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SVMs, Sensor Networks, Machine Learning, Neural Network, Pattern Recognition, Signal Processing and Control. Most of my papers are in the field of Machine Learning (Publication List).

Research Interests

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My research interests and some my publications (Full List) are given below:

Modelling and Control:   

  • PALANISWAMI, M.  and Feng, G. - Digital Estimation and Control with a New Discrete time Operator, in Proc. 30th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Brighton, U.K., pp. 1631-1632 (1992).

  • Fok, C.S., DRANSFIELD, P. and Palaniswami, M. -  'Model Reference Velocity Control of an Air Powered Servo drive, Intl.Conf on Fluid Power, Control and Robotics, Chengdu, China, (1990).

  • Palaniswami, M. - A New Discrete-Time Operator for Digital Estimation and Control, Research Report No.  1-1989, Dept.  Of Electrical and    Electronic Engineering, The University of Melbourne

Disturbance Rejection:

  • Palaniswami, M. - Adaptive Internal Model for Disturbance Rejection and Control,  in Proc. IEE - Part D, Vol. 140, No:1, pp. 51-59, (1993). ). (JIF - 0.47)

  • Feng, G. and Palaniswami, M. - Continuous Time Indirect Adaptive Control with Disturbance Rejection, Systems and Control Letters, Vol. 18, No: 3, pp. 211-215 (1992). (JIF - 0.69)

  • Feng, G. and Palaniswami, M. - n Adaptive Control Algorithm for Disturbance Rejection - Continuous Time Case, IEE Proceedings-D, Vol. 139, No. 2, March, pp. 167-171, (1992). (JIF - 0.47)

  • Palaniswami, M. and Feng, G - Adaptive Control Algorithms for Disturbance Rejection, Int. Journal. Computers and Electrical Engineering, Vol. 17, No. 1, pp. 31-37, (1991). ). (JIF - 0.07

  • Manzie, C., Palaniswami, M. and Watson, H. -  model predictive approach to disturbance rejection in idle speed control, in proc. of the Asian Control Conference, Singapore, September, 2002.

  • Palaniswami, M. and Goodwin, G. C. - Disturbance Rejection in Adaptive   Control of Industrial Processes, Proc.  14th Annual Conference of IEEE   Industrial Electronics Society, October, Singapore, 290-296 (1988).

  • Palaniswami, M.  and Feng, G.- Adaptive Control Algorithms for Disturbance Rejection, Proc. 4th I.E.  Conference on Control Engineering, Gold Coast, Qld, pp. 95-99, August (1990).

  • Palaniswami, M., - Adaptive Internal Model for Disturbance Rejection and Control, Research Report No.  2-1989, Dept.  of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, The University of Melbourne.

  • Palaniswami, M. - Adaptive Internal Model for Disturbance Rejection and Control, Research Report No.  2-1989, Dept.  Of Electrical and Electronic   Engineering, The University of Melbourne.

Neural Networks Architectures: 

  • CHANDRASEKARAN, V., PALANISWAMI, M., AND CAELLI, T - Range Image Segmentation by a Dynamic Neural Network Architecture, Pattern Recognition Journal, Vol. 29, pp. 315 - 329, Feb. 1996. (JIF - 0.82)

  • CHANDRASEKARAN, V., PALANISWAMI, M AND CAELLI, T. - Spatio-Temporal Feature Map’s using Gated Neuronal Architecture, IEEE Trans. on Neural Networks, Vol. 6, pp. 1119-1131, September 1995. . (JIF - 1.5)

  • CHANDRASEKARAN, V. LIU, Z., AND PALANISWAMI, M - Fuzzy Gated Neuronal Architecture for Pattern Recognition, Proc. IEEE Int. Conf on Neural Networks, ICNN95, pp. 1622-1627, November, 1995.

  • Chandrasekaran, V.,  Palaniswami, M. and Caelli, T. - Invariant Property of Spatio-Temporal Feature Maps using Gated Neuronal Architecture, in Proc. IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, ICASSP94, pp. 609 - 612, Adelaide, 1994.

