John Judge; Mark Winner ARTEMIS Orchestra 10/06/2008
347

Sheahan; Peter
Chubb (and
UNSW staff)
Peter Stuckey Winner - part of winning
team for the 15 th
International Prolog
Programming Content
Competition, Greece
International Conference
on Logic Programming
(ICLP), Italy
12/2008
348

2008 Software Releases
Name of
Software
Release Developed by Lab Project Theme Business Area
Castalia 1.3 Feb-08 Athanassios ATP Macro NS Mobile
Boulis
Programming
Systems and
Services
Released Jun-06 Paul Brebner CRL e-Government Managing Software
directly to Dept
and contract
Complexity Infrastructure
of Health and
engineers
Ageing. Not
within eGov
released via
NICTA website
project
ePASA Sept -08 e-Government CRL IP Australia
client release
of ATMOSS-
EZ and
AusPat
models
MC SI
ePASA Jul-08 e-Government CRL Department of
Health and
Ageing
Emergency
website model
release
Badumna
Network Suit
OKL4 VoIP
demo
CAmkES
framework
Analysis
algorithms in R
for COTS
middleware
performance
analysis in
defence
applications
TeamScope
v2.0
Oct-08 P2P team VRL P2P MSD
MC SI
Sep-08 Ryan
Heffernan
NRL None ES MSS
Dec-08 CAmkES team NRL CAmkES ES SI
Jul-08 Yan Liu and
Jacky Keung
ATP Armature Managing_
Complexity
Software
Infrastructure
Jul-08 Scott Hewtte ATP Braccetto MSD Software
Infrastructure
CAIRNS Jul-08 SAFE
Information
ODRL Policy
Plugin
Sep-08 SAFE
Information
QRL SAFE
Information
QRL SAFE
Information
MC S&S
MC S&S
349

Automap May
2008
Armadillo C++
library
Matlab code for
simulation of
Body Channel
Lars
Petersson,
Lars
Andersson,
Gary Overett
and Niklas
Pettersson
CRL Automap/Smar
t Cars
Embedded
Systems
Nov-08 SAFE AS QRL SAFE AS MSD S&S
Nov-08 David Smith,
Dino Miniutti,
Andrew
Zhang, Leif
Hanlen
CRL HPI NS
Elefant Jul-08 Elefant Project CRL Elefant MSOD data analysis
LIXI Visible
Loan Reference
Architecture
and Imple
UML profile for
non-functional
properties for
defe
Apr-08 Liming Zhu
and students
May-08 Liming Zhu
and students
ATP Armature Managing_
Complexity
ATP Armature Managing_
Complexity
ITS
Software
Infrastructure
Software
Infrastructure
350

Commercialisation Training
Course Name When Held Where held Number of staff
attending
No of
students
attending
Enhancing Managerial 3-5 Nov-08 ATP
Effectiveness
18
Communicating with 27-Oct-08 ATP
Impact Workshop
9 4
Communicating with 28-Oct-08 CRL
Impact Workshop
9 1
Communicating with 29-Oct-08 NRL
Impact Workshop
7 5
Communicating with 29-Oct-08 VRL
Impact Workshop
10 4
Communicating with 30-Oct-08 QRL
Impact Workshop
2 5
Marketing Impact 11-12 Nov-08 CRL
Strategies Workshop
30 1
Successful Market
Engagement Workshop
15-16 Oct-08
Phase 2
28
IP Induction Workshop 17-Nov-08 7 6
Impact Strategy Feb-08 VRL -
PIPSS - Project IP January and March All labs
Searching Sessions 2008
4 3
PIPSS - Project IP 4-Apr-08 CRL
Searching Sessions
1
9-May-08 CRL 1
24-Apr-08 NRL 3
15-Apr-08 VRL 7 5
1-May-08 CRL 1
16-May-08 QRL 1
3-Apr-08 ATP 1
6-May-08 NRL 2
IP Workshop 16-Jun-08 QRL 13
PIPS 15/09/08 CRL 1
PIPS 11/08/08 CRL 1
PIPS 10/07/08 VRL 1
PIPS 11/07/08 ATP 1
PIPS 25/07/08 VRL 1
351

Number of advanced technical and professional courses
available to NICTA-enhanced PhD students
Course Code Name of Course
Year
Semester University
COMP4045 Computational Geometry 2008/01 USYD
COMP6469/4690 Introduction to Probalisitic Graphical Models 2008/01 ANU
COMP6467/4670 Introduction to Statistical Machine Learning 2008/01 ANU
COMP6464/3320 High Performance Scientific Computing 2008/01 ANU
COMP6463/4630 Overview of Logic and Computation 2008/01 ANU
COMP6320/3320 Artificial Intelligence 2008/01 ANU
Reinforcement Learning and Planning under 2008/01
COMP6460/4640 Uncertainty
ANU
ENGN8227 Advanced Topics in Control 2008/01 ANU
COMP9243 Distributed Systems 2008/01 UNSW
COMP9317 XML and Databases 2008/01 UNSW
COMP4415 First-Order Logic 2008/01 UNSW
COMP3153 Algorithmic Verification 2008/01 UNSW
ENGN8227 Advanced Topics in Control 2008/01 ANU
431-672 Neural Info-Processing & Learning 2008/1 Uni Melb
431-682 Lightwave Devices & Systems 2008/1 Uni Melb
431-693 Advanced Studies in Biomedical Engineering 2008/1 Uni Melb
433-652 Distributed Systems 2008/1 Uni Melb
433-655 Distributed Algorithms 2008/1 Uni Melb
433-678 Cluster & Grid Computing
Software Agents & Agent Programming
2008/1 Uni Melb
433-682
Languages 2008/1 Uni Melb
ENGN4226/6226 System Theory 2008/02 ANU
COMP8620 Advanced Topics in Artificial Intelligence 2008/02 ANU
Reinforcement Learning and Planning under 2008/02
COMP4670/6460 Uncertainty
