FACULTY OF BUSINESS
RESEARCH NEWSLETTER
ISSUE 10 – NOVEMBER 2015
Page 1
Welcome
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Did You Know?
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Current Projects
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CM3 Research
Centre
Page 5 – 6
Recent Travels
Page 7
Changes in the CSU
Research Office
Page 8 -12
Workshops
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Grant Flow Chart
Page 14
Media Exposure
Page 15
Ethics and CRO
WELCOME
A highlight of the past few months has been the various workshops that have been run
by our Faculty Research Areas, and our CM3 Research Unit, that have engaged
academics from CSU and other universities, as well as representatives from industry,
government and various non-profit organisations. Recently, Dr Michelle Evans who leads
our Research Area in Australian Indigenous Leadership and Entrepreneurship ran a
workshop on the “Intersection between Leadership and Entrepreneurship”. About 40
people attended the workshop, including representatives from Indigenous Business
Australia, Supply Nation, Indigenous Women in Business, the South East Queensland
Indigenous Chamber of Commerce, the Australia Council, local government. Numerous
senior academic researchers working in this area attended from a number of Australian
and New Zealand universities. It is exciting to see the development of this research area
nationally, and the thought leadership role that CSU researchers, lead by Dr Evans, are
playing. I invite you to read more about this workshop in this newsletter.
Another workshop run in early November at our Bathurst Campus by Dr Manoranjan Paul
and our CM3 Research Unit is the Australian Workshop on Video/Image Coding,
Processing and Understanding. Over 40 people attended, with a number of external
presenters, from a range of Australian universities and industry. More information about
CM3, as well as this workshop, is presented later in the newsletter.
Our Regional Economics and Regional Entrepreneurship Research Areas also organised
two sessions at the recent SEGRA conference held in Bathurst in October. At the first
session chaired by Prof Kishor Sharma “Challenges, Issues and Strategies for
Developing Regional Industry”, Faculty staff presented on regional futures, labour
markets, strategies for achieving employment growth and skills shortages. In the second
session “Factors Influencing the Success of Regional Businesses” staff presented on
how IT innovation influences SME performance and from two different projects describing
the factors influencing the success of Indigenous businesses. Other Faculty research
presented at SEGRA examined the role of permanent and temporary immigrants in
assisting with rural development, and on Pacific Seasonal Workers in the Australian
Horticultural Sector.
The contribution of our Faculty researchers to these important public forums is pleasing
to see. I hope that you enjoy reading about these activities, and the various research
projects being completed by our Faculty research staff and students.
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Professor Mark Morrison
Congratulations
Sub-Dean Research
Professional
Development
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Publications
Next Issue: The next issue will be published in early 2016. To contribute or suggest a
story, please email Deborah Munns - [email protected]
DID YOU KNOW?
Corporate Templates – CSU brand your next presentation
There is a range of CSU branded stationery, Power
Point slides and promotional items which can be
downloaded for your use at research symposiums,
presentations and during any survey work. Templates
are being continually added to the site and now include
name tags, invitations and certificate of attendance
templates. Additionally, the site also contains a
Conference Poster Template and a Video Conference
PPT Template.
The templates can be accessed via;
https://www.csu.edu.au/staff-links/corporate-templates
Research Data Storage Services - Cloudstor
The Division of
Information Technology
(DIT) recently
announced that remote
third party storage
through Cloudstor is
available for use by
CSU research staff.
Cloudstor is provided by
AARNet. 100GB of storage is available to you
immediately and you can request additional Cloudstor
storage. Once a file is uploaded each recipient is
emailed a link so they can download it. Files can be
accessed by recipients from anywhere they have an
Internet connection.
To access Cloudstor, go to
https://cloudstor.aarnet.edu.au and enter your current
CSU credentials.
To request internal CSU storage access or additional
Cloudstor storage, staff can complete the Research
Storage Request Form available through the DIT
website or hotline 1300 653 088.
Library Resource Guides – Research Impact
The CSU Library has compiled an on-line Research
Impact Resource Guide which has extensive
information on citation metrics, journal impact and
ranks and article impact.
The guide describes the different ways you can:

