2023 Program

The program overview below is provisional and will be updated as planning proceeds. Please check this page regularly.

The program is listed in Australian Eastern Daylight Savings Time (AEDT). To calculate program times for your timezone, you can use the Time Zone Converter HERE

Click on each day to navigate your way through the program. 

Tuesday 31 January 2023

0900 – 0930 Registration | Level 1 Foyer (Ground Floor), Building H
Stream PLENARY SESSION
Room Room H1.16 | Level 1, Building H
0930 – 0945 2023 ACSW Official Opening and Welcome

Professor David Abramson, President, CORE, Chair, 2023 ACSW

0945 – 1000 CORE Award Presentations

Professor David Abramson, President, CORE, Chair, 2023 ACSW

Session Chair Geoff Webb
1000 – 1100 Keynote Address, Generalising from Very Few Data: Models, Applications and Open Opportunities

Associate Professor Lina Yao, Winner, CORE Research Award

1100 – 1130 Morning Tea | The Pavilion, Level 8, Building H
Stream HIKM ACE AISC TUTORIAL
Room Room 902 | Level 9, Building H
www.Zoom.us/j/3320072007
Room 914 | Level 9, Building H Room 921 | Level 9, Building H Room 901 | Level 9, Building H
Session Chair Klaus Veil – Western Sydney University Paul Denny & Nicole Herbert Iqbal Gondal
1130 – 1200 1130 – 1145

HIKM Opening
Pari Delir Haghighi – Monash University, Australia
Klaus Veil FACHI FHL7 – Western Sydney University

1145 – 1230

Keynote: Health Informatics – 60 years of changing our environment – and more to come

Ed Hammond – Duke University, USA 

1230 – 1300

IR-ER- A Hybrid Pipeline for Classifying COVID-19 RNA Seq Data

Girija Rani Karetla, Daniel Catchpoole, Paul Kennedy, Simeon Simoff and Quang Vinh Nguyen – Western Sydney University 

 

 

ACE Opening

Paul Denny, Nicole Herbert

AISC Opening

Iqbal Gondal

Introduction to Deep Learning and Tensorflow

Convener, Mitchell Hargreaves, Junior Deep Learning Engineer, Monash University

Note: Attendees need to bring their own laptop. 

This workshop is an introduction to how deep learning works and how you could create a neural network using TensorFlow v2. We start by learning the basics of deep learning including what a neural network is, how information passes through the network, and how the network learns from data through the automated process of gradient descent. You would build, train and evaluate your very own network using a cloud GPU (Google Colab).

This workshop is targeted at professionals with some data science knowledge who would like a theoretical and hands-on introduction to deep learning. The workshop assumes background knowledge in Python programming. A high level understanding of calculus and matrix operations is beneficial but not essential. Prior experience with machine learning is not required.

1200 – 1230 Automated Assessment: Experiences From the Trenches

Andrew Luxton-Reilly, Ewan Tempero, Nalin Arachchilage, Angela Chang, Paul Denny, Allan Fowler, Nasser Giacaman, Igor Kontorovich, Danielle Lottridge, Sathiamoorthy Manoharan, Shyamli Sindhwani, Paramvir Singh, Ulrich Speidel, Sudeep Stephen, Valerio Terragni, Jacqueline Whalley, Burkhard Wuensche and Xinfeng Ye

Zero Trust NIDS: Attention based CNN BiLSTM Using Auto Encoder

Abeer Alalmaie, Priyadarsi Nanda and Xiangjian He

1230 – 1300 Using Model-Checking and Peer-Grading to Provide Automated Feedback to Concurrency Exercises in Progvis

Filip Strömbäck, Linda Mannila and Mariam Kamkar

Early Detection of Ransomware Activity based on Hardware Performance Counters

Mohan Anand Putrevu, Venkata Sai Charan Putrevu and Sandeep Kumar Shukla

1300 – 1400 Lunch | The Pavilion, Level 8, Building H
Stream PLENARY SESSION
Room Room H1.16 | Level 1, Building H
Session Chair Tony Wirth
1400 – 1430 Keynote Address, Blockchain Security: Primitives and Protocols

