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DR MATT DUCKHAM



Contact Details

Organization: Geomatics
Position: SENIOR LECTURER
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Homepage: http://www.geom.unimelb.edu.au/people/mduckham.html
Work: 46935
Fax: 9347 2916
Room: b304
Level: 03
Building: Engineering Block B
Campus: Parkville

Research Expertise and International Linkages

Research Expertise

Research Interest Key Words Country of Expertise
Geoinformatics Geographic information fusion, geosensor networks, location privacy Australia, United Kingdom, United States of America

Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other Awards

Qualifications

Title Institution Date Awarded Abbreviation
Bachelor of Science The University of Edinburgh 31-Dec-1994
Master of Science University of London 31-Dec-1996
Doctor of Philosophy The University of Glasgow 31-Dec-1999

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
Automatic fusion of geoinformation: The intelligent geo-mediator architecture (iGMA) Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Discovery Projects 01/01/2006
BIGNET - A DISTRIBUTED WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORK TESTBED Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Linkage Infrastructure (Equipment and Facilities) 01/01/2008
Ambient spatial intelligence: Spatial analysis and event detection in environmental geosensor networks Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Future Fellowships 09/09/2009

Contracts

Title Role Funding Source Award Date
PILOT SENSOR NETWORK II FOR CONSERVATION CONTRACT MONITORING Chief Investigator DEPT OF SUSTAINABILITY & ENVIRONMENT 01/05/2009

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

Book Chapters

  • Keynote Paper: Representation of the Natural Environment
    Year: 2009
    Book: Representing, Modeling, and Visualizing the Natural Environment
    Publisher: CRC Press(Florida)
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Journal Articles

Publications in 2008

Journal Articles

Major Reference Works

  • Encyclopedia of Geographic Information Science:Database Management Systems
    Year: 2008
    Reference Work Title: Encyclopedia of Geographic Information Science
    Publisher: Sage Publications(London)
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  • Encyclopedia of GIS:Geosensor Networks, Qualitative Monitoring of Dynamic Fields
    Year: 2008
    Reference Work Title: Encyclopedia of GIS
    Publisher: Springer Science+Business Media(New York)
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  • Encyclopedia of Geographic Information Science:Spatial Indexes
    Year: 2008
    Reference Work Title: Encyclopedia of Geographic Information Science
    Publisher: Sage Publications(London)
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • Decentralized Movement Pattern Detection among Mobile Geosensor Nodes
    Year: 2008
    Event name: 5th International Conference, GIScience 2008
    Conference Publication: Lecture Notes in Computer Science: Geographic Information Science 5th International Conference, GIScience 2008
    Volume: 5266
    Page numbers: 132-144
    Publisher: Springer Verlag(Heidelberg)
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  • Effect of Neighborhood on In-Network Processing in Sensor Networks
    Year: 2008
    Event name: 5th International Conference, GIScience 2008
    Conference Publication: Lecture Notes in Computer Science: Geographic Information Science 5th International Conference, GIScience 2008
    Volume: 5266
    Page numbers: 133-150
    Publisher: Springer-Verlag Heidelberg(Berlin)
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  • Simplest Instructions: Finding Easy-to-Describe Routes for Navigation
    Year: 2008
    Event name: 5th International Conference, GIScience 2008
    Conference Publication: Lecture Notes in Computer Science: Geographic Information Science 5th International Conference, GIScience 2008
    Volume: 5266
    Page numbers: 274-289
    Publisher: Springer Verlag(Heidelberg)
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Publications in 2007

Books

  • Spatial Information Theory
    Year: 2007
    Publisher: Springer Verlag(Berlin)
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Book Chapters

  • Automated geographical information fusion and ontology alignment
    Year: 2007
    Book: Spatial data on the Web: Modeling and Management
    Publisher: Springer Verlag(Berlin)
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Journal Articles

  • Special issue on Privacy Aware and Location-based Mobile Services
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Journal of Location Based Services
    Volume: 3
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 161-164
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  • Theme issue on distributed geoinformatics: From sensors to systems
    Year: 2007
    Journal: ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry & Remote Sensing
    Volume: 62
    Issue: 5
    Page numbers: 325-327
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Conference Publications/Papers

Publications in 2006

Book Chapters

  • Location privacy and location-aware computing
    Year: 2006
    Book: Dynamic & Mobile GIS: Investigating Change in Space and Time
    Publisher: CRC Press(Florida)
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Journal Articles

  • A spatiotemporal model of obfuscation strategies and counter strategies for location privacy
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Lecture Notes in Computer Science
    Volume: 4917
    Page numbers: 47-64
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  • Geographic event conceptualization
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Cognitive Processing
    Volume: 7
    Issue: S1
    Page numbers: s52-s54
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  • Monitoring qualitative spatiotemporal change for geosensor networks
    Year: 2006
    Journal: International Journal of Geographical Information Science
    Volume: 20
    Issue: 10
    Page numbers: 1087-1108
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  • Qualitative reasoning about consistency in geographic information
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Information Sciences
    Volume: 196
    Issue: 6
    Page numbers: 601-627
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  • What is the Region Occupied by a Set of Points?
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Lecture Notes in Computer Science
    Volume: 4197
    Page numbers: 81-98
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • Formalizing mobility in dynamic location aware sensor networks
    Year: 2006
    Event name: International Workshop on Mobile Location-Aware Sensor Networks (MDM06)
    Conference Publication: 7th International Conference on Mobile Data Management (MDM 2006)
    Page numbers: 157
    Publisher: IEEE Computer Society(California)
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  • Modeling spatial variation in data quality using linear referencing
    Year: 2006
    Event name: 7th International Symposium on Spatial Accuracy Assessment in Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the 7th International Symposium on Spatial Accuracy Assessment in Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences
    Page numbers: 225-235
    Publisher: Instituto Geografico Portugues(Lisbon)
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Publications in 2005

