Edition #36: Apr-Jun 2018 - Federation University AustraliaThe PhD project will focus on spectator profiling using big data analytics for enhancing sports fandom. SportHosts Founder

Edition #36: Apr-Jun 2018

CIAO Newsletter EDITION #36

Centre for Informatics and Applied Optimization Apr-Jun 2018

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Director’s section Welcome to our second Newsletter this year. It covers the period April – June 2018.

This period was rich in various events. Let me mention our annual CIAO Showcase on 12 April 2018, celebrating CIAO achievements in 2017. As previously, we had enough to celebrate in terms of research output, impact and engagement. A big thank you to all who were actively involved in preparing the event, who gave talks at the accompanying workshop and/or presented group or individual posters. Many thanks to Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Research and Innovation Prof Leigh Sullivan, who came to demonstrate his support to CIAO by officially launching the showcase as well as the 2017 CIAO annual report, and to Helen Wade, who facilitated the whole event.

The second AMSI Optimise workshop took place at the University of Melbourne 18-22 June. As last year, it was organised by the Australian Mathematical Sciences Institute (AMSI) and supported by the Federal and State Governments, which consider now optimisation as a national priority, and a number of major businesses. The workshop aimed at strengthening mathematical optimisation research engagement with industry and allowed academics from Australian universities actively interact with Australian businesses and learn each other’s capabilities and needs. The meeting received significant media coverage.

Regular series of CIAO optimisation seminars continues at Mount Helen campus on Thursdays. Remote access via Visimeet is available. This year we have had 15 research talks so far, including 3 presentations by international visitors. The seminars are not strongly restricted to optimisation. Our general research support forums started at the end of 2017 are getting regular too. They are not limited to CIAO researchers. All are welcome.

We continue hosting international visitors. During the first six months of this year we have had 12 visitors.

This edition features a new section which is likely to become regular: CIAO in history. Its content comes from (relatively) old CIAO newsletters. I find it very interesting to look back a little, rediscover some (almost) forgotten facts, find familiar names and (slightly younger) faces. The current section contains two subsections: ‘15 years ago’ and ‘10 years ago’.

As always, the newsletter contains the list of recent publications by CIAO members.

Enjoy the reading.

A/Prof Alex Kruger

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.

In this issue:

Grants and awards Past and

forthcoming events Research group

news Research visits Staff news Announcements CIAO in history New publications

Prof Alex Rubinov CIAO Founding

Director

A/Prof Alex Kruger

CIAO Research Director

Dr Guillermo Pineda

Editor of CIAO Newsletter




Grants and awards

Digital Health Cooperative Research Centre (DHCRC) Programme Federation University Australia recently learnt that the bid for an Australian Government's Cooperative Research Centre (CRC) Programme was successful. This bid was in partnership with 16 other universities.

The announcement was made by the Hon. Zed Seselja, Liberal Senator for the ACT, Assistant Minister for Science, Jobs and Innovation. The Centre was one of only four CRC’s funded in this round. The $55m awarded is combined with a cash contribution from industry and academic partners ($56m) and in-kind contribution from government and industry partners ($118m), providing a total of $229m to meet the consortium objectives during the next seven years. This significant success aligns the University’s long-term commitment to engaging translational and innovative research to meet the needs of individuals and communities, whilst being strategic in fostering World-class research.

Federation University Australia’s participation is being directed by Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Research & Innovation, Professor Leigh Sullivan and led by Professor Fergal Grace from the School of Health and Life Sciences. This is excellent news!

Digital Health CRC follows the footsteps of Capital Markets CRC (CMCRC, https://www.cmcrc.com) whose research in health has been very successful. CIAO members Dr Musa Mammadov, Dr Daniel Morales-Silva and Dr Guillermo Pineda-Villavicencio currently collaborate with CMCRC and industry partners such as the Transport Accident Commission and Medibank Private to provide advance analytic solutions to problems arising in their domain.

CIAO expects to be actively involved in Digital Health CRC.

