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Edition #34: Oct-Dec 2017

CIAO Newsletter EDITION #34

Centre for Informatics and Applied Optimization Oct-Dec 2017

CRICOS Provider No. 00103D of 19

Director’s section Welcome to the new CIAO Newsletter, which covers the period October – December 2017. All available previous issues starting from 2003 as well as the series of the School of Information Technology & Mathematical Sciences Research Newsletters dating from 1998 can be accessed from the CIAO web site: http://federation.edu.au/ciao.

This period was rich in various events. Let me mention a series of optimisation related workshops, which started 30 November with our annual Workshop on Metric Bounds and Transversality (WoMBaT 2017) at RMIT University in Melbourne and continued at Curtin University in Perth with Joint Optimization Conferences 2017 including the Eighth Australia-China Workshop on Optimization: Theory, Methods and Applications (ACWO 2017), the Second Pacific Optimization Conference (POC 2017), and the South Pacific Optimization Meeting in Western Australia 2017 (SPOM in WA 2017). This series was followed by the annual meeting of the Australian Mathematical Society, which included a special optimisation session.

China-Australia Collaboration in Applied Optimization (CACAO) was officially launched on 4 December 2017 at Curtin University at a special ceremony during the ACWO 2017. It is a renewal of the first CACAO established in 2006 between the then University of Ballarat and Shanghai University on the initiative of Professor Alexander Rubinov. During the POC 2017, the best student presentation competition was administered by the Mathematics of Computation and Optimisation (MoCaO) special group of the Australian Mathematical Society. The best student presentation prize including $200 sponsored by MoCaO went to a Curtin University, Malaysian Campus student, and two students from Curtin University Australia and Chinese University of Hong Kong, respectively, were awarded honourable mentions.

After a two-year break, a team of researchers headed by Dr Julien Ugon have brought another prestigious ARC Discovery grant to further their mathematical research into optimisation techniques. It is pleasant to see that 5 out of 6 researchers on the team are current or honorary CIAO members.

Dr Savin Chand received the prestigious Vice Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Research. The award acknowledges his valuable contribution in obtaining two commendable achievements in 2017: a Nature Climate Change research paper and a NESP Earth Systems and Climate Change research grant.

Congratulations to Dr Richard Dazeley and Dr Nadezda Sukhorukova (honorary) on their promotions to Level D and Level C, respectively, and to 3 CIAO students: Christian Kopp (ICSL), Pradnya Kulkarni and Julie Ross, and IT lecturer Sunil Aryal who successfully completed their PhDs.

It was good to see Deputy Vice Chancellor Research and Innovation Prof Leigh Sullivan and Vice Chancellor Prof Helen Bartlett coming to CIAO meetings to meet CIAO researchers and hear more about the work of CIAO.

This edition contains news from the Research Group on Pure Mathematics and Climate Informatics Research Group, information about research visitors to CIAO and the list of recent publications by CIAO members. Enjoy the reading.

A/Prof Alex Kruger

In this issue:

Grants, awards, MOUs, Promotions, PhD

completions Past and forthcoming

events Research group news Research visits Announcements New publications

Prof Alex Rubinov CIAO Founding Director

A/Prof Alex Kruger CIAO Research Director

Dr Guillermo Pineda Editor of CIAO Newsletter




Grants, awards, MOUs, promotions, PhD completions

Major ARC Discovery grant awarded to CIAO researchers

A team of researchers headed by CIAO Deputy Director Dr Julien Ugon have been awarded a prestigious Australian Research Council Discovery grant to further their mathematical research into optimisation techniques. The other team members: Dr Vera Roshchina, RMIT University, CIAO Honorary Research

Fellow Dr Nadezda Sukhorukova, Swinburne University, CIAO Honorary

Research Fellow Prof Marco López Cerdá, Alicante University (Spain), CIAO Adjunct

Professor Prof Jean-Pierre Crouzeix, University of Blaise Pascal (France),

CIAO Adjunct Professor Prof Nira Dyn, Tel Aviv University (Israel)

This research work is another example of the very strong mathematical research carried out at CIAO. The grant will total up to $362,045 and run from 2018 to 2020. The full title of the project is “An optimisation-based framework for non-classical Chebyshev approximation”.