Assess the impact of your research

Select a journal in which to publish

Increase your
research
readership, citation
count and influence.
The guide can be accessed
via the library homepage:
http://libguides.csu.edu.au/i
mpact
CURRENT PROJECTS
Assistance for Dementia Patients
Assoc. Prof Oliver Burmeister was invited to the
Robert Bosch Interdisciplinary Symposium, Berlin,
Germany in October to be the keynote speaker at The
German Centre for Neurodegenerative Diseases.
Oliver presented a paper about a number of case
studies from a long term research programme in which
he is participating. The project aims to develop
assistive technology for people with early stage
dementia.
The project is currently working with people with mild
dementia in uncontrolled urban environments to
discover the level of assistance that needs to be
provided to navigate urban areas unfamiliar to
participants. The aim of the project is to develop
deliberative, adaptive assistive technology devices
(ATD) that will take the place of the human assistants.
As with the human assistants, the ATD has to provide
the minimal assistance necessary, such that the
person’s remaining cognitive ability can assert itself.
patients on the basis of causal models”). It is funded
by the German Federal Ministry of Education and
Research (BMBF).
SiNDeM, utilised the busy streets of Rostock, a city
with a population of approximately 200,000 people. A
number of people with mild dementia were sent along
a 1 km long route, comprising 12 decision points
(intersections), leading from “Doberaner Platz” to “Café
Paula”. Participants are taken along the route and are
then tasked with finding their way back. They are
accompanied by two people, to ensure their safety.
The figure below shows a typical result map for one of
the case study trials. The maps will be assessed to
determine the level of assistance required by people
with mild dementia. The results will form the framework
for the development of the aids.
The project is called “Situationsadaptive
Navigationsassistenz für Demenzpatienten auf Basis
kausaler Modelle” (SiNDeM) (this translates to
“Situation adaptive navigation assistance for dementia
Assoc. Professor Oliver
Burmeister
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CM3 - MACHINE LEARNING RESEARCH CENTRE
CM3 is a new
research centre
within the Faculty of
Business. The new
centre will build on
the research strength
and extensive
reputation of CRiCS
(Centre for Research
in Complex
Systems). The centre
focuses on research in the area of applied machine
learning.
Machine Learning is a subfield of computer science
that explores the construction of algorithms that can
learn without needing to be explicitly programmed.
Machine learning programs detect patterns in data and
adjust program actions accordingly. CM3 will focus on
the core techniques of pattern analysis and data
mining, data compression, agent-based modelling,
image processing and computer vision.
The new centre is being led by Professor Bernard
Pailthorpe, with the support of business manager, Dr
Nicole Bordes. Bernard was previously the Chair in
Computational Science within the School of
Mathematics and Physics at The University of
Queensland. He has also worked for universities in the
United States of America and in Sydney, in addition to
undertaking private consultancy work across the globe.
Bernard and Nicole are excited to lead the CM3
members towards finding solutions to real-world
problems, particularly in regional areas.
Machine learning has many very practical applications
within a variety of businesses. Machine learning is
being used by numerous large companies, including
Google, Amazon and IBM. For instance, Google has
used machine learning to examine billions of points of
data to determine how best to obtain energy efficiency.
The machine learning tool is being used by Google
data centre managers to run their facilities more
efficiently, with an average of a 15 percent
improvement in power usage efficiency.
CM3 will focus on applications in the areas of industry
and mining, health and security including information
and communications technology (ICT) security.
CM3 hosted the Australian Workshop on Video and
Image Processing and Understanding (VICPU – 2015)
on 3 – 4 November. 2015 (for more information please
refer to separate article on page 8).
For more information about CM3 and the latest CM3
projects refer to the CM3 web pages:
http://www.csu.edu.au/faculty/business/cm3
Bernard and Nicole can be contacted via email:
[email protected]
Professor Bernard Pailthorpe, Director of CM3
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RECENT TRAVELS
Professor Terry Bossomaier Travels the World for Seminars
Prof. Terry Bossomaier, the Strategic Research
Professor in the Faculty of Business was invited to
present two seminars at Hong Kong University’s
Science of Learning series on 16 and 17 September.
Terry’s seminars were on the topics of ‘Serious Games
and Simulation’ and ‘Big Data in Educational
Research’. Both seminars were well received by the
participants who asked many questions and
particularly took pleasure in examining two new
serious mobile phone games being developed by Terry
and his team.
The seminars are intended to build research capacity,
and the target participants are researchers in the fields
of Engineering, Education, Human Performance,
Linguistics, Medicine, Psychology and Speech and
Hearing Science. Other goals include the development
of new methods of research to address novel,
interdisciplinary problems.
After leaving Hong Kong, Terry travelled to Italy where
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he presented a paper at the I3M: The 12 International
Multidisciplinary Modelling & Simulation
Multiconference, on September 21 – 23 in Bergeggi,
Italy.
Duncan, Steve D’Alessandro and Daniel Murphy, was
presented to an international audience.
Terry also had the opportunity to meet up with longterm collaborators whilst in both Hong Kong and Italy.
He reports that several project ideas were discussed
during these catch up sessions.
Prof. Terry Bossomaier with collaborators in Hong Kong.
Prof. Terry Bossomaier in Bereggi with Professor Agostino
Bruzzone of Genoa University and Professor Gerson Cunha of
the University of Rio de Janeiro.
The paper, ‘Clothes maketh the man and the regional
mall’ co-authored with CSU colleagues, Roderick
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Assoc. Prof. Tanveer Zia presents on Police Technology in China
Assoc. Prof. Tanveer Zia was invited by the National
Police University of China to deliver a keynote address
on digital forensics. The Digital Forensics Sub-Forum
was held on 11 - 13 Sep 2015 as part of the
International Forum on Police Technology
Informatization and National Digital Forensics
Challenges 2015 in Shenyang, China. The title of
Tanveer’s keynote presentation was ‘Digital Forensic
Skills in a Contemporary Information Security
Curriculum’. Experts in policing, high-tech crimes and
digital forensics from over 14 countries participated in
the forum.
Participants at the Digital Forensics Sub-Forum at the National
