FACULTY OF BUSINESS
RESEARCH NEWSLETTER
ISSUE 7 – DECEMBER 2014
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Welcome
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Did You Know?
Page 3 – 5
Current Projects
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WELCOME
As is customary at the end of each year, I’d like to begin the introduction to this
newsletter by reminiscing on the achievements of the year. Recently I attended the
Management and Marketing and Accounting and Finance School retreats in Canberra
where I presented awards for academic staff who have achieved A or A* publications in
2014 (accepted or published) or for early career staff who achieved their first B level
publication. I found it very gratifying to present so many awards to the academic staff in
these schools. The fact that so many staff are now publishing at such a high level is very
encouraging. I look forward to the School of Computing and Mathematics Retreat in
early 2015.
Staff Profile:
Kishor Sharma
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Recent Travel
Page 8
Cyber Security
Workshop
Page 9
SCM HDR
Symposium
Page 10 – 12
Congratulations
Page 12 - 13
Professional
Development
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On the grants front, there has been a noticeable increase in applications for both small
and large grants from our academics. In this increasingly competitive environment, small
grants are now essential in building the track record that is necessary in obtaining a
larger grant. It is pleasing to hear that many staff are utilising the assistance of the
Faculty of Business Grant Development Officer to locate grants or finesse their grant
applications. As reported later in this issue of the newsletter there are many funding
opportunities that will open in early 2015.
On the research degree front, numbers continue to be high, with ten doctoral completions
being reported in this issue of the newsletter alone. Well done!
It is also pleasing to see that many research projects have a regional focus. As a
regional university we aim to undertake research that contributes to the communities
within the university’s footprint. This issue of the newsletter outlines several of the
current regionally focused projects being undertaken by researchers in the Faculty.
I hope that you will enjoy reading this newsletter. As with previous ones, there are lots of
great stories about various research projects, awards, staff travel, doctoral completions,
workshops and symposiums, various research updates and the like.
Let me end by wishing you all a very Happy Christmas and New Year, and I hope that
you all come back very rested and enthusiastic for completing lots of great research in
2015!
Professor Mark Morrison
Sub-Dean Research
Grant News
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Publications
Next Issue: The next issue will be published in March 2015. To contribute or suggest a
story, please email Deborah Munns of the Faculty of Business Research Office at
[email protected]
DID YOU KNOW?
CSU Library Leading Open Data Project
The Library is leading an Open
Data
Project
funded
by
Australian
National
Data
Service (ANDS). The project
provides the opportunity for all
research data to be made
available and shareable (where
possible and appropriate) via data discovery services.
Making all data discoverable and sharable has the
potential to:
There are various options for sharing your data, from
allowing fellow researchers to directly download
through to collecting the details of interested viewers
or providing you with a 12 month embargo period to
first complete your article on the data.
Description of your data will be made available through
data discovery services and you will get coverage in
many diverse systems including disciplinaryportals,
WorldWideScience.org and Thomson Reuters Data
Citation Index.

Raise research profiles beyond CSU,

Lead to new national or international
collaboration with researchers inside and
outside your field,

Increase the impact and visibility for the
research,
Please contact Roshan Thapa ([email protected]) or

Recognise the data as a primary research
output,
Karin Smith ([email protected]) if you
interested or would like to discuss this further.

Increase citation rates for your research, and

Keep you in step with new ARC funding rules.
Earlier this year CSU released a Research Data
Management Policy. Being part of this project will
allow you to have input into the infrastructure that will
be put in place to ensure that CSU researchers can
benefit from better organised research data.
are
Contributed by Karin Smith, Division of Library
Services
A data collection for this project can be small, large or
a subset of a larger set that is worth showcasing.
Research Help is Here - Faculty of Business Research Office
Did you know that research help is on hand for
researchers in the Faculty of Business? The Faculty
of Business Research Office has a range of staff on
the books that are skilled in various aspects of
research, including:

