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Marcus Brazil

Associate Professor And Reader
Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Relay deployment
EVs
Mining
Minimum cost networks
Power Distribution Grid
Sensor deployment
Steiner Trees
Access Design
relay placement
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Marcus Brazil

 
Division
Engineering and IT
 
Primary Interest
Underground Mine Planning
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Projects

Displaying the 10 most recent projects by Marcus Brazil.

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A unified approach to the design of minimum length networks

2021 - 2023
Active
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Designing minimum-cost networks that are robust and avoid obstacles

The goal of this project is to construct a mathematical framework for the design of minimum-cost networks that are robust and avoid obstacle..

2016 - 2020
Completed
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Maximising value in underground mine planning

Mining is crucial to Australia’s economy, contributing 8 per cent of GDP and 55 per cent of the value of goods exported. Working with mining..

2014 - 2017
Completed
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Maximising value in underground mine planning

Mining is crucial to Australia’s economy, contributing 8 per cent of GDP and 55 per cent of the value of goods exported. Working with mining..

2014 - 2017
Completed
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Development of a stimulation tool for turntable efficiency

2014 - 2014
Completed
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Development of a stimulation tool for turntable efficiency

2014 - 2014
Completed
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TESTING OF LITHIUM-ION BATTERY CELLS

2013 - 2015
Completed
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Relays and Robustness: Achieving Optimal Efficiency in Wireless Sensor Networks

Wireless sensor networks consist of coordinated sensing and relay devices that offer us new ways to observe and interact with the physical w..

2011 - 2013
Completed
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The impact of the mass-adoption of electric cars on the Australian electricity grid.

This project represents the first technical study in Australia into the impact on the electric utility system of the mass adoption of electr..

2010 - 2016
Completed
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The impact of the mass-adoption of electric cars on the Australian electricity grid.

This project represents the first technical study in Australia into the impact on the electric utility system of the mass adoption of electr..

2010 - 2016
Completed

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Projects

Project Types

18

Research Grant

2

Research Contracts

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Scholarly Works

Displaying the 10 most recent scholarly works by Marcus Brazil.

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Computational complexity of the 2-connected Steiner network problem in the ℓp plane

CJ Ras, M Brazil, DA Thomas

Journal article  |  2021  |  Theoretical Computer Science

The geometric 2-connected Steiner network problem asks for a shortest bridgeless network spanning a given set of terminals in the ..

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Solving the prize-collecting Euclidean Steiner tree problem

David Whittle, Marcus Brazil, Peter A Grossman, J Hyam Rubinstein, Doreen A Thomas

Journal article  |  2020  |  International Transactions in Operational Research

The prize‐collecting Euclidean Steiner tree (PCEST) problem is a generalization of the well‐known Euclidean Steiner tree (EST) pro..

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Computing Skeletons for Rectilinearly Convex Obstacles in the Rectilinear Plane

M Volz, M Brazil, C Ras, D Thomas

Journal article  |  2020  |  Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications

We introduce the concept of an obstacle skeleton, which is a set of line segments inside a polygonal obstacle ω that can be used i..

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A Physarum-Inspired Algorithm for Minimum-Cost Relay Node Placement in Wireless Sensor Networks

Yahui Sun, Daniel Rehfeldt, Marcus Brazil, Doreen Thomas, Saman Halgamuge

Journal article  |  2020  |  IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking

Relay node placement, which aims to connect pre-deployed sensor nodes to base stations, is essential in minimizing the costs of wi..

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Scheduling the construction of value and discount weighted trees for maximum net present value

PA Grossman, M Brazil, JH Rubinstein, DA Thomas

Journal article  |  2020  |  Computers & Operations Research

Given a binary rooted tree in which each edge has an associated value and an associated discount factor, the problem addressed her..

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Optimum ramp design in open pit mines

JL Yarmuch, M Brazil, H Rubinstein, DA Thomas

Journal article  |  2020  |  Computers & Operations Research

The problem studied in this paper is that of designing the optimal open pit haulage ramp that, for a given ramp width and a maximu..

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New pruning rules for the Steiner tree problem and 2-connected Steiner network problem

Marcus Brazil, Marcus Volz, Martin Zachariasen, Charl Ras, Doreen Thomas

Journal article  |  2019  |  Computational Geometry

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The Fast Heuristic Algorithms and Post-Processing Techniques to Design Large and Low-Cost Communication Networks

Yahui Sun, Marcus Brazil, Doreen Thomas, Saman Halgamuge

Journal article  |  2019  |  IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking

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Computing minimum 2-edge-connected Steiner networks in the Euclidean plane

Marcus Brazil, Marcus Volz, Martin Zachariasen, Charl Ras, Doreen Thomas

Journal article  |  2019  |  Networks

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Minimal curvature-constrained networks

D Kirszenblat, KG Sirinanda, M Brazil, PA Grossman, JH Rubinstein, DA Thomas

Journal article  |  2018  |  Journal of Global Optimization

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Keyword Analysis

Expanding Knowledge
Mathematics
Numerical and Computational Mathematics
Non-Oriented Research
Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Applied Mathematics
Pure Mathematics
Resources Engineering and Extractive Metallurgy
Communications Technologies
Primary Mining and Extraction Processes

News

Displaying the 1 most recent news article by Marcus Brazil.

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Australia's electricity grid can easily support electric cars – if we get smart

Marcus Brazil

April 11, 2019

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Honours, Awards and Fellowships

2013

Best Paper Award, 2013 Australasian Computer Science Conference (ACSC)

Computing Research & Education (CORE)
2007

Best Paper Award, 2007 International Conference of Wireless Networks (ICWN'07)

The International Association of Engineers (IAEng)

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Awards

Credentials

Positions

Associate Professor And Reader

Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Honorary

Mathematics and Statistics

Education

Bachelor of Science (Mathematics)

University of Melbourne

Doctor of Philosophy (Mathematics)

La Trobe University

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