For more information check https://www.digitalhealthcrc.com

Digital Health team and Sen. The Hon Zed Seselja




FedUni students present at SummerTech LIVE Showcase in Melbourne Two of FedUni’s IT students, Priyabrata Karmakar (PhD) and Mark Petty (Bachelor of IT), were invited by the Victoria State Government to present their innovative Road Defect Detection System as part of the SummerTech LIVE Showcase, held at the Victoria Investment Centre on Thursday, 19 April 2018. The SummerTech LIVE program provides an opportunity for students to work with industry with supervisor support. Their project developed a system as a proof-of-concept for industry partner KND Services which is a road and pavement maintenance company based in Gippsland. While developing the system, the two students were placed at KND Services and were supervised by A/Prof Shyh Wei Teng, Prof Manzur Murshed, and Prof Guojun Lu from the Centre for Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Artificial Intelligence Research (MCCAIR), a research partner of CIAO within the Computer Science and Mathematics thematic group.

The two students received a scholarship of $10,000 in total from Victoria State Government as part of the program. The presentation by the two students was very well received by attendees at the Showcase and the management team from the State Government was highly impressed by the system developed.

We congratulate the students and their supervisors.

Research funding for big data analytics for enhancing sports fandom A/Prof Madhu Chetty is pleased to announce that a fully funded PhD scholarship has now been made available by industry partner SportsHosts with a total project funding nearing $100,000 over three years.

The PhD project will focus on spectator profiling using big data analytics for enhancing sports fandom. SportHosts Founder and CEO, excited about the research, said, "The idea of sports fandom is fueled by people's passion for sport and its power to unite people from different cultures and backgrounds. At its highest level, this is a shift from the model of shared economy to that of passion economy. We are really delighted to see the industry and academia coming together to develop analytical methods that will help mitigate underlying potential risks in industry operations and enhance organisational revenue and profits."

A/Prof Chetty said, "Unstructured/structured data generated through the information provided/gathered about sports fans will enable us to develop novel machine learning and pattern recognition techniques for effectively leveraging big data analytics."

ICSL PhD student wins Travel Award PhD student Ansam Khraisat from Internet Commerce Security Laboratory (ICSL) at Federation University has won a Travel Award at Australasian workshop on Machine Learning for Cybersecurity 2018. The workshop was part of the 22nd Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD).

The award was for the paper “An anomaly intrusion detection system using C5 decision tree classifier”, written in collaboration with A/Prof Iqbal Gondal and A/Prof Peter Vamplew.

Deb Williams (Managing Director of KND Services), Kelly Hutchinson, Helen Paraskevopoulos (Senior Managers of

DEDJTR, Vic State Government), Mark Petty (FedUni Bachelor of IT student), Priyabrata Karmakar (FedUni PhD

student) and A/Prof Shyh Wei Teng (FedUni)




Funding to optimise water quality in water resource systems and water grids Grampians Wimmera Mallee Water (GWMWater) will join with FedUni to fund an industry PhD scholarship looking to research the problem of optimising water quality in water resource systems and water grids. The project has a total value of $126,000 over three years. In relation to the project, A/Prof Andrew Barton said "this project provides an example of how industry and FedUni can work together to solve nationally significant problems."

GWMWater supplies water to much of north-western Victoria which includes some of the driest parts of the State. As part of its operations GWMWater uses multiple reservoirs and a complex system of interconnected pipelines and channels, or water grid, to supply water to a range of users for waterway health, industry, towns and farms. The quality of water available for supply can often vary considerably. This is a challenge because different water users will usually have different water quality preferences, but these preferences may not always be possible to meet in the context of overall system constraints or other competing objectives. It is anticipated that this research project will assist GWMWater, and the broader water industry, to understand the options available in maximising the quality of water to users.

