1998 Research Publications

Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Books and Chapters

Gill, M.C. and Zomaya, A.Y. Obstacle Avoidance in Multi-Robot Systems: Experiements in Parallel Genetic Algorithms, Singapore, World Scientific Publishing (1998)

Matveev, A.S. and Savkin, A.V. Reduction and Decomposition of Differential Automata: Theory and Applications, Hybrid Systems: Computation and Control, eds T.A. Henzinger, S. Sastry, Berlin Germany, Springer-Verlag, 1: pp 319-333 (1998)

Ngan, K.N. and Yap, C.W. Combined Source-Channel Video Coding, Signal Recovery Techniques for Image and Video Compressions and Transmission, eds A Katsaggelos, N. Galatsanos, USA, Kluwer Academic Publishers, pp 287-315 (1998)

Zaknich, A. and Attikiouzel, Y. General Regression Techniques Based on Spherical Kernel Functions for Intelligent Processing, Brain-like Computing and Intelligent Information Systems, eds S.-I. Amari, N. Kasabov, Singapore, Springer-Verlag, Singapore Pte. Ltd., 1: pp 189-211 (1998)

Zomaya, A.Y. and Kazman, R. Simulated Annealing Techniques, Handbook of Algorithms and Theory of Computation, ed M.J. Atallah, USA, CRC Press, pp 37.1-37.19 (1998)

Journal Articles

Abeysekara, S., Cantoni, A. and Sreeram, V. A Comprehensive Analysis of Stuff Threshold Modulation used in Clock Rate Adaptation Schemes, IEEE Transactions on Communications, 46:August, pp 1088-1096 (1998)

Agnihotri, O.P., Musca, C.A. and Faraone, L. Current status and issues in the surface passivation technology of mercury cadmium telluride infrared detectors, Semiconductor Science and Technology, 13: pp 839-845 (1998)

Bartolini, G., Ferrara, A. and Savkin, A.V. Reduced-order adaptive control based on the concept of robust strictly positive realness, IMA Journal of Mathematical Control and Information, 15:4, pp 363-378 (1998)

Benton, S., Choquet, B., Horst, R., Ngan, K.N. and Tanimoto, M. Special Issue on 3D Video Technology, Signal Processing: Image Communications, 14:1-2, pp 1-194 (1998)

Bezdek, J.C., Chandrasekhar, R. and Attikiouzel, Y. A Geometric Approach to Edge Detection, IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, 6:1, pp 52-71 (1998)

Bezdek, J.C., Reichherzer, T.R., Lim, G. and Attikiouzel, Y. Multiple prototype classifier designs, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Part C: Applications and Reviews, 28:1, pp 67-79 (1998)

Bundell, G.A. Modelling of distributed systems with timed event graphs, Computer Systems Science & Engineering, 13:1, pp 49-54 (1998)

Cahill, M.J.L., Pendock, G.J. and Sampson, D.D. Coherence Multiplexing Passive Optical Networks for Customer Access, Trends in Optics and Photonics, 20: pp 61-64 (1998)

Choong, P.L. and deSilva, C.J.S. A Comparison of the Performance of Three ANN Architectures in the Prediction of Axillary Lymph Node Metastasis in Breast Cancer, Smart Engineering Systems Design, 1: pp 149-162 (1998)

Diab, M., Sreeram, V. and Liu, W.Q. Model Reduction of 2-D Separable-Denominator Transfer Functions Via Quasi-Kalman Decomposition, IEE Proceedings - Circuits, Devices and Systems, 145:February, pp 13-18 (1998)

Diab, M., Liu, W.Q. and Sreeram, V. A New Approach for Frequency Weighted L2 Model Reduction of Discrete-Time Systems, Optimal Control: Applications and Methods, 19:May, pp 147-167 (1998)

Diab, M., Sreeram, V. and Liu, W.Q. Frequency Weighted Identification and Model Reduction via Extended Impulse-Response Gramians, International Journal of Control, 70:1, pp 103-122 (1998)

Dokuchaev, N.G. and Savkin, A.V. The pricing of options in a financial market model with transaction costs and uncertain volatility, Journal of Multinational Financial Management, 8: pp 353-364 (1998)

Fan, H. and Ngan, K.N. Disparity map coding based on adaptive triangular surface modelling, Signal Processing: Image Communication, 14:1-2, pp 119-130 (1998)

Gill, M.C. and Zomaya, A.Y. A Cell Decomposition Based Collision Avoidance Algorithm for Robot Manipulators, Cybernetics and Systems, 29:2, pp 113-135 (1998)

