By Professor Shawn Laffan

Conference Papers

Bayraktarov E; Low-Choy S; Singh AR; Beaumont LJ; Williams KJ; Baumgartner JB; Laffan SW; Vasco D; Cosgrove R; Wraith J; Antunes JF; Mackey B, 2025, 'EcoCommons Australia virtual laboratories with cloud computing: Meeting diverse user needs for ecological modeling and decision-making', in Environmental Modelling and Software, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.envsoft.2024.106255

Lu Y; Laffan S; Pettit C, 2022, 'THE INTEGRATION OF CELLULAR AUTOMATA AND WHAT IF? FOR SCENARIO PLANNING: FUTURE RESIDENTIAL EXPANSION IN THE CITY OF IPSWICH', in ISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, Sydney, Australia, pp. 151 - 158, presented at ISPRS TC IV 7th International Conference on Smart Data and Smart Cities (SDSC), Sydney, Australia, 19 October 2022 - 21 October 2022, http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/isprs-annals-X-4-W3-2022-151-2022

Laffan SW; Bickford SA, 2020, 'Using spatial randomisations to improve the utility of geographically weighted regression model results', in MODSIM 2005 - International Congress on Modelling and Simulation: Advances and Applications for Management and Decision Making, Proceedings, pp. 1396 - 1401

Lu Y; Laffan S, 2018, 'The use of particle swarm optimization for a vector cellular automata model of land usechange', in Winter S; Griffin A; Sester M (eds.), Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics, LIPIcs, Schloss Dagstuhl--Leibniz-Zentrum fuer Informatik, Melbourne, Australia, pp. 42:1 - 42:6, presented at 10th International Conference on Geographic Information Science (GIScience 2018)., Melbourne, Australia, 28 August 2018 - 31 August 2018, http://dx.doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.GIScience.2018.42

Hallgren W; Beaumont L; Bowness A; Chambers L; Graham E; Holewa H; Laffan SW; Mackey B; Nix H; Price J; Vanderwal J; Warren R; Weis G, 2015, 'The Biodiversity and Climate Change Virtual Laboratory: How Ecology and Big Data can be utilised in the fight against vector-borne diseases', in Weber A; McPhee M (ed.), Gold Coast, Australia, pp. 1448 - 1454, presented at MODSIM 2015, Gold Coast, Australia, 29 November 2015 - 04 December 2015, http://www.mssanz.org.au/modsim2015/F13/hallgren.pdf

Watts LM; Laffan SW, 2013, 'Sensitivity of the BFAST algorithm to MODIS satellite and vegetation index', in Boland J; Anderssen RS; Piantadosi J (eds.), Proceedings MODSIM2013, 20th International Congress on Modelling and Simulation. Modelling and Simulation Society of Australia and New Zealand,, Modelling and Simulation Society of Australia and New Zealand, Adelaide, pp. 1638 - 1644, presented at MODSIM2013 International Congress on Modelling and Simulation, Adelaide, 01 December 2013 - 06 December 2013, http://mssanz.org.au/modsim2013/H2/watts.pdf

Laffan S; Taylor, M.D. , 2013, 'FishTracker: A GIS toolbox for kernel density estimation of animal home ranges that accounts for transit times and hard boundaries', in Piantadosi J; Boland J (ed.), Adelaide, presented at 20th International Congress on Modelling and Simulation, Adelaide, 01 December 2013 - 06 December 2013, http://www.mssanz.org.au/modsim2013

Miller IB; Forster BC; Laffan SW, 2012, 'Development of a model to correct multi-view angle above water measurements for the analysis of the bidirectional reflectance of coral and other reef substrates', in ISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, ISPRS, Melbourne, pp. 19 - 24, presented at XXII ISPRS Congress, Melbourne, http://www.isprs-ann-photogramm-remote-sens-spatial-inf-sci.net/I-7/19/2012/isprsannals-I-7-19-2012.pdf

Laffan SW, 2011, 'Spatial non-stationarity, anisotropy and scale: The interactive visualisation of spatial turnover', in MODSIM 2011 - 19th International Congress on Modelling and Simulation - Sustaining Our Future: Understanding and Living with Uncertainty, Modelling and Simulation Society, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia, pp. 1888 - 1894, presented at MODSIM 2011 - 19th International Congress on Modelling and Simulation - Sustaining Our Future: Understanding and Living with Uncertainty, Perth, WA, 12 December 2011 - 16 December 2011, http://www.mssanz.org.au/modsim2011/E3/laffan.pdf

Wang D; Laffan SW, 2009, 'Characterisation of valleys from DEMs', in Proceedings of the 18th World IMACS Congress and MODSIM09 International Congress on Modelling and Simulation, MODSIM and IMAC, Australia, presented at 18th World IMACS Congress and MODSIM09 International Congress on Modelling and Simulation, Cairns, Australia, 13 July 2009 - 17 July 2009, http://www.mssanz.org.au/modsim09/F4/wang_d.pdf

Wang D; Laffan SW, 2009, 'Characterisation of valleys from DEMs', in 18th World IMACS Congress and MODSIM 2009 - International Congress on Modelling and Simulation: Interfacing Modelling and Simulation with Mathematical and Computational Sciences, Proceedings, pp. 2014 - 2020

Laffan SW; Lubarsky E; Ward M; Highfield L, 2007, 'A Geographic Automata System for Modelling Disease Outbreaks', in MODSIM 2007: International Congress on Modelling and Simulation, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, NZ, presented at MODSIM 2007: International Congress on Modelling and Simulation, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, NZ, 10 December 2007 - 13 December 2007, http://www.mssanz.org.au/MODSIM07/papers/21_s46/AGeographic_s46_Taffan_.pdf

Lees BG; Van Niel K; Laffan SW, 2006, 'Predictive Vegetation mapping and DEM Error', in International Symposium on Terrain and Digital Terrain Modelling, Nanjing, China, pp. 1 - 7, presented at International Symposium on Terrain Analysis and Digital Terrain Modelling (TADTM 2006), Nanjing, China, 23 November 2006 - 25 November 2006

Laffan SW; Bickford S, 2005, 'Using spatial randomisations to improve the utility of Geographically Weighted Regression model results', in MODSIM 2005: International Congress on Modelling and Simulation, Melbourne, presented at MODSIM 2005: International Congress on Modelling and Simulation, Melbourne, 12 December 2005 - 15 December 2005, http://www.mssanz.org.au/modsim05/papers/laffan.pdf

Hegland M; Laffan SW, 2003, 'Mining geographical data using sparse grids', in 2003 Congress on Evolutionary Computation CEC 2003, Canberra, presented at IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC 2003), Canberra, 08 December 2003 - 12 December 2003

Laffan SW; Silcock H; Nielsen O; Hegland M, 2003, 'A new approach to analysing spatial data using sparse grids', in MODSIM 2003: International Congress on Modelling and Simulation, Townsville, Qld, presented at MODSIM 2003: International Congress on Modelling and Simulation, Townsville, Qld, 14 July 2003 - 17 July 2003, http://www.mssanz.org.au/MODSIM03/proceedings.html

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