Literature reviews, including building Endnote
libraries,

Interviewing – both face to face and via
telephone,

Transcribing,

Data analysis – both qualitative and
quantitative,

Proof reading and editing.
Indeed, the research officers in the Faculty of
Business Office have extensive
experience in their areas of
expertise.
For more information, contact
the
Faculty
of
Business
Research Office Administrative
Manager – Kerry Madden via ext. 57500.
CURRENT PROJECTS
On the Case – Detecting Defects in Sausage Skins
Dr Manoranjan Paul, of the School of Computing and
Mathematics, has recently completed the pilot stage of
a project aimed at detecting defects in the
manufacturing of collagen based products.
The
research work was undertaken by Dr Paul with one of
his honours students, Christopher Williams.
The research was undertaken with the support of
Devro Ltd. Devro is a leading supplier of collagen
casings for food, creating a range of sausage skins.
The company has manufacturing plants in the United
Kingdom, United States of America, Czech Republic
and Australia. Devro is a leading employer in the
regional centre of Bathurst.
The project involved investigating defects on collagen
based sausage skins by utilizing a non-referential
model. The model is based on a localized defects
image model (LDIM), which uses a local merit function
to quantify the cost that a pixel is defective. It uses
two components that look at the colour deviation and
colour fluctuation within the image.
According
to
the
experimental
results,
the new model was able
to improve the collagen
defect detection by 26%
compared
to
the
existing system. Additionally, Dr Paul and Mr Williams
believe that they will be able to improve the accuracy
significantly if they use sophisticated methodologies
and new hyperspectral technologies. Indeed, Dr Paul
is currently in negotiations with Devro Ltd to develop a
full research project that will focus on using
hyperspectral image analysis.
For more information about this project please contact
Dr Manoranjan Paul on 6338 4260.
Lego Robot Racers Take Over Mt Panorama
The big race on the mountain in October wasn't the
only race in Bathurst that week. The Mining Research
Lab hosted the inaugural SCM Autonomous Race
around our own mini-Mt Panorama circuit.
Students built and programmed a LEGO EV3 robot to
race around the track without any control. Despite the
lack of a driver, the robots completed the 7 metre
circuit with the best lap time being 18.1 seconds.
Fortunately we didn't have any sheep or kangaroos
wandering on to the track during the race, although
there were plenty of crashes during testing. The track
surface also held up under the heavy load of the
LEGO with no repairs required mid-race.
The winning undergraduate team (and a few senior
academics) were invited to visit the Dick Johnson
Racing Team in the Mt Panorama pit area on the
Wednesday to find out about IT in racing and real time
collection and analysis of data from race cars.
The visit provided students and academics with the
valuable opportunity to see how their studies and
research can be applied within our region.
Visit http://thinkspace.csu.edu.au/robotics/ for more
details
This event was sponsored by the School of Computing
and Mathematics, XMOS Semiconductor (UK), LEGO
Australia and Dick Johnson Racing.
The winning undergraduate team with Dick Johnson
Contributed by Allen Benter, Mining Research Lab
.
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Mining Research Lab (MRL) – Project Update
The Mining Research Laboratory (MRL) is located on
the Bathurst campus. The MRL was awarded a
significant global grant from the Mass Mining
Technology (MMT3) round of funding. The MMT3
project is based within the University of Queensland
and is a consortium of some of the largest international
mining and services companies (See issue 3 –
December 2013).
The work has begun on the project with the University
of Queensland. September and October have been
particularly busy months in the MRL as gets underway.
The construction of the RADAR test platform on the
Bathurst campus is now completed, and work has
started on material testing.
Rock samples from
Newcrest’s Cadia mine at Orange are loaded on the
platform and the effect upon the radar signal is
measured and analysed.
These experiments will allow development of a new
radar system to image rocks underground. The aim of
the new system will be to penetrate through 20 metres
of rock to detect large boulders that are the size of
large cars. The boulders have the potential to block
the draw bell above the extraction points, and early
detection improves mine efficiency by allowing ore
extraction scheduling to be amended in preparation for
the blockage.
In September Allen Benter travelled to the Ernest
Henry Mine in Cloncurry, QLD, to present the project
initiation and early results to the mining companies that