ANU
ENGN8531 Advanced Computer Vision 2008/02 ANU
431-692 Advance Topics in Photonics 2008/2 Uni Melb
433-633 Constraint Programming 2008/2 Uni Melb
431-690 Advanced Topics in Communications 2008/2 Uni Melb
433-661 High Performance Database Systems 2008/2 Uni Melb
ELEC5514 Networked Embedded Systems
University
2008/2 of Sydney
COMP5416 Advanced Network Technology
University
2008/2 of Sydney
ELEC5508 Wireless Networks
University
2008/2 of Sydney
COMP5116 Internet Protocols
University
2008/2 of Sydney
INF3315 Human-Computer Interac
University
2008/2 of Sydney
COMP9242 Advanced Operating Systems 2008/2 UNSW
COMP4161 Advanced Topics in Software Verification, 2008/2 UNSW
COMP4418 Kowledge Representation and Reasoning 2008/02 UNSW
COMP9519 Multimedia Systems 2008/02 UNSW
352

Research Staff By Lab and Theme
First Name Last Name Lab Category Name Theme Name
ATP
John Parker ATP RESEARCH LABS Embedded Systems
Gregor McEwan ATP RESEARCH PROJECTS Making Sense of Data
Markus Rittenbruch ATP RESEARCH PROJECTS Making Sense of Data
An Zhao ATP RESEARCH PROJECTS Making Sense of Data
Scott Hewett ATP RESEARCH PROJECTS Making Sense of Data
Bo Yin ATP RESEARCH PROJECTS Making Sense of Data
Natalie Ruiz ATP RESEARCH PROJECTS Making Sense of Data
Paul Sztajer ATP RESEARCH PROJECTS Making Sense of Data
Kelvin Cheng ATP RESEARCH PROJECTS Making Sense of Data
Peter Ayre ATP RESEARCH PROJECTS Making Sense of Data
Dean Karantonis ATP RESEARCH LABS Making Sense of Data
Peter Single ATP RESEARCH PROJECTS Making Sense of Data
James Constable ATP RESEARCH LABS Making Sense of Data
David Thomas ATP RESEARCH PROJECTS Making Sense of Data
Wai Keung ATP RESEARCH PROJECTS Managing Complexity
Vladimir Tosic ATP RESEARCH LABS Managing Complexity
Udo Kannengiesser ATP RESEARCH LABS Managing Complexity
Kevin Lee ATP RESEARCH PROJECTS Managing Complexity
Rodney Berriman ATP RESEARCH LABS Networked Systems
Thierry Rakotoarivelo ATP RESEARCH LABS Networked Systems
Christoph Dwertmann ATP RESEARCH LABS Networked Systems
Guillaume Jourjon ATP RESEARCH PROJECTS Networked Systems
Golam Sarwar ATP RESEARCH PROJECTS Networked Systems
Saeed Attar ATP RESEARCH LABS Networked Systems
Anirban Mahanti ATP RESEARCH LABS Networked Systems
Yuriy Tselishchev ATP RESEARCH LABS Networked Systems
NRL
Ihor Kuz NRL RESEARCH LABS Embedded Systems
John Judge NRL RESEARCH PROJECTS Embedded Systems
Peter Chubb NRL RESEARCH LABS Embedded Systems
Philip Derrin NRL RESEARCH PROJECTS Embedded Systems
Nicholas Fitzroy-Dale NRL RESEARCH PROJECTS Embedded Systems
Etienne Le Sueur NRL RESEARCH LABS Embedded Systems
Joshua Root NRL RESEARCH PROJECTS Embedded Systems
June Andronick NRL RESEARCH PROJECTS Embedded Systems
Karunadhipathi Elkaduwe NRL RESEARCH LABS Embedded Systems
Jian Zhang NRL RESEARCH LABS Making Sense of Data
Serge Lichman NRL RESEARCH PROJECTS Making Sense of Data
Zhen Wu NRL RESEARCH PROJECTS Making Sense of Data
William Uther NRL RESEARCH LABS Making Sense of Data
Si Lu NRL RESEARCH PROJECTS Making Sense of Data
Jing Chen NRL RESEARCH PROJECTS Making Sense of Data
Getian Ye NRL RESEARCH PROJECTS Making Sense of Data
Donald Geers NRL RESEARCH LABS Making Sense of Data
William Shui NRL RESEARCH LABS Making Sense of Data
Kee Ng NRL RESEARCH PROJECTS Making Sense of Data
Yang Wang NRL RESEARCH PROJECTS Making Sense of Data
Kostia Robert NRL RESEARCH PROJECTS Making Sense of Data
Van Munin Chhieng NRL RESEARCH PROJECTS Making Sense of Data
353

Wai Lap Tam NRL RESEARCH PROJECTS Making Sense of Data
Glen Kelley NRL RESEARCH PROJECTS Making Sense of Data
Chen Cai NRL RESEARCH LABS Making Sense of Data
Ralf Huuck NRL RESEARCH LABS Managing Complexity
Gerwin Klein NRL RESEARCH LABS Managing Complexity
Robert Van Glabbeek NRL RESEARCH LABS Managing Complexity
Paul Tyler NRL RESEARCH LABS Managing Complexity
Michael Maher NRL RESEARCH LABS Managing Complexity
Toby Walsh NRL RESEARCH LABS Managing Complexity
Ansgar Fehnker NRL RESEARCH LABS Managing Complexity
David Cock NRL RESEARCH PROJECTS Managing Complexity
Sebastian Maneth NRL RESEARCH LABS Managing Complexity
Thomas Sewell NRL RESEARCH PROJECTS Managing Complexity
Simon Winwood NRL RESEARCH PROJECTS Managing Complexity
Georgios Katsirelos NRL RESEARCH PROJECTS Managing Complexity
Andrew Verden NRL RESEARCH PROJECTS Managing Complexity
Lanbo Zheng NRL RESEARCH PROJECTS Managing Complexity
Olga Kuznetsova NRL RESEARCH PROJECTS Managing Complexity
Kim Nguyen NRL RESEARCH LABS Managing Complexity
