Recent Publications

Claster, W.,Shanmuganathan S.and Sallis P. (2010). Wine tasting and a novel approach to cluster analysis. 4th Asia Modelling Symposium (AMS2010), Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Borneo Island, Malaysia, 26-28 May 2010. Retrieved from IEEE Digital Library ,http://www.computer.org/portal/web/csdl

Nti, I., Sallis, P. and Shanmuganathan, S. (2009). Landscape visualisation for frost events in vineyards. New Zealand Postgraduate Conference 20-21 Nov 09, Wellington, New Zealand.
(The above poster had been awarded the "University of Canterbury award for outstanding visual presentation" in the NZ Post Graduate Conference, 2009)

Nti, K., Sallis, P.and  Shanmuganathan, S. (2009). A review on techniques applied to modelling, simulating and visualising evolution of physical landscape. 2009 International Conference on Computational Intelligence, Modelling and Simulation. pp54-58.

Claster, W. and Sallis, P. (2009). The rim of the wine Glass: a comparative regional study of vineyard micro-climates in the Asia- Pacific. 2009 Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific Conference. 12-13 Dec 2009, Beppu, Japan.

Zandi, S., Sallis, P. and Ghobakhlou, A. (2009). A special-purpose navigation instrument for geospatial data processing. New Zealand Postgraduate Conference 20-21 Nov 09, Wellington, New Zealand.

Ghobakhlou, A., Sallis, P., Diegel, O., Zandi, S. and Perera, A.  (2009).  Wireless sensor networks for environmental data monitoring. IEEE Sensor 2009 Conference 25-28 Oct 09, Christchurch, New Zealand.

Mena, C., Gajardo, J., Ormazabal, Y., Ingram, B., Morales, Y., Sallis, P., and Ahobakhlou, A.,  (2009). Combining environmental data with geospatial depiction, geostatistical analysis and visualisation methods. ICC2009 International Cartographic Conference Chile, 15-21 Nov 09, Satiago, Chile.

Vidal, C. and Sallis, P. (2009). Formal modelling of temporal-space system in object-Z.  XXVIII International Conference of the Chilean Computer Science Society, 9-14 Nov, 2009. Santiago, Chile.

Publications
Shanmuganathan, S. and Claster, W. (2009). Statistical methods in analysing health inequalities among the world citizens. In B. Anderssen et al. (eds) /18th IMACS World Congress - MODSIM09 International Congress on Modelling and Simulation/, 13-17 July 2009, Cairns, Australia. pp. 74-80. ISBN: 978-0-9758400-7-8. In B. Anderssen et al. (eds) /18th IMACS World Congress - MODSIM09 International Congress on Modelling and Simulation/, 13-17 July 2009, Cairns, Australia. ISBN: 978-0-9758400-7-8. pp. 171-177.
 
Shanmuganathan, S.,Sallis, P., and Narayanan, A. (2009). Unsupervised artificial neural nets for modelling the effects of climate change on New Zealand grape wines. In B. Anderssen et al. (eds) /18th IMACS World Congress - MODSIM09 International Congress on Modelling and Simulation/, 13-17 July 2009, Cairns, Australia. ISBN: 978-0-9758400-7-8. pp. 803-809.

Ghobakhlou, A., Shanmuganthan, S., and Sallis, P. (2009). Wireless sensor networks for climate data management systems. In B. Anderssen et al. (eds) /18th IMACS World Congress - MODSIM09 International Congress on Modelling and Simulation/, 13-17 July 2009, Cairns, Australia. ISBN: 978-0-9758400-7-8. pp. 959-965.

Sallis, P., Jarur, M., Trujillo, M., and Ghobakhlou, A. (2009). Frost prediction using a combinational model of supervised and unsupervised neural networks for crop management in vineyards. In B. Anderssen et al. (eds) /18th IMACS World Congress - MODSIM09 International Congress on Modelling and Simulation/, 13-17 July 2009, Cairns, Australia. ISBN: 978-0-9758400-7-8. pp. 789-795.

Owusu-Banahene, W., Shanmuganathan, S., and Sallis, P. (2009). Visualisation techniques for modelling environmental influences in viticulture. In B. Anderssen et al. (eds) /18th IMACS World Congress - MODSIM09 International Congress on Modelling and Simulation/, 13-17 July 2009, Cairns, Australia. ISBN: 978-0-9758400-7-8. pp. 930-937.

