Fields of Research

Intelligent robotics
Pattern recognition
Autonomous agents and multiagent systems
Knowledge representation and reasoning
Neurology and neuromuscular diseases
Artificial life and complex adaptive systems
Geriatrics and gerontology
Neural networks
Distributed systems and algorithms
Supply chains
Central nervous system
Natural language processing
Networking and communications
Applications in health
Maritime transportation and freight services
Logistics
Image processing
Mobile computing
Ecological impacts of climate change and ecological adaptation
Primary health care
Deep learning
Modelling and simulation
Human-computer interaction
Data mining and knowledge discovery
Cloud computing
Context learning
Human impacts of climate change and human adaptation
Sensor technology (incl. chemical aspects)
Computer vision
Information visualisation
Satisfiability and optimisation
Preventative health care
Cognition
Planning and decision making
Software and application security
Farm management, rural management and agribusiness

Research Objectives

Application software packages
Information systems, technologies and services
Artificial intelligence
Diagnosis of human diseases and conditions
Computer systems
Health protection and disaster response
Defence
Human-computer interaction
Clinical health
Health related to ageing
Emerging defence technologies
Expanding knowledge in commerce, management, tourism and services
Mobile technologies and communications
Assessment and management of coastal and estuarine ecosystems
Logistics
Internet protocols (ip)
Environmental education and awareness
Ecosystem adaptation to climate change
Environmentally sustainable information and communication services
Intelligence, surveillance and space
Expanding knowledge in the environmental sciences
Wireless technologies, networks and services
Management of greenhouse gas emissions from transport activities
Technological and organisational innovation
Weather
Air quality
Electronic information storage and retrieval services
Injury prevention and control
Preventive medicine
Health inequalities
Climate change adaptation measures (excl. ecosystem)
International sea freight transport (excl. live animals, food products and liquefied gas)
Digital humanities
Information systems
Cybersecurity