Gill, M.C. and Zomaya, A.Y. A Parallel Collision Avoidance Algorithm for Robot Manipulators, IEEE Concurrency, 6:1, pp 68-78 (1998)

Henry, J. and Livingstone, J. Further aspects of damage-induced junction mechanisms and the role of phosphorus movement in double-layer in-chamber annealed In-Sn/ITO/InP solar cells, Journal of Physics - Condensed Matter, 10: pp 2845-2859 (1998)

Lauder, R.D.T., Badcock, J.M., Holloway, W.T. and Sampson, D.D. WDM Ring Network Employing a Shared, Multi-Wavelength Source, IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, 10: pp 294-296 (1998)

Lee, M. and Ngan, K.N. Video coding with a variable block-sizing technique in the wavelet transform domain, SPIE Journal of Electronic Imaging, 7:3, pp 539-547 (1998)

Liu, W.Q., Yan, W.Y., Teo, K.L. and Sreeram, V. On initial Jumps for Singular Systems in Connection with LQ Optimal Control, Journal of the Franklin Institute, 281: pp 1207-1213 (1998)

Liu, W.Q., Sreeram, V. and Teo, K.L. Model Reduction for State-Space Symmetric Systems, System and Control Letters, 34:4, pp 209-215 (1998)

McLaughlin, R.A. Randomized Hough Transform: Improved ellipse detection with comparison, Pattern Recognition Letters, 19:3-4, pp 299-305 (1998)

McLaughlin, R.A. and Alder, M.D. The Hough Transform versus the UpWrite, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 20:4, pp 396-400 (1998)

Meier, T. and Ngan, K.N. Automatic segmentation of moving objects for video objects plane generation, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems on Video Technology, 8:5, pp 525-538 (1998)

Mertins, A., Gosse, K., Karp, T., Moreau de saint-Martin, F. and Duhamel, P. MMSE design of modulated and tree-structured filter banks for efficient tradeoffs between rate, distoriton, and decoder complexity, IEEE Transactions on CIrcuits and Systems II, 45:8, pp 1044-1056 (1998)

Mertins, A. and Kliewer, J. Oversampled cosine-modulated filter banks with low system delay, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, 46: pp 941-955 (1998)

Mertins, A. Subspace approach for the design of cosine-modulated filter banks with linear-phase prototype filter, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, 46:10, pp 2812-2818 (1998)

Moheimani, S.O.R., Savkin, A.V. and Petersen, I.R. Robust Filtering, Prediction, Smoothing and Observability of Uncertain Systems, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems - I: Fundamental Theory and Applications, 45:4, pp 446-457 (1998)

Musca, C.A., Siliquini, J.F., Parish, G., Dell, J.M. and Faraone, L. A monolithic dual-band HgCdTe infrared detector, Journal of Crystal Growth, 184-185: pp 1284-1287 (1998)

Musca, C.A., Siliquini, J.F., Smith, E.P.G., Dell, J.M. and Faraone, L. Laser Beam Induced Current Imaging of Reactive Ion Etching Induced n-Type Doping in HgCdTe, Journal of Electronic Materials, 27: pp 661-667 (1998)

Musca, C.A., Antoszewski, J., Dell, J.M., Faraone, L., Piotrowski, J. and Nowak, Z.Multi-Heterojunction Large Area HgCdTe Long Wavelength Infrared Photovoltaic Detector for Operation at Near Room Temperatures, Journal of Electronic Materials, 27: pp 740-746 (1998)

Ngan, K.N., Panchanathan, S., Sikora, T. and Sun, M.T. Special Issue on segmentation, description, and retrieval of video content, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, 8:5, pp 521-696 (1998)

Ngan, K.N., Panchanathan, S., Sikora, T. and Sun, M.T. Special Issue on Segmentation, Description and Retrieval of Video Content, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems on Video Technology, 8:5, pp 521-696 (1998)

Ngan, K.N., Panchanathan, S., Sikora, T. and Sun, M.T. Special Issue on Representation and Coding of Images and Video I, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems on Video Technology, 8:5, pp 797-920 (1998)

Nguyen, T.T. Earth - return path impedances of underground cables. Part 1: Numerical integration of infinite integrals, IEE Proceedings, Generation, Transmission and Distribution, 145:6, pp 621-626 (1998)

Nguyen, T.T. Earth - return path impedances of underground cables. Part 2: Evaluations using neural networks, IEE Proceedings, Generation, Transmission and Distribution, 145:6, pp 627-633 (1998)

Olariu, S., Stojmenovic, I.and Zomaya, A.Y. Time Optimal Proximity Graph Computations on Enhanced Meshes, Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, 49:2, pp 204-217 (1998)