Successful project with City West Water HDR student David Ebbs successfully completed in December 2017 his APR Internship at City West Water, with A/Prof Andrew Barton as his mentor. David’s work contributes to Melbourne’s 50-year Sewerage Strategy, and involved collaborating with Melbourne Water, South East Water, Yarra Valley Water, Western water and City West Water to undertake analysis around the availability of water, carbon, and nutrients as a resource, and helping to develop a prioritised list of opportunities to increase resource recovery and leverage increased value from the sewerage system. David’s time spent working on Melbourne’s sewerage strategy will also go towards one of the chapters of his PhD thesis. City West Water and Australian Mathematical Sciences Institute were very appreciative of David’s efforts and have praised their relationship with FedUni.

Successful Australian postgraduate research internship Higher degree research student Paul Black and his mentor A/Prof Iqbal Gondal were successful in securing an APR Internship with CYDARM: Integrated Cybersecurity Operations Platform. The project is titled “Machine Learning from Cyber Security Operations Relevance Feedback” and has a duration of 5 months.

Several other applications for APR Internships (formerly AMSI Internships) have been submitted in recent weeks by HDR students. In this scheme, HDR students work with industry partners on real world issues for the company. Our students have found these internships to be a valuable experience, with many leading to employment. We look forward to successful outcomes of the applications.

For more information, consult http://aprintern.org.au.

Successful ChooseMaths grant PhD student Hoa Bui was successful in securing a ChooseMaths grant, valued at $785, to attend AMSI Optimise 2018 workshop in Melbourne.

Hoa Bui is a PhD student in Mathematics at Federation University Australia, supervised by A/Prof Alex Kruger. She obtained her B.Sc. in Mathematics from Ho Chi Minh City University of Pedagogy, Vietnam in 2016. Soon after her graduation, she came to Australia to do a PhD at FedUni. Her major fields are variational analysis and nonsmooth optimisation. Besides variational analysis, she is also working on combinatorial graphs theory and convex analysis.

Check Hoa’s interview given to the ChooseMaths coordinator at https://research.amsi.org.au/choosemaths-hoa-bui/.

Hoa Thi Bui




Events

CIAO Showcase and Workshop 2018 Each year CIAO holds a showcase and presentations of its research activities during the previous year.

This year the Showcase was held on Thursday, 12 April 2018 at the Mount Helen campus. The event provided an opportunity to reflect on the research activities and achievements of CIAO researchers in 2017. CIAO research groups presented their projects and 2017 publications. The event was open to all FedUni staff and students, with some collaborators from other universities attending. Prof Leigh Sullivan, Deputy Vice Chancellor, Research & Innovation officially launched the showcase, which was followed by refreshments and research discussions. A full day of research project presentations was held with a diverse range of projects highlighted.

The 2017 CIAO Annual Report was also launched during the event.

Dr Mehmood Chadhar' team

and other CIAO members and guests A/Prof Alex Kruger and Prof Leigh Sullivan

A/Prof Andrew Stranieri, Dr Sasha Ivkovic and Dr Savin Chand Prof Mark Sandeman and Mr Grant Meredith




Defence Sciences Institute representatives meet with FedUni researchers The new Deputy Director of the Defence Science Institute, A/Prof Fiona Fletcher and Engagement Manager Craig Butler visited the Mt Helen campus on Friday the 25th of May and had an informal discussion with CIAO researchers A/Prof Andrew Stranieri, A/Prof Peter Vamplew, A/Prof Adil Bagirov, A/Prof Alex Kruger, A/Prof Andrew Barton, Dr Sunil Aryal and Dr Alireza Jolfaei.

Flirting with ICT 2018 CIAO researchers took part in the Flirt with ICT 2018 event 30 May 2018, which aimed to connect ICT professionals and academics and gain an awareness of the IEEE and their desire to support the setup of a local chapter. The event also showcased how FedUni is researching and working with industry to strengthen cyber-security, and the upcoming IBM graduate opportunities. The program included the following presentations.

