This Australian Communications Consumer Action Network (ACCAN) and Deakin University report helps to increase the understanding of consumer decision-making in telecommunications, which can help us to determine what steps to take to facilitate better outcomes for consumers. This is important for three primary reasons. First, there are many indicators that the market is not working...

A report that describes developments in information and communications technology that supports the collection, connection and analysis of data through sensing and monitoring. This report explores developments in information and communications technology (ICT) that support the collection, connection and analysis of data through sensing and monitoring. Sensors are parts of all machines that gather data...

This report highlights successful strategies in providing a single point of access to library, archive and museum collections. In the era of global search engines, users are often puzzled by the realization that they can search the Interne through a single interface, yet the resources of universities and other institutions are often compartmentalized in a...

If you have too much to read, or too much information to digest, could a machine do it for you? That is in essence the motivation behind the expert area of content mining, here including both text mining and data mining. This is a research study commissioned by the Publishing Research Consortium on the topic...

This thesis centres on methods and studies designed to increase knowledge surrounding the at sea distribution of seabirds during various periods in their annual cycle (i.e., breeding, migration, over-wintering). Following a brief introduction in Chapter 1, in Chapter 2, "Effects of archival tags on Sooty Shearwater (Puffinus griseus)", I report the effects of global location...