Piotrowski, J., Nowak, Z., Antoszewski, J., Dell, J.M., Faraone, L. and Musca, C.A. A novel multi-Heterojunction HgCdTe long-wavelength infrared photovoltaic detector for operation under reduced cooling conditions, Semiconductor Science and Technology, 13: pp 1209-1214 (1998)

Pulfrey, D.L. and Nener, B.D. Suggestions for the Development of GaN-Based Photodiodes, Solid-State Electronics, 42: pp 1731-1736 (1998)

Salleh, S. and Zomaya, A.Y. Multiprocessor Scheduling using Mean-Field Annealing, Future Generation Computer Systems, 14:5-6, pp 393-408 (1998)

Sampson, D.D., Calleja, M. and Griffin, R.A.Crosstalk Performance of Coherent Time-Addressed Photonic CDMA Networks, IEEE Transactions on Communications, 46:3, pp 338-348 (1998)

Savkin, A.V. and Petersen, I.R. Robust filtering and model validation for uncertain continuous-time systems with discrete and continuous measurements, International Journal of Control, 69:1, pp 163-174 (1998)

Savkin, A.V. and Petersen, I.R. Robust Stabilization of Discrete-Time Uncertain Nonlinear Systems, Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications, 96:1, pp 87-107 (1998)

Savkin, A.V. and Petersen, I.R. Robust state estimation and model validation for discrete-time uncertain systems with a deterministic description of noise and uncertainty, Automatica, 34:2, pp 271-274 (1998)

Savkin, A.V. and Petersen, I.R. Optimal Stabilization of Linear Systems via Decentralized Output Feedback, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 43:2, pp 292-294 (1998)

Savkin, A.V. Simultaneous H-infinity control of a finite collection of linear plants with a single nonlinear digital controller, Systems and Control Letters, 33:5, pp 281-289 (1998)

Savkin, A.V. and Evans, R.J. A New Approach to Robust Control of Hybrid Systems over Infinite Time, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 43:9, pp 1292-1296 (1998)

Savkin, A.V. and Petersen, I.R. Almost Optimal LQ-Control Using Stable Periodic Controllers, Automatica, 34:10, pp 1251-1254 (1998)

Savkin, A.V. Regularizability of complex switched server queueing networks modelled as hybrid dynamical systems, Systems and Control Letters, 35: pp 291-299 (1998)

Siliquini, J.F., Dell, J.M., Musca, C.A., Faraone, L. and Piotrowski, J.Characterisation of reactive-ion-etching-induced type-conversion in p-type HgCdTe using scanning laser microscopy, Journal of Crystal Growth, 184-185: pp 1219-1222 (1998)

Siliquini, J.F., Dell, J.M., Musca, C.A., Smith, E.P.G, Faraone, L. and Piotrowski, J. Estimation of doping density in HgCdTe p-n junctions using scanning laser microscopy, Applied Physics Letters, 72:52-54, p C1 (1998)

Skolnick, M.S., Fisher, T.A. and Whittaker, D.M. Strong coupling phenomena in quantum microcavity structures, Semiconductor Science and Technology, 13: pp 645-669 (1998)

Smith, E.P.G., Siliquini, J.F., Musca, C.A., Antoszewski, J., Dell, J.M., Faraone, L. and Piotrowski, J. Mercury annealing of reactive ion etching induced p- to n-type conversion in extrinsically doped p-type HgCdTe, Journal of Applied Physics, 83: pp 5555-5557 (1998)

Tan, C.C. and Zomaya, A.Y. A Frequency-Dependent Direct Adaptive Scheme for Robot Manipulators: A Case of Model following Motion Control, Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems, 22: pp 1-21 (1998)

Togneri, R. Parallel program analysis on workstation clusters: Memory utilisation and load balancing, Concurrency: Practice and Experience, 10:8, pp 631-653 (1998)

Vurgaftman, I., Meyer, J.R., Hoffman, C.A., Redfern, D., Antoszewski, J., Faraone, L. and Lindemuth, J.R. Improved quantitative mobility spectrum analysis for Hall characterization, Journal of Applied Physics, 84: pp 4966-4973 (1998)

Vurgaftman, I., Meyer, J.R., Dell, J.M., Fisher, T.A. and Faraone, L. Simulation of mid-infrared HgTe/CdTe quantum-well vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers, Journal of Applied Physics, 83: pp 4286-4291 (1998)

Wong, K.P. and Yurjevich, J. Evolutionary-Programming-Based ALgorithm for Environmentally-Constrained Economic Dispatch, IEEE Transactions on Power System, 13:2, pp 301-306 (1998)

