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Leisa Armstrong
Leisa Armstrong
Edith Cowan University, Perth
Regular Member
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Short Biography

Dr Armstrong is a senior lecturer in the School of Computer and Security Science since 2002 and the leader of the Edith Cowan University eAgriculture research group.  Her research area relates the use of information and communication technologies (ICT) to improve the sustainability of the agricultural industry sector.  These research interests include geospatial data mining, wireless sensor networks and agricultural information dissemination. She worked as an agricultural scientist and also as analyst/programmer in Western Australia State government and has a PhD in Agricultural Science from University of Queensland and a Master’s of Science (Software Engineering) completed at ECU in 2002.  

List of top 5 publications in the last 5 years

L. J. Armstrong, D. A. Diepeveen and K. Tantisantisom (2010) An eAgriculture-based Decision Support Framework for Information Dissemination   International Journal of Human Capital and Information Technology Professionals (IJHCITP) Vol 1:p 1-13,  IGI Global Publications, Madrid Spain.

Jinsong Leng, J.L, Valli, C. Armstrong, L. (2010) A Wrapper-based Feature Selection for Analysis of Large Data Set. The 3rd International Conference on Computer and Electrical Engineering (ICCEE 2010), pp 166 – 170, November 2010.

Tantisureeporn S., and Armstrong L.J. (2009) Introducing a new technology to enhance community sustainability: An investigation of the possibilities of sun spots p27-36. In Sustainabilities at Universities- Opportunities, Challenges and Trends Editor, W. L Filho. Peter Lang Frankfurt, Germany.

Armstrong L. J., and D. A. Diepeveen (2009) An information-based decision support framework for eAgriculture, IASK International Conference "E-Activity and Leading Technologies 2009"22-24 June, 2009 Seville, Spain.  

Armstrong L, Diepeveen, D and Maddern, R. (2007) The application of data mining techniques to characterize agricultural soil profiles. AustDM 2007: Australasian Data Mining Conference. Gold Coast, Australia, 2- 6 December 2007. 

List of top 5 academic activities during the last 5 years

Co Convenor of Knowledge Discovery for Rural Systems Workshop 2010” at the 14th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining.,  IIIT Hyderabad, Hyderabad India , 21-24 June, 2010 - Hyderabad, India.  

Program Chair for Track of IAALD XIV World Congress 2012, Gujarat, 3-7th December 2012. 

Co Convenor of  The Third National Conference on Agro Informatics and Precision Agriculture 2012 (AIPA 2012) , 1-3 August 2012 Hyderabad, India.  

Co Convenor 3rd Transforming Information and Learning Conference. Perth, Australia Edith Cowan University, 30 November - 1 December, 2007.