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ANNUAL REPORT 05 to the Australian Government Section 1 Milestone Report 7 ANNUAL REPORT TO THE AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT .......................................................................... 8 NICTA’S MISSION ................................................................................................................................. 9 ABBREVIATIONS ................................................................................................................................ 10 DECLARATION ................................................................................................................................... 13 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY....................................................................................................................... 14 HIGHLIGHTS ...................................................................................................................................... 16 CHAIRMAN’S REPORT........................................................................................................................ 18 CEO’S REPORT .................................................................................................................................. 19 CHIEF SCIENTIST’S REPORT ............................................................................................................... 20 ABOUT NATIONAL ICT AUSTRALIA ...................................................................................................... 22 GOVERNANCE ................................................................................................................................... 23 NICTA SITES ...................................................................................................................................... 25 1. CORPORATE ACTIVITIES.............................................................................................................. 26 2. RESEARCH MANAGEMENT ......................................................................................................... 37 3. RESEARCH TRAINING ................................................................................................................. 47 4. COMMERCIALISATION ................................................................................................................ 59 5. NETWORKS AND LINKAGES ........................................................................................................ 68 6. FINANCIAL ADMINISTRATION ...................................................................................................... 80 7. ACCOMMODATION ..................................................................................................................... 84 8. MILESTONES TABLE 2005 .......................................................................................................... 89 Section 2 Research Report 99 GENERAL APPROACH TO RESEARCH ................................................................................................ 100 RESEARCH PROGRAM REPORTS ...................................................................................................... 103 Autonomous Systems and Sensor Technology ...................................................................104 Embedded, Real-time, and Operating Systems ...................................................................108 Empirical Software Engineering ........................................................................................112 Formal Methods ..............................................................................................................116 2 Knowledge Representation and Reasoning ........................................................................124 Logic and Computation ....................................................................................................129 Network Information Processing .......................................................................................133 Network Technologies .....................................................................................................136 Networks and Pervasive Computing ..................................................................................140 Safeguarding Australia ....................................................................................................144 Sensor Networks .............................................................................................................147 Statistical Machine Learning ...........................................................................................150 Symbolic Machine Learning and Knowledge Acquisition ......................................................153 Systems Engineering and Complex Systems ......................................................................156 Wireless Signal Processing ..............................................................................................160 PROJECT PORTFOLIO ..................................................................................................................... 164 PROJECT OUTCOMES ...................................................................................................................... 165 ATP 002 Visualisation and Interaction Collaborative Access Table ....................................167 ATP 003 Practical Software Process Control ...................................................................168 ATP 004 Risk Analysis for Government IT Projects ..........................................................169 ATP 005 Ambient Networks ...........................................................................................170 ATP 006 Modelling Theory for Sensor Networks within Dynamic Landscapes ....................171 ATP 007 Quality of Service Mapping for Pervasive Networks ............................................172 ATP 008 Impact of CMMI Software Process Improvement on SMEs .................................174 ATP 009 Integrated ICT Solutions for Rural and Remote Access (Office in a Box) .............................................................................................175 ATP 010 Visualisation and Analysis of Large and Complex Networks ................................176 ATP 011 Perceptually Effective Multimodal Interfaces .....................................................177 ATP 012 Personal Universal Communicator ...................................................................178 ATP 013 Component Architecture for Microkernel-Based Embedded Systems ...................179 ATP 014 Models and Extensible Architectures for Adaptive Middleware Platforms ............180 ATP 015 XQoS System .................................................................................................181 ATP 016 LIXI Business Processes .................................................................................182 ATP 019 Macro-programming for Wireless Sensor Networks ...........................................183 ATP 021 Data Mining in Spatio-temporal sets (DMiST) ...................................................184 CAN 001 Fundamental Limits of Wireless .......................................................................186 3 ANNUAL REPORT 05 to the Australian Government 4 CAN 002 Humans Understanding Logic and Computation.................................................187 CAN 003 Dynamic Planning Optimisation and Learning ....................................................188 CAN 004 Ubiquitous Robot Project .................................................................................189 CAN 006 Ultra Wideband ...............................................................................................190 CAN 007 Last Metre Problem ........................................................................................191 CAN 008 GymAware ......................................................................................................192 CAN 009 High Performance Multi-User Detection ............................................................193 CAN 010 Propositional Satisfiability ...............................................................................194 CAN 011 Document Analysis and Understanding .............................................................195 CAN 012 Supercom Model-Based Supervision of Composite Systems ..............................196 CAN 013 Surveillance System with Query Capability ........................................................197 CAN 014 Automated Anatomical Structure Extraction for Diagnosis and Population Norms .....................................................................................198 CAN 015 Smart Cars ....................................................................................................200 CAN 016 Advanced Nonlinear Gradient Methods .............................................................201 CAN 017 Spectral Image Source Mapping Systems .........................................................202 CAN 018 Road Safety Driver Drowsiness Detection ........................................................203 CAN 019 Notes on Algorithms for Summarising and Querying Time-Varying Relations from Digital Forensic Data .............................................204 CAN 020 Mapping Genetic Components in Crops ............................................................205 CAN 021 Validating Networks Semantics ........................................................................206 CAN 024 Cancer Genomics............................................................................................207 CAN 026 Computer Colonic Polyps Detection based on CT Colonography ..........................208 CAN 027 Characterisation, Diagnosis, and Assurance of Health and Quality of Sensor Formations ....................................................................209 KEN 002 Learning and Representation ..........................................................................210 KEN 003 Universal Storage Scheme ...............................................................................211 KEN 004 Embedded Next-Generation Global Navigation Satellite System Platform .............212 KEN 006 Microkernel-Protected Firmware for CDMA Phones .............................................213 KEN 007 Digital Audio Networking .................................................................................214 KEN 008 Video Analysis and Content Management for Surveillance..................................215 KEN 009 Secure Embedded L4 ......................................................................................217 KEN 010 Goanna Pilot Project ........................................................................................218 KEN011 L4.verified ......................................................................................................219 KEN 012 Temporal Verification of Microkernels ...............................................................220 KEN 013 Formal Methods for Performance Evaluation for Wireless Network Applications .......................................................................................221 QLD 002 Disaster Prediction, Response, and Recovery ..................................................222 QLD 007 Digital License Management ............................................................................223 VIC 002 Broadband to the User ....................................................................................224 VIC 003 Constraint Programming Platform ....................................................................226 VIC 004 Interactive Information Discovery and Delivery ..................................................227 VICsub1 Gigabit Wireless Access (GiFi) ..........................................................................228 VICsub2 Managing and Monitoring the Internet .............................................................229 NSW 001 Priority Challenge Strategic Project: Smart Transport and Roads .......................230 VIC 001 Priority Challenge Strategic Project: Water Information Networks ........................232 Section 3. Financial Report 234 Section 4: Information Annexes 278 KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATORS ..................................................................................................... 279 NICTA PROJECT LIST AT 30 JUNE 2005 ............................................................................................ 282 NICTA PROJECTS BY COLLABORATOR – FORMAL ............................................................................. 285 NICTA RESEARCH STAFF BY PROGRAM............................................................................................. 289 NSW Research Laboratory Staff by Program .....................................................................290 ACT Research Laboratory Staff by Program ......................................................................295 Victoria Research Laboratory Staff by Program .................................................................298 Brisbane Research Laboratory Staff by Program ...............................................................301 RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS .............................................................................................................. 302 NICTA PHD RESEARCH STUDENTS AT 31 DECEMBER 2005 .............................................................. 352 Sydney Research Laboratories – ATP and Kensington ........................................................352 ACT Research Laboratory .................................................................................................356 VIC Research Laboratory .................................................................................................359 QLD Research Laboratory ...............................................................................................361 5 ANNUAL REPORT 05 to the Australian Government COURSES OFFERED IN 2005 ........................................................................................................... 362 CONFERENCE AND WORKSHOP PARTICIPATION ................................................................................ 364 RESEARCH AND TEACHING VISITORS ............................................................................................... 386 RESEARCH OR TEACHING VISITS TO INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTIONS .................................................. 394 RESEARCH RECOGNITION – INVITED TALKS....................................................................................... 403 MEMBERSHIP OF PROGRAM COMMITTEES FOR MAJOR PROFESSIONAL CONFERENCES...................... 412 MEMBERSHIP OF EDITORIAL BOARDS FOR JOURNALS ...................................................................... 432 PRIZES, AWARDS AND RECOGNITIONS ............................................................................................. 436 MEMBERSHIP OF ACADEMIES .......................................................................................................... 439 NICTA MEDIA AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ........................................................................................ 440 6 1 Milestone Report ANNUAL REPORT 05 to the Australian Government ANNUAL REPORT 05 to the Australian Government The Annual Report is a reporting obligation on the part of NICTA to the Commonwealth of Australia stemming from the Funding Deed between the two parties. The Annual Report covers the 2005 calendar year. In simplified terms, the Funding Deed requires the following elements to be included in the Annual Report: Requirement Details A declaration detailing progress and performance against the relevant objectives, activities, milestones, and performance indicators specified in the Deed and the Annual Activity Plan (AAP) for the calendar year Part I, Declaration Details showing the extent to which NICTA’s activities were consistent with its Intellectual Property Policy document for the management and commercialisation of intellectual property (IP) Part I, Pages 57–8 A declaration certifying that all Funds received were expended for the purpose of the Project and in accordance with the Deed and that the Australian Research Council (ARC) Funds have been expended only in accordance with the relevant approved funding proposal under the ARC Act Part I, Declaration An acquittal of Funds payments for the previous calendar year in the form of an audited financial statement for the accounts with: Part III n a statement as to whether the financial accounts are true and fair; n an audit statement that the Funds were expended for the purpose of the Project and in accordance with the Deed, separately specifying Department of Communications, Information Technology and the Arts (DCITA) Funds and the ARC Funds; n a breakdown of the expenditure of the Departmental Funds and the ARC Funds; and n identification of any unexpended Departmental Funds and unexpended ARC Funds. A breakdown of Funds spent before the end of the calendar year and Funds spent after the end of the calendar year in respect of commitments entered into before the end of the calendar year Part III An audited statement detailing the value of cash and in-kind contributions to NICTA with an explanation of how the value was derived Part III Audited general purpose financial reports for NICTA as a whole for the previous calendar year, including an accounting of GST paid or payable to the Australian Taxation Office Part III Details of Asset disposals Part III Details of the public acknowledgments of Commonwealth support for NICTA Information annex, Media and Acknowledgments Details of determinations made in respect of the communication of research results Part I, Pages 57-8 No determinations have been made outside the prevailing IP Policy process governing publications Any activity taken to communicate research results to the research community and/or the general public 8 Part IV NICTA’S MISSION TO BE AN ENDURING WORLD-CLASS INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE THAT GENERATES NATIONAL BENEFIT. NICTA’s Vision Our vision is that our imaginative research drives Australia’s ICT future. Our Objectives: NICTA was established in 2002 to drive innovation through high-quality research and technology transfer. Our RESEARCH objective Deliver research that advances knowledge, is recognised for its excellence and generates breakthrough, user-focused technologies. Our COMMERCIALISATION objective Facilitate technology transfer and create channels to market for NICTA research. Our PEOPLE objective Bring together world-class researchers and professional staff, enhance their skills, and build a culture of entrepreneurship and achievement in use-inspired basic research that will build Australia’s ICT capacity. Our EDUCATION objective Work with universities to provide Australia with ICT researchers who have deep technical expertise supported by strong professional and business skills. Our LINKAGES objective Increase our impact and results by working with targeted research, government, education, industry and domain partners. Build an organisation based on use-inspired research to bring together the best of the academic and business worlds. NICTA’s research focus and operations will ensure that our results and intellectual property benefits the broader society and economy. NICTA is building a durable world-class ICT research institute with the capability to deliver quality research geared to the fundamentals of today’s – and tomorrow’s – market. 9 ANNUAL REPORT 05 to the Australian Government ABBREVIATIONS 10 ADFA Australian Defence Force Academy AIST National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology ANU Australian National University ARC Australian Research Council CeNTIE Centre for Networking Technologies for the Information Economy CSE School of Computer Science and Engineering, UNSW CU Curtin University CUBIN ARC Special Research Centre for Ultra Broadband Information Networks DSD Defence Signals Directorate DSRD NSW Department of State and Regional Development DSTO Defence Science and Technology Organisation ECU Edith Cowan University EE&T Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications Department, UNSW EIA Electronics Industry Association ETH Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (Zurich) EQoS End-to-End Quality of Service ICSE International Conference on Software Engineering ICT Information and Communications Technology IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers IESE Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering INRIA French National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control ISAG International Science Advisory Group ITR Institute for Telecommunications Research, University of South Australia NAIST Nara Institute of Science and Technology NEMO Internet Engineering Task Force, Network Mobility NII National Institute for Informatics NTNU Norwegian Institute of Science and Technology RIRDB Rural Industries Research and Development Board RMCC Research Management Coordination Committee RMPCG Risk Management Planning and Coordination Group RSISE Research School of Information Sciences and Engineering, ANU RTA Roads and Traffic Authority SINTEF Foundation for Scientific and Industrial Research at the Norwegian Institute of Technology SITCRC Smart Internet Technology Cooperative Research Centre SVRC Software Verification Research Centre, University of Queensland TMC Transport Management Centre TNL Terabit Networking Library TRL Telstra Research Laboratories TUM Technical University Munich UA University of Adelaide UNSW University of New South Wales USA University of South Australia USYD University of Sydney UWA University of Western Australia WATRI Western Australia Telecommunications Research Institute NICTA Programs ASSeT Autonomous Systems and Sensor Technologies ERTOS Embedded, Real-Time, and Operating Systems ESE Empirical Software Engineering FM Formal Methods IMAGEN Interfaces, Machines, and Graphic Environments KRR Knowledge Representation and Reasoning LC Logic and Computation NIP Network Information Processing NPC Networks and Pervasive Computing NT Network Technologies SA Safeguarding Australia SEACS Systems Engineering and Complex Systems SMLKA Symbolic Machine Learning and Knowledge Acquisition SML Statistical Machine Learning SN Sensor Networks WSP Wireless Signal Processing 11 ANNUAL REPORT 05 to the Australian Government Other Abbreviations 12 AI Artificial Intelligence AMI Ambient Multimodal Interaction CMMI Capability Maturity Model Integration EiR Entrepreneurs in Residence FoN Friends of NICTA GNSS Global Navigation Satellite System IP Intellectual Property MIMO Multiple-Input Multiple-Output MMUI Multi-Modal User Interaction MMVC Multimedia and Visual Communication MOU Memorandum of Understanding OHS Occupational Health and Safety RUNES Reconfigurable Ubiquitous Networked Embedded Systems TPHOLS Theorem Proving in Higher Order Logics USAR Urban Search and Rescue UWB Ultra Wideband VIAR Visual Information Access Room DECLARATION We declare that: (1) this Annual Report details progress and performance for the twelve-month period to 31 December 2005 against the relevant objectives, activities, milestones, and performance indicators as specified under the Funding Deed between National ICT Australia and the Commonwealth and the Annual Activity Plan (AAP) 2005 (2) all Funds received were expended for the purpose of the Project and in accordance with this Deed, and that the Australian Research Council (ARC) Funds have been expended only in accordance with the relevant approved funding proposal under the ARC Act. ……………………………(signed) ……………………………(signed) (Neville Stevens, Chairman) (Dr David Skellern, CEO) 13 ANNUAL REPORT 05 to the Australian Government EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The outcomes delivered throughout 2005 have been substantial in all areas of NICTA. There are now 16 research programs running across Australia and 61 projects over the year. In addition we have launched two strategic focus projects focused on water management (the Water Information Network Project) and traffic management (the Smart Transit and Roads Project). These are designed to deliver both national benefit and commercially oriented solutions to contemporary challenges in fresh water use and the efficiency of urban traffic movement. We have also made substantial progress towards the establishment of a third strategic focus project. Our research results are reflected in the high-calibre research now emerging from our laboratories, including world-class and commercially viable techniques, algorithms, methodologies, and applications. Our use-inspired basic research agenda ensures that research projects with demonstrable benefits to industry and the community are undertaken, and that progress is constantly monitored. NICTA’s researcher recruitment has added both quantity and quality to Australia’s ICT research capability. There has been a modest shift towards a larger number of engineers and programmers in our recruitment during the year which reflects demand for these skills within our project-based work. Numbers have grown strongly and the total number of direct and contributed staff at the end of 2005 was 364 (312 full-time equivalent). AT A GLANCE n 5 labs: Kensington, Australian Technology Park (ATP), Canberra, Victoria and Queensland n Outreach programs in Western Australia and South Australia n 16 research programs [NOTE: 18 programs in Abbreviations list.] n 61 research projects n 2 strategic focus projects n 2 Entrepreneurs in Residence n 23 current and active patent applications n 276 NICTA direct employees (Research, technical and professional support staff) n 364 (312 FTE) total employees (comprising 276 NICTA & 88 contributed staff) n 209 NICTA-endorsed students n 200 students received supervision n 23 provisional patents filed 14 We have brought together some of the world’s best researchers in significant areas of information and communications technology, including software and communications networks and systems. We are building areas of international expertise and competitive advantage. Our researchers come from universities, research institutes, and industry laboratories from 20 countries. We have provided new opportunities for local researchers, brought some talented Australians home and attracted international researchers to Australia. The growth of our education program has exceeded expectations. In 2004 we had a total of 132 students and this number increased to 209 students by the end of 2005. All NICTA laboratories experienced growth in student numbers. The Canberra Laboratory grew from 33 students to 52 by the end of the year. In NSW the number of students increased from 82 to 105. The Victoria Research Laboratory reached 47 students, while there were five PhD candidates at the Queensland Research Laboratory. In total, 209 PhD students received financial and supervisory support from NICTA and a further 200 received supervisory support. NICTA provided financial support to 78 students for short-term project work and a further 81 received supervision. Our first two PhD students graduated during the year. A further significant step forward in education was the acquisition of the short course program of the Cooperative Research Centre for Sensor Signal and Information Processing (CSSIP). This has established our industry training capability. We delivered seven courses in the second half of the year and developed the first new coursework based on NICTA capability in machine learning. We also made progress in developing our commercialisation activity to support research. Our commercialisation infrastructure is now finalised, including key personnel, intellectual property (IP) management policies and procedures, and defined internal education programs. The commercialisation pipeline has commenced through initiatives such as the Entrepreneurs in Residence (EiR) Program. The current tally of patent filings is 23, nearly double that of 2004. Our first four projects are now in the commercialisation pipeline, which represents serious new joint venture opportunities. It is only by working with industry that we can ensure that our research programs retain their focus on real-world problems and provide the appropriate path to commercialisation. Likewise, by engaging in high-calibre collaborative arrangements with other research institutions, we maintain our world-class research focus and output. Among the key outcomes for 2005 were a succession of engagements that are building alliances and communities that will take our research forward. These include establishing research collaborations with small-to-medium enterprises (SMEs) and multinational corporations, such as: n The Distillery – using document analysis based on machine learning n Seeing Machines – using computer vision technology n Qualcomm – using NICTA operating system technology with select versions of Qualcomm’s Mobile Station Modem™ (MSM™) chipsets n NEC Australia – developing a collaborative research program focusing on Super 3G and 4G mobile wireless technology n Object Consulting Software – developing process metrics n Wilcom – developing systems that will underpin its position in the global value-added clothing market n A major Australian bank – collaborating with Requirements Engineering for Strategic Alignment (RESA) n Lending Industry XML Initiative (and its 100 member companies) – working on business process modelling n CSIRO and DSTO – setting objectives in the ICT Roundtable for valuable research collaboration. 15 ANNUAL REPORT 05 to the Australian Government HIGHLIGHTS Research n We signed an agreement with Australia’s foremost comprehensive cancer centre, the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre (PMCC), to develop advanced techniques in data analysis to large sets of genomic data generated by the PMCC. n We reached a peak of 61 active projects during 2005, an increase from 39 in 2004 n We defined a national research effort in Human Computer Interfaces (HCI) with CSIRO and DSTO under the auspices of the ICT Roundtable. n We established and grew our first two strategic focus projects, WIN and STaR. n We completed key research infrastructure projects. n We released the L4 microkernel as an open source platform for embedded systems. n We released Mercury version 0.12, including support for constrained types, which is part of our constraint programming platform. [https://www.cs.mu.oz.au/research/mercury/] People n Program Leader Richard Hartley was one of 16 of Australia’s leading scientists to be honoured in March 2005 by election as a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science. n Chief Scientist Brian Anderson was awarded an honorary degree of Doctor of Engineering from the University of Newcastle. n CEO Dr David Skellern was named Engineer of the Year, by Engineers Australia. n Roland Goecke, Thesis awarded PhD of the Year 2004 Australian Speech Science and Technology Association, June, 2005. n Karl Cox received the Australian Committee on Computation and Automatic Control (ANCCAC) Award 2005. n Anbulagan won two bronze medals for Dew Satz Paper at the 8th International Conference on Theory and Applications of Satisfiability Testing in St Andrews, Scotland, in June 2005. n Anbulagan and Pham, Duc Nghia won a gold medal for SAT solver R+AdaptNovelty+ at the 8th International Conference on Theory and Applications of Satisfiability Testing in St Andrews, Scotland, in June 2005. n IMAGEN researchers won the 2005 international Graph Drawing Competition. n Maria Garcia de la Banda and Peter Stuckey from the Network Information Processing (NIP) Program won the Constraint Modelling Challenge 2005 [http://www.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~ipg/ challenge/]. n Xionan Ji, James Bailey and Guozhu Dong from the NIP Program won the Best Paper Award at the International Conference on Data Mining 2005 for their paper Mining Minimal Distinguishing Subsequence Patterns with Gap Constraints. 16 Commercialisation n We developed business plans and market analysis to support the commercialisation of our first four projects. n We launched our first product prototype, the NICTOR wireless sensor platform. n We achieved the first commercial deployment of a NICTA technology, an Open Source embedded systems operating system based on the L4 microkernel. n We successfully implemented commercialisation training and awareness events. n We expanded the EiR Program. n We established a commercialisation pipeline. Education n Our education program has exceeded expectations: 209 students were supported financially by NICTA, a marked increase from 132 students in 2004. n We established our industry training program with the acquisition of the high-calibre short course capability. n Garry Chapman received the Best Student Paper Award 2005 at the USENIX Technical Conference in Anaheim, USA. n A team of students from Interfaces, Machines, and Graphic Environments (IMAGEN) won the Siemens’ prize for Solving an Industry Problem at a local research showcase for the PathBank subproject. n Steven Bleistein won the Australian Committee on Computation and Automatic Control (ANCCAC) Award 2005. n PhD students Dr Pei Yean Lee (ANU, Canberra) and Dr Vladamir Trajkovic (UNSW, Sydney) were the first NICTA-endorsed students to graduate. Networks and Linkages n We established a research collaboration with Seeing Machines, a global leader in computer vision technology, to explore the use of information and communications technologies (ICT) to reduce road accidents from driver fatigue. n We formed an international collaborative team with Qualcomm that resulted in the use of NICTA operating system technology with select versions of Qualcomm’s Mobile Station Modem™ (MSM™) chipsets. n We signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with NEC Australia for the development of a collaborative research program focusing on Super 3G and 4G mobile wireless technology. n We successfully negotiated with Ericsson Research for the establishment of a collaborative project with the Networks and Pervasive Computing (NPC) Program in 2006. 17 ANNUAL REPORT 05 to the Australian Government CHAIRMAN’S REPORT As we welcome 2006, NICTA is emerging as a landmark Australian institution with a critical mass of researchers that is developing linkages with other Australian researchers and industry. We are receiving increasing international recognition of the quality of our work. This year was a productive one, underpinned by an extensive strategic planning process. The Strategic Plan provides a five-year path to success for the organisation by outlining a clear set of objectives, a definition of success, and organisational goals with a horizon of 2010. This is a dynamic plan that will evolve to ensure its continuing relevance. Adherence to the plan will ensure that NICTA delivers value to the Australian public in three ways: n research expertise and scale n national benefit from use-inspired basic research and commercial outcomes n national benefit through a stronger ICT skills base. Our progress during 2005 has been marked by an acceleration of our industry linkages and commercialisation activities. Of particular note was the opening of the Neville Roach Laboratory in late 2005. This is NICTA’s first purpose-built research space. This laboratory, situated adjacent to the University of New South Wales main campus in Kensington, provides NICTA researchers with worldclass research facilities and equipment. It provides a benchmark for future NICTA research facilities now under construction in the ACT and NSW. It also reinforces the collaborative partnership with a member university, UNSW. In 2005, Ms Jennifer Clark, Professor Michael Brooks, Ms Kelly Jones, and Dr Michael Sargent were appointed to the NICTA Board, while I was appointed Chairman. NICTA is very grateful for the contribution of former Chairman Mr Neville Roach AO, former CEO Dr Mel Slater, and outgoing Board members Professor Tony Blake AM, Ms Alice McCleary, and Professor Graham Goodwin for their valuable contribution to NICTA’s development and success. They provided the current board with a strong foundation upon which to build. The Board also acknowledges and appreciates Dr David Skellern’s leadership and commitment to NICTA. Dr Skellern assumed the role of CEO from departing CEO Dr Mel Slater in May and now has extended his contract for a further three years. Dr Skellern, an experienced researcher and successful entrepreneur, is the ideal leader to drive NICTA to research and commercial success. The challenge that lies ahead is turning our exceptional expertise in use-inspired basic research into tangible benefits for Australia. We are on track to deliver these benefits through new products, commercial ventures, prototypes, and partnerships with industry. I would like to acknowledge the commitment of our members, the support of our partners, and the significant ongoing support of the Australian Government, which has made NICTA’s development possible. The Board and management look forward to continued progress and growth in 2006. Neville Stevens, AO Chairman 18 CEO’S REPORT This year was one of major progress and significant achievements as we began to bear fruit from the labour of NICTA’s first two years of operation. We finished 2005 with a good research portfolio, an excellent set of 23 completed and submitted patents, 26 strong industry partnerships, and an outstanding complement of research and professional staff. We also launched some significant industry projects and developed our commercialisation pipeline processes. A significant milestone was the launch of two Priority Challenge Strategic Projects. The projects focus NICTA’s research skills on the problems of water and traffic management. Results are achieved by working across research disciplines and by building strong partnerships with industry. The Water Information Network (WIN) Project provides information and communications infrastructure that improves the efficiency of water use, initially in irrigation. The Smart Transport and Roads (STaR) project, in collaboration with the New South Wales Roads and Traffic Authority, is developing new approaches to traffic management using NICTA’s research expertise. Our commercialisation activities accelerated during 2005, particularly in the Entrepreneurs in Residence (EiR) Program, with the engagement of two experienced entrepreneurs and a commercialisation consultant. The injection of this commercial experience into NICTA has added momentum and raised the business prospects of our research projects. We conducted business opportunities analysis, scoped channels to market, and developed business plans in 2005 that will lead to spin-out and business opportunities in 2006. NICTA’s research and commercial outcomes depend on the quality of our people. In 2005, NICTA continued to recruit world-class researchers and the professional staff to help take their research to the world. In 2005, we grew from 246 staff to 364, including our contributed staff, by year’s end. NICTA is approaching a steady state of staff numbers in New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory under our current funding. We continue to build staff numbers in the Victoria Research Laboratory and the Queensland Laboratory. Our enhancements to our partner universities’ PhD programs are helping to ensure that Australia’s future ICT workforce has deep technical skills together with a use-inspired and entrepreneurial approach. There are 209 NICTA-endorsed PhD students, nearly twice the planned number, plus 200 other students associated with NICTA through project relationships. This is an area where NICTA is sowing seeds for the future of Australia’s ICT sector. There is significant long-term value to Australia in giving ICT students an opportunity to work with world-class researchers on challenging and real-world problems. Our ambition to be a world-class institute was substantially advanced in 2005 as our researchers received a number of national and international awards. I was very encouraged by the steady stream of emails I received from NICTA people advising me of awards for best papers, nominations of our research leaders to significant science organisations, and NICTA researchers and research teams winning high-profile scientific and engineering challenges. As I look to 2006, I am confident that NICTA’s strength and value will increase through our people’s ability to integrate the elements of use-inspired basic research, commercialisation, linkages, and education. David Skellern Chief Executive Officer 19 ANNUAL REPORT 05 to the Australian Government CHIEF SCIENTIST’S REPORT In 2005, NICTA’s project pattern expanded with the development of two large-scale Strategic Focus projects. The Water Information Networks (WIN) Project applies information and communications technology (ICT) to one of Australia’s major problems in rural and urban areas. The project involves saving water through identification of faults and leakages, better monitoring of the amount of use, better matching of actual use to the real requirements of users, and improved investment decisions. The Smart Transport and Roads (STaR) Project is focused on the Sydney area. It aims to reduce driving time and emissions through a data collection and analysis procedure that promotes far more effective signalling at intersections, responding to variations in traffic flow and rare random events such as accidents. Strategic Focus projects differ from ordinary projects in several ways: they involve people at more than one laboratory, they involve large numbers of people, outside partners contribute significant resources to the projects, they involve many different ICT skills within the one project, and, on successful completion, they produce significant benefits to Australia that will be transparent to the general public. In addition, it would appear that there could be opportunity for the commercialisation of technology developed within the projects in application domains other than those covered by the project. Sensor networks are being heavily used in the WIN Project and it is likely that this technology will be beneficial to NICTA in other ways. Priority Challenges (PCs) continue to shape NICTA’s research agenda. NICTA researchers are encouraged to align their proposals with the PCs as this greatly increases the chance of a proposal’s success. In this way, they serve to focus research. The diversity of projects across NICTA is significantly less than, for example, that in a university department with the same number of researchers, and this can be attributed to the PCs. In 2006, there is likely to be a review of the success of this mechanism. Alignment with PCs alone does not drive the research agenda. A review of NICTA’s project portfolios reveals that a significant number of projects involve the intersection of ICT with life sciences. Some of these projects are proceeding with other research organisations. For example, there is a collaborative research project on cancer genomics with the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre and other medical-related projects are being carried out with small businesses such as Canberra Imaging Group. Partly as a consequence of this work, NICTA became an approved organisation with the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC). This will allow our researchers to seek outside funding from NHMRC. In 2006, NICTA is likely to examine the scope of its research work that intersects with life sciences. Many of NICTA’s projects involve collaboration with outside entities. Often this includes small business, which is a natural consequence of the distribution of private sector activity in ICT in Australia. Some individual NICTA projects involve interaction with CSIRO and the Defence Science and Technology Organisation (DSTO), and together with these organisations we have invested significant efforts into defining a major collaborative activity in the area of human computer interaction. We expect this project to start in 2006. 20 During the course of the year, eight of NICTA’s programs were reviewed. The review process involves an outside team that includes international experts, one of whom must have expertise and experience in transferring technology to an end user. The results have shown that, fundamentally, NICTA’s review process is sound and has yielded great benefits. The reviews have sometimes pointed to issues that are generic throughout NICTA and have triggered significant improvements in the strategic planning process. NICTA is an Australian Research Council (ARC) Centre of Excellence, and as such, the people working in it are expected to shine. During this year, a large number of NICTA students won various prizes and awards for achievements such as generating the best software in a category, submitting the best paper to a conference, and so on. Two of the more significant awards this year were the election of Professor Richard Hartley to the Australian Academy of Science and the election of Professor Rodney Kennedy as an IEEE Fellow. What will 2006 bring? We anticipate that in 2006 there will be increased competition for project funds. Accordingly, there will be greater rigour within the project selection process. For example, we expect there to be more use of outside referees. Aside from this, we are tuning strategic planning processes and putting more effort in to the development of performance indicators. This is easier said than done: the measurement of benefit to Australia from a particular piece of research is far more art than science. The benefit is not often realised until a considerable time after the research is completed. In terms of more traditional academic measures, it has been recognised for many years that the evaluation of citation data of computer science poses significant problems. NICTA has commissioned a study into measuring economic benefit and is also participating with a number of other organisations in supporting a study into citations in computer science with a view to understanding how to measure the quality of research as revealed by citation data. Brian Anderson, AO Chief Scientist 21 ANNUAL REPORT 05 to the Australian Government ABOUT NATIONAL ICT AUSTRALIA The Australian Government’s brief for the creation of an Australian ICT Centre of Excellence was to establish an ongoing research institute that had the scale, concentration of resources, and focus to achieve world-leading research results. The guidelines stated that the Government expected a research centre that would rival the best facilities in the world with elite staff; freedom to undertake exciting, cutting-edge activities; and the support to ensure its research benefits the Australian economy and society. NICTA’s principal purpose under the Funding Deed with the Australian Government is to establish, manage, and operate an ICT Centre of Excellence in research and research training. It has four main objectives: n develop Australian ICT research capabilities in existing and emerging fields n increase the availability of ICT research skills within Australia by providing postgraduate training and attracting ICT researchers from overseas n exploit the commercial potential of research outputs for the benefit of Australia n become a catalyst for the development of networks and clusters of ICT industry activity. NICTA is now an organisation of more than 300 staff and 200 students. The operational arrangements central to the effective operation of NICTA are focused on cultural development, management and financial planning; human resources, finance, IT, stakeholder relations, and communications; and our relationship with industry. Commercialisation and industry development are also an important component of our business model. NICTA’S Business Model Creating Excellence in Research 2005 Large Projects Projects Programs Portfolio Review Management Researchers Students Alumni (University & Industry) (University & Industry) Research Benefits Time $ benefits Other benefits Startup etc... Likelihood % $ benefits Other benefits Startup etc... Likelihood % $ benefits Other benefits Startup etc... Likelihood % Management Expertise Commercial Expertise Human Resource Expertise Linkages and Network Expertise Finance Expertise 22 NICTA operates under a business model in which researchers, management, and students move through the organisation generating research outcomes and creating benefits specific to each research activity (i.e. each program, project, and large-scale project). The two key elements of this business model are NICTA’s research and management capabilities. Management supports the streams of research and the flow of people. There is an internal customer relationship between management and research. In this model the research business is supported by the management infrastructure to ensure that the research organisation stays focused on producing research outputs. GOVERNANCE NICTA is founded on the contributions of its members: the Australian National University, the University of New South Wales, the New South Wales Government, and the Australian Capital Territory Government. Current member contributions total $86 million in cash and in-kind over the terms of the Member Contribution Agreements. The Australian Government is contributing $129.5 million over five years to 2005–06 to establish NICTA as part of the Backing Australia’s Ability initiative, under the ICT Centre of Excellence program. NICTA is a company limited by guarantee and operates independently of the consortium members. It is governed by a board of directors, chaired by Neville Stevens, AO. The NICTA Board is assisted by four committees drawn from its own ranks and these are supplemented by others as required. NICTA Board Committees COMMITTEE AND MEMBERSHIP Governance and Remuneration n Chair: Michael Sargent from 31 May 2005 FUNCTION n Company governance structures n Remuneration of senior management n Performance of NICTA in meeting its objects. n Members: Neville Stevens (Chairman), David Skellern (CEO ex-officio member), Paul Greenfield (Director) Audit and Finance n Chair: Jennifer Clark from 31 May 2005 n Members: Neville Stevens (Chairman), David Skellern (CEO ex-officio member), Brand Hoff (Director), Kelly Jones (Director) To assist the Board to discharge its responsibility to exercise due care, diligence, and skill concerning: n reporting financial information to users of financial reports n application of accounting policies to financial management n internal control systems n business policies and practices n protection of NICTA’s assets n compliance with applicable laws, regulations, standards, and best practice guidelines n improving the effectiveness of the internal and external audit functions n fostering an ethical culture throughout the Company. 23 ANNUAL REPORT 05 to the Australian Government NICTA Board Committees COMMITTEE AND MEMBERSHIP Evaluation n Chair: Max Brennan (external) FUNCTION n Monitor NICTA’s performance against international benchmarks n Members: David Skellern (CEO), Brand Hoff (Director), Mike Brooks (Director), Steve Killelea (external), Brian Anderson (Chief Scientist exofficio member) n Assist the Board in defining the directions and activities of the Company Commercialisation n Chair: Su-Ming Wong (Director) n Review the commercialisation strategy, targets, and performance outcomes n Members: David Skellern (CEO ex-officio member), Brand Hoff (Director), Kelly Jones (Director) n Develop a set of policies and procedures covering commercialisation and all investments and joint ventures by NICTA n Advise the CEO on the creation or closing down of research programs, nomination of research program leaders, and other NICTA policy issues. n Review commercialisation budgets and operations. International Advisory Groups The NICTA Board is advised by two external advisory groups: an International Scientific Advisory Group (ISAG) and an International Business Advisory Group (IBAG). These comprise some of the world’s most respected names in ICT from international ICT research institutes, universities, and corporations. ISAG and IBAG play an important role in assisting NICTA’s development by providing valuable advice on strategic directions and priorities for the organisation, including: n NICTA’s future scientific directions and new opportunities n international trends and Australian expertise n international business development issues for NICTA such as emerging markets and commercialisation. Both the ISAG and IBAG met in September 2005 to consider NICTA’s development and provided advice on: n management of the research portfolio n education strategy n emerging commercialisation prospects n international profile. These advisory groups ensure that NICTA’s strategic research and commercial initiatives are constructively scrutinised by internationally respected figures on at least an annual basis. 24 NICTA SITES NICTA is a distributed laboratory with its core facilities located in Sydney, Canberra, Melbourne and Brisbane. NICTA’s headquarters at the Australian Technology Park (ATP) in Redfern, NSW, supports the major corporate function. It also houses three research programs: Networks and Pervasive Computing (NPC), Empirical Software Engineering (ESE), and Interfaces, Machines, and Graphic Environments (IMAGEN). Professor Aruna Seneviratne is the Laboratory Director. The ATP Laboratory hosts 42 researchers and a further 19 engineers, programmers, and research assistants. The Kensington Research Laboratory (KRL) in Sydney supports four programs: Symbolic Machine Learning and Knowledge Acquisition (SMLKA), Formal Methods (FM), Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KRR), and Embedded, Real-Time, and Operating Systems (ERTOS). Dr Terry Percival is the Laboratory Director at KRL. The KRL staff includes 53 researchers and 29 engineers, programmers, and research assistants. The Canberra Research Laboratory (CRL) is led by Professor Bob Williamson. It has five research programs established at two sites. Professor Williamson will end his tenure as Laboratory Director early in 2006 to assume the role as Chief Researcher. His replacement will be Professor Terry Caelli who joined NICTA’s Autonomous Systems and Sensor Technologies (ASSeT) program in July 2004. Dr Caelli was previously the Acting Director for the NASA Center for Mapping at Ohio University, USA, and a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Alberta, Canada. Three programs are located within the Research School for Information Sciences and Engineering (RSISE) at the Australian National University (ANU): Logic and Computation (LC), Autonomous Systems and Sensor Technologies (ASSeT), and Systems Engineering and Complex Systems (SEACS). CRL’s administration functions and the Wireless Signal Processing (WSP) and Statistical Machine Learning (SML) programs are located in nearby accommodation at Northbourne Avenue, Braddon. CRL will relocate to permanent accommodation in 2006–07. Overall staffing at the ACT laboratory is 51 researchers and 22 engineers, programmers, and research assistants. The Queensland Research Laboratory is a partnership with the Queensland Government, University of Queensland, Griffith University, and Queensland University of Technology (QUT). Operations commenced in late August 2004 at 300 Adelaide Street, Brisbane, and Dr J Chris Scott was appointed as the Laboratory Director in December 2004. There are 25 research staff with three additional engineers, programmers, and research assistants. The Victoria Research Laboratory (VRL) was established by NICTA, the Victorian State Government through Multimedia Victoria, and the University of Melbourne on 11 June 2004. VRL began operation in July 2004 with the creation of three research programs. Facilities are located on the campus of the University of Melbourne. The Laboratory Director is Professor Rob Evans. VRL staff comprises 27 researchers and four engineers, programmers, and research assistants. 25 ANNUAL REPORT 05 to the Australian Government 1. CORPORATE ACTIVITIES Management and corporate structures have evolved over the last two years to deal with rapid growth and increased activity. Early-stage activity was adequately supported by relatively informal processes and structures and particularly by support from our university partners. There is an ongoing challenge to ensure that the management systems are suitable as the organisation consolidates. We will adjust these systems as required in a program of continuous improvement. NICTA is now implementing management process systems and procedures that are appropriate for the effective operations of an organisation of NICTA’s current size and scale. More than 30 policies governing the financial systems, HR practices, and marketing of the organisation have been drafted and approved for use. Over the year, NICTA has made several important strides in scaling up our management and corporate functions. We will continue to refine and improve these functions as necessary. Strategic Plan Activity Objective Milestone Due Met Strategic Plan Develop plan for NICTA to 2015 Strategic Plan draft complete Q2 X Not met NICTA has emerged from its start-up phase (2003–05) with strong growth against all milestones. During that time we have been guided in our key objectives by our original Centre of Excellence bid documentation. We believe, however, that this document needs to be updated as a strategic guide into the future. Consequently, a strategic planning process was implemented to deliver strategic guidance to all areas of the organisation. NICTA’s intent in developing a strategic plan is to focus on broad objectives and leave the detail of these initiatives to our activity planning processes. The strategic plan process began in late 2004 and carried on throughout the first half of 2005. A draft plan was completed and endorsed by the Board as a working model for the development of business unit, laboratory, and program plans during the second half of 2005. The results of these unit plans are currently being aggregated to form a set of organisational Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for the life of the plan. The process is linked to the development of individual performance management plans and a companywide education program that will be delivered across the organisation during 2006. The Strategic Plan will be maintained through regular reviews at six-monthly intervals to take into account new information and experience. Since its development, the Strategic Plan has been used throughout the organisation to develop business unit plans and program plans. 26 Executive Information System Activity Objective Milestone Due Met Executive Establish company-wide information system Implementation of an Executive Information System Q4 X information system Not met A project was initiated in Q3 2005 to implement a suitable system to store and manage information on NICTA’s portfolio that would: n act as a central repository for all information relating to NICTA’s research activities which will assist in satisfying our reporting requirements to our stakeholders n enable senior management to review NICTA’s research portfolio and make informed strategic decisions n help improve project management capabilities among NICTA’s research teams n provide NICTA with an auditable project management process. After an evaluation process, the Centric system was selected because it is suited to the project and research portfolio management needs of organisations such as CRCs and NICTA. It has an active management and governance approach including approvals workflow and automatic reminder notifications by email. It is an online system that provides information for all levels within the organisation including Board, management, staff, auditors, and reviewers. Its interface is highly customisable and displays only the information relevant to the individual user. The Centric solution has a number of modules that can be selected to best meet the functional needs of the organisation. The core system was implemented and modules are in place for: n milestone and task tracking 27 n management of project reviews. Further capabilities will be added throughout 2006 in conjunction with revisions to operating procedures. The system will also be progressively integrated with the financial and human resources systems. Risk and Opportunity Management Plan Activity Objective Milestone Due Met Risk and Opportunity Implement ROMP by Q3 2005 Risk and opportunity identification complete Q2 X Mitigation and implementation achieved Q3 X Management Plan Not met (ROMP) NICTA undertook a company-wide project to deliver and implement a risk and opportunity management framework. The project followed the methodology described in Australian Standard AS/NZS 4360:1999, Risk Management. This standard is currently being revised to include the identification and treatment of opportunities as well as risks. ANNUAL REPORT 05 to the Australian Government The development and implementation of action plans continued throughout 2005. The Risk Management Committee, chaired by the Chief Operating Officer, was established as a formal management and control structure to oversee the project and the ongoing management of risk. It consists of designated senior staff from corporate functional areas, research, and operations covering all major sites. The committee reports to the NICTA Board through the Finance and Audit Committee. In line with our governance model, the operational management of corporate risk was integrated under the Finance and Audit Committee during the second half of 2005. A further program of strategic risk assessment and management was initiated under the direction of the Finance and Audit Committee in December 2005 and the results formalised in a management report for action in 2006. Human Resources Program Activity Objective Milestone Due Met Human Resources Program Implement a Performance Management Program Training for all managers in the new system conducted Q2 X Career Progression Program designed Q2 X Develop a career progression path First round of career progression training for staff conducted Q4 X Deliver commercialisation and project management training across NICTA Selection of training provider complete Q1 X First round of training delivered Q2 X Training providers for legal employment issues selected Q1 X First round of training delivered Q2 X Training provider selected and first session delivered Q3 X Staff survey conducted to monitor organisational development and culture Q3 X HR interventions devised where required Q4 X Refine HR systems HR information systems implemented Q2 X Develop EEO program Internal working group to scope EEO program in operation Q2 X Priority elements of EEO program implemented Q3 X Deliver HR legal compliance training: OH&S, EEO, disciplinary action, recruitment, and selection Management leadership program in place 28 Not met Activity Objective Milestone Due Human Resources Program Achieve researcher recruitment growth target Researcher base of 144 reached Q4 Implement a program to educate staff on the Strategic Plan Awareness Strategy Plan developed and delivered over the second half of 2005 Q4 Met Not met X X The Performance Management Policy was approved by the Board in July 2005 and was launched through manager and staff workshops in August and September. The timing of these workshops coincided with implementation of NICTA’s strategic planning process and allowed us to define individual performance goals in a performance planning process aligned with NICTA’s Strategic Plan. The Performance Management Program is designed to support and increase organisational effectiveness by focusing individual performance on the outcomes required by NICTA. The NICTA system includes planning, monitoring, reviewing, and evaluating employees’ performance by developing a formal performance plan, conducting performance reviews, and undertaking professional career development. Staff performance is rewarded through the application of the annual performance and remuneration review which makes provision for an annual remuneration increase. The aim of NICTA’s performance management program is to: n ensure that staff performance is linked to work area plans and NICTA strategic priorities n promote communication between supervisors and staff on an ongoing basis to ensure that supervisors’ expectations of performance are clear and staff are provided with regular information about their performance n determine the development needs of staff members associated with the achievement of work unit objectives n formalise a process for managing staff performance n provide a valid basis for management decisions about the annual remuneration review. Career Progression The Career Progression Policy was approved by the Board in March 2005 and outlines a model of career progression for all NICTA employees whether they are from researcher, technical, or professional work streams. It is designed to achieve the following objectives: n provide a vital, satisfying, and progressive career for all staff within NICTA n recognise and reward sustained excellence n retain valued employees n integrate career progression with performance management and remuneration review n provide a systematic and fair process for promotion through the employment levels based on objective criteria. The annual Performance Plan provides the opportunity for staff to identify the learning and development required for them to satisfy their annual performance goals, as well as longer term career objectives. 29 ANNUAL REPORT 05 to the Australian Government Promotion criteria were developed to reward staff on the basis of improved communication, knowledge of industry trends and drivers, research or professional excellence, innovation, and relationship building with industry collaborators. Training in the application of the Career Progression Policy was provided to all program leaders. The first round of career progression for researchers took place in August 2005; subsequent rounds will take place in February each year for all staff. Commercialisation and Project Management Training NICTA’s commercialisation training is designed to assist in fostering an entrepreneurial culture within NICTA. The training courses are the result of a collaborative effort between Human Resources and the Commercialisation group in NICTA. Various levels of commercialisation training assist in this process, including: n role model seminars n introductory commercialisation immersion courses n advanced commercialisation masterclasses. Courses attended by staff during 2005 included: n Commercialisation Bootcamp, operated in collaboration with the Australian Institute for Commercialisation n NSW Enterprise Workshop n internal role model seminars. Commercialisation training was provided for 47 staff from across the organisation including program leaders, researchers, and business development staff. Five staff participated in the NSW Enterprise Workshop. The Australian Institute of Management was selected as the provider for project management training. Project management training is important to staff, particularly because so much of NICTA’s research is structured on a project model. During 2005, the Project Management Office staff undertook an accredited project management program conducted by the Australian Institute of Management. This program will result in a Certificate IV and Diploma qualification in project management. HR Legal Compliance Australian Business Lawyers was the selected training service provider for legal compliance workshops. These were conducted to help managers administer risk on issues such as EEO, non-discrimination in recruitment, and staff management. Workshops included EEO, workplace bullying, grievance handling, and disciplinary action. Training was also conducted for members of OH&S committees, first aid officers, and workplace diversity officers. Management Leadership To support NICTA’s goals of effective collaboration between programs, sound partnerships with industry, and a culture of research excellence together with innovation, entrepreneurship, and commercialisation, it is important that program leaders and corporate managers build their leadership and management skills in these areas. 30 A leadership survey was conducted in May 2005 to identify the leadership and management learning needs of program leaders, particularly in the areas of knowledge sharing, collaboration, future orientation, commercial and entrepreneurial skills, stakeholder connection, networking, and teambuilding. These survey results provided the basis for identifying appropriate management and leadership education providers. A variety of service providers were selected and engaged during the year: n Rogen International – negotiation and influencing skills n Australian Institute for Commercialisation and the NSW Enterprise Workshop, Australian Graduate School of Management – leadership and commercialisation n Australian Institute for Management – people management n Mercer Consulting – performance management. Leadership issues were integrated into the Commercialisation Bootcamp. In addition, program and project leaders and corporate managers attended a range of selected programs on a needs basis, such as negotiation skills, business modelling, and performance management. Culture Workshops and Survey The Strategic Plan emphasised that building a strong culture of achievement focused on innovative people across the organisation was a strong priority. A culture development program was designed to manage and monitor NICTA’s aspirational culture. Implementation of Culture Workshops was the first step to address these issues. The workshops, conducted in November 2005, were a means for positive and constructive input for all staff and provided a forum to contribute to the design of the NICTA Employee Culture Survey. The NICTA Employee Culture Survey was tailored to assess issues important to NICTA and become a guide to future organisational performance improvements. The survey was conducted in December 2005. The results will be available in February 2006 and will form the basis of organisational improvement initiatives. Refine HR System During 2005, Human Resources implemented a Human Resource Information System (CHRIS 21) and in-sourced payroll to provide more accurate and timely personnel information and to comply with payroll tax and superannuation fund contributions. Payroll and Employee Self Service (ESS) modules of the CHRIS 21 were implemented, supported by workshops for managers and staff in its use. ESS allows staff to view their own payslips online, update personal details, and apply for leave, while it provides managers with information on staff remuneration and allows them to manage leave for their team. Both projects were completed on time and in budget, in collaboration with an external provider and the NICTA IT department. Develop EEO (Workplace Diversity) Program Reporting to the Equal Opportunity for Women In the Workplace Agency, including a gender analysis of classification levels and salaries, began in 2005. In addition, a monthly gender analysis of NICTA staff is provided to the Board. 31 ANNUAL REPORT 05 to the Australian Government In November 2005, the Executive Team approved the Workplace Diversity Plan for 2006, which is focused on establishing the foundations of workplace diversity in NICTA. The objectives are to: n establish the priority issues in NICTA n provide training and development n provide statutory and management reporting. A network of workplace diversity officers was established and training was provided in December 2005. The Workplace Diversity Program is now established as an ongoing effort in the development of our workplace environment and culture. Strategic Plan The Strategic Plan was disseminated to all staff through CEO presentations, performance planning workshops and internal intranet communications. Awareness of the plan was tested through a culture awareness survey conducted in late 2005. Research Recruitment The number of recruited researchers projected on the best available information at the time of making the 2005 Annual Activity Plan (AAP) was 144. The actual number was fewer than anticipated due to the scarcity of skills in the market. This was one of four factors that we anticipated could affect actual researcher numbers along with unexpected turnover, project realignment, and budget review. The lower than expected researcher recruitment was counterbalanced by increased numbers of engineering and programming staff (anticipated to reach 27 in the AAP 2005) and university contributed research staff (anticipated to reach 64 in the AAP 2005). The aggregate research complement stands at 108 researchers, 88 contributed research staff, and 77 engineering and programming staff. The number of positions in the areas of market analysis and commercialisation support also increased, reflecting the need to service the growing commercialisation pipeline. Total NICTA staffing and distribution over 2005. March Projected March Actual June Projected June Actual September Projected September Actual December Projected December Actual ATP 28 29 31 26 32 27 32 24 Kensington 30 31 35 30 36 28 36 28 Canberra 48 26 49 29 58 33 58 38 Victoria 17 13 19 14 21 17 21 17 Queensland 0 1 3 1 6 1 6 1 123 100 137 100 153 106 153 108 RESEARCHERS Total Researchers CONTRIBUTED RESEARCHERS 32 ATP 12 14 12 15 12 17 12 18 Kensington 22 22 22 23 22 24 22 23 Canberra 14 15 16 17 16 14 16 13 March Projected March Actual June Projected June Actual September Projected September Actual December Projected December Actual Victoria 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 Queensland 0 3 2 16 3 25 4 24 Total Contributed Researchers 58 64 62 81 63 90 64 88 RESEARCH SUPPORT (RESEARCH ENGINEERS, PROGRAMMERS, ASSISTANTS) ATP 9 10 10 12 9 16 9 19 Kensington 16 15 15 17 14 22 13 29 Canberra 9 16 9 22 10 19 10 22 Victoria 6 3 7 4 8 4 7 4 Queensland 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 Total Research Support 40 44 41 55 41 61 39 77 ATP 6 6 6 6 6 8 6 8 Kensington 11 12 11 14 11 14 11 13 Canberra 16 13 17 16 17 19 17 19 Victoria 1 1 1 1 1 2 1 2 Queensland 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 Adelaide 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 3 CHO1 37 32 38 37 39 41 40 43 Total Administration 74 67 76 77 77 90 78 91 Total Staff Projections for 2005* *(excl contributed staff) 237 211 254 232 271 257 270 276 Total Staff Projections for 2005 295 275 316 313 334 347 334 364 ADMINISTRATION 1 Includes CEO and laboratory directors, commercialisation and industry liaison, finance and HR, IT support, and other research support functions such as the Project Management Office. 33 ANNUAL REPORT 05 to the Australian Government Victoria Research Laboratory Program Objective Milestone Due Met Growth of Victoria Research Laboratory Initiate external linkages Industry Engagement Plan developed Q1 X Generate initial coursework Delivery of two coursework modules per semester from March 2005 Q2 X Establish researcher base Ten researchers appointed Q2 X Establish student base Acceptance of offer from 30 students Q2 X Develop research infrastructure Complete Terabit Networking Laboratory capital works Q4 Not met X In March 2005, the Victoria Research Laboratory (VRL) submitted an industry engagement plan based on the capability embedded in its three programs to the Victorian Government. There are two main elements to the plan. Pre-competitive Engagement is based on a program of short courses, a Sensor Network (SN) interest group, and an Industrial Associates Program. At the level of Competitive Engagement the plan supports prospective project commercialisation opportunities and research collaboration. Initial coursework was developed and delivered. Over the year it was expected that four courses would be developed and delivered, two in each semester. The VRL developed and offered five advanced courses to postgraduates at the University of Melbourne in the Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Computer Science departments. The courses offered were: n Text and Document Management n Constraint Programming n Non-linear systems n Sensor Networks n Information Theory. The VRL has developed a strong team of researchers. Sixteen researchers were employed across the three programs (SN, NIP, and NT), along with two research engineers based in the Terabit Networking Laboratory (TNL) by 30 June. By the end of 2005, the research base at VRL had reached 20 NICTA employed staff, ten contributed researchers and four engineers/programmers. At 30 June, the VRL had offered support to postgraduate students at the University of Melbourne through a variety of scholarships including full or partial stipends and full or partial fee payment. By the close of 2005, the laboratory was financially supporting 47 PhD students and five other degree candidates. A further two PhD candidates received supervisory support. The principal research infrastructure project at the VRL is the TNL. This project will be used to demonstrate and evaluate NICTA-developed ICT network architectures, hardware, algorithms, and protocols. It will deliver testbed facilities for wireless and optical networking technologies, both in hardware and software. 34 The TNL began operating in temporary accommodation in the University of Melbourne’s Electrical and Electronic Engineering building. Major equipment was put in place, including a Broadband Vector Network Analyser and a Probe System, along with a wide range of leading-edge research and design software. Construction work is continuing on the TNL capital works with completion expected by September 2006 subject to no contractor or supplier delays. Queensland Research Laboratory Activity Objective Milestone Due Met Development of the Queensland Research Laboratory Define research program Key research projects under Safeguarding Australia theme scoped with key stakeholders Q2 X Queensland Research Advisory Committee convened Q2 X Collaborative research project established with a national and/or international research institution in the field Q4 X First collaborative research project with industry partners established Q4 X Agreements for contributed staff from partner universities finalised Q2 X Two to three NICTA researchers recruited Q2 X Two to three additional NICTA researchers recruited Q4 X Initial round of ten NICTA PhD scholarships offered Q4 Establish initial research base Establish student base Not met 35 X The Queensland Research Laboratory (QRL) established the Safeguarding Australia Program in response to the National Research Priority. The program aims to generate new technologies, systems, and services that will provide significant improvements to the devices, systems, information, and human processes that manage the mitigation of and response to natural disasters (e.g. cyclones) and manmade emergencies (e.g. terrorism). The research program has been developed with and is being undertaken in collaboration with the key stakeholders in the Queensland Government and emergency services agencies that are actively partnering in the program. The scope of the program is built on the current issues facing these agencies and aims to develop outcomes to meet the future needs of the disaster and emergency sector. The QRL Advisory Committee comprises a representative from Queensland University of Technology (QUT), University of Queensland (UQ), Griffith University, the Department of State Development and Innovation, and a Queensland industry representative. The committee was formed to allow the Laboratory Director to seek advice and input into the research program. It is an advisory committee ANNUAL REPORT 05 to the Australian Government only and is part of the consultation process for new research projects prior to consideration and approval by the Research Management Coordination Committee (RMCC). The QLR Advisory Committee met four times during 2005. Through the process of engagement under the advisory committee the first collaborative projects were established. The QRL and QUT commenced a collaborative research project called Open Access to Knowledge (OAK). This aims to address the emerging needs of the open access community in licensing content. OAK will develop a set of legal requirements and generic licences that can be used to negotiate and share digital content in an online environment. The Disaster Prediction, Recovery, and Response Project (DisPRR, QLD 001) has been developed to provide significant improvements to the devices, systems, information, and human processes that manage the mitigation of, and response to, natural disasters such as cyclones and manmade emergencies such as terrorism. Industry partners have been active in the definition of the project. Nondisclosure agreements have been signed with several companies interested in DisPRR to formalise further participation. These are CyberGuard, Centinent Vision Systems, CSIRO, Voice Perfect Systems, Technisyst, and Intergraph. The project is focusing on an array of smart reconfigurable hardware, embedded systems for computer vision and audio-visual processing. Its scope covers the management of information and human behaviour with emergency systems and incidents under five major work packages. QRL made substantial progress on securing its researcher base over the year. Research agreements were completed for 24 contributed staff from partner universities. Two research appointments were finalised during the first half of the year and a further seven offers were made by the end of 2005. These offers were all accepted. In the initial round of NICTA PhD scholarships for the laboratory, nine have been offered based on the applications received and five accepted by the end of 2005. Further scholarship applications were received from prospective postgraduate students interested in joining NICTA in 2006. 36 2. RESEARCH MANAGEMENT A key outcome of work to date has been the development of research management policies and procedures that govern a wide range of activities associated with research. The policies are formulated under the guidance of the RMCC. This is an internal committee comprising the Chief Scientist, Laboratory Directors, and Chief Operating Officer. Research project proposals are evaluated by the RMCC Project Subcommittee, comprising the RMCC plus, currently, two elected project leaders. The principal functions of RMCC are project selection and management, and implementation of research policy. The RMCC sets policy on: n criteria for large-scale projects n Priority Challenge process selection n determination of new programs n program review processes. A round of internal program overviews has been conducted to provide management feedback on the growth and performance of the programs. These concentrated on the work underway in each program and its alignment with the Priority Challenges (PCs). Feedback supported three key developments: focusing research efforts, developing commercial opportunities, and developing industry linkages. Objectives for 2005 Activity Objective Milestone Due Met Priority Challenge focus projects Three largescale projects to be developed Evaluation framework for large-scale projects completed Q1 X Evaluation and consultation arrangements completed Q2 X Launch first large-scale project Q3 X Launch second and third projects Q4 Identify outcomes Reach agreement on core deliverables from Roundtable Q2 X Reach agreement on joint project Collaborative project determined Q3 X Achieve growth target project portfolio 35 projects in progression Q4 X ICT Roundtable Project portfolio Not met 37 X ANNUAL REPORT 05 to the Australian Government Activity Objective Milestone Due Met Internal competitive funding Achieve internal competitive funding target 50 per cent of research funding reserved and applied to projects that align with PCs and external collaboration Q1 X New program evaluation Determine potential and scope of new program for the ACT Consultation process implemented Q2 X Results reviewed and recommendation made to the Board Q3 X Research infrastructure Establish Spectral Imaging Laboratory Laboratory completed to demonstration stage Q2 X Establish Terabit Networking Laboratory Capital works completed Q3 Complete Sensor Networks Testbed Development completed Q4 X Complete Mobile Networking Testbed Development completed Q4 X Not met X Research Management Structure Project Management Office As NICTA matures and the role of projects in focusing our research agenda increases, the need for a Project Management Office (PMO) to provide a coordinated and consistent approach to managing projects was persuasive. Established in mid-2005, the PMO also aims to provide a service to NICTA’s project leaders and stakeholders. On start up, the PMO listed the following goals: n establish and promulgate good project management processes throughout NICTA n assimilate good project management practices across entire organisation n improve success rate and effectiveness of projects n consolidate and simplify project data and provide consistent information on project progress n develop and maintain an ‘enterprise project management’ system. 38 The initial focus of the PMO has been to standardise, refine, and promote consistent project management processes and techniques across NICTA. Although our project management practices are continually evolving, this has largely been successful with projects being started, monitored, and completed smoothly. The PMO oversees and collects information at all stages of the project life cycle. Interaction with RMCC A key function of the PMO is to work closely with the RMCC. The PMO facilitates the RMCC by collecting and checking project proposals before submission to the Committee, records the evaluation and outcome of proposals during the Committee meetings, and provides feedback to project proponents on their submissions. In addition, the PMO provides the RMCC with up-to-date statistical and graphical information on NICTA’s project portfolio each month. The RMCC can also make recommendations to the PMO on project management initiatives that will improve or assist in project success or add value to NICTA’s processes. PROJECT MANAGEMENT OFFICE As NICTA matures, projects are playing an increasing role in focusing our research agenda. A formal Project Management Office (PMO) was established to provide a coordinated and consistent approach to managing projects across NICTA. This function has evolved from a more devolved system than operated during the start-up phase. The PMO will: n establish and enforce good project management practices and processes n provide advice in project management processes to project leaders and other researchers n assist project leaders with administrative details, including reporting n conduct and arrange project reviews n report on project performance against milestones 39 n manage change requests n maintain and store project archives n establish a resource database and manage resource allocation n manage project budget allocation and monitor actual expenditure versus budget. The PMO will act as a central repository for all information relating to projects. Details can be provided for individual research projects or statistics can be prepared for NICTA’s entire project portfolio. Priority Challenge Focus Project Activity Objective Milestone Due Met Priority Challenge focus projects Three large-scale projects to be developed Evaluation framework for largescale projects completed Q1 X Evaluation and consultation arrangements completed Q2 X Not met ANNUAL REPORT 05 to the Australian Government Activity Objective Milestone Due Met Priority Challenge focus projects Three large-scale projects to be developed Launch first large-scale project Q3 X Launch second and third projects Q4 Not met X Strategic Focus Projects demonstrate and showcase NICTA’s PCs. They harness the expertise within NICTA and act as a catalyst for NICTA and external research and domain-based experts to work together to strategically address major contemporary problems of scale and complexity, thereby developing solutions that will be of real benefit for Australia. We anticipate that any Strategic Focus Project will: n draw on the resources of six to eight programs n generate a sufficiently broad research challenge to support twelve PhD students n have a dedicated industry engagement/commercialisation strategy n attract resources from beneficiaries. Evaluation processes were established in early 2005 and were based on: n review of internal skill sets and expertise with an assessment of alignment to known areas of application n engagement with leading users and industry on areas of application n development of scoping documentation n validation and resource assignment n agreement and contracting. The AAP 2005 identified three possible Strategic Focus Projects: Smart Transport and Roads (STaR), Water Information Networks (WIN), and E-Government. The evaluation and consultation arrangments for these were completed by June and they were confirmed as areas to be pursued. The WIN project was officially launched in August 2005. It was inspired by the demands for more effective water management in the face of Australia’s dwindling supplies of this critical resource. It will deploy sensor network and high-performance distributed control software to improve water management in urban, rural, and natural environments. NICTA’s first product prototype, the NICTORTM platform, was developed as a part of the project. NICTORTM is a wireless sensor network technology platform that has the potential to boost the quality and yield of Australia’s farming produce, and address the challenges associated with on-farm water management. The system’s ability to measure variables local to individual plants means it can deliver water where it is needed and even detect abnormalities in plant development. Using intelligent systems in this way can improve fruit quality and crop yield. The STaR Project involves data collection and analysis, and the dissemination of information and action over trusted communications. It aims to help traffic management achieve greater efficiency from transport systems, resulting in safer infrastructure and reduced environmental impact. The project has been underway since June 2005 and has made substantial progress. It has received some media interest but a formal launch has not occurred. 