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REFEREED CONFERENCE ABSTRACTS

 

Tickle, K.S.  Comparison of Synthetic Streamflow Generation Methods and their Application to Hydrologic Assessment  National Mathematical Sciences Congress, Canberra, ACT  1988.

 

Tickle, K.S.  Optimisation of Performance Metrics For A Water Resources Scheme  Queensland Division of the Australian Mathematical Society, Gold Coast, 1991.

 

Goulter, I.C. and Tickle, K.S.  Complexity in Optimising Water Resource Systems - The Increasing Need for Multiple Linked Models  XIII World Conference on Operations Research.  International Federation of Operations Research Societies, Lisbon, July 1993.

 

Tickle, K.S. and Botsman, K.  Estimation of Patient Pharmacokinetic Parameters Using a Kalman Filter Approach  ORSA-TIMS Joint National Conference, Operations Research Society of America, Phoenix, November 1993.

 

Tickle, K.S.  Determining Operating Rules for a Water Resource System Using Risk Related Performance Measures  Ninth International Conference on Quantitative Methods for Environmental Sciences, Gold Coast, July 1998.

 

NON-REFERREED FULL PUBLISHED CONFERENCE PAPERS

 

Tickle, K.S.  The Analysis of Time Series  The Association for Computer Aided Design (ACADS).  Workshop on Applied Statistics for Water Engineers,  1980.

 

Tickle, K.S.  Risk and Reliability III - Optimisation Techniques  Seminar on Risk and Reliability in Water Resources Management and Planning , Queensland Water Resources Commission (1980).

 

Rindfleish, A. and Tickle, K.S.  Water Allocation Proposals in the NSW - Queensland Border Rivers  Management of the Murray-Darling Headwater Symposium,  Water Resources Foundation of Australia  1984.

 

Tickle, K.S.  Coral Cores as Past Climatic Indicators  Proceedings of the Fourth Queensland Hydrology Symposium, Institution of Engineers, Australia, 1989.

 

Botsman, K., Tickle, K.S. and Smith, J.D.  Stochastic Modelling of Drug Concentration Data: A Kalman Filter Approach to Estimation of an Individual Patient Pharmacokinetic Parameters  Proceedings of Australia-Japan Workshop on Stochastic Models in Engineering, Technology and Management, Gold Coast, Australia, July 1993.

 

Robinson, P. and Tickle, K.S.  The Application of Total Quality Management Within an Academic Department  Proceedings of Qualcon 93.  Australian Organisation for Quality, Gold Coast, Australia, September 1993.

 

Tickle, K.S. Using performance metrics for decision support in the operation of a reservoir  MODSS’99 2nd International Conference on Multiple Objective Decision Support Systems for land, water and environmental management, Australia, 1999.

 

Tickle, K.S. Fuzzy Constraint Levels for Probabilistic Performance Measures  Second International Discourse on Fuzzy Logic.  Mackay 2000

 

Tickle, K.S. and Lieschke, P.A.  Managing over Multiple Locations and Delivery Modes: A Regional University Experience. Australian Tertiary Education Management (ATEM) 2003 Conference.

 

REFERREED FULL PUBLISHED CONFERENCE PAPERS

 

Koppittke, R.A., Stewart, B.J., and Tickle, K.S.  Frequency Analysis of Flood Data in Queensland  Proceedings of the National Hydrology Symposium, 1976, Institution of Engineers, Australia.

 

Ashkanasy, N.M., Porter, N.G., and Tickle, K.S.  Application of Risk and Reliability Concepts in Evaluating a Complex Water Resources Project  National Hydrology Symposium, 1977,  Institution of Engineers, Australia.

 

Tickle, K.S. and Wright, G.  Rational Release Policies for a Bilaterally Managed Water Resource System  National Hydrology Symposium, 1978, Institution of Engineers, Australia. 

 

Tickle, K.S. and Poplawski, V.  Application of Synthetic Streamflow Generation to a Water Resources System  Queensland Division Technical Papers  Institution of Engineers,  Australia, 1985.

