The University of Wollongong Faculty of Engineering and Information Sciences was formed in 2013 following an organisational restructure. It comprised an amalgamation of the former Faculty of Engineering and Faculty of Informatics. This series is followed by EIS Papers: Part B.
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Papers from 2015

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Drawing micro learning into MOOC: using fragmented pieces of time to enable effective entire course learning experiences, Geng Sun, Tingru Cui, Jianming Yong, Jun Shen, and Shiping Chen

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Enhancing teamwork performance in mobile cloud-based learning, Geng Sun and Jun Shen

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Enhancing teamwork performance in mobile cloud-based learning, Geng Sun and Jun Shen

A compact variable stiffness and damping shock absorber for vehicle suspension, Shuaishuai Sun, Huaxia Deng, Haiping Du, Weihua Li, Jian Yang, Guiping Liu, Gursel Alici, and Tianhong Yan

Performance evaluation and comparison of magnetorheological elastomer absorbers working in shear and squeeze modes, Shuaishuai Sun, Huaxia Deng, Jian Yang, Weihua Li, Haiping Du, and Gursel Alici

An adaptive tuned vibration absorber based on multilayered MR elastomers, Shuaishuai Sun, Huaxia Deng, Jian Yang, Weihua Li, Haiping Du, Gursel Alici, and Masami Nakano

Horizontal vibration reduction of a seat suspension using negative changing stiffness magnetorheological elastomer isolators, Shuaishuai Sun, Jian Yang, Huaxia Deng, Haiping Du, Weihua Li, Gursel Alici, and Masami Nakano

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Development of an MRE adaptive tuned vibration absorber with self-sensing capability, Shuaishuai Sun, Jian Yang, Weihua Li, Huaxia Deng, Haiping Du, and Gursel Alici

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Development of a novel variable stiffness and damping magnetorheological fluid damper, Shuaishuai Sun, Jian Yang, Weihua Li, Huaxia Deng, Haiping Du, and Gursel Alici

Compressibility dependence on grain size distribution and relative density in sands, Yifei Sun, Yang Xiao, and Khairul Fikry Hanif

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Fractional order modelling of the cumulative deformation of granular soils under cyclic loading, Yifei Sun, Yang Xiao, and Khairul Fikry Hanif

Nanomechanical properties of TiCN and TiCN/Ti coatings on Ti prepared by Filtered Arc Deposition, Yong Sun, Cheng Lu, Hailiang Yu, A Kiet Tieu, Lihong Su, Yue Zhao, Hongtao Zhu, and Charlie Kong

Synthesis of BiVO4@C core-shell structure on reduced graphene oxide with enhanced visible-light photocatalytic activity, Zhihua Sun, Chenzhe Li, Shenmin Zhu, Maenghyo Cho, Zhixin Chen, Kyeongjae Cho, Yongliang Liao, Chao Yin, and Di Zhang

Protecting peer-to-peer-based massively multiplayer online games, Willy Susilo, Yang-Wai Chow, and Rungrat Wiangsripanawan

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Review of solid-liquid phase change materials and their encapsulation technologies, Weiguang Su, Jo Darkwa, and Georgios Kokogiannakis

Dynamic task allocation for heterogeneous agents in disaster environments under time, space and communication constraints, Xing Su, Minjie Zhang, and Quan Bai

Trust-based group services selection in web-based service-oriented environments, Xing Su, Minjie Zhang, and Yi Mu

Salient object detection using color spatial distribution and minimum spanning tree weight, Chang Tang, Chunping Hou, Pichao Wang, and Zhanjie Song

Regularity and nonexistence of solutions for a system involving the fractional Laplacian, De Tang and Yanqin Fang

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Multi-view indoor scene reconstruction from compressed through-wall radar measurements using a joint Bayesian sparse representation, Van Ha Tang, Abdesselam Bouzerdoum, Son Lam Phung, and Fok Hing Chi Tivive

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Multi-view TWRI scene reconstruction using a joint Bayesian sparse approximation model, Van Ha Tang, Abdesselam Bouzerdoum, Son Lam Phung, and Fok Hing Chi Tivive

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Video classification based on spatial gradient and optical flow descriptors, Xiaolin Tang, Abdesselam Bouzerdoum, and Son Lam Phung

Future vision for reduction of range anxiety by using an improved state of charge estimation algorithm for electric vehicle batteries implemented with low-cost microcontrollers, Vincent R. Tannahill, Danny Sutanto, Kashem M. Muttaqi, and Abul Masrur

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Enhanced frequency response strategy for PMSG based wind energy conversion system using ultracapacitor in remote area power supply systems, Yingjie Tan and Kashem M. Muttaqi

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Direct power control of DFIG based wind turbine based on wind speed estimation and particle swarm optimization, Mehrdad Tarafdar Hagh, S Roozbehani, F Najaty, S Ghaemi, Yingjie Tan, and Kashem M. Muttaqi