Book Chapters

  • Dynamic Spatial Modelling in the Simile Visual Modelling Environment
    Year: 2005
    Book: Re-Presenting GIS
    Publisher: Wiley - John Wiley & Sons(Chichester)
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  • Not Just Objects: Reconstructing Objects
    Year: 2005
    Book: RePresenting GIS
    Publisher: Wiley - John Wiley & Sons(Chichester)
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  • Uncertainty and Geographic Information: Computational and Critical Convergence
    Year: 2005
    Book: Re-Presenting GIS
    Publisher: Wiley - John Wiley & Sons(Chichester)
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Journal Articles

  • An Algabraic Approach to Automated Geospatial Information Fusion
    Year: 2005
    Journal: International Journal of Geographical Information Science
    Volume: 19
    Issue: 5
    Page numbers: 537-557
    Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd(London)
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  • Book review of "Karimi and Hammad, Telegeoinformatics: Location-based computing and services"
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Computers & Geosciences
    Volume: 31
    Page numbers: 1295-1296
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  • Ontology-driven map generalization
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Journal of Visual Languages and Computing
    Volume: 16
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 245-267
    Publisher: Academic Press - Elsevier Science(London)
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • A Formal Model of Obfuscation and Negotiation for Location Privacy
    Year: 2005
    Event name: Third International Conference on Pervasive Computing
    Conference Publication: Pervasive Computing
    Volume: 3468
    Page numbers: 152-170
    Publisher: Springer Verlag(Berlin)
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  • Monitoring Dynamic Spatial Fields Using Responsive Geosensor Network
    Year: 2005
    Event name: 13th ACM International Workshop on Geographic Information Systems
    Conference Publication: Proceediings of the 13th ACM International Workshop on Geographic Information Systems
    Page numbers: 51-60
    Publisher: ACM Press(New York)
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  • Next-Generation Research Issues in Spatial Data Quality
    Year: 2005
    Event name: The National Biennial Conference of the Spatial Sciences Institute: SSC 2005
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of SSC 2005 Spatial Intelligence, Innovation and Praxis
    Page numbers: 865-872
    Publisher: Spatial Sciences Institute(Melbourne)
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  • Simulation of Obfuscation and Negotiation for Location Privacy
    Year: 2005
    Event name: 7th International Conference on Spatial Information Theory
    Conference Publication: Spatial Information Theory
    Volume: 3693
    Page numbers: 31-48
    Publisher: Springer Verlag(Berlin)
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Publications in 2004

Books

  • GIS: A Computing Perspective
    Year: 2004
    Publisher: CRC Press(Florida)
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Journal Articles

  • Commonsense notions of proximity and direction in environmental space
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Spatial Cognition and Computation
    Volume: 4
    Issue: 4
    Page numbers: 285-311
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • Information dissemination in mobile ad-hoc geosensor networks
    Year: 2004
    Event name: GIScience 2004
    Conference Publication: Geographic Information Science
    Volume: 3234
    Page numbers: 206-222
    Publisher: Springer(New York)
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Publications in 2003

Books

  • Foundations of Geographic Information Science


    Year: 2003
    Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd(London)
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Book Chapters

  • "Simplest" Paths: Automated Route Selection for Navigation


    Year: 2003
    Book: Lecture Notes in Computer Science
    Publisher: Springer-Verlag Heidelberg(Berlin)
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Journal Articles

  • Imprecise Navigation


    Year: 2003
    Journal: Geoinformatica
    Volume: 7
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 79-94
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Publications in 2002

Book Chapters

  • Error-Aware GIS Development


    Year: 2002
    Book: Spatial Data Quality
    Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd(London)
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Journal Articles

  • A user-oriented perspective of error-sensitive GIS development
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Transactions in GIS
    Volume: 6
    Issue: 4
    Page numbers: 179-194
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  • Integrating spatio-thematic information
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Lecture Notes in Computer Science
    Volume: 2205
    Page numbers: 346-361
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Publications in 2001

Journal Articles

  • A Formal Approach to Imperfection in Geographic Information


    Year: 2001
    Journal: Computers, Environment and Urban Systems
    Volume: 25
    Page numbers: 89-103
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  • Object Calculus and the Object-Oriented Analysis and Design of an Error-Sensitive GIS


    Year: 2001
    Journal: Geoinformatica
    Volume: 5
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 261-289
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  • Computational structure in three-valued nearness relations
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Lecture Notes in Computer Science
    Volume: 2205
    Page numbers: 76-91
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