FACULTY OF BUSINESS
RESEARCH NEWSLETTER
ISSUE 4 – MARCH 2014
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Welcome
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Did You Know?
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WELCOME
This year certainly has started with plenty of activity. We held a Faculty Research
planning day in January, Journal Writing Workshop in February that had 28 people
attend, and have a journal writing retreat planned for early April. In between there have
been a number of Australian Research Council Discovery Grant Applications submitted,
as well as other grants, including one European grant.
Current Projects
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Recent Travels
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Staff Profile:
Michelle Evans
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Congratulations
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ARC Dates
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Hosting a
Conference
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Professional
Development
This edition of our Faculty Research Newsletter brings more stories about the various
research projects being undertaken by staff in our Faculty. This includes Professor Adam
Steen’s research on youth homelessness, work by the Mining Research Lab and my own
work evaluating a Soil Carbon Pilot program in the Lachlan Valley.
Our staff have made some notable contributions in national and international
conferences, which you can read about in this issue. The SecureComm conference on
ICT Security was held for the first time in Australia and was organised and hosted by
researchers from the School of Computing and Mathematics. Professor Kevin Parton
was a keynote speaker at the Conference on the Economics of Climate Change run by
the prestigious Economy and Environment Program for Southeast Asia. Lastly, Dr Lan
Snell and Professor Lesley White won a best paper award at ANZMAC for their work on
organisational ambidexterity. There are also reports from Geoff Bull and Stephen Tierney
about the international conferences that they have attended, that have been based on
their PhD research. In both cases the selection of papers was very competitive (less than
25% selected), so their selection says a lot about the quality and currency of their
research.
This edition also introduces a new academic to our Faculty: Dr Michelle Evans. Michelle
comes to the Faculty from the Melbourne Business School. She has an excellent
research record, and very interesting professional experience and research interests
which I’m sure that you will enjoy reading about.
For our seminar series this year we are again planning to host an excellent range of
speakers from other universities in Australia and overseas, as well as from our own staff.
We hope that you can attend some of these – don’t forget to check what’s coming up by
referring to this newsletter.
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Robocup: Future
Researchers
Professor Mark Morrison
Sub-Dean Research
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Publications
Next Issue: The next issue will be published in June 2014. To contribute or suggest a
story, please email Deborah Munns of the Faculty of Business Research Office at
[email protected]
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DID YOU KNOW?
ERA 2015 Update
Preparations for Excellence in Research for Australia
(ERA) 2015 are underway. This will be the third full
evaluation of research quality across Australia’s higher
education institutions, with previous rounds in 2010
and 2012.
ERA is an assessment system that evaluates the
quality of the research conducted at Australian
universities by discipline. It identifies the research
strengths of individual universities and the sector as a
whole.
The Australian Research Council (ARC) recently
sought feedback from stakeholders, including
universities and other members of the research sector
about the draft Journal and Conference Lists. These
lists define journals and conferences that are scholarly,
peer reviewed, publish original research and are
eligible for ERA 2015 submissions. Over 1500 users
registered for the consultation process.
The ARC aims to release the final ERA 2015
submission documentation by mid-2014.
ERA aims to identify and promote excellence across
the full spectrum of research activity in Australia’s
higher education institutions. It evaluates the quality of
the research undertaken in Australian universities
against national and international benchmarks.
Deadline for 2013 Research Publications Closes Soon
The annual publication collection for 2013 publications
is currently open for inclusion in the 2014 Higher
Education Research Data Collection (HERDC).
All CSU staff, including adjuncts, and
students are required to submit
details of eligible research
publications to CRO (CSU Research
Output). Publications can include
journal articles, conference papers
and chapters, books and book
chapters.
Items submitted will be assessed for inclusion in the
University’s annual HERDC return to the federal
Department of Education.
The deadline for submitting publications to CRO is
Tuesday, 15 April 2014. For more information about
how to enter publications into CRO please go to:
http://www.csu.edu.au/research/performance/cro/subm
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Open Access Requirements for ARC and NHMRC Grant Publications
A new mandated policy from the NHMRC and ARC
requires that any publications arising from an
[ARC/NHMRC] supported research project must be
deposited into an open access institutional repository
within a twelve (12) month period from the date of
publication. If a publication cannot be included in the
institutional repository, a justification for its noninclusion must be provided in the Final Report.