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A laboratory study on the shear behavior of mixtures of coal wash and steel furnace slag as potential structural fill, Seyed M.A Tasalloti, Buddhima Indraratna, Cholachat Rujikiatkamjorn, Ana Heitor, and Gabriele Chiaro

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Field investigation on compaction and strength performance of two coal wash-BOS slag mixtures, S.M.Ali Tasalloti, Buddhima Indraratna, Gabriele Chiaro, and Ana Heitor

Adsorption of normal-alkanes on Fe(110), FeO(110), and Fe2O3(0001): Influence of iron oxide surfaces, Thi Dinh Ta, A Kiet Tieu, Hongtao Zhu, and Buyung Kosasih

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Thin film lubrication of hexadecane confined by iron and iron oxide surfaces: A crucial role of surface structure, Thi Dinh Ta, A Kiet Tieu, Hongtao Zhu, and Buyung Kosasih

A decentralized model predictive control for multiple distributed generators in the islanded mode of operation, Ahmad Tavakoli, Michael Negnevitsky, and Kashem M. Muttaqi

Pool strategy of a producer coordinated with vehicle-to-grid services to maximize profitability, Ahmad Tavakoli, Michael Negnevitsky, and Kashem M. Muttaqi

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Energy exchange between electric vehicle load and wind generating utilities, Ahmad Tavakoli, Michael Negnevitsky, Duc Thanh Nguyen, and Kashem M. Muttaqi

A coordinated approach to energy exchange between electric vehicle load aggregators and wind generation companies under uncertainty, A Tavakoli, Michael Negnevitsky, and Kashem M. Muttaqi

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Block shear failure planes of bolted connections - direct experimental verifications, Lip H. Teh and Mehmet E. Uz

Preliminary design of a three-finger underactuated adaptive end effector with a breakaway clutch mechanism, Kuat Telegenov, Yedige Tlegenov, Shahid Hussain, and Almas Shintemirov

Finite element modelling of debonding failures in steel beams flexurally strengthened with CFRP laminates, J G. Teng, D Fernando, and T Yu

Analysis-oriented stress-strain model for concrete under combined FRP-steel confinement, J G. Teng, G Lin, and T Yu

Three-dimensional finite element analysis of reinforced concrete columns with FRP and/or steel confinement, J G. Teng, Q G. Xiao, T Yu, and L Lam

Application of bounding surface plasticity concept for clay-fouled ballast under drained loading, Nayoma Tennakoon, Buddhima Indraratna, Sanjay Nimbalkar, and Scott W. Sloan

Effect of plastic fines on drainage capacity of ballasted rail track, N Tennakoon, B Indraratna, and S Nimbalkar

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A novel modulation technique and a new balancing control strategy for a single-phase five-level ANPC converter, Hamid Teymour Ghasemabadi, Danny Sutanto, Kashem M. Muttaqi, and Philip Ciufo

Modelling ion, water and ion-water cluster entering peptide nanotubes, Ngamta Thamwattana

A proportional score test over the nuisance parameter space: Properties and applications, Olivier Thas, Ao Yuan, Hon Keung Tony Ng, and Gang Zheng

Generalised smooth tests of goodness of fit utilising L-moments, O Thas, J. C. W Rayner, and J De Neve

The factors affecting the behaviour of soft soil under cyclic loading in railway, K Thevakumar, B Indraratna, and C Rujikiatkamjorn

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Modelling the shear behaviour of sedimentary rock joints under constant normal stiffness conditions, S Thirukumaran, B Indraratna, and E T. Brown

Stability of a rock block in a tunnel roof under constant normal stiffness conditions, Sivanathan Thirukumaran, Buddhima Indraratna, E T. Brown, and Peter K. Kaiser

Fair multi-signature, Pairat Thorncharoensri, Willy Susilo, and Yi Mu

Single image smoke detection, Hongda Tian, Wanqing Li, Philip Ogunbona, and Lei Wang

Experimental and modelling study of the effect of temperature on shear thickening fluids, Tongfei Tian, Gangrou Peng, Weihua Li, Jie Ding, and Masami Nakano

The influence of alkali metal polyphosphate on the tribological properties of heavily loaded steel on steel contacts at elevated temperatures, A Kiet Tieu, Ning Kong, Shanhong Wan, Hongtao Zhu, Qiang Zhu, David R. G Mitchell, and Charlie Kong

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Excellent melt lubrication of alkali metal polyphosphate glass for high temperature applications, A Kiet Tieu, Shanhong Wan, Ning Kong, Qiang Zhu, and Hongtao Zhu

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A tensor-based subspace wall clutter mitigation method for through-the-wall radar imaging, Fok Hing Chi Tivive and Abdesselam Bouzerdoum

