Industry to benefit from world-class 'intelligence'
Published on 10 December, 2008
A range of industries are set to benefit from access to world-class research, with the establishment of CQUniversity's Centre for Intelligent and Networked Systems (CINS)...
Intelligent Systems has been a research strength within the University for the past decade, and this has now been formally recognised.
An intelligent system can be defined as one that adapts its behaviour to meet its goals in a changing environment.
Over the past decade, the scope of intelligent systems research has expanded from its past focus on individual system behaviour to now address the issues involved in networked behaviour.
This is evidenced through the emergence of major new research areas such as network control, sensor networks, ubiquitous radio frequency ID and supply chain management.
According to Associate Dean (Research & Innovation) Professor Qing-Long Han, we see intelligent networked systems behaviour as being the convergence of 4 major areas - networks, computational intelligence, data mining and agent-based systems. The leaders in these areas are Professor Han, Professor Brijesh Verma, Professor Kevin Tickle, and Associate Professor Dennis Jarvis, respectively.
The hallmark of work in these areas has been a focus on quality research as evidenced by top journal publications, quality research higher degree completions and national competitive grants such as Professor Han's collaborative ARC (Australian Research Council) Discovery grant, Professor Verma's collaborative ARC LIEF (industry links) grant and an ARC Research Network grant.
"The intent is that the Centre will continue to conduct and manage world-class research within these themes through quality research outputs in terms of journal publications, research higher degree completions and competitive grants, but that synergies will be established across the themes (and with other University research centres) to facilitate engagement with both regional industry and the wider research community," Professor Han said.
"The Centre is sponsored by the ARC Research Network on Intelligent Sensor, Sensor Network and Information Processing (ISSNIP). The sponsorship will help Centre with its networking activities such as inviting distinguished national/international researchers, organising workshops and collaborating with other researchers, etc.," Associate Professor Verma said.
CQUniversity Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Research & Innovation) Professor Jennelle Kyd was present to help launch the centre.
Professor Kyd noted that a more collective effort would enable the 20 or so researchers associated with the new centre to become more strategic and to seek opportunities aligned with other research groups.
