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SUMMARY:Teaching Workshop #5: Unit Evaluations - What do they really measure?
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SUMMARY:"The Attention Economy"
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SUMMARY:HDR Annual Reviews
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SUMMARY:Sensible Organization: a research agenda for complex and diverse IS ecologies
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SUMMARY:Exploring the education research implications of the SocioCybernetic paradigm shift in educational systems
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DESCRIPTION:
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SUMMARY:Caulfield School Social Drinks - all welcome!
LOCATION:H building, level 7 tearoom
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DESCRIPTION:
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SUMMARY:Upgrade to PhD Seminar at 10am
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SUMMARY:Education Quality Committee Meetings
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DESCRIPTION:
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SUMMARY:Caulfield School Social Drinks - all welcome!
LOCATION:H building, level 7 tearoom
DESCRIPTION:
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SUMMARY:Caulfield School Social Drinks - all welcome!
LOCATION:H building, level 7 tearoom
DESCRIPTION:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
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SUMMARY:HDR Workshop hosted by the Faculty of IT at Caulfield Campus
LOCATION:Building: H, Kitchen on 7th Floor then going to Lecture Theatre Level 2.37, at Caulfield Campus
DESCRIPTION:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20091009T000000
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SUMMARY:Graduate Programs Committee Meetings
LOCATION:H6.90, Faculty Boardroom, Caulfield Campus
DESCRIPTION:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20091012T000000
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CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:Senior Leadership Team Meeting
LOCATION:Faculty Boardroom, H6.90, Caulfield Campus
DESCRIPTION:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
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SUMMARY:Caulfield School of IT staff meeting
LOCATION:Clayfield Room, Bld A, Caulfield campus unless otherwise specified
DESCRIPTION:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20091026T000000
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CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:Higher Degrees by Research Committee Meeting
LOCATION:Faculty Boardroom, Caulfield Campus
DESCRIPTION:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20091029T000000
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CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:Faculty Education Committee Meetings
LOCATION:Faculty Boardroom, H6.90 - Caulfield Campus
DESCRIPTION:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20091030T000000
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SUMMARY:Sensor Data Stream Management Systems
LOCATION:Building: H, Room: H7.84, Caulfield Campus
DESCRIPTION:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20091105T000000
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SUMMARY:Sensors Data Stream Management: Theory and System Demonstration
LOCATION:Building: H, Room: H7.84, Caulfield Campus
DESCRIPTION:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20091109T000000
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CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:Senior Leadership Team Meeting
LOCATION:Faculty Boardroom, H6.90, Caulfield Campus
DESCRIPTION:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
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SUMMARY:Grid Middleware and Data Management:Overview of Next Globus Toolkit Release (G5)and also Falkon
LOCATION:Building: H, Room: 7.84, Caulfield Campus
DESCRIPTION:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
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SUMMARY:Postgraduate Information Session
LOCATION:Caulfield
DESCRIPTION:
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SUMMARY:Faculty Board Meeting
LOCATION:Clayfield Room, Caulfield
DESCRIPTION:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
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SUMMARY:Decreasingly naive Bayes: Aggregating n-dependence estimators (video available)
LOCATION:Building: 26, Room: 135, Clayton campus
DESCRIPTION:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
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SUMMARY:Education Quality Committee Meetings
LOCATION:Caulfield Campus
DESCRIPTION:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20091127T000000
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SUMMARY:Caulfield School of IT staff meeting
LOCATION:Clayfield Room, Bld A, Caulfield campus unless otherwise specified
DESCRIPTION:
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SUMMARY:Postgraduate Information Session
LOCATION:Caulfield
DESCRIPTION:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20091202T000000
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CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:Faculty Research Committee Meeting
LOCATION:Faculty Boardroom, H6.90, Caulfield Campus
DESCRIPTION:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20091203T000000
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SUMMARY:The 6th International Conference on Knowledge Management
LOCATION:Hong Kong, China
DESCRIPTION:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20091207T000000
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CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:Senior Leadership Team Meeting
LOCATION:Faculty Boardroom, H6.90, Caulfield Campus
DESCRIPTION:
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DTSTART:20080121T000000
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CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:Context Tutorial
LOCATION:Seminar Room H7.84 Level 7 Building H Caulfield
DESCRIPTION:In rapidly changing scenarios, such as the ones considered in the\nfields of mobile, pervasive, or ubiquitous computing, systems have to adapt their behavior based on the current conditions and the dynamicity of the environment they are inmersed in. Moreover, users should not have the burden to manually configure or confirm adaptations, so that automatic solutions for these problems are needed. In order to function according to a user's expectation, these systems have to consider the situation, activity, state, etc. of the user and all other relevant entities. Such information is commonly refered to as context. This tutorial provides an overview of context definitions, approaches to model and manage context information, and the use of context information in context-aware applications.\n
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SUMMARY:System Support for Pervasive Computing
LOCATION:Seminar Room H7.84, Level 7 Building H Caulfield
DESCRIPTION:In the vision of Pervasive Computing computers pervade\nour daily environment - mostly as embedded systems that\naugment our surrounding. Applications can utilize a\nnumber of services that are available in the physical\nproximity in order to offer their users services tailored\nto their current context. Due to mobility and effects, such as power saving, services will fluctuate. Applications have to adapt to compensate fluctuations as well as make use of "better" services that become available.\n
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20080130T000000
DTEND:20080131T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:Experiences of University Archives
LOCATION:Lecture Theatre HB32, Building H, Caulfield Campus
DESCRIPTION:Visiting archivist, Silvia Nolla, will describe experiences in the management of historical archives and contemporary records in universities, especially the use of the international standard for records management ISO15489.\nSilvia Nolla i Lacruz is the Head of Organization and Quality Service at the University of Barcelona, Spain. She is responsible for management of recordkeeping and the historical archives of the University as well as overseeing a pilot implementation of ISO15489 International Standard – Records Management. Mrs Nolla has been involved with projects in e-administration and management of academic resources. She has degrees in political science and quality and is undertaking a PhD in information and documentation in the digital age. She lectures in the Department of Library and Documentation at the University of Barcelona.\n
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DTSTART:20080229T000000