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A subspace projection approach for wall clutter mitigation in through-the-wall radar imaging, Fok Hing Chi Tivive, Abdesselam Bouzerdoum, and Moeness Amin

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Classification of micro-Doppler signatures of human motions using log-Gabor filters, Fok Hing Chi Tivive, Son Lam Phung, and Abdesselam Bouzerdoum

Seasonality modifies the effect of a lipid-based nutrient supplement for pregnant rural women on birth length, Laeticia C. Toe, Kimberleuy Bouckaert, Kristof De Beuf, Dominique Roberfroid, Nicolas Meda, Olivier Thas, John Van Camp, Patrick W. Kolsteren, and Lieven Huybregts

Signal estimation-oriented reduced-rank channel estimation for MIMO communications, Jun Tong, Qinghua Guo, Sheng Tong, Jiangtao Xi, and Yanguang Yu

The applicability of gaming elements to early childhood education, Holly Tootell and Alison Freeman

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Current MSIS students' views on program outcomes, Heikki Topi, Helena Karsten, Susan A. Brown, Joao Alvaro Carvalho, Brian Donnellan, Jun Shen, Bernard C. Y Tan, and Mark F. Thouin

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Exact error performance analysis of binary space-time block coded cooperative communications systems in rayleigh fading channels, Le Chung Tran, Zixuan Lin, Farzad Safaei, Alfred Mertins, and Duy T. Ngo

3D silicon microdosimetry and RBE study using 12C ion of different energies, Linh T. Tran, Lachlan Chartier, David Bolst, Dale A. Prokopovich, Susanna Guatelli, Michell Nancarrow, Mark I. Reinhard, Marco Petasecca, Michael L. F Lerch, Vladimir L. Pereverlaylo, Naruhiro Matsufuji, David Hinde, Mahananda Dasgupta, Andrew Stuchbery, Michael A. Jackson, and Anatoly B. Rosenfeld

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3D-mesa 'bridge' silicon microdosimeter: charge collection study and application to RBE studies in 12C radiation therapy, Linh T. Tran, Lachlan Chartier, Dale A. Prokopovich, Mark I. Reinhard, Marco Petasecca, Susanna Guatelli, Michael L. F Lerch, Vladimir L. Perevertaylo, Marco Zaider, Naruhiro Matsufuji, Michael Jackson, MItchell Nancarrow, and Anatoly B. Rosenfeld

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3D bridge microdosimeter: Charge collection study and application to RBE studies in 12C radiation therapy, Linh T. Tran, Dale A. Prokopovich, Susanna Guatelli, Marco Petasecca, Michael L. F Lerch, Mark I. Reinhard, and Anatoly B. Rosenfeld

Attribute based broadcast encryption with short ciphertext and decryption key, Phuong Viet Xuan Tran, Guomin Yang, Willy Susilo, and Xiaofeng Chen

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Simple structure for reactive power control of AC photovoltaic modules, Viet Thang Tran, Danny Sutanto, and Kashem M. Muttaqi

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Toward real-time multi-criteria decision making for bus service reliability optimization, Vu The Tran, Peter Eklund, and Christopher Cook

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Induced molecular dissociations as a radiation damage descriptor (Nanodosimetry), A Traore, L Ellis-Gibbings, Alexey Verkhovtsev, K Krupa, A Munoz, Fernando Blanco, and Gustavo Garcia

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Energy loss at bends in the pneumatic conveying of fly ash, Naveen Tripathi, A Sharma, Soumya Suddha Mallick, and Peter W. Wypych

Robust regression methods for real-time polymerase chain reaction, Wim Trypsteen, Jan De Neve, Kobus Bosman, Monique Nijhuis, Olivier Thas, Linos Vandekerckhove, and Ward De Spiegelaere

ddpcRquant: threshold determination for single channel droplet digital PCR experiments, Wim Trypsteen, Matthijs Vynck, Jan De Neve, Pawel Bonczkowski, Maja Kiselinova, Eva Malatinkova, Karen Vervisch, Olivier Thas, Linos Vandekerckhove, and W De Spiegelaere

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Performance evaluation of MAP algorithms with different penalties, object geometries and noise levels, Yu-Jung Tsai, Alexandre B. Bousse, Matthias J. Ehrhardt, Brian F. Hutton, Simon R. Arridge, and Kris Thielemans

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Telemetry, tracking and command subsystem for LibyaSat-1, Faisel Em M Tubbal, Akram Alkaseh, and Asem Elarabi

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The design requirements for Libyan imaging mini-satellite (LibyaSat-1), Faisel Em M Tubbal, Asem Elarabi, Abdelmonem Etabeb, Hasan Marah, Khaled Beneljankou, Mosbah Bellid, Riyadh El-Bouaishi, Ahmed Amer, Wesam Shita, Saleh Srabet, Akram Alkaseh, and Ahmed Turkman

