News and Events

Successful Launch of Smart Services CRC
July 2008
The Smart Services CRC has officially been launched by Senator, The Honourable Kim Carr, Minister for Innovation, Industry, Science & Research. Smart Services CRC is a research and development partnership between 12 major industry players and six Australian universities, including Swinburne's CITR, funded by the private sector and governments under the Australian Government’s Cooperative Research Centre program in excess of $120m over 7 years.
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Mid-year PhD Scholarships
April 2007
Mid-year PhD Scholarships at CITR are available for Australian and International candidates.
Applications close on 23 May 2008.
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CITR supports ACS SOCSIG
February 2008
CITR becomes a principal supporter of the ACS Service Oriented Computing special interest group (ACS SOCSIG).
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IEEE CS Service Award 2007
January 2008
Congratulations to Dr. Jinjun Chen for receiving IEEE CS Service Award 2007, for outstanding services to the IEEE Computer Society's Technical Committee on Scalable Computing (TCSC), activities as a coordinator of the "Workflow Management in Scalable Computing Environments" forum. More information

International Workshop on Service-Oriented Computing
December 2007
CITR co-organises the Workshop on Service-Oriented Computing: Agents, Semantics and Engineering (SOCASE 2008) at AAMAS'2008, 12-16 May 2008, Estoril, Portugal. CFP and More information

Vice-Chancellor's Research Awards
December 2007
Congratulations to Prof Jun Han and A/Prof Chengfei Liu for receiving the 2007 Vice-Chancellor's Research Awards for significant contribution to Swinburne's reputation for research excellence. These are 2 awards to CITR members out of 3 awards in total across the University.
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CITR vs Gartner's Top Strategic Technologies
November 2007
Gartner has identified the top 10 technologies and trends that will be strategic for most organizations in 2008 and beyond. It includes Business Process and Metadata Management, Virtualization Technologies, Mashup & Composite Applications, Web Platform & WOA, Real World Web, and Social Software, which are the areas where CITR develops new technologies and business solutions across several of its research activities.
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Researcher Development Scheme Grants
November 2007
Congratulations to Dr Jinjun Chen, Dr Alan Colman, Dr Fei Ching Kuo, Dr Robert Merkel and Dr Antony Tang for being awarded the 2008 Swinburne Researcher Development Scheme grants.

Open Social
November 2007
CITR develops a fully distributed social network platform called OpenSocial, that is a joint research and development in collaboration with VastPark started in 2006. This OpenSocial project is different and separate from Google's OpenSocial project announced recently.
[http://www.opensocial.net]

3rd International Workshop on Grid and Peer-to-Peer based Workflows
(GPWW) September 24th 2007, Brisbane, Australia
Call for papers: Deadline for Paper Submission 8 June 2007
To be held in conjunction with the 5th International Conference on Business Process Management (BPM 2007)
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Microsoft's Virtual EarthT Academic Research Collaboration 2007 Award
April 2007
Congratulations to Dr Diana Kuo for being awarded a research grant from Microsoft's Virtual Earth Academic Research Collaboration 2007 Awards. It is one of 10 awards made world-wide and only one within Australia/Asia in collaboration with University of Wollongong, University of Hong Kong and Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China. More information

The Conference on Grid Service Engineering and Management
January 2007
CITR organises the 4th International Conference on Grid Service Engineering and Management (GSEM2007) co-located with Software Agents and Services for Business, Research, and E-Science (SABRE2007), Leipzig, Germany, 24-26 September 2007. CFP and More information

The Negotiation and Market Platforms Session
January 2007
CITR organises a Special Session on Negotiation and Market Platforms (GDNDemo2007) in conjunction with the Joint International Conference on Group Decision and Negotitiation (GDN2007) to be held in Montreal, Canada, 14-17 May 2007. CFP and. More information

Smart Services CRC granted
January 2007
CITR has been instrumental in the successful bid for a new Cooperative Research Centre for Smart Services (Smart Services CRC) involving collaboration between industry and leading universities. The funding includes $30.8 million awarded by the Commonwealth Government which is the largest grant for a CRC in the ICT sector. More information

The Utility Grid Project granted
January 2007
CITR is a core participant in the Utility Grid Project awarded $592,875 by the Commonwealth Government for research in autonomic and utility-oriented global grids. The project is coordinated by the University of Melbourne and involves collaboration with two EU FP6 projects: CoreGrid and CatNets, and a number of international and Australian collaborators. More information

The Workshop on Service-Oriented Computing
Agents, Semantics and Engineering January 2007 CITR co-organises the Workshop on Service-Oriented Computing: Agents, Semantics and Engineering (SOCASE 2007) to be held in conjunction with the Sixth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2007) on 14-18 May 2007 in Honolulu, Hawai'i. CFP and More information

The AutoCRC project granted
December 2006
The AutoCRC has recently committed $1.2M to CITR to investigate software technologies aimed at improving vehicle design and maintenance in collaboration with GM Holden. More information

Summer Student Scholarships
October 2006
Applications for Summer Student Scholarships are welcome from undergraduate students interested in a research project work at CITR
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PhD Scholarships for Australian and International Candidates
October 2006
CITR welcomes applications for PhD Scholarships commencing in 2007.

New ARC DP Grant Awarded
October 2006
Congratulations to Prof T.Y. Chen and Dr MF Lau for being awarded an ARC DP grant over 5 years for a project "Metamorphic Testing: An In-Depth Study to Enhance the Failure-Detection Capability of Software Testing Without an Oracle"

New ARC LP Grant Awarded
October 2006
Congratulations to Prof J Han and Dr J Schneider for being awarded an ARC LP grant over 3 years in collaboration with Computer Associates for a project "Service orientated architectures in management of IT infrastructures"

New PhD Scholarship
September 2006
A New PhD scholarship in Collaborative Business Process Modelling and Management is available in the Web and Data Engineering research program.

New Positions
September 2006
New academic research positions at levels B (Lecturer) and C (Senior Lecturer) are available in CITR.

SOC and ASAPM Workshop
August 2006
CITR organises the SOC and ASAPM Workshop on 29 August 2006 to present the latest developments in service oriented computing. The workshop is open to industry and research community, and interested participants are invited to attend.

e-Security
June 2006
CITR has been instrumental in establishing the Victorian e-Security Cluster, with funding of $100K from the Victorian Government (Multimedia Victoria). The Cluster starts formal operation from 1 July 2006, with Swinburne being one of the five cornerstone foundation members (others being Computer Associates, Intel, Deakin and RMIT). As well as delivering significant benefits for the State and beyond, the Cluster will provide great collaborative opportunities for Swinburne in e-security research and education. Swinburne's effort is led by Prof Jun Han. 

ARC Linkage Project
June 2006
A/Prof. Chengfei Liu and Prof. Yun Yang from CITR and Dr. Wasim Sadiq from SAP Research Center Brisbane have been successful in their ARC Linkage Project application (2nd round in 2005) titled "An Organisation Oriented Framework for Collaborative Business Processes". The project will be funded with $235K from ARC for 3 years starting from the mid of 2006 plus contribution from SAP Australia.

New PhD Scholarship
A new PhD Scholarship is available in Intelligent Agents and Multi-Agent Systems at CITR.

New Positions
March 2006
A number of new research positions from level C (Senior Lecturer) to level E (Full Professor) have been created within the Centre. Applications will be open soon…

New Web Site
March 2006
CITR new web site has been released (some pages are still under construction)...

CITR Launch
December 2005
The Centre for Information Technology Research at Swinburne(CITR) has been established within the Faculty of ICT and officially launched in December 2005.