	Prof. Hussein A. Abbass FACS, AFAIM, SMIEEE
	Prof. Hussein A. Abbass FACS, AFAIM, SMIEEE
	School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering University of New South Wales at the Australian Defence Force Academy in Canberra

Research is fun, there is no need to complicate it.

Hussein is a Professor and Chair of Information Technology at the University of New South Wales at the Australian Defence Force Academy (UNSW@ADFA) in Canberra, Australia. He has a BA, B.Sc., PG-Dip, and Masters all from Cairo University Egypt, a M.Sc. from Edinburgh University Scotland, and a PhD from QUT Australia. He is the Director of the Artificial Life and Adaptive Robotics Laboratory at UNSW@ADFA, the Director of the university Defence and Security Applications Research Centre (DSARC) at UNSW@ADFA, an Advisory Professor at Vietnam National University, Ho-Chi Minh City, a fellow of the Australian Computer Society (ACS), an Associate Fellow of the Australian Institute of Management (AIM), a senior member of the IEEE, the chair of ACS National Committee on Complex Systems, the chair of the IEEE Task Force on Complex Adaptive Systems and Artificial Life, and a member of a number of national and international committees including the IEEE technical committee on Data Mining and the IEEE working group on soft computing in the SMC society. He was a member of the NCRIS Expert Subcommittee for Safeguarding Australia in 2008. He is a member of the academic advisory board for The International Marketing Institute of Australia Ltd (IMIA), and a member of the scientific advisory board for SolveIT Software.

Current research interest

Computational Capability Planning and Risk Assessment
Computer-in-the-loop Scenario Planning
Smart Solutions for Air Transport and Air-Traffic Management
Linkage Learning and Automatic Problem Decomposition [neuro-ensemble learning, classifier systems, and linkage learning]
Modelling, Simulation and Data Mining

Teaching

I teach a variety of IT and Operations Research subjects including Strategic Decision Making, Capability Option Analysis, Decision Analysis, Knowledge Based Systems, Data Mining, Soft Computing, Modern Heuristic Techniques, Computational Optimisation, Management Science for Engineering, Complex Adaptive Systems, Artificial Intelligence.

National & International Competitive Grants

ARC Discovery (2009-2011), Dual Phase Evolution in Networks, D. Green and H.A. Abbass, $360K.
ARC LIEF (2009), A high performance computing cluster and storage for the INTERSECT Consortium of NSW, one of 24 CIs, $500K.
Eurocontrol Experimental Centre (2008-2012), Using military scenarios to assess risks in civil Air Traffic Management scenarios, Euro 167K.
ARC Discovery (2006-2008), Defence and Security Risk Assessment using Agent Based Distillations, M. Barlow and H.A. Abbass, $306K.
ARC Linkage International (2005), Ensembles of Collaborative Neural Networks, H.A. Abbass and X. Yao, $15K.
ARC Networks (2004-2008), Research Network for a Secure Australia (RNSA), one of 50 CIs, $1,500K.
ARC Networks (2004-2008), Complex Open Systems Network (COSNet), one of 50 CIs, $1,500K.
ARC Linkage (2004-2006), Scenario Driven Management in a Network Environment, D. Jarrat, T. Bossomaier, and H.A. Abbass, $513K.
ARC Centre (2003-2008), The ARC Centre for Complex Systems (ACCS), one of 13 CIs, $5,250K.
ARC Network Seed Funding (2003), Australian Network on Security Technology Integration, one of 20 CIs, $20K.