Police University of China.
Above and Left - Assoc. Prof Tanveer Zia at the
National Police University of China.
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CHANGES IN THE CSU RESEARCH OFFICE
The CSU Research Office has recently had a number of senior staffing changes with the appointment of Professor
Mary Kelly as Acting Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research, Development and Industry) and the appointment of
Associate Professor Gethin Thomas to the position of Director, Research Office.
Professor Mary Kelly was appointed Acting Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research, Development
and Industry) (DVC RDI) in June 2015. Prior to taking up this position, Professor Kelly was
Director, Major Grants and External Links at CSU.
Professor Kelly is responsible to the Vice-Chancellor for the administration of research and
research training at CSU which includes governance of six Research Centres, the Research
Office, and the newly expanded Office of the DVC RDI which since late June 2015 includes the
Pro Vice-Chancellor International, Education and Partnerships Prof. Heather Cavanagh and the
Pro Vice-Chancellor Indigenous Prof. Jeannie Herbert. This expansion is intended to bring new
dimensions to the Portfolio and strengthen the connectivity across the university around research as guided by the
Research Narrative and the Research Sub-Plan 2015-2016.
Professor Kelly’s background includes a BSc Hons. Biochemistry (University College Dublin), PhD Microbiology
(University of Georgia) as a Fulbright Scholar, Conway Postdoctoral Fellow and Health Research Board Fellow,
University College Dublin, and over a decade in professional research management positions including Science
Foundation Ireland, University of Canberra and 5 years at the Australian Research Council in a number of different
roles including Director, Program Operations NCGP and Branch Manager Strategy.
Associate Professor Gethin Thomas commenced in the position of Director, Research Office
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on the 2 of November 2015. Associate Professor Thomas comes to CSU from the University
of Queensland where he was employed as the Deputy Associate Dean (Research) for the
University of Queensland Faculty of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences and the Deputy
Director, Education at The University of Queensland Faculty of Medicine and Biomedical
Sciences located with the Translational Research Institute.
Assoc. Professor Thomas undertook his undergraduate and PhD studies in the Department of Biology at the
University of Birmingham in the UK, graduating with a PhD in Bone Cell Biology in 1993. He then undertook postdoctoral studies at the University of California in San Diego studying bone protein biochemistry for two years.
Continuing his interest in the skeletal biology field, he then spent five years in the Bone and Mineral Research
Program at the Garvan Institute studying the role of vitamin D in bone. He then moved to industry spending five years
with a biotechnology company in Montréal. In 2005, Assoc. Prof. Thomas returned to academia. He has held three
NHMRC project grants as CI and a Lions Medical Research Foundation Fellowship. In total he has received more
than $2M in research funding. Assoc. Professor Thomas also has an extensive publishing record.
Research Narrative – Underpinning all CSU research available for download
The CSU Research Narrative is designed as an internal document which is designed to
assist in framing the University’s ethos and rationale in research. The document outlines a
number of common research themes across CSU. The document can be accessed using
your CSU login details using the link on the updated CSU Research Home Page http://www.csu.edu.au/research
The updated Research Home Page also has quick links to information on professional development, funding
opportunities, scholarships, forms and guides and policies and procedures.
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CM3 HOSTS WORKSHOP – VICPU 2015 IN BATHURST
The new CM3 research unit hosted the Australian Workshop on Video/Image
Coding, Processing and Understanding on the Bathurst campus on 3 – 4
November 2015. The workshop targeted researchers, engineers, consultants,
technical managers and local industries interested in fields such as digital signal
and image processing, pattern recognition, video and image compression and
analysis, computer vision, biometrics, robotics and remote sensing.
Ten high quality researchers from a range of Australian Universities addressed
the topic of application of ideas to achieve the idea of Video and Image
Processing within the context of Regional Development. Visiting guest speakers included Winthrop Prof. Mohammed
Bennamoun, University of Western Australia, Emeritus Prof Manzur Murshed, Federation University, Prof Michael
Blumenstein, Griffith University, Prof Fatih Porikli, Australian National University, Assoc. Prof Wanqing Li, University of
Wollongong and A/Prof Mark Pickering, University of NSW.
In addition to the presentations made by invited speakers there were poster presentations by 20 CSU HDR students.
The workshop concluded with a group discussion about opportunities for collaborative research projects.
The workshop coordinator, Dr Manoranjan Paul, commented “that the workshop had been extremely beneficial in
terms of hearing about some of the latest developments in the field of video and image processing and the possible
applications particularly in regional industries. We plan to follow up on several very interesting project ideas that would
definitely benefit our local areas”.
Further information about the workshop can be obtained from Dr Manoranjan Paul on 6338 4260 or [email protected]
Left: Workshop participants examining some of
the 20 HDR posters.
Right: Presentation by Associate Professor
Wanqing Li, University of Wollongong on the Art of
Data Mining.
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Above: Associate Professor Oliver Burmeister,
CSU with Winthrop Professor Mohammed
Bennamoun, University of Western Australia
Left: Professor Bernard Pailthorpe, Dr Manoranjan
Paul and Dr Zahidul Islam, CSU discuss the
workshop.
Below: Participants at the VICPU Workshop
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INDIGENOUS LEADERSHIP SYMPOSIUM
Charles Sturt University's (CSU's) inaugural symposium on
Indigenous business brought together experts from across
the country to discuss research and industry needs.
The symposium was held on Thursday, 29 October and
Friday, 30 October at CSU in Bathurst as part of Indigenous
Business Month. Indigenous Business Month is an initiative
of the MURRA Indigenous Business Master Class Program
alumni, to promote the variety and depth of Indigenous
businesses nationally and to represent this in the national
conversation.
The symposium was organised by Associate Professor
Michelle Evans from CSU's School of Management and
Marketing, who is also Program Manager of the MURRA
Indigenous Business Master Class Program.