40 The E-Government Project is developing as a series of collaborative activites that will provide a project framework through: n an initial software engineering project related to project specification n a series of information sessions intended to bridge the gap between the client and NICTA with respect to technologies and application areas within governement n a formal scenario building exercise that will map ICT to specific initiatives. Work in e-government is underway in the area of business process modelling and the text of a collaborative memorandum had been settled, but the full implementation of this project will not begin till 2006. Delays have been largley due to the disruptive effect of reorganisations within the partner organisation. ICT Roundtable Activity Objective Milestone Due Met ICT Roundtable Identify outcomes Reached agreement on core deliverables from Roundtable Q2 X Reach agreement on joint project Collaborative project determined Q3 X Not met NICTA is working to achieve a significant position in national ICT R&D through its network and linkage activity. We aim to achieve this through our pivotal role in facilitating the ICT R&D Roundtable and elevating the debate on research focus and collaboration in conjunction with CSIRO, the Defence Science and Technology Organisation (DSTO), ICT CRCs, and research-intensive universities. The ICT Roundtable is a joint initiative involving publicly funded research agencies (PFRAs). The Roundtable aims to increase collaboration between PFRAs for national benefit. In the first half of 2005, the ICT Roundtable reached agreement on a set of core deliverables following an evaluation that examined research collaboration in the area of Human Machine/Computer Interaction (HMI/HCI). The evaluation addressed the following tasks: n survey current HMI/HCI capabilities and programs in Australia – NICTA, CSIRO, DSTO, CRCs, and universities – including staff, resources, scientific programs, and partnerships n survey the peak HMI/HCI activities from a global perspective n indicate the potential global impact from the collaboration n evaluate opportunities in HMI focusing on one that leverages existing skills or seeks to create a completely new focus area that would deliver significant research impact n identify the commitment from each organisation to participate and contribute resources n identify Return on Investment (ROI) outcome requirements for each participating organisation n identify potential funding models n establish an ROI based on the identified opportunities 41 ANNUAL REPORT 05 to the Australian Government Public ICT Research Roundtable Background The Enabling our Future Report recommended that NICTA, CSIRO, and DSTO should coordinate to establish a regular roundtable of major publicly funded ICT research groups, including ICTrelated CRCs and larger groups in universities to: n develop an implementation plan setting out actions to respond to recommendations in the report n share information on ICT R&D, including international developments and build relationships n explore ways of more effectively commercialising R&D and linking with industry n coordinate research efforts and priority setting activities n assist in efforts to build and coordinate ICT R&D infrastructure. Objectives The ICT Roundtable agrees that ICT research collaboration should: n be of national benefit by addressing the national research priorities, as identified by the ARC n be globally competitive and unique n increase ICT research quality and capability n build scale, focus, and diversity for impact and critical mass n give impetus to convergence of technologies n create opportunities to attract the world’s best n be at the intersection of capability, opportunity, and passion n foster innovation and creative research. Timeline The timeline for completion is 15 to 20 years. This is a generational commitment. Measures The success will be measured by: n number of collaboration projects n global recognition of Australian collaboration programs n increased capability, scale, and critical mass in ICT R&D (including greater attraction of world’s best to projects) n showcasing of early wins n recognition by government and institutions that ICT research collaboration addresses national priorities n increased business collaboration and interaction with the business community. Vision Globally successful ICT research that addresses Australia’s national priorities. 42 n identify barriers to collaboration and suggest options to address these barriers n provide a model for governance, location options, IP policy, etc n identify organisations (research and commercial) as potential partners. The results of the evaluation were presented to the ICT Roundtable in July 2005 to assist the individual and collective investment processes of members regarding identified collaboration opportunities. In September 2005, the ICT Roundtable announced that NICTA, CSIRO, and DSTO had committed resources to developing a detailed business plan and project specification for a major collaborative project in the area of HCI, sometimes referred to as Human Systems Interaction. The Braccetto Project aims to develop sophisticated information sharing technology, researching concepts in: n presence and awareness in collaborative spaces n multi-sensory modes of interaction n human augmentation n information display. A project manager has subsequently been appointed and arrangements established for management and funding of the project. Braccetto is expected to run over three years. Project Portfolio Activity Objective Milestone Project portfolio Achieve growth target project portfolio 35 projects in progression Due Q4 Met Not met X The project portfolio currently stands at 56 projects, which exceeds the anticipated 35 projects for 2005. As part of our growth, we aimed to establish a portfolio of 50 projects by 2007. Our project portfolio now spans all program research areas represented in NICTA. Every program is involved in several projects. The nature of the projects varies significantly. Some examples are: n large-scale projects, also known as Priority Challenges Strategic Projects, with significant resourcing n high-risk internal collaborations inside NICTA that have a high potential payoff n collaborative projects with other Australian research organisations n projects with SMEs n projects in the process of being spun-out n projects that are in the process of being re-worked for better alignment with commercial prospects n projects that have been consolidated into other projects. During 2005, five projects were completed in line with their project plans. 43 ANNUAL REPORT 05 to the Australian Government Internal Competitive Funding Activity Objective Milestone Due Met Internal competitive funding Achieve internal competitive funding target 50 per cent of research funding reserved and applied to projects that align with PCs and external collaboration Q1 X Not met A pool of funding was introduced in 2004 on an internally contestable basis for individual research projects to encourage the development of research projects that: n align with PCs n support collaboration with external parties. This funding arrangement is planned to be introduced on a progressive scale that was set in the AAP 2004: Scale of funding for competitive projects Year 2004 2005 2006 Target % 35% 45% 50% The impact of internally contestable project funding is proving to be important in developing an enterprising research culture. Funding is allocated based on merit and the RMCC formally assesses new project proposals against the following criteria: n proposed partners n alignment with the PCs n scientific challenges posed by the project n expertise and standing of collaborators n suitability for research training n proposed outcomes (deliverables) n justification for funding n timeline, including initial milestones n IP rights that need to be established n proposed budget. In 2005, the percentage of funding reserved for competitive projects exceeded the anticipated 45 per cent of the research budget. The allocation for internal competitive research projects was 50 per cent of the research budget for 2005. 44 New Program Evaluation Activity Objective Milestone New program Determine potential evaluation and scope of new program for the CRL Due Met Consultation process implemented Q2 X Results reviewed and Q3 X Not met recommendations made to the Board During 2004, capacity for a new program in the CRL was identified. In May and June 2005, public research agencies, universities, and industry were consulted to determine the scope of the program. Some key considerations raised with stakeholders were that NICTA sought to: n use this opportunity to extend our interaction with the Canberra industry and major ICT user communities n build a successful program in a Centre of Excellence, dependent on finding the right leader with both research standing and the personal qualities to draw excellence from their team n avoid duplicating unnecessarily activity within NICTA n avoid competition with established areas of high-quality research and add to Australian capability. The initial response to these points suggested the possibility of a program in computer science. This was based on the activity of local firms and major government end-users in the ACT, the current position of computer science as a discipline in Australia, and a gap analysis of NICTA’s current capabilities. In addition to the responses received, the following issues were also considered: n the alignment of the planning and diagnosis work with vast opportunities in industry and government 45 n strong synergy with the plans of the ANU n the Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KRR) Program review confirming the high quality of research being carried out in the program n the delays inevitable in creating a new program because of the difficulty in finding a person of suitable calibre to serve as a program leader n the desirability of building stronger integration between laboratories. The recommendation to the Board concluded no new program should be established in the CRL in 2005. Research Infrastructure Activity Objective Milestone Research Establish a Spectral Laboratory completed to demonstration infrastructure Imaging Laboratory stage Establish Terabit Capital works completed Networking Laboratory Due Met Q2 X Q3 Not met X ANNUAL REPORT 05 to the Australian Government Activity Objective Milestone Research Complete Sensor infrastructure Networks Testbed Complete Mobile Due Met Development completed Q4 X Development completed Q4 X Not met Networking Testbed The Spectral Imaging Laboratory was established in the CRL and has moved beyond demonstration stage. The success in taking the laboratory to this stage led to it being used as a demonstration in 3D mapping for the Science Festival in August 2005. The Curtin University Smart Homes Project supported this work with $250,000 to use this and our hyper-spectral camera to monitor and measure different aspects of human health. Applications in dermatology are being explored, as is a project in biodiversity management that will monitor and map the nocturnal activities of dingoes and feral animals. The capital works associated with the Terabit Networking Laboratory (TNL) at the VRL commenced in July and remains under development. The TNL began operating in temporary accommodation in the University of Melbourne’s Electrical and Electronic Engineering building. Major equipment was put in place, including a Broadband Vector Network Analyser and a Probe System, along with a wide range of leading-edge research and design software. Construction is continuing on the TNL capital works with completion expected by September 2006 subject to contractor or supplier delays. The Mobile Networking Testbed was successfully completed during the year. It was built to enable research into future mobile networks. The Mobile Networking Testbed is being used to support the work of the Ambient Networks Project, which is part of a European Union 6th Framework Project. It is also extensively used in the communication work package of the STaR large-scale project to experiment with mesh networking technologies that could be used for traffic management. During the year the Mobile Networking Testbed enabled the development and testing of one of the first implementation of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) Network Mobility Protocol (NEMO). In addition, it facilitated the development of a new mobility-management scheme that uses multiple interface cards to provide seamless mobility. These outcomes were published in the prestigious journal IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications and at several first-tier international conferences. Two PhD students used the Mobile Networking Testbed to support their research, and it will be used in a collaborative research project with a multinational firm commencing in 2006. The SN Testbed, which is based on Berkeley motes [http://www-bsac.eecs.berkeley.edu/archive/ users/warneke-brett/SmartDust/], was successfully completed. The SN testbed was instrumental in the development of a novel localisation scheme based on Kalman Filters which require no additional hardware. The viability of the proposed scheme was demonstrated using a simple Lego Mindstorms robot on the testbed. The localisation scheme was published in IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computer Systems and presented at several international conferences. The SN Testbed also supported the PhD work of two students, and some of the findings were used in the UNSW Cane Toad Monitoring Project in Kakadu National Park. 46 3. RESEARCH TRAINING NICTA’s Role in Research Training Education is core to NICTA’s success. Central to achieving desired outcomes in this area is an expansion of the traditional Australian PhD program for ICT students. We champion the enhancement of PhD-level education in Australia to produce ICT researchers who not only excel in their chosen field of research, but also have the breadth of technical education and commercial awareness to connect their research to other fields and markets. NICTA’s contribution to research training is built on engagement with our partner universities in Australia, and the facilitation of NICTA’s value proposition among their students. In aiming to enhance the student experience, we focus on: n demonstrating research excellence n providing coursework that deepens and broadens knowledge n sponsoring networking and collaboration n brokering internship and exchange opportunities n facilitating pathways from research discovery to commercial application. These are pursued under a combination of national and international arrangements. Individual agreements with partner universities underpin the multi-layered educational relationships between NICTA laboratories and university schools that are essential to the delivery of these outcomes for students. While each arrangement is unique, the principles governing these relationships ensure the defining features of NICTA’s programs are being developed consistently under nationally coordinated priorities. 47 Objectives for 2005 The priorities set for 2005 in research training reflected NICTA’s growing emphasis on national outcomes. As the number of NICTA laboratories increased to five during 2005, a fresh balance between locally and nationally focused approaches was required. We recognised that strong linkages between programs at each university and its co-located laboratory are fundamental to NICTA’s corporate objectives and ability to influence education outcomes. Research Training Activity Objective Milestone Research Training Network (RTN) Develop the formal basis for a research training network Complete scoping study of RTN Program Met Q1 X Not Met ANNUAL REPORT 05 to the Australian Government Activity Objective Milestone Research Training Network (RTN) Develop the formal basis for a research training network Student placements Coursework for industry 48 Program Met Identify issues related to cross-accreditation Q2 X Establish list of potential network members Q2 X Develop core elements of RTN agreement Q3 All arrangements for placement of students within firms established or confirmed Q2 X Outplacement program documented across NICTA Q2 X Identify and approach key outplacement destinations Q3 X Develop relationships for outplacement with firms and external organisations Q3 X Two outplacements per research program in 2005 Minimum of 14 outplacements over year Q4 X Develop a framework for delivery of coursework to industry Present Machine Learning and Logic and Computation summer schools to industry Q1 X Identify possible coursework program Q1 X Scope program and review with industry stakeholders Q2 X Determine cost benefit of training provider registration Q3 Student placement rules and conditions X X Incentives for women Increase participation of women in NICTA’s ICT research training Complete whole-of-NICTA plan for incentives Q2 X Secondary outreach program NICTA contribution to ANU, UNSW, and Sydney and Melbourne outreach Complete secondary outreach program Q4 X Student population Planned student growth at each site 100 PhD students endorsed Q1 X Significant progress on all education objectives was achieved. Not Met Essential elements of a new Research Training Network (RTN) were put in place, with partner universities examining its key requirement: student access to Australia’s best research training and resources in ICT as an integral part of NICTA’s contribution to enhancing research training. NICTA constituted the key organisational structures needed to manage the network’s development. However, all the essential elements of a formal RTN agreement are yet to be finalised with partner universities. Student outplacements in 2005 exceeded milestone targets. Outplacement initiatives through R&Dintensive small-to-medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) compensated for the suspension of the Telstra program following its restructure. NICTA acquired additional training capability in 2005. We delivered high-demand coursework training in ICT specialisations to industry-sponsored participants in most capital cities from midyear. In parallel with the launch of this training program, sector-wide consultations continue to determine how NICTA and other interested parties can best service the advanced training needs of Australian industry. While measures are in place to support participation of women in student programs, there are substantial social and structural issues to be addressed that are not readily dealt with by a single institution. We still need to address a NICTA-wide plan for women to exceed our target of 20 per cent female participation in ICT research. The number of NICTA-endorsed PhD students already exceeded expectations. In addition to postgraduate students, we are providing support to a similar number of undergraduates through summer schools, honours programs, and project supervision. This is an encouraging sign for the future of ICT talent in Australia. Research Training Network NICTA and its partners in ICT education are estabilishing the RTN to ensure student access to the best available training afforded by a national laboratory according to agreed protocols and sustainable arrangements. Activity Objective Milestone Research Training Network (RTN) Develop the formal basis for an RTN Program Met Complete scoping study of RTN Q1 X Identify issues related to cross- Q2 X Q2 X Not Met accreditation Establish list of potential network members Develop core elements of RTN Q3 X agreement NICTA’s RTN encompasses an increasing number of universities and companies in a framework for cross-institutional initiatives. We have focused on increased involvement across institutional boundaries in PhD supervision and the sharing of advanced technical courses. The scoping of the RTN identified a series of initiatives required to promote its growth: n formation of the Education Management Coordination Group (internal to NICTA) n development of a terms of reference and membership (with university participation) of Research Training Management Coordination Committee (RTMCC) 49 ANNUAL REPORT 05 to the Australian Government n promotion of the RTN vision and its development among universities and industrial laboratories n development of policy and program models for ‘whole-of-NICTA’ accredited and non-accredited coursework n review of internal interconnects and operational overheads in education n policies and processes in NICTA for identifying and managing students n use of NICTA’s organisational development for student benefit, such as new capabilities in industry outreach and training, corporate learning and development, and commercialisation training. Once fully developed, the network will have a national and international component, including: n processes for matching students to their external host n cross-institution agreements n agreements between supervisory panels and external supervisors n formal recognition of external work in NICTA-university assessments of student training enhancements. The key challenge for the further development of the RTN is achieving cross-accreditation of courses between partner universities. Currently, cross-institutional enrolment in institutionally accredited courses attracts full fee charges. Unless the RTN facilitates seamless cross-institutional mobility through network-wide recognition of accredited coursework, then its value is diminished. This issue was investigated in the context of our University Partner Liaison meetings during 2005. While it is clearly important, it remains outside our capacity to resolve unilaterally. Under the current implementation of the RTN, NICTA provides facilities in each laboratory for shared coursework using video conference facilities. Many university-accredited courses were offered in this way throughout 2005. The challenge remains to encourage cross-accreditation of courses between partner universities where coursework requirements are embodied in institutional or faculty rules. Many PhD students are encouraged to take courses offered through remote laboratories, even when they are not accredited locally, as part of the research training enhancement NICTA can facilitate. These options extend to courses offered by NICTA to industry. The growth of the RTN is a high priority. Through its scoping activities, the NICTA education team has determined that the RTN will best be established through progressive institutional engagement. Consequently, we are starting with the member universities and extending to partner universities. The list of potential RTN members comprises: n Member universities o Australian National University o University of New South Wales. n Affiliate universities o Griffith University o Queensland University of Technology o University of Melbourne o University of Queensland o University of Sydney. 50 Because the institutional arrangements at each university are unique, each expansion raises issues for resolution that are dependent on local university rules. However we anticipate extending the RTN to all domestic universities as we resolve issues in conjunction with the member and affiliate universities. Professor John Richards, Director of the ANU College of Engineering and Computer Science, convened a meeting of relevant deans from NICTA’s member and partner universities to consider the matter of a common coursework component in the PhD program undertaken by NICTA-sponsored students. An MOU is being negotiated that would allow courses to be contributed by all NICTA universities, and NICTA itself, and to count towards qualification for the PhD at the student’s host university. We expect this to be a seamless arrangement for students and to provide a greatly enhanced range of course offerings. There appear to be no administrative impediments to the scheme. Under the training network arrangements that are now in place, NICTA students can be jointly supervised by local and interstate supervisors under inter-laboratory arrangements formally sanctioned by partner universities. Typically these students complete some of their research training in a second NICTA laboratory. Small numbers of students (about 5 per cent) are taking advantage of these possibilities, mainly under program linkages between the Sydney and Canberra laboratories. An increasing number of NICTA students also visited industrial laboratories and universities during 2005, typically for periods of 3–6 months. All visits contributed to deeper collaboration between NICTA and the host institution. We aim to extend network membership to these industrial and academic institutions, once arrangements with member and affiliate institutions have been finalised. The core elements of the RTN were clearly established in 2005. Course mobility is an essential objective. However a task for 2006 is to establish the arrangements with member institutions to ensure that mobility between institutions is possible. It is outside NICTA’s capacity to deliver mobility between institutions. We will continue to work with partner universities to pursue course mobility. Student Placements NICTA’s internship program provides students with valuable opportunities to gain commercial experience of ICT challenges under the disciplines of a business environment. Once fully implemented, students will gain professional and personal development benefits from these planned, integrating enhancements of their research training. Activity Objective Milestone Due Met Student placements Student placement rules and conditions All arrangements for placement of students within firms established or confirmed Q2 X Outplacement program documented across NICTA Q2 X Identify and approach key outplacement destinations Q3 X Develop relationships for outplacement with firms and external organisations Q3 X Minimum of 14 outplacements over year Q4 X Two outplacements per research program in 2005 Not met 51 ANNUAL REPORT 05 to the Australian Government NICTA and its partner universities have consistently supported students interested in ad hoc opportunities for internships that broaden or accelerate their research training. A major step towards a structured program of internships and placements was reached late in 2004 when the main elements of a four-year internship program with Telstra Ltd were identified. These provided for as many as 21 Telstra internships for NICTA-endorsed PhD students in the ICT field, with the first interns to commence in late 2005. Areas of focus include IP networking, wireless broadband technologies, Internet/IP security, and encryption. Details of the NICTA-Telstra Internship Program were finalised during the first half of 2005, and the outplacements were documented and launched across NICTA with the agreement of all partner universities. The expected launch of internships with Telstra was suspended in September 2005. Students taking Australian internships found placements in government and with R&D-intensive SMEs including Wilcom and Trantek. Students commencing overseas internships and outplacements in 2005 went to many countries including China, France, Germany, India, Sweden, and the USA, typically spending upwards of six months in academic and industrial laboratories. Companies included ENSICA (Toulouse), Ericsson Research (Stockholm), IBM Research (New Delhi), Intel Research (Hillsboro), IRST (Trento), Portland State University (USA), Qualcomm (San Diego), University of Cologne, and University of Indiana (USA). In 2005, NICTA-endorsed students participated in 22 internships. NICTA’s value proposition for interns Professional development including: n the opportunity to apply research knowledge and skills in a real business environment n the opportunity to be involved in a challenging commercial project and to experience the complexities of an ICT business environment n exposure to expectations of a leading ICT employer and trends influencing the ICT sector n the chance to explore career options from 'the inside' n participation in a well-structured, generously supported program, allowing accelerated professional development. Personal development including: n the opportunity to develop communication skills and extend teamwork abilities n the scope to extend and broaden personal and professional contacts n the chance to gain confidence, evaluate personal attributes and interests, and reflect on career pathways. Work is continuing on identifying opportunities for internships within other organisations. A survey on placements with SMEs is underway to establish the extent to which there is interest in student placement and any supplementary terms that should be incorporated into the program. 52 Coursework for Industry Coursework provides an important mechanism for extending our engagement with students, researchers, and industry. Over 30 courses were delivered at the Sydney, Canberra, and Victoria laboratories during 2005. Many of these courses were developed and delivered by NICTA researchers for the first time. Additionally, NICTA acquired the short-course business of the Cooperative Research Centre for Sensor Signal and Information Processing (CSSIP). This acquisition established our training capability and formed the basis for developing the coursework for industry program. Activity Objective Milestone Due Met Coursework for industry Develop a framework for delivery of coursework to industry Present Machine Learning and Logic and Computation summer schools to industry Q1 X Identify possible coursework program Q1 X Scope program and review with industry stakeholders Q2 X Determine cost benefit of training provider registration Q3 Not met X Summer schools were conducted in Machine Learning and Logic. Participation was extended to firms, as well as researchers and students. At the Machine Learning Summer School, introductory courses were given to provide a basic working knowledge of machine learning and to support participation in the advanced courses. This school was developed to suit all levels, from people with no previous knowledge of machine learning to those wishing to broaden their expertise. This approach allows participants to get in touch with international experts in the machine learning field. Student exchanges, joint publications, and joint projects will result from this collaboration. Approximately 40 students and 20 researchers from around the world attended the school. Key presenters were: n Thore Gräpel, Microsoft Research: Machine Learning for Games n Aapo Hyvärinen, Helsinki University: Independent Component Analysis n Matthias Franz, MPI, Tübingen: Natural Statistics of Images n Marcus Hutter, IDSIA, Switzerland: MDL and Bayesian Methods n René Vidal, Johns Hopkins University: Machine Learning for Vision Applications n Jon Patrick, University of Sydney, and NICTA: Natural Language Processing n Alex Smola and Swaminathan Venkata Narayana Vishwanathan, SML, NICTA: Graphical Models, Kernels, and Exponential Families n Terry Caelli, NICTA: Graph Matching Problems in Computer Vision n Adam Kowalczyk, SML, NICTA: Bio-informatics and Machine Learning n Nic Schraudolph, SML, NICTA: Step Size Adaptation Methods for Stochastic Optimisation 53 ANNUAL REPORT 05 to the Australian Government n Douglas Aberdeen, SML, NICTA: Reinforcement Learning n Markus Hegland, MSI, ANU, and SML, NICTA: Algebraic Sparse Grid Methods. The Logic and Computation Program was conducted jointly by the Logic and Computation Program, the KRR Program, and the Formal Methods Program. It was held 6–17 December 2004. The Logic and Computation Summer School attracted 50 attendees and 15 presenters. Some of Australia’s top logic experts give lectures and international experts also featured. Professor Tony Cohn, University of Leeds, UK, presented a course on logic-based artificial intelligence; Professor Hiroakira Ono, JAIST, Kanazawa, Japan, gave a course on non-classical logic; and Dr Valentin Goranko, Rand Afrikaans University, Johannesburg, provided an overview on classical metatheory. Coursework Program NICTA acquired the short-course business of the Cooperative Research Centre for Sensor Signal and Information Processing (CSSIP). This acquisition established our training capability and formed the basis for developing the coursework program. The addition of CSSIP’s short-course program to our education portfolio strengthens our education program and helps us to deliver on our commitment to enhance Australia’s ICT skills base. NICTA will leverage the expertise gained by CSSIP in the delivery of high-quality, short courses and extend this experience to broader ICT courses using the extensive experience of the three CSSIP educational staff. The education model established by CSSIP also provides scope for delivering in-house tailored programs to organisations. NICTA will continue to hold courses for engineers, scientists, and technicians in industries such as defence, mining, and biotechnology. Courses and seminars delivered in the second half of 2005 under the former CSSIP program for industry and researchers included: 54 Date Course Location Organisations attending Participants 20 July Tracking and Data Fusion WA Raytheon Australia, DSTO 10 21–22 July Introduction to Sonar Signal Processing WA DSTO, Raytheon Australia, Nautronix, Curtin University 12 29–31 August Tactical Data Information Links Qld In-house for Boeing Australia 25 5–6 September Tactical Data Information Links (TADILs) SA BAE Systems, Thales, ASC, Tenix, DSTO, Boeing Australia 22 7 September Tracking and Data Fusion ACT CEA, ANU, Jacobs Sverdrup, DMO, NICTA 22 Date Course Location Organisations attending Participants 20 October Fundamental Limits in Wireless Communication SA mNet, SA Gov., UniSA, Uni of Adelaide, CODAN, Tenix, DSTO, DSpace, BAE, Saab Systems, Chalmers Uni, KAZ, Multi-Trak, Halmstadt Uni 90 23–24 November Inside GPS Receiver Hardware SA DSTO, ADI Ltd, Tenix Defence, Quiktrak Technologies, Celltrack Systems, RLM Systems 23 Ten NICTA students – as well as scientists and engineers from Jacobs Sverdrup, Defence Materiel Organisation, and CEA Technologies – attended the one-day course Tracking and Data Fusion presented by Dr Branko Ristic of DSTO in Canberra on 7 September 2005. This mathematically rigorous course provided students with excellent background knowledge and an opportunity to interact with government and industry scientists and engineers. Professor Alex Grant, a NICTA Fellow, presented the seminar Fundamental Limits of Wireless Communication on 20 October 2005 at Mawson Lakes, launching the NICTA Adelaide Office. Ninety people from government, academia, and industry attended. In parallel with the acquisition of the CSSIP training resources, work was initiated to scope a wider program of coursework based on NICTA’s extensive capabilities. This was carried out with support from the Canberra Business Council. Information is now being gathered on industry priorities for both the content and structure of training that might be offered. This will be part of a continuous effort to establish areas of demand and develop relevant training. The acquisition of the CSSIP training program has made it unnecessary to pursue training provider registration. Incentives for Women Activity Objective Milestone Due Met Incentives for women Increase participation of women in NICTA’s ICT research training Complete whole-of-NICTA plan for incentives Q2 X Not met Initiatives to support incentives for women are in place. These include participation in external programs such as the ANU’s Women in Technology Program and profiling women involved in ICT research through NICTA News. Scholarships funding is reserved to support qualified female research candidates. Work on the participation of women in ICT research highlights that there are deeply engrained issues affecting levels of participation. In recent years, a large volume of literature has become available exploring the reasons for low participation; an increasing emphasis has been on the ‘masculine’ culture that surrounds certain Science, Engineering, and Technology (SET) domains. A recent thesis 55 ANNUAL REPORT 05 to the Australian Government Pei Yean Lee received a Bachelor of Engineering with first class honours from the University of Adelaide in 2001. She completed her NICTA-endorsed PhD at The Australian National University (ANU). She was an invited speaker at the 16th International Symposium on Mathematical Theory of Networks and Systems in Leuven, Belgium. Pei Yean supplemented her studies with an internship at AT&T and work as a tutor at the ANU. She is also named as an inventor for a recent patent application. After completing her PhD, Pei Yean was hired as a researcher in NICTA’s Autonomous Systems and Sensing Technology Program. Pei Yean is one of only two female researchers in the Canberra Laboratory and is an excellent role model for students and staff. Pei Yean is an enthusiastic advocate for encouraging youth into ICT. In 2005, she developed exciting, hands-on workshops in computer vision, demonstrating her work in hyperspectral and thermal imaging for industrial applications to high school students. She also led the first all-female team that further developed this workshop into educational modules to take directly into ACT high schools and included workshops in maths, combinatorics, and geometry. Her enthusiasm for her research carries over into showcasing her discipline to undergraduate students who are interested in pursuing postgraduate studies with NICTA. (Godfrey, 2003) looks at the factors that conspire to create the masculine culture of engineering in the New Zealand context. Many of the factors can be recognised in an Australian context, while some are international in scope. Godfrey’s thesis includes an estimation that simple affirmative action plans based on helping women gain access to and adapt within this masculine culture are unlikely to raise female participation above 20 per cent. These factors put into perspective expectations about the degree of influence that NICTA can bring to the development of the culture in ICT. Some strategies designed to make women feel more comfortable in the way that we define work projects for new recruits are already in place – notably the level of summer projects for high-calibre undergraduates. The two main strategies are: n always describe projects in terms of a context of use and not simply the challenge that they represent n always describe the social context in which the project will be performed and include the name of the supervisor, the degree of contact with that supervisor, and the involvement of other people as peers or supervisors. 56 These strategies are aimed at attracting women through the social utility of ICT and at adapting the culture of ICT research. If the estimated ceiling of 20 per cent participation is valid, then NICTA has room to improve on our current participation of about 17 per cent. Secondary Outreach NICTA seeks to stimulate interest in ICT research and its future application among secondary school students, building student commitment to its study. NICTA collaborates with its partner universities and takes direct initiatives to meet its outreach objectives. Activity Objective Milestone Due Met Secondary outreach program NICTA contribution to ANU, UNSW, and Sydney and Melbourne outreach Complete secondary outreach program Q4 X Not met We implemented major elements of our outreach program to secondary schools during 2005. In the ACT, two taskforces were established: one led by Pei Yean Lee and the other by Doug Aberdeen. Each taskforce is equipped with two presentation modules focusing on ICT training and education opportunities: n Google: From Possibilities to Probabilities n Making Maths Fun: From Caesar's Cypher to the CIA. A total of nine visits to ACT schools were made in 2005, reaching nearly 350 students in Year 10. We reached another 100 Year 11 and 12 students through the ANU Archimedes Day Program. Participation through the University of New South Wales in international robotics competitions has stimulated interest in ICT challenges in many secondary schools, and contributed to student successes. NICTA presentations and demonstrations form an integral part of the University of New South Wales’ program to host on-campus school visits. Student Population Activity Objective Milestone Student population Planned student growth at each site 100 PhD students endorsed Due Q1 Met Not met X The student population has grown well in advance of the 100 students expected in 2005. The program of scholarships and supervision for PhD candidates has developed strongly in 2005. NICTA-endorsed PhD student numbers in established laboratories (Sydney, Canberra, and Victoria) have increased to more than 200. A similar number of additional students receive assistance from NICTA through supervisory and project relationships. The comparative growth in student numbers has been significant since 2002. 57 ANNUAL REPORT 05 to the Australian Government NICTA-endorsed PhD student numbers 120 2002 2003 2004 2005 100 80 60 40 20 0 ACT NSW VIC QLD At 31 December 2005, a total of 209 endorsed PhD were supported through NICTA-funded scholarships and a further 59 PhD students were supported with NICTA supervision. During 2005, NICTA funded 78 students for shorter term project work and supervised a further 81 such students. In 2005, there were an additional 46 students visiting NICTA for research or training support from other institutions in Australia and overseas. Students Sydney Canberra Victoria Queensland Scholarship students 105 PhD 52 PhD 47 PhD 5 PhD 45 other 23 other 5 other 5 other Additional students under supervision 38 PhD 19 PhD 2 PhD N/A 58 other 23 other 23 PhD 7 PhD 5 PhD N/A 2 other 9 other 11 7 4 N/A Visiting students Student outplacements (to date) NICTA is now actively tracking student completions with the assistance of partner universities. Graduate numbers should increase sharply, commencing in 2006. To support a continuing supply of high-quality graduates, NICTA hosted 100 undergraduate students from all over Australia on 1 December 2005 at a summer scholars’ showcase in Canberra to encourage students to take up ICT research studies. 58 4. COMMERCIALISATION General Approach to Commercialisation Commercialisation is one of NICTA’s key activities and an integral measure of NICTA’s success. In order to be successful and achieve maximum impact, commercialisation at NICTA needs to be a considered activity, tempered both by allowing time for the right technologies to be developed and also by market timing. To date, NICTA’s progress in commercialisation has centred on building a platform to meet increasing research output as current projects mature towards completion and development of an entrepreneurial culture and ecosystem. This platform activity has included: n an internal scanning capability and commercialisation pipeline n IP polices and an IP management system, including IP registers n an internal commercialisation and IP education program n the Entrepreneurs in Residence (EiR) Program. Objectives for 2005 Activity Objective Milestone Due Met IP management and commercialisation approval system Implement a complete IP management and commercialisation approval system Licensing officer appointed Q2 X Electronic IP registers finalised Q2 X Commercialisation approval processes finalised Q2 X Feasibility study completed for integration of IP and knowledge management systems Q4 X Benchmark IP policy, procedures, and protocols against international systems IP policy and protocols review and benchmarking completed Q2 X Commercialisation leadership program evaluation tour completed Q2 X Deliver NICTA-wide commercialisation training Selection and appointment of commercialisation training provider Q2 X First cycle of commercialisation masterclasses and immersion training completed Q4 X IP and commercialisation training Not met 59 ANNUAL REPORT 05 to the Australian Government Activity Objective Milestone Due Met Commercialisation Develop awareness program and linkages on commercialisation IP induction training backlog completed Q2 X First Friends of NICTA event held Q2 X Continued rollout of monthly role model seminars Q4 X EiR First NICTA start-up to have gone through external funding cycle Q4 X Investment Accrual of up to $4.5 million into NICTA Investment Pool subject to approval of the Investment Plan by the Project Executive Q4 Not met X To date commercialisation activity has resulted in: n completion of the basic foundation for commercialisation scanning of our research in the form of a commercialisation pipeline n filing of 23 provisional patents n appointment of two entrepreneurs in residence to support spin-out activity. Market analysis and potential customer validation exercises are being conducted on a number of projects. In addition, self-funding business plans are being prepared for the following projects: n Office in a Box n Digital Audio Networking (DANTE) n Embedded, Real-Time, and Operating Systems (ERTOS). The EiR Program made several important steps forward. During the second quarter, the 2004 pilot program was extended through an extensive interview and due diligence process that brought together two candidates from the USA and one from Sydney as prospects for the 2005 program. They were given an introduction to NICTA at the Techfest and met with NICTA’s venture capital partners and a wide number of NICTA staff. The selection panel subsequently made offers to two candidates, who both accepted. The first to come on board, Steve Subar, is an accomplished entrepreneur with more than 20 years experience growing established businesses, launching new companies, and transforming struggling ventures into viable operations. He has co-founded two successful USA-based start-ups. He was also part of the management team at Computer Associates that drove revenues from $30 million to more than $1.2 billion over a five-year period. 60 Ralph Petroff is our second EiR, he joined NICTA in the third quarter. Ralph has twice performed the start-up dream of going from a garage start-up to a global market leader and is intimately familiar with the difficulties encountered in selling ICT. IP Management and Commercialisation Approval System Activity Objective Milestone Due Met IP management and commercialisation approval system Implement a complete IP management and commercialisation approval system Licensing officer appointed Q2 X Electronic IP registers finalised Q2 X Commercialisation approval processes finalised Q2 X Feasibility study completed for integration of IP and knowledge management systems Q4 X IP policy and protocols review and benchmarking completed Q2 X Commercialisation leadership program evaluation tour completed Q2 X Benchmark IP policy, procedures, and protocols against international systems The development of operating procedures and protocols, appointment and engagement of an IP officer, and the development of an electronic IP register and IP management system were finalised in this period. The system is backed by established procedures for: n background IP and prior art registers n publications approval n technology and invention disclosure n disclosure evaluation. NICTA’s IP management system aims to connect all members of the IP management value chain, from researchers through to patent attorneys. It provides the tools and procedures to ensure that clarity of IP ownership is beyond dispute and the options for management of each research output are properly decided. An IP officer was appointed during the second quarter and commenced during the third quarter 2005. An electronic register is now in place to support scanning for commercialisation opportunities. Twentythree patent applications were lodged during 2005. Not met 61 ANNUAL REPORT 05 to the Australian Government Title Case Status Country Originating Lab Quality of Service Seeker PCT (International) application Australia KEN PON system with local networking capability PCT (International) application Australia VRL PON system with a remote upstream repeater PCT (International) application Australia VRL Data Mining Unlearnable Data Sets PCT (International) application Australia ACT Detecting Shapes in Image Data In National Phase Australia USA ACT Shot Segmentation Australia, Provisional application Australia KEN Method for Transporting Digital Media Australia, Provisional application Australia KEN Representing graphs in Three Dimensions Australia, Provisional application Australia ATP Sequential Data Segmentation Australia, Provisional application Australia KEN Multimodal Computer Navigation Australia, Provisional application Australia ATP Interference Reduction in a Communications Signal Australia, Provisional application Australia ACT Representing Directed Graphs in Three Dimensions (I) Australia, Provisional application Australia ATP Measuring Cognitive Load Australia, Provisional application Australia ATP WDM Optical Performance Monitoring Australia, Provisional application Australia VRL Front End Processing of Speech Signals Australia, Provisional application Australia ATP Representing Directed Graphs in Three Dimensions (II) Australia, Provisional application Australia ATP Detecting Regular Polygon Shapes Australia, Provisional application Australia ACT Method and Device for In-Band Optical Performance Monitoring Australia, Provisional application Australia VRL Frequency Hopping Systems Australia, Provisional application Australia ACT Method and Apparatus for Sampled Optical Signal Monitoring Australia, Provisional application Australia VRL Baseband Receiver Australia, Provisional application Australia ACT ’Succinct Index Structure’ Australia, Provisional application Australia KEN Transporting Digital Media Australia, Provisional application Australia KEN Abbreviation: PCT = Patent Cooperation Treaty. The basic commercialisation approval processes have been finalised and are based on reporting to the Board Commercialisation Committee. Througout 2006, we will make extensions and revisions to the approval procedures and guidelines as required. 62 Feasibility Study Completed for Integration of IP and Knowledge Management Systems Integration of the IP management system and the knowledge management aspects of the project management system were evaluated by the Project Management Office (PMO) and the Commercialisation and Intellectual Property Office (IPO) in 2005. The result was the development of an integration plan that will link project data to the information capture requirements for the IPO. This will ensure that NICTA is able to regularly survey its project work for IP management purposes. The integration will form part of phase two of the project management system scheduled for mid-2006. Benchmark IP Policy, Procedures, and Protocols We undertook a benchmark review of NICTA’s IP Policy, procedures, and protocols in 2005. This included an external legal counsel review to ensure our IP Policy is in line with Australian and global best practice. The review was completed and will be discussed with the Board before being released. We also sought other views on our current IP Policy. The International Science Advisory Group (ISAG) and International Business Advisory Group (IBAG) endorsed our generalised model for joint research with SMEs and stated that our approach to IP access was equitable. We are monitoring a review of the University of California, Berkeley’s IP policy which is similar to our own, although it provides royalty-free access for ethical/not-for-profit investors. In light of this extensive review and in order to reflect the ongoing maturation of NICTA’s processes, a revised IP policy was approved by the NICTA Board of Directors and put to the Project Executive for consideration. Commercialisation Leadership Program As part of the process of attracting international candidates for the 2005 intake into the EiR Program, we held a roadshow in Silicon Valley, USA, in mid-March 2005. As part of this roadshow, a number of NICTA executive and research staff and one of the program’s venture capital partners presented information on NICTA, the EiR Program, and NICTA’s research approach at an EiR Roundtable in Palo Alto. The session was attended by a capacity audience of 60 venture capitalists, investment bankers, and serial entrepreneurs. As a result of this campaign, NICTA prepared an initial list of 18 candidates for the EiR Program. A panel of NICTA executives and three venture capital partners participating in the EiR Program shortlisted candidates to attend NICTA’s Techfest in Australia and participate in the interview process for the 2005 intake. Two of these candidates ultimately joined the EiR Program. IP and Commercialisation Training As part of developing an entrepreneurial culture and an environment conducive to effective technology transfer, a program of IP and commercialisation training and awareness was developed and delivered across NICTA during the year. The Australian Institute for Commercialisation was selected as the training provider. 63 ANNUAL REPORT 05 to the Australian Government Activity Objective Milestone Due Met IP and commercialisation training Deliver NICTA-wide commercialisation training Selection and appointment of commercialisation training provider Q2 X First cycle of commercialisation masterclasses and immersion training completed Q4 X Not Met The Australian Institute for Commercialisation was chosen as NICTA’s initial commercialisation training partner. In the fourth quarter, the Institute conducted NICTA’s first Commercialisation Bootcamp, which was attended by a capacity group of NICTA staff and students. In a series of more in-depth commercialisation training activities, a team from the KRR Program at Kensington, led by the NSW SME liaison officer, Neil Temperley, and a team from the IMAGEN Program at ATP completed the New South Wales Enterprise Workshop. A team from Victoria completed the Mentre Commercialisation Workshop, which was run by Information City and supported by the Victorian Government’s VicStart Program. In Canberra, a commercialisation kickstart course for PhD students was run at RSISE for the second year. The Macquarie Institute for Innovation was engaged in the fourth quarter to conduct a scoping study for the preparation of an in-depth Commercialisation Training Program for NICTA. Commercialisation 64 Activity Objective Milestone Due Met Commercialisation Develop awareness program and linkages on commercialisation IP induction training backlog completed Q2 X First Friends of NICTA event held Q2 X Continued rollout of monthly role model seminars Q4 X EiR First NICTA start-up to have gone through external funding cycle Q4 X Investment Accrual of up to $4.5 million into NICTA Investment Pool subject to approval of the Investment Plan by the Project Executive Q4 Not Met X IP Induction NICTA believes that fundamental IP knowledge is paramount for all staff. To this end, NICTA’s patent attorneys conducted IP induction training, which was compulsory for all NICTA staff. The backlog of IP induction courses was completed within the second quarter. Friends of NICTA Friends of NICTA (FoN) is a loose-knit network upon which NICTA can draw from time to time for input into its activities, particularly commercialisation activities such as role model seminars and entrepreneurial support. FoN was established in 2004 and a number of the network’s members have supported NICTA since then. Role Model Seminars NICTA held a regular series of commercialisation role model seminars across all the laboratories in 2005. The purpose of these internal seminars is to increase awareness of commercialisation. Topics covered included: n Engineering a Start-up n 99 Mistakes Every Entrepreneur Should Avoid n Confessions of a Serial Entrepreneur. The seminars allow researchers and other NICTA staff to hear unique insights from experienced entrepreneurs and others involved in the commercialisation process talking about the different facets of being involved in a spin-out high-technology venture. The NICTA EiR Program also conducted seminars in all five laboratories. The seminars were well received and acted as a catalyst for their further engagement with NICTA researchers and students. Funding Cycle GreenPea, a company founded by one of NICTA’s researchers, participated in an extensive roadshow with Australian venture capital investors. The company received an initial capital infusion as a result. Early ‘fireside chats’ were held with venture capital investors in relation to a number of other NICTA projects with a view to obtaining initial feedback on their progress towards spin-out. In addition, the Office in a Box proposed spin-out, 7-ip, was presented to the Board Commercialisation Committee in the fourth quarter and received conditional approval for an initial capital infusion from the Investment Pool (Commercialisation Development Account). Investment Pool NICTA has accrued $2.5 million in 2005, for use in 2006, into a Commercialisation Development Account. This will be used to provide market validation grants, initial infusions of capital into companies created on spin-out technology from NICTA research, as well as for follow-on funding into such companies. In providing follow-on funding into spin-out ventures NICTA may be the sole investor or a co-investor. The range of activities to which initial capital provided under the fund will be applied is: n creating the corporate entity n transferring the technology and researchers into the created entity 65 ANNUAL REPORT 05 to the Australian Government n enhancing the prototype technology n securing reference customers for the technology n protecting the IP vested in the company n assisting in making the entity investment-ready n facilitating the raising of external funding. Any follow-on funding provided would be used to further develop the venture’s commercialisation activities in areas such as product development, marketing, and international expansion. Follow-on funding will also minimise any dilution of NICTA’s equity stake as a result of other investors taking equity in the company. Current details on the proposal were provided to the Project Executive in early 2006. A formal proposal is currently before the Project Executive for its consideration. Consistency with the IP Policy The IP Policy is administered by the IP and Commercialisation Manager, who reports to the Chief Operating Officer. The Intellectual Property Committee operates for the purposes of: Providing: n advice on IP matters to the Chief Executive Officer and the Director, Business Development Determining: n ownership of IP in cases referred to it n appropriate protection strategies for IP n appropriate commercialisation strategies for IP n whether a project in which it is proposed that a student participates is a project with commercialisation horizons or objectives, so that an assignment of IP to NICTA from the student is necessary Reviewing: n this policy and other practices concerned with IP n procedures and protocols n implementation of an education strategy for staff and students to be aware of IP rights, this policy, and the procedures and protocols n delegation to the Director, Business Development. NICTA, as an employer, is the owner of IP created by full-time and part-time staff in the course of their employment. NICTA is not the owner of IP created by staff members outside the course of their employment. Consistent with the IP Policy, NICTA has not claimed ownership of course materials developed by staff and acknowledges that copyright in course materials remains with the authors. NICTA does not claim ownership of copyright in scholarly works but does require that all works make appropriate acknowledgement of the support provided by the Commonwealth of Australia through Backing Australia’s Ability and the Australian Research Council. 66 NICTA made provisions to support researchers visiting other institutions as visiting scholars and researchers. Travel approvals ensure that NICTA’s visiting researchers are aware that the policies of the host institution may apply and require consideration of any formal agreement between NICTA and the other institution regarding both ownership and disclosure. Travel procedures for inbound visitors explicitly state that NICTA will be owner of any IP generated by visitors. Where contractors are engaged, the general terms of engagement are that NICTA will be the owner of any IP. Where circumstances mean that NICTA will not own the IP, it is a requirement of engagement that NICTA is granted a licence, on suitable terms, to use the IP it does not own. Ownership of IP in the case of research joint ventures is addressed through the mechanisms of contract and the IP register to ensure clarity of ownership of background IP and certainty over the use and control of IP generated through the collaboration. The potential impact of joint ownership is considered as part of any collaborative project negotiation. NICTA makes no claim over the copyright subsisting in a student’s thesis. Students are recognised as the owners of any IP that they generate. Provision is made for joint ownership between students, their supervisors, and other collaborators as necessary. A student assignment protocol exists so that IP created by students can be assigned to NICTA. No decisions were made during the reporting period as to whether an assignment of policy should be made. However, under the protocol, a student remains free to choose not to assign IP. In the event that students choose not to assign IP when it is considered appropriate to do so, the student is required to select an alternative research project. NICTA took extensive legal and taxation advice in 2003 to ensure that its actions with respect to assignment of student IP are governed by protocols that are not unconscionable. Procedures exist for the identification of IP through our publications procedure and the project application procedure. Under both procedures, notification is to the Director, Business Development. NICTA maintains an open approach to the publication of research results that aims to respect and preserve both freedom to publish and opportunity to maximise commercialisation. Given NICTA’s economic impact and national interest stance, early publication of research results under an open policy will always be preferred except where: n the IP was specifically generated through significant investment to support a ‘family’ of existing NICTA IP n further development within NICTA can be shown to enhance the commercialisation potential, value, and benefit to the Australian industry. No specific determinations of the kind referred to under sub-clause 18.4 of the Funding Deed with the Commonwealth were made during the reporting period on the communication of the results of research projects that were contrary to the general presumption in favour of open publication. There were no revenues on IP commercialisation or equity established in any company during the term of this report. 67 ANNUAL REPORT 05 to the Australian Government 5. NETWORKS AND LINKAGES General Approach to Networks and Linkages Network and linkage activity aims to extend NICTA’s research, education, and commercialisation into a national and international context. It reinforces the idea of NICTA as an ‘open institute’ and expresses how NICTA expects to develop its research in a use-inspired way. Much network and linkage activity has been at the individual and project/program level, reflecting NICTA’s effort to build a viable portfolio of research projects. The main outcomes during the start-up phase have been: n multinational and local firms engagements n focusing on ICT-enabled industry verticals. Networks and linkages developed at three distinct levels to accommodate the flexibility required by the Australian ICT industry for meaningful engagement: n individual: unstructured, widespread, and founded on individual ties n project and program: more structured and may be supported by non-disclosure agreements or research collaboration agreements n institutional: highly structured company-to-company relationships. During 2005, we delivered a more structured framework for engagement leading to the establishment of organised forums that are the basis for ongoing interaction in the key research areas of sensor networks, software engineering, and spatial information systems. A limited number of milestones under Networks and Linkages were not met but these were the result of deliberate decisions and were notified to the Project Executive. Objectives for 2005 Activity Objective Milestone Due Met SME program SME software capability support Scope range of services and present to stakeholders Q1 X ESE referral service Q2 Seminar program delivered at all sites Q2 X Set up ESE interest groups Q3 X Delivery to all sites completed Q4 X Determine demand and establish three interest groups in each midyear period Q4 X Interest groups 68 Not met X Activity Objective Milestone Due Met International Scientific Advisory Group (ISAG) and International Business Advisory Group (IBAG) Maximise benefit of ISAG and IBAG Plan to expand the use of IBAG and ISAG in Australia Q2 X Briefings and seminars General NICTA briefings Eight briefings conducted Q4 X Visitor industry seminar program Six seminars delivered Q4 X Sponsorship events Australian Technology Showcase Q2 X CeBIT Q2 X ICT Outlook Forum Q3 X Promote greater intrasite and external research interchange Techfest planned and delivered Q2 X Deliver regular external newsletter Four newsletters delivered over calendar year Q4 X Major user engagement Engagement with four key major users determined Scope engagement options and report by 30 June Q2 X MNC engagement Extend formal links to multinational ICT firms Determine and agree to terms of engagement with one firm by May Q2 X Determine and agree to terms of engagement with two additional firms by end of December. Q4 X Exhibitions and events Not met 69 ANNUAL REPORT 05 to the Australian Government SME Program Activity Objective Milestone Due Met SME program SME software capability support Scope range of services and present to stakeholders Q1 X ESE referral service Q2 Seminar program delivered at all sites Q2 X Set up ESE interest groups Q3 X Delivery to all sites completed Q4 X Determine demand and establish three interest groups in each midyear period Q4 X Interest groups Not met X To extend our interactions with SMEs, we broadened the range of interactions to include seminars, information sessions, and a set of planned industry interest groups. These are all aimed at: n introducing business and research to one another across common areas of interest n exploring opportunities for further links between NICTA’s research programs and the technology needs of businesses n creating personal linkages based on common technology or research interests n stimulating creative and broad discussion n leading to further direct interaction between NICTA programs and companies. These interactions benefited participants and NICTA. They provided opportunities for us to validate prospective research areas with possible industry partners and raise interest in research as a competitiveness strategy through organised programs. Projects involving specific SME engagements include: Digital Audio Networking (DANTE); Document Analysis and Understanding; GymAware; Personal Universal Communicator; Road Safety: Driver Fatigue from Head Motion; and Universal Storage Schemes for the Future. Our work in constraints programming has led to NICTA’s KRR Program providing Australian company Wilcom, the world’s leading provider of software for the embroidery and value-added clothing market, with research support to develop technology to overcome scheduling problems in production. The collaboration focuses on delivering next generation systems for Wilcom to ensure its products continue to lead the world market. MOUs have also been established with Trantek and Critical Infrastructure to develop hardware platforms for video surveillance systems. Less formal relationships with SMEs include exploring the possibility of creating a games demonstrator based on NICTA artificial intelligence research, exploring NICTA technology to visualise/analyse biological pathway databases, using topics maps and ontologies in information systems, and linking SME technology to sensor management related to the WIN Project. 70 Software Development Capability Support Development of the SME Software Development Capability Support Program was addressed through a range of activities. The basis of this program was established from the work currently underway in the ESE research program in areas relevant to the SME community, including success and risk factors for IT projects, process management and improvement technologies, software and systems architecture, and outcomes-based capability development programs. Research into each of these areas will continue to provide the basis for subsequent work with software development firms. Extensive discussions were held with a major sector of the industry – lending services – on the scope and range of services appropriate to achieve capability support. The resulting work with the Lending Industry XML Initiative (LIXI) aims to address the need to define and express common business processes used in the Australian lending industry. This work has the potential to directly impact the productivity of more than 100 member companies, including major Australian banks, mortgage and insurance brokers, and specialist software development firms. The outcomes of this project will support software capability development through business process improvement of all participating organisations, and will benefit Australian loan customers and the economy at large. A separate, major capability support project proposal is under development that will address: n pre-contractual assessment of company capabilities relative to major projects n post-contractual risk management, including automated activity metrics for productivity and cost tracking of project progress. Direct industry collaborations initially under negotiation include a leading Australian software services provider in association with a major Australian financial services institution, and the defence industry. The latter will be of particular significance to supporting the capability development of Australian smallto-medium defence software contractors. A further area of increasing industry engagement is in the field of software and systems architecture. This includes the processes and tools for evaluation of suitable software architectural approaches, performance modelling and assessment of software architecture, and mechanisms for adaptive middleware platforms. These areas all involve industry engagement to conduct original, use-based research, as well as providing a direct mechanism to support organisations in their capability for selecting and implementing fit-for-purpose systems and software architecture. The software architecture expertise of the ESE team is frequently and widely promoted to the industry through formal means (such as conferences and presentations) and informal networks. Engagements range from focus groups to architectural advice briefing sessions for Australian companies. These activities provide a strong reference point for industry to draw on expertise within the ESE Program. A software Engineering Breakfast Seminar Series launch in NSW, ACT, Queensland, and Victoria was held in late November and early December. The series was based on the work on Statistical Process Control and the Impact of the Capability Maturity Model on SMEs; each session provided information on the results achieved. More than 80 industry representatives attended and the program will be continued on a quarterly basis in 2006. One milestone for a formal referral service on software engineering was not met. On assessment it was not considered feasible to continue as it had the potential to conflict with the provision of commercial services. 71 ANNUAL REPORT 05 to the Australian Government Interest Groups The aim of interest groups is to establish a basis for regular interaction and deeper relationship building. They are open groups that provide opportunities for NICTA and SMEs to develop collaborations based on an observable fit in the critical areas of people, technology, and economic factors. Our aim was to initiate a series of interest groups in 2005 that gave firms an opportunity to connect with both general and specific research interests. A Reconfigurable Computing Forum was held in March 2005 to explore opportunities for structured interaction. The forum was held as part of the ERTOS Program’s focus on reconfigurable computing, with a number of projects targeting reconfigurable hardware. The topic is challenging and futuristic in terms of exploring a technology that could be applied to product differentiation and enhanced functionality. The forum attracted eight companies with the capacity and research commitment to engage in possible collaborative projects. A further twelve have registered on a mailing list to be informed of progress. One of the participating firms completed a Non Disclosure Agreement to support deeper exploration of the area. A second interest group area to be established is automotive technologies. NICTA hosted meetings in March with representatives of the National Telematics Working Group to determine the extent to which NICTA capabilities matched industry objectives in the area of intelligent transport. From that meeting consultations have been developed with individual firms and are ongoing. NICTA will continue to work with the National Telematics Working Group. The work involved in developing and implementing the NICTOR sensor platform under the WIN Project has attracted substantial industry interest. This has included industry contributions of services and tools worth many millions of dollars. A forum to promote greater awareness was launched as the Sensor Network Forum in November 2005. An interest group in spatial information systems was established in August after a comprehensive workshop that explored capabilities and demand in both industry and key government users. The workshop was conducted with a range of ACT-based firms and research groups on spatial Information systems. Participants included numerous schools of the ANU, ADFA, Ecowise, ACT Government, Environment Australia, and Geosciences Australia. The workshop concluded that spatial data information processing software in the form of Geographic Information Systems (GIS), sensor systems, mapping technologies, environmental modelling, and spatial statistics have not kept up with our increased understanding of the complexities involved in such analyses or the great variety of disparate applications which have developed in the last decade. Insights from GIS research, spatial analysis, data mining, and important application areas such as quantitative social geography, criminology, and epidemiology have not yet been incorporated into the information processing software, presenting a number of important opportunities for developers and users alike. The interest group will aim to increase members’ competencies, efficient uses, and development of advanced GIS and related systems among members in their areas of expertise. E-government has developed as a community of interest between researchers in a variety of disciplines and companies servicing the government market. These include areas complementary to NICTA such as information systems. A software engineering interest group has now been established at each site following the successful launch of a seminar series late in the year. A regular series of quarterly briefings will be established to build on the interest generated with the next session of information architecture to be held in February 2006. 72 International Business Advisory Group and International Science Advisory Group Activity Objective Milestone Due Met International Scientific Advisory Group (ISAG) and International Business Advisory Group (IBAG) Maximise benefit of ISAG and IBAG Plan to expand the use of IBAG and ISAG in Australia Q2 X Not met NICTA has the benefit of advice from its International Business Advisory Group (IBAG) and International Science Advisory Group (ISAG). These groups provide advice to the Board and executives on NICTA’s growth and development. ISAG and IBAG play an important role in assisting NICTA’s development with valuable advice on strategic directions and priorities for the organisation, including: n NICTA’s future scientific directions and new opportunities n international trends and Australian expertise n international business development issues for NICTA including emerging markets and commercialisation. These advisory groups ensure that NICTA’s strategic research and commercial initiatives are constructively scrutinised by internationally respected figures on at least an annual basis. Both the ISAG and IBAG met in September 2005 to consider NICTA’s development and provided advice on: 73 n the management of our research portfolio n our education strategy n emerging commercialisation prospects n our international profile. An expanded program was developed to involve activities beyond the ICT Outlook Forum. The additional itinerary includes a breakfast briefing co-hosted with the Department of State and Regional Development, NSW, and an industry dinner that will give attendees an opportunity to meet ISAG and IBAG participants directly. Briefings and Seminars Activity Objective Milestones Date Met Briefings and seminars General NICTA briefings Eight briefings conducted Q4 X Visitor industry seminar program Six seminars delivered Q4 X Not met ANNUAL REPORT 05 to the Australian Government Briefings on NICTA and its activities and seminars on ICT topics were delivered throughout 2005. A specialised industry briefing, hosted by the ESE Program, was conducted in Canberra as part of the Government Technology World Conference (in association with Terrapin). The workshop was arranged on the theme ‘Supplying Software to Australian Government Agencies – Developing and Demonstrating Quality and Capability: A Workshop for Australian Software Suppliers and Government Procurers’. It consisted of 30-minute presentations from ESE researchers and invited guest presenters from industry and government. Average attendance at each presentation was 25 people. Four SME briefings were conducted around the Profit from Publicly Funded ICT R&D Workshop, organised by The Warren Centre for Advanced Engineering in NSW in May 2005. This was targeted at SMEs in the ICT industry interested in business growth through the development and commercialisation of ICT-based intellectual property. It featured introductory presentations followed by overlapping workshop sessions by the ESE Program, CSIRO ICT, and the Smart Internet CRC. A total of 25 people registered for the whole event and eight people from seven different companies registered for the NICTA workshop. Three contacts from the workshop progressed to further discussions on future project collaboration with NICTA researchers. The CRL held a series of six briefings for individual SMEs on collaboration with NICTA, and these formed the basis for subsequent project relationships to develop. The briefings were based on understanding the needs of SMEs and resulted in three research collaborations by the end of 2005. General briefings on NICTA were provided at a range of industry conferences including the Software and Systems Engineering Process Group (SEPG), the Australian Software Engineering Conference (ASWEC), he International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering, and the Technology Futures Conference. During the year, a series of five seminars were delivered at the VRL, under the heading of Big Picture Seminar. The topics and speakers in the series were: Title Speaker Date Great Works for the 21st Century: A Critical Role Model for the Modern Research University Richard Newton, Roy W Carlson Professor of Engineering, University of California, Berkeley 24 November 2005 A Vision for Australia’s ICT Future David Skellern, CEO NICTA 4 November 2005 Quantum Computing and Cellular Phones Robert Calderbank, Professor of Electrical Engineering and Mathematics, Princeton University 30 August 2005 The Demands of Photonic Networking Peter Magill, Director Optical Systems Research, AT&T Bell Labs 11 July 2005 The Looming Last Mile Crisis Robin Eckermann 4 August 2005 The IMAGEN Program provided a further series of seminars which attracted international and national participation from industry and research communities, including: n Asia Pacific Symposium on Information Visualisation, 27–29 January 2005 n Gesture Interaction Workshop 2005 (GIW’05), 27–28 April 2005, at ATP n NICTA Net Multimodal User Interaction Workshop 2005, 13–14 September 2005 at ATP. 74 A two-day forum in September comprised presentations from leading international researchers on the emerging science and technology of natural communication between humans and machines using two or more concurrent input and/or output modes. The proceedings of the Symposium on Information Visualisation were published in a book edited by NICTA researcher Seokhee Hong. Exhibitions and Events Activity Objective Milestone Due Met Exhibitions and events Sponsorship events Australian Technology Showcase Q2 X CeBIT Q2 X ICT Outlook Forum Q3 X Promote greater intrasite and external research interchange Techfest planned and delivered Q2 X Deliver regular external newsletter Four newsletters delivered over calendar year Q4 X Not met Sponsorship Events NICTA doubled its presence at CeBIT, Australasia’s leading trade show for IT and communications, compared to last year [http://www.cebit.com.au/]. A stand was located in FutureParc adjacent to CSIRO. NICTA showed five demonstrations over the course of the event, including: n RoboCup dogs playing soccer n GreenPea XMl database n constraint programming n Quality of Service Seeker n IMAGEN connectivity visualiser. The stand attracted an average of 600 visitors each day. Participation in the Australian Technology Showcase was through entries in the Enterprise Workshop Program [http://ats.business.gov.au/ ATSCM/HomePage.aspx]. This was conducted by two teams from the KRR Program, IMAGEN Program, and the Business Development Unit. ICT Outlook Forum The ICT Outlook Forum is an initiative of Australia’s leading information and communications technology research institutes: NICTA, CSIRO, and DSTO. It provides a platform for industry and researchers to explore issues of national and international significance. The annual ICT Outlook Forum was held on 31 August–1 September 2005 at the Powerhouse Museum in Sydney. 75 ANNUAL REPORT 05 to the Australian Government The theme for the 2005 forum was ‘Creating Competitive Advantage Through ICT’. The forum centred on the issues of strengthening the innovation chain, and explored what industry wants from ICT and R&D. The forum attracted more than 200 delegates and a number of high-calibre local and international speakers. The event included presentations from Dr Steven Zornetzer, Deputy Director Research, NASA Ames; Duane Zitzner, Executive Vice President, Personal Systems Hewlett-Packard USA; Fiona Balfour, Chief Information Officer, Qantas; Professor Richard Newton, Dean of Engineering, University of California, Berkley; and Dr Rodney Brooks, Director, AI Laboratory USA, MIT Computer Science. Day one of the event included an extended panel of industry leaders discussing technology commercialisation. The panel comprised Australian CEOs and industry leaders including Brendan McManus, Executive Director, NEC Australia; Murray Rankin, CEO, The Distillery; and Tony Robey, Executive Chairman, Wizard. The Forum also hosted the annual NSW Pearcey Award which recognises an individual who has demonstrated pioneering and innovative achievements early in their ICT career. The NSW Minister for Commerce, the Hon John Della Bosca, presented the award to James Dalziel, a young ICT entrepreneur. Working with a business partner, James Dalziel leveraged technology from the University of Sydney to create one of Australia’s most successful e-learning businesses: MCQ International, an award-winning exporter, and BRW Fast 100 and Deloitte Asia Pacific Fast 500 participant. Promote Greater Intra-site and External Research Interchange Techfest was held in Canberra on 4–5 May 2005. Its primary aim was to stimulate cross-program communication. It was a great success with positive feedback from the staff for the internal day and positive feedback from external visitors. Demonstrations at Techfest provided a chance for external visitors to gain a better understanding and greater appreciation of the practical applications of NICTA’s use-inspired basic research. There were displays from NICTA’s Quality of Service (QoS) Seeker Project, including a QoS map that used signal strength to enable users to determine the location of high-quality wireless connections in their surroundings. The Symbolic Machine Learning and Knowledge Acquisition (SMLKA) Program showcased its advanced work on current surveillance systems with real-time monitoring and object tracking, and video database management for querying video content. Techfest attracted 260 NICTA staff on both days and about 180 external attendees on the half day reserved for visitors. We solicited feedback via feedback forms, which revealed that overall satisfaction was 3.8 out of 5 for staff and 3.4 out of 5 for visitors. A similar event will be held in 2006 in Sydney. NICTA news is released publicly at the end of each quarter as part of our external communications. It is also used in conjunction with the intranet and CEO briefings at each NICTA site to enhance intra-site communication. Major User Engagement 76 Activity Objective Milestone Due Met Major user engagement Engagement with four key major users determined Scope engagement options and report by 30 June Q2 X Not met Major user engagement provides an opportunity to work on the definition of research that has an ‘end-use’ champion and that has potential for industry through the creation of opportunities for development and commercialisation partnerships. We have achieved several valuable engagements through project research with SMEs and other industry partners. Sector Programs Projects Medical diagnostics ASSeT, SML, SEACS Automated Anatomical Structure, Polyp Detection, Genomic Analysis Transport IMAGEN, ASSeT Smart Cars, Smart Roads, Road Safety, Perceptually Effective Multimodal Output Utilities SN Water management Defence IMAGEN, SMLKA, SML VICAT, LEAR, DPOLP Software Process Improvement Financial services ESE Lending Institutes XML Initiative Security SMLKA, SML Surveillance System with Query Capability, Document Analysis and Understanding Home automation NPC Nightingale, Personal Universal Communicator We ran a series of forums that brought together NICTA programs and industry sectors in discussion over possible areas of engagement. Participation is based on: n identifying the sector’s current position and plans, including any current or identified future technology needs n presenting NICTA program capabilities, with particular emphasis on application to the industry sector n agreeing on the potential for collaboration between the industry sector and NICTA n agreeing on the next steps required to progress engagement. We conducted a workshop program with the AIS that has led to formulation of an ICT strategies and projects outline paper. The paper sets out how AIS sees ICT as contributing to the many programs and initiatives which underpin the ASC’s key objectives and more broadly will: n support improved communication and collaboration with sports n provide better remote and mobile access by staff and sports partners n help improve our performance analysis of elite athletes and sports n assist in our sports education and training n improve our information about sports, to help improve our management of sport n improve our ICT and information security and compliance n improve our internal business support to achieve greater effectiveness. 