From Data to Artefact: a Key Ingredient in Service Interoperation. Supporting service interoperation in the e-Business environment is crucial in automating business transactions across organisation boundaries. If no proper mechanism is in place, business delays, failures, and serious disputes can occur. This project will explore new avenues to this long-standing and challenging problem by providing an artefact framework to model and manage business collaboration. Given this project's unique pers ....From Data to Artefact: a Key Ingredient in Service Interoperation. Supporting service interoperation in the e-Business environment is crucial in automating business transactions across organisation boundaries. If no proper mechanism is in place, business delays, failures, and serious disputes can occur. This project will explore new avenues to this long-standing and challenging problem by providing an artefact framework to model and manage business collaboration. Given this project's unique perspective and approaches that are directly applicable to existing enterprise systems, there is a strong potential for its results to lead to a new generation of e-Business design and management, advance the knowledge base of the discipline and yield high returns to the Australian service society and IT industry.Read moreRead less
A painless approach to support efficient querying and mining of spatial data through smart transformations. This project will develop spatial data retrieval methods that are not only highly efficient but also easy to implement ('painless'). It will help businesses such as digital map providers, location based service providers and medical researchers quickly possess this key enabling technique for their large scale spatial querying and mining needs.