are sponsoring the project. The visit also included a
tour of the surface and underground mine. During this
visit a number of other opportunities to extend the
research project were identified and discussed with the
project sponsors.
The MRL will be working very closely with a selection
of the world's leading industrial manufacturing and
resource companies: Sandvik (Sweden), Atlas Copco
(Sweden), Anglo American (South African) and
Newcrest Mining (Australia).
The radar imaging
technology being investigated by the MRL is sought
after by the mining industry as, presently, there are no
imaging techniques available that show rock flow
within the mine draw bell.
If you are interested in learning more about the radar
project or mine operations, please either drop into the
Mining Research Lab for more information please
contact Allen Benter via [email protected] or refer
to http://thinkspace.csu.edu.au/mining
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The social impacts of change in rural and regional areas
Ms Jenni Greig, an ILWS and Faculty of Business PhD
candidate, has been travelling throughout regional
NSW to conduct interviews with local communities
about the social impacts of change in rural and
regional areas. Through her research, Jenni aims to
demonstrate a new approach to capturing social
impact data suitable for inclusion in a cost-benefit
analysis (CBA). At present there is no comprehensive
approach available for estimating social impacts that is
compatible with a CBA. Indeed, social impacts are
typically only dealt with qualitatively and they tend to
be over or under-emphasised.
staff for the local school and medical staff at the local
hospital.
In 2013, Jenni conducted 26 in-depth interviews with
33 participants in the towns of Bulahdelah, Hillston and
Warren to examine aspects of agency and communion
which might be indicators of social impacts. Recently,
Jenni has conducted a survey, this time in Hillston,
Warren and Nyngan to test how well these aspects
can be anticipated and measured. To date, 202 local
people have participated in the survey.
Jenni reports that she has received encouraging
feedback from people in these towns. Jenni notes that
“The components of agency and communion identified
in the first phase of this research have really hit on
areas of relevance for people living in small
communities – aspects of life that are affected when a
significant change happens in a community, but that
we don’t necessarily think about when planning for, or
dealing with such changes”. Indeed, during her travels
Jenni was interviewed by several newspapers and
radio outlets, including ABC Radio Central West NSW
and some others – ABC Far WEST and ABC Riverina.
Jenni is drawing on her background in psychology to
develop a framework that can be integrated into
economic decision making. She is using the
psychological concepts of ‘agency’ and ‘communion’ to
build a framework to measure social impact data.
Jenni is examining small rural communities as they
have less capacity than metropolitan communities to
absorb the impacts of significant change. For example,
in small communities, the closure of a major employer
can have ongoing repercussions that can affect the
entire town. Two or three families leaving the area may
have implications in terms of the allocation of teaching
Jenni is currently analysing the data to determine if a
useful index can be created for wider testing. She is
hopeful that the research can be continued beyond her
PhD, and that the resulting index can be refined and
validated for use across a range of different social
impact scenarios faced by rural and regional
communities.
Jenni Greig is being supervised by Professor Mark
Morrison, Adjunct Professor David Godden, and Ms
Judith Gullifer. For more information about this study
please contact Jenni Greig via [email protected]
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STAFF PROFILE
Professor Kishor Sharma
Professor Kishor Sharma is an economist based at the
Wagga Wagga campus. Kishor’s teaching areas are
in labour economics, international economics and
business economics. His teaching expertise also lies
in the area of urban and regional economics.
possibility of developing a collaborative partnership
which will examine a range of skill shortage issues
affecting regional business.
Professor Sharma
believes addressing skill shortages in the region is
crucial to the broader area to remain competitive in an
increasingly global economy.
He is also currently working with Yapa Bandara to
investigate the motives for outsourcing and its
determinants in Australian manufacturing industries,
including the processed food industry, which has
significant implications for regional Australia.
Kishor has a set of very international qualifications and
work experience.
He gained his first degree in