This project aims to solve open mathematical problems in multivariate and piecewise polynomial approximations, two directions that correspond to fundamental obstacles to extending classical approximation results.

Through an innovative combination of optimisation and algebraic technique, the project intends to develop foundations for new results in approximation theory, and new insights into other areas of mathematics, most notably optimisation. The techniques and methods developed should also have significant benefits in the many disciplines where approximation problems appear, such as engineering, physics or data mining.

The research outputs resulting from this project will be used in a wide range of fields to help implement programs, policies and improve decision making.

The funding is provided by the Australian Government through the Australian Research Council’s Discovery Program – DP18 scheme.

Dr Julien Ugon

Dr Vera Roshchina

Dr Nadezda Sukhorukova

Prof Marco López Cerdá

Prof Jean-Pierre Crouzeix




Two grants to Internet Commerce Security Laboratory

The Internet Commerce Security Laboratory (ICSL) has secured two grants in collaboration with the University of Melbourne, RMIT University, Deakin University, La Trobe University and Data61 to conduct research to find ways to ensure that IoT systems and web can be used without fear of cyber-attacks. These grants will help to transform innovative research into proof of concept products for commercialisation. The grants has a total value of A$77,737 and A$78,540, respectively.

CIAO researchers A/Prof Iqbal Gondal, A/Prof Peter Vamplew and A/Prof Adil Baghirov are part of this funding application, and will be working on these projects.

These projects have been funded by Oceania Cyber Security Centre (OCSC). OCSC is an organisation established by the Victorian Government, and eight Victorian universities, including FedUni, are stakeholders. For further information, please contact A/Prof Iqbal Gondal, Director ICSL

China-Australia Collaboration in Applied Optimization (CACAO)

China-Australia Collaboration in Applied Optimization (CACAO) Memorandum of Understanding was officially launched on 4 December 2017 at Curtin University in Perth at a special ceremony during the Eighth Australia-China Workshop on Optimization. The four participating universities are:

Federation University Australia Curtin University Shanghai University Chongqing Normal University

CACAO aims at developing a co-operative strategic relationship to strengthen the friendship and collaboration among the four institutions for the benefit of China and Australia. This includes collaboration on optimisation projects, jointly hosting of international conferences and workshops in

applied optimisation, particularly, the biannual China-Australia Workshops on Applied Optimization, supporting the exchange of research staff and students, and fostering friendly relations between Australia and China.

The governance of CACAO will be by the management structures of the four departments: CIAO at FedUni, the Department of Mathematics at Shanghai University, the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Curtin University, and the School of Mathematical Sciences at Chongqing Normal

A/Prof Iqbal Gondal ICSL Research Director

A/Prof Adil Bagirov Leader of Optimisation

Group

A/Prof Peter Vamplew FLAG Leader




University, which have a history of successful research collaboration. Decisions related to the CACAO objectives and plans will be made jointly by Directors nominated from each institution. The current CACAO Director from FedUni is A/Prof Alex Kruger.

The current CACAO is a renewal of the Collaboration, which dates back to 2006 when the first CACAO was established between the then University of Ballarat and Shanghai University. It was initiated by Professor Alexander Rubinov, the Founding Director of CIAO, and Professor Liansheng Zhang, the Administrative Deputy Director of the Institute of Mathematics and Systems Science at Shanghai University. This time the Parties have agreed to expand the alliance by including two more institutions: Curtin University and Chongqing Normal University.

The launching ceremony was chaired by CIAO Research Director Alex Kruger and included short presentations by the representatives of the four participating universities about their capabilities in the area of optimisation, research plans and expectations of the launched Collaboration.

CIAO researcher receives Vice Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Research

Dr Savin Chand received the prestigious Vice Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Research.

The award acknowledges his valuable contribution in obtaining two commendable achievements in 2017: a Nature Climate Change research paper and a NESP Earth Systems and Climate Change research grant.