Li, Y., and Shanmuganathan S. (2009). Analysis and visualization of social areas in city: A SOM and GIS approach. In proceedings of 11th International Conference on Computers in Urban Planning and Urban Management (CUPUM), Hong Kong, 16-19 June 2009 pp?

Shanmuganathan, S., Sallis, P., Narayanan, A. (2009). Statistical data analysis incorporating web text mining to establish correlations between grape wine taster comments and wine ratings. In proceeding of the 6th International Conference on Information Technology in Asia 2009 (CITA09) "Towards Human-Centered Computing" held in Hilton Kuching Hotel, Sarawak, 6 - 9th July 2009. Published by IEEE computer society. pp 258-262.

Shanmuganathan, S., and Sallis, P. (2009). Modelling climate change effects on wine quality based on expert opinions expressed in free-text format: The WEBSOM Approach. In Australian Journal of Intelligent Information Processing Systems (AJIIPS) volume 10.1, 2008 (ISSN 1321-2133) pp50-58. Also published in M. Kppen et al. (Eds.): ICONIP 2008, Part I, LNCS 5506, 2009. Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2009. pp. 915-925.  

Sallis, P., Jarur, M., and Trujillo, M.(2009). Frost prediction characteristics and classification using computational neural networks. In Australian Journal of Intelligent Information Processing Systems (AJIIPS) volume 10.1, 2008 (ISSN 1321-2133) pp50-58. Also published in M. Kppen et al. (Eds.): ICONIP 2008, Part I, LNCS 5506,  2009. Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2009. pp. 1211-1220.

Shanmuganathan, S., Ghobakhlou A., and Sallis P. (2008). Sensor data acquisition for climate change modelling. WSEAS  Circuits & Systems, Issue 11, Volume 7, Nov. 2008. ISSN: 1109-2734 pp 942-952.

Claster W., Ghotbi N., Shanmuganathan S. (2008). Data-Mining for the analysis of alternative medicine: The case of osteopathy diagnostic methodology in Japan. In proceedings of the Second UKSIM European Symposium on Computer Modeling and Simulation, Liverpool Hope University, Liverpool, England, 8 – 10 September 2008, IEEE Computer Society. ems. pp 219-225.

Shanmuganathan, S., Ghobakhlou A., and Sallis P. (2008). Sensors for modeling the effects of climate change on grapevine growth and wine quality. Invited paper in proceeding of the 12th WSEAS International Conference on CIRCUITS (part of the 12th WSEAS CSCC Multi conference) held in Heraklion, Crete Island, Greece, July 22-24, 2008. pp 315-321.

Sallis, P.J., Shanmuganathan, S., Pavesi, L., and Jarur, M. pan. (2008). Kohonen Self-organising maps in the mining data mining of wine taster comments. Data Mining  IX, Data Mining, Protection, Detection and other Security Technologies 2008. Cadiz, Spain, 26-28 May 2008. Eds., A Zanasi, D Almorza Gomar, N F F Ebecken and C A Brebbia. ISBN: 978-1-84564-110-8, ISSN (print): 1746-4463, ISSN (on-line): 1743-3517 Transactions on information and Communication Technologies, Vol. WIT press. 40 pp 125-139. (http://library.witpress.com/pages/listPapers.asp?q_bid=429).

Sallis, P.J., Shanmuganathan, S., Pavesi, and L., and Jarur, M. (2008) A system architecture for collaborative environmental modelling research.The 2008 International Symposium on Collaborative Technologies and Systems (CTS 2008), Eds., Waleed W. Samari and William McQuay, A publication of the IEEE, New Jersey, USA. ISBN: 978-1-4244-2248-7, Irvine, California, May 19-23 2008 pp 39-47.

Shanmuganathan, S., Sallis, P.J., Pavesi, L. and Jarur, M. (2008) Computational intelligence and geo-informatics in viticulture. In proceedings of the Second Asia International Conference on Modelling & Simulation.  CD version published by IEEE computer society. Eds., Edited by David Al-Dabass, Steve Turner, Gary Tan and Ajith Abraham Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 13-15 May 2008, pp 480-485.

