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DTSTART:20090212T000000
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SUMMARY:Information Hiding in Audio and Image Signals for Watermarking, Steganography and Covert Communication Applications.
LOCATION:Building: 26, Room: 135, Clayton Campus
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DTSTART:20090220T000000
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SUMMARY:Is the missing axiom of matroid theory lost forever?
LOCATION:Building: 63, Room: 115, Clayton Campus
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DTSTART:20090220T000000
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CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:Enhance learning of programming with less work!
LOCATION:Room H7.84, Building H, Level 7, Caulfield Campus
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20090224T000000
DTEND:20090225T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:MURPA Seminar - Project Outcomes of Undergraduate Research Visit to UCSD 2008
LOCATION:Building: 26, Room: 135, (via HD interactive video) Clayton Campus to UCSD
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20090310T000000
DTEND:20090311T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:PUBLIC SEMINAR - EWAN BIRNEY TOUR: BIOINFORMATICS FOR THE FUTURE
LOCATION:Lecture theatre SGO1, Building 11, Clayton Campus
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20090311T000000
DTEND:20090312T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:What do you do with a problem like Web 2.0?
LOCATION:Building: 26, Room: 135
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20090312T000000
DTEND:20090313T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:MURPA Seminar -  Benefiting Society through Information Technology: Why Changes in Education are Needed
LOCATION:Building: 26, Room: 135, Clayton Campus
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20090319T000000
DTEND:20090320T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:MURPA Seminar 2/2009: Harnessing the Data Deluge
LOCATION:Building: 26, Room: 135, Clayton Campus
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20090325T000000
DTEND:20090326T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:Expanding the knowledge acquisition bottleneck for Intelligent Tutoring Systems (video available)
LOCATION:Building: 26, Room: 135, Clayton Campus
DESCRIPTION:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20090326T000000
DTEND:20090327T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:MURPA Seminar 3/2009: On Basics of Using Workflows for Scientific Exploration and the Kepler System
LOCATION:Building: 26, Room: 135, Clayton Campus (via HD Interactive Video)
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20090402T000000
DTEND:20090403T000000
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SUMMARY:MURPA Seminar 4/2009 - Multi Scale Modelling of the Cardio System
LOCATION:Building: 26, Room: 135, Clayton Campus (via HD Interactive Video)
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20090403T000000
DTEND:20090404T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:HDR Workshop hosted by the Faculty of IT at Clayton Campus
LOCATION:Building: 26, Room: 135, Clayton Campus
DESCRIPTION:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20090407T000000
DTEND:20090408T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:Gippsland School of IT Seminar Series - Isolation Forest for anomaly detection
LOCATION:Building: 4N, Room: 251, Gippsland Campus
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20090409T000000
DTEND:20090410T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:MURPA Seminar - Introduction to the PRAGMA eScience grid
LOCATION:Building: 26, Room: 135, Clayton Campus
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20090421T000000
DTEND:20090422T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:An Energy-Efficient Clustering Scheme for Wireless Sensor Networks
LOCATION:Building: 4N, Room: 251, Gippsland Campus
DESCRIPTION:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20090422T000000
DTEND:20090423T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:Semantic distance measures with distributional profiles (video available)
LOCATION:Building: 26, Room: 135, Clayton Campus
DESCRIPTION:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20090423T000000
DTEND:20090424T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:Integration of machine learning approaches in avian flu drug discovery workflows
LOCATION:Building: 26, Room: 135, Clayton Campus
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20090428T000000
DTEND:20090429T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:Memetic algorithm for ab initio protein structure prediction in low resolution model
LOCATION:Building: 4N, Room: 251, Gippsland Campus
DESCRIPTION:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20090430T000000
DTEND:20090501T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:MURPA Seminar 7/2009: User-defined Clusters - Introduction to the Rocks Cluster Toolkit : Merging Clouds and Clusters
LOCATION:Building: 26, Room: 135, Clayton Campus (via HD Interactive Video)
DESCRIPTION:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20090430T000000
DTEND:20090501T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:Teaching Workshop No. 3 - Title: The what and how of peer review
LOCATION:Venue H7.84 Caulfield Campus Marratech: FIT Public rooms-FIT Seminar room (Caulfield) 7.84
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20090507T000000
DTEND:20090508T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:MURPA Seminar 8/2009: Exploring OptIPortals as Petascale Simulation End Stations
LOCATION:Building: 26, Room: 135, Clayton Campus (via HD Interactive Video)
DESCRIPTION:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20090507T000000
DTEND:20090508T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:The Higher Degree by Research Seminar, Department of Management
LOCATION:Building: N, Room: 121, Caulfield Campus
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20090514T000000
DTEND:20090515T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:MURPA Seminar 9/2009 Can a Greener Internet Help Us Moderate Climate Change?
LOCATION:Building: 26, Room: 135, Clayton via HD Video from UCSD
DESCRIPTION:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20090519T000000
DTEND:20090520T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:Congestion Control and Reliability in Wireless Sensor Networks
LOCATION:Building: 4N, Room: 251, Gippsland Campus
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20090521T000000
DTEND:20090522T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:MURPA Seminar: New Approaches to Data-Driven Publication in (Biomedical) Science (under auspices of VeRSI and Monash eResearch Centre)
LOCATION:Building: 26, Room: 135, Clayton Campus and potentially HD Video to UCSD
DESCRIPTION:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20090521T000000
DTEND:20090522T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:Teaching Workshop No. 4: Unit Guides - What are they good for? (Postponed to 04/06/2009)
LOCATION:Venue H7.84 Caulfield Campus  Marratech: FIT Public rooms-FIT Seminar room (Caulfield) 7.84
DESCRIPTION:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20090528T000000
DTEND:20090530T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:GPU Computing Workshop 2009 (Clayton Campus)
LOCATION:Thursday 28th - S12 (Clayton Campus) and Friday 29th - Lab G11, Bldg 60
DESCRIPTION:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20090603T000000
DTEND:20090604T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:An Information Theoretic Approach to Analysing GWAS Data (video available)
LOCATION:Building: 26, Seminar room 135, Clayton campus
DESCRIPTION:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20090604T000000
DTEND:20090605T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:Teaching Workshop No. 4: Unit Guides - What are they good for?
LOCATION:Venue H7.84 Caulfield Campus  Marratech: FIT Public rooms-FIT Seminar room (Caulfield) 7.84
DESCRIPTION:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20090610T000000
DTEND:20090611T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:Punctuated Equilibrium in an ALife speciation simulation
LOCATION:Building: 26, Room: 135, Clayton Campus
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20090611T000000
DTEND:20090612T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:Teaching Workshop #5: Unit Evaluations - What do they really measure?
LOCATION:Venue H7.84 Caulfield Campus   Marratech: FIT Public rooms-FIT Seminar room (Caulfield) 7.84
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20090617T000000
DTEND:20090618T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:Monash eResearch Centre: Visualisation half-day workshop
LOCATION:Building: 26, Room: 135, Clayton Campus
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20090626T000000
DTEND:20090627T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:CERG/COSI Seminar Announcement - Exploring the education research implications of the SocioCybernetic paradigm shift in educational systems
LOCATION:Location: Room H7.84, Building H, Level 7, Caulfield
DESCRIPTION:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20090626T000000
DTEND:20090627T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:DSSE Seminar: User-centric application mobility
LOCATION:Seminar Room H784 at Caulfield Campus
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20090701T000000
DTEND:20090702T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:A Scalable, Distributed and Real Time Pattern Recognition
LOCATION:Building: 26, Room: 135, Clayton Campus
DESCRIPTION:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20090701T000000
DTEND:20090702T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:Punctuated Equilibrium in an ALife speciation simulation (video available)
LOCATION:Building: 26, Room: 135, Clayton campus
DESCRIPTION:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20090715T000000
DTEND:20090716T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:An EOQ Model For Items With Price Dependent Demand
LOCATION:Building: 26, Room: 135, Clayton Campus
DESCRIPTION:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20090723T000000
DTEND:20090724T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:MURPA/VERSI Seminar Series 2009
LOCATION:Building: 26, Room: 135, Clayton Campus
DESCRIPTION:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20090723T000000
DTEND:20090724T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:"The Attention Economy"
LOCATION:Building: H, Room: 7.84, Caulfield Campus
DESCRIPTION:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20090731T000000
DTEND:20090801T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:Introduction to life science computing in Victoria and the VLSCI
LOCATION:Building: 26, Seminar Room 135, Clayton campus (by video from Melbourne University)
DESCRIPTION:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20090807T000000
DTEND:20090808T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:Proteins are Bridges Over Interfaces - On the Dynamics of Proteins at Surfaces
LOCATION:Building: 26, Room: 135, Clayton campus
DESCRIPTION:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20090814T000000
DTEND:20090815T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:The Future Bioeconomy and Human Health
LOCATION:Building: 26, Room: 135, Clayton Campus
DESCRIPTION:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20090814T000000
DTEND:20090815T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:The Performativity of Records
LOCATION:Building: H, Room: 7.84, Caulfield Campus
DESCRIPTION:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20090818T000000
DTEND:20090819T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:Sensible Organization: a research agenda for complex and diverse IS ecologies
LOCATION:Building: H, Room: 7.84, Caulfield campus
DESCRIPTION:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20090819T000000
DTEND:20090820T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:A survey of Tutte-Whitney polynomials (video available)
LOCATION:Building: 26, Seminar Room 135, Clayton campus
DESCRIPTION:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20090820T000000
DTEND:20090821T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:UCSD Students under PRIME research exchange program
LOCATION:Building: 26, Room: 135, Clayton Campus
DESCRIPTION:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20090821T000000
DTEND:20090822T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:Exploring the education research implications of the SocioCybernetic paradigm shift in educational systems
LOCATION:Room H7.84, Building H, Level 7, Caulfield Campus
DESCRIPTION:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20090825T000000
DTEND:20090826T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:Spectrum Mobility Modeling for Delay Sensitive Traffic in Cognitive Radio Networks
LOCATION:Venue: 4N-251, Gippsland Campus
DESCRIPTION:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20090826T000000
DTEND:20090827T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:Characterizations and algorithms for topological containment of wheel graphs
LOCATION:Building: 26, Seminar room 135, Clayton campus
DESCRIPTION:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20090831T000000
DTEND:20090901T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:CRIS Seminar Series
LOCATION:Building: 63, Room: 115, Clayton Campus
DESCRIPTION:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20090902T000000
DTEND:20090903T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:Orthogonal connector routing
LOCATION:Building: 26, Room: 135, Clayton Campus
DESCRIPTION:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20090904T000000
DTEND:20090905T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:VERSI Life Science Seminar: Development of Pharmacogenomic Classifier Models for Epilepsy Treatment Outcomes
LOCATION:Building: 26, Room: 135, Clayton Campus
DESCRIPTION:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20090918T000000
DTEND:20090919T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:VERSI Seminar: Quantum Chemistry: from atoms to proteins and beyond.  How accurate can we get?