Professor Ian Williamson from Melbourne
Business School

Dr Ella Henry from Auckland University of
Technology

Dr Deirdre Tedmanson from University of
South Australia
As part of their Australian Research Council project,
Assoc. Professor Evans and Professor Williamson live
streamed their presentation; 'Australian Indigenous
entrepreneurial leadership'. Their presentation outlined
findings from the first year of their three year
longitudinal study into Australian Indigenous
entrepreneurial leadership. The research has
highlighted the benefit of having good business skills.
"This was a unique symposium in Australia and we hope it
sparked new ideas and future research collaborations that
will directly address industry needs," Professor Evans said.
"The symposium featured international and leading national
scholars alongside emerging Indigenous researchers,
presenting the latest research into Indigenous leadership and
Indigenous entrepreneurship."
For further information, check the Intersect training web
pages or email Robyn Kirk - [email protected]
Key industry organisations and individuals presented on their
most urgent concerns, interests and hopes for research and
development in the Indigenous leadership and
entrepreneurship sectors.
Speakers at the two day event included:
Assoc Prof Michelle Evans (far right) with Josephine Bourne and
Michelle Deshong both from James Cook University. Josephine and
Michelle are PhD candidates who presented on day one of the
symposium.
Stop Press:
An article written by Christine Long about the research being undertaken by Michelle and Ian appeared in the Sydney
Morning Herald on Tuesday, 3 November 2015: http://www.smh.com.au/small-business/loaded-the-indigenousbusinesses-competing-in-the-open-market-20151101-gkoccq.html. The article was subsequently published in the The
Age, The Australian and a range of other newspapers.
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CYBER SECURITY RESEARCH GROUP – ATCS2015
Dr Rafiqul Islam, of the School of Computing and
Mathematics, recently organised a successful
international workshop on Cyberspace Security
(http://infoatcs.wix.com/atcs2015 ). The workshop was
jointly organised with Deakin University and University of
South Australia. The International Workshop on
Applications and Technologies in Cyber Security
(ATCS2015) was held on Monday, 26 October 2015, in
conjunction with SecureComm 2015
(http://securecomm.org/2015/). The event was endorsed
and organized by the European Alliance for Innovation
(EAI), (http://eai.eu/)
The event was hosted by the University of Georgia and
was held at the Wyndham Garden Hotel, Dallas, Texas.
ATCS 2015 focused on all aspects of techniques and
applications in Cyber Security research. The purpose of
the ATCS series is to provide a forum for the presentation
and discussion of innovative ideas, research results,
applications and experience from around the world as well
as highlight activities in each of the related areas.
Dr Islam was the General Chair of the organising
committee of ATCS2015. Some other SCM colleagues;
Prof. Junbin Gao, Dr Tanveer Zia, Maumita Bhattacharya,
Dr Zahidul Islam, Dr Quazi Mamun and Dr Arif Khan were
also part of the organising committee.
Prior to the workshop, 22 research papers were submitted
by researchers located in 8 countries around the world.
The technical committee selected 9 papers, after a
process of 4 blind reviews. The accepted papers will be
published by Springer at the end of this year in their
Lecture Note series. Some of the best presented papers
will be invited to submit an extended version to the special
issue of Concurrency and Computation: Practice and
Experience.
One of the highlights of the workshop was the extensive
discussions generated by some of the presentations. In
particular, research papers from the University of Oxford
and Center for Advanced Security Research, Technische
Universität Darmstadt, Germany and Beihang University
lead to very healthy discussions that continued beyond
the workshop.
Photos from the ATCS2015 workshop
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SCM – HIGHER DEGREE RESEARCH SYMPOSIUM
The School of Computing and Mathematics holds an
annual Higher Degree Research (HDR) Symposium to
provide PHD and DIT students an opportunity to present
their research to a broader audience, learn from other
presenters and build valuable communication and
presentation skills. The event provides a great forum for
students to meet with their supervisors, other HDR
students and senior researchers.
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The 2015 HDR Symposium was held on the 19 and 20
of October at the International Hotel in Wagga Wagga.
The symposium featured a thought provoking keynote
speech on ‘Green Clouds in the Big Data Era’ by
Professor Albert Zomaya, Chair Professor of High
Performance Computing and Networking and Australian
Research Council Professorial Fellow in the School of
Information Technologies, University of Sydney.
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Best Paper Awards were presented to Steven Vella a DIT
students, and Joshua Brown was the recipient of the PhD
award. Nectar Costadopoulos received the award for Best
Presentation at the symposium. During the Symposium
Dinner, Executive Dean’s List awards were also
presented to several DIT students.
The 2015 Symposium saw a pleasing increase in
attendance and after its success plans have already
begun for 2016 with the aim to once again increase the
number of participants. With the inclusion of Skype, short
papers, guest talks and a variety of awards the
opportunity exists for all DIT students to be involved and
increase their research exposure via the HDR
Symposium.
The School would like to thank everyone involved in the
preparation and/or during the event, the Symposium
would not be possible without such strong support.
Cassily Charles, Academic Literacy, Learning and
Numeracy (ALLAN) coordinator also conducted a
The short papers have been compiled into a booklet and
workshop on the “Tactics of Quantity Writing” which
distributed to attendees of the symposium. If you are
involved active audience participation and engagement
while developing student’s skills and confidence in writing. interested in obtaining a copy please contact Emily Fowler
at [email protected]
In conjunction with the symposium, students were invited
to submit short papers which were peer reviewed by an
Article submitted by Emily Fowler, DIT Student Services
academic and a fellow student. This year an impressive
28 papers were submitted, presenting a great diversity in Officer.
topics including computational intelligence, simulation and
modelling, emerging networks, ICT security, eHealth,
mathematics and statistics. Twenty five presentations
were made over the duration of the event, 15 by PhD
students and 10 by DIT students, with one presentation
being made via Skype.
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CSU GRANT FLOW CHART

Investigate new funding opportunities using Research Professional (an online
database available through the library’s journal database - under the letter R),
or contact the FoB Grant Liaison Officer who can help with a search.

Determine if there is a need for your research. Is your research innovative –
does it add something new to the field?

Leave adequate lead time for planning and the writing of the grant application.
A grant application is akin to a job application – you need to sell your research,
experience and personnel.

Don’t waste time by trying to make a square peg fit a round hole – read the
objectives and guidelines for the specific grant to ensure your application has a
realistic chance of success. You may need to be flexible with the research
project design meet the funding requirements.

Be reasonable about the budget and make sure that your calculations add up.

Ask for help from colleagues, the funding organisation and/or the grant
development officer. Have other people read your application.

