14 July 2010

Platform Technologies News – Issue 4, July 2010

Platform Technologies News is the quarterly newsletter of the Platform Technologies Research Institute (PTRI).

The Institute aims to sustain an open, inclusive and supportive research culture that nurtures careers, celebrates achievements and promotes industry-oriented research and innovation. Platform Technologies News has been developed to celebrate achievements of researchers within the Institute.


From the Director’s desk

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Director, Professor Xinghuo Yu

Dear Colleagues,

First, I would like to pass on my heartfelt congratulations to our PTRI members who have been successful in the ARC Linkage Round 2 2009 for 2010 Funding round. RMIT has had 10 successful applications, with a total ARC funding of $2.04 million. Partner contributions for the successful projects total $3.1 million. PTRI members contributed to 5 out of the 10 successful RMIT grants. Our success rate on submitted applications contributes to RMIT’s national ranking for this ARC Round as 8th on the number of proposals approved and 9th on the value of approved ARC funding. RMIT was second in the ATN on both of these measures. This is an excellent outcome. I congratulate those who were successful with their applications.

It is important to note that most of these successes are the results of cross-school collaborations, contributions of our institute funded research/postdoctoral fellows, and our new adjunct professor in PTRI. The areas covered are diverse; from nano science and engineering to aerospace engineering, computer security, and public health!

Strategic planning

In parallel to our major funding developments, construction of the institute’s strategic framework is continuing with project team workshops being held to develop research themes aligned with emerging technologies and PTRI’s expertise. Our goals will be to establish key technology platforms and critical masses of “centres of excellence” based on our past and current successes that will drive our future.

To ensure member consultation in the planning process, you are all invited to attend the PTRI Planning Day which is to be held on Tuesday 31 August 2010 at Leonda by the Yarra in Hawthorn. The Planning Day will provide you with on opportunity to contribute to PTRI’s Strategic Plan for 2011 and beyond - I am looking forward to working with you to achieve these goals.

I trust you find the information in this publication useful and I look forward to your feedback and contributions.

Warm regards,

Professor Xinghuo Yu
Director

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Awards and honours

Congratulations go to the following members who have been recognised for their contributions to research and industry:

  • Professor Suresh Bhargava has received the Dr Y Nayudamma, Chemcon, Distinguished Speaker Award from the Indian Institute of Chemical Engineers. Professor Bhargava was recognised for his significant contribution to research in the field of industrial/chemical engineering, with an emphasis on an efficient and cleaner environment.
  • At a recent function of the Victorian Branch of the Australian Computer Society Professor Xinghuo Yu was presented with the Fellow Certificate for recognition of his outstanding contribution to the development of ICT in Australia.
  • Dr Sharath Sriram was awarded a gold medal by the Australian Institute of Nuclear Science and Engineering (AINSE) for his work on high performance piezoelecric thin films.
  • Congratulations to I3T program PhD student Iman Yusuf who was one of 22 students who received an AUC Student Scholarship to attend the 2010 Apple World Wide Developer Conference to be held in San Francisco, USA.
  • Another PTRI aligned PhD student Blake Plowman was awarded with the inaugural “CNR Rao award” which is the highest research award valued at $2000 within the SAS for the most outstanding PhD student. He will travel to CNR Rao’s laboratory for one month this year to carry out his research work.

Comings and goings

A warm (despite the chilly weather) welcome to Professor Jinhu Lu who has joined us at RMIT with an ARC Future Fellowship. Professor Lu’s profile is featured on in this edition of Platform Technologies News.

Another welcome to Professor Grahame Holmes and the Power Electronics team. Professor Holmes is the new Innovation Professor of Smart Energy Systems.

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Conferences

Dr Fengling Han attended 7th International Summer School for Advanced Studies on “Biometrics for Secure Authentication: Forensics, Security and Identification at a Distance”, held in Alghero, Italy on 7th June to 11th June.

Associate Professor Jiankun Hu and his PhD student Mr. Kai Xi attended the 5th IEEE Conference on Industrial Electronics and Applications (ICIEA 2010), Taichung, Taiwan from 15 - 17 June 2010. This is ERA tier-A conference. Jiankun’s group presented three regular papers and Jiankun served as the Track Chair for this conference.