This policy applies to articles resulting from funding
Rules and Agreements released after 1 January 2013
(ARC) and articles accepted for publication from 1st
July 2012 (NHMRC).
If you have a grant you will need to upload your
publication to CRO as soon as possible after the paper
has been accepted.
Further information about open access is available in
the Open Access Guide available from the Division of
Library Services website, please go to:
http://libguides.csu.edu.au/content
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CURRENT PROJECTS
The Cost of Youth Homelessness
Professor Adam Steen, from the School of Accounting
and Finance, along with Associate Professor David
MacKenzie from Swinburne Institute for Social
Research and Professor Paul Flatau from the
University of WA Centre for Social Impact, are
examining the lifetime cost to the community of
supporting youth who become homeless along with the
effects of this on the nation's economic prosperity.
The Australian Research Council Linkage Project, The
Costs of Youth Homelessness in Australia, has partner
agencies Mission Australia, The Salvation Army and
Anglicare Canberra-Goulburn.
five months couch-surfing within the past year, and the
average stint was for two weeks at any one time. In
addition forty-two per cent of those who couch-surfed
also spent more than three months in crisis
accommodation in the past 12 months.
Researchers also found that almost half of participants
(45 per cent) in the study were diagnosed with a
mental illness, and of that 45 per cent half of them had
not sought help for their condition in the past 12
months. Of those participants who sought crisis or
emergency accommodation, 65 per cent were female.
This study is the first longitudinal study done in
Australia on a national level that focuses on the
economic cost of providing services for youth
homelessness. The aim of the project is to determine
the service usage costs of being homeless, as well as
the social costs to the community and personal costs
to the young people who experience homelessness.
The project is in its third and final year. The first wave
of the three annual surveys interviewed 257
participants from across Australia with the exception of
the Northern Territory and Tasmania.
Preliminary results from the first 12 months show
thirty-nine per cent of participants spent an average of
Professor Adam Steen
Launch of Multidisciplinary Cyberspace Program
Professor Terry Bossomaier recently travelled to
Canberra to attend the program launch of the ‘Strategy
and Statecraft in Cyberspace’ program. Terry is a
principal investigator on this three
year program.
The National Security College has
brought together a multidisciplinary
team of leading experts from
Australia, the United States and the
United Kingdom to create an integrated conceptual,
analytical and computational modelling framework to
explore the challenges of cyberspace as a new
domain.
The new Strategy & Statecraft In Cyberspace program
involves CSU’s Centre for Research in Complex
Systems, the ANU National Security College (NSC),
the Centre for Applied Cybersecurity Research at
Indiana University in the United States, the Strategy
and Security Institute at the University of Exeter in the
UK, the Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation at
the University of California and Security Research
Institute at Edith Cowan University.
The Minister for Communications, Malcolm Turnbull,
provided the keynote address at the launch. Senior
members of the public sector, corporations and the
diplomatic corp. attended the launch.
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Mining Team Digging for New Research Opportunities
Members of the CSU Mining Research Laboratory
(see article in Issue 3 of Research News) take a
proactive approach to research by constantly
investigating potential research opportunities. The
team regularly arranges visits to mines in NSW to
learn more about some of the problems experienced in
the daily operations of the mine.
The team recently visited Glencore’s Baal Bone
Colliery in Lithgow. The team met with Glencore’s
Mark Bukeley, Operation Manager and Gary Lindford,
Technical Services Manager with the view to
submitting an Australian Coal Association Research
Program (ACARP) grant. The team were taken
underground to examine some of the coal mining
operations. This underground experience gave the
team an opportunity to determine potential areas of
research that could potentially assist mining
companies such as Glencore in overcoming problem
areas.
(Above) Gearing up to go underground
L-R: Dr Michael Antolovich, Dr James Tulip, Dr Wayne Moore and
PhD student, Fenglu Ge
Perceptions of a Soil Carbon Pilot
Professor Mark Morrison, along with Dr Jason Crean
of the NSW Department of Primary Industries (DPI), is
currently researching the perceptions of landholders of
a soil carbon market-based instrument pilot that was
conducted in the Lachlan Catchment in Central West
NSW.