Key focus of Savin’s research is on understanding fundamental changes in weather and climate

extremes due to global warming and their impacts on environment and society in Australia and the Asia-Pacific regions. Currently he is working with Australian Bureau of Meteorology and CSIRO on numerous weather and climate extremes-related projects.

Promotions

We want to congratulate Dr Richard Dazeley on his promotion to Level D. This is a clear acknowledgment of his contributions to the Faculty and University.

Congratulations also to CIAO Honorary Research Fellow Dr Nadezda Sukhorukova from Swinburne University on her promotion to Level C.

Dr Richard Dazeley Member of FLAG




PhD completions

We congratulate the following CIAO students who successfully completed their PhDs: Christian Kopp (ICSL). Principal supervisor A/Prof Iqbal Gondal

Thesis title: Structural Analysis of Online Romance Scams by applying the Transtheoretical Model in conjunction with the Theory of Personal Love Stories.

Pradnya Kulkarni. Principal supervisor: A/Prof Andrew Stranieri Thesis title: Pixel N-grams for Mammographic Image Classification.

Julie Ross. Principal supervisor: Charlynn Miller Thesis title: Video game classification in Australia: Does it enable parents to make informed game choices for their children?

Congratulations also to IT lecturer Sunil Aryal who successfully completed his PhD at Monash University.

Successful PhD Confirmation

We want to congratulate Hoa Thi Bui on her successful confirmation of candidature. Hoa’s principal supervisor is A/Prof Alex Kruger and associate supervisor A/Prof David Yost.

Vacation Research Scholarship

IT student Ms Tanya Pedersen has been awarded a Vacation Research Scholarship by the Australian Mathematical Sciences Institute. The scholarship will support Tanya undertaking a 6-week research project over the 2017/2018 summer period under the supervision of Dr Dean Webb, A/Prof Peter Vamplew, and Dr Diederik Roijers from Vrije Universiteit Brussel in Belgium. Tanya’s research will develop and evaluate novel algorithms for automated decision-making in problems involving multiple conflicting objectives. Congratulations and well done Tanya!

Events

Vice Chancellor and Deputy Vice Chancellor (RI) visit CIAO

Deputy Vice Chancellor Research and Innovation Prof Leigh Sullivan and Vice Chancellor Prof Helen Bartlett attended CIAO meetings on the 2nd and 10th of November 2017, respectively, to meet CIAO researchers and hear more about the work of CIAO, and provide their strategic vision of the future of research at FedUni.

Hoa Thi Bui




International optimisation community celebrates 70th birthday of CIAO honorary researcher

CIAO long-time collaborator and Adjunct Professor Jiří Outrata celebrated his 70th birthday 13 June 2017.

Professor Outrata is Senior Researcher in the Institute of Information Theory and Automation of the Czech Academy of Sciences. He is a leading expert in nonsmooth optimisation and variational analysis. He has published 3 books and about 100 journal papers, supervised a large number of PhD students, won numerous Czech and international research grants. Among his awards is the Honorary Medal of Bernard Bolzano.

Jiří’s activities are not limited to mathematics. He has devoted a great part of his life to top sailing. He has participated at several World and European Championships and Finn World Masters. He has become three times World Champion and won a number of other top rankings. In the past, he participated regularly in national alpine ski contests and international combined ski/yachting regattas.

Prof Outrata has visited Ballarat many times, the last time in January 2017. He has been involved as a Partner Investigator in two ARC Discovery projects and co-authored 4 papers with A/Prof Alex Kruger. CIAO congratulates Jiří on his birthday and wishes him many more achievements in mathematics and in sports.

19-22 September 2017 world leaders in optimisation gathered at Charles University in Prague for the 11th International Conference on Parametric Optimization and Related Topics (ParaoptXI), dedicated to Jiří Outrata's 70th birthday (http://paraoptxi.utia.cas.cz/). A/Prof Alex Kruger delivered a plenary lecture. A special Issue of the high ranked international journal Optimization dedicated to the conference and Jiří Outrata is currently in preparation.