 

Ashkanasy, N.M. and Tickle, K.S.  Partial Series Analysis:  A Theoretical and Empirical Examination  Proceedings of the Hydrology and Water Resources Symposium, Institution of Engineers, Australia, 1986.

 

Isdale, P.J., Stewart, B.J., and Tickle, K.S.  Weather Records in Corals  Proceedings of the Hydrology and Water Resources Symposium, Institution of Engineers, Australia, 1986.

 

Stewart, B.J., Tickle, K.S., and Isdale, P.J.  Reconstruction of Past Hydrological Data in the Burdekin River Basin  Proceedings of the Hydrology and Water Resources Symposium, Institution of Engineers, Australia and the New Zealand Hydrological Society, 1989.

 

Tickle, K.S. and Goulter I.C.  Assessment of Performance Metrics For A Reservoir Under Stochastic Conditions  Proceedings of the Sixth International Symposium on Stochastic Hydraulics, Taiwan, 1992.

 

Tickle, K.S. and Goulter, I.C.  Joint Optimisation of Annual Water Allocation and Monthly Operating Policies For Fairbairn Reservoir, Queensland, Australia  Proceedings of the International Hydrosoft 92 Conference, Spain, 1992.

 

Tickle, K.S. and Goulter, I.C.  Statistical Properties of Reliability and Resilience Measures  Proceedings of Stochastic and Statistical Methods in Hydrology and Environmental Engineering, Ontario, Canada, June 1993.

 

Tickle, K.S. and Goulter, I.C.  Optimising a Reservoir Operation Policy from the Properties of Reliability and Resiliency  Proceedings of the National Conference on Hydraulic Engineering, American Society of Civil Engineers, San Francisco, July 1993

 

Tickle, K.S. and Goulter, I.C.  Uncertainty in Reservoir Operation Optimisation  Proceedings of the 21st Annual Conference of the American Society of Civil Engineer's Water Resources Planning and Management Division, Denver, May 1994.

 

Mallick, K.N., Lansey, K.E. and Tickle, K.S.  Determining Optimal Parameter Dimensions for Water Distribution Network Models  Proceedings of the 21st Annual Conference of the American Society of Civil Engineer's Water Resources Planning and Management Division, Denver, May 1994.

 

Tickle, K.S. and Goulter, I.C.  Statistical Properties of Reliability and Resilience Measures Stochastic and Statistical Methods in Hydrology and Environmental Engineering, Vol. 4, pp 209-220, K. W. Hipel and Liping Fang (eds.) Kluwer Academic Publishers, Netherlands, 1994. ISBN 0-7923-2759-4.

 

Tickle, K.S.  Optimising Reliability Metrics for a Water Resource System  Optimisation Techniques and Applications ICOTA 95, Vol 2, pp 971-976, Guangzhong Liu, Kang-Hoh Phua, Jigang Ma, Jiuping Xu, Fuwen Gu and Changzheng He (eds.) World Scientific Publishers, 1995 ISBN 981-02-2282-3.

 

Xu, C. and Tickle, K.S., Parameter calibration and dimension determination for water distribution networks, Proceedings of 27th IAHR Congress, San Francisco, USA, 1997. ISBN 0-7844-0271-X

 

Xu, C. and Tickle, K. S., Data collection scheme for modelling of water distribution systems, Environmental Management Volume 1, pp 535-542, M.Sivakumar and R.N. Chowdhury (eds.), Woolongong, 1998.  ISBN 0080 419 178.

 

Xu, C., Tickle, K. S., and Goulter, I. C., Identification of system monitoring stations in water distribution networks, Proceedings of  Hydrastorm 98, Third International Conference on Stormwater Management, Adelaide, 1998, pp335-340.  ISBN 185825 712 2.

 

Xu, C., Goulter, I. C., and Tickle, K. S., Probabilistic hydraulic models for assessing capacity reliability of aging water distribution infrastructure, Proceedings of Hydrastorm 98, Third International Conference on Stormwater Management, Adelaide,1998, pp165-170. ISBN 185825 712 2

 

Xu, C., Tickle, K. S., and Goulter, I. C., Capacity reliability and rehabilitation of deteriorated water distribution systems, Proceedings of  Hydrosoft 98, Seventh International Conference on Hydraulic Engineering Software, Italy, 1998, pp111-120.  ISBN 1 85312 599 7.

