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DR MARCUS BRAZIL



Contact Details

Organization: Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Mathematics and Statistics
Position: SENIOR LECTURER (LEVEL C), Honorary (Senior Fellow)
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Homepage: http://www.ee.unimelb.edu.au/people/brazil/index.html
Work: 8344 3829
Fax: 8344 6678
Room: 511
Level: 05
Building: Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Campus: Parkville

Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other Awards

Qualifications

Title Institution Date Awarded Abbreviation
Doctor of Philosophy La Trobe University 31-Dec-1995

Other Awards

Award Type Awarding Body Comments Date Awarded
Other (Award) The International Association of Engineers (IAEng) Best Paper Award, 2007 International Conference of Wireless Networks 20-Aug-2007

Government Research Classifications

Research Fields, Courses and Discipline Classifications

Socio-Economic Objective Classifications

Grants and Contracts

Research Grants, Contracts and Consultancies awarded to the University of Melbourne as the administering institution (since 2003) as recorded in Themis Agreements.

Grants

Title Role Funding Source Scheme Award Date
Decision tools for underground mine development Chief Investigator NEWMONT AUST,
AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL		 Linkage Projects (AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL) 01/01/2004
Optimal Deployment of Wireless Sensor Networks Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Discovery Projects 01/01/2008
Rapid optimisation in underground mining network design Chief Investigator AMIRA INTERNATIONAL LTD,
AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL		 Linkage Projects (AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL) 01/01/2008

Publications

Publications produced at the University of Melbourne and reported in the Annual Publications Collection and 'Research Report' since 2001. The Themis Publications module, released in November 2006, allows additional publications from previous institutions and publications from past years to be entered.

Publications in 2009

Journal Articles

  • A Novel Approach to Phylogenetic Trees: d-Dimensional Geometric Steiner Trees
    Year: 2009
    Journal: Networks
    Volume: 53
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 104-111
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  • Steiner trees for fixed orientation metrics
    Year: 2009
    Journal: Journal of Global Optimization
    Volume: 43
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 141-169
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  • Translational packing of arbitrary polytopes
    Year: 2009
    Journal: Computational Geometry
    Volume: 42
    Issue: 4
    Page numbers: 269-288
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • Access Optimisation Tools in Underground Mine Design
    Year: 2009
    Event name: Orebody Modelling and Strategic Mine Planning 2009
    Conference Publication: International Symposium. Orebody Modelling and Strategic Mine Planning: Old and New Dimensions in a Changing World
    Page numbers: 237-241
    Publisher: Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy(Melbourne)
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  • Designing Optimal Flow Networks
    Year: 2009
    Event name: The 2009 International Conference of Applied and Engineering Mathematics (World Congress on Engineering)
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the World Congress on Engineering 2009
    Volume: II
    Page numbers: 1235-1240
    Publisher: Newswood Limited(Kwun Tong)
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  • Deterministic deployment of wireless sensor networks
    Year: 2009
    Event name: The 2009 International Conference on Wireless Networks (World Congress on Engineering)
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the World Congress on Engineering 2009
    Volume: 1
    Page numbers: 863-868
    Publisher: Newswood Limited(Kwun Tong)
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  • Strategic Optimisation of a Vertical Hoisting Shaft in the Callie Underground Mine
    Year: 2009
    Event name: Orebody Modelling and Strategic Mine Planning 2009
    Conference Publication: International Symposium. Orebody Modelling and Strategic Mine Planning: Old and New Dimensions in a Changing World
    Page numbers: 243-248
    Publisher: The Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy(Melbourne)
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Publications in 2008

Journal Articles

  • Decline design in underground mines using constrained path optimisation
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Mining Technology : IMM Transactions section A
    Volume: 117
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 93-99
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  • Equivalence, Indicators, Quasi-indicators and Optimal Steiner Topologies on Four Points in Space
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Fundamenta Informaticae
    Volume: 84
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 135-149
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  • Gradient-constrained minimum networks (II). Labelled or locally minimal Steiner points
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Journal of Global Optimization
    Volume: 42
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 23-37
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • Access layout optimisation for underground mines
    Year: 2008
    Event name: 2008 Australian Mining Technology Conference
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the 2008 Australian Mining Technology Conference 'Smart Technologies for Sustaining the Minerals Boom'
    Page numbers: 119-128
    Publisher: The Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy(Melbourne)
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  • Bayesian node localisation in wireless sensor networks
    Year: 2008
    Event name: 2008 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2008)
    Conference Publication: 2008 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing
    Page numbers: 2545-2548
    Publisher: IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers(Piscataway)
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Publications in 2007

Book Chapters

  • Optimisation in underground mining (Chapter 30)
    Year: 2007
    Book: Handbook of Operations Research in Natural Resources
    Publisher: Springer Science+Business Media(New York)
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Journal Articles

  • Network modelling of underground mine layout: two case studies


    Year: 2007
    Journal: International Transactions in Operational Research
    Volume: 14
    Page numbers: 143-158
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  • Network optimization for the design of underground mines
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Networks
    Volume: 49
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 40-50
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • Constrained path optimisation for underground mine layout
    Year: 2007
    Event name: The 2007 International Conference of Applied and Engineering Mathematics
    Conference Publication: The World Congress on Engineering 2007 (WCE 2007): Lecture Notes in Engineering and Computer Science)
    Volume: II
    Page numbers: 856-861
    Publisher: Newswood Limited(Kwun Tong)
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  • Distributed self-localisation in sensor networks using RIPS measurements
    Year: 2007
    Event name: The 2007 International Conference of Wireless Networks
    Conference Publication: The World Congress on Engineering 2007 (WCE 2007): Lectures Notes in Engineering and Computer Science
    Volume: 2
    Page numbers: 1476-1481
    Publisher: Newswood Limited(Kwun Tong)
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  • Hyperbolic Positioning Using RIPS Measurements for Wireless Sensor Networks
    Year: 2007
    Event name: 15th IEEE International Conference on Networks
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the 2007 15th IEEE International Conference on Networks
    Page numbers: 425-430
    Publisher: IEEE South Australia Section(South Australia)
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Publications in 2006