77 ANNUAL REPORT 05 to the Australian Government Having reached this stage, we put forward a proposal for NICTA and AIS/ASC to sign an MOU that reflects our intent to develop joint projects that align with AIS's stated objective and NICTA's capabilities and a Non Disclosure Agreement to support sharing of information between researchers that is necessary to create specific projects. Forums and related discussions centred on presentations of research capability and discussion against the background of challenges confronting each of the sector members. These have contributed to the development of engagement in four key areas. End-user engagement during the reporting period has generated some important project initiatives with the following organisations: n the NSW Roads and Traffic Authority – leading to the development of the STaR project n a Commonwealth Government Agency – leading to agreement on an MOU that will support project development and work in e-government n the lending and banking industry – leading to creation of the LIXI Project and additional work on tools for financial analysis n state-based water authorities – leading to the WIN Project n the Australian lending industry – leading to the lending industry initiative XML project. Discussions with the medical and biotechnology sector over the past six months about the role of advanced ICT in enabling advances in the life sciences field has led to the creation of three projects in medical imaging, a major investment in cancer genomics, and work related to plant breeding. A more structured approach to engagement is now being considered. The development of the DisPRR project in the Queensland Research Laboratory has provided a further basis for end-user engagements aimed at emergency services. Multinational ICT firms 78 Activity Objective Milestone Due Met MNC engagement Extend formal links to multinational ICT firms Determine and agree to terms of engagement with one firm by May Q2 X Determine and agree to terms of engagement with two additional firms by end of December Q4 X Not met International ICT firms offer significant opportunities to support the development of technologies that are ultimately embodied in products, systems, and services offered on a global scale. The different technology spaces in which individual programs operate provided a range of opportunities for collaboration during the year. Numerous existing relationships were developed further and new ones are being established as a result of work carried out in the reporting period. The principal relationships in place and the scope of work are set out in the table below. Firms Program/ Project Area ST Microelectronics ERTOS Microkernel and program embedded systems Intel ERTOS Fast context switches in Linux TJ Watson Research Center ERTOS Linux and microkernel performance Not disclosed ESE Statistical process control Ericsson NPC Ambient networks Qualcomm ERTOS Kernel and embedded systems framework for secure mobile phone middleware Xantic NPC Satellite communications Not disclosed ESE Not disclosed NEC Australia WSP 3G algorithm PRE-EXISTING ESTABLISHED IN 2005 Over the course of the year, we formalised collaborative links with Xantic for the development of satellite communications systems and with Qualcomm for the development and deployment of a secure operating system for mobile telephony. In December, an MOU was developed with NEC Australia for collaboration in the area of 3G and 4G algorithm development. A fourth linkage is under discussion with a major defence industry supplier in the area of process improvement methodologies for software development. 79 ANNUAL REPORT 05 to the Australian Government 6. FINANCIAL ADMINISTRATION General Approach to Financial Administration In line with NICTA’s growth and the Board’s desire for management to adopt best practice commercial disciplines and financial controls, there has been a strong focus on the areas of improved management information systems, compliance, and cost efficiency. Accordingly, the finance team has been restructured so it can provide more strategic value to decision making at all levels of the organisation. This restructuring was initially based on increasing the core professional competencies in the corporate team. The appointment of a financial controller; a manager, Planning and Analysis; and a manager, Internal Audit, will provide a sound capability for NICTA in the following areas: n The development of strategic plans and annual budgets that focus on Key Results Areas (KRAs) and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), rolling twelve-month forecasts, and a project pipeline model that enables the evaluation of commercialisation prospects will collectively provide a reliable foundation for management and the Board to ensure that NICTA’s performance is aligned with its corporate objectives, reflecting the requirements of its stakeholders n The implementation of a project management system that is integrated with the financial and procurement systems will provide a dynamic framework for effective decision making on resource allocation and prioritisation of expenditures n Operational, systems, and financial audits aimed at adding value to the organisation will enable the establishment of effective policies and procedures, while also measuring compliance across all levels of the organisation n More meaningful and timely financial information, coupled with the appointment of a procurement officer, will ensure that cost efficiencies can be achieved across the organisation. Focusing the activities of financial planning and reporting onto strategic outcomes will enable the organisation to more readily develop decision-making skills that support the objectives of the organisation, while also facilitating the shaping of the culture to embrace commercial values. Objectives for 2005 80 Activity Objective Milestone Due Met Long-term financial plan Develop a robust ten-year financial plan Completion of a ten-year financial plan Q1 X Not met Activity Objective Milestone Due Met Finance policies Update financial policies and ensure compliance with Risk and Opportunity Management Plan (ROMP) Completion of financial policies review Q2 X In-kind contributions Finalise development of valuation methodology NICTA to provide for the Project Executive’s consideration a detailed methodology for the valuation of in-kind contributions Q2 X Due Met Not met Long-term Financial Plan Activity Objective Milestone Long-term financial plan Develop a robust ten-year financial plan Completion of a ten-year financial plan Q1 Not met X An initial ten-year model was developed to initiate Strategic Planning processes based on a set of assumptions around operations of an established organisation. During the early part of 2005 a new finance capability and emerging capability in commercialisation prompted a reassessment of this plan. A new set of assumptions has since been modelled to test a variety of different growth scenarios. These investigate a series of different scenarios that are being applied to test assumptions and dependencies, and to compare current run and growth models for NICTA. This has led to the development of a revised five-year financial plan which was completed as part of the budgeting processes in November 2005. The five-year plan will be updated/revised each year as part of the strategic planning process. 81 ANNUAL REPORT 05 to the Australian Government Finance Policies Activity Objective Milestone Finance policies Update financial policies and ensure compliance with Risk and Opportunity Management Plan (ROMP) Completion of financial policies review Due Q2 Met Not met X All finance and accounting policies and procedures were reviewed since the start of the financial year, and appropriate updates were made to reflect current business practices. Key policies that were reviewed include: n capital expenditure n cheque signatories n financial delegations n imprest credit card n travel expense. In-kind Contributions Activity Objective Milestone Due Met In-kind contributions Finalise development of valuation methodology NICTA to provide for the Project Executive’s consideration a detailed methodology for the valuation of in-kind contributions Q2 X Not met NICTA has created a methodology for the valuation of in-kind contributions to be recognised and measured at the fair value of the contribution received. This methodology was used to determine the value of contributions from member and affiliate institutions by way of contributed staff in the 2003 and 2004 accounts. The methodology used to calculate the value of in-kind contributions is based on a publication of the Australian Vice-Chancellors’ Committee (AVCC) dated February 1996, University Research: Some Issues. The AVCC document provides a well-founded basis for the costing and charging for research in a university context. The paper provides a general statement of application to universities across Australia, rather than being specific to any one particular university or organisation. 82 NICTA adopted this approach to calculate the fair value of employees contributed to NICTA by universities. In relation to the contributed employees of ANU and UNSW, applying the principles of the AVCC approach raises the following considerations: n The level of salary on-costs will vary from contributed employee to contributed employee. As noted in the AVCC paper, in some cases salary on-costs may be up to 52 per cent of salary costs. A more standard figure is likely to be in the range of 25–30 per cent. Such an employeeby-employee approach is broadly consistent with the financial information required to be supplied in applications under the Cooperative Research Centres Program n The calculation of infrastructure costs is based on the assumption that the contributed employees are carrying out their duties using university infrastructure. For example, a UNSW contributed employee who works full-time at the NICTA premises located at ATP in Redfern would not be expected to have any infrastructure costs associated with their particular costing n The proportion of time that a contributed employee is ‘devoted’ to NICTA is taken into account in determining fair value n Given the nature of the research being undertaken by UNSW and ANU contributed employees, the appropriate multiplier for determining infrastructure costs is 1.25 (namely, that which applies to laboratory-based researchers) n The AVCC multiplier is based on a 1996 paper from the AVCC and data obtained at that time from the Department of Employment, Education and Training for the higher education system as a whole. It could be expected that the relevant multiplier would change over time as underlying cost structures change n Adopting the AVCC methodology has the attraction of representing a methodology generic to universities and thus prima facie applicable to any university that becomes an alliance partner of NICTA n The application by NICTA of a common multiplier in respect of contributed employees, regardless of the university providing the in-kind contribution, represents a sound approach. In respect of the contribution of other in-kind contributions, that is, other than contributed staff, an ‘arms-length’ transaction valuation methodology is used. This approach has been applied in determining the gross values for in-kind valuations in accounts over 2003 and 2004. NICTA considers the methodology developed by the AVCC to be the best available approach and will continue to use it for valuation in calculating the fair value of contributed employees. 83 ANNUAL REPORT 05 to the Australian Government 7. ACCOMMODATION NICTA’s operational arrangements around accommodation require a great deal of investment and resources as we build an organisation in the vicinity of 300 staff and 300 students. Permanent accommodation and facilities are required at two sites in Sydney, one in Canberra, one in Melbourne, and one in Brisbane. NICTA also opened a small office in Adelaide in mid-2005. NICTA has a dedicated facilities manager who is supported by a team of facility coordinators at various sites. Progress on accommodation is varied across sites. Developing permanent accommodation to meet NICTA’s growth and research needs has presented several difficulties. For example, establishing longterm commercial leases for accommodation (typically ten years minimum when new buildings are built, based on expected secure rental returns) has proven extremely difficult. The inability of company directors to guarantee funding beyond the current Funding Deed hampered and protracted commercial negotiations and potentially leaves NICTA exposed to significant risk. Acceptable commercial agreements have, however, been reached for NICTA’s major sites in Sydney and Canberra. 84 Activity Objective Milestone Due Met Sydney, ATP corporate headquarters and ATP Research Laboratory Establish permanent accommodation Construction of new building commenced by mid-2005 Q2 Sydney, Kensington Research Laboratory Establish permanent accommodation Construction of new building completed by May 2005 Q2 X Occupation by end of June 2005 Q2 X Canberra Research Laboratory Establish permanent accommodation at Civic, Canberra Construction of new building commenced in mid-2005 Q2 Melbourne Research Laboratory Establish permanent accommodation Expanded accommodation in University of Melbourne completed by mid-2005 (with progressive occupation from Q3) Brisbane Research Laboratory Establish interim accommodation Expanded accommodation in Adelaide Street, Brisbane, completed by mid-2005 (with progressive occupation from Q3) Not met X X X Q2 Q2 X Activity Objective Milestone Due Met Not met Facilities colocation planning for ATP and Civic, Canberra Establish, plan, and accommodation requirements for NICTA spin-outs, projects, and demonstrators Accommodation plan for ICT co-location, spin-outs, demonstrators, and projects developed by mid-2005 and incorporated into planning for permanent facilities Q3 X Progressive develop of agreement with companies to co-locate with NICTA at ATP, Sydney and Civic, Canberra Q3 X Status and Progress to Date Australian Technology Park, NSW Interim Accommodation NICTA established its national headquarters at ATP, Sydney, and has occupied accommodation in Bay 15 and half of Bay 16 of the Locomotive Workshop. The accommodation provides for modest growth throughout 2006. NICTA will occupy this site until late 2007 when a new building is expected to be completed on the ATP. Permanent Accommodation NICTA’s permanent headquarters and ATP Research Laboratory will be leased accommodation in a new landmark building to be constructed at ATP. The building is being developed by the newly created Redfern Waterloo Authority (RWA) and managed by the ATP. NICTA and RWA signed an Agreement for Lease and Lease in December 2005. A contract is expected to be awarded by RWA in early 2006 for the construction of the new building. Construction is expected to be complete by late 2007 with occupation by NICTA soon after. RWA has also secured DSTO as a major co-tenant with NICTA in the new building. DSTO will relocate from Pyrmont, Sydney, to ATP on completion of the new building. The new building will provide for NICTA growth, spin-out companies, joint venture projects, demonstrators, and ICT co-location. Kensington, NSW Interim Accommodation NICTA relocated its Kensington Research Laboratory (KRL) from interim accommodation in the Electrical Engineering Building and the Applied Sciences Building at UNSW to new permanent facilities on the campus in early July 2005. Permanent Accommodation NICTA has leased long-term accommodation in a new building that was funded and constructed by UNSW adjacent to the university on Anzac Parade, Kensington. NICTA funded its own fit-out. The building was completed in mid-June 2005 and we occupied the site on 4 July 2005. 85 ANNUAL REPORT 05 to the Australian Government NICTA’s growth on the site will continue throughout 2006. One of the six floors has been leased back to UNSW for a period of two years until we need it to accommodate the KRL’s growth. KRL is looking to spin-out two companies in 2006 and these are likely to be accommodated on the Kensington site for a short period before relocating, possibly to ATP. Planning for 2006 includes the possibility of establishing a traffic management laboratory at Kensington in conjunction with NICTA’s business partners. Canberra, ACT Interim Accommodation Interim accommodation for the Canberra Research Laboratory (CRL) in the RSISE building at the Australian National University (ANU) and in two commercial office buildings in Northbourne Avenue, Braddon, will continue to meet NICTA’s short-term needs throughout 2006. Telephone, data, and security infrastructure continues to be provided by ANU. A small amount of additional accommodation was leased in 2005 in Northbourne Avenue due to pressure to vacate part of our interim accommodation at the university. We do not anticipate a need for additional accommodation before completion of permanent facilities. Permanent Accommodation NICTA and developer Leighton Properties signed a Development Agreement and Lease in December 2005 for Leighton Properties to fund, design, obtain authority approvals, build, lease, and manage a landmark building in Civic, Canberra. Leighton Properties appointed contractor Thiess to construct the building and carry out NICTA’s fitout. NICTA purchased land from the ACT Government as part of the Governments’ member contribution to NICTA. The Crown Lease was subsequently transferred to the developer. NICTA will lease accommodation in the newly constructed building. The developer obtained a Development Application for the site in September 2005 and will complete design for the new building, obtain authority approvals, and commence construction early in 2006. The building is expected to be completed and occupied by NICTA in late 2007. Melbourne, VIC Interim Accommodation NICTA signed a Facilities Access Agreement with the University of Melbourne and established interim accommodation in the upper floors of the Electrical and Electronic Engineering Building. This accommodation will meet our needs until VRL relocates to permanent accommodation in mid-2006. Permanent Accommodation The University of Melbourne is refurbishing and refitting two lower floors of the Electrical and Electronic Engineering Building to accommodate the VRL. The new accommodation is expected to meet NICTA’s foreseen growth needs. Completion is expected in May 2006 with occupation by NICTA in June 2006. The new accommodation will provide room for expansion and laboratories. Brisbane, QLD Interim Accommodation NICTA has occupied interim accommodation under licence from the Queensland Government in commercial office space at 300 Adelaide Street, Brisbane. NICTA shares Level 20 with CSIRO’s E- 86 Health Centre under an agreement with the Queensland Government and CSIRO. As this space will not accomodate NICTA’s growth, we leased Level 19 in early 2005 and have fitted out and occupied this floor. This space will meet our needs until 2008. Permanent Accommodation The Queensland Government intends for NICTA to relocate (possibly in 2008) to a new technology and business park to be established on the historic Boggo Road Jail site in Brisbane. Adelaide, SA NICTA has leased a small amount of office space for its training arm that operates out of a shared office building at Mawson Lakes. An Access Agreement was signed in July 2005 for a period of twelve months. Training is planned to be conducted at NICTA sites nationally. NICTA will reassess its Adelaide operations during 2006 with a view to establishing permanent and expanded facilities. Facilities Co-location Planning for ATP and Canberra Along with site development work, planning has progressed to meet the expected space needs of spinout companies, projects, demonstrators, and ICT co-location. New accommodation at ATP and Canberra is being designed to offer flexible serviced office accommodation that will accommodate a variety of business functions. A business model that supports these activities will be developed by the end of June 2006. With the delay in projected completion dates for the new ATP and Canberra facilities, and in the absence of firm business models for supporting ICT expansion within NICTA’s accommodation, we have not actively sought co-tenants throughout 2005. This activity will be increased during 2006 after completion of the business model for collocation in June 2006. Facilities Management Corporate Systems Activity Objective Milestone Due Met Facilities management corporate systems Develop facilities management corporate systems Plan and implement national accommodation guidelines and standards by mid-2005 Q2 X Plan and implement corporate facilities management information system by mid2005 Q2 Undertake a facilities management risk assessment by mid-2005 Q2 X Develop a risk management mitigation and action plan by mid-2005 with progressive implementation. Q3 X Not met X 87 ANNUAL REPORT 05 to the Australian Government The national accommodation guidelines were completed in the first quarter of 2005 and approved by the Board. The guidelines are reflected in the design and construction of KRL and are currently being applied to the design of new accommodation at ATP and Canberra. Planning for a corporate facilities management information system (FMIS) proceeded throughout 2005 but was delayed pending the appointment of the Chief Information Officer who is currently developing NICTA’s corporate IT systems strategy and plan. Stage 1 of the FMIS was largely completed in 2005 and involved: n a 100 per cent stocktake of NICTA assets n building a detailed asset register n reconciliation with the existing finance fixed asset register n development of asset management policy and procedures to track assets acquisition, transfers, and disposal. Stage 2 involves planning, procuring, and implementing a broad based FMIS to manage assets, work requests, maintenance, services contracts, leases, space, furniture and fittings, utilities, and other operating costs. A business requirements report has been completed and a draft business and implementation plan is being prepared. The aim is to complete the business plan and seek endorsement by the IT Steering Committee in early 2006 with approval and full implementation by end 2006, subject to funding. A facilities and accommodation risk assessment was carried out as part of the corporate Risk and Opportunity Management Project which identified as the key facilities risk the level of demand on accommodation to meet: n interim accommodation in the face of rapid growth n permanent accommodation for medium to long term accommodation and business needs. A Risk Action Plan was developed for accommodation planning and used to manage this risk throughout 2005. Emergency planning and lease agreements do not have formal risk action plans but have been identified and were dealt with as part of normal business throughout 2005. Emergency planning is being considered in the design of interim and new accommodation. For example, business continuity, computer server rooms kept operational, and early warning systems established on building faults. Lease agreements deal with financial exposure, insurance, legal liability, and services. Work continued on the progressive development of facilities management policies, procedures, and business systems including facilities planning and asset management. This work will continue throughout 2006 and will be an ongoing activity. 88 8. MILESTONES TABLE 2005 Activity Objective Milestones Date Met Unmet Comment CORPORATE ACTIVITIES Strategic Plan Develop plan for NICTA to 2015 Strategic Plan draft complete Q2 X Executive information system Establish company-wide information system Implementation of an Executive Information System Q4 X Risk and Opportunity Management Plan (ROMP) Implement ROMP by Q3 2005 Risk and opportunity identification complete Q2 X Mitigation and implementation achieved Q3 X Training for all managers in the new system conducted Q2 X Career progression program designed Q2 X Develop a career progression path First round of career progression training for staff conducted Q4 X Deliver commercialisation and project management training across NICTA Selection of training provider complete Q1 X Human Resources Program Implement a performance management program 89 First round of training delivered Q2 X Deliver HR legal compliance training: OH&S, EEO, disciplinary action, recruitment, and selection Training providers for legal employment issues selected Q1 X First round of training delivered Q2 X Management leadership program in place Training provider selected and first session delivered Q3 X Staff survey conducted to monitor organisational development and culture Q3 X HR interventions devised where required Q4 X ANNUAL REPORT 05 to the Australian Government Activity Objective Milestones Human Resources Program Refine HR systems Develop EEO program Growth of Victoria Research Laboratory 90 Date Met HR information systems implemented Q2 X Internal working group to scope EEO program in operation Q2 X Priority elements of EEO program implemented Q3 X Achieve researcher recruitment growth target Researcher base of 144 reached Q4 Implement a program to educate staff on the Strategic Plan Awareness Strategy Plan developed and delivered over the second half of 2005 Q4 X Initiate external linkages Industry Engagement Plan developed Q1 X Generate initial coursework Delivery of two coursework modules per semester from March 2005 Q2 X Establish researcher base Ten researchers appointed Q2 X Establish student base Acceptance of offer from 30 students Q2 X Develop research infrastructure Complete TNL capital works Q4 Unmet Comment X Researcher base is 108 recruited staff, with a further 88 contributed staff and 77 engineers and programmers X The TNL is operating with construction of new facilities expected by September 2006 Activity Objective Milestones Date Met Development of Queensland Research Laboratory Define research program Key research projects under Safeguarding Australia theme scoped with key stakeholders Q2 X Queensland Research Advisory Committee convened Q2 X Collaborative research project established with a national and/ or international research institution in the field Q4 X First collaborative research project with industry partners established Q4 X Agreements for contributed staff from partner universities finalised Q2 X Two to three NICTA researchers recruited Q2 X Two to three additional NICTA researchers recruited Q4 X Establish student base Initial round of (ten) NICTA PhD scholarships offered Q4 Three large-scale projects to be developed Evaluation framework for large-scale projects completed Q1 X Evaluation and consultation arrangements completed Q2 X Launch first largescale project Q3 X Establish initial research base Comment 91 X RESEARCH Priority Challenge focus projects Unmet Nine scholarships were offered ANNUAL REPORT 05 to the Australian Government Activity Objective Milestones Priority Challenge focus projects Three large-scale projects to be developed Launch second and third projects Q4 ICT Roundtable Identify outcomes Reached agreement on core deliverables from Roundtable Q2 X Reach agreement on joint project Collaborative project determined Q3 X Project portfolio Achieve growth target project portfolio 35 projects in progression Q4 X Internal competitive funding Achieve internal competitive funding target 50 per cent of research funding reserved and applied to projects that align with PCs and external collaboration Q1 X New program evaluation Determine potential and scope of new program for the CRL Consultation process implemented Q2 X Results reviewed and recommendations made to the Board Q3 X Establish Spectral Imaging Laboratory Laboratory completed to demonstration stage Q2 X Establish TNL Capital works completed Q3 Complete Sensor Networks Testbed Development completed Q4 X Complete Mobile Networking Testbed Development completed Q4 X Develop the formal basis for a research training network Complete scoping study of RTN Q1 X Identify issues related to crossaccreditation Q2 X Research infrastructure Date Met RESEARCH TRAINING Research Training Network (RTN) 92 Unmet Comment X Second project commenced, the launch of the third will carry over to 2006 X TNL is functional but capital works are not complete Activity Objective Milestones Research Training Network (RTN) Develop the formal basis for a research training network Student placements Coursework for industry Date Met Establish list of potential network members Q2 X Develop core elements of RTN agreement Q3 All arrangements for placement of students within firms established or confirmed Q2 X Outplacement program documented across NICTA Q2 X Identify and approach key outplacement destinations Q3 X Develop relationships for outplacement with firms and external organisations Q3 X Two outplacements per research program in 2005 Minimum of 14 outplacements over year Q4 X Develop a framework for delivery of coursework to industry Present Machine Learning and Logic and Computation summer schools to industry Q1 X Identify possible coursework program Q1 X Scope program and review with industry stakeholders Q2 X Determine cost benefit of training provider registration Q3 Student placement rules and conditions Unmet X Comment Core element of course mobility has been established but requires action by partner universities 93 X Not necessary due to acquisition of existing capability ANNUAL REPORT 05 to the Australian Government Activity Objective Milestones Date Met Incentives for women Increase participation of women in NICTA’s ICT research training Complete wholeof-NICTA plan for incentives Q2 X Secondary outreach program NICTA contribution to ANU, UNSW, and Sydney and Melbourne outreach Complete secondary outreach program Q4 X Student population Planned student growth at each site 100 PhD students endorsed Q1 X Implement a complete IP management and commercialisation approval system Licensing officer appointed Q2 X Electronic IP registers finalised Q2 X Commercialisation approval processes finalised Q2 X Implement a complete IP management and commercialisation approval system Feasibility study completed for integration of IP and knowledge management systems Q4 X Benchmark IP policy, procedures, and protocols against international systems IP policy and protocols review and benchmarking completed Q2 X Commercialisation leadership program evaluation tour completed Q2 X Selection and appointment of commercialisation training provider Q2 X First cycle of commercialisation masterclasses and immersion training completed Q4 X COMMERCIALISATION IP management and commercialisation approval system IP management and commercialisation approval system IP and commercialisation training 94 Deliver NICTA-wide commercialisation training Unmet Comment Activity Objective Milestones Date Met Commercialisation Develop awareness program and linkages on commercialisation IP induction training backlog completed Q2 X First Friends of NICTA event held Q2 X Continued rollout of monthly role model seminars Q4 X EiR First NICTA start-up to have gone through external funding cycle Q4 X Investment Accrual of up to $4.5 million into Investment Pool subject to approval of Investment Plan by the Project Executive Q4 Scope range of services and present to stakeholders Q1 ESE referral service Q2 Unmet Comment X A formal proposal is currently with the Project Executive for consideration X Not pursued due to potential for conflict with commercial service providers NETWORKS AND LINKAGES SME program SME software capability support Interest groups X Seminar program delivered at all sites Q2 X Set up ESE interest groups Q3 X Delivery to all sites completed Q4 X Determine demand and establish three interest groups in each midyear period Q4 X 95 ANNUAL REPORT 05 to the Australian Government Activity Objective Milestones Date Met International Scientific Advisory Group (ISAG) and International Business Advisory Group (IBAG) Maximise benefit of ISAG and IBAG Plan to expand the use of IBAG and ISAG in Australia Q2 X Briefings and seminars General NICTA briefings Eight briefings conducted Q4 X Visitor industry seminar program Six seminars delivered Q4 X Sponsorship events Australian Technology Showcase Q2 X CeBIT Q2 X ICT Outlook Forum Q3 X Promote greater intrasite and external research interchange Techfest planned and delivered Q2 X Deliver regular external newsletter Four newsletters delivered over calendar year Q4 X Major user engagement Engagement with four key major users determined Scope engagement options and report by 30 June Q2 X MNC engagement Extend formal links to multinational ICT firms Determine and agree to terms of engagement with one firm by May Q2 X Determine and agree to terms of engagement with two additional firms by end of December Q4 X Exhibitions and events FINANCIAL ADMINISTRATION 96 Long-term financial plan Develop a robust tenyear financial plan Completion of a tenyear financial plan Q1 X Finance policies Update financial policies and ensure compliance with Risk and Opportunity Management Plan (ROMP) Completion of financial policies review Q2 X Unmet Comment Activity Objective Milestones Date Met In-kind contributions Finalise development of valuation methodology NICTA to provide for the Project Executive’s consideration a detailed methodology for the valuation of inkind contributions Q2 X Sydney, ATP corporate headquarters, and ATP Research Laboratory Establish permanent accommodation Construction of new building commenced by mid-2005 Q2 Sydney, Kensington Research Laboratory Establish permanent accommodation Construction of new building completed by May 2005 Q2 X Occupation by end of June 2005 Q2 X Q2 Unmet Comment X Building delayed but now under construction X Building delayed but now under construction X Construction is expected to be completed by University of Melbourne in May 2006 ACCOMMODATION Canberra Research Laboratory Establish permanent accommodation at Civic, Canberra Construction of new building commenced in mid-2005 Melbourne Research Laboratory Establish permanent accommodation Expanded accommodation in University of Melbourne completed by mid-2005 (with progressive occupation from Q3) Brisbane Research Laboratory Establish interim accommodation Expanded accommodation in Adelaide Street, Brisbane, completed by mid-2005 (with progressive occupation from Q3) Q2 Q2 X 97 ANNUAL REPORT 05 to the Australian Government Activity Objective Milestones Facilities co-location planning for ATP and Civic, Canberra Establish plan and accommodation requirements for NICTA spin-outs, projects, and demonstrators Accommodation plan for ICT colocation, spin-outs, demonstrators, and projects developed by mid-2005 and incorporated into planning for permanent facilities Q3 Progressive development of agreement with companies to colocate with NICTA at ATP, Sydney, and Civic, Canberra Q3 Plan and implement national accommodation guidelines and standards by early 2005 Q2 Plan and implement corporate facilities management information system by early 2005 Q2 Undertake a facilities management risk assessment by early 2005 Q2 X Develop a risk management mitigation and action plan by mid-2005 with progressive implementation Q3 X Facilities management corporate systems 98 Develop facilities management corporate systems Date Met Unmet Comment X Deferred due to building commencement delays X Deferred due to building commencement delays X X Substantially complete 2 Research Report ANNUAL REPORT 05 to the Australian Government ANNUAL REPORT 05 to the Australian Government General Approach to Research NICTA’s general approach to research is best described as ‘use-inspired basic research’. The meaning of this term is illustrated in the diagram below, which shows the relationship between the development of understanding and technology through use-inspired basic research. The intended outcomes of useinspired basic research are improved understanding and improved technology. The stimulus for its development can derive from limitations in existing understanding or existing technology. Approach to Research Improved Improved Understanding Technology Pure basic research Use-inspired basic research Purely applied research and development Existing Existing Understanding Technology NICTA organises and focuses its research activities around three concepts: n programs n projects n Priority Challenges. Programs are discipline-based structures that reflect the search for fundamental understanding. Most NICTA researchers are based within a program. Projects are the vehicle for NICTA’s interaction with external organisations (corporations, government agencies, or other research institutions). They are vehicles for engaging in practical challenges. Because these challenges rarely fit within discipline boundaries, projects can span several programs. Priority Challenges (PCs) are the organising principles that combine the quest for fundamental understanding with considerations of use. They help to shape and focus NICTA’s programs and projects. 100 The table below illustrates the position of Priority Challenges, projects, and programs relative to each other in our research structure. NICTA’S RESEARCH STRUCTURE Organising principle Mechanism Purpose Description Priority Challenges Research programs Discipline-based, administrative, and organisational research units Long-term speculative research. Source of projects, coursework, student supervision, and research linkages Research projects Short-term activity for time deliverable outcomes Short to medium-term research aimed at crossprogram and/or external collaboration and/or aligned with Priority Challenges Large-scale projects High-impact research that focuses NICTA and collaborator resources on PCs Longer-term projects with high levels of user definition that aim to achieve high national benefit n Trusted Wireless Networks n From Data to Knowledge Priority Challenges are the intersection of NICTA’s research strengths and its capacity to develop solutions to significant ICT challenges The Priority Challenges have emerged over the past two years as more impact-oriented, project-focused organising principles for research, especially project-based research. The Priority Challenges were established through a process of balancing our initial set of capabilities and drawing on relevant ICT challenges. The main value of the Priority Challenges is to: n focus NICTA’s research n raise the level of understanding about NICTA’s research, especially among non-specialists. Launched in May 2005, NICTA’s Priority Challenges are From Data to Knowledge and Trusted Wireless Networks, which are outlined overleaf. 101 ANNUAL REPORT 05 to the Australian Government From Data to Knowledge Trusted Wireless Networks Introduction Introduction The world is awash with data. But it is information and knowledge that underpin wealth creation and social development. From emerging areas of important scientific discovery, such as bioinformatics, to security and the everyday experience of surfing the Internet, there is a growing need to turn data into valuable information and useful knowledge. The world depends on information and communication technology (ICT). Its widespread use and importance demands that it is secure and reliable, and preserves basic values of privacy and freedom. NICTA will develop the underlying technologies to support the transformation of data into information and knowledge for application in areas such as environmental monitoring, security and policing, medical imaging, bioinformatics, industrial processes, robotics, business processes, network management, data mining, and summarisation. Priority To provide the underlying technologies that will support wealth creation and social capital by enabling vast amounts of data to be summarised, digested, and interpreted in a manner useful to people. Challenge The technical research challenges that NICTA will pursue are: n intelligent sensors n database technologies for stream and sensor data n design of sensor networks The development of underlying technologies for the secure and reliable use of more pervasive and ambient ICT has great wealth creation potential in areas such as health, finance, education, defence, entertainment, manufacturing, and transport. It will support new products and create opportunities for a whole range of new service models. Priority To create the underlying technologies that will support the development of trustworthy ambient and pervasive wireless communication systems while ensuring freedom and mobility. Challenge The technical research challenges that NICTA will pursue are: n protocols for seamless roaming on dynamic networks n signal processing technologies n improved localisation technologies n formal methods to ensure trustworthiness of embedded hardware n multi-modal interactions with machines n wireless security, privacy, and trust management n intelligent video imaging n reasoning-based network management. n visualisation of abstract data. Priority Challenge To produce social, environmental, and economic value from the gathering and use of information. 102 Priority Challenge To enable greater confidence, freedom, and capability through the improved efficiency, reliability, and security of wireless environments. In April, NICTA initiated a meeting with nominees of the university partners and affiliates to establish regular communication to share plans regarding medium and long-term developments within NICTA and the partner organisations. The focus of the meetings was on research issues, with a spillover into educational activities. The first meeting was based on discussions on research capabilities and the possible scope of a new program at the NICTA Canberra Research Laboratory. The subsequent meeting, held in October, addressed education issues, ARC funding rules, and modes of engagement between NICTA and its associated universities. The meeting also resulted in the formation of a working group which will act a steering committee for a study into citations in the ICT field which will play an important role in measuring research quality. Research Program Reports Programs support the four core NICTA activities: research, research training, commercialisation, and linkages. The Programs provide NICTA’s research focus in defined fields and allow our researchers to relate to the wider ICT research community in discipline-based research. Each program has a program leader, a number of researchers, PhD students, and technical and administrative staff. In its respective field, each program aims to pursue risky and often theoretical long-term research (basic research). NICTA researchers are placed within programs according to their disciplinary expertise; they also form the core departmental structure for research management. Their main purposes include: n contribution to research projects and NICTA’s national benefit aims n supervision of PhD candidates n development of coursework. A good level of integration across laboratories at a program level has been achieved; WSP and KRR now have researchers and students located at multiple sites. More recently, a new constraint programming capability has been successfully established through recruitment in the LC program in Canberra, the NT program in Melbourne, and the KRR program in Sydney, demonstrating our ability to develop world-class capability over multiple sites and bring each contributor’s capabilities to bear on a common pursuit. Information annexes to this report provide a range of additional details on NICTA’s programs including: n program staffing n publications n students n conferences and seminars n research and teaching visits n membership of academies n prizes, awards, and other professional recognition. 103 ANNUAL REPORT 05 to the Australian Government Autonomous Systems and Sensor Technology Focus Technologies and methods that will advance computer vision and robotics. Location Canberra Leader Richard Hartley Staffing (11.6 FTE) researchers (1.6 FTE) contributed Journal publications 15 49 Projects Lead Conference papers Books or chapters 4 10 students Technical reports 1 CAN 013: Surveillance Systems with Query Capability CAN 014: Automated Anatomical Structure Extraction for Diagnosis & Population Norms CAN 015: Smart Cars CAN 017: Spectral Image Source Mapping Systems CAN 019: Algorithms for Summarising & Querying Time-Varying Relations from Digital Forensic Data Contributing CAN 004: Ubiquitous Robot Project (Closed) CAN 016: Advanced Nonlinear Gradient Methods CAN 026: Computer Colonic Polyps Detection based on CT Colonography Coursework Supervised Literature Reading in Autonomous Systems and Sensing Technology Graph Based Methods in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Overview of Computer Vision Hyperspectral Image Processing and Applications Aim To carry out high-quality basic and applied research in the area of computer and robotic vision. Research Questions The Autonomous Systems and Sensor Technology (ASSeT) Program carries out research in three areas of computer and robotic vision: n Geometry and Photogrammetry explores questions relating to the derivation of camera parameters and the geometric properties of what is being sensed by camera systems n Feature Extraction investigates robust and efficient methods for the detection and recognition of image properties that are used to recognise objects, including lines, corners, specific 2D and 3D shapes such as polygons, and specific spectral or thermal signatures n Image Understanding and Embedded Perceptive Systems looks at general methods for using photogrammetry and feature extraction to solve specific problems in robotic real-time vision, surveillance, environmental monitoring, and medical image processing. 104 Significance and Socio-economic Benefits The scientific significance of the ASSeT Program’s research centres on discovering more robust, reliable, and efficient methods for these three core aspects of computer vision. ASSeT has recently focused on and developed new methods for video photogrammetry and change detection, real-time shape detection in images, new Bayesian methods for image understanding, and new methods for detecting spectral and thermal properties of materials from images. The applications of Computer Vision undertaken within the program are broad, and include medical imaging, surveillance, the entertainment industry, remote sensing, and image-based testing and diagnosis. The socio-economic benefits of ASSeT research is captured through the application of its basic research in a series of projects. These include Spectral Imaging and Source Mapping, Surveillance, Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), and Smart Cars. Spectral Imaging and Source Mapping (SISM) undertakes fundamental work into interpreting thermal and spectral image information, the extraction of radiated and reflected heat sources, and the creation of robust Infra-red (IR) sensing software systems. The benefits of this work include: n testing and improving the quality of manufactured machine parts n enhancing biologists’ ability to identify chemical concentrations in plants that indicate plant health (for example, chlorophyll in leaves) n managing the ecology of native animal populations n developing better methods for training athletes and assessing animal health. Surveillance focuses on detecting events in video sequences, capturing the important activity in the sequence while at the same time ignoring normal activity, such as the motion of trees, water, or clouds. The work has benefits in the protection of Australia’s security and defence infrastructure and, in particular, by the development of a real-time surveillance query capability. This includes real-time or near real-time event detection and video synopsis for efficient summarisation and search of video databases or real-time video feeds, particularly from rarely frequented locations. Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) segmentation applies feature extraction to develop methods of extracting the shape of anatomical features in MRI imagery, either fully automatically or based on limited user interaction. It offers major social benefits through: n early detection of dementia in elderly patients n more efficient use of large scale MRI Imagery n identifying precursors to dementia through large-scale analysis of correlations between anatomical shape and clinical conditions. Smart Cars is developing real-time methods that recognise and identify road signs to track pedestrians from an image taken from a moving car. The key benefit is increasing motor vehicle safety through the use of advanced Computer Vision techniques as drivers’ aids. 105 ANNUAL REPORT 05 to the Australian Government Progress The progress in each of the main project areas during 2005 includes: SISM n Established the SISM work program and developed the SISM laboratory in the first half of the year. n Formed key partnerships with the Australian Institute of Sport, Plant Health Australia, BHP, and the Australian National University. n Developed methods for mapping thermal information onto the surface of 3-D object models. Surveillance n Progressed towards real-time event detection in video sequences by developing new algorithms that effectively ignore repetitive background activity. n Created a new method for measuring dimensions and trajectory of human subjects seen in single view surveillance sequences and following initial promising results, re-identification of people seen in multiple video sequences. MRI n Developed a new method in 3-D shape representation, particularly applicable to the brain anatomy, such as the hippocampus. 3-D shape models may be computed automatically from hand tracings of the hippocampus. n Observed possible important clinical connection between curvature measurements of the surface of the hippocampus and the onset of Alzheimer's disease. Smart Cars n Detected and interpreted both circular and polygonal road signs in real-time from a moving vehicle. n Made progress on real-time pedestrian detection, applied to images taken from a moving car. n Explored the use of Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) in common efficient algorithms to greatly speed up some time-hungry parts of vision algorithms. n Established close connections with four companies. Highlights The ASSeT Program had a number of major highlights in 2005. n Journal articles were published in top class journals such as the IEEE Transactions and Pattern Recognition. Conference papers were delivered at top international conferences and workshops, including the International Conference on Computer Vision, the International Association for Pattern Recognition, the International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, the Human Computer Interactions, and the Intelligent Vehicles conferences. n Detection and interpretation of both circular and polygonal road signs in real-time from a vehicle and real-time pedestrian detection, applied to images taken from a moving car were demonstrated at Smart Demo 2005. n Richard Hartley, program leader of ASSeT, was elected to the Australian Academy of Science. 106 Linkages Throughout 2005, ASSeT made linkages through international student visits, collaboration with NICTA programs, and work with DSTO, CSIRO, ANU, AIS, BHP, and Plant Health Australia. Importantly, the ASSeT Program: n carried out surveillance work in collaboration with the SMLKA Program in the Kensington Research Laboratory in Sydney n hosted student visits from Sweden and Spain, which were valuable in the accomplishing the technical, educational, and outreach goals contributing to the Smart Cars and Surveillance projects n established key partnerships with the Australian Institute of Sport, Plant Health Australia, BHP, and the Australian National University Research School of Biological Sciences n collaborated with CSIRO and the ANU on the Smart Cars Project, which involved hosting a visitor from CSIRO at NICTA for one month n undertook a data mining security project with DSTO. Commercialisation Opportunities ASSeT research is being developed with several commercialisation opportunities in mind. The Smart Cars Project has identified potential commercial partners that have expressed interest in further development of work in the detection of polygonal speeds traffic signs and circular speed science signs. The MRI Project is working towards creating a commercially viable tool for substantially diminishing the effort required for segmentation of brain features in MRI scanning. The work in the Surveillance Project is being developed to meet needs in applications for policing, customs, or border-protection. The SISM Project has attracted attention from areas within agriculture, ecology, and industrial plant, with an emphasis on developing a commercial services capability. Outreach Activities Technologies developed within the program were demonstrated on several occasions throughout the year as part of outreach to industry, research and schools: n Smart cars: demonstrated to the public at Smart Demo 2005, NICTA Techfest, and the summer scholars forum. n SISM: demonstrated in many places, notably at the Canberra Science Fair, the NICTA Techfest and the Summer Scholars’ Forum. The ASSeT outreach activities over the year also included the establishment of key partnerships with Australian Institute of Sport, Plant Health Australia, BHP Billiton, and the Australian National University Research School of Biological Sciences. 107 ANNUAL REPORT 05 to the Australian Government Embedded, Real-time, and Operating Systems Focus Methodologies, tools, components, and systems for efficient, reliable, trustworthy, and affordable embedded systems software. Location Kensington Leader Gernot Heiser Staffing (10.5 FTE)researchers (2.5 FTE) contributed Journal publications 2 16 Projects ATP 013: Component Architecture For Microkernel-based Embedded Systems (with ESE) Conference papers Books or chapters 19 students – Technical reports 3 KEN 004: Embedded Next Generation GNSS Platform (GNSS) KEN 006: Microkernel-Protected Firmware for CDMA Phones KEN 007: Digital Audio Networking KEN 009: Secure Embedded L4 KEN 010: Goanna Pilot KEN 011: L4 Verification Pilot KEN 012: Temporal Verification of Microkernels Coursework Operating Systems Advanced Operating Systems Distributed Systems Real-Time Systems Aim To develop methodologies, tools, components, and systems that will deliver efficient, reliable, trustworthy, and affordable embedded systems software. Research Questions Embedded, Real-time, and Operating Systems (ERTOS) research is based on minimising a system’s trusted computing base to the point where it becomes feasible to establish its trustworthiness. The key is a very small and highly efficient operating system kernel, called a microkernel, which is kept as small as possible to minimise the amount of code that must be trusted. A number of activities have been initiated to resolve particular issues with this approach, some of which are program based, while others use the capabilities of other NICTA programs and are funded from NICTA’s contestable project funding pool. The ERTOS Program carries out research in four key areas: n User-Level Device Drivers aims to develop approaches to building user-level device drivers that perform within 20 per cent of in-kernel drivers without sacrificing security. Previous work on user-level device drivers typically reported 50 per cent degradation over in-kernel device 108 drivers, manifested as either a reduction in throughput or increase in CPU utilisation. Our current experiments suggest that this need not be the case. Work on user-level drivers for storage devices shows that performance similar to in-kernel drivers is achievable. Performance of highbandwidth network devices is more critical; our work indicates that performance degradation can be kept reasonably low, at less than a ten per cent increase in CPU utilisation n Embedded Systems Framework (ESF) is working to develop the infrastructure that supports the creation of embedded systems based on the L4 microkernel. Part of the approach is to build trustworthy embedded systems by minimising the trusted computing base (TCB) as a prerequisite to proving the trustworthiness of the TCB. The ESF comprises the following tools and components for systems based on the L4 microkernel: n Kenge is a support environment designed to facilitate the creation of new L4 based systems n Iguana is an operating system personality and basic operating system services for embedded systems n user-level device drivers provide a framework for developing and porting device drivers that run in user mode in their own address spaces n Magpie provides an interface definition language and compiler upon which much of the interaction in the ESF is based n Wombat is a port of Linux to run on Iguana and L4. This infrastructure comprises an industrial-strength framework and tools that form the basis of most other ERTOS activities n Real-time and Power Management is investigating the construction of practical real-time systems on top of a microkernel, suitability or lack thereof of the present microkernel API for such tasks, and OS-level management of battery power in embedded systems n Distributed Systems and Virtualisation explores a number of issues on distributed systems and networking, including distributed embedded frameworks, overload prevention in networks, and virtualisation technology. This is a container for several small activities in this area, most of which are in the form of initial investigations. Significance and Socio-economic Benefits Embedded systems are computer systems that are part of a larger system. They are ubiquitous and diverse, and are incorporated in mobile phones, entertainment devices, automobiles, toys, smart cards, medical devices, network switching gear, sensors, industrial robots, and much more. Embedded systems are increasingly networked and expected to execute downloaded code; they are also subject to attacks by hackers or viruses. This exposure to many of the resource management and security challenges facing traditional computing systems makes operating system, compiler, and language techniques increasingly relevant in the embedded domain. The long-term goal of the program is to develop reliable embedded systems that can be mathematically proven to satisfy certain safety criteria. This is a daunting task for software systems that consist of tens or hundreds of thousands of lines of code, including low-level systems code that directly interfaces, or even configures, hardware. 109 ANNUAL REPORT 05 to the Australian Government Progress ERTOS made progress in the three major areas of activity: commercialisation of microkernel technology, research on microkernel technology, and digital audio networking (Dante Project). n Two new projects were started and collaboration continues with several others (hosted by other programs). n As part of the suite of projects on verification of the L4 microkernel, the seL4 Project is developing a new security API. So far this project has demonstrated the feasibility of using Haskell for a semi-formal API specification that can easily be formalised for the verification project. n The kWCET Project is developing a complete timing model of a real-time kernel. n In April, NICTA student Matthew Chapman co-authored a paper, “Itanium – a system implementer’s tale”, which won best student paper prize at USENIX 2005 in Anaheim, California. n The seL4 Project has successfully demonstrated an "executable spec" of the new-generation kernel by integrating a Haskell implementation of the draft API spec with an instruction-set simulator, allowing testing of the spec with real applications before a real implementation is available. n Work on power management demonstrated that generally used models of dynamic voltage scaling often produce catastrophic results on real systems, predicting minimal powerconsumption settings which turn out to maximise power consumption. n Several ERTOS students contributed to Sunswift, UNSW's solar race car. Despite mechanical problems resulting from an accident, the entry finished ninth overall and was the first car to complete using commercial solar cells. n Work has progressed to Beta-releases of Iguana, Wombat, Kenge, and Magpie. All of these are under evaluation by a number of companies and under active deployment by industry partners in existing projects. The work draws on fractional contributions from seven ERTOS researchers. Highlights There were a number of major highlights across the ERTOS Program in 2005. n ERTOS demonstrated, for the first time, high-performance user-level device drivers with a performance penalty of less than ten per cent. (All published work has a penalty of at least 50 per cent.) n Iguana is being used by a major corporation for a secure systems prototype and possible work with two local SMEs is being pursued. n A workshop promoting the use of and gauging interest in reconfigurable computing was held on 21 March 2005 at ATP. This was well attended by local industry. 110 n The ERTOS Program held its external review in March 2005. The review panel gave the program an excellent report, particularly commenting on the world-class status of the research. n In April, NICTA student Matthew Chapman co-authored a paper, “Itanium – a system implementer’s tale”, which won best student paper prize at USENIX 2005, Anaheim, California, US. n In November, NICTA announced a collaborative effort with QUALCOMM Incorporated to use NICTA versions of the L4 Microkernel and the Iguana operating system, together with select versions of QUALCOMM’s Mobile Station Modem™ (MSM™) chipsets. Linkages Throughout 2005, ERTOS fostered linkages through collaboration with NICTA programs. n ESF works closely with the CAmkES project in collaboration with the ESE program. CAmkES provides the software component architecture for developing large embedded systems based on Iguana. The component architecture is tightly integrated with the ESF Project. n There are strong collaborative ties to the Formal Methods Program n Distributed Systems and Virtualisation is collaborating with the University of Karlsruhe and HP Visualisation. Commercialisation Opportunities n Work on the commercial deployment of ERTOS’ microkernel technology is progressing extremely well. Several releases with new features and performance enhancements were delivered to our main collaborator, QUALCOMM Incorporated, on time and to specification, and the performance of the kernel on the ARM architecture has more than doubled. A new contract with QUALCOMM Incorporated to port the kernel to a new DSP architecture they are developing has been signed. Additionally, ST Microelectronics is using Iguana for a secure systems prototype. n NICTA has also been approached by another major hardware supplier to develop a prototype of its operating system on top of the Iguana system, together with virtualisation technology that would support the concurrent execution of three operating systems on the same machine. Digital audio networking research is being used commercially following: n the filing of a provisional patent describing this work n the signing of a consulting agreement with Ken Berger (EIR candidate) to deliver market analysis and a business plan, and negotiating commercialisation options n the creation of an operational, software-based prototype and hardware implementation. Outreach Activities In March 2005, a workshop promoting the use of and gauging interest in reconfigurable computing was held at Australia Technology Park. The event was well-attended by local industry. 111 ANNUAL REPORT 05 to the Australian Government Empirical Software Engineering Focus The qualitative and quantitative measurement of software engineering processes and products. Location ATP Leader Ross Jeffrey Staffing ( 7.7 FTE) employed ( 1.3 FTE) contributed 9 students Journal 15 21 4 publications Projects Conference papers Books or chapters Technical reports 1 ATP 003: Risk Practical Software Process Control ATP 004: Analysis for Government IT Projects ATP 008: Impact of CMMI Software Process Improvement on SMEs ATP 013: Component Architecture For Microkernel-based Embedded Systems (with ERTOS) ATP 014: Models and Extensible Architectures for Adaptive Middleware Platforms ATP 016: LIXI Business Processes Coursework Advanced Topics in Software Engineering Configuration Management, Release Management and Software Product Line Development Aim To ensure that software is reliable and trustworthy through the quantitative and qualitative scientific measurement of software engineering processes and products. Research Questions The key challenges for the Empirical Software Engineering (ESE) Program are to: n develop ideas and products capable of transforming the Australian software engineering sector n champion the development and use of empirical research methods in the collection and presentation of evidence about software engineering process and product. The program has a strong empirical approach to its work. Rigorous investigation of software engineering is the foundation of greater software development productivity and product quality in the Australian ICT industry. The program aligns with the From Data to Knowledge Priority Challenge. In order to meet NICTA’s research and commercialisation objectives, ESE is structured into three research areas: software process, software requirements and risk, and software architecture. These areas contribute to the long-term goal of developing empirically based, adaptive software engineering. The current implementation of this long-term vision involves: n Adaptive Software Process is concerned with the development of methods to represent process models, the knowledge to implement methods for adaptation of those processes to technology changes, and changes in business goals and conditions 112 n Adaptive Software Architecture is a grand challenge of software engineering to create systems built around flexible software architectures that can dynamically adapt to changes in their environment n Adaptive Software Requirements aims to provide frameworks, methods, and tools to promote the adaptation of software engineering techniques and methods within the context in which organisations must operate. Through these three areas, the program focuses on the process used for development or acquisition of software, the lifecycle of development from business goals to system requirements, and the design of the software product that is developed. Significance and Socio-economic Benefits The notion of adaptation is applied to both the software engineering process and product. Thus adaptation of the software process model involves: n building the knowledge and methods for modelling software development processes and being able to assist in the adaptive instantiation of those models according to business and system needs n developing the knowledge and methods to facilitate the adaptation of a set of system requirements to changing business needs, strategies, and conditions n creating adaptive capability in the software. These three areas of research are symbiotic: they all focus on the creation of software capability that responds to business and technology needs and conditions. Work such as the Loan Industries XML Initiative (LIXI) Project represents one of the first attempts worldwide to study, capture, and define standard business processes applicable to a significant industry group. The research project outcomes relating to development and application of process definition languages (PDLs) may be applicable in other industry contexts, including the management of accounting records for publicly listed companies (and their relationship to bodies such as exchanges and the Australian Taxation Office), as well as for e-government information management initiatives (relevant to public health, defence, and a variety of other public sector agencies). The combination of interests and skills in the ESE program presents a unique opportunity to benefit Australia. The ESE Program is pursuing research areas that contribute to the achievement of empirically based adaptive software engineering (E-bASE). The ability of development methods and developed software to adapt to changing conditions is a significant problem, but it is one that has only recently received research attention. Adaptation is applied to both the software engineering process and product. The successful outcome of this research will benefit organisations that are able to adapt the way software solutions are developed and how they evolve and change in the organisation in response to changing conditions and technologies. 113 ANNUAL REPORT 05 to the Australian Government The research projects within the program are all strongly oriented to wards establishing the empirical basis for enhanced productivity and competitiveness among software development organisations. Progress The ESE Program made progress in all of its areas of research. n Adaptive Software Process research proceeded as planned. n The LIXI Project progressed well and attracted significant interest from a number of industrial organisations. n The Software Engineering Australia CMMi Project was completed successfully and reviewed. The project was presented to industry groups. n ESE further refined the e-Government Services large-scale project identifying an initial project in process modelling. n The software requirements and risk group completed a project with a state government agency in software project risk assessment. Reports have been presented to the client agency. n The software architecture work resulted in requests for tutorial presentations at international venues. n Mike Berry and Steve Bleistein completed their PhD theses in 2005. n Researchers acted on four international journal editorial boards. n Program members were also responsible for running the IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering in November. Highlights The ESE Program had a number of highlights throughout 2005. n The Software Quality Accreditation Working Party, chaired by Ross Jeffery, presented a report to the Minister for Communication Technology and the Arts, Senator the Hon Helen Coonan. n The IEEE and ACM International Conference on Empirical Software Engineering was successfully conducted in November 2005. n Barbara Kitchenham and Ross Jeffery served on the International Software Process Research Consortium of the Software Engineering Institute of Carnegie Melon University, charged with developing a research road map for software process research. n Steve Bleistein and Karl Cox were awarded the Australian Committee on Computation and Automatic Control (ANCCAC) Medal for one of their published papers. n The program collaborated with external research and teaching institutions, including the University of Talca, Chile; University of Hawaii; Atlassian, a Sydney-based software development organisation; University of Maryland; KJ Ross & Associates, a Queensland-based software testing company; and Swinburne University. 114 Linkages Collaboration in ongoing theory discussions exists with Alan Fekete, University of Sydney; Neil Gray, University of Wollongong; and Shiping Chen, CSIRO. These collaborations are based on existing relationships and shared interests in the area of performance modelling. Neil Gray was a NICTA visitor during 2005, while the other collaborations were informal. Commercialisation Opportunities Potential commercialisation of ESE Program research falls primarily into two categories: n software tools development with channels to markets through direct licensing, distributorships, and/or technology spinouts n expert consulting services, either on stand-alone contractual bases or to support the implementation and use of licensed software tools. In some cases, the groups within ESE already have working prototypes of software tools that support software architecture design and implementation processes. These prototypes have broad applications in industry, in particular with large organisations that have significant operational dependence on IT systems, such as financial services, telecommunications and utilities, and government. The provision of expert consulting services is a commercialisation avenue that is available immediately, although restricted in scope and scale without further growth of the research program. Specialist expertise for the support of deployed software tools could scale more easily, dependent on the market for the particular software tools in question. An emerging area of research in the process and measurement sub-discipline of the ESE Program concerns organisational capability and how software suppliers and acquirers can benefit from appropriately focused and scientifically rigorous assessments of supplier capability. This was identified as key to building competitiveness and sustainability in the Australian software industry by DCITA, and the subject of a report commissioned in 2004 and released by the Minister for Communications, Information Technology and the Arts, Senator Helen Coonan in 2005. Further commercial potential could result from the implementation of a program that delivers services targeting these well-recognised needs. There are various models for such a program, including ones resembling that of the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), USA, which generates millions of dollars annually through regular training fees, the provision of expert appraisal services, and the accreditation of CMMI lead appraisers. Outreach Activities Karl Cox, Ross Jeffery, Mahmood Niazi, and Jenny Liu were invited to be members of program committees in six international conferences and four Australian conferences. June Verner, Ian Gorton, Karl Cox, Ross Jeffery, and Mark Staples were invited onto the organising committees of Australian and international conferences and workshops. 115 ANNUAL REPORT 05 to the Australian Government Formal Methods Focus Software development methods that guarantee performance for high-assurance systems. Location Kensington Leader Ron van der Meyden Staffing (5.9 FTE) researchers (1.9 FTE) contributed Journal publications 4 15 Projects KEN 009: Secure Embedded L4 Conference papers Book or chapters 6 students 3 Technical reports 2 KEN 010: Goanna Pilot KEN 011: L4 Verification Pilot KEN 013: Formal Methods for Performance Evaluation for Wireless Network Applications Coursework Algorithmic Verification Advanced Verification Aim To create software engineering methods and tools for the development of systems requiring very high levels of assurance. Research Questions The Formal Methods Program focuses on the application of techniques from logic and mathematics to the systems design process, aiming to place system development activity on a solid scientific foundation. Formal Methods research includes the development of: n specialised semantics and languages for expressing system aspects such as concurrency, time, probability, and information flow n calculi for reasoning using these languages n algorithmic techniques for verification and synthesis n tools for the systems developer encompassing the above. The Formal Methods Program contributes to work across both Priority Challenges. Significance and Socio-economic Benefits In a three-year planned effort, research in this area will address the following: n characterising proof nets as canonical representations of proofs up to rule commutation, thereby consolidating the role of proof nets in proof theory n laying the foundations of higher dimensional automata and their relations with other models of concurrency n establishing theory of configuration structures and the way they relate Petri nets and event structures 116 n achieving congruence formats in structural operational semantics n developing theories of liveness and timeouts. As ICT systems become more complex, rigorous system development techniques are increasingly important for the development of high-quality designs and implementations. The bulk of the program’s research activity is now encompassed by projects. A principal thrust of work is in the area of concurrency modelling. This provides theoretical foundations for the design, specification, and verification of concurrent systems, including systems that drive trusted wireless networks. Although many important features of concurrency have been modelled, there is still no comprehensive theory that allows us to deal with big applications that require many features simultaneously. There is, for instance, no good theory that deals with fairness and liveness properties in a setting with timeouts of unspecified duration. The overall aim is to come to a universal theory that covers the whole spectrum of applications and leads to more reliable concurrent systems. Progress The Formal Methods Program has made progress on a number of fronts, particularly in the area of concurrency modelling. n A journal paper presenting the first satisfactory theory of proof nets for multiplicative-additive linear logic, thereby solving a problem open since the inception of Linear Logic in 1986, was published. n Follow-up work to show that proof nets are canonical representations of proofs modulo rule commutation made significant progress. n A paper on higher dimensional automata (HDA) and their relationship with other models of concurrency was published. It showed that the expressive power of HDA is strictly larger than that of Petri nets, event structures, and traditional automata. Petri nets and traditional automata under the concurrent interpretation have incomparable expressiveness. n Results of follow-up work on comparing the expressive power of several other kinds of higher dimensional automata contemplated in the literature was presented at a keynote presentation at the Seventh Workshop on Geometric and Topological Methods in Concurrency, GETCO 2005. n Three papers on congruence formats for structural operational semantics were prepared. They give new tools for establishing the compositionality of operators with respect to branching bisimulation, eta-bisimulation, and weak bisimulation equivalence. Compositionality is one of the main tools to combat the state explosion problem in system verification. A full theory of congruence formats is emerging, but remains to be completed. Work on information flow in distributed systems produced a conference paper resolving a ten-year-old open problem on automated synthesis of protocols satisfying specifications concerning knowledge of the participating components. The work has potential applications to automated analysis of computer security, and is leading us to a closer examination of some specific notions of information flow in that context. In addition to NICTA program-based research, work on the Australian Research Council (ARC) project on Refinement of Temporal and Epistemic Specifications in Asynchronous Systems resulted in a deeper understanding of composition of protocol phases in message-passing contexts with communications channels that do not preserve message order, drop messages, or duplicate messages. The results contribute to the development of a formally supported design methodology for distributed systems. This work was documented in three conference publications in 2005. 117 ANNUAL REPORT 05 to the Australian Government The Formal Methods Program also undertakes substantial research in formal methods for the information flow in distributed systems. Research currently underway includes work on model checking the logic of knowledge and the Refinement of Temporal and Epistemic Specifications in Asynchronous Systems Project, which is supported by the ARC. There is PhD student research on formal methods for finance, embedded systems modelling and verification, and on verification of web services transaction protocols. Work began on three new RMCC-approved projects in the first quarter, and one project was successfully completed. The L4 Verification Pilot Project came to a successful conclusion, showing that the full verification of the L4 microkernel is realistic. This satisfied the preconditions for the commencement of the L4 Verified Project with the ERTOS and LC programs. A second project is a pilot project, Goanna, which aims to use static analysis to enhance the quality of the L4 kernel code. The Formal Methods for Performance Analysis of Wireless Network Applications Project is using formal methods to evaluate the performance of wireless protocols. It is being undertaken in collaboration with Networks and Pervasive Computing at ATP and Sensor Networks in Victoria. Highlights Across the Formal Methods Program there were a number of major highlights in 2005 in the form of presentations, papers, workshops, conference, and research contributions. n The program graduated its first student, Thai Son Hoang, who completed a PhD thesis on “The Development of a Toolkit to Support the Probabilistic B Method”. He has accepted a postdoctoral position at the prestigious ETH Zurich with Jean-Raymond Abrial, one of Europe's best known formal methods researchers. n Rob van Glabbeek was one of the organisers of a workshop on business process modelling in Eindhoven, The Netherlands, in June 2005. The workshop brought together international researchers from academia and industry to discuss the research agenda for formal modelling of business processes. n Rob van Glabbeek gave a keynote presentation at Algebraic Process Calculi: The First Twenty Five Years and Beyond, held in Italy in 2005. The presentation focused on pinpointing some of the problems that need to be solved. n Ron van der Meyden was program chair for the conference on Theoretical Aspects of Rationality and Knowledge, held in Singapore in June 2005. This interdisciplinary conference brought together leading researchers from computer science, economics, and philosophy to study the foundations of models of information flow of common interest to these disciplines. The proceedings were published in the Digital Library of the Association for Computing Machinery. n Ron van der Meyden was invited to present at the First Indian Conference on Logic and Its Application in Other Disciplines, held in Mumbai, India, in January 2005. n Journal papers on process algebra axiomatisations, structural operation semantics, and higher dimensional automata were published. n Conference papers were delivered on the expressiveness of process algebra and event structures, and on the foundations of Petri nets. Aspects of this work are expected to provide the basis for future project work in workflow modelling and web services. 118 n Several fundamental research contributions in concurrency theory were achieved largely through the work of Rob van Glabbeek. He developed new rule formats for reasoning about bisimulation in process algebra. He also invented new notions of firing for Petri nets, which, as a spin-off, provide a particularly simple definition of the unfolding of an arbitrary place/transition net into an occurrence net. These results form significant contributions to the conceptual clarification of the field and will strengthen NICTA’s position to contribute to standards (e.g. in the web services workflow area) making use of such conceptual foundations. Linkages The Formal Methods Program established a number of valuable linkages throughout 2005. n The program collaborates with the ERTOS Program on the Goanna Project, the Logic and Computation Program in the L4 Verified Project, and with the Sensor Networks and Networks and Pervasive Computing programs on the Formal Methods for Performance Evaluation of Wireless Network Applications Project. n Cooperation with researchers from SAP Brisbane and QUT Brisbane started, following the workshop on business process modelling in June 2005. This cooperation may result in a joint project between SAP, QUT, and NICTA in the area of web-services and workflow modelling, focusing on the modelling of dynamic routing and giving a complete semantics of BPEL that takes into account both data and control flow. n There was extensive partnering with research groups working in various aspects of concurrency, including meetings, joint papers, and common projects. The principal collaborations are with Dominic Hughes, Stanford University, US; Gordon Plotkin, LFCS, University of Edinburgh, Scotland; Wan Fokkink, Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica, Amsterdam; and Ursula Goltz, University of Braunschweig, Germany. n BMW and Daimler Chrysler expressed interest in the Stateflow Sanity Checker research and requested a collaborative research proposal. This was submitted and we are awaiting a response. n Discussions began with a Canadian defence research lab for the use of the NICTA model checker MCK in a project analysing pursuit games. n As part of the continued development of a project on formal methods for web services (expected to form part of the E-Government Project), staff made a significant contribution to the organisation of the Workshop on Business Processes: Models, Examples and Purposes in Eindhoven, The Netherlands, in June 2005. The Formal Methods Program leader was chair of the Theoretical Aspects of Rationality and Knowledge conference. Commercialisation Opportunities The program did not engage in any commercialisation activity in 2005. It will carry over the assessment of one invention disclosure for patentability in 2006. Outreach Activities The program conducted its annual workshop in November 2005, and more than 40 registrants attended. Presentations at the workshop had a strong emphasis on formal methods for secure systems development and included presentations by invited speakers from the Kestrel Institute (Stanford), Rockwell-Collins, CNRS Nantes, and the University of Sussex. The program also contributed a stream of courses on formal methods at the Annual Logic Summer School in Canberra in December 2005. The program will be exploring opportunities to promote its capabilities in static analysis, an automated software verification technique, to Australian industry through training programs throughout 2006. 119 ANNUAL REPORT 05 to the Australian Government Interfaces, Machines, and Graphic Environments Focus Technologies and methods that will advance computer vision and robotics. Location ATP Leader Peter Eades Staffing researchers (13.5 FTE) contributed (2.5 FTE) Journal publications 7 46 Projects Lead Conference papers Books or chapters 3 students 2 Technical reports 4 ATP 002: Visualisation & Interaction using Collaborative Access Tables ATP 010: Visualisation & Analysis of Large & Complex Networks ATP011: Perceptually Effective Multimodal Interface Minor involvement CAN 002: Humans Understanding Logic and Computation CAN 015: Smart Cars CAN 016: Advanced Nonlinear Gradient Methods Coursework Computational Geometry IT Advanced Topic A: Multimodal User Interaction Speech & Audio Processing Computational Geometry Information Visualisation Aim To develop new ways for humans to understand and explore information derived from data streams, databases, and other humans; transforming data into human knowledge. Research Questions The Interfaces, Machines, and Graphic Environments (IMAGEN) Program was established in September 2004 through the incorporation of the Multi-modal User Interface Project with the Humans Understanding Machines Program. The merged program has four key projects: Visualization and Analysis of Large and Complex Networks (VALACON), Data Mining for Spatio-Temporal Data (DMiST), Smart Transport and Roads – User Interfaces (STaR-UI), and Visual Collaborative Access Table (ViCAT). The key scientific challenges for IMAGEN include: n developing methods to analyse, present, and explore the information hidden within very large data sets n designing and evaluating protocols, patterns, and structures for multimodal interaction, which includes speech, gesture, touch, and facial expressions rather than the mouse/keyboard/screen interface. 