Our current and future research is focused on finding effective and efficient solutions to managing, integrating, searching and mining data resources for personal, business and scientific applications. More specifically, we identified two main areas of our research concentration and strength. They are:

Information Infrastructure - main considerations are on data quality management, large scale data integration, workflow technology and process enforcements in general, and collaborative information systems. Application domain includes business process management, regulatory compliance, e-services and e-Learning;

Complex Data Management - main considerations are on performance issues, including efficient processing and knowledge discovery from very large amount of complex data, in particular for spatial, temporal, biological, multimedia, text, sensor and RFID data. Application domain includes bioinformatics, environment management, multimedia, e-health, e-science and the Web.

Major Projects and Grants

<Granting Body, Names, Project Title, Years, Total Amount of Grant>

Australian Postdoctoral Fellow, Ke Deng, Approved Context Exploration: An Effective Way to Enhance Duplication Detection, 2010 – 2012, $85,000

ARC Discovery Project, Heng Tao Shen, Spotting Near-duplicate Sequences from Online Databases, Streams and Communities, 2010-2012, $300,000

ARC Australian Research Council; Southeast Queensland Healthy Waterways Partnership, ZHOU, Xiaofang; HUNTER, Jane; Zhang, Yanchun; Sadiq, Shazia; ABAL, Eva, Enhancement, Integration and Access Services for Smarter, Collaborative and Adaptive Whole-of-Water-Cycle Management, 2008-2010, $270,000

ARC Australian Research Council, BAILEY, Timothy; BURRAGE, Kevin; CHEN, Yi-Ping; FELLOWS, Mike; HEGLAND, Markus; McLACHLAN, Geoffrey; MARSH, Brad; MATTICK, JOHN; MOSCATO, Pablo; RAGAN, Mike; RANGANATHAN, Shoba; TEASDALE, Rohan; ZHOU, Xiaofangå  , ARC Centre of Excellence in Bioinformatics (adminstriated by UQ IMB), 2008-2010, $3,300,000

CSIRO, ZHOU, Xiaofang; TAYLOR, Kerry, A query feedback based approach for distributed and incremental scientific data integration, 2008-2010, $207,843

UniQuest, Heng Tao SHEN, UQLIPS, 2008, $25,000

Australian Teaching and Learning Council (ALTC), previously Carrick, The University of Sydney (USYD): Joseph Davis, Project Leader, Simon Poon, Andrea Stern, Ravi Seethamraju, University of New South Wales (UNSW): Boualem Benatallah, Fethi Rabhi, Hye-young Helen Paik, Dubravka Cecez-Kecmanovic, University of Queensland (UQ): Shazia Sadiq, Marta Indulska, University of Melbourne (UM): Liz Sonnenberg, Lester Johnson, Simon Milton, SSME Learning and Teaching Project, 2008-2010, $218,500

DEST International Science Linkages/ Competitive Grants, SHEN, Heng T; ZHOU, Xiaofang; SHAO, Jie; CUI, Bin, Effective and efficient indexing for realtime video search, 2007-2010, $25,850

ARC Australian Research Council, SADIQ, Shazia W; ORLOWSKA, Maria E, Approaching the limits in Data Quality Management, 2007-2009, $323,531

ARC Australian Research Council, SHEN, Heng T, PreferPeer: Towards Efficient Location-aware Preference Search in Mobile Peer-to-Peer Databases, 2007-2009, $168,000

ARC Australian Research Council , LIN, Xuemin (UNSW); ZHOU, Xiaofang, Computing order statistics over Data Streams (Administered by UNSW), 2006-2008, $310,000

ARC Australian Research Council, ZHOU, Xiaofang; SHEN, Heng T; BRUZA, Peter; SONG, Dawei, Efficient Similarity Query Processing in High Dimensional Databases, 2006-2008, $210,000

Australian Research Council LIEF Project (Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment and Facilities), Xiaofang Zhou et al, Multimedia Computing, Production, Management and Distribution for HDTV and its Applications, 2006, $425,000

