Research projects

Selected Peer-Assessed Projects

A Framework for Physical and Social Collaboration: Towards the Smarter Planet Vision

A General Bayesian Multilinear Analysis Framework for Human Behaviour Recognition

Adaptive Cyber-Physical Technologies with Attention Driven Commonsense Behaviours

An Optimal Electrical Drive System for Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles

Approximate reasoning with qualitative spatial constraints involving landmarks

Development of Globally Optimal Solutions to Simultaneous Localization and Mapping for Robot Navigation

Mining Complex Concurrency Relationship Patterns for Dynamic Customer/Asset Interaction Modeling through Novel Industrial Behavior Networks

Novel Data Mining Techniques for Complex Network Analysis and Control

Quantum effects in zero-error communication

Reasoning about, and stepwise development of, quantum programs: a predicate transformer semantics approach

Selected Peer-Assessed Projects

A Holistic Integrated Design Approach for Building Envelopes Incorporating Sustainability, Security and Safety

Determination of the condition and strength capacity of in-service timber poles in energy networks

Dissecting key steps of the miRNA-mediated gene regulation and its implication in immune response and cancer

Establishing a next generation framework to determine the influence of intelligent water metering on householder attitudes and behaviours

Exploring new tools in non-linear filtering and control

Fertilisers as draw solutes for forward osmosis desalination: A novel approach for fertigation in the Murray Darling Basin

Membrane adsorption bioreactor hybrid system as a pre-treatment to reverse osmosis desalination - EOI accepted; Full proposal

Membrane bioreactor as a pre-treatment to sea water reverse osmosis desalination and water reuse - Scholarship

Progressive collapse resistance of reinforced concrete framed structures with membrane action

Remaking practices: Learning to meet the challenge of practice change in primary health care

Responsive transport environments: spatial and visual user information technologies to allow improved passenger flow and a better customer experience.

Sociophysical Interactions: understanding the role of social and tangible technologies in maintaining good habits into old age

Spatial Cognition - Expressive Representation Formalisms and Effective Reasoning Mechanisms

Selected Peer-Assessed Projects

A new end use of recycled water for sustainable Australian water

Airports of the Future

Biologically Inspired Robotic System for Steel Bridge Condition Assessment

Detecting Significant Changes in Organisation-Customer Interactions Leading to Non-Compliance

Exploring new tools in non-linear filtering and control

Innovative Retrofitting Techniques for the Protection of Anchorage Zones in Cable-Stayed Bridges Subjected to Blast Loads

Membrane flocculation hybrid system as pretreatment to brackish and sea water reverse osmosis desalination system: Emphasis on chemical use reduction and recovery

Mining Multiple Information Sources through Collaborative and Comparative Analysis

Multiple Data Source Discovery: Group Interaction Approach

Novel cloud computing based workflow technology for managing large numbers of process instances.

Pattern Discovery of Discriminating Behaviour Associated with Hidden Communities

Process algebra approach to distributed quantum computation and secure quantum communication

Recycling water and nutrients using a high-rate membrane bioreactor coupled with an ion-exchange system

Smart communications network management: Delivering bundled interdependent services across internetworked heterogeneous domains

Trust-Enhanced Recommender Systems for Personalised Government-to-Business e-Service

Selected Peer-Assessed Projects

An Innovative Powertrain Architecture and Optimal Energy Management for Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles

Automatic Recognition of Human Activities in Surveillance Videos: Overcoming the Curse of Dimensionality

Chaos, Information Technology, Global Administration and Daily Life

Development of a Mathematical Model for Chatter Prediction in Multi-Stand Cold Flat Rolling Mills

Efficient Strategies for Coordinating Autonomous Vehicles for Maximising Australia's Waterfront Productivity

Enhanced Analysis of Time Dependent Viscous Behaviour of Soft Clay

Improved design and control of brushless doubly-fed reluctance machine generators for wind power applications