Timothy Bourke NRL RESEARCH LABS Managing Complexity
Paul Steckler NRL RESEARCH LABS Managing Complexity
Sivapriya Ananthram NRL RESEARCH PROJECTS Managing Complexity
CRL
Lars Petersson CRL RESEARCH LABS Embedded Systems
Paulette Lieby CRL RESEARCH PROJECTS Embedded Systems
Nicholas Barnes CRL RESEARCH LABS Embedded Systems
Abd-Krim Seghouane CRL RESEARCH LABS Embedded Systems
Timothy Raupach CRL RESEARCH PROJECTS Embedded Systems
Antonio Robles-Kelly CRL RESEARCH LABS Embedded Systems
Niklas Pettersson CRL RESEARCH LABS Embedded Systems
Nian Liu CRL RESEARCH LABS Embedded Systems
Chunhua Shen CRL RESEARCH LABS Embedded Systems
Farid Jihad Doudar CRL RESEARCH PROJECTS Embedded Systems
Lars Andersson CRL RESEARCH PROJECTS Embedded Systems
Ran Wei CRL RESEARCH PROJECTS Embedded Systems
Jun Zhou CRL RESEARCH PROJECTS Embedded Systems
Ashkan Amirsadri CRL RESEARCH PROJECTS Embedded Systems
Jae-Hak Kim CRL RESEARCH PROJECTS Embedded Systems
Tiberio Caetano CRL RESEARCH LABS Making Sense of Data
Kishor Gawande CRL RESEARCH LABS Making Sense of Data
Peter Sunehag CRL RESEARCH PROJECTS Making Sense of Data
Ulrich Webers CRL RESEARCH PROJECTS Making Sense of Data
Wray Buntine CRL RESEARCH LABS Making Sense of Data
Marconi Barbosa CRL RESEARCH PROJECTS Making Sense of Data
Sarah Bull CRL RESEARCH PROJECTS Making Sense of Data
James Petterson CRL RESEARCH PROJECTS Making Sense of Data
Yue Sun CRL RESEARCH PROJECTS Making Sense of Data
Michael Norrish CRL RESEARCH LABS Managing Complexity
Anbulagan Anbulagan CRL RESEARCH PROJECTS Managing Complexity
Baris Fidan CRL RESEARCH PROJECTS Managing Complexity
Philip Kilby CRL RESEARCH LABS Managing Complexity
Jinbo Huang CRL RESEARCH LABS Managing Complexity
Peter Baumgartner CRL RESEARCH LABS Managing Complexity
Alban Grastien CRL RESEARCH PROJECTS Managing Complexity
354

Jussi Rintanen CRL RESEARCH LABS Managing Complexity
Adi Botea CRL RESEARCH PROJECTS Managing Complexity
Jonathan Gray CRL RESEARCH LABS Managing Complexity
Viorica Botea CRL RESEARCH PROJECTS Managing Complexity
Paul Brebner CRL RESEARCH PROJECTS Managing Complexity
William O'Brien CRL RESEARCH LABS Managing Complexity
Scott Sanner CRL RESEARCH PROJECTS Managing Complexity
Daniel Harabor CRL RESEARCH PROJECTS Managing Complexity
Leif Hanlen CRL RESEARCH LABS Networked Systems
Mark Reed CRL RESEARCH LABS Networked Systems
David Smith CRL RESEARCH PROJECTS Networked Systems
Jian Zhang CRL RESEARCH PROJECTS Networked Systems
Zhen Shi CRL RESEARCH PROJECTS Networked Systems
Dino Miniutti CRL RESEARCH PROJECTS Networked Systems
Raymond Chan CRL RESEARCH PROJECTS Networked Systems
Ming Ruan CRL RESEARCH PROJECTS Networked Systems
Zhen Yang CRL RESEARCH PROJECTS Networked Systems
Geng Fang CRL RESEARCH PROJECTS Networked Systems
David Rodda CRL RESEARCH PROJECTS Networked Systems
Andrew Sutton CRL RESEARCH PROJECTS Networked Systems
Benjamin Gilbert CRL RESEARCH PROJECTS Networked Systems
Graeme Robertson CRL RESEARCH LABS Networked Systems
Ming Zhao CRL RESEARCH PROJECTS Networked Systems
VRL
Efstratios Skafidas VRL RESEARCH LABS Embedded Systems
Mark Halpern VRL RESEARCH PROJECTS Embedded Systems
Gordana Klaric Felic VRL RESEARCH PROJECTS Embedded Systems
Timothy Walsh VRL RESEARCH LABS Embedded Systems
Praveenkumar Nadagouda VRL RESEARCH PROJECTS Embedded Systems
Hamish Meffin VRL RESEARCH PROJECTS Embedded Systems
Fan Zhang VRL RESEARCH PROJECTS Embedded Systems
David Ng VRL RESEARCH PROJECTS Embedded Systems
Zongru Liu VRL RESEARCH PROJECTS Embedded Systems
Byron Wicks VRL RESEARCH PROJECTS Embedded Systems
Yuan Mo VRL RESEARCH PROJECTS Embedded Systems
Chien Ta VRL RESEARCH PROJECTS Embedded Systems
Bo Yang VRL RESEARCH PROJECTS Embedded Systems
Tatiana Kameneva VRL RESEARCH LABS Embedded Systems
Adam Kowalczyk VRL RESEARCH LABS Making Sense of Data
Bryan
Beresford-
Smith VRL RESEARCH LABS Making Sense of Data
Lawrence Cavedon VRL RESEARCH LABS Making Sense of Data
Sebastian Brand VRL RESEARCH PROJECTS Making Sense of Data
Yan Huang VRL RESEARCH PROJECTS Making Sense of Data
Mark Brown VRL RESEARCH PROJECTS Making Sense of Data
Julien Fischer VRL RESEARCH PROJECTS Making Sense of Data
Ralph Becket VRL RESEARCH PROJECTS Making Sense of Data
Arun Konagurthu VRL RESEARCH PROJECTS Making Sense of Data
Sarvnaz Karimi VRL RESEARCH PROJECTS Making Sense of Data
Justin Bedo VRL RESEARCH PROJECTS Making Sense of Data
Lloyd Allison VRL RESEARCH PROJECTS Making Sense of Data