120 VALACON aims to design, implement, and evaluate new methods for analysis, visualisation, and interaction for large and complex networks. In particular it focuses on the challenges of scalability and complexity in social and biological networks. It aims to provide effective visualisation, analysis, and interaction algorithms. A strong feature of VALACON is its close engagement with biologists, with a view to providing visualisation methods. The DMiST Project was established in collaboration with DSTO and arose because data related to the movement of objects is becoming increasingly available through substantial technological advances in position-aware devices such as GPS receivers, navigation systems, and mobile phones. The increasing number of these devices will lead to huge spatio-temporal data volumes documenting the movement of animals or vehicles in a variety of settings. Spatio-temporal patterns are regularities or structures in the data that would not be present if it were completely random. The Perceptually Effective Multi-Modal Interfaces (PEMMI) Project became involved with the STaR largescale project and adopted the name STaR-User Interfaces or STaR-UI. The project aims to investigate multimodal interfaces, specifically multimodal interaction patterns and non-intrusive cognitive modelling. STaR-UI focuses on control room interfaces and is deeply engaged with the Transport Management Centre of the NSW Roads and Traffic Authority. ViCAT aims to investigate remote collaboration between small teams, using a kind of dual display desk. It is a collaborative project between DSTO, the University of South Australia, the University of Sydney, and NICTA. ViCAT has a commercial-style subproject TABANAR, aimed at the advertising industry. Significance and Socio-economic Benefits Currently available data sets are larger and more complex than humans can comprehend. They are growing very fast, mainly due to improvements underlying technology to gather large data sets. Examples include: n Network data sets: Social network data, such as telephone call networks and money movement networks, can help to track terrorist activities, money laundering, and insurance fraud. Biological networks, such as protein-protein interaction networks and metabolic pathways, help the understanding and design of biological processes. Routing network data is helpful in designing and managing sensor networks. n Spatio-temporal data: These data sets are available from wildlife movement monitors, illegal fishing boat monitors, and mobile phone customer behaviour. Understanding these data sets has many applications, from national security to customer relationships. Further, interfaces to such large and complex information spaces is becoming ubiquitous; in a few years we will explore information using multimodal methods such as touch, audio, visualisation, gesture, and speech. We will access information spaces using artefacts of our everyday physical space. Solutions to the design problems that arise will be of great significance. The applications of computer vision undertaken within the program are broad, and include medical imaging, surveillance, the entertainment industry, remote sensing, and image-based testing and diagnosis. The IMAGEN Program has socio-economic benefits arising from its ability to develop new techniques and tools that will allow humans to access the increasing variety and volume of information currently being generated. As more productive approaches to understanding and using information continue to grow, the work in the program will provide a foundation for marketable products to be developed. 121 ANNUAL REPORT 05 to the Australian Government Progress Progress was made in three project areas during 2005. As the DMiST Project was launched late in 2005, there is no progress to report. VALACON n VALACON successfully integrated visualisation with analytical methods and tools for social network analysis and held a series of workshops to immerse researchers and students in the principles of social network analysis. n Demonstrations of software for the visualisation of social networks were presented at a social network conference; the key metaphors are protected under provisional patents. n The fundamental algorithmic methods were presented in journals and conferences on visualisation and algorithms. n A considerable amount of training in biology was provided for staff and students, while VALACON provided visualization training for biologists through its workshops, collaborations, and visiting biologists. n A spin-off project, PathBank, was created to seamlessly integrate views of various biological data sets. The same key metaphors and fundamental algorithmics that apply in social networks also apply in biological networks. n A subproject in the area of wireless sensor networks was spun-out in conjunction with the Australian SME Daintree Networks. This is a seed project to provide visual design and management methods for sensor networks. ViCAT n Infrastructure progressed with the delivery of two new collaborative access tables and construction of three applications. The applications were demonstrated to a number of industry segments in the last quarter of 2005 and discussions are proceeding. n Research outcomes, especially in mixed presence groupware, were presented at conferences. n ViCAT became the focus of the ICT Roundtable’s collaboration efforts. Project Braccetto, based in ViCAT in collaboration with CSIRO and DSTO, was announced by the Minister for Communications, Information Technology and the Arts, Senator Helen Coonan, in September 2005. n The TABANAR business plan is being evaluated. STaR-UI n The project provided a testing ground for a number of experiments in multimodal interfaces. The project team conducted a study of the working environment, especially with respect to their “contact” database, including usability experiments. This has resulted in an improved design for the Transport Management Centre’s contact database. n Two provisional patents were lodged. 122 Highlights Across the IMAGEN program there were a number of major highlights in 2005. n Journal articles were published in leading journals such as Algorithmica, Information Visualization, and Computational Geometry. n The ViCAT system was demonstrated to Australian industry. n The VALACON software GEOMI was demonstrated at the social networks conference. n A team of IMAGEN researchers won the 2005 international Graph Drawing Competition. n A team of students won the Siemens Prize for the project with the most commercial potential at a local research showcase (for the PathBank subproject). n Under the auspices of the ICT Roundtable, Peter Eades helped develop project Braccetto, a large-scale collaboration between CSIRO, NICTA, and DSTO. n Researchers played key roles in the international research community, serving on program committees and editing journals. Linkages IMAGEN formed a number of collaborations with other NICTA programs and external organisations throughout 2005. It established a strong international presence through international exchanges and presentations at conferences and seminars. n IMAGEN is working with a number of companies, including Daintree Networks and Axogenic, a biotech SME. It is beginning relationships with others, such as Rising Sun Pictures. n There are strong partnerships with DSTO and CSIRO. n IMAGEN joined two ARC research networks and has a role on the steering committee of one of these networks. n Joint papers were recently prepared with the University of Cologne, JAIST, Oregon Health and Science University, Utrecht University, TU Eindhoven, Lund University, Carleton University, KAIST, the University of Karlsruhe, MIT, Ben Gurion University, and Kyoto University. Commercialisation Opportunities n PathBank has commercial potential in biotechnology. n The SNAV project with Daintree Networks is essentially a seed project for a commercial project in sensor network visualisation. n The TABANAR subproject of ViCAT (see above) is moving toward commercialisation. n There is a “smart camera” proposal associated with PEMMI that may have commercial prospects. Outreach Activities IMAGEN hosted a number of international student internships with incoming students from Germany, France, and The Netherlands, and outgoing students to Germany and the USA. The program also hosted a stream of international visitors and researchers, who gave many seminars. 123 ANNUAL REPORT 05 to the Australian Government Knowledge Representation and Reasoning Focus Inference enables knowledge bases for practical applications; it mirrors the human capacity for extracting meaning from facts. Location Kensington Leader Toby Walsh Staffing (9.2 FTE) researchers (3.2 FTE) contributed Journal publications 7 32 Projects CAN 003: Dynamic Planning, Optimisation & Learning Conference papers Book or chapters 6 students (3 Kensington, 3 Canberra) 2 Technical reports 2 CAN 012: Supercom VIC 003: Constraint Programming Platform (CPP) Coursework First-order Logic Knowledge Representation and Reasoning Introduction to Modal Logic Aim To address the problems of manipulating and interpreting structured information, focusing on new ways of succinctly, yet comprehensively, organising information for reasoning. Research questions The Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KRR) Program considers a number of challenging problems and uses both basic and targeted research to solve them. Current research includes: n intelligent knowledge systems n multi-agent systems n cognitive robots n constraints n planning. Program-based research is based on three key areas of work: Foundations of Constraints, Ontologies, and Logics for Knowledge Representation. Foundations of Constraints is a five-year program that aims to develop the basic technologies for the next generation of constraint programming toolkits. Constraint programming is one of the main strategic research areas for computer science and the Foundations of Constraints Project. The richness of the representation and solving process are areas of interest. Research encompasses the study of how to represent users’ preferences and the problem of constraints, and extends to the search for robust solutions to dynamic problems. While the work is foundational, it also aims to model and solve less abstract problems in a wide range of industrial and business domains, such as scheduling, routing, and product configuration. 124 The research has an immediate application in the G12 Constraint Programming Platform Project. Ontologies focus on the hierarchical data structure containing all the relevant entities and their relationships and rules for a given area of knowledge. They are important for artificial intelligence and knowledge representation. Ontologies enable smart information use and contribute to information sharing through more efficient use of available information. Ontologies form the backbone of Semantic Web, the next generation web with machine-processable content. This project is pursuing the development of techniques for constructing and reasoning with ontologies. It examines the specification of ontology languages with levels of expressivity appropriate for different contexts and the development of algorithms for reasoning in these languages. It also includes a study of how to deal with inconsistent ontologies. Logics for Knowledge Representation covers logics for representing actions, beliefs, and spatial and temporal information; for instance, the study of how an agent’s actions can and should be specified to facilitate meta-reasoning is covered. Such languages have applications in controlling software agents, virtual characters, and autonomous robots. It extends to logic-based formalisations of non-Markovian control in dynamical systems and planning, planning with search control, and theories of action with dynamic qualification constraints. So far, the program has completed a formalisation of different aspects of a theory of autonomous agents and dynamic systems and languages to describe them. Significance and Socio-economic Benefits Efficient representation of knowledge and reliable reasoning mechanisms are at the core of intelligent programs. To be efficient, knowledge representation has to be succinct yet comprehensible. An understanding of designs that can achieve these somewhat conflicting properties has driven much of the research in this area. Reliable reasoning not only involves accuracy, but also intuitiveness and commonsense appeal. There is now an increasing need to update and merge diverse knowledge. The development of autonomous agents has the potential to greatly expand the availability and usefulness of ICT technology. The Internet, World Wide Web, and the ubiquity of ICT technology has created a pervasive need for autonomous, unsupervised systems that can take over or assist people with tasks and decision making. Logistics for Knowledge Representation aims to develop the theoretical foundations for autonomous agents and the implementation and specification languages based on these foundations over a five-year program. Ontologies research aims to ease the process of ontology construction and enable users to extract useful and relevant information from different and possibly conflicting ontologies. Users with little training in ontology engineering should be able to construct and combine large-scale ontologies with relative ease. KRR is contributing to the fundamental science of how humans represent and reason with knowledge, which has broad socio-economic implications. The program is building the software tools necessary to represent and reason with knowledge. Trustworthiness is essential for business, personal, and inter-agent relationships. In the age of universal ICT, interacting parties are often unknown to each other and the traditional ways of 125 ANNUAL REPORT 05 to the Australian Government establishing trust and reputation are no longer feasible. The program aims to develop new methods for establishing and managing trust and reputation, as well as negotiation methods based on trust in other parties. Researchers analyse criteria for trustworthiness, reputation, and rational negotiation, their realisations as systems and protocols, and characterisations of their properties. Trust management systems are a smart way of using information to provide new systems and business solutions. Establishing who can be trusted is important for security, commercial, personal, and inter-agent relationships. KRR is developing an online trading platform into which research can be integrated. Elements of this research will also be applied to the DiSPRR project. A series of external collaborations with sociologists are planned to perform user studies. Progress KRR has made progress in developing the basic technologies for the next generation of constraint programming toolkits; technologies for planning under uncertainty with time and resource constraints; and theories of trust and negotiation, and how such theories could be used to help NICTA Queensland’s DisPRR project. n A simple constraint “algebra” that permits primitive constraints to be combined together into more complex and useful global constraints using the standard Boolean connectives like AND, OR and NOT were proposed. n Methods to find more robust solutions to dynamic, changing problems like scheduling were explored. These technologies will be prototyped in the G12 Constraints Solving Platform Project. n The robust scheduling methods were demonstrated at the Australian CeBit, attracting considerable interest and resulting in a linkage with an Australian SME to develop scheduling technology for them. n KRR developed technologies for planning under uncertainty with time and resource constraints, and these were incorporated into the COAST tool as part of the DPOLP project with DSTO and the University of Adelaide. n The SuperCom project was recently started and promises to take model-based diagnosis to the next level by exploiting the component structure of engineered systems like power grids. n A method to achieve interoperability between the World Wide Web Consortium’s (W3C's) Web Ontology Language (OWL), one of its Semantic Web recommendations, and the ISO's Topic Map standards was developed. Application of KRR expertise in belief revision to the problem of revising and merging ontologies is being applied. n The major RMCC-based project activity in KRR was the commencement of the G12 Constraints Solving Platform Project, which is being developed jointly with the Victoria Research Laboratory. The initial specification of the Zinc modelling language was agreed, along with the specification of the Application Program Interface to other solvers. This tool was showcased at the TechFest and CeBIT. The display at CeBIT resulted in interest from a local SME, which provides CAD tools for embroidery and carpet manufacture; project collaboration is under discussion. 126 n KRR hosted a long-term visitor, Claude-Guy Quimper, University of Waterloo, Canada, who spent two months developing several new constraint propagation algorithms that will be included in the G12 platform. n The G12 platform will be used by the STaR Project as part of a traffic light scheduling project. KRR has participated in preliminary meetings with technical staff at the NSW RTA, identifying areas where it can contribute to the RTA’s next generation traffic light scheduling system. This led to a definition of a work package on traffic light scheduling, which is a “disjunctive temporal constraint problem with preferences”. n KRR sought the expertise of the Queensland Research Laboratory in ontologies, trust and negotiation for the Disaster Prediction Response and Recovery Project. n KRR staff organised the 8th International Conference on Theory and Applications of Satisfiability Testing. n A PhD student has been invited to participate in the ISO Topic Maps Working Group (SC34/WG3) and the Semantic Web Best Practices Group of the W3C. n A basic algorithm for handling inconsistent ontologies was developed and two papers were delivered at major conferences. Highlights KRR continues to punch well above its weight in the international research community. Throughout 2005, program researchers presented at a number of conferences and published extensively. n KRR presented six papers at the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI2005), more than any other research group in any other lab in the world. The IJCAI conference is highly selective and in 2005 accepted just 18 per cent of all submissions (240 out of 1329). n KRR published extensively at many major AI conferences (e.g. National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming, and International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling) and in leading AI journals such as the Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research. n The traffic light scheduling project is producing results and a simple scheduler running on a micro-simulator was demonstrated to the RTA. n The first PhD students are expected to graduate from KRR early in 2006. Linkages KRR continues to have strong linkages with many other research labs and universities around the globe. n A linkage was developed with the leading answer set programming group at the Helsinki University of Technology. The Head of the Laboratory of Theoretical Computer Science, Illka Niemela, is currently on sabbatical and is in residence at the KRR Program. n The Chair of the leading semantic web/description logic group at Dresden, Franz Baader, is currently visiting KRR. 127 ANNUAL REPORT 05 to the Australian Government n KRR was invited to represent Standards Australia in W3C meetings and has linkages with other government organisations. n Collaboration is ongoing with companies like ILOG, which recently donated a large bundle of its optimisation software, and Wilcom Pty Ltd. n Foundations of Constraints research is a collaborative effort between the Canberra and Victoria laboratories. Internationally, it extends to work with Professor Francesca Rossi, Padova, and Dr Christian Bessiere, Montpellier, both long-term collaborators of Professor Walsh. n Ontologies research engages researchers from the Logic and Computation and IMAGEN programs, and externally with Dr Richard Booth, Macquarie University. The research will feed into a project proposal on ontology management and navigation and contribute to delivery of the Queensland-based DisPRR project. n The program recently began working with the ISO Topic Map Working Group. Commercialisation Opportunities KRR has been working closely with Wilcom, an Australian based SME that leads the world in software for embroidery and related industries. We have prototyped a production capacity planning system which Wilcom would like to include in its next software product. Outreach Activities KRR was a major contributor to the annual Logic Summer School at ANU. KRR won the tender to host the 2006 International Advance Summer School on Constraint Programming, which will be held by the Association for Constraint Programming. KRR organised a number of highly successful conferences and workshops in 2005, including the 8th International Conference on Theory and Applications of Satisfiability Testing (SAT 2005) and, closer to home, the Australian Ontology Workshop (AOW 2005). Both of these meetings attracted record crowds. 128 Logic and Computation Focus Mathematical logic as a core discipline of the information sciences. Location Canberra Leader John Slaney Staffing researchers ( 8.5 FTE) contributed ( 2 FTE) Journal Publications 2 15 Projects CAN 002: Humans Understanding Logic and Computation Conference papers Book or chapters 5 students – Technical reports – KEN 009: Secure Embedded L4 KEN 011: L4 Verification Pilot (completed) CAN 010: Propositional Satisfiability Alternatives & Extensions to DPLL CAN 012: Supercom CAN 021: Validating Networks Semantics VIC 003: Constraint Programming Platform (CPP) Coursework Advanced Course - Constraint Processing Automated Reasoning and Interactive Theorem Proving Overview of Logic and Automated Reasoning Aim To apply logic to the analysis of systems, including software systems, with a view to making them more secure, more reliable, and more efficient. Research Questions Logic and Computation (LC) is centred on mathematical logic as a core discipline of the information sciences. Logic is studied as a branch of mathematics in its own right, as one of the underlying technologies of intelligent computing and as a tool for the theoretical and practical analysis of computation. The program focus is on applied logic with interests in three facets of research: theory, tools, and applications. The theoretical underpinnings concern special-purpose “smart logics”, which build features of the intended application domain into their formal languages and reasoning mechanisms. Examples include logics designed to represent hybrid systems with both discrete and continuous parts, logics for use by agents reasoning about each other, and logics designed to cope with imperfect data that may be vague, unreliable, or inconsistent. The development of software tools to carry out reasoning tasks is central to the program’s research. This work encompasses automatic deduction for both classical and non-classical logics; constraint satisfaction, including propositional satisfiability; and interactive reasoning systems based on higher order logic. 129 ANNUAL REPORT 05 to the Australian Government The Constraints Programming Project (CPP) involves the greatest number of researchers in the LC Program. It aims to develop the G12 platform for specifying and solving combinatorial satisfaction and optimisation problems. The applications of this technology are very wide, in a vast range of design problems, scheduling, and the like. Significance and Socio-economic Benefits The LC Program aims to take logic out of its traditional comfort zones and address challenges in its application to systems which generally are thought to be too complex for formal analysis or which require it to deal with unstable, noisy, and inconsistent information. For example, in one project researchers study protocols for information exchange not as they are abstractly specified, but as they are actually implemented and actually operate in the hostile environment of the Internet. One outcome is a major expansion in the range of systems that can benefit from logical analysis and therefore from the virtues of clarity and of mathematically conclusive proofs. LC Program research centres on logic as a fundamental tool for understanding, establishing correctness, and assuring security. The use of formal methods in system development, including its role in software specification and verification, can add value by shortening the development cycle and by improving the trustworthiness of the systems produced. The research also investigates aspects of security and trust that bring social as well as economic benefits, such as: n improving the reliability of IT infrastructure such as the Internet by debugging the TCP and IP protocols n improving the efficiency of traffic management through better algorithms for scheduling traffic lights n ensuring the correctness of vote-counting software for parliamentary elections. Progress The LC Program contributed to various NICTA projects through the provision of tools and expertise in reasoning. This was in line with NICTA’s strategic objective of building a world-class mechanised reasoning research group. Through vigorous project engagement and recruitment, the group was strengthened across the range of constraint satisfaction, automatic deduction, and interactive reasoning. n The Tableaux Workbench, a generalised automated reasoning system that can be applied to a range of different logics, was developed by an ANU student under the supervision of LC researchers to test and develop reasoning systems. This software takes a specification of a logical system in the form of inference rules and generates a theorem prover embodying those rules. The suite was completed to demonstration phase in 2004 and on completion of the project in 2006, the Workbench will be available for download from the website (http://users. rsise.anu.edu.au/~abate/twb/twb.html). n The program developed a series of projects that pursue the analysis of computation, the semantics of programming languages, and the verification of software. n Humans Understanding Logic and Computation (HULC) is a collaborative project with the IMAGEN program that aims to visualise the behaviour of software engaged in logical reasoning, with a view to designing new methods and heuristics to make reasoning more efficient. This project 130 produced new insights into the process by which automated reasoners search for proofs. It will be some time before such fundamental research has an impact on deployed software, but already it has opened up a new way of studying reasoning processes. n Propositional Satisfiability Alternatives and Extensions to DPLL was undertaken in collaboration with Professor Abdul Sattar, Griffith University. It aims to find alternatives to the Davis-PutnamLogemann-Loveland Algorithm for basic logical reasoning. Research resulted in solvers that won prizes in the main international competition for such software. The project has now been incorporated into the larger Constraint Programming Platform Project, which involves NICTA programs in Melbourne, Sydney, and Canberra. n The pilot phase of a project to verify the L4 micro-kernel, the basis of an operating system used in embedded devices, was successfully concluded in collaboration with ERTOS and FM. A major three-year project began and the program now has three researchers working on verifying L4. Highlights The LC Program had a number of major highlights in 2005 in the form of accepted papers, prize medals, graduating students, and academic recognition. n The Program was successfully reviewed by an international committee with recommendations for continued funding and support in developing along its current directions. n ANU PhD student Kerry Trentelman graduated. n Michael Norrish was promoted to senior researcher in NICTA. n John Slaney was appointed to a chair in the ANU. n The SAT solver R+AdaptNovelty+ built by LC researcher Anbulagan and Griffith University PhD student Nghia Duc Pham won a gold medal in the Random SAT category at the 8th International Conference on Theory and Applications of Satisfiability Testing (SAT 2005) in the UK. n Anbulagan’s solver Dew_Satz won two bronze medals in the Random UNSAT and SAT+UNSAT categories at the 8th International Conference on Theory and Applications of Satisfiability Testing (SAT 2005) in the UK. n Papers were accepted at the top conferences in the field, including the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), the American Association for Artificial Intelligence, National Conference (AAAI), the International Conference on Theorem Proving in Higher Order Logics (TPHOLS), the International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming (CP), and the Annual Conference for the Association for Computing Machinery Special Interest Group on Data Communication (SIGCOMM). Linkages The LC Program built strong relationships throughout 2005. n LC is working with KRR and NIP on the CPP Project, contributing to the development of constraint solvers, visualisation of problems and software behaviour, and theorem proving. n The L4-Verified Project is a collaborative effort with the FM and ERTOS programs. LC provides expertise in the semantics of programming languages, notably C, and in higher order reasoning tools for verification. 131 ANNUAL REPORT 05 to the Australian Government n Work on the HULC project on visualisation of reasoning is linked with IMAGEN and has other projects, including CPP, as clients. n The CPP Project includes work with the STaR Project and provides links to many other programs. n LC contributes expertise in propositional logical reasoning to the SuperCom Project, which provides links with KRR and SML. n The VNS Project is a collaboration with the University of Cambridge (UK). LC contributes formal logical techniques to the problem of specifying and validating the TCP and IP protocols as they function in practice in the Internet. n Collaboration with Griffith University was an essential part of the SAT Project and led to the outstanding performance in the SAT competition in which we won the section consisting of randomly generated satisfiable problems. n John Slaney and Michael Norrish visited the Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST) and JAIST researcher Toshimasa Matsumoto visited Canberra to work with Rajeev Gore on the Tableaux Workbench. Commercialisation Opportunities Research in formal methods has considerable commercial potential related to the specification and verification of software and other systems. The L4-Verified Project, aimed at producing a fully verified operating system kernel, is an outstanding example of work in this direction. Analysis of electronic voting software has led to consultancy work and suggests commercial potential for the logical analysis of legislation and other legal documents. Constraint satisfaction has many applications where complex problems have to be solved within time limits. The G12 platform being produced by the CPP Project is intended to support a wide range of application packages and has several medium to large companies as likely clients. Most of the initial applications are in scheduling or supply chain optimisation for the construction, airline, retail, and telecommunications industries, among others. Outreach Activities LC Program members organised the fourteenth annual Logic Summer School held at the ANU. Courses were presented by guests from the KRR and FM programs and invited speakers from overseas. More than 40 students attended from Australian universities and there was some industry representation. 132 Network Information Processing Focus Creating technology to build, manage, and exploit the Internet of the future. Location Victoria Leader Peter Stuckey Staffing (8.35 FTE) researcher (4.75 FTE) contributed Journal 14 28 Publications Projects Conference papers Book or chapters 23 students 1 Technical reports 1 VIC 003: Constraint Programming Platform (CPP) VIC 004: Interactive Information Discovery and Delivery (I2D2) Coursework Constraints Programming Text and Document Management Aim To enable a pervasive computing environment and provide ways to effectively use and manage the telecommunications network. Research Questions The existing telecommunications network and its associated real-time management and control structure is the most complex engineering system built by humankind. It is set to expand dramatically in the future. People will be immersed in a ubiquitous information network that contains a variety of digital media. They will access and interact with this information using a variety of devices: phones, desktop computers, hand-held PDAs, tablets with styluses, TV-like devices, large wall-mounted displays, and even refrigerators and other less traditional communication devices. New forms of content delivery and modes of communication, as well as the diversity of content, mean that the effective use and management of the network is an increasingly challenging problem. Network Information Processing (NIP) research aims to make this ubiquitous environment a reality and provide ways of effectively using and managing the network through the development of new technologies. The NIP Program is working on two significant projects: n G12 Constraint Programming Platform (CPP) aims to provide technological solutions to solve hard combinatorial problems through the improvement and combination of traditional methods in the areas of operations research, artificial intelligence, and logic programming. CPP will provide an industrial-strength constraint programming platform for use in scheduling, network optimisation, and logistics. n Interactive Information Discovery and Delivery (I2D2) aims to develop a multimodal browser for Australian news sources that use the intelligent linguistic and geospatial analysis of queries, and content to enhance the ability of a basic search engine to fulfil a user’s information needs. This will be achieved through the development of: o location-based query and visualisation o scalable methods for linguistic and geo-spatial annotation o spatially aware document clustering and multi-document summarisation o a multimodal interface. 133 ANNUAL REPORT 05 to the Australian Government In addition, the program is pursuing research into the NICTA Open Sensor-web Architecture (NOSA) and Peer-to-Peer Computing (P2P). NOSA research aims to develop an appropriate layered architecture and software services to support the deployment of distributed applications over sensor networks. The initial phase of the project focused on scoping the software services needed for distributed sensor network applications, such as sensor measurement scheduling, aggregation and archiving, sensor configuration and directory services, and simulation and emulation capabilities. P2P research aims to support multi-user distributed applications where peers communicate directly without central co-ordination. Peer-to-peer networks are decentralised, scalable, dynamic, and harder to disrupt, thus removing the bottleneck of a central point of control. Significance and Socio-economic Benefits The aims of the program align directly with the National Research Priority (NRP) goals of “Frontier technologies” and “Smart information use”. The ubiquitous information network will drive many ICT developments, several of which will be aimed at smarter access to and use of information. Improved solutions to complex optimisation problems such as scheduling and logistics provide immediate economic benefits, as well as potentially significant environmental benefits. For example, the solution reduces the number of truck movements required. This aligns with the NRP goals of “Smarter information use” and “Reducing and capturing emissions in transport and energy generation”. The I2D2 project aligns directly with the NRP goal of “Smart information use”, allowing better use of information stored in intranets and the Internet. The P2P and NOSA projects align with the NRP goal of “Frontier technologies” in the ICT area. Progress The program grew to encompass 23 postgraduate students in 2005. In addition to work on projectbased research, the program made significant progress on the NOSA and P2P projects. NOSA n A simple sensor network platform was established and is being used for a simple temperature sensor application in wireless sensor networks to evaluate the services for the SensorWeb prototype. For example, temperature measurements can be collected, archived, and forwarded to the Internet. n A scheme was designed to improve the efficiency of serving queries in sensor networks by using bloom filters to maintain digests of the available measurements in the network. n An intrusion detection technique was developed to detect routing attacks in sensor networks. The technique’s effectiveness was demonstrated on three types of routing attacks at the network layer. P2P n A prototype of a large-scale deployable P2P massively multiplayer online game (MMOG) was built using the OPeN architecture for P2P networks. n A demonstration of a 3D virtual world using the technology was first showcased at NICTA TechFest in May 2005. 134 n The improved MMOG P2P technology was successfully demonstrated to an audience at the ACM Middleware conference, in late November 2005 in Grenoble, France. Following strong interest and encouraging feedback, further work is being planned, including an Internet release of the software using NICTA open source licenses to encourage industry participation. n Prototype development efforts are generating a number of possible future research directions, particularly as candidate project work in overcoming distributed system software engineering problems of decentralisation and autonomy at scales comparable to the Internet. Highlights Major highlights in 2005 for the NIP program included competition awards and a new release of the Mercury software. n Maria Garcia de la Banda and Peter Stuckey won the Constraint Modelling Challenge 2005 from a field of 13 submissions around the world. The model solved more problems and was at least an order of magnitude faster than all other submissions. n Xionan Ji, James Bailey, and Guozhu Dong won the best paper award for “Mining Minimal Distinguishing Subsequence Patterns with Gap Constraints” at the International Conference on Data Mining 2005. n NIP released Mercury version 0.12, which includes support for constrained types and is part of the constraint programming platform. Linkages The NIP Program collaborates with Monash University (a project agreement is in development) and the KRR and LC programs on the joint G12 project. Together the groups form a world-leading constraint programming research team. The program also maintains strong links with Katholieke Universiteit de Leuven and has sponsored an extended visit by Professor Bart Demoen. This has led to multiple joint publications. Leuven has significant expertise in compilation of declarative languages that forms a core part of the G12 project. Commercialisation Opportunities Throughout the year, the program pursued commercialisation of the peer-to-peer MMOG with Red Moon software but no deal has been signed. Discussions are underway with MicroForte to make use of the P2P technology. Negotiations with Constraint Technology International to support the G12 project, in particular in making the underlying software system robust and suitable for commercial use, are ongoing. Outreach Activities The NIP Program has been pursuing a larger commitment from NICTA to the PlanetLab, an open platform for developing, deploying, and accessing planet-scale services. There is a PlanetLab node established at the VRL in the CSSE department. The goal is to install PlanetLab nodes in multiple NICTA laboratories and meet with the PlanetLab organisers to deepen the relationship. The P2P group will organise the ACM Middleware 2006 conference in Melbourne. 135 ANNUAL REPORT 05 to the Australian Government Network Technologies Focus Integrating optical, copper, and wireless infrastructure to extend the reach of the Internet. Location Victoria Leader Thas Nirmalathas Staffing (6.85 FTE) researchers (2.25 FTE) contributed Journal publications 10 44 Projects VIC 005: Broadband to the User (B2U) Conference papers Book or chapters 12 students - Technical reports 3 VSUB2: Monitoring and Managing the Internet Coursework Information Theory Aim To extend the capacity, scalability, and reliability of the Internet through intelligent measurement and design. Research Questions The Network Technologies (NT) Program focuses on two area of investigation: Broadband to the User (B2U) and Monitoring and Managing the Internet (MAMI). Both of these projects are attracting strong industry interest. The integration aspect of these two projects is a program-based effort known as Next Generation Optical Access Network Technologies. B2U aims to develop Gigabit/second optical access networks through the evolution of Passive Optical Network (PON) architecture and the development of new configurations. The integration of wireless and wired interfaces over a common optical access backhaul network is crucial to this goal. In the longer term, the program will investigate the integration of the PON with the 60 GHz wireless research underway in the Sensor Networks Program. MAMI focuses on the development of technology to monitor Internet performance and the provision of critical information to network management functions. The work is based on two streams dealing with optical performance monitoring and Internet probing. Significance and Socio-economic Benefits As the reach and capacity of the Internet continues to grow, the current network infrastructure needs to evolve into a large-scale, interconnected network with a seamless integration of optical, copper, and wireless infrastructure. The design and management of such an integrated system will require new architectures, new devices, and new measurement and control methodologies. The NT Program aligns well with the National Research Priority of Frontier Technologies. The research directions are use-inspired and based on well-established commercial needs. NT solutions will have a direct impact on next generation optical networks and management of Internet. 136 The program outcomes include high-impact publications at respected international conferences or publication in journals, as well as technology demonstrators which help NICTA achieve its goal as a world-class institute. The program also aims to influence the development of telecommunications standards through adoption of the Internet measurement approaches and associated software codes or algorithms. Novel solutions with commercial opportunities are protected through patents and the program adopts an active commercialisation strategy for transferring these solutions to industry. Progress During the last the twelve months, a number of significant research outcomes were achieved. B2U n Research focused on the improved passive optical network (PON) architectures, cost-effective subsystems for Ethernet-oriented PON, investigation of transporting wireless signals over the optical network infrastructure, and the development of PON testbed. n Several protection architectures for PONs were proposed and experimentally demonstrated. These architectures focused on protection against feeder (trunk) fiber link breaks and distribution (branch) fiber breaks. n Alternative network implementations based on the combination of electronic code-division multiplexed access (E-CDMA) and optical-CDMA techniques were investigated. This work forms the basis of a provisional patent. n A testbed was developed as part of the Terabit Networking Laboratory to support the research work. The testbed facilitates the networking of four customer sites with a central office over an Ethernet PON implementation, and the testbed can be reconfigured to support wireless LAN integration. n B2U researchers developed a repeater technology that can allow splits of 256 or higher when incorporated within the splitter site. This was patented and experimental verification was completed. n Repeater-based PON solutions will drastically reduce the performance targets of opto-electronic systems and low cost opto-electronic subsystem architectures are being investigated. n NICTA developed and demonstrated a metropolitan-scale optical virtual private network within multiple wavelength division multiplexed PONs. The experimental results were reported at OECC 2005, and the work won the best paper award in optical networking. MAMI n Research included the development of novel optical performance monitoring solutions and Internet measurement approaches. n The team developed single impairment monitors that measure impairments such as optical signal to noise rate, chromatic dispersion, and polarisation mode dispersion while the transmission links are in-service. n Multiple impairment monitors were investigated and new techniques were developed that can be combined with statistical machine learning techniques to identify and monitor multiple impairments simultaneously. This is a significant advantage over existing techniques. 137 ANNUAL REPORT 05 to the Australian Government n Progress was made in the development of fundamental electronic and optical signal processing technologies. A significant know-how was developed in inversion techniques to improve optical measurements through electronic signal processing. n Long-term focused research on polarisation mode dispersion aspects of communication links and photonic label switching techniques progressed. Strong collaboration with AT&T Research Labs resulted in new techniques for measurement of polarisation mode dispersion. n A synchronous optical modulation technique to label photonic packets and polarisation insensitive phase modulators for photonic label swapping was developed. n The Internet measurements aspect of this project focused on active probing techniques and their feasibility in wireless LANs, as well as synchronisation techniques for software clocks. n A software tool was developed and implemented across a carrier’s network to infer traffic characteristics of the Internet. These results were then inverted to develop network performance estimators with low bias. n Work began on the application of active probing into wireless LANs, and a testbed is being implemented to carryout the study. n A software tool has been developed to obtain time stamps both at user interface levels and operating system kernel levels. This work was carried out in close collaboration with CUBIN as well as international research groups in INRIA (France) and Sprint. Highlights During 2005 there were a number of highlights in the NT Program involving demonstrations of novel schemes and new techniques and the development of software tools and impairment monitors. n A Single Impairment Monitor (OSNR monitor) was developed and the concept was demonstrated at the TechFest 2005. A lab prototype was developed and forms the basis of provisional patent. n A novel technique based on time delayed asynchronously sampled histograms and machine learning algorithms to simultaneous identification and monitoring of multiple impairments was developed. A provisional patent was applied for this multi impairment monitor, which has drawn significant industry attention and resulted in three publications at top-ranking conferences. n Software tools to facilitate active probing experiments and extensive inversion of the experimental traffic statistics were used to develop low bias estimators of network performance. n Alternative schemes for local area network emulation within the physical layer of passive optical network infrastructure were proposed and demonstrated. n Techniques for the protection and restoration of passive optical network infrastructure were demonstrated. n A technique based on a repeater at the splitter site of the passive optical network to facilitate feeder networks with much larger split ratios and cost effective customer premise equipments was developed. A provisional patent was granted and the work was demonstrated in the lab. 138 n Following the demonstration of novel schemes for supporting virtual private networks at the optical layer, the team received the best paper award at the Opto-Electronics and Communications Conference 2005 held in Seoul, Korea. n A number of technical papers were accepted for publication by the European Conference on Optical Communications and the Opto-Electronics and Communications Conference (OECC). NICTA’s novel access network research subsequently won the best paper award in Optical Networking at the OECC. Linkages The NT Program formed a number of important linkages with NICTA programs, national and overseas groups, and companies. These included: n NICTA programs: Sensor Networks’ 60 GHz Wireless Project team; Dr Adam Kowalczyk, Statistical Machine Learning Program; and Professor Peter Stuckey from Network Information Processing Program in Victoria n National groups: ARC Special Research Centre for Ultra Broadband Information Networks, Victoria; ARC Special Research Centre CUDOS, Sydney; Agilent Technologies Australia n Overseas groups: Ultra-fast Photonic Networks Group, National Institute of Information and Communications Technologies (NICT), Japan; Institute for InfoComm Research (I2R), Lightwave Division, Singapore; AT&T Research Labs, USA; Sprint Research, USA; France Telecom; Alcatel, France. Commercialisation Opportunities The program produced five provisional patents, and some are progressing to the international stage. The program is reviewing its intellectual property and focusing its research on building a significant, consolidated IP portfolio in two project areas. The discussions with Entrepreneur-in-Residence are progressing towards identifying markets and performing engineering requirement analysis for potential solutions or products under development. Outreach Activities Staff and students from the program visited a number of industry research laboratories during 2005 including Mintera Optiacla networks, Aegis Semiconductors, AT & T Laboratories, Nortel Networks, and Teknovus. Visits were also made to the Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore; UCLA, USA; and NICT, Japan. Dr Sarah Dods acts as convenor of the VRL Seminar Series on behalf of the laboratory. 139 ANNUAL REPORT 05 to the Australian Government Networks and Pervasive Computing Focus Interconnecting diverse information and communication technologies. Location ATP Leader Aruna Seneviratne Staffing ( 8.8 FTE) researchers (2.6 FTE) contributed Journal publications 11 27 Projects ATP OO5: Ambient Networks Conference papers Book or chapters 14 students 16 Technical reports _ ATP 007: Quality of Service Seeker ATP 009: Office in a Box ATP 012: Personal Universal Communicator ATP 015: XQoS System ATP 019: Macroprogramming STaR : STaR Communications CAN 027: Characterisation, Diagnosis, and Assurance of Health and Quality of Sensor Formations KEN 013: Formal Methods for Performance Evaluation for Wireless Network Applications Coursework Internet Protocols Advanced Networking Advanced Networks, Wireless Sensor Networks Aims To develop protocols that will provide new functionality and improved performance in the provision of services in pervasive computing environments. Research Questions The Networks and Pervasive Computing (NPC) Program attempts to address how to provide “best” communication to a highly mobile user population who have changing requirements. Specifically, it considers: n Mobility: mechanisms for providing seamless roaming between different network types n End-to-End Quality of Service: techniques for providing QoS guarantees in environments in which both the networks and end-device resources vary dynamically n Modelling: Modelling of dynamic computing and communication environments. 140 Significance and Socio-economic Benefits Radio communication technologies will continue to evolve, and different types of networks will be deployed more rapidly. Therefore the mobile user population will have access to a variety of networks which offer different quality of service. The technologies that are developed will enable network equipment manufacturers and service providers to provide enhanced services to their customers. Therefore, the output will be to provide new breakthroughs and will also have direct commercial relevance as these will be sought by both equipment manufactures and network service providers. The socio-economic benefits will stem from the commercialisation of some of the results, development of fundamental understanding, publications, and release of some of the developed tools for use by the wider community. The Quality of Service Seeker and Office in a Box projects are commercialising their outputs in the areas of providing end-to-end quality of service for VOIP applications and satellite systems. Personal Universal Communicator is working closely with an SME, Medcare Systems, to incorporate it in some of the Medcare Systems ambulatory monitoring systems, which are to be used in a field trial in NSW. The Macroprogramming, SWARMS, and FMPENA projects are developing fundamental technologies that will help with the modelling of dynamic computing and communications environments that have wide applications, such as bushfire monitoring. Ambient Networks and XQoS systems, which are both part of the European Union’s sixth framework project, are establishing linkages by releasing some their tools to the wider community in all the three areas. Progress The NPC Program made progress across all project areas, successfully demonstrating prototypes and attracting strong public interest. n The Ambient Networks Project successfully completed its first phase. The consortium was successful in its bid for EU funding for the second phase of the project. n The Quality of Service Seeker Project successfully demonstrated the technology with a prototype. A limited version of the prototype was very well received by the public. Discussions were held with potential commercial partners. n The Office in a Box Project demonstrated its technology to a number of external organisations. A plan for commercialisation was drawn up and the project was successful in getting funding to appoint a business development manager. A full business plan and commercialisation strategy was developed with the help of the business development manager. A successful submission was made for funds from NICTA’s commercial development fund. n The Personal Universal Communication (PUC) Project’s capability was demonstrated and development of a prototype that can be used with Medcare Systems’ ambulatory monitoring systems began. The demonstrator is scheduled to be complete in Q1, 2006. n The XQoS Project contributed significantly to the development of a methodology for specifying QoS requirements. A new platform called IREEL, which provides a virtual laboratory for the teaching of networking subjects, was developed and will be tested on a course offering in 2006 at UNSW or the University of Sydney. 141 ANNUAL REPORT 05 to the Australian Government n The Macroprogramming Project made steady progress by establishing a close working relationship with NICTA fellow, Professor George Milne, from Western Australia. n The STaR Communications Project established that it is possible to use wireless mesh networking for connecting traffic controllers to the traffic management centre. The viability of this approach was demonstrated to the RTA by developing an in–house, simple mesh network using off-the-shelf wireless routers and publicly available software. n Significant contributions were made to the SWARMS Project and, to a lesser extent, to the FMPENA Project. n The NPC Program completed the establishment of the mobile networking and sensor networks testbeds. Highlights Highlights during 2005 involved a collaboration with Ericsson Research, completion of testbeds, and a new appointment through academic recognition. n The QoS Seeker tool was released and Office in a Box was demonstrated to Xantic. n The sensor networks and mobile networking testbeds were completed. n A collaborative project was successfully negotiated with Ericsson Research for 2006. n Recruitment of a high-profile researcher as the leader of the NPC Program was completed. Linkages Throughout 2005, a number of important linkages were made with NICTA programs and local and international organisations, including: n Ericsson Research, Sweden n University of California, Davis, and University of Texas, Arlington n Medcare Systems to develop PUC n RTA as part of the STaR Communication work package n the SWARMS Project at DSTO n Xantic and Inmarsat to test Office in a Box Commercialisation Opportunities The Quality of Service Seeker Project held a successful demonstration of its prototype which was very well received. It resulted in discussions with a number of potential commercial partners and discussions on how to spin out this technology are continuing. The Office in a Box Project demonstrated its technology to a number of external organisations, resulting in strong interest. A commercialisation plan was drawn up and a business development manager was appointed. The project received funds from the NICTA commercial development fund. 142 PUC demonstrated its capability which led to the development of a prototype for use with Medcare Systems ambulatory monitoring systems. Outreach Activities During 2005, NPC outreach has focused on relationships that will enhance its ability to participate in major systems development. This includes: n discussions with Codha, an SA Startup company, about the use of its radio technology in the STaR communication system for the control of traffic lights n contributing to the successful bid of phase two of the Ambient Networks Project n working closely with ENSICA and LAARS (Toulouse, France) as part of the FAST Project on Internet Service Market Place n hosting a NICTA co-tutelle student at ENSICA for six months n placing an ENSICA student practicum at NICTA n sending two PhD students on internships, one at IBM, India, and one at Portland State University, USA n teaching two courses at UNSW n hosting three students from France and Germany. 143 ANNUAL REPORT 05 to the Australian Government Safeguarding Australia Focus Information and communications technology that generates national benefit in the emergency and disaster management sector. Location Queensland Leader Renato Iannella Staffing (7.2 FTE) researchers (6.2 FTE) contributed Journal publications _ 6 Projects QLD 002: Disaster Prediction, Response, and Recovery Conference papers Books or chapters students (4 FTE) _ Technical reports 1 QLD 001: Watermarking Medical Images QLD 007: Digital License Management Coursework Aim To carry out high-quality ICT research to protect government, industry, and the community from terrorism, crime (including cyber crime), invasive diseases, and pests; provide enabling technologies to increase the effectiveness of Australia’s defence and law enforcement agencies; and secure Australia’s critical infrastructure by making it more reliable. Research Questions The Safeguarding Australia (SGA) Program carries out research in a number of areas including: n smart sensor devices for improved detection of threats of natural and manmade disasters n information management for improved situational awareness and decision support n human factors for improved understanding of human behaviour and the human-computer interface n modelling of the emergency and disaster management domain for improved reasoning and resource planning n secure networks for improved access and the security of mobile teams n trusted systems for improved reliability of critical services n medical applications of watermarking technologies n enabling wider access to digital repositories with improved license information and protocols n sharing critical law enforcement data with improved interoperable technologies. Significance and Socio-economic Benefits The scientific significance of the SGA Program’s research centres on the key projects areas of: n information management and human integration n surveillance and recognition n secure and trusted information access and interaction. 144 Information management and integration focuses on the management of information and human behaviour in the domain of emergency systems and incident management. It includes modeling, representation, and integrating information and situations from multiple sources into a cohesive framework. The aim is to formally represent and effectively reason about real-world situations that involve over-constrained resources, risk factors, and real-time decision making. The research also investigates human behaviour during emergency prediction, response, and recovery, and human interactions and experiences with emergency systems and information. Surveillance and recognition considers the acquisition and understanding of the real-world environment through the meaningful integration of various types of sensor inputs. The focus is on smart reconfigurable hardware, embedded systems, algorithms for pattern recognition, and array processing for computer vision and audio signal processing. Secure and trusted information access and interaction addresses requirements for trusted computing bases to support reliable and secure management of response systems charged with the protection of critical data. Research is also undertaken into developing prototype structures for high assurance end-to-end secure emergency response information services within a critical infrastructure environment with an emphasis on the necessary network components, context management, and autonomic networks. This research also considers dynamic monitoring and reconfiguration of networks and methods to identify the disaster/attack impact zone based on monitoring and context information. The socio-economic benefits of SGA research is captured through the application of its basic research in applied research projects. The Disaster Prediction, Response, and Recovery Project is a significant project with far-reaching benefits to the community and the nation. The new improvements to ICT developed in this project will provide significant benefits to the disaster and emergency management sector by addressing key issues in effective video surveillance, information sharing across agencies and stakeholders, and mobile networks for first responders to emergency incidents. The Watermarking Medical Images Project will provide advances to the quality and reliability of medical image analysis, while the Digital License Management Project will help protect the distribution and sharing of content in national data repositories. Progress The SGA Program commenced half way through 2005. This was a major milestone for the Queensland Research Laboratory, as it included the establishment of the initial research program with its three university partners, the recruitment of quality staff from universities, and new full-time research staff. The Watermarking Medical Images Project and Digital License Management Project commenced in late 2005. Each project’s research agenda with its collaborative partners was established. Highlights Across the SGA program there were a number of major highlights in 2005, including joint projects with NICTA programs, presentations at international conferences, and membership and leading roles of important industry committees. n Conference papers were delivered at leading international conferences and workshops, including the Science, Engineering and Technology Summit – Safeguarding Australia Conference; Second International ODRL Workshop; and the International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming. 145 ANNUAL REPORT 05 to the Australian Government n Invited talks were given at a number of events, including the Second International ODRL Workshop; the First International Conference on Digital Rights Management: Technology, Issues, Challenges and Systems; the 12th Biennial Copyright Law and Practice Symposium; and the Open GeoSpatial Consortium Meeting. n Members of the SGA Program acted as program co-chair for the Australian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, general chair for the Second International ODRL Workshop, and program committee member for AAAI 2006. n SGA became a member of the OASIS Emergency Technical Committee standards consortia and received an invitation to join the Program Committee of the IEEE Conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics. n Joint projects began with the CSIRO e-Health Research Centre and QUT from DEST Funding. n SGA was invited to join journal review committees including the International Journal of Web Engineering Technologies. n Five PhD Students were awarded NICTA Scholarships, and five student summer scholarships were awarded. n A proposal for a new project with the National Institute of Forensic Science was submitted to the Queensland Government for Smart State Funding. Linkages The SGA formed strategic linkages with other NICTA programs, key government agencies, and industry bodies, including: n the KRR, LC, IMAGEN, ERTOS, ESE, NPC, and ASSeT programs n the Queensland Department of Emergency Services, Department of Premier and Cabinet, Queensland Police Services, and Information Queensland n the RESCUE group at the University of California, Irvine, and the CREATE group at the University of Southern California n the Science Engineering and Technology group of the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet and the Bureau of Meteorology n standards groups via OASIS and the Open Geospatial Consortium n industry groups including the Queensland eSecurity Cluster, Intergraph, and Boeing. Commercialisation Opportunities SGA research projects present several commercialisation opportunities. The Disaster Prediction, Response, and Recovery Project has attracted early interest from a large MNC for the application of its face detection algorithms in video surveillance. An industry report is under development to survey the commercial opportunities from these research activities. Outreach Activities The SGA Program has hosted a number of seminars with invited experts speaking on topics related to technologies for Safeguarding Australia. Staff made presentations to technical audiences and government officials on the research work and promoted linkages with the community. Several laboratory researchers are members of government and industry security associations and networks. 146 Sensor Networks Focus Sensor network technology for the management of water. Location Victoria Leader Stan Skafidas Staffing (10.5 FTE)researchers (2.5 FTE) contributed Journal publications 7 11 Projects VIC 001: Water Information Networks (WIN) Conference papers Books or chapters 12 students _ Technical reports _ Vsub1: Gigabit Wireless (GiFi) Coursework Sensor Networks Nonlinear Systems Aim To focus on both the fundamental and applied research needed to enable self-organising, survivable, low-cost wireless sensor and trusted wireless networks. Research Questions The Sensor Networks (SN) Program covers the broad areas of sensors and actuators, ad hoc networking, distributed intelligence, signal identification, optical and electronic monitoring, and optical and electronic signal processing. The program encompasses the potentially fruitful new research areas of micro-power ad hoc wireless networks, ultra-low-bandwidth distributed signal processing, distributed embedded systems, and mixed optical and electronic signal processing. The program is engaged in basic research aimed at determining the lowest possible data rates and power requirements in sensor networks. This fundamental research activity addresses the lowest data rates needed to achieve certain tasks, such as estimation and control, which are being carried out over wireless sensor network systems. On average, the energy consumed to transfer one bit of data via an IEEE 802 15.4 wireless system is around 1000 nJ, while the energy consumed to do one computer operation is several orders of magnitude smaller. The imperative to reduce power for wireless sensor networks means that the lowest possible data rate must be used. Reducing the data rate is crucial to reducing power and extending battery life of the wireless sensor network modules. In this work, information theoretic concepts such as topological entropy are used to determine the lowest possible data rates for various applications. This work supports both the WIN and NICTOR platform developments and will engage three PhD students and a researcher commitment of 1.5 FTE for three years. The SN Program has a small pilot project underway with the University of Melbourne Zoology Department. The project applies wireless sensor network technology to real-world environment monitoring and conservation problems. Accurate tracking of the movement of bats between their nesting boxes is being investigated as an initial application. 147 ANNUAL REPORT 05 to the Australian Government Significance and Socio-economic Benefits The development of the NICTOR platform is central to the program’s research agenda. NICTOR is a low-cost sensor network capable of signal processing and control computation. It is designed for harsh environments and has an unlimited communication range using secure and robust multi-hop mesh networking technology. The NICTOR platform will allow SN to test and deploy physical layer algorithms, media access control, and routing protocols in real systems. The program’s work also encompasses the development of middleware to facilitate the deployment of new applications. NICTOR will be deployed to service applications such as infrastructure monitoring, water information monitoring, and security. SN research is focused on the Water Information Networks (WIN) large-scale project. The NICTOR platform will be deployed for real-time management of water in a variety of demonstrators. The program is developing sensor network technology and has created a prototype system. A detailed report on the WIN Project is provided separately. The SN Program also plays a leading role in the Gigabit Wireless Project. Researchers are engaged in basic research aimed at determining the lowest possible data rates and power requirements in sensor networks, largely through the BATMON project. The use of smart water management systems will increase economic water efficiency in the dairy, horticulture, and viticulture industries. Smart irrigation systems have social and environmental benefits through the production of more from less of the valuable resource of water. This project will contribute to Australian agriculture and the Australian export economy. Progress The SN Program made significant progress on the NICTOR platform and is directing research results from its foundry runs towards the new IEEE 802.15.3c standard. n A Stage 1 prototype of the NICTOR platform was created. The prototype provides a demonstration of the platform’s desired functionality. n A ten-node NICTOR system is currently being tested. n Work progressed on algorithms and protocols for media access control and ad hoc network control and management. n A Zigbee sensor network stack was completed and tested, and the network topology and diagnostic application was completed. n Two foundry runs were completed with transistor and passives designs successfully operating at 60 GHz. n Four submissions were made to the IEEE mm-wavelength standards and the SN Program leader was appointed as an editor of the IEEE mm-wavelength standard. 148 Highlights In conjunction with the Melbourne Water Research Centre, the SN Program was successful in obtaining a $1.5 million Science and Technology grant from the Victorian Government. Other highlights include: n completion of the first NICTOR product prototype n successful demonstration of the NICTOR prototype to Victorian Government representatives n presentation at the plenary sessions at ISSNIP and the USCID Water Management conferences n appointment of an SN researcher as technical editor of the IEEE 802.15.3c standard n a number of submissions to the IEEE standards committee n filing of a provisional patent disclosure. Linkages The SN Program maintained a number of important linkages with NICTA programs and external organisations, including: n Wireless Signal Processing group n Network Technologies group n Berkeley Wireless Research Centre (USA) n NICT (Japan) n University of Massachusetts (USA) n Phillips Research (USA) n Peregrine Semiconductor (Australia) n Samsung Research (Korea) n Oki Research. Commercialisation Opportunities SN research on the NICTOR platform is being directed to the creation of a spin out company. Outreach Activities The SN Program was instrumental in establishing a Sensor Networks Forum in Victoria for those interested in the development and deployment of sensor networks. The program also helped set up the Second International Conference on Intelligent Sensors, Sensor Networks and Information Processing 5-8 December 2005 Melbourne, and contributed to the ANU winter school in July 2005. 149 ANNUAL REPORT 05 to the Australian Government Statistical Machine Learning Focus The development of technologies that can learn. Location Canberra Leader Alex Smola Staffing ( 8.5 FTE) researchers (0.5 FTE) contributed Journal publications 5 31 Projects CAN 003: Dynamic Planning, Optimisation & Learning Conference papers Books or chapters 6 students _ Technical reports 1 CAN 008: GymAware CAN 011: Document Analysis and Understanding CAN 012: Supercom CAN 016: Advanced Nonlinear Gradient Methods CAN 020: Mapping Genetic Components in Crops CAN 024: Cancer Genomics Coursework Topics in Machine Learning Convex Analysis Aim To build intelligent systems that adapt to user needs without needing a programmer to encode rules about how to act. Research Questions The Statistical Machine Learning (SML) Program directs its research in the areas of: n kernel methods n optimisation n bioinformatics n planning and reinforcement learning. Significance and Socio-economic Benefits Kernel methods and learning theory describe nonparametric estimators in reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces. They are used to solve the following array of estimation problems: n classification, e.g. for document categorisation n regression, e.g. to regress quantiles of portfolios n novelty detection, e.g. for the cleaning of databases n distribution testing, e.g. for independent component analysis, for the comparison between two distributions n annotation of structured objects. 150 Algorithm design requires good uniform convergence bounds that give statistical guarantees for the performance of the estimators, efficient algorithms to solve the arising optimisation problems, and good application skills to tune the research to practical problems. Most intelligent algorithms have an optimisation problem at their core. Fast stochastic gradient methods have the promise to dramatically improve optimisation times. This is a core driver of the research. Currently only the algorithmic part is well developed and we have experienced significant improvements in the performance of estimators when combined with stochastic meta descent. The theoretical part, on the other hand, is currently underdeveloped and this is an active point of research. Applications to tracking and other computational problems are underway and we hope that stochastic meta-descent will find its way in several other algorithms and estimation problems. The socio-economic benefits of this research lie largely in the application areas for novel statistical and data analysis techniques to problems in industry and science. In this sense, it is one of the quintessential disciplines in the From Data to Knowledge Priority Challenge, as it provides basic tools for data understanding and analysis. The work has applications for key areas such as military planning, intelligence, medical diagnosis, bioinformatics, and visual tracking. SML is producing commercially valuable intellectual property, as manifest in patent applications and the work on toolkits for machine learning. Progress A number of significant SML projects were approved internally and are moving closer to execution, including: n the Mapping Genetic Components in Crops Project, which is still being finalised with the external partner, Diversity Array Technology (a Canberra-based SME). This project will apply machine learning technology to the problem of breeding better agricultural crops n the Cancer Genomics project, which is closer to completion. The external contracts are being finalised with project partner the Peter MacCallum Cancer Institute in Melbourne n the Document Analysis and Understanding (DONAU) Project, which is a collaborative project with the Distillery (a Canberra-based SME). The project agreement was finalised in Q1 and executed in Q2. Highlights The SML Program had a number of important highlights in 2005, including collaborations with worldleading researchers and presentations at international conferences. n NICTA researchers are working together to build CREST, the next generation of machine learning toolkits. The team includes Doug Aberdeen, Olivier Buffet, Adam Kowalczyk, Conrad Sanderson, Alex Smola, Swaminathan Venkata Narayana Vishwanathan, and Bob Williamson, and is the largest team in the world working to solve this problem. n At this year’s Algorithmic Learning Theory (ALT) Conference, a highly competitive annual international conference with a well-documented impact on the field of machine learning, researchers co-authored four papers. n Jack Yu (SMLKA), Swaminathan Venkata Narayana Vishwanathan, and Alex Smola scored a close second place at the TRECVID video segmentation contest. 151 ANNUAL REPORT 05 to the Australian Government Linkages The application areas for the basic research within the SML Program are broad. To date these have resulted in formal collaborations in document analysis, cancer genomics, crop breeding analysis, and planning tools for defence. The SML Program established linkages with the ASSET and SEACS programs. It also works in connection with external agencies such as the Peter MacCallum Institute, Fraunhofer Institutes, Max Planck Institutes, Indian Institute of Science, Columbia University, and INSA, Rouen. Commercialisation Opportunities Research within the program has significant commercialisation potential with current emphasis on a prototype project management tool and user interface targeted at businesses. The tool would be marketed as a project management tool that focuses on “risk management”, “contingency planning”, and “decision support”, especially under uncertainty. Development of a large-scale open source project to develop CREST (tentative name), a Classification, Regression, Estimation, and Statistics Toolkit that will serve as a platform for the advanced machine learning code developed as part of the projects listed above. Care has been taken to design the project so that proprietary code can be developed on top of the open source component. There has been significant interest from European partners (Max-Planck Institute and Fraunhofer Institute). This collaboration will be facilitated by an existing EU 6th Framework project of which SML is part (called PASCAL). Other research is still at an early stage, but results suggest that there are marketable systems for professional sports training and text data mining. Outreach Activities SML researchers were involved in a number of outreach activities, including presentations at top machine learning conferences: n ICML Bonn n ALT Singapore n ECML Porto n IJCAI Edinburgh n AAAI Pittsburgh Dr Vishwanathan and Dr Smola organised three events for the internationally successful Machine Learning Summer School series, held in Canberra at the start of the year. 152 Symbolic Machine Learning and Knowledge Acquisition Focus Development of machine learning algorithms that allow machines to learn. Location Kensington Leader Peter Cheeseman Staffing (13.3 FTE) researchers (3.3 FTE) contributed Journal publications _ 18 Projects KEN 002: Learning & Representation Conference papers Book or chapters 24 students (7+ 17 database) 2 Technical reports _ KEN 003: Universal Storage Scheme KEN 008: Video Analysis & Content Management Coursework Robotic Software Architecture Multimedia Authoring An Introduction to Intelligent Agent Architectures Aim To design and implement a general purpose problem solving system that is able to solve problems presented to it and to continually build its knowledge over time, enabling it to understand an increasingly wide set of problems and the methods to solve them. The system should have the ability to reason about its own knowledge and processes, and thus address the problem of improving itself. The system is expected to learn from experience/sensory data, as well as by direct tutoring from humans. Research Questions The Symbolic Machine Learning and Knowledge Acquisition (SMLKA) Program is an ambitious program that aims to address problems related to knowledge representation and efficient inference using this knowledge. Knowledge includes not only knowledge about the world (what is), but also control knowledge (what to do and when to do it). For many domains, this generates deep questions about the knowledge of geometry, mathematics, time, uncertainty, etc., and how this knowledge is acquired, maintained, debugged, and used. SMLKA researchers are addressing these questions by designing and implementing a system called HAL that is being tested on an increasingly complex set of test problems. A related project, called L2, is addressing similar basic questions, with an emphasis on embedded systems that learn by interacting with their environment and discovering abstractions that are useful for further improvement in performance. The MMVC research group merged with SMLKA program in October 2004. This group aims to achieve semantic understanding and representation of video content to enable meaningful event detection, content search, and retrieval. The key fundamental challenge in this area is how to fill the gap of high semantic level understanding and low level feature extraction. 153 ANNUAL REPORT 05 to the Australian Government Significance and Socio-economic Benefits The main limitation in current use of computers is their general inability to understand what the user wants. Unfortunately, programmers cannot anticipate everything a user may want and so they produce programs or application packages of limited utility. It is obvious that if the research goals of the SMLKA program are even marginally successful, then the computer itself should continue to improve its performance based on increasingly accurate models of the users and the world. This will be a revolutionary step in human/computer interaction. Progress The SMLKA Program contributed to all four pillars of NICTA in 2005. n Jian Zhang, Zhenghua Yu, and Reji Mathew delivered the course COMP9519-Multimedia System at CSE/UNSW. n William Uther delivered the course COMP3431-Robotic Software Architecture at CSE/UNSW. n Twenty-six students were supervised, including PhD students and thesis/summer students from various universities (Sydney University, UNSW, UTS). n L2, a machine learning algorithm designed to learn through interaction with its environment, was created. L2 relies on a problem being decomposed into smaller, more manageable sub-problems that are solved and then recombined to provide a solution to the original intractable problem. n Several smaller test problems were successfully solved and the approach was applied to a racing car simulator, the UNSW solar car, and project LEAR scenarios. n Six conference papers were published at IEEE international conferences in the area of multimedia research. n Two Australian provisional patents were filed. n Video Analysis and Content Management for Surveillance (VACMS) project demos were presented at NICTA Techfest, ISAG/IBAG, and L5 building opening day. Highlights The SMLKA Program highlights during 2005 include the filing of provisional patents, publication in leading journals, a number of international awards, and appointment to editorial boards. n The RoboCup Team came third in Osaka in the RoboCup Competition. n Zhenghua Yu, Swaminathan Venkata Narayana Vishwanathan, and Alex Smola filed a provisional patents for “Shot Segmentation” in January 2005 and “Sequential data segmentation” in March 2005. n NICTA’s video segmentation algorithm (developed by Zhenghua Yu, Swaminathan Venkata Narayana Vishwanathan, and Alex Smola) was awarded second place for best overall performance among 21 international research labs at the TRECVID 2005 shot boundary detection competition. n Dr Jian Zhang was appointed Associate Editor for IEEE Transaction on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (CSTV), the number one IEEE journal in video technology research area, beginning in 2006. 154 n The Multimedia and Visual Communication (MMVC) group organised the NICTA Multimedia Signal Processing Workshop in November 2005. n One of our NICTA papers, Detecting Unattended Packages through Human Activity Recognition and Object Association, by Sijun Lu, Jian Zhang, and David Feng won the best paper award at the Asia-Pacific Visual Information Processing Workshop 2005 (VIP2005). n Prof. Thomas Sikora from Technical University of Berlin visited SMLKA as NICTA visiting fellow. Prof. Thomas Sikora is the chief-of-editor of IEEE Transaction on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology. n Prof. Paul Vitanyi visited the SMLKA/KRR research group and provided a series of lectures to NICTA and UNSW PhD students on Algorithmic Information Theory and its Applications. Prof. Paul Vitanyi is a CWI Fellow at the national CWI Research Institute in Amsterdam and professor of Computer Science at the University of Amsterdam. Linkages Relationships with other organisations or research groups were primarily through the projects that fall within the SMLKA program (LEAR, STaR, and VACMS projects). n Internal program linkages for the STaR project include Knowledge Representation and Reasoning, Systems Engineering and Complex Systems, and Statistical Machine Learning. n SMLKA is working with DSTO on the LEAR Project. n SMLKA researchers participated in several meetings this year to develop a joint understanding for the modelling and control of road traffic with our linkage partner for the STaR project - the NSW RTA. n The MMVC group collaborated with ASSeT, SML, ERTOS, and NICTA QLD node. Commercialisation Opportunities The SMLKA Program has a number of commercial opportunities resulting from its work on the STaR Project and VACMS Project. The LEAR project attracted a collaboration and potential future commercialisation opportunity with Epiphany Games Pty Ltd and Australian game developers in general. Zhenghua Yu’s video shot boundary detection algorithm was used for processing TV advertisements, while the L2 platform technology was flagged for potential future commercialisation. Outreach Activities In 2005, SMLKA participated in a number of outreach activities including Cebit, Techfest, taste of summer students scholarship, interviews with journalists, ISAG/IBAG, and organising the NICTA MSP workshop. 155 ANNUAL REPORT 05 to the Australian Government Systems Engineering and Complex Systems Focus Optimisation under a large number of constraints. Location Canberra Leader Knut Hüper Staffing (6.85 FTE) researchers (2.85 FTE) contributed Journal publications 21 33 Projects CAN 016: Advanced Nonlinear Gradient Methods Conference papers Book or chapters 15 students 1 Technical reports 3 CAN 018: Road Safety Driver Fatigue from Head Motion CAN 026: Computer Colonic Polyps Detection based on CT Colonography Coursework Advanced Course – H-two and H-infinity Optimal Control Advanced Course – Model Selection Supervised Literature Reading and Presentation in Systems Engineering and Complex Systems Advanced Course – Topics in Optimization Convex Analysis Aim To carry out high-quality research in the area of control and optimisation of engineering systems. Research Questions Systems Engineering and Complex Systems (SEACS) research is carried out across six key research areas: n Networks of Autonomous Vehicles, Emitters or Sensors: Characterisation and assurance of health and quality of agent formations and sensor networks. n Polyp Detection Based on Computer Tomography: Development of automatic and robust statistical methods for colon cancer detection to assist radiologists. n Detection of Driver’s Drowsiness: Development of metrics for detection of driver fatigue not relying on eye movements. n Quantitative Finance: Development of (filter based) pair-trading strategies and schemes for the estimation of credit ratings. n Tracking & Resource Allocation: New Gaussian mixture methods for tracking maneuvering objects/targets and robust reformulation and analysis of defensive resource allocation algorithms. n Geometric Optimisation: Development of optimisation algorithms under constraints. 