S amplePublications

Shafi K. and Abbass H.A. An Adaptive Genetic-Based Signature Learning System for Intrusion Detection, Expert Systems with Applications, Elsevier Science, Accepted March 2009.
Bui L., Abbass H.A., and Essam D. Localization for Solving Noisy Multi-objective Optimization Problems, Evolutionary Computations, MIT Press, Accepted January 2009.
Quek H.Y., Tan K.C., and Abbass H.A. Modeling civil violence: an evolutionary multi-agent, game theoretic approach, IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, accepted August 2008.
Alam S., Shafi K., H.A. Abbass and M. Barlow (2009)An Ensemble Approach for Conflict Detection in Free Flight by Data Mining, Transportation Research Part C, 17(3), Pages 298-317.
Quek H.Y., Tan K.C., Goh C.K., and Abbass H.A. (2009) Evolution and incremental learning in the iterated prisoner's dilemma, IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, 13(2), 303-320.
P. Lennon, B. Kinghorn, and H.A. Abbass (2009). Cyclic Genotyping Strategies. III: A Comparison of Predictive Methods for Group Genotyping, Journal of Animal Breeding and Genetics, 126(2), 117-126.
Rojanavasu P., Dam H.H., Abbass H.A., Lokan C. and Pinngern O. A Self-Organized, Distributed, and Adaptive Rule-Based Induction System, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, 20(3), 446-459.
Bui L.T., Abbass H.A. and Essam D. (2009). Local Models - an Approach to Distributed Multi-objective Optimization, Computational Optimization and Application Journal, 42(1), 105-139.
Badham J., Abbass H.A., and Stocker R. (2008). Parameterisation of keeling’s network generation algorithm, Journal of Theoretical Population Biology, 74(2), 161-166.
Alam S., Abbass H.A. and Barlow M. (2008), ATOMS: Air Traffic Operations and Management Simulator, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation. vol 9(2), 209-225.
Ghoneim A., Abbass H.A. and Barlow M. (2008), Characterizing Game Dynamics in 2-Player Strategy Games Using Network Motifs, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, Cybernetics, Part B, vol 38(3), 682-690.
Dam H.H., Abbass H.A., Lokan C. and Yao X. (2008) Neural-Based Learning Classifier Systems, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, vol 20(1), 26-39.
Nguyen M.H., Abbass H.A. and McKay R. (2008) Analysis of CCME: Coevolutionary Dynamics, Automatic Problem Decomposition and Regularization, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, Cybernetics, Part C, vol 38(1), 100-109.
Yang A., Abbass H.A., and Sarker H (2006). Characterizing Warfare in Red Teaming, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, Cybernetics, Part B, 36(1).
Teo J. and Abbass H.A. (2005) Multi-objectivity and Complexity in Embodied Cognition. IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, 9(4), pp. 337-360.
Teo J. and Abbass H.A. (2004). Automatic Generation of Controllers for Embodied Legged Organisms: a Pareto Evolutionary Multi-Objective Approach. Evolutionary Computations, MIT Press, 12(3), pp. 355-394.
H.A. Abbass (2003) Speeding up Back-Propagation Using Multiobjective Evolutionary Algorithms, Neural Computation, MIT Press, vol. 15, No 11, 2705-2726.
H.A. Abbass (2002). An evolutionary artificial neural networks approach for Breast Cancer Diagnosis. Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, Elsevier Science, vol 25/3 pp 265-281.
H.A. Abbass, M. Towsey, and G. Finn (2001). C-Net: A Method for Generating Non-deterministic and Dynamic Multivariate Decision Trees, Knowledge and Information Systems: An International Journal (KAIS), Springer-Verlag, Vol. 5, No. 2.
H.A. Abbass, G. Wiggen, R. Lakshmanan and B. Morton (1999). Constraint logic programming as a paradigm for heat exchanger network retrofit, The International Journal of Computers and Chemical Engineering, supplement volume of ESCAPE-9, PP.S127-S130.

Supervision of Higher Degree Research Students

Completed students

FT Ph.D. 2005-2008 Kamran Shafi. An Online and Adaptive Signature Learning Approach for Intrusion Detection Using Learning Classifier Systems. Principal supervisor with Weibing Zhou co-supervisor [works at UNSW@ADFA] [Thesis] (Received The Stephen Fester Prize for the most outstanding PhD thesis in Information Technology, UNSW@ADFA, University of New South Wales, 2008)