Dr Alan L Harvey (RMIT), IEEE – Value to You. Dr Alireza Jolfaei (CIAO, Chair of Computational Intelligence Society in IEEE Victoria Section), IEEE

Computational Intelligence Society and IEEE Student Branch at FedUni. ICT Guru George Fong (Lateral Plains Pty Ltd), The re-invention of the Nerd!

AMSI Optimise 2018 AMSI Optimise returned in 2018. It was held at the University of Melbourne on 18-22 June 2018. AMSI Optimise is an annual networking and research-training event that aims to strengthen mathematical optimisation research engagement and its applications across industry.

Annual AMSI Optimise events are organised by the Australian Mathematical Sciences Institute (AMSI), using financial support for optimisation research and engagement from the Government and several major businesses. The events are aimed at:

anyone using optimisation, with opportunities to learn more about the current state of the art and to connect with others who have similar interests

industry practitioners interested in exploring the benefits of engagement with optimisation research academics and postgraduate students who want to better understand drivers and needs in this area

This year the event was comprised of a three-day industry-focused conference, followed by a two-day research workshop. The symposium featured expert and end-user talks, international guest speakers, collaboration showcases, industry challenge sessions and tutorials. The themes of the 2018 conference were Decision Making under Uncertainty and Humanitarian Applications. The international plenary speakers were A/Prof Maria Antonia Carravilla (Universidade do Porto, Portugal), A/Prof Maria-Eve Rancourt (HEC Montreal, Canada) and Prof Emeritus Tyrrell Rockafellar (University of Washington, USA).

The event provided a forum to bring together people from the diverse companies and research disciplines that use and develop optimisation models and software. It provided a platform for research training and developing new collaborations in this vital area through PhD internships, research partnerships and postgraduate research projects.

CIAO was represented at AMSI Optimise 2018 by A/Prof Alex Kruger and A/Prof David Yost.

CACAO in action The new China-Australia Collaboration in Applied Optimization (CACAO) was launched on 4 December 2017 at Curtin University in Perth with the four participating universities:

Federation University Australia




Curtin University Shanghai University Chongqing Normal University

CACAO aims to develop a co-operative strategic relationship between the four institutions for the benefit of Australia and China. This includes collaboration on optimisation projects, jointly hosting of international conferences and workshops in applied optimisation, in particular, the biennial China-Australia Workshops on Applied Optimization, supporting the exchange of research staff and students, and fostering friendly relations between the two countries.

In accordance with the agreement, several CIAO researchers have visited the School of Mathematical Sciences at Chongqing Normal University (CNU) during March to May 2018 to conduct joint research on optimisation with Chinese colleagues, give seminars for undergraduate and graduate students at CNU in mathematical optimisation and strengthen the links between the two universities. The visits were supported by the School of Mathematical Sciences at CNU.

Dr Musa Mammadov visited CNU from 23 March to 5 April. During the visit, he gave a series of lectures on "Outlier detection methodologies: theory and practice". A/Prof Adil Baghirov visited CNU from 7 to 26 April. He gave a series of lectures on "Nonsmooth optimization models in machine learning". A/Prof Alex Kruger visited CNU from 29 April to 10 May. He gave a series lectures on "Extremality and regularity". Alex Kruger also met with CNU students enrolled in international exchange programs and spoke to them about FedUni and life in Australia.

Prof Zhiyou Wu, Dean of the School of Mathematical Sciences, and Prof Fusheng Bai, CNU will visit CIAO in July 2018.

Preparations are currently under way for the 9th Australia-China Workshop on Optimization which is will take place in Shanghai, China in 2019.