The pilot project
was conducted by
the NSW DPI,
Office of
Environment and
Heritage and
Lachlan
Catchment
Management
Authority (CMA)
on farms in the
Central West of
NSW. The soil
carbon trading
scheme was
piloted on farms in the Canowindra, Cudal and
Manildra areas. Approximately 300 farmers in the
Cowra Trough area (consisting of Canowindra, Cudal
and Manildra areas) were eligible to participate in the
pilot.
The current research has two goals. The first goal of
the project is to better understand landholder’s
perceptions of the pilot that was conducted in their
area. The second goal of the project is to identify ways
of improving the design and delivery of future soil
carbon incentive programs.
In February, a series of five focus groups were held
with farmers who had participated or shown interest in
the pilot study. An additional 500 farmers in the area
were sent a paper based survey that will determine
their perceptions of the pilot study and how it might be
improved.
Analysis of both the focus group and survey data was
taking place at the time of writing, with the results
expected to be sent to the project partners by midMay.
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RECENT TRAVELS
Geoff Bull
Geoff Bull of the Mining Research Laboratory within
the School of Computing and Mathematics presented
a paper titled ‘Image Segmentation Using Random
th
Features’ at the 5 International Conference on
Graphic Image Processing (ICGIP 2013). ICGIP 2013
was held at the Regal Riverside Hotel, Hong Kong
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from the 26 to 27 of October 2013.
ICGIP is the main annual Graphic and Image
Processing conference aimed at presenting current
research being carried out. The idea of the conference
is for scientists, scholars, engineers and students from
Universities throughout the world and private industry
to present ongoing research activities, and hence to
foster research relations between the Universities and
the industry. The conference provides opportunities for
the delegates to exchange new ideas and application
experiences face to face, to establish business or
research relations and to find global partners for future
collaboration.
memory usage can be excessive, and the
segmentations are often poor.
Geoff’s paper addresses the need to improve the
processing time of Normalized Cuts while improving
the segmentations. A significant proportion of the time
in calculating Normalized Cuts is spent computing an
affinity matrix.
A new algorithm has been developed that selects
random features using compressed sensing
techniques to reduce the computation needed for the
affinity matrix. The new algorithm, when compared to
the standard implementation of Normalized Cuts for
segmenting images from the BSDS500, produces
better segmentations in significantly less time.
The paper was published in January 2014 in Proc.
SPIE 9069, Fifth International Conference on Graphic
and Image Processing (ICGIP 2013).
(Above) ICGIP 2013 Cover Art
(Above) A session at ICGIP 2013
Geoff’s paper, which was co-authored with Professor
Junbin Gao and Dr Michael Antolovich, was one of
only 180 papers selected from over 800 submissions,
that was published.
Geoff’s paper was based on his research for his PhD.
This paper presents a novel algorithm for selecting
random features via compressed sensing to improve
the performance of Normalized Cuts in image
segmentation.
Normalized Cuts is a clustering algorithm that has
been widely applied to segmenting images, using
features such as brightness, intervening contours and
Gabor filter responses. Some drawbacks of
Normalized Cuts are that computation times and
Geoff also went on to present a paper at VISAPP2014
International Conference on Computer Vision Theory
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and Applications, in Lisbon Portugal from the 5 to 8
of January 2014. There he presented a paper titled
‘Delineation of Rock Fragments by Classification of
Image Patches Using Compressed Random Features’.
Geoff reports that the conferences enabled him to talk
to many researchers from universities throughout the
world who are conducting research in similar fields. He
has already been in touch with several researchers he
met at the conferences and hopes that this will lead to
future collaboration.
Geoff Bull
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Professor Kevin Parton
Professor Kevin Parton of the School of Management
and Marketing recently presented a keynote address
titled ‘Climate Change Adaptation: Great Planning,
Little Action’ to the Economics of Climate Change in
Southeast Asia conference. The conference was held
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in Siem Reap, Cambodia between the 27 and 28 of
February 2014.
The conference was organised by the Economy and
Environment Program for Southeast Asia in
partnership with the East Asian Association of
Environmental and Resource Economics (EAAERE).