 

Tickle, K.S., Using risk performance measures as objectives in determining operating rules for a water resource system Proceedings of Water 99 Joint Conference (2nd International Conference on Water Resources & Environmental Research), Institution of Engineers Australia, 1999, pp1017-1022. ISBN 185 825 7165.

 

Hovenga, E.J.S.and Tickle, K.S.: Is there a difference in previous computing experience, computing knowledge and attitudes to computers between nursing and other first year university students? HIC'99 Proceedings Walker J., Whetton S., Wise M, Stark K Editors - CD-Rom, HISA, Melbourne.  ISBN 0-9585370-4-6

 

Mallory,O., McKavanagh, M, Tickle, K.S., Billman, S. Outreach programs for IT in rural communities ItiRA Proceedings 2002.

 

Hovenga E.J.S and Tickle K. Limitations of Current Health Information Systems, HIC2002 Handbook of Abstracts, Ribbons R.M, Dall V, Webb R (Eds), Full paper on CD-ROM of Proceedings, HISA, Melbourne, 2002

 

Tickle, K.S., Clayton, D.J., Hawkins, K.G. Quality management models for international campuses and operations.  A case study of a regional university’s experience.  Australian University’s Quality Audit (AUQA) Conference 2003.

 

Tickle, K.S. and Piorewicz, J. Risk Evaluation of a Low Cost Protection Structure on a Macro-Tidal Coast.  Advances in Hydro Science and Engineering Volume IV, 2004.  Altinakar, M.S., Wang, S.S.Y., Holz, K.P., Kawahara, M. Editors.  Full Papers on CD-ROM ISBN 0-937099-12-0.

 

Tickle, K.S. Fuzzy Constraint levels for Probabilistic Performance Measures, 6th International Conference on Hydroinformatics, Liong, Phoon and Babovic (eds), 2004 World publishing Company, ISBN 981-238-787-0.

 

REFEREED JOURNAL ARTICLES

 

Botsman, K., Tickle, K and Smith, J. D.  A Bayesian Formulation of the Kalman Filter Applied to the Estimation of Individual Pharmacokinetic Parameters  Computers and Biomedical Research Journal, Vol 30, pp83-94, Academic Press Inc, San Diego, 1997.  0010-4809/97

 

Isdale, P.J., Stewart, B.J., Tickle, K.S. and Lough, J.M.  Palaeohydrological variation in a tropical river catchment: a reconstruction using fluorescent bands in corals of the Great Barrier Reef, Australia  Holocene Vol 8 No 1 pp1-8 Arnold Pub. UK, 1998.  0959-6836

 

Ewart, J and Tickle, K.S. Reviewing the Readership: Profiles of Central Queensland Newspaper Readers  Media International Australia, Culture and Policy No 102, February 2002, pp126-146. ISSN1329-878X

 

Mallick, K.N., Ahmed, I., Tickle, K.S. and Lansey, K.E.  Determining Pipe Groupings for Water Distribution Networks Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management, March/April 2002 Volume 128 Issue 2 pp130-139

 

Ewart, J. and Tickle, K. People Like Us Versus Statistical Representation of Readers,  Australian Studies in Journalism  10-11: 2001-02 , pp171-190. ISSN 1038-6130

 

Xu, C., Goulter, I.C. and Tickle, K.S. Assessing the Capacity Reliability of Aging Water Distribution Systems  Civil Engineering and Environmental Systems, 2003, Volume 20(2), pp119-133.

 

EDITED REFERREED PUBLISHED CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS

 

Stochastic Hydraulics ‘96, Proceedings of the Seventh IAHR International Symposium, Mackay, Queensland, Tickle, K. S., Goulter, I. C., Xu, C., Wasimi, S. A., Bouchart, F. (Eds), A. A. Balkema, Rotterdam  29 - 31 July 1996  ISBN 90 5410 8177