Email the University Research Office (RO) to advise them of your intent to
submit a funding application.

Write in clear easy to understand English. Ensure all acronyms are explained
and keep to the word limit and other formatting requirements. Address the
funding objectives and priorities.

Submit a completed Notice to Submit (NTS) form, with all required signatures,
along with the finalised application to the Research Office for Deputy Vice
Chancellor, Research (DVC-R) approval 10 days prior to the funding body’s
closing date.
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The Chief Investigator is responsible for ensuring all signatures are collected
prior to the closing date.

Congratulations on your successful grant.

Inform the Research Office of your success if the notification did not come
through the University Research Office (include all relevant documentation).

Submit a completed Budget Availability Form (BAF) to the Research Office.

All paperwork regarding the acceptance of a grant will need to be signed off by
the DVC-R on-behalf of CSU. Contracts and other paperwork will undergo a
legal review before being signed off.

The RO will send a request to Finance for an account code for the project. You
can then begin the research process.
Planning
Applying
Successful
Grant
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Developed by Deborah Munns, Faculty of Business Grants Liaison & Development Officer
IN THE NEWS – SPREADING THE WORD ABOUT YOUR RESEARCH
The July issue of the FoB Research Newsletter
featured an article about getting the word out about
your research. Since that issue numerous FoB
researchers have been busy spreading the word about
their research, both locally and nationally.
In late August, Professor Steven D’Alessandro
featured in Bathurst’s local newspaper, the Western
Advocate, as he had been the presenter at a free
seminar for local businesses organised by Bathurst
Regional Council. Prof. D’Alessandro spoke to 70
participants about how they could grow their business
by knowing their customers, and how they could build
links between their businesses and CSU. Since the
workshops Steve has been approached for further help
by two local businesses and a neighbouring Local
Council. Steve feels that he is building links with the
local business communities which could generate
future collaboration or potential case studies.
Professor Kishor Sharma, Professor Edward Ockowski
and Professor John Hicks recently arranged for the
CSU media team to send a media release to all media
outlets in the Riverina region about a regional skills
shortage survey they were conducting in partnership
with RDA Riverina. The resulting articles and
interviews lead to a noticeable jump in the number of
businesses participating in their on-line survey.
Similarly, Dr Jodie Kleinschafer did a ten minute radio
interview with Anne Delaney on ABC Radio Wagga
Wagga in July. Jodie spoke on the topic of SMART
meters in NSW and how consumers may be able to
use the meters to increase energy efficiency. The radio
interview, like newspaper articles ensures that regional
communities remain aware of CSU’s presence in their
local region.
On a broader scale, Professor Mark Morrison recently
had an article published in The Australian newspaper
(Friday, 18 September 2015) about the work he and
his co-researchers completed for an ARC Linkage
funded project on Indigenous Entrepreneurs. The
article was read by a national audience and remains
on the Australian newspaper’s website. The article
generated interest from people located as far away as
the Pilbara region in Western Australia.
The Australian 18 September 2015
The media exposure has enabled each of these FoB
researchers to reach an audience outside of the walls
of academia. It has had the added benefit of showing
the relevance of their research in regards to real world
problems, particularly in regional areas. In several
cases the feedback received from practioners in the
field has already lead to follow up research.
Additionally, the articles can be used as proof of real
world research, which is increasingly important in
attracting research funds from granting bodies.
Media exposure can also lead to more citations for
journal papers if an interest in one of your papers is
sparked by reading about your research. A paper may
also be noticed by potential collaborators or an
undergraduate student looking for the right supervisor.
Importantly, these media opportunities have provided
the researchers with the opportunity to create ‘top-ofmind awareness’ of CSU as an institution, and their
research in particular. Overall, media exposure builds
product awareness, where in this case you, the
researcher, and your research are the product. The
results may not be immediately obvious, but may pay
dividends at a later date.
Deborah Munns, FoB Grants Liaison and Development
Officer.
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BFHREC MEETING DATES AND SUBMISSION DEADLINES
2015 BFHREC Meeting and Submission Closing Dates Note: Submissions must be received by 5.00 pm on the date
of closing.
Business Faculty Human Research Ethics Committee
Meeting Dates for 2015
Submission Deadline/Agenda Closes
Meeting Date
Meeting Time
Venue
Thursday 26 November
Thursday 10 December
1:00pm –
3:00pm
Face-to-face location
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HAS MYRESEARCH REPLACED CRO?
It appears that some people think CRO doesn’t exist
anymore since it is no longer used for uploading
publications for HERDC. It definitely still exists; the
information is transferred across from MyResearch. As
before, you can upload or email ([email protected]) the
final accepted draft of your journal article so we can make
the work open access if the publisher allows.
Check out what your publications look like in CRO and if you have any questions or issues please contact us. CRO
can be found at: CRO - CSU Research Output. Also, you and your students can find any CRO open access articles on the
library catalogue PRIMO
Here are some advantages to having your work in an open access environment:

Increased visibility for your work
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Publications may attract a higher number of citations
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Increased visibility of University researchers and their research
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The community and others without access to the journals can read your work