The conference focused on an array of research topics
on the economics of climate change. The conference
focused in particular on:

Climate change adaptation
behaviours/strategies/policies;

Climate change impacts at the macro,
regional, local or community level;

Climate change and ecosystem services;

Economic modelling of climate change;

Climate change disaster risk and insurance
market in Southeast Asia; and

Climate change mitigation.
(Above) Prof.Ian Coxhead, Arriya Mungsunti and Prof. Kevin Parton.
The paper showed that if climate change is wellbounded, as described in global climate change
models, then its slow moving characteristics over a
number of decades mean that most climate change
adaptation by business or government will not be
urgent. There will be time to adapt to the changing
climate as it unfolds.
Despite this, there are some instances where it is
sensible to make climate change adaptation decisions
now. These are where the future climate event has a
high probability of occurring, as in the case of an
increasing number of heatwaves during an Australian
summer. Another example is where the climate
change effect is already occurring, such as high tides
eroding properties in Small Island Developing States
(SIDS).
The paper goes on to show that the analysis that is the
basis of the above climate change adaptation
prescriptions is incomplete. It depends on global
climate change models that are probabilistically well
bounded. If, as most climate scientists suggest,
climate change is discontinuous, then such
discontinuities will need to be incorporated into our
analysis. This suggests that new methods of appraisal
will be required that probably should incorporate
intuitive and heuristics approaches. These methods
are at an embryonic stage of development.
Professor Parton found this to be one of the best
international conferences that he has ever attended. In
addition to his, there were three other keynote
presentations. All were memorable. What was just as
encouraging was the large number of young
professionals in attendance. There were some
excellent contributed papers, including one from
China, which showed the enormous benefits that
China would obtain from the introduction of a carbon
tax.
In addition, Professor Parton was able to renew links
for further collaboration at the conference, as well as
establish additional future contacts. This was
especially important to his work
in the Philippines.
Kevin reports that the conference was well attended,
with 146 participants. Most countries in Southeast Asia
were represented, as well as China.
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Kevin presented his paper at the 2 Plenary Session.
Kevin’s paper was based on some of his earlier work
on climate change adaptation.
Professor Kevin Parton
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STAFF PROFILE
Dr Michelle Evans
Dr Michelle Evans has recently joined the School of
Management and Marketing as a Senior Lecturer in
Leadership, and will be based at the Bathurst campus.
Michelle joins CSU after working as a Research Fellow
at Melbourne Business School (MBS) in the Asia
Pacific Social Impact Leadership Centre leading the
Indigenous Business and Leadership program.
Michelle established, and continues, to program direct
Australia’s only Indigenous Business Master Class
program – MURRA (fishnet in Woi Wurrung language)
Prior to working at MBS, Michelle was the founding
head of the Wilin Centre for Indigenous Arts and
Cultural development at the Victorian College of Arts.
Michelle remained at the Wilin Centre for seven years.
Michelle started her academic career at CSU having
graduated with a B Communications (Theatre/Media)
in 1994. She went on to obtain a PhD in Management,
a Master of Creative Arts and a Graduate Diploma in
Arts Management from the University of Melbourne.
Michelle’s research interests revolve around
leadership, specifically Indigenous leadership;
entrepreneurship, specifically Indigenous
entrepreneurship; creative arts; and qualitative
research methodologies.
Michelle is currently working on two Australian
Research Council Linkage projects. The first one is
investigating Australian Indigenous Entrepreneurial
Leadership. The Indigenous business sector
represents one of the key drivers of Australian
economic growth. However, little is known about
Indigenous business in Australia, including their
business routines, how businesses grow and respond
to external factors, and how the Indigenous leaders of
these enterprises manage the tension of leading a
successful business and the cultural responsibilities of
being a part of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
community. Michelle, along with Professor Ian
Williamson (MBS), in partnership with Supply Nation
and Kinaway are conducting a multi-method
longitudinal study.
The second project is investigating Aboriginal young
people in Victoria and the use of digital storytelling.