Second Workshop on Metric Bounds and Transversality (WoMBaT 2017)

The second Workshop on Metric Bounds and Transversality (WoMBaT 2017) http://www.wombat.rmitopt.org/wombat-2017 took place in Melbourne 30 Nov – 2 Dec 2017.

The workshop was co-organised by CIAO and RMITOpt group at RMIT University. The program included keynote lectures by four international leaders in the field: René Henrion, Weierstrass Institute, Germany. Lina Mallozzi, University of Naples Federico II, Italy Héctor Ramírez, University of Chile Maria Alessandra Ragusa, University of Catania, Italy

and 13 invited talks by representatives from several Australian universities, including five researchers from CIAO. WoMBaT provides a great opportunity to bring international and Australian researchers and their students together for knowledge sharing and collaboration development in theoretical and applied optimisation."

Professor Jiří Outrata, Mt Helen, January 2017




The third WoMBaT is scheduled to be held in December 2018. WoMBaT2018 will be dedicated to A/Prof Alex Kruger.

Joint Optimization Conferences 2017

The Joint Optimization Conferences 2017 (JOC 2017) took place 4-10 December 2017 at Curtin University in Perth. It was the major event of the year for the Australian optimization community. It included: The Eighth Australia-China Workshop on Optimization: Theory, Methods and

Applications (ACWO 2017) The Second Pacific Optimization Conference (POC 2017) The South Pacific Optimization Meeting in Western Australia 2017 (SPOM in WA 2017)

Apart from Australian researchers and research students, a large number of international experts in the field from China, USA, United Kingdom, Germany, France, Spain, Poland, Italy, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Singapore, Turkey and Chile presented keynote lectures and invited talks and participated in discussions. 12 presentations were made by CIAO researchers and research students.

The China-Australia Collaboration in Applied Optimization (CACAO), initiated by CIAO and its partners at Curtin University, Shanghai University and Chongqing Normal University, was officially launched during the ACWO 2017.

During the POC 2017, the best student presentation competition was administered by the Mathematics of Computation and Optimisation (MoCaO) special group of the Australian Mathematical Society.

Two student sessions were chaired by MoCaO co-chair A/Prof Alex Kruger. The best student presentation prize including $200 sponsored by MoCaO went to a Curtin University, Malaysian




Campus student, and two students from Curtin University Australia and Chinese University of Hong Kong, respectively, were awarded honourable mentions.




FOST researchers invited to present research to the US Defence Research Laboratories

Three groups of Faculty of Science and Technology researchers attended an invitation-only workshop to present their research to the representatives of the US Defence Research Laboratories in South Australia recently. The Robotics and Autonomy Workshop was hosted by the Defence Science Institute (DSI) with the support of the US Army's International Technology Center – Pacific and Defence Science Technology (DST) Group over two days in Adelaide on 6-7 November 2017.

On behalf of Federation Learning Agents Group (FLAG) across the Centre for Informatics and Applied Optimisation and the Centre for Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Artificial Intelligence Research (MCCAIR), A/Prof Peter Vamplew gave a presentation on creating trusted autonomous agents using multi-objective reinforcement learning. The presentation outlined several projects to investigate the application of FLAG’s expertise in multi-objective reinforcement learning to various aspects impacting on human trust in autonomous systems.

Prof Manzur Murshed and A/Prof Shyh Wei Teng presented their research at MCCAIR. Prof Guojun Lu delivered a talk on developing a novel “application-focused” video coding technology to improve video analytics in compressed domain by provisioning 1) Adaptability: reconfigurable coder to generate on-demand metadata for targeted applications, 2) Intelligence: on-board video analytics to design low-cost “smart” sensors, and 3) Stealth: event-driven video transmission in ad-hoc networks susceptible to noises and eavesdropping. The presentation outlined potential defence applications in autonomous video surveillance, ground vehicle robotics and aerial drones, remote sensing, and human-machine teaming.

