Uncertain Information Processing for Situation Awareness and Dynamic Decision-Making in Emergency Management. The Australian national counter-terrorism committee indicates that Australia should have a strong intelligence-led prevention and preparedness to support Australia on risk management, emergency services and maintaining capabilities to manage various types of terrorist attacks. The proposed situation awareness support technique can be used to develop situation analysis software systems or ....Uncertain Information Processing for Situation Awareness and Dynamic Decision-Making in Emergency Management. The Australian national counter-terrorism committee indicates that Australia should have a strong intelligence-led prevention and preparedness to support Australia on risk management, emergency services and maintaining capabilities to manage various types of terrorist attacks. The proposed situation awareness support technique can be used to develop situation analysis software systems or directly support Australia government agencies and industries to correctly assess a situation, increase awareness for crisis problems, and therefore improve emergency management and decision-making effectiveness, in particular, for avoiding disaster problems in the first place and preparing plans for those that undoubtedly will occur. Read moreRead less
A Comprehensive Platform for Dynamic Decision Support in Warning Systems through Better Management of Uncertain Information. Public and individual warning systems are installed widely in Australia for emergency situations such as fire, terrorist attack, tsunami, and financial risk. The developed platform with its uncertain information management and dynamic decision support software will directly assist Australian government agencies, industries, and professional officers responsible for public ....A Comprehensive Platform for Dynamic Decision Support in Warning Systems through Better Management of Uncertain Information. Public and individual warning systems are installed widely in Australia for emergency situations such as fire, terrorist attack, tsunami, and financial risk. The developed platform with its uncertain information management and dynamic decision support software will directly assist Australian government agencies, industries, and professional officers responsible for public warning systems by improving the reliability of generated warnings, effective design of any new warning system, and accurate decision making in responding threats. It will also greatly contribute to the processing of uncertain information in other organizational information systems, and enhance training exercise facilities in complex emergency environments.Read moreRead less
Preventing railway suicide: An open-systems perspective. Preventing railway suicide: An open-systems perspective. This project aims to develop an automated suicide risk detection system to reduce the incidence and impact of railway suicide, which has a devastating effect on victims’ families, station staff, train drivers, emergency workers, and bystanders. This project will use open-systems theory to develop two complementary information systems for more effective detection and reporting of suic ....Preventing railway suicide: An open-systems perspective. Preventing railway suicide: An open-systems perspective. This project aims to develop an automated suicide risk detection system to reduce the incidence and impact of railway suicide, which has a devastating effect on victims’ families, station staff, train drivers, emergency workers, and bystanders. This project will use open-systems theory to develop two complementary information systems for more effective detection and reporting of suicide risk; use these systems to investigate how different situational factors interact with different combinations of service interventions to influence suicide risk; and share the findings to reduce railway suicide in Australia and overseas.Read moreRead less
Service Ecosystems Management for Collaborative Process Improvement. Australian government agencies currently explore opportunities for streamlining their business processes. A promising approach relates to the improvement of cross-agency processes based on service-enabled technologies. This project will use requirements within Queensland Government for the design of a service ecosystem and methodological and management concepts to derive a general framework for intra-organisational ecosystems. ....Service Ecosystems Management for Collaborative Process Improvement. Australian government agencies currently explore opportunities for streamlining their business processes. A promising approach relates to the improvement of cross-agency processes based on service-enabled technologies. This project will use requirements within Queensland Government for the design of a service ecosystem and methodological and management concepts to derive a general framework for intra-organisational ecosystems. Though the focus will be on government processes, the project will generalise beyond this scope for a wider uptake of service ecosystems in Australian organisations. This will lead to reduced process costs and risks and will leverage the exploration of new revenue streams, e.g. shared services and reward schemes.Read moreRead less
Leveraging open innovation: software and processes for engaging with online communities. The research could help transform the ability of Australian industry to design software systems and processes that (i) engage with online communities to create and enhance organizational knowledge, (ii) accelerate innovation processes, and (iii) exploit existing intellectual property (IP).