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CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:Latest Advances in Distributed Resource Application Management Tools
LOCATION:Building: H, Level 7, Room: 84, Caulfield Campus
DESCRIPTION:A key component of grid testbeds is a local resource management system (RMS)\noffering job submission, monitoring and in some cases more advanced reservations features. However, for years RMSs have provided either only proprietary script based interfaces for appli- cation integration or nothing at all, in which case, the command-line interface was used. Consequently, there were no standard mechanisms for programmers to integrate both grid middleware services and applications with local resource management systems. Thanks to Open Grid Forum and its Distributed Resource Management Application API (DRMAA) working group which has released the DRMAA 1.0 specification that offers a standardized API for application integration with C, Java, Perl and Python bindings. Today, DRMAA implementations that adopt the latest specification version are availale for many local resource management systems such as SGE, Condor, PBSPro, and LSF and other systems e.g. GridWay or Apple Xgrid. The DRMAA specification not only\noffers a standard way for job submission but also allows users to easily describe\nparameter sweep applications as so called bulk jobs which fits perfectly into\nNimrod-G infrastructure. In the recent project, in the international testbed\nwe have created, we have decided to adopt DRMAA as a layer between applications\nand RMSs. Moreover, we have used Open DRMAA Service Provider (OpenDSP)\nimplementation of SOAP Web Service multi-user access and policy-based job control using DRMAA routines implemented by RMS. As a lightweigt software,\nmuch more reliable and efficient than any existing middleware (including gLite and GT4),\nOpenDSP allows an easy remote access to computing resources and based on standard Web Services technology integrates well with higher level grid middleware services. It uses a request-response based communication pro- tocol using standard JSDL XML and SOAP schemas protected by transport level security mechanisms such as SSL/TLS, GSI and SAML2.0. However, neither DRMAA nor OpenDSP provided standard advanced reservation and resource synchronization APIs required by cross-domain parallel applications implemented in OpenMPI and ProActive.\nTherefore, we have extended DRMAA and proposed standard advance reservation APIs which fit to different APIs of some underlying RMSs such as\nSGE, LSF and PBSPro. Consequently, we are able to synchronize resources\nin different domains and launch large scale both parameter sweep and parallel applications.\n
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20080303T000000
DTEND:20080304T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:Ass Prof Peter Exel Nielsen: Social Network Analysis: A Case from Improving a Systems Development Organisation
LOCATION:Building: H, Room: 7.84, Caulfield Campus
DESCRIPTION:Improving small systems development organisations is often problematic. Communication and knowledge sharing is more informal and we need to appreciate this to overcome these problems. In this talk I will report from an action case study where we have analysed social networks to understand a small organisation's internal communication and knowledge sharing. In the talk I will illustrate how social network analysis can be done and how network models can be used to further improvement efforts.\n
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20080304T000000
DTEND:20080305T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:Critical features of information practices for learning purposes
LOCATION:Seminar Room, H7.84 Caulfield Campus
DESCRIPTION:The talk will draw on findings from a series of studies on the interaction between information seeking and learning. The studies have been conducted in school settings at all educational levels from elementary to upper secondary. They have adopted either a learning or a teaching perspective, and the combination of findings shape understandings of some critical features of teaching and learning via information. An argument is proposed for strengthening the relationship between the areas of information seeking and information literacy. Finally, further research will be introduced as one major theme of the research programme of The Linnaeus Centre for research on Learning, Interaction and Mediated Communication in Contemporary Society.\n
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20080307T000000
DTEND:20080308T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:Dr Krzysztof Kurowski: Distributed Resource Management Application API (DRMAA) in Grids
LOCATION:Seminar Room H784, Building: H, Level: 7, Room: 84, Caulfield Campus
DESCRIPTION:A key component of grid testbeds is a local resource management system (RMS)offering job submission, monitoring and in some cases more advanced reservations features. However, for years RMSs have provided either only proprietary script based interfaces for appli- cation integration or nothing at all,\nin which case, the command-line interface was used. Consequently, there were no standard mechanisms for programmers to integrate both grid middleware services and applications with local resource management systems.\nThanks to Open Grid Forum and its Distributed Resource Management Application API (DRMAA)\nworking group which has released the DRMAA 1.0 specification that offers a standardized API for application integration with C, Java, Perl and Python bindings.\nToday, DRMAA implementations that adopt the latest specification version are available for many local resource management systems such as SGE, Condor, PBSPro, and LSF and other systems e.g. GridWay or Apple Xgrid.\nThe DRMAA specification not only offers a standard way for job submission but also allows users to easily describe parameter sweep applications as so called bulk jobs which fits perfectly into Nimrod-G infrastructure.\nIn the recent project, in the international testbed we have created, we have decided to adopt DRMAA as a layer between applications and RMSs. Moreover, we have used Open DRMAA Service Provider (OpenDSP) implementation of SOAP Web Service\nmulti-user access and policy-based job control using DRMAA routines implemented by RMS.\nAs a lightweigt software, much more reliable and efficient than any existing middleware (including gLite and GT4), OpenDSP allows an easy remote access to computing resources and based on standard Web Services technology integrates well with higher level grid middleware services. It uses a request-response based communication protocol using standard JSDL XML and SOAP schemas protected by transport level security mechanisms such as SSL/TLS, GSI and SAML2.0.\nHowever, neither DRMAA nor OpenDSP provided standard advanced reservation and resource synchronization APIs required by cross-domain parallel applications implemented in OpenMPI and ProActive. Therefore, in the QosCosGrid project we have extended\nDRMAA and proposed standard advance reservation APIs which fit to different APIs of some underlying RMSs such as SGE, LSF and PBSPro. Consequently, we are able to synchronize\nresources in different domains and launch large scale both parameter sweep and parallel applications.\n
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20080314T000000
DTEND:20080315T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:Dr Selby Markham: Education + ICT = CyberSocial Pedagogy: Exploring a paradigm shift
LOCATION:Building: H, Level: 7 Room: 84, Caulfield Campus
DESCRIPTION:The changes that have occurred in education as a consequence of the introduction of Information and Communications Technologies constitute a paradigm shift in the education system. The scope of this paradigm shift warrants a review of the relevance of current pedagogical thinking. As a consequence of this, it is argued that a superordinate pedagogy is needed and a model that is derived from Socio-Technical Systems Theory is outl
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20080314T000000
DTEND:20080315T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:Caulfield School of IT staff meeting
LOCATION:Board room level 6 Caulfield campus
DESCRIPTION:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20080411T000000
DTEND:20080412T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:HDR Workshop hosted by the Faculty of IT
LOCATION:Seminar Room H7.84 Caulfield Campus
DESCRIPTION:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20080417T000000
DTEND:20080418T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:HDR Coursework Workshop
LOCATION:Venue: H6.90 Faculty Boardroom, Caulfield Campus
DESCRIPTION:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20080417T000000
DTEND:20080418T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:Special Events 17th April: MyLifeBits - an Experiment in Lifetime Storage (Seminar), Museums Workshop and Social Event
