Software Design Science

SDS research focuses on complex software applications; that interplays with human and software as well as tuning existing methodological knowledge to develop them. Current research is n ontologies, agent based modelling, exploration and analysis of innovative system analysis and design and behaviour change support systems. Our research specialises in disaster management, health informatics, teaching and learning and early childhood applications. Some of these projects will be displayed.

Intelligent Systems Research Lab (ISRL)

A Multiagent-Based Adaptive Resource Allocation System for Resource Deployment in Emergency

In metropolitan regions, emergency events request urgent response within a short time limit in order to minimise the damage and the number of fatality. Most of these events require different resources that are usually distributed over a large area. How to efficiently allocate the distributed resources to an event is a challenging research issue. Traditional centralised resource allocation approaches have difficulties to find out the best resource assignment within the event's time limits by considering the dynamics of the metropolitan environment and the event itself. In this project, a multiagent-based decentralised resource allocation approach using domain transportation theory is proposed to handle an emergency event with multiple tasks. The project demonstration indicates that the proposed approach can effectively generate the optimal resource allocation plans by considering multiple factors of an emergency event.

Centre for IT Enabled Transformation

Centre for IT-enabled Transformation is a centre of researchers investigating the IT-enabled transformation of human society. Information technology is one of the most significant forces shaping all aspects of modern society. Consequently, there is a great need to better understand and more effectively manage the IT-enabled transformation processes. Our goal is to make a positive impact in this direction in the key areas including e-health, e-government, e-business and e-community. The four objectives of the centre are:

• Improving the ERA ranking of Information Systems discipline in UOW (0806) from 3 to 4 in three years.
• Increasing external funding success.
• Improving the standing and global recognition of information systems research undertaken at UOW.
• Increasing the number of HDR completions.

Our display will showcase the current grants and projects undertaken by the centre members, the staff members and HDR candidates.

Advanced Multimedia Research Laboratory

The use of media - images, video, speech, audio, text and data - pervades every aspect of modern economy including health, surveillance, mining, finance, education, e-commerce, etc. Work at the Advanced Multimedia Research Lab is focused on the application of pattern recognition and machine learning techniques to develop innovative solutions in environmental surveillance, object search and retrieval, human gait analysis and human brain network connectivity discovery. For example an ongoing research is solving the problem of human activity recognition for both closed and open spaces using RGB+Depth cameras. Another thrust of our work is developing theories and techniques that will transform the way we represent and search for images of objects on the Internet. We have developed a method of detecting smoke from both static images and video sequences using commodity cameras. This method has become the basis of an early fire warning system. Our work in brain network connectivity discovery is targeted at early diagnosis of Alzheimer's diseases and the promotion of graceful ageing. Osteoarthritis is a degenerative disease and rehabilitation can be monitored through clinical gait analysis - algorithms being developed in our Lab will become complementary diagnostic and monitoring tool for clinicians.

Decisions Systems Research Lab

Clinical Process Analytics

There is a growing need for bespoke techniques that leverage the data collected in the course of the practice of medicine to generate critical insights. While a (preliminary) body of work exists in mining historical records of treatments administered, much of the focus has been on generating insights from correlations between what treatments were administered and clinical outcomes. This project seeks to take the next critical step in this progression by developing techniques to leverage correlations between how treatments were administered and clinical outcomes.

Centre for Computer and Information Security Research (CCISR)

Privacy Preserved Online Shop

CCISR was established in 1991 and is one of the best security research centres in Australia. The research results from the Centre have been widely cited and applied in practice. The Centre currently has seven staff and twenty PhD students. The Centre's research has been continuously funded by Australian Research Council and industry such as DSD, DSTO, Microsoft, etc. during the past 23 years. CCISR's research covers many important topics in computer and information security, including, RFID security, authentication, access control, intrusion detection, cloud security, biometrics, and cryptography.

In this display, we will demonstrate the research result of preserving privacy in online shops, where the customer identities can be protected without being disclosed to the shop. The display is based on our recent work on subset membership encryption and a new scheme of oblivious transfer. The scheme has been proven to be secure against malicious online shops and other potential adversaries.