LOCATION:Building: 26, Room: 135, Clayton Campus
DESCRIPTION:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20090924T000000
DTEND:20090925T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:A novel algorithm for alignment of genomes (video available)
LOCATION:Building: 26, Room: 135, Clayton Campus
DESCRIPTION:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20090925T000000
DTEND:20090926T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:VERSI Life Science Seminar: Genomic Data Analysis of Ovarian Cancer
LOCATION:Building: 26, Seminar Room 135, Clayton campus
DESCRIPTION:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20091002T000000
DTEND:20091003T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:HDR Workshop hosted by the Faculty of IT at Caulfield Campus
LOCATION:Building: H, Kitchen on 7th Floor then going to Lecture Theatre Level 2.37, at Caulfield Campus
DESCRIPTION:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20091002T000000
DTEND:20091003T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:Cardiac Modelling Workshop
LOCATION:Building: 26, Seminar Room 135, Clayton campus
DESCRIPTION:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20091007T000000
DTEND:20091008T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:An EOQ Model For Items With Price Dependent Demand (video available)
LOCATION:Building: 26, Room: 135, Clayton School of IT, Monash
DESCRIPTION:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20091007T000000
DTEND:20091008T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:Using MRNet and StackwalkerAPI to deliver scalable analysis of crashing applications on Cray XT Systems
LOCATION:Building: H, Room: 7.84,
DESCRIPTION:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20091008T000000
DTEND:20091009T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:Addressing Usability Challenges in Current and Future Supercomputers
LOCATION:Building: H, Room: 7.84,
DESCRIPTION:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20091008T000000
DTEND:20091009T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:Seeing how students really err: Data mining the Grade Grinder corpus (video available)
LOCATION:Building: 26, Room: 135, Clayton Campus
DESCRIPTION:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20091009T000000
DTEND:20091010T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:VERSI Seminar: High Throughput Computing for Biological Sciences: Tools and Techniques
LOCATION:Building: 26, Room: 135, Clayton Campus
DESCRIPTION:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20091014T000000
DTEND:20091015T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:Semi-Naive Bayesian Classification
LOCATION:Building: 26, Room: 135, Clayton Campus
DESCRIPTION:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20091016T000000
DTEND:20091017T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:Algorithmic Challenges of High Throughput Sequencing
LOCATION:Building: 26, Room: 135, Clayton campus
DESCRIPTION:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20091021T000000
DTEND:20091022T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:The evolution of heroes: social selection in dynamic social networks (video available)
LOCATION:Building: 26, Room: 135,
DESCRIPTION:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20091023T000000
DTEND:20091024T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:VERSI Seminar: Gas phase chemistry of some biologically relevant molecules
LOCATION:Broadcast to Building: 26, Room: 135, Clayton Campus and Building: H, Room: 7.17, Caulfield Campus
DESCRIPTION:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20091029T000000
DTEND:20091030T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:HDV seminar: Software Studies at the Center for Research in Computing and the Arts (CRCA), University of California San Diego (UCSD)
LOCATION:Building: 26, Room: 135, Clayton campus
DESCRIPTION:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20091030T000000
DTEND:20091031T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:VERSI Seminar: Patterns of Bacterial turbulence
LOCATION:Building: 26, Room: 135, Clayton campus
DESCRIPTION:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20091030T000000
DTEND:20091031T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:Sensor Data Stream Management Systems
LOCATION:Building: H, Room: H7.84, Caulfield Campus
DESCRIPTION:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20091103T000000
DTEND:20091104T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:Rapid and reliable specification, execution,and management of large-scale science and engineering workflows
LOCATION:Building: H, Room: 7.81, Caulfield campus
DESCRIPTION:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20091104T000000
DTEND:20091105T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:Understanding What Makes an Optimisation Problem Difficult by Learning from Evolved Instances (video available)
LOCATION:Building: 26, Room: 135, Clayton campus
DESCRIPTION:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20091105T000000
DTEND:20091106T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:Sensors Data Stream Management: Theory and System Demonstration
LOCATION:Building: H, Room: H7.84, Caulfield Campus
DESCRIPTION:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20091106T000000
DTEND:20091107T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:VERSI Computational Life Science Systems seminar: Biology for Drug Discovery - on-line from Latrobe University
LOCATION:Building: 26, Room: 135, Clayton Campus
DESCRIPTION:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20091110T000000
DTEND:20091111T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:Grid Middleware and Data Management:Overview of Next Globus Toolkit Release (G5)and also Falkon
LOCATION:Building: H, Room: 7.84, Caulfield Campus
DESCRIPTION:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20091111T000000
DTEND:20091112T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:Natural Language Interaction in a Mobile Grocery Assistant (video available)
LOCATION:Building: 26, Room: 135, Clayton Campus
DESCRIPTION:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20091118T000000
DTEND:20091119T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:Decreasingly naive Bayes: Aggregating n-dependence estimators (video available)
LOCATION:Building: 26, Room: 135, Clayton campus
DESCRIPTION:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20091125T000000
DTEND:20091126T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:Read the Web: Toward Never-Ending Language Learning
LOCATION:Building: 26, Room: 135, Clayton Campus
DESCRIPTION:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20091209T000000
DTEND:20091210T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:Creative Exploration of Ecosystem Models in Music and Art
LOCATION:Building: 26, Room: 135, Clayton Campus
DESCRIPTION:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20080109T000000
DTEND:20080110T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:Learning structural archetypes from a set of graphs
LOCATION:Building: 72, Room: 210, Clayton Campus
DESCRIPTION:In this talk we will present preliminary work on the problem of learning with data abstracted in terms of a structural representation and inferring archetypal structural models from examples. The proposed approach is based on the definition of a probability space on graph-space by defining a parametric generative model for graphs. The distribution of observed nodes in each graph is assumed to be governed by a Bernoulli distribution. In this context, the correspondences between node in a sample graph and nodes in the archetype is not known and must be estimated from local structure as part of the inference process. However, we will show tat the process of sampling from the graph-distribution can be turned into one of performing a series of edit operations on the graph. Hence, allowing for the use of standard graph matching algorithms in the inference rocedure. Further, we will show how an importance sampling approach can be used to marginalize the observation probability over the set of all possible correspondences.\n
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20080121T000000
DTEND:20080122T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:Context Tutorial
LOCATION:Seminar Room H7.84 Level 7 Building H Caulfield
DESCRIPTION:In rapidly changing scenarios, such as the ones considered in the\nfields of mobile, pervasive, or ubiquitous computing, systems have to adapt their behavior based on the current conditions and the dynamicity of the environment they are inmersed in. Moreover, users should not have the burden to manually configure or confirm adaptations, so that automatic solutions for these problems are needed. In order to function according to a user's expectation, these systems have to consider the situation, activity, state, etc. of the user and all other relevant entities. Such information is commonly refered to as context. This tutorial provides an overview of context definitions, approaches to model and manage context information, and the use of context information in context-aware applications.\n
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20080122T000000
DTEND:20080123T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:System Support for Pervasive Computing
LOCATION:Seminar Room H7.84, Level 7 Building H Caulfield
DESCRIPTION:In the vision of Pervasive Computing computers pervade\nour daily environment - mostly as embedded systems that\naugment our surrounding. Applications can utilize a\nnumber of services that are available in the physical\nproximity in order to offer their users services tailored\nto their current context. Due to mobility and effects, such as power saving, services will fluctuate. Applications have to adapt to compensate fluctuations as well as make use of "better" services that become available.\n
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20080130T000000
DTEND:20080131T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:Experiences of University Archives
LOCATION:Lecture Theatre HB32, Building H, Caulfield Campus
DESCRIPTION:Visiting archivist, Silvia Nolla, will describe experiences in the management of historical archives and contemporary records in universities, especially the use of the international standard for records management ISO15489.\nSilvia Nolla i Lacruz is the Head of Organization and Quality Service at the University of Barcelona, Spain. She is responsible for management of recordkeeping and the historical archives of the University as well as overseeing a pilot implementation of ISO15489 International Standard – Records Management. Mrs Nolla has been involved with projects in e-administration and management of academic resources. She has degrees in political science and quality and is undertaking a PhD in information and documentation in the digital age. She lectures in the Department of Library and Documentation at the University of Barcelona.\n
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20080201T000000
DTEND:20080202T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:Advanced Technical  Presentation Techniques
LOCATION:Building: 63, C1 Lecture Theatre Clayton
DESCRIPTION:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20080205T000000
DTEND:20080206T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:Abduction of Constraints
LOCATION:Building: 63, Room: 115, Clayton Campus
DESCRIPTION:Abduction is the logical operation of inferring a "cause" from an "effect" and background knowledge.Often this problem is addressed in the context of partially defined predicates that are further defined by abduction.\nI have been looking at the problem for fully defined predicates (i.e. constraints).This has potential application to a variety of problems, including type inference, query answering using views, and analysis of concurrent constraint programs.I will discuss the problem of finitely representing and computing answers to abduction problems over several constraint domains.
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20080212T000000
DTEND:20080213T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:Quality of Service in SOA: A Dynamic Management Approach for Complex Service Delivery
LOCATION:Emirates Building: Seminar Facility Centre for Innovation & Technology Commercialisation Innovation@257 Collins Street, Melbourne
DESCRIPTION:The assurance of quality-of-service (QoS) is critical for the successful deployment of service-oriented applications, especially in open, dynamic and distributed cross-organisational environments. In this talk I will address the adaptive management of the QoS assured provision of composite services as required for more reliable, fault-tolerant and flexible service delivery in such environments.\n\nAfter an overview of the current state and trends in QoS management, I will present a framework for seamless QoS management across the whole lifecycle of composite service provision. It includes composition planning, service level agreement (SLA) negotiation and contracting, service enactment and QoS monitoring, and exception handling to ensure the required end-to-end QoS of a composite service. The reference architecture of an adaptive management platform realised with web services and software agents will be outlined and demonstrated with an application scenario of on-demand logistic services. In concluding remarks I’ll discuss some open problems and further R&D directions in that area. 
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20080214T000000
DTEND:20080215T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:Multiscale Imaging of the Nervous System
LOCATION:M3 Lecture Theatre, Building 13A, Clayton Campus
DESCRIPTION:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20080215T000000
DTEND:20080216T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:Integrating Neuroscience Knowledge: Brain Research in the Digital Age
LOCATION:M3 Lecture Theatre, Building 13A, Clayton Campus
DESCRIPTION:Covering a consolidated strategy for integrating neuroscience data by providing a multi-scale structural or spatial scaffold on which existing and accruing elements of neuroscience knowledge can be located and relationships explored from any network-linked computer
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20080229T000000
DTEND:20080301T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:Latest Advances in Distributed Resource Application Management Tools
LOCATION:Building: H, Level 7, Room: 84, Caulfield Campus
DESCRIPTION:A key component of grid testbeds is a local resource management system (RMS)\noffering job submission, monitoring and in some cases more advanced reservations features. However, for years RMSs have provided either only proprietary script based interfaces for appli- cation integration or nothing at all, in which case, the command-line interface was used. Consequently, there were no standard mechanisms for programmers to integrate both grid middleware services and applications with local resource management systems. Thanks to Open Grid Forum and its Distributed Resource Management Application API (DRMAA) working group which has released the DRMAA 1.0 specification that offers a standardized API for application integration with C, Java, Perl and Python bindings. Today, DRMAA implementations that adopt the latest specification version are availale for many local resource management systems such as SGE, Condor, PBSPro, and LSF and other systems e.g. GridWay or Apple Xgrid. The DRMAA specification not only\noffers a standard way for job submission but also allows users to easily describe\nparameter sweep applications as so called bulk jobs which fits perfectly into\nNimrod-G infrastructure. In the recent project, in the international testbed\nwe have created, we have decided to adopt DRMAA as a layer between applications\nand RMSs. Moreover, we have used Open DRMAA Service Provider (OpenDSP)\nimplementation of SOAP Web Service multi-user access and policy-based job control using DRMAA routines implemented by RMS. As a lightweigt software,\nmuch more reliable and efficient than any existing middleware (including gLite and GT4),\nOpenDSP allows an easy remote access to computing resources and based on standard Web Services technology integrates well with higher level grid middleware services. It uses a request-response based communication pro- tocol using standard JSDL XML and SOAP schemas protected by transport level security mechanisms such as SSL/TLS, GSI and SAML2.0. However, neither DRMAA nor OpenDSP provided standard advanced reservation and resource synchronization APIs required by cross-domain parallel applications implemented in OpenMPI and ProActive.\nTherefore, we have extended DRMAA and proposed standard advance reservation APIs which fit to different APIs of some underlying RMSs such as\nSGE, LSF and PBSPro. Consequently, we are able to synchronize resources\nin different domains and launch large scale both parameter sweep and parallel applications.\n
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20080303T000000
DTEND:20080304T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:Dr Peter Murray-Rust: Open Access to Science Data
LOCATION:Lecture Theatre L4, Building 12 Clayton
DESCRIPTION:The main message is that we are being driven towards knowledge-driven science rather than data-driven science. The speaker will also give case studies related to small-molecule chemistry
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20080303T000000
DTEND:20080304T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:Ass Prof Peter Exel Nielsen: Social Network Analysis: A Case from Improving a Systems Development Organisation
LOCATION:Building: H, Room: 7.84, Caulfield Campus
DESCRIPTION:Improving small systems development organisations is often problematic. Communication and knowledge sharing is more informal and we need to appreciate this to overcome these problems. In this talk I will report from an action case study where we have analysed social networks to understand a small organisation's internal communication and knowledge sharing. In the talk I will illustrate how social network analysis can be done and how network models can be used to further improvement efforts.\n
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20080304T000000
DTEND:20080305T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:Mr. Swee-Chuan Tan: A study of the performance of an ant-based clustering algorithm in relation to its components
LOCATION:Building: 4N, Room: 251, Gippsland Campus
DESCRIPTION:Recent works in ant-based clustering have shown promising results, but how different parts of an algorithm contribute to clustering performance remains elusive. This understanding is not only required for justifying the most appropriate system configuration, but also important for subsequent extensions of the model in future research. This paper provides a thorough investigation of a recently proposed model named ATTA. Controlled experiments are performed to elucidate the effects of various components in ATTA. Experimental results indicate that several key components in ATTA can be simplified or even removed without compromising clustering quality and runtime. Further analysis provide the possible reasons why the redundant components were included in ATTA in the first place. 