Andrew Bromage VRL RESEARCH LABS Making Sense of Data
David Newman VRL RESEARCH LABS Making Sense of Data
Guido Tack VRL RESEARCH LABS Making Sense of Data
355

David Martinez VRL RESEARCH LABS Making Sense of Data
Syed Saleem VRL RESEARCH LABS Managing Complexity
Wanzhi Qiu VRL RESEARCH PROJECTS Managing Complexity
Minh Pham VRL RESEARCH PROJECTS Managing Complexity
Scott Douglas VRL RESEARCH PROJECTS Managing Complexity
Santosh Kulkarni VRL RESEARCH LABS Managing Complexity
John Markham VRL RESEARCH PROJECTS Managing Complexity
Jia Weng VRL RESEARCH PROJECTS Managing Complexity
Li Li VRL RESEARCH PROJECTS Managing Complexity
Kay Crossley VRL RESEARCH PROJECTS Managing Complexity
Subhash Challa VRL RESEARCH LABS Managing Complexity
Rajib Chakravorty VRL RESEARCH PROJECTS Managing Complexity
Da Cheng VRL RESEARCH PROJECTS Managing Complexity
David Churchill VRL RESEARCH PROJECTS Managing Complexity
Farzad Keynejad VRL RESEARCH PROJECTS Managing Complexity
Nickens Okello VRL RESEARCH PROJECTS Managing Complexity
Tharshan Vaithianathan VRL RESEARCH PROJECTS Managing Complexity
Artem Vorobiev VRL RESEARCH PROJECTS Managing Complexity
Donald Hewitt VRL RESEARCH PROJECTS Networked Systems
Trevor Anderson VRL RESEARCH LABS Networked Systems
Chang-Joon Chae VRL RESEARCH LABS Networked Systems
Vijay Arya VRL RESEARCH PROJECTS Networked Systems
Masuduzzaman Bakaul VRL RESEARCH PROJECTS Networked Systems
Nishaanthan Nadarajah VRL RESEARCH PROJECTS Networked Systems
Michael Yarrow VRL RESEARCH PROJECTS Networked Systems
Bipin
Gopalakrishna
Pillai VRL RESEARCH PROJECTS Networked Systems
Thomas Conway VRL RESEARCH PROJECTS Networked Systems
An Tran VRL RESEARCH PROJECTS Networked Systems
Mei Li VRL RESEARCH PROJECTS Networked Systems
QRL
Abbas Bigdeli QLD RESEARCH LABS Embedded Systems
Conrad Sanderson QLD RESEARCH LABS Making Sense of Data
Martijn Mooij QLD RESEARCH PROJECTS Making Sense of Data
Clinton Freeman QLD RESEARCH PROJECTS Making Sense of Data
Stephen Whitcher QLD RESEARCH PROJECTS Making Sense of Data
Stefan Lehmann QLD RESEARCH PROJECTS Making Sense of Data
Samuel Hasenbosch QLD RESEARCH PROJECTS Making Sense of Data
Wendy Broxham QLD RESEARCH PROJECTS Making Sense of Data
William Billingsley QLD RESEARCH PROJECTS Making Sense of Data
Shaokang Chen QLD RESEARCH PROJECTS Making Sense of Data
Renato Iannella QLD RESEARCH LABS Managing Complexity
Duc Pham QLD RESEARCH PROJECTS Managing Complexity
Tania Xiao QLD RESEARCH PROJECTS Managing Complexity
Guido Governatori QLD RESEARCH LABS Managing Complexity
Ricky Robinson QLD RESEARCH LABS Networked Systems
Ryan Wishart QLD RESEARCH LABS Networked Systems
Stephen Glass QLD RESEARCH PROJECTS Networked Systems
Jonathan Guerin QLD RESEARCH PROJECTS Networked Systems
Shivanajay Marwaha QLD RESEARCH PROJECTS Networked Systems
Peizhao Hu QLD RESEARCH PROJECTS Networked Systems
Konstanty Bialkowski QLD RESEARCH LABS Networked Systems
David Belvedere QLD RESEARCH LABS Networked Systems
356

GiFi (GWP) @
ATP
Mark Bickerstaff GWP RESEARCH PROJECTS Embedded Systems
Adriel Kind GWP RESEARCH PROJECTS Embedded Systems
Yun Li GWP RESEARCH PROJECTS Embedded Systems
Yi Li GWP RESEARCH PROJECTS Embedded Systems
Nghia Ngo GWP RESEARCH PROJECTS Embedded Systems
Charles Thomas GWP RESEARCH PROJECTS Embedded Systems
Long Ung GWP RESEARCH PROJECTS Embedded Systems
Koendert Van Den Beld GWP RESEARCH PROJECTS Embedded Systems
Benjamin Widdup GWP RESEARCH PROJECTS Embedded Systems
Dominic Yip GWP RESEARCH PROJECTS Embedded Systems
Gong Zhou GWP RESEARCH PROJECTS Embedded Systems
Matthew Cooke GWP RESEARCH PROJECTS Embedded Systems
Rami Mukhtar GWP RESEARCH LABS Embedded Systems
357

Current List of NICTA PhD Students and Thesis Topics
NAME STATUS LAB THEME PROJECT TITLE
Integrating Mesh Router
Functionality in Wireless IP
Ti, Jimmy applied QRL NS Cameras
FPGA-based Data Processing
Norouznezhad,
applied to High-Speed Camera
Ehsan applied QRL ES Networks
Low cost Inertial-Visual control for
Baldwin, Grant enrolled CRL MSD Mobile Robotics
Verified Compilers for Functional
Barthwal, Aditi enrolled CRL MC Languages
Dynamic Image Enhancement of
Carr, Peter enrolled CRL ES Video
Tracking of Articulated Structures
Chik, Desmond enrolled CRL MSD in Video Material
Reflectance modelling of
multilayered surfaces for pattern
Huynh, Cong enrolled CRL ES recognition
Feng, Alex enrolled CRL MC Robust Control Theory
Fu, Zhouyu enrolled CRL ES Invariant Imaging Spectroscopy
Kan John,
Model-based Supervision of