156 The SEACS Program is carrying out this research across a range of projects including: n the Advanced Nonlinear Gradient methods (ANGIE) project (video hand tracking), jointly with the SML Program n the Driver Drowsiness Detection Project n the Computer Colonic Polyps Detection Project, which is based on the CT Colonography Project n the Control and Formation of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Project with DSTO, which was developed and almost formalised in 2005 n a project in quantitative finance and a project on target tracking are being prepared. Significance and Socio-economic Benefits SEACS research emphasises the development of fast reliable optimisation algorithms for engineering systems. The applications of this research are diverse, as systems engineering is a broad and rich interdisciplinary area. SEACS research includes medical imaging, video hand tracking, stochastic control applied to finance and defence problems, signal processing, and image registration. The approach is based primarily upon rigorous formulation, which is motivated by the need to obtain precise characterisation of critical measures demanded by industry partners, such as error bounds, convergence rates, scalability, complexity, and reliability. The socio-economic benefit of SEACS’ research comes from use-inspired research projects. Every SEACS project is in direct collaboration with Australian industries or research institutions, with the dual aims of delivering value to these industries and enhancing research to support Australian technologies. Progress SEACS moved quickly to establish a project portfolio during the first half of the year based on initial work carried out in 2004. SEACS researchers have developed a novel way of transporting traditional unconstrained optimisation algorithms to the much more complicated scenario where a large number of constraints is present, a situation that arises in most of the practically relevant engineering problems. The methodology applies to virtually all classical optimisation algorithms, including gradient descent and Newton-type algorithms. Several journal and conference papers were accepted and/or submitted and a book project was started. The new technique has already been successfully applied to numerous practical engineering problems arising in computer vision, computer graphics, robotics, spin dynamics in nuclear magnetic resonance experiments, and blind source separation in array signal processing. Highlights The SEACS Program has several outstanding researchers and world leaders in different aspects of control. More recently, SEACS accumulated additional expertise in geometric optimisation and stochastic control. SEACS members have further succeeded in promoting and pushing the ideas behind geometric optimisation and information geometry, which build the mathematical backbone of systems engineering and complex systems. 157 ANNUAL REPORT 05 to the Australian Government Again in 2005, in this area professional workshops and mini symposia were organised together with the participation at top level international conferences in control, signal processing, statistics, and applied mathematics. n SEACS staff were successful in presenting a special session, Advances in Geometric Optimization: Algorithms on Manifolds, at The Eighth SIAM Conference on Optimization, 15–19 May 2005, Stockholm, Sweden (http://www.siam.org/meetings/op05/index.htm). This is the most important conference on optimisation in the world, held only triannually. The session was very well accepted. n SEACS student Yueshi Shen held an internship for three weeks at the Institute of Systems and Robotics, Coimbra, Portugal. He won the best student paper prize at the IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics and Automation, Niagara. n Two invited talks related to geometric concepts in optimisation and control were presented at the Foundations of Computational Mathematics conference, Universidad de Cantabria, Santander, Spain (http://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/user/na/FoCM/FoCM05/). n The program continued its strong contribution to the education activities within NICTA. SEACS staff supervised 14 NICTA-endorsed PhD students, co-supervised three NICTA-endorsed PhD students, and co-supervised two overseas PhD students from Germany and Portugal. n A number of submissions were accepted in peer-reviewed publications and at top international conferences. n Brian Anderson and Alexander Lanzon won an ARC discovery project grant of $336,000 for a period of three years, commencing in 2006. n John Moore lodged a provisional patent with AT&T on geometric optimisation algorithms for image registration. n Pei Yean was the first NICTA endorsed student to graduate. She was then hired by the ASSeT Program, successfully competing against several international applicants. Linkages SEACS developed collaborative links with other programs based on its theoretic and mathematical strengths. Its work in geometric optimisation developed in several different application areas, including computer vision, robotics, signal processing, and machine learning. As a result, SEACS staff contributed to the ANGIE Project, SML Program, SISM Project, and ASSET Program. In due course, SEACS researchers will work on the LAMP Project, run by the WSP Program. In addition: n Abd-Krim Seghouane attended the RIKEN Brain Science Institute Mathematical Neuroscience Laboratory for two months n Jochen Trumpf gave an invited colloquium at the MSI/ANU, Canberra, in April 2005 n SEACS hosted two international visitors for several weeks: Prof Fatima Silva Leite, Institute of Systems and Robotics, Combra, Portugal, and Prof Paul Van Dooren, Mathematical Engineering, Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium. 158 Commercialisation Opportunities The SEACS Program’s projects Polyp Detection Based on CT and Detection of Driver’s Drowsiness are joint projects with local SMEs. One objective of the first project is the development of a software package to assist radiologists in detecting polyps in an automatic fashion. The aim of the second project is to develop a robust system to detect and track the fatigue of a truck driver. Outreach Activities The program hosted and organised several international workshops and conferences during 2005. Dr Paul Malcolm was the principal organiser of the international conference Stochastic Calculus and its Applications to Quantitative Finance and Electrical Engineering. This conference was held at the Haskayne School of Business, University of Calgary, 24-27 July 2005. The core subject of this event was taken from the rich intersection of electrical engineering and modern quantitative finance. Several areas of relevance to Australian industries in finance were identified at this meeting and subsequently discussed with potential industry partners. A drafted NICTA project with an Australian bank is currently under development, following interest expressed in this work. The workshop Geometric Methods for Interpolation and Problems in Statistics was a one-day international workshop held in Canberra. Recent results and trends in the application of geometric concepts to interpolation and problems in statistics were presented. Applications include curve fitting, interpolation and machine learning on manifolds, and path planning for a robot arm. The workshop reflected ongoing and prospective collaboration between SEACS and RSISE/FEIT at the ANU; the Institute of Systems and Robotics (ISR), Coimbra, Portugal; and the School of Mathematics and Statistics, The University of Western Australia. A follow-up special session, Geometry and Engineering Applications, was organised at the 49th Annual Meeting of the Australian Mathematical Society. 159 ANNUAL REPORT 05 to the Australian Government Wireless Signal Processing Focus New theory and advanced tools for understanding and utilising physical layer wireless communications. Location Canberra Leader Rod Kennedy (until November), Thushara Abhayapala (from November) Staffing 12 researchers ( FTE) 3 contributed ( FTE) Journal publications 6 46 Projects CAN 001: Fundamental Limits of Wireless Conference papers Books or chapters 21 students (15 Canberra +, 6 NSW) 2 Technical reports 21 CAN 005: Enhancement of Surround Sound Technology (now finished) CAN 006: Ultra Wideband (now terminated) CAN 007: Last Metre Problem CAN 009: High Performance Multi User Detection (MUD) Algorithm CAN 023: Innovative Catalyst VIC OO5: Broadband to the User (B2U) Coursework Error Control Coding Overview of Wireless Communications Advanced Course – Continuous Wireless Communications Advanced Course – Adaptive Wireless Communications Aim To supply high-rate digital data to small mobile terminals at low cost and with longer battery life. Research Questions Wireless Signal Processing (WSP) research is focused on three key areas: Space-time Signal Processing Theory, Human Centric Wireless, and Implementation Redesign. Space-time Signal Processing Theory is an area which retains considerable scope for theoretical advances such as understanding the fundamental limits on spatial location and the rate of information transfer between regions of space. Knowing where objects and people are located, how well we can pinpoint their location, and developing technologies to achieve the best performance given engineering constraints are likely to be hugely important areas. The Fundamental Limits of Wireless (FLoW) Project aims to increase understanding of the constraints imposed on wireless communications. Human Centric Wireless research involves taking the past implicit connection between wireless technology and people to the next level. The challenge is finding ways to bring information to people without affecting or influencing people’s behaviour. This means we need to connect wirelessly to people, even when those people are in environments which make functioning very difficult, such as hazardous environments, noisy environments, industrial environments, or military, office, and home environments. Ultimately technology needs to accommodate the demands and expectations of people, 160 not the other way around. Because the source and sink of information is a human, this research should embrace human perceptual issues. The LaMP (WATRI) Project is the lead project addressing this research. It is organised into three areas: Multichannel Speech Extraction for Hands-free Applications in Noisy Environments, Multi-channel Robust Speech Recognition, and Statistical Voice Quality Control. Implementation Redesign attempts to resolve the issues around algorithms design; algorithms developed in research never resemble their original form when implemented. Algorithms need to be severely compromised to meet hardware targets of power consumption, size, cost, and speed. This is particularly true of wireless because devices need to be worn or carried, run on batteries, and cheap enough to be affordable to consumers and manufacturers. Typically the design is pared down using approximations and processing involving architectural redesign, streamlining, limited precision arithmetic, resampling, iterative methods, etc. With such paring down, the design changes significantly and new research challenges arise. Significance and Socio-economic Benefits The long-term goal of the WSP Program is to develop new theory and advanced tools directed at physical layer wireless communications, which will provide high-rate digital data to small mobile terminals at low cost and long battery life. The contribution of communications technologies to the national economy has been widely recognised. Three research areas contribute to the knowledge base and fundamental capabilities in high-speed wireless communications, provide education to future Australian academic and industrial innovators, and generate valuable IP for commercial advantage. Progress The progress in each of the three main thrusts of investigation over 2005 was: Space-time Signal Processing Theory n Theoretical advances were made in the areas of wireless fading channel modelling, information theoretic limits of such channels, and novel space time coding schemes. This work was published in international journals and conferences. Human Centric Wireless n Outstanding new appointments were made in Perth, including Siow Yong Low (now within LaMP), who had 20 publications as a PhD student and is now recognised as an expert in blind acoustic multi-microphone speech separation (dealing with reverberation, echo, noise, speech activity, multi-channel, processing using real data for industry, etc). n Heidi-Hai Huyen Dam, an expert in perceptual metrics in communications, was employed at WATRI. n An emergency radio industrial application was tested at the BP Refinery in Kwinana, WA, under the Multi-channel Speech Extraction for Hands-free Applications in Noisy Environments subproject title. This is a developing joint project. n Researchers collected multi-microphone live recordings of fully suited rescue worker in hostile environment at Kwinana, WA, in October 2005. This data is being processed and new algorithms are being developed for this application. n A subproject with the Australian Institute of Sport is being partially resourced from LaMP Project. Air-water communication system design, measurements, and testing were carried out at the AIS. 161 ANNUAL REPORT 05 to the Australian Government Implementation Redesign n The Multi User Detection (MUD) Project completed an internal review of the work on 3G real-time transmission validation by successfully sending real-time signals. This project is moving towards 4G/WiMax to align market forces and needs, and a patent disclosure application on interference cancellation was submitted. n Researchers proposed and submitted two patent disclosures: a single LO in Frequency hopping and Synthesizer and a lower complexity Solution for High speed ADC, which enables the design of low complexity and low cost UWB communication systems. n The MUD Project was instrumental in signing NDA/MoU with NEC Australia to initiate cooperation in December 2005. n Leading UWB researcher Andrew (Jian) Zhang and his student submitted three patent disclosures on Ultra Wide Band (UWB) technology, which provide low complexity and low cost transceivers. Agere Australia has shown interest in Zhang’s intellectual property. n The Gi-Fi Project team completed base band specifications to meet the targeted 2 Gbps data rate and started designing the entire physical layer and MAC layer modifications. n The Gi-Fi team made a significant contribution to the IEEE 802.15.3c standard committee with eight technical submissions, and lead roles in channel modelling, technical specifications, and usage model documentation. Highlights Across the WSP Program there were a number of major highlights in 2005. n WSP researchers organised and conducted the Wireless Winter School (WWS) in July 2005. Several of the student participants demonstrated their research at the WWS poster session and this encouraged networking and collaboration between students. Siew-Lee Hew, University of Adelaide, won the student poster prize, which was a funded trip to Canberra to work with WSP researchers. n WSP researchers published more than 50 articles during 2005 in major international conferences and leading journals. n Individual researchers were recognised by the local and international community: o Dr Mark Reed was appointed associate editor of IEEE Transactions of Vehicular Technology o Professor Kennedy became an IEEE Fellow o Dr Abhayapala was promoted to Level D (Associate Professor) by the ANU o Associate Professor Abhayapala became a member of the editorial board of EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking (EURASIP JWCN) o Professor Kennedy was the general co-chair of the premier Information Theory Symposium (2005 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory – ISIT2006) o Dr Mark Reed became a Senior Member of IEEE o Dr Leif Hanlen and A/Prof. Abhayapala were co-publication chairs of the 2005 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory n Eighteen PhD students were supervised by the program. n Three patent disclosures were submitted. 162 Linkages WSP invested heavily in supporting the development of a national network of researchers in wireless communications. The Australian Communicatons Research Network is supported by the ARC and is a focus for sustaining research effort in wireless communications. The inaugural NICTA-Acorn Wireless Winter School (WWS; 11–15 July 2005) was an open and informal week for students and researchers with an interest in communications and signal processing. It was co-chaired by WSP Program researchers Mark Reed and Leif Hanlen. The WWS presented core topics for modern communication systems and future research directions in the form of tutorials (half and full day) and invited talks, providing a broad range of related topics to inspire, motivate, and enlighten those present. The school was sponsored by the National Institute for Engineering and Information Science, NICTA, and the Research School of Information Science and Engineering. There were a number of additional linkages to NICTA laboratories and programs, and international researchers: n The LaMP project provides links to the WA laboratory. n The FLoW project links to SA. n The Gi-Fi Project provides a link to the VRL and SN Program. n WSP researchers were involved in organising the annual Australian Communication Theory Workshop (AusCTW). AusCTW is an IEEE technically sponsored premier physical layer communication theory conference in Australia which attracts around 110 academics and students from all around Australia. n WATRI/LaMP Project researchers hosted the Asia-Pacific Conference on Communication (APCC) which was held in Perth 3-5 October. Commercialisation Opportunities WSP targets commercialisation through the MUD, LaMP, and Gi-Fi projects. Dr Mark Reed is continuing discussions with NEC to bring them onboard as a partner/reference customer for the MUD Project. The MUD Project was one of the motivating forces for NDA/MoU with NEC, which signed in mid-December. Dr Andrew Zhang submitted two key patent disclosures in the UWB area, which can reduce cost and complexity of UWB communication systems. Agere has shown interest in these technologies and negotiations are continuing. The Gi-Fi Project team prepared a standard proposal for submission to the standard committee. Outreach Activities The WSP Program was engaged in a number of outreach activities throughout 2005. The number of invited talks at conferences and other institutions continued to be high and researchers worked to establish the Australian Communications Research Networks and a Wireless Winter School was conducted for the first time in July. Both are aimed at expanding opportunities for communications research in Australia. 163 ANNUAL REPORT 05 to the Australian Government PROJECT PORTFOLIO NICTA’s project portfolio currently stands at 55 projects, far exceeding the target of 35 projects by 2005 and 50 projects by 2007. The AAP 2005 set an expectation that NICTA would commence twelve projects during 2005 on its way to a portfolio of 50 projects by 2007. This milestone objective has certainly been met. Our project portfolio now spans all areas of NICTA’s ICT research. Every program is involved in several projects. The nature of these projects varies significantly. Some examples are: n Priority Challenge Strategic Projects with significant resourcing and professional project managers, e.g. STaR, WIN n High-risk internal collaborations inside NICTA that have a high potential payoff, e.g. L4.Verified, ANGD n Collaborative projects with other Australian research organisations, e.g. LEAR, DPOLP, NASQ (with DSTO), CG (with Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre) n Projects with SMEs, e.g. DAU, Gymaware, RSDDD n Projects in the process of spin-out, e.g. Office in a Box, Dante n Projects in the process of being reworked for better alignment with commercial prospects n Projects that have been consolidated into others, e.g. Propositional Satisfiability is being developed as part of the Constraints Programming Platform. About Projects NICTA’s research projects are focused research activities with a leader, budget, timeline, and deliverables. They are of short duration, typically spanning one to three years, but can extend to five. An internal funding arrangement reserves approximately half of NICTA’s overall research budget for project-based research. This is available for projects that are aligned with NICTA’s Priority Challenges or include external organisations. Project Management Processes In 2005 the management processes associated with research projects were further refined. These processes are assessed by the project subcommittee of the Research Management Coordination Committee (RMCC). Our aim was to have approximately 50 per cent of our research effort fall within formal research projects by the end of 2005. We have reached this target. During 2005 internal competition for funding increased. This trend is likely to continue as the amount of Commonwealth funding we receive plateaus. New project proposals are subject to a formal assessment process by the RMCC. The acceptance of projects is based on a detailed set of project criteria to support informed decision making and risk management. Project proposals must satisfy assessment criteria in the areas of: n proposed partners n alignment with Priority Challenges 164 n scientific challenges n suitability for research training n proposed outcomes (deliverables) n funding justification n timeline (including initial milestones) n proposed IP arrangements n proposed budget. All projects are required to have a client or client surrogate (who may be part of the project team) who monitors whether the proposed deliverables are being met. Project Outcomes At 31 December 2005, NICTA had 55 active projects and five completed projects. Many projects involve collaborations with external entities, including private companies, public sector organisations, and end-user organisations. These entities look beyond incremental development and take a long-term view of research as an inherently risky activity. COMPLETED PROJECTS Project Project Leader Lab Scheduled Completion Date Actual Completion Date NSWG June Verner ATP Sep 2005 Sep 2005 SPC Barbara Kitchenham ATP Jul 2005 Sep 2005 CMMi Mark Staples ATP May 2005 Sep 2005 GNSS Frank Engel Kens July 2005 Oct 2005 L4 Kernel Verification Pilot Gerwin Klein Kens Apr 2005 Apr 2005 Projects are a powerful mechanism for integrating research programs. The level of inter-program integration has been acceptable overall and has increased over time. Three programs – ERTOS, FM, and LC – were active collaborators in the L4 Verification Pilot Project and have extended this collaboration into a full project in 2005. ERTOS is also participating in developing a demonstrator for the Multi-User Detection Algorithm with NICTA’s WSP Program. The Component Architectures for the Microkernel-Based Embedded Systems Project was developed with the ESE Program. The IMAGEN and LC programs collaborate on the Humans Understanding Logic and Computation Project. A smart wallpaper visualisation was created at ANU that shows the progress of logic and computation algorithms. IMAGEN is still assessing opportunities for taking advantage of the data 165 ANNUAL REPORT 05 to the Australian Government mining expertise in some Canberra-based programs. KRR and SML are jointly undertaking work in the Dynamic Planning, Optimisation, and Learning Project (DPOLP). IMAGEN, SEACS, ASSeT, and SML are all undertaking work under the Advanced Nonlinear Gradient Methods Project. The SML Program’s work on developing ways to extract information from structured data and graphical models is likely to bring the program into closer contact with NICTA’s more logic-based programs. SML is also in discussions with the ASSeT Program on joint work and joint project proposals with SEACS are also being developed. The WSP Program has multiple linkages through its project-based research. It is linked to ERTOS and an industrial partner on the Multi-User Detection Algorithms Project. It has established a close cooperative relationship with the Melbourne-based SN Program. A close collaboration exists with the Kensington-based WSP researchers, including joint supervision of three students. The G12 Constraints Programming Platform has established strong collaborative links with the NIP, LC, and KRR programs. The two large-scale projects, STaR and WIN, have also played a significant role in cross-program collaboration. During 2005 five projects were terminated. n The Nightingale Project was terminated April. n The one-year ESST Project concluded in March. n The URP Project closed early because it did not seem likely it would be able to deliver the promised commercial impact. n The UWB Project concluded in June and was redefined. n The SAT Project merged with the Constraint Programming Platform. Details of all projects are provided in the remainder of this research report. 166 ATP 002 Visualisation and Interaction Collaborative Access Table Topic: Existing technology systems fall short in the area of sophisticated interaction between humans and computers. Aim: To enhance collaborative problem solving by improving human interaction with digital information. Effort: Employs 3.9 FTE (researchers) per annum. Duration: Three years. Project Leader: Julien Epps. Participants: n IMAGEN Program, DSTO, University of South Australia, Sydney VisLAB, CSIRO, NICTA Queensland. Key Points: n A key research infrastructure project for future human computer interaction n The project has the potential to significantly improve and possibly change the nature of how remote individuals interact with data and each other n The project can accommodate up to five PhD students. Progress: n Project commenced in September 2004 n Workshop held in April 2004 to design the project hardware to a detailed set of specifications n A second workshop to plan and commence applications development was completed following formal commencement of the project. 2005: n An initial suite of applications has been developed and demonstrated. Milestones: Date Milestone 06/04 Develop an access grid-enabled, workbench-style display table 12/04 Investigate and develop a low-level event communication protocol Develop two domain-specific applications Investigate and develop an interaction model/framework 06/05 Conduct first human evaluations/usability tests 12/05 Develop domain-specific applications Conduct further human evaluations/usability tests 06/06 Redesign the CAT based on evaluations Build new versions of the CAT 12/06 Develop guidelines for the use of CATs 167 ANNUAL REPORT 05 to the Australian Government ATP 003 Practical Software Process Control Topic: Statistical Process Control is a technique for managing the development processes of software development organisations. Aim: To establish a more informative way of analysing and presenting SPC data and to extend traditional techniques for improving development processes. Effort: Employs 1.1 FTE (researchers) per annum. Duration: One year. Project Leader: Barbara Kitchenham. Participants: n ESE Program, global software firm. Key Points: n The project will draw on the process control data of a global ICT firm to investigate other techniques and study the use of non-parametric control charts and how these can be used to improve software processes n The project will provide a better understanding of the use of process control in developing complex, high-value software. Progress: n Project commenced in July 2004 n Project completed and reviewed in December 2005 n Report on results is currently with the client n Results have been presented at industry briefings as part of the NICTA software engineering network. Milestones: 168 Date Milestone 09/04 Complete literature review 10/04 Write critique of current methods 11/04 Complete analysis plan 06/05 Complete guideline document 07/05 Deliver industry seminar ATP 004 Risk Analysis for Government IT Projects Topic: Government software procurement projects are often large-scale and complex and carry a high level of risk. Aim: To study why some projects succeed and others fail and produce guidelines for identifying and predicting the impact of software project risks. Effort: Employs 1.3 FTE (researchers) per annum. Duration: One year. Project Leader: Dr June Verner. Participants: n ESE Program, government IT agency. Key Points: n Project knowledge will be made available to Australian industries n The project may look at developing an automated tool which can highlight severe risk factors to help organisations predict which projects are in jeopardy in time to take corrective action. Progress: n Project commenced in September 2004 n NICTA is currently developing a project agreement with a partner agency n Dr June Verner scheduled interviews with government stakeholders for approximately twelve months from September 2004. All interviews completed and carried out n Initial data analysis on the risk factors for software development completed. 2005: n Draft report provided to client n Seminar for client is in preparation n Project completed and reviewed in December 2005 n Report on results is currently with the client n Results have been presented at industry briefings as part of the NICTA software engineering network. Milestones: Date Milestone 09/04 Complete literature review 01/05 Complete structured list of stakeholder questions 04/05 Complete interviews for case study 1 05/05 Complete technical report of case study 1 07/05 Complete all project interviews 08/05 Develop project scorecard Begin monitoring current project 09/05 Deliver industry seminar Complete project monitoring Revise monitoring document 169 ANNUAL REPORT 05 to the Australian Government ATP 005 Ambient Networks Topic: Ambient Networks is a global effort to create infrastructure to drive standardisation and remove the technical barriers that separate different wireless technologies. Aim: To create network solutions for mobile and wireless systems beyond third-generation mobile communications (3G). Effort: Employs 0.3 FTE (researchers) per annum. Duration: Three years. Project Leader: Roksana Boreli. Participants: n NPC Program, Ericsson, NTT DoCoMo, Siemens, other consortia members. Key Points: n Project will facilitate the incremental introduction of new services to the market and stimulate sustainable growth in the international mobile communications sector n International collaboration with global significance n NICTA contribution covers two significant work packages: o WP4 Mobility and Moving Networks o WP4 Smart Multimedia Routing and Transport o Research topics provided for two PhD students. Progress: n Project commenced in March 2004 n An internal project report discussing the scope and requirements of the work package prepared for the European Commission n Work presented at the International Workshop on Wireless Ad Hoc Networks, May–June 2004 n NICTA is leading international research into multimedia routing decision logic n Reports detailing the current state of the art completed along with descriptions of scenarios investigated and high-level system architecture. 2005: n Prototype implementation which demonstrates handovers completed, with papers published describing the handover n A second stage to the current project has been developed and accepted by the European partners n Phase 2 work packages currently under negotiation. 170 Milestones: Date Milestone 06/04 Complete consolidated scenarios and requirements (WP4 M-4-1) 06/05 Complete concepts and architecture (WP4 M-4-2) 09/05 Complete early prototype and simulations (WP4 M-4-3) 12/04 Draft Smart Multimedia Routing and Transport architecture (WP5 M1) 06/05 Make decision on Phase 2 (WP5 M2) 09/05 Complete multimedia routing proof-of-concept testbed (WP5 M3) 12/05 Complete Smart Multimedia Routing and Transport architecture (WP5 M4) ATP 006 Modelling Theory for Sensor Networks within Dynamic Landscapes Topic: Future wireless networks could be described as ad hoc because they will be characterised by mobility, changing structures, and direct interaction with the landscape. Aim: To apply new theories to develop models that can design, analyse, and deploy systems, creating a sensor network that can monitor phenomena as volatile as the spread of a bushfire. Effort: Project closed and reopened as ATP 019 Macro-Programming for Wireless Sensor Networks. Duration: Two years. Project Leaders: Aruna Seneviratne, Athanassios Boulis. Participants: n NPC Program, University of Western Australia, Fire and Emergency Services Authority of WA (FESA), the Western Australian Department of Conservation and Land Management. Key Points: n Development of innovative theoretical work in modelling n Application of sensor technology to bushfire monitoring and control n The project supports a NICTA fellowship for Professor George J Milne, School of Computer Science and Software Engineering, University of Western Australia. Progress: n Project commenced in August 2005 n Planning workshop conducted in March 2004 n Project plan and contract finalised. 171 ANNUAL REPORT 05 to the Australian Government Milestones: Date Milestone 04/04 Conduct workshop in Sydney to refine project In progress Develop terms sheet and final contractual arrangements 08/05 Develop a new process calculus for capturing the dynamic nature of wireless connectivity and location/locality within the landscape, building on the mathematical modelling developed at UWA and NICTA’s ad hoc network expertise 11/05 Develop an analytical and descriptive environment which can simulate and prove system properties, including timing, building on the Circal system 03/06 Embed experimental ad hoc sensor network expertise into appropriate models of sensor network systems To be scheduled in negotiation with FESA Develop an experimental scenario for sensing bushfires, constructed by NICTA, to explore the functionality, distribution, and connectivity features of a prototype sensor network Use this application to validate the modelling and design technology ATP 007 Quality of Service Mapping for Pervasive Networks Topic: Mobile phone users often have to walk around a wireless space trying to establish a communication link and find acceptable quality of service (QoS). Aim: To improve wireless network service quality and support a future environment where personal area networks can run multiple devices and applications. Effort: Employs 2.6 FTE (researchers) per annum. Duration: 18 months. Project Leader: Robert Malaney. Participant: n NPC Program. Key Points: n A QoS map is communicated to the user’s device as they approach a new space to enable embedded software to determine if the required service is available. Prototype details were released in October through the NICTA website: http://nicta.com.au/director/research/projects/ qos_seeker.cfm. Progress: n Project commenced in June 2004 n Provisional patent lodged in August 2004 to protect the system n White paper detailing the system released in October 2004 n Version for VoIP on Pocket PC prototyped in November 2004 172 n Conference paper submitted, ‘Seeking VoIP in Physical Space’, Robert A. Malaney, E. Exposito, X Wei and D. Nghia, December 2004 n Conference paper submitted, ‘Predicting Location Dependent QoS for Wireless Networks’, Robert A. Malaney, E. Exposito, X Wei and D. Nghia, December 2004 n Freeware version of QoS Seeker developed for general download (single user version). 2005: n Proof of concept completed n A standalone version of the QoS Seeker client demonstrator was released online. This generated considerable interest with more than 1,500 downloads in the first week n A new beta version of the QoS Scanner software released in Q2 was downloaded more than 10,000 times within the first two weeks n Using QoS maps available from a commercial Wi-Max system, a tool was developed which made the QoS map available to travellers in the Sydney area. Milestones: Date Milestone 05/04 Submit internal project report on current status indicating the results of preliminary experiments 05/04 Submit first provisional patent to protect the system 07/04 Develop and test the provisional prototype 09/04 Create scientific publications and additional patents to protect the system 12/04 Develop a working prototype which clearly indicates its technical advantages over a null system 01/05 Review progress and evaluate future technical and commercial directions Project has now moved to the commercialisation phase 173 ANNUAL REPORT 05 to the Australian Government ATP 008 Impact of CMMI Software Process Improvement on SMEs Topic: Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) is a software development framework. Aim: To study SMEs undergoing Software Engineering Australia’s (SEA) SoftwareMark™ program and provide evidence of whether or not they can benefit from process improvement. Effort: Employs 1.3 FTE (researchers) per annum. Duration: One year. Project Leader: Mark Staples. Participants: n ESE Program, Software Engineering Australia, SMEs. Key Points: n Investigation into the impact of CMMI on SMEs n The project should give SMEs the confidence to commit to a process improvement program and provide the tools to monitor their progress against expectations. Progress: n Project commenced in May 2004 n Interviews of Australian SMEs trialling the system complete n Data collection complete n Results written up as a series of case studies n Project completed and reviewed in December 2005 n Results have been presented at industry briefings as part of the NICTA software engineering network. Milestones: 174 Date Milestone 05/04 Complete experimental design and collateral 10/04 Submit internal interim report on appraisal studies 03/05 Submit internal interim report on six-month studies 04/05 Submit research paper(s) 05/05 Finalise research paper(s) and publish results ATP 009 Integrated ICT Solutions for Rural and Remote Access (Office in a Box) Topic: Portable satellite communications systems are becoming a more acceptable means of providing voice and data connectivity as the bandwidths available increase. Aim: To develop integrated hardware and software for a complete secure voice and data communications system serving rural and remote users. Effort: Employs 3.5 FTE (researchers) per annum. Duration: Two-and-a-half years. Project Leader: Roksana Borelli. Participants: n NPC Program, satellite service provider. Key Points: n Significant rural and remote communications infrastructure project n The project will support a demonstrator for satellite communications to SMEs and xDSL for SOHO and SMEs Progress: n Project commenced in July 2004 n A demonstrator system with voice and data functionality, and a graphical user interface finalised n Commercial partner engaged for further development of the system and potential development of a commercial service n Initial evaluation of commercialisation potential commenced 2005: n The project was successfully demonstrated to a commercial partner n Agreement gained from Inmarsat to carry out testing of the system using one of the live satellite systems n Project has now moved to the commercialisation phase Milestones: Date Milestone PHASE 1: OFFICE IN A BOX (OIB) FOR SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS FUNCTIONALITY 07/04 Create functional specification 09/04 Develop system architecture 12/04 Create OiB demonstration service 02/05 Review Phase 1 PHASE 2: DEVELOPMENT OF ADVANCED SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS FUNCTIONALITY Ongoing Ongoing 11/05 Ongoing 02/06 Conduct research into efficient secure communications Conduct research into multicasting for Inmarsat communications Advanced OiB demonstration service Explore commercialisation opportunities for OiB for transportable and mobile satellite communications Review Phase 2 175 ANNUAL REPORT 05 to the Australian Government ATP 010 Visualisation and Analysis of Large and Complex Networks Topic: Visualisation can amplify understanding and create new insights into large and complex networks such as biological networks or social networks. Aim: To design, implement, and evaluate a new, integrated framework of graph drawing algorithms in 2D and 3D for visualisation of large, complex networks. Effort: Employs 4.75 FTE (researchers) per annum. Duration: Three years. Project Leader: Peter Eades. Participant: n IMAGEN Program. Key Points: n Develop techniques that create visualisations of networks that contain millions of nodes n Provide navigation methods for effective and efficient navigation of large data sets n Integrate visualisation with analytical methods and tools for data mining n Extend to visualisation support for 3D Progress: n Project commenced in July 2004 2005: n Architecture development of the software tool visualisation – Geometry for Maximum Insight (GEOMI) n New visualisation metaphors developed n Two provisional patents submitted Milestones: Date Milestone 12/04 Design, implement, and evaluate methods for visualisation and analysis of large and complex scale-free networks Release geometry for Maximum Insight (GEOMI) visual analytic tool version 1 06/05 Design, implement, and evaluate methods for visualisation of directed graphs Design, implement, and evaluate methods for visual comparison of large and complex networks 12/05 Design, implement, and evaluate methods for visualisation and analysis of large and complex clustered graphs Design, implement, and evaluate methods for visualisation and analysis of large and complex biological networks Design and implement methods for visualisation and analysis of large and complex social networks Release GEOMI visual analytic tool version 2 176 Date Milestone 12/06 Design, implement, and evaluate methods for visualisation and analysis of transportation networks Design, implement, and evaluate methods for visualisation and analysis of wireless sensor networks Design, implement, and evaluate methods for visualisation and analysis of timeseries networks Release GEOMI visual analytic tool version 3 06/07 Design, implement, and evaluate methods for visualisation and analysis of dynamic networks Release GEOMI visual analytic tool version 4 ATP 011 Perceptually Effective Multimodal Interfaces Topic: Research into advanced human-machine interfaces with a user-centred design for improving operator efficiency of traffic control systems. Aim: To develop multimodal interface technologies for Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) that will enhance human-machine interactions. Effort: Project now closed. Duration: Two years. Project Leader: Fang Chen. Participants: n IMAGEN Program, Roads and Traffic Authority (RTA) NSW. Key Points: n Establish a long-term partnership where outstanding research outcomes will benefit Australia’s road networks through a high-performance ITS n Improve the processes used by the RTA Transport Management Centre operators to handle daily tasks by introducing multimodal paradigms in their operations n An advanced, cognitive, load-aware human-machine interface to improve traffic management and operations Progress: n Project commenced in September 2004 n User study and first round of multimodal research experiments completed with partner n Patent disclosures of new intellectual property underway n Work is being integrated into the STaR Project 2005: n Experiments conducted with the RTA to determine user models n New cognitive load measures and multimodal navigation methods developed 177 ANNUAL REPORT 05 to the Australian Government n Two provisional patents filed n The project has now been merged into the Smart Transport and Roads Strategic Focus project as a work package on control Room Interfaces Milestones: Date Milestone 12/04 Carry out and analyse user studies for the application 06/05 Research and design multimodal interfaces for TMC contact databases 12/05 Research and design cognitive modelling, experiments, and research for cognitive load measuring 06/06 Research and design multimodal fusion 12/06 Research and design advanced multimodal cognitive load-aware interfaces ATP 012 Personal Universal Communicator Topic: Recent advances in portable, low-power wireless networking technologies have opened up new possibilities for networked systems. Aim: To explore a pilot healthcare application in which a personal universal communicator will allow people who require health monitoring to wear a Bluetooth device (triaxial accelerometer) which stores and transfers physiological data. Effort: Employs 2.8 FTE (researchers) per annum. Duration: Two years and two months. Project Leader: Nigel Lovell. Participants: n NPC and ERTOS programs, SME partner. Key Points: n Bluetooth is robust and reliable n The wireless and networking applications that this new technology can create are potentially vast n The first trial will be based around the elderly, particularly in monitoring and preventing falls n Commercial collaboration with a NSW-based start up venture initiated n Project supports one PhD student Progress: n Project commenced in July 2004 n IP management arrangements for the project established n Bluetooth communication with PUC established 178 n First release of the triaxial accelerometer algorithms and instrumentation n Provisional patent filed n Three journal articles on developments completed n A variable prototype of the triaxial accelerometer currently under development for trial at Wagga Wagga Hospital n PUC design undergoing verification with the hand-held prototype close to the final form of what is expected to be trialled n Prototype under construction and is expected to be demonstrated by the end of February 2006 Milestones: Date Milestone 07/04 Organise and plan program Complete project resource and personnel requirements 09/05 Design and develop prototype Obtain target platform Install Linux 2.6.5 kernel Ensure embedded file system installed and functional 03/06 Verify design 06/06 Review design 09/06 Make final revisions 11/06 Implement the program ATP 013 Systems Component Architecture for Microkernel-Based Embedded Topic: Embedded systems are evolving to networked ‘open’ systems of significant functionality and are now exposed to many of the traditional security risks faced by server and desktop computers. Aim: To develop component architecture, leading in the long term to the creation of a new component technology that will increase reliability and decrease the cost of embedded applications. Effort: Employs 4.0 FTE (researchers) per annum. Duration: 20 months. Project Leader: Ian Gorton. Participants: n ERTOS and ESE programs. Key Points: n Improved methodology for developing embedded systems n An important step towards ERTOS’ objective of fully verified embedded systems n Significant commercialisation opportunity in the large and growing embedded systems market 179 ANNUAL REPORT 05 to the Australian Government Progress: n Project commenced in November 2004 n Stage 1 in progress n Recruitment of project staff complete Milestones: Date Milestone 03/05 Complete requirements investigation, technical report, and initial requirements 01/06 Create prototype, including a demonstration application 07/06 Release version 1 of the component architecture software ATP 014 Models and Extensible Architectures for Adaptive Middleware Platforms Topic: The next generation of intelligent services require a middleware platform that will support rapid engineering of complex adaptive systems. Aim: To develop predictive models, software architectures, and prototype tools to support the development and implementation of adaptive services. Effort: Employs 0.8 FTE (researchers) per annum. Duration: Two years. Project Leader: Ian Gorton. Participants: n ESE Program, University of Sydney, Microsoft, Software Engineering Institute, CSIRO ICT Centre. Key Points: n Project will devise and empirically validate new models and architectures for building selfmonitoring and dynamically re-configurable application server technologies Progress: n Project commenced in December 2004 n Scoping phase complete n Version 1 of the AMP technology built in Java and running on a J2EE application server n An initial demonstration of the AMP technology completed. This demonstrates the potential of the design to improve server application performance Milestones: 180 Date Milestone 06/05 Demonstrate feasibility 12/05 Design and build infrastructure and example models 07/06 Develop empirical validation and prototype tool ATP 015 XQoS System Topic: End-to-end Quality of Service (QoS) across heterogeneous networks. Aim: To design, develop, and evaluate end-to-end QoS technologies and protocols intended to satisfy the requirements of QoS-aware applications (i.e. Voice over IP, video conferencing, and video streaming) over multiple and heterogeneous research, scientific, and industrial networks. Effort: Employs 3.0 FTE (researchers) per annum. Duration: Three years. Project Leader: Laurent Daraine. Participant: n NPC Program Key Points: n XQoS system will be developed in the framework of the EuQoS European Project n The EuQoS project will deliver a flexible and secure QoS Assurance System (EuQoS system) for heterogeneous networks n NICTA is focused on the system design and implementation of the transport layer solutions Progress: n Project commenced in November 2004 n Enhanced Transport Protocol has been designed n UML 2.0 specification of the end-to-end services to be provided by the EuQoS system n Defined a transparent API to deploy the transport services n Defined a general framework for the provisioning, control, and management of the QoS n Defined a general QoS namespace to provide easier integration of EuQoS system components and to allow extensibility for future requirements and services n A remote emulation platform for research, demonstration and dissemination proposed Milestones: Date Milestone 04/05 Complete UML model of the XQoS system including multimedia applications, XML language, and network services simulator 08/05 Create Java open source of the XQoS system including multimedia applications, XML language, and network emulator 10/05 Create enhanced Transport Protocols for multimedia applications 10/05 Develop passive and active emulation of network services 12/05 Complete UML 2.0 methodology for designing, testing, and implementing QoSoriented communication protocols 181 ANNUAL REPORT 05 to the Australian Government ATP 016 LIXI Business Processes Topic: Transactions worth more than A$100 billion are carried out in the Australian lending industry each year. Lending processes are complex and add to the transaction costs for lenders and borrowers. Aim: To improve lending processes and reduce the marginal costs of loan transactions through the analysis of data related to lending practices, leading to enhancement of LIXI standards. Effort: Employs 1.25 FTE (researchers) per annum. Duration: Three years. Project Leader: Professor Ross Jeffrey. Participants: n ESE Program, lending industry XML initiative. Key Points: n Creation of a new, validated process definition language (PDL) suited to the complexity of financial services n Will establish the grounds for how formal software processes can be defined to achieve processes that are both powerful and usable n World-class software engineering applied to enhancing the effectiveness, efficiency, and competitiveness of a key Australian industry Progress: n Project commenced in May 2005 n Currently at the end of the initiation stage Milestones: 182 Date Milestone 09/05 Initiate project 06/06 Identify key processes 07/06 Review PDL 12/06 Select and develop PDL 04/07 Create process model validation plan 04/08 Test and validate process model 05/08 Report on project and publish findings ATP 019 Macro-programming for Wireless Sensor Networks Topic: Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) have been touted as a breakthrough enabling technology, the means to bring the digital world closer to the physical world. The overall system’s challenge though has not allowed this vision to be fully fledged. One aspect of this challenge is the programming difficulties that developers face. These systems are notoriously difficult to program as they encompass the challenges of both embedded and distributed programming, as well as new programming challenges created by the merging of these two worlds. This is one of the great inhibitors to real sensor network development. Aim: To build a macro-programming platform that will help application developers in programming WSN easily and efficiently thus pushing WSN more aggressively into realisation. Effort: Employs 1.65 FTE (researchers) per annum over 2.6 years (anticipated). Duration: Two-and-a-half years. Project Leader: Athanassios Boulis. Participants: Institutions and companies involved in the 6th EU FP project RUNES. Keypoints: n The application developer will focus mainly on the application at hand (e.g. how the state of the estimated information changes according to new sensor readings) and less on distributed computing problems such as communication patterns, race conditions and code deployment. n Exposes inherent trade-offs found in WSN such as energy vs. accuracy and energy vs. delay. Almost every application in WSN can allow less accuracy or greater delay to save energy. Some applications have trade-offs between accuracy and delay too. n Produces distributed algorithms that are adaptive and can operate in most of the operational points that the trade-off curves dictate. n Produces distributed algorithms that are measurably robust n Employs two full-time PhD students Progress: n Project submitted to the RMMC and accepted n Project agreements currently under development n Milestones currently being developed as part of project agreement Milestones: Date Tasks TBA Study of existing applications and algorithms TBA Design new algorithms TBA Investigation of communication methods TBA Design of programming model TBA Selection/design of intermediate node-level representation 183 ANNUAL REPORT 05 to the Australian Government Date Tasks TBA Compilation from global to local representations TBA Implementation of intermediate representation and dynamic deployment system TBA Investigation for model revisions TBA Testing on real platform TBA Integration of application development and simulation environment TBA Overall integration ATP 021 Data Mining in Spatio-temporal sets (DMiST) Topic: Data related to the movement of objects is becoming increasingly available because of substantial technological advances in position-aware devices such as GPS receivers, navigation systems and mobile phones. The increasing number of such devices will lead to huge spatio-temporal data volumes documenting the movement of animals, vehicles, or people. It is a central belief that information is hidden in large databases in the form of interesting patterns. Aim: To uncover patterns in (large databases) such sets that will increase the knowledge of group behaviour and migration. Effort: Employs 3.55 FTE (researchers) per annum over 3 years. Duration: Three years. Project Leader: Joachim Gudmundsson. Participants: Defence Science and Technology Organisation (DSTO). Key Points: n A data mining toolbox that can be tailored for different applications and a custom made software tool for one customers of the project. The IP for the toolbox will stay with NICTA while licences will be given to DSTO and their customers (limited to defence and surveillance applications). n Several PhD theses and honours theses in the area of efficient algorithms, approximation algorithms and data mining. n First-time investigation of efficient and practical data mining tools for spatio-temporal databases. n Established scientific collaboration between NICTA and Utrecht University, The Netherlands. Progress: n Project submitted to the RMMC and accepted. n Project agreements currently under development 184 Milestones: Date Milestone November 2005 A detailed collaboration plan established with DSTO. Senior researcher and one researcher hired. February 2006 Three PhD students hired. Needed implementation tools defined. Which tools already exists within CREST, which tools required from future versions of CREST and which tools needed to implement by the group? April 2006 Second researcher hired. A 3-day workshop on CG and spatio-temporal databases. First set of benchmark data ready. Another three PhD students hired. November 2006 First internal review. First algorithmic tool designed and analysed. First scientific paper produced. November 2006 First tool implemented and delivered. Appropriate tools integrated into CREST. April 2007 First version evaluated using random data, benchmark data and real value data. Second round of algorithmic tools designed and analysed. A 3-day workshop on CG and GIS. November 2007 Second internal review. Second algorithmic tool implemented. New tools integrated into CREST. Efficient algorithms for the six basic patterns implemented. Complex patterns clearly defined (in collaboration with DSTO and their selected customer). April 2008 The toolbox should be delivered and evaluated. Algorithms developed for the complex patterns. November 2008 Algorithms implemented for the complex patterns. Possibilities to generalise and extend? New spin-off projects 185 ANNUAL REPORT 05 to the Australian Government CAN 001 Fundamental Limits of Wireless Topic: Wireless technology is vulnerable to interference from buildings, geographic features, and other radio signals. Aim: To increase understanding of the constraints imposed on wireless communications. Effort: Employs 2.15 FTE (researchers) per annum. Duration: Three years. Project Leader: Leif Hanlen. Participants: n WSP Program, University of South Australia, Uppsala, University of California, Davis. Key Points: n Investigation of the constraints on wireless communications n Medium to long-term view of wireless futures n Links to wireless research in USA and Sweden Progress: n Project commenced in July 2005 n Coursework elements completed n Project plan under final negotiation with partners 2005: n Six papers published n Extended student exchange to Uppsala University, Sweden n Exchange visits with University of Texas, Austin n Expanded company engagement through Bandspeed n Coursework delivered: Continuous Communications, Advanced Course Milestones: 186 Date Milestone 11/04 Recruit Level B researcher 10/04 (and ongoing) Present initial work at international conference 12/04 Develop coursework 02/05 Deliver coursework 09/06 Conduct mid-term review CAN 002 Humans Understanding Logic and Computation Topic: Programs capable of making choices and solving problems in a similar way to human problemsolving. Aim: To develop innovative ways of visualising the processes a computer uses for long passages of logical reasoning. Effort: Employs 0.6 FTE (researchers) per annum. Duration: Three years. Project Leader: John Slaney. Participants: n LC and IMAGEN programs. Key Points: n Collaboration between NICTA’s Sydney and Canberra laboratories n Aimed at core problems in automated reasoning n Offers significant research profile if successful as the project is a globally acknowledged challenge for artificial intelligence n Project expected to support up to five PhD research projects Progress: n Project commenced in May 2004 n Initial workshop between two programs and subsequent follow-up visits held n Sub-project on ambient visualisation started, with a working prototype installed in Canberra n User Hints sub-project removed due to lack of suitable personnel n Student project on visualisation of first order cumulative proof search started in December 2004 n Following the project’s one-year review, there was a major re-orientation of this project in 2005 n New sub-project on constraint visualisation was added in which the client is the CPP Project 2005: n Ambient visualisation effort concluded n Visualisation of first order cumulative proof search progressing but is dependent on securing an additional post-doctoral researcher n Links to the KRR Program in Ontologies established n Work on cumulative search for first order theorem proving has progressed satisfactorily n Presentation delivered to an international workshop in October 2005 (http://www.dagstuhl. de/05431) and two papers reporting results are being prepared n Work in theorem proving is expected to expand further in 2006 Milestones: Date Milestone 07/04 Develop an interactive system generalising the User Hints software Stage 2 Investigate the use of ambient visualisation to present information about the search process in real time 06/07 Develop tools for visualising cumulative search in unbounded search spaces 187 ANNUAL REPORT 05 to the Australian Government CAN 003 Dynamic Planning Optimisation and Learning Topic: Automated operations (military) and business planning algorithms and tools. Aim: To develop automated planning and other algorithms that can be incorporated into the Course of Action Planning (COAST) tool currently used by the Department of Defence. Effort: Employs 2.45 FTE (researchers) per annum. Duration: Five years. Project Leader: Doug Aberdeen. Participants: n SML and KRR Program, University of Adelaide, Defence Science and Technology Organisation, University of South Australia, University of Aarhus (Denmark). Key Points: n Five-year collaboration between NICTA, DSTO, University of Adelaide, University of Aarhus and recently with the University of South Australia n Open project based on bi-annual planning workshops between the collaborators n Wide application of underlying technology in many planning scenarios characterised by uncertainty n Committed to developing a non-military planner for industry n Strong and positive interactions with LEAR Project, and lesser interactions with VICAT and SuperComm projects n Project planners deals with uncertain and concurrent domains n Fundamental research into quantum computing algorithms for planning n Novel methods to collect and present complex planning data to users n Fundamental research into timing and uncertainty models in PetriNets n Theoretical advances in the robustness and risk minimisation of automated planning with inaccurate information n Use of learning methods for planning. Progress: n Project commenced in July 2003 n Initial workshop in July 2003 n Two workshops conducted in 2004 n First algorithms developed for solving planning problems under resource and time constraints and uncertainty achieved n The MO-LRTDP (Military Operations Labelled Real-Time Dynamic Programming) server delivered to DSTO in July 2004 n Second workshop completed in late 2004 n Research agreement completed with the University of Adelaide and a post-doctoral researcher and PhD student engaged n Post-doctoral researcher hired for the NICTA Canberra Laboratory n Project featured in ten international publications in the first 18 months to the end of 2004. 188 2005: n Two additional planners (FPG and Prottle) programmed and subsequent papers published n Fourth and fifth workshops complete n Karyn I’Anson took over leadership of DPOLP project at DSTO n A further eight international publications n Commenced work on industrial prototype planner. Milestones: Defined by annual workshop of participants. CAN 004 Ubiquitous Robot Project Topic: No low-cost research platform currently exists for mobile robotics that incorporates omnidirectional motion. Aim: To develop a platform for research into robotic motion. Effort: Project terminated June 2005. Duration: Two years. Project Leader: David Austin. Participant: n ASSeT Program. Key Points: n Develop a robotics platform for future research n Develop a low-cost and highly versatile platform that will sustain future research ambitions. Progress: n Project commenced in March 2004. 2005: n Project was terminated in June 2005, n Converted to a minor side project within the ASSeT Program where the platform is being converted for research in active visual motion and vehicle guidance. n A mechanical and electronic prototype was demonstrated August 2005, and an initial prototype of the complete system was demonstrated in December 2005. Milestones: Date Milestone 03/04 Develop first prototype motor driver 06/04 Design mechanical prototype 11/04 Create final motor driver 12/04 Finish first mechanical prototype 03/05 Develop Linux driver for motor driver 05/05 Create final mechanical design 12/05 Complete demonstration phase 189 ANNUAL REPORT 05 to the Australian Government CAN 006 Ultra Wideband Topic: Ultra Wideband (UWB) is a technology for high-speed wireless communications, particularly within short ranges. Aim: To determine how valuable a more concerted effort in this area would be and to create a portfolio of wider UWB research. Effort: Project terminated March 2005. Duration: Three years. Project Leader: Jian Zhang. Participants: n WSP Program, global wireless systems developer. Key Points: n Develop UWB-oriented baseband signal processing techniques for channels estimation, synchronisation, and detection algorithms n Investigate some low-power, low-cost UWB transceiver architectures n Provide a physical layer hardware demonstrator Progress: n Project commenced in July 2004 n UWB simulation system developed n PhD students appointed for sub-projects n Project underwent a redevelopment arising from interest expressed by a major equipment supplier n three patent disclosures on Ultra Wide Band (UWB) technology, which provide low complexity and low cost transceivers Milestones: Date Milestone 07/04 Build a UWB simulation system 12/04 Recruit PhD students and build connection with domestic and international institutes 12/05 Develop and patent at least two baseband algorithms 03/06 Recruit hardware engineer or suitable PhD student Integrate the algorithms in an FPGA system 190 06/06 Build first prototype of UWB transceiver 12/06 Build second prototype and integrate software 05/07 Build operable UWB-USB CAN 007 Last Metre Problem Topic: Information and communications technology (ICT) can be an extension of the human senses. Aim: Getting information to and from people in a transparent way without restricting mobility or forcing them to change habits. Effort: Employs 1.7 FTE (researchers) per annum. Duration: Three years. Project Leader: Rod Kennedy. Participants: n WSP Program, Western Australia Telecommunications Research Institute. Key Points: n A rigorous technology-based assessment of the future possibilities surrounding the last metre problem that identifies where technologies may become feasible n A hardware demonstrator for audio technologies with commercial prospects over a five to ten year period n Strategic framework for research across Australia in a global context. Progress: n Preliminary planning workshop completed in February 2004 n Planning, research directions, and IP considerations resolved at July 2004 workshop n The project was formally recommended by the RMCC in 2004 n Work has been completed on a formal project agreement. Milestones: 191 Date Milestone 01/05 Recruit project leader, researchers, and engineer Present foundational research results Develop demonstrator system Conduct review after nine months 2006 Identify feasible short-term research with commercial potential Secure intellectual property (IP) rights 2007 Commercialise results Publish research findings ANNUAL REPORT 05 to the Australian Government CAN 008 GymAware Topic: Techniques in machine learning can be applied to identifying weaknesses in athletes and training regimes. Aim: To improve the functionality of an online performance analysis system by developing machine learning methods for segmenting data to enhance reliability and ease of use. Effort: Employs 0.2 FTE (researchers) per annum. Duration: One year. Project Leader: Oliver Buffet. Participants: n SML Program, SME partner. Key Points: n Applies strong research skills and new tools to improve an existing system for strength assessment in sports training and rehabilitation from injury n ICT helping to create a new knowledge-based paradigm in effective training n Significant product differentiation through the adoption of research-based skills with export potential in the USA, the European Union, and Asia. Progress: n Project commenced in April 2005 n Data provided by the SME partner n Initial analysis has established that the data can be segregated n Project agreement in final stages of development. Milestones: Date Milestone 08/06 Develop initial algorithm Agree on direction to be taken once the first algorithm has been developed and evaluated 04/06 192 Complete project CAN 009 High Performance Multi-User Detection Topic: The challenge for third-generation mobile communications (3G) is to develop framework for high performance signal processing architectures to maximise coverage and capacity. Aim: To develop a real-time, high-capacity demonstrator, research problems, integrate solutions into the design, evaluate performance and functionality, and compare the results to a conventional receiver design. Effort: Employs 1.7 FTE (researchers) per annum. Duration: Three years. Project Leader: Dr Mark Reed. Participants: n WSP and ERTOS programs, University of South Australia, Telstra, NEC Australia. Key Points: n Capacity and coverage boost for 3G/4G systems n Encouraging simulation results show potential for both a 50 per cent increase in cell size and a 200 per cent increase in cell size with a 200 per cent increase in subscriber capacity Progress: n Project commenced in December 2004 2005: n Memorandum achieved with external parties n Engineer engaged and initial equipment purchased n Internal review of the work on 3G real-time transmission validation that successfully sent realtime signals completed n Project redirected towards 4G/WiMax Systems to better align it with market forces and needs n Initial results presented at the Australian Communications Theory Workshop n First patent application prepared and lodged on 31 August 2005 n NDA/MoU with NEC Australia signed to initiate cooperation in December 2005 Milestones: Date Milestone 06/06 Complete model demonstrator (two users) 12/07 Complete full demonstrator 193 ANNUAL REPORT 05 to the Australian Government CAN 010 Propositional Satisfiability Topic: Satisfiability is a mathematical concept important in ICT for automating the decision making processes of artificially intelligent systems. Aim: To find alternatives to the most widely used algorithm for solving the propositional satisfiability problem, the Davis-Putnam-Logemann-Loveland (DPLL) procedure. Effort: Project terminated in 2005. Duration: Two years. Project Leader: John Slaney. Participants: n LC Program, Griffith University. Key Points: n A fundamental research project with application in artificial intelligence and automated reasoning n Attempts to resolve an established global research challenge n Highly relevant to state-of-the-art automated reasoning for application in areas such as data cleansing Progress: n Project commenced in July 2004 n First stage underway based on real-world problems that are difficult to resolve with current SAT techniques n Prototype of a hybrid solver based on resolution and local search has advanced the state of the art on a range of highly structured problems 2005: n Work undertaken as part of the project received awards in an international competition for SAT solvers n Project now closed and work will form part of the Constraint Programming Platform (G12) Project Milestones: Date Milestone 11/04 Identify existing alternative techniques for solving SAT problems, including those the SAT research literature and other search problem domains already use Stage 2 Refine approaches through experimentation Investigate the possibility of hybridisation Stage 3 Begin using new approaches Stage 4 Evaluate and experiment with both random and real-world problems Stage 5 Conduct follow-up experiments based on experimentation results, revisit issues discovered and developed at earlier stages, and fine-tune successful methods Fine-tune specific problem domains if appropriate 194 CAN 011 Document Analysis and Understanding Topic: The information revolution has led to the explosive growth of unstructured documents available for analysis. This data glut has created a need to understand this data and transform it into knowledge. Aim: The project aims to use state-of-the-art non-parametric statistics and natural language processing for large-scale document analysis. Effort: Employs 1.9 FTE (researchers) per annum. Duration: Three years. Project Leader: Alex Smola. Participants: n SML Program, SME partner. Key Points: n The design and development of state-of-the-art document understanding and analysis tools with natural language processing tools for: o document authorship verification o named entity tagging o document comparisons o document retrieval o determining the veracity of documents n Strong collaboration with a research-oriented SME n Addresses aspects of Safeguarding Australia n Will support up to three PhD students and staff training for SME. 195 Progress: n Project commenced in June 2005 n Project is progressing against milestones. Milestones: Date Milestone 07/05 Secure post-doctoral researcher and PhD student Test datasets and quantify performance goals Conduct training for NICTA, SML Program, and SME Create early demonstrator for authorship verification 01/06 Submit publication to leading conference/journal Make decision regarding commercialisation of early demonstrator Conduct direct interaction with end users (consultative group) Hold research workshop (SML Program and SME partner) Create entity recognition early demonstrator ANNUAL REPORT 05 to the Australian Government Date Milestone 01/07 Submit publication to leading conference/journal Make decision regarding commercialisation of early demonstrator Conduct research workshop with broader scope Make decision regarding expanding scope to other media 11/07 Submit publication to leading conference/journal Make open source tools available for download Deal successfully with at least one additional genre Ensure PhD student in final stages of thesis Create broader outlook for future collaboration CAN 012 Supercom Model-Based Supervision of Composite Systems Topic: A new generation of autonomous composite systems constructed from simple components organised into a highly configurable and modular architecture is emerging with important social, environmental, and economic potential. Autonomy in these systems – web and grid services, energy distribution systems, industrial plant control systems, telecommunications and computer networks – will depend on adequate supervision tools that will confer the ability to self-diagnose and self-organise (assemble, reconfigure) for optimal performance. Aim: Develop theories, efficient algorithms, and tools for supervising composite systems represented by discrete event models. This will draw on and add to the fields of discrete event systems, modelbased diagnosis, A1 planning, and symbolic model checking. Effort: Employs 3.0 FTE (researchers) per annum. Duration: Three years. Project Leader: Dr Sylvie Thiebaux. Participants: n KRR, LC, and SML programs. Key Points: n Will help improve the quality of service in composite systems through online monitoring systems and providing decision support to supervision operators n Potential for reduced supervision costs as networks evolve n Uses model-based reasoning to support accurate diagnosis and principled reconfiguration plans n Implementation into the Water Information Networks (WIN) platform Progress: n Project commenced in July 2005 n Work is currently underway to devise a formal framework for composite systems 196 Milestones: Date Milestone 11/05 WP 1: Develop framework and formal characterisation of functionalities 03/07 WP2: Develop decentralised synthesis, reconfigurability analysis, and symbolic implementations 08/07 WP3: Develop diagnostic capability analysis and symbolic implementations 06/08 WP4: Develop integration policies, incremental algorithms, synthesis of a diagnosable composite system, and symbolic implementations TBC WP5: Refine system, create prototypes, and integrate wtih client platform (WIN) CAN 013 Surveillance System with Query Capability Topic: Video technology is commonly used for public safety monitoring, however its current usefulness is limited by an inability to effectively query video based on its image content. Aim: To develop video query capability and video synopsis technologies that can deliver fast and accurate techniques for analysis. Effort: Employs 6.15 FTE (researchers) per annum. Duration: Three years. Project Leader: Richard Hartley. Participants: n ASSeT and SMLKA programs. Key Points: n Will provide the enabling technology for the fast, accurate query of video sequence n Contributes towards Safeguarding Australia n Significant commercialisation opportunities for successful development. Progress: n Project commenced in October 2004 n new algorithms developed for real-time event detection in video sequences that effectively ignore repetitive background activity n Created a new method for measuring dimensions and trajectory of human subjects seen in single view surveillance sequences n Initial results achieved for re-identification of people seen in multiple video sequences. 197 ANNUAL REPORT 05 to the Australian Government Milestones: Date Milestone 05/05 Demonstrate prototype system with following components: Develop client/server architecture that demonstrates video capture, archiving at the servers, and on-demand streaming on demand to clients Demonstrate face detection taking place at the cameras, and how details are stored in the database Develop client-side software for request and display of video Demonstrate event detection/synopsis software running on captured video (probably not in real time) Demonstrate real-time background subtraction of video, extracting ‘active’ frames from a single input stream, and storing the active frames for later display. 10/05 Demonstrate background subtraction software to potential partners (such as NSW Police and software surveillance companies in Sydney) Seek feedback and direction from partners Review Point Consider whether funding continues 05/06 Create user interface that allows query on pre-processed video, and the incorporation of matching frames into condensed video clips in response to user queries Begin engineering a multi-camera/multi-processor system 10/07 Demonstrate the system on a real surveillance video CAN 014 Automated Anatomical Structure Extraction for Diagnosis and Population Norms Topic: Current brain imaging techniques cannot detect the early signs of debilitating conditions such as Alzheimer’s disease and dementia. Aim: To produce mathematical models that are sensitive to the shape and other characteristics of brain tissue. These will be applied to a new set of diagnostic techniques for early detection of diseases. Effort: Employs 1.4 FTE (researchers) per annum. Duration: Three years. Project Leader: Nick Barnes. Participants: n ASSeT Program, Centre for Mental Health Research, Neuro-Psychiatric Institute at the Prince of Wales Hospital, Sydney. 