LOCATION:Item 1: Seminar, Lecture Theatre B215  Item 2: Workshop Tutorial Room B224  Item 3: Social in Computing Museum Space
DESCRIPTION:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20080418T000000
DTEND:20080419T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:Caulfield School of IT staff meeting
LOCATION:Board room level 6 Caulfield campus
DESCRIPTION:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20080502T000000
DTEND:20080503T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:A Demonstration of PebblePad - an ePortfolio Tool
LOCATION:Room H7.84, Building H, Level 7, Caulfield Campus
DESCRIPTION:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20080502T000000
DTEND:20080503T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:Theorizing in Social and Organisational Sciences: Developing Systematic Argumentation for Knowledge Claims
LOCATION:Building: H, Room: 7.84, Caulfield Campus
DESCRIPTION:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20080506T000000
DTEND:20080507T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:FIT Teaching Excellence Awards
LOCATION:H7.84 Caulfield Campus 
DESCRIPTION:FIT Teaching excellence awards
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20080509T000000
DTEND:20080510T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:High Level Mathematical Modeling and Parallel/GRID Computing with Modelica using OpenModelica
LOCATION:Room: H&.84 - Seminar Room, Caulfield Campus
DESCRIPTION:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20080523T000000
DTEND:20080524T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:Caulfield School of IT staff meeting
LOCATION:Board room level 6 Caulfield campus
DESCRIPTION:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20080528T000000
DTEND:20080529T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:An Experimental Study of the Effects of Representing Property Precedence on the Comprehension of Conceptual Schema Diagrams
LOCATION:Building: H, Room: 7.84, Caulfield Campus
DESCRIPTION:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20080530T000000
DTEND:20080531T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:Mobility-awareness in Managing Spatial Data
LOCATION:Caulfield Seminar Room - H.7.84 Caulfield Campus
DESCRIPTION:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20080611T000000
DTEND:20080612T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:An Introduction to Research Issues in Heterogeneous Parallel and Distributed Computing
LOCATION:Seminar Room H7.84, 7th Floor, Building H, Caulfield Campus
DESCRIPTION:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20080611T000000
DTEND:20080612T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:An Introduction to Research Issues in Heterogeneous Parallel and Distributed Computing
LOCATION:Seminar Room, H7.84 Caulfield Campus
DESCRIPTION:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20080620T000000
DTEND:20080621T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:Continuity in development using multiple external developers: A Case Study of serial procurement using Open Source solutions
LOCATION:Clayfield Room, Building A1.34  Caulfield Campus
DESCRIPTION:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20080627T000000
DTEND:20080628T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:Caulfield School of IT staff meeting
LOCATION:Board room level 6 Caulfield campus
DESCRIPTION:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20080704T000000
DTEND:20080705T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:Qualitative Research Methods: Recent Field Experience in north America
LOCATION:Caulfield Seminar Room, H7.84 Caulfield Campus
DESCRIPTION:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20080709T000000
DTEND:20080710T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:Invitation to Archives and Records Student and Alumni Event
LOCATION:Clayfield Room, Building A Caulfield Campus, Monash University 
DESCRIPTION:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20080801T000000
DTEND:20080802T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:Caulfield School of IT staff meeting
LOCATION:Board room level 6 Caulfield campus
DESCRIPTION:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20080829T000000
DTEND:20080830T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:Learning Anarchy: A new epistemology?
LOCATION:Room H7.84, Building H, Level 7, Caulfield Campus
DESCRIPTION:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20080905T000000
DTEND:20080906T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:Caulfield School of IT staff meeting
LOCATION:Board room level 6 Caulfield campus
DESCRIPTION:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20080912T000000
DTEND:20080913T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:Ways of Thinking and Practicing in Introductory Programming
LOCATION:Room H7.84, Building H, Level 7, Caulfield Campus
DESCRIPTION:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20080917T000000
DTEND:20080918T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:Automatic music feature extraction and classification from music signals
LOCATION:Room H7.84, Building H, Level 7, Caulfield Campus
DESCRIPTION:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20081007T000000
DTEND:20081008T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:Theory building as scientific idealization, and a generic model of Individual use of IT applications
LOCATION:Building: H, Room: 7.84, Caulfield Campus
DESCRIPTION:Information Systems as a discipline still has quite few in-born theories, and we do not have any good understanding of the theory building process. Theories inherent to information systems are increasingly called for. Also good exemplars of a theory building in Information Systems context are urgently needed. \n\nThe seminar views theory building as ideali¬zation. Generality in sci¬ence is not achieved by ex¬tracting similarities from particu¬lars, but through abstraction and idealization. Indeed, ideali¬zation is a commonplace phe¬nomenon in established sciences such as physics and economics. The idea of frictionless free movement of physical bodies in physics and the idea of perfect competition in microeconom¬ics (assuming firms with perfect knowledge and totally free entry to and exit from the market) are good examples of scientific idealizations. Ideal types an related typologies are in¬stances of scientific idealization in social sciences. \nThe seminar illustrates theory building based on idealization by suggesting a typology of ideal types of IT applications. The typology distinguishes automating, aug¬menting, mediating, infor¬mating, entertaining, artisti¬cizing, accompanying, and fantasizing IT applica¬tions. Based on the typology the seminar outlines the Generic Individual Use of Infor¬mation Technology Applications (GIUITA) model as a response to the current criticisms of research into technology acceptance.\n
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20081010T000000
DTEND:20081011T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:Caulfield School of IT staff meeting
LOCATION:Board room level 6 Caulfield campus
DESCRIPTION:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20081010T000000
DTEND:20081011T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:Intellectual Property in Academia
LOCATION:Room H7.84, Building H, Level 7, Caulfield Campus
DESCRIPTION:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20081024T000000
DTEND:20081025T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:CERG/COSI Seminar
LOCATION:Room H7.84, Building H, Level 7, Caulfield Campus
DESCRIPTION:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20081028T000000
DTEND:20081029T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:Conceptual Business Service - An Architectural Approach for Building a Business Service Portfolio
LOCATION:Innovation@257 [up the escalator], 257 Collins Street, Melbourne
DESCRIPTION:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20081028T000000
DTEND:20081029T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:Berwick School of IT: Student Exhibition
LOCATION:Exhibition Space H1.16, Caulfield
DESCRIPTION:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20081114T000000
DTEND:20081115T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:Caulfield School of IT staff meeting
LOCATION:Board room level 6 Caulfield campus
DESCRIPTION:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20081119T000000
DTEND:20081120T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:Electronic Recordkeeping and Metadata Standards: The State of the Art
LOCATION:Building: H, Room: 7.84, <a href="/about/schools/caulfield/location.html">Caulfield campus</a>. Off-street user pays parking is available in the multi-storey carpark on campus and accessible via Sir John Monash Drive and Princes Avenue.