Xiao, C.S., Sreeram, V., Liu, W.Q. and Venetsanopoulos, A.N. Identification and Model Reduction of 2-D Systems via the Extended Impulse-Response Gramians, Automatica, 34: pp 93-101 (1998)

Xu, M.G., Fisher, T.A., Dell, J.M. and Clark, A. Wide optical bandwidth asymmetric Fabry-Perot reflection modulator using the quantum confined Stark effect, Journal of Applied Physics, 84: pp 5761-5765 (1998)

Xu, M.G., Nener, B.D. and Dell, J.M. Design of externally tuned asymmetric fibre Fabry-Perot electroabsorption optical modulators, IEE Proceedings Optoelectronics, 145: pp 344-352 (1998)

Zaknich, A. A Nonlinear Correlator detector for Doppler Shifted Chirp Signals, Australian Journal of Intelligent Information Processing Systems, 4:2, pp 142-150 (1998)

Zaknich, A. Introduction to the Modified Probabilistic Neural Network for General Signal Processing Applications, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, 46:7, pp 1980-1990 (1998)

Zomaya, A.Y., Wright, M. and Nabhan, T.M. On the Obstacle Avoidance Problem, Cybernetics and Systems, 29:8, pp 807-868 (1998)

Zomaya, A.Y., Ercal, F. and Olariu, S. Bio-Inspired Solutions to Parallel Processing Problems, Future Generation Computer Systems, 14:5-6, pp 271-273 (1998)

Zomaya, A.Y. Simulation in Parallel and Distributed Computing Environments, Computer Systems: Science and Engineering, 13:1, pp 3-4 (1998)

Zomaya, A.Y., Clements, M. and Olariu, S. A Framework for Reinforcement-Based Scheduling in Parallel Processor Systems, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, 9:3, pp 249-260 (1998)

Conference Publications

Bignell, W., Saffron, H., Nguyen, T.T. and Humpage, W.D. Investigation of the dependencies of power system transient stability on generator inertia characteristics, Australasian Universities Power Engineering Conference, Hobart, Australia, The University of Tasmania, 1: pp 254-260 (1998)

Braunl, T. and Graf, B. Robot Soccer with Local Vision, 5th Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Singapore, Kent Ridge Digital Labs, 1: pp 14-23 (1998)

Braunl, T. CIIPS Glory Autonomous Robot Soccer Players with Local Intelligence, RoboCup-98: Robot Soccer World Cup II, Paris, France, The RoboCup Federation, 1: pp 497-502 (1998)

Cahill, M.J.L., Pendock, G.J., Summerfield, M.A., Sampson, D.D. and Lowery, A.J. Optimum Optical Amplifier Location in Spectrum-sliced WDM Passive Optical Networks for Customer Access, Conference on Optical Fiber Communications, Washington, Optical Society of America, 2: pp 403-404 (1998)

Carey, P., Sreeram, V., Leung, Y.K. and Liu, W.Q. Simulataneous Stabilisation: A Minimax Approach, 1998 World Automation Congress, Anchorage, Alaska, USA, 1: pp ISIAC 090.1-090.6 (1998)

Chai, D. and Ngan, K.N. Locating facial region of a head-and-shoulder color image, Third International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition, Nara, Japan, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, Inc., 1: pp 124-129 (1998)

Chai, D. and Ngan, K.N. Content-based bit allocation and rate control for classical MC-DCT video coding systems, IEEE International Workshop on Intelligent Signal Processing and Communication Systems, Melbourne, Australia, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, Inc., 2: pp 601-605 (1998)

Chai, D. and Ngan, K.N. Foreground/background video coding using H.261, SPIE International Conference on Visual Communications and Image Processing '98, San Jose, USA, Society of Optical Engineering (SPIE), USA, 3309: pp 434-446 (1998)

Chandrasekhar, R. and Attikiouzel, Y. The Need to Standardize and Calibrate Databases of Digitized Mammograms, Fourth International Workshop in Digital Mammography, Dordrecht, The Netherlands, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1: pp 503-504 (1998)

Choong, P.L. and deSilva, C.J.S. Maximum Entropy Estimation vs Multivariate Logistic Regression: Which should be used for the analysis of small binary outcome data sets?, 20th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Hong Kong, IEEE, pp 1602-1605 (1998)

Cook, G. and Zaknich, A. Chirp Sounding the Shallow Water Acoustic Channel, International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, Seattle, Washington, USA, IEEE, 4: pp 2521-2524 (1998)