Shanmuganathan, S., and Shanmuganathan, M., (2008), Regional and global dynamics in east asia: A data mining experience. Eds., David Al-Dabass, Steve Turner, Gary Tan and Ajith Abraham. Proceedings of the Second Asia International Conference on Modelling & Simulation. (CD version), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 13-15 May 2008, IEEE computer society. pp 457-462. www2.computer.org/portal/web/csdl/doi/10.1109/AMS.2008.102

Sallis, P. and Shanmuganathan, S. (2008). A blended text mining method for authorship authentication analysis. In proceedings of the Second Asia International Conference on Modelling & Simulation.  CD version published by IEEE computer society. Eds., Edited by David Al-Dabass, Steve Turner, Gary Tan and Ajith Abraham Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 13-15 May 2008, pp 451-456.

Claster, W., Shanmuganathan, S., and Ghotbi, N., (2008). Text mining of medical records for radiodiagnostic decision-making. Journal of computers Vol. 3 No.1 January 2008, 6 pages. www.academypublisher.com/jcp/vol03/no01/jcp03010106.pdf

Shanmuganathan, S. and Sallis, P. J., and Claster, W. (2007). Statistical methods in ecological dynamics modelling. In Oxley, L. and Kulasiri, D. (eds) MODSIM 2007 International Congress on Modelling and Simulation. Modelling and Simulation Society of Australia and New Zealand, December 2007. ISBN : 978-0-9758400-4-7. pp. 2967-2973.

Shanmuganathan, S. (2007). Modelling technological progress and economic growth at wider scales. In Eds., Oxley, L. and Kulasiri, D., MODSIM 2007, Proceedings of the International Congress on Modelling and Simulation. Modelling and Simulation Society of Australia and New Zealand, December 2007, ISBN : 978-0-9758400-4-7. pp. 2707-2713.

Claster, W., Shanmuganathan, S., Ghotbi, N., (2007). A hybrid approach to data mining radiological medical records. Eds., Gaj Vidmar and Janez Stare. Ljubljana. Proceedings of International Conference on Applied Statistics, Ribno (Bled), Slovenia 2007, September 23 – 26, 2007, Statistical Society of Slovenia, 2007. ISBN 978-961-90314-8-3. 1. Applied Statistics 2. ISBN 978-961- 90314-8-3 pp 39.

Shanmuganathan, S., Cassim, M. and Ukita, K., (2007). Environmental awareness education at Ritsumeikan’s primary, secondary and tertiary institutions in Japan. Eds., Rafaela C Hillerbrand and Rasmus Karlsson, “Beyond the Global Village. Environmental Challenges inspiring Global Citizenship”, Vol 51, Probing the Boundaries series ‘Environmental Justice and Global Citizenship’. Proceedings of the 6th Global Conference on Environmental Justice and Global Citizenship 2007 held by Inter-Disciplinary Net at Mansfield College, Oxford, UK, 2-5 July 2007. ISBN: 978-1-904710-50-9 pp 235-250.

Claster, W., Shanmuganathan, S., and Ghotbi, N., (2007). Text mining in radiological data records: An unsupervised neural network approach. Proceedings of the First Asia International Conference on Modelling & Simulation (AMS'07) 0-7695-2845-7/07, IEEE computer society.

Shanmuganathan, S. (2007). Environmental sustainability in corporate and public enterprises. In proceedings of “Towards sustainable livelihood and environment”, Eds., Benchaphun Ekasingh, Attachai Jintrawet and Somjate Pratummintra. Proceedings of the 2nd International conference on Asian simulation and modeling 2007, Sheraton Hotel Chiang Mai, Thailand, 9-11 January 2007. pp 393-402.

Shanmuganathan, S. and Cassim, M. (2007). Sustainability and systems modeling in university education. In proceedings of “Towards sustainable livelihood and environment”, Eds., Benchaphun Ekasingh, Attachai Jintrawet and Somjate Pratummintra. Proceedings of the 2nd International conference on Asian Simulation and Modeling 2007, Sheraton Hotel Chiang Mai, Thailand, 9-11 January 2007. pp 115-121.

Shanmuganathan, S., and Cassim, M., (2006). HIMS-stroke information systems (SIS). Proceedings (CD version) of the 2nd International Conference for Universal Design in Kyoto. Japan. 22-26 October 2006.

Shanmuganathan, S., (2006). Universal design and health care. Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference for Universal Design in Kyoto, Japan. 22-26 Oct.2006. pp 1043-1050.