DESCRIPTION:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20081128T000000
DTEND:20081129T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:Open Innovation in the IT industry - Customization as a Case of Open Innovation
LOCATION:Caulfield Seminar Room, H7.84
DESCRIPTION:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20081219T000000
DTEND:20081220T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:Caulfield School of IT staff meeting
LOCATION:Board room level 6 Caulfield campus
DESCRIPTION:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20071214T000000
DTEND:20071215T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:Methods and Approaches to Computing Education Research
LOCATION:Room H7.84, Building H, Level 7, Caulfield Campus
DESCRIPTION:The talk presents a general framework for conducting CER studies and presents a view of the key aspects of a rigorous (pragmatic) study. We discuss the implications of the framework for both designing studies as well as judging published work.\n\nWe argue that a wider discourse on the framework in which computing education research is conducted is vital to larger scale research in CER, as well as enhancing our ability to accumulate evidence and reason on broader research issues. A better understanding of the manner in which we conduct studies assists in transfer of results as well as enhancing the ability of the discipline to build upon earlier results.
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20071210T000000
DTEND:20071211T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:PeerWise and Contributing Student Pedagogy
LOCATION:Room H7.84, Building H, Level 7, Caulfield Campus
DESCRIPTION:The Contributing Student Approach is a style of teaching in which\n students create and share learning resources. PeerWise is a web-based\n system that supports students creating and sharing one specific\n learning resource: a bank of multi-choice questions (MCQs).\n\n In this talk, I will describe the Contributing Student Approach in\n general and PeerWise in particular, and present results from the five\n classes that have used PeerWise to date.\n\n The Contributing Student Approach and the PeerWise tool are applicable\n to a wide range of subjects, and teaching staff from all disciplines\n are welcome.
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20071129T000000
DTEND:20071130T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:PhD Candidate Seminar: User Acceptance Model Driven Design for Voice-enabled M-commerce
LOCATION:Venue H7.84, Caulfield Campus
DESCRIPTION:It’s a well-established belief among researchers that user acceptance model can provide guidance on how to design a specific application/system. However, at the time of this thesis writing, we could not identify any existing projects aimed at exploring a systematic design approach driven by user acceptance analysis. This thesis proposed a User-Acceptance-Model driven design approach for Voice-enabled m-commerce.\n\nResearchers and practitioners have predicted great potentials for voice-enabled m-commerce. The current market reality indicates it has not lived up to the expectation and is moving relatively slowly. User resistance is a key deterrent to the adoption of voice-enabled m-commerce. This motivates us to examine the existing dominant solutions of speech interface development (such as W3C Speech Interface Framework) for shortcomings, and rethink the design approach in line with user acceptance analysis.\n\nIn the thesis research, a generic user acceptance model is identified. Driven by this model, a framework for designing voice-enabled m-commerce applications is proposed. Specifically, we have:\n\n* Identified different user acceptance factors through literature review and verified their influences on user intention of adoption through Meta-analysis. The statistical integration and synthesis of findings across studies made the analysis more reliable compared with a single model or theory. We further compared three proposed causal models through MEASEM (Meta-Analysis and Structural Equation Modelling) to develop a generic acceptance model.\n\n* Based on the identified factors in the model, analytically assessed the characteristics of speech-enabled m-commerce and identified the features that could enhance user’s intention of acceptance. Compared these features with the existing speech framework, we identified and highlighted the design focus of personalization and naturalness for voice-enabled applications.\n\n* Proposed a framework for designing speech interface for m-commerce, which has a hybrid dialogue strategy to increase the naturalness of communication and a personalized dialogue structure to reduce the interactions. As a result of this part of research, a Case-Based Reasoning approach for language modelling was introduced to capture and interpret users’ initial requests in natural language, and a personalization mechanism was incorporated into the decision tree induction algorithm to construct dialogues between users and the application. The framework was evaluated through an example implementation.
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20071126T000000
DTEND:20071127T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:Measuring Satisfaction with Business-to-Employee Portal
LOCATION:Building: H, Room: 7.84, Caulfield Campus
DESCRIPTION:Business to employee (b2e) portal consolidates and personalises information around the needs of the portal user. By taking advantage of web services, this web-based system supports access and availability of information using the internet and mobile devices, including notebooks, PDAs and cellular phones. Portal implementation requires big investments. In our study, we investigate benefits and issues surrounding the use of b2e portal. In particular, we propose user satisfaction as a surrogate measure of success: the b2e portal user satisfaction (b2ePUS) construct. The construct comprises five dimensions, namely confidentiality, ease of use, portal design, usefulness and convenience of access. In the presentation, we will outline the rigorous process of the development of this construct: from conceptual modelling, content validity, exploratory study to confirmatory study.
