Australia – Swinburne University of Technology PhD Scholarships in Software Engineering
Three High-Value PhD Scholarships in Software Engineering (Service Oriented Architecture)
The Centre for Complex Software Systems and Services (CS3) at Swinburne is successful in securing funding for three PhD scholarships in the area of service oriented architecture from two Australian national Cooperative Research Centres (CRCs): CRC for Advanced Automotive Technology (AutoCRC) and Smart Services CRC. We are looking for three high-calibre PhD candidates to take up these scholarships.
- Adaptive Service Oriented Architecture for Context-aware Vehicle Systems: Modern vehicles have software systems both for control and for obtaining extra services from their changing environment through wireless vehicle-environment interaction. To reduce driver distraction in such a setting, it is important that the vehicle systems can automatically adapt to changes in their environment, delivering the right service at the right place and time according to the driver/vehicle’s need with no or little human intervention. Funded by the AutoCRC, this research project is to investigate how to systematically develop, manage and integrate such context-aware vehicle software systems, facilitating distraction-free vehicle-environment interactions. Following a service oriented approach, it focuses on context modelling and representation, context management and integration, and context-aware provision and integration of automotive functions and services.
- Adaptive Service Delivery. Service delivery concerns the enabling of services through brokers, mediators and specialist intermediaries, aimed at connecting service providers to service consumers in flexible and even unforeseen ways. Funded by the Smart Services CRC, this research project investigates how to re-purpose, reconfigure and adapt services and service assemblies for different business application contexts and manage their variations during modelling, design and operation. In particular, the project adopts an architectural approach to adaptive design and management of services and service-oriented systems. Relevant issues for investigation include the design of reconfigurable services, modelling of service-context relationships, adaptive service composition architectures, and service quality decomposition, monitoring and aggregation.
- Service Aggregation. Composite services offer new capabilities through aggregations of simpler services often involving multiple providers. Management of provision processes of such aggregations is critical to ensure all the functional and non-functional requirements for the provided services are met both at the individual and aggregated service levels. Funded by the Smart Services CRC, this research project develops a framework and associated methods, techniques and tools for adaptive management of the flexible quality-assured service aggregation. In particular it aims at enabling on-demand aggregated service procurement, QoS measurements, multi-party service level agreement (SLA) and service quality assurance during provision of service aggregations.
Each scholarship offers the following benefits:
- Stipend scholarship: $28,000 p.a. (AutoCRC) or $25,000 (Smart Services CRC);
- Tuition waiver scholarship (i.e., tuition fees are waived, equivalent to $20,000 p.a.);
- Research support: up to $24,000 (for conference travel and other purposes);
- Relocation support.
The candidates are expected to have a good four-year undergraduate degree in software engineering, computer science or a related area, preferably with relevant research experience (e.g. through research thesis work). Evidence of English proficiency is required (i.e. native English speaker, previous studies in English in certain cases, IELTS of 6.5 with no band below 6, or a TOEFL with either CBT score of 237 and essay rating of 5.0 or IBT score of 91 with writing score of 22).
The University also offers a range of other research scholarships for PhD studies. Candidates who are interested in pursuing PhD studies in the areas of services engineering and management, adaptive software systems, and software architecture design are encouraged to apply for the above CRC scholarships or University scholarships.
For further information, please contact Prof Jun Han (jhan@swin.edu.au) by 10 October 2008 with your area of interest, and provide your curriculum vitae and university transcripts.
Application deadline: 31 October 2008.
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