Professor Xinghuo Yu presented a semi-plenary talk entitled “Smart Grids from a Complex Network viewpoint” at the 2010 Chinese Conference on Decision and Control in Xuzhou from 26 to 28 May 2010.

Professor Heinz Schmidt, a member of the Steering Committee and a foundation member of CBSE, attended the 13th International ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on Component-Based Software Engineering, an A-ranked conference, was held 22-25. June in Prague.

PhD Students of Professor Heinz Schmidt gave papers at the following conferences:

  • Nick May presented a paper on “ Dynamic Service Quality and Resource Negotiation for High-Availability Service-Oriented Systems “, In the 32-nd ACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2010).
  • Iman Yusuf presented a paper on “Recovery-Oriented Software Architecture for Grid Applications” at the Doctoral Symposium of the IEEE/IFIP Intl. Conf. on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN 2010).

Professor W. Wlodarski is Co-Chair of the 13th International Meeting on Chemical Sensors (IMCS 2010) and Co-Chair of the 5th Asia-Pacific Conference on Transducers and Micro-Nano Technology (APCOT 2010), both to be held in Perth in July 2010.

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Research group collaborations

There are many examples of team building and collaboration between research groups.

  • Professor Suresh Bhargava’s group has on-going links with Professor Arnan Mitchell and Associate Professor Kourosh Kalantar-zadeh of SECE as well as external links with Professor Alan Bond (Monash University) and Dr Lakshmi Kantam (IICT, India).
  • Research links are being built with Dr Anthony Holland of SECE and Dr Liam Ward of CECE.
  • A new link with Professor Suresh Aggarwal of the BARC Institute in India is being promoted through RMIT Foundation Fellowship funding.
  • Professor Salvy Russo is currently collaborating with Professor Suresh Bhargava and Professor Arnan Mitchell in the area of quantum modelling of materials with technological applications. Professors Bhargava and Mitchell are also collaborating on the chemistry of the etching of LiNbO3 and the use of lab-on-a-chip techniques for selective chemical processing of metals.
  • Professor Dougal McCulloch is working with Professor Mike Austin and PhD student Zurianti Rahman on transparent graphene electrode for polymer solar cells, with Associate Professor Kourosh Kalantar-zadeh on carbon and metal oxide based gas sensors and titania nanotube based solar cells and with Dr Anthony O’Mullane on electrochemical measurements.
  • The wheelchair engineering team of SportzEdge (Professor Franz Konstantin Fuss, Professor Aleksandar Subic and Dr Mike Burton) entered a collaboration with the Australian Paralympic Committee for optimising the new wheelchairs for the Rollers and Gliders (male and female national Basketball wheelchair team). The optimisation will be carried out on the wheelchair ergometer at SAMME and with the universally adjustable wheelchair designed by Mike Burton. The new wheelchairs are instrumental for preparing the teams for the London 2012 Paralympic Games.