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20071123T000000
DTEND:20071124T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:Invitation to PhD Student Workshop
LOCATION:Lecture Theatre, HB.36, Caulfield Campus
DESCRIPTION:Being a research or PhD student is a very challenging endeavour. Beyond issues related to the research topic, the research design and the research approach, students are confronted with the more mundane, but equally important issues related to the context of their studies. These issues include their own motivation to undertake a PhD, the PhD programme they are part of, and their relationship to their supervisors. However we seldom have the chance to exchange experiences about these issues, to reflect upon them collectively and to learn from each other. This workshop provides an opportunity to do so and to share knowledge and talk about these subjects, good and bad experiences, problematic situations, solutions and best practices.\n\nThe workshop will start with a brief presentation focusing on the role of the supervisor and the design of PhD programs. It will address questions such as:\n•    What kind of doctoral programs exist?\n•    What kind of supervision styles exist?\n•    What kind of motivations do students have to pursue a PhD?\n•    What kind of guidance do different kinds of students need?\n•    How are these four issues related?\n\nThe introduction will also present simple techniques to help you analyse your position on these issues and the key elements of the PhD model under which you perform your study. The application of these techniques, as the next step of the workshop, should provide ample input to draw out and openly discuss participants’ problems, their solutions, advice and recommendations. This will be organized either as a plenum session or in small groups depending on the number of participants. A final aim of the workshop is to document these discussions and to provide results as lessons learned to other members of the IT community.\n\nThe workshop is based on Avison D. and Pries-Heje, J. (eds.), Research in Information Systems – A handbook for research supervisors and their students, Elsevier, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2005.\n\n\nIt would be helpful if all participants prepared a maximum of a one page position paper containing their personal position their life as PhD students, be it in form of general observations, major concern(s), or positive or negative incidents. Please send your position paper to Henry Linger by Monday 19th November at the latest.
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20071116T000000
DTEND:20071117T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:Developing ICT Tools for Biomedical Research: Building a Knowledge Work Support System
LOCATION:Seminar Room H7.84, Level 7, Building H Caulfield
DESCRIPTION:Biomedical research is supported by ICT in a variety of ways, from algorithmic and computational modelling, visualisation, data and information management and retrieval amongst others. Generally such approaches focus on a specific biological problem and use ICT to provide answers that can be interpreted for their biological meaning. However, if biomedical research is considered as knowledge work, then the challenge is to construct ICT tools that not only help solve problems, the productive aspects of the work activity, but also the cognitive work that informs that production, the conceptualisation and thinking that underpins the problem. Support for knowledge work requires a computer-based environment that includes tools for productive and cognitive activities, as well as their integration, in order to make some aspects of cognitive work visible. Such an environment provides biomedical researchers with the ability to conduct in-machina or in-silica experiments that represent another research modality in addition to in-vivo and in-vitro experimentation. This seminar presents a collaborative approach to developing such computer-based environment.
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20071029T000000
DTEND:20071030T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:A birds-eye view of Knowledge Management: The Four Layer Model
LOCATION:Building: H7, Room: 84, Seminar Room, Caulfield Campus
DESCRIPTION:It seems today that many things related to Information Technology have been recast in the mold of Knowledge Management. In fact, much criticism of KM is based on the observation that (a) the distinctions between data, information and knowledge are not clear, (b) many of the technologies being applied to KM are simply re-wrappings of old technologies that have been used to varying degrees of success in other contexts. (c) knowledge can’t be managed in the first place, so what is all the fuss about. This criticism, however, is founded on a narrow view of the challenges, techniques and goals of KM.\n\nIn this talk I will attempt to provide a conceptual framework for KM research and practice. This framework is based on a birds-eye view of the field gleaned from the experiences and interactions in editing the Encyclopedia of Knowledge Management. This discussion will take us from the philosophical core of KM, out to its supporting technologies, and back to fundamental KM processes and managerial elements.\n\nI will also provide a brief overview of different KM research initiatives I am currently involved in with the hope of triggering some fruitful interactions during my sabbatical visit at Monash University.
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20071025T000000
DTEND:20071026T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:Context Modeling: Representing Practices instead of Procedures
LOCATION:Monash University, Melbourne, Caulfield Campus
DESCRIPTION:Contextual Graphs are a context-based formalism used in various real-world applications. They allow a uniform representation of elements of reasoning and of contexts for describing different human tasks such as troubleshooting and interpretation. A contextual graph represents a task realization. Its paths represent the different ways of reaching this realization, each way corresponding to a practice developed by an actor realizing the task. The seminar will allow to revisit the classical distinction between prescribed and effective tasks, procedures versus practices, logic of functioning versus logic of use, etc. in the light of this formalism. The position of the practice model with respect to the task model will be discussed and experimented across several examples including the troubleshooting a problem with a DVD player.
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20071015T000000
DTEND:20071016T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:From Intention to Motivation: Developing a Motivation-Based Model of IOS Implementation (Paper co-authored with Graeme Shanks and Robert Johnston).
LOCATION:Building: H, Room: 7.84, Caulfield Campus
DESCRIPTION:Interorganizational systems (IOS) are increasingly being implemented throughout supply chains, attracting the attention of many researchers seeking to understand this phenomenon. We argue that the activities performed during the implementation process and the post-adoption outcomes associated with these systems can be traced back to the principle motivation underpinning the adoption decision. In developing our theory, we critique the predominant technology acceptance and diffusion of innovations based approaches as they apply to the implementation of IOS technology, and present an alternative theoretical model based on a firm’s motivational intent. We argue that differences in motivational intentions largely explain system implementation processes and outcomes. Theory-based motivational scenarios are presented to make specific predictions regarding the impact of motivations on which system investigation and development activities are performed, and their short and long-term implications for an organization. Paper available from: http://www.dis.unimelb.edu.au/staff/stephen/Smith-ICIS-2007.pdf
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20071005T000000
DTEND:20071006T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:A Community Based Self-Learning Environment (http://peclad.org)
LOCATION:Building: H, Room: H7.84, Level 7, Caulfield
DESCRIPTION:This project's ambition is to provide an effective and supportive community-based learning environment. This learning environment was initially build around how to create a UML class diagram (i.e. a Solution)from a simple textual requirement specification (i.e. a Problem). To this end, our environment is based on both a web site and an Eclipse plugin.\n\nThe SpeCLaD website enables both novices and experts to share and discuss Problems and Solutions. It provides a public repository organised around maximasing learning outcomes.\n\nSpecifically, the website enables users to:\n* publish online independently their:\no Problems (textual descriptions), and/or\no Solution(s) to a specific problem - a Solution is published as an image, or as generated by the SpeCLaD Eclipse plugin for class diagrams;\n* view published Problems and their various Solutions in a user friendly format; and\n* rate and discuss published Problems and their Solution(s).\n\nLearning and understanding how to build UML class diagram from requirement specifications is often difficult for anybody new to Object Oriented software design. The aim of the SpeCLaD Eclipse plugin is to provide a step by step guide on how to build these diagrams. The website also enables to share class diagrams Solutions in the SpeCLaD plugin format.