CIAO Seminars Optimisation

Date Name Affiliation Topic 26 Jun Dr Minh N. Dao University of

Newcastle Linear convergence of projection algorithms under quasi Fejér monotonicity and quasi coercivity

24 May, 14 Jun

A/Prof Alex Kruger CIAO, FedUni About the extremal principle

17 May A/Prof Adil Bagirov CIAO, FedUni Continuous optimisation models for

operation of water distribution systems

10 May Dr Lauren Fortington CIAO, FedUni Understanding and preventing

serious and fatal events in Australian sport

26 Apr Mr Nguyen Duy

Cuong CIAO, FedUni Some extended versions of the

extremal principle with applications in optimization




5, 19 Apr Ms Hoa Thi Bui CIAO, FedUni Error bounds: revision

Optimisation seminar 14 June 2018 Dr Minh N. Dao, 26 June 2018

Information technology

Date Name Affiliation Topic 31 May Mr Asher Leslie FedUni I hate programming (Start Ups,

Web Design and Ballet)

10 May A/Prof Herbert Jelinek

Charles Sturt University

Biofeedback and Neurofeedback in chronic disease management

General research support forums

Date Name Affiliation Topic 31 May Mary-Ann Seebeck Senior Lawyer, FedUni Don't fall foul of your funder For more information please visit https://federation.edu.au/ciao.

Forthcoming events

Malware Reverse Engineering Workshop 2018 The Malware Reverse Engineering Workshop 2018 (MRE-2018) will be held on 2 and 3 July 2018 in Melbourne. The workshop, organised by the ICSL, is a bridge between industry, law enforcement and academia, with a strong focus on practical results from research and development projects in malware reversing. The conference aims to cover:

Reverse engineering methods, analyses and algorithms Behavioural and attribution analysis of malware Impacts into the financial sector and government agencies Advanced monitoring schemes for Malware attacks

For more information please visit https://federation.edu.au/icsl/mre2018.




General Assembly of the International Mathematical Union The General Assembly of the International Mathematical Union (IMU) will be held in Sao Paulo in July 2018, before the International Congress of Mathematicians. It consists of delegates appointed by the Adhering Organisations of IMU, together with the members of the Executive Committee, and the Representatives of Associate and Affiliate IMU Members.

IMU is an international non-governmental organisation devoted to international cooperation in the field of mathematics across the world. Its members are national mathematics organisations from more than 80 countries (https://www.mathunion.org/membership/imu-members).

CIAO researcher, Dr Guillermo Pineda-Villavicencio has been selected as one of four Australian delegates for the General Assembly. The other delegates are Prof Cheryl Praeger (University of Western Australia), Prof Nalini Joshi (University of Sydney) and A/Prof Ben Burton (University of Queensland).

Guillermo is honoured to be selected to serve the Australian mathematical community in this capacity. He will also attend the International Congress of Mathematicians.

International Congress of Mathematicians The International Congress of Mathematicians will be held in Rio de Janeiro on 1-9 August 2018. The congress is being held every four years and is the largest gathering of mathematicians in the world. During the congress several very prestigious prizes are going to be awarded, including

the Fields Medals for outstanding contributions to mathematics by mathematicians under 40 years of age the Nevanlinna Prize for outstanding contributions in mathematical aspects of information sciences the Gauss Prize for outstanding mathematical applications outside of mathematics the Chern Medal for outstanding lifelong contributions to mathematics the Leelavati award for outstanding contributions to public outreach in mathematics.

For more information check the congress website http://www.icm2018.org/portal/en/.

VIII Latin American Workshop on Cliques in Graphs The 8th Latin American Workshop on Cliques in Graphs will be held on August 9-11, 2018 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. This is one of the satellite events of the International Congress of Mathematicians. See http://lawcg2018.icomp.ufam.edu.br. The workshop is meant to foster collaboration between the Latin American graph theory and international combinatorics community.

The talk “Connectivity of cubical polytopes” by CIAO researcher Dr Guillermo Pineda-Villavicencio was accepted at the workshop. This is a joint work with CIAO Honorary Research Fellow Dr Julien Ugon (Deakin University) and CIAO PhD student Ms Hoa Thi Bui.

Research group news

Optimisation Over the last three months A/Prof. Adil Bagirov has been busy working with a number of colleagues overseas on problems related to nonsmooth optimisation and delivering invited talks.

Visits:

Sultan Qaboos University in Muscat, Oman, March 30 – April 6, 2018. Joint research with Prof M. Al-Baali on development nonsmooth optimisation methods using quasi-Newton methods.

