News and Events
International Workshop on Service Oriented Computing at AAMAS'2010
January 2010
CS3 co-organises the 8th International Workshop on Service-Oriented Computing: Agents, Semantics, and Engineering
(SOCASE'2010) at AAMAS'2010. More info
New LNCS volume on Service-Oriented Computing: Agents, Semantics, and Engineering
January 2010
Springer has published a LNCS volume on Service-Oriented Computing: Agents, Semantics, and Engineering, edited by CS3 and major international collaborators. More info
Cars that think
December 2009
Prof Jun Han leads a team of CS3 researchers who are exploring how, through ‘talking’ to road infrastructure and other vehicles, and via wireless connections to the internet, cars can be fed real-time information about road and traffic conditions.
More infor here or at Swinburne Magazine
Collaboration with EU COST on Agreement Technologies
CS3 collaborates with EU COST Action on Agreement Technologies involving members from more than 20 European countries.
More info
New LNCS Transactions on Computational Collective Intelligence
November 2009
In cooperation with Springer, CS3 has established a new LNCS Transactions on Computational Collective Intelligence. This new journal focuses on research in applications of the computer-based methods of Computational Collective Intelligence (CCI) and their applications in a wide range of fields such as semantic web, social networks and multi-agent systems.
More info
ARC LP Grant "Large-Scale Emulation for Enterprise Software Systems"
October 2009
Congratulations to Prof Jun Han, Prof John Grundy and Dr Lars Grunske for their success in being awarded an ARC LP grant for the project "Large-Scale Emulation for Enterprise Software Systems" to commence in 2010 with the total funding from ARC of $470k. The project is in collaboration with Computer Associates.
International Conference on Computational Collective Intelligence - Semantic Web, Social Networks & Multiagent Systems
October 2009
CS3 has co-organised the 1st International Conference on Computational Collective Intelligence (ICCCI'09) - Semantic Web, Social Networks & Multiagent Systems. More info
New common software for seamless commerce with SAP
September 2009
In collaboration with SAP, CS3 develops new common software for seamless commerce.
More info here or in Swinburne Magazine,
The Australian , IT News and SAP
IEEE CS Outstanding Leadership Award (2008-2009)
Congratulations to Dr Jinjun Chen who has received the IEEE CS Outstanding Leadership Award (2008-2009) in recognition of his service to IEEE Computer Society's Technical Committee on Scalable Computing (TCSC) as its executive committee member.
New environment to debug global-scale I.T. upgrades with CA Labs
June 2009
In collaboration with CA Labs, CS3 develops a new emulation environment for large-scale enterprise systems. More info here or in Swinburne Magazine
ARC LP Grant Awarded
May 2009
Congratulations to Prof Y Yang, Prof C Liu and Dr J Chen of CS3 for being awarded a new ARC Linkage Project (LP) grant for a project "Novel cloud computing based on workflow technology for managing large numbers of process instances", in collaboration with Prof R Kotagiri and Dr H Wang, and Shandong Dareway Software Co, Ltd. This is the 2nd largest ARC LP in IT nation-wide in this round (among 10 awarded) and the only one in the information systems area. More Information
Outstanding Research Student Award for CS3 PhD student from Chinese Government
February 2009
Congratulations to CS3 PhD student, Mr Qiang He, for winning the 2008 Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Students Abroad. Qiang is a joint HUST-Swinburne PhD student under the supervision of Prof Yun Yang (CS3) and Prof Hai Jin (HUST), and is one recipient amongst the total of 19 from Australia. More Information
Vice-Chancellor's Research Award
December 2008
Congratulations to Dr Jinjun Chen for receiving the Vice-Chancellor's Research Award (Early Career) for 2008.
New ARC DP Grant
October 2008
Congratulations to Dr Bao Vo of CS3 for being awarded a new ARC Discovery Project grant for a project "Managing conflicts in requirements engineering with argumentation frameworks".
More info
ARC Future Fellowship open
October 2008
CS3 invites applications for ARC Future Fellowship from outstanding
mid-career researchers wishing to pursue research in Complex Software
Systems and Services. More info
New Professor/AProfessor Position Open
September 2008
CS3 is seeking to appoint a senior research academic at the Professor or Associate Professor level. More info
PhD Scholarships Available
September 2008
PhD scholarships are available to local and international candidates in the research areas of the Centre. The current applications round closes on 31 October 2008. More info
New Research Fellow Position Open
September 2008
CS3 is seeking to appoint a Postdoctoral Research Fellow / Research Fellow in Software Engineering (Service Oriented Architecture). More info
New Grants from Auto CRC
September 2008
Through a competitive selection process, CS3 has been awarded two research scholarship grants by the AutoCRC for research into context-aware vehicles and analysis of programmable automotive electronic systems. Congratulations to Prof Jun Han, Dr Minh Hong Tran, Dr Alan Colman and Dr Lars Grunske for this success. This is in addition to two existing scholarship grants and two large research projects, awarded to CS3 researchers earlier by the AutoCRC.
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 CS3, funded by the private sector and governments under the Australian Government’s Cooperative Research Centre program in excess of $120m over 7 years.
CS3 Launch
July 2008
The Centre for Complex Software Systems and Services (CS3) has been established as a university tier-1 research centre in the Faculty of ICT. It has its root in the former Centre for Information Technology Research, which was also a tier-1 university research centre established in December 2005.