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20070907T000000
DTEND:20070908T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:XML Database Research and Issues
LOCATION:Seminar Room H7.84, Level 7, Building H Caulfield
DESCRIPTION:It is growingly popular to use XML documents for exchanging information between different types of applications, as well as for representing semi-structured data. XML document, in nature, is complex due to the many ad-hoc ways to represent the data. Storing XML data in a database has also been supported by various database management repositories, including XML-Enabled DBMS and XML-Native DBMS. This leads to the need to address XML-specific issues such as storing XML document versions and warehousing dynamic XML documents, which inherently different from those of relational data. Querying and updating XML data also raise complex issues, due to the hierarchical tree structure of XML data. In this talk, I will discuss these issues and how these are addressed in our research.
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20070906T000000
DTEND:20070907T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:SahulTime: Taking GoogleEarth through a time-warp for Australasian archaeology
LOCATION:Seminar Room, H7.84 Caulfield
DESCRIPTION:Imagine if GoogleEarth could look into our ancient past - what would it show? Throughout the Ice Age, sea levels fluctuate much lower than today, with Australia and PNG connected as a single continent (known to archaeologists as 'Sahul'). It's at this time that the first settlement of Australia takes place. Then as the planet warms, sea levels rise and finally flood the land-bridge around 8000 years ago, forming the Torres Strait. Throughout this time, the distribution of vegetation adjusts itself to the varying climate.\n\nThis seminar will introduce an early prototype of 'SahulTime', an ambitious Monash Arts/IT project bringing together archaeology and geography within a multimedia visualisation system. The result is an interactive model of the ancient Australia-PNG continent over the past 100,000 years.\n\nUsing an object-oriented systems model, SahulTime combines a variety of resources in space-time: reconstructed coastlines, excavation data, pollen cores, vegetation models, and 3D landscape visualisations. Like GoogleEarth, SahulTime will permit resource sharing and enable collaboration to build up a more and more detailed picture of the continent over archaeological time.\n\nTemporal GIS is not a new concept - recent versions of GoogleEarth allow the plotting of time-based points, but the focus is directly-measurable modern data. Finding information models appropriate to archaeology can be challenging in such an inherently uncertain knowledge domain, and visualisations must take account of a range of possible interpretations of the available data. We will discuss the challenges of 'virtual archaeology', and how they are handled in this project and others.\n\nThe Torres Strait is a region of particular interest to Monash archaeologists. To understand settlement patterns, excavation data must be put into its palaeo-environmental context. We are currently using SahulTime as a vehicle to test hypotheses and hone models of the flooding of the land bridge and formation of the Torres Strait Islands over the past 10,000 years.
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DTSTART:20070815T000000
DTEND:20070816T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:Evolution of Middleware for Grid-based Instruments and Sensors, or Why Facebook, MySpace and Social Computing Really Matter
LOCATION:Building: H, Room: H7.84, Caulfield Campus
DESCRIPTION:Instruments and sensors are the source of data used to drive discovery in science. The availability and accessibility of appropriate instrumentation for a given research programme can be a rate limiting factor in discovery. Furthermore sensors and sensor networks are playing an ever-increasing role in how measurements are made in longitudinal studies in ecological, earth and biological sciences. The Common Instrument Middleware Architecture (CIMA) aims at providing access to remote instruments and sensors by giving users and providers of real-time data with interface and protocol standards needed to locate and interact at a distance with real-time data sources, particularly scientific instruments and sensors. In this talk I will give an update on the status of the CIMA project and how ideas from social computing that are driving the development of Web 2.0 technologies are also evolving CIMA’s stodgy old WS-* architecture. Could sensors and instruments really be as cool as writing on the wall?
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DTSTART:20070803T000000
DTEND:20070804T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:Research Seminar, Caulfield School of Information Technology
LOCATION:Seminar Room, H7.84
DESCRIPTION:Peer to peer stands for the new array of bottom-up processes that are changing the worlds of production, governance, and distribution.We will attempt to provide an in-depth explanation of what these changes mean for individuals, organisations, and societies. In particular, we will look at the following issues that are key to understanding its social importance: to what degree is peer to peer immanent in the current system, i.e. an expression of a new participative capitalism, and to what degree is it transcendent in the current system, i.e. a harbinger of a profound shift in our political economy in civilization, towards a format where p2p processes will be the core of social innovation? In other words: what is the potential for this current subsystem to become the new meta-system. Can it reverse the current reliance on conceptions of pseudo-abundance in the natural world, and artificial scarcity in the cultural world, into its opposite? Peer to peer has indeed the promise to create a political economy based on the free flow of cultural exchange, within the context of a steady-state material economy.
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DTSTART:20070713T000000
DTEND:20070714T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:Collaborative Computing on the Internet: Opportunities and Challenges
LOCATION:CASIT Seminar Room, H7.84
DESCRIPTION:Internet is at the core of information revolution which changes the way we communicate, work, learn, do business, and play. A major trend is to use the Internet to enhance human-to-human communication, interaction, and collaboration. In over 10 years, we have been researching and developing technologies and applications that allow multiple users to edit shared text/graphics/image/multimedia/CAD/CASE documents at the same time over the Internet. These systems are not only useful applications in their own right, but also serve as research vehicles for exploring a range of challenging issues in building advanced collaborative applications. One such issue is consistency maintenance of shared documents under the constraints of high responsiveness, high concurrency, and high communication latency in the Internet environment.\n\nIn the first part of my talk, I shall show why existing consistency criteria and concurrency control techniques in traditional distributed applications are not suitable to Internet-based collaborative applications. Then, I shall present a collaborative consistency model consisting of three properties - causality preservation, convergence, and intention preservation. Moreover, an optimistic concurrency control technique, named operational transformation (OT), shall be discussed.\n\nIn the second part, I shall report our work on integrating state-of-the-art collaborative technology (e.g. OT) into commercial off-the-shelf single-user applications without making any change to the original application. We have converted Microsoft Word and PowerPoint into CoWord and CoPowerPoint (http://cooffice.ntu.edu.sg/coword), which support multiple users to view and edit the same documents at the same time over the Internet. We are currently working toward a new generation of collaborative technologies and applications that will unify single-user and multi-user applications, desktop and web-based applications, real-time and non-real-time collaborative applications, and provide all-dimension scalability and all-round interaction experiences to users.
