Intelligent Incident Management for Software-Intensive Systems. This project aims to develop intelligent incident management methods for software-intensive systems. Incidents are unplanned system interruptions or outages that could affect the normal operations of an organization and cause huge economic loss. This project expects to develop innovative, Artificial Intelligence (AI) based methods for automated incident management, including incident detection, incident identification, and incident ....Intelligent Incident Management for Software-Intensive Systems. This project aims to develop intelligent incident management methods for software-intensive systems. Incidents are unplanned system interruptions or outages that could affect the normal operations of an organization and cause huge economic loss. This project expects to develop innovative, Artificial Intelligence (AI) based methods for automated incident management, including incident detection, incident identification, and incident triage. Expected outcomes of the project include a set of novel methods and tools that can facilitate incident diagnosis and resolution. This project will provide significant benefits, such as improving the availability of software-intensive systems and reducing the economic loss caused by the incidents. Read moreRead less
Discovery Early Career Researcher Award - Grant ID: DE180100153
Funder
Australian Research Council
Funding Amount
$361,446.00
Summary
Automatically summarising and measuring software development activity. This project aims to create technologies for automatically repackaging, interpreting, and aggregating software development activity. The project will devise new natural-language summarisation approaches and productivity metrics that use all data available in a software repository. This is likely to lead to knowledge and tools that allow organisations to quickly integrate new developers into existing software projects, to impr ....Automatically summarising and measuring software development activity. This project aims to create technologies for automatically repackaging, interpreting, and aggregating software development activity. The project will devise new natural-language summarisation approaches and productivity metrics that use all data available in a software repository. This is likely to lead to knowledge and tools that allow organisations to quickly integrate new developers into existing software projects, to improve project awareness, and to increase productivity goals. The outcomes would include a comprehensive decision and awareness support system for software projects, based on automating the creation and continual updating of developer activity summaries and measures.Read moreRead less
Discovery Early Career Researcher Award - Grant ID: DE200100941
Funder
Australian Research Council
Funding Amount
$392,778.00
Summary
Practical and Explainable Analytics to Prevent Future Software Defects. This project aims to create technologies that enable software engineers to produce the highest quality software systems with the lowest costs, by preventing future defects in safety-critical systems that could result in death and disasters. Expected outcomes of this project include new theories, techniques, and analytics systems to assist software engineers accurately predict, explain, and prevent future software defects bef ....Practical and Explainable Analytics to Prevent Future Software Defects. This project aims to create technologies that enable software engineers to produce the highest quality software systems with the lowest costs, by preventing future defects in safety-critical systems that could result in death and disasters. Expected outcomes of this project include new theories, techniques, and analytics systems to assist software engineers accurately predict, explain, and prevent future software defects before they impact end users. This should provide significant benefits including accelerating the productivity of the software industry while preventing software defects in many critical domains including smart city and e-health applications.Read moreRead less
Discovery Early Career Researcher Award - Grant ID: DE200100021
Funder
Australian Research Council
Funding Amount
$413,665.00
Summary
An Intelligent Programmer’s Assistant Using Data Mining. This project aims to advance the important practice of pair programming in software engineering via software repository mining and create automated support tools. This project expects to use innovative techniques combining artificial intelligence, programming analysis and software analytics, to help software developers review code, fix bugs and implement new features. Expected outcomes of this project include an intelligent programmer’s as ....An Intelligent Programmer’s Assistant Using Data Mining. This project aims to advance the important practice of pair programming in software engineering via software repository mining and create automated support tools. This project expects to use innovative techniques combining artificial intelligence, programming analysis and software analytics, to help software developers review code, fix bugs and implement new features. Expected outcomes of this project include an intelligent programmer’s assistant, consisting of a set of automated tools, covering software development, testing and maintenance. This should provide significant benefits to the Australian software development industry by improving developers’ productivity and reduce overall project costs.Read moreRead less
Data-driven Approach to Resilient Online Service Systems. This project aims to develop a data-driven approach to improving the resilience of online service systems. Many software systems are now provided as online services via the Internet on a 24/7 basis. Although a lot of effort has been devoted to service quality assurance, in reality, online service systems still encounter many incidents and fail to satisfy user requests. This project expects to develop innovative data-driven methods for eff ....Data-driven Approach to Resilient Online Service Systems. This project aims to develop a data-driven approach to improving the resilience of online service systems. Many software systems are now provided as online services via the Internet on a 24/7 basis. Although a lot of effort has been devoted to service quality assurance, in reality, online service systems still encounter many incidents and fail to satisfy user requests. This project expects to develop innovative data-driven methods for effective fault identification, fault localization, and failure prediction. Expected outcomes of this project include novel techniques and tools for maintaining online service systems. This project will provide significant benefits, such as improving the resilience and reliability of our cyber infrastructure.Read moreRead less