Intelligent archiving and retrieving of clinic laboratory records in pathology/radiology informatics study

Pattern Analysis and Risk Control of E-Commerce Transactions to Secure Online Payments

Photodesorption Phenomena and Photoreactive Nanosorbent Materials for Water and Wastewater Purification

Properties and Characterisation of Magneto-Rheological Materials under Rotating Magnetic Field Excitation

Socio-technical integration of climate change adaptation strategies

Selected Peer-Assessed Projects

A Comprehensive Platform for Dynamic Decision Support in Warning Systems through Better Management of Uncertain Information

A Three-Dimensional Ultra-Wideband Microwave Method Based On Multiple Antennas For Early Detection Of Breast Cancer

Cost effective treatment system for stormwater harvesting for medium scale developments

Discovering Activity Patterns Driven by High Impacts in Heterogeneous and Imbalanced Data

Integration of Sponge Based Technology and Membrane Bioreactor: A Sustainable Treatment System for Water Recycling

Membranes coupled with physico-chemcial treatment in water reuse: New hybrid systems development and fouling assessment

Planning, Communication, and Collaboration in Cognitive Systems: A Constructive Approach

Precision three-dimensional localization system for underground mining vehicles, offering improved productivity and personnel safety

Quantitative analysis of dynamic performance of vehicles with uncertain system parameters and road inputs

Sensor and Actor Grid for Assistive Healthcare

Supported biomass membrane bioreactor: optimisation of aeration for better fouling control

Selected Peer-Assessed Projects

"It's all about me" : Anthropomorphised Trading in Believable Electronic Markets

A Robotic System for Steel Bridge Maintenance

ARC Centre of Excellence for Autonomous Systems

An Optimal Integrated Immersed Membrane System as Pre-Treatment for Reverse Osmosis Desalination

Application Oriented System Level Optimum Design Method for Advanced Electrical Drive Systems

Characterisation and Modelling of Nanostructured Soft Magnetic Materials for Advanced Electromagnetic Applications

Cost effective in-line filtration system to improve water quality in rainwater tanks

Demand Dependent Active Suspensions for Preventing Vehicle Rollover

Developing and managing sustainable technology-enabled innovation capabilities: An information systems approach

Domain-Driven Actionable Link Discovery

Dynamic Characteristics of Kinetic Suspension Systems for Vehicle Applications

Dynamic Modelling and Gear Shift Simulation of Powertrains with Dual Clutch Transmissions

Fluidised bed biosorption-flocculation granular activated carbon (FBBSF-GAC) for membrane filtration in wastewater reuse

Generalized Information Fusion and Scheduling for Effective Situational Awareness

Generalizing Multi-level Decision Support Handling Multi-objectives, Multi-followers and Uncertainty for Critical Resource Planning

Innovative hands-free technology to give the severely disabled greater mobility control

Novel Architecture for Next Generation Wireless Relay Networks

Ontology-based Agent-oriented Development Methodologies

Stabilization of hydrology at waste disposal sites through revegetation

Selected Peer-Assessed Projects

A Commercially Viable, Innovative XML - Enabled Association Rule Framework

A New Photocatalysis Hybrid System in Wastewater Treatment for Reuse

An Intelligent Automated Essay Marking Tool-MarkIT for Education Sector

Automatic real-time detection of infiltrated objects for security of airports and train stations

Community Networks: Human Communication as a source of sustainabilty in global Australia

Design of Service Interfaces for e-Business Applications

Design of Wireless sensor and communication networks with fixed and mobile nodes.

