Unlike some other schools, research in the School of Computing and Information Systems is not organized around vertically organized groups and major projects based on an internal specialization. Rather the School's research is horizontally organized: for each project skills and expertise are drawn from various persons in the School (and sometimes outside) to contribute to the project goal. However, to aid potential students to see the breadth of the School's research, it has been broken down into three classifications. The order here is not important and there are approximately equal numbers of PhD candidates in each classification.
Computer science projects are based on an algorithmic or structural problem in the use of computers. They may be focused on an application area, but the emphasis is on improving the basic algorithms used in that application area. The research may be described as pure basic or strategic basic research. Examples are algorithms used in bioinformatics, compilers for multi-cellular parallel computers, new artificial intelligence techniques, core mobile computing techniques, etc.
Information research is based on the use of an information resource, such as a database, the Internet, or digital repositories. The research is generally described as strategic basic, or may be applied research. The research may involve better use of the resource, adaptive search strategies, security, information forensics, distributed data systems, open access services, application of mobile technology to service delivery, etc.
The key in multi-disciplinary research is a close linkage with a non-ICT partner or topic with a real application problem, on which the project is based. The research is generally described as applied research, or may be strategic basic research. Examples include visualization of echoes from a multi-beam sonar, recognition of marine animals (such as fish, scallops) from video or camera images, providing pharmaceutical interaction advice, computing in education, etc.
To retrieve a partial list of papers published in the School from the University eprint server, point your browser to http://eprints.utas.edu.au
, then click on Advanced Search. Fill in 'Computing' or 'Information Systems' in the Department field and the year or years you are interested in; click Search. You will be able to retrieve the actual text of any of the papers too.
To see the research record (grants, publications) of any academic, point your browser to http://www.research.utas.edu.au/warp/reports/individual.htm and type in the family name of the academic. Click on the link for the staff member in the School of Computing and Information Systems when it comes up.
Smart Internet Technology – $150,000+ R&D grant (Dr B Kang, Dr M Cameron-Jones)
Overseas Technology Industry – two grants from overseas IT companies worth $150,000 (Prof Y Choi, Dr B Kang)
Collaboration with SonarData Ltd - in-kind support (Dr R Williams)
Patient Consent Security – $152,000 study funded by Commonwealth (Ms J Hartnett)
AusIndustry – joint grant with a local industry partner, $80,000 (Prof Y Choi)
Autonomous Underwater Vehicle - $15,000 from TAFI and Giant Crab Industry Research Fund (Prof A Sale)
Autonomous Underwater Vehicle - $134,562 software grant from QNX Ltd (Prof A Sale, Dr D Rolf, Dr P Vamplew)
Antarctic Science Advisory Committee – several small grants (Dr R Williams)
CRC Scholarship – one full scholarship ($90,000) and one top-up ($27,000).
Classification Rules and Algorithms for Analysis of DNA Sequences - $15,000
University of Tasmania Institutional Research Scheme Grant
(Dr BH Kang; Dr AV Kelarev; Professor AHJ Sale; Dr RC Elliott*; Dr DA Steane* - * = Plant Science staff)
TasInformatics Scholarship Grants - $100,000 funded by Intelligent Island Board, Tasmania (Professor AHJ Sale)
Membership in the ARC Research Network on Enterprise Information Infrastructure (EII) - $1.6M ARC funding (Professor C Lueg)
An empirically-derived conceptual framework for designing usable and useful wireless mobile applications - On-going ARC Discovery Grant.
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