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A survey and study of planar antennas for pico-satellites, Faisel Em M Tubbal, Raad Raad, and Kwan-Wu Chin

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S-band Planar Antennas for a CubeSat, Faisel Em M Tubbal, Raad Raad, Kwan-Wu Chin, and Brenden Butters

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Chemical cleaning effects on properties and separation efficiency of an RO membrane, Kha L. Tu, Allan R. Chivas, and Long D. Nghiem

From social media to geosocial intelligence: experiments with crowdsourcing civic co-management for flood response in Jakarta, Indonesia, Etienne Turpin and Tomas Holderness

Robust small area prediction for counts, Nikos Tzavidis, M. Giovanna Ranalli, Nicola Salvati, Emanuela Dreassi, and Raymond L. Chambers

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ViVaMBC: Estimating viral sequence variation in complex populations from illumina deep-sequencing data using model-based clustering, Bie M. P Verbist, Lieven Clement, Joke Reumers, Kim Thys, Alexander Vapirev, Willem Talloen, Yves Wetzels, Joris Meys, Jeroen Aerssens, Luc Bijnens, and Olivier Thas

VirVarSeq: a low-frequency virus variant detection pipeline for Illumina sequencing using adaptive base-calling accuracy filtering, Bie M. P Verbist, Kim Thys, Joke Reumers, Yves Wetzels, Koen Van Der Borght, Willem Talloen, Jeroen Aerssens, Lieven Clement, and Olivier Thas

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Comparative analysis of the secondary electron yield from carbon nanoparticles and pure water medium, Alexey Verkhovtsev, Sally McKinnon, Pablo de Vera, Eugene Surdutovich, Susanna Guatelli, Andrei V. Korol, Anatoly Rosenfeld, and Andrey V. Solov'yov

Increasing the power of the Mann-Whitney test in randomized experiments through flexible covariate adjustment, Karel K. Vermeulen, Olivier Thas, and Stijn Vansteelandt

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Using online and multimedia resources to enhance the student learning experience in a telecommunications laboratory within an Australian University, Peter J. Vial, Sasha Nikolic, Montserrat Ros, David Stirling, and Parviz Doulai

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Shear behaviour of methane hydrate bearing sand: DEM simulations, J S. Vinod, M Hyodo, B Indraratna, and S Kajiyama

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The direct shear strength of sand-tyre shred mixtures, J S. Vinod, N Sheikh, D Mastello, B Indraratna, and M S. Mashiri

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Laboratory determination of coefficient of consolidation from pore water pressure measurement, J S. Vinod and A Sridharan

The influence of high temperature due to high adhesion condition on rail damage, Khoa Vo, A Kiet Tieu, Hongtao Zhu, and Buyung Kosasih

Comparisons of stress, heat and wear generated by AC versus DC locomotives under diverse operational conditions, Khoa Vo, Hongtao Zhu, A Kiet Tieu, and Buyung Kosasih

FE method to predict damage formation on curved track for various worn status of wheel/rail profiles, Khoa Vo, Hongtao Zhu, A Kiet Tieu, and Buyung Kosasih

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A variance inflation factor and backward elimination based robust regression model for forecasting monthly electricity demand using climatic variables, Dao Hoang Vu, Kashem M. Muttaqi, and Ashish Agalgaonkar

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Calibrating Markov chain-based deterioration models for predicting future conditions of railway bridge elements, Niroshan Walgama Wellalage, Tieling Zhang, and Richard Dwight

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Continuous table acquisition MRI for radiotherapy treatment planning: distortion assessment with a new extended 3D volumetric phantom, Amy Walker, Gary Liney, Lois Holloway, Jason Dowling, David Rivest-Henault, and Peter Metcalfe

OTAP arbitration effects in randomly deployed WSN's, C G. Walker, Adnan Al-Anbuky, and Quan Bai

Application of spectral Galerkin method for multilayer consolidation of soft soils stabilised by vertical drains or stone columns, Rohan T.R Walker and Buddhima Indraratna

Equal strain vertical drain consolidation with creep, R T R Walker

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Density maximization for improving graph matching with its applications, Chao Wang, Lei Wang, and Lingqiao Liu

A novel link scheduler for personalized broadcast in multi Tx/Rx Wireless Mesh Networks, He Wang, Kwan-Wu Chin, and Sieteng Soh

On uplink and downlink packet scheduling in full-duplex wireless mesh networks, He Wang, Kwan-Wu Chin, and Sieteng Soh

A distributed maximal link scheduler for multi Tx/Rx wireless mesh networks, He Wang, Kwan-Wu Chin, Sieteng Soh, and Raad Raad

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An efficient background modeling approach based on vehicle detection, Jia-Yan Wang, Limei Song, Jiangtao Xi, and Qinghua Guo