Systems Modelling

Methods and approaches to representing, organising, assessing, testing and interpreting data.

Research topic "Systems Modelling" is further divided into following sections:

• Applied Modelling
• Data Compilation, Organisation, Analysis
• Development of Modelling Methods
• Visualisation, Translation Systems, Animation

Involved research staff

• Malcolm Cox - Faculty of Science / Natural Resource Sciences
  telephone: 07 3138 1649 fax: 07 3138 1535 e-mail: m.cox@qut.edu.au
• Les Dawes - Faculty of Built Environment and Engineering / Urban Development
  telephone: 07 3138 2776 fax: 07 3138 1170 e-mail: l.dawes@qut.edu.au
• Mark Dwyer - Faculty of Science / Mathematical Sciences
  telephone: 07 3138 4382 mobile: 0431 255 691 e-mail: m2.dwyer@qut.edu.au
• Fiona Fielding - Faculty of Science / Mathematical Sciences
  telephone: 07 3138 8314 e-mail: f.fielding@qut.edu.au
• Ashantha Goonetilleke - Faculty of Built Environment and Engineering / Urban Development
  telephone: 07 3138 1539 fax: 07 3138 1170 e-mail: a.goonetilleke@qut.edu.au
• Peter Grace - Faculty of Science / Natural Resource Sciences
  telephone: 07 3138 2610 mobile: 0434 609 099 fax: 3138 2330 e-mail: pr.grace@qut.edu.au
• Grant Hamilton - Faculty of Science / Mathematical Sciences
  telephone: +61 7 313 88313 fax: +61 7 313 82310 e-mail: g.hamilton@qut.edu.au
• Andrew Hammond - Faculty of Science / Natural Resource Sciences
  telephone: 07 3138 4185 fax: 07 3138 1535 e-mail: ap.hammond@qut.edu.au
• Fawang Liu - Faculty of Science / Mathematical Sciences
  telephone: 07 3138 5194 mobile: 0410 688679 fax: 07 3138 2310 e-mail: f.liu@qut.edu.au
• Kerrie Mengersen - Faculty of Science / Mathematical Sciences
  telephone: 07 3138 2063 fax: 07 3138 2310 e-mail: k.mengersen@qut.edu.au
• Paul Roe - Faculty of IT / Software Engineering and Data Communications
  telephone: 07 3138 9323 fax: 07 3138 9390 e-mail: p.roe@qut.edu.au
• Michael Rosemann - Faculty of Information Technology / Information Systems
  telephone: 07 3138 9473 mobile: 0408 735 363 fax: 07 3138 9390 e-mail: m.rosemann@qut.edu.au
• Ian Turner - Faculty of Science / Mathematical Sciences
  telephone: +61 7 3138 2259 fax: +61 7 3138 2310 e-mail: i.turner@qut.edu.au
• Robert Webb - Faculty of Built Environment an Engineering / Urban Development
  telephone: 07 3138 2434 fax: 07 3138 1170 e-mail: r.webb@qut.edu.au
• Gregory Webb - Faculty of Science / Natural Resource Sciences
  telephone: 07 3138 2804 fax: 07 3138 1535 e-mail: ge.webb@qut.edu.au
• Jinglan Zhang - Faculty of Information Technology / Software Engineering and Data Communication
  telephone: 07 3138 1954 fax: 07 3138 1214 e-mail: jinglan.zhang@qut.edu.au

Related research projects

• Monitoring and modelling of saltwater intrusion into heterogeneous aquifer systems
  - Anh and Turner, ARC SPIRT
  project time frame: 2000
  project budget: $233,000
  project participants: Ian Turner
   
• High Performance Computational Tools and Visualisation Techniques for Investigating Saltwater Intrusion in Coastal Aquifers in Queensland
  - Queensland Parallel Supercomputing Foundation.
  project budget: $50,000
  project participants: Ian Turner
   
• Improving Water Management through the use of Immersive Visualisation and Advanced Computational Tools
  - Turner, Young and Cox, QPSF Technology Diffusion Project
  project time frame: 2005-2006
  project budget: $40,000
  project participants: Ian Turner, Mark Dwyer, Malcolm Cox
   