Dokuchaev, N.G. and Savkin, A.V. A Hedging Investment Strategy with a Positive Average Gain without Market Estimation, Computational Engineering in Systems Applications, Lille, France, CESA'98 Conference Secretariat, 2: pp 94-99 (1998)

Dokuchaev, N.G. and Savkin, A.V. Asymptotic Arbitrage in a Stochastic Financial Market Model, Computational Engineering in Systems Applications, Lille, France, CESA'98 Conference Secretariat, 2: pp 100-104 (1998)

Fan, H. and Ngan, K.N. A mesh-based disparity map coding for steroscopic video sequence, Tenth IEEE Workshop on Image and Multidimensional Signal Processing, Alpback, Austria, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, Inc., 1: pp 123-126 (1998)

Fernando, T. and Trinh, H. Stability of 2-D Discrete Systems in the Rosser State Space Setting, 4th International Conference on Information Systems, Analysis and Synthesis, Orlando, Florida, USA, International Institute of Informatics and Systemics, 3: pp 671-676 (1998)

Fernando, T. and Trinh, H. A Riccati Equation Approach to the Design of Simple Structured Controllers for Linear Systems, World Multiconference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics, Orlando, Florida, USA, International Institute of Informatics and Systemics, 4: pp 25-30 (1998)

Fernando, T. and Trinh, H. Stability Margin of Two-dimensional Digital Filters, The 6th IEEE International Workshop on Intelligent Signal Processing and Communication Systems, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, IEEE, 2: pp 743-747 (1998)

Gao, F., Liu, W.Q., Sreeram, V. and Teo, K.L. L_2 Optimal Model Reduction for Discrete-Time Time Delay Systems, 5th International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision, Singapore, IEEE, 2: pp 960-964 (1998)

Godfrey, K. Capabilities of Polar Backpropagation in Polar Classification and Image Colour Analysis, Second IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Processing Systems, Gold Coast, QLD, Australia, IEEE, 1: pp 183-187 (1998)

Godfrey, K. Digital Color Quantization Patterns in CIE Spaces and Artifacts from Misaligned Color Planes, Sixth Color Imaging Conference: Color Science, Systems and Applications, Scottsdale, Arizona, USA, IS&T - The Society for Imaging Science and Technology, 1: pp 209-213 (1998)

Heng, W.J., Ngan, K.N. and Lee, M.H. Validity of scene cut detection using bit rate information of VBR video, International Symposium on Image, Speech, Signal Processing and Robotics, Hong Kong, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2: pp II.133-II.138 (1998)

Heng, W.J., Ngan, K.N. and Lee, M.H. Performance of chromatic barycenter with MPEG elements for low-level shot boundary detection and its improvements, IEEE International Workshop on Intelligent Signal Processing and Communication Systems, Melbourne, Australia, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, Inc., 1: pp 272-276 (1998)

Henry, J. and Livingstone, J. Progress in Double-Layer Sputtered ITO/InP Solar Cells, 36th Annual Conference of the Australian & New Zealand Solar Energy Society, Christchurch, NZ, Australian and New Zealand Solar Energy Society, 1: pp 491-497 (1998)

Henry, J. and Livingstone, J. The Role of Phosphorus Movement in Junction Formation in ITO/InP Solar Cells, 36th Annual Conference of the Australian and New Zealand Solar Energy Society, Christchurch, NZ, Australian and New Zealand Soalr Energy Society, 1: pp 498-503 (1998)

Humpage, W.D., Chu, F.B.P. and Kok, M.F.F. Greenhouse and ESI: An Outline Perspective, Conference of the Electric Power Supply Industry, Thailand, Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand, 4: pp 163-170 (1998)

Hutchens, J.L. and Alder, M.D. Finding Structure via Compression, Joint Conference on New Methods in Language Processing and Computational Natural Language Learning, Sydney, NSW, Australia, ACL Special Interest Group on Natural Language Learning, 1: pp 79-82 (1998)

Hutchens, J.L. and Alder, M.D. Introducing MegaHAL, Joint Conference on New Methods in Language Processing and Computational Natural Language Learning, Sydney, NSW, Australia, ACL Special Interest Group on Natural Language Learning, 1: pp 271-274 (1998)

Jones, P.E. and Ritchie, G.J. Comparing Development Tools for Multi-Media Courseware, 1998 Teaching and Learning Forum Teaching and Learning in Changing Times, Perth, WA, Australia, Centre for Staff Development UWA, 1: pp 142-148 (1998)

Jones, P.E. Going Beyond Visualisation: Using Java to learn Java over the web, Education and Technology: Planning for progress, partnership and profit, Perth, WA, Australia, Australian Society for Educational Technology, 1: pp 86-91 (1998)