198 Key Points: n Application of mathematical modelling to create 3D images to assist with solving a major medical and social issue Progress: n Project commenced in February 2005 n Work started on constructing the best algorithm for hippocampal segmentation to develop a general model of the ageing hippocampus over several months. This will be useful for general medical reference, but will also form the basis of subsequent segmentation algorithms n New PhD student commenced in February 2005 n Medical experts have hand-traced the hippocampi within MRI scans of 500 individuals n a new algorithm for repairing the topology of these imperfect tracings has been developed n Preliminary investigations conducted to develop new methods for shape analysis of a population of hippocampi based on the repaired hand-traced images. n Neuroanatomic modelling techniques selected for the problem of shape modelling and segmentation. n Developed methods for visualising hand-traced neuroanatomy from neurologist, and for understanding the progress of data-cleaning algorithms n Developed a technique to semi-automatically find small regions of fluid within the hippocampus n PhD student Pengdong Xiao commenced work on statistical methods for modelling and diagnosis of neuroanatomy in medical images. Milestones: Date Milestone 11/04 Review available support software Review CMHR/NPI goals Identify CMHR/NPI problems requiring major algorithmic development Conduct workshop to identify sub-projects, including PhD projects Begin analysing error models for current manual methods 02/06 Complete error analysis for current models Begin developing mathematical models and segmentation algorithms Second wave of MRIs become available 02/07 Combine mathematical models with segmentation algorithms Continue developing models, applying them to special CMHR problems 02/08 Continue refining mathematical models and segmentation algorithms Apply algorithms to CMHR databases Develop statistical models of variation within the data and correlations with other data as a basis for developing population norms Apply techniques to the second wave of MRIs and model temporal changes 199 ANNUAL REPORT 05 to the Australian Government CAN 015 Smart Cars Topic: To be useful, driver assistance technologies must be sophisticated enough to deal with the cluttered and busy environment of urban roadways. Aim: To develop driver assistance technologies that will extend their applicability from the relatively simple environment of highway conditions to the more complex environment of arterial and tributary roadways. Effort: Employs 4.3 FTE (researchers) per annum. Duration: Three years. Project Leader: Lars Peterson. Participants: n ASSeT and IMAGEN programs, ANU, CSIRO ICT Centre. Key Points: n Aims to develop technologies to support highly reliable methods of detecting moving objects, vehicles, different road environments, and street signs n Demonstrates benefit of linking fundamental research to applied research. Progress: n Project commenced in October 2004 n Project plan and agreement are currently in the final stages of development n Project in the pre-implementation stage. Milestones: Date Milestone 05/06 Demonstrate a system in which traffic signs are detected reliably both day and night Demonstrate algorithms using a prototype for detecting other vehicles on the road Demonstrate algorithms for detection of other traffic hazards such as pedestrians and bicycles Demonstrate pedestrian detection in daylight Demonstrate FPGA hardware acceleration, including image processing algorithms 10/07 Demonstrate traffic sign detection capability, with hardware acceleration running on the vehicle Demonstrate other vehicle awareness capabilities to keep track of the position and velocity of other vehicles on the road Demonstrate reliable detection of objects moving across the field of view of cameras in front of vehicle Demonstrate methods for reliable road detection in moderately complicated situations Demonstrate sophisticated use of FPGA hardware, interfacing with a host computer, to accelerate many of the image process algorithms developed Define a suitable ASIC 200 CAN 016 Advanced Nonlinear Gradient Methods Topic: Current machine learning techniques combined with optimisation algorithms have been very successful in managing data to date, however their potential for managing very large sets of ongoing data streams is limited. Aim: To develop the methods and tools for the application of advanced gradient methods in the efficient online optimisation of very large nonlinear systems to enable commercial follow-on products. Effort: Employs 2.1 FTE (researchers) per annum. Duration: Two years. Project Leader: Nicol Schraudolph. Participants: n ASSeT, IMAGEN, SEACS and SML programs, ETH Zurich, IDIAP, Martigny (Switzerland), Hamilton Institute, Ireland. Key Points: n Aims to develop advanced theoretical techniques to support commercial follow-on projects n Will characterise the important mathematical qualities of advanced gradient methods such as stability and convergence n Key deliverables are a visual interactive graph editor and a data flow computation engine that offer an Internet-based research, teaching, and rapid prototyping tool n Applies advanced gradient methods to hyperspectral image analysis Progress: n Project commenced in January 2005 201 Milestones: Date Milestone 06/05 Create experimental visual tracking set up 07/05 Specify requirements for interactive graph editor 07/05 Develop data flow compute engine prototype 01/06 Achieve basic functionality of interactive graph editor 01/06 Develop data flow compute engine function library 01/06 Create tracking for visual tracking 12/06 Establish stability and convergence analysis 01/07 Achieve extended functionality of interactive graph editor 01/07 Achieve extended functionality of data flow compute engine 01/07 Create advanced features for visual tracking ANNUAL REPORT 05 to the Australian Government CAN 017 Spectral Image Source Mapping Systems Topic: New spectral imaging technologies have opened up possibilities for computer vision to directly infer the properties of materials from their spatial spectral signatures. Aim: To develop techniques that can accomplish automated or semi-automated interpretation using algorithms that can bind signal processing, computer vision, graphics, and machine learning methods to enable us to map the material properties of objects onto and into 3D Computer Aided Design (CAD) models. Effort: Employs 2.25 FTE (researchers) per annum. Duration: Five years. Project Leaders: Antonio Robles-Kelly. Participants: n ASSeT Program, ANU. Key Points: n Offers significant new sensor systems for forensics, biometrics, and surveillance capable of identifying very specific material sources and unique human characteristics more robustly than current normal colour video n Research leading to a new class of relatively cheap, non-invasive methods for material analysis, human and veterinary diagnosis, and agriculture monitoring n Provides strong theoretical basis to spectral decoding, feature extraction, inverse modelling of spectral images and multi-camera imaging for integration with 3D CAD Progress: n Project commenced in January 2005 n Initial equipment purchases made n Scientific programmer and Level B researcher appointed n Three PhD and one MSc students accepted to work on projects around 3D thermal source mapping and hyperspectral cameras and their uses in health, environment, and the process industries n Clients engaged: The Biodiversity group at ANU/CSIRO; The Australian Institute of Sport; The new biosecurity CRC; Professor Arturo Sanchez, Canada; n Discussions underway with Bluescope and SmartHomes on using thermal imaging for materials assessment and building audits Milestones: Date Milestone 12/05 Develop new integrated wavelet-based hidden Markov random field spatial spectral feature encoding Compare to current popular robust feature extraction models Complete first results and submit conference paper (to ICPR) 12//05 Develop a new spectral rendering model as a generalisation of standard rendering models in computer graphics. This will be used to approximate the complete spectral reflectance and radiation models Complete first results and submit conference paper (accepted to SPIE) 202 Date Milestone 06/06 Develop a database of spectral signatures for common materials and objects for applications in health, inspection, forensics, flora, and fauna. At present such databases are mainly restricted to geological and geophysical structures 06/06 Develop spectral stereoscopy. This involves the creation of software capable of mapping materials to their relative positions in 3D 12/06 Develop a new class of algorithms that will allow us to predict the location of the source of spectral signals inside 3D CAD models for objects. This particularly applies to the IR thermal region of the spectrum CAN 018 Road Safety Driver Drowsiness Detection Topic: Monitoring driver alertness based on measuring eyelid closure has some practical difficulties in development as a commercial product. Aim: To develop a metric for driver fatigue from measurements derived from action and image sensors. Effort: Employs 0.55 FTE (researchers) per annum. Duration: One year. Project Leader: Abd-Krim Seghouane. Participants: n SEACS Program, SME partner. Key Points: n Aims to compile data for developing a metric for human drowsiness and head movement n Technology developed will support the realisation of Active Driver Assistance Systems n Provide a strong differentiator to SME technology and overcome inherent difficulties with current technology Progress: n Project commenced in July 2005 n Sensors for experimental results obtained n Experimental design for initial simulations in progress to establish the data analysis method n The different reflexes that have to be modelled have been identified n A first model for two of the three reflexes has been tested in computer simulations. Milestones: Date Milestone 07/06 Develop sensor system 09/06 Prepare data analysis method and algorithms 06/06 Develop test vehicle and experiment logistics 07/06 Conduct driving experiments 08/06 Develop drowsiness metric and algorithm 203 ANNUAL REPORT 05 to the Australian Government CAN 019 Notes on Algorithms for Summarising and Querying Time-Varying Relations from Digital Forensic Data Topic: Digital forensics aims to reconstruct the causal sequence of intrusion or unauthorised entry into digital systems. Aim: To investigate, develop, and evaluate new and novel algorithms for summarising and querying time-varying relations from data for the specific application of digital forensics. Effort: Employs 1.08 FTE (researchers) per annum. Duration: One year (with one year extension due to successes). Project Leader: Nianjun Liu (Caelli Laboratory Director). Participants: n ASSeT Program, DSTO. Key Points: n Explores how different types of Bayesian Networks and Dynamic Bayesian Networks can be applied to open problems in analysing digital forensic data n Software which implements the learning, summarisation and querying of time-varying relations from data for use in digital forensic investigations Progress: n Project commenced in April 2005 n Initial literature review for reports underway n Software package is being developed Milestones: Date Milestone 10/05 Submit mid-term report and final project report 04/06 Test and evaluate software performance Complete first system Submit conference paper in January 2006 Document software Ensure software available (not fully documented) 204 CAN 020 Mapping Genetic Components in Crops Topic: Genomics is an information science that depends on advanced computing techniques to analyse the characteristics of large data sets, such as physical characteristics and diseases (phenotypes). Aim: To apply machine learning technology to mapping genotypes and phenotype characteristics so that knowledge of the whole genome DNA profiles of crops can be applied to the selection of parents to improve breeding lines. Effort: Employs 0.8 FTE (researchers) per annum. Duration: Three years. Project Leader: Dr Adam Kowalczyk. Participants: n SML Program, Diversity Arrays™ Technology. Key Points: n Applies machine learning, a powerful predictive tool, to better understand genetic variation in plants n Aims to make crop improvement strategies more effective for a range of plants n Addresses specific ecological issues important for Australian agriculture such as crop resistance to salinity and drought n Building national expertise in plant genomics and molecular breeding Progress: n Project commenced in April 2005 n Currently finalising introductory review 205 Milestones: Date Milestone 06/05 Submit introductory review 01/06 Develop and/or adapt initial software tools 01/06 Determine breeder needs 04/06 Benchmark selected algorithms 04/06 Develop medium-term project plan 04/07 Test the α-version of the predictor 04/08 Extend to sugar cane and bacterial flora ANNUAL REPORT 05 to the Australian Government CAN 021 Validating Networks Semantics Topic: The world’s existing information infrastructure is extremely complex. It rests on network protocols (TCP, UDP, IP, with their Sockets API) and is very poorly understood. This increases the risk that the infrastructure we build today will be inadequate for the future. Aim: To develop a formal specification for the important TCP/IP protocols that underlie the Internet. Effort: Employs 0.6 FTE (researchers) per annum. Duration: Three years. Project Leader: Dr Michael Norrish. Participants: n LC Program, University of Cambridge. Key Points: n Models will be expressed with a higher-order-logic proof assistant n Readily usable by middleware designers and implementers n Validating the models against the deployed implementations n Integrating the models with programming language semantics, thereby supporting automated reasoning about executable distributed programs n Using models as a basis for design work on future protocols, especially proposals for congestion control based on resource pricing Progress: n Project commenced in September 2005 n Agreement with the University of Cambridge nearing completion Milestones: 206 Date Milestone 04/06 Develop segment level TCP specification 04/07 Develop stream level TCP specification 04/07 Develop validation technology 04/08 Integrate programming language 04/08 Create extensions and examples CAN 024 Cancer Genomics Topic: Micro array technology offers significant opportunities for progress in the diagnosis and early detection of cancer, prediction of response to treatments and resistance to drugs, and general understanding of the disease’s biology. Aim: To develop software tools that enable the conversion of genetic tissue profiles into clinically useful knowledge to assist oncologists and pathologists. Effort: Employs 0.5 FTE (researchers) per annum. Duration: Three years. Project Leader: Dr Adam Kowalczyk. Participants: n SML Program, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre. Key Points: n Add to the understanding of the origin and treatment of cancer n Algorithms and software tools will support the prediction of individual responses to therapy and improve treatment selection n The project will develop expertise in genomic medicine aimed at introducing personalised treatment techniques into clinical practice based on patients’ individual genetic profiles Progress: n Project commenced in July 2005 n Contractual arrangements being finalised Milestones: Date Milestone * 06/06 Create prototype IT platform Genomic Test Bench (GTB) 06/06 Carry out initial benchmark of utility of sub-gene features 06/06 Plan development of dedicated algorithms 06/07 Test functionality of GTB concept 06/07 Beta test GTB *Milestones address only the development of the IT platform 207 ANNUAL REPORT 05 to the Australian Government CAN 026 Computer Colonic Polyps Detection based on CT Colonography Topic: Colon cancer is a significant cause of death globally. Currently, the only definitive examination of the colon is through a fibre optic colonoscopy which is invasive, expensive, and risky. Computed tomographic colonography (CTC) is potentially less costly and invasive, but still impractical due to the time required to review hundreds of images and patient studies. Aim: To develop computer aided detection/localisation algorithms to examine the large amount of CTC data in order to appreciably decrease the false positive rate affecting existing algorithms. Effort: Employs 0.4 FTE (researchers) per annum. Duration: Three years. Project Leader: Dr Abd-Krim Seghouane. Participants: n SEACS and ASSeT programs, Canberra Imaging Group. Key Points: n Techniques will build 3D models based on 2D and 3D scans to identify anomalous growths n Improved algorithms will support optimal screening strategies for colorectal cancer to increase the rate of polyp detection n Procedure will reduce examination time for radiologists, which is expected to affect the cost of the diagnosis n Will reduce the need for invasive procedures. Progress: n Project commenced in October 2005 n Contract arrangements completed and provided to partner n PhD project will be developed on formalisation of the agreement n Adaptation of the images provided by Canberra Imaging Group to be read on Matlab software n Development of a first approach of image segmentation to extract the polyps curves n Identification of the different polyps from which a cancer can start. Milestones: 208 Date Milestone 03/06 Develop first level image processing to define polyp characteristics 07/06 Develop segmentation algorithm 12/06 Complete feature extraction 04/07 Complete features analysis model 05/08 Develop medical visualisation platform 09/08 Install and trial software in CT machine CAN 027 Characterisation, Diagnosis, and Assurance of Health and Quality of Sensor Formations Topic: One of the current priority areas of military and defence interest is use of autonomous vehicles or agents, often in formation, and more often that not moving, to execute various missions. The requirements of autonomy and formation (i.e., agents must in some way interact with one another) have generated a need to study information and control architectures that can underpin the achieving of the desired tasks. Some similar needs arise in considering sensor networks, which will be stationary in many cases, though often detecting moving agents. Aim: To develop techniques for securing some level of robustness. The emphasis of the project is development of graph theoretic and some other formal tools to characterize, diagnose, and assure the health and quality of a formation or a sensor network. Effort: Employs 1.6 FTE (researchers) per annum over 3 years. Duration: 3 years. Project Leader: Brian Anderson. Participants: DSTO. Keypoints: n Reliable use of autonomous vehicle formations and sensor networks under development n Tools to characterize, diagnose, and assure health and quality of formations and sensor networks n Vulnerability assessment of swarms n Suggest new CONOPS utilising ‘swarming’. Progress: n Project submitted to the RMMC and accepted n Project agreements currently under development. Milestones: Date Milestone YEAR 1 Initial practical demonstration on a computer of a tool which would elicit a positive response from DSTO/ADO June 30, 2006 Positive evaluation of the project accomplishments by DSTO end-user Decision to divide effort equally between characterisation & diagnosis of formation health and quality assurance of formations or to adjust more in favour of characterisation & diagnosis of health YEAR 2 June 20, 2007 Collection of real-world data using the developed metrics to characterise formations/senor networks Positive valuation of the project accomplishments by DSTO end-user Decision to divide effort equally between characterisation & diagnosis of formation health and quality assurance of formations or to adjust more in favour of characterisation & diagnosis of health YEAR 2 Positive evaluation of the project accomplishments by DSTO end-user June 30, 2008 Use of metrics or other real-world data to actually improve real system performance in characterisation and diagnosis of formation health and/or in formation quality 209 ANNUAL REPORT 05 to the Australian Government KEN 002 Learning and Representation Topic: Decision making in a military context is often characterised by a complex environment. Aim: The Learning and Representation (LEAR) Project aims to develop innovative learning algorithms that will underpin support tools for decision making in uncertain situations. Effort: Employs 0.9 FTE (researchers) per annum. Duration: Five years. Project Leader: Bernhard Hengst. Participants: n SMLKA Program, DSTO, Swedish National Defence College. Key Points: n Applies advanced machine learning technology to learning and representation of complex and dynamic real-world actions n It is anticipated that the algorithms will eventually be able to handle complex environments made up of multiple objects in which many actions need to be carried out simultaneously Progress: n Project commenced in July 2004 n Three joint workshops were held with the project participants n The project has produced a machine interface that allows computer control of agents in a wargaming simulator and creates navigation algorithms n A MicroWorld Strategy paper was jointly authored that surveyed the problem, scoped the issues and determined the future approach n Learning experiments started on a two agent logistics problem as a precursor to scaling to the larger gaming environment. 2005: n Extensive experiments in simulation and learning in the first quarter of 2005 showed that extending reinforcement learning to larger problems is feasible, particularly when the problems can be decomposed using multi-agency and hierarchy n Five orders of magnitude in storage and learning speed improvement were demonstrated with near optimal performance using various abstract representations on simple test problems n A candidate for the software engineer position identified and hiring is underway n Interface to Tempest Seer simulator complete n Simple agents for agreed-upon scenario implemented and further work underway n Working session in Adelaide held in October n Bi-annual DSTO/NICTA workshop held in December in Adelaide n PhD project investigating LEAR-related problems using genetic algorithms established. 210 Milestones: Date Track 1 milestones: Simulator Development (DSTO) Track 2 milestones: DSTO and NICTA Track 3 milestones: Fundamental Research (NICTA) 2004 Produce first version of aerospace strategy tool Apply existing machine learning using agreed features Extend existing hierarchical reinforcement learning and test on prototype 2005 Add unmanned aerial vehicle and land interaction Engineer multiple agent controllers Include partial observability and multi-goals 2006+ Develop model complexity to include non-physical models Conduct periodic reviews to determine priorities and further research KEN 003 Universal Storage Scheme Topic: Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a useful information storage format as it has the flexibility to describe complicated data. Aim: Develop a unified, succinct way of representing XML which uses space efficiently but can still be easily searched for information. Effort: Employs 2.0 FTE (researchers) per annum. Duration: Three years. Project Leader: Raymond Wong. Participants: n SMLKA Program, database start-up. Key Points: n Creating better performing XML databases will increase the acceptance of XML n The project will create more interoperable software n Collaboration with a leading start up company that designs, manufactures, and distributes XML database systems. Progress: n Project commenced in August 2004 n Implementation of a proof-of-concept demonstration for succinct data compression optimised for use over mobile devices complete. This was demonstrated at the NICTA Techfest 2005 and CeBIT Australia n A key research outcome was the development of an upper bound for the compression efficiency for large XML data sets. This will create a target for benchmarking the compression technology n Several potential commercial collaborators were discovered as a result of the display at CeBIT. 211 ANNUAL REPORT 05 to the Australian Government Milestones: Date Milestone 01/05 Set up project workshop to map out a detailed project plan 06/05 Solve the challenge of storing read-only XML information (often large amounts) in a space efficient manner Publish findings and make patent applications Complete a detailed design specification derived from this research 12/05 Complete a first prototype for storing XML in a succinct form Hold a workshop to demonstrate the prototype’s applications and significance 06/06 Produce the first solutions for updating XML information in succinct representations Publish results and apply for patents 12/06 Complete first prototype of an updatable, succinct XML storage system Set up a workshop to demonstrate applications 06/07 Complete the optimisations of the updatable succinct storage Implement benchmarking and several demonstrations KEN 004 Embedded Next-Generation Global Navigation Satellite System Platform Topic: Location-aware devices that use positioning technologies such as the global positioning system (GPS) are increasing in use, offering significant research and commercial opportunities. Aim: To establish a framework for developing new systems based on upcoming global navigation satellite system (GNSS) receiver standards. Effort: Project completed in October 2005. Duration: One year. Project Leader: Frank Engel. Participants: n ERTOS Program, Satellite Navigation and Positioning Laboratory (SNAP) in the School of Surveying and Spatial Information Systems at the University of New South Wales. Key Points: n A technology platform that will support low-cost, satellite-based information systems to rural areas n Potential to support a high-level design service for the electronics industry based on FPGA technology n Will provide a platform to prove new receiver concepts for further research and new device/ service development Progress: n Project commenced in July 2004 n First milestone achieved 212 n Strategy development for extension of the standard platform completed n Project now complete as of October 2005. Milestones: Date Milestone 09/04 Produce a functioning ‘standard’ (single frequency) GPS receiver with FPGA-based control processing to support GNSS receiver design 03/05 Create strategies to extend the standard platform to work with hardware for nextgeneration GNSS 07/05 Develop plans for follow-up projects which will extend the capabilities of the original platform and focus on embedding it into other devices KEN 006 Microkernel-Protected Firmware for CDMA Phones Topic: The introduction of high-level applications for mobile telephony has created a need for the technology to be protected from malicious code. Aim: To develop a framework for 3G mobile phone software that will support the secure and efficient concurrent operation of legacy software and sensitive security efficient firmware. Effort: Employs 3.9 FTE (researchers) per annum. Duration: One year. Project Leader: Gernot Heiser. Participants: n ERTOS Program, mobile telephony equipment supplier. Key Points: n A significant application for demonstrating the reliability and trustworthiness of embedded systems by an Australian research team n Rapid transition from research to consumer product Progress: n Project commenced in July 2004 n Project scoped and initial assessments made 2005: n Project has met original research milestones and is continuing as a consulting project Milestones: Date Milestone 12/04 Create prototype system running on client hardware 07/05 Deliver working phone to clients 213 ANNUAL REPORT 05 to the Australian Government KEN 007 Digital Audio Networking Topic: The Digital Audio Networking (DANTE) Project aims to bring audio networking into the Internet age by replacing analog audio cables with Ethernet. Aim: To develop a networked solution for transporting digital audio based on standard hardware and data networking protocols such as Ethernet and TCP/IP. Applications include professional recording studios, PA and live playback equipment as used in performance venues, home entertainment equipment, and musical instruments. Effort: Employs 5.3 FTE (researchers) per annum. Duration: One-and-a-half years. Project Leader: John Judge. Participants: n ERTOS Program, DANTE Project group. Key Points: n High-quality, live, uncompressed audio over standard commodity Ethernet n Use of Ethernet results in reduced infrastructure and cabling costs n Network is plug and play and easier to manage than analog equivalent. Progress: n Project commenced in March 2004 n First DSP-based hardware prototype demonstrated to ISAG/IBAG in September 2005 n Equipment offered by commercial collaborators n Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA) signed with a NSW-based SME now complete and further relationship options under development n Initial product ideas, markets, and competitors identified n MDNS software placed in the public domain and incorporated by Apple into its Rendezvous project. Provisional patent describing this work filed n Work on a second provisional patent begun n Consulting agreement with Ken Berger (EiR candidate) to deliver market analysis, business plan, and commercialisation options completed but unsuccessful. Another consultant who provided market analysis identified and we are pursuing an ongoing relationship n Software-based prototype now operational (demonstrated at Techfest) and hardware implementation underway n Project has now moved to the commercialisation phase. 214 Milestones: Date Milestone Stage 1 Review industry and analyse competitors and market direction Identify and analyse existing IP rights Establish contact with Australian SMEs Create detailed project plan Stage 2 Review project at six months Design digital audio networking architecture Review project to harvest any new IP rights Develop testbed infrastructure Develop testing methods for evaluating digital audio network performance Stage 3 Identify prototypes to prove the digital audio networking concept Design, build, test, and debug prototypes Demonstrate version 1 software prototype Stage 4 Review project (reviewed in March 2005) Identify specific products resulting from the project (building pilot boxes for trials with external interested parties) Develop a business plan: Submit first full draft to Board 7 December 2005 Identify funding Organise spin-out project likely to be phased over approximately six months KEN 008 Video Analysis and Content Management for Surveillance Topic: Intelligent digital video monitoring and management systems offer the potential to overcome many of the problems of traditional surveillance systems. Aim: To develop new techniques, technologies, IP video analysis, and content management that can be applied to digital video surveillance. Effort: Employs 2.8 FTE (researchers) per annum. Duration: Three years. Project Leader: Jian Zhang. Participant: n SMLKA Program’s MMVC group. Key Points: n The project includes intelligent monitoring such as adaptive interaction, scene analysis, and active reaction with the environment to deter unwanted events n Video content analysis system has strong possibilities for application in public security n Of interest to NSW Police for public safety use. 215 ANNUAL REPORT 05 to the Australian Government Progress: n Project commenced in May 2004 n The work is being extended into the STaR Project n The STaR Project’s client provided a video tape of traffic flow on Victoria Road, Sydney. n The project team used its technology to detect and identify cars moving in the picture as a first step towards measuring traffic flow Milestones: Date Milestone Yr 1 1st half Produce requirement documents Define multimedia file system and schema to be used for content annotation Create motion detection algorithm Design client and server architecture Develop algorithms for motion detection algorithm Stage 1 Develop algorithms for object tracking Stage 1 Yr 1 2nd half Research and develop algorithm for low-level feature analysis of surveillance video Create algorithm for object tracking from video sequences Demonstrate database search based on features extracted from low-level features Demonstrate unattended object identification Conduct image/video similarity measurement research as fundamental research topic Yr 2 1st half Research and develop novel algorithm for object-based surveillance video analysis Stage 1 (e.g. segmentation, object tracking, and face detection) Create supervised machine learning algorithms to support surveillance video analysis Develop algorithms for motion detection algorithm Stage 2 Develop algorithms for object tracking Stage 2 Yr 2 2nd half Define attended events and abnormal events in VACMS Project Take part in the European Union ETISEO Project for evaluation of video scene understanding for surveillance Develop a surveillance video content summarisation framework Yr 3 1st half Research and develop novel algorithm for object-based surveillance video analysis Stage 2 (e.g. segmentation, object tracking, and face detection) Develop algorithms for motion detection algorithm Stage 3 Develop algorithms for object tracking Stage 3 Yr 3 2nd half Integrate and test system Demonstrate video content management system (e.g. search based on object, face, and event) and combine with SSQC Project 216 KEN 009 Secure Embedded L4 Topic: Strong security is a fundamental requirement for many current and emerging embedded application devices, including personal digital assistants, mobile phones, and set-top boxes. Aim: To provide a secure software base (L4) on which further secure software layers (system and application services) can be composed to form a trustworthy embedded system. Effort: Employs 1.45 FTE (researchers) per annum. Duration: 18 months. Project Leader: Dr Kevin Elphinstone. Participants: n ERTOS, FM, and LC programs. Key Points: n The L4 microkernel provides a minimal and efficient basis for constructing operating system software for a broad range of systems, from single-purpose embedded devices to multiprocessor servers n The project will support the provision and use of data that users and service providers may wish to control access to n Will enhance the use of third-party applications whose origin, quality, and functionality is not directly or even indirectly controlled by the embedded-device supplier n Aims for a high degree of assurance through mathematical rigour by formally modelling the kernel’s programming interface and formally verifying the implementation of the modelled interface Progress: n Project commenced in June 2005 Milestones: Date Milestone 02/06 Specify initial API 08/06 Complete initial implementation and evaluate performance 12/06 Review API development 217 ANNUAL REPORT 05 to the Australian Government KEN 010 Goanna Pilot Project Topic: Static analysis can increase the trustworthiness of a larger set of software components by checking basic accuracy. However, current approaches in static analysis are generally not suitable for the analysis of a production-quality operating system kernel. Aim: To reduce the number of software deficiencies in system software through the use of fully automated static analysis techniques. Effort: Employs 2.6 FTE (researchers) per annum over one year. Duration: One year. Project Leader: Ralf Huuck. Participants: n ERTOS and FM programs. Key Points: n A static analysis of the L4 microkernel has a number of established end users building embedded systems on top of the L4 microkernel n The project will create the basis for techniques and tools that can be applied to other operating system software in the long term n Will increase trust in embedded operating system technology Progress: n Project commenced in April 2005 n Terms sheet and agreement completed Milestones: 218 Date Milestone 06/05 Define performance measurement properties 11/05 Evaluate tools 01/06 Develop analysis 02/06 Create documentation leading to a full project proposal KEN011 L4.verified Topic: Embedded systems are vital infrastructure elements in information and communications technology. They drive mobile phones, entertainment devices, cars, toys, appliances, smart cards, medical devices, network switching gear, sensors, industrial robots, and many more applications. Aim: To provide a mathematical, machine-verified proof of the functional accuracy of the L4 microkernel and the minimum set of interfaces used by the operating system to create a high-level, formal description of its expected behaviour. Effort: Employs 3.1 FTE (researchers) per annum. Duration: Three years. Project Leader: Dr Gerwin Klein. Participants: n ERTOS, FM, and LC programs, NICTA Fellow Dr Ian Mason (University of New England). Key Points: n The project will develop a model of the kernel suitable for formal reasoning about the software components that will be built on top of it, and to verify the implementation of the kernel itself n A successful proof will constitute a major scientific breakthrough in the areas of operating systems and formal methods n Provide the basis for achieving genuinely trustworthy systems and supporting industrial interest in a formally verified kernel. Progress: n Project commenced in April 2005 n Project Agreement finalised. Milestones: Date Milestone 12/05 WP 1: Create formal API specification 12/07 WP2 :Develop functional correctness proofs 12/06 WP3: Build hardware model 12/08 WP4: Develop technology 12/06 WP5: Test security 219 ANNUAL REPORT 05 to the Australian Government KEN 012 Temporal Verification of Microkernels Topic: Embedded systems must often meet strict real-time operating requirements. In order to satisfy these, the kernel’s temporal behaviour must be well understood. This takes the form of a model of the worst-case execution time (WCET) of each component of the kernel’s functionality Aim: To extend an existing WCET method and toolset to allow analysis of kernel code, provide a timing model for the L4 microkernel, significantly reduce the overestimation inherently introduced by the tool, and provide a consistent means to estimate the pre-emption delay. Effort: Employs 1.6 FTE (researchers) per annum. Duration: Two years. Project Leader: Stefan Petters. Participant: n ERTOS Program. Key Points: n Develop the world’s first protected kernel with a usable and trustworthy WCET model n Influence the design space for embedded systems developers n The project will make the L4 kernel applicable to a much wider domain n The project will provide industry with the tools for greatly improved efficiency of embedded systems development and the ability to support feature sets that are impossible today. Progress: n Project commenced in March 2005. Milestones: 220 Date Milestone 09/05 WP 1: Create simulator trace generation mechanism one 10/05 WP 2: Conduct manual analysis 01/06 WP 3: Conduct C++ source code analysis 12/05 WP 4: Create CFG parser (deferred, as this will mainly be done by Goanna Pilot Project) 08/05 WP 5: Conduct tree generation 03/06 WP 6: Create trace parser 05/06 WP 7: Create timing program generator 06/06 WP 8: Separate concerns 08/06 WP 9: Create trace generation mechanisms for Xscale 09/06 WP 10: Analyse kernel 01/07 WP 11: Validate results 02/07 WP 12: Refine hypothesis-based dependency 04/07 WP 13: Refine loop dependency 04/07 WP 14: Analyse pre-emption delay KEN 013 Formal Methods for Performance Evaluation for Wireless Network Applications Topic: The technological constraints imposed by hardware in wireless networks and its intended applications give rise to significant challenges and unpredictable network behaviours that the design of network and application protocols must accommodate. Aim: To apply formal methods techniques to a new application area of wireless networks to advance wireless network protocol engineering and formal methods. Effort: Employs 0.6 FTE (researchers) per annum over three years. Duration: Three years. Project Leader: Ron van der Meyden. Participants: n FM and NPC programs, NICTA Fellow Annabelle McIver (Macquarie University). Key Points: n The project will improve understanding of the ramifications of design in network protocols n Lead to automated tools for use in protocol design that can explore a wider range of network behaviour than is currently possible n Underpins the development of trusted wireless networks. Progress: n Project commenced in April 2006. Milestones: Date Milestone 08/05 Create worst case analysis 12/05 Create probabilistic QoS analysis 12/06 Implement modelling notation and editor 12/06 Evaluate model checking tool 06/07 Integrate proof-based methods to scale capabilities 06/07 Extend proof-based methods to performance requirements 12/07 Implement and evaluate proposed techniques 221 ANNUAL REPORT 05 to the Australian Government QLD 002 Disaster Prediction, Response, and Recovery Topic: To protect government, industry, and the community from terrorism, crime (including cyber crime), invasive diseases, and pests; provide enabling technologies to increase the effectiveness of Australia’s defence and law enforcement agencies; and secure Australia’s critical infrastructure by making it more reliable. Aim: The project addresses key elements of the process of predicting, responding to, and recovering from a range of disasters including natural (e.g. cyclone, fire) and manmade (e.g. terrorism). It also aims to improve the ICT technologies, devices, information systems, and services in that sector. Effort: (Under negotiation) Duration: Three years. Project Leader: Renato Iannella. Participants: SGA, KRR, LC, IMAGEN, ERTOS, ESE, NPC, and ASSeT programs, Queensland Government agencies, Kelvin Ross & Associates, Boeing, Object Connections. Key Points: n Focused on the Safeguarding Australia national priority n Multidisciplinary project involving teams across NICTA and its partner universities and driven principally by Queensland Government requirements n The project will deliver a comprehensive demonstrator of new and improved technology including video surveillance systems, early warnings for incidents, situational awareness, and secure mesh networks to enable better prediction, response, and recovery during emergencies Progress: n Project commenced in July 2005 n The DisPRR Project research plan signed off by stakeholders, university involvement agreed, government partners identified and committed, and initial potential industry partners identified n Staff hired to fill most full-time positions n Linkages to internal NICTA programs identified and progressed n Linkages established with external groups such as international research centres and standards consortia n Linkages created with stakeholders such as the Insurance Council of Australia n Conference papers submitted and presented at national and international events n Staff invited to give talks on the project technical areas n PhD students commenced work n Workshops held with key user groups including Queensland Police and the Department of Emergency Services n Project involved with local emergency groups such as the Queensland Tropical Cyclone Coordination Committee and Operation Orchid Alert 222 Milestones: Date Milestone 06/06 Create base information model 09/06 Identify disaster impact zone 12/06 Create working Smart Image sensor prototype 12/06 Build context management demonstrator 12/06 Build trusted architecture 12/06 Build security architecture 06/07 Create semantic information model 06/07 Build base notification demonstrator 12/07 Build single camera real-time application demonstrator 06/08 Build multi camera real-time application demonstrator 06/08 Create ontology information model 06/08 Build open notification and resource demonstrator 06/08 Build network reconfiguration demonstrator 06/08 Crete trusted architecture prototype 06/08 Build security testbed QLD 007 Digital License Management Topic: Most Digital Rights Management systems today are focussed on the distribution of commercial and consumer-oriented content, such as music to mobile phones. The Digital License Management Project investigates the legal, semantic, and technical issues of licensing content in open communities. These are communities that support a high level of sharing (eg research, science, and education) without a strict requirement for enforcement of content usage, but still require intellectual property rights (IPR) to be maintained, honoured, and managed. Aim: To provide guidance as to how research undertaken in the science and education sector can be made available for open access online within the boundaries of Australian copyright law, and provide the machine-readable rights expression language (REL) for implementing this through technology. Effort: Employs 2.2 FTE (researchers) per annum over 2 years. Duration: 2 years. Project Leader: Renato Iannella. Participants: Queensland University of Technology (QUT). 223 ANNUAL REPORT 05 to the Australian Government Keypoints: n Potential markets include digital repositories to the creative, scientific, and education industry n This project will address new areas of rights expression language developments and profiles for the creative and scientific industries n Implementing technologies mechanisms to improve open access and management though the application of license protocols and services to existing digital repositories. Progress: n Project submitted to the RMMC and accepted n Project agreements currently under development. Milestones: Due date Milestone Mar 2006 Development of a new REL Model for the Open Digital Rights Language (ODRL) that captures the fundamental IPR transaction requirements Jul 2006 Develop XML Schema and Semantic Web bindings of Profiles Jan 2007 Development of Profiles based on the legal requirements of different communities of use Apr 2007 Development of a License Protocol for integration into digital repositories Aug 2007 Development of identity integration between licenses and content management systems TBA 3rd International ORDL Workshop: Promote the REL Model and Profiles at ODRL International workshop TBA 4th International ORDL Workshop Promote the REL Model and Profiles at ODRL International workshop VIC 002 Broadband to the User Topic: The potential for applications such as video streaming to be exploited by home and office users is currently hampered by local infrastructure that is unable to support the bandwidth required. Aim: To develop innovative next-generation, high data rate passive optical and millimetre wave wireless network technology for gigabit per second data rates to fixed and mobile users. Effort: Employs 5.75 FTE (researchers) per annum. Duration: Three-and-a-half years. Project Leader: Thas Nirmalathas. Participants: n NT Program, Technovus, Agilent Technologies, France Telecom. 224 Key Points: n Design and integration of gigabit wireless and passive optical networks to provide gigabit data rates to the network user n Development of an integrated, high-speed PON/wireless testbed capable of gigabit speeds n Development of a low-cost EPON solution based on an upstream repeater n Development of improved dynamic bandwidth allocation schemes for the provision of QoS in the PON n Development of subsystems for next generation WDM PON. Progress: n Project commenced in July 2004 n During the initial phase of the project, the objective was to develop optical and wireless technologies for the delivery of gigabit per second broadband connectivity to the users. Detailed project plans were drawn for both sub activities (optical access and wireless access). To maintain a tight focus, the Wireless Access component was separated and formed a new project, Gigabit Wireless Access (GiFi) n Scope of B2U Project redefined to focus on the technologies required for the delivery of gigabit per second connectivity via optical access network solutions n B2U Project plans approved by the RMCC during 2005 n New GiFi Project submitted to the RMCC and in the review stage n Hardware testing of a passive optical network demonstrator system completed n Developed and tested broadcast solutions for wave division multiplexed (WDM) PONs n Demonstration of LAN emulation for PON based on sub-carrier modulation n New PON architectures with built-in protection against fibre breaks experimentally tested n A novel scheme for re-generated upstream transmission of a PON to reduce the dynamic range specifications and facilitate higher splits in the passive distribution network investigated. n Two patents filed and one invention disclosure being considered for patenting. 225 ANNUAL REPORT 05 to the Australian Government VIC 003 Constraint Programming Platform Topic: The information processing revolution has enabled organisations large and small to capture and access accurate and up-to-date information about their activities and resources. Aim: To develop a pioneering software platform for solving large-scale industrial combinatorial optimisation problems and so enable this information to be used in optimised decision making and resource allocation. Effort: Employs 4.55 FTE (researchers) per annum. Duration: Five years. Project Leaders: Peter Stuckey (Victoria), John Slaney (Canberra), Toby Walsh (Kensington). Participants: n NIP, KRR, and LC programs, Monash University, industry participants under consideration. Key Points: n The system will use constraint programming which will allow problems to be stated simply and then solved efficiently n Solution development time and computing time will be dramatically reduced n The software platform will support solving large-scale industrial combinatorial optimisation problems. Progress: n Program commenced in January 2005 n The Constraint Programming Platform (CPP) team formed and the project plan developed n Two important advances in the theory of constraint programming relating to the semantics of rewriting approaches to constraint solving and the compilation of implication achieved n A new approach to solving constraints involving set variables developed and shown to outperform all previous approaches by, in most cases, an order of magnitude n Project plan finalised. 2005: n Release 0.12 of Mercury including solver types on 9 September 2005 n First stable design of Zinc modelling language completed n Prototype compiler under construction. Milestones: 226 Date Milestone 07/05 Build software interface to Mercury 06/06 Develop ZINC language 07/06 Solve first industrial problem with NICTA CPP tools 10/06 Develop solver visualisation tool Date Milestone 07/07 Develop constraint behaviour language 10/07 Build second industrial application 01/08 Implement specialised modelling tool 07/08 Implement advanced propagation 09/08 Build third industrial application 07/09 Implement online optimisation VIC 004 Interactive Information Discovery and Delivery Topic: Web search services which perform linguistic and geospatial analysis of queries and content can greatly enhance users’ ability to access information. Aim: The Interactive Discovery and Delivery (I2D2) Project aims to develop new natural language processing technologies for extracting, analysing, and presenting the information locked up in large bodies of text and speech data on the web and to demonstrate the developed intellectual property on an Australian news media demonstrator. Effort: Employs 2.4 FTE (researchers) per annum. Duration: Three years. Project Leader: Steven Bird. Participants: n NIP Program, further participants under negotiation. Key Points: n Will be developed around Australian news media data sets n Will feature location-based query and visualisation n Will employ scalable methods for linguistic and geospatial annotation and indexing of tera-scale web data n Will support question/answer and multi-document summarisation. Progress: n Project commenced in August 2005 n Specification and testing of the processing nodes of a high-performance computing cluster undertaken n All necessary data sets identified and either obtained or ordered n Identification of potential collaborators in academia and industry interested in commercialising language technologies is underway n Locality data sets obtained from various sources including GeoScience Australia n Australian news data sets obtained and collated n Geospatial annotation begun on 3,600 news stories n Experiments commenced in geospatial query expression and query analysis n A document structure model implemented and experimental testing underway. 227 ANNUAL REPORT 05 to the Australian Government Milestones: Date Milestone 07/05 Complete preliminary data acquisition phase (200Gb disk system) 10/05 Complete Australian named-entity recognition system 01/06 Complete toponym resolution system with incremental spatial index 04/06 Complete semantic role labelling system 07/06 Complete main data acquisition phase (1Tb memory) 10/06 Deploy geospatial web browser 01/07 Complete document analysis and layout engine 04/07 Complete abstractive summarisation module 07/07 Complete multimedia data acquisition phase (5Tb memory) 10/07 Complete mobile spoken language interface 01/08 Deploy multimodal question/answer system VICsub1 Gigabit Wireless Access (GiFi) Topic: Mm-wave radios will experience very challenging propagation properties, including multipath propagation, a rapidly-changing transmission environment, and high attenuation by walls and windows as well as atmospheric absorption. The realisation of a transmission system in CMOS operating in the 60-GHz band requires research on all levels from algorithms, channel modelling, simulation, architecture development, implementation down to physical device modelling. Aim: to develop novel RF technologies and baseband algorithm for a complete transceiver design for emerging millimetre-wave communication systems. Effort: Employs 2.3 FTE (researchers) per annum. Duration: Three years. Project Leader: Stan Skafidas. Participants: n SN and WSP programs, DSTO, IBM, Princeton University, Peregrine Semiconductor, Synopsys, Cadence Design Systems, Suss Microtech, Anritsu, Agilent Technologies, MOSIS, UTAC. Key Points: n Deliver a gigabit data rate wireless technology CMOS chip n Major research areas to be addressed are security and trust problems, adaptive array antennae, and adaptive data rate applications. Progress: n Project commenced in April 2005 n Initiated preliminary designs for gigabit wireless RF and baseband systems n First test chips delivered from foundry and currently being characterised n World-class laboratory established in Victoria has received considerable industry support and is able to characterise a wafer to 110GHz n Five standards submissions made. 228 Milestones: Date Milestone GIGABIT OPTICAL ACCESS 04/05 Finalise project plan and development timetable 02/06 Demonstrate low-cost PON technology 09/06 Complete prototype PON 07/07 Complete integrated 60GHz PON testbed 12/07 Create converged access network demonstrator GIGABIT WIRELESS ACCESS 09/05 Complete second SOS fabrication 03/06 Complete first CMOS fabrication 09/06 Fabricate major RF components 07/07) Fabricate preliminary 60GHz transceiver chips VICsub2 Managing and Monitoring the Internet Topic: As core networks become more optical, dynamic, and reconfigurable it will be necessary to probe and measure the Internet at many different levels to ensure a secure and resilient infrastructure. Aim: To develop technology for monitoring Internet performance, provide critical information to network managers, and contribute valuable intellectual property to the Australian optical communications industry. Effort: Employs 1.75 FTE (researchers) per annum. Duration: Three years. Project Leader: Trevor Anderson. Participants: n NT, NIP, and SN programs, Sprint, further industry partners under consideration. Key Points: n Two work streams dealing with physical layer monitoring and Internet measurements, security, and traffic management being pursued n Physical layer monitoring is focused on designing and constructing optical monitor prototypes for optimum network operation through early warning alerts of impending failures and their locations n Internet measurements, security, and traffic management will pursue work in active probing of the Internet, network security measurement protocols, and traffic monitoring and generation. Progress: n Project commenced in May 2005 n Initial work streams defined n An initial optical monitor hardware system developed n Signal processing algorithms to estimate optical power and optical SNR in DWDM h devised and tested 229 ANNUAL REPORT 05 to the Australian Government n Internet probing tools developed and are being tested n Two optical monitoring invention disclosures submitted. 2005: n Optical performance monitoring hardware experiments verified new NICTA algorithms n Optical performance monitoring hardware, based on NICTA’s patented technology, which measures the optical signal to noise ratio implemented and demonstrated at NICTA TechFest in Canberra n Optical spectrum estimation using signal processing techniques investigated n Development of a new method for impairment identification in optical communication links has progressed well. The team has been in contact with researchers from the NI and SML programs to discuss new algorithms to identify multiple impairments. Milestones: Date Milestone 05/05 Finalise project plan and timetable 09/05 Demonstrate Optical Performance Monitor (Generation 1) Active probing and characterisation of Internet traffic (delayed due to late delivery of 40 BG/s BER testbed. Date of milestone rescheduled from 04/06) 02/06 Integrate Optical Performance Monitor with network testbed 06/06 Develop second generation of Optical Performance Monitor architecture 12/06 Develop software tool for active probing of Internet traffic 07/07 Demonstrate Reconfigurable Optical Network with active monitoring NSW 001 Priority Challenge Strategic Project: Smart Transport and Roads Topic: Traffic-related ICT infrastructure consisting of networks of smart sensors connected in wireless mesh, software algorithms, and advanced multimodal user interfaces to enhance metropolitan and urban traffic efficiencies and the effectiveness of traffic control operations. Aim: The Smart Transport and Roads (STaR) Project aims to explore and exploit new developments in wireless communications for the connection of sensitive public assets and infrastructure such as traffic controllers, bridges, tunnels, and video cameras. It aims to securely deliver the collected data to dependent traffic management systems capable of producing new social, environmental, and economic value from the information. The large amount of information gathered by the various types of traffic sensors will be turned into knowledge to improve traffic flows. Effort: 70 FTE (researchers) per annum. Duration: Three years. Project Manager: Geoff Goeldner. Participants: n SMLKA, SEACS, KRR, AsseT, NPC, and IMAGEN programs, NSW Roads and Traffic Authority (RTA), assorted testbed suppliers, potential SME collaborators. 230 Key Points: n Leverages immediate collaborative opportunities with the RTA, a world-class supplier of traffic management systems n Builds on the recognised strengths of six NICTA research programs across three laboratories n Provides an opportunity for NICTA researchers to directly engage in research using sensory and data inputs from diverse sources in metropolitan Sydney n Has the potential to improve traffic congestion in Australian cities and the other 80 cities and 18 countries in which the Sydney Coordinated Adaptive Traffic Management System is deployed. Progress: n Project commenced in June 2005 n Collaborations with the RTA and testbed suppliers established n Five separate research packages are progressing, including sensors and surveillance, wireless mesh communications, real-time traffic control and scheduling, and multimodal user interfaces n Research briefs agreed with the RTA and regular milestone reviews conducted. 2005: n Project manager appointed n MoU signed with the RTA and research briefs agreed n Project became a member of ITS Australia n Analysis of the international intelligent transport systems market and research landscape completed n Initial wireless mesh network testbeds demonstrated n Shared facilities integrating laboratory and street-based testbeds under construction. Milestones: Date Milestone 06/05 Gain project approval from RMCC 06/05 Sign MoU with RTA 08/05 Establish research briefs 12/05 Demonstrate initial wireless mesh testbed Complete multimodal user interface (MMUI) research platform design 06/06 Complete initial deployment of wireless mesh Demonstrate initial traffic model Demonstrate multi camera testbed with single/multiple object tracking and statistical estimation of traffic flow Develop algorithm to achieve low bit-rate video transmission over wireless networks Test routing protocols over on-street testbed. Develop robust speech recognition front-end for MMUI Define RTA Traffic Management Centre scenarios and prototype specification 12/06 Demonstrate queue length estimation with background modelling Demonstrate mesh network multi-path robustness 06/07 Demonstrate multi-lane, multiple intersection traffic model Extract multimodal interaction patterns and complete usability studies 231 ANNUAL REPORT 05 to the Australian Government Date Milestone 12/07 Demonstrate video sensing technology and deliver technology transfer report to RTA 06/08 Demonstrate regional traffic control and modelling Complete MMUI application prototype for RTA Traffic Management Centre VIC 001 Priority Challenge Strategic Project: Water Information Networks Topic: Water-related ICT infrastructure consisting of networks of sensor platforms, actuators, and software can greatly enhance efforts to achieve sustainable usage of the world’s freshwater resources. Aim: The Water Information Networks (WIN) Project aims to develop innovative sensor network technology, based on the NICTOR sensor networks platform, that can more efficiently manage water resources, improve farm productivity, and support the sustainable use of this critical national resource. Effort: Employs 18.2 FTE (researchers) per annum. Duration: Three years. Project Manager: Gavin Thoms Participants: n SN, NIP, NT, SEACS, IMAGEN, and WSP programs, Melbourne Water Research Centre, Rubicon Systems Australia, Daintree Networks, Chipcon, DPI. Key Points: n Builds on NICTA’s existing research strengths in sophisticated wireless sensor network technology and high-performance distributed control software with the potential for a worldleading capability in water management n Up to 3,000 NICTOR platforms planned for deployment on several testbed sensor network systems to manage water in farm, urban, and river environments n Will deliver a comprehensive suite of NICTOR wireless sensor network solutions for water monitoring and management in a range of water usage environments with three full-scale demonstrators in operation in the Goulburn and Murray valleys by October 2007. Progress: n Project commenced June 2005 n Necessary alliances and collaborations with testbed suppliers and industry partners established n A major collaboration with a group of North American universities established through a joint proposal for a US National Science Foundation Engineering Research Center in the area of information technology for managing major infrastructure (e.g. transport, energy, and water). 2005: n Member of consortium with Melbourne Water Research Centre and Goulburn-Murray Water n Consortium awarded a A$4.5 million Victorian Government STI Grant for research into on-farm water management 232 n Function of the NICTOR platform demonstrated n Tests of small-scale NICTOR networks completed n Program manager appointed in August 2005 n STI on-farm project plan completed n Proposal submitted to NWC in conjunction with MWRC, CSIRO, and GMW for research in Broken River Catchment n Letter of Understanding implemented with CSIRO for joint operations in the national water space n Two meetings of the NICTA-CSIRO Coordinating Committee completed n Joint venture agreements with CSIRO, e-Water CRC and CRC for Irrigation Futures under negotiation n Field trial sites secured in the Goulburn Valley at Dookie and Shepparton n Initial field trial tests completed in December 2005 n Two provisional patents filed in the area of water information networks n Two plenary papers presented at major international conferences. Milestones: Date Milestone 06/05 Begin testing prototype NICTOR system 01/06 Deploy and test NICTOR in river environments 02/06 Host ministerial launch of Victorian STI on-farm project (NICTOR demonstration) 03/06 Develop commercialisation plan for NICTOR 05/06 Begin initial deployment of NICTOR in field trials 06/06 Refine NICTOR following field trials 09/05 Begin initial deployment of NICTOR on farms in Northern Victoria 08/06 Design sensor networks for urban water networks 09/06 Deploy second-generation NICTOR for 06/07 irrigation season pilot trials 09/06 Deploy and test NICTOR in river environments 02/07 Deploy NICTOR in urban water environments 08/07 Begin testing management and control software in urban water systems 233 3 Financial Report ANNUAL REPORT 05 to the Australian Government 3. FINANCIAL REPORT Commentary and Notes to the Statements of Funds Expended For the period ended 31st December 2005 1 Basis of preparation The Statements of Funds Expended have been prepared on an accruals basis. As such, the expenditure disclosed in the Statements includes: n funds spent by National ICT Australia Limited (the “Company”) in 2005; and n liabilities which are recognised for amounts to be paid in the future for goods and services received prior to 31 December 2005. NICTA records a surplus of funds as at 31st December 2005. This amount was determined to be required during 2005 for the year end. These funds support operations into 2006 until the next release of funding to NICTA. 2 Cash and In-Kind Contributions Under the funding agreements with the Commonwealth of Australia, National ICT Australia Limited (the “Company”) is required to disclose cash and in-kind contributions received from the Company’s members. Cash contributions The Company received the following cash contributions in 2005 from members: ACT Government $11,500,000 NSW Government $5,000,000 Victoria Government $2,500,000 Queensland Government $1,605,775 University of NSW $600,000 University of Sydney $200,000 $21,405,775 In-kind contributions These contributions have been recognised and measured at the fair value of the contribution received. The methodology used to calculate the value of in-kind contributions is based on a publication of the Australian Vice-Chancellors’ Committee (AVCC) dated February 1996 and titled ‘University Research: Some Issues. The AVCC document provides a well founded basis for the costing and charging for research in a ‘university context’. The paper provides a general statement of application to universities across Australia, rather than being specific to any one particular university or organisation. The approach to costing set out in the AVCC paper represents an approach which can be adopted in calculating the fair value of employees who are contributed to NICTA by universities. 235 ANNUAL REPORT 05 to the Australian Government In relation to the Contributed Employees of ANU and UNSW, applying the principles of the AVCC approach raises the following considerations: n The level of salary on-costs will vary from Contributed Employee to Contributed Employee. As noted in the AVCC paper, in some cases salary on-costs may be up to 52% of salary costs. A more standard figure is likely to be in the range of 25% - 30%. Such an employee by employee approach is broadly consistent with the financial information required to be supplied in applications under the Cooperative Research Centres Program. n The costing of infrastructure costs is based on the assumption that the Contributed Employees are carrying out their duties using university infrastructure. For example, a UNSW Contributed Employee who was to work full time at the NICTA premises located at the Australian Technology Park in Redfern, would not be expected to have any infrastructure costs associated with their particular costing. n The proportion of time which a Contributed Employee is ‘devoted’ to NICTA is taken into account in determining fair value. n Given the nature of the research being undertaken by UNSW and ANU Contributed Employees, the appropriate multiplier for determining infrastructure costs is 1.25 (namely, that which applies to laboratory based researchers). n The AVCC multiplier is based on a 1996 paper from the AVCC and data obtained at that time from the Department of Employment, Education and Training for the higher education system as a whole. It could be expected that the relevant multiplier would change over time as underlying cost structures change. n Adopting the AVCC methodology has the attraction of representing a methodology generic to universities and thus prima facie applicable to any university which becomes an Alliance Partner of NICTA. n The application by NICTA of a common multiplier in respect of Contributed Employees, regardless of the university providing the in-kind contribution, represents a sound approach. In respect of the contribution of other in-kind contributions, that is, other than contributed staff, an ‘arms length’ transaction valuation methodology is used. This approach has been applied in determining the gross values for in-kind valuations. The value and breakdown of these contributions in 2005 are as follows: IN-KIND CONTRIBUTIONS 2005 236 University of New South Wales 4,978,035 Australian National University 8,004,991 University of Sydney 1,850,279 Melbourne University 4,074,560 Griffith University 169,844 Queensland University of Technology 273,529 University of Queensland 264,298 TOTAL 19,615,536 3 Commitments Future operating lease commitments not provided for in the Statements of Funds Expended and payable out of Commonwealth Funds: 2006 2007 Total $201,159 $209,205 $410,364 $26,400 - $26,400 $994,000 $1,400,000 $2,394,000 $1,492,000 $1,537,435 $3,029,435 $359,480 $373,859 $733,339 $1,131,215 $841,962 $1,973,177 $68,664 $68,664 $137,328 NICTA LEASE PREMISES: -Brisbane Level 20, 300 Adelaide Street Brisbane, QLD, 4000 -Adelaide SPRI Building, Technology Park Adelaide, Mawson Lakes, SA, 5095 -Melbourne University of Melbourne, VIC, 3010 -Kensington The University of NSW Anzac Parade, Kensington, NSW -Canberra Nouvelle House, Block 12 Section 7, Braddon, ACT -ATP Bay 15/16, ATP Eveleigh, NSW, 1430 Photocopiers: $8,704,043 4 Asset disposals There was a net loss of $11,937 on assets disposed by the Company in 2005. Assets disposed were: Asset Class Original Cost Accumulated Depreciation Written Down Value Amount received from the Sale of Assets Profit and Loss $ $ $ $ $ Computer Equipment 24,515 17,524 6,991 2,349 (4,642) Leasehold Improvements 18,558 11,263 7,295 - (7,295) Total Loss (11,937) 237 ANNUAL REPORT 05 to the Australian Government National ICT Australia Limited Statement of Funds Expended - Dept of Communications, Information Technology & the Arts For the period ended 31st December 2005 Revenue Balance brought forward from 31st December 2004 Revenue – DCITA Interest – DCITA Total Revenue Expenditure Employment Costs Salaries and Wages Annual Leave Expense Superannuation - Employer Contributions Employee On Costs Contractors Recruitment Expenses Other Employment Costs Scholarships University Contributed Staff Visiting Research Costs Other Overheads Consulting Entertainment Facilities General Operational Costs IT Costs Rent Travel Centralised Admin Costs Advertising Audit Bank Charges Communications Insurance Legal & Regulatory Capital Expenditure Computer Equipment Office Equipment Furniture & Fittings Leasehold Improvements Software Research Equipment 238 11,903 40,700,000 329,800 41,041,703 9,383,297 805,619 904,691 511,496 925,224 453,943 545,032 2,027,716 1,255,070 284,562 17,096,650 563,288 98,369 445,132 1,216,625 604,042 1,845,838 1,199,162 5,972,456 5,009 41,879 8,705 203,212 119,783 406,533 785,121 750,701 130,596 533,603 2,052,786 114,576 980,904 4,563,166 Total Expenditure 28,417,393 Net Surplus/(Deficit) 12,624,310 National ICT Australia Limited Statement of Funds Expended - Australian Research Council For the period ended 31st December 2005 Revenue Balance brought forward from 31st December 2004 Revenue – ARC Interest – ARC Total Revenue Expenditure Employment Costs Research Remuneration Expenditure Annual Leave Expense Superannuation - Employer Contributions Employee On Costs Payroll Tax Contractors Recruitment Expenses Other Employment Costs Scholarships University Contributed Staff Visiting Research Costs Other Overheads Consulting Entertainment Facilities General Operational Costs IT Costs Rent Travel Centralised Admin Costs Advertising Bank charges Communications Legal & Regulatory Capital Expenditure Computer Equipment Office Equipment Furniture & Fittings Leasehold Improvements Software Research Equipment 17,700,000 325,463 18,025,463 6,490,459 590,532 657,717 49,709 260,930 382,647 244,247 17,018 1,059,342 897,624 275,354 10,925,579 51,158 47,751 250,740 726,606 410,342 961,827 749,842 3,198,266 239 412 3,571 9,381 153,987 167,351 662,670 122,155 464,377 2,143,906 40,213 300,946 3,734,267 Total Expenditure Net Surplus/(Deficit) 18,025,463 0 ANNUAL REPORT 05 to the Australian Government National ICT Australia Limited Remuneration of Directors for the year ending 31 December 2005 2005 No. 2004 No. $10,000 - $19,999 3 0 $20,000 - $29,999 4 0 $30,000 - $39,999 4 1 $40,000 - $49,999 0 5 $70,000 - $79,999 0 1 $90,000 - $99,999 0 1 $140,000 - $149,999 1 0 $160,000 - $169,999 0 1 $350,000 - $359,999 1 0 $510,000 - $519,999 1 0 $570,000 - $579,999 0 1 Directors’ Income The number of directors whose income from the company or any related Party falls within the following bands: Total income paid or payable, or otherwise made available, $1,298,639 to all Directors from the company or any related party. 240 $1,161,557 241 ANNUAL REPORT 05 to the Australian Government 242 243 ANNUAL REPORT 05 to the Australian Government 244 245 ANNUAL REPORT 05 to the Australian Government 246 247 ANNUAL REPORT 05 to the Australian Government 248 249 ANNUAL REPORT 05 to the Australian Government 250 251 ANNUAL REPORT 05 to the Australian Government 252 253 ANNUAL REPORT 05 to the Australian Government 254 255 ANNUAL REPORT 05 to the Australian Government 256 257 ANNUAL REPORT 05 to the Australian Government 258 259 ANNUAL REPORT 05 to the Australian Government 260 261 ANNUAL REPORT 05 to the Australian Government 262 263 ANNUAL REPORT 05 to the Australian Government 264 265 ANNUAL REPORT 05 to the Australian Government 266 267 ANNUAL REPORT 05 to the Australian Government 268 269 ANNUAL REPORT 05 to the Australian Government 270 271 ANNUAL REPORT 05 to the Australian Government 272 273 ANNUAL REPORT 05 to the Australian Government 274 275 ANNUAL REPORT 05 to the Australian Government 276 277 4 Information Annexes ANNUAL REPORT 05 to the Australian Government PART 4: INFORMATION ANNEXES Key Performance Indicators A set of Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) that show NICTA’s development during its growth phase are included in the table below. These are the basic indicators of NICTA’s progress towards its steady state operations. They are aggregate output measures for NICTA as a whole and are reported each year, commencing with the Annual Report 2003. The KPIs form part of an overall scheme of performance measurement set out during the development of the Annual Activity Plan (AAP) 2005. The performance benchmarks set for 2003–07 show the staged growth of NICTA over the period of development. Growth Performance Indicators and Benchmarks Performance Measure by Key Result Area Proposed Performance Benchmark 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 Number of research staff* 25 110 144 202 260 Headcount 77 165/155† 196 59.4 128.45 149.75 Number of programs 11 13 15 17 17 Actual 12 15 16 Number of projects 10 22 35 45 50 Actual 10 39 61 Outreach agreements concluded 2 3 – Actual 2 3 – Research student population 37 77 91 Actual 37 132 209# Research students graduating – – – Actual – – 2 % of contestable research funding – 35 45 Actual – 38 50% RESEARCH CAPACITY FTE 279 – – 108 133 25 40 50 60 *Research staff does not include NICTA research support staff such as research programmers, research assistants, and research administrators who are also an integral part of programs but do not fall under researcher classifications. There were 77 research support staff at 31 December 2005. # Student numbers varied over the year. The total number of students endorsed was 214. Allowing for first completions and withdrawals there were 209 students at the end of 2005. †A more general set of performance indicators and performance methodology has been agreed with the Project Executive and are set out in the AAP 2004. This scheme is to be applied in stages as NICTA develops to provide a means of benchmarking against domestic research performance measures from 2005 to 2007 when NICTA is close to its steady state. They will be applied against a set of average measures to show how NICTA is approaching comparison with key international indicators. ANNUAL REPORT 05 to the Australian Government RESEARCHER CALIBRE 2003 2004 2005 14 74 161 – – – Memberships of external program committees 22 72 288 Memberships of editorial boards 22 50 84 Prizes and awards 8 9 33 Membership of academies 4 11 22 Number of journal publications 37 50 126 Number of publications other than journals (conference papers, industry papers) 101 296 438 Invitations to address and participate in international conferences 54 240 239 Citation recognition of researchers (deferred till ARC Project completed) – – – Number of commentaries about NICTA’s achievements# – 102 248* Number of research collaborations (domestic) 13 44 44 Number of research collaborations (international) 30 15 15 37 132 209 Number of PhD completions – – 2 Number of courses delivered 6 27 30 Number of professional courses undertaken by students 2 3 2 Vacation research scholarships offered and accepted 32 60 200 Secondary sector outreach contacts 0 9 9 – – – Invited talks Specialised individual citations RESEARCH RECOGNITION EDUCATION Number of FTE NICTA-endorsed students COMMERCIALISATION Patents Number of patent applications 280 23 Australia – 4 23 USA – – 1 EU – – – Japan – – – Other – – – Economic impacts – – – Number of joint venture and start-up companies established – – – Number of staff and students trained in technology transfer and commercialisation – 121 – 38 98 153 Attendances at workshops or conferences – 221 394 Number of teaching or research visits to international institutions – 82 211 Number of SME clusters established – – – Number of government, industry, and business briefings 4 6 20 Number of public awareness programs and technology outreach events – 8 2 Number of firms participating in subscription service – 200 200 Number of courses or workshops offered to industry 3 8 13 LINKAGES Number of international visitors # Includes all media, print, television, and radio commentary that deal with NICTA as a principal or secondary subject. 281 ANNUAL REPORT 05 to the Australian Government NICTA Project List at 30 June 2005 282 Project Number Project Title Program ATP 002 Visualisation and Interaction Collaborative Access Table IMAGEN ATP 003 Practical Software Process Control ESE ATP 004 Risk Analysis for Government IT Projects ESE ATP 005 Ambient Networks NPC ATP 006 Modelling Theory for Sensor Networks Within Dynamic Landscapes NPC ATP 007 Quality of Service Mapping for Pervasive Networks NPC ATP 008 Impact of CMMI Software Process Improvements on SMEs ESE ATP 009 Integrated ICT Solutions for Rural and Remote Access (Office in a Box) NPC ATP 010 Visualisation and Analysis of Large and Complex Networks IMAGEN ATP 011 Perceptually Effective Multimodal Interfaces IMAGEN ATP 012 Personal Universal Communicator NPC, ERTOS ATP 013 Component Architecture for Microkernel-Based Embedded Systems ERTOS, ESE ATP 014 Models and Extensible Architectures for Adaptive Middleware Platforms ESE ATP 015 XQoS System NPC ATP 016 LIXI Business Processes ESE ATP 019 Macro-Programming for Wireless Sensor Networks NPC ATP 021 Data Mining in Spatio-Temporal sets (DMiST) IMAGEN CAN 001 Fundamental Limits of Wireless WSP CAN 002 Humans Understanding Logic and Computation LC, IMAGEN CAN 003 Dynamic Planning Optimisation and Learning SML, KRR CAN 004 Ubiquitous Robot Project ASSeT CAN 006 Ultra Wideband WSP CAN 007 Last Metre Problem WSP CAN 008 GymAware SML CAN 009 High-Performance Multi-User Detection WSP, ERTOS CAN 010 Propositional Satisfiability LC Project Number Project Title Program CAN 011 Document Analysis and Understanding SML CAN 012 Supercom Model-Based Supervision of Composite Systems KRR, LC, SML CAN 013 Surveillance System with Query Capability ASSeT, ERTOS CAN 014 Automated Anatomical Structure Extraction for Diagnosis and Population Norms ASSeT CAN 015 Smart Cars ASSeT, IMAGEN CAN 016 Advanced Nonlinear Gradient Methods ASSeT, IMAGEN, SEACS, SML CAN 017 Spectral Image Source Mapping Systems ASSeT CAN 018 Road Safety Driver Fatigue from Head Motion SEACS CAN 019 Notes on Algorithms for Summarising and Querying TimeVarying Relations from Digital Forensic Data ASSeT CAN 020 Mapping Genetic Components in Crops SML CAN 021 Validating Networks Semantics LC CAN 024 Cancer Genomics SML CAN 025 3D Environment Modelling and Representation Systems ASSeT CAN 026 Computer Colonic Polyps Detection Based on CT Colonography SEACS, ASSeT CAN 027 Characterisation, Diagnosis, and Assurance of Health and Quality of Sensor Formations SEACS CAN 028 Passive Ranging and Robust Resource Allocation SEACS KEN 002 Learning and Representation (LEAR) SMLKA KEN 003 Universal Storage Scheme SMLKA KEN 004 Embedded Next-Generation Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) Platform ERTOS KEN 006 Microkernel-Protected Firmware for CDMA Phones ERTOS KEN 007 Digital Audio Networking (DANTE) ERTOS KEN 008 Video Analysis and Content Management for Surveillance SMLKA KEN 009 Secure Embedded L4 ERTOS, FM, LC KEN 010 Goanna Pilot Project ERTOS, FM KEN 011 L4 Verified ERTOS, FM, LC KEN 012 Temporal Verification of Microkernels ERTOS 283 ANNUAL REPORT 05 to the Australian Government Project Number Project Title Program KEN 013 Formal Methods for Performance Evaluation for Wireless Network Applications FM, NPC QLD 001 Disaster Prediction, Response, and Recovery SA QLD 007 Digital License Management SA VIC 002 Broadband to the User (B2U) NT, WSP VIC 003 Constraint Programming Platform (CPP) NIP, KRR, LC VIC 004 Interactive Information Discovery and Delivery (I2D2) NIP Vsub1 Gigabit Wireless Access (GiFI) SN, WSP Vsub2 Managing and Monitoring the Internet (MAMI) NT, NIP, SN PRIORITY CHALLENGE STRATEGIC PROJECTS 284 NSW 001 Smart Transport and Roads (STaR) SMLKA, SEACS, KRR, ASSeT, NPC, IMAGEN VIC 001 Water Information Networks (WIN) SN, NIP, NT, SEACS, IMAGEN, WSP NICTA Projects by Collaborator – Formal Project Number Project Title Program Collaborators ATP 002 Visualisation and Interaction Collaborative Access Table IMAGEN DSTO, University of South Australia, Sydney VisLAB ATP 003 Practical software Process Control ESE Global software firm ATP 004 Risk Analysis for Government IT Projects ESE Government IT Agency ATP 005 Ambient Networks NPC Ericsson, NTT DoCoMo, Siemens, other consortia members ATP 006 Modelling Theory for Sensor Networks within Dynamic Landscapes NPC University of Western Australia, Fire and Emergency Services Authority WA (FESA), Western Australian Department of Conservation and Land Management ATP 007 Quality of Service Mapping for Pervasive Networks NPC ATP 008 Impact of CMMI Software Process Improvements on SMEs ESE Software Engineering Australia, SMEs ATP 009 Integrated ICT Solutions for Rural and Remote Access (Office in a Box) NPC Satellite service provider ATP 010 Visualisation and Analysis of Large and Complex Networks IMAGEN ATP 011 Perceptually Effective Multimodal Interfaces IMAGEN Roads and Traffic Authority NSW ATP 012 Personal Universal Communicator NPC, ERTOS SME Partner ATP 013 Component Architecture for MicrokernelBased Embedded Systems ERTOS, ESE ATP 014 Models and Extensible Architectures for Adaptive Middleware ESE ATP 015 XQoS System NPC ATP 016 LIXI Business Processes ESE Lending Industry XML Initiative ATP 019 Macro-Programming for Wireless Sensor Networks NPC Institutions & companies involved in the 6th EU FP project RUNES 285 University of Sydney, Microsoft, Software Engineering Institute, CSIRO, ICT Centre ANNUAL REPORT 05 to the Australian Government 286 Project Number Project Title Program Collaborators ATP 021 Data Mining in Spatio-Temporal sets (DMiST) IMAGEN Defence Science & Technology Organisation CAN 001 Fundamental Limits of Wireless WSP University of South Australia, Uppsala, University of California, Davis CAN 002 Humans Understanding Logic and Computation LC, IMAGEN CAN 003 Dynamic Planning Optimisation and Learning SML, KRR University of Adelaide, DSTO CAN 006 Ultra Wideband WSP CSIRO CAN 007 Last Metre Problem WSP Western Australia Telecommunications Research Institute CAN 008 GymAware SML SME partner CAN 009 High-Performance Multi-user Detection WSP, ERTOS University of South Australia, Telstra CAN 010 Propositional Satisfiability LC Griffith University CAN 011 Document Analysis and Understanding SML SME Partner CAN 012 Supercom Model-Based Supervision of Composite Systems KRR, LC, SML CAN 013 Surveillance System with Query Capability ASSeT, ERTOS CAN 014 Automated Anatomical Structure Extraction for Diagnosis and Population Norms ASSeT Centre for Mental Health Research, Neuro-psychiatric Institute at the Prince of Wales Hospital CAN 015 Smart Cars ASSeT, IMAGEN ANU, CSIRO ICT Centre CAN 016 Advanced Nonlinear Gradient Methods ASSeT, IMAGEN, SEACS, SML ETH Zurich, IDIAP, Martigny (Switzerland), Hamilton Institute, Ireland CAN 017 Spectral Image Source Mapping Systems ASSeT ANU, Curtin CAN 018 Road Safety Driver Fatigue from Head Motion SEACS SME Partner CAN 019 Notes on Algorithms for Summarising and Querying Time-Varying Relations from Digital Forensic Data ASSeT DSTO Project Number Project Title Program Collaborators CAN 020 Mapping Genetic Components in Crops SML Diversity Arrays™ Technology CAN 021 Validating Networks Semantics LC University of Cambridge CAN 024 Cancer Genomics SML Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre CAN 025 3D Environment Modelling and Representation Systems ASSeT SIMmersion Holdings Pty Ltd CAN 026 Computer Colonic Polyps Detection Based on CT Colonography SEACS, ASSeT Canberra Imaging Group CAN 027 Characterisation, Diagnosis, and Assurance of Health and Quality of Sensor Formations SEACS DSTO CAN 028 Passive Ranging and Robust Resource Allocation SEACS MOD, DSTO Edinburgh SA, Eglin Air Force Base Florida USA, Prof R J ElliottUniversity of Calgary, Alberta, Canada KEN 002 Learning and Representation (LEAR) SMLKA DSTO, Swedish National Defence College KEN 003 Universal Storage Scheme SMLKA Database start-up KEN 004 Embedded Next Generation Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) Platform ERTOS Satellite Navigation and Positioning Laboratory (SNAP) in the School of Surveying and Spatial Information Systems at the University of NSW KEN 006 Microkernel-Protected Firmware for CDMA Phones ERTOS Mobile telephony equipment supplier KEN 007 Digital Audio Networking (DANTE) ERTOS DANTE Project Group KEN 008 Video Analysis and Content Management for Surveillance SMLKA MMVC Group KEN 009 Secure Embedded L4 ERTOS, FM, LC Qualcomm KEN 010 Goanna Pilot Project ERTOS, FM KEN 011 L4 Verified ERTOS, FM, LC KEN 012 Temporal Verification of Microkernels ERTOS Dr Ian Mason, NICTA Fellow (University of New England) 287 ANNUAL REPORT 05 to the Australian Government Project Number Project Title Program Collaborators KEN 013 Formal Methods for Performance Evaluation for Wireless Network Applications FM, NPC Annabelle McIver NICTA Fellow (Macquarie University) QLD 001 Disaster Prediction, Response, and Recovery SA Emergency Services Agencies, Kelvin Ross and Associates, Boeing Australia, Object Connections QLD 007 Digital License Management SA Queensland University of Technology (QUT) VIC 002 Broadband to the User (B2U) NT, WSP DSTO, Peregrine Semiconductor, Synopsys, Cadence Design Systems, Suss MicroTech, Anritsu, Agilent Technologies, MOSIS, CEOS Pty Ltd VIC 003 Constraint Programming Platform (CPP) NIP, KRR, LC Monash University, industry participants under consideration VIC 004 Interactive Information Discovery and Delivery (I2D2) NIP Under negotiation Vsub1 Gigabit Wireless Access (GiFI) SN, WSP DSTO, IBM, Princeton University, Peregrine Semiconductors, Synopsys, Cadence Design Systems, Suss Microtech, Anritsu, Agilent Technologies, Mosis, UTAC Vsub2 Managing and Monitoring the Internet (MAMI) NT, NIP, SN Sprint, further industry partners under consideration PRIORITY CHALLENGE STRATEGIC PROJECTS 288 NSW 001 Smart Transport and Roads (STaR) SMLKA, SEACS, KRR, ASSeT, NPC, IMAGEN VIC 001 Water Information Networks (WIN) SN, NIP, NT, SEACS, IMAGEN, WSP NICTA Research Staff by Program This Annex provides a list of research staff by program and shows the position of each research staff member. In the few cases where researchers in a program are located at a site other than the principal site for the program they belong to, their location is noted. For contributed staff, the university they were contributed from and the fraction of their time contributed to NICTA is shown. For recruited research staff the place they were recruited from is given. The overall researcher base at the end of 2005 comprised 16 programs with a total research staff level of 197 researchers. n 109 of these were recruited researchers n The recruited base of 109 researchers was a full time equivalent of 106.3 n 51 were recruited from overseas and 57 from Australia n 78 research staff were contributed from ANU, UNSW, University of Sydney, UQ, GU, and QUT for an FTE of 33.45 n A further 28 research staff were contributed from the University of Melbourne for a reported FTE total of 10. The contributed research base for NSW, ACT, and Qld is 78. The total contributed base is fixed at 88. Total Program Contributed Staff NICTA Staff Actual headcount FTE Actual headcount FTE Actual headcount ASSet 13 11.6 3 1.6 10 10 ERTOS 14 10.5 6 2.5 8 8 ESE 9 7.7 2 1.3 7 6.4 FM 8 5.9 4 1.9 4 4 IMAGEN 17 13.5 6 2.5 11 11 KRR 11 9.2 5 3.2 6 6 LC 9 8.5 2 2 7 6.5 NIP 19 8.35 15 4.75 4 3.6 NPC 15 8.8 8 2.6 7 6.2 NT 11 6.85 6 2.25 5 4.6 SA 25 7.2 24 6.2 1 1 SEACS 9 6.85 5 2.85 4 4 SML 10 8.5 2 0.5 8 8 SMLKA 18 13.3 8 3.3 10 10 SN 17 10.5 9 2.5 8 8 WSP 12 12 3 3 99 Terebit Working Laboratory 1 0.3 1 0.3 0 0 218 149.55 109 43.25 109 106.3 Total * * inc all Vic contributed staff NB: Vic contributed staff are counted twice in the actual HC as they contributed to two programs each. FTE 289 ANNUAL REPORT 05 to the Australian Government NSW Research Laboratory Staff by Program Surname, Name Level % Contributed From EMBEDDED, REAL TIME, AND OPERATING SYSTEMS (ERTOS) – 14/10.5 (FTE) 1 Heiser Gernot 2 Program Leader 100 UNSW Chakravarty, Manuel 30 UNSW 3 Diessel, Oliver 30 UNSW 4 Keller, Gabrielle 30 UNSW 5 Parameswaren, Sri 30 UNSW 6 Xue, Jingling 30 UNSW 7 Kuz, Ihor 3 100 Netherlands 8 Petters, Stefan 4 100 UK 9 Rauch-Valenti, Felix 3 100 Switzerland 10 Ruocco, Sergio 3 100 Italy 11 Judge, John 4 100 Australia 12 White, Andrew 3 100 Australia 13 Williams, Aidan 5 100 Australia 14 Witana, Varuni 4 100 Australia B 100 Germany Program Leader 100 UNSW 30 UNSW New NICTA employees Nil New contributed employees Nil Exited NICTA employees Engel, Frank Exited contributed employees Nil EMPIRICAL SOFTWARE ENGINEERING – 9/7.7 (FTE) 290 1 Jeffery, Ross 2 Maheshwari, Piyush 3 Bannerman, Paul 3 100 Australia 4 Cox, Karl 3 100 Australia 5 Gorton, Ian 6 100 USA 6 Kitchenham, Barbara 6 40 UK Surname, Name Level % Contributed From 7 Liu, Yan (Jenny) 3 100 Australia 8 Staples, Mark 4 100 Australia 9 Verner, June 6 100 USA Niazi, Mahmood B 100 Australia Kutay, Cat B 80 Australia Program Leader 100 UNSW New NICTA employees Nil New contributed employees Nil Exited NICTA employees Exited contributed employees Nil FORMAL METHODS – 8/5.9 (FTE) 1 Van der Meyden, Ron 2 Engelhardt, Kai 30 UNSW 3 Robinson, Kenneth 30 UNSW 4 Sowmya Arcot 30 UNSW 5 van Glabeek, Rob 5 100 UK 6 Fehnker, Ansgar 3 100 USA 7 Klein, Gerwin 3 100 Germany 4 100 Switzerland New NICTA employees 8 Maneth, Sebastian New contributed employees Nil Exited NICTA employees Nil Exited contributed employees Nil INTERFACES, MACHINES, AND GRAPHIC ENVIRONMENTS – 17/13.5 (FTE) 1 Eades Peter 2 Program Leader 100 USYD Maher, Mary Lou 30 USYD 3 Takatsuka, Masahiro 30 USYD 4 Hong, Seokhee 4 100 Australia 291 ANNUAL REPORT 05 to the Australian Government Surname, Name Level % Contributed From 5 Xu, Kai 3 100 Australia 6 Chen, Fang 6 100 Australia 7 Choi, Ho Chuen 5 100 Australia 8 Epps, Julien 4 100 Australia 9 Lichman, Serge 4 100 Australia 10 Shi, Yu 4 100 Australia 11 Taib, Ronnie 4 100 Australia 12 Wu, Zhenijie 4 100 Australia 13 Gudmundsson, Hans 4 100 Holland 3 100 Australia New NICTA employees 14 Webber, Richard New contributed employees 15 Sen, Diep 30 UNSW 16 Ambikairajah, Eliathamby 30 UNSW 17 Chung, Vera 30 Exited NICTA employees Forster, Michael B Chung, Vera 100 Germany 30 Exited contributed employees Nil KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION AND REASONING – 11/9.2 (FTE) 292 1 Walsh, Toby Program Leader 100 Ireland 2 Foo, Norman E 100 UNSW 3 Ignjatovic, Aleksander 30 UNSW 4 Pagnucco, Maurice 30 UNSW 5 Thiebaux, Sylvie (ACT based) C 60 ANU 6 Pencole, Yannick (ACT based) B 100 ANU 7 Gabaldon, Alfredo 3 100 Canada 8 Meyer, Thomas 4 100 South Africa 9 Maher, Michael 6 100 USA 10 Renz, Jochen 3 100 Austria Surname, Name 11 Huuck, Ralf Level % 3 100 Contributed From Germany New NICTA employees Nil New contributed employees Nil Exited NICTA employees Nil Exited contributed employees Nil NETWORK AND PERVASIVE COMPUTING – 15/9.6 (FTE) 1 Jha, Sanjay 30 UNSW 2 Lovell, Nigel 50 UNSW 3 Malaney, Robert 30 UNSW 4 Mao, Guoqiang 30 USYD 5 Moors, Tim 30 UNSW 6 Landfeldt, Bjorn B 30 USYD 7 Boreli, Roksana 4 100 Australia 8 Boulis, Athanassios 3 100 USA 9 Dairaine, Laurent 3 100 France 10 Lan, Kun-chan 3 100 USA 11 Libman, Lavy 3 100 Israel D B New NICTA employees 12 Seneviratne, Aruna Program Leader 20 Australia 13 Lochin, Emmanuel 3 100 France New contributed employees 14 Hassan, Mahbub 30 UNSW 15 Choi, Jinho 30 UNSW Exited NICTA employees Exposito-Garcia, Ernesto B 100 Program Leader 100 France Exited contributed employees Seneviratne Aruna UNSW 293 ANNUAL REPORT 05 to the Australian Government Surname, Name Level % Contributed From SYMBOLIC MACHINE LEARNING AND KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION INTERIM – 18/13.3 (FTE) 1 Cheeseman, Peter 2 Benatallah Boualem 30 UNSW 3 Blair, Allan 30 UNSW % Contributed Surname, Name Program Leader Level 100 USA From 4 Elphinstone, Kevin 50 UNSW 5 Lin, Xuemin 30 UNSW 6 Martin, Eric 30 UNSW 7 Taylor, Andrew 30 UNSW 8 Wilson, William 30 UNSW 9 Wong, Raymond 100 UNSW 10 Fitch, Robert 3 100 USA 11 Hengst, Bernhard 4 100 Australia 12 Lam, Franky 3 100 Australia 13 Suc, Dorian 4 100 Slovenia 14 Uther, William 4 100 USA 15 Lu, Sijun 4 100 Australia 16 Yu Zhenghua 4 100 Australia 17 Zhang, Jian 5 100 Australia 18 Ye, Getian 3 100 Australia New NICTA employees Nil New contributed employees Nil Exited NICTA employees Moses, Yael B 50 Israel Mathew, Reji 4 100 Australia Exited contributed employees Nil 294 ACT Research Laboratory Staff by Program Surname, Name Level % Contributed From AUTONOMOUS SYSTEMS AND SENSOR NETWORK TECHNOLOGIES – 13/11.6 (FTE) 1 Hartley Richard 2 Program Leader 100 ANU Cai, Weidong (NSW based) 30 USYD 3 Feng, David (NSW based) 30 USYD 4 Barnes, Nick 4 100 Australia 5 Caelli Terry 6 100 Australia 6 Mahamud, Shyjan 3 100 USA 7 Petersson, Lars 3 100 Sweden 8 Rahman, Masudur 3 100 Japan 9 Robles-Kelly, Antonio 3 100 UK 10 Lee, Pei Yean 3 100 Australia 11 Tan, Robby 3 100 Japan New NICTA employees 12 Shen, Chunhua 3 100 Australia 13 Goecke, Roland 3 100 Australia New contributed employees Nil 295 Exited NICTA employees Nil Exited contributed employees Austin, David C 100 ANU Li, Hongdong B 100 ANU LOGIC AND COMPUTATION – 9/8.5 (FTE) 1 Slaney John Program Leader 100 ANU 2 Gore, Rajeev D 100 ANU 3 Anbulagan 3 100 Indonesia 4 Dawson Jeremy 3 100 Australia 5 Norrish, Michael 4 100 UK 6 Meng, Jian 3 100 UK 4 50 Australia New NICTA employees 7 Kilby, Philip ANNUAL REPORT 05 to the Australian Government Surname, Name Level % Contributed From 8 Huang, Jinbo 3 100 US 9 Baumgater, Peter 5 100 Germany C 100 Program Leader 100 New contributed employees Nil Exited NICTA employees Nil Exited contributed employees Kowalski, Tomasz ANU SYSTEMS ENGINEERING AND COMPLEX SYSTEMS – 9/6.85 (FTE) 1 Hueper, Knut 2 Anderson, Brian 3 Lanzon, Alexander 4 Moore, John 5 Savkin, Andrey * (NSW based) 6 Trumpf, Jochen 7 Germany 15 ANU 4 100 ANU 6 100 ANU 30 UNSW B 40 ANU Malcolm, William 3 100 Australia 8 Seghouane, Abd-Krim 3 100 France 9 Fidan, Baris 3 100 USA B 100 Canada Program Leader 100 Australia New NICTA employee Nil New contributed employee Nil Exited NICTA employee Nil Exited contributed employee Jiang, Danchi STATISTICAL MACHINE LEARNING – 10/8.5 (FTE) 296 1 Smola Alexander 2 Aberdeen Douglas 4 100 Australia 3 Buffet, Oliver 3 100 France 4 Kowalczyk, Adam 5 100 Australia 5 Schraudolph, Nicol 4 100 Germany Surname, Name Level % Contributed From 6 Vishwanathan, Venkata Narayan Swaminathan 4 100 India 7 Sanderson, Konrad 3 100 Australia 8 Chawla, Sanjay (NSW based) 9 Hegland, Markus 30 USYD B 20 ANU 3 100 Program Leader 100 ANU New NICTA employees 10 Caetano, Tiberio France New contributed employees Nil Exited NICTA employees Nil Exited contributed employees Nil WIRELESS SIGNAL PROCESS – 12/12 (FTE) 1 Kennedy Rodney 2 Abhayapala, Thushara C 100 ANU 3 Jayalath Dhammika B 100 ANU 4 Hanlen, Leif 4 100 Australia 5 Pollock, Tony 4 100 New Zealand 6 Reed, Mark 4 100 Switzerland 7 Shi, Zhenning 3 100 USA 8 Sithamparanathan, Kandeepan 3 100 Australia 9 Smith, David 3 100 Australia 10 Zhang, Jian 3 100 Australia New NICTA employees 11 Trajkovic, Vladimir 3 100 Australia 12 Miniutti, Dino 3 100 Australia New contributed employees Nil Exited NICTA employees Nil Exited contributed employees Nil 297 ANNUAL REPORT 05 to the Australian Government Victoria Research Laboratory Staff by Program The University of Melbourne contributes up to 10 FTE staff to the Victoria Research Laboratory programs and projects. Surname, Name Level % Contributed Program Leader 100 UoM From NETWORK INFORMATION PROCESSING – 19/8.35 (FTE) 1 Stuckey, Peter 2 Bailey, James 30 UoM 3 Bird, Steven 30 UoM 4 Harwood, Aaron 30 UoM 5 Kotagiri, Rao 30 UoM 6 Kulik, Lars 20 UoM 7 Leckie, Chris 45 UoM 8 Moffat, Alistair 30 UoM 9 Schachte, Peter 10 UoM 10 Tanin, Egemen 30 UoM 11 Karunasekera, Shanika 30 UoM 12 Pearce, Adrian 15 UoM 13 Somogyi, Zoltan 30 UoM 14 Baldwin, Tim 30 UoM 15 Stokes, Nicola 3 100 UK New NICTA employees 16 Cavdeon, Lawrence 4 60 USA 17 Brand, Sebastian 3 100 Singapore 18 Duck, Gregory 3 100 Australia New contributed employees 19 Buyya, Raj 15 UoM 30 UoM 90 UoM Exited NICTA employees Nil Exited contributed employees Parampalli, Udaya NETWORK TECHNOLOGIES – 11/6.85 (FTE) 1 298 Nirmalathas, Thas Program Leader Surname, Name Level % Contributed From 2 Farrell Peter 5 UoM 3 Wong, Elaine 100 UoM 4 Shieh, Bill 5 UoM 5 Pendock, Graeme 20 UoM 6 Anderson, Trevor 4 7 Attygale, Manik 3 8 Chae, Chang-Joon (Tom) 4 100 Australia 9 Dods, Sarah 4 100 Australia 10 Hewitt, Donald 3 60 Australia 100 Australia 100 Australia New NICTA employees Nil New contributed employees 11 Zukerman, Moshe 5 UoM 30 UoM 30 UoM Exited NICTA employees Nil Exited contributed employees Tucker, Rod TERABIT NETWORKING LABORATORY – 1/0.3 (FTE) 1 Farrell, Peter Director 299 New NICTA employees Nil New contributed employees Nil Exited NICTA employees Nil Exited contributed employees Nil SENSOR NETWORKS – 17/10.5 (FTE) 1 Skafidas, Stan Program Leader 100 USA 2 Evans, Rob 40 UoM 3 Mareels, Iven 50 UoM ANNUAL REPORT 05 to the Australian Government Surname, Name Level % Contributed From 4 Pendock, Graeme 30 UoM 5 Nair, Girish 5 UoM 6 Nesic, Dragan 5 UoM 7 Shieh, Bill 10 UoM 8 Halpern, Mark 5 100 Australia 9 Saleem Khusro, Syed 4 100 Australia 10 Pham, Min 4 100 Australia 11 Qiu, Wanzhi 4 100 Australia 12 Beresford-Smith, Bryan 4 100 Australia New NICTA employees 13 Gordana, Klaric Felic 3 100 Australia 14 Walsh, Tim 3 100 Australia New contributed employees 15 Aldeen, Mohammad 5 UoM 16 La Scala, Barbara 5 UoM 17 Ooi, Su Ki 100 UoM Exited NICTA employees Gan, Hongbing C 100 Australia Exited contributed employees 300 Dey, Subhra 5 UoM Manton, Jonathan 5 UoM Brisbane Research Laboratory Staff by Program Surname, Name Level % Contributed From DISASTER PREDICTION, RESPONSE, AND RECOVERY (DISPRR) – 25/7.2 (FTE) 1 Iannella, Renato Program Leader 100 Australia 2 Lovell, ian 60 UQ 3 Indulsaka, Jadwiga 25 UQ 4 Sattar, Abdul 50 GU 5 Postula, Adam 20 UQ 6 Sitte, Joaquin 20 QUT 7 Zhang, Jinglan 20 QUT 8 Zhou, Xiaofang 5 UQ 9 Wang, Kewen 30 GU 10 Thornton, John 10 GU 11 Colomb, Bob 20 UQ 12 Machanick, Phillip 40 UQ 13 Smith, Glenn 20 QUT 14 Wong, On 20 QUT 15 Portman, Marius 40 UQ New NICTA employees Nil New contributed employees 16 Croll, Peter 50 UQ 17 Caelli, Bill 50 QUT 18 Russell, Selwyn 20 QUT 19 Sanderson, Penny 20 UQ 20 Crozier, Stuart 10 UQ 21 Henricksen, Karen 40 UQ 22 Maire, Frederic 20 QUT 23 Bradley, Andrew 10 UQ 24 Pham, Binh 10 QUT 25 Boyd, Colin 10 QUT Estivill-Castro, Vladimir 10 GU Popovic,Vesna 20 QUT Exited NICTA employees Nil Exited contributed employees 301 ANNUAL REPORT 05 to the Australian Government Research Publications The following lists all publications attributable to NICTA researchers which appeared up until December 2005. It does not include papers or conference papers accepted for publication during the reporting period which are yet to appear. The summary results for publications by program and by type of publication are listed in the table below. Journal articles published Conference papers published in referred proceedings Book chapters Technical reports Total by program ASSeT 15 49 4 1 69 ERTOS 2 16 – 3 21 ESE 15 21 4 1 41 FM 4 15 3 2 24 IMAGEN 7 46 2 4 59 KRR 7 32 2 2 43 LC 2 15 – – 19 NIP 14 28 1 1 14 NPC 11 27 16 – 54 NT 10 44 – 3 57 SA – 6 – 1 7 SEACS 21 33 1 3 58 SMLKA – 18 2 – 20 SML 5 31 – 2 37 SN 7 11 – – 18 WSP 6 46 2 – 54 126 438 37 22 624 Total by type Publications are the principal vehicle for the dissemination of NICTA’s research output. The preparation and release of documents for publication is carried out under the terms of NICTA’s Intellectual Property Policy Document for the management and commercialisation of intellectual property. In the publications list below, NICTA authors are identified by a leading asterisk [*]. Autonomous Systems and Sensor Technologies (ASSeT) Journal articles 302 1. *Robles-Kelly, A., Hancock, E. R., Graph Edit Distance from Spectral Seriation, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, March 2005, Vol. 27 (3), pp. 365–378. 