• Queensland DPI Forestry, Fraser Coast Estate-Morphology Assessment Program
  - Developing GIS-bsed methods for landform assessment to support planation management. Establishment of organised data layers for numerous parameters, and use of MCE (multiple criteria evaluation) methods.
  project time frame: 2005-2007
  project budget: $135, 240
  project participants: Malcolm Cox, Andrew Hammond, Nate Peterson
   
• Trace element geochemistry of microbialites: towards an independent record of biogenicity, microbial communities, and seawater chemistry
  - ARC Discovery Grant in collaboration with Geological Survey of Western Australia and University of Canterbury, NZ
  project budget: $157 000
  project participants: Gregory Webb
   
• Integrated Decision Support System for Asset Management in the Water Utility Industry
  - Ma, Pettitt, Tang, Wang, Zhang, CIEAM (Australian Business Funding)
  project time frame: 2004-2007
  project budget: $67 583
  project participants: Jinglan Zhang
   
• Gooburrum Salinity Simulation
  - Visualisations of the NRM&E conceptual model of the Gooburrum groundwater area will be built using the extensive data that has already been collected by NRM&E and advanced three-dimensional visualisation environments including, immersive stereoscopic models. These visualisations will take advantage of the QPSF VISAC facility.
  project participants: Mark Dwyer
   
• Optimising environmental and socio-economic planning and management decision-making for international airport expansion
  - The project developed a decision-support model to optimise environmental and socio-economic planning and management for the Brisbane Airport expansion. The project was funded by the Brisbane Airport Corporation and the Commonwealth Government through an ARC SPIRT grant
  project participants: Ashantha Goonetilleke
   
• Expert elicitation and Bayesian modelling in water
  - ARC Linkage Project
  project time frame: 2005-2006
  project budget: $160, 000
  project participants: Kerrie Mengersen (Chief Investigator)
   
• Doing Bayesian analysis better
  - ARC Discovery Project
  project time frame: 2006-2008
  project budget: $240, 000
  project participants: Kerrie Mengersen (Chief Investigator)
   
• Measuring and presenting uncertainty in complex natural resource monitoring programs
  - ARC Linkage Project
  project time frame: 2005-2007
  project budget: $300, 000
  project participants: Kerrie Mengersen (Chief Investigator)
   
• ARC Centre in Dynamic Systems and Control (Program Leader Bayesian Learning)
  - ARC Centre
  project time frame: 2003-2008
  project budget: $7.5m ($800, 000 for program)
  project participants: Kerrie Mengersen (Investigator)
   
• Dynamic spatio-temporal approach to environmental health modelling
  - ARC Discovery Project with Investigator Tong
  project time frame: 2003-2005
  project budget: $212, 000
  project participants: Kerrie Mengersen (Cheif Investigator)
   
• Statistical methods for remote sensing analysis
  - ARC SPIRT
  project time frame: 2002-2004
  project budget: $135, 000
  project participants: Kerrie Mengersen (Investigator)
   
• New statistical methodology for applied Bayesian analysis
  - ARC Large Project with Investigator Pettitt
  project time frame: 1999-2001
  project budget: $187, 000
  project participants: Kerrie Mengersen (Chief Investigator)
   
• Decision support for biodiversity in forests
  - ARC SPIRT with Investigator McElwain
  project time frame: 1998-2000
  project budget: $160, 000
  project participants: Kerrie Mengersen (Chief Investigator)
   

Publications

• Caldelweyer, D; Zhang, J.; Pham, B: OpenCIS - Open Source GIS-based Web Community Information System - International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 2006, in print
• McNeil N.H.; Cox, M.: Relationship between conductivity and analysed composition in a large set of natural water samples, Queensland, Australia - Environmental Geology, 39, 12, 1325-1333, 2000
• Beeson, B; Dwyer, M.; Thompson, D: Server-Side Visualisation of Massive Datasets - e-science, pp. 542-548, First International Conference on e-Science and Grid Computing (e-Science 05), 2005
• Kuhnert, P.M.; Martin, T.G.; Mengersen, K.; Possingham, H.P.: Using prior information to assess the impact of cattle grazing on bird density: A Bayesian approach using expert opinion - Environmetrics. 16, 1-13, 2005
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