Jones, P.E. A Novel 3D Input Device, with 6 DoF, Prototype Based Mechanically on a Gyro and Electronically via an FPGA, The 6th UK Mechatronics Forum International Conference, Oxford, UK, Elsevier Science Ltd, 1: pp 781-786 (1998)

Jones, P.E. Virtual keyboard with scanning and augmented by prediction, The 2nd European Conference on Disability, Virtual Reality and Associated Technologies, Mount Billingen, Skovde, Sweden, The University of Reading, 1: pp 45-51 (1998)

Kim, H. and Ngan, K.N. Very low bit-rate video coding using object-based motion estimation and hierarchical shape estimation, International Workshop on Very Low Bitrate Video Coding, Urbana, Illinois, USA, University of Illinois, USA, 1: pp 185-188 (1998)

Lau, B.K., Leung, Y.H., Teo, K.L., Rehbock, V. and Sreeram, V. Spatial/Spectral Filters for Microphone Arrays, The Fourth International Conference on Optimization: Techniques and Applications (ICOTA-98), Perth, Australia, Curtin University of Technology, 2: pp 1109-1116 (1998)

Lau, B.K., Sreeram, V., Leung, Y.H. and Teo, K.L. Design of Low-Order Approximately Linear Phase IIR Filters, 1998 IEEE Symposium on Advances in Digital Filtering and Signal Processing, Piscataway, New Jersey, USA, IEEE, 1: pp 92-95 (1998)

Lau, K.K., Lee, M.H., Ngan, K.N. and Rogers, G. Priority protection of wavelet encoded video over ATM, Globecom'98, Sydney, Australia, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, Inc., 1: p 50.3 (1998)

Lau, K.K., Lee, M.H., Ngan, K.N. and Rogers, G. Priority encoding of video data over ATM, IEEE International Conference on ATM, Colmar, France, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, Inc., 1: pp 307-310 (1998)

Lee, M.H., Lau, K.K. and Ngan, K.N. Error-Resilient Wavelet Video over ATM, International Workshop on Very Low Bitrate Video Coding, Urbana, Illinois, USA, University of Illinois, USA, 1: pp 204-207 (1998)

Li, A. and Wong, K.P. Animating the Evolution Process of Genetic Algorithms, The Second Asia-Pacific Conference on Simulated Evolution and Learning, Sydney, Australia, The University of New South Wales, 2: (1998)

Lin, R., Olariu, S., Pinotti, J., Schwing, J.L. and Zomaya, A.Y. A Scalable VLSI Architecture for Binary Prefix Sums, Joint 12th International Parallel Processing Symposium and 9th Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing, USA, IEE Computer Press, 1: pp 333-337 (1998)

Liu, W.Q., Sreeram, V. and Teo, K.L. Model Reduction and $H_\infty$ Norm Computation for State-Space Symmetric Systems, 37th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Piscataway, NJ, USA, IEEE, pp 2195-2200 (1998)

Low, R. and Togneri, R. Speech Recognition Using the Probabilistic Neural Network, The 5th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, Sydney, NSW, Australia, Australian Speech Science and Technology Association Incorporated, pp 1-5 (1998)

Macey, B. and Zomaya, A.Y. A Performance Evaluation of CP List Scheduling Heuristics for Communication Intensive Task Graphs, Joint 12th International Parallel Processing Symposium and 9th Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing, USA, IEEE Computer Press, 1: pp 538-541 (1998)

Matveev, A.S. and Savkin, A.V. Towards a Qualitative Theory of Differential Automata. Part 2: An Analog of the Poincare-Bendixon Theorem, 37th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Tampa, Florida, USA, IEEE, pp 3208-3213 (1998)

Matveev, A.S. and Savkin, A.V. Qualitative Analysis of a Class of Hybrid Dynamical Systems, Computational Engineering in Systems Applications, Lille, France, CESA'98 Conference Secretariat, 1: pp 673-678 (1998)

Meier, T., Ngan, K.N. and Crebbin, G.A. Reduction of coding artifacts at low bit rates, SPIE International Conference on Visual Communications and Image Processing '98, San Jose, USA, Society of Optical Engineering (SPIE), USA, 3309: pp 241-251 (1998)

Meier, T. and Ngan, K.N. Video object plane extraction for content-based functionalities in MPEG-4, International Workshop on Very Low Bitrate Video Coding, Urbana, Illinois, USA, University of Illinois, USA, 1: pp 121-124 (1998)

