Project areas include:

• Data Mining for Personalization (Wayne Wobcke wobcke@cse.unsw.edu.au, Mike Bain mike@cse.unsw.edu.au, Ashesh Mahidadia ashesh@cse.unsw.edu.au, Paul Compton compton@cse.unsw.edu.au) Knowledge acquisition and data mining techniques for the development of personalized services such as product search and recommendation, in conjunction with Fairfax Digital (smh.com.au, drive.com.au, domain.com.au, rsvp.com.au, etc.). These projects offer a rare opportunity to apply machine learning techniques on realistic data sets to problems of contemporary industry relevance.
• Cloud Computing and Service Engineering (Anna Liu: annaliu@cse.unsw.edu.au) A number of topics including: evaluating cloud application platforms; software engineering research issues related to cloud application development; building interoperable software plus services systems; domain specific language for cloud applications; and cloud service provisioning strategies. There is ample opportunity to do applied research with partners such as Telstra, Infosys and Queensland State Government.
• Service Delivery Framework (Helen Paik hpaik@cse.unsw.edu.au, Boualem Benatallah boualem@cse.unsw.edu.au) In the context of service management and delivery in enterprise environment, there are many facets to a description of a service: the operational view, the business protocol, the terms and conditions, SLAs, privacy or compliance issues, etc. The lifecycles of these concerns are often disparate, and manually managing the complexity that stems from their combination is often a hard task. In collaboration with CRC industry partners, we seek concepts, methods, and solutions to support this type of management. The project aims to semi-automate various management tasks, namely; (i) verification of services with respect to policies, regulations, terms and conditions, etc., (ii) transformation of a service description model into an executable language which can be used for runtime monitoring and (iii) transforming non-formal descriptions of lifecycle aspects (e.g., natural languages) to formal ones (e.g., rules or state machines) to create the foundation on which the above techniques can build.

Scholarships are either top-up or full scholarships. Top-up scholarships provide a tax-exempt amount of $10,000 per year for three years plus $5,000 per year for travel and other expenses; this is in addition to any other scholarships you may hold (subject to the particular conditions of those scholarships). Full scholarships provide a tax-exempt amount of $25,000 per year for three years plus $5,000 per year for travel and other expenses. Applicants do not need to be Australian citizens or permanent residents.

Smart Services CRC will give a presentation of current work in September. Applicants are encouraged to contact the researchers for further details of the project areas and to obtain an application form.