The emphasis in this project is on using a
‘decolonising’ methodology through the form of digital
storytelling to enable Aboriginal communities to act as
experts in establishing the terms of ‘literacy’ that are
relevant to their experience and to the dissemination
and archiving of cultural knowledge in appropriate
ways. The aims are about understanding digital
technology as: (i) a cultural and social resource; (ii) as
a tool for intergenerational knowledge exchange; and
(iii) for supporting Indigenous knowledge.
Additionally, Michelle has just finished a Fulbright
fellowship trip to the United States replicating her
doctoral study on Indigenous arts leadership. Michelle
was able to spend substantial time in Alaska, northern
California and Hawaii. She interviewed First Alaskan,
American Indian and Native Hawaiian artists between
August and December 2013. Michelle stated ‘I’m
excited to continue the linkages I established in the US
and look forward to writing up the research I have
collected over the coming year’.
Michelle has a chapter called ‘Exploring Australian
Indigenous Artistic Leadership’, in the soon to be
released book Restorying Indigenous Leadership:
Wise Practices in Community Development from the
Banff Centre Press in Canada. Michelle also has a few
papers under review with journals Human Relations
and Leadership and is working on a commissioned
book chapter ‘Leadership and Difference’ with
Professor Amanda Sinclair for a new Critical
Leadership Studies textbook to be published by Sage
late in 2014.
Away from CSU, Michelle likes to walk her dogs and
spend time with her partner. She also loves reading
and watching movies. She has also recently taken up
group hula hooping in Bathurst’s Machattie Park, and
is happy to report that at this early stage she is able to
get the hoop to spin five times around.
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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
DBA
Why Do Most Strategic Change
Projects Fail?
Leo Buerki and Mark Farrell
Francois Lamy
PhD
Studying Recreational Ploydrug Use
Through an Ontology Agent-Based
Simulation
Terry Bossomaier and James
Crane
Ying Zhang
PhD
Towards Better Cross Cultural
Adjustment: From Cultural Distance to
Cultural Intelligence
Eddie Oczkowski
Mark Chan
DBA
Implementation of the Balanced
Scorecard in an Engineering
Consultancy Company in Hong Kong
Yuk Kau Chan
Hubert Braendle
Best Paper Award at ANZMAC
Congratulations to Dr Lan Snell who was awarded
‘Best Paper’ for the Services Marketing Track at the
Australian New Zealand Marketing Academy
Conference (ANZMAC) held in Auckland, New
Zealand, December 1 – 5 2014. ANZMAC is a
competitive conference with a blind review process.
The paper, Organisational ambidexterity: An
examination of mediating factors on the relationship
between marketing practices and growth – quality of
work life ambidexterity’ was co-authored with Dr’s
Phyra Sok and Lesley White.
The paper was based on research which had received
Compact funding. Firms that are capable of exploiting
existing capabilities and exploring new opportunities
are said to be ambidextrous. Drawing on the
organisational ambidexterity literature, this study
explores how service firms achieve high performance
in both economic and non-economic domains. Using a
sample of 509 small service firms, this study examines
the impact of marketing practices on business growth
– quality of work life ambidexterity. Findings suggest
that the relationship between marketing practices and
the growth – quality of work life ambidexterity is
mediated by entrepreneurial self-efficacy and passion
for work. We contribute to the literature by
demonstrating the importance of individual
mechanisms necessary to enable ambidexterity. This
study offers empirical evidence for the practice –
performance relationship of small service firms by
investigating mediating variables that impact this
relationship to achieve growth – quality work of life
ambidexterity.
Dr Snell has been invited to submit the full paper to a
special edition of Managing Service Quality, an
international journal with an ERA A ranking.
Dr Lan Snell
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Paper Accepted by CVPR 2014
Congratulations to Mr Stephen Tierney, a first year
PhD student based at the CSU Mining Research
Laboratory in Bathurst, and his supervisor Professor
Junbin Gao from the School of Computing and
Mathematics, who have had their paper ‘Subspace
Clustering for Sequential Data’ accepted by Computer
Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR). This is a great
achievement for a first year PhD student.
Stephen is conducting research in the fields of
computer vision and image processing. He is currently
working on a number of problems within these fields
such as image reconstruction, image segmentation,
image fusion, pose estimation and alpha matting.
Congratulations to Stephen.