Dr Yannan Li, Winner, CORE PhD Award

1430 – 1435 QUICK BREAK – 5 minutes
Stream HIKM ACE AISC TUTORIAL
Room Room 902 | Level 9, Building H Room 914 | Level 9, Building H Room 921 | Level 9, Building H Room 901 | Level 9, Building H
Session Chair Quang Vinh Nguyen – Western Sydney University Paul Denny & Nicole Herbert Shabnam Kasra
1435 – 1505 Synthetic High-Resolution COVID-19 Chest X-Ray Generation

Sehajpreet Kaur, Shivansh Kumar and Hajar Homayouni – San Diego State University

Future Scenarios for High School Digital Technology in NZ

Chamindi Samarasekara, Claudia Ott and Anthony Robins

A two-pass approach for minimising error in synthetically generated network traffic data sets

Jacob Soper, Yue Xu Xu, Kien Nguyen, Ernest Foo and Zahra Jadidi

Introduction to Deep Learning and Tensorflow, continued
1505 – 1535 Learning from Machines? Social Bots Influence on COVID-19 Vaccination-Related Discussions: 2021 in Review

Muhammad Javed, Gerardo Luis Dimaguila, Sedigh Khademi Habibabadi, Chris Palmer and Jim Buttery – Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, Australia
 *** ACSW/HIKM 2023 Best Paper *** 

DoodleIt: A Novel Tool for Teaching How CNNs Perform Image Recognition

Vaishali Mahipal, Srija Ghosh, Ismaila Sanusi, Ruizhe Ma, Joseph Gonzales and Fred Martin

ABISchain: Towards a Secure and Scalable Blockchain Using Swarm-based Pruning

Mohamed Moetez Abdelhamid, Layth Sliman, Raoudha Ben Djemaa and Boussad Ait Salem

1535 – 1600 Afternoon Tea | The Pavilion, Level 8, Building H
Stream HIKM ACE AISC TUTORIAL
Room Room 902 | Level 9, Building H
www.Zoom.us/j/3320072007
Room 914 | Level 9, Building H Room 921 | Level 9, Building H Room 901 | Level 9, Building H
Session Chair Quang Vinh Nguyen – Western Sydney University Paul Denny & Nicole Herbert Layth Sliman
1600 – 1630 1535 – 1600

Health Informatics ‘Open Mic’

1600 – 1630

Improving syndromic detection capacity from emergency department notes using data augmentation

Sedigh Khademi, Christopher Palmer, Gerardo Luis Dimaguila, Muhammad Javed, Jim Buttery and Jim Black – Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, Australia

1630 – 1700

Stress Detection on Social Network: Public Mental Health Surveillance

Samaneh Madanian, Sunny Lam and Hamidreza Rasoulipanah – Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand

1700 – 1730

Electronic Master Problem List in Hong Kong Hospital Authority – its development, implementation and challenges

Maggie Lau, Vicky Fung and N T Cheung – Hong Kong Hospital Authority

The Progression of Students’ Ability to Work With Scope, Parameter Passing and Aliasing

Filip Strömbäck, Pontus Haglund, Aseel Berglund and Erik Berglund

Towards Mission Aware Cyber-Resiliency with Autonomous Agents

Georgios Gkoktsis, Hagen Lauer and Lukas Jäger

Introduction to Deep Learning and Tensorflow, continued
1630 – 1700 Automated Questionnaires About Students’ JavaScript Programs: Towards Gauging Novice Programming Processes

Teemu Lehtinen, Lassi Haaranen and Juho Leinonen

Task-based Parallelization Approach for Attacking the Supersingular Isogeny Path Problem

Giang Nam Nguyen and Christian Bischof

1700 – 1730 Metacodenition: A Tool to Scaffold the Problem-Solving Process for Novice Programmers

