Dr P Sharrad—University of Wollongong
Prof Dr K—Madras University
A/Prof J McQuilton—University of Wollongong
Prof CT Indra—Madras University
Dr C Elder—University of Wollongong
Dr PG Reddy—University of Madras
A program of staff and postgraduate exchanges to build systematic
research links between the Universities of Wollongong and Madras in the Humanities
& Social Sciences. Current Wollongong projects will benefit from access
to the Centre for Indian Studies and Madras will be able to develop further
its Centre for Australian Studies.
The project will explore several historical, social and cultural connections
between both countries, viz.:
relations between Indian and Australian troops in the First world war
comparisons of negotiations between the state and indigenous minorities
textiles, trade and postcolonial texts
comparative labour studies
the writing of David Malouf
Outcomes will include:
research papers,
an international conference and proceedings,
M.Phil and Doctoral theses,
a reader on Australian Studies for Indian students.
Chief Investigator(s):
Dr M Zhang—University of Wollongong
Prof Z Shi—Chinese Academy of Sciences
2003 $
2004 $
Total $
$10,00
$5,000
$15,000
Title:
Meta-Ontology based Protocols for the Cooperation in Heterogeneous
Agent Systems
Summary:
Cooperation and communication are two important research issues
in the area of multi-agent systems and distributed artificial intelligence.
The aim of this project is to study and develop meta-ontology based protocols
for cooperation in multi-agent systems. The outcomes of the project include
semantics of meta-ontology, a conceptual model to encompass the defined semantics,
implementation of the model, and test results in an open environment. The Key
Laboratory of Intelligent Information Processing at Institute of Computing Technology,
Chinese Academy of Sciences, is very active in the area of distributed artificial
intelligence and agent technologies, and is an ideal partner for this project.
Chief Investigator(s):
A/Prof C Zhang—University of Wollongong
A/Prof RA Lewis—University of Wollongong
Prof KA Chao—Lund University
2003 $
2004 $
2005 $
Total $
$15,700
$18,700
$18,700
$53,100
Title:
Simulation and characterisation of opto-thermionic cooling devices
Summary:
Opto-thermionic devices combine thermionic emission and laser
cooling to achieve the maximum cooling power and highest thermal efficiency.
These devices are ultra small, very reliable and fully integrable. Many important
problems need to be solved to improve the performance of this new class of solid-state
cooling devices. One is to understand and manipulate the electron-hole radiative
recombination and minimize the Auger process in reduced dimensionality devices
such as quantum wells. Researchers at Wollongong and Lund will collaborate on
theoretical analysis, computer simulation and electrical/optical measurements
to solve this problem.
Chief Investigator(s):
Dr JE Wright—University of Wollongong
Dr G Rail—University of Ottawa
Dr D MacDonald—The University of Queensland
2003 $
Total $
$12,400
$12,400
Title:
Cross-cultural analysis of constructions of health and fitness
in lives of young people
Summary:
This project aims to extend our understanding of how young people
in Canada and Australia construct notions of health and fitness and the implications
of these constructions for the ways they see themselves and the choices they
make about how they live their lives. The data collected at six sites in Australia
and Canada covers a range of quantitative and qualitative methods, from questionnaires
to interviews, activity observations, and visual media such as photographs.
The cross-cultural comparison will serve to highlight aspects of Anglophone,
Francophone, Canadian, Australian and global culture that examining in isolation
may not appear ?important? to those immersed within a given culture. By bringing
the existing Australian project together with a newly established Canadian project,
the different expertise of the Australian and Canadian Investigators can be
drawn on for the analysis and interpretation of the data.