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DTSTART:20070705T000000
DTEND:20070706T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:Preliminary Results of an Empirical Study on mobile phone users in Beijing
LOCATION:Seminar Room, H7.84, Caulfield Campus
DESCRIPTION:The diffusion and adoption of the mobile phone has been exceptionally fast in Mainland China, especially in the capital Beijing and the costal industrialized towns. With more than 430 millions of mobile phones, China represents now the biggest market and one of the world’s leading ICT nations. While a considerable amount of papers devoted to the study of ICTs in China is already available, here we present a quantitative research specifically focussed on the world of the mobile phone. Based on face-to-face questionnaires, administered to a convenient sample of 487 respondents, in which however the quotas for gender, age and occupation have been controlled, this study starts from the following research question: are there remarkable differences in attitudes, behaviour and practices of use of the mobile phone in China, in comparison with Europe?\n\nThe purpose of this study is to investigate the following areas: to what extent the functions of the mobile phone are exploited by users, what are the criteria of acquisition of this device, its costs and the practices of SMS use, the influence of the mobile phone on maintenance and development of this network, its social practices in public spaces, the symbolic meaning of the mobile phone and its assessment in comparison with the other technologies of information and communication. Although the convenient sample with 487 respondents can hardly provide a basis to generalise theoretically the attitudes, behaviour, and the mobile phone uses in China Mainland, it might serve as an exploratory basis to understand the general pattern of the mobile uses in China. Thus the data presented here could be useful in leading us to inquire deeper future into various aspects of the mobile phone uses of the Beijing city, a city with 100 percent of penetration rate.\n\nWe guess that the preliminary results which we intend to present and discuss will be sufficient to give an overview of this empirical research.
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DTSTART:20070622T000000
DTEND:20070623T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:Gazing into the ICT ball - a glimpse of the future
LOCATION:Seminar Room, H7.84 Caulfield Campus
DESCRIPTION:New implementations, new devices, new functionality, and heading toward the ultimate ubiquitous network access with all kinds of devices. How will this unfold over the next few years?\n\nThe Communication Revolution is now reaching maturity and many research breakthroughs are now being implemented in devices which will result in the ICT landscape looking very different 5 years into the future.\n\nCurrent buzzword such as convergence, pervasive, ubiquitous, embedded,seamless, smart devices will no longer be news but common practice.\n\nNew standards, such as MPEG7, make possible truly interactive-TV. New implementations make possible truly pervasive systems and roaming access.\n\nThese and concepts such as Mobile Box Office, Mobile Tickets, eWallet,networked kitchens, i-TV, metaverse, anywhere, anytime, anyhow will be covered.
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DTSTART:20070615T000000
DTEND:20070616T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:Addressing industry needs through the development of eLearning
LOCATION:Seminar Room Building: H, Room:7.84, Caulfield
DESCRIPTION:IT integration and eBusiness have been the catalysts in the surge of interestsurrounding supply chains. Teaching tertiary students about supply chain management (SCM) practices and technologies is now becoming increasingly important in information systems (IS) and business/commerce curricula. To address the industry need for competent eBusiness and supply chain management professionals, an integrated curriculum that focuses on industry relevance materials that draws a close link with industry is critical. In this seminar, I will present the strategy used in developing such a curriculum, including the use of animations, video-based interviews, role-playing simulations and interactive problem based assignments. I will also argue that these approaches to teaching are grounded in well-established constructivist epistemologies of learning, as well as theories such as experiential learning theory. I will also present anecdotal evidence of the potential effectiveness of these approaches based on students' comments and recent survey, in addition to the challenges we encountered when developing such multimedia-based learning resources.
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DTSTART:20070528T000000
DTEND:20070529T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:ICTs: Lab to Land
LOCATION:H Building Lecture Theatre, H2.37, Caulfield
DESCRIPTION:Project URL: www.dil.iitb.ac.in\n\nDevelopmental Informatics is the study of (a) how access to internet and communication technologies (ICTs) can be increased and (b) how ICTs can help speed the socio-economic development of underserved populations.\n\nAt IIT Bombay, we are studying a) the design and evaluation of web and mobile applications for resource constrained environments, (b) visual and product design, (c) cross-lingual information retrieval and translation, (d) improving information dissemination protocols over the internet, catering for low bandwidth and small devices, (e) ethnographic studies emphasizing the study of social & cultural factors influencing interaction design of applications for e-learning and use of computers in education and (f) involving rural communities and planning strategies for scaling up those innovations that have demonstrated rural user demand through government or private sector participation.\n\nIn this talk I will discuss some of these topics, drawing upon experiences from several core projects broadly in the areas of agriculture and education, each involving academic, industrial, government and village community partners.
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DTSTART:20070525T000000
DTEND:20070526T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:A Framework For Effective Independent Learning Of Programming
LOCATION:Building: H, Room: H7.84, Level 7, Caulfield Campus
DESCRIPTION:Matthew will present the current state of his research into the independent study of Programming Units. He will present an overview of literature covered to date, however will concentrate primarily on main concerns with independent study of programming and their root causes. In focusing on high concept low feedback areas such as modularity and program design, these issues can be clearly recognised and opportunities identified. The proposed approach to tackling the problems will be introduced and afforded opportunity for discussion.