FT Ph.D. 2005-2008 Sameer Alam. Evolving Complexity Towards Risk: A Massive Scenario Generation Approach for Evaluating Advanced Air Traffic Management Concepts. Principal supervisor with Michael Barlow and Peter Lindsay (UQ) co-supervisor [works at UNSW@ADFA] [Thesis] (Awarded the Victorian Fresh Scientist Prize for 2008)
FT Ph.D. 2004-2008 Helen Dam. A scalable evolutionary learning classifier system for knowledge discovery in stream data mining. Principal supervisor with Chris Lokan co-supervisor [works at Raytheon Australia] [Thesis] (Received The Ria de Groot Prize for the most outstanding female post-graduate student, UNSW@ADFA, University of New South Wales for 2008)
FT M.Sc. 2006-2008 Ayman Ghoneim. Local-global coupling in strategy games: extracting signatures and unfolding dynamics. Co-supervisor with Michael Barlow principal [work as an associate lecture, Cairo University] [Thesis]
PT Ph.D. S1/2003-2008 Jennifer Badham. The Role of social network properties on the impact of direct contact epidemics. Principal supervisor with Robert Stocker co-supervisor [works as a consultant] [Thesis]
FT Ph.D. 2004-2007 Lam Thu Bui. The Role of Communication Messages and Explicit Niching in Distributed Evolutionary Multi-objective Optimization. Principal supervisor with Daryl Essam, David Green (Monash) and Kalyanmoy Deb (IT Kanpur) co-supervisors [works at UNSW@ADFA] [Thesis] (Received The Stephen Fester Prize for the most outstanding PhD thesis in Information Technology, UNSW@ADFA, University of New South Wales for 2007)
FT PhD 2003-2007 Ang Yang. A Networked Multi-Agent Combat Model: Emergence Explained. Principal supervisor with Ruhul Sarker and Neville Curtis (DSTO) co-supervisors [works as a Research Scientist, CSIRO] [Thesis]
FT Ph.D. 2002-2006 Minh Ha Nguyen. Cooperative coevolutionary mixture of experts : a neuro ensemble approach for automatic decomposition of classification problems. Principal supervisor with Bob McKay co-supervisor [works at Vietnam National University] [Thesis]
FT Ph.D. 2001- 2005 Hoai Nguyen Xuan. A Flexible Representation for Genetic Programming: Lessons from Natural Language Processing. Co-supervisor with Bob Mckay principal and Daryl Essam co-supervisor [works at the Vietnamese Defence Academy, currently at Seoul National University] [Thesis]
FT Ph.D. 2001- 2005 Yin Shan. Program Distribution Estimation with Grammar Models. Co-supervisor with Bob Mckay principal and Daryl Essam co-supervisor [works at Medicare Australia] [Thesis]
FT Ph.D. 2001-2004 Paula Lennon. DNA costing. Co-supervisor with Brian Kinghorn principal and Gerard Davis co-supervisor, UNE [works at QUT]
FT DIT 2001-2003 Jasen Teo. Pareto Multiobjective Evolution of Legged Embodied Organisms. Principal supervisor [works at Universiti Malaysia Sabah] [Thesis]

Current students

PT Ph.D. S2/2008- Despina Tramoundanis. Uncertainty in capability development planning. Principal supervisor with Axel Bender co-supervisor.
FT Ph.D. S2/2008- Shir Li Wang. Self-organised automatic decomposition of the learning problem in data mining. Principal supervisor with Chris Lokan co-supervisor.
FT Ph.D. S2/2008- Wenjing Zhao. Automatic decomposition of large scale resource-constrained project management using evolutionary algorithms. Principal supervisor with Axel Bender co-supervisor.
FT Ph.D. S2/2008- Theam Foo Ng. Statistical approaches for training machine learning models. Principal supervisor with Kathryn Merrick co-supervisor.
FT MSc. S2/2008- Murad Hossain. The Dynamical Travelling Salesman Problem. Principal supervisor with Chris Lokan co-supervisor.
PT DIT S2/2008- Peter Hoek. Tools for visualisation and encoding of social networking/interactions with a focus on dialogue. Principal supervisor with Michael Frater co-supervisor.
FT Ph.D. S1/2008- Van Viet Pham. Multiobjective Optimization for Generating Flexi Tracks for the Airlines Industry. Principal supervisor with Chris Lokan co-supervisor.
FT Ph.D. S1/2008- Amr Ghoneim. Context-based ensemble learning. Principal supervisor with Daryl Essam co-supervisor.
FT Ph.D. S1/2008- Bahaa Eldin Aly. Agent-based approaches for modelling equine influenza outbreak. Co-supervisor with Amy Griffin principal and Peter Durr (CSIRO) co-supervisor.
PT Ph.D. S1/2008- Jiangjun Tang. Air Traffic Sector Modelling and Optimization. Principal supervisor with Chris Lokan co-supervisor.
PT Ph.D. S2/2007- Cherylne Fleming. Scneario-based decision making. Co-supervisor with Robert Stocker principal supervisor.
FT Ph.D. 2005- Kuang-Yuan (Steven) Chen. Multi-agent Systems for Free-Flight Air-Traffic Control. External co-supervisor with Peter Lindsay principal. (University of Queensland)
FT Ph.D. 2004- Yu-Hui (Flora) Yeh. Active Learning. External co-supervisor with Marcus Gallagher principal and Janet Wiles co-supervisor. (University of Queensland)

