Griffith algorithms improve brain disorder diagnosis
Associate Professor Alan Liew from the School of Information and Communication Technology is featured on Channel 9 News for his groundbreaking research which can help diagnose sleeping disorders and brain conditions. Associate Professor Alan Liew has been working on computational algorithms which are important in the clinical diagnosis of conditions such as Alzheimers and Parkinsons Disease.
Dr Malte Helmert wins award
Malte Helmert, was awarded a Marie Curie fellowship to spend 1-2 years at ANU, he co-supervises one of our NICTA PhD scholars at Griffith jointly with Professor Abdul Sattar, has been awarded the IJCAI Computers and Thought Award for his fundamental contributions to the theory and practice in automated planning and combinatorial search. This is the most prestigious under 35 award in Artificial Intelligence.
Prof. R. Geoff Dromey Foundation and the Scholarship Fund
The establishment of the Prof. R. Geoff Dromey Foundation and the Scholarship Fund was announced at the recent ISSEC Conference. Spearheaded by Angela Tuffley, the Foundation's objective will be to facilitate industry focused applied academic research to advance and improve systems and software engineering capability.
The foundation will be seeking affiliations from industry and academic institutions. Industry Affiliates will determine the research agenda and academic affiliates will apply to conduct the research through funding for Research Higher Degree Students. The foundation has been established as a charity with the ATO and all donations are fully tax deductible. Additional funding to the foundation will be provided through profits earned by the newly established Systems and Software Quality Institute, a collective of consultants providing systems and software engineering services to industry.
Through the IIIS, Griffith University will become the first academic affiliate of the Prof R. Geoff Dromey Foundation in recognition Geoff's outstanding contribution to software engineering whilst at the university 7/09/2010
Best Paper Award
Congratulations to Nathan Robinson, Charles Gretton, Duc Nghia Pham, Abdul Sattar for their PRICAI 2010 best paper prize.
Partial Weighted MaxSAT for Optimal Planning (PDF 299kb)
Special Track to honour Prof. Geoff Dromey's memory
A special track was held in memory of Professor Geoff Dromey at the 8th IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering and Formal Methods in Pisa, Italy 6-10th September 2010 to acknowledge his ground breaking work and research in Behaviour Trees. Dr Daniel Powell was invited to attend and present his paper. Behaviour Engineering - A Scalable Modeling and Analysis Method. 02/09/2010
Teaching Robots
Feature Article - Qld Government, Department of Employment, Economic, Development and Innovation
- Soccer teaches social skills to robots 21/07/2010.
ACPHIS Doctoral Thesis Award
Dr Kaylene Clayton of the Institute for Integrated and Intelligent Systems is the winner of the 2010 thesis competition with Australian Council of Professors and Heads of Information Systems (ACPHIS). “This thesis was the unanimous choice as the best Australian Information Systems PhD for 2008/2009. Dr Kaylene Clayton's thesis was notable for both its topic and, in particular, for her methodology - which was innovative and very well carried-out.” Congratulations Kaylene. 10/11/09
Top quality publication
Dr Shah Miah recently presented his work at the 2009 Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS 2009) - one of the top three conferences in the world in Information Systems, and recognised as a Tier A publication for ERA by the ARC. Professor Gordon Davis, who founded the field of Management Information Systems in 1967, attended Shah's talk, asking 4 questions, and inviting him to lunch afterwards with other major figures in the discipline. To be accepted at the leading edge of the emerging area of "tailorable systems" is great recognition for one of our early career researchers and Dr Miah will now continue his research with senior figures in this international network. 2009
Best Paper Award
Shah Jahan Miah has received the Best Paper award at "IEEE International Conference on Digital Ecosystems and Technologies held in Istanbul, Turkey 31st May - 3rd June 2009. His paper titled "Mashup Technologies for Building End-user Enabled Business Portal" is listed to be published in IEEE Transaction on Industrial Electronics. 10/06/09
Paper citations
Randall M. and Lewis, A., "A Parallel Implementation of Ant Colony Optimization", Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, 62:1421-1432 (2002). This paper in September 2007, was the 14th most cited paper in the Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing to that date. The paper was in the top 25 papers for that journal from April 2006 to September 2007. The information is from Scopus. 09/07
Conrad Sanderson and Kuldip Paliwal received the "most cited paper" award, as
published in the DSP journal. Science Direct, Journal 08/06/07
Second Time Gold Medal Award for IIIS-NICTA Project
For the 2nd time in a row - Sat solver (gNovelty+) (developed by Duc Nghia Pham and Charles Gretton) won first place in the 2007 SAT competition (Held in Lisbon, Portugal) for the Random SAT category. Congratulations team. 08/06/07
Distinguished Paper
Congratulations to Duc-Nghia Pham, Abdul Sattar, John Thornton, 839 "Building Structure into Local Search for SAT" was selected as one of three papers selected as Distinguished Papers of IJCAI'07. 12/11/06
Outstanding Achievement by International Student
Sankalp Khanna, a PhD Student at Griffith’s University’s Institute for Integrated and intelligent Systems, was announced as the Winner of the “Outstanding Achievement by an International student” category in the prestigious QLD Government “Celebrating International Education and Training Industry Showcase 2006”. The showcase was designed to recognise and reward outstanding achievements in Queensland's international education and training industry and attracted nominations from all schools, universities and other CRICOS registered providers in QLD. Sankalp came to Griffith as in International Student in 2002. Even before graduating at the top of his class with a GPA of 7.0, Sankalp was offered, and commenced, a teaching position at the University. He is currently pursuing a PhD with a prestigious scholarship from the E-Health Research Centre, a joint venture between CSIRO and the Queensland Government. 12/09/06
Gold Medal for NICTA-IIIS Project
Software by NICTA researchers and their collaborators took out first place in one of the major divisions of the SAT-2005 competition held in St Andrews, Scotland in June. SAT is the most basic part of logic, and solvers for it represent a core technology for artificial intelligence. The competition challenges programs to solve logical problems of the kind involved in reasoning about digital circuits.
The team included Dr Anbulagan and Prof John Slaney from NICTA’s Logic and Computation research program, and Mr Duc Nghia Pham and Prof Abdul Sattar from Griffith University’s Institute for Integrated and Intelligent Systems, now associated with NICTA Queensland. NICTA News Issue 03