Yulia Pechorina, Keith Anderson and Paul Denny

To breach or not? Profiling students’ likelihood of breaching university ICT Codes of Conduct

Salma Khan, Deborah Richards, Paul Formosa and Sarah Bankins

Wednesday 1 February 2023

0830 – 0900 Registration | Level 1 Foyer (Ground Floor), Building H
Stream PLENARY SESSION
Room Room H1.16 | Level 1, Building H
Session Chair David Abramson
0900 – 1000 Keynote Address, Vulnerabilities to online scams and how to prevent victimisation

Professor Monica Whitty, Head of Department of Software and Cybersecurity, Monash University

1000 – 1030 Keynote Address, Digital Technologies and Digital Literacy in Australian Schools

James Curran, CEO, Grok Academy

Session Chair Nell Baghaei
1030 – 1100 Lightning Talks – ARC Award Grant Winners

1100 – 1130 Morning Tea & Posters | The Pavilion, Level 8, Building H
Stream HIKM ACE AISC AusPDC
Room Room 902 | Level 9, Building H
www.Zoom.us/j/3320072007
Room 914 | Level 9, Building H Room 921 | Level 9, Building H Room 901 | Level 9, Building H
Session Chair Samaneh Madanian – Auckland University of Technology Paul Denny & Nicole Herbert Md Mamunur Rashid Adel N. Toosi
1130 – 1200 Exercise Speed Analysis Based on Head Mounted Display Orientation

Alex Shaw, Burkhard Wuensche, Christof Lutteroth, Jude Buckley and Paul Corballis – University of Auckland

Understanding the Gender Gap in Digital Technologies Education

Elliot Varoy, Andrew Luxton-Reilly, Kerry Lee and Nasser Giacaman

Multi-Featured Anomaly Detection for Mobile Edge Computing Based UAV Delivery Systems

Leilei Xu, Xiao Liu, Frank Jiang, Yi Xu, Aiting Yao, Jia Xu and Xuejun Li

Keynote Presentation

Data-Efficient Learning of Multimodal Sensor Data

Professor Flora Salim

1200 – 1230 Development of a Virtual Reality Treatment for Tinnitus – A User Study

Corban Draper, Joe Ee Cheung, Philip J. Sanders and Burkhard Wuensche – University of Auckland

Effective Learning Experiences for ICT Curriculum Indigenisation

Nicole Herbert, Zhixi Lin and Matthew Springer

Empowering patients to delegate and revoke access to blockchain-based electronic health records

Fariza Sabrina, Tony Sahama, Md Mamunur Rashid and Steven Gordon

1230 – 1300 Dragon Hunter: Loss Aversion for Eliciting Increased Physical Activity in AR Exergames

Yashi Lin, Jiaxuan Wang, Zihao Luo, Shaojun Li, Yidan Zhang and Burkhard Wuensche – University of Auckland

Student Sense of Belonging: The Role of Gender Identity and Minoritisation in Computing and Other Sciences

Shamima Nasrin Runa, Anna Markella Antoniadi, Brett Becker and Catherine Mooney

Rug-pull malicious token detection on blockchain using supervised learning with feature engineering

Minh Hoang Nguyen, Phuong Duy Huynh, Son Hoang Dau and Xiaodong Li

1300 – 1400 Lunch & Posters | The Pavilion, Level 8, Building H
Stream PLENARY SESSION
Room Room H1.16 | Level 1, Building H
Session Chair Leon Stirling
1400 – 1430 Keynote Address, Gender and Service

Professor Gill Dobbie, Winner, CORE Distinguished Service Award

1430 – 1435 QUICK BREAK – 5 minutes
Stream HIKM ACE AISC AusPDC
Room Room 902 | Level 9, Building H
www.Zoom.us/j/3320072007
Room 914 | Level 9, Building H Room 921 | Level 9, Building H Room 901 | Level 9, Building H
Session Chair Paul Denny & Nicole Herbert Carsten Rudolph Maria Read
1435 – 1505 1435 – 1455