Meier, T. and Ngan, K.N. Video object plane segmentation using a morphological motion filter and Hausdorff object tracking, IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, Chicago, USA, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, Inc., 1: p TP5.05 (1998)

Mertins, A. and Ngan, K.N. Optimized shape adaptive wavelets with reduced computational cost, 6th IEEE International Workshop on Intelligent Signal Processing and Communication Systems, Melbourne, Australia, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, Inc., 2: pp 616-620 (1998)

Mertins, A. Discrete-coefficient linear-phase prototypes for PR cosine-modulated filter banks, IEEE International Conferenc eon Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, USA, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers,Inc, 4: pp 1433-1436 (1998)

Mertins, A. Biorthogonal cosine-modulated filter banks without DC leakage, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, USA, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, Inc, 4: pp 1457-1460 (1998)

Morris, J. Computer Architecture: Proceedings of the 3rd Australiasian Computer Architecture Conference, ACAC'98, 3rd Australiasian Computer Architecture Conference, Perth WA Australia, Springer-Verlag, Singapore Pte. Ltd., 1: (1998)

Musca, C.A., Smith, E.P.G., Siliquini, J.F., Dell, J.M., Antoszewski, J. and Piotrowski, J. Reactive Ion Etching (RIE) Induced p- to n-Type Conversion in Extrinsically Doped p-Type HgCdTe, Infrared Application of Semiconductors II, Warrendale, Pennsylvania, USA, Materials Research Society, 484: pp 353-358 (1998)

Nguyen, T.T. and Humpage, W.D. Algorithms of digital current differential protection, Conference of the Electric Power Supply Industry, Thailand, Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand, 9: pp 54-61 (1998)

Ruther, R., Livingstone, J. and Dytlewski, N. Polycrystalline silicon thin films with increased grain size obtained by low temperature stepwise annealing of amorphous silicon, 2nd World Conference and Exhibition on Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conversion, Vienna, Austria, IEEE (1998)

Savkin, A.V. Output Feedback Constrained Controllability of a Class of Uncertain Linear Systems, Computational Engineering in Systems Applications, Lille, France, CESA'98 Conference Secretariat, 1: pp 256-259 (1998)

Savkin, A.V. Simultaneous H-infinity control of a finite collection of linear plants via a stable output feedback nonlinear controller, Advances in Systems, Signals, Control and Computers, Durban, South Africa, IAAMSAD and the South African branch of the Academy of Nonlinear Sciences, 2: pp 383-386 (1998)

Savkin, A.V. Qualitative analysis of linear differential automata, Advances in Systems, Signals, Control and Computers, Durban, South Africa, IAAMSAD and the South African branch of the Academy of Nonlinear Sciences, 3: pp 54-57 (1998)

Savkin, A.V. Simultaneous H-infinity Control via Stable Output Feedback, Computational Engineering in Systems Applications, Lille, France, CESA'98 Conference Secretariat, 1: pp 491-494, (1998)

Savkin, A.V. and Matveev, A.S. Cyclic Linear Differential Automata: A Simple Class of Hybrid Dynamical Systems, 37th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Tampa, Florida, USA, IEEE, pp 3214-3217 (1998)

Savkin, A.V. Controllability of Complex Switched Server Queueing Networks Modelled as Hybrid Dynamical Systems, 37th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Tampa, Florida, USA, IEEE, pp 4289-4293 (1998)

Savkin, A.V. Optimal Stable Real-Time Scheduling of a Flexible Manufacturing System Modelled as a Switched Server System, 37th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Tampa, Florida, USA, IEEE, pp 4342-4343 (1998)

Sreeram, V., Agathoklis, P. and Liu, W.Q. On (p,q)-Markov Cover for 2-D Separable Denominator Systems, IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Monterary, CA, USA, IEEE, pp MPA1-4 (1998)

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Trinh, H. and Fernando, T. Robust Stability of Two-Dimensional Discrete Systems, Intelligent Systems and Control, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, IASTED/ACTA Press, 1: pp 101-104 (1998)

Trinh, H. and Fernando, T. Stability of Two-Dimensional Difference Systems, Intelligent Systems and Control, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, IASTED/ACTA Press, 1: pp 105-108 (1998)

Ugrinovsky, V., Petersen, I.R., Savkin, A.V. and Ugrinovskaya, E. YA.Decentralized state feedback stabilization and control of uncertain large scale systems with integrally constrained interconnections, 1998 American Control Conference, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, American Automatic Control Council, 7: pp 3106-3110 (1998)