Girls and Information Communication Technology (ICT) Career Pathways: Tackling the Upper Middle School 'Turn Off'. This project aims to develop strategic responses to factors associated with girls forming such negative perceptions of Information Communication Technology during their upper middle school years that they overwhelmingly reject Information Communication Technology as an option for advanced study and future careers. This project will contribute towards Australia's National Research Pr ....Girls and Information Communication Technology (ICT) Career Pathways: Tackling the Upper Middle School 'Turn Off'. This project aims to develop strategic responses to factors associated with girls forming such negative perceptions of Information Communication Technology during their upper middle school years that they overwhelmingly reject Information Communication Technology as an option for advanced study and future careers. This project will contribute towards Australia's National Research Priority 3 of building and transforming frontier technologies to maximize creative, technological capability by collaboratively developing a strategic model for responding to factors identified as 'turning girls off Information Communication Technology'.Read moreRead less
Developing informed and integrated strategies to address low female participation rates in professional Information Communication Technologies careers and pathways. This project proposes collaborative research to address low rates of female participation in Information Communication Technology professional occupations and education pathways - involving academic researchers and personnel from Education Queensland and Queensland based ICT companies . A comprehensive Queensland data set will be gen ....Developing informed and integrated strategies to address low female participation rates in professional Information Communication Technologies careers and pathways. This project proposes collaborative research to address low rates of female participation in Information Communication Technology professional occupations and education pathways - involving academic researchers and personnel from Education Queensland and Queensland based ICT companies . A comprehensive Queensland data set will be generated by surveying and interviewing female Year 11-12 students and ICT professionals, and analysed with industry partner involvement. Results will provide the basis for developing new and coordinated strategic approaches among education systems, ICT industry, and universities to improving school programs and enhancing female participation rates. This is necessary for addressing projected skill shortfalls and maximising talent pools available to industry.
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Software engineering of people-oriented technologies and services. This project will use role, goal, and activity modelling to improve technologies that enable older people in their homes to communicate with loved ones and support networks. The models will be evaluated to determine whether built technologies are indeed meaningful and helpful for the increasing number of older adults.
Discovery Early Career Researcher Award - Grant ID: DE190100046
Funder
Australian Research Council
Funding Amount
$387,000.00
Summary
Fortifying our digital economy: advanced automated vulnerability discovery. This project aims to enable security researchers to detect critical vulnerabilities in large software systems with maximal efficiency, cost-effectively, and with known statistical accuracy. The aim is to develop advanced high-performance fuzzers that effectively thwart malware attacks, ransomware epidemics, and cyber terrorism by exposing security flaws before they can commence. The project will employ a well-established ....Fortifying our digital economy: advanced automated vulnerability discovery. This project aims to enable security researchers to detect critical vulnerabilities in large software systems with maximal efficiency, cost-effectively, and with known statistical accuracy. The aim is to develop advanced high-performance fuzzers that effectively thwart malware attacks, ransomware epidemics, and cyber terrorism by exposing security flaws before they can commence. The project will employ a well-established statistical framework utilised in ecology research to provide fundamental insights to boosting the efficiency of software vulnerability discovery, and on the trade-off between investing more resources and gaining better cyber security guarantees. As our reliance on new technologies is ever growing, this project equips Australia to curb cyber crime cost-effectively.Read moreRead less
Catering for individuals’ emotions in technology development. This project aims to develop new approaches to integrate emotional design into software engineering. Modern technologies can positively transform lives. Many good concepts fail, however, to have a transformative effect by not meeting the emotional needs of intended users. Creating software applications that satisfy needs such as ‘feeling in touch’ or ‘feeling accepted’ is difficult, due to the hard-to-define, personal and subtle natur ....Catering for individuals’ emotions in technology development. This project aims to develop new approaches to integrate emotional design into software engineering. Modern technologies can positively transform lives. Many good concepts fail, however, to have a transformative effect by not meeting the emotional needs of intended users. Creating software applications that satisfy needs such as ‘feeling in touch’ or ‘feeling accepted’ is difficult, due to the hard-to-define, personal and subtle nature of these needs. The project aims to support the development of software that better meets emotional needs by focusing on people, their life context and technology adoption, in concert with existing methods for expressing functionality. The project plans to evaluate applications in two areas: assistance for homeless people, and financial literacy among older people.Read moreRead less