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20080304T000000
DTEND:20080305T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:Critical features of information practices for learning purposes
LOCATION:Seminar Room, H7.84 Caulfield Campus
DESCRIPTION:The talk will draw on findings from a series of studies on the interaction between information seeking and learning. The studies have been conducted in school settings at all educational levels from elementary to upper secondary. They have adopted either a learning or a teaching perspective, and the combination of findings shape understandings of some critical features of teaching and learning via information. An argument is proposed for strengthening the relationship between the areas of information seeking and information literacy. Finally, further research will be introduced as one major theme of the research programme of The Linnaeus Centre for research on Learning, Interaction and Mediated Communication in Contemporary Society.\n
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20080305T000000
DTEND:20080306T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:Strategy in an uncertain world: game theory, complexity and agent based computation - or a first look at really using "real options"!
LOCATION:Building: 26, Room: 135, Clayton Campus
DESCRIPTION:Business executives constantly wrestle with attempts at quantifying the returns to different strategies in an ‘uncertain’ world. Moreover, the uncertainty lies in a ‘parametric’ sense  along multiple dimensions (some exogenous and some endogenous to our representative agents), and in evaluating the merits of one option over another, the future states of the world will matter a lot. What this means is that standard project evaluation tools need to be appropriately augmented to reflect the different forms of uncertainty. Managers have long (intuitively) understood the value of flexibility and options. The ability to parlay a broad understanding into analytically rigourous methodologies that provide some basis for decision rules around investment and other strategic options is however, relatively new. In particular, traditional finance models predicated on DCF (discounted cash flows) and standard NPV (net present value) structures fail to adequately capture the ‘value’ in flexibility. Recourse to options pricing methodologies from finance have enabled firms to recognise that as with financial options, real investment decisions can be considered as ‘options’ over future decisions. Thus, what the new methodology enables, in principle, is a valuation of that very managerial flexibility.  This is related to, but more than, simply acknowledging the value of ‘future-proofing’. \nRecent advances in economic theory (particularly the fields of game theory, information economics and experimental economics) coupled with computational methods that now allow very complex algorithms to run in the blink of an eye, have thrown up potentially far more efficient and manageable  ways for business strategists to consider the futures they wish to create.\n
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20080307T000000
DTEND:20080308T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:Dr Krzysztof Kurowski: Distributed Resource Management Application API (DRMAA) in Grids
LOCATION:Seminar Room H784, Building: H, Level: 7, Room: 84, Caulfield Campus
DESCRIPTION:A key component of grid testbeds is a local resource management system (RMS)offering job submission, monitoring and in some cases more advanced reservations features. However, for years RMSs have provided either only proprietary script based interfaces for appli- cation integration or nothing at all,\nin which case, the command-line interface was used. Consequently, there were no standard mechanisms for programmers to integrate both grid middleware services and applications with local resource management systems.\nThanks to Open Grid Forum and its Distributed Resource Management Application API (DRMAA)\nworking group which has released the DRMAA 1.0 specification that offers a standardized API for application integration with C, Java, Perl and Python bindings.\nToday, DRMAA implementations that adopt the latest specification version are available for many local resource management systems such as SGE, Condor, PBSPro, and LSF and other systems e.g. GridWay or Apple Xgrid.\nThe DRMAA specification not only offers a standard way for job submission but also allows users to easily describe parameter sweep applications as so called bulk jobs which fits perfectly into Nimrod-G infrastructure.\nIn the recent project, in the international testbed we have created, we have decided to adopt DRMAA as a layer between applications and RMSs. Moreover, we have used Open DRMAA Service Provider (OpenDSP) implementation of SOAP Web Service\nmulti-user access and policy-based job control using DRMAA routines implemented by RMS.\nAs a lightweigt software, much more reliable and efficient than any existing middleware (including gLite and GT4), OpenDSP allows an easy remote access to computing resources and based on standard Web Services technology integrates well with higher level grid middleware services. It uses a request-response based communication protocol using standard JSDL XML and SOAP schemas protected by transport level security mechanisms such as SSL/TLS, GSI and SAML2.0.\nHowever, neither DRMAA nor OpenDSP provided standard advanced reservation and resource synchronization APIs required by cross-domain parallel applications implemented in OpenMPI and ProActive. Therefore, in the QosCosGrid project we have extended\nDRMAA and proposed standard advance reservation APIs which fit to different APIs of some underlying RMSs such as SGE, LSF and PBSPro. Consequently, we are able to synchronize\nresources in different domains and launch large scale both parameter sweep and parallel applications.\n
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20080314T000000
DTEND:20080315T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:Dr Selby Markham: Education + ICT = CyberSocial Pedagogy: Exploring a paradigm shift
LOCATION:Building: H, Level: 7 Room: 84, Caulfield Campus
DESCRIPTION:The changes that have occurred in education as a consequence of the introduction of Information and Communications Technologies constitute a paradigm shift in the education system. The scope of this paradigm shift warrants a review of the relevance of current pedagogical thinking. As a consequence of this, it is argued that a superordinate pedagogy is needed and a model that is derived from Socio-Technical Systems Theory is outl
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20080318T000000
DTEND:20080319T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:Dr James Benford: Building and Searching for SETI Beacons
LOCATION:Building: 25, Room: S3, Clayton Campus
DESCRIPTION:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20080319T000000
DTEND:20080320T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:Dr Asad Khan: One Shot Learning within Sensor Networks
LOCATION:Building: 26, Room: 135, Clayton Campus
DESCRIPTION:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20080327T000000
DTEND:20080329T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:*Presentation Aikido*
LOCATION:Building: 26, Room: 135, Clayton Campus
DESCRIPTION:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20080402T000000
DTEND:20080403T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:Dr. Jakob Hohwy: Theories of category meaning and the possibility of misrepresentation
LOCATION:Building: 26, Room: 135, Clayton Campus
DESCRIPTION:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20080408T000000
DTEND:20080409T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:Region-Based Image Retrieval with High Level Semantics
LOCATION:Building: x4N Room: 225, Gippsland Campus
DESCRIPTION:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20080409T000000
DTEND:20080410T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:FOXHOLES: News From the Front Line of the Browser Wars
LOCATION:Building: 26, Room: 135, Clayton Campus
DESCRIPTION:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20080411T000000
DTEND:20080412T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:HDR Workshop hosted by the Faculty of IT
LOCATION:Seminar Room H7.84 Caulfield Campus
DESCRIPTION:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20080415T000000
DTEND:20080416T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:A New Contour Based Motion Capture System
LOCATION:Building: 4N, Room: 225, Gippsland Campus
DESCRIPTION:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20080415T000000
DTEND:20080416T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:A New Contour Based Motion Capture System
LOCATION:Building: 4N, Room: 225, Gippsland Campus
DESCRIPTION:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20080417T000000
DTEND:20080418T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:HDR Coursework Workshop
LOCATION:Venue: H6.90 Faculty Boardroom, Caulfield Campus
DESCRIPTION:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20080417T000000
DTEND:20080418T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:Special Events 17th April: MyLifeBits - an Experiment in Lifetime Storage (Seminar), Museums Workshop and Social Event
LOCATION:Item 1: Seminar, Lecture Theatre B215  Item 2: Workshop Tutorial Room B224  Item 3: Social in Computing Museum Space
DESCRIPTION:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20080423T000000
DTEND:20080424T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:"The Rules of Modelling: Automatic Generation of Constraint Programs"
LOCATION:Building: xx, Room: xx,
DESCRIPTION:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20080429T000000
DTEND:20080430T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:Cooperative Spectrum Access in Cognitive Radio Networks
LOCATION:Building: 4N, Room: 225, Gippsland Campus
DESCRIPTION:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20080502T000000
DTEND:20080503T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:A Demonstration of PebblePad - an ePortfolio Tool
LOCATION:Room H7.84, Building H, Level 7, Caulfield Campus
DESCRIPTION:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20080502T000000
DTEND:20080503T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:Theorizing in Social and Organisational Sciences: Developing Systematic Argumentation for Knowledge Claims
LOCATION:Building: H, Room: 7.84, Caulfield Campus
DESCRIPTION:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20080506T000000
DTEND:20080507T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:Majority Spanning Trees, Cotrees and their Applications
LOCATION:Building: 4N, Room: 225, Gippsland Campus
DESCRIPTION:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20080507T000000
DTEND:20080508T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:Majority Spanning Trees, Co-trees and their Applications
LOCATION:Building: 26, Room: 135, Clayton Campus
DESCRIPTION:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20080509T000000
DTEND:20080510T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:High Level Mathematical Modeling and Parallel/GRID Computing with Modelica using OpenModelica
LOCATION:Room: H&.84 - Seminar Room, Caulfield Campus
DESCRIPTION:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20080528T000000
DTEND:20080529T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:An Experimental Study of the Effects of Representing Property Precedence on the Comprehension of Conceptual Schema Diagrams
LOCATION:Building: H, Room: 7.84, Caulfield Campus
DESCRIPTION:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20080528T000000
DTEND:20080529T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:Interactive constraint-based graph layout
LOCATION:Seminar Room 135, Building 26, Clayton
DESCRIPTION:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20080530T000000
DTEND:20080531T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:Mobility-awareness in Managing Spatial Data
LOCATION:Caulfield Seminar Room - H.7.84 Caulfield Campus
DESCRIPTION:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20080603T000000
DTEND:20080604T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:A Geometric Method to Compute Directionality Features for Texture Images
LOCATION:Building: 4N, Room: 251, Gippsland Campus
DESCRIPTION:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20080604T000000
DTEND:20080605T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:Symmetry Detection in CSP Models
LOCATION:Building: 26, Room: 135, Clayton Campus
DESCRIPTION:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20080610T000000
DTEND:20080611T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:Peer Review of Teaching Workshop
LOCATION:Building: 26, Room: 135, Clayton Campus
DESCRIPTION:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20080611T000000
DTEND:20080612T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:An Introduction to Research Issues in Heterogeneous Parallel and Distributed Computing
LOCATION:Seminar Room H7.84, 7th Floor, Building H, Caulfield Campus
DESCRIPTION:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20080611T000000
DTEND:20080612T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:An Introduction to Research Issues in Heterogeneous Parallel and Distributed Computing
LOCATION:Seminar Room, H7.84 Caulfield Campus
DESCRIPTION:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20080618T000000
DTEND:20080619T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:An Exact Algorithm for Scheduling on Parallel machines with Due Dates
LOCATION:Building: 26, Room: 135, Clayton Campus
DESCRIPTION:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20080620T000000
DTEND:20080621T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:Continuity in development using multiple external developers: A Case Study of serial procurement using Open Source solutions
LOCATION:Clayfield Room, Building A1.34  Caulfield Campus
DESCRIPTION:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20080704T000000
DTEND:20080705T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:Qualitative Research Methods: Recent Field Experience in north America
LOCATION:Caulfield Seminar Room, H7.84 Caulfield Campus
DESCRIPTION:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20080708T000000
DTEND:20080709T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:Energy Efficient and Priority-based Communication Protocol for Event-driven Wireless Sensor Networks
LOCATION:Building: 4N, Room: 251, Gippsland Campus
DESCRIPTION:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20080716T000000
DTEND:20080717T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:Using Adaptive Collaborative User Models to Predict Visitor Locations in Museums
LOCATION:Building: 26, Room: 135, Clayton Campus
DESCRIPTION:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20080718T000000
DTEND:20080719T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:MURPA Seminar - International Research and Education: Opportunities and Challenges
LOCATION:Building: 26, Room: 135, Clayton Campus
DESCRIPTION:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20080724T000000
DTEND:20080725T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:MURPA Seminar - Integrating Neuroscience Knowledge: Brain Research in the Digital Age
LOCATION:Building: 26, Room: 135, (via HD interactive video) Clayton Campus
DESCRIPTION:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20080724T000000
DTEND:20080725T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:Automatic music feature extraction and classification from music signals
LOCATION:Building: 4N, Room: 251, Gippsland Campus
DESCRIPTION:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20080725T000000
DTEND:20080726T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:The Genealogical Gaze: Family Identities and Family Archives in the 14th-17th centuries
LOCATION:Building: 11(Menzies), Room: W 614（School of Historical Studies Staff Room）, Clayton Campus
DESCRIPTION:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20080730T000000
DTEND:20080731T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:CRIS Seminar - The Modelling Language Zinc
LOCATION:Building: 26, Room: 135, Clayton Campus
DESCRIPTION:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20080731T000000
DTEND:20080801T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:MURPA Seminar - The Emerging Global Collaboratory for Microbial Metagenomics Researchers
LOCATION:Building: 26, Room: 135, (via HD interactive video) Clayton Campus
DESCRIPTION:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20080806T000000
DTEND:20080807T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:CRIS Seminar - 3D Modelling and Discrete Event Simulation - using Flexsim's Discrete Event Simulation software
LOCATION:Building: 26, Room: 135, Clayton Campus
DESCRIPTION:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20080807T000000
DTEND:20080808T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:MURPA Seminar - On Accelerating Scientific Discovery using Scientific Workflows and  the Kepler System
LOCATION:Building: 26, Room: 135, (via HD interactive video) Clayton Campus
DESCRIPTION:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20080820T000000
DTEND:20080821T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:The Pacific Rim Experiences for Undergraduates: e-Science Reports
LOCATION:Building: 26 Room: 135, Clayton Campus
DESCRIPTION:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20080821T000000
DTEND:20080822T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:Immersive Virtual Reality Research at Calit2
LOCATION:Building: 26, Room: 135, Clayton Campus (via HD interactive video)
DESCRIPTION:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20080828T000000
DTEND:20080829T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:MURPA Seminar - Cyberinfrastructure for Avian Flu Drug Design: have the cake  and eat it too
LOCATION:Building: 26, Room: 135, (via HD interactive wall) Clayton Campus
DESCRIPTION:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20080829T000000
DTEND:20080830T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:HDR Workshop hosted by the Faculty of IT at Berwick Campus
LOCATION:Building: 903, Room: G91, Berwick Campus
DESCRIPTION:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20080829T000000
DTEND:20080830T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:Learning Anarchy: A new epistemology?