Australian Department of Education, Science and Training (DEST), Xiaofang Zhou, Jane Hunter et al, Dataset Acquisition, Accessibility and Annotation e-Research Technology Project (DART), 2005-2007, $3.24 million

ARC Discovery, Guido Governatori, Robert Colomb, Shazia Sadiq. A Formal Approach to Resource Allocation in Service Oriented Marketplaces, 2005-2007, $262,000

Australian Research Council , Xiaofang Zhou, Maria Orlowska, Jane Hunter et al, Infrastructure for large-scale data resource sharing between research institutions - an environmental case study, 2005-2006, $100,000

ARC Australian Research Council, Australian National University, Charles Darwin University, CSIRO - ICT Centre, DSTC CRC, Edith Cowan University, Griffith University, Macquarie University, Microsoft Research Asia, Monash University, NICTA, QUT, SAP Australia (Corporate Research Centre), The University of Sydney, University of Melbourne, University of NSW, UQ, University of South Australia, University of Technology Sydney, University of Wollongong, Victoria University of Technology, ZHOU, Xiaofang; KUBIK, Kurt K T; RAGAN, Mark; GREEN, Peter; HAVAS, George; SADIQ, Shazia; ABRAMSON, David; SHANKS, Graeme; SRINIVASSAN, Bala; WEBER, Ron; ZASLAVSKY, Arkady; FENG, Dagan; ZOMAYA, Albert; FEKETE, Alan; JIN, Jesse; ZHOU, Bing; QUIGLEY, Aaron; LIN, Xuemin; BENATALLAH, Boualem, SHEPHERD, John; WONG, Raymond; GREGOR, Shirley; LIANG, Weifa; BURN, Janice; KOTAGIRI, Ramamohanarao; WEBSTER, Rachel; JOHNSTON, Robert; CARROLL, Jennifer; ZHANG, Yanchun, VARADHARAJAN, Vijay; EADES, Peter, ABEL, David; TAYLOR, Kerry, OKEEFE, Christine, HAWRYSZKIEWYCZ, Igor; DEBENHAM, John, DEHNE, Frank, GAMMACK, John; BRUZA, Peter; SONG, Simon; JOSANG, Audun; ROSEMANN, Michael; STUMPTNER, Markus; LIU, Chengfei; ZHANG, Mingjie; LUEG, Christopher; MA, Wei-Ying, ARC Research Network in Enterprise Information Infrastructure (EII), 2004-2009, $1,600,000

ARC Australian Research Council, SATTAR Abdul, GOVERNATORI Guido, ORGUN Mehmet, REYNOLDS Mark, Combinig Modal Logics for Dynamic and Multi-Agent Systems, 2004-2008, $480,000

ARC Discovery, Maria Orlowska, Shazia Sadiq, Peter Green. A new formal framework for Service Oriented Process Communication, 2004-2006, $295,000 2003-2006

ARC Linkage, Maria Orlowska, Shazia Sadiq. Wasim Sadiq,å  Karsten Schulz (SAP Research), Harmonized Messaging - A new foundation for automated process communication, 2003-2008,å  $377,000 (ARC), $593,880 (SAP)

Australian Research Council, Xiaofang Zhou, with Prof Mark Ragan and others, ARC Centre for Bioinformatics (ACB), $3.96 million

Australian Research Council Discovery Project, Xiaofang Zhou, Xuemin Lin (UNSW) and Yanchun Zhang (VUT), Multi-resolution Spatial Query Processing, 2003-2005, $178,240

Australian Research Council Discovery Project, Phoebe Chen (Deakin), Kevin Burrage, Mark Ragan and Xiaofang Zhou, Integrating Database Technologies and Visual Analysis in Bioinformatics for Genome Data, 2003-2005, $334,000

Australian Research Council (ARC Small),å  Xiaofang Zhou, Visual Spatial Query Processing, 2000, $19,000

CRC for Distributed Systems Technology Centre, Wasim Sadiq, Maria Orlowska, Shazia Sadiq, Tony O'Hagan, Charley Ho, Joe Lin. Praxis: Extensible Modelling and Coordination of Enterprise Workflows. 2000- 2005