Doctoral Consortium Programme

Date: December 2, 2013

Location: Commerce Building, Room C02.07

09.30-09.35
Welcome – Dr.John Thangarajah

09.35-10.25
“What is a PhD?” – Prof.Albert Yeap

10.25-10.40
Coffee Break

10.40-11.20
Student presentations Group 1 (3 minute thesis style)
Muhammad Yasir – An agentbased architecture for the coordination of locally connected Microgrids
Henry Petersen – High recall screening of medical literature for systematic reviews
Guohua Liang – Investigating the Performance of Ensemble Learners for Highly Imbalanced Classification
Petr Kalina – Developing Efficient Agentbased Algorithms for the Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Windows
Leonel Melgar – Enhancing an Integrated Earthquake Simulator

11.20-12.00
“The (Dog’s) Life of a Modern Academic” – Dr. Jeremy Pitt

12.00-13.30
Lunch break with mentors

13.30-14.20
Student presentations Group 2 (3 minute thesis style)
Yoosef Abushark – Assuring The Correctness of Agent Design Artefacts Interaction Protocols
Khalda Ali – Artificial Neural Networks for Ecosystems Analysis
Muhaini Othman – Spatial Temporal Pattern Analysis for Stroke Prediction
Marzieh Jahanbazi – Agent based modeling of social evolution of primitive human communities
Mehdi Farhangian – How personality affects teamwork
Kimitaka Asatani – Diversity of value and community formation

14.30-15.15
Poster Session Group 1

15.15-15.30
Coffee Break

15.30-16.15
Poster Session Group 2

16.15-17.00
Panel Discussion (student driven Q&A)

Panel: Assoc. Prof. Michael Winikoff, Dr. Jeremy Pitt                                                             Prof. Aditya Ghose Prof. Albert Yeap

17.00 Drinks/Dinner (TBA)
Chair Dr. John Thangarajah, RMIT University, johnt@rmit.edu.au