Mr Sunil Aryal presented Prof Kai Ming Ting’s research at MCCAIR on the impact of sample size and dissimilarity on learning in dynamic and uncertain environments, which aims to establish a theoretical understanding of the impact of dissimilarity measures on the sample size requirement of learning algorithms to achieve optimal accuracy, particularly in nearest neighbour anomaly detection. With this understanding, the research further aims to create fast and effective algorithms to detect anomalies in dynamic and uncertain environments.

Faculty of Science and Technology Support Forum: Start-Ups: Turning research into impact

The path from research to commercial or social enterprises is often rocky. Recent initiatives by CSIRO, Federal and State governments are aimed at changing the culture so that researchers are equipped to assess and explore commercialisation opportunities. The aim of these initiatives is to create an ecosystem where innovation and entrepreneurship thrives. The Faculty of Science and Technology recognises the challenges in the translation of research into commercial products, and as such, it aims to provide support for its academic staff in this area; for instance, in the form of support forums. The support forum initiative has been instigated by CIAO.

The presenters of the forum have been involved in different ways with the challenges of entrepreneurship.

Cerasela Tanasescu, Director, Latrobe Accelerator program Georgia Beattie, CEO, Startup Victoria Andrew Stranieri, FedUni, Founder of JUSTSYS and co-founder of Anidra Tech Ventures Robert Layton, FedUni, Founder of LAB79 Venki Balasubramanian, FedUni, Founder Anidra Tech Ventures Iqbal Gondal, Internet Commerce Security Lab, FedUni, Oceania Cyber Security Centre




SAP User Group Conference

Information Systems researchers in CIAO, (from left in the photo) Mehmood Chadhar, Taiwo Oseni, Sasha Ivkovic, Andrew Stranieri and PhD researcher Haroon Bhutta, were delegates at the SAP User Group Conference (SAUG) in Melbourne on November 16, 2017.

Hundreds of delegates from leading Australian companies and universities discussed emerging trends that rapidly entering the enterprise system landscape including Blockchains, Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence.

SAP is a suite of applications in enterprise resource planning, which allows organisations to manage business operations, and collect and integrate data from different aspects of the business.

CIAO Seminars Optimisation

Date Name Affiliation Topic 14 Dec

Prof Anatoli Ivanov Pennsylvania State University, USA

Global dynamics in a cyclic system of differential delay equations

6 Nov Dr Reinier Diaz

Millan Federal Institute of Goiás, Brazil

On the splitting optimization problem with enlargement




2 Nov Prof Sid Morris CIAO, Federation University Australia

Are there any genuine continuous multivariate real-valued functions?

19 Oct

Dr James Saunderson

Monash University

Hyperbolic polynomials and semidefinite programming

For more information please visit https://federation.edu.au/faculties-and-schools/faculty-of-science-and-technology/research/computational-science-and-mathematics/ciao/events/optimisation-seminars.

Information technology

Date Name Affiliation Topic 23 Oct

Matthew Ashley & Elizabeth Egan

IBM, Australia Big Data Governance

19 Oct

Dr Danielle Auldist Federation University Australia

Win-win collaborations

12 Oct

Kathleen Keogh Federation University Australia

A meta-model for dynamic agent coordination and improvisation

Forthcoming events

MATRIX program Algebraic Geometry, Approximation and Optimisation Members of CIAO were successful in obtaining over $30k for the MATRIX program Algebraic Geometry, Approximation and Optimisation. The workshop will be held 5-16 February 2018. The organisers are: Enrico Carlini, Jochen Garcke, Wolfgang Hackbusch, Markus Hegland, Vera Roshchina, Nadezda Sukhorukova, Julien Ugon and David Smyth. Registration is by invitation only.




Variational Analysis Down Under 2018, a conference in honour of Prof Asen Dontchev’s 70th birthday The workshop is designed to bring together researchers working in various areas of modern variational analysis and mathematical optimisation, to prompt an exchange of ideas between Australian and overseas researchers. It is focussed on the modern aspects of optimisation that involve deep interplay between computational problems and pure mathematical questions.

