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Clustering and Classification of Maintenance Logs Using Text Data Mining

Spreadsheets applications allow data to be stored with low development overheads, but also with low data quality. Reporting on data from such sources is difficult using traditional techniques. This case study uses text data mining techniques to analyse 12 years of data from dam pump station maintenance logs stored as...

Tags: Technique, Clustering, Australian Computer Society, Spreadsheet, Productivity, Data Mining, Business Intelligence, Marketing Research, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Marketing

White papers 2008-10-03

UserMap - An Adaptive Enhancing of User-Driven XML-to-Relational Mapping Strategies

As the XML has become a standard for data representation, it is inevitable to propose and implement techniques for efficient managing of XML data. A natural alternative is to exploit features of (object-) relational database systems, i.e. to rely on their long theoretical and practical history. The main concern of...

Tags: Strategy, Technique, Annotation, Australian Computer Society, RDBMS, Productivity, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management

White papers 2008-01-01

Delegation Diagrams: Visual Support for the Development of Object-Oriented Designs

Developers have long used pictures to aid design activities and there has been a lot of interest in standard notations for design. The paper has developed delegation diagrams, a graphical notation that provides visual support for developing object-oriented designs and that makes the relationship between the requirements and the design...

Tags: Object-oriented Design, Australian Computer Society, Notation, Object-oriented, Delegation, Ooa/Ood/Oop, Software Development, Software/Web Development

White papers 2008-01-01

Evaluation of a Graduate Level Data Mining Course With Industry Participants

Data mining courses are increasingly being taught at many universities at both undergraduate and graduate levels. This paper reports on a new graduate level data mining course run for the first time in 2007 at a major Australian university. The course had almost 20% enrolments of industry based participants from...

Tags: Australian Computer Society, Business Intelligence, Data Management, Data Mining, Data Mining Course, Databases, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Marketing Research, Software

White papers 2007-10-19

Unsupervised Anomaly Detection in Network Intrusion Detection Using Clusters

Most current network Intrusion Detection Systems IDSs employ signature-based methods or data mining-based methods which rely on labelled training data. This training data is typically expensive to produce. Moreover, these methods have difficulty in detecting new types of attack. Using unsupervised anomaly detection techniques, however, the system can be trained...

Tags: Network, Clustering, Australian Computer Society, Network Intrusion Detection, Training, Intrusion Detection, Workforce Management, Training And Certification, Security, Human Resources

White papers 2007-01-01

Evaluating Swiftpoint as a Mobile Device for Direct Manipulation Input

This paper presents a promising new computer pointing device, called Swiftpoint, that is designed primarily for mobile computer (for example, laptop) users in constrained space. Swiftpoint has many advantages over current pointing devices: it is small, ergonomic, has a digital ink mode, and can be used over a flat keyboard....

Tags: Mobile Computer, Device, Mobile, Australian Computer Society, Mobile Device, Computer, Swiftpoint, Mice, Productivity, Notebooks, Advertising & Promotion, Wireless, Hardware, Peripherals, Notebooks & Tablets, Marketing

White papers 2006-11-13

Autonomic System Management in Mobile Grid Environments

Mobile device integration in grid environments is a challenge for many researchers. Due to the transient nature of mobile devices, service management is a critical, but often overlooked area of research. The paper proposes a distributed broker responsible for the autonomic management of grid services. The broker provides self discovery...

Tags: Mobile, Environment, Australian Computer Society, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing

White papers 2006-10-20

Hybrid Mesh Ad-Hoc On-Demand Distance Vector Routing Protocol

Wireless Mesh Networks WMNs have recently gained increasing attention and have emerged as a technology with great potential for a wide range of applications. WMNs can be considered as a super-set of traditional Mobile Ad-hoc NETworks MANETs, where the network is comprised of mobile client de-vices MESH CLIENTs. In addition...

Tags: Mobile, On-demand, Australian Computer Society, Routing Protocol, Advertising & Promotion, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Marketing

White papers 2006-10-18

Conflict Management for Real-Time Collaborative Editing in Mobile Replicated Architectures

Mobile technology is particularly suited to a fully distributed replicated architecture for collaborative work. Users can maintain their own document copies, and can continue to work in the absence of a central server. However, in a replicated architecture, conflicts can occur when two or more users concurrently modify the same...