International Management from the International
Management Institute (IMI), New Delhi, India. This
was followed by a Masters Degree (Economics) from
Tibhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal and a PhD
(Economics) from La Trobe University, Melbourne.
Prior to starting at CSU, Kishor was a Project
Economist in the United Nations Development
Program (under the UNV Scheme) in Apia, Western
Samoa from 1987 – 1991. While in Western Samoa,
Kishor was a member of the team engaged in
preparing the Sixth Development Plan of the
Government of Western Samoa, and was also
involved in developing and implementing a Project
Monitoring and Evaluation System at the Central
Planning agency.
Kishor has worked at Charles Sturt University for the
past 22 years. During this time Kishor has published
or edited 7 books and published approximately 70
journal articles and book chapters. Currently Kishor is
working on a Handbook of Trade and Development
with Professor Oliver Morrissey (University of
Nottingham, UK) and Professor Ricardo Lopez
(Brandeis University, USA). The handbook brings
together over 40 leading experts from USA, UK, Asia,
Africa and Latin America.
It is expected to be
published in 2015 by Edward Elgar.
Kishor Sharma has been a consultant to the United
Nations Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO)
and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and has
offered policy advice in the field of trade and
development. He has been a visiting fellow at Yale
University, University of Nottingham and the Australian
National University. In 2012, Kishor received the ViceChancellor’s Award for Leadership Excellence for his
contribution to research mentoring and collaboration
with international partners.
Away from the university, Kishor enjoys walking,
particularly with his dog.
While in the past Kishor has conducted research in the
field of trade and productivity performance in Australia
and overseas, more recently, Kishor has been
investigating how the impact of skill shortages varies
between the sectors in regional Australia. Kishor is
planning to conduct some case-studies within the
Riverina region to shed light on this issue. He is
currently discussing with the Griffith City Council the
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RECENT TRAVEL
Professor Terry Bossomaier - Science Summerfest
Professor Terry Bossomaier was a keynote speaker at the Sciences of Learning, Summerfest 2014 at The University
of Hong Kong from 9 – 13 June 2014. The Summerfest program is designed as a week of intensive interactions
among learning science researchers. Summerfest aims to encourage brainstorming and collaborative research
agendas and programs that builds on cutting edge theoretical understanding and methodical approaches of research
on learning, in collaboration with researchers. Professor Bossomaier presented a keynote address titled ‘From Autism
to Expertise: Connecting Neural to Cognitive Understanding of Learning’. This was followed by two seminars, ‘From
Biology to Computer Science: Computers, Complexity and Everyday Life’ and ‘Serious Games and Expertise’.
Terry has reported that the Summerfest was very useful from a networking point of view and that there are several
joint papers planned, based around meta-studies of flu hazard reduction.
Workshop sessions at the Sciences of Learning, Summerfest 2014
Alain Neher – Swiss Visitor to Bathurst
Alain Neher, a CSU Doctorate of Business Administration (DBA) candidate has recently returned
to Switzerland after a nine month stay in Bathurst where he has been completing the data
analysis and methodology chapter of his DBA project. Whilst in Bathurst, Alain was also a Tutor
in Organisational Behaviour, moderated the subject of Services Marketing and was a guest
lecturer in Organisational Behaviour.
Alain returned to Bern, where he works for The National Agency for the European Education and
Training Programme Erasmus+, which is a Non-Government Organisation. On his return to
Switzerland, Alain returned immediately to work. Alain has worked and studied simultaneously
since beginning his DBA with CSU in 2010.
When asked why he had chosen CSU over a European institution, Alain stated that he chose to study at CSU
“because no university in Switzerland offered a course with well-structured modules and in English.” Alain noted that
the entire experience of studying with CSU has been very smooth, with several Marketing and Management and
Finance and Accounting academics visiting DBA candidates in Switzerland every year.
Alain reports that his stay has been beneficial to his studies and also an excellent intercultural experience. Alain
mentioned that he was made to feel very welcome by his colleagues in the Schools of Marketing and Management
and Finance and Accounting and the friendly atmosphere made it easy for him to settle in and to study. As well, he
