Fields of Research

Knowledge representation and reasoning
Information systems
Service oriented computing
Artificial intelligence
Oenology and viticulture
Health informatics and information systems
Pattern recognition
Software engineering
Agriculture, land and farm management
Social and community informatics
Cybersecurity and privacy

Research Objectives

Information systems, technologies and services
Information services
Management of water consumption by plant production
Wine grapes
Application software packages

Career Best Publications

Research Publications

A comparative study of online and face-to-face embedded systems learning course; 20th Australasian Computing Education Conference
Arduface: an embedded system analysis tool; 13th Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (PRICAI 2014)
Chinese trending search terms popularity rank prediction; Information Technology and Management
Combining RDR-based machine learning approach and human expert knowledge for phishing prediction; 14th Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Constructing an initial knowledge base for medical domain expert system using induct RDR; 2016 International Conference on Big Data and Smart Computing (BigComp)
It is time to prepare for the future: forecasting social trends; International Conferences EL, DTA and UNESST 2012 (Computer Applications for Database, Education, and Ubiquitous Computing)
Open-domain question answering framework using Wikipedia; 29th Australasian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI 2016): Advances in Artificial Intelligence
Social issues gives you an opportunity: discovering the personalised relevance of social issues; 12th Pacific Rim Knowledge Acquisition Workshop (PKAW 2012)
Supporting on-vineyard decisions with VitiApp; 16th Australian Wine Industry Technical Conference 2016
Trending topics rank prediction; 16th International Conference of Web Information Systems Engineering (WISE 2015)
Twitter trending topics meaning disambiguation; 13th Pacific Rim Knowledge Acquisition Workshop (PKAW 2014)
What issue spread on the web: analyze the web trends; 8th International Conference on Ubiquitous Information Management and Communication (ACM ICUIMC 2014)

Research Projects

An adaptable hybrid knowledge base system for security intrusion detection by phishing-based vector attacks incorporating multiple classification and prudence techniques; Office of Naval Research (ONR)
Sense-T Stage 2: Sensor-smart irrigation

Research Candidate Supervision