Priscilla enrolled CRL MC Composite Systems
Kamenetsky,
Machine Learning Applied to the
Dmitry enrolled CRL MSD Game of Go
Mathematical modelling of yeast
Khoo, Chin Foon enrolled CRL MSD cell cycle
Qualitative reasoning, constraints
Li, Jason enrolled CRL MC programming, and planning
Li, Charles enrolled CRL MSD Tracking on Manifolds
Development of self-motion
estimation algorithms with
potential applications in
autonomous systems and driver-
Lim, John enrolled CRL ES assistance technologies
Solving Probabilistic Temporal
Little, Iain enrolled CRL MC Planning Problems
Complexity adaptive OFDM
Luo, Lin
Martin-Hughes,
enrolled CRL NS systems
Rowan enrolled CRL MC Cooperation in an Agent Society
McCarthy,
Honey bee inspired visual
Christopher
Nguyen, Quang
enrolled CRL ES navigation
Anh enrolled CRL ES Multi Camera Tracking
Rich Visual Analysis from a
Overett, Gary enrolled CRL ES Moving Vehicle
Ong,, Ju Lynn enrolled CRL ES Early Detection of Colon Cancer
Applications of hyperspectral
camera systems: spectral image
Prakash, Surya enrolled CRL ES source mapping
Ramanayake,
Automating Proof Theory via
Revantha enrolled CRL MC Isabelle
358

Shaw, David enrolled CRL ES
3D Reconstruction and Visual
SLAM for Mobile Robots
Machine Learning in Computer
Shi, Javen enrolled CRL MSD Vision
Exploiting Structure in Real World
Siddiqi, Sajjad
Stevens,
enrolled CRL MC Satisfiability Problems
Michael enrolled CRL MC KTB modal logic
Stochastic Gradient Methods for
Teo, Choon Hui enrolled CRL MSD Fast Kernel Algorithms
Information Theory and Wireless
Timo, Roy enrolled CRL NS Networks
Efficient tableau-based decision
Widmann,
procedures for modal and
Florian enrolled CRL MC temporal logics
Statistical surface modeling and
shape analysis of neuro-
Xiao, Pengdong enrolled CRL ES anatomical structure
Dry-eye detection through image
Yedidya, Tamir enrolled CRL ES analysis
Accelerated Stochastic Gradient
Yu, Jin enrolled CRL MSD Methods
Shape Analysis in Medical Image
Zhou, Luping enrolled CRL ES Processing
High resolution real time imaging
Azman, Amelia enrolled QRL ES algorithm
Wireless networks: attack &
Glass, Stephen enrolled QRL NS defence
Autonomic, Reconfigurable
Hu, Peizhao enrolled QRL NS context aware systems
Pham, Duy
Multi agent system supporting
Hoang enrolled QRL MC decision marking process
Generalisation in Decision-
Richter, Silvia enrolled QRL MC Theoretic Planning
Effective Stochastic Satisfiability
Robinson,
Algorithms for Solving
Nathan enrolled QRL MC Probabilistic Reasoning Problems
Vitsentiy, Vitaliy enrolled QRL MC Interactive information retrieval
Werner, Felix enrolled QRL ES Vision-based Localisation
Traffic Scene Reconstruction
using Data Fusion of Multiple
Aydos, Carlos
Biswas,
enrolled NRL MC Sensors
Moyuresh enrolled NRL MC Error-resilient video coding
Real-time characteristics of
Esterel: specifications and
Bourke, Timothy enrolled NRL MC implementations
Robotic Teams in Task Driven
Brown, Solly enrolled NRL MC Adversarial Environments
Context-aware preference
representation and elicitation for
Chamiel, Gil enrolled NRL MC ontological information
Choi, Ryan Hyun enrolled NRL NS XML document filtering
Elkaduwe,
Kernel memory management in
Dhammika enrolled NRL ES embedded microkernels
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Fitzroy-Dale,
Domain-specific optimisation in
Nicholas enrolled NRL ES embedded component systems
Estimating the Cost of a Search
Haim, Shai enrolled NRL MC Procedure
Hasan, Mahady enrolled NRL NS Web search clustering
Heckenberg,
Video Based Gesture Captive for
Daniel enrolled NRL MSD Creative Applications
Herman,
Object detection and recognition
Gunawan
Khan,
enrolled NRL MC in images
Mohammad Arif enrolled NRL MSD Multi-Camera Object Tracking
Runtime acceleration of software
binaries on reconfigurable
Koh, Lih Wen enrolled NRL ES processors
Checking Semantic Equivalence
Kolanski, Rafal enrolled NRL MC of Restricted Assembly Programs
Inconsistency management in
Lee, Kevin enrolled NRL MC description logics
Li, Zhidong enrolled NRL MSD Object detection and tracking
Liang, Zhicong
Data management for persistent
Leo enrolled NRL NS solid state memory
Multi Dimensional Skyline Query
Luo, Yi enrolled NRL MSD Processing
Motion compensation for scalable
Matthew, Reji enrolled NRL MC video compression
The Application of Machine
Learning to Enhance Protein
Identification in High Throughput
McHugh, Leo enrolled ATP MSD Proteomics Applications.