Increases return on investment made by government and other funding agencies
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Compliance with grant funding rules that require open access to research output
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Helps researchers in developing countries access information
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Publications can be used for teaching without needing to go through EReserve.
Article submitted by Karin Smith, Manager, Repository and Research Support, CSU Library
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CONGRATULATIONS
Our congratulations go to the following students and their supervisors within the Faculty of Business who have been
advised that their thesis has passed. It is a tremendous achievement to have reached completion.
Name
Degree
Topic
Supervisors
Joseph Bashouri
DBA
Managing Knowledge across Projects in an
Architectural Firm through Communities of
Practice
Dr Glen Duncan
A/Prof Branka KrivokapicSkoko
Dr Carsten Held
Geoffrey Bull
PhD
Image Segmentation: Delineation of Rock
Fragments using Compressed Random
Features
Prof Junbin Gao
A/Prof Michael Antolovich
Julia Lynch
PhD
Community Service Obligations in Australian
Retail Banking – Fact or Fiction?
Dr Greg Walker
Rohan McAdam
PhD
Engaging the Human Motor System in
Explaining and Understanding Dynamical
Systems
A/Prof Michael Antolovich
Dr Kenneth Lodge
Dr Keith Nesbitt
Yustina
Murdiningrum
Geaur Rahman
PhD
PhD
The Capacity of Non-Government
Organizations to Enhance Peasants’
Livelihood through Community Forestry in
Indonesia
A/Prof Geoff Bamberry
Data Cleansing for Data Quality Improvement
in Data Mining
Dr Zahidul Islam
Dr Digby Race
Prof Terry Bossomaier
Nicholas Davis
Elizabeth Dunlop
Karen Howells
Nesa Mouzehkeh
PhD
PhD
DBA
PhD
A Critical Longitudinal Study of the Annual
Reports of an Australian Government
Department
Prof Louise Kloot
An Investigation of Consumers’ Willingness
to Punish in Third-Party Ethically
Questionable Situations
Prof Mark Farrell
Cultural Constraints on Entrepreneurship in
the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus:
Male/Female Segregation
A/Prof Branka KrivokapicSkoko
Traffic Aware Backoff Scheduling of Low
Data Rate Applications in Wireless Body
Area Networks
A/Prof Tanveer Zia
Dr Peter Rushbrook
Prof Eddie Oczkowski
Prof Grant O’Neill
Prof Terry Bossomaier
Dr Lihong Zheng
Vaenthan
Thiruvarudchelvan
PhD
Efficient Learning with Spiking Neural
Networks
A/Prof Michael Antolovich
Dr Wayne Moore
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CONGRATULATIONS
Vice-Chancellors Award Recipients
The Vice-Chancellor's Awards for Excellence are an annual celebration of outstanding achievements demonstrated by
employees across Charles Sturt University.
A/Prof Oliver Burmeister recipient of the 2015 ViceChancellor’s Award for Professional Excellence.
Pictured with CSU Vice Chancellor Professor Andy Vann at
the Bathurst ceremony.
A/Prof Irfan Altas recipient of the 2015 ViceChancellor’s Award for Senior Leadership Excellence.
Pictured with CSU Vice-Chancellor, Professor Andy Van
at the Wagga Wagga ceremony.
Dr Manoranjan Paul – Faculty Award for Excellence
Dr Manoranjan Paul recipient of the 2015 Faculty Research
Supervision Excellence Award being presented the award by
A/Prof. Mark Frost at the Bathurst ceremony.
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Academic Promotions
The following Faculty of Business staff members have recently been advised of their
successful promotion. Their promotions recognise academic leadership and outstanding
contributions to the work of the University.
Congratulations to Dr Azizur Rahman, Dr Quazi Mamun and Dr Mohsin Iftikhar from the
School of Computing and Mathematics and Dr Abhishek Dwivedi from the School of
Management and Marketing who have all been promoted to Senior Lecturer.
Professor Junbin Gao - Two articles published in prestigious journal
Congratulations to Professor Junbin Gao of the School of Computing and Mathematics who has
recently had two papers published in the prestigious journal, IEEE Transactions on Pattern
Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI). TPAMI is considered to be the premier journal in the
research area of Artificial Intelligence. Indeed the Journal has a H index of 241. Professor Gao
last had an article published in TPAMI in 2008. Each of the two papers went through three rounds
of review before they were accepted. Additionally, Professor Gao has had a further three articles
published in August.
Dr Rui Bi - Receives best paper award
Dr Rui Bi, of the School of Management & Marketing, and her co-authors recently received an the
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best paper award at the 28 Small Enterprise Association Australia and New Zealand Conference
(SEAANZ) which was held in Melbourne in July. The paper, ‘Family Business Continuity: Key
Factors and Main Practices was co-authored with Lucio Dana of RMIT University and Kosmas
Smyrnios (RMIT University). The team were awarded a cash prize. Congratulations Rui Bi for
receiving this award.
Maumita Bhattacharya guest speaker in Netherlands
Maumita Bhattacharya of the School of Computing and Mathematics was the guest seminar
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presenter at Radboud University, The Netherlands on 25 September 2015. The title of her talk
was “Computational Intelligence for Information Security: Promises & Challenges”. The seminar
was presented at a joint session of the “Machine Learning Group” and the “Digital Security Group”
of Radboud University.
Honours student’s work published in prestigious journal
Bachelor of Information Technology (Honours) student, Jarrod West’s paper, co-authored with his supervisor,
Maumita Bhattacharya has been published in the prestigious journal, Computers & Security, Elsevier. The paper is
