Effective January 1st, 2012, I have been promoted to Associate Professor in the new Department of Computing and Information Systems at the University of Melbourne. Many thanks to my friends and colleagues for their support.
ARC Linkage Project Grant, $195,000, 2012-2014. Growing old and staying connected: touch screen technology for ameliorating older people's experience of social isolation. Chief investigators: F. Vetere, E. Ozanne, L. Kulik.
Social isolation affects many older people. This project investigates novel technologies to prevent and to ameliorate social isolation experienced by older adults. This project will implement and trial a software application over an 18 month period, using a 3G connected touch-screen tablet, and evaluate its impact on alleviating social isolation.
The paper The Min-dist Location Selection Query authored by Jianzhong Qi, Rui Zhang, Lars Kulik, Dan Lin and Yuan Xue has been accepted for ICDE 2012.
The paper Gesture Recognition Using RFID Technology authored by Parvin Asadzadeh, myself and Egemen Tanin has been as been accepted for publication in Personal and Ubiquitous Computing.
The paper Privacy-Aware Collection of Aggregate Spatial Data authored by Hairuo Xie, myself and Egemen Tanin has been as been accepted for publication in Data & Knowledge Engineering.
ARC Discovery Project Grant, $300,000, 2011-2013. Managing private location data in a mobile and networked world: getting the balance right. Chief investigators: L. Kulik, E. Tanin, J. Bailey.
Location based data are transforming the mobile service industry and this project will develop novel approaches to safeguard the location privacy of mobile individuals. This will facilitate the development of privacy-aware services which can be used for real time traffic monitoring, care for the elderly and smartphone enabled location services.
One full paper authored by Sarana Nutanong, Egemen Tanin, Mohammed Eunus Ali, and myself on Local Network Voronoi Diagram has been accepted for ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS 2010. The second accepted full paper is authored by Jie Shao, myself, and Egemen and is titled Easiest-to-Reach Neighbor Search. The acceptance rate for full papers was 20.9%.
The paper "Don't Trust Anyone": Privacy Protection for Location-Based Services authored by Tanzima Hashem and myself has been as been accepted for publication in Pervasive and Mobile Computing.
Congratulations to Dr. Ziyuan Wang for completing her PhD. I and Prof Rao Kotagiri were Ziyuan’s supervisors. Her thesis is entitled Proactive Traffic Control Strategies for Sensor-Enabled Cars.
Congratulations to Dr. Muhammad Umer for completing his PhD. Dr Egemen Tanin and I were Umer’s supervisors. His thesis is titled A Query-Driven Approach to Efficient and Robust Data Collection in Wireless Sensor Networks.
The paper A Motion-Aware Approach for Efficient Evaluation of Continuous Queries on 3D Object Databases, authored by Mohammed Eunus Ali, Egemen Tanin, Rui Zhang, and myself, has been accepted for the VLDB Journal. The full citation is under my publications.
A paper authored by Tanzima Hashem, myself, and Rui Zhang on Privacy Preserving Group Nearest Neighbor Queries has been accepted for EDBT 2010. The acceptance rate was 17.6%.
A position paper about our Spatio-Temporal Database Research at the University of Melbourne is available now via SIGMOD Record.
Our poster (authored by Muhammad Umer, Egemen Tanin, and myself) on Opportunistic Sampling in Wireless Sensor Networks has won the ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS 2009 best poster award.
One full paper authored by Ziyuan Wang, myself, and Rao Kotagiri on Robust Traffic Merging Strategies for Sensor-Enabled Cars Using Time Geography has been accepted for ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS 2009. The acceptance rate for full papers was 20.5%.
One short paper authored by Muhammad Umer, Egemen Tanin, and myself on Opportunistic Sampling in Wireless Sensor Networks has been accepted for ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS 2009.
The full citations are under my publications.
The paper Analysis and Evaluation of V*-kNN: An Efficient Algorithm for Moving kNN Queries, authored by Sarana Nutanong, Egemen Tanin, Rui Zhang, and myself, has been accepted for the VLDB Journal. The full citation is under my publications.
A paper authored by Hairuo Xie, myself, and Egemen Tanin on Privacy Aware Traffic Monitoring has been accepted for IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems. The full citation is under my publications.
A letter on Privacy for real-time location-based services has been published at ACM SIGSPATIAL Special. The full citation is under my publications. The article is available via the ACM portal.
Congratulations to Dr. Peter Hebden for completing his PhD. Dr Adrian Pearce and I were Peter's supervisors. His thesis Self Organisation of Wireless Sensor Networks for Data-Centric Routing using Bloom Filters is available here.
I am delighted to become a member of the editorial board of GeoInformatica. GeoInformatica is a journal to publish "the most innovative research results in the application of computer science applied to geographic information systems". More information about GeoInformatica is available under the journal website.