2. *Tan, R.T., Ikeuchi, K., Separating Reflection Components of Textured Surfaces using a Single Image, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Inteligence (PAMI), March 2005, Vol. 27 (2). 3. Wei, R., *Austin, D., Mahony, R., Biomemetic application of desert ants visual navigation for mobile robot docking with weighted landmarks, International Journal of Intelligent Systems Technologies and Applications: Special Issue on Biorobotics and Biomechatronics in Australasia, February 2005, Vol. 1 (2). 4. Yeung, A., *Barnes, N., Efficient active monocular fixation using the log-polar senso, International Journal of Intelligent Systems Technologies and Applications, 2005, Vol. 1 (1/2). 5. Kalácska, M., Sánchez-Azofeifa G. A., *Caelli, T., Rivard, B., Boerlage, B., Estimating Leaf Area Index from Satellite Imagery using Bayesian Networks, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 2005, Vol. 43 (8), pp. 1866–73. 6. *Caelli, T., *Caetano, T., Graphical Models for Graph Matching: Approximate Models and Optimal Algorithms, Pattern Recognition Letters, 2005, Vol. 26, pp. 339–46. 7. *Caelli, T., Cheng, L., Fang, Q., Bayesian Image Understanding: From Images to Virtual Forests, International Journal of Robotics and Automation, 2005, Vol. 20 (1), pp. 14–25. 8. *Lee, P., *Moore, J., Gauss-Newton-on-manifold for pose estimation, Journal of industrial and management optimization, November 2005, Vol. 1 (4), pp. 565–87. 9. *Robles-Kelly, A., and Hancock, E., A Graph-spectral Method for Surface Height Recovery, Pattern Recognition, 2005, Vol. 38 (8), pp. 1167–86. 10. *Fletcher, L., Loy, G., *Barnes, N., Zelinsky, A., Correlating Driver Gaze with the Road Scene for Driver Assistance, Robotics and Autonomous Systems, July 2005, Vol. 52 (1), pp. 1167–86. 11. *Robles-Kelly, A., Hancock, E,. Estimating the Surface Radiance Function from Single Images, November, 2005, Vol. 67/6, pp. 518–48. 12. Baker, G., *Barnes, N., Ibanez, L. (Eds). Model-Image Registration of Parametric Shape Models: Fitting a Shell to the Cochlea, August 2005, Vol. 1. http://insight-journal.org/index.php 13. *Rahman, M., Ishikawa, S., Human Motion Recognition Using an Eigenspace, Pattern Recognition Letter, May 2005, Vol. 26 (6), pp. 687–769. www.sciencedirect.com 14. *Rahman, M., Ishikawa, S., Overcoming dress effect in eigenspace, International Journal of Image and Graphics, October 2005, Vol. 5 (4), pp. 811–23. http://www.worldscinet.com/ijig/05/0504/S02194678050504.html 15. *Rahman, M., Ishikawa, S., Human posture recognition: eigenspace tuning by mean eigenspace, October, 2005, Vol. 5 (4), pp. 825–37. http://www.worldscinet.com/ijig/05/0504/S02194678050504.html Technical reports 16. *Shen, C., Brooks, M., Learning a discriminative representation model for localisation and tracking, November 2005. http://www2.imm.dtu.dk/multimodal/speakers/ Conference papers published in referred proceedings 17. *Dankers, A., *Barnes, N., Zelinsky, A., Active Vision for Road Scene Awareness, in proceedings of the IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IVS05), Las Vegas, NV, USA, June 2005, Vol. 1. 303 ANNUAL REPORT 05 to the Australian Government 304 18. *Barnes, N., Improved Signal To Noise Ratio And Computational Speed For Gradient-Based Detection Algorithms, in proceedings of the IEEE Interational Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA2005), Barcelona, Spain, April 2005. 19. Fletcher, L., *Petersson, L., *Barnes N., *Austin, D., Zelinsky, A., A Sign Reading Driver Assistance System Using Eye Gaze, in proceedings of the IEEE Interational Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA2005), Barcelona, Spain, April 2005. 20. *Tan, R. T., Ikeuchi, K., Reflection Components Decomposition of Textured Surfaces using Linear Basis Functions, IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2005, San Diego, CA, USA, June 2005. http://www.cs.duke.edu/cvpr2005/ 21. *Caetano, T. S., *Caelli, T. (Eds.), Approximating the problem, not the solution: an alternative view of point set matching, GBRPr 2005, Poitiers, France, April 2005, Springer, pp. 233–42. 22. Fletcher, L., *Petersson, L., *Barnes, N., *Austin, D., Zelinsky, A., Road Scene Monotony Detection in Fatigue Management Driver Assistance System, in proceedings of the IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IVS05), Las Vegas, NV, USA, June 2005. http://www.ieeeiv.org/ 23. *Austin, D., *Blackwell, P., Appearance Based Object Recognition: A Hybrid Approach, in proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Barcelona, Spain, April 2005, pp. 1941. 24. Petterson, N., *Petersson, L., Online Stereo calibration using FPGAs, IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IVS05), Las Vegas, NV, USA, June 2005. http://www.ieeeiv.org/ 25. Arnell, F., *Petersson, L., Fast Object Segmentation from A Moving Camera, IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IVS05), Las Vegas, NV, USA, June 2005. http://www.ieeeiv.org/ 26. Zhou, J., Bischof, W., *Caelli, T., Proceedings of the Joint Workshop of ISPRS and DAGM on Object Extraction for 3D City Models, Road Databases and Traffic Monitoring, Concepts, Algorithms, and Evaluation, Austria, August, 2005, pp. 35–41. 27. Zhou, J., Bischof, W., *Caelli, T., Human-Computer Interaction in Map Revision Systems. GbRPR: 5th IAPR-TC15 Workshop on Graph-based Representations HCII, USA, July 2005, pp. 1–10. 28. *Caetano, T., and *Caelli, T., Approximating the problem, not the solution: an alternative view of point set matching, France, 2005, Vol. 3434, pp. 233–42. 29. Krishnan, S., *Lee, P.Y., *Moore, J.B., Venkatasubramanian, S., Desbrun, M., Pottmann, H., Global Registration of Multiple 3D Point Sets via Optimization-on-a-Manifold, Third Eurographics Symposium on Geometry Processing, Austria, July 2005, pp. 187–96. 30. *Li, H., *Hartley, R., Conformal shape representation and 3D reconstruction, in proceedings of the International conference on image analysis and application, Canada, September 2005. http://www.iciar.uwaterloo.ca/ 31. *Li, H., *Hartley, R., Rectification-free multibaseline stereo vision system, in proceedings of the ICIAP-2005, Cagliari, Italy, September 2005. http://www.iciap2005.it/index.php 32. *Li, H., *Hartley, R., Feature matching and pose estimation using Newton Iteration, in proceedings of the ICIAP-2005, Cagliari, Italy, September 2005. http://www.iciap2005.it/index.php 33. *Li, H., *Hartley, R., Inverse tensor transfer for novel view synthesis, IEEE-ICIP, Cagliari, Italy, September 2005. http://www.iciap2005.it/index.php 34. *Li, H., *Hartley, R., Wang, L., Auto-calibrate a compund-type omni-directional camera, in proceedings of the DICTA-2005, December 2005. http://dicta2005.aprs.org.au 35. *Li, H., *Hartley, R., Radial lens distortion correction from nine point correspondences, in proceedings of OmniVis-05, October 2005. http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/~cgeyer/OMNIVISO5/ 36. 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Arnell, F., *Petersson, L., Generic Fusion of Visual Cues Applied to Real-World Object Segmentation, IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Canada, July 2005. http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/~cgeyer/OMNIVIS05/ 40. *Petersson, L., *Fletcher, L., Zelinsky, A., A framework for driver-in-the-loop driver assistance systems, International IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems, Austria, August 2005. http://www.itsc2005.at/ 41. *Robles-Kelly, A., Segmentation Via Graph-Spectral Methods And Riemannian Geometry, CAIP 2005, France, 2005, pp. 661–8. 42. *Rahman, M., *Hartley, R., Ishikawa, S., A passive and multimodal biometric ystem for personal identification, in proceedings of Visualization, Imaging and Image Processing, Spain, September 2005, pp. 89–92. 43. *Goecke, R., Vatikiotis-Bateson, E., Burnham, D., Fels, S., 3D Lip Tracking and Co-inertia Analysis for Improved Robustness of Audio-Video Automatic Speech Recognition, in proceedings of the Auditory-Visual Speech Processing Workshop AVSP 2005, Canada, July 2005, pp. 109– 14. 44. *Goecke, R., Renals, S., Introducing Co-inertia Analysis to Multimodal Data Analysis, 2nd Joint Workshop on Multimodal Interaction and Related Machine Learning Algorithms MLMI’05, UK, July 2005. http://groups.inf.ed.ac.uk/mlmi05/ 45. *Goecke, R., Beghdadi, A., Wysocki, T., Current Trends in Joint Audio-Video Signal Processing: A Review, in proceedings of the IEEE 8th International Symposium on Signal Processing and Its Applications ISSPA 2005, Australia, August 2005, pp. 70–3. 46. *Goecke, R., Cheng, F., Epps, J., Audio-Video Automatic Speech Recognition: An Example of Improved Performance through Multimodal Sensor Input, in proceedings of the NICTA-HCSNet Multimodal User, Australia, September 2005, Vol. ACS Conferences in Research and Practice in Information Technology (CRPIT). http://crpit.com 305 ANNUAL REPORT 05 to the Australian Government 306 47. *Goecke, R., 3D Lip Tracking and Co-inertia Analysis for Improved Robustness of Audio-Video Automatic Speech Recognition, in proceedings of Auditory-Visual Speech Processing Workshop AVSP 2005, Canada, July 2005, pp. 109–14. 48. *Goecke, R., Introducing Co-inertia Analysis to Multimodal Data Analysis, 2nd Joint Workshop on Multimodal Interaction and Related Machine Learning Algorithms MLMI’05, UK, July 2005. http://groups.inf.ed.ac.uk/mlmi05/ 49. *Goecke, R., Current Trends in Joint Audio-Video Signal Processing: A Review in proceedings of the IEEE 8th International Symposium on Signal Processing and Its Applications ISSPA 2005, Australia, August 2005, pp. 70–3. 50. *Goecke, R., Audio-Video Automatic Speech Recognition: An Example of Improved Performance through Multimodal Sensor Input, in proceedings of the NICTA-HCSNet Multimodal User, Australia, September 2005, Vol. 57, ACS Conferences in Research and Practice in Information Technology (CRPIT). http://crpit.com 51. *Kim, J., *Hartley, R., Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications, Translation Estimation from Omnidirectional Images, December 2005, Cairns, Australia. http://www.tip.csiro.au/dicta2003/ 52. *Liu, N., Lovell, B., Hand Gesture Extraction by Active Shape Models, Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications 2005, Cairns, Australia, December 2005. http://www.tip.csiro.au/dicta2003/ 53. *Robles-Kelly, A., A Thermodynamics Approach to Graph Similarity, Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications, Cairns, Australia, November 2005, PA005052. http://www.tip.csiro.au/dicta2003/ 54. *Barnes, N., Lowy, G., Shaw, D., *Robles-Kelly, A., Regular Polygon Detection, International Conference on Computer Vision, Beijing, China, October 2005. http://research.microsoft.com/iccv2005/ 55. *Gheissari, N., *Barnes, N., Road Obstacle Detection Using Robust Model Fitting, International Conference on Field and Service Robotics, Port Douglas, Australia, July 2005. http://www.ifr.org/events/event.asp?IDElt=63 56. 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Robot Coordination in Unknown Name Sex Start End Thesis Title Chea, Vanmunin M 2004 2007 Computer Security Choi, Ryan Hyun M 2005 2008 A visual Interpretation of Xquery Fisher, Damien M 2004 2007 Data Streams Gebski, Matthew M 2005 2008 Mining Data Streams Jiang, Chen F 2004 2007 Lifecycle Management of Business Protocols for Web Services Liang, Zhicong Leo M 2004 2007 Mobile Database in Grid Computing Liu, Qing M 2004 2006 Effective Summarisation of Large Spatial Dataset Luo, Yi F 2004 2005 Multi-Dimensional Skyline Query Processing Motahari Nezhad, Hamid M 2004 2007 Interoperability Issues in Web Services Penev, Alex M 2005 2008 Natural Language Information Retrieval Shen, Jialie M 2005 2006 A Framework for Efficient and Effective Similiarity Search Shui, William M 2004 2005 Bioinformatic Database Systems Skosgrud, Halvard M 2004 2005 Security and Privacy Issues in Web Service Environments Tam, Vincent M 2004 2007 Data Mining for Educationists via Emails Yao, Wei M 2004 2007 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Management for Context Aware Applications Ishtaiwi, Abdelraouf M July 2005 June 2007 Neighbourhood Clause Weighting for Satisfiability Problems Peizhao, Hu M July 2005 July 2008 Autonomic, Reconfigurable Context– Aware Systems Pham, Duc Nghia M July 2005 July 2005 Satisfiability: Models, Methods and Applications 361 ANNUAL REPORT 05 to the Australian Government Courses offered in 2005 NICTA developed and delivered a range of coursework during 2005 including graduate courses provided for NICTA students and undergraduate courses in the NSW laboratory delivered at UNSW and University of Sydney by NICTA researchers. The table below summarises this work. Course Title Date Program Supervised Literature Reading in Autonomous Systems and Sensing Technology 18 Jul–28 Oct ASSeT Graph Based Methods in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 19 Sept–30 Sept ASSeT Overview of Computer Vision 4 Jul–22 Aug ASSeT Hyperspectral Image Processing and Applications 28 Jun–30 Aug ASSeT Comparison of Contemporary Processor Architectures from the Software Point of View Semester 1 ERTOS Readings in Systems Semester 2 ERTOS Advanced Course – Constraint Processing 28 Feb–6 June LC Automated Reasoning and Interactive Theorem Proving 28 Jun–4 Nov LC Overview of Logic and Automated Reasoning 6 Dec–16 Dec LC Advanced courses – Text and Document Management Semester 1 NIP Advanced courses – Constraints Programming Semester 2 NIP Advanced courses – Information Theory Semester 1 NT Topics in Machine Learning 23 Jan–5 Feb SML Advanced Course – H-two and H-infinity Optimal Control 25 Feb–25 Mar SEACS Advanced Course – Model Selection 29 Mar–20 Apr SEACS Supervised Literature Reading and Presentation in Systems Engineering and Complex Systems 4 Apr–16 May SEACS Advanced Course – Topics in Optimisation 27 Apr–12 Oct SEACS Convex Analysis Oct 3–Dec 23 SEACS/SML Advanced courses – Sensor Networks Semester 2 SN Advanced courses – Nonlinear Systems Semester 1 SN Error Control Coding Oct 5–Nov 2 WSP Overview of Wireless Communications 4 Apr–9 May WSP Advanced Course – Continuous Wireless Communications 23 Feb–2 May WSP GRADUATE COURSEWORK 362 Course Title Date Program Advanced Course – Adaptive Wireless Communications 8 Sep–10 Nov WSP Operating Systems Semester 1 ERTOS Advanced Operating Systems Semester 2 ERTOS Distributed Systems Semester 1 ERTOS Real-Time Systems Semester 2 ERTOS Advanced Topics in Software Engineering Semester 1 ESE Configuration Management, Release Management and Software Product Line Development Semester 1 ESE Algorithmic Verification Semester 1 FM Advanced Verification Semester 2 FM Computational Geometry Semester 1 IMAGEN IT Advanced Topic A: Multimodal User Interaction Semester 1 IMAGEN Speech & Audio Processing Semester 2 IMAGEN Computational Geometry Semester 2 IMAGEN Information Visualisation Semester 2 IMAGEN First-order Logic Semester 1 KRR Knowledge Representation and Reasoning Semester 1 KRR Introduction to Modal Logic Semester 2 KRR Internet Protocols Semester 2 NPC Advanced Networking Semester 2 NPC Advanced Networks, Wireless Sensor Networks Semester 2 NPC Robotic Software Architecture Semester 2 SMLKA Multimedia Authoring Semester 2 SMLKA An Introduction to Intelligent Agent Architectures Semester 2 SMLKA UNDERGRADUATE COURSEWORK 363 ANNUAL REPORT 05 to the Australian Government Conference and Workshop Participation Name Details AUTONOMOUS SYSTEMS AND SENSOR TECHNOLOGIES Barnes, Nick IEEE Conference on Robotics and Automation, Barcelona, Spain, April 2005 http://www.icra2005.org/ International Conference on Field and Service Robotics,Port Douglas, Australia, July 2005 http://www.fsr05.org ICCV, Beijing, China, October 2005 Blackwell, Phillip IEEE Conference on Robotics and Automation, Barcelona, Spain, April 2005 http://www.icra2005.org/ Caelli, Terry NICTA Workshop, Sydney, Australia, April 2005 IMAGIN Project Review and Socetset Workshop and Conference, Cairns, Australia, October 2005 Image and Vision Computing NZ (IVCNZ), November 2005 Caetano, Tiberio GBRPR Conference, Poitiers, France, April 2005 The Spatial Information Research Centre Annual Conference (SIRC-2005), New Zealand, November 2005 ICCV, Beijing, China, October 2005 Dankers, Andrew International Conference on Field and Service Robotics, Port Douglas, Australia, July 2005 http://www.fsr05.org Gheissari, Niloofar International Conference on Field and Service Robotics, Port Douglas, Australia, July 2005 http://www.fsr05.org Goecke, Roland GIW’05 Workshop, Sydney, Australia, April 2005 http://nicta.com.au/director/research/programs/imagen/GIW2005.cfm International Symposium on Signal Processing and its Applications, Sydney, Australia, August 2005 http://www.elec.uow.edu.au/isspa2005/ NICTA-HCSNet Multimodal User Interaction workshop MMUI’05, Sydney, Australia, September 2005 http://nicta.com.au/director/research/programs/imagen/mmuiw2005.cfm 2nd Joint Workshop on Multimodal Interaction and Related Machine Learning Algorithms MLMI’05, Edinburgh, Scotland, July 2005 http://groups.inf.ed.ac.uk/mlmi05/ Auditory-Visual Speech Processing AVSP2005, Vancouver Island, Canada, July 2005 http://marcs.uws.edu.au/links/avisa/avsp05/ ARC Research Network HCSNet one-day workshop on data acquisition and data resources, Sydney, Australia, October 2005 364 Name Details Hartley, Richard ICCV Chairs Meeting, London, England, June 2005 ICCV, Beijing, China, October 2005 Kim, Jea-Hak The 44th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control and European Control Conference ECC 2005, Seville, Spain, December 2005 http://www.esi2.us.es/~cdcecc05/ Lee, Pei Yean SGP Symposium, Austria, June 2005 http://www.geometryprocessing.org/ CVPR 2005, San Diego, CA, USA, June 2005 http://www.cs.duke.edu/cvpr2005/ Li, Hongdong International Conference on Image Processing, Genoa, Italy, September 2005 http://www.icip05.org/welcome.htm International Conference on Image Analysis Processing, Cagliari, Italy, September 2005 http://www.iciap2005.it/index.php Conference, Cairns, Australia, December 2005 Liu, Nianjun International Conference on Engineering in Medicine and Biology, Shanghai, China, August 2005 http://www.ee.cuhk.edu.hk/EMBC05shanghai/ Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications, Cairns, Australia, December 2005 Mahamud, Shyjan CVPR, San Diego, CA, USA, June 2005 http://www.cs.duke.edu/cvpr2005/ Norzawin, Buang 2005 Socet Set/Socet GXP Asia-Pacific Regional user conference, Cairns, October 2005 Petersson, Lars National Telematic Workgroup, Sydney, Australia, April 2005 2005 IEEE IVS, Las Vegas, NV, USA, June 2005 http://www.prevent-ip.org/ en/news_events/public_events/iv05_symposium.htm International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Edmonton, Canada, August 2005 http://www.iros2005.org International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems,Vienna, Austria, September 2005 http://www.itsc2005.at/ Smart Demo Conference 2005, Adelaide, Australia, September 2005 http:// www.sapro.com.au/smartdemo/smartdemo2005.htm Pettersson, Niklas 2005 IEEE IVS, Las Vegas, NV, USA, June 2005 http://www.prevent-ip.org/ en/news_events/public_events/iv05_symposium.htm National Telematic Workgroup, Sydney, Australia, April 2005 Smart Demo Conference 2005, Adelaide, Australia, September 2005 http://www.sapro.com.au/smartdemo/smartdemo2005.htm Rahman, Masudur International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction Pheonix, AZ, USA, September 2005 http://www.iasted.org/conferences/2005/phoenix/hci.htm Smart Demo Conference 2005, Adelaide, Australia, September 2005 http://www.sapro.com.au/smartdemo/smartdemo2005.htm 365 ANNUAL REPORT 05 to the Australian Government Name Details Robles-Kelly, Antonio International Conference on Computer Analysis, Paris, France, August– September 2005 http://acvis.org/caip2005 Tan, Robby ICCV, Beijing, China, October 2005 CVPR 2005, San Diego, CA, USA, June 2005 http://www.cs.duke.edu/ cvpr2005/ ICCV, Beijing, China, October 2005 EMBEDDED, REAL TIME, AND OPERATING SYSTEMS Baumann, Andrew USENIX’05, Anaheim, CA, USA, April 2005 http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix05/ Linux conf.au, ANU, Canberra, Australia, April 2005 http://conf.linux.org.au/ 20th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles, The Grand Hotel, Brighton, England, October 2005 http://www.sosp-20.com Chubb, Peter Linux.conf.au, ANU, Canberra, Australia, April 2005 http://conf.linux.org.au/ Diessel, Oliver Reconfigurable Computing, NICTA, ATP, Sydney, Australia, March 2005 Elphinstone, Kevin 20th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles, The Grand Hotel, Brighton, England, October 23–26 2005 http://www.sosp-20.com Engel, Frank Reconfigurable Computing Workshop, NICTA, ATP, Sydney, Australia, March 2005 Telematics, NICTA ATP, Sydney, Australia, April 2005 http://www.aeema.asn.au/ArticleDocuments/ Heiser, Gernot UCB CENTRS Retreat, Lake Tahoe, CA, USA, January 2005 http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~bmiller/CENTS_retreat.htm HotOS, Santa Fe, NM, USA, June 2005 www.usenix.org/events/hotos05/ SCADA Workshop, Sydney, Australia, May 2005 http://www.dcita.gov.au/ie/critical_infrastructure_security/scada_systems_ securityworkshops Smart Card Forum, Canberra, Australia, February 2005 http://www.smartcardforum.asn.au/ IT Security Forum, Australia, February 2005 http://www.aitsf.aeema.asn.au/ IITM Conference, Chennai, India, February 2005 http://iacits2005.iitm.ernet.in/ IIITB/Infosys IT Security Workshop, Bangalore, India, February 2005 http://www.iiitb.ac.in/IndexPageMaterial/knowledgeatiiitb3.htm USENIX’05, Anaheim, CA, USA, April 2005 http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix05/ Linux conf.au, ANU, Canberra, Australia, April 2005 http://conf.linux.org.au/ 20th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles, The Grand Hotel, Brighton, England, October 2005 http://www.sosp-20.com 366 Name Details Heiser, Gernot Dresden L4 Workshop, Germany, October 2005 escar 2005 Workshop, Embedded Security in Cars, November 2005,Cologne, Germany http://www.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/hgi/english/conferences Kuz, Ihor Telematics, NICTA ATP, Sydney, Australia, April 2005 http://www.aeema.asn.au/ArticleDocuments/ ICT Outlook Forum 2005, Sydney, Australia, 30 August–1 September 2005 www.ictoutlookforum.com.au USENIX’05, Anaheim, CA, USA, April 2005 http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix05/ Leslie, Ben Linux conf.au, ANU, Canberra, Australia, April 2005 http://conf.linux.org.au/ 20th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles, The Grand Hotel, Brighton, England, October 2005 http://www.sosp-20.com Dresden L4 Workshop, Germany, October 2005 RTCSA Hong Kong, August 2005 www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/rtcsa2005 Petters, Stefan IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium RTSS 2005, Miami Beach, FL, USA, December 2005 http://www.rtcsa.org Embedded Real-Time Systems Implementation Workshop, Miami Beach, FL, USA, December 2005 http://www.cs.york.ac.uk/rtslab/demos/ertsi/index.php The Sixth Australasian Database Conference, Newcastle, Australia, January– February 2005 http://adc05.cs.rmit.edu.au/ Rauch, Felix NICTA Workshop on Water Information Networks (WIN) Megaproject, University of Melbourne (University College), Australia, March 2005 IEEE International Symposium on Workload Characterization (IISWCC), Austin, TX, USA, October 2005 http://www.iiswc.org/iiswc2005 Workshop on Interaction Between Operating Systems and Computer Architecture (IOSCA), Austin, TX, 2005 http://www.ideal.ece.ufl.edu/iosca NICTA Summer Scholars Showcase, December 1–2, 2005, Canberra, Australia http://intrepixphotos4.tripod.com/nicta05/ USENIX’05, Anaheim, CA, USA, April 2005 http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix05/ Ruocco, Sergio EMsoft, Jersey City, NJ, USA, September 2005 www.princeton.edu/~wolf/EMSOFT-2005/ OSPERT 05 Workshop, Marjoca, Spain, July 2005 www.mrtc.mdh.se/ Snowdon, Peter ECRTS Conference, Marjoca, Spain, July 2005 www-users.cs.york.ac.uk HotOS, Santa Fe, NM, USA, June 2005 www.usenix.org/events/hotos05/ 367 ANNUAL REPORT 05 to the Australian Government Name Details Tuch, Harvey 12th International Conference on Logic for Programming, Artificial Intelligence and Reasoning, Wexford hotel, Montego Bay, Jamaica, December 2005 http://www.cs.miami.edu/~geoff/Conferences/LPAR-12 Linux conf.au, ANU, Canberra, Australia, April 2005 http://conf.linux.org.au/ Wienand, Ian Linux.conf.au, ANU, Canberra, Australia, April 2005 http://conf.linux.org.au/ Williams, Darren NAMM 2005 Show, Anaheim, CA, USA, January 2005 http://www.thenammshow.com/ IEEE Standards Meeting, Vancouver, Canada, January 2005 http://www.ieee802.org/3/interims/vancouver_04.html Witana, Varuni IEEE 802.1 & ResE Sep-2005 Interim Meeting, CA, USA, September 2005 www.acteva.com 19th AES Convention, New York, NY, USA, October 2005 www.aes.org EMPIRICAL SOFTWARE ENGINEERING Ali Babar, Muhammad 5th International Conference on Quality Software (QSIC) 2005, Melbourne, Australia, 19–21 September 2005 http://www.ict.swin.edu.au/conferences/qsic2005/ Al-Kilidar, Hiyam 4th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering, Noosa, Australia, November 2005 http://attend.it.uts.edu.au/isese2005/ Bannerman, Paul Profit from Publicly Funded ICT R&D, Sydney, Australia, May 2005 http:// www.warren.usyd.edu.au/ICT/invite1.htm Bleistein, Steven ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, Santa Fe, NM, USA, March 2005 http://www.acm.org/conferences/sac/sac2005/ REBNITA Workshop on Requirements Engineering for Business Need and IT Alignment, Paris, France, 29–30 August 2005 http://crinfo.univ-paris1.fr/RE05/ 13th IEEE Requirements Engineering Conference, Paris, France, 31 August–2 September 2005 http://crinfo.univ-paris1.fr/RE05/ Cox, Karl 4th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering, Noosa, Australia, November 2005 http://attend.it.uts.edu.au/isese2005/ Chen, Fang NICTA-HCSNet Multimodal User Interaction Workshop, Sydney, Australia, September 2005 http://nicta.com.au/director/research/programs/imagen/mmuiw2005.cfm 14th International Conference on Information Systems Development (ISD) 2005, Karlstadt, Sweden, 14–17 August 2005 http://www.it.kau.se/isd2005/ 13th IEEE Requirements Engineering Conference, Paris, France, 31 August–2 September 2005 http://crinfo.univ-paris1.fr/RE05/ 4th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering, Noosa, Australia, November 2005 http://attend.it.uts.edu.au/isese2005/ 368 Name Details Epps, Julien NICTA-HCSNet Multimodal User Interaction Workshop, Sydney, Australia, September 2005 http://nicta.com.au/director/research/programs/imagen/mmuiw2005.cfm Gorton, Ian Australian Software Engineering Conference (ASWEC), March 2005 http://aswec2005.itee.uq.edu.au/home.php 27th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE) 2005, St Louis, MO, USA, May 2005 http://www.icse-conferences.org/2005 Software Practice Advancement 2005 Conference, Presented at Enterprise Application Integration with J2EE and NET Tutorial, Bedfordshire, England, April 2005 http://www.spaconference.org/spa2005/sessions/session26.html Supplying Software to Australian Government Agencies, Canberra, Australia, April, 2005 http://www.terrapinn.com/2005/gtw%5FAU/Custom_5718.stm First International Conference on the Quality of Software Architectures (QoSA 2005), Erfurt, Germany, September 2005 http://se.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de/qosa Panel Discussion: Future of Software Architecture: QoSA 2005, Erfurt, Germany, 21 September 2005 http://se.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de/qosa OOPSLA 2005, San Diego, CA, USA, 16–20 October 2005 (Demonstration) http://www.oopsla.org/2005/ShowPage.do?id=Home Jeffery, Ross 2nd International Process Research Consortium (IPRC), Orlando, FL, USA, January 2005 Australian Software Engineering Conference (ASWEC), March 2005 http://aswec2005.itee.uq.edu.au/home.php Supplying Software to Australian Government Agencies, Canberra, Australia, April 2005 http://www.terrapinn.com/2005/gtw%5FAU/Custom_5718.stm 4th International Process Research Consortium, Dublin, Ireland, August 2005 http://www.sei.cmu.edu/iprc/workshop4.html 4th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering, Noosa, Australia, 17–18 November 2005 http://attend.it.uts.edu.au/isese2005/ Keung, Jacky 4th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering, Noosa, Australia, November 2005 http://attend.it.uts.edu.au/isese2005/ Kitchenham, Barbara 4th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering, Noosa, Australia, November 2005 http://attend.it.uts.edu.au/isese2005/ Kurnwati, Felicia 3rd International Advanced School of Empirical Software Engineering, Noosa, Australia, November 2005 http://attend.it.uts.edu.au/iasese2005/ Kutay, Cat Profit from Publicly Funded ICT R&D, Sydney, Australia, May 2005 http://www.warren.usyd.edu.au/ICT/invite1.htm 369 ANNUAL REPORT 05 to the Australian Government Name Details Liu, Yan Profit from Publicly Funded ICT R&D, Sydney, Australia, May 2005 http://www.warren.usyd.edu.au/ICT/invite1.htm 5th IEEE / IFIP Working Conference on Software Architecture, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, November 2005 http://sunset.usc.edu/~softarch/wicsa5/conference_program.html Niazi, Mahmood 6th International Conference on Product-Focused Software Process Improvement (Profes 2005), Oulu, Finland, June 2005 http://www.tol.oulu.fi/projects/profes2005/index.html 17th International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (SEKE) 2005, Taipei, Taiwan, July 2005 http://www.ksi.edu/ seke/seke05.htm Staples, Mark Supplying Software to Australian Government Agencies, Canberra, Australia,April 2005 http://www.terrapinn.com/2005/gtw%5FAU/Custom_5718.stm Profit from Publicly Funded ICT R&D, Sydney, Australia, May 2005 http:// www.warren.usyd.edu.au/ICT/invite1.htm Sun, Yong NICTA-HCSNet Multimodal User Interaction Workshop, Sydney, Australia, September 2005 http://nicta.com.au/director/research/programs/imagen/mmuiw2005.cfm Taib, Ronnie NICTA-HCSNet Multimodal User Interaction Workshop, Sydney, Australia, September 2005 http://nicta.com.au/director/research/programs/imagen/ mmuiw2005.cfm Verner, June Australian Software Engineering Conference (ASWEC), March 2005 http://aswec2005.itee.uq.edu.au/home.php 3rd SWDC–REK International Conference on Software Development, Reykjavik, Iceland, May–June 2005 http://www.3swdc.hi.is/ Supplying Software to Australian Government Agencies, Canberra, Australia, April 2005 http://www.terrapinn.com/2005/gtw%5FAU/Custom_5718.stm Profit from Publicly Funded ICT R&D, Sydney, May 2005 http://www.warren.usyd.edu.au/ICT/invite1.htm 14th International Conference on Information Systems Development (ISD) 2005, Karlstadt, Sweden, August 2005 http://www.it.kau.se/isd2005/ International Workshop on Distributed Software Development, Paris, France, August 2005 http://crinfo.univ-paris1.fr/RE05/ REBNITA Workshop on Requirements Engineering for Business Need and IT Alignment, Paris, France, August 2005 http://crinfo.univ-paris1.fr/RE05/ 13th IEEE Requirements Engineering Conference, Paris, France, 31 August–2 September 2005 http://crinfo.univ-paris1.fr/RE05/ 4th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering, Noosa, QLD, November 2005 http://attend.it.uts.edu.au/isese2005/ 370 Name Details FORMAL METHODS Fehnker, Ansgar Conference Hybrid Systems: Computation & Control (HSCC 2005), Zurich, Switzerland, March 2005 ICT Outlook Forum, Sydney, Australia, August–September 2005 http://www.ictoutlookforum.com.au Logic Summer School, December 2005, ANU, Canberra, Australia http://lss.rsise.anu.edu.au/index.php?module=ContentExpress&func=display &ceid=68 Maneth, Sebastian 25th Conference on Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science FSTTCS’2005, Hyderabad, India, December 2005 http://www.fsttcs.org/ van der Meyden, Ron First Indian Conference on Logic and its Relationship to Other Disciplines, IIT Bombay, Mumbai, India, January 2005 MoChART’05, San Francisco, CA, USA, August 2005 http://mochart05.info.ucl.ac.be/ AFOSR Software & Systems and Fusion Workshop, Rome, NY, USA http://www.afosr.af.mil/completedw.htm SPIN Workshop 2005, San Francisco, CA, USA, August 2005 http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/what/spin2005/ van der Meyden, Ron, and van Glabbeek, Rob CONCUR 2005, San Francisco, CA, USA, August 2005 http://www.soe.ucsc.edu/concur05/ van Glabbeek, Rob Workshop on Petri Nets and Pi Calculus for Business Processes, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, June 2005 Algebraic Process Calculi: The First Twenty Five Years and Beyond, Bertinoro, Italy, August 2005 http://www.cs.auc.dk/~luca/BICI/PA-05/ International Colloquium on Theoretical Aspects of Computing ICTAC’2005, Hanoi Vietnam, October 2005 http://www.iist.unu.edu/ictac05 INTERFACES, MACHINES, AND GRAPHIC ENVIRONMENTS Chen, Fang GIW’05 (Gestural Interaction Workshop 2005), NICTA Seminar Room, 27–28 April 2005 http://nicta.com.au/director/research/programs/imagen/GIW2005.cfm ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces, Italy, October 2005 http://icmi05.itc.it/wiki/ICMI.php?pagename=ICMI.Home Choi, Eric 9th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, EUROSPEECH’05, Lisbon, Portugal, September 2005 http://www.interspeech2005.org/ 371 ANNUAL REPORT 05 to the Australian Government Name Details Eades, Peter 29th Australasian Computer Science Conference 2005, University of Newcastle, Australia, January–February 2005 http://www.cit.gu.edu.au/conferences/ACSC2005/ Workshop on New Horizons in Computing, Kyoto, Japan, February–March 2005 http://keisan-genkai.lab2.kuis.kyoto-u.ac.jp/nhc/ HCI Experts Workshop (RoundTable), NICTA Meeting Room 3, May–June 2005 ISAAC2005, China, 19-21 December 2005, http://www.cs.cityu.edu.hk/~isaac2005/ Epps, Julian IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Philadelphia, PA, USA, March 2005 http://www.icassp2005.com/ IEEE Region 10 Conference (TENCON 05), Melbourne, Australia, November 2005 http://www.tencon2005.org/ Forster, Michael Defence Social Networks Course, Adelaide, Australia, May 2005 Workshop on Network Analysis and Visualisation (part of GD’05), Limerick, Ireland, 11 September 2005 http://www.gd2005.org/ 3rd International Symposium On Graph Drawing, Limerick, Ireland, September 2005 http://www.gd2005.org/ Fu, Xiaoyan EII Task Force on Network Analysis and Visualisation, Workshop on LargeScale Network Analysis, Sydney, Australia, November 2005 Gudmundsson, Joachim 1st Workshop on Massive Geometric Data Sets, Pisa, Italy, June 2005 www.math.uni-muenster.de/cs/u/jan/IOWorkshop 21st ACM Symposium on Computational Geometry, Pisa, Italy, June 2005 www.socg05.org Hong, Seokhee 25th International Sunbelt Social Network Conference (Sunbelt 2005), Los Angeles, CA, USA, February 2005 http://www.socsci.uci.edu/~ssnconf/ Network Theory Working Group Meeting, CSIRO, Canberra, Australia, March 2005 http://www.dar.csiro.au/css/documents/NTWG_11%20Notice1.pdf Dagstuhl Workshop on Graph Drawing, Wadern, Germany, May 2005 http://www.dagstuhl.de/05191/ Workshop on Network Analysis and Visualisation (part of GD’05), Limerick, Ireland, September 2005 http://www.gd2005.org/ Dagstuhl Workshop on Algorithmic Aspects of Large and Complex Networks, Wadern, Germany, September 2005 http://www.dagstuhl.de/03361/ IEEE Visualisation 2005, USA, October 2005 http://vis.computer.org/vis2005/ EII-NICTA Workshop on Plant Genomics, Sydney, Australia, November 2005 http://www.eii.edu.au/workshop/Plant.html EII Task Force on Network Analysis and Visualisation, Workshop on LargeScale Network Analysis, Sydney, Australia, November 2005 http://www.eii.edu.au/workshop/Analysis.html ISAAC2005, China, December 2005 http://www.cs.cityu.edu.hk/~isaac2005/ 372 Name Details Lichman, Serge NSW Enterprise Workshop, Sydney, Australia, July–December 2005 http:// www.enterpriseworkshop.com.au/index.php?section=programs&page=page4 Asia-Pacific Conference on Visual Information Processing (VIP’05), Hong Kong, December 2005 http://www.hy8.com/~vip05/ Merrick, Damian Australasian Conference on Interactive Entertainment (IE 2005), Sydney, Australia, November 2005 http://research.it.uts.edu.au/creative/ie/05/ Merrick, Kathryn 19th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Edinburgh, Scotland, July–August 2005 http://ijcai05.csd.abdn.ac.uk/ Murray, Colin Eurographics/IEEE VGTC Symposium on Visualisation (EuroVis 2005), Leeds, England, June 2005 http://www.comp.leeds.ac.uk/eurovis/index.html Song, Le Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS), Vancouver, Canada, December 2005 Taib, Ronnie GIW’05 (Gestural Interaction Workshop 2005), NICTA Seminar Room, April 2005 http://nicta.com.au/director/research/programs/imagen/GIW2005.cfm OZCHI’05, Canberra, Australia, November 2005 http://www.ozchi.org/ HCSNet Summerschool, Sydney, Australia, December 2005 http://www.hcsnet.edu.au/summerfest VALACON Project Team Social Network Analysis Workshop, NICTA, ATP, June 2005 Webber, Richard Complex System Patterns Workshop II, Sydney, Australia, December 2005 http://www.itee.uq.edu.au/~patterns/PatternsWorkshopII.html EII Task Force on Network Analysis and Visualisation, Workshop on Largescale Network Analysis, Sydney, Australia, November 2005 http://www.eii.edu.au/workshop/Analysis.html Wu, Mike GIW’05 (Gestural Interaction Workshop 2005), NICTA Seminar Room, April 2005 http://nicta.com.au/director/research/programs/imagen/GIW2005.cfm NICTA-HCSNet Multimodal User Interaction Workshop, Sydney, Australia, September 2005 http://nicta.com.au/director/research/programs/imagen/mmuiw2005.cfm Multimodal Interaction Design and Virtual Environment, Las Vegas, NV, USA, 22 July 2005 http://www.hci-international.org/programme/tutorials/t1_content.asp NSW Enterprise Workshop, Sydney, Australia, July–December 2005 http://www.enterpriseworkshop.com.au/index.php?section=programs&page =page4 Wu, M., Lichman, S., Ahmed, A NSW Enterprise Workshop, Sydney, Australia, July 2005 http://www.enterpriseworkshop.com.au 373 ANNUAL REPORT 05 to the Australian Government Name Details Xu Kai 7th Asia Pacific Web Conference (APWEB 2005), Shanghai, China, March– April 2005 http://apweb05.csm.vu.edu.au/index.asp EII-NICTA Workshop on Plant Genomics, Sydney, Australia, November 2005 http://www.eii.edu.au/workshop/Plant.html Xu Kai, Fu Xiaoyan EII Task Force on Network Analysis and Visualisation, Workshop on LargeScale Network Analysis, Sydney, Australia, November 2005 http://www.eii.edu.au/workshop/Analysis.html KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION AND REASONING Cregan, Anne 3rd European Summer School on Ontological Engineering, Spain, July 2005 http://babag.dia.fi.upm.es/sssw05 Semantic Web (SSSW-2005), Spain, July 2005 http://protege.stanford.edu/conference/2005/ 8th Int’l Protégé Conference & DL2005 Workshop, Scotland, July 2005 http:// dl.kr.org/dl2005/ Foo, Norman The First World Congress of the International Federation for Systems Research ISFR’05, Kobe, Japan, November 2005 http://ifsr2005.jtbcom.co.jp/ Gabaldon, Alfredo 20th National Conference on Artificial Intelligence AAAI 05, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, July 2005 http://www.aaai.org/Conferences/National/2005/aaai05.html Hebrard, Emmanuel 1st International School on Constraint Programming 2005, Italy, September 2005 http://www.math.unipd.it/~frossi/cp-school/ ICLP & CP 2005 Conference, Spain, October 2005 http://www.iiia.csic.es/cp2005/ Lee, Kevin 17th European Summer School in logic ESSLLI 05 Summer School, HeriotWatt University, Edinburgh, Scotland, August 2005 http://wwwmacs.hw.ac.uk/esslli05/ Maher, Michael ICT Outlook Forum, Sydney, Australia, August–September 2005 http://www.ictoutlookforum.com.au/ 11th International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming ICLP & CP 2005, Sitges, Spain, October 2005 http://www.iiia.csic.es/cp2005/ Myer, Thomas International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJACI), Edbinburgh, Scotland, July–August 2005 http://ijcai05.csd.abdn.ac.uk/ Protégé Training Course, Stanford University, USA, October 2005 http://protege.stanford.edu/community/education.html Rajaratna, David 374 17th European Summer School in Logic ESSLLI 05, Summer School, HeriotWatt University, Edinburgh, Scotland, August 2005 http://wwwmacs.hw.ac.uk/esslli05/ Name Details Renz, Jochen Initiative Workshop on Trust and Reputation in Ad-Hoc Local Communities, Melbourne, Australia, March 2005 ICT Outlook Forum, Sydney, Australia, August–September 2005 http://www.ictoutlookforum.com.au/ Dagstuhl Seminar on Spatial Cognition, Wadern, Germany, December 2005 http://www.dagstuhl.de/05491 11th International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming ICLP & CP 2005, Sitges, Spain, October 2005 http://www.iiia.csic.es/cp2005/ Walsh, Toby Workshop Chair, ICAPS Conference, California, USA, June 2005 http://icaps05uni-ulm.de/ 42nd Design Automation Conference, California, USA, June 2005 http://www.dac.com/42nd/pindex.html SAT2005 Conference, University of St Andrews, Scotland, June 2005 http://www.satisfiability.org/SAT05/ 20th National Conference on Artificial Intelligence AAAI 05, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, July 2005 http://www.aaai.org/Conferences/National/2005/aaai05.html 11th International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming ICLP & CP 2005, Barcelona, Spain, October 2005 http://www.iiia.csic.es/cp2005/ INFORMS 2005 Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, USA, November 2005 http://www.informs.org/Conf/NO2005 https://informs.emeetingsonline.com/emeetings/formbuilder/ clustersessiondtl.asp?csnno=3112&mmnno=141&ppnno=14269 LOGIC AND COMPUTATION Anbulagan Constraint Project Workshop, Melbourne, March 2005 8th International Conference on Theory and Applications of Satisfiability Testing, St Andrews, Scotland, June 2005 http://www.satisfiability.org/SAT05/ International Conference on Theory and Applications of Satisfiability Testing, Edinburgh, Scotland, August 2005 http://www.satisfiability.org/SAT05/ International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming, Sitges, Barcelona, Spain, September 2005 http://www.iiia.csic.es/cp2005/ Fifth International Workshop on Symmetry and Constraint Satisfaction Problems, Sitges, Barcelona, Spain, October 2005 375 ANNUAL REPORT 05 to the Australian Government Name Details Cohen, Jonathan Australasian Association of Logic, Perth, Australia, September 2005 http://www.philosophy.uwa.edu.au/aal_conference_2005 Australian Mathematical Society, Perth, Australia, September 2005 http://www.maths.uwa.edu.au/~austms05/ Gore, Rajeev WIN Workshop, Melbourne, Australia, March 2005 ISI Conference, Sydney, Australia, April 2005 International Conference on Theorem Proving with Analytic Tableaux and Related Methods, Koblenz, Germany, September 2005 Kilby, Phillip RTA Client, Sydney, Australia, June 2005 International Joint Conererence on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI’05), Edinburgh, Scotland, July 2005 http://ijcai05.csd.abdn.ac.uk/ Workshop on Modelling and Solving Problems with Constraints, Edinburgh, Scotland, July 2005 http://4c.ucc.ie/~brahim/ijcai05ws/ Norrish, Michael Binding Challenges Workshop, Kanazawa, Japan, April 2005 http://www.jaist.ac.jp/jaistcoe/eng/conferences/workshop_list/20050424_ binding_challenges.html International Conference on Theorem Proving in Higher Order Logics, Oxford, England, August 2005 http://web.comlab.ox.ac.uk/oucl/conferences/TPHOLs2005/ Slaney, John Workshop on Nonclassical Logic, Kanazawa, Japan, March 2005 Conference on Automated Deduction, Tallinn, Estonia, July 2005 http://www.cs.albany.edu/~nvm/cade.html International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Edinburgh, Scotland, August 2005 http://ijcai05.csd.abdn.ac.uk/ Slaney, John Workshop on Deduction and Applications, Schloss Dagstuhl, Wadern, Germany, October 2005 Workshop on Empirically Successful Classical Theorem Proving, Tallinn, Estonia, July 2005 NETWORK INFORMATON PROCESSING Baldwin, T., Korhonen, A., Villavicencio, A Proceedings of the ACL-SIGLEX 2005 Workshop on Deep Lexical Acquisition, Ann Arbor, MI, USA, June 2005 Cavedon, Lawrence NICTA/HCSnet Workshop on Multimodal User Interfaces, Sydney, Australia, September 2005, Hughes, Baden Cross Language Evaluation Forum 2005 Workshop, Vienna, Austria, September 2005 http://clef.isti.cnr.it/2005/2005work.html UK E-Science All Hands Meeting 2005, Nottingham, England, September 2005 http://www.allhands.org.uk 376 Name Details NETWORK AND PERVASIVE COMPUTING Boreli, Roksana Satcom Australia, Sydney, December 2005 http://www.terrapinn.com/2005/satcom%5Fau/ Boulis, Athanassios MDM ’05, The 6th International Conference on Mobile Data Management, Ayia Napa, Cyprus, May 2005 http://www2.cs.ucy.ac.cy/mdm05/ PERCOM 2005 3rd IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications 2005, Kauai island, HI, USA, March 2005 www.percom.org 14th IEEE Workshop on Local and Metropolitan Area Networks, Chania, Greece, September 2005 www.ieee-lanman.org ACM Sensys 2005, San Diego, CA, USA, November 2005 http://sensys.csail.mit.edu/ Exposito, Ernesto 3rd International IEEE Conference on Industrial Informatics (INDIN) 2005, Perth, Australia, August 2005 http://www.indin2005.curtin.edu.au/docs/ index.php Hassan, Mahbub Globecom 2005, St Louis, MO, USA, November–December 2005 http://www.ieee-globecom.org/2005/ Herborn, Stephen CONEXT 2005, Toulouse, France, October 2005 http://dmi.ensica.fr/conext Media Service Composition Workshop at ACM Multimedia, Singapore, November 2005 http://www.l3s.de/msc05/ Hu, Wen ACM Sensys 2005, San Diego, CA, USA, November 2005 http://sensys.csail.mit.edu/ Jourjon, Guillaume CONEXT 2005, Toulouse, France, October 2005 http://dmi.ensica.fr/conext Lan, Kun-chan ACM Mobicom 2005, Cologne, Germany, August–September 2005 http://www.sigmobile.org/mobicom/2005/ 2005 Rice ECE/CS Affiliates Meeting, Houston, TX, USA, September 2005 http://www.citi.rice.edu/calendar.cfm?EventRecord=5270 Libman, Lavy Dagstuhl Seminar on Disruption Tolerant Networking, Wadern, Germany, April 2005 http://www.dagstuhl.de/05142/ ACoRN Workshop on Cross-Layer Design Problems for Wireless Communications, Adelaide, Australia, June 2005 http://www.acorn.net.au/event/cld/ International Conference on Quality of Service in Heterogeneous Wired/ Wireless Networks (QShine), Orlando, FL, USA, August 2005 http://www.qshine.org Mao, Guoqiang., Boulis, Athanassios., Seneviratne, Aruna The Second IEEE Workshop on Embedded Networked Sensors, Sydney, Australia, May 2005 http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~emnet/ 377 ANNUAL REPORT 05 to the Australian Government Name Details Nghia, Dao Trong Globecom 2005, St. Louis, MI, USA, November–December 2005 http://www. ieee-globecom.org/2005/ Perera, Eranga CONEXT 2005, Toulouse, France, October 2005 http://dmi.ensica.fr/conext Senevirante, Aruna International Workshop on Convergent Technologies 2005, Oulu, Finland http://www.cwc.oulu.fi/iwct2005/ CONEXT 2005, Toulouse, France, October 2005 http://dmi.ensica.fr/conext Wongrujira, Krit CONEXT 2005, Toulouse, France, 24–27 October 2005 http://dmi.ensica.fr/conext NETWORK TECHNOLOGIES Nil SAFEGUARDING AUSTRALIA Portmann, Marius 4th Workshop on the Internet, Telecommunications and Signal Processing (WITSP’2005), Noosa Heads, Australia, December 2005 http://www.dspcs-witsp.com Sattar, Abdul Pacific Rim International Workshop on Multi-Agents, Malaysia, September 2005 www.prima2005.org International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming, CP-2005, Spain, October 2005 www.iiia.csic.es/cp2005/5 Australian AI Conference AI-2005, Sydney, Australia, December 2005 http://attend.it.uts.edu.au/ai05 Scott, Chris 10th IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV 2005), Beijing, China, October 2005 http://research.microsoft.com/iccv2005/ Digital Image and Computing: Techniques and Applications 2005 (DICTA 2005), Cairns, Australia, December 2005 http://dicta2005.aprs.org.au/ SYSTEMS ENGINEERING AND COMPLEX SYSTEMS Anderson, Brian 16th IFAC World Congress, Prague, Czech Republic, July 2005 http://www.ifac.cz/ Workshop on Swarming in Natural and Engineered Systems, California, USA, August 2005 http://www.swarms.org/workshop 14th ERNSI Workshop on System Identification, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, September 2005 http://www.auto.ucl.ac.be/ERNSI/ MIGFEST – Michel Gever’s 60th birthday workshop, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, September 2005 http://www.inma.ucl.ac.be/~blondel/studydays/05migfest.htm Anderson, Brian., Fidan, Baris., Yu, Changbin 378 2005 2nd IEEE Workshop on Embedded Networked Sensors (EmNetS-II), Sydney, Australia, May 2005 http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~emnet/emnets2005/index.html Name Details Chik, Desmond Gestural Interaction Workshop 2005, Sydney, Australia, April 2005 http://nicta.com.au/director/research/programs/imagen/GIW2005.cfm Deghanni, Arvin System and Control Workshop, Melbourne, Australia, February 2005 IFAC World Congress, Prague, Czech Republic, June 2005 www.ifac.cz The 44th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control and European Control Conference ECC 2005, Sevillle, Spain, December 2005, http://www.esi2.us.es/~cdcecc Griggs, Wynita Postgraduate Conference, Melbourne, Australia, February 2005 Fidan, Baris., Yu, Changbin 2nd International Conference on Intelligent Sensors, Sensor Networks and Information Processing (ISSNIP), Melbourne, Australia, December 2005 http://www.issnip.org/ Hueper, Knut WIN Workshop, Melbourne, March 2005 Haifa Matrix Theory Conference, Haifa, Israel, January 2005 Workshop on Approximation Theory, Perth, Australia, April 2005 http://www.maths.uwa.edu.au/research/mathinf/appro05.html 8th SIAM Conference, Stockholm, Sweden, May 2005 http://www.siam.org/meetings/op05/ Foundations of Computational Mathematics, Santander, Spain, July 2005 49th Australian Mathematical Society Annual Conference 2005, Perth, Australia, July 2005 https://www.maths.uwa.edu.au/%7Eaustms05/index.html Oberwolfach Meeting “Control Theory”, Oberwolfach, Germany, March 2005 Hueper, Knut., Moore, John., Fidan, Baris., Lanzon, Alexander., Seghouane, AbdKrim ANU-UNSW Quantum Control Workshop, Perth, Australia, September 2005 Malcolm, William Paul DASP, Utah, USA, March 2005 Conference on stochastic modelling of complex systems, Queensland, Australia, July 2005 http://www.conferences.unimelb.edu.au/smocs05 Stochastic calculus and its applications in quantitative finance and electrical engineering, University of Calgary, Canada, July 2005 http://homepages.ucalgacy.ca/~rje2005/RJEProgram.html Moore, John Symposium on Geometry Processing, Vienna, Austria, July 2005 http://www.cg.tuwien.acat/events/SGPOR/ International Federation of Accounts Congress, Prague, Czech Republic, July 2005 http://www.ifac.cz/ 379 ANNUAL REPORT 05 to the Australian Government Name Details Moore, John Stochastic Calculus and its Applications in Quantitative Finance and Electrical Engineering, University of Calgary, Canada, July 2005 http://homepages.ucalgacy.ca/~rje2005/RJEProgram.html International Symposium on Information Theory, Adelaide, Australia, September 2005 http://faculty.uwb.edu/ijcnn05/ Nurdin, Hendra CDC, Seville, Spain, December 2005 http://www.esi2.us.es/~cdcecc05/ Seghouane, Abd-Krim National Telematics Industry Initiative, Sydney, April 2005 http://www.intelematics.com.au/news.html IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Philadelphia, PA, USA, March 2005 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, Montreal, Canada, July 2005 http://faculty.uwb.edu/ijcnn05/ Shen, Yueshi 5th Annual MOPTA Conference Modeling and Optimization: Theory and Applications, Santander, Spain, July 2005 http://athena.uwindsor.ca/mopta Trumpf, Jochen 8th SIAM Conference on Optimisation, Stockholm, Sweden, May 2005 http://www.siam.org/meetings/op05/ Foundations of Computational Mathematics, Santander, Spain, September 2005 http://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/user/na/FoCM/FoCM05/ A Workshop on Linear System Theory, Sde Boker, Israel, July 2005 http://www.isib.cnr.it/control/gombani/workshop2005/ Yang, Kaiyang International Federation of Automatic Congress, Prague, Czech Republic, July 2005 http://www.ifac.cz/ Yu, Changbin International Workshop on Multi-Agent Robotic Systems, Barcelona, Spain, September 2005 http://www.icinco.org/icinco2005/MARS.htm SYMBOLIC MACHINE LEARNING AND KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION 380 Cai, Xiongcai 2nd International Conference on Intelligent Sensors, Sensor Networks and Information Processing – 2005 (ISSNIP 2005), Melbourne, Australia, December 2005 http://www.issnip.org/cfp.htm Cheeseman, Peter International Workshop on Bayesian Inference and Maximum Entropy Methods in Science and Engineering (MaxEnt2005), San José State University, San José, CA, USA, August 2005 http://ic.arc.nasa.gov/projects/maxent2005/ Chen, Jing., Yu, Zhenghua., Ye, Getian Intelligent Video/Audio Analysis and Communications Technologies – Safety and Security Solutions, ANU, Canberra, Australia, September 2005 Hengst, Bernhard., Yu, Zhenghua., Chen, Jing., Ye, Getian., Lu, Sijun NICTA/RSISE workshop on computer vision, ANU, Canberra, August 2005 Name Details Hengst, Bernhard., Fitch, Robert LEAR Workshop, Adelaide, Australia, October 2005 Hengst, Bernhard., Fitch, Robert The 18th Australian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence 2005 (AI2005), University of Technology, Sydney, Australia, December 2005 http://attend.it.uts.edu.au/ai05/ Hengst, Bernhard., Fitch, Robert., Uther, William., Phua, Chee Wee LEAR Workshop, Adelaide, Australia, December 2005 Fitch, Robert IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA2005), Barcelona, Spain, April 2005 Robotics: Science and Systems Conference, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA, June 2005 Lu, Sijun International Conference on Computer Analysis of Images and Pattern (CAIP2005), Paris, France, September 2005 http://acivs.org/caip2005/ Mathew, Reji Image and Video Communications & Processing Conference, San Jose, CA, USA, January 2005 http://electronicimaging.org/program/05/ Suc, Dorian., Fitch, Robert., Hengst, Bernhard., Cheeseman, Peter., Uther, William., Blair, Alan., Kwok,HW., Finlayson, Angela LEAR workshop, University of NSW, Sydney, Australia, April 2005 Suc, D., Beckmann, JP International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI2005), Edinburgh, Scotland, July–August 2005 http://ijcai05.csd.abdn.ac.uk/ Uther, William 2005 Australasian Conference on Robotics and Automation (ACRA 2005), University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, December 2005 http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~claude/ACRA2005/cfp.html Ye, Getian Asia-Pacific Workshop on Visual Information Processing (VIP 2005), Hong Kong, December 2005 http://www.hy8.com/~vip05/ Yu, Zhenghua IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo (ICME2005), July 2005, Amsterdam, The Netherlands http://www.icme2005.org/ Zhang, Jian Tenth International IEEE Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) and Surveillance Workshop, Beijing, China, October 2005 http://research.microsoft.com/iccv2005/workshop_schedule.htm 381 Seventh International IEEE workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing (MMSP 2005), Shanghai, China, 30 October–7 November 2005 http://www.mmsp05.missouri.edu/ ANNUAL REPORT 05 to the Australian Government Name Details Zhang, Jian., Yu, Zhenghua., Chen, Jing., Lu, Sijun., Ye, Getian 2005 NICTA Multimedia Signal Processing Workshop, Australian Technology Park, Australia, November 2005 http://www.nicta.com.au/director/research/programs/smlka/mvc/msp05. cfm STATISTICAL MACHINE LEARNING Aberdeen, Douglas AAAI-05, USA, June 2005 http://www.aaai.org/Conferences/National/2005/aaai05.html International Conference on Machine Learning, Bonn, Germany, July 2005 http://icml.ais.fraunhofer.de/home.php International conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence, Edinburgh, July 2005 http://www.cs.toronto.edu/uai2005/ International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Edinburgh, Scotland, July 2005 http://ijcai05.csd.abdn.ac.uk/ Aberdeen, Douglas., Nic, Schraudolph., Douglas, Aberdeen., Adam, Kawalczyk Neural Information Processing Systems, Vancouver, Canada, December 2005 Buffet, Olivier Cap’05, France, April 2005 http://users.rsise.anu.edu.au/~buffet/papiers/cap05.pdf International Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence, Edinburgh, Scotland, July 2005 http://www.cs.toronto.edu/uai2005/ International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Edinburgh, Scotland, July 2005 http://ijcai05.csd.abdn.ac.uk/ Conference d’Apprentissage 2005, Nice, France, May 2005 http://lif.univ-mrs.fr/~fdenis/cap05 Kowalczyk, Adam European conference on machine learning, Porto, Portugal, October 2005 http://ecmlpkdd05.liacc.up.pt Algorithmic Learning Theory, Singapore, September 2005 http://www-alg.ist. hokudai.ac.jp/~thomas/ALT05/alt05.jhtml IDEAL Brisbane, Australia, July 2005 http://www.itee.uq.edu/au/~ideal05 Pascal Workshop, Eurandom, The Netherlands, September 2005 http://www.eurandom.nl/workshops/2005/PASCAL%20II/PASCAL_main.htm International Conference on Machine Learning, Bonn, Germany, July 2005 http://icml.ais.fraunhofer.de/home.php 382 Le, Quoc International Conference on Information Technology and Applications, Sydney, Australia, July 2005 http://attend.it.uts.edu.au/icita05/ Sanderson, Conrad Gestural Interaction Workshop, Sydney, Australia, April 2005 Name Details Schraudolph, Nic Gestural Interaction Workshop, Sydney, Australia, April 2005 http://nicta. com.au/director/research/programs/imagen/GIW2005.cfm International Conference on Machine Learning, Bonn, Germany, July 2005 http://icml.ais.fraunhofer.de/home.php ISI Statistics Meeting, Sydney, Australia, April 2005 Smola, Alex EPFL Conference, Lausanne, Switzerland, January 2005 IDIAP Conference, Martigny, Switzerland, January 2005 AISTATS Conference, Barbados, January 2005 International Conference on Machine Learning, Bonn, Germany, July 2005 http://icml.ais.fraunhofer.de/home.php Pascal Workshop, Eurandom, The Netherlands, September 2005 http://www.eurandom.nl/workshops/2005/PASCAL%20II/PASCAL_main.htm Algorithmic Learning Theory, Singapore, September 2005 http://www-alg.ist.hokudai.ac.jp/~thomas/ALT05/alt05.jhtml UAI Conference, Santa Cruz, NM, USA, January 2005 Vishwanathan, Swaminathan Venkata Narayana NIPS Conference, Vancouver-Bangalore, January 2005 Colt 2005, Italy, June 2005 http://learningtheory.org/colt2005/ International Symposium on Signal Processing and its Applications Sydney, Australia, August 2005 http://www.elec.uow.edu.au/isspa2005/ Computational learning theory, Bertino, Italy, July 2005 http://learningtheory.org/colt2005 Neural information Processing Systems, Vancouver, Canada, December 2005 UCSC, USA, December 2005 SENSOR NETWORKS Nil WSP Abhayapala, Thushara Asia Pacific Conference on Communication, Perth, Australia, October 2005 2005 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Philadelphia, PA, US International Symposium on Information Theory, Adelaide, Australia, September 2005 4th Workshop on the Internet, Telecommunications and Signal Processing, WITSP’2005, Noosa Heads, Australia, December 2005 International Conference on Theory and Applications of Satisfiability Testing, Edinburgh, Scotland, August 2005 http://www.satisfiability.org/SAT05/ 383 ANNUAL REPORT 05 to the Australian Government Name Details Anbulagan International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming, Barcelona, Spain, September 2005 http://www.iiia.csic.es/cp2005/ Australasian Association of Logic, Perth, Australia, September 2005 http://www.philosophy.uwa.edu.au/aal_conferen Cohen, Jonathan Australian Mathematical Society, Perth, Australia, September 2005 http://www.maths.uwa.edu.au/~austms05/ Australian Communications Theory Workshop, Brisbane, Australia, February 2005 Hanlen, Leif International Symposium on Information Theory, Adelaide, Australia, September 2005 Asia Pacific Conference on Communication, Perth, Australia, October 2005 Australian Communications Theory Workshop, Brisbane, Australia, February 2005 Kennedy, Rod Asia Pacific Conference on Communication, Perth, Australia, October 2005 Australian Communications Theory Workshop, Brisbane, Australia, February 2005 International Symposium on Information Theory, Adelaide, Australia, September 2005 IEEE Globecom 2005, Saint Lewis, Canada, November 2005 Krusevac, Snezana Conference on Theorem Proving in Higher Order Logics, Oxford, England, August 2005 http://web.comlab.ox.ac.uk/oucl/conferences/TPHOLs2005/ Norrish, Michale ICICS conference 2005, Beijing, China, December 2005 Perera, Rasika Australian Communications Theory Workshop, Brisbane, Australia, February 2005 IEEE 802 Standards Meeting, Cairns, Australia, May 2005 http://www. ieee802.org/secmail/msg06707.html Pollock, Tony Australian Communications Theory Workshop, Brisbane, Australia, August 2005, February 2005 Reed, Mark ACoRN/NICTA/ANU Wireless Winter School, Australia, July 2005 Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, Pacific Grove, CA, USA, 30 October–2 November 2005 Information Theory Workshop, Melbourne, Australia, October 2005 Wireless Networking and Communication Group Wireless Networking Symposium, Austin, TX, USA, October 2005 Virtex-4 X-Fest, Melbourne, Australia, May 2005 http://www.memec.com/?cmd=detail&articleid=2359 384 Name Details Ruan, Matt Australian Communications Theory Workshop, Brisbane, February, 2005 Shi, Zhenning Integrated Workshop, Singapore, May 2005 http://focus.ti.com/docs/training/catalog/events/event.jhtml?sku= 4DW504260 IEEE Toronto Comsoc Seminar, Canada, May 2005 http://www.ee.ryerson.ca/~ieee/events.html Australian Communications Theory Workshop, Brisbane, Australia, February 2005 Sithamparanathan, Kandeepan Conference on Automated Deduction, Tallinn, Estonia, July 2005 http://www.cs.albany.edu/~nvm/cade.html Slaney, John International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Edinburgh, Scotland, August 2005 http://ijcai05.csd.abdn.ac.uk/ Australian Communications Theory Workshop, Brisbane, Australia, February 2005 Smith, David Asia-Pacific Conference on Communications 2005, APCC2005, Perth, Australia, October 2005 Australian Communications Theory Workshop, Brisbane, Australia, February 2005 Timo, Roy Australian Communications Theory Workshop, Brisbane, Australia, February 2005 385 ANNUAL REPORT 05 to the Australian Government Research and Teaching Visitors Visitor Name Home Institution Duration AUTONOMOUS SYSTEMS AND SENSOR TECHNOLOGY Barone, Dante Informatics Institute, Universidade Federal Do Rio Grande Do Sul, Brazil August Bunke, Horst University of Bern, Switzerland Feb–Mar Dick, Anthony University of Adelaide, Australia August Dikshit, Akshat Bal Indian Institute of Technology, India May–Jul Gheissari, Niloofar Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Jan–Mar Ishikawa, Seiji Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan November Mainbourg, Gulliame Australian National University, Canberra Jan–Jun Maire, Frederic Queensland University Technology, Australia August Nister, David University of Kentucky, USA May–Jun Petry, Adriano University Luterana, Brazil May Rasolzadeh, Babak Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden Nov 05–Feb 06 Sanchez-Azofeifa, Arturo University of Alberta, Canada February Santhanam, Anand ANU, Australia Nov 05–Feb 06 Schindler, Konrad Monash University, Australia January Monash University, Australia August Tompkinson, William Ordnance Survey Research, UK May Tu, Peter General Electric Global, USA May General Electric Global, USA Jul–Aug Van Den Hengel, Anton University of Adelaide, Australia August Vidal, Rene John Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA January Winkler, Matthias University of Applied Science, Germany Oct 05–Apr 06 Zhou, Jun University of Alberta, Canada Jan–Jun EMBEDDED, REAL TIME, AND OPERATING SYSTEMS 386 Frank, Kristine Technical University of Denmark Jul 05–Jan 06 Haertig, Hermann Dresden University, Germany Mar–Apr Islam, Nayeem DoCoMo Research Labs, USA Jun–Jul Jayet, Patrick Swiss Federal Inst of Technology Zurich Sep 05–Mar 06 Kumar, Ram Kaushik Indian Institute of Technology, India May Indian Institute of Technology, India May–Jul Visitor Name Home Institution Duration Kumar, Vishal Indian Institute of Technology, Indiaa May–Jul Maltby, Chris Aurema Pty Ltd, Australia March Nehmer, Jurgen University of Kaiserslautern, Germany March Patrick, Jayet Swiss Federal Inst of Technology Zurich Sep 05–Mar 06 Pike, Rob Google Inc, USA March Stepanov, Andrew Nuclear Power University, City Obninsk, Russia Nov 05–Jan 06 Taufer, Michela University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP), USA December EMPIRICAL SOFTWARE AND ENGINEERING Barker, Mike NARA, Japan November Bass, Len Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Jan–Mar Chen, Pin Defence, Science and Technology, Australia May Chen, Shiping CSIRO ICT Centre, Australia June Davis, Al Information Systems at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, USA August Gorthi, Ravi Infosys, Bangalore, India March Gray, Neil University of Wollongong, Australia Jun–Dec Grundy, John Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, University of Auckland, New Zealand February Kokunse-san NTT Data, Japan Nov–Dec Kusumoto, Shinju Osaka University, Japan Aug–Sep Mair, Carolyn Brunel University, UK November Nishijimi, [first name], Takeshi NTT Data, Japan Nov–Dec Salinesi, Camille Sorbonne University, France November Shepherd, Martin Brunel University, UK November Abramsky, Samson Oxford University, UK Sep–Oct Cassez, Franck IRCCYN, France Oct– Dec Dams, Dennis Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, USA November Hardin, David Rockwell Collins, IA, USA November Hennessy, Matthew University of Sussex, UK Oct–Dec Rushby, John SRI International, USA Sep–Oct Pavlovic, Dusko Stanford University, USA Oct–Dec FORMAL METHODS 387 ANNUAL REPORT 05 to the Australian Government Visitor Name Home Institution Duration Suttner, Christian Institut fur Informatik, Germany Sep–Oct INTERFACES, MACHINES, AND GRAPHIC ENVIRONMENTS 388 Batagelj, Vladimir University of Ljubljana, Slovenia June Buchheim, Christoph Institut fur Informatik, Germany Mar–Apr Buchner, Heidi University of Passau, Germany Nov 05–May 06 Calder, Paul Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia Sep–Oct Holden, Eunjung University of Western Australia, Australia April Hosobe, Hiroshi Research Centre for Testbeds and Proto-typing, Japanese National Institute of Informatics (NII), Japan January Hubner, Florian University of Karlsruhe, Germany Oct 05–May 06 Ketelaar, Sander University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Aug–Dec Koike, Hideki School of Information Systems, Uni of Electro Communications, Japan April Manwaring, Tristan University of Sydney, Australia Nov 05–Feb 06 Marriott, Kim Monash University, Melbourne, Australia January Nagamochi, Hiroshi Kyoto University, Japan November Nguyen, Hoang Quan University of Sydney Nov 05–Feb 06 Oviatt, Sharon Center for Human-Computer Communication (CHCC), Dept. of Computer Science, Oregon Health and Science University, USA September Pattison, Pip School of Behavioural Science, the University of Melbourne, Australia August Quek, Francis Center for Human-Computer Interaction, Computer Science, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA September Robins, Garry School of Behavioural Science, the University of Melbourne, Australia August SAMSUNG delegation SAMSUNG, Korea February Sugiyama, Kozo JAIST (Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology), Japan January Thomas, Bruce University of South Australia, Australia January Tuovinen, Juhani ICIDER, Batchelor Institute of Indigenous Tertiary Education, Darwin, Australia March Turk, Matthew University of California at Santa Barbara, USA April Visitor Name Home Institution Duration Vernik, Rudi Defence Science and Technology Organisation (DSTO), Australia January Williams, Rohan University of NSW, Australia February Williams, Rohan University of NSW, Australia Jul–Dec KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION AND REASONING Baader, Franz Technical University Dresden, Germany December Booth, Richard Macquarie University, Australia Sep–Nov Botea, Adi University of Alberta, Canada Sep–Oct Cohn, Anthony University of Leeds, UK September Clarke, Keith Imperial College, UK October Fedorovskia, Karina University of Vienna, Austria Jul–Oct Freska, Prof Christian Cognitive Systems Fb3 – Informatics, University of Bremen, Germany February Goebel, Randy University of Alberta, USA September Haslem, Patrik University of Linkoeping, Sweden Sep–Oct Kuter, Ugur University of Maryland, USA Sep–Oct Levesque, Prof Hector University of Toronto, Canada Jan–Feb Lourousias, George Kings College, UK Jul–Sep Makinson, David Kings College, UK Jul–Sep Narinsky, Leonid University of Vienna, Austria Jul–Oct Narodytska, Nina National Technical University of Ukraine Apr–Dec Niemela, Ilkka Helsinki University, Finland Nov 05–Jan 06 O’Sullivan, Barry Dept of Computer Science, University of Cork, Ireland Jun–Jul Quimper, Claude-Guy University of Waterloo, Canada Feb–Mar Rintanen, Jussi University of Freiburg, Germany Sep–Oct Rossi, Francesca University of Padova, Italy Aug–Sep Southie, Finnegan University of Alberta, Canada November Sperduti, Alessandro University of Padova, Italy Aug–Sep Strauss, Martin University of Melbourne, Australia Nov 04–Feb 05 Sushkov, Oleg University of NSW, Australia Nov 04–Feb 05 Vitany, Paul National Research Institute for Mathematics and Computer Science, and the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Oct 04–Feb 05 Vyskocil, Jiri Charles University, Czech Republic December 389 ANNUAL REPORT 05 to the Australian Government Visitor Name Home Institution Duration Wan, Jane University of Waikato, New Zealand Nov 04–Feb 05 Becket, Ralph University of Melbourne, Australia May Bernardi, Rafaella University of Bolzano-Bozen, Italy Nov–Dec Ishtaiw, Abdelraouf Griffith University, Australia May Kracht, Marcus University of California at Los Angeles, USA April Nguyen, Lan Duy University of Wollongong, Australia April Pham, Duc Nghia Griffith University, Australia May Sattar, Abdul Griffith University, Australia May Toshimasa, Matsumoto Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan Mar–Apr LOGIC AND COMPUTATION NETWORK INFORMATION PROCESSING Demoen, Bart Katholieke Universiteit, The Netherlands December NETWORK AND PERVASIVE COMPUTING Abowd, Gregory Georgia Institute of Technology, USA June Jacobsen, Henrik AST, Australia/UK December Klok, Frits Qibbo, The Netherlands Oct–Dec Mohapatra, Prasant University of California, USA August Ott, Max Research Professor at WINLAB, Rutgers University, and CTO of Semandex Networks, USA March Perlman, Radia Sun Microsystems Labs, USA November Sarikaya, Behcet University of Northern British Columbia in Prince George, Canada Jun–Jul Strang, Thomas German Aerospace Center (DLR) in Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany Jan–Mar Wetherall, David University of Washington, Seattle, USA December The University of Electro-Communications, Japan September The University of Electro-Communications, Japan September The University of Electro-Communications, Japan September NETWORK TECHNOLOGIES Atoche, Gustavo PhD student Gamage, Manodha PhD student Hayasaka, Mitsuo PhD student 390 Visitor Name Home Institution Duration Serbay, Murat Faculty of Engineering, University of Kiel, Germany October Turkiewicz, Jaroslaw Department of Electrical Engineering, Technical University of Eindhoven, The Netherlands November SYSTEMS ENGINEERING AND COMPLEX SYSTSEMS Chandra, Chandra University of Melbourne, Australia November Dimon-Bendtsen, Jan Aalborg University, Denmark Jan–Feb Hendrickx, Julien Universite Catholque De Louvain, Belgium Mar–Apr Krakowski, Kris University Armidale, Australia Dec Last, Guenter University Karloruhe, Germany July Lechini, Andrea University of Cambridge, UK Aug–Sep Lehmann, Stefan University of Queensland, Australia Mar–Apr Leite, Fatima Silva University of Coimbra, Portugal Jan–Mar Machado, Luis University Coimbra, Portugal January Manton, Jonathan University of Melbourne, Australia Jan Sandberg, Henrik Caltech, USA Jul–Aug Van Dooren, Paul University Louvain, Belgium Nov-Dec SYMBOLIC MACHINE LEARNING AND KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION Altun, Yasemin Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago, USA September DeTar, Charles Dartmouth College, Hanover, USA Jun–Sep Markl, Volker Research staff member at IBM’s Almaden November Research Center in San Jose, USA Ng, Kee Siong Research School of Information Sciences and Engineering, The Australian National University, Australia November Sikora, Thomas Technical University Berlin, Germany November Vitanyi, Paul CWI & Universiteit van Amsterdam, The Netherlands Oct 04–Feb 05 Xu, Dong Internet Graphics Group (IG) Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA), China November SYMBOLIC MACHINE LEARNING AND KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION Detar, Charles Dartmouth College, Hanover, USA Jun–Sep STATISTICAL MACHINE LEARNING Alturn, Yasemin Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago, USA Sep–Oct Beygelzimer, Alina IBM TJ Watson Research Center, USA August Bhattacharyya, Chiranjib Indian Institute of Science, India Jun–Jul 391 ANNUAL REPORT 05 to the Australian Government Visitor Name Home Institution Duration Bottou, Leon NEC Research, USA April Chanen, Ari University of Sydney, Australia May–Jul Chang, K Chui University of Technology, Australia May–Aug Chapelle, Olivier MPI for Biological Cybernetics, Germany Jan–Mar Franz, Matthias MPI for Biological Cybernetics, Germany February Gaertner, Thomas Fraunhoffer Ais Scholoss Birlinghoven, Germany Mar–May Ganesh, Raghavendra Samsung India Software Operations, India Aug–Nov Garcia, Frederick National Institute of Agricultural Research, France December Huang, Jiayuan University of Alberta, Canada Apr–Oct Hutter, Marcus Technical University, Munich, Germany Jan–Feb Karatzoglou, Alexandros Insititut fur Statistik und Wahrscheinlichkeitsthori e, Germany Jan–Mar Khiem, Tran Dinh Melbourne University, Australia Dec–Jan Koch, Inge University of NSW, Sydney, Australia February Langford, John Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago, USA August Naimul, Islam University of Dhaka, Bangladesh Aug–Nov Nguyen, Hoang Quan USYD, Australia Dec 05–Jan 06 Parker, Brian University of Sydney, Australia November Richter, Silvia University of Rennes, Germany Nov 05–Aug 06 Soni, Ankit Indian Institute of Technology, India May–Jul Sunehag, Peter Uppsala University, Sweden Jul 05–May 06 Teo, Choon Hui University of Hong Kong Aug–Nov Vaussy, Eric Ecole Superieure d’Electricite, France Jun–Aug Wang, Jianxiong Sydney University, Australia May–Jul Yu, Jin KU, Belgium Apr–ongoing Andrievsky, Boris Russian Academy of Science, Russia September Calderbank, Robert Princeton University, USA August Carli, Ruggero University of Pavoda, Italy Sep–Nov Fradkov, Alexander Russian Academy of Science, Russia September Heath, Robert The University of Texas at Austin, USA August Summer student SENSOR NETWORKS 392 Visitor Name Home Institution Duration Aboutanios Elias Institute of Digital Communications, School of Engineering and Electronics, The University of Edinburgh, Scotland March Beaulieu, Norman University of Alberta, Canada March Bhaskar, Nipun RMIT, Australia Oct 05–Feb 06 Braennstroem, Fredrik Chalmers University of Technology, Germany Oct Dangl, Markus University of Ulm, Germany Jan–Apr Dmochowski, Pawel Queen’s University at Kingston, Canada June Duranni, Salman ANU, Australia Oct 05–Apr 06 Faulkner, Mike Victoria University, New Zealand August Garg, Deepshika Tohoku University, Japan February Grant, Alex University of South Australia July De Haro, Leandro, University of Wollongong, Australia Aug Heath, Robert University of Texas, USA August Johnson, Sarah University of Newcastle, Australia August Nguyen, Kien ANU, Australia Nov–Dec Nordholm, Sven Signal Processing Laboratory, April Dam, Heidi WARI, Perth O’Sulliavan, John Cisco Systems, Australia March Ping, Li City University, Hong Kong August Rasmussen, Lars University of South Australia, Australia March Sadehi, Parastoo ANU, Australia Feb–Aug Schrekenbach, Frank Munich University of Technology, Germany Nov 05–Feb 06 Sirisena, Harsha University of Canterbury, New Zealand Nov Szolnoki, Stefan University of Ulm, Germany Jan–Jul Timo, Roy The Australian National University, Australia Jan–Aug Walsh, John M. Cornell University, USA Sept Williams, David The Australian National University, Australia Jun–Jul Zhang, Wen The Australian National University, Australia Mar–Nov WIRELESS SIGNAL PROCESSING Wysocki, Tadeus 393 ANNUAL REPORT 05 to the Australian Government Research or Teaching Visits to International Institutions Name Destination Duration AUTONOMOUS SYSTEMS AND SENSOR TECHNOLOGIES Ohio State University, USA Apr–May University of Alberta, Canada Apr–May Caetano, Tiberio Max Planck Institute, Germany April Goecke, Roland Fraunhofer IGD, Germany July Caelli, Terry EMBEDDED REAL TIME AND OPERATING SYSTEMS Chapman, Matthew HP Linux and Open Source Lab, USA May Chubb, Peter Gelato, USA May Heiser, Gernot DoCoMo Labs, USA January Qualcomm, USA January Apple, USA January IIT Madras, India February Pune University, India February IIT Bombay, India February Karlsruhe University, Germany March Qualcomm, USA April Gelato, USA June University of Toronto, Canada May Ericsson, Canada May University of Karlsruhe, Germany May Arizona State University, USA June Qualcomm, USA June DoCoMo Labs, USA October Linkage/Commercialisation HP, Cupertino, USA November Research/Linkage Apple, Cupertino, USA November Linkage/Commercialisation Qualcomm, San Diego, USA November Commercialisation Max-Planck Institute, Germany Linkage 394 November Name Destination Heiser, Gernot Ericsson Wireless Platforms, Sweden Duration Research/Linkage December Leslie, Ben Peters, Stefan ST Microelectronics, France April Qualcomm, USA April University Karlsruhe, Germany April Apple, Cupertino, USA November Linkage/Commercialisation Qualcomm, San Diego, USA November Research/Commercialisation Ericsson Lund, Sweden July Institute of Real-Time Computing Systems, July UK Rauch, Felix Ruocco, Sergio BMW Munich, Germany July IRA Karlsruhe, Germany July University of York, UK July NASA/NIA, USA July University of Pittsburgh, USA July RTSS PC Meeting, USA July University of Texas at Austin, USA October University of Texas at El Paso, USA October University of Konstanz, Germany October Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Switzerland October University of Konstanz, Germany October Teja Technologies San Francisco, USA September Tuch, Harvey Aug 05–Mar 06 Intel Research, USA van Schaik, Carl Qualcomm, USA Jan–Feb Qualcomm, USA April Qualcomm, Commercialisation, USA Oct–Nov 395 ANNUAL REPORT 05 to the Australian Government Name Destination Duration EMPIRICAL SOFTWARE ENGINEERING FPT Software, Vietnam May CMC Software, Vietnam June NCS, Vietnam July VDC, Vietnam July VietSoftware, Vietnam August CT-IN Software, Vietnam September AZ Solutions, Vietnam September Quantic Ltd, Vietnam September SDC, Vietnam September VNCI, Vietnam September VietSoftware, Vietnam September Bleistein, Steven University of Paris, Sorbonne, France November Bleistein, S, Cox, K NTT Data, Nomura Research Institute, Software Engineering Centre, Japan Oct–Nov Cox, Karl Empirical Software Engineering Research Group, and Software & Systems Modelling Group, Bournemouth University, UK August Jeffery, Ross University of Southern California at Los Angeles, USA August Fraunhofer IESE, Kaiserslautern, Germany December University of Manchester, UK June IIT Bombay, Mumbai, India January Cornell University, USA September Stanford University, USA January Technical University Eindhoven, The Netherlands June Centre for Mathematics and Computer Science, Amsterdam (CWI) June Free University Amsterdam June Stanford University, USA August Ali Babar, Muhammad Niazi, Mahmood FORMAL METHODS van der Meyden, Ron van Glabbeek, Rob INTERFACES, MACHINES, AND GRAPHIC ENVIRONMENTS Eades, Peter 396 School of Informatics, Kyoto University, Japan March Jiaotong University and Fudan University, Shanghai, China May Name Destination Duration Eades, Peter University College, Dublin, Ireland July ISERC, Limerick, Ireland September Florida State University, USA May–June Utrecht University, The Netherlands June Technical University of Eindhoven, The Netherlands June Lund University, Sweden June Hong, Seokhee Kyoto University, Japan March Murray, Colin Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, The Netherlands May Ewha University, Korea August University of Limerick, Ireland September Indiana University, USA June–Sep Xu, Kai Soochow University, China April Zheng, Lanbo Institute of Information, University of Cologne, Germany Jun–Sep Gudmundsson, Joachim KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION AND REASONING Foo, Norman Guizhou Academy of Sciences, China Sep–Oct Maher, Michael Loyola University, USA June Meyer, Thomas South African National Bioinformatics Institute – SANBI, South Africa Sep–Oct Pencole, Yannick University of Rennes 1 & INRIA – Rennes, France Apr–May Schumann, Anika Automated Reasoning Systems Division of IRST, Italy Jan–Feb Walsh, Toby Masachusetts Institute of Technology, USA March European Commision, Belgium April Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan March LOGIC AND COMPUTATION Slaney, John NETWORK INFORMATION PROCESSING Baldwin, Timothy Stanford University, USA February Buyya, Rajkumar University of Chile, Chile November NETWORK AND PERVASIVE COMPUTING Boreli, Roksana Nokia R&D, Finland February 397 ANNUAL REPORT 05 to the Australian Government Name Destination Duration Boulis, Athanassios Athens University of Economics & Business, Department of Informatics, Greece September Exposito, Ernesto Mathieu Gineste (Ensica), Christophe Chasot (LAAS), ENSICA/LAAS, France Feb–Mar Arturo Azcorra, UC3, Spain March DATAMAT, Roma, University of Roma, Italy April Jourjon, Guillaume Aveiro, Portugal December Lan, Kun-chan University of Massachusetts at Amherst, USA September Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA September Libman, Lavy Broadband and Wireless Networking Laboratory (BWN), Georgia Institute of Technology, USA August Petander, Henrik National Central University, Taiwan August Perera, Eranga Microsoft Research, Beijing November Keio University, Japan November Centre for Wireless Communication, Finland June Ericsson Research, Sweden June Thompson R&D Labs, France October ENSICA, France October Ericsson Research, Sweden October Mahanakorn University, Thailand October Anderson, Trevor Nortel Networks, USA October Attygalle, Manik Mintera Optical Networks, One Lowell Research Center, USA May Aegis Semiconductor, USA May AT&T Laboratories – Research, USA March Aegis Semiconductors, USA March AT&T Laboratories – Research, USA March Aegis Semiconductors, USA March University of Southern California at Los Angeles, USA March Lightwave Division of the Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore December Seneviratne, Aruna NETWORK TECHNOLOGIES Cornick, Kate Dods, Sarah Evans, Rob 398 Name Destination Duration Farrell, Peter National Institute of Information and Communication Technology (NICT), Japan October National Institute of Information and Communication Technology (NICT), Japan October Tucker, Rod National Institute of Information and Communication Technology (NICT), Japan October Wong, Elaine Teknovus, USA March On-site training SAFEGUARDING AUSTRALIA Iannella, Renato University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong November Scott, Chris University of California at Irvine, USA October University of Southern California, USA October FOI, Sweden October Ericsson labs, Sweden October SYSTEMS ENGINEERING AND COMPLEX SYSTEMS Anderson, Brian Kyoto University, Japan Feb–Mar Technical University, Vienna Jun–Jul University Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-laNeuve, Belgium Sep–Oct University of California at Santa Barbara, USA August Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden September Chik, Desmond Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Switzerland Sep–Nov Dehghanii Delft Centre on Systems and Control, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands July Hueper, Knut Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetrics, The Netherlands March University of Wuerzburg, Germany May Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden May Technical University Munich, Germany July Universita degli Studi di Firenze, Dipartimento di Matematica per le Decisioni, Italy, July SISSA/ISAS International School of advanced Studies, Italy July Université catholique de Louvain, Department of Mathematical Engineering, Belgium August 399 ANNUAL REPORT 05 to the Australian Government Name Destination Duration Malcolm, Paul University of Boston, USA April University of Calgary, Canada April National Research Laboratory, Holland April Imperial College, UK April University of British Columbia, Canada July University of Calgary, Canada Jul–Oct Victoria University, New Zealand October Ecole National Superieure des Telecommunications, France March Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, North Carolina State University, USA March Brian Science Institute, RIKEN, Japan Jun–Jul Department of Information Technology, Ghent University, Belguim Jul–Sep University of Wuerzburg, Germany May INRIA Sophia Antipolis, France, Collaboration June University of Wuerzburg, Germany September SZTAKI, Hungarian Academy of Science, Budapest, Hungary September Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel September Yang, Kaiyang IBM Tokyo Research Laboratory (TRL), Japan Jan–Apr Yu, Brad Changbin University Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium Sep–Oct Nanyang Technological University, Singapore September Seghouane, Abd-Krim Trumpf, Jochen SYMBOLIC MACHINE LEARNING AND KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION Cheeseman, Peter 400 Berkeley University, USA Mar–Apr Standford University, USA Mar–Apr University of California at Santa Cruz, USA Mar–Apr University of California, USA Mar–Apr University of Southern California, Information Sciences Institute, USA Mar–Apr Berkeley University, USA August Standford University, USA August Name Destination Duration Fitch, Robert Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA June Dartmouth, USA June University of Rochester, USA June Carnegie Mellon University, USA June Lu, Sijun INRIA Research Centre – Orion Nice, France September Ye, Getian Hong Kong Science & Technology Parks, Hong Kong December Image Processing Group at City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong December Center for Biometrics and Security Research Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China December Media Processing and Management Group in Microsoft Research Asia Advanced Technology Centre, China December Yu, Zhenghua Motorola Lab, UK July Zhang, Jian Multimedia Image Processing Lab, Tsinghua University, HongQiao, China October National Lab of Pattern Recognition, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing, China October Hong Kong City University, ShenZhen, China October STATISTICAL MACHINE LEARNING Aberdeen, Doug Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Germany August Alex Smola University of Munich, Germany January Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Germany August Eurandom, The Netherlands September MPI Tuebingen, Germany August Toyota Technological Institute, USA September LMU Munich, Germany July ETH Zurich, Switzerland September University of Aarhus, Denmark April INRIA Grenoble, France May Alex Smola Buffet, Olivier 401 ANNUAL REPORT 05 to the Australian Government Name Destination Duration Kowalczyk, Adam Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Germany September Eurandom, The Netherlands September Warsaw Technical University, Poland June Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Germany September Universitaet Stuttgart, Germany September ETH Zurich, Switzerland July University of British Columbia, Canada Nov–Dec IISc Bangalore, India July Columbia University, New York, USA January University College London, England July University of Texas at Austin, USA February Pollock, Tony IEEE802, Canada November Zhang, Jian UWB, China November Schraudolph, Nic Vishwanathan, Swaminathan Venkata Narayana SENSOR NETWORKS Skafidas, Stan WIRELESS SIGNAL PROCESSING 402 Research Recognition – Invited Talks Name Detail AUTONOMOUS SYSTEMS AND SENSOR TECHNOLOGIES Caelli, Terry Public Lecture on the Future of Computer Vision, IT Week, Canberra, Australia, August 2005 New Cameras, New Challenges and New Opportunities, IEEE, Canberra Branch, Australia, November 2005 Image and Vision Computing, New Zealand, November 2005 16th Spatial Information Research Conference, New Zealand, November 2005 Goecke, Roland Multimodal User Interaction Workshop, Sydney, Australia, September 2005 CMU, Pittsburgh, USA, July 2005 Fraunhofer IGD, Rostock, Germany, July 2005 Peterson, Lars National Telematics Workgroup, Sydney, April 2005 EMBEDDED REAL TIME AND OPERATING SYSTEMS Heiser, Gernot Adelaide University, Australia, May 2005 CISRA Sydney, Australia, May 2005 Secure Embedded Systems Need Microkernels, Max-Planck Institute for Software Systems (MPI-SS), Saarbrücken, Germany, November 2005 Secure Embedded Systems Need Microkernels, Apple, Cupertino, USA, November 2005 Peters, Stefan Ericsson Lund, Sweden, July 2005 National Institute of Aerospace, Virginia, USA, July 2005 Rauch, Felix Sydney University, Basser Seminar Series, Australia, April 2005 Comprehensive Throughput Evaluation of LANs in Clusters of PCs with Switchbench – or How to Bring Your Switch to its Knees, University of Texas at Austin, USA, October 2005; University of Texas at El Paso, USA, October 2005; University of Konstanz, Germany, October 2005; Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH), Switzerland, October 2005 Ruocco, Sergio Research at Embedded and Real-Time Operating Systems (ERTOS) group of NICTA, Universita’ Milano-Bicocca, Italy, 20 December 2005 http://www.disco.unimib.it/XML/contenuti/evento/dettaglioEvento.jsp?