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Two papers on truth discovery from Web data accepted at CIKM 2015
Two research papers from CDIT researchers have been recently accepted by the 24th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2015), to be held in Melbourne, Australia in October. Both papers target on challenging issue of discovering truth from conflicting, noisy, and massive Web data. Approximate Truth Discovery via Problem Scale Reduction. Xianzhi Wang, […]
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Our PhD student, Yongrui Qin, secured a permanent lecturer position in a UK university
Mr Yongrui Qin, who plans to submit his PhD dissertation in August 2015, already successfully secured a permanent lecturer position at University of Huddersfield, UK. Yongrui will start his appointment in March 2016. This is a fantastic achievement. Congratulations, Yongrui!
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Research Contract: Computing Infrastructure Performance and Interoperability Research – Security. K. Falkner and Y. Yarom, DSTO Research Contract ($170,000) (2015)
This research agreement will be supporting research in the areas of combat system security, continuing our existing collaborative research relationship with DSTO in the areas of Security and Virtualisation within distributed environments. The areas of research for this Research Agreement will be: Research into threats applicable to Virtualisation technologies in a common pool of resources approach […]
Research Contract: Computing Infrastructure Performance and Interoperability Research – Integration. K. Falkner and C. Szabo, DSTO Research Contract ($465,000) (2015)
This research agreement will be supporting research in the areas of combat system margins recovery and integration, as well as the research and development of a combat system modelling and analysis capability, continuing our existing collaborative research relationship with DSTO within the space of Systems Execution Modelling within distributed application contexts. The areas of research […]
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Cheng Chang joins CDIT
Cheng Chang joins CDIT as a master student working on the automatic identification of rumors on Twitter.
Several Internship Positions were Secured by CDIT Members
Recently, members in CDIT have secured several competitive Internship positions. Ali Shemshadi: Research Internship at The Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI), Galway, Ireland Wenjie Ruan: Research Internship at IoT Research Center at Tsinghua University, Beijing, China Jack Gerrits: Internship in Microsoft, Redmond, USA. Well done and congratulations!
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Dr. Lina Yao received the Vice Chancellor’s Women’s Research Excellence Award
Dr. Lina Yao received the 2015 Vice Chancellor’s Women’s Research Excellence Award for her outstanding achievements as an early career researcher in the area of Internet of Things. This is a fantastic achievement given that the competition was very strong. Well done and congratulations!
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Xiu Fang is awarded a SIGMOD 2015 Travel Award
Xiu Fang is awarded a SIGMOD 2015 Travel Award, to support her presentation at SIGMOD PhD Symposium. SIGMOD is the most prestigious conference in the DB area.
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CDIT Presenting at the I-CORE Day
Yuval Yarom has recently attended the Israeli Center of Research Excellence in Algorithms (I-CORE) day, where he was invited to present our work on last-level cache side-channel attacks. Last-Level Cahce Side-Channel Attacks are Practical System virtualisation increases hardware utilisation by sharing the hardware resources between several virtual machines. While these virtual machines are supposed to […]
Special issue on “Big Data Analytics and the Web, IEEE Transactions on Big Data (TBD)”
Last few years have seen the rapid increase of sheer amount of data produced and communicated over the Web. Such Big Data are generated from all kinds of sources and applications such as social network services, cloud services, knowledge bases, and intelligent terminals, and often in a wide variety of formats such as unstructured, semi-structured, and structured. A […]
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