Combinatorial Optimisation Problems:

  • SMITH, K., PALANISWAMI, M and KRISHNAMOORTHY, M. - Solving Combinatorial Optimisation Problems Using Neural Networks, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, Nov. 1998. (JIF - 1.5)

  • SMITH, K. AND PALANISWAMI, M. - Static and Dynamic Channel Assignment using Neural Networks, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, Vol. 15, No:2, pp.238-249,  1997.(JIF - 1.11)

  • SMITH, K., KRISHNAMOORTHY, M. AND PALANISWAMI, M. - Neural Versus Traditional Approaches to the Location of Interacting Hub Facilities, Location Science, Vol.4, No:3, pp. 155 -171, 1996. (JIF - )

  • SMITH, K., PALANISWAMI, M. AND KRISHNAMOORTHY, M. - Traditional Heuristic versus Hopfield Neural Network Approaches to a Car Sequencing Porblem, European Journal of Operations Research (Special Issue), Vol. 93, No:2, pp. 300-316, Sept. 1996. (JIF - 0.36)

  • SMITH, K., PALANISWAMI, M. AND KRISHNAMOORTHY, M. - A Hybrid Neural Approach to Combinatorial Optimisation Problems, Computers and Operations Research Journal (Special Issue), Vol. 23, pp. 597-610, June 1996. (JIF - 0.43)

Neural Networks for Mobile Communications: 

  • TISSAINAYAGAM, D., EVERITT, D. and PALANISWAMI, M. - Feedback Neural Network Implementation of Channel Packing Algorithms in Micro-Cellular Cordless Telephony, Australian Journal of Intelligent Information Processing Systems, pp. 18- 23, 1998. (JIF - )

  • SMITH, K. AND PALANISWAMI, M. -  Static and Dynamic Channel Assignment using Neural Networks, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, Vol. 15, No:2, pp.238-249,  1997.(JIF - 1.11)

  • Chan, P.T.C. H., PALANISWAMI, M., and Everitt, D. - Neural Network Based Dynamic Channel Assignment for Cellular Mobile Communication Systems,  IEEE Trans. Vehicular Technology, Vol. 43, No.2, pp. 279-288 (1994). (JIF - 0.47)

  • TISSAINAYAGAM, D., PALANISWAMI, M. AND EVERITT, D. - Computational Complexities of Neural Networks based Dynamic Channel Assignment Algorithms, in Proc. of 3rd IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Processing Systems, ICIPS, pp. 560-564, Gold Coast, Australia, August 1998.

  • TISSAINAYAGAM, D., Everitt, D.  and Palaniswami, M. - A Performance Comparison of Neural Network Based Dynamic Channel Assignment in Cellular Mobile Radio Systems, in Proc. of IEEE Singapore International Conference on Networks (SICON'97), pp. 181-196, Singapore, Apr. 1997.

  • TISSAINAYAGAM, D., Everitt, D.  and Palaniswami, M. - A Neural Network Driven Solution to a Channel Assignment Problem in Wireless Telephony, in Proc.of the International Conference on Neural Networks (ICNN'97), Vol.1, pp. 133-137, Houston, June 1997.

  • TISSAINAYAGAM, D., Everitt, D.  and Palaniswami, M. - Mosaic Learning: A New Algorithm for Self-Organising Neural Networks to Learn Dynamic Channel Assignment Schemes, accepted for International Conference on Neural Information Processing (ICONIP'97), Dunedin, Nov. 1997

  • TISSAINAYAGAM, D., Everitt, D.  and Palaniswami, M. - Self-Organising Feature Map Implementation of the Random Channel Search Algorithm, accepted for Asia-Pacific Conference on Communications (APCC'97), Sydney, Dec. 1997

  • Terrill, S., Everitt, D. and Palaniswami, M.  - Neural Networks for Limited Channel Rearrangement in Cellular Mobile Communication Systems, in Proc. IEEE Conference on Neural Networks, Orlando, USA., June 26 - July 2, pp. 3592-3596 (1994).

  • Chan, P.T.C.H., Palaniswami, M., and Everitt, D. E. - Feed forward Neural Networks Applications to Dynamic Channel Assignment for Cellular Mobile Communication Systems, Proc. 1992 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks,  IJCNN'92,  Beijing, China, November 3-6, pp. 218-223 (1992).

  • Chan, PTH, Palaniswami, M. and Everitt, D. - Dynamic channel assignment for cellular mobile radio systems using feed forward neural networks, in Proc. International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, Singapore, pp.1242-1247, November (1991).

  • Terrill, S., Palaniswami, M. and Everitt, D - Feed forward Neural Networks for Limited Channel Rearrangement in Cellular Mobile Communication Systems, in Proc. Fifth Australian Conference on Neural Networks, ACNN94, Brisbane, pp. 246-249, February, 1994.