Journal Articles

  • Canonical forms and algorithms for Steiner trees in uniform orientation metrics
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Algorithmica
    Volume: 44
    Page numbers: 281-300
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  • Locally minimal uniformly oriented shortest networks
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Discrete Applied Mathematics
    Volume: 154
    Issue: 18
    Page numbers: 2545-2564
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • Quasi-indicators and optimal Steiner topologies on four points in space
    Year: 2006
    Event name: The Seventeenth Australasian Workshop on Combinational Algorithms (AWOCA 2006)
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the Seventeenth Australasian Workshop on Combinational Algorithms (AWOCA 2006)
    Page numbers: 54-66
    Publisher: University of Ballarat(Ballarat)
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Publications in 2005

Book Chapters

  • Optimisation in the Design of Underground Mine Access
    Year: 2005
    Book: Orebody Modeeling and Strategic Planning - Uncertainity and Risk Management Models
    Publisher: The Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy(Melbourne)
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Journal Articles

  • Cost optimisation for underground mining networks
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Optimization and Engineering
    Volume: 6
    Page numbers: 241-256
    Publisher: Springer Verlag(Dordrecht)
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  • Flexibility of Steiner Trees in uniform orientation metrics
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Networks
    Volume: 46
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 142-153
    Publisher: John Wiley & Sons(New York)
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • The gradient-constrained Fermat-Weber problem for underground mine design
    Year: 2005
    Event name: 18th National Conference of the Australian Society for Operations Research and the 11th Australian Optimisation Day
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the 18th National Conference of the Australian Society for Operations Research and the 11th Australian Optimisation Day
    Page numbers: 16-23
    Publisher: Western Australian Centre of Excellence in Industrial Optimisation(Perth)
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Publications in 2004

Journal Articles

  • Rotationally optimal spanning and steiner trees in uniform orientation metrics
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Computational Geometry
    Volume: 29
    Page numbers: 251-263
    Publisher: Elsevier Science(Amsterdam)
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  • Upper and lower bounds for the lengths of Steiner trees in 3-space
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Geometriae Dedicata
    Volume: 109
    Page numbers: 107-119
    Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers(Dordrecht)
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • Flexibility of Steiner trees in uniform orientation metrics
    Year: 2004
    Event name: ISAAC 2004
    Conference Publication: Lecture notes in computer science: Algorithms and computation: 15th international symposium, ISAAC 2004 proceedings
    Volume: 3341
    Page numbers: 196-208
    Publisher: Springer Verlag(Berlin)
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  • Optimisation in the design of underground mine access
    Year: 2004
    Event name: Orebody modelling and strategic mine planning: international symposium 2004
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of Orebody modelling and strategic mine planning: uncertainty and risk management: International symposium 2004
    Page numbers: 3-6
    Publisher: The Australian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy(Melbourne)
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  • The structure and flexibility of Steiner trees in uniform orientation metrics
    Year: 2004
    Event name: The sixth international conference on optimization: techniques and applications (ICOTA6 2004)
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the sixth international conference on optimization: techniques and applications (ICOTA6 2004)
    Page numbers: 1-11
    Publisher: University of Ballarat(Ballarat)
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Publications in 2003

Journal Articles

  • Getting hooked on mathematics through its applications
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Teaching Mathematics and its Applications
    Volume: 22
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 63-75
    Publisher: Oxford University Press(Oxford)
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  • Optimising declines in underground mines
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Institution of Mining and Metallurgy Transactions - Section A: Mining Technology
    Volume: 112
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 164-170
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • Flexibility of Steiner minimum trees in uniform orientation metrics
    Year: 2003
    Event name: 18th international symposium on mathematical programming
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of 18th international symposium on mathematical programming
    Page numbers: 1-11
    Publisher: Springer Verlag(Berlin)
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Publications in 2002

Journal Articles

  • A network model to optimise cost in underground mine design
    Year: 2002
    Journal: The Transactions of the South African Institute of Electrical Engineers
    Volume: 93
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 97-103
    Publisher: EE Publishers
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  • Forbidden subpaths for Steiner minimum networks in uniform orientation metrics
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Networks
    Volume: 39
    Issue: 4
    Page numbers: 186-202
    Publisher: John Wiley & Sons(New York)
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Publications in 2001

Book Chapters

  • Steiner minimum trees in uniform orientation metrics
    Year: 2001
    Book: Combinatorial Optimization : Steiner Trees in Industry
    Publisher: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers(Dordrecht)
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Journal Articles

  • Gradient-constrained minimum networks. I. fundamentals
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Journal of Global Optimization
    Volume: 21
    Page numbers: 139-155
    Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers(Dordrecht)
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • Modelling and optimisation of a weighted network in an underground mine design
    Year: 2001
    Event name: 3rd International Conference on Control Theory and Applications
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Control Theory and Applications
    Page numbers: 564567
    Publisher: IEEE Press(New Jersey)
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