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External links

  • During 23 May and 3 June Professor Xinghuo Yu travelled to China to fulfil Chang Jiang Chair Professor duties at Southeast University in Nanjing, as well as attending the 2010 Chinese Conference on Decision and Control in Xuzhou, and visit Zhejiang University in Hangzhou and Northeast Univesity in Shenyan to explore collaborative links. He also travelled to Mexico, France and Italy between 25 June and 7 July to attend the 11th International Workshop on Variable Structure Systems in Mexico City, visit Dassault Systemes in Paris and attend the 2010 IEEE International Symposium on Industrial Electronics in Bari, Italy. He also attended the Officers meetings and the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society Administrative Committee (AdCom) meeting as the Vice President for Planning and Development in Bari, Italy. During the AdCom meeting, Professor Yu was appointed Chair of Technical Committee on Smart Grids, charged with driving the Smart Grids initiative in the Society.
  • Researchers from the School of Aerospace, Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering (SAMME) are collaborating with Virginia Tech to improve the fire safety of ships through a $1 million grant from the United States Office of Naval Research. The project will investigate models to predict the softening and failure of aluminium ship structures. Professor Adrian Mouritz and Dr Stefanie Feih will work with researchers from Virginia Tech on the three-year project, which will involve numerical modelling of complex structures combined with experimental testing using state-of-the-art research facilities at RMIT and in the US.
  • Associate Professor Serdar Boztas gave a 1-hour invited talk on Advances in Secure Communications at the IT Security and Risk Management Summit, which was held on 5th & 6th May 2010, at the Park Hyatt, Melbourne. The summit featured high profile speakers from industry and government including, among others, Margarita Dunning, Specialist Advisor IT Security and Compliance for Virgin Blue Airlines; Peter Nikoletatos, Chief Information Officer,Curtin University, Brian Hay from the Fraud and Corporate Crime Group, Queensland Police, Stephen Pinto, Global IT Risk & Security Manager for Aristocrat, and Sanjay Verma, IT Compliance Manager - Asia & Pacific Cadbury.
  • Professor Salvy Russo is currently collaborating (in the capacity as a CSIRO Flagship Fellow) with the Division of Energy Technology, CSIRO and the Energy Transformed Flagship in the area of modelling of materials for rechargeable Li battery application. He is also collaborating (in the capacity as a CSIRO Visiting Scientist) with the Division of Process Science and Engineering, CSIRO in the area of modelling of materials of interest to the minerals industry.
  • Dr Ashish Garg, Associate Professor of Materials Science and Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in Kanpur is spending 12 weeks at RMIT researching organic solar cells with a team led by Professor Mike Austin. His visit is part of a research exchange in India and Australia awarded by the Australian Academy for Technological Sciences and Engineering (ATSE) in association with the Australia-India Council (AIC).

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Research seminars

PTRI is committed to encouraging collaboration between researchers across RMIT, from national and international institutions and industry.

23 April 2010

Professor Kefei Zhang hosted a seminar by Professor Steven Tingay, Deputy Director of the Western Australian Radio Astronomy Centre of Exellence, Curtin University on The Square Kilometre Array. Professor Tingay provided an overview and an up-to-date status report of the $3 billion radio telescope project which probes the contents and evolution of our universe.

18 June 2010

Professor Kefei Zhang presented a seminar on the $7 million Australian Space Research Program initiative. He provided an outline of the ASRP scheme and its background as well as the RMIT space research initiative.

Unable to attend? Don’t worry. All past seminar presentation material is available from the PTRI events website.

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Grants

RMIT places a high value on research income and last year PTRI members were very successful in obtaining Category 1 Australian Competitive Grants. PTRI celebrates members’ achievements and congratulates the following members:

ARC Linkage grant:

  • LP100200859 on A highly sensitive and selective nano engineered sensor for the online monitoring of mercury vapour emissions from harsh industrial processes
    Project team: Professor Suresh K Bhargava, Associate Professor Kourosh Kalantar-zadeh, Dr Anthony P O’Mullane, Dr Vipul Bansal, Dr Samuel J Ippolito, Dr Steven Rosenberg, Dr Ian R Harrison
    2010: $50,000;2011: $97,500; 2012: $95,000; 2013: $47,500.
  • LP100200538 on Developing smart embedded host based intrusion detection systems.
    Project team: Associate Professor Jiankun Hu, Professor Zahir Tari, Professor Xinghuo Yu, and Dr Fengling Han:
    2010: $60,000; 2011: $117,500; 2012: $122,500; 2013: $65,000.
  • LP100200034 on Energy capture from polymer bases synthetic foliage.
    Project team: Professor Sabu John, Professor Simon Watkins
    2010: $26,669; 2011: $53,338; 2012: $53,338; 2013: $26,669.
  • LP100200328 on Optimisation of self-healing repair systems in airospace composite structures.
    Project team: Professor Adrian Mouritz, Professor Chun Hui Wang, Professor Dong Yang Wu
    2010: $14,334; 2011: $28,719; 2012: $28,769; 2013: $14,384.
  • LP100200638 on Practice-based Systematised Nomenclature of Medicine (SNOMED) concept learning for drug-disease precaution early detection and refinement.
    Project team: Professor Xinghuo Yu, Professor Jeffery Hughes, Dr Wei Peng
    2010: $26,669; 2011: $53,338; 2012: $53,338; 2013: $26,669.

Australian Technology Network/Univ of Waterloo Research Exchange Funding (2010)

Dr Rahul K Gupta, Dr Deeptangshu S Chaudhary (Curtin Uni) and Professor Michael KC Tam (University of Waterloo, Canada) on Development of Cellulose Nanofibers Embedded Flexible and Porous Biodegradable Polymer for Bionano-Engineering Applications, $22,180.