Career Best Publications

Research Publications

A Colored Petri Net based approach for multi-agent interactions; 2nd International Conference on Autonomous Robots and Agents
A coloured Petri Net based approach for flexible agent interactions; 4th International Conference on Information Technology and Applications
A composite self-organisation mechanism in an agent network; 12th International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering
A Dynamic Bayesian Network approach for agent group trust evaluation; Computers in Human Behavior
A flexible and reasonable mechanism for self-interested agent team forming; Multiagent and Grid Systems
A fuzzy-based approach for partner selection in multi-agent systems; 6th IEEE/ACIS International Conference on Computer and Information Science (ICIS 2007)
A Hybrid Multi-Agent Framework for Load Management in Power Grid Systems; Advances in Practical Multi-Agent Systems: Studies in Computational Intelligence
A multi-agent system for modelling preference-based complex influence diffusion in social networks; The Computer Journal
A Multi-Agent View of the Sensor Web; Advances in Practical Multi-Agent Systems: Studies in Computational Intelligence
A novel mountain driving unity simulated environment for autonomous vehicles; 35th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)
A novel task allocation protocol in agent organizations and its application to health care problems; International Journal of Computers and Their Applications
A probabilistic model for truth discovery with object correlations; Knowledge-Based Systems
A robust trust model for service-oriented systems; Journal of Computer and System Sciences
A Self-learning Approach for Beggiatoa Coverage Estimation in Aquaculture; AI 2021: Advances in Artificial Intelligence - 34th Australasian Joint Conference
A wireless mobile robots deployment approach for maximising the coverage of important locations in disaster rescues; 2015 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology (WI-IAT)
ABEM: an adaptive agent-based evolutionary approach for influence maximization in dynamic social networks; Applied Soft Computing
Accountable individual trust from group reputations in multi-agent systems; 13th Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (PRICAI 2014)
Adaptive incentive allocation for influence-aware proactive recommendation; 16th Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (PRICAI 2019)
Adaptive trust-based routing protocol for large scale WSNs; IEEE Access
Advances in Practical Multi-Agent Systems; Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Agent-based influence maintenance in social networks; 16th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2017)
An efficient task allocation protocol for P2P multi-agent systems; 2009 IEEE International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing with Applications
An entropy-based class assignment detection approach for RDF data; 15th Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence
An evoked potential-guided deep learning brain representation for visual classification; 27th International Conference on Neural Information Processing
An innovative approach for ad hoc network establishment in disaster environments by the deployment of wireless mobile agents; ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems
An ontology-based knowledge management framework for a distributed water information system; Journal of Hydroinformatics
Applications of artificial intelligence to aid early detection of dementia: a scoping review on current capabilities and future directions; Journal of Biomedical Informatics
Automated class correction and enrichment in the Semantic Web; Journal of Web Semantics
Automated Influence Maintenance in Social Networks: An Agent-based Approach; IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
Avoiding the opportunist: the role of Simmelian ties in fostering the trust in sensor-cloud networks; International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks
BeeAE: effective aspect term extraction with artificial bee colony; The Journal of Supercomputing
Capability-aware trust evaluation model in multi-agent systems; 14th Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (PRICAI 2016)
Case-based trust evaluation from provenance information; 10th International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications
Community discovery for knowledge collaborations in collective intelligence systems; Journal of Information Processing
Comprehensive influence propagation modelling for hybrid social network; 29th Australasian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI 2016): Advances in Artificial Intelligence
Context-aware influence diffusion in online social networks; 2019 Pacific Rim Knowledge Acquisition Workshop (PKAW 2019)
Context-aware recommendation system using graph-based behaviours analysis; Journal of Systems Science and Systems Engineering
Coordination for dynamic weighted task allocation in disaster environments with time, space and communication constraints; Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing
Correlated contribution analysis for service composition in dynamic environments; 10th IEEE International Conference on Services Computing
Data Provenance and Data Management in eScience; Springer
Differences in clinical manifestations of late onset, compared to earlier onset essential tremor: a scoping review; Journal of the neurological sciences
Discovery of core-nodes in event-based social networks; 6th International Conference on Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery
Distributed consensus-based routing protocol with multiple mobile sinks support for wireless sensor network; IET Wireless Sensor Systems
Dynamic source weight computation for truth inference over data streams; 18th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent Systems (AAMAS 2019)
Dynamic task allocation for heterogeneous agents in disaster environments under time, space and communication constraints; Computer Journal
Dynamic team forming in self-interested multi-agent systems; 8th Australian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI2005)
Effective methods for generating collision free paths for multiple robots based on collision type (Demonstration); AAMAS 12: International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems
Empirical evaluation of deep learning-based travel time prediction; 2019 Pacific Rim Knowledge Acquisition Workshop (PKAW 2019)
Enhance trust management in composite services with indirect ratings; The Computer Journal
Entity similarity-based negative sampling for knowledge graph embedding; 19th Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence PRICAI 2022,
Flexible negotiation modeling by using colored Petri nets; Journal of Information Technology Research
GAC: A deep reinforcement learning model toward user incentivization in unknown social networks; Knowledge-Based Systems
Game theory based compatible incentive mechanism design for non-cryptocurrency blockchain systems; Journal of Industrial Information Integration
Graph-based joint pandemic concern and relation extraction on Twitter; Expert Systems With Applications
GreenCommute: an influence-aware persuasive recommendation approach for public-friendly commute options; Journal of Systems Science and Systems Engineering
