Information systems
Overview
Research groups
Business Process Management (BPM)
Recognised national leadership
QUT is the premier Australian institution for information systems (IS) research and the only university to achieve a top ranking for this field in ERA's 2010 comparative assessment of research quality across 41 universities nationally.
Our information systems research productivity is ranked higher than any other university in Australia, and was ranked higher than European universities between 2008 and 2010, by publications and international citation analysis in the world's top six information systems journals.
Our solid reputation has led to the university successfully hosting the most significant regional IS conferences in this discipline (ACIS 2010, PACIS 2011).
We have also produced more award-winning doctorate students in the field than any other Australian university, with several of our students awarded the best Australian PhD thesis in Information Systems by the Australian Council of Professors and Head of Information Systems (ACPHIS).
Research excellence
Our research disciplines are dedicated to understanding, explaining, predicting and guiding the impact of business processes, services and information on societies, corporations and individuals. Our research informs and inspires our teaching, making our courses innovative and our students well prepared for a future of increasingly challenging information environments.
Our Business Process Management (BPM) discipline is one of the most influential in the world and the research produced by the team is widely quoted and adopted by organisations such as the Workflow Patterns, the open source environment called YAWL (Yet Another Workflow Language), a BPM maturity model and the Apromore repository.
The expertise in our Services Science discipline is diverse and has a dedicated focus on theoretical foundations, applications, technologies and impacts of services across organisations, industries, ubiquitous computing environments and the web.
Our Information Ecology discipline investigates understanding, modelling, enhancing and enabling contextual connections between information, people and their environment.
The aim of the research team is to improve how people and enterprises share, comprehend, and effectively use and interact with structured and unstructured information.
Grants and projects
This is just a sample of our research activity in this area.
- IT Professional Services
- Business Process Management (BPM)
- Services Science
- Complex Information Systems
- Information Ecology
- Information Studies
- Business Process Management
- Organisation and Systems
- Retail Innovation
- Green BPM
- Business Process Standardization
- Generalised Quantum Models of Complexity
- Risk-Aware BPM
- Process Design for Decision Making
- Designing Process Models to Support Communication
Student topics
We're looking for students to study these topics.
- Business Service Management
- Cost-aware Workflow Systems
- BPM for Construction Management
- Descriptors for Twitter communities
- Business model innovation
- Data Quality and Incident Reporting
- Advanced Process Model Repository
- Privacy Protecting Access Control
- Business Process Management for Product Traceability
- Cost Management Service for Workflow Systems
- High Assurance Information Sharing Networks
- Business Visual Simulation Engine
- 3D virtual environment BPMN editor
- Virtual Environment Process Modelling
- Assurance and protection of e-health systems in the next generation globalisation Internet environment
- Implementing Quantum Decision Theories
- Where Services and Processes Meet
- Service-oriented business models
- Mapping questionnaire models to configurable process models
- Business Process Visualisation
- Business process automation solution for product recall
- Region-of-Interest detection for Mobile Video Applications
- Sentiment Analysis on Social Topics
- 3D Virtual Environment Conceptual Modelling
- Business Process Intelligence: Utilizing Insights from Process Automation
- Support for Process Monitoring in BPM Systems
- Information System Impact: Analytics and Reporting
- Optimising and facilitating business process improvement
- A decision tool for supporting complex human decision making
- Business Activity Monitoring (BAM) including time and cost analysis
- Collaborative 3D Process Model Rendering and Editing
- Interactive questionnaire-based configuration of process models
- Mobile app for integrated timetable and payment systems
- User-Driven Strategies in Adapting High Quality Videos for Multi-Platforms Delivery
- Video Summarisation based on Audiovisual and Web Social Media Features
- Service orientation for Business-IT Alignment: An empirical investigation
- Business Process Management Virtual Environments
- Understanding the role of multiple resources and resource calendars in workflow systems
- Adaptive video streaming for mobile videos delivery
- 3D Virtual Environment Business Process Repository
- Using quantum state tomography for density matrix representation of a cognitive state
- Suitability analysis of current languages for configurable process modelling
- Opinion Mining for Automatic Online Survey for Public Opinions
- Scalable signature search-engine for information retrieval
- Social Media Clustering Based on Semantic Contents and Entities
- A Case Study on Business Process Modelling and Execution
- Cost-aware workflow management systems: cost editor development
- A development and deployment environment for designing, developing, and executing socio-economic experiments
- Cost-Aware Business Process Management: Cost-Driven Process Execution
- Conference Knowledge Management: the case of Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems
Research degree enquiries
Science and Engineering research office
- Phone: 3138 4783
- Int. phone: +61 7 3138 4783
- Email: sef.research@qut.edu.au
Commercial research enquiries
Science and Engineering Faculty - Commercial Research and Corporate Education
- Phone: 3138 9948
- Int. phone: +61 7 3138 9948
- Email: sef.industryenquiry@qut.edu.au
Partnership enquiries
Science and Engineering - Partnerships
- Phone: 3138 7693
- Int. phone: +61 7 3138 7693
- Email: sef.industryenquiry@qut.edu.au