Keynote speakers:

Prof Regina Burachik, University of South Australia Prof Asen Dontchev, University of Michigan, USA Prof Alejandro Jofre, University of Chile Prof Ekaterina Kostina, Heidelberg University, Germany Prof Lyudmila Polyakova, St Petersburg State University, Russia Prof Terry Rockafellar, University of Washington, USA

The workshop will be held during 19-21 February 2018 in Room T217 at the Mount Helen campus. Registrations are now open. For more information, please visit http://vadu2018.org.

Einstein Workshop Discrete Geometry and Topology This will be a four-day workshop with lectures, presentations and informal discussions on discrete geometry and topology, and related topics (combinatorial topology, computational geometry, polytope theory). It will be held at the Free University of Berlin during March 13-18 2018.

It is funded primarily by the Einstein Foundation Berlin, as part of Prof Francisco Santos' Einstein Visiting Fellowship at FU Berlin for 2016-2019. Additional funding is provided by the project Discretization in Geometry and Dynamics (SFB Transregio 109) and the Berlin Mathematical School.

Dr Guillermo Pineda-Villavicencio from CIAO is one of the invited speakers at the workshop. Registration for the workshop is currently open. For more information visit http://www.mi.fu-berlin.de/en/math/groups/discgeom/Events/DiscGeomTop.

Research group news

Research Group on Pure Mathematics Members: Dr Guillermo Pineda-Villavicencio, A/Prof David Yost and Dr Julien Ugon

Dr Guillermo Pineda-Villacencio visited Aalborg University during September 21st 2017 and October 20th 2017 as part of a one-month fellowship awarded by the Department of Mathematical Sciences at Aalborg University, approximately valued at 10,000 AUD.

During his visit to Denmark, Guillermo worked on joint projects with his long-

Dr Guillermo Pineda




term collaborator A/Prof Leif K. Jorgensen (http://people.math.aau.dk/~leif/) and delivered a research seminar.

Research collaboration between A/Prof Leif K. Jorgensen and Dr Guillermo Pineda-Villavicencio has already resulted in two published papers in leading international journals. This fellowship advanced a number of ongoing research projects between A/Prof Jorgensen and Dr Pineda-Villavicencio.

Climate Informatics Research Group Key focus of the Climate Informatics Research Group (CIRG) is to understanding climate change and variability, and their impacts on environment and society in Australia and the Asia-Pacific regions.

Some current and prospective research projects within CERG are as follows.

NESP Earth Systems and Climate Change Research Project on Extremes - $183,211

This project is funded by the Department of Environment and Energy, in collaboration with CSIRO and Bureau of Meteorology to assess various characteristics of tropical cyclones, as well as associated extreme weather in general, using observed records and climate model simulations.

Impact of tropical cyclones on travelling ionosphere disturbances

This project investigates the extent of tropical cyclone modulation on the ionosphere.

Subseasonal-to-seasonal prediction of Australian tropical cyclones

Through detailed analysis of observations and operational model forecasts, this project seeks to develop subseasonal to seasonal tropical cyclone prediction systems for Australia and the Pacific. Insights gained will advance our knowledge towards more seamless and integrated weather and climate forecasts.

Reconstructing historical tropical cyclone records for the Pacific

In order to understand the nature of variability within the context of future climate change, it is useful to establish a long-term record of tropical cyclones extending back to periods with climate states different from the present day. This project will aim to develop such temporal records that may extend several thousand years back.

Subseasonal-to-seasonal prediction of bushfire conditions for regional Victoria from climatic variables

The overarching aim of the proposed study is to examine subseasonal-to-seasonal predictability of bushfire conditions for Victoria and develop innovative statistical-dynamical approaches to predict large-scale climatic variables that influence bushfire conditions at local scale.

Collaborations and research opportunities are available within CIRG. Please contact Dr Savin Chand ([email protected]) for details.

Dr Savin Chan Leader of Climate

Informatics Research Group




Research Visits

CIAO Researcher travels to the Czech Republic and Israel. In September-October 2017 CIAO Research Director A/Prof Alex Kruger travelled to the Czech Republic and Israel.