_ci d=f0be86f1&instance=30611097&_crc=afc285bd 403 ANNUAL REPORT 05 to the Australian Government Name Detail EMPIRICAL SOFTWARE ENGINEERING Gorton, Ian Effective Architecture Evaluation, Microsoft Breakfast Series, Sydney, Australia, May 2005 Enterprise Service Bus Technology, ACS Web Services SIG Meeting Sydney, Australia, June 2005 Invited Seminar: Capacity Planning Research at NICTA, University of Manchester, England, September 2005 Don’t Forget the A in SOA, ThoughtWorks SOA Leadership Seminar, Sydney, Australia, November 2005 Jeffrey, Ross Software Process Workshop, Beijing, China, May 2005 Experience Bases, Foundations of Empirical Software Engineering: Legacy of Victor R. Basili, St Louis, MO, USA, May 2005 http://www.cs.wustl. edu/icse05/ConferenceProgram/Tracks/VicBasiliSymposium.shtml Kitchenham, Barbara Evidence-based Software Engineering and Systematic Reviews, University of South Queensland, Australia, November 2005 Kurniawati, Felicia NICTA – LIXI Project: Process Modelling Languages, Sydney, Australia, October 2005 Liu, Yan Performance Prediction of Web-Based Applications, Workshop on WebBased Enterprise Information Systems, University of Sydney, Australia, May 2005 http://www.cs.usyd.edu.au/~fekete/EII/ PhD Discussion Panel – University of Sydney SIT, Australia, August 2005 Niazi, Mahmood Measuring the Maturity of Requirements Engineering Process, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia, April 2005 Verner, June Project Success and Failure factors, Tri-nations meeting (of US DoD, UK MoD and Aus DoD) at UK Ministry of Defence, Abbey Wood, UK, October 2005 FORMAL METHODS van der Meyden, Ron Invited speaker and tutorial presentation at First Indian Conference on Logic and its Relationship with Other Disciplines, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India, January 2005 Synthesis of Distributed Systems from Knowledge-based Specifications, First Indian Conference on Logic and its Relationship with other Disciplines, IIT Bombay, India, January 2005 404 Name Detail van Glabbeek, Rob On Specifying Timeouts, keynote presentation at the Workshop on Algebraic Process Calculi: The First Twenty Five Years and Beyond, PA ‘05, Bertinoro, Italy, August 2005 Higher-Dimensional Automata and Other Models of Concurrency, keynote presentation at the Workshop on Geometry and Topology in Concurrency, GETCO ‘05, San Francisco, USA, August 2005 INTERFACES, MACHINES, AND GRAPHIC ENVIRONMENTS Eades, Peter Visualisation of Networks, Centre for Informatics and Applied Optimisation, School of IT, University of Ballarat, Australia, May 2005 How to write a paper, University of Limerick, Ireland, July 2005 Visualisation of Abstract Data, State Library of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia, August 2005 EII PhD Spring School, Brisbane, Australia, October 2005 Epps, Julian Fusion of Speech and Manual Gesture Recognition-Based Inputs for Multimodal HCI, Smart Internet Technology CRC Research Group – University of Sydney, Australia, March 2005 Forster, Michael Drawing Clustered Directed Graphs, IPK, Gatersleben, Germany, September 2005 Gudmunssson, Joachim Construction of Geometric Spanners, JAIST, Kanazawa, Japan, August 2005 EII PhD Spring School, Brisbane, October 2005 Hong, Seokhee Symmetric Graph Drawing: An Overview, Kyoto University, Japan, March, 2005 Algorithms for Symmetric Graph Drawing, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, The Netherlands, May 2005 Visualisation and Analysis of Large and Complex Networks, University of Sydney, Australia, June 2005 Visualisation and Analysis of Large and Complex Networks, Dagstuhl Workshop on Graph Drawing, Germany, May 2005 Visualisation for Large and Complex Scale-free Networks, Dagstuhl Workshop, Germany, September 2005 EII NICTA Workshop on Plant Genomics, Sydney, Australia, October 2005 EII Workshop on Large Scale Network Analysis, Sydney, Australia, October 2005 Australian Conference on Artificial Life (ACAL), Sydney, Australia, December 2005 405 ANNUAL REPORT 05 to the Australian Government Name Detail Xu, Kai ‘An Introduction to IMAGEN group and NICTA’, Soochow University, China, April 2005 KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION AND REASONING Foo, Norman Guizhou Academy of Sciences, Guiyan, China Meyer, Thomas Reasoning with Ontologies, South African National Bioinformatics Institute (SANBI), Cape Town, South Africa Pencole, Yannick Diagnosability of a discrete event system: towards an optimal diagnoser, DREAM Seminar, France, May 2005 Renz, Jochen Constraint Satisfaction Methods for Qualiative Spatial and Temporal Reasoning, CSL Seminar at the Australian National University, Canberra, August 2005 Dagstuhl Seminar on Spatial Cognition, Germany http://www.dagstuhl. de/05491 Walsh, Toby Non-clausal Satisfiability Solving, Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisbon, Portugal, March 2005 Invited tutorial, An Introduction to Constraint Programming, 42nd Design Automation Conference, Anaheim, USA, June 2005 Backbones and Backdoors: Insights into Problem Hardness, Department of Computing Science, University of Alberta, Canada, July 2005 The Backbone of the Travelling Salesperson, INFORMS Annual meeting, San Francisco, USA November, 2005[insert date] LOGIC AND COMPUTATION Anbulagan Propositional Satisfiability Solving, AI Lab, MCIS School, University of Hyderabad, India, November 2005 Slaney, John Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan, March 2005 NETWORK INFORMATION PROCESSING Bailey, James Transformation and Reaction Rules for Data on the Web, 16th Australasian Database Conference, Newcastle, Australia, February 2005 Cavedon, Lawrence Dialogue and Dialogue Systems, Invited Tutorial Australasian Language Technology Workshop, Sydney, Australia, December 2005 Culpepper, Jason Compressed File Operations, Workshop on Compression, Text, and Algorithms, University of Chile, Santiago, Chile, November 2005 Enhanced Byte Codes with Restricted Prefix Properties,Twelfth International Symposium on String Processing and Information Retrieval (SPIRE), Buenos Aires, Argentina, November 2005 Hughes, Baden 406 AHM2005 Workshop on Text Mining, e-Research and Grid-enabled Language Technology, Nottingham, England, September 2005 http://www.iccs.informatics.ed.ac.uk/~ewan/ahm2005-tm-mini.html Name Detail Kotagiri, Rau Data Mining – Ovarian Cancer Project, Bio21 Symposium, Melbourne, Australia, February 2005 Stokes, Nicola Text Summarisation: picking out the best bits, Invited Tutorial at Australasian Language Technology Workshop, Sydney, Australia, December 2005 Stuckey, Peter Inaugural Professorial Lecture: Solving all the World’s (Combinatorial) Problems!, Melbourne, Australia, June 2005 The G12 project: Mapping Solver Independent Models to Efficient Solutions, Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Logic Programming, Spain, October 2005 NETWORK AND PERVASIVE COMPUTING Boulis, Athanassios Wireless Sensor Networks: From Dream to Realisation, Overview of WSN and Descriptions of Challenges Especially with Regard to Macroprogramming, Athens Information Technology Institute, May 2005; National Technical University of Athens, Greece, May 2005 Technical University of Crete, Dept. of Electronics and Computer Engineering, Crete, September 2005 Athens University of Economics and Business, Department of Informatics, Greece, September 2005 Macro-programming for Wireless Sensor Netwoks, Communications Technologies Group, UTS, Faculty of Engineering, Sydney, November 2005 Exposito, Ernesto XQoS Framework for Design, Development and Evaluation of QoS-Oriented Protocols, LAA/CNRS, Toulouse, France, February 2005 Design and implementation of a QoS-oriented Transport Protocol (QoSTP), Universidad Carlos III, Madrid, Spain, February 2005 Lan, Kun-chan Rapid Generation of Realistic Mobility Models for VANET, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, December 2005 Wireless Networks for Intelligent Transport System, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, December 2005 Libman, Lavy Disruption Prediction for Mobile Networks on Public Transport Vehicles, invitation-only seminar on Disruption Tolerant Networking, Dagstuhl, Germany, April 2005 Optimal Error Control Strategies in Networks with Priced Resources, ITR guest seminar, Institute of Telecommunications Research, University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia, June 2005 Error Control and Recovery from Outages in Mobile Environments, invited speaker in ACoRN workshop on Cross-Layer Design Problems for Wireless Communications, Institute of Telecommunications Research, University of South Australia, Adelaide, June 2005 407 ANNUAL REPORT 05 to the Australian Government Name Detail Lovell, Nigel EMBS Annual International Conference, Shanghai, China, August 2005 Petander, Henrik IPv6 Technology Tutorial, Taipei, Taiwan, August 2005 Mobility support in IPv6, IPv6 Summit, Canberra, Australia, November 2005 NETWORK TECHNOLOGIES Dods, Sarah Optical Performance Monitoring in Automatically Switchable Optical Networks, International Conference on Optical Communications and Networks, Bangkok, Thailand, December 2005 Nirmalathas, Ampaluanapillay Fiber Wireless Technologies, invited talk, Proceedings of the SPIE International Symposium on Asia Pacific Optical Communications (APOC) 2005, Shanghai, China Wong, Elaine Passive Optical Network Architectures with Optical Loopbacks, invited talk, Proceedings of IEEE Lasers and Electro Optics Society Annual Meeting, Sydney, Australia, October 2005 SAFEGUARDING AUSTRALIA Renato, Iannella Second International ODRL Workshop, Lisbon, Portugal, July 2005 Information in Disaster Prediction, Response and Recovery, Queensland Tropical Cyclone Coordination Committee, Mackay, Australia, October 2005 A Brief History of Rights Expression Languages, First International Conference on Digital Rights Management: Technology Issues, Challenges and Systems, Sydney, Australia, October 2005 Technologies in Emergency and Technology Management, Hong Kong University ECom-ICom Experts Address Series (2005–2006), Admiralty Centre, Hong Kong, 7 November 2005 Technological Challenges for Creative Commons Digital Licenses, invited talk, 12th Biennial Copyright Law and Practice Symposium, Sydney, Australia, 17–18 November 2005 Scott, Chris Disaster Prediction, Response, and Recovery, talk to the RESCUE group at University of California, Irvine, USA, 4 October 2005 http://www.itrrescue.org/index.php SYSTEMS ENGINEERING AND COMPLEX SYSTEMS Anderson, Brian Departmental Seminar, University of Newcastle, Australia, April 2005 Technical University of Vienna, Austria, June 2005 Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore, June,2005 University of California at Santa Barbara, USA, August 2005 UCL, Belgium, September 2005 KTH, Sweden, September 2005 408 Name Detail Baris, Fidan Department of Electrical & Electronics Engineering, Anadolu University, Turkey, July 2005 Anadolu University, Eskisehir, Turkey, July 2005 Dehrhani, Arvin Delft Centre on Systems and Control, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands, July 2005 Hueper, Knut Colloquium at School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Western Australia, Australia, April 2005 49th Annual Meeting of Australian Maths Society, University of Western Australia, September 2005 SISSA/ISAS International School of Advanced Studies, Trieste, Italy, July 2005 Universita degli Studi di Firenze, Dipartimento di Matematica per le Decisioni, Florence, Italy, July 2005 Malcolm, Paul Imperial College, London, England, April 2005 Department of Statistics, Canterbury University, New Zealand, October 2005 Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Victoria University, New Zealand, October 2005 Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Massey University, New Zealand, October 2005 Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Auckland, New Zealand, October 2005 Seghouane, Abd-Krim Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering, North Carolina University, USA, March 2005 Laboratory for Mathematical Neuroscience, RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Wako-Shi, Japan, May 2005 Department of Information Technology, Ghent University, Belgium, September 2005 Department of Statistics, University of Adelaide, Australia, October 2005 Trumpf, Jochen SZTAKI, Hungarian Academy of Science, Budapest, Hungary, September 2005 Hungarian Academy of Science, Budapest, Hungary, September 2005 Yu, Brad Changbin University Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, September–October 2005 Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, September 2005 409 ANNUAL REPORT 05 to the Australian Government Name Detail SYMBOLIC MACHINE LEARNING AND KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION Cheeseman, Peter Speech on New Technologies, IPWEA NSW Division Annual Conference and Awards for Excellence, Sydney Olympic Park, Australia, May 2005 Wong, Raymond Tower Software User Forum, Perth, Australia, September 2005 CSIRO HAIL Seminar Series – Sydney, Australia, September 2005 http:// www.ict.csiro.au/HAIL/Abstracts/2005/RaymondWong.htm Keynote speaker at The 8th Guangzhou Convention of Overseas Chinese Scholars in Science and Technology, China, December 2005 Demo and presentation of Greenpea project to Victorian Department of Infrastructure and other parties, Australia, November 2005 Zhang, Jian Lecture on Multimedia Systems (NICTA), School of Electrical and Information Engineering, University of Sydney, Australia, June 2005 Short-Boundary Detection, Unraveled and Resolved?, NICTA Multimedia Signal Processing Workshop 2005, ATP, Australia, November 2005 STATISTICAL MACHINE LEARNING Aberdeen, Doug MPI Tuebingen, Germany, August 2005 UNSW, Sydney, Australia, July 2005 AI: What is it good for?, Burgmann College, Canberra, Australia, November 2005 Kowalczyk, Adam MPI Tuebingen, Germany, September 2005 IDEAL Brisbane, Australia, July 2005 Eurandom Eindhoven, The Netherlands, September 2005 Warsaw Technical University, Poland, September 2005 Schraudolph, Nic ETH, Zurich, Switzerland, July 2005 MPI Tuebingen, Germany, September 2005 University of Stuttgart, Germany, September 2005 Online SVM Learning with SMD Gain Adaptation, NIPS Workshop on LargeScale Kernel Machines, Whistler, Canada, December 2005 Stochastic Meta-Descent: Rapid, Scalable Adaptation to Sensory Signals, Intelligent Sensors, Sensor Networks and Information Processing (ISSNIP) Conference, Melbourne, Australia, December, 2005 Rapid Stochastic Gradient Descent: Accelerating Machine Learning, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, November 2005 410 Name Detail Smola, Alex Institute of Mathematical Statistics, Tokyo, March 2005 MPI Tuebingen, Germany, August 2005 Eurandom Eindhoven, The Netherlands, September 2005 Toyota Technological Institute, Chicago, USA, September, 2005 University of Munich, Germany, July 2005 ETH, Zurich, Switzerland, September 2005 Vishwanathan, Swaminathan Venkata Narayana University of California, USA, March 2005 University College, London, England, July 2005 IISc Bangalore, India, July 2005 Columbia University, New York, USA, June–July 2005 SENSOR NETWORKS Evans, Rob Wireless Sensor Networks – SCADA Systems Without Wires or Something More, keynote talk at ISSNIP 2005, Melbourne, Australia, December 2005 WIRELESS SIGNAL PROCESSING Abhayapala, Thushara Fading Channels: What Can We Achieve Without “Perfect Side Information”, 2005 Australian Communications Theory Workshop, Brisbane, Australia, February 2005 Reed, Mark Turbo Receiver Design: From Principles to Practice, Presented at AusCTW ‘05, Brisbane, Australia, February 2005 The Business Case for Advanced 3G Receivers: From Initial Deployment to Mature Systems, WNCG Wireless Networking Symposium, Austin, TX, USA, October 2005 Shi, Zhenning Sub-symbol decoding of CDMA systems, New South Wales University, Sydney, Australia, November 2005 411 ANNUAL REPORT 05 to the Australian Government Membership of Program Committees for Major Professional Conferences Name Conference Information Program Barnes, Nick Program Committee, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Spain, April 2005 ASSeT Program Committee, Australian Conference on Robotics and Automation, December 2005 ASSeT Program Committee, Australian Conference on Artificial Intelligence, December 2005 ASSeT Program Committee, Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications, Cairns, Australia, December 2005 ASSeT Program Committee, Image and Vision Computing, November 2005, New Zealand ASSeT Goecke, Roland Organiser of a special session, IEEE 8th International Symposium on Signal Processing and its Applications ISSPA 2005, Sydney, Australia, August 2005 ASSeT Rahman, Masudur Session Chair, International Conference on Visualization, Imaging and Image Processing, Benidorm, Spain, September 2005 ASSeT Robles-Kelly, Antonio Technical Program Committee, European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), Graz, Austria, September 2005 ASSeT Heiser, Gernot Program Committee, USENIX’06 Annual Technical Conference, Boston, MA, USA, 30 May–3 June 2006 ERTOS Program Committee, 9th Int’l workshop on Software and Compilers for Embedded Systems (SCOPES), Dallas, TX, USA, 29 Sep–Oct 2005 ERTOS Program Committee and Steering Committee, The Tenth Asia-Pacific Computer Systems Architecture Conference (ACSAC2005), Singapore, October 2005 ERTOS Program Committee Member, ACM Intel Conference on Embedded Software (EMSOFT), Seoul, Korea, October 2006 ERTOS Program Committee, The Tenth Asia-Pacific Computer Systems Architecture Conference (ACSAC2005), Singapore, October 2005 ERTOS Program Committee, Middleware 2006, Melbourne, Australia, 27 November–1 December 2006 ERTOS Caelli, Terry Kuz, Ihor 412 Name Conference Information Program Petters, Stefan Program Chair, IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium, Miami, FL, USA, 6–8 December 2005 ERTOS General Chair, International Conference on Real-Time and Embedded Computing Systems and Applications (RTCSA) 2006, Sydney, August 2006 ERTOS Program Chair, IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium, Miami, FL, USA, December 2005 ERTOS Session Chair, International Conference on Real-Time and Embedded Computing Systems and Applications (RTCSA), Hong Kong, August 2005 ERTOS Program Committee, The 8th Brazilian Workshop on Real-Time Systems (WTR 2006), Curitiba, Brazil, June 2006 ERTOS Program Committee, The 2005 IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing, Boston, MA, USA, September 2005 ERTOS Program Committee, The IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN) 2005, Sydney, Australia, November 2005 ERTOS Gorton, Ian Program Co-chair, Working International Conference on Software Architecture 2007, India, December 2005 ESE Jeffery, Ross Programme Committee, ICSE 2006, Shanghai, China ESE Rauch, Felix January 2006 Program Committee, Profes 2006, Amsterdam, January 2006 ESE Program Committee, ISESE 2006, Brazil, December 2005 ESE Chair, EASE’06, Potsdam, Germany, March 2006, since April 2005 ESE Liu, Yan Program Committee, November 2005, Architectures (AWSA’06), Sydney, Australia, Australian Workshop on Software and System Architectures (AWSA’06), November 2005 ESE Verner, June Program Committee, QSIC 2006, China, December 2005 ESE Program Committee, ISESE 2006, Brazil, December 2005 ESE Zhu, Liming Late-Breaking Paper committee, ISESE 2005, Noosa, Australia, October 2005 ESE Ali Babar, Muhammad Publicity Chair, Australian Software Engineering Conference (ASWEC) 2006, Sydney, Australia, April 2005 ESE Publicity Chair, Australian Software Engineering Conference (ASWEC) 2006, Sydney, Australia, April, 2006 ESE Kitchenham, Barbara 413 ANNUAL REPORT 05 to the Australian Government Name Conference Information Program Bannerman, Paul Finance Chair, Australian Software Engineering Conference (ASWEC) 2006, Sydney, Australia, April 2005 ESE Finance Chair, Australian Software Engineering Conference (ASWEC) 2006, Sydney, Australia, April 2006 ESE Colella, Elsa Proceedings Chair, ISESE 2005, Noosa Heads, Australia, November 2005 ESE Cox, Karl Program Committee, 11th International Workshop on Requirements Engineering: Foundations for Software Quality, Porto, Portugal, June 2005 ESE Finance, Poster and Late Breaking Papers Chair, ISESE 2005, Noosa Heads, November 2005 ESE Program Committee, ACM-SAC 2006 Organisational Engineering Track, Dijon, France, April 2006 ESE Program Chair, 2005 Australian Workshop on Requirements Engineering (AWRE), Melbourne, Australia, ESE November 2005 Gorton, Ian 414 Program Committee, Australian Software Engineering Conference (ASWEC) 2006, Sydney, Australia, April 2006 ESE General Chair, 1st International Workshop on Requirements Engineering for Business Need and IT Alignment (Rebnita 2005), Paris, France, August 2005, co-located with RE 05 ESE Program Committee, 5th Working IEEE/IFIP Conference on Software Architecture (WICSA), Pittsburgh, PA, USA, November 2005 ESE Program Chair, 9th International SIGSOFT Symposium on Component-Based Software Engineering (CBSE) 2006, Shanghai, China, May 2006 ESE Program Committee, 1st International Conference on Quality of Software Architectures (QoSA) 2005, Erfurt, Germany, September 2005 ESE Program Committee, 5th Working IEEE/IFIP Conference on Software Architecture (WICSA) 2005, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, November 2005 ESE General Chair, Australian Software Engineering Conference (ASWEC) 2006, Sydney, Australia, April 2006 ESE Name Conference Information Program Jeffery, Ross General Chair, ISESE 2005, Noosa Heads, November 2005 ESE Program Committee, International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE) 2006, Beijing, China, May 2006 ESE Program Committee, 1st International Conference on Global Software Engineering (ICGSE) 2006, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, October 2006 ESE Program Committee, 6th Australian Workshop on Software and System Architectures, Brisbane, Australia, March 2005 ESE Program Committee, Australian Software Engineering Conference (ASWEC) 2006, Sydney, Australia, April 2006 ESE Industry Sponsorship Chair, Australian Software Engineering Conference (ASWEC) 2006, Sydney, Australia, April 2005 ESE Industry Sponsorship Chair, Australian Software Engineering Conference (ASWEC) 2006, Sydney, Australia, April 2006 ESE Staples, Mark Program Chair, Australian Software Engineering Conference (ASWEC) 2006, Sydney, Australia, April 2006 ESE Verner, June Workshop organiser, 3rd Workshop on Software Quality, 27th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE) 2005, St Louis, MO, USA, May 2005 ESE Program Co-chair, ISESE 2005, Noosa Heads, Australia, November 2005 ESE Program Committee, ACM-SAC 2006 Organisational Engineering Track, Dijon, France, April 2006 ESE Program Committee, 5th International Conference on Quality Software (QSIC), Melbourne, Australia, ESE Liu, Jenny Mackie, Paul 415 September 2005 Engelhardt, Kai Program Chair, Seventh International Conference on Formal Engineering Methods (ICFEM-05), Manchester, England, July 2005 http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/ icfem05/ FM Fehnker, Ansgar Special Session Chair, The 14th International Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Real-Time Systems 2006, Greece, April 2006 FM ANNUAL REPORT 05 to the Australian Government Name Conference Information Program van Glabbeek, Rob Program Committee, Foundations of Interactive Computation (FINCO’05), Edinburgh, Scotland, April 2005 FM Program Committee, Structural Operational Semantics 2005, Lisbon, Portugal, July 2006 FM Co-chair of Program Committee, Structural Operational Semantics 2006 (SOS ‘06), Bonn, Germany, August 2006 FM Program Committee, 2006 Australian Software Engineering Conference (ASWEC’06), Sydney, Australia, April 2006 FM Co-chair of Program Committee, Structural Operational Semantics 2006 (SOS ‘06), Bonn, Germany, FM 26 August 2006 Program Committee, 17th International Conference on Concurrency Theory (CONCUR ‘06), Bonn, Germany, FM 27–30 August 2006 van der Meyden, Ron 416 Program Committee, Foundations of Software Science and Computation Structures (FOSSACS ‘07), Braga, Portugal, 24 March–1 April 2007 FM Program Committee, Australian Software Engineering Conference (ASWEC’06), Sydney, Australia, April 2006 FM Program Chair, Tenth Conference on Theoretical Aspects of Knowledge and Rationality, TARK 2005, Singapore, June 2005 (July 2004–June 2005) FM Program Committee, MoChArt-2005: Model Checking and Artificial Intelligence, San Francisco, CA, USA, August 2005 FM Program Committee, 3rd International Workshop on Formal Aspects in Security and Trust (FAST2005), Newcastle, England, July 2005 FM Program Committee, Mochart IV: 4th International Workshop on Model Checking and Artificial Intelligence, USA, August, 2005 FM Program Committee, Eighth International Workshop on Deontic Logic in Computer Science (DEON’06), Utrecht, The Netherlands, July 2006 FM Program Committee, Eighth International Workshop on Deontic Logic in Computer Science (DEON’06), Utrecht, The Netherlands, July 2006 FM Name Conference Information Program Chen, Fang., Shi, Yu (David)., Lichman, Serge., Eades, Peter., Munday, Barbara Organisng Committee, GIW’05 (Gestural Interaction Workshop 2005), NICTA Seminar Room, Sydney, Australia, April 2005 IMAGEN Chen, Fang Organising Committee, NICTA-HCSNet Multimodal User Interaction Workshop, NICTA – ATP, Sydney, Australia, September 2005 IMAGEN Committee Member, International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces (ICMI) 2005, Trento, Italy, October 2005 (, appointed May 2005) IMAGEN Workshop Chair, HCSNet-NICTA Workshop on Multimodal Interfaces, NICTA, ATP, Sydney, appointed July 2005 IMAGEN Program Committee, International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI), 2006, Sydney, Australia, JanuaryFebruary 2006, appointed October 2005 IMAGEN Program Committee, Australian Software Engineering Conference 2005, Brisbane, Australia, March-April 2006, appointed October 2005 IMAGEN Program Committee, Workshop on Effective Multimodal Dialogue Interfaces, International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI), 2006, Sydney, Australia, JanuaryFebruary 2006 appointed November 2005 IMAGEN Gudmundsson, Joachim Program Committe, European Workshop on Computational Geometry, Delphi, Greece, March 2005 IMAGEN Eades, Peter Program Chair, 13th International Symposium on Graph Drawing, Limerick, Ireland, September 2005 IMAGEN Program Committee, Asia Pacific Symposium on Information Visualisation, APVIS 2006, Taiwan, appointed March 2005 IMAGEN Program Committee, Computing and Combinatorics (COCOON) 2006, Taiwan, August, 2006, IMAGEN Epps, Julien Organising Committee member, NICTA-HCSNet Multimodal User Interaction Workshop, NICTA – ATP, Sydney, Australia, September 2005 IMAGEN Forster, Michael Organising Committee, Workshop on Network Analysis and Visualisation at 13th International Symposium on Graph Drawing, Limerick, Ireland, September 2005 IMAGEN 417 ANNUAL REPORT 05 to the Australian Government Name Conference Information Program Hong, Seokhee Program and Conference Chair, APVIS (Asia Pacific Symposium on Information Visualisation), Sydney, Australia, January 2005 IMAGEN Program Committee, 13th International Symposium on Graph Drawing, Limerick, Ireland, September 2005 IMAGEN Workshop Chair, Workshop on Network Analysis and Visualisation at 13th International Symposium on Graph Drawing, Limerick, Ireland, September 2005 IMAGEN Workshop Chair, EII-NICTA Workshop on Plant Genomics (NICTA VALACON Bio-Informatics Workshop), NICTA, ATP, Sydney, November 2005 IMAGEN Workshop Chair, EII Workshop on Network Analysis (EII ARC Network Task Force Workshop), NICTA, ATP, Sydney November 2005 IMAGEN Chair/Organiser, NICTA VALACON Workshop on Network Analysis, VIAR Lab, NICTA, ATP, Eveleigh, Australia, June 2005 IMAGEN Workshop Chair, EII-NICTA Workshop on Plant Genomics, NICTA, ATP, Sydney, November 2005, appointed July 2005 IMAGEN Workshop Chair, EII Workshop on Network Analysis, NICTA, ATP, Sydney, November 2005, appointed July 2005 IMAGEN Program Committee, Asia Pacific Symposium on Information Visualization, APVIS 2006, Japan, February 2006, appointed March 2005 IMAGEN Merrick, Damian Organiser, NICTA IMAGEN Student Retreat, appointed November 2005, Wamberal, NSW, Australia, December 2005 November 2005 IMAGEN Munday, Barbara Organising Committee, NICTA-HCSNet Multimodal User Interaction Workshop, NICTA – ATP, Sydney, Australia, September 2005 IMAGEN Organising Committee, EII Workshop on Network Analysis, NICTA, ATP, Sydney, November 2005, appointed July 2005 IMAGEN Organising Committee, EII-NICTA Workshop on Plant Genomics, NICTA, ATP, Sydney, November 2005, appointed July 2005 IMAGEN Program Committee, APWEB 2005 (7th Asia Pacific Web Conference, Shanghai, China, March–April 2005 IMAGEN Organising Committee, EII-NICTA Workshop on Plant Genomics, NICTA, ATP, Sydney, November 2005, appointed July 2005 IMAGEN Organising Committee, EII Workshop on Network Analysis, NICTA, ATP, Sydney, November 2005, appointed July 2005 IMAGEN Xu, Kai 418 Name Conference Information Program Foo, Norman Program Committee, 8th International Conference on Logic Programming and Non-monotonic Reasoning 2005, Diamante, Cosenza, Italy, September 2005 KRR Program Committee, 4th International Workshop on Agentbased Approaches in Economic and Social Complex System; Annual Conference of PAAA (Pacific-Asian Association for Agentbased Approach in Social Sciences) 2005, Tokyo, Japan, July 2005 KRR Program Committee, First Conference of the International Federation of Systems Research 2005, Kobe, Japan, November 2005 KRR Program Committee, First Conference of the International Federation of Systems Research 2005, Kobe, Japan, November 2005 KRR Program Committee, Twentieth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence 2005, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, July 2005 KRR Program Committee Member, 7th International Symposium on Logical Formalizations of Commonsense Reasoning, Corfu, Greece, 22–24 May 2005 KRR Program Committee, 19th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence 2005, Edinburgh, Scotland, KRR Gabaldon, Alfredo July–August 2005 Maher, Michael Organising Committee, AAAI Spring Symposium Series: Formalizing and Compiling Background Knowledge and its Applications to Knowledge Representation and Question Answering, Stanford University, CA, USA, March 2006 KRR Program Committee, 17th ACM-SIGPLAN International Symposium on Principles and Practice of Declarative Programming, Lisbon Portugal, July 2005 KRR Program Committee, 12th International Conference on Logic for Programming, Artificial Intelligence and Reasoning, Montego Bay, Jamaica, December 2005 KRR Program Chair, 18th ACM-SIGPLAN International Symposium on Principles and Practice of Declarative Programming, Lisboa, Portugal, July 2005 KRR Program Committee, 12th International Conference on Logic for Programming Committee Members, Programming, Artificial Intelligence and Reasoning, Montego Bay, Jamaica, December 2005 KRR Program Committee, 22nd International Conference on Logic Programming, Sitges, Barcelona, Spain, October, 2005 KRR 419 ANNUAL REPORT 05 to the Australian Government 420 Name Conference Information Program Maher, Michael Program Chair, International Conference on Principles and Practice of Declarative Programming, 2006, Venice, Italy, 6 July, 2006, appointed September 2005 KRR Program Committee, International Conference on Logic Programming, 2006, Washington, USA, August 2006, appointed July 2006 KRR Program Committee, International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming, 2006, Venice, Italy, July 2006, appointed December 2005 KRR Program Committee, International Joint Conference on Automated Reasoning, 2006, Seattly, USA, August 2006, appointed July 2005 KRR Program Committee, Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2006, China, March, appointed August 2005 KRR Program Committee, International Conference on Logic for Programming Artificial Intelligence and Reasoning 2005, Jamaica, December, 2005, appointed: February 2005 KRR Program Committee, International Conference on Principles and Practice of Declarative Programming 2005, Lisbon, Portugal, July 2005, appointed October 2004 KRR Program Committee, 22nd International Conference on Logic Programming, Barcelona, Spain, October 2005 KRR Program Committee, 3rd International Joint Conference on Automated Reasoning, IJCAR 2006, Seattle, WA, USA, August 2005 KRR Program Committee, 9th Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, PRICAI 2006, Guilin, China, August 2006 KRR Meyer, Thomas Co-chair, Australasian Ontology Workshop 2005 (AOW05), Sydney, Australia, December 2005 http://www.cse.unsw.edu. au/~aow05 KRR Pagnucco, Maurice Program Committee, 4th International Joint Conference of Autonomous and Multi Agent Systems, Utrecht University, The Netherlands, July 2005 KRR Pencole, Yannick Program Committee, 16th International Workshop on Principles of Diagnosis (DX-05), Pacific Grove, CA, USA, 1–3 June 2005 http://tc.arc.nasa.gov/dx05/index.php KRR Program Committee, 2nd MONET Workshop on Model-Based Systems at IJCAI-05, Edinburgh, Scotland, 30 June 2005 http://www.di.unito.it/~picardi/monetws.html, KRR Name Conference Information Program Renz, Jochen Program Committee, 18th International FLAIRS Conference, Special Track on Spatio-Temporal Reasoning 2005, Clearwater Beach, FL, USA, 15–17 May 2005 KRR Program Committee, 7th International Conference on Spatial Information Theory, Ellicottville, New York, USA, September 2005 KRR Program Committee, Competition on Knowledge Engineering, International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling 2005, (ICAPS-2005), Monterey, CA, USA, June 2005 KRR Program Committee, 18th International FLAIRS Conference, Special Track on Spatio-Temporal Reasoning 2005, Clearwater Beach, FL, USA, May 2005 KRR Jury Member, ICAPS Knowledge Engineering Competition, Monterey, CA, USA, 7 June 2005 KRR Program Co-Chair, 22nd International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling, Rhode Island, USA, September 2007 KRR Program Committee, 20th International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, July 2005 KRR Program Committee, 28th German Conference on Artificial Intelligence (KI-2005), Koblenz, Germany, September 2005 KRR Program Committee, IJCAI workshop on Planning and Learning in A Priori Unknown or Dynamic Domains, Edinburgh, Scotland, July–August 2005 KRR Program Committee, 3rd Workshop on Model Checking in Artificial Intelligence (MoChArt 2005), San Francisco, CA, USA, August 2005 KRR Program Committee, 28th German Conference on Artificial Intelligence, (KI-2005), Koblenz, Germany, September 2005 KRR Program Committee, 3rd Workshop on Model Checking in Artificial Intelligence, MoChart, San Francisco, CA, USA, August 2005 KRR Co-Chair, Competition on Knowledge Engineering, International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling, Co-Chair (ICAPS-2007), venue to be announced, http://www.icapsconference.org/ KRR Program Committee, IJCAI workshop on Planning and Learning in A Priori Unknown or Dynamic Domains, Edinburgh, Scotland, July–August 2005 KRR Thiebaux, Sylvie 421 ANNUAL REPORT 05 to the Australian Government Name Conference Information Program Thiebaux, Sylvie Program Committee, International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS), Californica, USA, June 2006, appointed Q4 2005 KRR Program Committee, American National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), Boston, USA, July 2006, appointed Q4 2005 KRR Program Committee, European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI), Trento, Italy, 28 August–1 September 2006, appointed Q4 2005 KRR Program Committee, International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), Hyberabad, India, January 2007, appointed Q4 2005 KRR Conference Chair, 8th International Conference on Theory and Applications of Satisfiability Testing, St Andrews, Scotland, June 2005 KRR Program Committee, International Conference on Automated Planning & Scheduling, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, July 2005 KRR Senior Program Committee, 19th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence 2005, Edinburgh, Scotland, July–August 2005 KRR Program Committee, Symposuim on Abstraction, Reformulation and Approximation, SARA 05, Edinburgh, Scotland, July 2005 KRR Workshop Chair, 17th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Riva Del Garda, Italy, August – September 2006 KRR Walsh, Toby Program Committee, 20th National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, July 2005 422 Program Committee, 20th International Conference on Automated Deduction 2005, Tallinn, Estonia, July 2005 KRR Program Committee 11th International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming, Sitges, Spain, October 2005 KRR Technical Program Committee, 3rd International Workshop on Constraints in Formal Verification 2005, Tallinn, Estonia, July 2005 KRR Program Committee, 28th German Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Koblenz, Germany, September 2005 KRR Program Committee, 18th Australian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia, December 2005 KRR Name Conference Information Program Walsh, Toby Program Committee, 4th Mexican International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, MICAI 05, Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico, November 2005 KRR Program Committee, 9th International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics, Fort Lauderdale, FL, USA, January 2006 KRR Program Committee, 10th International Conference on Principles and Knowledge Representation and Reasoning, Lake District, England, June 2006 KRR PRICAI 2006, 9th Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Guilin, China, August 2006 KRR Workshop Chair, 17th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, ECAI-2006, Trento, Italy, 28 August–1 September 2006 KRR Program Committee, 21st National Conference on Artificial Intelligence AAAI-06, Boston, MA, USA, July 20065 KRR Program Committee, 12th International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming, CP2006, Nantes, France, 25–29 September 2006 KRR Program Committee, International Symposium on Abstraction, Reformulation and Approximation 2005, Airth Castle, Scotland, July 2005 KRR Program Committee, AAAI 2006, The 21st National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Boston MA, July 2006 KRR Program Committee, 9th International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics, Fort Lauderdale, FL, January 2006 KRR Program Committee, 10th International Conference on Principles and Knowledge Representation and Reasoning, Lake District, England, June 2006 KRR Program Committee, PRICAI 2006, 9th Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Guilin, China, August 2006 KRR Program Committee, 8th Australian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, University of Technology, Sydney Australia, December 2005 KRR Program Committee, 4th Mexican International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, MICAI 05, Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico, November 2005 KRR 423 ANNUAL REPORT 05 to the Australian Government Name Conference Information Program Baumgartner, Peter President of the Steering Committee, International Workshops on First-Order Theorem Proving (FTP), Koblenz, Germany, September 2005 L&C Steering Committee, Conference on Automated Deduction (CADE), Tallinn, Estonia, July 2005 L&C Steering Committee, TABLEAUX – Automated Reasoning with Analytic Tableaux and Related Methods, Koblenz, Germany, September 2005 L&C Program Committee, Australian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia, December 2005 L&C Member of Judging Panel, CADE Automated Systems Competiton, Tallinn, Estonia, July 2005 L&C Program Committee, International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS), Monterey, CA, USA, June 2005 L&C Program Committee, International Conference on Theorem Proving with Analytic Tableaux and Related Methods, Koblenz, Germany, December 2005 L&C Program Committee, International Workshop on Constructive Logic for Automated Software Engineering: Satellite event of the European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software, Edinburgh, Scotland, April 2005 L&C Program Committee, International Conference on Automated Deduction, Tallinn, Estonia, July 2005 L&C Program Committee, International Workshop on Methods for Modalities, Berlin, Germany, December 2005 L&C Program Committee, International Conference on Logic for Programming, Artificial Intelligence and Reasoning, Montego Bay, Jamaica, December 2005 L&C Programme Committee, The Second ACL-SIGSEM Workshop on the Linguistic Dimensions of Prepositions and their Use in Computational Linguistics Formalisms and Applications, Colchester, England, April 2005 NIP Organiser, ACL 2005 Workshop on Deep Lexical Acquisition, Ann Arbor, MI, USA, June 2005 NIP Program Committee, ACL 2005 Student Research Workshop, Dubrovnik (Cavtat), Croatia, June 2005 NIP Slaney, John Gore, Rajeev Baldwin, Timothy 424 Name Conference Information Program Baldwin, Timothy Program Committee, Annual Conference of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), Ann Arbor, MI, USA, June 2005 NIP Conference Co-chair, Australasian Language Technology Workshop (ALTW 2005), Sydney, Australia, December, 2005 NIP Hughes, Baden Program Committee, The 19th British HCI Group Annual Conference, Napier University, Edinburgh, Scotland, 5–9 September 2005 NIP Kulik, Lars Program Committee, Conference on Spatial Information Theory (COSIT 05), New York, NY, USA, May 2005 NIP Program Committee, GI-Days 05: Sensors and geographic networks, Munster, Germany, June 2005 NIP Leckie, Chris Technical Program Committee, The Fourth International Conference on Optical Internet (COIN2005), Chongqing, China, May–June 2005 NIP Stokes, Nicola Program Committee, HLT-NAACL New York 2006: Human Language Technology conference and annual meeting of the North American chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, New York, USA, April 2006, NIP Stuckey, Peter Program Committee, Constraint Solving and Programming Track, 21st Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, Dijon, France, April, 2006 NIP Program Committee, European Symposium on Computing 2006 (ESOP 2006), Vienna, Austria, March–April 2006 NIP Program Committee, Eighth International Symposium on Practical Aspects of Declarative Languages (PADL06), Charleston, SC, January 2006 NIP Program Committee, International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming 2005 (CP2005), Sitges, Spain, October 2005 NIP Program Committee, International Conference on Logic Programming 2005 (ICLP2005), Sitges, Spain, October 2005 NIP Program Committee, International Conference on Logic Programming, Barcelona, Spain, May 2005 NIP Program Committee, International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming 2005 (CP2005), Barcelona, Spain, April 2005 NIP 425 ANNUAL REPORT 05 to the Australian Government Name Conference Information Program Dairaine, Laurent Technical Program Committee, IEEE Workshop on Service Oriented Architectures, Chicago, USA, September 2006 Vienna, Austria, http://www.aina-conference.org/2006/ NPC Boulis, Technical Program Committee, PerCom 2005, Pisa, Italy, NPC Athanassios March 2006 http://cnd.iit.cnr.it/percom2006/ Technical Program Committee, 1st IEEE International Workshop on MIDdleware for mobile Ad hoc and Sensor networks (MIDAS06), Niagara-Falls, Buffalo, NY, USA, June 2006 http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/research/mobile/midas06/ NPC Local Organization Chair, IEEE EmNets-II, Sydney, Australia, May 2005 NPC Technical Program Committee, Intl. Symposium on Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad Hoc, and Wireless Networks (WiOpt), Boston, MA, USA, April 2006 http://www.wiopt.org NPC Technical Program Committee, IEEE Infocom, Barcelona, Spain, April 2006 http://www.ieee-infocom.org NPC Technical Program Committee, IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC), Melbourne, Australia, May 2006 http://www.ieeevtc.org NPC Moors, Tim Technical Program Committee, IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC), Melbourne, Australia, May 2006 http://www.ieeevtc.org NPC Seneviratne, Aruna Technical Program Committee, IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC), Melbourne, Australia, NPC Libman, Lavy May 2006 http://www.ieeevtc.org Dairanine, Laurent 426 Technical Program Committee member, [position], The Second International Workshop On Wireless Network Measurement (WiNMee 2006), Boston, MA, USA, April, 2006 http://www.winmee.org/ NPC Technical Program Committee member, [position], 2nd CoNEXT Conference, Lisboa, Portugal, December, 2006 http://www.adetti.pt/events/CONEXT06/Main.php?contents =home.htm NPC Program Committee, Special session: Service Oriented Architectures in Embedded and Real-Time Systems, 31st Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IECON), Raleigh, NC, USA, November 2005 NPC Name Conference Information Program Dairanine, Laurent Organization Committee and Reviewer, Conext 2005, ACM Sigcomm, European Network of Excellence (E-Next), Toulouse, France, October 2005 NPC Program Committee, IEEE Workshop on Service Oriented Architectures in Converging Networked Environments, Vienna, Austria, April 2006 NPC Exposito, Ernesto Program Committee, Special session: Service Oriented Architectures in Embedded and Real-Time Systems, 31st Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IECON), Raleigh, NC, USA, November 2005 NPC Jha, Sanjay General Chair, The Second IEEE Workshop on Embedded Networked Sensors (EmNetS-II), Sydney, Australia, May 2005 http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~emnet NPC Libman, Lavy Technical Program Committee, IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN), Sydney, Australia, November 2005 NPC Technical Program Committee, International Symposium on Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad Hoc, and Wireless Networks (WiOpt), Boston, MA, USA, April 2006 NPC Technical Program Committee, International Conference on Quality of Services in Heterogeneous Wired/Wireless Networks (QShine) 2005, Orlando, Fl, USA, August 2005 NPC Technical Program Committee, IEEE Infocom, Barcelona, Spain, April 2006 NPC Technical Program Committee, IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC), Melbourne, Australia, May 2006 NPC Technical Program Committee and Theme 5 (Neural Prostheses) Chair, Second International Conference on Neural Engineering, Washington, DC, USA, March 2005 NPC Program co-chair, EMBS 29th Annual Internal Conference, Lyon, France, 2007 NPC Theme Co-Chair, Clinical Engineering and Healthcare Information Technology, IEEE-EMBS 28th Annual International Conference, New York, NY, USA, August–September 2006 NPC International Program Committee and Student Activities Chair, IEEE-EMBS 27th Annual International Conference, Shanghai, China, September 2005 NPC Program Committee, SPIE International Symposium on Microelectronics, MEMS, and Nanotechnology – BioMEMs, Brisbane, Australia, December 2005 NPC Lovell, Nigel 427 ANNUAL REPORT 05 to the Australian Government Name Conference Information Program Mao, Guoqiang Technical Program Committee, 2nd International Conference on E-business and Telecommunication Networks, Reading, England, October 2005 NPC Moors, Tim Technical Program Committee, 1st Australian Conference on Wireless Broadband & Ultra Wideband Communications (AusWireless 06), Sydney, Australia, March 2006 NPC Technical Program Committee, Second International Conference on Intelligent Sensors, Sensor Networks and Information Processing (ISSNIP) 2005, Melbourne, Australia, December 2005 NPC Technical Program Committee, 30th Annual IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN), Sydney, Australia, November 2005 NPC Technical Program Committee, Opto-Electronics and Communications Conference (OECC), Seoul, Korea, January– July 2005 NT Technical Program Committee, Conference on Optical Internet (COIN), Chongqing, China, January–May 2005 NT Technical Program Committee, International Conference on Optical Internet (COIN2005), and IEEE Lasers and ElectroOptical Society Annual Meeting LEOS 2005, Sydney, October 2006, NT Executive Co-Chair, Asia Pacific Micorwave Photonics Conference 2006, Japan, April 2006, NT Steering Committee, CLEO PAC RIM and COIN conferences, Taipei, China, December 2005, NT Co-Chair, Technical Program Committee of COIN 2007, Melbourne, Australia, June 2007, NT Veitch, Darryl CoChair, ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC2005), Berkeley, CA, USA, October, 2005, http://www.usenix.org/events/imc05/ NT Iannella, Renato General Chair, Second International ODRL Workshop, Lisbon, Portugal, July 2005 SA Portmann, Marius Program Committee member, IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom) 2006, Pisa, Italy, March, 2006 SA Program Committee, 3rd International Conference on Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing (UIC-06), Wuhan, China, January 2006 SA Chae, Thomas C-J Nirmalathas, Thas 428 Name Conference Information Program Sattar, Abdul Program co-Chair, Australian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence,Hobart, Tasmania, December, 2006 SA Program Committee member, AAAI,Boston, USA, July, 2006 SA Scott, Chris Program Committee, IEEE International Conference of Intelligence and Security Informatics (ISI), San Diego (USA), May 2006 October 2005 SA Hueper, Knut International Program Committee, Seventeenth International Symposium on Mathematical Theory of Networks and Systems (MTNS2006), Kyoto, Japan, July 2006, SEACS Malcolm, Paul Principal Organiser, Stochastic Calculus and its applications in quantitative finance and electrical Engineering, Canada, July 2005 SEACS Cheeseman, Peter Program Committee, Australasian Conference on Robotics and Automation (ACRA 2005), University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, December 2005 SMLKA Hengst, Bernhard Program Committee, Australasian Conference on Robotics and Automation (ACRA 2005),University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, December 2005 SMLKA Wong, Raymond Program Committee, The Seventeenth Australasian Database Conference (ADC 2006), Hobart, Australia, January 2006 SMLKA Technical Program Committee, International Symposium on Intelligent Signal Processing and Communications Systems (ISPACS 2005), Hong Kong, December 2005 SMLKA Advisory Committee, Asia-Pacific Workshop on Visual Information Processing (VIP2005), City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, December 2005 SMLKA Program Committee, IJCAI Workshop on Planning and Learning in a Priori Unknown or Dynamic Domains, Scotland, July 2005 SML Program Committee, International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Edinburgh, Scotland, August 2005 SML Buffet, Oliver Program Committee, IJCAI Wokshop on Modeling Natural Action Selection 2005, Edinburgh, Scotland, July, 2005 SML Hegland, Markus Organiser, AMSI Summer School, Melbourne, Australia, February 2005 SML Organiser, High Dimensional Approximation, Canberra, Australia, February 2005 SML Organiser, Symposium on Optimization and Data Analysis, Canberra, Australia, September 2005 SML Aberdeen, Doug 429 ANNUAL REPORT 05 to the Australian Government Name Conference Information Program Smola, Alex Program Committee, Computational Learning Theory, 2006, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, August, 2006 SML Program Committee, International Conference on Machine Learning 2006, Banff, Canada, June, 2006 SML Program Committee, International Conference on Machine Learning 2005, Bonn, Los Angeles, CA, USA, Germany, August, 2005 SML Program Committee, Artificial Intelligence and Statistics 2005, Barbados, January, 2005, SML Organizing Committee, Machine Learning Summer School 2006, Taipe, China, June 2005 SML Program Committee (junior), International Conference on Machine Learning 2006, Banff, Canada, June, 2006 SML Organizer, NIPS satellite workshop on Open Source machine learning tools, Vancouver, Canada, December 2005 SML Technical Program Committee, EUSIPCO 2006, Florence, Italy, September 2006 http://www.eusipco2006.org SN International Program Committee, International Conference on Data Fusion 2006, Florence, Italy, June 2006, SN Technical Reviewer Committee, 2005 Asia-Pacific Conference on Communications, Perth, Australia, WSP Vishwanathan, Swaminathan Venkata Narayana Evans, Rob Abhayapala, Thushara October 2005 Grant, Alex 430 Technical Reviewer Committee, 2005 IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics, New Paltz, NY, USA, October 2005 WSP Technical Program Committee, 2006 Australian Communications Theory Workshop, Perth, Australia, February 2006 WSP Technical Program Committee, 2006 IEEE 63rd Vehicular Technology Conference, Melbourne, Australia, May 2006 WSP Publications Co-chair, 2005 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Adelaide, Australia, September 2005 WSP General Co-chair, 2005 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Adelaide, Australia, September 2005 WSP Name Conference Information Program Hanlen, Leif Technical Program Committee, Vehicular Technology Conference, Melbourne, Australia, May 2005 WSP Technical Program Committee, Vehicular Technology Conference, Melbourne, Australia, May 2006 WSP Organisaing Committee, Australian Communication Theory Workshop, Perth, Australia, 2006 WSP Technical Reviewer Committee, 2005 Asia-Pacific Conference on Communications, Perth, Australia, October 2005 WSP Kennedy, Rod General Co-chair, 2005 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Adelaide, Australia, September 2005 WSP Reed, Mark Sponsorship Co-Chair, IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Adelaide, Australia, September 2005 WSP Co-Chair, inaugural ACoRN/NICTA/ANU Wireless Winter School, Canberra, Australia, June, 2005 wws2005.rsise.anu.edu.au WSP Publications Co-Chair, IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference 2006, Melbourne, Australia, May 2006 WSP Technical Program Committee, Asia Pacific Conference on Communication (APCC) 2005, Perth, Australia, October 2005 WSP Technical Program Committee, IEEE International Conference on Wireless Broadband and Ultra Wideband Communications, Aus Wireless 2006, Sydney, Australia, March 2005 WSP Technical Program Committee, First IEEE International Conference on Wireless Broadband and Ultra Wideband Communications, AusWireless 2006, Sydney, Australia, March 2006 WSP Sithamparanathan, Kandeepan Zhang, Andrew 431 ANNUAL REPORT 05 to the Australian Government Membership of Editorial Boards for Journals Name Journal Information AUTONOMOUS SYSTEMS AND SENSOR TECHNOLOGIES Caelli, Terry Spatial Vision (current) Neural Networks (current Pattern Recognition (current) International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence (current) Pattern Analysis and Applications (current) Hartley, Richard International Journal of Computer Vision 2005, Editorial Board (since 2004) EMBEDDED REAL TIME AND OPERATING SYSTEMS Chakravarty, Manuel Journal of Functional Programming, Cambridge University Press, Editorial Board (2005) EMPIRICAL SOFTWARE ENGINEERING Cox, Karl Expert Systems, Editorial Board, October 2005 Jeffery, Ross Empirical Software Engineering Journal, Associate Editor (since 1996) Verner, June Journal of Systems and Software, Editorial Board (since 1994) Information and Software Technology, Editorial Board (since 1995) FORMAL METHODS Sowma, Arcot Real Time Systems (since 1997) van der Meyden, Ron Conference on Theoretical Aspects of Knowledge and Rationality van Glabbeek, Rob Information & Computation (since May 1991) Theoretical Computer Science (since May 2004) Structured Operation Semantics 2005 (until July 2005) INTERFACES, MACHINES, AND GRAPHIC ENVIRONMENTS Eades, Peter Journal of Information Visualisation Journal of Graph Algorithms and Applications (JGAA), World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd DCIAA (Digital Content Industry Action Agenda) – Working Group on Research and Development and Innovation Systems Hong, Seokhee 432 IJFCS (International Journal of Foundations of Computer Science), Guest Editor; Special Issue on Graph Drawing (World Scientific, Publisher); Guest Editor, Special Issue, 2005–2006 Name Journal Information KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION AND REASONING Foo, Norman Knowledge and Information Systems: An International Journal, Editorial Board Advances in Systems Science and Applications, Editorial Board International Journal of General Systems, Associate Editor Journal of General Systems, Associate Editor Journal of Applied Logic, Receiving Editor Maher, Michael Journal of Theory and Practice of Logic Programming, Editorial Advisor Journal of Applied Logic, Receiving Editor Pagnucco, Maurice Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, Associate Editor-in-Chief Walsh, Toby AI Communications, Editor-in-Chief Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, Associate Editor-in-Chief Journal of Automated Reasoning, Associate Editor; Guest Editor of Special Issue, late 2005 Constraints Journal, Editorial Board Knowledge and Information Systems: An International Journal, Editorial Board ECCAI PhD thesis series, Frontiers in AI and Applications, Editorial Board LOGIC AND COMPUTATION Gore, Rajeev Annals of Mathematics, Computation and Teleinformatics, Editorial Board (2003) Logic, Language and Information Series of Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Editorial Board (2005) NETWORK INFORMATION PROCESSING Bird, Steven Natural Language Engineering, Editorial Board Buyya, Rajkumar Chair of Technical Committee on Scalable Computing (TCSC) (http://www. ieeetcsc.org/), The IEEE Computer Society (www.computer.org) October 2005 Moffatt, Alistair Information Processing Letters, Information Retrieval 433 ANNUAL REPORT 05 to the Australian Government Name Journal Information Stuckey, Peter Logic Methods in Computer Science, Editorial Board (since 2004) Theory and Practice of Logic Programming, Constraints Area Editor, 2004; Constraints, Editorial Board, (since 1996) TPLP, Constraints Area Editor Constraints, Editorial Board LMCS, Editorial Board NETWORK AND PERVASIVE COMPUTING Boulis, Athanassios International Journal of Network Management, Co-Guest Editor for special issue of IJNM on Sensor Networks 2005 Landfeldt, Bjorn Journal on Pervasive Computing, Associate Editor Lovell, Nigel IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine, Associate Editor Journal of Neural Engineering, Editorial Board Physiological Measurement, Editorial Board NETWORK TECHNOLOGIES Hanly, Stephen IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, Associate Editor Manton, Jonathan IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Associate Editor (2003) Tucker, Rod IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, Associate Editor (since 2000) Zukerman, Moshe IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networks, Editor (since 2000) International Journal of Communication Systems, Editor (since 2000) SYSTEMS ENGINEERING AND COMPLEX SYSTEMS Anderson, Brian Communications in Information & Systems (CIS) (1999) International Journal – Robust & Nonlinear Control (1999) Multidimensional System & Signal Processing (1989) Applied & Computational Control, Signals & Circuits (1998) International Journal of Adaptive Control & Signal Processing (1987) Moore, John Journal of Industrial & Management Optimization (JIMO) (2004) International Journal of Adaptive Control and Signal Processing (2004) SYMBOLIC MACHINE LEARNING AND KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION 434 Sowmya, A Real Time Systems (since 1997) Zhang, Jian IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (CSTV), Associate Editor (2006–2008) Name Journal Information Zhang, Jian “The convergence of knowledge engineering, semantics and signal processing in audiovisual information retrieval”, for IEEE Transaction on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (CSTV), Guest Editor for the special issue (2006) STATISTICAL MACHINE LEARNING Aberdeen, Doug IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Reviewer (2005) Hegland, Markus International Journal of Highspeed Computing, Action Editor (2003) Computational and Statistical Data Anlysis, Action Editor (2001) Smola, Alex Statistics and Computing, Editorial Board (2005) Journal of Machine Learning Research, Action Editor (2002) Williamson, Bob Journal of Machine Learning Research, Action Editor (2002) SENSOR NETWORKS Evans, Rob Asian Journal of Control, Associate Editor (since 1994) Manton, Jonathon IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Associate Editor (2003) Mareels, Ivan Systems and Control Letters, Editor in Chief (since 2004) Nesic, Dragan IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Associate Editor (since 2003) Automatica, Associate Editor (since 2003) Thomas, Doreen Journal of Combinatorial Optimisation, Editorial Board (since 2001) WIRELESS SIGNAL PROCESSING Abhayapala, Thushara EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking (EURASIP JWCN), Associate Editor (2005) Hanlen, Leif Australian Communication Theory Workshop, Editor (2006) Kennedy, Rod IEEE Transactions on Communications for Data Communications in the Area of Modulation; Signal Design for the IEEE Transactions of Communications, Associate Editor (1995–2005) Journal of Adaptive Control and Signal Processing (since 1995) Foundations and Trends in Communications and Information Theory, Editorial Board (since 2003) Reed, Mark IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, Associate Editor IEEE, Senior Member (elected 2005) 435 ANNUAL REPORT 05 to the Australian Government Prizes, Awards and Recognitions Name Program STUDENTS 436 Chapman, Garry Best Student Paper Award, 2005 USENIX Technical Conference, Anaheim, CA, USA ERTOS Bleistein, Steven Australian Committee on Computation and Automatic Control (ANCCAC) Award 2005 ESE Ahmed Adel, Fu Xiaoyan, Merrick Damian 1st place, 12th Annual Graph Drawing Contest, IMAGEN Kraska, T., Manwaring, Tristan., Ho, Joshua., Fung, David. (Supervisors: Hart, David., Hong, Seokhee.-H., Xu, Kai., Feung, David., Roehm, Uwe.) Siemens Prize on Research Projects with Potential for Commercialisation, University of Sydney, Research Conversazione 2005 IMAGEN Bokareva, Tatiana (PhD student) Internship at Portland State University, Portland, OR, USA, Feb–May 2005 NPC Bailey, James Best paper award, 5th IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM 2005) NIP Ji, Xianonan Best paper award at 5th IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM 2005) NIP Hu, Wen Internship at Portland State University, Oregon, USA, August–November 2005 NPC Rakotoarivelo, Thierry Internship at Ecole Nationale Superieure d’Ingenieurs de Constructions Aeronoautiques (ENSICA), Toulouse, France, February–November 2005 NPC Shen, Yueshi The Best Student Paper Award of the 2005 IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics and Automation, Ontario, Canada, July 2005 SEACS Yu, Brad 2005 Endeavour Asia Awards, Canberra, Australia, December 2005 http://www.dest.gov.au/sectors /international_education/ programmes_funding/programme_ categories/ international_scholarships_exchanges/ Endeavour_ Program/2005_ Selection_Outcomes.htm SEACS 200 Euro, certificate and publication in Proceedings of 13th International Symposium on Graph Drawing, September 2005 Name Program STUDENTS Yu, Brad Student Grant of 2nd International Conference on Information Systems, Sensor Networks and Information Processing SEACS 2005 Westpac Australia Chinese Students’ NewAge Award, December 2005 SEACS Elected President of Chinese Students’ and Scholars’ Association, Canberra, Australia, April 2005 SEACS Name Program RESEARCHERS Anbulagan Bronze medals (2), 8th International Conference on Theory and Applications of Satisfiability Testing – SAT Solver Dew Satz Paper, St Andrews, Scotland, June 2005 L&C Anbulagan, Pham, Duc Nghia Gold medal, 8th International Conference on Theory and Applications of Satisfiability Testing – SAT solver R+AdaptNovelty+, St Andrews, Scotland, June 2005 L&C Anderson, Brian Honorary Doctorate of Engineering, University of Newcastle, Newcastle, Australia, April 2005 SEACS Fellow of IFAC, conferred at the IFAC World Congress in Prague, July 2005 SEACS Bailey, James Best Paper Award, ICDMO5, Houston, TX, USA, November 2005 NIP Lovell, Nigel Best poster presentation, Virtual-reality psychophysical assessment in visual prosthesis, AOVS conference, Melbourne, Australia, December 2005 NPC Chae, Thomas Best Paper Award, Optical Networking Field, Optoelectronics and Communications Conference, Seoul, Korea, July 2005 NT Cox, Karl Australian Committee on Computation and Automatic Control (ANCCAC) Award 2005 ESE Exposito, Ernesto Best Presentation Award for the paper “Using the XQoS Platform for designing and developing the QoS-Seeker System”, August 2005 NPC Foo, Norman External Examiner and Advisor, Multimedia University, Cyberjaya, Malaysia, 2005. KRR Goecke, Roland PhD of the Year 2004, Australian Speech Science and Technology Association, June 2005 ASST 437 ANNUAL REPORT 05 to the Australian Government Name Program RESEARCHERS Gorton, Ian Fellow of the Australian Computer Society, November ESE 2005[Year] Jeffeery, Ross 438 Invited to serve on the Computer Science Expert Group, advising the e-Research Coordinating Committee of the Australian Government Department of Education, Science and Training ESE Served on the International Software Process Research Consortium of the Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, USA ESE Smola, Alex., Vishwanathan, Swaminathan Venkata Narayana NICTA’s video segmentation algorithm (developed by Z Yu, SVN Vishwanathan and A Smola) achieved 2nd best overall performance among 21 international research labs at TRECVID 2005 shot boundary detection competition SML Stuckey, Peter 1st place, 2005 International Constraint Modelling Challenge (IJCAI 2005), Edinburgh, Scotland, July 2005 NIP Tang, Anthony., Ali Babar, Muhammad., Gorton, Ian., Han, J 1 of 5 Best papers at WICSA 2005 Conference, USA, November 2005 ESE Yu, Zhenghua NICTA’s video segmentation algorithm (developed by Z Yu, SVN Vishwanathan and A Smola) achieved 2nd best overall performance among 21 international research labs at TRECVID 2005 shot boundary detection competition SMLKA Zhu, Liming., Liu, Yan., Gorton, Ian., Bui, Betty 1 of 5 Best Papers at WICSA 2005 Conference, USA November 2005 ESE Membership of Academies Appointee Description Anderson, Brian Honorary Doctorate of Engineering, University of Newcastle 2005 1974 Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers 1975 Fellow, Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering 1980 Honorary Fellow of the Institution of Engineers 1985 Fellow, Royal Society, UK 1989 Foreign Associate National Academy of Engineering, USA 2002 Fellow, IEEE 2005 Fellow, IAPR 2005 Australasian Executive Committee Member, Association of Symbolic Logic 1996 Australian Board Member, Pacific-Asian Association for Agent-based Approach in Social Sciences 2004 Hartley, Richard Fellow, Australian Academy of Science 2005 Hegland, Markus Board Member, Computational Mathematics CNG 1999 Kennedy, Rodney Fellow, IEEE 2005 Lanzon, Alexander Fellow, Cambridge Philosophical Society 1999 Lovell, Nigel Fellow, Institution of Engineers, Australia 2005 Moore, John Fellow, Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering 1985 Fellow, Australian Academy of Science 1994 Fellow, Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers 1979 Sattar, Abdul Life-time member AAAI 1992 Walsh, Toby Member, EPSRC Peer Review College 2000 Caelli, Terry Foo, Norman Year of Election 439 ANNUAL REPORT 05 to the Australian Government NICTA Media and Acknowledgments This annex identifies all known media reporting of NICTA’s activities during the reporting period. Acknowledgment of Australian Government support for NICTA is given in all interviews and is carried into all public presentations and publications. Australian Government support is acknowledged on the NICTA website, on the NICTA exhibition stand, and in all press releases. 440 Date Journalist Header Publication 24-Jan-05 Staff Writer NICTA Develops Secure Embedded Operating Systems Technology LinuxWorld.com.au 27-Jan-05 Manktelow, Nicole The tale of the v-v-v-vibrating shoes ABC – online 01-Feb-05 Staff Writer NICTA and microsof sign three-year research agreement Australian R & D Review 01-Feb-05 Staff Writer NICTA launches visual test facility Australian R & D Review 10-Feb-05 Staff Writer NICTA, microsoft sign web security deal Sydney Morning Herald – WEB 10-Feb-05 Mitchell, Selina NICTA signs $2m microsoft deal Australian – WEB 10-Feb-05 Mansill, Ben Web services security gets $2 million boost iTnews 10-Feb-05 Mansill, Ben Web services security gets $2 million boost Computer Reseller News – WEB 10-Feb-05 Gedda, Rodney NICTA begins web services security project ComputerWorld Australia – WEB 11-Feb-05 Woodhead, Ben Fast facts Australian Financial Review 11-Feb-05 Woodhead, Ben Research alliance Australian Financial Review 11-Feb-05 Lebihan, Rachel Fast facts Australian Financial Review 14-Feb-05 Staff Writer NICTA microsoft work to work together on web security r&D Communications Day 15-Feb-05 Mitchell, Selina NICTA makes the start line on patents Australian 15-Feb-05 Mitchell, Selina NICTA makes the start line on patents Australian – WEB Date Journalist Header Publication 16-Feb-05 Gedda, Rodney NICTA begins web services security project ComputerWorld Australia 16-Feb-05 Austin, Steve Mornings 9.51am Radio – ABC Central Queensland (Rockhampton) 17-Feb-05 Staff Writer Smooth running as new team moves in Australian 21-Feb-05 Staff Writer New nicta facility to focus on national security idm.net.au ( Image & Data Manager ) 21-Feb-05 Mansill, Ben Web services security gets $2m boost Computer Reseller News 22-Feb-05 Head, Beverley Grand ambitions Sydney Morning Herald 22-Feb-05 Head, Beverley Grand ambitions The Age 22-Feb-05 Head, Beverley Grand ambitions Sydney Morning Herald – WEB 22-Feb-05 Head, Beverley Grand ambitions The Age – WEB 25-Feb-05 Staff Writer NICTA launches Qld operation The Rust Report 28-Feb-05 Jenkins, Chris NICTA chief departs Australian – WEB 28-Feb-05 Grose, Simon Software firms told to lift game Canberra Times 01-Mar-05 Winterford, Brett NICTA chief pulls plug just as business is buzzing Australian Financial Review 01-Mar-05 Turner, Adam The safest options Sydney Morning Herald 01-Mar-05 Turner, Adam The safest options Sydney Morning Herald – WEB 01-Mar-05 Turner, Adam The safest options The Age 01-Mar-05 Turner, Adam The safest options The Age – WEB 01-Mar-05 Staff Writer NICTA CEO resigns Communications Day 01-Mar-05 Staff Writer Head of NICTA, Mel sSater, resigns Exchange 01-Mar-05 Staff Writer NICTA waves goodbye to the mouse Voice & Data 01-Mar-05 Staff Writer NICTA and Microsoft sign three year research agreement for improved web services CRM Magazine 01-Mar-05 Riley, James NICTA boss quits Australian – WEB 01-Mar-05 Riley, James NICTA boss quits Australian 441 ANNUAL REPORT 05 to the Australian Government 442 Date Journalist Header Publication 01-Mar-05 Cooper, Jo Research keeps its eyes on the road Government News 04-Mar-05 Rust, Len Revolving doors The Rust Report 04-Mar-05 Malone, Paul New office block boost for city west Canberra Times 07-Mar-05 Grose, Simon End of a short reign for slater Canberra Times 08-Mar-05 Beer, Stan Moving heads The Age 08-Mar-05 Beer, Stan Moving heads Sydney Morning Herald 09-Mar-05 Staff Writer Inbrief ComputerWorld Australia 09-Mar-05 Hellaby, David Centre focuses on e-security research Gold Coast Bulletin 14-Mar-05 Hannaford, Scott IT leader a tower of strength in hightech capital Canberra Times 14-Mar-05 Grose, Simon NICTA chair defends high salaries Canberra Times 15-Mar-05 Hayes, Simon CRCS roast federal cut in hi-tech funds Australian 15-Mar-05 Hayes, Simon NICTA heads harvest $1.3m Australian 22-Mar-05 McCabe, Bruce Desperately seeking cios Australian 22-Mar-05 Hayes, Simon Give NICTA time to deliver: expert Australian 29-Mar-05 Hayes, Simon Falling off the pace in ideas race Australian – IT Section 29-Mar-05 Hayes, Simon Falling off the pace in ideas race Australian – WEB 01-Apr-05 Staff Writer Movers and shakers MIS Magazine 01-Apr-05 Staff Writer NICTA ceo resigns Image & Data 01-Apr-05 Staff Writer Safeguarding Australian research Voice & Data 01-Apr-05 Staff Writer Technology event just for government Government News 01-Apr-05 Staff Writer Government technology world 2005 Voice & Data 05-Apr-05 Staff Writer Terrapinn’s uniqe innovative conference experience Canberra Times 06-Apr-05 Staff Writer Lab researchers e-security and counter-terrorism Business Acumen Queensland 11-Apr-05 Winterford, Brett Green pea sprouts from federal research funding Australian Financial Review 12-Apr-05 Staff Writer Seminar to help region’s ICT firms Illawarra Mercury Date Journalist Header Publication 12-Apr-05 Meredith, Helen National security: it’s not a case of sitting on defence Sydney Morning Herald 12-Apr-05 Meredith, Helen National security: it’s not a case of sitting on defence The Age 13-Apr-05 Swan, Jenny Drive show – 5:53pm Radio – ABC – Western Queensland 17-Apr-05 Head, Beverley Tech wreck Independent Weekly 18-Apr-05 Staff Writer NICTA’s inaugural technology festival showcases research efforts Canberra Times 18-Apr-05 Grose, Simon Talking tech Canberra Times 19-Apr-05 Staff Writer MS offers windows el cheapo Computer Daily News 19-Apr-05 Letter to the Editor Protection pointers Australian 19-Apr-05 Jenkins, Chris Patents to boost top researcher Australian 20-Apr-05 Staff Writer Festival for techies to showcase research Campus Review 22-Apr-05 Staff Writer Xchange of ideas – Australian innovation festival Australian 22-Apr-05 Staff Writer Seminarzone Canberra Times 22-Apr-05 Staff Writer ACT Australian 22-Apr-05 Staff Writer The public sector event of the year Canberra Times 27-Apr-05 Staff Writer 16:00 news – 4:01pm Radio – 104.7 – Canberra 27-Apr-05 Staff Writer 9:00 news – 9:03am Radio – 106.3 – Canberra 27-Apr-05 Leonard, Peter WIN news – 6:01pm TV – WIN – Canberra 27-Apr-05 Hannaford, Scott $60m research institute for west side Canberra Times 28-Apr-05 Hannaford, Scott Centre to make canberra a ‘silicon valley’ site Canberra Times 29-Apr-05 LeMay, Renai Aussie outsourcers ‘should follow india’ ZDNet Australia 01-May-05 Woolnough, Paul Spanning the great devide Engineers Australia 01-May-05 Skinner, Chris More discipline needed in software engineering Engineers Australia 443 ANNUAL REPORT 05 to the Australian Government 444 Date Journalist Header Publication 03-May-05 Winterford, Brett Research body scoring goals Australian Financial Review 03-May-05 Staff Writer $60m research boost for civic smart zone North Side Chronicle (Canberra) 03-May-05 Riley, James NICTA headless amid big shake-up Australian 04-May-05 Close, Andrea Early mornings – 6:54am Radio – ABC 666 – Canberra 05-May-05 Staff Writer 22:00 news – 10:05pm Radio – ABC 891 – Adelaide 05-May-05 Staff Writer 22:00 news – 10:03pm Radio – ABC 936 – Hobart 05-May-05 Leonard, Peter WIN news – 6:17pm TV – WIN – Canberra 06-May-05 Hannaford, Scott Shake, wriggle and roll: it’s the future Canberra Times 09-May-05 Staff Writer New tricks have dogs barking up tech tree Canberra Times 10-May-05 Staff Writer Open source – you heard it here first Australian – IT Section 10-May-05 Staff Writer Windows wobbles beat wireless wizardry Australian 10-May-05 Manktelow, Nicole Research body backs output in first review Australian Financial Review 10-May-05 Hayes, Simon NICTA mouse killer Australian 10-May-05 Cochrane, Nathan Every distillery dog has its day The Age 11-May-05 Staff Writer NICTA showcase ComputerWorld Australia 14-May-05 Thistleton, John 7000 jobs in anu project Canberra Times 16-May-05 Staff Writer Phone tragics cross-dressing at 9am inside the national museum is a rare treat... Canberra Times 16-May-05 Grose, Simon Funding circuit Canberra Times 17-May-05 Hayes, Simon CeBIT expects figures to build Australian 18-May-05 Staff Writer CSIRO gears up for a wi-fi legal stoush Australian Financial Review 25-May-05 Hayes, Simon Getting work done on the fly Australian Date Journalist Header Publication 26-May-05 Woodhead, Ben Minister names ict advice panel Australian Financial Review 31-May-05 Riley, James New broom sweeps NICTA board Australian 31-May-05 Riley, James Roach resigns from NICTA Australian 01-Jun-05 Staff Writer No header – the founding chairman of ZDNet Australia 01-Jun-05 Staff Writer Neville vacates NICTA chair for ... Neville ComputerWorld Australia 01-Jun-05 Jones, Mark Sweeping changes at top for NICTA Australian Financial Review 01-Jun-05 Grayson, Ian This is a voipjack! Australian Personal Computer 01-Jun-05 Cooper, Jo Australia must plan for a technology future Government News 01-Jun-05 Bajkowski, Julian Coonan board cold shoulders overseas visitors ComputerWorld Australia 02-Jun-05 Staff Writer NICTA chief stands down from top job Canberra Times 06-Jun-05 Staff Writer QLD urged to lead tech Business Acumen Queensland 06-Jun-05 Grose, Simon Things to do Canberra Times 08-Jun-05 Staff Writer NICTA hires and fires ComputerWorld Australia 11-Jun-05 Thistleton, John Fears building boom may bust Canberra Times 11-Jun-05 Thirsk, John Fears building boom may bust Canberra Times 13-Jun-05 Staff Writer Grant a boost for smart irrigation Country News 18-Jun-05 Manktelow, Nicole Driver revivers Sydney Morning Herald 22-Jun-05 Doherty, Ben Stanhope says cooperation key to biotechnology push Canberra Times 28-Jun-05 Karena, Cynthia There’s logic in combined computing Sydney Morning Herald 28-Jun-05 Karena, Cynthia There’s logic in combined computing The Age 445 ANNUAL REPORT 05 to the Australian Government 446 Date Journalist Header Publication 01-Jul-05 Davidson, Peter Making australia an unstoppable ict force Information Age 05-Jul-05 Winterford, Brett Man with his eyes on the stars Australian Financial Review 26-Jul-05 McCabe, Bruce Global bi revolution brews in NICTA Australian 01-Aug-05 Staff Writer NICTA interim CEO gets the top job Sydney Morning Herald – WEB 01-Aug-05 McBride, Siobhan NICTA appoints CEO ComputerWorld Australia – WEB 01-Aug-05 Kanellos, Michael India calling Technology & Business 01-Aug-05 Jenkins, Chris Skellern takes nicta reins Australian 01-Aug-05 Grose, Simon Doctor Two Canberra Times 02-Aug-05 Staff Writer IT diary Australian 02-Aug-05 Jones, Mark NICTA boss to stay for a year Australian Financial Review 02-Aug-05 Corner, Stuart David Skellern named nicta ceo Exchange 03-Aug-05 Staff Writer ICT outlook forum 2005 Campus Review 09-Aug-05 Staff Writer Next lessons The Age 09-Aug-05 Head, Beverley Comeback kids keep eyes on prize The Age 10-Aug-05 Staff Writer Inbrief – industry appointments ComputerWorld Australia 15-Aug-05 Hannah, Gina Startup expert to test his skills down unders Huntsville Times 18-Aug-05 Beer, Stan NICTA lures high flying us entrepreneur to temporary appointment The Beer Files 22-Aug-05 Grose, Simon Milky way Canberra Times 23-Aug-05 Foreshew, Jennifer Medical research centre aims high Australian 25-Aug-05 Staff Writer 09:00 news – 9:01am Radio – 106.3 – Canberra 29-Aug-05 Scott, David Robot vision scans road signs WardsAuto.com 30-Aug-05 Mitchell, Selina NICTA invents wireless chips to save water Australian 01-Sep-05 Staff Writer Detecting micro-sleeps Government News Date Journalist Header Publication 01-Sep-05 Sharwood, Simon Are you ready for AI? Technology & Business 07-Sep-05 Staff Writer Next generation computer science degree Campus Review 13-Sep-05 Staff Writer High-fibre diet Sydney Morning Herald 13-Sep-05 Staff Writer High-fibre diet The Age 13-Sep-05 Philipson, Graeme IT out of luck in the lucky country Sydney Morning Herald 13-Sep-05 Philipson, Graeme IT out of luck in the lucky country The Age 14-Sep-05 Staff Writer Sensor network leaders to meet at searcc ComputerWorld Australia 20-Sep-05 Staff Writer 150 bike parks at research centre City Chronicle 22-Sep-05 Humphrey, Tim Top end office rental direction in question Canberra City News 27-Sep-05 Staff Writer Australian’s promise wlans with up to 10 gigabits per second ComputerPartner 27-Sep-05 Staff Writer Within two years Australians will supply a 10gbps wireless network Novinky.cz 27-Sep-05 Staff Writer Within two years Australians will supply a 10gbps wireless network Pravo 27-Sep-05 Staff Writer Within two years Australians will supply a 10gbps wireless network Seznam.cz 27-Sep-05 Kennedy, Stuart Search on for new head of nicta Australian 27-Sep-05 Jenkins, Chris Local research to create 10Gbps wireless networks Australian 27-Sep-05 Jenkins, Chris Promise of 10gbps wireless. news.com.au 28-Sep-05 Sandor, Berta WLAN of 10 gigabits is coming Hirmagazin 28-Sep-05 Beer, Stan NICTA unveils new wireless monitoring platform ITWire 01-Oct-05 Staff Writer Future tech Technology & Business 01-Oct-05 Staff Writer NCTA finds a home Australian R & D Review 01-Oct-05 Kidman, Angus Future tech Technology & Business 01-Oct-05 Contributing Writer Industry insider MIS Magazine 447 ANNUAL REPORT 05 to the Australian Government 448 Date Journalist Header Publication 10-Oct-05 Staff Writer Industry insider MIS Magazine 11-Oct-05 Foreshew, Jennifer NICTA to revamp its tech systems Australian 18-Oct-05 Staff Writer Australia’s water crisis is driving a powerful new technology with international potential Bulletin with Newsweek 21-Oct-05 Russell, Christopher Now for some ICT excellence Adelaide Advertiser 25-Oct-05 Thorp, Diana Offshoring and layoffs spook students out of tech careers Australian 25-Oct-05 Hayes, Simon Offshoring and layoffs spook students out of tech careers Australian 01-Nov-05 Thorp, Diana ANU courses defy trend Australian 01-Nov-05 Staff Writer New products What’s New in Radio Communications 01-Nov-05 Staff Writer Add events The Age 01-Nov-05 Staff Writer Add events Sydney Morning Herald 01-Nov-05 Foreshew, Jennifer Research progress in fibre optics Australian 02-Nov-05 Philipson, Graeme The next skills Shortage Campus Review 07-Nov-05 Grose, Simon Tooling up Canberra Times 08-Nov-05 Tellzen, Roland Show to go on even if there’s no money in it Australian 08-Nov-05 McCabe, Bruce Booster body needs shot in the arm Australian 10-Nov-05 Staff Writer Visiting WA Business News WA 10-Nov-05 Staff Writer Events Business News WA 10-Nov-05 Staff Writer Events Australian – Business News 10-Nov-05 Staff Writer Visiting WA Australian – Business News 14-Nov-05 Grose, Simon Second bite Canberra Times 15-Nov-05 Staff Writer Diary Australian 17-Nov-05 Staff Writer Visiting WA Business News WA Date Journalist Header Publication 17-Nov-05 Staff Writer Visiting WA Australian – Business News 22-Nov-05 Prior, Neale WA pushes for research body centre West Australian 22-Nov-05 Corner, Stuart NICTA Forum to promote sensor networks research ITWire 23-Nov-05 Staff Writer New Sydney R&D lab for NICTA Communications Day 23-Nov-05 Marshall, Tim New Sydney R&D lab for NICTA Communications Day 23-Nov-05 Deare, Steven NICTA opens new Sydney lab ZDNet Australia 24-Nov-05 Staff Writer WT Partnership – first-class quantity surveying and cost management Canberra City News 24-Nov-05 Staff Writer Small-footprint operating system enhance security Electronicstalk 24-Nov-05 Staff Writer Alliance to secure mobile communications Electronicstalk 24-Nov-05 Staff Writer NICTA develops secure O-S Sydney Morning Herald – WEB 24-Nov-05 Staff Writer 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