Morioka,
Cortex Inspired Real-Time
Nobuyuki enrolled NRL MSD Hierarchical Object Recognition
Narodystka,
Using Finite Automata to
Nina enrolled NRL MC Represent Global Constraints
Object Detection for Predefined
Paisitkriangkrai,
Events Analysis in Surveillance
Sakrapee enrolled NRL MC Video
Natural Language Information
Penev, Alex enrolled NRL MSD Retrieval
Phua, Chee Wee enrolled NRL MC Turing's Will
Ryzhyk, Leonid enrolled NRL ES Reliable device drivers
Cross layer algorithm
development for optimal QoS of
video transmission over wireless
Saesue, Werayut
Settisara
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Janney, Pranam enrolled NRL MC Surveillance Video Summarisation
Machine Learning & Robot
coordination in Unknown
Sheh, Raymond enrolled NRL MC Environments
Operating Systems Directed
Snowdon , Dave enrolled NRL ES Power Management
Tam, Vincent enrolled NRL MSD Question-answering for e-learning
QoS Enhancement of Viedeo
Tan, Lishen Evan enrolled NRL MC Streaming over Wireless Mesh
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Secure Operating Systems for
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Combining Operating System
Winwood, Simon enrolled NRL ES Protection with Certificate Bearing
Artificial intelligence logics with
Wong, Ka-Shu enrolled NRL MC emphasis on negotiation models
Image/Video Processing for Video-
Xu, Jie enrolled NRL MC based Surveillance Systems
Local feature based object
Yang, Jun enrolled NRL MC detection
Yao, Wei enrolled NRL MSD Optimisation for XML Stream Data
Noninterference on state-based
Zhang, Chenyi enrolled NRL MC systems
Composing Web Service using
Non-functional properties: A
Bui, Ngoc Bao enrolled ATP MC Model Driven Approach
Data Mining in Spatio-Temporal
Djordjevic, Bojan enrolled ATP MSD Data
Systems Biology of Gene
Ho, Joshua enrolled ATP MSD Expression
Comparing the strengths and
Hossain,
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Emam enrolled ATP MC development
Huo, Ming enrolled ATP MC Process Recovery Framework
Profile aggregation and content
matching techniques for content-
Iqbal, Ahmad enrolled ATP NS based networks (PACMaC)
Kannan,
Localization in wireless sensor
Anushiya
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enrolled ATP NS network
Alizeza enrolled ATP MC Model driven development
Assessing the impact of CMMI
Khurshid M,
based government subsidy on
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Requirements Engineering for On-
Lim, Soo Ling enrolled ATP MC Demand Computing
Nazir, Fawad enrolled ATP NS Content based networking
Pedrasa,
Distributed Context Aware System
Jhoanna enrolled ATP NS for Mobility Management
Rathnayake,
Prediction of available resources
Upendra Sudesh enrolled ATP NS of a wireless mobile user
Seeber,
Pixel and geometry based
Sebastian Balint
Sethu,
enrolled ATP MSD distributed rendering
Vidhyasaharan enrolled ATP MSD Speech Based Emotion Detection
Stavrakakis,
Dynamically scalable distributed
John enrolled ATP MSD graphics
Robust multi modal fusion and
integration (MMIF) in MMUI
Sun, Yong enrolled ATP MSD systems
Behavioral-based realistic mobility
Tan, Feiselia enrolled ATP NS modeling
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Tharmarajah enrolled ATP MSD
Tsai, Jack enrolled ATP NS
Wang, Zhe enrolled ATP NS
Time Frequency Front End
Approaches for Robust Automatic
Speech Recognition
Multipath Routing in Mesh
Networks
Security in Wireless Mesh
Networks
Automatic spoken language
Wang, Liang enrolled ATP MSD identification
Efficient mobility management
and routing in wireless mesh
Wu, Lei Paul enrolled ATP NS network
Yin, Bo enrolled ATP MSD Language Identification Systems
Measuring the impact of software
Zhai, Yinan enrolled ATP MC technology change
Ali, Mohammed
Motion -aware optimisation in
Eunus
Alves, Manoel
enrolled VRL NS spatial data management
Eduardo
Evaluation of QOS in WLAN
Macarenhas
Asadzadeh
enrolled VRL NS environment
Birjandi, Parvin enrolled VRL MC Wireless communications
Bae, Kyoo Han
Finding alternative clusterings in
Eric
Bhuiyan,
enrolled VRL MSD large datasets
Mohammed
Automated modeling of the
Alauddin enrolled VRL MSD vascular network in retinal images
A multi-agent approach to
Blom, Michelle enrolled VRL MC computer-aided diagnosis
Network solutions for wireless and
Chan, Chien Aun enrolled VRL NS optical networks
Chan, Jeffrey Kai
Mining regions of correlated
Chi enrolled VRL MSD change in evolving networks
Handover wireless
Chang, Liang enrolled VRL NS communication
Close, Thomas
Algorithms for defusion tenser
Glyn enrolled VRL MC imaging
Transport layer protocols for
Davey, Catherine
Dias De
Assuncao,
enrolled VRL ES wireless networks
Marcos enrolled VRL NS Internetworking islands of grids
Feydy, Thibaut enrolled VRL MSD Constraint Programming
Garnavi, Rahil enrolled VRL ES LIFEiences
Learning in Biological-Like
Gilson, Matthieu
Gupta, Kapil
enrolled VRL MC Recurrent Neural Networks;
Kamil enrolled VRL MSD Intrusion Detection
Gurt, Assaf enrolled VRL MC Data constraints
Hao, Peng
Hashem,
enrolled VRL MC Sensor Networks
Tanzima enrolled VRL MC Spatial algorithms
Bloom filters for data aggregation
Hebden, Peter enrolled VRL MC and discovery in sensor networks
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Ho, Hui Kian enrolled VRL MSD
Data mining in cancer genomics
micro-arrays
Deductive-inductive logic
programming for collaborative
Huang, Jian enrolled VRL MC problem solving
Mixed signal design for multi
gigabit wireless communication
Wang, Ke enrolled VRL ES systems
Research in telecommunications
Li, Jonathan Chi
network technologies and
Fai enrolled VRL NS performance assurance
Fast mining of high dimensional
Loekito, Elsa enrolled VRL MSD expressive contrast patterns
Coherant optical OFDM
Ma, Yiran
MacIntyre,
enrolled VRL NS transmission
Geoffrey John enrolled VRL MSD Data mining for cancer genomics
Active measurements in wireless
Malik, Ahmad
networks which might evolve in
Yar Khan enrolled VRL NS the future
Random sets for multiple target
Mo, Yuan enrolled VRL ES tracking and data fusion
Achieving Robustness in Peer-to-
Peer Based Internet-Scale parallel
Ni, Lei enrolled VRL NS processing
Nicholson,
Multilingual deep lexical
Jeremy
O'Sullivan
enrolled VRL MSD acquisition
Greene, Elma enrolled VRL MSD Epileptic Seizure Prediction
Rao, Imran enrolled VRL NS Distributed computing
Shahbazi, Saeed enrolled VRL NS Intelligent ad hoc networking
Shi, Fan
Tahayori,
enrolled VRL MSD Data mining
Bahman enrolled VRL MSD Optimization of the MRI signal
Design of 60GHz transceiver in
TaMinh, Chien enrolled VRL ES CMOS
Optimum Design for Coherent
Tang, Yan enrolled VRL NS Optical OFDM Transmitter
Automated measurement QoS of
Thio, Nico enrolled VRL NS Metric of Web Server Framework;
Selectivity-aware optimisation of
Umer,
monitoring queries in sensor
Muhammad
Varsavsky,
enrolled VRL MC networks
Andrea enrolled VRL MSD Classification of Epileptic Siezures
Proactive traffic control strategies
Wang, Ziyuan enrolled VRL MC for sensor-enabled cars
Wong, Gerard
Clustering techniques for DNA
Kum Peng enrolled VRL MSD microarray
Query processing for for moving
objects using privacy aware
Xie, Hai Ruo enrolled VRL MSD monitoring
Optical labeling technologies for
Xu, Dongxia enrolled VRL NS optical packet switch
Yang, Bo enrolled VRL ES Intergration of filters under
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antennas on silicon substrate
An intelligent kanji dictionary for
Japanese
Zhang, Fan enrolled VRL ES Transceiver Design of RF CMOS
User search behaviour -
applications of improving retrieval
Zhang, Yuye enrolled VRL MSD effectiveness
Zhou, Yuan enrolled VRL NS Multi-Impairment Monitor
Collaborative Access Point
Khan, Nazeer enrolled ATP NS Protocol
Image representation based on
the superpixel oversegmentation
Brewer, Nathan enrolled CRL ES method
Banerjee,
Planning via constraint
Debdeep enrolled CRL MC programming
Hossain,
Parameter Estimation for Modern
Tofazzal
Maniotis,
enrolled CRL NS Digital Communication Systems
Andreas enrolled CRL ES Computer Vision
Physical constraints of multi
Nagy, Oliver enrolled CRL NS antenna systems
Quadrianto, Novi enrolled CRL MSD Statistical Machine Learning
Salehin,
Localisation of lung sounds using
Akramus enrolled CRL NS an array of microphones
Coherent receiver design for
Senanayake,
interleave division multiple access
Bathiya enrolled CRL NS (IDMA)
Control of Multi-Agent
Shames, Iman enrolled CRL MC Systems/Swarms
Planning and reinforcement
Thomas, Owen enrolled CRL MSD learning
Joint Coding and Equalisation
Schemes for Wireless
Wei, Li Ying enrolled CRL MSD Communications
Audio Signal Processing in
Wu, Jennifer enrolled CRL NS complex environments.