GTrust: An innovated trust model for group services selection in web-based service-oriented environments; 12th International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering (WISE 2011)
Hand tremor detection in videos with cluttered background using neural network based approaches; Health Information Science and Systems
Hierarchical and non-hierarchical multi-agent interactions based on unity reinforcement learning; 19th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems 2020
Incentivizing long-term engagement under limited budget; 16th Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (PRICAI 2019)
Learning policies for effective incentive allocation in unknown social networks; AAMAS '21: 20th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems
Linking Australian Government Data for Sustainability Science - A Case Study; Linking Government Data
Mining context specific inter-personalised trust for recommendation generation in preference networks; 29th Australasian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI 2016): Advances in Artificial Intelligence
Mining semantic association rules from RDF data; Knowledge-Based Systems
Modeling random guessing and task difficulty for truth inference in crowdsourcing; AAMAS'19: 18th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems
Modelling multiple influences diffusion in on-line social networks; 17th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2018)
Modelling multiple influences diffusion in on-line social networks; 17th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2018)
Modern Approaches to Agent-based Complex Automated Negotiation; Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Moving towards intelligent telemedicine: Computer vision measurement of human movement; Computers in Biology and Medicine
Multi-agent and Complex Systems; Springer
New horizons in late-onset essential tremor: a pre-cognitive biomarker of dementia?; Age and Ageing
Novel Insights in Agent-based Complex Automated Negotiation; Springer
On the discovery of continuous truth: a semi-supervised approach with partial ground truths; 2018 International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering
Ontology-based knowledge representation for a P2P multi-agent distributed intrusion detection system; 2008 IFIP International Conference on Network and Parallel Computing
P2P distributed intrusion detections by using mobile agents; 7th International Conference on Computer and Information Science (ICIS 2008)
Preface; Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Preference Aware Influence Maximization; Multi-agent and Complex Systems: Studies in Computational Intelligence
PRICAI 2022: Trends in Artificial Intelligence; Springer Cham
Provenance-based trust estimation for service composition; 26th Australasian Joint Conferenceon Artificial Intelligence (AI 2013)
Real-time automated detection of older adults’ hand gestures in home and clinical settings; Neural Computing and Applications
Self-adjustable trust-based energy efficient routing for smart grid systems; 2012 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conferences on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology
Self-organisation in an agent network via multiagent Q-learning; 11th International Workshop on Knowledge Management and Acquisition for Smart Systems and Services (PKAW 2010)
Semantic similarity of workflow traces with various granularities; Web Information Systems Engineering International Conference (WISE 2016)
SIMiner: a stigmergy-based model for mining influential nodes in dynamic social networks; IEEE Transactions on Big Data
Simmelian ties and structural holes: Exploring their topological roles in forming trust for securing wireless sensor networks; 2015 IEEE Trustcom/BigDataSE/ISPA Conference
Simulating and Modeling Dual Market Segmentation Using PSA Framework; Multi-agent and Complex Systems: Studies in Computational Intelligence
Smart Modeling and Simulation for Complex Systems: Practice and Theory; Springer Japan
Social influence minimization based on context-aware multiple influences diffusion model; Knowledge-Based Systems
Stigmergic modeling for web service composition and adaptation; 12th Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (PRICAI 2012)
Stigmergy-based influence maximization in social networks; 14th Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (PRICAI 2016)
SWARM: An approach for mining semantic association rules from semantic web data; 14th Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (PRICAI 2016)
Task-based wireless mobile agents search and deployment for ad hoc network establishment in disaster environments; 13th Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (PRICAI 2014)
TasTest: moving towards a digital screening test for pre-clinical Alzheimer’s disease; Biomarkers
The role of knowledge graph on responsible AI realization: research opportunities, gaps and challenges; Computer
The TAS Test project: a prospective longitudinal validation of new online motor-cognitive tests to detect preclinical Alzheimer’s disease and estimate 5-year risks of cognitive decline and dementia; BMC Neurology
TIGER: A trust-based intelligent geographical energy-aware routing for smart grid communication networks; 12th IEEE International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications
Towards exposing cyberstalkers in online social networks; 14th Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (PRICAI 2016)
Trust management for composite services in distributed multi-agent systems with indirect ratings; AAMAS '16: International Conference on Agents and Multiagent Systems
Trust-based adaptive routing for smart grid systems; Journal of Information Processing
Trust-based geographical routing for smart grid communication networks; 3rd International Conference on Smart Grid Communications (SmartGridComm 2012)
Trust-based service provider selection in service-oriented environments; International Journal of Computer Science and Network Security
Trustworthy stigmergic service composition and adaptation in decentralized environments; IEEE Transactions on Services Computing
Two mathematical programming-based approaches for wireless mobile robot deployment in disaster environments; The Computer Journal
Using colored petri nets to predict future states in agent-based scheduling and planning systems; Multiagent and Grid Systems

Research Projects

Data fusion and machine learning for ship fuel efficiency analysis: a small but essential step towards green shipping through data analytics; International Association of Maritime Universities (IAMU)
Development of a non-invasive screening test to detect risk of Alzheimer's disease pathology; Royal Hobart Hospital Research Foundation (RHHRF)
Investigation into Dynamic Reallocation of Computing Resources; Lockheed Martin Australia Pty Ltd (LMA)
Sustainable Knowledge Model Towards Responsible AI; CSIRO-Commonwealth Scientific & Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO)
The future in our hands: Screening for preclinical Alzheimer's disease by analysing hand movements; National Health & Medical Research Council (NHMRC)
Virtual Database for Antarctic Data Management
Virtual Database for Cloud-Based Data Services study

Research Candidate Supervision