LOCATION:Room H7.84, Building H, Level 7, Caulfield Campus
DESCRIPTION:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20080903T000000
DTEND:20080904T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:Mixed integer programming models for wind farm design
LOCATION:Building: 26, Room: 135, Clayton Campus
DESCRIPTION:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20080904T000000
DTEND:20080905T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:MURPA Seminar: Multi-Scale Modeling of the Heart
LOCATION:Building: 26, Room: 135, Clayton Campus (via HD interactive video)
DESCRIPTION:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20080910T000000
DTEND:20080911T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:Applying Machine Learning Techniques to Structural Bioinformatics: Applications and Results
LOCATION:Seminar Room 135, Bldg 26, Clayton School of I.T.
DESCRIPTION:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20080911T000000
DTEND:20080912T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:MURPA Seminar - Grid Enabled Molecular Science Through Online Networked Environments
LOCATION:Building: 26, Room: 135, Clayton Campus
DESCRIPTION:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20080912T000000
DTEND:20080913T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:Ways of Thinking and Practicing in Introductory Programming
LOCATION:Room H7.84, Building H, Level 7, Caulfield Campus
DESCRIPTION:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20080917T000000
DTEND:20080918T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:Automatic music feature extraction and classification from music signals
LOCATION:Room H7.84, Building H, Level 7, Caulfield Campus
DESCRIPTION:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20080924T000000
DTEND:20080925T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:PExA: A Personalized Assistive Agent for Project Execution
LOCATION:Building: 26, Room: 135, Clayton Campus
DESCRIPTION:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20081007T000000
DTEND:20081008T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:Theory building as scientific idealization, and a generic model of Individual use of IT applications
LOCATION:Building: H, Room: 7.84, Caulfield Campus
DESCRIPTION:Information Systems as a discipline still has quite few in-born theories, and we do not have any good understanding of the theory building process. Theories inherent to information systems are increasingly called for. Also good exemplars of a theory building in Information Systems context are urgently needed. \n\nThe seminar views theory building as ideali¬zation. Generality in sci¬ence is not achieved by ex¬tracting similarities from particu¬lars, but through abstraction and idealization. Indeed, ideali¬zation is a commonplace phe¬nomenon in established sciences such as physics and economics. The idea of frictionless free movement of physical bodies in physics and the idea of perfect competition in microeconom¬ics (assuming firms with perfect knowledge and totally free entry to and exit from the market) are good examples of scientific idealizations. Ideal types an related typologies are in¬stances of scientific idealization in social sciences. \nThe seminar illustrates theory building based on idealization by suggesting a typology of ideal types of IT applications. The typology distinguishes automating, aug¬menting, mediating, infor¬mating, entertaining, artisti¬cizing, accompanying, and fantasizing IT applica¬tions. Based on the typology the seminar outlines the Generic Individual Use of Infor¬mation Technology Applications (GIUITA) model as a response to the current criticisms of research into technology acceptance.\n
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20081008T000000
DTEND:20081009T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:MONASH E-RESEARCH CENTRE EVENTS, 8TH OCTOBER:
LOCATION:Clayton Campus, room to be confirmed
DESCRIPTION:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20081008T000000
DTEND:20081009T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:Using constraint-based layout to improve the usability of diagramming software
LOCATION:Seminar Room 135, Bldg 26, Clayton School of I.T.
DESCRIPTION:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20081008T000000
DTEND:20081009T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:MONASH E-RESEARCH CENTRE EVENTS, 8TH OCTOBER:
LOCATION:Engineering Theatre E1 / 32 – Bldg 32 Clayton Campus
DESCRIPTION:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20081010T000000
DTEND:20081011T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:Intellectual Property in Academia
LOCATION:Room H7.84, Building H, Level 7, Caulfield Campus
DESCRIPTION:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20081024T000000
DTEND:20081025T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:CERG/COSI Seminar
LOCATION:Room H7.84, Building H, Level 7, Caulfield Campus
DESCRIPTION:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20081028T000000
DTEND:20081029T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:Conceptual Business Service - An Architectural Approach for Building a Business Service Portfolio
LOCATION:Innovation@257 [up the escalator], 257 Collins Street, Melbourne
DESCRIPTION:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20081029T000000
DTEND:20081030T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:Adapting referring expressions to properties of the task environment
LOCATION:Room 135, Bldg 26, Clayton Campus
DESCRIPTION:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20081110T000000
DTEND:20081111T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:Using Information Systems Effectively: A Representational Perspective
LOCATION:Building: H, Room: 7.84, Caulfield campus
DESCRIPTION:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20081119T000000
DTEND:20081120T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:Electronic Recordkeeping and Metadata Standards: The State of the Art
LOCATION:Building: H, Room: 7.84, <a href="/about/schools/caulfield/location.html">Caulfield campus</a>. Off-street user pays parking is available in the multi-storey carpark on campus and accessible via Sir John Monash Drive and Princes Avenue.
DESCRIPTION:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20081126T000000
DTEND:20081127T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:Mixed Integer Programing, Branch-and-Cut and Constraint Programing: A comparison of three different approaches to solve the runway sequencing problem
LOCATION:Building: 26, Room: 135, Clayton campus
DESCRIPTION:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20081128T000000
DTEND:20081129T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:Open Innovation in the IT industry - Customization as a Case of Open Innovation
LOCATION:Caulfield Seminar Room, H7.84
DESCRIPTION:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20081201T000000
DTEND:20081202T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:Photons have a bright future
LOCATION:Building: S, Lecture theatre: S2, Clayton campus
DESCRIPTION:
END:VEVENT

BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20081202T000000
DTEND:20081203T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:Confocal Matrix Screening Application. An Intelligent Mass Data Acquisition for Image-based High Content Analysis
LOCATION:Building: 75, Room: G19, Clayton campus
DESCRIPTION:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20081203T000000
DTEND:20081204T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:Automatic Generation of Semantic Knowledge Using Wikipedia and Other Large-Scale Web Repositories
LOCATION:Building: 26, Room: 135, Clayton campus
DESCRIPTION:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20081205T000000
DTEND:20081206T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:Minimizing the Spread of Contamination by Blocking Links in a Network
LOCATION:Building: 26, Room: 135, Clayton campus
DESCRIPTION:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20081209T000000
DTEND:20081210T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:From the Heroic to the Logistical: Programming Model Implications of New Supercomputing Applications
LOCATION:Building: 26, Room: 135, Clayton campus
DESCRIPTION:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20081209T000000
DTEND:20081210T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:The Louisiana Model for Advancing Regional Cyberinfrastructure
LOCATION:Building: 26, Room: 135, Clayton campus
DESCRIPTION:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20081210T000000
DTEND:20081211T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:Space-Time Continuous Models of Swarm Robotic Systems: Supporting Local-to-Global Programming
LOCATION:Building: 26, Room: 135, Clayton campus
DESCRIPTION:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20081216T000000
DTEND:20081217T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:The UK National Grid Service: Overview and recent developments
LOCATION:Building: Matheson Library, Conference Room, Level 1, Clayton campus
DESCRIPTION:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20071214T000000
DTEND:20071215T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:Methods and Approaches to Computing Education Research
LOCATION:Room H7.84, Building H, Level 7, Caulfield Campus
DESCRIPTION:The talk presents a general framework for conducting CER studies and presents a view of the key aspects of a rigorous (pragmatic) study. We discuss the implications of the framework for both designing studies as well as judging published work.\n\nWe argue that a wider discourse on the framework in which computing education research is conducted is vital to larger scale research in CER, as well as enhancing our ability to accumulate evidence and reason on broader research issues. A better understanding of the manner in which we conduct studies assists in transfer of results as well as enhancing the ability of the discipline to build upon earlier results.
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20071210T000000
DTEND:20071211T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:PeerWise and Contributing Student Pedagogy
LOCATION:Room H7.84, Building H, Level 7, Caulfield Campus
DESCRIPTION:The Contributing Student Approach is a style of teaching in which\n students create and share learning resources. PeerWise is a web-based\n system that supports students creating and sharing one specific\n learning resource: a bank of multi-choice questions (MCQs).\n\n In this talk, I will describe the Contributing Student Approach in\n general and PeerWise in particular, and present results from the five\n classes that have used PeerWise to date.\n\n The Contributing Student Approach and the PeerWise tool are applicable\n to a wide range of subjects, and teaching staff from all disciplines\n are welcome.
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20071129T000000
DTEND:20071130T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:PhD Candidate Seminar: User Acceptance Model Driven Design for Voice-enabled M-commerce
LOCATION:Venue H7.84, Caulfield Campus
DESCRIPTION:It’s a well-established belief among researchers that user acceptance model can provide guidance on how to design a specific application/system. However, at the time of this thesis writing, we could not identify any existing projects aimed at exploring a systematic design approach driven by user acceptance analysis. This thesis proposed a User-Acceptance-Model driven design approach for Voice-enabled m-commerce.\n\nResearchers and practitioners have predicted great potentials for voice-enabled m-commerce. The current market reality indicates it has not lived up to the expectation and is moving relatively slowly. User resistance is a key deterrent to the adoption of voice-enabled m-commerce. This motivates us to examine the existing dominant solutions of speech interface development (such as W3C Speech Interface Framework) for shortcomings, and rethink the design approach in line with user acceptance analysis.\n\nIn the thesis research, a generic user acceptance model is identified. Driven by this model, a framework for designing voice-enabled m-commerce applications is proposed. Specifically, we have:\n\n* Identified different user acceptance factors through literature review and verified their influences on user intention of adoption through Meta-analysis. The statistical integration and synthesis of findings across studies made the analysis more reliable compared with a single model or theory. We further compared three proposed causal models through MEASEM (Meta-Analysis and Structural Equation Modelling) to develop a generic acceptance model.\n\n* Based on the identified factors in the model, analytically assessed the characteristics of speech-enabled m-commerce and identified the features that could enhance user’s intention of acceptance. Compared these features with the existing speech framework, we identified and highlighted the design focus of personalization and naturalness for voice-enabled applications.\n\n* Proposed a framework for designing speech interface for m-commerce, which has a hybrid dialogue strategy to increase the naturalness of communication and a personalized dialogue structure to reduce the interactions. As a result of this part of research, a Case-Based Reasoning approach for language modelling was introduced to capture and interpret users’ initial requests in natural language, and a personalization mechanism was incorporated into the decision tree induction algorithm to construct dialogues between users and the application. The framework was evaluated through an example implementation.
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20071126T000000
DTEND:20071127T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:Measuring Satisfaction with Business-to-Employee Portal
LOCATION:Building: H, Room: 7.84, Caulfield Campus
DESCRIPTION:Business to employee (b2e) portal consolidates and personalises information around the needs of the portal user. By taking advantage of web services, this web-based system supports access and availability of information using the internet and mobile devices, including notebooks, PDAs and cellular phones. Portal implementation requires big investments. In our study, we investigate benefits and issues surrounding the use of b2e portal. In particular, we propose user satisfaction as a surrogate measure of success: the b2e portal user satisfaction (b2ePUS) construct. The construct comprises five dimensions, namely confidentiality, ease of use, portal design, usefulness and convenience of access. In the presentation, we will outline the rigorous process of the development of this construct: from conceptual modelling, content validity, exploratory study to confirmatory study.
