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Dr Hossein Seif Zadeh

Position	Senior Lecturer
School / Work Unit	Business Information Technology
Contact Details	+(61 3) 9925 5806 hossein.zadeh@rmit.edu.au
Location	Building: 108 Level: 17 Room: 79 City Campus
Portfolio	Business

Sustainability research: Hossein S. Zadeh has an extensive portfolio of research and consultancy in multicriteria optimization. He has applied his knowledge of muticriteria optimization in diverse fields such as design of controllers for maneuvering satellites to augmenting ride quality of airplanes. Recently he has applied muticriteria optimization techniques in a decision support framework used in top-level operation planning of Australian Defence Forces. This latest research in designing a decision support framework was initiated to augment sustainability of both equipment and crew of the Patrol Boat Group of the Australian Navy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Patrol_Boat_Group), and specifically in sustainable utilization of the new class of vessels, the Armidale Class Patrol Boats (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armidale_class_patrol_boat). Key areas of the research on sustainability are sustainable vessel maintenance, sustainable crew leave and training, crew and contractors input in the decision making process, and at the same time, meeting requirement to sustain the high level of availability and mission readiness expected of the Australian Defence Forces. These studies have been carried out in collaboration with Defence Science and Technology Organisation, and have been implemented as Navy Multicrew Optimisation System (NaMOS). Many armed forces around the globe are following development of NaMOS closely. As recently as July 2005, some interest in the program is shown by the Royal New Zealand Navy.

National and international reputation: Hossein S. Zadeh is regarded as a leading specialist in Multicrew Optimisation and Decision Support Systems. His research linking the diverse fields of engineering, management, and IT has been awarded about $500,000 in grants from the Australian Research Council and the Department of Defence. Hossein S. Zadeh has many academic publications, including four conference and one journal publications during the first half of 2005.

Hossein S. Zadeh is a continuing reviewer of two international conferences, and has been a session organizer and reviewer of IEEE Aerospace conference between 2002 and 2004 (inclusive).

Qualifications

PhD, RMIT University
Master of Engineering (Aero)
Bachelor of Science (Engineering) (Honours 1)

Research Interests

Hossein’s expertise in object oriented architectures, database administration, system analysis and design, dynamic web page development, e-Commerce development and consulting, fuzzy logic and neural networks boosts knowledge management and e-Business research within the School.

Publications

Refereed Journal Articles

Zadeh, H.S. and Drack, L (2005) "Soft Computing in Engineering Design Optimisation", Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems (special issue on “Computational Intelligence in Northern Europe”) (forthcoming)

Martin, B. and Zadeh, H.S., (2003) ‘Knowledge connections as a pointer for models in e-business: some evidence from Australia’, International Journal of Electronic Business, vol. 1, no. 3, pp.281-295.

Zadeh H.S., (2001) ‘Membership function optimisation of a fuzzy logic controller for a non-linear system’, International Journal of Uncertainty Fuzziness and Knowledge-Based Systems, vol. 9, no. 6, December 2001, pp. 839-850

Refereed Conference Papers

Drack, L and Zadeh, H (2005) ‘Soft Computing in Engineering Design Optimisation’, Swedish Artificial Intelligence and Learning Systems Event, Västerås, Sweden, 12-14 April

Drack, L and Zadeh, HS (2005) ‘Stochastic Multidisciplinary Design Optimisation in Non-linear and Discontinuous Design Spaces’, 12 th International Conference on Analytical and Stochastic Modelling Techniques and Applications in conjunction with the 19th European Simulation Multiconference, Riga, Latvia, 1-4 June

Zadeh, HS (2005) ‘Constraint Multi-objective Optimisation of a Controller for a Highly Nonlinear Aeroelastic Structure---Methodology’, 12th International Conference on Analytical and Stochastic Modelling Techniques and Applications in conjunction with the 19 th European Simulation Multiconference, Riga, Latvia, 1-4 June

Zadeh, HS (2005) ‘Constraint Multi-objective Optimisation of a Controller for a Highly Nonlinear Aeroelastic Structure---Testbed Design’, 12th International Conference on Analytical and Stochastic Modelling Techniques and Applications in conjunction with the 19 th European Simulation Multiconference, Riga, Latvia, 1-4 June

Zadeh, HS (2003) ‘Constrained Multi-Objective Optimization of a Fuzzy Logic Controller: Applications in a Non-Linear System and a Goal-Seeking Rover’, 2003 IEEE Conference on Control Applications (IEEE-CCA), June

Zadeh, HS (2003) ‘Implementation and Applications of a Constrained Multi-Objective Optimization Method’, 2003 International Fuzzy Systems Association Conference (IFSA-2003), Istanbul, Turkey, June-July

So, H, Thomas, N and Zadeh, H (2002) ‘The Keys to Succeed in Building a Free/Open Source Community for Software Development: a study on China’, Hong Kong and Taiwan, International Conference on Open Source, Taipei, 2-4 Aug. 2002.

So, H, Thomas, N and Zadeh, H, (2002) 'What is in a Bazaar? A Model of Individual Participation in an Open Source Community', Proceedings of the Open Source Software Development Workshop, Newcastle upon Tyne, U.K., 25-26 February

Zadeh, HS, (2002) ‘Maneuver Simulation of a Non-Linear System Using Membership Function Optimisation of a Fuzzy Logic Controller, IEEE 2002 Aerospace Conference, Big Sky, Montana, USA, March

Zadeh, H, (2000) ‘Membership function optimisation of a fuzzy logic controller for a non-linear system', The International conference on Intelligent Technologies (Intech2000), Bangkok, Thailand, December

Zadeh, H, Adam, S. and Deans, KR, (2000) ‘A Technical Response to Online Marketing Research Issues’, AUSWEB2K Conference Proceedings, Southern Cross University, Cairns, 12-17 June

Zadeh, HS, Scott, C, (1999) ‘Control Law Comparison for Attitude Control of a Spacecraft’, Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Modeling and Simulation, Melbourne

Drack, L., Zadeh HS, (1999) ‘Optimal Design Using Simulated Annealing in Matlab’, Second Australasian Congress on Applied Mechanics, Canberra

Zadeh, HS, (1999) ‘Heuristic Optimisation of a Vibration Suppression Controller’, 1999 Canadian Conference of Electrical and Computer Engineering (IEEE), Edmonton, Canada

Zadeh, HS, (1999) ‘Optimal Active Vibration Control of a Highly Flexible Structure’, Second Australasian Congress on Applied Mechanics, Canberra