Research Within The School

The School's research spans a range of areas, including Computer Science Research, Information Research, Information Systems Research and Multi-disciplinary Research, and also spans a range of types, including Applied Research, Strategic Basic Research and Pure Basic Research. Most of the School's research is conducted within the Research Groups listed below, details of which can be seen by following the links. Individual staff members' research interests can be found on their individual pages, via http://www.cis.utas.edu.au/cisview/staff.jsp.

Research Groups

Graduate Research Degrees

For further information about the graduate research degrees that the School of Computing and Information Systems offers visit http://www.cis.utas.edu.au/cisview/courses/rhd.jsp

Research Publications

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.

Recent Research and Development Grants

Australian Research Council: Research Network in Enterprise Information Infrastructure (EII) [Prof. Chris Lueg core member of the consortium that proposed the Research Network]. ARC funding $1.6M, consortium funding $1.6M $3.2M total (2005-2009).
Australian Government Information and Communications Technology Security: A Framework for Resilience of Critical Infrastructure – Dr GJ Ridley, School of Accounting and Corporate Governance ; Mrs JS Hartnett; Dr JF Young – $76,264 funded by Nat Security Science & Technology Unit, Counter Terrorism from Dept of Prime Minister & Cabinet
ARC EII Research Network Taskforce "Understanding and Extracting Value from Information Technology (IT) Investments" (Prof. Chris Lueg core member; co-ordinators Professor Joseph Davis, University of Sydney; Professor Shirley Gregor, Australian National University) $48,500 2008-2009
Automated Video Analysis System for Assessment of Marine Animal Populations in Ocean Environments – $27,500 funded by the Winifred Violet Scott Fund.
(Dr R Williams, Dr M Cameron-Jones, Dr J Semmens^*, Mr Julian Harrington^*
^*= Tasmanian Aquaculture and Fisheries staff)
ARC EII Research Network Taskforce "Mobility and Mobile Information Access" (Prof. Chris Lueg (co-ordinator) with Assoc. Prof. Jennie Carroll, RMIT University) $24,500 2007-2008
Interactive Information Displays encouraging waterfront visitors to explore activities that are 'hidden away' in UTAS buildings – UTAS Community Engagement Grant (Prof. Chris Lueg with Dr Martin Walch, Tasmanian School of Art) $7,325 2009-2010
"Application aware congestion control in the Internet" using the OPNET design and modeling software as part of the OPNET University program (software license grant) – Dr Dan Rolf