titled “Intelligent Financial Fraud Detection: A Comprehensive Review”. Jarrod is currently studying Honours in parttime, distance education mode. His Honours research focuses on application of computational intelligence techniques
to financial fraud detection.
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Mr Fenglu Ge to present at the AI 2015 Conference
Congratulations to Mr Fenglu Ge a PhD candidate in the School of Computing and
Mathematics who has had his paper ‘Learning from Demonstration using GMM,CHMM
and DHMM: A Comparison’ accepted as a full paper for the AI 2015 (Australasian Joint
Conference on Artificial Intelligence). Fenglu’s paper was one of only 40 selected from
102 submissions to be published in the proceedings as a full paper. The paper will be
published as part of the Springer Lecture Notes on Artificial Intelligence series. Fenglu
will also make a 20 minute presentation at the conference which is being held in
Canberra in December 2015. Fenglu will be accompanied to this premier conference by
his PhD supervisors, Dr Michael Antolovich and Dr Wayne Moore.
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Intersect Australia Training
Open to all researchers and HDR students at CSU:
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Excel Fu: Excel for Researchers
Wagga campus: 10 November 2015
(1 day)
https://intersect-1310.eventbrite.com.au
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Bathurst campus: 24 November 2015
https://intersect-1311.eventbrite.com.au
Cleaning & Exploring your data with
Open Refine (3 hours)
Mornings 9.30-12.30pm
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Wagga campus: 11 November 2015
https://intersect-1312.eventbrite.com.au
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Bathurst campus: 25 November 2015
https://intersect-1314.eventbrite.com.au
Data Visualisation with Google
Fusion Tables (3 hours)
Afternoons 1.30-4.30pm
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Wagga campus: 11 November 2015
https://intersect-1313.eventbrite.com.au
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Bathurst campus: 25 November 2015
https://intersect-1315.eventbrite.com.au
For further information, check the Intersect training web pages or email Robyn Kirk - [email protected]
Faculty of Business lunch time seminar series
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The lunch time seminar series continue into the second half of 2015. A range of internal and
external guest speakers are scheduled for, please check the Faculty of Business webpage
http://www.csu.edu.au/faculty/business/faculty-research/activities/seminar-series for up-to-date
information.
Business Seminar Series usually run from 1pm – 2pm on a Wednesday in the School
Meeting Rooms on each campus (1411 - 431 in Bathurst, 764-205 in Thurgoona and 28214 in Wagga). A light lunch is provided starting at 12:30pm on each campus.
Date
Presenter
Topic
University
October 14
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Jane Maley
Sustainable HRM In The Context Of Global
Uncertainty: It’s Value For MNCs And Impact
On The Global Manager?
CSU
October 21
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Arnela Ceric
Analysis of interactions between ICT and
organisational resources in a manufacturing
organisation using cross-impact analysis
CSU
October 28
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Adam Steen
Regulation and Education of Financial
Advisors: Recent Lessons from Australia
CSU
Christina Wood
Is public service motivation affected by reform
programs?
University of
Wollongong
Branka KrivokapicSkoko
Applying qualitative comparative analysis
(QCA) to the study of technological innovation
by SMEs.
CSU
November 4
November
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Please note that other speakers will be added as they become available please refer to the Faculty of
Business website and your check your email inbox for updates.
Enquiries about the Seminar Series should be directed to the convenor: Professor Steve D’Alessandro, on ext
84286 or [email protected] or Dr Yapa Bandara on ext 32960 or [email protected]
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School of Computing and Mathematics Seminars usually run from 12 – 2pm on
Wednesdays in the School Meeting Rooms on each campus (771 in Bathurst, 780 in Albury
and 766 in Wagga). A light lunch is served prior to the seminar.
Date
Presenter
Topic
University
3 Nov
Professor Michael
Blumenstein
VICPU 2015 Workshop
Griffith University
Professor Mark
Pickering
VICPU 2015 Workshop
Professor Manzur
Murshed
VICPU 2015 Workshop
Federation University
Professor
Mohammad
Bennamoun
VICPU 2015 Workshop
UWA
3 Nov
3 Nov
4 Nov
UNSW
Enquiries about the Computing and Mathematics Seminar Series should be directed to the convenor:
Dr Manoranjan Paul on 6338 4260 or [email protected]
Faculty Writing Retreat
This retreat situated in idyllic rural surroundings will offer you an
opportunity to work on academic papers and manuscripts without the
distractions of your normal office environment.
As well as providing you with dedicated writing time, there will be
opportunities for research collaboration and review and feedback
from colleagues.
Importantly, the retreat is also a chance to get to know colleagues
better through shared meal times and free time for socialising in the evenings. Narrambla has a well resourced
games room which includes a table tennis table and board games, ideal for socialising.
Date:
From 1:30pm (10:30am if you can make it) Monday 16 November to 12:30pm Thursday 19 November 2015
Venue: “Narrambla”, Orange Campus
RSVP: To Faculty of Business Research Office: [email protected]
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PUBLICATIONS
Rahman, M. A., Islam, M. Z., and Bossomaier, T.
(2015): ModEx and Seed-Detective: Two Novel
Techniques for High Quality Clustering by using Good
Initial Seeds in K-Means, Journal of King Saud
University - Computer and Information Sciences, Vol.
27, Issue 2, 113 – 128.
Burmeister, O. K. (2015) Improving professional IT