CVPR is the premier annual Computer Vision event
comprising the main CVPR conference and several colocated workshops and short courses.
CVPR received 1807 valid submissions for the 2014
event. After a rigorous double-blind review procedure,
with up to six reviewers, only 350 papers were
accepted.
Stephen Tierney
Professor Junbin Gao
CVPR 2014 will take place in June at the Greater
Columbus Convention Centre in Columbus, Ohio.
Stephen will travel to Ohio to present the paper in
poster format.
ARC: IMPORTANT 2014 DATES
The Australian Research Council (ARC) has released the schedule of 2014 important dates. A complete list of dates
can be downloaded from the ARC website: http://www.arc.gov.au/media/important_dates.htm
Release of
Funding Rules
Proposals
Open
Proposals
Close
Discovery Early Career Researcher Award for
funding commencing in 2015
Mid November 2013
December
2013
2 April 2014
Discovery Indigenous for Funding commencing 2015
Mid November 2013
February 2014
26 March
2014
Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment and Facilities for
funding commencing in 2015
January 2014
February 2014
16 April 2014
Scheme
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TOP TIER CONFERENCE HOSTED BY CSU
Dr Tanveer Zia of the School of Computing and
Mathematics reports on the successful hosting of
a top tier conference in the area of ICT security.
information assets and critical infrastructure and how
to mitigate and eliminate these threats.
In September 2013, SecureComm was held in Sydney,
Australia for the first time, and was hosted by Charles
Sturt University.
In the past nine years, SecureComm has emerged as
a leading international forum that covers all aspects of
information and communications security with
particular emphasis on security in communication and
networking. SecureComm also serves as a venue for
learning about the emerging trends in security and
privacy research, giving participants the opportunity to
network with experts in the field.
The strategic objectives of the SecureComm are to
provide a common platform for security and privacy
experts in academia, industry, and government as well
as practitioners, standards developers and policy
makers to engage in discussions about the common
goals and to explore important research directions in
the field.
The conference also coincided with the recent
announcement of the Australian Government’s 15
Strategic Research Priorities (SRPs) where Improving
Cybersecurity for all Australians is an identified priority.
Due to an increase in the scale and sophistication of
cyber crimes conducted through communication
networks, it is imperative for the research community
to ensure protection of data disseminated through
these networks. Online information assets are also
threatened because of the increasing trend towards
adoption of cloud computing and virtualisation.
Stakeholders need to be aware of potential threats to
At SecureComm 2013, over 70 high quality papers
were submitted from over 15 countries. Unfortunately,
the acceptance rate set for this conference did not
allow us to accept all papers. In this respect, special
thanks to the Technical Program Committee members
for handling the challenging task of selecting 21
outstanding papers.
In addition to the papers presented at the conference,
we also had four notable keynote speakers:
- Mike Holm, Operations Manager, AusCERT
(Computer Emergency Response Team in Australia)
- James Turner, Chair, AISA (Australian Information
Security Association) Advocacy Group
- Mark Goudie, Regional Manager – Investigations,
Dell SecureWorks
- Jiankun Hu, Professor and Research Director Cyber
Security Lab, Australian Defence Force Academy
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Organising the SecureComm in Sydney has helped
the School of Computing and Mathematics by bringing
together some selected ICT security experts from
around the globe. This has also provided young
researchers an opportunity to present their research
findings and seek feedback from the visiting experts.
Book published
Post conference
Dr Zia is grateful to the Faculty of Business for
providing generous support to organise the
conference, The NSW Government for their
sponsorship; as well as the European Alliance for
Innovation (EAI); and the Institute for Computer
Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications
Engineering (ICST) for allowing SecureComm 2013 to
be held in Australia.
Dr Zia also thanks his CSU colleagues who played a
role on the organising committee:
Junbin Gao – Local Chair
Maumita Bhattacharya – Local Chair
Quazi Mamun – Publication Chair
Md Rafiqul Islam – Workshop Chair
Sabih-ur Rehman – Sponsorship Chair
Saman Shafigh – Web Chair
Dr Zia reports that all committee members worked
extensively on organising the conference for a period
of over twelve months.
The proceedings of SecureComm2013 have been
published by Springer in book form. It has been
produced as both a printed soft covered book and an
ebook.