Binaural techniques and their
application in communication
Zhang, Wen enrolled CRL NS systems
Zhao, Ming enrolled CRL NS Turbo MIMO-OFDM
Video Processor for Embedded
Mustafah, Yasir enrolled QRL ES Smart Camera
Channel Allocation and Topology
Guerin,
Control in Multi-radio Wireless
Jonathon enrolled QRL NS Mesh Networks
An Ontology Framework for Crisis
Lam, Brian enrolled QRL MC Management Systems
Efficient visual object detection in
Kim , Junae enrolled CRL ES image sequences
Synergism of information
geometry, kernel methods and
Zhang, Xinhua enrolled CRL MSD Bregman Divergence
Khawaja,
Cognitive load measurement
Muhammad Asif enrolled ATP MSD using user's speech features for
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Antoine,
Elizanbeth
Arockiarani enrolled VRL MSD XML algebras for Data Mining
A mathematical model of the
Hales, Colin enrolled VRL ES
Shang,
Haichuan enrolled NRL ES
intestinal primary afferent neuron
Subgraph indexing and mining
approaches in large scale
Viglione, Anita
Vu, Thi Anh
enrolled VRL NS
database
Categorising proteins in the
Medline Database
Tuyet enrolled VRL MC Cell Tracking
Design and implement a novel
transceiver for the Bionic Eye
Yang, Jiawei enrolled VRL ES Project
Extending the Bach programming
Veness , Joel enrolled NRL MC language
Energy consumption and the
Baliga, Jayant enrolled VRL NS internet
Garg, Saurabh enrolled VRL NS Data Grid Scheduling
Iterative receiver design for multiuser
cooperative communication
Yang(e) , Tao enrolled ATP NS systems
Intelligent video processing for
Zhang, Bang enrolled NRL MC visual surveillance systems
Constraint programme for
Schutt, Andreas enrolled VRL MSD scheduling
Zhang, Wenjie enrolled NRL NS Analyzing uncertain data
Yang, Qi enrolled VRL NS OSNR Monitoring
Quality of Service (QoS)
Marwaha,
Provisioning In Multi-homed
Shivanajay enrolled QRL NS Mobile Wireless Networks
Khuwuthyakorn,
Hyperspectral imaging for Plant
Pattaraporn enrolled CRL ES Biosecurity
Li, Hanxi enrolled CRL ES Computer Vision
Fast and Memory-Efficient Multi-
Wang, Cindy enrolled CRL MC Agent Pathfinding
Gaire, Raj enrolled VRL MSD Biological network alignment
Energy Conservative Routing
Algorithms for Mobile Ad Hoc
Ng, SehChun enrolled ATP NS Network (MANET)
Contour Tree Based Volume
Zhou, Jianlong enrolled ATP MSD Rendering
Lichtenstein,
Computational Approaches to
Ilana enrolled ATP NS Analysing Biological Networks
LI, Wei
Ahammed,
enrolled ATP NS Mobile Networking
Farhan enrolled ATP NS Wireless and Mobile Computing
Tse, Quincy enrolled ATP NS Mobile Networking
Parallel Stochastic Optimization
Huang, Ge enrolled ATP NS Algorithms
The Fundamental Characteristics
Xiaoyuan, Ta enrolled ATP NS of Wireless Multi-hop Networks
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Reddy, Vikas enrolled QRL ES
Reconfigurable Computer
Architects for High Resolution
Wide-Area Imaging
Foo, Mathias Fui
Modelling and control of water
Lin enrolled VRL ES system
Tracking geolocation of internet
Arif, Jubaer enrolled VRL MC hosts using a hybrid approach
Efficient Algorithms for
Kuruppu,
Specialised Search in Biomedical
Shanika enrolled VRL MSD Data
Nutanong,
Efficient interation-based spatial
Sarana enrolled VRL MSD data management
Opie, Nicholas enrolled VRL ES Vision Prosthetics
Mehedy, Lenin enrolled VRL NS Wireless Networks
O'Brien, Emily enrolled VRL ES Bionic Eye
Bai, Shun
Abraham, Gad
enrolled VRL MC Human Locomotion
Mohammed enrolled VRL MSD Bio Informatics
General purpose relational
Willy, enrolled VRL MSD extraction toolkit
Scheduling for maritime
Cheng, Joanna
Borghol,
enrolled CRL MC surveillance
Youmna enrolled ATP NS Mobile Content Distribution
Using caching and pre-fetching to
improve network utilization on
Hakami, Sara enrolled ATP NS next generation mobile phones
Speech processing - perceptual
Kalman filtering for speech
Le, Ngoc Phu enrolled ATP MSD enhancement
Pervasive networks and ambient
Mehani, Oliver enrolled ATP NS applications
Mehmood, Tahir enrolled ATP NS Wireless Sensor/Mesh Network
Phoomvuthisarn,
Dependability in trust
Suronapee enrolled ATP MC management framework
Suleiman,
Adaptive service oriented
Basem enrolled ATP MC software
Xu, Sherry enrolled ATP MC Software development
3D Video processing for multi-
Chen, Xi enrolled NRL MC view video compression.
