Sustainment management in the Royal Australian Navy
The Australian Defence Force (ADF) like many industries faces ongoing challenges in the support of their assets, acquisitions, budgets and workforce management. Unlike other industries, the ADF is...
View ArticleTowards a proposed process to manage assumptions during the in-service phase...
Assumptions affect our everyday life and more specifically in business they can have a profound effect on an organisation's support services delivery performance if they prove to be wrong. The...
View ArticleExpectation-Confirmation Theory in information system research: a review and...
Understanding the antecedents and their effects on satisfaction is crucial, especially in consumer marketing. Most investigations in marketing research have used the Expectation-Confirmation Theory...
View ArticleStarch based blends, composites and nanocomposites
The development and production of biodegradable starch-based materials has attracted more and more attention in recent years due to the depletion in the world's oil resources and the growing interest...
View Article3D visual SLAM using RGB-D camera
Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) is a process of building a map of an unknown environment and at the same time calculating current robot position. The aim of our investigation was to find a...
View ArticleDeveloping a navigation system for mobile robots
Design solution of a novel mobile robot navigation system, presented here, is used to control robot's locomotion across slippery surfaces. Usually, motion control strategies, are based on assumption of...
View ArticleImpact of privacy issues on user behavioural acceptance of personalized...
Health can provide efficient and convenient personalized healthcare services to a variety of patients with diverse medical needs. Existing security vulnerabilities, such as identity theft, loss or...
View ArticlePotential factors influencing senior secondary students' use of CAS...
The following paper reports on certain aspects of the quantitative analysis of data collected from 367 participants across six Victorian secondary schools in Australia. The data was collected using the...
View ArticleTopology optimization of photonic band gap crystals
This paper proposes a new topology optimization algorithm based on the bi-directional evolutionary structural optimization (BESO) method for the design of photonic band gap crystals. The photonic...
View ArticleSecurity compliance - new insight from goal orientations and self-regulation...
This paper explores how self-set security goal orientations and self-regulation theory can provide potential venues to motivate end-user sustained IS security compliance. Organisations have found that...
View ArticleBuckling-induced retraction of structured spherical shell under pressure
This paper investigates the reversible retraction of a spherical perforated shell that is made from nonlinear soft material. The buckling and post-buckling simulation in Abaqus shows the skeleton...
View ArticleCMOS compatible chips for applications in nonlinear optics
We demonstrate a range of novel functions based on a high index doped silica glass CMOS compatible platform. This platform has promise for telecommunications and onchip WDM optical interconnects for...
View ArticlePose estimation with capacitive sensors experiencing non-linear response to tilt
Capacitive sensors are commonly employed for linear displacement measurement in many applications for micro and nano scale manipulation. However, the introduction of angular motion causes the...
View ArticleUnifying inconsistent evaluation metrics in recommender systems
Recommender systems are among the most popular tools used by online community these days. Traditionally, recommender techniques were evaluated using accuracy-based metrics such as precision; however,...
View ArticleA novel vehicle to grid load management scheme based on WiMAX-WLAN in smart...
Challenges associated with Vehicle to Grid (V2G) power transmission in Smart Grids include dealing with a large number of Plug-in Electric Vehicles (PEVs) and establishment of a robust and reliable...
View ArticleEnhancing precision of Markov-based recommenders using location information
Recommender systems are a real example of human computer interaction systems that both consumer/user and seller/service-provider benefit from them. Different techniques have been published in order to...
View ArticleIn the shadows we trust: a secure aggregation tolerant watermark for data...
In many applications such as sensor networks, ehealthcare and environmental monitoring, data is continuously streamed and combined from multiple resources in order to make decisions based on the...
View ArticleHouse price convergence: a Melbourne case study
This study explores patterns of convergence/divergence in Australian house prices across four price tiers of the Melbourne metropolitan housing market. The data covers a 20 year period (1990-2010) that...
View ArticleA fast terminal sliding mode observor for TCP/IP network anomaly traffic...
A fast terminal sliding mode (FTSM) observer is proposed to estimate the anomaly seen as an external disturbance perturbing into the queue dynamics in the TCP/IP networks. The TCP traffic dynamic...
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