AIM To evaluate the NSW enteric disease outbreak surveillance system. EVALUATION METHODS We performed unstructured interviews with NSW Health Communicable Diseases Branch staff and analysed summary outbreak reports for July 2000 to June 2005. PERFORMANCE OF THE SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM: The system provided a mechanism for meeting all of its objectives to some level. Limitations included difficulty...

This paper introduces the MAgtALO system, a prototype environment for online debate that aims to provide a mechanism for supporting naturalistic dialogue. MAgtALO demonstrates how dialogue protocols can be harnessed to achieve two objectives: first, to support flexible intuitive interaction with data in complex, contentious domains in order to facilitate understanding and assimilation; and seco...

Multi-view data analysis provides an effective means to integrate the distinct information sources which are inherent many applications. Data clustering in a multi-view setting specifically aims identify most appropriate grouping for collection of entities, where those entities (or their relationships) can be described from multiple perspectives. Leveraging recent advances multi-objective clust...