Investigating Changes in Hand-Eye Coordination and Reaction Time Using a VR Squash Simulation

Akash Ashok, Mazen Darwish and Burkhard Wünsche – University of Auckland

1455 – 1515

Sleep Patterns of Adults With Chronic Insomnia and Their Bed Partners During the Weekdays and on Weekends Using Actigraphy Data

Sunita Rani, Dr Sergiy Shelyag and Dr Maia Angelova – Deakin University, Australia

1515 – 1535

Mining adverse drug events from patients’ disease histories via a GNN-based subgraph prediction method

Fangyu Zhou and Shahadat Uddin – University of Sydney

My AI Wants to Know if this Will Be On the Exam: Testing OpenAI’s Codex on CS2 Programming Exercises’

James Finnie-Ansley, Paul Denny, Andrew Luxton-Reilly, Eddie Antonio Santos, James Prather and Brett Becker

AProctor – A practical on-device antidote for Android malware

Akash Patel, Nitesh Kumar, Anand Handa and Sandeep K Shukla

Implicit Class Balancing Towards Fairness in Federated Learning

Yanli Li, Laicheng Zhong, Dong Yuan, Huaming Chen and Wei Bao

1505 – 1535 An Experiment on the Effects of Modularity on Code Modification and Understanding

Ewan Tempero, Kelly Blincoe and Danielle Lottridge

Digital Forensics based on Federated Learning in IoT Environment

Hania Mohamed, Nicholaos Koroniotis and Nour Moustafa

Motif-based Graph Attention Network for Web Service Recommendation

Yuqi Zhang, Jian Yu, Ji Ruan and Nancy Wang

1535 – 1600 Afternoon Tea & Posters | The Pavilion, Level 8, Building H
Stream HIKM ACE AISC AusPDC
Room Room 902 | Level 9, Building H
www.Zoom.us/j/3320072007
Room 914 | Level 9, Building H Room 921 | Level 9, Building H Room 901 | Level 9, Building H
Session Chair Burkhard Wünsche – University of Auckland, NZ Paul Denny & Nicole Herbert Alireza Jolfaei Maria Read
1600 – 1630 1535 – 1600

Health Informatics ‘Open Mic’

1600 – 1620

How could a weighted drug-drug network help improve adverse drug reaction predictions? Machine learning reveals the importance of edge weights

Fangyu Zhou and Shahadat Uddin

1620 – 1640

Developing an anomaly detection framework for Medicare claims

James Kemp, Christopher Barker, Norm Good and Michael Bain

1640 – 1700

Using AI-Driven Triaging to Optimise Clinical Workflows in Non-Emergency Outpatient Settings: A Real-World Case Study Concerning the Screening of Tuberculosis

David Hua, Neysa Petrina and Simon Poon

1700 – 1745

Keynote: A Knowledge-Based Approach to Integration and Interoperability of Sustainable Health Ecosystems in Transformation

Bernd Blobel

Exploring the Difficulty of Faded Parsons Problems for Programming Education

Flynn Fromont, Hiruna Jayamanne and Paul Denny

A Comparative Study on Design and Usability of Cryptographic Libraries

Junwei Luo, Xuechao Yang, Xun Yi, Fengling Han, Iqbal Gondal and Guang-Bin Huang

Improving Connectivity in Multiprocessor Architectures using Rectangular Twisted Torus Networks

Sonal Gupta and Subrat Kar

1630 – 1700 Experiences from Learnersourcing SQL Exercises: Do They Cover Course Topics and Do Students Use Them?

Nea Pirttinen, Arto Hellas and Juho Leinonen

Demystifying Threshold Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm for Multi-Party Applications

Bachar Kachouh, Layth Sliman, Abed Ellatif Samhat and Kamel Barkaoui

Conclusions and Remarks
1700 – 1730 Special session: Works in Progress
1800 – 1845 Rippon Lea Estate Self-Guided Mansion Tour

The Rippon Lea Estate Mansion will be open for dinner attendees to take a self-guided tour. Estate staff will be on hand to answer questions and talk with attendees about the history of the Estate. Pre-dinner drinks will be served on the pool deck from 1830. 

