Thesis Topic Details
Topic ID: |
1280 | |
Title: |
Software Tools for Business-Driven IT Management | |
Supervisor: |
Vladimir Tosic | |
Research Area: |
Software Engineering, Services, Cloud Computing | |
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Assessor: |
Hiroshi Wada | |
| Topic Details | ||
Status: |
Active | |
Type: |
Development | |
Programs: |
CE BIOM BINF SE | |
Group Suitable: |
Yes | |
Industrial: |
No | |
Pre-requisites: |
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Description: |
To maximize benefits from information technology (IT) systems, their execution should be coordinated with business goals, business value measures, business strategies, and business processes of user organizations. Unfortunately, improvements in IT (e.g., lower response time, higher availability) need not result in expected business benefits (e.g., profit, customer satisfaction), often because of poor alignment between business operations and used IT systems. Business-driven IT management (BDIM) is one approach to make IT systems better aligned with business. Its goal is to determine mappings between technical and business performance metrics and leverage them to make run-time IT system and/or service management (monitoring, control) decisions that maximize business value. For example, it tries to quantify impact on business profits of increased/decreased availability or responsiveness of IT systems and services. Students working on this thesis project will design, implement (in Java), and test original extensions of existing software that implements a powerful approach to business-driven IT management (applicable to Web services, business processes, and Cloud computing systems). Web services are distributed computing application components that use a number of Extensible Markup Language (XML) based technologies to implement the service-oriented architecture (SOA). Cloud computing technologies enable provisioning of computing infrastructure (e.g., memory storage), platforms (e.g., virtualized Linux desktops), and software applications (e.g., customer relationship management suites) over the Internet, as a utility that can be bought on demand. This is a development thesis project, where the focus is on implementation and hands-on experiments, instead of surveys and analyses of research literature. |
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Comments: |
The students will work closely with researchers at NICTA (http://www.nicta.com.au) in a friendly mixed-gender and multicultural team environment comprised of senior researchers and postgraduate students. For example, a female Ph.D. student with strong academic background and international industrial experience will be able to provide additional expertise and guidance, when needed. For further information, email: Dr. Vladimir Tosic ('vtosic' at the CSE e-mail system; Web page: http://nicta.com.au/people/tosicv) with Subject line UNSW Thesis . | |
| Past Student Reports | ||
| Vern Yao TEE in s2, 2010 Software Tools for Business-Driven IT Management |
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| Christopher KARLOWATZ in s1, 2012 Software Tools for Business-Driven IT Management |
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