experienced a very supportive climate and he made lots of friends and colleagues. Alain went onto state that “I have
really enjoyed my time in Bathurst. I love the fresh air, space and that there are less distractions. I can go for a walk
and reenergize and relax and then go back to work. In Bern there is always movement and noise”. Alain states “I
would recommend studying on campus at CSU to anyone; I have had a great experience and would take the same
decision at any time again”.
Alain expects to submit his DBA by mid- 2015. He also hopes to return to Australia within the next year.
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CSU CYBER SECURITY RESEARCH GROUP
ORGANISES CYBER SECURITY WORKSHOP
Dr Rafiqul Islam, along with other colleagues, from
CSU’s School of Computing and Mathematics, jointly
organised the recent International Workshop on
Applications and Technologies in Cyber Security
(ATCS) in Beijing, China. The team organised the
workshop with colleagues from the Parallel and
Distributed Computing Lab, Faculty of Science,
Engineering and Built Environment at Deakin
University. The workshop was hosted by the Chinese
Academy of Science.
The one-day workshop, which was held in conjunction
with the internationally recognised conference
SecureComm 2014, was held at Beijing Yulong
International Hotel on Tuesday, 23 September 2014.
The event was endorsed and organised by the
European Alliance for Innovation (EAI).
ATCS 2014 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.
Thirty one research papers were submitted by
participants representing ten countries. The technical
committee selected 12 papers after several rounds of
blind review. The accepted papers will be published in
Springer’s Lecture Note series in late 2014.
Additionally, many of the best presented papers will be
invited to submit an extended version to a special
issue of IEEE Transaction on Dependable and Secure
Computing.
attendance. Participants commented that they enjoyed
the opportunity to enter into in-depth discussions on
technical issues, an opportunity that is not always
available to them at international gatherings.
Prof Sakurai presenting the certificate to the best paper presenter
The team spent approximately twelve months
organising the workshop, building on the experience
gained while organising the ATIS 2013 workshop in
Sydney in September 2013. Dr Islam was the General
Chair of the organising committee of ATCS2014.
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.
For more information about the workshop please refer
to:
http://infoatcs2014.wix.com/atcs#!kenote/czne
One of the highlights of the workshop was a keynote
address by Professor Kouichi Sakurai of Kyushu
University and Institute of Systems & Information
Technologies
and
Nanotechnologies,
Japan.
Professor Sakurai spoke on “Mobile Forensic aspects
of Web browser: from HTML4 to HTML5 ” referring
especially to two mechanisms of HTML5 forensic
aspects on smartphones, one is on memory and the
other is on the file system. Professor Sakurai’s talk
was an extremely well received presentation.
Dr Rafiqul Islam addressing audience questions.
The workshop was well attended with many of the
participants from the 2013 workshop in Sydney in
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SCHOOL OF COMPUTING AND
MATHEMATICS HDR SYMPOSIUM
The School of Computing and Mathematics recently
held their annual Higher Degree Research (HDR)
Symposium 20 -21 October at the Wagga Wagga RSL
Club. The symposium is an annual event which
provides students with an opportunity to meet with
their supervisors, other HDR students, listen to senior
researchers and discuss numerous research topics.
Each of the students attending the symposium gave a
10 minute presentation on their current research,
followed by a five minute question time.
Each
presentation was assessed by a panel of three
academics on criteria such as background,
justification, methods used, current research, future
work, importance, delivery, timing and Q&A. Students
were awarded a score out of 20. The winners were
announced at the close of the symposium, with Steven
Vella being awarded ‘Best Presentation by a Doctor of
Information Technology (DIT) student and Md Geaur
Rahman for Best Presentation by a PhD student.
Associate Professor Irfan Altas presenting Ka Fai (Deryck) Lio with
her award
Additionally, there were eight invited guests, including
three industry supervisors, Prof Andrea Bishop,
Director, Research Office and Prof Eddie Oczkowski,
Sub-Dean (Research Students).
Professor Willly
Susilo, of Wollongong University was the keynote
speaker who spoke on the topic of ‘CAPTCHA:
Security Issues and Novel Design’. Dr Jan Newmarch
from Box Hill Tafe also gave a presentation on
‘Building an Academic/Professional Reputation’. There
were also presentations by staff from ALLAN and the