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20071123T000000
DTEND:20071124T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:Invitation to PhD Student Workshop
LOCATION:Lecture Theatre, HB.36, Caulfield Campus
DESCRIPTION:Being a research or PhD student is a very challenging endeavour. Beyond issues related to the research topic, the research design and the research approach, students are confronted with the more mundane, but equally important issues related to the context of their studies. These issues include their own motivation to undertake a PhD, the PhD programme they are part of, and their relationship to their supervisors. However we seldom have the chance to exchange experiences about these issues, to reflect upon them collectively and to learn from each other. This workshop provides an opportunity to do so and to share knowledge and talk about these subjects, good and bad experiences, problematic situations, solutions and best practices.\n\nThe workshop will start with a brief presentation focusing on the role of the supervisor and the design of PhD programs. It will address questions such as:\n•    What kind of doctoral programs exist?\n•    What kind of supervision styles exist?\n•    What kind of motivations do students have to pursue a PhD?\n•    What kind of guidance do different kinds of students need?\n•    How are these four issues related?\n\nThe introduction will also present simple techniques to help you analyse your position on these issues and the key elements of the PhD model under which you perform your study. The application of these techniques, as the next step of the workshop, should provide ample input to draw out and openly discuss participants’ problems, their solutions, advice and recommendations. This will be organized either as a plenum session or in small groups depending on the number of participants. A final aim of the workshop is to document these discussions and to provide results as lessons learned to other members of the IT community.\n\nThe workshop is based on Avison D. and Pries-Heje, J. (eds.), Research in Information Systems – A handbook for research supervisors and their students, Elsevier, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2005.\n\n\nIt would be helpful if all participants prepared a maximum of a one page position paper containing their personal position their life as PhD students, be it in form of general observations, major concern(s), or positive or negative incidents. Please send your position paper to Henry Linger by Monday 19th November at the latest.
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20071116T000000
DTEND:20071117T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:Developing ICT Tools for Biomedical Research: Building a Knowledge Work Support System
LOCATION:Seminar Room H7.84, Level 7, Building H Caulfield
DESCRIPTION:Biomedical research is supported by ICT in a variety of ways, from algorithmic and computational modelling, visualisation, data and information management and retrieval amongst others. Generally such approaches focus on a specific biological problem and use ICT to provide answers that can be interpreted for their biological meaning. However, if biomedical research is considered as knowledge work, then the challenge is to construct ICT tools that not only help solve problems, the productive aspects of the work activity, but also the cognitive work that informs that production, the conceptualisation and thinking that underpins the problem. Support for knowledge work requires a computer-based environment that includes tools for productive and cognitive activities, as well as their integration, in order to make some aspects of cognitive work visible. Such an environment provides biomedical researchers with the ability to conduct in-machina or in-silica experiments that represent another research modality in addition to in-vivo and in-vitro experimentation. This seminar presents a collaborative approach to developing such computer-based environment.
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20071113T000000
DTEND:20071114T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:Helmut Simonis: A Tale of Two Puzzles
LOCATION:Building: 63, Room: 115, Clayton
DESCRIPTION:In this talk we present constraint models for two logical puzzles, called LightUp and Kakuro. We evaluate these models on sets of example problems and compare the results to MILP and SAT solutions for these datasets. While these puzzles have many special properties which make them interesting on their own, they can also illustrate the overall challenges facing constraint programming: How to provide stable methods which work for all, not just some, examples, how to select the most appropriate model amongst many alternatives and how to generate solutions with minimal programming effort. http://www.nikoli.co.jp/en/puzzles/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20071030T000000
DTEND:20071031T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:Meta-learning: from classification to forecasting, to optimisation, and beyond
LOCATION:Building: 63, Room: 115, Clayton
DESCRIPTION:The goal of meta-learning is to model the relationships between the performance of various learning algorithms and the characteristics of problems being learned. In this sense, we are focused on learning about learning. Under what conditions can we expect a certain algorithm to perform well? The field of meta-learning has been very well developed in the machine learning community over the last 15 years or so, where the focus has been on the study of supervised learning methods such as support vector machines and neural networks, and their performance on classification problems. But the goal of seeking a greater understanding of the relationship between problem characteristics and algorithm performance is not limited to machine learning or classification problems.\n\nIn this talk we will explore the generalisation of meta-learning to other domains including forecasting, optimisation, bioinformatics, etc. The common factor in these diverse fields is the availability of a large number of algorithms for solving the problems, the availability of large benchmark datasets, and the existence of suitable metrics to characterise the properties of the datasets. In each case, insights into the conditions under which various algorithms performs best can be derived using a meta-learning framework, helping in the design of better algorithms, as well as automated algorithm selection methods.
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20071029T000000
DTEND:20071030T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:Algorithmic Aspects of Ranking
LOCATION:Building: 63, Room: 115, Clayton
DESCRIPTION:The ranking problem is computing a permutation of a list of items, which best expresses the preferences of\na collection of voters. If two voters disagree on a pair of items this induces a conflict. The goal of the ranking problem is to minimize the number of disagreements. The ranking problem dates back to the 18th century when voting systems where introduced, and has regained interest by web applications. We translate the ranking problem into a crossing minimization problem on multi-colored graphs, and then discuss the complexity of the ranking problem.\n\nThe ranking problem is NP-hard, even for four voters, and can be approximated within a factor of two. The determination of the winner seems harder than NP.
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20071029T000000
DTEND:20071030T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:A birds-eye view of Knowledge Management: The Four Layer Model
LOCATION:Building: H7, Room: 84, Seminar Room, Caulfield Campus
DESCRIPTION:It seems today that many things related to Information Technology have been recast in the mold of Knowledge Management. In fact, much criticism of KM is based on the observation that (a) the distinctions between data, information and knowledge are not clear, (b) many of the technologies being applied to KM are simply re-wrappings of old technologies that have been used to varying degrees of success in other contexts. (c) knowledge can’t be managed in the first place, so what is all the fuss about. This criticism, however, is founded on a narrow view of the challenges, techniques and goals of KM.\n\nIn this talk I will attempt to provide a conceptual framework for KM research and practice. This framework is based on a birds-eye view of the field gleaned from the experiences and interactions in editing the Encyclopedia of Knowledge Management. This discussion will take us from the philosophical core of KM, out to its supporting technologies, and back to fundamental KM processes and managerial elements.\n\nI will also provide a brief overview of different KM research initiatives I am currently involved in with the hope of triggering some fruitful interactions during my sabbatical visit at Monash University.
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20071025T000000
DTEND:20071026T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:Context Modeling: Representing Practices instead of Procedures
LOCATION:Monash University, Melbourne, Caulfield Campus
DESCRIPTION:Contextual Graphs are a context-based formalism used in various real-world applications. They allow a uniform representation of elements of reasoning and of contexts for describing different human tasks such as troubleshooting and interpretation. A contextual graph represents a task realization. Its paths represent the different ways of reaching this realization, each way corresponding to a practice developed by an actor realizing the task. The seminar will allow to revisit the classical distinction between prescribed and effective tasks, procedures versus practices, logic of functioning versus logic of use, etc. in the light of this formalism. The position of the practice model with respect to the task model will be discussed and experimented across several examples including the troubleshooting a problem with a DVD player.
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20071019T000000
DTEND:20071020T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:Cocktail Ensemble for Regression
LOCATION:Building: 63, Room: 207, Clayton
DESCRIPTION:It is a common knowledge that an ensemble of models improves the predictive performance of individual models.However, despite the emergence of many ensemble approaches, it has been shown that none is significantly superior to another over a range of data sets. This talk reports a recent work on combining different ensemble approaches to further improve the predictive performance of individual ensembles in the regression setting.\n\nBased on an error-ambiguity decomposition,we formally analyze the optimal linear combination of two base ensembles, which is then extended to multiple individual ensembles via pairwise combinations.The Cocktail ensemble approach is proposed based on this analysis. Experiments over a broad range of data sets show that the proposed approach outperforms the individual ensembles, two other methods of ensemble combination, and two state-of-the-art regression approaches.
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20071016T000000
DTEND:20071017T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:Stochastic Local Search for Propositional Satisfibaility
LOCATION:Building: 26, Room: 135, Clayton Campus
DESCRIPTION:The problem of finding a consistent truth assignment to allpropositional variables in a formula, known as SAT problem, has been an interesting and difficult challenge. Indeed, SAT is at the heart of all computationally intractable problems. Many real world problems could be encoded as SAT problems. Thus finding an efficient solution for SAT has far reaching impact on computationally hard problems.\n\n\nThis talk will begin with an overview ofthe main approaches for solving SAT problems.We will thenfocus on stochastic local search based methods. These methods have been shown to be highly effective for large size problems.We will present our recent results on clause weighting based local search, including an influential method that automatically learns about the structure of the problem, and efficiently exploit those structures to solve some of the difficult challenge problems.
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20071015T000000
DTEND:20071016T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:From Intention to Motivation: Developing a Motivation-Based Model of IOS Implementation (Paper co-authored with Graeme Shanks and Robert Johnston).
LOCATION:Building: H, Room: 7.84, Caulfield Campus
DESCRIPTION:Interorganizational systems (IOS) are increasingly being implemented throughout supply chains, attracting the attention of many researchers seeking to understand this phenomenon. We argue that the activities performed during the implementation process and the post-adoption outcomes associated with these systems can be traced back to the principle motivation underpinning the adoption decision. In developing our theory, we critique the predominant technology acceptance and diffusion of innovations based approaches as they apply to the implementation of IOS technology, and present an alternative theoretical model based on a firm’s motivational intent. We argue that differences in motivational intentions largely explain system implementation processes and outcomes. Theory-based motivational scenarios are presented to make specific predictions regarding the impact of motivations on which system investigation and development activities are performed, and their short and long-term implications for an organization. Paper available from: http://www.dis.unimelb.edu.au/staff/stephen/Smith-ICIS-2007.pdf
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20071009T000000
DTEND:20071010T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:Mediation of User Models for Enhanced Personalization in Recommender Systems
LOCATION:Building: 26, Room: 135, Seminar Room, Clayton
DESCRIPTION:Provision of personalized recommendations to users requires accurate modeling of their interests and needs. This paper proposes a general framework and specific methodologies for enhancing the accuracy of user modeling in recommender systems by importing and integrating data collected by other recommender systems. Such a process is defined as user models mediation. The paper discusses the details of such a generic user modeling mediation framework. It provides a generic user modeling data representation model, demonstrates its compatibility with existing recommendation techniques, and discusses the general steps of the mediation. Specifically, four major types of mediation are presented: cross-user, cross-item, cross-context, and cross-representation. Finally, the paper reports the application of the mediation framework and illustrates it with practical mediation scenarios. Evaluations of these scenarios demonstrate the potential benefits of user modeling data mediation, as it improves the quality of the recommendations provided to the users.
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20071011T000000
DTEND:20071012T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:Model-driven exception management framework
LOCATION:Building: 26, Room: 135, Clayton Campus
DESCRIPTION:To support quality, a software system must be able to operate effectively when a failure occurs. Programming languages provide exception handling mechanisms to structure fault tolerant activities into software systems to manage failures. However, the use of exceptions at this low level of abstraction can be error-prone and complex thereby leading to new programming errors. This thesis proposes an approach to exception management based on the model-driven development paradigm. It proposes a domain engineering method and a generic, extensible, exception management framework that supports the model driven generation of exception handling features. We assess the use of the domain engineering method, and the features and architecture of the model driven exception management framework using a question-based evaluation framework and two case studies.\n\nThesis Contributions: To support the thesis that a generic, extensible exception management framework based on a model-driven architecture will support an automated approach to exception management and software quality, we have:\n\nidentified the key requirements that a domain engineering method and a model-driven framework need to support the exception domain. \ndeveloped a tailorable domain engineering method to support the analysis, design and implementation of reusable modules for a wide range of exception domains. \ndeveloped a reference implementation of the model driven exception management framework, which is generic enough to support different exception domains and provides support to automate the generation of exception handling capabilities. \ndesigned a generic evaluation framework for assessing a domain engineering method and domain specific modelling environment. \nevaluated the domain engineering method and model driven framework using our evaluation framework and through two case studies.