Tags: Mobile, Australian Computer Society, Architecture, Mobile Technology, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing

White papers 2006-10-02

A UML 2.0/OCL Extension for Designing Secure Data Warehouses

At present, it is very difficult to develop a methodology that fulfills all criteria and comprises all security constraints in the successful design of data warehouses. If that methodology were developed, its complexity would hinder its success. The solution, therefore, would be an approach in which techniques and models defined...

Tags: Security, Data Warehouse, Australian Computer Society, UML, Business Intelligence, Storage, Databases, Ooa/Ood/Oop, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Hardware

White papers 2006-02-01

A Simplified Approach to Web Service Development

Most languages used for developing web services and clients exhibit properties which make calling remote functions across a network a non-trivial task. The author discusses the problems with existing systems and propose a new model for web services development based on an implementation of XSLT that the authors are currently...

Tags: Web, Australian Computer Society, Web Service, Cloud Computing, Channel Management, Web Services, Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software

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Performance and Cost Tradeoffs in Web Search

Web search engines crawl the web to fetch the data that they index. This paper re-examines that need, and evaluate the network costs associated with data acquisition, and alternative ways in which a search service might be supported. Based upon an analysis of the Research Finder system it introduces a...

Tags: Web, Performance, Australian Computer Society, Internet Search, Local Search, Search

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Establishing Trust in Pure Ad-Hoc Networks

An ad-hoc network of wireless nodes is a temporarily formed network, created, operated and managed by the nodes themselves. It is also often termed an infrastructure-less, self-organized, or spontaneous network. Nodes assist each other by passing data and control packets from one node to another, often beyond the wireless range...

Tags: Network, Australian Computer Society, Node, Wireless, Networking

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Security in Mobile Communications: Challenges and Opportunities

The nature of mobile communication, characterised for example by terminals having poor user interface and limited processing capacity, as well as complex combination of network protocols, makes the design of security solutions particularly challenging. This paper discusses some of the difficulties system architects are faced with as well as some...

Tags: Mobile, Australian Computer Society, Security Solution, Mobile Communication, Advertising & Promotion, Cellular Phones, Security, Marketing, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology

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Non-Invasive Adaptation of Black-Box User Interfaces

In this paper a new method for the non-invasive adaptation of user interfaces is presented. The main idea is not to implement the user interface toolkit as an API, but instead as an object le that redefines the functionality of the API of an already existing toolkit in a generic...

Tags: User Interface, Australian Computer Society

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Judge+on+privacy%3A+Computer+code+trumps+the+lawWhat does Google and Yahoo have to do with the issue?So according to another IDIOT judge, the messenger is at fault for the illegal dealings of a crook. Not to mention that neither Yahoo or Google have anything to do with the mod of PS3 chips in Australia.Since when...

Tags: Government, Vertical industries, Insurance, Yahoo! Inc., Google Inc., Sony Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-02-22

Linux Foundation cynics ask merger or takeover?

Linux Foundation cynics ask merger or takeover?FSF not involvedThe OSDL and the Free Standards Group group merged, not OSDL and FSF. Stallman would not like this post! :-)HUH?I was wondering what Dana was talking about.The Free Standards Group is involved with LSB. The merger is presumed to promote common standards...

Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, GNU/Linux, open source, Linux, IBM Corp., Free Software Foundation, merger, Free Standards Group

Discussion threads 2007-01-22

Trade deal exports DMCA down under

Trade deal exports DMCA down underGeorge has a new dogWhen this one barks it says G'Day! I thought the aussies had more nads than to roll over on something like that. Pathetic. It's bad enough our government bends over for big media interests, now we've got another country...

Tags: Digital media, DMCA, government, Trade Deal, Antartica

Discussion threads 2004-08-03

Suncorp Merges Information Systems With GIO Using CA's CleverPath Portal and Saves 3,000 Hours of Employee Training

Formed in December 1996, Suncorp-Metway Ltd. Suncorp is Australia's sixth largest bank and fourth largest general insurance group. In 2001, Suncorp acquired Australian Mutual Provident Society's GIO general insurance business. The acquisition meant Suncorp needed to integrate 2,000 new staff members into Suncorp's existing systems and business processes. They wanted...

Tags: Information System, Suncorp, Training, Computer Associates International Inc., CA CleverPath, Portals, Insurance, Financial Planning, Web Technology, Internet, Business Operations, Corporate Insurance, Finance

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