Dr Guillermo Pineda




Chongqing Normal University, China, April 8-26, 2018. Joint research with Prof Zhiyou. Wu and Prof Fusheng Bai on nonsmooth DC optimization and optimization approaches in machine learning.

University of Turku, Finland, June 17-24, 2018. Defence of his PhD student Kaisa Joki and joint research with Prof Marko Makela, A/Prof. Napsu Karmitsa and Ms Kaisa Joki on nonsmooth DC optimization and its applications.

He gave two invited talks at

the International Conference on Operations Research and its Applications, April 2-3, 2018, Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat, Oman;

the 38th Turkish National Operations Research and Industrial Engineering Conference, June 26-29, 2018, Anadolu University, Eskisehir, Turkey.

Information Systems Research Hub Members: Dr Mehmood Chadar, Dr Taiwo Osana, Dr Sasha Ivkovic and Sally Firmin (PhD under examination).

Dr Mehmood Chadar presented a talk titled “Communications metrics extracted from project managers’ email inbox” at the Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems, which was held on 26-30 June in Yokohama, Japan.

CIAO Visitors

Dates Name Institution

23-27 Jun Dr Minh Dao University of Newcastle, Australia

1 Jun – 30 Nov Ms Najmeh Hoseini Monjezi Isfahan University, Iran




Announcements

FedUni becomes a member of Water Research Australia Water Research Australia Ltd (WaterRA) is a not-for-profit company, established and funded by its members, to build capacity and undertake national collaborative research on issues relevant to urban, regional and rural water utilities. FedUni joins dozens of industry and other research members in this pursuit. A/Prof Andrew Barton has been working with WaterRA to facilitate FedUni becoming a full Research Member.

More information about WaterRA can be found at https://www.waterra.com.au/.

FedUni to Provide Expertise to Victorian Government Onshore Conventional Gas Program A/Prof Andrew Barton, School of Science, Engineering and Information Technology will provide his expertise in support of the $42.5 million Victorian Government Onshore Conventional Gas Program.

As a member of the Scientific Reference Group, chaired by Victoria’s Lead Scientist Dr Amanda Caples, A/Prof Barton will use his expertise in water resources to help guide and oversee the research and technical work undertaken. The Reference Group will meet regularly over the three-year life of the program and draws its members from a wide range of reputable industry and academic institutions across the nation. A/Prof Barton says ‘the scientific reference group will play an important role in the overall program, and will be working closely with Victoria’s Lead Scientist.’ FedUni is proud to be able to offer its internationally recognised capability to serve the communities of the region and looks forward to seeing the outcomes of the onshore conventional gas program.

More information on the program can be found via the Department of Economic Development, Jobs, Transport and Resources at http://earthresources.vic.gov.au/earth-resources/victorian-gas-program.

ARC Guidelines are moving to GrantConnect GrantConnect is the Australian Government’s whole-of-government grant information system. It is a centralised web-based facility that provides a free, simple and effective service for all potential grant applicants to find and access Commonwealth grant opportunities and documentation.

The Australian Research Council (ARC) must now publish all Grant Guidelines (formerly known as Funding Rules) for all schemes on GrantConnect to meet the requirements. This also applies to NHMRC Grant Guidelines and other Commonwealth Grant Guidelines. Commencing with the ARC Centre of Excellence 2020 Grant Guidelines, all new ARC Grant Guidelines will only be published on GrantConnect. Links to GrantConnect are available on the ARC website.

In order to access all available grant information, new users of GrantConnect are required to set up an account with a username and password. GrantConnect is currently not compatible with the Google Chrome web browser. Internet Explorer is the recommended browser for GrantConnect.