Division of Library Services.
Attendees at the 2014 HDR Symposium
In the lead up to the symposium, students had been
invited to submit a short paper for inclusion in a Short
Paper Booklet that was published prior to the
symposium.
Each paper was reviewed by two
nominated people, a supervisory academic and a
fellow HDR student. In total 22 papers were published
in the 2014 booklet. A paper by Ka Fai (Deryck) Lio
was awarded the Best Short Paper Award which was
presented at the HDR presentation dinner on the
evening of Monday 20 October.
Keynote speaker: Professor Willy Susilo
For more information about the Symposium please
contact Jodie Mitchell, DIT Student Services Officer via
[email protected].
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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
Anisur Rahman
PhD
Dr Zahidul Islam,
Prof Terry Bossomaier
Dr Tanveer Zia
Ying Wang
PhD
Justin Williams
PhD
Automatic Selection of High Quality
Initial Seeds for Generating High
Quality Clusters without Requiring any
User Inputs.
Skills Shortages Among Chinese
Business Managers: A contingency
framework for understanding skills
deficiency, mediated by management
development and training, on
managers’ and organisational
performance.
Am Integrated Models for Effective
Localization of Human Resources in
the Emirate of Qatar: A comparative
study of expatriates and nationals.
Amjed Abdul
Majeed
PhD
Prolonging Network Life Time and
Running Multi-Sequence Applications
in Wireless Sensor Networks.
Dr Tanveer Zia
A/Prof Irfan Altas
Allen Benter
PhD
Characterising the Internal
Composition of Rock Piles Using
Ground Penetrating Radar.
Dr Michael Antolovich
Prof Terry Bossomaier
Sonny Domingo
PhD
Prof Kevin Parton
Prof John Mullen
Anwar Hossain
Masud
PhD
Economic Modelling of Optimal
Strategic Production Options and
Welfare Impacts Subject to Constraints
and Risk Aversion Among Smallholder
Farmers in the Southern Philippines.
A Novel Framework of Cloud Based ELearning Architecture for Higher
Education.
Kristiana Tri
Wahyudiyati
PhD
A/Prof Parikshit Basu
Dr Digby Race
Arriya Mungsunti
PhD
Samson Boon Hua
Tan
DBA
Forest Community Development:
Enhancing Corporate Social
Responsibility in Indonesia’s Forestry
Sector.
A Communal Irrigation System,
Farming Productivity and Water Use
Efficiency: The case of ‘Muang fai’ in
Northern Thailand.
A Resource-based View of the
Competitiveness of Design Firms in
Singapore.
Dr Bhanugopan Ramudu
Dr Pamela Lockhart
Dr Bhanugopan Ramudu
Dr Arnela Ceric
Dr Xiaodi Huang
Prof Junbin Gao
Prof Kevin Parton
Prof Mark Morrison
Prof Mark Farrell
Mr Ian Coghlan
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Dr Tanveer Zia - Multiple Award Winner
Congratulations to Dr Tanveer Zia who has recently been the
recipient of multiple awards.
Tanveer received the Faculty of Business Individual Award for
Academic Excellence. Dr Zia was formally presented with this
prestigious award at the presentation ceremony in Wagga Wagga on
Monday, 8 September 2014.
Additionally, Tanveer was recently awarded the Sustained Excellence
Award at the Faculty of Business 2014 Teaching and Learning
Symposium.
Tanveer was also the winner of the Outstanding Leadership Award as
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Track Chair of Network and Communications Security of the 6
International Symposium on Cyberspace Safety and Security (CSS 2014) held on August 20-22, 2014 in Paris,
France.
Presentation to World Bank, Washington
Congratulations to Dr Arriya Mungsunti who was
recently invited to present a paper based on her PhD
thesis research at the World Bank Headquarters. The
paper was co-authored with her supervisor, Prof Kevin
th
Parton. Arriya presented at the 11 Annual Meeting of
the International Water Resource Economics
Consortium (IWREC) September 7 – 9 at the World
Bank Headquarters in Washington, DC.
Since the early 1990s, IWREC has served as a
premier venue for water economists worldwide to
promote economic work on water resources, exchange
information and research findings, and disseminate
individual and joint work. It is considered to be a great
honour to be invited to present at this prestigious
meeting.
Arriya’s presentation was titled ‘Estimating the
Economic and Environmental Benefit of a Traditional
Communal Water Irrigation System: The Case of
Muang Fai in Northern Thailand’. Arriya conducted her
field work with farmers from 12 villages located in
regional Thailand.
Arriya Mungsunti (2nd from right) reviewing results during fieldwork.
Arriya is currently employed as a researcher at the
Centre for Economics and Development Studies
(CEDS), Padjadjaran University (UNPAD), Bandung,
Indonesia. She remains a research associate at the
Institute for Land, Water and Society at CSU.
Faculty of Business - Sustained Excellence Award
Congratulations to Ms Ana Milena Torres Ahumada,