Development of Low Cost High Performance Motor Drives for Electrical Appliances using New Soft Magnetic Composite Materials

Efficient Techniques for Mining Exceptional Patterns

Efficient and Effective Interactive Visualization of Large Graphical Information Spaces

Enhancing the independence of the severely disabled: Improving the detection rates of an EEG based brain computer interface (BCI)

Establishing the relationship between water characteristics and fouling of membranes used in water reuse

Managing quality of experience delivery in new generation telecommunications networks with e-negotiation

Microwave Differential Imaging of Myocardium for Assessment and Therapeutic Monitoring of Transcatheter Cardiac Ablation

Mining Activity Transactions to Strengthen Debt Prevention

New Mobile Interface Techniques for Accessing Desktop Applications from Mobile Devices

Providing End-to-End Quality of Service to Internet Applications

Risk Measurement for Large Portfolios under the Benchmark Approach

Situated design computing: a new paradigm to support design

Stochastic rainfall generation for design flow estimation

Trusted environment for virtual collaboration

Uncertain Information Processing for Situation Awareness and Dynamic Decision-Making in Emergency Management

Selected Peer-Assessed Projects

A novel filtration-bioadsorption hybrid system in water treatment: Cleaner and safer water for small communities

ARHRF S'ship - Ahmad Aloqaily - Paul Kennedy Supervisor

An empirically-derived conceptual framework for designing usable and useful wireless mobile applications

Applying Method Engineering Techniques to the Construction of Agile Methodologies

Development of Robust Control Systems for Magneto-Rheological Fluid-Based Smart Structures

Healthier Water: Innovative Processes for Arsenic Removal and Sludge Management

Innovative Engineered Timber Building Systems for Non Residential Applications

Investigation into on-road vehicle rollovers using a combined rigid and flexible multibody model

LittleBrother: Vision Systems Supporting Detection of Offenders in Public Places

Non-Invasive hypoglycemia detection using physiological responses

Ontology-Based Group Pattern Discovery Systems for Mining Multiple Data Sources

Retrofit of Reinforced Concrete Beam-Column Connections with Fibre Reinforced Polymer (FRP) Composites

Supporting co-evolution of business processes and Web systems

The Curious Negotiator - committing only to that which is maximally non-committal

The Development of a Model for Confined Water Sensitive Urban Design (WSUD) Stormwater Filtration/Infiltration Systems for Australian Conditions

Selected Peer-Assessed Projects

A Novel System for Surveillance of Moving Objects

Convex optimisation for control, signal processing and communication system

Efficient Strategies for Mining Negative Association Rules

Managing Knowledge in Web-Driven Organisational Evolution

Metamodel-based Methodology for Developing Agent-Oriented Systems

Novel Early Warning System for Hypoglycaemia

Optimal Transcutaneous Energy Transmission System (TETS) for an Implanted Artificial Heart

Reconceptualising heritage collections: Multidisciplinary Approaches to Museum Collections and Documentation

The Evolution of Business Networks in Virtual Marketplaces

Selected Peer-Assessed Projects

An innovative wastewater treatment system for the removal of persisting organic pollutants (POPs)

Application of the MIEX DOC process to membrane hybrid systems for water reuse

Architecture-based Open Network Management Systems for Next Generation Telecommunications

Debonding failure in CFRP strengthened concrete structure

Design-Driven Requirements for Internet-Enabled System Development

Development of a fuel control system for small two-stroke engines

Development of new-generation autoclaved cellulose fibre-cement composites using alumina-silica rich industrial waste

Hydrodynamic Stability of the VentrAssist Blood Pump, an Experimental and Numerical Investigation

Ontology Based Multisite Distributed Software Development

Outsourcing - Leveraging productivity improvements and better performance from new approaches

Security for Wireless Mobile Ad hoc Networks

The BYSTANDER FIELD: immersive feedback environments for exhibiting and dramatically interacting with semiotic, aesthetic and emotional patterns in archived imagery.