Modelling IT Alignment in Multi-Business Service Organisations. Information technology and communication is responsible for nearly 80% of all productivity growth in the Australian services sector. A critical strategic alignment decision is the trade-off between investments in shared corporate IT infrastructure and individual business unit IT applications. The current response is to establish elaborate IT governance, reporting controls aimed at balance and compromise across the organization. Our ....Modelling IT Alignment in Multi-Business Service Organisations. Information technology and communication is responsible for nearly 80% of all productivity growth in the Australian services sector. A critical strategic alignment decision is the trade-off between investments in shared corporate IT infrastructure and individual business unit IT applications. The current response is to establish elaborate IT governance, reporting controls aimed at balance and compromise across the organization. Our model will provide a deeper understanding of what should be built as shared corporate IT infrastructure and as IT applications within individual strategic business units. This research will enable Australian industry to get greater value from its existing levels their expenditure in IT.Read moreRead less
Supply Chain Management and eProcurement. This project will assist Australian firms assess the impact of emerging Internet-enabled electronic business (e-business) initiatives in the area of procurement and supply chain management. The aims are to identify factors that constrain/enable e-procurement in creating sustained value; describe key elements of suceses in the development, application and effective use of e-procurement; provide the basis for assessing progress in understanding and use of ....Supply Chain Management and eProcurement. This project will assist Australian firms assess the impact of emerging Internet-enabled electronic business (e-business) initiatives in the area of procurement and supply chain management. The aims are to identify factors that constrain/enable e-procurement in creating sustained value; describe key elements of suceses in the development, application and effective use of e-procurement; provide the basis for assessing progress in understanding and use of successive waves of innovation in areas of e-procurement and supply chain management; and develop industry benchmarks for critical dimensions of effectiveness in these areas.Read moreRead less
Architecture-based Open Network Management Systems for Next Generation Telecommunications. We aim to develop an open, policy-based architecture for the management of next generation telecommunications networks. It is expected that a comprehensive Open Architecture-based Telecommunications Management Network (AuTuMN) framework could be put in place to manage the network based on centralised policies and roles rather than having to handle individual users and elements. Significantly, the scient ....Architecture-based Open Network Management Systems for Next Generation Telecommunications. We aim to develop an open, policy-based architecture for the management of next generation telecommunications networks. It is expected that a comprehensive Open Architecture-based Telecommunications Management Network (AuTuMN) framework could be put in place to manage the network based on centralised policies and roles rather than having to handle individual users and elements. Significantly, the scientific knowledge of open systems and network management systems for next generation networks will be extended.Read moreRead less
Multi-agent Framework for Service Level Management. The Internet based e-services are being used by many businesses as part of the modern e-business environment. Management of e-services over the Internet involves complex correlation of events, and their sequences over geographically dispersed networks, systems and software applications. The integration of management information is a challenging problem due to the semantic differences of services across different business sectors (e.g., healthca ....Multi-agent Framework for Service Level Management. The Internet based e-services are being used by many businesses as part of the modern e-business environment. Management of e-services over the Internet involves complex correlation of events, and their sequences over geographically dispersed networks, systems and software applications. The integration of management information is a challenging problem due to the semantic differences of services across different business sectors (e.g., healthcare, retail and telecommunications). This project aims to develop a new framework for the integrated management of networked services using multiple software agents; some of them are already a part of the current Internet infrastructure (e.g., search engines).Read moreRead less
Succeeding with Enterprise Architecture Service Provision in Australian Organisations. This project aims to develop, test and refine an innovative model that explains how and why Australian organisations achieve benefits with enterprise architecture services. Enterprise architecture services involve the provision of relevant and timely advice about future IT systems, databases and digitised processes to strategic IT decision-makers. The model will enable Australian organisations to better unders ....Succeeding with Enterprise Architecture Service Provision in Australian Organisations. This project aims to develop, test and refine an innovative model that explains how and why Australian organisations achieve benefits with enterprise architecture services. Enterprise architecture services involve the provision of relevant and timely advice about future IT systems, databases and digitised processes to strategic IT decision-makers. The model will enable Australian organisations to better understand the capabilities required to achieve success with enterprise architecture services, the outcomes that can be achieved and the benefits realised. This will help Australian organisations to make more effective strategic investments in IT and remain globally competitive.Read moreRead less