an Associate Lecturer in Law within the School of
Accounting and Finance, who was recently awarded
the Sustained Excellence Award at the Faculty of
Business 2014 Teaching and Learning Symposium.
The award was presented by Dr Andrea Crampton,
Sub-Dean of Teaching and Learning. The award was
assessed over three years of teaching performance
and
commitment
to
scholarship of teaching
learning.
the
and
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Stephen Tierney - Best Student Paper Award
Congratulations to current PhD candidate, Mr Stephen Tierney, who won the Best Student Paper Award at DICTA
2014 (International Conference on Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications) 25 - 27 November 2014 in
Wollongong with his paper “Affinity Pansharpening and Image Fusion”. All members of the DICTA organizing
committee unanimously recommended that Stephen receive the award. Stephen has Prof Junbin Gao as his principal
supervisor and Dr Michael Antolovich as his co-supervisor.
High Profile Interview on BBC World Service
Associate Professor Yeslam Al-Saggaf was recently interviewed by James Menendez of the BBC
World Service Newshour Program. The interview was about the phenomenon of oversharing,
particularly via social media. The interview can be found via the following link:
lhttp://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/player/p028rz9s.
Best paper at Australasian Conference on Information Systems (ACIS)
Congratulations to Associate Professor Oliver Burmeister and Dr Zahidul Islam of the
School of Computing and Mathematics who with their CSU collaborators, Miriam
Dayhew, The University Ombudsman, and Merrilyn Crichton of the School of
Humanities and Social Sciences won the best paper award at ACIS. The conference,
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the premier Australasian conference on Information Systems, was held from the 8 to
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10 of December in Auckland New Zealand. The paper, ‘Interagency communication
of private mental health data’ was voted best overall paper from the 320 accepted
papers. The team were each awarded a certificate and a cash prize.
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Writing a Literature Review Workshop
Academic Literacy, Learning and Numeracy (ALLAN) Coordinator for Postgraduate Students, Cassily Charles is
holding an on-line writing a literature review workshop over three
days:
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Part 1 – 4pm-5pm, Tuesday, 16 of December
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Part 2 – 4pm-5pm, Wednesday, 17 of December
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Part 3 – 4pm-5pm, Thursday, 18 of December
Details and registration:
https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/LitReviewDecember
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Faculty of Business lunch time seminar series
The lunch time seminar series is in recess until early 2015. A range of internal and external
guest speakers are scheduled for 2015, 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.
January 14
Steve d’Alessandro
School of Management and Marketing
“Hung up on switching”
January 28
Don Hine
School of Cognitive, Behavioural and Social
Sciences, University of New England
TBA
Yapa Bandara and
Kishor Sharma
School of Accounting and Finance
Global production
sharing in Australian
manufacturing: trends,
patterns and
determinants.
Paul Flatau
UWA Centre for Social Impact
TBA
Spatial Data Analysis Network, CSU
What can the Spatial
Data Analysis Network
do to help with, and
enhance, your research?
February 11
February 18
February 25
Gail Fuller
Enquiries about the Seminar Series should be directed to the convenor: Dr Rod Duncan, on 6338 4982 or
[email protected]
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.
Enquiries about the Computing and Mathematics Seminar Series should be directed to the convenor:
Dr Manoranjan Paul on 6338 4260 or [email protected]
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GRANT NEWS
Research Office Deadlines – Leave Enough time to Submit
All research grant and consultancy applications must be submitted to CSU’s Research Office
for general review and authorisation by the DVC (Research) at least ten working days prior
to the external submission date. Grant applications must be submitted with a completed
Notice to Submit (NTS) form signed by the relevant Head of School.
Research Pump Priming Funding
Recently, a new term is being used by funding bodies. The term is particularly popular with
European funding bodies. The term refers to seed funding, whereby small amounts of funding
are provided to researchers to develop proposals with the aim of attracting further funding from
other sources.
Grant Opportunities – Early 2015
Several funding opportunities will open in early 2015. Including:

Australia - Indonesia Council Grants

Australia - China Council Grants
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Australia - Malaysia Council Grants

Council for Australian - Arab Relations Grants

Australia – Japan Council Grants

Australia – Korea Council Grants
Please contact Deborah Munns, Faculty of Business Grants
Development and Liaison if you require any further information via
[email protected]
Merry Christmas to all staff within the
Faculty of Business
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PUBLICATIONS
Peer reviewed papers
Rahman, M. A., and Islam, M. Z. (2014): A Hybrid
Clustering Technique Combining a Novel Genetic
Algorithm with K-Means, Knowledge-Based Systems,
Vol. 71, November 2014, 345 - 365.
Jemal H. Abawajy and Islam, R., (2014) SI:
Applications and Techniques in Information and
Network Security, Guest editorial, Journal of Network
Vol 9, No 11, 2875 – 2877.
Jabbarpour, M. R., Marefata, A., Jaloolia, A., Noor, R.
M., Khokhar, R. H., and Lloret, J., (2014).
Performance Analysis of V2V Dynamic Anchor
Position-based Routing Protocols. Journal of Wireless
Networks, Springer, Published Online, October 2014,
1-19.
Jabbarpour, M. R., Jaloolia, A., Shaghaghia, Noor, R.
M., E., Rothkrantzb, L., Khokhar, R. H., and Anuara,
N. B., (2014). Ant-based Vehicle Congestion
Avoidance System using Vehicular Networks, Journal
Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence,
Elsevier. Vol. 36, 303 – 319
Bopage, L. and Sharma, K. (2014), An analysis of
trade performance of Australian passenger motor
vehicle industry: Trends, patterns and
determinants’.Journal of Asia Pacific Business, 15 (3)
197 – 210.
Bopage, L. and Sharma, K. (2014), Liberalisation and
structural change in Australian automotive industry: An
analysis of trade and productivity performance: 1662 2008, Global Business Review 2014, 15 (3), 447 –
460.
Huda, S., Alazab M., Islam, R., , Abdollalihian, M.,
Yearwood, J. (accepted and forthcoming) Hybrids of
Support Vector Machine Wrapper and Filter based
framework for Malware detection, Journal of Future
Generation Computer Systems.
Ahmed, M., Mahmood, A. and Islam, R. (accepted and
forthcoming) A Study of Anomaly Detection in
Financial Domain, Journal of Future Generation
Computer System.
Sabih, R., Khan A. and. Zia, T.(accepted and
forthcoming) ‘A Multi-hop Cross Layer Decision Based
Routing for VANETS’, Journal of Wireless Networks
(WINET), Springer,
Parvez, M. Z. and. Paul M (accepted and
forthcoming), ‘Novel approaches of EEG signal
classification using IMF bandwidth and DCT
frequency’,Journal of Biomedical Engineering:
Applications, Basis and Communications.
Davaakhuu, O., Sharma, K. and Bandara,Y.,
(accepted and forthcoming) ‘Export performance
during economic transition in Mongolia’, Economic
Analysis and Policy.
Sharma, K. (accepted and forthcoming), ‘Trade
policymaking in a landlocked developing country: The
WTO review of Nepal’, The World Economy.
Bopage, L. and Sharma, K. (accepted and
forthcoming), Trade liberalization and and productivity
performance: Evidence from the Australian passenger
motor vehicle industry’, Global Economy Journal.
Davaakhuu, O., Sharma, K. and Bandara,Y., (2014)
‘Foreign investment in transition economics: Lessons
from the experience of Mongolia, Global Business
Review, 15 (4), 663 – 675.
Accepted and forthcoming papers
Jarratt, D., and Ceric, A ‘The complexity of trust in
business collaborations’, Australasian Marketing
Journal.
Dwivedi, A., McDonald, R. E., and Johnson, L.W.
(accepted and forthcoming), ‘The impact of a celebrity
endorser's credibility on consumer self-brand
connection and brand evaluation’ Journal of Brand
Management.
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Books
Paul, M. And Murshed, M. (2014) ‘Very low bit rate
video coding’, Scholars’ Press.
Podder, P., Paul, M. and Murshed, M. (2014),
"Efficient HEVC Scheme using Motion Type
Categorization," ACM VideoNext: Design, Quality and
Deployment of Adaptive Video Streaming in 10th
International Conference on emerging Networking
EXperiments and Technologies (CoNEXT), Sydney,
Australia, 2 – 5 December 2014.
Podder, P., Paul, M., Chakraborty, S., and Murshed,
M. (2014), "Fast Intermode Selection for HEVC Video
Coding Using Phase Correlation," IEEE International
Conference on Digital Image Computing: Techniques
and Applications (IEEE DICTA-14), Wollongong,
Australia, 25 – 27 November 2014.
Book Chapters
Shahriyar, S., Ali, M., Murshed, M., and Paul, M.
(2014), " Efficient Depth Coding By Exploiting
Temporal Correlations in Depth Maps," IEEE
International conference on Digital Image Computing:
Techniques and Applications (IEEE DICTA-14),
Wollongong, Australia, 25 – 27 November 2014.
Bhattacharya, M, (2014 in press) “Bio-climatic
Modelling: A Machine Learning Perspective”,
Innovations and Advances in Computing, Informatics,
Systems Sciences, Networking and Engineering,
Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering 313, DOI
10.1007/978-3-319-06773-5_56, Springer.
Wilcox, H., Bhattacharya, M and Islam R. (2014 in
press) “Social Engineering through Social Media: A
Comprehensive Investigation on Enterprise Security”,
in Applications and Techniques in Information Security,
Communications in Computer and Information Science
series, Springer.
Sharma, K. (2014) ‘Foreign aid, development and civil
war in Nepal’ in A. Ware (ed), Development in Difficult
Sociopolitical Contexts, Palgrave Macmillan:
Houndmills, Chapter 8, 163 – 179.
Conference papers
Bhattacharya, M. (2014), “Diversity Handling In
th
Evolutionary Landscape”, in Proceedings of the 4
International Workshop on Combinations of Intelligent
Methods and Applications (CIMA 2014),. Limassol,
Cyprus, 10/11 November.
Burmeister O.K., Al-Saggaf, Y., Schwartz, M. &
Johnson, L. (2014). Internet resources to help
Australian ICT professionals identify and solve ethical
challenges, Proceedings of the 25th Australasian
Conference on Information Systems, Auckland, New
Zealand. 8 -10 December 2014.
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