SEH seed grants:

  • Dr Anthony O’Mullane and Dr Anthony Holland on Nanostructured Inorganic Materials for High Density Data Storage and Field Emission Devices, 2010: $10,000 – with SAS and SECE contributing $5,000 each in support of this project.
  • Dr Everson Kandare, Dr Rahul K. Gupta, Professor Aliakbar Akbarzade, Dr Yasuhiro Tachibana and Professor Adrian P. Mouritz on Polymer Nanocomposite Heat Sinks for Optimisation of Solar Photovoltaic Module Performance, $20,000.

RMIT Foundation “Research Exchange Program”

  • Dr Anthony O’Mullane, $5,450 for a visiting academic from India to travel to RMIT.
  • Professor Suresh Bhargava, $7,350 for Professor CNR Rao, CSIR Centre of Excellence in Chemistry, India to travel to RMIT.
  • Professor Suresh Bhargava, $5,750 for Dr Lakshmi Kantam, IICT, India to travel to RMIT.
  • Dr Xiaodong Li, $3350 for Professor Xin Yao from the University of Birmingham, UK to travel to RMIT along with sponsorships from NICTA ($3000) and IEEE Distinguished Lecture Series (USD 1500), and IEEE Computational Intelligence Chapter, Victorian Section ($300).

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Research funding opportunities

As the Industry Engagement team now has some experience working with the Sugar Research and Development Corporation (SRDC), and RMIT has some track record with successful outcomes, you are encouraged to apply for an Expression of Interest for Research Projects to commence for 2011. For information, check the SRDC website: http://www.srdc.gov.au

More opportunities can be found on Research Alert at: http://www.rmit.edu.au/browse;ID=xl0wvpg12v5h (login required), e.g.:

  • The Leukaemia Foundation Fellowships with a total value of up to $100,000.
  • Malcolm Moore Industry Research Grant of up to $40,000.
  • Ian Permezel Memorial Award, a $5000 annual prize to be awarded to an Early Career Researcher (ECR) to enable him or her to present a refereed paper at an overseas conference. An ERC is a researcher who has been awarded a PhD within the last five years.

For further information and help with applications please contact:

R&I Portfolio: Margaret Thorpe (Ph: 9925 7405 or email: margaret.thorpe@rmit.edu.au )

College SEH: Caroline Northwood (Ph: 9925 2730 or email: caroline.northwood@rmit.edu.au )

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Platform in the media!!

During the last quarter, the following researchers were called upon to express their expert views on current topics:

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Want to know what PTRI are working on? Here are some project updates:

SportzEdge

  • Success with the Ergonomic Frames for Boccia Ramps at the Boccia World Championships (Lisbon, Portugal, 31/05-10/06/2001). The frames were designed by Mr Mathew Dickson and Professor Franz K. Fuss for the Australian Paralympic Committee and the Australian Boccia Team (under an RMIT research contract).
    The new design allows quick handling of ramp and saves time for the athlete to concentrate on the shots. Three Australian athletes moved into the finals, which is a huge success for our team, but unfortunately did not win any medals.The frame is shown on the following website http://vancouver2010.paralympic.org.au/news/australia-through-boccia-finals (below the blue ramp)
  • In addition, the SportzEdge Aerodynamics team under Dr Firoz Alam investigated the soccer World Cup ball (Jabulani, by Adidas)and their findings were that the ball’s knuckle effect is more pronounced than the 2006 Teamgeist ball.

Nano Materials and Devices

Dr Anthony O’Mullane is one of many researchers working on these new projects:

  • Bio sensors project: This project aims to develop nanostructured surfaces of gold which can either directly, or after appropriate surface modification with polymers or self assembled monolayers, detect important biomolecules such as glucose, dopamine, ascorbic acid and uric acid. These surfaces can also be used to monitor levels of hydrogen peroxide and hydrazine in aqueous solutions.
  • Green synthesis project: Organic synthesis employing heterogeneous catalysts has several beneficial effects on the environment since it involves the reuse of precious metal catalysts, thus forming less waste and resulting in lower metal contamination in the final pharmaceutically important molecules.
    In an ideal setting one could make a double benefit of the heterogeneous catalysis by using the same active system for multiple reactions in one pot. One of the major challenges faced by the fine chemicals industry in recent times is the synthesis of these target molecules by a large number of different reaction steps involving elaborate work-up and refining procedures.
    The recently introduced one-pot synthetic approach not only helps to improve atom economy, but also reduces the number of steps in isolation and purification of the intermediate compounds in the case of a multistep synthesis. This project aims to develop metallic/multi-metallic colloids as effective catalysts for the production of fine chemical for the pharmaceutical industry.