Invited Talks

Plenary: The 14th International Symposium on Artificial Life and Robotics, AROB 2009, 5-7 February 2009, Beppu, Oita, Japan, "The Role of Non-Dominance in Artificial Life and Robotics".
Plenary: The 7th International Conference on Simulated Evolution and Learning, SEAL 2008, 7-10 December 2008, Melbourne, Australia, "The Future of Intelligent Systems is Non-Dominance".
Plenary: The 12th Asia Pacific Symposium on Intelligent and Evolutionary Systems, 7-8 December 2008, Melbourne, Australia, "The Future of Intelligent Systems is Non-Dominance".
Keynote: Operations Research in Australia: The Experts Speak, Canberra, Australia, 7-8 July, 2008, "Structuring the strategic scenario planning process".
Invited Talk: 3rd International Nonlinear Science Conference, Chuo University, Tokyo, Japan, 13-15 March, 2008, “Characterising and Understanding dynamics in reactive heterogeneous multi-agent systems”.
Keynote at the Defence and Security track of Complex ’07, Gold Coast, Australia, “Signatures of Game Dynamics for Intelligence and Information Operation”.
Keynote International Seminar Series, Intelligent Robot Research Centre, Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Korea, November 2006 “Recent Advances on Artificial Life and Adaptive Robotics”.
Keynote speech at the 8th Asia Pacific Symposium on Intelligent and Evolutionary Systems, 6-7 Dec 2004, Cairns, Australia “The lone thinker of Celigny in learning and agent systems”.
Department of Veterans' Affairs, Australia, “Data Mining”, 21/10/2003.
DPI, Australia, 20/09/1998. “Introducing Neural Networks for the Dairy Industry”, a talk was given in The Dept. of Primary Industries, Workshop for extensions, Sunshine Coast.

Editorships

Editorial Board, International Journal of Intelligent Computing and Cybernetics, Emerald, since 2007.
Editorial Board, International Journal of Applied Systemic Studies (IJASS), Inderscience, since 2006.
A member of the Editorial Review Board of the “advances in Data Warehousing and Mining” Book Series published by IGI Press, Inc (USA).

Society Membership

Fellow Australian Computer Society
Associate Fellow Australian Institute of Management
Chair of the ACS national committee on complex systems
Senior Member IEEE
Sub-Committee Chair for Conference Liaison, The Australian Computer Society Artificial Intelligence Committee.
Chair: The IEEE-NN-EC Task Force on Artificial Life and Complex Adaptive Systems.
Member of the IEEE SMCS Technical Committee.
IEEE Neural Networks Society
Operations Research Society (ORS), UK.
The Australian Society for Operations Research (ASOR), Australia.
The AI committee of the Australian Computer Science Society

Conference Chair

Program co-chair: The IEEE International Conference on Artificial Life, Honolulu, Apr 2007.
Technical co-chair: The IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, CEC’07, Singapore, September 2007.
Conference co-chair: The International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE), Microelectronics, MEMS, and Nanotechnology Symposium, Complex Systems Conference, Complexity and Nonlinear Dynamics, Adelaide, 2006.
Technical co-chair: The 6th International Conference on Simulated Evolution and Learning (SEAL'06), Heifa, China, October, 2006.
Conference co-chair: The Second Australian Conference on Artificial Life (ACAL 05), Sydney, Australia, 2005.
Vic general chair and proceedings co-chair: IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, Canberra, Australia, 2003.
General co-chair: “The Australian Conference on Artificial Life (ACAL)”, Canberra, Australia, 2003.
Organising chair and program committee member: “The Australian National Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI’02)”, Canberra, Australia, 2002.
Invited stream chair for data mining: “IFORS2002: The Sixteenth Triennial Conference of the International Federation of Operational Research Societies”, Edinburgh, UK, 2002.
Special session co-chair on swarm intelligence: “4th Asia-Pacific Conference on Simulated Evolution and Learning”, Singapore, 2002.
Program chair: “The ADFA Computer Science Post-graduate Conference”, 2001.