APR Intern Australian Postgraduate Research (APR) Intern is a new internship program which aims to place PhD students into business. The program also aims to support women in STEM through the collaborations which ensue from the internships. The program is supported by the Australian Government Department of Education and Training. Both industry and academia benefit from the program: businesses can access specialist research expertise through the PhD and academic mentor team, while students gain invaluable experience in an industry setting. It is expected that around 1,400 PhD students will be placed into Australian businesses by 2020 through the program. For more information check https://aprintern.org.au.




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. 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.

2019 New Colombo Plan Scholarships New Colombo Plan Scholarships are designed to support Australian students with overseas study in the Indo-Pacific region and are up to $20,000 to cover tuition fees along with additional funds to assist with travel, living expenses and language support. The New Colombo Plan is an initiative of the Australian Government which provides funding to Australian students and universities to support a range of study options in the Indo-Pacific region.

For more information about the New Colombo Plan or FedUni's exchange and study abroad programs, please contact Tiffany Forbes, Centre for University Partnerships on 03 5327 9009, [email protected] or

[email protected].

Call for Applications: 2018 DSI Collaborative Research Grants The technology theme for this round of grants is “Data analytics, artificial intelligence and machine learning providing defence and security organisation decision support and superiority”

Some example research areas include:

Image, video and acoustic classification Intelligent sensor processing and management Hardware and systems diagnostics Enhanced targeting and tracking Threat characterisation Network resilience and intelligent switching Automation of data fusion Program investment analysis and prioritisation

Up to $50,000 is available to support collaborative defence-relevant research that either leverages existing funding from other sources or potentially leads to larger projects funded from elsewhere. The funding will be awarded to the organisation of the lead investigator, which must be

a formal Participant University in the DSI; or an Australian university collaborating with a Victorian-based SME where an SME employee is named

as a co-investigator. Applications naming a Defence or industry co-investigator will be looked upon favourably. Grants are awarded on a competitive basis and must meet the specific criteria outlined separately (see info for applicants). The DSI makes no provision to accept or to fully fund every proposal submitted to the Grant scheme. The DSI reserves the right to reject proposals without consideration.

Key dates:

Application portal opens for submissions on 6th July, 201 Close of submissions COB on 23rd July, 2018 Review of short listed grants by the review committee on 10th August, 2018 Announcement of successful grants late August 2018.

Only those applications submitted via the DSI portal (http://defencescienceinstitute.force.com/webforms/DSIResearchGrant?CampaignID=7016F000001cPAn&ct=t




(DSI_News_06_07_2018)&mc_cid=01be608312&mc_eid=6d7b04c301) before COB on 23rd July, 2018 will be considered in this round.

Staff News

It’s a girl! Congratulations to Dr Sunil Aryal and his wife on the arrival of their first child on 5 April. Whilst she was born a little ahead of schedule at 34 weeks and will need to spend some time in hospital, both mum and baby are doing well.

CIAO in history

15 years ago (CIAO Newsletter #2, May 2003) The Chinese Higher Education Strategic Initiative Grant

The Hon Dr Brendon Nelson, Minister for Education, Science and Training announced the awarding of $585,000 to further strengthen research partnerships between Australian and Chinese universities.

Eight Australian universities were selected by application to take part in the program. Among them the University of Ballarat and Curtin University. CIAO (UB) and WACEAO (Western Australian Centre of Excellence in Industrial Optimisation, Curtin University) received $161,000 for their joint project “Complex




Industrial Optimization – Mathematical Modelling”. The project involves cooperation with 8 Chinese leading institutions in the area of optimisation: Beijing University, University of Science and Technology of China, Shanghai University, Chinese Academy of Sciences (Beijing), Fudan University, Chongqing Normal University and Hebei University. Researchers from Australia will visit China and 16 researchers and PhD students from China will visit Australia through one of the schemes: China-Ballarat-Perth-China or China-Perth-Ballarat-China. An Australia-China optimization workshop will also be held in Ballarat.

Mathematical and Statistical Analysis Research Group (MASARG)

Professor Alex Rubinov is presently on an extensive trip to Europe (from May 1 until July 4). Professor Runinov’s main goal for this trip is joint research with French and Spanish experts. He will also give seminars at universities and attend two conferences at which he has been invited to give three lectures. Professor Alex Rubinov has been invited to present lectures at seminars in Limoges, Toulouse, Avignon (France), Alicante and Elche (Spain).