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DTSTART:20070504T000000
DTEND:20070505T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:Preaching the Teaching: Do the Politics & Religion of teaching
LOCATION:Room H7.84, Building H, Level 7, Caulfield Campus
DESCRIPTION:There is widespread debate about the meaning of the phrase "research- led teaching."\n\nMonash University (amongst others) is placing increased emphasis upon the value of research,while arguing that teaching is not to be seen as a second class activity for academics. In this seminar we explore "research-led teaching", "teaching-led research," and the teaching-research nexus,and show that it is the balance between these concepts that should define the modern academic job description.\n\nA project called Perceptions and performance: ICT at Monash University was carried out in the faculty during 2006 that looked at student and staff perceptions of the teaching and learning environment. The final report can be found at http://cerg.infotech.monash.edu.au. We will be looking at some of the data from the staff interviews and the consequences of this for how we think about the teaching and research nexus.\n\nWe will look at the overall response patterns of those who were interviewed and then we will move onto the issue of the relevance of this to the idea of scholarship of teaching one of the suggested ways that teaching is made respectable within research oriented universities.\n\nFrom this we will develop an overall model that explores the interface between the pragmatic world of the teacher and the conceptual world of the educationalist. This helps generate directions for further work in this area.\n\nParticipants will find value in reading (at least) the executive summary of the report before the seminar.
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DTSTART:20070427T000000
DTEND:20070428T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:Using Information Technology to support the resolution of disputes
LOCATION:Seminar Room, H7.84, Caulfield Campus
DESCRIPTION:The Economist Magazine (Technology Quarterly, 12 March 2005: 21-22) in an article AI am the Law said: ËœSoftware that gives legal advice should shake up the legal profession by dispensing faster and fairer justice, Further the introduction of smarter programs, capable of not just assisting lawyers but actually performing some of their functions, could turn the profession on its head. Such software could both improve access to justice and massively reduce legal costs, both for the client and the courts. We discuss how software we have developed can both help increase access to justice and support the negotiation of disputes. ËœFamily Winner" is a conflict resolution software package that assists divorcees to rationally negotiate their disputes. It uses a combination of argumentation theory, artificial intelligence and game theory. It does this by advising rational options for trade-offs of assets, between the opposing parties.ËœFamily Winner" won the November 16 2005 episode of ABC TV's New Inventors program.
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DTSTART:20070420T000000
DTEND:20070421T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:Sensors Networks and Mobile DeviceS Optimizing Resources
LOCATION:CauSIT Seminar room, H7.84, Caulfield Campus
DESCRIPTION:One of the key challenges in a sensor network is to achieve data collection of sensor data in a cost efficient manner. We propose the use of context aware intelligent mobile devices present within the infrastructures, as data carriers that collect data from sensor nodes distributed within the environment. These mobile devices have enough spare capacity and bandwidth to form a distributed access network opening up a number of new application and challenges. We hence try to envision a heterogeneous network comprising sensor nodes and context aware mobile devices.
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DTSTART:20070413T000000
DTEND:20070414T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:Performance Evaluation Meets Statistical Learning in Grid Computing Environments
LOCATION:CauSIT Seminar Room, H7.84, Caulfield
DESCRIPTION:The main theme of this talk is on the applications of statistics and machine learning techniques in solving performance related problems in Grid computing environments. Two important and closely related topics in performance evaluation are covered, namely, workload modeling and performance predictions. Three main research contributions and results are elaborated: firstly, job arrivals are studied as stochastic point processes and the modeling of long range dependent (LRD) job traffic is discussed in detail. Secondly, a new algorithm for generating correlated workload attributes is introduced, which combines model based clustering and a novel localized sampling algorithm. By combining job arrivals and attributes such as run time a comprehensive workload model for data-intensive Grid environments can be derived. Thirdly, a local learning framework is introduced for performance predictions on space-shared resources. Potentially useful performance metrics are introduced and techniques are proposed for improving prediction accuracy and performance. Some recent reseach issues such as workload-aware and prediction-aware Grid scheduling strategies are also discussed briefly.
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DTSTART:20070405T000000
DTEND:20070406T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:The Role of AI in Shaping Smart Services and Smart Systems
LOCATION:CauSIT Seminar Room Building: H7.84, Caulfield
DESCRIPTION:Services and Systems must include a set of features to remain competent and future conformant: intelligent behaviour, personalisation, adaptivity, scalability, manageability, ease of use and user friendliness, security, and self-healing capabilities. As a consequence, new architectural models are needed, which provide the users with access to a cognitive behaviour aspect of the system, and which may draw inspiration from the brain sciences. On the other hand, we have to use knowledge representation and semantic modeling, e.g., ontologies for representing our environment or basic properties of services and systems. This would naturally involve Agent Technology, AI, and Software Technology. So, approaches from many different disciplines have to work in integration. Integrated frameworks handling such different aspects are called "Serviceware Frameworks". They contain a scalable Service Architecture, which facilitates merging different selected features into a service, as well as a scalable so-called Service Engine with a Serviceware Infrastructure. For creating Smart Services and Smart Systems, we use engineering approaches that include innovative service description languages and tools. In this presentation, a framework with the properties and features just described will be presented. A sample application developed with this framework will also be presented: the "Smart Energy Assistant".
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DTSTART:20070330T000000
DTEND:20070331T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:A second tech wreck? IT education in Victorian universities
LOCATION:Building: H, Room: 7.84, Caulfield campus
DESCRIPTION:There has been ample anecdotal evidence that IT education in the tertiary sector has fallen on hard times in recent years. However there has been relatively little published data or analysis of what is happening with IT education in universities. This seminar traces the evolution of IT education in Victorian universities from 1990 to the present day, across all the IT disciplines. It examines the changes in the nature of the IT courses offered, and their changing patterns of popularity in terms of student preferences. It highlights the consequent impact on numbers of enrolled students and student 'quality'. The seminar concludes with a brief assessment of the ways in which universities seem to be dealing with these changes, and some idle speculation on future developments. Audience members will be encouraged to contribute their own thoughts.
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DTSTART:20070219T000000
DTEND:20070220T000000
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY:The Era of Human Computing
LOCATION:Building: H, Room: HB40, Basement of Building H, Caulfield
DESCRIPTION:As computing technology has become more powerful, more connected, and more ubiquitous, we've seen an acceleration of research - and progress - on "human scale computing," using computing to assist and augment how people naturally work, play and go about their daily lives. Computers can help us see, remember, find information, communicate, and interact with the world around us. Computing can also be our guardian angel, watching over our shoulder and keeping us safe. While we still have a long way to go before computers can do everything that people can do, today they increasingly play a complementary role to our own abilities and are truly capable of changing people's lives for the better.
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