Conference Program Committee

Program Committee member: The 21st Australian Joint Conference of Artificial Intelligence 2008 (AI 2008), 1-5 December, Auckland, New Zealand.
Program Committee member: The 2008 Winter Workshop on Economics with Heterogeneous Interacting Agents (WEHIA/ESHIA), December 5-7, Taiwan.
Program Committee member: The 2008 World Congress on Computational Intelligence (WCCI), Hong Kong.
Program Committee member: The 2008 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO), USA.
Program Committee member: The 2008 Simulation of Adaptive Behavior (SAB), Osaka, Japan, on 7-12 July, 2008.
Program Committee member: The 12th European Conference on Genetic Programming (EuroGP2008), 2008.
Program Committee member: The 2007 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Multi-Criteria Decision-Making (MCDM 2007), April 1-5, Hawaii.
Program Committee member: The 2007 IEEE Computational Intelligence for Security and Defense Applications (CISDA 2007) , April 1-5, Hawaii.
Program Committee member: Evolutionary Multi-Criterion Optimization 2007 (EMO 2007), Matsushima, Japan, March 5-8, 2007.
Program Committee member: The 2nd International Symposium on Intelligence Computation and Applications (ISICA 2007), China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, China, April 6 to 8, 2007.
Program Committee member: The 2007 IEEE International Symposium on Data Mining and Information Retrieval (IEEE DMIR-07), Ontario, Canada, May 21-23 2007.
Program Committee member: 10th European Conference on Genetic Programming (EuroGP2006), Spain, 2006.
Program Committee member: The 30th Australasian Computer Science Conference (ACSC2006), Australia, 2007.
Program Committee member: The 2006 Computational Intelligence in Security,
Program Committee member: Australasian Data Mining Conference (AusDM06), Sydney, December, 2006.
Program Committee member: The 19th Australian Joint Conference of Artificial Intelligence 2006 (AI 2006), Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.
Program Committee member: Second International Conference on Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence (PReMI) at the Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India, during December 18-22, 2007.
Program Committee member: The 29th Australasian Computer Science Conference (ACSC2006), Australia, 2006.
Publicity Chair and Program committee member: “The Australian National Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI’05)”, Perth, Australia, 2005.
Program Committee member: The European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL 05), Kent, UK, 2005.
Program Committee member: The Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC 2005) 2005
Program Committee member: Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO2005), Washington, D.C. USA (GA Track), 2005.
Program Committee member: 8th European Conference on Genetic Programming (EuroGP2005), University of Lausanne, Switzerland, 2005.
Program Committee member: The third International Conference on Evolutionary Multi-Criterion Optimization (EMO 2005), Guanajuato, Mexico, 2005.
Program Committee member: The 28th Australasian Computer Science Conference (ACSC2005), Newcastle, Australia, 2005.
Program Committee member: The 8th International Conference on Parallel Problem Solving from Nature (PPSN VIII), 2004.
Program Committee member: The Ninth International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems (ALIFE9) 2004
Program Committee member: The Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2004) [Artificial Life track] 2004
Program Committee member: The Congress on Evolutionary Computation 2004
Program Committee member: The IEEE Conference on Cybernetics and Intelligent Systems (CIS'04), 2004.
Program committee member: “The Australian National Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI’04)”, Perth, Australia, 2004.
Program committee member: The fifth Asia-Pacific Industrial Engineering and Management Systems Conference and the Seventh Asia-Pacific Division Meeting of the International Foundation of Production Research, Gold Coast, Australia, 2004.
Program committee member: Seventh International Conference on Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems (KES2004), New Zealand, 2004.
Program committee member: The 27th Australasian Computer Science Conference (ACSC2004), Australian Computer Science Week, 2004.
Program committee member: “The Australian National Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI’03)”, Perth, Australia, 2003.
Program committee member: “The Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO)”, Chicago, USA, 2003.
Program committee member: The Asia-Pacific Symposium on Intelligent and Evolutionary Systems, Technology and Applications, Kitakyushu, Japan, 2003.
Program committee member: “The Information Resources Management Association (IRMA) International Conference”, Philadelphia, PA, USA, 2003.
Workshop and tutorial chair, and program committee member: “The International Conference on Artificial Life (Alife8)”, Sydney, Australia, 2002.
Technical committee member: “Congress on Evolutionary Computation”, Honolulu, USA, 2002.
Workshop chair: “The Inaugural workshop on Artificial Life (AL'01)”, Adelaide, Australia, 2001.
Technical committee member: “Congress on Evolutionary Computation”, SEOL, Korea, 2001.
Program chair: “The inaugural Australian workshop on the applications of Artificial Intelligence in Plants and Animal Production (AWAPAP'99)”, The 12th Australian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI'99), Australia, 1999.
Program committee member: “The Australian Workshop on Constraint Programming and Applications”, The 12th Australian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI'99), Australia, 1999

h.abbass @ adfa.edu.au