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Project feature….focus on….

Platform Technologies News recently talked to Dr Thach Nguyen, project leader within the PTRI Nano Materials and Devices program.

Tell us about the background of your project:

The silicon microelectronics industry is on the verge of seeking photonic solutions to overcome the bandwidth limitations and heat dissipation problems of silicon electronic circuits in order to continue its advancement. This has led to the explosion of the field silicon photonics in recent years. A new phenomenon in silicon photonic optical waveguide was discovered by Professor Mitchell at RMIT and his collaborators at Lehigh University in the USA in 2007. This phenomenon has posed a challenge for traditional circuit design that needs to be overcome. On the other hand, this new phenomenon also presents exciting opportunities for new classes of silicon photonic devices.

Please describe your role within the project:

In close collaboration with Professor Arnan Mitchell, Professor Thomas Koch and his team at the Centre for Optical Technologies, Lehigh University in the USA, we are investigating the lateral leakage behaviour in high index contrast silicon photonic optical waveguides. They have provided a scientific explanation for the recently discovered resonant leakage behaviour. New theory to predict the lateral leakage behaviour in silicon photonic devices, particularly in the context of disk and ring micro-resonators, has been developed. These are the first predictions of such behaviour in silicon photonics. Preliminarily experimental verification of such behaviour is being conducted. These findings will help the realisation of high-Q resonators with strong evanescent fields which are important components for sensing, filters and most importantly, silicon based laser being pursued by Lehigh and their collaborators.

What is the aim of your research:

The aim of this research is to study the lateral leakage behaviour in silicon photonic optical waveguide, and to conceive and explore novel waveguide structures to suppress this leakage behaviour, enabling low-loss highly evanescent silicon photonic devices such as high-Q resonators and laser cavities. We also aim to exploit the leakage behaviour through control of the leakage radiation by borrowing concepts from the fields of RF, microwave and antenna device engineering to realise new generation of silicon photonic circuits including highly wavelength selective filters, polarization diversity circuits.

Describe your background and expertise.

I am a research fellow at the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering and I was recently awarded an ARC Postdoctoral (APD) Fellowship to work on this silicon photonic integrated optics research.

What is the expected completion date of the project?

The project was supported by a DIISR International Science Linkage grant in 2009. The team was also successful in obtaining an ARC Discovery grant to investigate how the newly discovered leakage behaviour can be ultilised to realise a whole new class silicon photonic devices. The ARC Discovery grant project will run for the next 4 years.

Tell us about your collaborator:

Key collaborator in this project is Professor Thomas Koch, director of the Center for Optical Technologies at Lehigh University, who is an original pioneer of integrated optics and silicon photonics. In March 2010, Professor Koch visited RMIT and gave a seminar on the future of silicon photonics. Professor Koch’s visit to RMIT was supported by the RMIT Foundation International Research Exchange Fellowship.

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Platform’s two minute interview with Jinhu Lu

Position: Professor and ARC Future Fellow
Area: Complex Systems and Complex Networks
Location: 10.11.15

How long have you been with RMIT?

Only 2 weeks.

What is your current position at RMIT?

Professor and ARC Future Fellow.

Where did you work prior to starting at RMIT?

Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Tell us a bit about your research and its past and future implications...

Over the last decades, complex networks have been intensively studied in all fields of sciences and humanities. Typical examples of complex networks include the Internet, the World Wide Web, local computer networks, telephone call graphs, electrical power grids, biological neural networks, food webs, cellular and metabolic networks, coauthor-ship and citation networks of scientists, etc. Generally speaking, a complex network is a graph with a large set of interconnected nodes, where the nodes are the basic units of the system with specific dynamical and information contents, while the edges are the connections measuring the interactions among the nodes. The research of network structure and dynamics has a wide variety of applications in real-world social, biological, and engineering systems, such as smart grid and cloud computing.

