Dr Nikolaos Vogiatzis

Nik Vogiatzis started his career as Database Systems Administrator for the Fuji Xerox Australia Pty Limited Small Business Centres (New South Wales, Australia) in 1992. Since then, he has worked in a number of roles including Systems Administrator and Faculty Computing Officer for the Faculty of Performing Arts at the University of Adelaide, Access Control/Alarms Control Co-ordinator for the Security Services Division of the University of Adelaide, Information Security Analyst for EDS (Australia) Pty Limited, Contract Analyst Programmer and then Senior Analyst Programmer for TransAdelaide.

During that time, Nik has also been a freelance software developer and runs his own software development company, Software Engineering and Research Australia Pty Limited.

Nik has expertise in developing soft real-time systems in the Railway Engineering field, and has developed a number of systems including financial systems, web-based surveys and implemented VLDBs.

The main focus at the moment is the development of the next generation of the NEXUS: Transport Research System on 5 x2100 Sun Solaris X machines with 18TB of disc space.

The projects include:

• NEXUS: Transport Research System
  • This system is designed to model the data routinely collected from transport research and from the SCATS traffic signalling system
  • Platform
    • C# 3.5
    • GridSQL and PostgreSQL
    • Windows Server 2003 R2
    • Sun X2100 servers (x 5)
  • Development of Cross-Platform data management and analysis tools
    • Sydney Coordinated Traffic Control System Data Upload
      • Volume Store
      • Strategic Monitor
      • History; and
      • Events
    • Traffic Control Systems Analysis tool
      • For use by Transport Authorities in the management of Signalised Intersections.
    • Proposed Modules
      • Number-plate (Origin-Destination) Analysis
      • Trafikplan: Update - Dense Network Traffic Model developed originally by Professor Michael A P Taylor; this will be an upgrade to his work, and lead by Professor Taylor
      • Platform
        • C# 3.5
        • Sun Solaris X/Win32_64
        • PostgreSQL/Oracle
• GIS-based analysis system
• Emissions Modelling
  • Developing the software for ESRI-based models developed by ISST - Transport Systems Emissions Modellers
    • VBA, ESRI

Nik has experience in managing and developing for the following operating systems: UNIX/LINUX, Windows, DOS. He is proficient in ANSI C/C++, VC++ (inc .NET), VB (inc .NET), C#, Java, ANSI SQL-89, Informix 4GL, PL/SQL, Developer 2000 (Oracle*FORMS 4.5), Delphi/PASCAL, and PERL

Nik has won the following awards:

• APA (Industry) Scholarship for his Doctoral work
• 'Outstanding Paper Award' EASTS 2003 in Fukuoka Japan
• 'David Willis Memorial Prize' ATRF 2004 in Adelaide Australia
• Best Postgraduate Research Student for the Division of Information Technology, Engineering and the Environment 2005
• Australia Endeavour Chueng Kong Fellowship 2005; sebatical for 6 months to work and live in Japan at the Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto.
• Certificate of Merit for the 2006 IAENG International Workshop on Operations Research (student)[IMECS 2006], was awarded to Hung Thanh Ngyuen (Ritsumeikan University), Hideto Ikeda (Ritsumeikan University), Nikolaos Vogiatzis (Transport Systems Centre), Zin Lin (Ritsumeikan University) for their paper titled "New Environment CREPE for Transportation Control and Effectiveness".

Notable quotes include

• Riled Readers Respond to Restive OOP Rejection, DevX.com (Developer's Exchange) "... purpose far outweighs some abstract notion of perfection. The right machine, with the right operating system, using the right development language for the job at hand is what counts."

Institute of Sustainable Systems and Technologies - Transport Systems

Cyberspace Technology Laboratory, Department of Computer Science, Ritsumeikan University, Japan

eResearchSA

Member of the Association of Computer Machinery

Member of the Australian Computer Society

Bachelor of Science in the Faculties of Mathematical and Computer Science, The University of Adelaide

Graduate Certificate in Research Commercialisation, University of South Australia

PhD (Transport Systems Engineering), University of South Australia

• Distributed and Grid Computing in Transport
• VLDB (Very Large Databases) design and implementation

Vogiatzis N, Zhang K, Taylor MAP (2008) Organic Transportation: iOT, a new paradigm in Urban Traffic Management, Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Application of Advanced Technologies in Transport, Athens Greece, Abstract submitted.

Vogiatzis N, Zhang K, Taylor MAP (2007) Organic Transportation: iOT, Global Strategy - Local Tactics, Proceedings of the Eastern Asian Society for Transportation Studies, Vol 6 (full paper submitted)

Nguyen HT, Lin Z, Ikeda H, Vogiatzis N (2007) Data acquisition algorithm of Mobile Computers equipped GPS sensor, ARTF 2007 Melbourne Australia, (Abstract Submitted)

Nguyen Thanh Hung, Hideto Ikeda, Kuribayasi Kenzi, Nikolaos Vogiatzis and Zin Lin (Under Review) Data acquisition algorithm of Mobile Computers equipped GPS sensor, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transport Systems.