doctorate completion rates, Australasian Journal of
Information Systems, 19, 55-70.
Wang, Y., Lin, X., Wu, L., Zhang, W., Zhang, Q, and
Xiaodi Huang, (2015) Robust Subspace Clustering for
Multi-view Data by Exploiting Correlation Consensus,
IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, Vol.24. No.
11, 3939 - 3949.
Zhou, J, Zhu, S., Xiaodi Huang and Zhang, Y. (2015)
Journal of Computer Science and Technology, Vol. 30,
No. 4, 859 - 973.
Wu, L., Shepherd, J., Xiaodi Huang, and Hu, C.
(2015) Robust User Community-Aware Landmark
Photo Retrieval, MultiMedia Modelling, 403 - 414.
Siers, M., and Islam, M. Z. (2015): Software Defect
Prediction Using a Cost Sensitive Decision Forest and
Voting, and a Potential Solution to the Class
Imbalance Problem, Information Systems, Vol. 51, pg.
62-71.
Accepted and forthcoming
Ceric, A., and Crawford, H. (accepted and
forthcoming), Attracting SIEs: Influence of SIE
motivation on their location and employer decisions.
Human Resource Management Review, 26(1).
Ceric, A. (accepted and forthcoming). Analysis of
interactions between IT and organisational resources
in a manufacturing organisation using cross-impact
analysis, Journal of Enterprise Information
Management, 29(3).
Wu, L., Xiaodi Huang, Shepherd, J. and Wang, Y,
(accepted and forthcoming) Multi-Query
Augmentation-Based Web Landmark Photo Retrieval,
The Computer Journal, (doi: 10.1093/comjnl/bxv033)
Rahman, M. G. and Islam, M. Z. (accepted and
forthcoming): Discretization of Continuous Attributes
through Low Frequency Numerical Values and
Attribute Interdependency, Expert Systems with
Applications.
Kleinschafer, J. and Morrison, M. (accepted &
forthcoming). The Responsiveness of Households to
Energy Demand Management Initiatives: Segmenting
by Household Types. Journal of Nonprofit & Public
Sector Marketing
Morrison, M., Duncan, R. and Parton, K. (accepted &
forthcoming). Religion Does Matter for Climate Change
Attitudes and Behaviours. PLoS ONE, 10(8)
Podder, P, Paul, M., and Murshed, M. (accepted &
forthcoming), "A Novel Motion Classification Based
Intermode Selection Strategy for HEVC Performance
Improvement," Neurocomputing,
Podder, P., Paul, M., and Murshed, M. (2015), " Fast
Coding Strategy for HEVC by Motion Features and
Saliency Applied on Difference Between Successive
Image Blocks," Lecture Note in Computer Science,
Book Chapter
Bhattacharya, M. “Evolutionary Landscape and
Management of Population Diversity”, Combinations of
Intelligent Methods and Application, Smart
Innovations, Systems & Technologies series, Springer.
(In press).
Conference papers
Downer, K. and Bhattacharya, M. (2015) “BYOD
Security: A New Business Challenge”, in proceedings
of The 5th International Symposium on Cloud and
Service Computing (SC2 2015), IEEE CS Press.
West, J. and Bhattacharya, M. “Some Experimental
Issues in Financial Fraud Detection: An Investigation”,
in proceedings of The 5th International Symposium on
Cloud and Service Computing (SC2 2015), IEEE CS
Press.
Dana E. L., Smyrnios, K. X. & Bi, R. (2015) Family
Business Continuity: Key Factors and Main Practices.
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Presented at the 28 Small Enterprise Association
Australia and New Zealand conference (SEAANZ).
Melbourne, Australia, 1 -3 July 2015.
Dwivedi, A. and Merrilees, B. (2015). Examining a
higher-order model of consumer evaluation of retailer
corporate brands and impact on consumer loyalty
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intentions. Australian and New Zealand Marketing
Academy (ANZMAC) and Gamma Joint Symposium,
Sydney, 30 November – 02 December 2015.
Wilkie, D. and Dwivedi, A. (2015). The perceived
quality and brand equity relationship: Proposing and
testing the mediating role of brand authenticity.
Australian and New Zealand Marketing Academy
(ANZMAC) Conference, Sydney, 30 November – 02
December 2015.
and Applications (DICTA-2015), 23 – 25 November,
Adelaide.
MD. Salehin and M. Paul, (2015), "Summarizing
Surveillance Video by Saliency Transition and Moving
Object Information," IEEE International Conference on
Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications
(DICTA-2015), 23 – 25 November, Adelaide.
Ge, F., Moore, W., and Antolovich, M. (2015)
Learning from Demonstration using GMM, CHMM and
DHMM: A Comparison; AI 2015, 30 November – 4
December, Canberra, Australia.
Adnan, M. N. and Islam, M. Z. (2015): Complement
Random Forest, In Proc. of the 13th Australasian Data
Mining Conference (AusDM 2015), 8- 9 August,
Sydney, Australia.
Beg, A. H., and Islam, M. Z. (2015): Clustering by
Genetic Algorithm - High Quality Chromosome
Selection for Initial Population, In Proc. of the 10th
IEEE Conference on Industrial Electronics and
Applications (ICIEA 2015), 15 -17 June, Auckland,
New Zealand.
Fletcher, S. and Islam, M. Z. (2015): A Differentially
Private Decision Forest, In Proc. of the 13th
Australasian Data Mining Conference (AusDM 2015),
8- 9 August, Sydney, Australia.
Rahman, M. A. and Islam, M. Z. (2015): AWST: A
Novel Attribute Weight Selection Technique for Data
Clustering, In Proc. of the 13th Australasian Data
Mining Conference (AusDM 2015), 8- 9 August,
Sydney, Australia.
S. Shahriyar, M. Manzur, M. Ali, and M. Paul, (2015), "
A Novel Depth Motion Vector Coding Exploiting Spatial
and Inter-component Clustering Tendency," IEEE
International Conference on Visual Communications
and Image Processing (VCIP-2015), 13 – 16
December, Singapore.
M. Z. Parvez and M. Paul, (2015), "Epileptic Seizure
Prediction by Exploiting Signal Transitions
Phenomena," 17th International Conference on
Bioinformatics and Biological Engineering (ICBBE2015), 13 – 14 December, Melbourne, Australia.
P. Podder, M. Paul, T. Debnath, and M. Murshed,
(2015), "An Analysis of Human Engagement Behaviour
Using Descriptors from Human Feedback, Eye
Tracking, and Saliency Modelling," IEEE International
Conference on Digital Image Computing: Techniques
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