What challenges do you think are ahead in 2010 and beyond in your specific field?

The challenging questions are: How is the structure of a network related to its function and behavior? What mathematical and statistical models accurately capture the important characteristics of a network’s structure? Also, can these theoretical and experiential models predict a network’s future behavior?

What is important to you in your work?

Interest is the most important thing in my work.

What is it in your job that holds your interest?

I love the diversity and challenge of working in my research and teaching. It is very satisfying to continuously discover new problems and then try to solve them via cooperation with some colleagues and students.

What is your favourite place in the world and why?

My favourite place is the Three Gorge, located in Yichang City of China since it is the most famous sightseeing site in my hometown.

What is the best piece of advice you have received?

The best piece of advice was from my father. Life is too short to be wasted whining.

What is something about yourself that most of your colleagues wouldn’t know?

I would like to talk and discuss with all colleagues and students.

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Publications

The following is only a small representation of the achievements of members of PTRI in terms of journal articles, conference papers, book chapters and citations. Congratulations to all of you, in particular the following researchers who submitted their achievements for publication in Platform Technologies News.

Book chapter

Duan, X., Deng, H., and Corbitt, B., (2010), ‘A Multi-Criteria Analysis Approach for the Evaluation and Selection of Electronic Market in Electronic Business in Small and Medium Enterprises’, Lecture Notes in Computer Sciences (forthcoming).

Journal articles

Bennett, M. A., Bhargava, S. K., Cheng, E. C-C., Lam, W. H., Kwok-Ming Lee, T., Priver, S. H., Wagler, J., Willis, A. C., Wing-Wah Yam, V., ‘Unprecedented Near-Infrared (NIR) Emission in Diplatinum(III) (d7−d7) Complexes at Room Temperature’, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2010, 132, 7094.

Sivan, V., Holland, A., O’Mullane, A. P., Mitchell, A.,’Investigation of the Physical Origins of Etching Linbo3 During Ti In-Diffusion’, Appl. Phys. Lett., 2010, 96, 121913.

Sridharan. B., Deng, H., and Corbitt, B., (2010), ‘Critical Success Factors in E-learning Ecosystems: A Qualitative Study’, Journal of Systems and Information Technology (Accepted on June 20, 2010).

Sridharan. B., Deng, H., and Corbitt, B., (2010), ‘An Ontology-Based Learning Resources Management Framework for Exploratory E-learning’, Asian Pacific Management Review (forthcoming).

Tan, C., and Deng, H., (2010), ‘A Multi-Criteria Group Decision Making Procedure Using Interval-Valued Intuitionistic Fuzzy Sets’, Journal of Computational Information Systems.(Accepted on June 18, 2010).

Yakoob, N., Khalil, I., and Hu, J., ‘Performance Analysis of Optimal Packet Size for Congestion Control in Wireless Sensor Networks’, in The 9th IEEE International Symposium on Network Computing and Applications (IEEE NCA10), 15 - 17 July 2010, Cambridge, MA, USA (accepted and to be presented). ERA Tier A ranking conference.

Conference proceedings

Duan, X., Deng, H., and Corbitt, B., (2010), ‘A Critical Analysis of E-Market Adoption in Australian Small and Medium Sized Enterprises’, Proceedings of the 14th Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems (PACIS 2010), July 9-12, Taipei, Taiwan.

Karunasena, K., and Deng, H., (2010), ‘Exploring the Public Value of eGovernment An Empirical Study from Sri Lanka’, Proceedings of the 23rd Bled eConference, June 20-24, 2010.

Querioz, C., Mahmood, A., Tari, Z., ‘Analyzing SCADA Survivability Through Service Performance’, IEEE Global Communications Conference (IEEE GLOBECOM 2010), 2010.

Sridharan. B., Deng, H., and Corbitt, B., (2010), ‘The Perceptions of Learners on the Effectiveness of E-learning in Higher Education: An Empirical Study’, Proceedings of the 2010 International Conference on Education Technology and Computer (ICETC 2010), June 22 - 24, Shanghai, China.

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