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20071005T000000
DTEND:20071006T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:A Community Based Self-Learning Environment (http://peclad.org)
LOCATION:Building: H, Room: H7.84, Level 7, Caulfield
DESCRIPTION:This project's ambition is to provide an effective and supportive community-based learning environment. This learning environment was initially build around how to create a UML class diagram (i.e. a Solution)from a simple textual requirement specification (i.e. a Problem). To this end, our environment is based on both a web site and an Eclipse plugin.\n\nThe SpeCLaD website enables both novices and experts to share and discuss Problems and Solutions. It provides a public repository organised around maximasing learning outcomes.\n\nSpecifically, the website enables users to:\n* publish online independently their:\no Problems (textual descriptions), and/or\no Solution(s) to a specific problem - a Solution is published as an image, or as generated by the SpeCLaD Eclipse plugin for class diagrams;\n* view published Problems and their various Solutions in a user friendly format; and\n* rate and discuss published Problems and their Solution(s).\n\nLearning and understanding how to build UML class diagram from requirement specifications is often difficult for anybody new to Object Oriented software design. The aim of the SpeCLaD Eclipse plugin is to provide a step by step guide on how to build these diagrams. The website also enables to share class diagrams Solutions in the SpeCLaD plugin format.
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20071002T000000
DTEND:20071003T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:Reduction of Semantic Gap for Content-Based Image Retrieval
LOCATION:Building: 26, Room: 135, Clayton Campus
DESCRIPTION:Content-Based Image Retrieval (CBIR), also known as Content-Based Visual Information Retrieval (CBVIR), is the process of retrieval of digital images from an image database based on the visual contents of images. For this talk we assume the “query by example” paradigm of CBIR. In this paradigm the user inputs one or more query images to the CBIR system and the system returns a number of images from the database having visual contents similar to that of the query image(s). Computationally, the visual contents of images are often represented by low level features such as colour, texture, and shape. Often this leads to the so called semantic gap, the gap between the human judgement about the visual similarity of images and the similarity obtained based on computed features.\n\nThe purpose of the talk is to discuss about a number of methods, developed in an effort to reduce the semantic gap, that have been investigated as a part of the recently completed PhD thesis of Mrs Gita Das. The following methods will be investigated: 1. a new feature representation using colour co-occurrence matrix in HSV space, 2. relevance feedback using feature re-weighting, and 3. instance-based approach using the concept of cluster density.
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20070912T000000
DTEND:20070913T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:An Overview of Virtual Teaming
LOCATION:Building: 63, Room: 115, Clayton Campus
DESCRIPTION:John Gundry B.Sc. Ph.D. is Director of Knowledge Ability Ltd (www.knowab.co.uk), a UK company that provides a range of specialised training, coaching and consulting services to better enable clients’ success in the wired world.\n\nA pioneer of virtual working in the late 1980s, John started training and consulting in distributed work and virtual teaming in 1991. At that time, he was also Research Director for the world's first virtual university campus across California and Mexico. Since then he has trail-blazed successful new business areas in e-working, e-learning and agility, which are now widely imitated.\n\nIn September 2007 John is on his tenth workshop tour of Australia and since 2001 he has delivered training on virtual teaming and remote working to over 1000 people from Australian organisations large and small.\n\nJohn has a background in psychology, communications systems, organisational technology and virtual work and learning. He occasionally publishes in the academic and business press and is co-author of Agile Networking – Competing Through the Internet and Intranets (Prentice-Hall, 1998). John is a past Associate Editor of the journal Interacting with Computers and a member of the International Review Board of the Journal of E-Working.\n\nIn 2004, 2005 and 2006, John co-chaired, co-organised and co-sponsored GOING VIRTUAL - The Future of Work, the annual Asia-Pacific conferences on virtual teaming and remote virtual working.
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20070911T000000
DTEND:20070912T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:The role of haptics in enactivist models of intelligence
LOCATION:Building: 26, Room: 135, Clayton Campus
DESCRIPTION:Some theorists (e.g., enactivist) argue that intelligence may emerge from sensory-motor links in a manner that can be applied to machines as well as humans. Specifically, a machine might learn to be adaptive if it has a way of usefully recording the consequences of what it did (motor output) as a response to a stimulus (sensory input). This action-based model implies a central role for haptics in the linking process, and for kinaesthesis in particular because it registers movement. Unfortunately, we don’t know enough about how kineasthesis and touch work together (or individually) to comprise the haptic senses. This paper describes some experiments that address this problem.
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20070907T000000
DTEND:20070908T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:XML Database Research and Issues
LOCATION:Seminar Room H7.84, Level 7, Building H Caulfield
DESCRIPTION:It is growingly popular to use XML documents for exchanging information between different types of applications, as well as for representing semi-structured data. XML document, in nature, is complex due to the many ad-hoc ways to represent the data. Storing XML data in a database has also been supported by various database management repositories, including XML-Enabled DBMS and XML-Native DBMS. This leads to the need to address XML-specific issues such as storing XML document versions and warehousing dynamic XML documents, which inherently different from those of relational data. Querying and updating XML data also raise complex issues, due to the hierarchical tree structure of XML data. In this talk, I will discuss these issues and how these are addressed in our research.
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20070906T000000
DTEND:20070907T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:SahulTime: Taking GoogleEarth through a time-warp for Australasian archaeology
LOCATION:Seminar Room, H7.84 Caulfield
DESCRIPTION:Imagine if GoogleEarth could look into our ancient past - what would it show? Throughout the Ice Age, sea levels fluctuate much lower than today, with Australia and PNG connected as a single continent (known to archaeologists as 'Sahul'). It's at this time that the first settlement of Australia takes place. Then as the planet warms, sea levels rise and finally flood the land-bridge around 8000 years ago, forming the Torres Strait. Throughout this time, the distribution of vegetation adjusts itself to the varying climate.\n\nThis seminar will introduce an early prototype of 'SahulTime', an ambitious Monash Arts/IT project bringing together archaeology and geography within a multimedia visualisation system. The result is an interactive model of the ancient Australia-PNG continent over the past 100,000 years.\n\nUsing an object-oriented systems model, SahulTime combines a variety of resources in space-time: reconstructed coastlines, excavation data, pollen cores, vegetation models, and 3D landscape visualisations. Like GoogleEarth, SahulTime will permit resource sharing and enable collaboration to build up a more and more detailed picture of the continent over archaeological time.\n\nTemporal GIS is not a new concept - recent versions of GoogleEarth allow the plotting of time-based points, but the focus is directly-measurable modern data. Finding information models appropriate to archaeology can be challenging in such an inherently uncertain knowledge domain, and visualisations must take account of a range of possible interpretations of the available data. We will discuss the challenges of 'virtual archaeology', and how they are handled in this project and others.\n\nThe Torres Strait is a region of particular interest to Monash archaeologists. To understand settlement patterns, excavation data must be put into its palaeo-environmental context. We are currently using SahulTime as a vehicle to test hypotheses and hone models of the flooding of the land bridge and formation of the Torres Strait Islands over the past 10,000 years.
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20070904T000000
DTEND:20070905T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:Plagiarism: Why it happens, how to detect it (with Damocles), and, most importantly, how to prevent it
LOCATION:Building: 26, Room: 135, Clayton Campus
DESCRIPTION:Ideas, and their expressions in words, are the academic's stock-in-trade. Plagiarism is thus often seen as the cardinal academic sin. Plagiarism is also seen as a major offence when committed by students: a best a serious case of sloppiness, at worst a form of cheating. In this talk I will reflect on eight years of hunting plagiarism, both in student work and academic papers. I will consider some of the reasons that students plagiarise, and discuss how we might modify our assessment and teaching practices to reduce the incidence of plagiarism.\n\nIn the course of this reflection, I will demonstrate the Damocles plagiarism detection system (http://viper.infotech.monash.edu.au/damocles/about/), which I developed. Damocles has now been used in hundreds of units at Monash, in IT, BusEco, Arts, and Law. Damocles is at heart a text retrieval system, honed for a particular purpose. I will indicate some of the issues I have encountered in developing such a system, and migrating it to a "production" environment.
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20070828T000000
DTEND:20070829T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:Computational and IT challenges in neuroscience research
LOCATION:Building: 26, Room: 135, Clayton
DESCRIPTION:The Neuroscience Research group carries out clinically oriented neuroscience research. This seminar will provide an overview of the technologies being used and describe the practical issues associated with developing new analysis methods and applying them to large datasets. It is hoped that this discussion will lead to collaboration on application of grid computing to neuroscience research.
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20070821T000000
DTEND:20070822T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:Puzzle-based Learning
LOCATION:Building: 26, Room: 135, Clayton Campus
DESCRIPTION:What is missing in most curricula – starting from elementary school all the way through to university education – is coursework focused on the development of problem-solving skills. Most students never learn how to think about solving problems in general – throughout their education, they are constrained to concentrate on textbook questions at the back of each chapter. So, without much thinking, they apply the material from each chapter to solve a few problems given at the end of each chapter (why else would a problem be at the end of the chapter?). With this type of approach to “problem solving,” it is unsurprising that students are ill prepared for framing and addressing real-world problems. When they finally enter the real world, they suddenly find that problems do not come with instructions or guidebooks.\n\nTo address this gap in the educational curriculum, I have created a new 1-level course that is aimed at getting students to think about how to frame and solve unstructured problems (those that are not encountered at the end of some textbook chapter …). The idea is to increase the student’s mathematical awareness and problem solving skills by discussing a variety of puzzles. The seminar presents the case for such a course and encourages participants to introduce it in their educational units.
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20070815T000000
DTEND:20070816T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:Evolution of Middleware for Grid-based Instruments and Sensors, or Why Facebook, MySpace and Social Computing Really Matter
LOCATION:Building: H, Room: H7.84, Caulfield Campus
DESCRIPTION:Instruments and sensors are the source of data used to drive discovery in science. The availability and accessibility of appropriate instrumentation for a given research programme can be a rate limiting factor in discovery. Furthermore sensors and sensor networks are playing an ever-increasing role in how measurements are made in longitudinal studies in ecological, earth and biological sciences. The Common Instrument Middleware Architecture (CIMA) aims at providing access to remote instruments and sensors by giving users and providers of real-time data with interface and protocol standards needed to locate and interact at a distance with real-time data sources, particularly scientific instruments and sensors. In this talk I will give an update on the status of the CIMA project and how ideas from social computing that are driving the development of Web 2.0 technologies are also evolving CIMA’s stodgy old WS-* architecture. Could sensors and instruments really be as cool as writing on the wall?
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20070814T000000
DTEND:20070815T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:The Pacific Rim Experiences for Undergraduates: e-Science Reports
LOCATION:Building: 26,  Room: 135, Clayton
DESCRIPTION:Overview of the PRIME Program PRIME: Pacific Rim Experiences for Undergraduates Over the past four years, the PRIME program has sent students from the University of California, San Diego to Pacific Rim countries such as Japan, Taiwan, China, and Australia to participate in an intensive nine week summer research program.Each of these host countries are part of the Pacific Rim Applications and Grid Middleware Assembly (PRAGMA), a group of leading research organizations around the Pacific Rim collaborating on advancing grid technology applications.During the stay, students not only have the opportunity to perform international collaborative research while living in a foreign country, but also get an unforgettable cultural experience.Overall, PRIME prepares undergraduate students for the global research and industrial workplace by taking advantage of the revolution in science and engineering through cyberinfrastructure.This program has continued with the support from National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Office of International Science and Engineering, the Office of Cyberinfrastructure, the Division of Information and Intelligent Systems, and the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (http://www.calit2.net/) This year five students have been hosted by the Monash e-Science and Grid Engineering Lab (MESSAGE Lab) in the Faculty of Information Technology.
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DTSTART:20070810T000000
DTEND:20070811T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:Heart Modeling, Computational Physiology and the IUPS Physiome Project
LOCATION:Building: 29, Lecture Theatre:S15, Clayton
DESCRIPTION:The Physiome Project of the International Union of Physiological Sciences (IUPS) is attempting to provide a comprehensive framework for modelling the human body using computational methods which can incorporate the biochemistry, biophysics and anatomy of cells, tissues and organs [1-4]. A major goal of the project is to use computational modelling to analyse integrative biological function in terms of underlying structure and molecular mechanisms. To support that goal the project is developing XML markup languages (CellML & FieldML) for encoding models, and software tools for creating, visualizing and executing these models [5]. It is also establishing web-accessible physiological databases dealing with model-related data at the cell, tissue, organ and organ system levels. Two major developments in current medicine are, on the one hand, the much publicised genomics (and soon proteomics) revolution and, on the other, the revolution in medical imaging in which the physiological function of the human body can be studied with a plethora of imaging devices such as MRI, CT, PET, ultrasound, electrical mapping, etc. The challenge for the Physiome Project is to link these two developments for an individual - to use complementary genomic and medical imaging data, together with computational modelling tailored to the anatomy, physiology and genetics of that individual, for patient-specific diagnosis and treatment.\n\nThe talk will describe, in particular, the development of the Auckland heart model and various applications by ABI researchers of other organ systems modelling in medical diagnostics, virtual surgery, surgical training and surgical planning.