  • Terrill, S., Palaniswami, M. and Everitt, D - Limited Channel Rearrangement in Cellular Mobile Communication Systems using Neural Networks, in Proc. Eighth Australian Telegraphic Research Seminar, ATRS, Melbourne, pp. 80 - 89, (1993).

  • Chan, PTH, Palaniswami, M. and Everitt, D - Dynamic channel assignment for cellular mobile radio systems using self organising neural networks, in Proc. 6th Australian Telegraphic Seminar, Wollongong, November (1991).

Signal Processing for Information Retrieval:

  • PARK, L., PALANISWAMI, M., and KOTAGIRI, R. – Internet Document Filtering using Fourier Domain Scoring, in Principles of Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, Luc De Raedt and Arno Siebes, Eds.  Pages 362-372, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (No: 2168), Springer Verlag, 2001.

  • PARK, L., PALANISWAMI, M., and KOTAGIRI, R - A novel Web text mining method using the Discrete Cosine Transform, Principles of Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, Eloma, T, Mannila, H., Toivonen, H. August 2002, No:2431 in Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, pp. 385-396 (2002).

  • PARK L.A., KOTAGIRI, R., and PALANISWAMI, M. - Fourier Domain Scoring: a novel document ranking method, Accepted for publication in IEEE Trans. on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 2004. (JIF - 0.62)

  • PARK, L., KOTAGIRI, R. and PALANISWAMI, M.  – A new Implementation Technique for Fast Spectral based Document retrieval Systems, Proc. of the IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM 2002), Dec. 2002, Pp. 346-353.

Adaptive Support Vector Machines:

  • Shilton, A., and Palaniswami, M. - Modified$\nu$-SV Method for Simplified Regression, in Proc. of the International Conference on Intelligent Sensing and Information Processing, published by the IEEE, Jan 4-7, Chennai, 2004.

  • Lai, D., Mani, N. and Palaniswami, M. - An Extrapolated Sequential Minimal Optimisation Algorithm for Support Vector Machines, In Proc. of International Conference on Intelligent Sensing and Information Processing, IEEE Press, Jan 4-7, Chennai, 2004.

  • Shilton, A.,  Palaniswami, M., Ralph, D., and  Tsoi, A.C. - Incremental Training in Support Vector Machines, in Proc. of the International Joint conference on Neural Networks, Washington, July 2001.

  • Palaniswami, M., Shilton, A., Ralph, D., and Owen B.– Machine learning using support vector machines, International conference on Artificial Intelligence in Science and Technology, Hobart, Australia, December 2000 (Keynote Talk Paper).

  • Shilton, A., Palaniswami, M., Ralph, D., and Tsoi, A.C - Incremental Training in Support Vector Machines, in Proc. of the International Joint conference on Neural Networks, Washington, 2001.

Emission Control for environment Safeguard 

  • Manzie, C., Palaniswami, M., Ralph, D., Watson, H., and Yiao, X - Model Predictive Control of a Fuel Injection System with a Radial Basis Function Network Observer, ASME Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement and Control, pp648-658, December 2002. (JIF - 0.22)

  • Manzie, C., Palaniswami, M., and Watson, H. - "Gaussian Networks for Fuel Injection Control," Proceedings of the Institute of Mechanical Engineers: Part D Journal of Automobile Engineering, vol. 215, pp. 1053-1068, 2001. . (JIF - 0.25)

  • Dingli, R., Watson, H.C., Palaniswami, M. and Milkins, E - Adaptive Control of Air-Fuel Ratio for Optimizing the Fuel Efficiency of a Lean Burn Natural Gas Engine, in Proc. FISITA Conference, Beijing (1994).

I have employed these skills and techniques for solving cross disciplinary problems and bringing new fields together with interdisciplinary areas. The end user applications that have benefited from my work include Defence, healthcare and environment. Currently, I am leading an Australian Research Network bid for the emerging area of Sensors and Sensor Networks to be administered by the University of Melbourne.  The network will have the participation of 40 world class researchers from various institutions including MIT, Cambridge, University of Melbourne, Louisiana State Univ.  One of the most important goals for this centre is to bring researchers from Electrical Engineering, Computer Science and Mathematics to work on challenging problems with immediate benefit to society.

