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DR ANTHONY WIRTH



Contact Details

Organization: Computer Science and Software Engineering
Position: LECTURER- COMPUTER SCIENCE
Email:
Homepage: www.csse.unimelb.edu.au/~awirth
Work: 8344 1324
Fax: 9348 1184
Room: 4.26
Level: 04
Building: 111-117 Barry St.
Campus: Parkville

Research Expertise and International Linkages

Research Expertise

Research Interest Key Words Country of Expertise
Data Mining and Machine Learning Australia
Psychophysical Testing Psychometric Function Estimation Australia
Algorithms United States of America
Bioinformatics Gene finding Protein Classification Australia

International Linkages

Country Establishment Collaboration
United States Princeton University Research
United States Dartmouth College Exchange, Research
United States University of Washington Exchange, Research
United States AT&T Labs Research Exchange, Research

Languages

Languages

Language Proficiency
English Speak, Read & Write

Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other Awards

Qualifications

Title Institution Date Awarded Abbreviation
Doctor of Philosophy Princeton University 22-Jan-2005
Master of Arts Princeton University 01-Nov-2002
Master of Science University of Melbourne 25-Aug-2001
Bachelor of Science (Honours) University of Melbourne 10-Mar-1999

Memberships

Membership Type Membership Body Description Start Date End Date
Member Association for Computing Machinery Professional Member 01-Apr-2005
Member ACM SIG Algorithms and Computation Theory Professional Member 01-Apr-2005
Member ACM SIG Computer Science Education Professional Member 01-Apr-2005

Other Awards

Award Type Awarding Body Comments Date Awarded
Scholarship Princeton University Gordon Wu Fellowship 13-Sep-2000

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
"Fast, practical and effective algorithms for clustering with advice" Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Discovery Projects 01/01/2006
ANALYZING ALGORITHUMS FOR CLUSTERING WITH ADVICE - MELBOURNE EARLY CAREER RESEARCHER GRANT SCHEME 2006 Chief Investigator UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE Early Career Researcher Grants Scheme

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

  • Tableau-based protein substructure search using quadratic programming
    Year: 2009
    Journal: BMC Bioinformatics
    Volume: 10
    Page numbers: 1-21 (PAPER 153)
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Publications in 2008

Book Chapters

  • Correlation Clustering
    Year: 2008
    Book: Constrained Clustering: Advances in Algorithms, Theory, and Applicatins
    Publisher: CRC Press(Florida)
    Authors(s):

Conference Publications/Papers

  • Spectral Clustering with Inconsistent Advice
    Year: 2008
    Event name: ICML 2008 - International Conference on Machine Learning
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the 25th Annual International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2008)
    Page numbers: 152-159
    Publisher: Omnipress(Los Angeles)
    Author(s):
    URL - open access http://icml2008.cs.helsinki.fi/papers/172.pdf
  • A Local-Search 2-Approximation for 2-Correlation-Clustering
    Year: 2008
    Event name: ESA 2008 - 16th Annual European Symposium on Algorithms
    Conference Publication: Algorithms - ESA 2008 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science)
    Page numbers: 308-319
    Publisher: Springer Verlag(Berlin)
    Author(s):
  • Engineering Burstsort: Towards Fast In-Place String Sorting
    Year: 2008
    Event name: WEA 2008 - Workshop on Experimental Algorithms
    Conference Publication: 7th International Workshop on Experimental Algorithms
    Volume: 5038/2008
    Page numbers: 14-27
    Publisher: Springer Verlag(Berlin)
    Author(s):
    URL - restricted access http://www.springerlink.com.ezproxy.lib.unimelb.edu.au/content/35022477853m05v7/fulltext.pdf
  • Pattern Discovery in Motion Time Series via Structure-based Spectral Clustering
    Year: 2008
    Event name: CVPR 2008 - IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
    Page numbers: 1-8
    Publisher: IEEE Computer Society(Los Alamitos)
    Author(s):
  • Ranking Tournaments: Local Search and a New Algorithm
    Year: 2008
    Event name: ALENEX '08 Workshop on Algorithm Engineering and Experiments
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the Ninth Workshop on Algorithm Engineering and Experiments (ALENEX)
    Page numbers: 133-141
    Publisher: SIAM Publications(Pennsylvania)
    Author(s):
    URL - open access http://www.siam.org/proceedings/alenex/2008/alx08_013colemant.pdf

Publications in 2007

Conference Publications/Papers

  • Are approximation algorithms for consensus clustering worthwhile?
    Year: 2007
    Event name: SDM 2007 (SIAM)
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Data Mining
    Page numbers: 437-42
    Publisher: SIAM Publications(Pennsylvania)
    Author(s):
  • Structure-based Statistical Features and Multivariate Time Series Clustering
    Year: 2007
    Event name: ICDM '07- IEEE International Conference on Data Mining
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Data Mining
    Page numbers: 351-360
    Publisher: IEEE Computer Society(Los Alamitos)
    Author(s):

Publications in 2006

Journal Articles

Conference Publications/Papers

Publications in 2005

Journal Articles

  • Clustering with Qualitative Information
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Journal of Computer and System Sciences
    Volume: 71
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 360-383
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Publications in 2004

Conference Publications/Papers

  • Maximizing quadratic programs: extending Grothendieck’s inequality
    Year: 2004
    Event name: 45th Annual IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science (FOCS 04)
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the 45th Annual IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science (FOCS 04)
    Page numbers: 54-60
    Publisher: IEEE Computer Society(Los Alamitos)
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Publications in 2003

Conference Publications/Papers

Publications in 2001

Journal Articles

  • Analyzing shared and team mental models
    Year: 2001
    Journal: International Journal of Industrial Ergonomics
    Volume: 28
    Page numbers: 99-112
    Publisher: Elsevier Science(Amsterdam)
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  • Phat—a gene finding program for Plasmodium falciparum
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology
    Volume: 118
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 167-174
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • Can we do without ranks in Burrows Wheeler transform compression
    Year: 2001
    Event name: Data Compression Conference
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the Data Compression Conference
    Page numbers: 419 - 428
    Publisher: IEEE Computer Society(California)
    Author(s):
  • Informational Complexity and the Direct Sum Problem for Simultaneous Message Complexity
    Year: 2001
    Event name: 42nd IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the 42nd IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science (FOCS’01)
    Page numbers: 270-278
    Publisher: IEEE Computer Society(California)
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