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DTSTART:20070803T000000
DTEND:20070804T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:Research Seminar, Caulfield School of Information Technology
LOCATION:Seminar Room, H7.84
DESCRIPTION:Peer to peer stands for the new array of bottom-up processes that are changing the worlds of production, governance, and distribution.We will attempt to provide an in-depth explanation of what these changes mean for individuals, organisations, and societies. In particular, we will look at the following issues that are key to understanding its social importance: to what degree is peer to peer immanent in the current system, i.e. an expression of a new participative capitalism, and to what degree is it transcendent in the current system, i.e. a harbinger of a profound shift in our political economy in civilization, towards a format where p2p processes will be the core of social innovation? In other words: what is the potential for this current subsystem to become the new meta-system. Can it reverse the current reliance on conceptions of pseudo-abundance in the natural world, and artificial scarcity in the cultural world, into its opposite? Peer to peer has indeed the promise to create a political economy based on the free flow of cultural exchange, within the context of a steady-state material economy.
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DTSTART:20070717T000000
DTEND:20070718T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:Making intelligent beings believe they are elsewhere: A Low Latency Virtual-Reality Display System
LOCATION:Building: 26, Room: 135, Clayton Campus
DESCRIPTION:A grand challenge of computing was to produce a system in which a person is immersed in a computer generated virtual world and can believe and behave appropriately in that world. To achieve that we have to replace the usual sensory inputs with computer generated ones. A fundamental problem in doing so is to get high quality, photo-realistic images in front of the user's eyes quickly enough. In this seminar I present a research methodology that provided new insight into the problem, overturning the conventional wisdom, and outline a novel path to its solution, drawing on ideas dating back to the ancient Greeks.\n\nWith the new conceptual basis in place, a rigorous system-based engineering approach was employed to design and build a working prototype that demonstrates the efficacy of the new concepts. Aspects of computer science, computer systems engineering, software engineering, electronics, perceptual psychology, human-computer interaction, and even network engineering have been applied to create the system and investigate its applications.
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20070713T000000
DTEND:20070714T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:Collaborative Computing on the Internet: Opportunities and Challenges
LOCATION:CASIT Seminar Room, H7.84
DESCRIPTION:Internet is at the core of information revolution which changes the way we communicate, work, learn, do business, and play. A major trend is to use the Internet to enhance human-to-human communication, interaction, and collaboration. In over 10 years, we have been researching and developing technologies and applications that allow multiple users to edit shared text/graphics/image/multimedia/CAD/CASE documents at the same time over the Internet. These systems are not only useful applications in their own right, but also serve as research vehicles for exploring a range of challenging issues in building advanced collaborative applications. One such issue is consistency maintenance of shared documents under the constraints of high responsiveness, high concurrency, and high communication latency in the Internet environment.\n\nIn the first part of my talk, I shall show why existing consistency criteria and concurrency control techniques in traditional distributed applications are not suitable to Internet-based collaborative applications. Then, I shall present a collaborative consistency model consisting of three properties - causality preservation, convergence, and intention preservation. Moreover, an optimistic concurrency control technique, named operational transformation (OT), shall be discussed.\n\nIn the second part, I shall report our work on integrating state-of-the-art collaborative technology (e.g. OT) into commercial off-the-shelf single-user applications without making any change to the original application. We have converted Microsoft Word and PowerPoint into CoWord and CoPowerPoint (http://cooffice.ntu.edu.sg/coword), which support multiple users to view and edit the same documents at the same time over the Internet. We are currently working toward a new generation of collaborative technologies and applications that will unify single-user and multi-user applications, desktop and web-based applications, real-time and non-real-time collaborative applications, and provide all-dimension scalability and all-round interaction experiences to users.
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20070705T000000
DTEND:20070706T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:Preliminary Results of an Empirical Study on mobile phone users in Beijing
LOCATION:Seminar Room, H7.84, Caulfield Campus
DESCRIPTION:The diffusion and adoption of the mobile phone has been exceptionally fast in Mainland China, especially in the capital Beijing and the costal industrialized towns. With more than 430 millions of mobile phones, China represents now the biggest market and one of the world’s leading ICT nations. While a considerable amount of papers devoted to the study of ICTs in China is already available, here we present a quantitative research specifically focussed on the world of the mobile phone. Based on face-to-face questionnaires, administered to a convenient sample of 487 respondents, in which however the quotas for gender, age and occupation have been controlled, this study starts from the following research question: are there remarkable differences in attitudes, behaviour and practices of use of the mobile phone in China, in comparison with Europe?\n\nThe purpose of this study is to investigate the following areas: to what extent the functions of the mobile phone are exploited by users, what are the criteria of acquisition of this device, its costs and the practices of SMS use, the influence of the mobile phone on maintenance and development of this network, its social practices in public spaces, the symbolic meaning of the mobile phone and its assessment in comparison with the other technologies of information and communication. Although the convenient sample with 487 respondents can hardly provide a basis to generalise theoretically the attitudes, behaviour, and the mobile phone uses in China Mainland, it might serve as an exploratory basis to understand the general pattern of the mobile uses in China. Thus the data presented here could be useful in leading us to inquire deeper future into various aspects of the mobile phone uses of the Beijing city, a city with 100 percent of penetration rate.\n\nWe guess that the preliminary results which we intend to present and discuss will be sufficient to give an overview of this empirical research.
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DTSTART:20070724T000000
DTEND:20070725T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:gEclipse - An integrated, Grid enabled workbench tool for Grid
LOCATION:Building: 26, Room: 135, Clayton
DESCRIPTION:This seminar introduces into the g-Eclipse framework which will provide an integrated Grid environment for Grid users, Grid operators and Grid developers. The g-Eclipse tool will be built on top of the open source Eclipse framework, and will bring together expertise from the academic Grid community and from the Eclipse community. The latter has a deep commercial penetration in the Information Technology industry. The g-Eclipse integrated Grid environment will allow user-friendly access to Grid resources by making the complexity of the Grid invisible. The architecture of the g-Eclipse framework will be designed for reuse and extension to allow for easy adaptation by new Grid applications. The g-Eclipse project addresses three major groups in the Grid domain: Grid users will benefit from the Windows-like access to Grid resources; Grid operators and resource providers will be able to reduce the time-to-service by the Grid management and Grid site configuration tools; and Grid application developers will reduce the time-to-market for new Grid applications by accelerating the development and deployment cycle. The g-Eclipse workbench has the potential to be an integral part of the future researcher's workstation.
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20070626T000000
DTEND:20070627T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:Your bank balance is outsourced - How banks can make it secure?
LOCATION:Building: 26, Room: 135, Clayton Campus
DESCRIPTION:In the last three decades or so organisations have moved from online data processing, knowledge discovery (data mining) to outsourcing paradigm. The first two paradigms were primarily driven by the desire to understand the market segments thereby increasing the sales and the profit. Due to the developments in internet technology and and the increase in network bandwidth, many organisations are using outsourcing as their new information technology paradigm to reduce their operational cost. This paradigm is normally translated into purchasing the information technology needs of an organisation from Application Service Providers (ASP). The current manifestation of this paradigm isthe outsourcing of an organisation's data resources, the so calledbackend operations. The service provider will takecomplete control in providing both the hardware and software requirements for running the client's data and at the same time, allowing the client to create, modify and query the data. The security requirements in such outsourced databases differ from that of conventional in-house databases. This talk will list the issues, some possible solutionsand the research challenges in providing security for outsourced information systems.
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DTSTART:20070622T000000
DTEND:20070623T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:Gazing into the ICT ball - a glimpse of the future
LOCATION:Seminar Room, H7.84 Caulfield Campus
DESCRIPTION:New implementations, new devices, new functionality, and heading toward the ultimate ubiquitous network access with all kinds of devices. How will this unfold over the next few years?\n\nThe Communication Revolution is now reaching maturity and many research breakthroughs are now being implemented in devices which will result in the ICT landscape looking very different 5 years into the future.\n\nCurrent buzzword such as convergence, pervasive, ubiquitous, embedded,seamless, smart devices will no longer be news but common practice.\n\nNew standards, such as MPEG7, make possible truly interactive-TV. New implementations make possible truly pervasive systems and roaming access.\n\nThese and concepts such as Mobile Box Office, Mobile Tickets, eWallet,networked kitchens, i-TV, metaverse, anywhere, anytime, anyhow will be covered.
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DTSTART:20070615T000000
DTEND:20070616T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:Addressing industry needs through the development of eLearning
LOCATION:Seminar Room Building: H, Room:7.84, Caulfield
DESCRIPTION:IT integration and eBusiness have been the catalysts in the surge of interestsurrounding supply chains. Teaching tertiary students about supply chain management (SCM) practices and technologies is now becoming increasingly important in information systems (IS) and business/commerce curricula. To address the industry need for competent eBusiness and supply chain management professionals, an integrated curriculum that focuses on industry relevance materials that draws a close link with industry is critical. In this seminar, I will present the strategy used in developing such a curriculum, including the use of animations, video-based interviews, role-playing simulations and interactive problem based assignments. I will also argue that these approaches to teaching are grounded in well-established constructivist epistemologies of learning, as well as theories such as experiential learning theory. I will also present anecdotal evidence of the potential effectiveness of these approaches based on students' comments and recent survey, in addition to the challenges we encountered when developing such multimedia-based learning resources.
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DTSTART:20070605T000000
DTEND:20070606T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:Combinatorial Constraint Optimization with Stochastic
LOCATION:Building: 26, Room: 135, Clayton
DESCRIPTION:Stochastic meta-heuristics are widely used for combinatorial optimization in industrial and scientific applications. A long-standing problem with these methods has been how to handle hard constraints effectively. Generally, this entails the design and implementation of problem- specific repair methods, feasibility maintaining neighbourhood functions etc. This step requires significant expertise and is usually performed with ad-hoc methods, a problem which in practice often results in an inadequate "off-the-shelf" application of meta-heuristics. Hybridization with constraint programming, an exact technique for solving hard constraints, promises a new solution for constraint optimization with stochastic meta-heuristics. The talk discusses how such an integration can be achieved and explores different forms of couplings. An empirical evaluation demonstrates performance advantages of the hybrid algorithms for problems of intermediate tightness. An important aspect is that the proposed hybrid algorithms are merely some instances of a general framework for the integration of constraint programming with model-based constructive meta-heuristics. The talk will sketch the extension of a general framework to the wider context of Estimation of Distribution Algorithms. From a conceptual perspective, arguably the most important aspect of this approach is that it introduces declarative problem models into meta-heuristics. This opens a way to fine-tune their function for a new problem domain in a systematic way. It constitutes an important step towards greater ease-of-use of stochastic meta-heuristics, thus reducing the risk of inadequate "off-the-shelf" application.
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DTSTART:20070529T000000
DTEND:20070530T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:The Epistemology of Simulation
LOCATION:Building: 26, Room: 135, Clayton
DESCRIPTION:In recent decades computer simulation has spread from an esoteric concern of meteorologists and econometricians to a vital tool in economic planning, environmental debates, ecological modeling, and indeed almost every science. As computer simulation has grown in importance, philosophers have felt the need to address what can and cannot be learned from simulations. Some claim simulation has nothing empirical to tell us. More claim an entirely new epistemology is required to make sense of simulation science, that simulation science should well and truly reconstruct how we make sense of science. I shall present a thoroughly deflationary account of simulation: that simulations can be understood in just the same terms as we do traditional empirical methods in science. In consequence, computer simulation is a universal empirical tool applicable to every science.
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DTSTART:20070528T000000
DTEND:20070529T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:ICTs: Lab to Land
LOCATION:H Building Lecture Theatre, H2.37, Caulfield
DESCRIPTION:Project URL: www.dil.iitb.ac.in\n\nDevelopmental Informatics is the study of (a) how access to internet and communication technologies (ICTs) can be increased and (b) how ICTs can help speed the socio-economic development of underserved populations.\n\nAt IIT Bombay, we are studying a) the design and evaluation of web and mobile applications for resource constrained environments, (b) visual and product design, (c) cross-lingual information retrieval and translation, (d) improving information dissemination protocols over the internet, catering for low bandwidth and small devices, (e) ethnographic studies emphasizing the study of social & cultural factors influencing interaction design of applications for e-learning and use of computers in education and (f) involving rural communities and planning strategies for scaling up those innovations that have demonstrated rural user demand through government or private sector participation.\n\nIn this talk I will discuss some of these topics, drawing upon experiences from several core projects broadly in the areas of agriculture and education, each involving academic, industrial, government and village community partners.