The book is grouped in topical sections on: security
and privacy in mobile, sensor and ad hoc networks;
malware, botnets, and distributed denial of service;
security of emerging technologies, VoIP, peer-to-peer
and cloud computing encryption and key management;
security in software and machine learning; network
and system security model; security and privacy in
pervasive and ubiquitous computing.
If you are interested in reading more about
cybersecurity, the book will be available through the
CSU library.
If you are interested in learning more about organising
a top tier conference please contact Dr Tanveer Zia on
6933 2024 or [email protected].
Dr Tanveer Zia
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PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Faculty of Business lunch time seminar series
The lunch time seminar series have commenced for 2014. A range of internal and
external guest speakers are scheduled for 2014, please check the Faculty of
Business webpage http://www.csu.edu.au/faculty/business/facultyresearch/activities/seminar-series for up-to-date information.
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. Upcoming seminars include:
16 April 2014
30 April 2014
Dr Jun Zhou
DECRA researcher Griffith
University
Reflection Estimation and Object
Detection.
Dr Lei Wang
University of Wollongong
Computer Vision/Machine Learning.
Later speakers include Professor Manzur Murshed of Federation University on 3D Video Compression,
Dr Gour Karmakar of Federation University on Sensor Network and Professor Tapan Saha of University
of Queensland on Condition Monitoring of Electrical Equipments. The dates for these speakers will be
featured in a future issue of the newsletter.
Enquiries about the Computing and Mathematics Seminar Series should be directed to the convenor:
Dr Manoranjan Paul on 6338 4260 or [email protected].
Business Seminar Series usually run from 1pm – 2pm on a Wednesday in the School Meeting
Rooms on each campus (C2-431 in Bathurst, 764-205 in Thurgoona and 28-214 in Wagga). A light lunch
is provided starting at 12:30pm on each campus. Upcoming seminars include:
Lynette Ainsworth
(Honours)
CSU
Professor Kevin
Parton
CSU
Climate change adaptation: Great
planning, little action.
16 April 2014
Dr Thadavillil
Jithendranathan
Opus College of
Business, University of
St. Thomas
Volatility spillovers into frontier
markets.
23 April 2014
Nicole Hodge
(Honours)
CSU
Exploring the level of brand
orientation in SMEs: A case study
approach.
7 May 2014
Abas Mirzaei (PhD
student)
Macquarie University
Developing an objective long-term
oriented measure to monitor
brand health.
4 June 2014
Dr Dianne McGrath
CSU
Engagement with CSR in the
credit union sector.
2 April 2014
9 April 2014
Enquiries about the Seminar Series should be directed to the convenor: Dr Rod Duncan, on 6338
4982 or [email protected].
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The Faculty of Business invites staff to attend a writing retreat
The writing retreat will be held at the St. Clements Retreat and Conference Centre
Galong (between Boorowa and Harden) between Monday 7 April 2014 and
Thursday 10 April 2014.
The retreat offers all those that attend an opportunity to work on academic papers
and manuscripts without the distraction of the office environment.
As well as providing attendees 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.
RSVP: End of March
For further information regarding this
event please contact Louise Cleary, Research Administrative
Officer on 6338 6680 or [email protected]
Faculty of Business Workshops and Retreats
The Faculty of Business offers a range of workshops and retreats throughout the year.
Both students and staff are welcome to attend the workshops and retreats. For further information
regarding these events please contact Louise Cleary, Research Administrative Officer on 6338 6680 or
[email protected]
Topic
Date
Location
Journal Writing Workshop
23 – 26 June
Bathurst
Writing Retreat
25 – 28 August
TBA
Writing Retreat
3 - 6 November
TBA
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ROBOCUP: SPARKING THE INTEREST OF
FUTURE RESEARCHERS
Preparations are underway for the RoboCup Junior
competition which will be held in June at both the CSU
Bathurst and Wagga Wagga campuses. This
competition is an important means of developing links
between the university and the broader community,
and sparking the interest of the next generation of
researchers.
Charles Sturt University has been the destination for
robotic innovators in Bathurst since 2009 and has now
expanded to the Riverina.