1830 – 2130 Conference Dinner – Rippon Lea Estate Ballroom

192 Hotham Street, Elsternwick, Victoria

Rippon Lea Estate is a 10 minute drive from the Monash University Caulfield Campus, click here for information on getting to the venue. 

Thursday 2 February 2023

0900 – 0930 Registration | Level 1 Foyer (Ground Floor), Building H
Stream PLENARY SESSION
Room Room H1.16 | Level 1, Building H
Session Chair Andrew Luxton-Reilly
0930 – 1030 Keynote Address, You’d think they’d know it by now

Dr Chris McDonald, Winner, CORE Teaching Award

Session Chair Nell Baghaei
1030 – 1100 Lightning Talks – ARC Award Grant Winners

  • Democratisation of Deep Learning: Neural Architecture Search at Low Cost
    Saman Halgamuge, University of Melbourne
  • Privacy Preserving and Data Utility in Outsourced Systems
    Hua Wang, Victoria University
  • Low-cost Sensing Methods and Hybrid Learning Models
    Wei Xiang, Latrobe University
  • Accessible Data Exploration and Analysis for Blind People
    Kimbal Marriott, Monash University
  • Mapping the Effectiveness of Automated Software Testing
    Aldeida Aleti, Monash University
  • Snapshot Optimal Real-time Ride Sharing System
    Afzaal Hassan, Swinburne University
  • Machine learning techniques for fuel loss detection at service stations
    Dr Li Chik, RMIT University
  • Tuning parallel applications on software-defined supercomputers
    David Abramson, University of Queensland
  • Optimised Routing for Personalised Public Transport
    Abdallah Abuaisha, Monash University
1100 – 1130 Morning Tea & Posters | The Pavilion, Level 8, Building H
Stream HIKM ACE AISC TUTORIAL TUTORIAL
Room Room 902 | Level 9, Building H
www.Zoom.us/j/3320072007
Room 914 | Level 9, Building H Room 813 | Level 8, Building H Room 921 | Level 9, Building H Room 901 | Level 9, Building H
Session Chair Nicola Shaw – Algoma University, Canada Paul Denny & Nicole Herbert Maggie Liu
1130 – 1200 1130 – 1150

A Case for Causal Loop Diagrams to Model Electronic Health Records Ecosystems

Mustafa Hashmi, Angelique McInnes, Andrew Stranieri and Tony Sahama

1150 – 1210

A Data-driven Framework to Test Validity of The Discovered Clinical Process Based on Patient Outcomes

Qifan Chen, Yang Lu, Charmaine Tam and Simon Poon 

1210 – 1230

A study into the impact of data breaches of Electronic Health Records

Ravi Pilla, Taiwo Oseni and Andrew Stranieri

1230 – 1250

Improving the inclusion of people with disabilities in the remote workplace: Digital assistive technologies

Nicola Shaw and Kevin Vinsen – Algoma University, Canada & University of Western Australia

1250 – 1310

Exploring the Relationship between Testosterone and Diabetes within the UK Biobank Data

Giles Oatley – Federation University, Australia

Workshop: AI Tools for Computing Education: Challenges and Opportunities USB Proxy

Robbie Dumitru, Mark Beaumont, Bradley Hopkins and Simon Windows

Tutorial: How to solve all the worlds (combinatorial) problems

Convener, Professor Peter Stuckey, Department of Data Science and Artificial Intelligences, Faculty of Information Technology, Monash University

Note: Attendees need to bring their own laptop. Attendees should be able to run the MiniZinc workshop problems from the browser, though they may want to preinstall MiniZinc on their laptop.

The world is full of hard discrete optimisation problems. You have experienced them already if you have ever solved a sudoku puzzle or organised the seating at a wedding banquet. These problems underpin much of our daily lives and are part of determining daily delivery routes for packages, making school timetables, and delivering power to our homes. Despite their fundamental importance, all of these problems are a nightmare to solve using traditional computer science methods.