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DTSTART:20070525T000000
DTEND:20070526T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:A Framework For Effective Independent Learning Of Programming
LOCATION:Building: H, Room: H7.84, Level 7, Caulfield Campus
DESCRIPTION:Matthew will present the current state of his research into the independent study of Programming Units. He will present an overview of literature covered to date, however will concentrate primarily on main concerns with independent study of programming and their root causes. In focusing on high concept low feedback areas such as modularity and program design, these issues can be clearly recognised and opportunities identified. The proposed approach to tackling the problems will be introduced and afforded opportunity for discussion.
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20070515T000000
DTEND:20070516T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:What's Interesting About Virtual Ecosystems?
LOCATION:Building: 63, Room: 115, Clayton Campus
DESCRIPTION:Virtual ecosystems are agent-based software simulations of theinteractions between organisms and an abiotic environment. They rangein scope from highly abstract systems based on cellular automata-like transition rules, to literal models of specific organisms and their habitats. In each case the typical approach to their construction andapplication runs roughly as follows: construct a data-structure torepresent the agents and another to represent the environment;specify the possible inter-agent interactions; specify the agent- environment interactions; specify the initial conditions... and thenlet the simulation run whilst observing the results. The aim is todemonstrate that the system is capable of exhibiting some form of"emergent" behaviour that supervenes upon the initial conditions andrules of interaction that the programmer has established. The systemmay be used to test hypotheses about the necessary and sufficientconditions for the emergence of such phenomena in the natural world. This seminar presents a (biased) overview of approaches adopted byresearchers who have explored virtual ecosystems. It demonstrates afew diverse systems that the presenter has himself developed alongwith his personal views as to why these models are "interesting". Apreview of a new virtual ecosystem being developed by the author isalso presented for comment.
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DTSTART:20070508T000000
DTEND:20070509T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:Minimizing Open Stacks
LOCATION:Building: 63, Room: 115 Clayton Campus
DESCRIPTION:This talk discusses a dynamic programming solution to the problem of minimizing the maximum number of open stacks, a resource-planning problem that appears not only in manufacturing industries but also in other interesting situations such as scheduling the execution of SAT clauses. Starting from a call based dynamic program, we show a number of ways to improve the dynamic programming search, pre-process the problem to simplify it, and to determine lower and upper bounds. We then explore a number of search strategies for reducing the search space. The final dynamic programming solution is highly effective.
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DTSTART:20070504T000000
DTEND:20070505T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:Preaching the Teaching: Do the Politics & Religion of teaching
LOCATION:Room H7.84, Building H, Level 7, Caulfield Campus
DESCRIPTION:There is widespread debate about the meaning of the phrase "research- led teaching."\n\nMonash University (amongst others) is placing increased emphasis upon the value of research,while arguing that teaching is not to be seen as a second class activity for academics. In this seminar we explore "research-led teaching", "teaching-led research," and the teaching-research nexus,and show that it is the balance between these concepts that should define the modern academic job description.\n\nA project called Perceptions and performance: ICT at Monash University was carried out in the faculty during 2006 that looked at student and staff perceptions of the teaching and learning environment. The final report can be found at http://cerg.infotech.monash.edu.au. We will be looking at some of the data from the staff interviews and the consequences of this for how we think about the teaching and research nexus.\n\nWe will look at the overall response patterns of those who were interviewed and then we will move onto the issue of the relevance of this to the idea of scholarship of teaching one of the suggested ways that teaching is made respectable within research oriented universities.\n\nFrom this we will develop an overall model that explores the interface between the pragmatic world of the teacher and the conceptual world of the educationalist. This helps generate directions for further work in this area.\n\nParticipants will find value in reading (at least) the executive summary of the report before the seminar.
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20070501T000000
DTEND:20070502T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:'e-Science and Cyberinfrastructure'
LOCATION:Lecture Theatre S9, Building: 25, Clayton Campus
DESCRIPTION:In the future, frontier research in many fields will increasingly require the collaboration of globally distributed groups of researchers needing access to distributed computing, data resources and support for remote access to expensive, multi-national specialized facilities such as telescopes and accelerators or specialist data archives. In the context of science and engineering, this is the ‘e-Science’ agenda. Robust middleware services will be widely deployed on top of the academic research networks to constitute the necessary ‘Cyberinfrastructure’ to provide a collaborative research environment for the global academic community. This talk will review the elements of this vision and describe how the scientists and engineers are collaborating with computer scientists and the IT industry to create the new e-Infrastructure. This new Cyberinfrastructure will clearly be of relevance to more than just the research community and will support both the e-learning and digital library communities as well as many business applications. This technology is likely also to change the nature of scientific publication with institutional or subject repositories linked to digital archives containing the primary research data.
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DTSTART:20070427T000000
DTEND:20070428T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:Using Information Technology to support the resolution of disputes
LOCATION:Seminar Room, H7.84, Caulfield Campus
DESCRIPTION:The Economist Magazine (Technology Quarterly, 12 March 2005: 21-22) in an article AI am the Law said: ËœSoftware that gives legal advice should shake up the legal profession by dispensing faster and fairer justice, Further the introduction of smarter programs, capable of not just assisting lawyers but actually performing some of their functions, could turn the profession on its head. Such software could both improve access to justice and massively reduce legal costs, both for the client and the courts. We discuss how software we have developed can both help increase access to justice and support the negotiation of disputes. ËœFamily Winner" is a conflict resolution software package that assists divorcees to rationally negotiate their disputes. It uses a combination of argumentation theory, artificial intelligence and game theory. It does this by advising rational options for trade-offs of assets, between the opposing parties.ËœFamily Winner" won the November 16 2005 episode of ABC TV's New Inventors program.
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DTSTART:20070420T000000
DTEND:20070421T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:Sensors Networks and Mobile DeviceS Optimizing Resources
LOCATION:CauSIT Seminar room, H7.84, Caulfield Campus
DESCRIPTION:One of the key challenges in a sensor network is to achieve data collection of sensor data in a cost efficient manner. We propose the use of context aware intelligent mobile devices present within the infrastructures, as data carriers that collect data from sensor nodes distributed within the environment. These mobile devices have enough spare capacity and bandwidth to form a distributed access network opening up a number of new application and challenges. We hence try to envision a heterogeneous network comprising sensor nodes and context aware mobile devices.
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DTSTART:20070413T000000
DTEND:20070414T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:Performance Evaluation Meets Statistical Learning in Grid Computing Environments
LOCATION:CauSIT Seminar Room, H7.84, Caulfield
DESCRIPTION:The main theme of this talk is on the applications of statistics and machine learning techniques in solving performance related problems in Grid computing environments. Two important and closely related topics in performance evaluation are covered, namely, workload modeling and performance predictions. Three main research contributions and results are elaborated: firstly, job arrivals are studied as stochastic point processes and the modeling of long range dependent (LRD) job traffic is discussed in detail. Secondly, a new algorithm for generating correlated workload attributes is introduced, which combines model based clustering and a novel localized sampling algorithm. By combining job arrivals and attributes such as run time a comprehensive workload model for data-intensive Grid environments can be derived. Thirdly, a local learning framework is introduced for performance predictions on space-shared resources. Potentially useful performance metrics are introduced and techniques are proposed for improving prediction accuracy and performance. Some recent reseach issues such as workload-aware and prediction-aware Grid scheduling strategies are also discussed briefly.
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20070405T000000
DTEND:20070406T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:The Role of AI in Shaping Smart Services and Smart Systems
LOCATION:CauSIT Seminar Room Building: H7.84, Caulfield
DESCRIPTION:Services and Systems must include a set of features to remain competent and future conformant: intelligent behaviour, personalisation, adaptivity, scalability, manageability, ease of use and user friendliness, security, and self-healing capabilities. As a consequence, new architectural models are needed, which provide the users with access to a cognitive behaviour aspect of the system, and which may draw inspiration from the brain sciences. On the other hand, we have to use knowledge representation and semantic modeling, e.g., ontologies for representing our environment or basic properties of services and systems. This would naturally involve Agent Technology, AI, and Software Technology. So, approaches from many different disciplines have to work in integration. Integrated frameworks handling such different aspects are called "Serviceware Frameworks". They contain a scalable Service Architecture, which facilitates merging different selected features into a service, as well as a scalable so-called Service Engine with a Serviceware Infrastructure. For creating Smart Services and Smart Systems, we use engineering approaches that include innovative service description languages and tools. In this presentation, a framework with the properties and features just described will be presented. A sample application developed with this framework will also be presented: the "Smart Energy Assistant".
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DTSTART:20070403T000000
DTEND:20070404T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:Joint work with a million people G12: From solver independent models to efficient solutions
LOCATION:Lecture Theatre S10, Building: 25, Clayton Campus
DESCRIPTION:The G12 project at National ICT Australia (NICTA)is an ambitious project to develop a software platform for solving large scale industrial combinatorial optimisation problems. The core design involves three languages: Zinc, Cadmium and Mercury (Group 12 of the periodic table). Zinc is a declarative modelling language for expressing problems, independent of any solving methodology. Cadmium is a mapping language for mapping Zinc models to underlying solvers and/or search strategies, including hybrid approaches. Finally, existing Mercury will be extended as a language for building extensible and hybridizable solvers. The same Zinc model, used with different Cadmium mappings, will allow us to experiment with different complete, local, or hybrid search approaches for the same problem. This talk will explain the G12 global design, the G12 objectives, and our progress so far.
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20070330T000000
DTEND:20070331T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:A second tech wreck? IT education in Victorian universities
LOCATION:Building: H, Room: 7.84, Caulfield campus
DESCRIPTION:There has been ample anecdotal evidence that IT education in the tertiary sector has fallen on hard times in recent years. However there has been relatively little published data or analysis of what is happening with IT education in universities. This seminar traces the evolution of IT education in Victorian universities from 1990 to the present day, across all the IT disciplines. It examines the changes in the nature of the IT courses offered, and their changing patterns of popularity in terms of student preferences. It highlights the consequent impact on numbers of enrolled students and student 'quality'. The seminar concludes with a brief assessment of the ways in which universities seem to be dealing with these changes, and some idle speculation on future developments. Audience members will be encouraged to contribute their own thoughts.
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20070313T000000
DTEND:20070314T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:Compression and Analysis of Biological Sequences. Why and How
LOCATION:Building: 75, Seminar Room: G55, Clayton Campus
DESCRIPTION:Compression can be rather addictive. It has an obvious ``figure of merit'' -- the compressed sizeof some standard data-set, and it is natural to strive to beat your competitors on this measure. Biological sequences are hard to compress; the more compression the better but there is usually limited value in fighting over the third significant digit. Other properties of a compression method can be just as important or more important. This talk gives some reasons why it is challenging, interesting and useful to compress biological sequences. It also presents two simple models for compressing biological sequences (a possible sub-addiction in compression is to complicated models, but simple is often good); we get good results for DNA and protein.
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DTSTART:20070220T000000
DTEND:20070221T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:Computational methods for protease biology
LOCATION:Building: 75, Room: G55, Clayton Campus
DESCRIPTION:Proteases are enzymes that modify proteins.They are ubiquitous in all forms of life, controlling biological process as diverse as growth and development, digestion, immunity, and ultimately cell death.In addition, they are implicated in many diseases including autoimmune diseases, cancers, infections and blood disorders.Thus, in-depth understanding how proteases function is essential for us to learn how biological processes are regulated, how diseases develop, and how we can design effective protease inhibitors to treat such diseases.\n\nUnfortunately, protease research is time-consuming and costly, because of the complexity of the proteases themselves, and also the processes that they regulate.To address these problems, we have developed a computational system called PoPS: Prediction of ProteaseSpecificity(http://pops.csse.monash.edu.au/).PoPS allows researchers to investigate and understand how their favourite protease functions.In particular, PoPS allows users to create a mathematical model of any protease based on any source of knowledge from laboratory experiments through to 'expert knowledge'.The PoPS model can then be used with the PoPS tools to reason about known functions of the protease, and/or predict novel roles.\n\nIn this talk, I will describe the PoPS protease model and computational tools, with examples of how this system has been applied to some specific medical research projects.I will then describe new computational challenges that we are facing in the analysis and interpretation of experimental data, and understanding and prediction of complex biological processes.
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20070219T000000
DTEND:20070220T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:The Era of Human Computing
LOCATION:Building: H, Room: HB40, Basement of Building H, Caulfield
DESCRIPTION:As computing technology has become more powerful, more connected, and more ubiquitous, we've seen an acceleration of research - and progress - on "human scale computing," using computing to assist and augment how people naturally work, play and go about their daily lives. Computers can help us see, remember, find information, communicate, and interact with the world around us. Computing can also be our guardian angel, watching over our shoulder and keeping us safe. While we still have a long way to go before computers can do everything that people can do, today they increasingly play a complementary role to our own abilities and are truly capable of changing people's lives for the better.
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