Chuan, Xiao enrolled NRL MSD Near duplicate detection
Connection based on-line hybrid
He, Carol enrolled NRL ES network intrusion detection
Constraint and dynamic
programming based methods for
Le, Tung Mai enrolled NRL MSD traffic light control.
Night-time vehicle detection and
Thi, Tuan Hue enrolled NRL MSD tracking in surveillance video
Tran, Thi Khanh
Smart voice recognition for mobile
Van enrolled NRL NS devices
Du, Lan enrolled CRL MSD
McAuley, Julian
Structured estimation in computer
John enrolled CRL MSD vision
Craven, Leon enrolled CRL NS Mobile ad hoc networks
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Kang enrolled QRL MSD
Khan, Rezwan enrolled ATP NS
Kua, Karen
Kusakunniran,
enrolled ATP MSD
Worapan enrolled NRL MC
Wang, Weihong enrolled NRL MC
Ismail, Huma
Goudey,
enrolled VRL NS
Benjamin enrolled VRL MSD
Advanced Surveillance with 4D
Alarms and robust face
recognition.
Capacity and Q0S improvement of
VoIP over WLAN based on IEEE
802.11 MAC protocols
Speech processing for cochlear
implants
Object classification and event
detection in surveillance system
Adaptive Automated Video
Surveillance & Monitoring
Speech enhancement and signal
Yap, Tet Fei enrolled NRL MSD process
Logical foundations of social
Thakur,
intelligence and its usage in social
Subhasis
Zhuang,
enrolled QRL MC networks
ZhiQiang enrolled NRL MC Revising ontologies.
Robards,
Machine Learning for Human
Matthew enrolled CRL MSD Activity Monitoring
Distributed source coding for
Cao, Xiaomin enrolled VRL ES multiple sources.
Resource allocation in MMD-
Chen, Liang enrolled VRL NS OFDM systems
Parallelisation of Constraint
Chu, Geoffrey
Huynh, Trong
enrolled VRL MSD Solvers
Anh enrolled VRL ES Digital and analog IC design
Electro-Optic sampling system
implantation in bionic eye
MacKinlay,
Andrew enrolled VRL MSD
Using sophisticated parsing
techniques to extract information
Pohl, Stefan enrolled VRL MSD
from online technical forums.
Information management and
retrieval
Tran, Nhan enrolled VRL ES Bionic Eye
A New Similarity Measure for
Comparing Different Clustering
Zhang, Lei enrolled VRL MSD Techniques
An Investigation into the
Computational Properties of the
Nanninga, Paul
O'Connor,
enrolled_part_time CRL MSD Brain
Stephen enrolled_part_time CRL NS Seeing with sound
Small Sample Size Learning in
Bedo, Justin submitted CRL MSD Bioinformatics
Network Protocol Design with
MINMO-OFDM Physical Layer for
Chen, Sandra submitted CRL NS MANETs
Digital Compensation of RF
Distortion in Broadband OFDM
Chen, Ying submitted CRL NS Systems
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Qiu, Lei submitted CRL NS
Wireless location - from theory to
practice
Efficient Low Complexity Turbo
Ruan, Matt submitted CRL NS Equalisation
Bialkowski,
Investigating MIMO for mobile
Konstanty submitted QRL ES wireless communication
Monitoring moving objects in
spatio temporal DBASEs based on
Jeung, Hoyoung submitted QRL MC mobility patterns
Innovation in variational methods
for data partition in computer
Cai, Xiongcai submitted NRL MC vision and machine learning
Chapman,
Distributed Virtual Machine
Matthew submitted NRL ES Monitors
Symbol grounding for the
Cregan, Anne submitted NRL MC semantic web
Ripple Down Rules(RDR) for
Finlayson,
Competitive Multi-agent
Angela submitted NRL MC Environments
Gebski, Matthew submitted NRL NS Mining Data Streams
Modalities, Conditionals, and
Jauregui, Victor submitted NRL MC Nonmonotonic Reasoning
Modelling Rational Agency and
Ji, Krystian submitted NRL MC Agent Systems
Communications support for
dynamic modular reconfiguration
Koh, Shannon submitted NRL ES of FPGAs
Rajaratnam,
Inconsistency Tolerance and
David submitted NRL MC Belief Revision
Image Registration Techniques
and Applications to Video
Cheung, Hoi Kok submitted ATP MSD Sequences
Adaptive Middleware For Dynamic
Integration Of Heterogeneous
Gong, Peng submitted ATP MSD Data Sources
Visual-Haptic Information Systems
Murray, Colin submitted ATP MSD for Abstract Data
Nosratighods,
Robust automatic speaker
Mohaddeseh submitted ATP MSD verification
Cognitive load measurement in
Ruiz, Natalie submitted ATP MSD multimodal interfaces
Application of Position Location
Shah, Zawar submitted ATP NS Technologies to Wireless QoS
Zhang, Xianhang submitted ATP MSD Gesture based user interfaces
Adamson,
Automated parcellation of the
Christopher
human cerebral cortex in
Leslie submitted VRL MC magnetic resonance images
Engineering QoS adaptive
decentralised publish/subscribe
Chan, Lipo submitted VRL MC systems
Formal verification of
Corman, Amy submitted VRL MSD cryptographic network protocols;
Architectures for 60 GHz Wireless
Liu, Alec submitted VRL ES Lan Systems
Shu, Feng submitted VRL MC Image/Video processing
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Muhammad
Adeel submitted VRL MC
Zhou, Chenfeng submitted VRL MSD
Kong, Suyu submitted QRL ES
Sarwar , Golam submitted ATP NS
Consistent object placement
using RFID technologies
Distributed intrusion detection
system based on mobile agents
Classifying and Tracking Multiple
Persons for Proactive Surveillance
of Mass Transport Systems
Congestion control for real-time
applications over satellites and
long range wireless links
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