Li, Y., and Shanmuganathan, S., (2006). Social area analysis using SOM and GIS, Reports of the City Planning Institute of Japan No. 5-2 (Release Date: 2006/10/11). pp 41-46.

Shanmuganathan S, Li, Y., and Cassim, M., (2006). Spatial data mining and visualisation. Beppu 2000 census case study in `Advances in Natural Computation and Data mining`, Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Natural Computation (ICNC'06) and the 3rd International Conference on Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery (FSKD'06) held in Xidian University, Xi'an, China, 24 – 28 September 2006. pp 438-44.

Shanmuganathan S, Cassim M. and Mohamed M. (2006). Self-organising maps in tropical rainforest ecosystem modelling. In proceedings of the International Conference in Ecological Modelling 2006 Yamaguchi, Japan, 28 August - 1 September 2006 pp 282-283.

Shanmuganathan, S. Sallis P. and Buckeridge, J. (2006). Self-organising map methods in integrated modelling of environmental and economic systems. Elsevier, Science Direct ARTICLE in Environmental Modelling & Software, Volume 21, Issue 9, September 2006, available online at www.sciencedirect.com p pp 1247-1256.

Shanmuganathan, S. (2005). Applications of an unsupervised neural network to support sustainable development by modelling environmental, social and economic conditions. In proceedings (CD version) of the 4th International Symposium on Digital Earth, Tokyo, Japan, 28-31 March 2005.

Ghobakhlou A. and Kasabov N. (2004). A methodology and a system for adaptive integrated speech and image learning and recognition. In International Journal of Computer Science and Signal Processing, Vol. 5 No. 2, 2004.

Shanmuganathan S, Sallis P and Buckeridge J, (2004). Self-organising maps for integrating data across multiple scales. Proceedings of “Bridging scales and Epistemologies; Linking local knowledge with global science in multi-scale assessments, International conference held by Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MEA)”. Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Alexandria, Egypt. 17-20 March 2004, pp91-92. www.millenniumassessment.org/en/bridging.proceedings.aspx

Ghobakhlou A., Zhang D. and Kasabov N. (2004).  An evolving neural network model for person verification combining speech and image. In International Conference on Neuro Information Processing ICONIP 2004. Calcutta 22-25 November 2004. pp 381-386.

Zhang D., Kasabov N., Ghobakhlou A. (2004). An adaptive model of person identification combining speech and image information. In International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision ICARCV,  Kunming, China 6-9 December, 2004.

Ghobakhlou A., Kilgour R. (2004). In-vehicle noise and enhanced speech intelligibility. In International Conference on Neuro Information Processing ICONIP 2004. Calcutta 22-25 November 2004. pp 375-380.

Coghill G., Zhang D., Ghobakhlou A., Kasabov N. (2003). Connectionist systems for rapid adaptive learning: A comparative analysis on apeech recognition. In Proceeding of the 7th Joint Conference on Information Sciences, North Carolina, 26-30 September, 2003.  pp. 1365-1368.

Shanmuganathan S, Sallis P and Buckeridge J. (2003). Single versus multi species indicators in environmental modelling: A review in environmental pollution. Proceedings of the International Conference on Water and Environment (WE-2003), Eds., Vijay P. Singh, Vijay P. Singh Ram Narayan Yadava, held in Bhopal, India. December 15-18, 2003. Allied Publishers, 2003 ISBN 8177645501, 9788177645507. pp 260-285.

Shanmuganathan, S., Sallis, P., Dobbs, B., & Connor, A. (2003). Document clustering in text mining [Abstract]. In Eds., N. Kasabov & Z. S. H. Chan, Proceedings of the neurocomputing and evolving Intelligence 2003 (NCEI 2003), Auckland. pp. 113-114.

Shanmuganathan S, Sallis P and Buckeridge J, (2003). Self-organising map methods in integrated modelling of environmental and economic systems. MODSIM 2003, International Congress on Modelling and Simulation (Integrative Modelling of Biophysical, Social and Economic Systems for Resource Management Solutions), Townsville, Australia. 14-17 July 2003. Volume 3 pp 1066- 1071. http://mssanz.org.au/modsim03/Media/Articles/Vol%203%20Articles/1066-1071.pdf

Shanmuganathan S., Sallis P. and Buckeridge J. (2003). Ecological modelling with self-organising maps. MODSIM 2003, International Congress on Modelling and Simulation (Integrative Modelling of Biophysical, Social and Economic Systems for Resource Management Solutions), in Townsville, Australia. 14-17 July 2003 Volume 2 pp. 759-764. http://mssanz.org.au/modsim03/Media/Articles/Vol%202%20Articles/759-764.pdf

Ghobakhlou, A., Watts, M. and Kasabov, N. (2002). AdapAdaptive speech recognition with evolving connectionist systems. Journal of Information Science, 156, 2003. pp 70-83.

