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DR OWEN DAFYDD JONES



Contact Details

Organization: Mathematics and Statistics
Position: SENIOR LECTURER
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Homepage: http://www.ms.unimelb.edu.au/Personnel/profile.php?PC_id=34

Research Expertise and International Linkages

Research Expertise

Research Interest Country of Expertise
Stochastic Processes; Statistics; Simulation; Optimisation Australia

International Linkages

Country Establishment Collaboration
United Kingdom Oxon Research
United Kingdom Southampton Research
United Kingdom University of Sheffield Research
France Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble Research

Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other Awards

Qualifications

Title Institution Date Awarded Abbreviation
Doctor of Philosophy University of Cambridge 01-Dec-1995
Bachelor of Science (Honours) The University of Queensland 01-Dec-1989
Bachelor of Science The University of Queensland 01-Dec-1988

Memberships

Membership Type Membership Body Description Start Date End Date
Member Australian Mathematical Society 01-Jan-1996
Member Statistical Society of Australia 01-Jan-1996
Member Institute of Mathematical Statistics 01-Jan-2000
Unspecified Cambridge Commonwealth Trust 01-Jan-2002

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
BROWNIAN MOTIONAL WITH A MULTIFRACTAL TIME CHANGE - 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 2007

Journal Articles

  • Convergence Properties of the Cross-Entropy Method for Discrete Optimization
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Operations Research Letters
    Volume: 35
    Issue: 5
    Page numbers: 573-580
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  • Modelling electricity power cuts in the UK
    Year: 2007
    Journal: The ANZIAM Journal
    Volume: 47
    Issue: EMAC2005
    Page numbers: C585-C602
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • Galton-Watson fractal signals
    Year: 2007
    Event name: International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP) 2007
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP) 2007
    Volume: 3
    Page numbers: III-1157-III-1160
    Publisher: IEEE Signal Processing Society
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Publications in 2006

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Publications in 2005

Book Chapters

  • A non-parametric test for self-similarity and stationarity in network traffic
    Year: 2005
    Book: Fractals in Engineering: New Trends in Theory and Applications
    Publisher: Springer London(London)
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Publications in 2004

Book Chapters

  • Fast, efficient on-line simulation of self-similar processes
    Year: 2004
    Book: Thinking in Patterns: Fractals and Related Phenomena in Nature
    Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Co(New Jersey)
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Journal Articles

Publications in 2003

Journal Articles

Conference Publications/Papers

  • Robust hybrid designs for real-time simulation trials


    Year: 2003
    Event name: 2003 Winter Simulation Conference
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the 2003 Winter Simulation Conference
    Page numbers: 585-591
    Publisher: INFORMS Simulation Socirty
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Publications in 2002

Journal Articles

  • Asymptotically one-dimensional diffusion on the Sierpinski gasket and multi-type branching processes with varying environment
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Journal of Theoretical Probability
    Volume: 15
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 301-338
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  • Multivariate Bottcher equation for polynomials with non-negative coefficients
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Aequationes Mathematicae
    Volume: 63
    Page numbers: 251-265
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