In Prague, he collaborated with Partner Investigator on the current ARC Discovery project and CIAO Adjunct Professor Jiří Outrata and delivered a plenary lecture at the 11th International Conference on Parametric Optimization and Related Topics (ParaoptXI), dedicated to Jiří Outrata's 70th birthday.

In Israel, Alex gave an invited lecture at Tel Aviv University, an invited talk at the German–Israeli Research Workshop on Optimization at Technion in Haifa, participated in the Optimization Industrial Day at ORT Braude College in Karmiel, and collaborated with colleagues in Tel Aviv, Haifa and Karmiel. Special Issues of the high ranked international journal Optimization dedicated to the conferences in Prague and Haifa are currently in preparation. The discussions held at ORT Braude College are likely to lead to joint projects involving CIAO and College researchers.

CIAO Visitors

Alex Kruger, Rene Henrion and Mark Sandeman

Dates Name Institution 11 Dec 17 – 5 Jan 18 Prof Anatoli Ivanov Pennsylvania State University, USAS 27 Nov – 3 Dec Prof Rene Henrion Weierstrass Institute, Germany 1 Nov 17 – 28 Feb 18 Dr LiMin Wang Jilin University, China




Staff News As Julie Howes put it: “good things come in threes, and conversely it would appear that good things leave in threes”. Glenn Stevens, Phil Smith and Kaye Lewis all retired in December 2017, after more years than we care to count. Friends and colleagues met at Freight Bar & Restaurant in Ballarat to give them a wonderful send off. We wish Glenn, Phil and Kaye all very best and good luck for the future.

Announcements

Higher degree scholarship policy at FedUni

A new HDR policy has been put in place at FedUni. It provides a framework for the administration and allocation of HDR scholarships for which the University has primary responsibility. The scholarship schemes within the scope of this policy include but are not limited to:

University funded scholarships Research Training Program (RTP) funded stipends FedUni Funded Postgraduate Research Scholarships (FPRS) Research Priority Area Scholarships (RPA Scholarships) International FedUni Funded Postgraduate Research Scholarships (IFPRS) International Fee Scholarships or Special Overseas Scholarships (SOSS) Externally funded scholarships Faculty funded scholarships Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander targeted HDR scholarships

This policy does not apply to

Research Training Program Fee-offset Scholarships. These items are set out in the RTP Scholarship Policy.

Scholarships that are not paid through FedUni. Academics at FedUni, and particularly, HDR supervisors are strongly encouraged to revise this new policy, available at http://policy.federation.edu.au/research/higher_degrees_by_research/hdr_candidate_selection/hdr_candidate_selection/ch06.php.




Data61 scholarship

Data61 is one of Australia’s leading digital research networks. It offers full-stipend PhD scholarships to work in all areas of technology and science. The program runs in collaboration with over 25 research organisations, including FedUni.

Students wishing to apply for a Data61 Scholarship should contact with a Data61 supervisor to discuss a research project. Application rounds are held two to four times each year, depending on university processes and numbers of applications. Rounds will be announced on the CSIRO and Data61 websites, together with relevant links and information.

For more information, visit http://data61.csiro.au/en/Collaborate-with-us/Students/Our-Scholarship-Program.

A/Prof Peter Vamplew ([email protected]) and A/Prof Iqbal Gondal ([email protected]) would be able to answer questions if a potential student would like to pursue a Data61 research project at FedUni.

FedUni's new co-funded industry HDR scholarships

Deputy Vice Chancellor (Research & Innovation) is inviting formal Expressions of Interest from interested supervisors/supervisory teams to apply for one of several new co-funded industry HDR scholarships to support their research.

Details of the requirements and application process can be found at: http://federation.edu.au/research/support-for-current-students-and-staff/co-funded-industry-scholarships.

Applications close 15 February 2018.




Publications: October – December 2017 (SCOPUS)

1. Adam L., Outrata J., Roubicek T. Identification of some nonsmooth evolution systems with illustration on adhesive contacts at small strains. (2017), Optimization, vol. 66, pp. 2025-2049, 10.1080/02331934.2015.1111364.