Collaboration

The research has made special links with Australian industry providing innovative solutions to many practical problems such as smart sensor scheduling algorithms for target tracking in Defence, content based search engines for security analysis, electronic monitoring of fish species, automotive engine control, automatic target recognition, auto scaling of ionograms, option pricing and financial models, portfolio management, weather monitoring, and modelling of blast furnaces. I have extensive collaboration with over 100 researchers (including my students) from many countries including USA, U.K, Japan, Canada, India and eight different Australian industries.  As a result of taking much of my theory to practice, a commercial software product intelligent warehousing (ICS) is currently used as part of an overall package by the organisation and in addition, there is a provisional patent in search engines for internet technology industry.  Much of the research work has also been found to be valuable by the Australian Industry and other research organisations.  This has been demonstrated by the continuous financial support from these bodies and by the establishment of active collaborative links. 

The specific industries and institutions that have worked as partners for doing joint work include

  • BHP Research Laboratories

  • Tenix Ltd

  • Melbourne IT

  • ANZ Bank

  • National Australia Bank

  • Signal Processing Associates

  • Integrated Control Systems

  • Compumedics

  • Cardiac Dynamics

  • Intellirad solutions 

The active research collaboration with different educational institution include

  • California Institute of Technology, USA

  • Cambridge University, UK

  • University of California, Berkely, USA

  • Stanford University, USA

  • CSIRO Division of Mathematics and Statistics, Melbourne

  • CSIRO Division of Manufacturing Technology, Melbourne

  • Florida International University, USA

  • Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

  • Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India

  • Indian Institute of Technology, Chennai, India

  • Bureau of Meteorology, Melbourne

  • Communications Research Laboratory, Japan

  • Defence Science and Technology Organisation, Australia

  • Monash University, Melbourne

More than 10 international visitors have made collaborative visits resulting in excess of 13 research publications. The joint publication is evidence of the success of the collaborative visits.

Sensor Networks (www.sensornetworks.net.au)

 

The convergence of the internet, communications, and information technologies with techniques for miniaturized sensors has placed the field of sensor information technology at the threshold of a period of major growth.   There is increasing evidence that the new emerging technologies can decrease the size, cost of sensors and sensor arrays by orders of magnitude and increase their spatial and temporal resolution.  In this regard, it is important to observe the current international trend: The National Science Foundation (NSF) has committed for a fundamental research program of over US$33million p.a in sensors and sensor networks, the Taiwanese government has committed $750 million for sensor technologies and US government has released a figure of $4.5 billion commitment for works related to sensors and applications including defence.  The compelling question is: What can we do with these sensors in order to exploit their potential fully.  The current challenges are developing highly innovative techniques to make sensors smart, to scale well and to apply for problems and areas that were previously not considered.  In order to meet the future demands, it is necessary for sensor systems to leverage and incorporate projected advances in adjacent technologies such as nanofabrication, bio-systems, massively distributed networks, wireless communication technologies, control and signal processing, ubiquitous computing, information and decision systems.  The end user applications, in defence, healthcare and environment, are highly exciting and valuable to the community, and include projects such as bush fire detection (tiny networked sensors activated at bush fire to communicate location and spread), sensor monitoring of vast agricultural fields (bio-degradable networked sensors used to determine the nutrition and health levels for healthy crops), unmanned aerial vehicles for aerial surveillance and monitoring, intelligent transportation system (autonomous vehicles equipped with smart networked sensors navigating through GPS support), biodegradable sensors monitoring ocean health (ref. world bank project for protecting the health of Great Barrier Reef), smart monitoring of body function (with liquid sensors mapping the body dynamics) and integrated sensor management and monitoring for healthcare (ability to provide diagnostic services via communication of important information to central nodes for processing).

 

In order to fully achieve the benefit of these challenging applications, there is a serious need to solve many fundamental scientific problems in the areas of intelligent sensors, biomimetic systems, nonlinear control, machine learning, stochastic scheduling, sensor fusion and tracking. Many of the scientific challenges call for skills from interdisciplinary areas for providing viable practical solutions. Having worked on cross disciplinary and inter disciplinary areas at the highest levels, I have the vision to lead and steer the field with active contributions from some of the best academics and industries and from my contributions in the core areas of control engineering, optimization, adaptive learning and signal processing. Our fundamental research projects that contribute to the long term visionary areas are listed below: 

  • Sensor Scheduling for Sensor Networks

  • Adaptive Support Vector Machines

  • Bio inspired Fusion and Tracking

  • Sensor Information Retrieval

  • Bioinformatics and Biomedical Engineering

 

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