Virtual Collaborative Logistics and Partner-to-Partner Information Systems

Selected Peer-Assessed Projects

Components for Active Knowledge Portals

Design and Control of Sensorless, Brushless, Linear Permanent Magnet Motors for Fluid Pumping

Diesel engine fault simulation and automated diagnostics

Electrical Imaging of Furrow Irrigation

High Efficiency Low Cost Low Noise Variable Speed Compressor Drive for Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Systems

UTS-RNSH Joint Fellowship for Development of High Performance Linear PM Motor Drive and Miniature Implantable Device

Selected Peer-Assessed Projects

A Fundamental Study Of The Behaviour Of Clay Brick Fines In Autoclaved Calcium Silicate Based Building Products

A better way to remove arsenic from drinking water

Development of a novel filtration hybrid system in wastewater treatment and reuse

Development of electrical probes and advanced classification algorithms for early detection of cancer

Elemental Analysis of Layers in Banded Opals

Group Decision Support Systems for Fuzzy Multi-objective Decision Problems

Mind Switch control of implantable stimulators for the profoundly disabled

Novel Antenna Techniques For High Performance Indoor Wireless Communication Systems For Home and Business

Shaping E-markets by Timely Information Discovery

Selected Peer-Assessed Projects

Creating and Assessing Processes for Object-Oriented and Component-Based Software Development

Development of performance-improving structures for power station cooling towers

Effective Techniques and Methodologies for Multi-Database Mining

Elemental analysis of layers in banded opals

Hanging sponge aerobic bioreactor and membrane - adsorption hybrid system: a novel two stage system in wastewater reuse.

Measurement and Modelling of 3D Magnetic Properties of Soft Magnetic Materials

Nanofiltration in Wastewater treatment for Reuse: Effect of Pretreatment for Long-term Application

Quality of Service Control Mechanisms for Wireless Internet

Salinity Management in South-Eastern Australia, North-Eastern Thaliand and Lao PDR

Transient Characteristics of Automative Transmissions

Selected Peer-Assessed Projects

A Study of Moisture Transport between Fresh Mortar and Bricks During Masonry Construction and Curing

Development of energy and greenhouse response scenarios for Australia

Early detection of breast cancer: reduction of missed cases

Experimental Investigation and Numerical Prediction of flow-induced Vibration in the Reactor Fuel Plate Assembly

Experimental designs used in choice modelling

Migrating to object technology: identifying, optimizing and testing appropriate industry-focused strategies

Shape-based programming: sharpening the tools

Selected Peer-Assessed Projects

Crossflow microfiltration in water treatment: new pretreatment and innovative operating conditions

Dynamic Analysis and Testing of a Blood Pump Rotor

Mind Switch hands free technology: a better life for the disabled

Selected Peer-Assessed Projects

Characterisation of Australian Precious Opals by SIMS

Development of Highly Efficient Multivariable Finite Element Systems

Development of sensor systems for non-invasive detection of cervical pre-cancer and skin cancer

Intelligent workflow systems

Microwave ablation for cure of atrial fibrillation

Variable-speed induction motor with brushless, electronic, energy recovery

Selected Peer-Assessed Projects

A Scalable and Robust Application Level Active Network Infrastructure

A Scalable and Robust Application Level Active Network Infrastructure

A fundamental study of colliding natural convection boundary layers in enclosures

A third generation Australian object-oriented software process for systems development

Development of a prototype implantable axial flow pump for heart assistance

Optimising groundwater usage to mitigate native vegetation decline in the Namoi Valley

Retention of Cs and Sr in cemented zeolites

Selected Peer-Assessed Projects

A support environment for network consciousness in mobile computing

Development of a Microcontroller Based Power System Protection Device

Improving Cs and Sr retention in cemented waste forms

Structural control and wind/eathquake hazard mitigation. International Project - Benchmarking in Structural Control

Selected Peer-Assessed Projects

Artificial intelligence meets wireless sensor networks: filling the gaps between sensors using spatial reasoning

Life-span prediction of cement-based construction materials

Life-span prediction of cement-based construction materials

The Optimisation and Improvement of Direct Filtration Pre-treatment to Reduce both Organic and Bio-fouling of RO Membranes