In this short tutorial, you will be introduced to an entirely new way to think about solving these challenging discrete optimisation problems by stating the problem in the high-level modelling language, MiniZinc, and letting constraint solving software do

the rest. This will allow you to unlock the power of industrial solving technologies, which have been perfected over decades by hundreds of researchers.

Tutorial: Stress-testing algorithms to expose their strengths and weaknesses

Conveners

Prof. Kate Smith-Miles
OPTIMA, School of Mathematics and Statistics
The University of Melbourne
Australia

Dr. Mario Andrés Muñoz
OPTIMA, School of Computer and Information Systems
The University of Melbourne
Australia

A common question faced by practitioners when developing an algorithmic solution is “Which algorithm is best for my problem instance?” Answering this question requires extensive testing, as to understand the strengths and weaknesses of an algorithm, and their relationship with the structure of the problem instance.

This tutorial introduces Instance Space Analysis (ISA), a visual methodology for algorithm evaluation that focuses on understanding this relationship. Moreover, ISA provides opportunities to gain nuanced insights into the relative power of algorithms, and whether the test instances have been chosen without bias. A space is constructed whereby an instance is represented a point in a 2d plane, with algorithm footprints being the regions of predicted good performance of an algorithm, based on statistical evidence. From this broad instance space, we can assess the diversity of a chosen test set. Moreover, through ISA we can identify regions where additional test instances would be valuable to support greater insights. By generating new instances with controllable properties, an algorithm can be “stress-tested” under all possible conditions. The tutorial makes use of the on-line tools available at the Melbourne Algorithm Test Instance Library with Data Analytics (MATILDA) and provides access to its MATLAB computational engine. MATILDA also provides a collection of ISA results and other meta-data available for downloading for several well-studied problems from optimization and machine learning, from previously published studies.

1200 – 1230 TTPHunter: Automated Extraction of Actionable Intelligence as TTPs from Narrative Threat Reports

Nanda Rani, Bikash Saha, Vikas Maurya and Sandeep Kumar Shukla

1230 – 1300 ACE Closing and Annual Business Meeting (Australasian SIGCSE Chapter)
1300 – 1400 Closing Lunch & Posters | The Pavilion, Level 8, Building H
Stream HIKM   CORE HOD & PROF MEETING TUTORIAL TUTORIAL
Room Room 902 | Level 9, Building H
www.Zoom.us/j/3320072007
Room H1.16 | Level 1, Building H Room 921 | Level 9, Building H Room 901 | Level 9, Building H
1400 – 1530 1400 – 1500

Posters

1510 – 1700

Colloquium

This meeting is for Department Heads and Professors. For the meeting agenda and to register, please click here. How to solve all the worlds (combinatorial) problems, continued Tutorial: Stress-testing algorithms to expose their strengths and weaknesses, continued
1530 – 1600 Afternoon Tea | The Pavilion, Level 8, Building H
Stream   CORE HOD & PROF MEETING
Room Room H1.16 | Level 1, Building H
1600 – 1800 This meeting is for Department Heads and Professors. For the meeting agenda and to register, please click here.

Friday 3 February 2023

DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES CURRICULUM WORKSHOP
Room Room H1.16 | Level 1, Building H
0900 – 1600 DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES CURRICULUM WORKSHOP

Hosted by Grok Academy, this workshop will focus on reviewing the Australian Curriculum: Digital Technologies and how the design of undergraduate curricula does (and might) respond to the capabilities of students who have been exposed to the full curricula.

Cost: The workshop is free to attend, however space is limited.

For more information and to register visit grok.ac/acsw

Who should attend?

  • Academics with responsibility for teaching computer science/software engineering across our tertiary institutions – ie Deputy Head of School/Department (Teaching/Education), Undergraduate Directors or first year coordinators.
  • University staff who are engaged in outreach to schools or high school students within the school/dept/faculty.
  • Secondary teachers