Shanmuganathan S., Sallis P. and Buckeridge J. (2002). Data mining and visualisation in biological and environmental processes. 3rd Conference for the International Society for Ecological Informatics, Rome, Italy, 26-31 August 2002, p77.

Shanmuganathan S, Sallis P. and Buckeridge J. (2001). Self-organising maps to study the effects of urbanisation at Long Bay in New Zealand. Proceedings of the Fifth Biannual Conference on Artificial Neural Networks and Expert Systems (ANNES2001), Dunedin, New Zealand, 22-24 Nov 2001, pp132-137.

Ghobakhlou, A. and Seesink, R. (2001). An interactive multi modal system for mobile robotic control.  In Proceedings of the Fifth Biannual Conference on Artificial Neural Networks and Expert Systems, Otago, Dunedin, 2001, pp 93-99.

Shanmuganathan, S. and Sallis, P.J. (2001). Self-organising maps in biological process modelling. Proceedings of the Fifth Biannual Conference on Artificial Neural Networks and Expert Systems, Dunedin , NZ, 22 - 24 November 2001, pp126-131.

Ghobakhlou, A., Watts, M. and Kasabov, N. (2000). On-line expansion of output space in evolving fuzzy neural networks. In Proceedings ICONIP 2000, Taejon, Korea, November, 2000, 2. pp 891-896.

Sallis, P.J. and Kassabova, N. (2000). DA computer-mediated communication: experiments with e-mail readability. In the International Journal of Information Sciences. 123123 (2000). pp 43-53.

Ghobakhlou, A., Song, Q. and Kasabov, N. ROKEL: the interactively learning and navigating robot of the knowledge engineering laboratory at Otago, ICONIP/ ANZIIS/ ANNES'99 Workshop, Dunedin,  New Zealand, November 22-24, 1999. pp 57-59.

Sallis, P.J. and Masi. (1998). CA Use and User profiling using connectionist methods for data mining and interpretation. IRMA'99 Information  Resource Management Association International Conference, Hershey, Penn, April 15-19, 1999. pp: 994-998.

Sallis, P.J. and Kassabova, D.A. (1998). Usernet Newsgroups Profile Analysis utilising standard and non-standard statistical methods. In Journal of Information Science, 24(2), 1998. pp 97-104.

Miscellaneous (Workshops, Technical Reports, and Abstracts
Simei Gomes Wysoski, David Zhang, Akbar Ghobakhlou, Vishwa Shukla. (2004).Handheld adaptive speech and face based person verification. In Proc. Neuro-Computing and Evolving Intelligence(NCEI), Kasabov N, Chen ZSH (eds), Auckland, 2004. ISBN 0-476-01282-1.

Vishwa Shukla, Simei Gomes Wysoski, David Zhang and Akbar Ghobakhlou. (2004). Evolving intelligence runs much faster on FPGA chips. In Proc. Neuro-Computing and Evolving Intelligence (NCEI), Kasabov N, Chen ZSH (eds), Auckland, 2004. ISBN 0-476-01282-1.

Kidambi, S. A., Dobbs, B., Ghobakhlou, A.  and Connor, A.M. (2003). A voice recognition based application for business customer services. Proceedings of the Neurocomputing and Evolving Intelligence Conference, 120-121, 2003.

Akbar Ghobakhlou, David Zhang, Bouke H. F. Nijhuis, Simei Gomes Wysoski. (2003). Evolving connectionist video image and speech processing, In Proc. Neuro-Computing and Evolving Intelligence (NCEI), Kasabov N, Chen ZSH (eds), Auckland, 2003.

Patent
Kasabov N. and Ghobakhlou A. (2004). Adaptive Speech and Image Learning System and Method, Patent No. PCT/NZ2004/000264 November 2004, New Zealand