Vogiatzis N , Taylor MAP (2006) On Concurrent Holistic-Component Dynamics and Traffic Analysis, 29th Australasian Transportation Research Forum, Gold Coast, Australia, Sept 2006

Fehlmann S, Mitchell J, Kelly J, Vogiatzis, N (2006) Nexus: Developing a Schema to Contain Disparate Traffic Data Types for Parallel Distributed Processing, 29th Australasian Transportation Research Forum, Gold Coast, Australia, Sept 2006

Nguyen HT, Ikeda H, Vogiatzis N,Lin Z (2006) New Environment CREPE for Transportation Control and Effectiveness, 2006 IAENG International Workshop on Operations Research, Hong Kong July 2006, Winner: Certificate of Merit (student)

Vogiatzis N, Zito R, Ikeda H, Primerano F, Vanderlinde B, Wibisono W (2005) Techniques for Analysing Large Volumes of Data Generated by Traffic Research, Eastern Asia Society for Transportation Studies, Bangkok

Mojarrabi B O, Vogiatzis N (2005) Using Bose-Einstein Statistics to Minimise End-To-End Delay in Dynamic Traffic Networks, Journal of the Eastern Asia Society for Transportation Studies, pp 1398-1409

Vogiatzis N (2005) Objects and components in the locality-scope model. Intelligent Vehicles and Road Infrastructure Conference IVRI05, University of Melbourne, 16-17 February.

Vogiatzis N, Ikeda H, Wibisono W (2004). On the Locality Scope Model for Improving the Performance of Transportation Information Systems, 27th Australiasian Transportation Research Forum, 29 Sept - 02 Oct Adelaide 2004, Winner "David Willis Memorial Prize"

Ikeda H, Vogiatzis N, Wibisono W (2004). An Algorithm for Reducing Detection Load in Transport Oriented DSMS, 27th Australiasian Transportation Research Forum, 29 Sept - 02 Oct Adelaide 2004

Wibisono W, Ikeda H, Vogiatzis N (2004). Multi-purpose Front-End devices for Integrated Transportation Systems, Seminar Nasional Ilmu Komputer dan Teknologi Informasi (SNIKTI 2004) September 2004 Indonesia

Stazic B, Taylor MAP, Vogiatzis N (2004) Microsimulation Case Studies - Transport Systems Centre, Workshop on Traffic Simulation: University of Queensland

Woolley J, Stazic B, Vogiatzis N (2004) Traffic Microsimulation of ITS Implementations in CBD Road Networks, Workshop on Traffic Simulation: University of Queensland

Vogiatzis N (2004) Reading Binary Data from a file, The CodeProject: MFC/C++, .NET, Managed C++ (General), Reading Binary Data

Ikeda, H., Vogiatzis N, Wibisono W, Mojarrabi B, Woolley JE (2004). Three Layer Object Model for Integrated Transportation System. Workshop on Object Systems and Systems Architecture, Victor Harbor, South Australia.

Vogiatzis, N (2003). On Intelligent Transport Systems Applications in Public Transport. People for Public Transport - Missed Opportunities and Future Possibilities, Adelaide, South Australia, People for Public Transport.

Vogiatzis, N and S. Clement (2003). Traffic Management: A Tale of Two Networks. 25th Conference of Australian Institutes of Transportation Research (CAITR), Adelaide, Australia.

Vogiatzis, N (2003). On Improving Traffic Micro-simulation Techniques: A Research Proposal. 25th Conference of Australian Institutes of Transportation Research (CAITR), Adelaide, Australia.

Ikeda H, Torii S, He Y, Vogiatzis N (2003) Using Mathematical Notations in a real-time e-Learning environment, SGRR2003s: International Conference on Advances in Infrastructure for e-Business, e-Education, e-Science, e-Medicine, and Mobile Technologies on the Internet

Vogiatzis N, Ikeda H, Woolley J, He Y, (2003) Integrated Multi-Nodal Traffic Network System, Journal of the Eastern Asia Society for Transportation Studies, Vol 5: Winner "Outstanding Paper Award"

Ikeda H, Vogiatzis N, Shibuya A (2002) Navigation Support System for Live e-CRM, SSGRR2002s: 29 July 2002 - 04 August 2002, International Conference on Advances in Infrastructure for e-Business, e-Education, e-Science and e-Medicine on the Internet

Mojarrabi B, Vogiatzis N (2001) Fundamental Problems Associated with the Secondary Application of Microwave Signal Imaging, Image 2001: The Second International Symposium on Photonic Applications and Technologies