RoboCup Junior Australia is a project-oriented
educational initiative that supports local, regional and
international robotic events for primary and secondary
students. The focus of RoboCup Junior is the
development of teamwork skills as well as technical
skills in an environment of participation, fun and
excitement.
Teams, of up to four, work in a co-operative and
supportive environment. Teams choose to take up the
challenge at their own skill and interest level. RoboCup
Junior offers three distinct challenges;
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Dance

Rescue

Soccer
Teams use a Lego Mindstorm kit and a laptop loaded
with the Lego software to build and control a robot in
their selected level of challenge.
In 2014, links with the School of Teacher Education
are also being developed by the CSU coordinators.
Student teachers have been invited to participate in
the student leader training sessions and competition
days.
For more information regarding the competition please
contact the competition coordinator, Mr Allen Benter.
Allen is located in the CSU Mining Research
Laboratory on the Bathurst campus.
Please contact Allen on 02 6338 4225 or
[email protected]
The winners of the CSU Competitions will progress to
the State Titles with the chance to go to the National
Championship.
Allen Benter
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PUBLICATIONS
Peer reviewed papers
Books
Duncan, R., Perez-Mujica, L., & Bossomaier, T.
(2014) ‘Using agent-based models to design social
marketing campaigns’ Australasian Marketing Journal,
22(1), 36 - 44.
Huang, X., (2013) ‘Usage QoS: Estimating the QoS of
Web Services through Online User Communities, ACM
Transactions on the Web (TWEB), 8(1), December
2013.
Morrison, M., Duncan, R., & Parton, K. (2013)
‘Targeting segments in the Australian community to
increase support for climate change policy,’
Australasian Marketing Journal, 21(4), 212-217.
Shen, J.,Tang, N.Y., & D’Netto, B. (2014). A Multilevel
Analysis of the Effects of HR diversity management on
employee knowledge sharing: The Case of Chinese
Employees. The International Journal of Human
Resource Management. Vol. 25 (12) 1720 - 1738.
Snell, L.,White, L., and Dagger, T. (2014). A sociocognitive approach to customer adherence in health
care. European Journal of Marketing, 48(3/4).
Stocker, R & Bossomaier, T. (2014) Networks in
Society: Links and Language, Pan Stanford
Publishing, Singapore.
Conference papers
Bull, G., Gao, J., & Antolovich, M. (2013). Image
segmentation using random features. 2013 5th
International Conference on Graphic and Image
Processing (ICGIP 2013).Hong Kong.
Accepted and forthcoming papers
Guo Y., Berman, M., & Gao, J. (accepted &
forthcoming) ‘Group Subset Selection for Linear
Regression Computational Statistics and Data
Analysis’, Computational Statistics and Data Analysis.
Jiang, X., Gao, J., Shi, D., & Wang, T., (accepted &
forthcoming) ‘TPSLVM: A Dimensionality Reduction
Algorithm based on Thin Plate Splines’, IEEE
Transactions on Cybernetics.
Hong, X., Gao, J, Jiang, X., & Harris, C., (accepted &
forthcoming) Fast Identification Algorithms For
Gaussian Process Model, Neurocomputing .
Yin ,M., Gao, J., Tien, D. & Cai, S. (accepted &
forthcoming) Blind Image Deblurring via Coupled
Sparse Representation, Journal of Visual
Communication and Image Representation.
Bull, G., Gao, J., & Antolovich, M. (2014).
Delineation of rock fragments by classification of
image patches using compressed random features. In
VISAPP 2014 international conference on computer
vision theoryand applications. Lisbon, Portugal.
Huang, X. (2014) ‘Edge Filtering for Exploration of
Graphs’, IEEE Symposium on Large-Scale Data
Analysis and Visualisation 2013, Atlanta, Georgia,
USA, 13 -14 October.
Tierney, S., Bull, G., & Gao, J. (2013). Image matting
for sparse user input by iterative refinement. Digital
Image Computing: Techniques and Applications.
Hobart, Australia.
Chen S., Hong, X., Gao, J., & Harris, C. (accepted &
forthcoming) Complex-valued B-Spline Neural
Networks for Modelling and Inverse of Hammerstein
Systems, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and
Learning Systems.
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