Graduations

Congratulations to Musa Mammadov who received his Doctor of Philosophy at the conferring ceremony on the 13th May 2003. Musa’s thesis was entitled ‘A Fuzzy Derivative and Dynamical Systems’. His supervisors were Professor Alex Rubinov and Associate Professor John Yearwood.

10 years ago (CIAO Newsletter #20, Winter 2008) Official Opening: Internet Commerce Security Laboratory (ICSL)

CIAO’s new Internet Commerce Security Laboratory was formally opened on 14 May 2008 at the University of Ballarat, in front of an excited audience of more than 100 people. The Honourable Theo Theophanous, State Government Minister for Information and Communication Technology officiated at this important event.

The ICSL is a collaborative project funded by Westpac Banking Corporation, IBM Global Technology Services, the Victorian State Government, and the University of Ballarat, and is a unique venture that is the first of its kind in Australia.

Speakers at the opening included:

Professor David Battersby, Vice-Chancellor, University of Ballarat Mr David Backley, Chief Technology Officer, Westpac Banking Corporation Mr Peter Campbell, General Manager, IBM Global Technology Services

The ICSL will produce an ongoing capability to tackle the national and international problems associated with internet fraud, internet security and identity management. It will also provide highly skilled, industry-ready Information and Communication Technology postgraduate researchers, prepared for employment within the banking and financial services sector.

This project broadens CIAO’s important relationship with IBM, creates a strong bond with Westpac and the Victorian State Government, and is expected to grow significantly over the next five years to include other key stakeholders.

Editor’s comment: Our records show that there were several ‘Official Openings’ of ICSL. The laboratory came to life at least a year earlier.




Publications: April – June 2018 (SCOPUS)

1. Anh L.Q., Khanh P.Q., Tam T.N. Continuity of approximate solution maps of primal and dual vector equilibrium problems. (2018), Optimization Letters, pp. 1-11, 10.1007/s11590-018-1264-8.

2. Bagirov A.M., Mahmood A. A Comparative Assessment of Models to Predict Monthly Rainfall in Australia. (2018), Water Resources Management, vol. 32, pp. 1777-1794, 10.1007/s11269-018-1903-y.

3. Bagirov A.M., Sultanova N., Al Nuaimat A., Taheri S. Solving minimax problems: Local smoothing versus global smoothing. (2018), Springer Proceedings in Mathematics and Statistics, vol. 235, pp. 23-43, 10.1007/978-3-319-90026-1_2.

4. Bui H.T., Kruger A.Y. About Extensions of the Extremal Principle. (2018), Vietnam Journal of Mathematics, vol. 46, pp. 215-242, 10.1007/s10013-018-0278-y.

5. Cominetti R., Roshchina V., Williamson A. A counterexample to De Pierro’s conjecture on the convergence of under-relaxed cyclic projections. (2018), Optimization, pp. 1-10, 10.1080/02331934.2018.1474471.

6. Correa R., Hantoute A., Lopez M.A. Valadier-like formulas for the supremum function I. (2018), Journal of Convex Analysis, vol. 25.

7. Daniele P., Giannessi F., Thera M. Preface. (2018), Journal of Convex Analysis, vol. 25, pp. 339-340. 8. Doolittle J., Nevo E., Pineda-Villavicencio G., Ugon J., Yost D. On the Reconstruction of Polytopes.

(2018), Discrete and Computational Geometry, pp. 1-18, 10.1007/s00454-018-9997-9. 9. Gaudioso M., Giallombardo G., Miglionico G., Bagirov A.M. Minimizing nonsmooth DC functions via

successive DC piecewise-affine approximations. (2018), Journal of Global Optimization, vol. 71, pp. 37-55, 10.1007/s10898-017-0568-z.

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