Vurgaftman, I., Meyer, J.R., Hoffman, C.A., Redfern, D., Antoszewski, J., Faraone, L., Lindemuth, J.R. and Holmes, D.S. Demonstration of Improved Quantitative Mobility Spectrum Analysis, Symposium Q - Semiconductor Process and Device Performance Modeling, Warrendale, Pennsylvania, USA, Materials Research Society, 490: pp 245-250 (1998)

Wang, G., Sreeram, V. and Liu, W.Q. A New Frequency Weighted Optimal Hankel Norm Model Reduction and an Error Bound, 37th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Tampa, Florida, USA, IEEE, ?: pp 2185-2188 (1998)

Wang, G., Sreeram, V. and Liu, W.Q. Performance Preserving Controller Reduction via Additive Perturbation of Closed-Loop Transfer Function, 1998 American Control Conference, Piscataway, NJ, USA, American Automatic Control Council, 1: pp 623-628 (1998)

Williams, P.S. and Alder, M.D. Segmentation of Natural Images for CBIR, Fourteenth International Conference on Pattern Recognition, Los Alamitos, California USA, IEEE Computer Society, 1: pp 468-470 (1998)

Williams, P.S. and Alder, M. Segmentation of Natural Images Using Hierarchical and Syntactic Methods, Second International Workshop on Statistical Techniques in Pattern Recognition, Sydney NSW Australia, Springer-Verlag, 1: pp 805-814 (1998)

Wong, K.P. New Optimisation Techniques Based on Evolutionary Computation for Power System Engineering, Australasian Universities Power Engineering Conference, Hobart, Australia, The University of Tasmania, 1: pp 49-56 (1998)

Wong, K.P. and Li, A. Network Loadability Evaluation Using Constrained Genetic Algorithm Loadflow, Australian Research Council Workshop on Emerging Issues and Methods in the Restructuring of the Electric Power Industry, Perth, Western Australia, The Univeristy of Western Australia, 1: pp 185-189 (1998)

Wong, K.P. and Yurjevich, J. Optimal Power Flow Method Using Evolutionary Programming, The Second Asia-Pacific Conference on Simulated Evolution and Learning, Sydney, Australia, The University of New South Wales, 2: (1998)

Wong, K.P. and Li, A. Virtual Population and Solution Acceleration Techniques for Evolutionary Optimisation Algorithms, The Second Asia-Pacific Conference on SImulated Evolution and Learning, Sydney, Australia, The University of New South Wales, Australia, 2: (1998)

Wong, K.P. Proceedings of Australian Research Council Workshop on Emerging Issues and Mehtods in the Restructuring of the Electric Power Industry, Australian Research Council Workshop on Emerging Issues and Methods in the Restructuring of the Electric Power Industry, Perth, Western Australia, The University of Western Australia, 1: pp 1-189 (1998)

Wu, H.R., Ngan, K.N., Qiu, B. and Suthaharan, S. NA, IEEE International Workshop on Intelligent Signal Processing and Communication Systems, Melbourne, Australia, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, Inc., 1 and 2: pp 1-953 (1998)

Yap, C.W., Tan, K.T. and Ngan, K.N. Error resilient video over synchronous DS-CDMA channels, 6th IEEE International Workshop on Intelligent Signal Processing and Communication Systems, Melbourne, Australia, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, Inc., 1: pp 348-353 (1998)

Zaknich, A. An Efficient Modified Probabilistic Neural Network Hardware Implementation for Zero Crossing Thresholded Binary Signals, 1998 IEEE International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, Anchorage, Alaska, USA, IEEE, pp 256-261 (1998)

Zaknich, A. and Attikiouzel, Y. An Unsupervised Clustering Algorithm for the Modified Probabilistic Neural Network, The 6th IEEE International Workshop on Intelligent Signal Processing and Communication Systems, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, IEEE, 1: pp 319-322 (1998)

Zaknich, A. and Attikiouzel, Y. A Comparison of Template Matching with Neural Network Approaches in the Recognition of Numeric Characters Hand-Stamped in Aluminium, The 6th IEEE International Workshop on Intelligent Signal Processing and Communication Systems, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, IEEE, 1: pp 98-102 (1998)

Zeisse, C., Gathman, S., Barrios, A., Moision, B., Davidson, K., Frederickson, P. and Nener, B.D. Low Altitude Infrared Transmission, 1997 Battlespace Atmospherics Conference, Systems Center, San Diego, USA, Space and Naval Warefare Systems Command (SPAWAR), Technical Document 2989, March: pp 589-599 (1998)

Zhao, F. and deSilva, C.J.S. Use of the Laplacian of Gaussian Operator in Prostate Ultrasound Image Processing, 20th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Hong Kong, IEEE, pp 812-815 (1998)

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