2. Alguliyev R., Aliguliyev R., Bagirov A., Karimov R. Batch clustering algorithm for big data sets. (2017), Application of Information and Communication Technologies, AICT 2016 - Conference Proceedings, 10.1109/ICAICT.2016.7991657.

3. Black P., Gondal I., Layton R. A survey of similarities in banking malware behaviours. (2017), Computers and Security, 10.1016/j.cose.2017.09.013.

4. Dinh N., Goberna M.A., Lopez M.A., Mo T.H. Farkas-Type Results for Vector-Valued Functions with Applications. (2017), Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications, vol. 173, pp. 357-390, 10.1007/s10957-016-1055-2.

5. Dinh N., Goberna M.A., Lopez M.A., Mo T.H. Robust optimization revisited via robust vector Farkas lemmas. (2017), Optimization, vol. 66, pp. 939-963, 10.1080/02331934.2016.1152272.

6. Dinh N., Goberna M.A., Lopez M.A., Volle M. A Unifying Approach to Robust Convex Infinite Optimization Duality. (2017), Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications, vol. 174, pp. 650-685, 10.1007/s10957-017-1136-x.

7. Eberhard A., Roshchina V., Sang T. Outer limits of subdifferentials for min–max type functions. (2017), Optimization, pp. 1-19, 10.1080/02331934.2017.1398750.

8. Goberna M.A., Lopez M.A. Recent contributions to linear semi-infinite optimization. (2017), 4OR, pp. 1-44, 10.1007/s10288-017-0350-6.

9. Huda S., Abawajy J., Abdollahian M., Islam R., Yearwood J. A fast malware feature selection approach using a hybrid of multi-linear and stepwise binary logistic regression. (2017), Concurrency Computation, vol. 29, 10.1002/cpe.3912.

10. Huseynova I.M., Mirzayeva S.M., Sultanova N.F., Aliyeva D.R., Mustafayev N.S., Aliyev J.A. Virus-induced changes in photosynthetic parameters and peroxidase isoenzyme contents in tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L.) plants. (2017), Photosynthetica, pp. 1-10, 10.1007/s11099-017-0737-9.

11. Kruger A.Y., Luke D.R., Thao N.H. About Subtransversality of Collections of Sets. (2017), Set-Valued and Variational Analysis, vol. 25, pp. 701-729, 10.1007/s11228-017-0436-5.

12. Kulkarni P., Stranieri A., Ugon J., Mittal M., Kulkarni S. Pixel N-grams for mammographic lesion classification. (2017), 2017 2nd International Conference on Communication Systems, Computing and IT Applications, CSCITA 2017 - Proceedings, pp. 107-111, 10.1109/CSCITA.2017.8066534.

13. Li S., Huang L., Fu A., Yearwood J. CExp: secure and verifiable outsourcing of composite modular exponentiation with single untrusted server. (2017), Digital Communications and Networks, vol. 3, pp. 236-241, 10.1016/j.dcan.2017.05.001.

14. Maruatona O., Vamplew P., Dazeley R., Watters P.A. Evaluating accuracy in prudence analysis for cyber security. (2017), Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), vol. 10638, pp. 407-417, 10.1007/978-3-319-70139-4_41.

15. Oseni T., Foster S., Rahim M., Smith S.P. A framework for ERP post-implementation amendments: A literature analysis. (2017), Australasian Journal of Information Systems, vol. 21, 10.3127/ajis.v21i0.1268.

16. Rashid M.M., Kamruzzaman J., Gondal I., Hassan R. Periodic associated sensor patterns mining from wireless sensor networks. (2017), Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including




subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), vol. 10638, pp. 247-255, 10.1007/978-3-319-70139-4_25.

17. Sharma V., Stranieri A., Ugon J., Vamplew P., Martin L. An agile group aware process beyond CRISP-DM: A hospital data mining case study. (2017), ACM International Conference Proceeding Series, vol. 0, pp. 109-113, 10.1145/3093241.3093273.

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