Information systems
Overview
Recognised National Leadership
QUT's Information Systems (IS) Discipline is the only research group that has been ranked with a perfect 5-out-of-5 score in the 2010 Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA) assessment. Judged as outstanding performance well above world standards, QUT's IS Discipline is known for its uncompromising focus on rigorous research that provides immediate value to our students and industry partners. The Discipline has hosted the most significant IS conferences and produced more award winning PhD students in IS than any other university in Australia. Our research informs and inspires our teaching, making QUT's IS courses innovative and our students well prepared for their future challenges.
Research Excellence
The Information Systems (IS) academic discipline is the discipline dedicated to understanding, explaining and guiding the impact of Information Technology on societies, corporations and individuals. This makes it one of the most exciting, dynamic and innovative research areas. There is no other place in Australia that is more recognised for research excellence in IS than QUT. In a comparative assessment of research quality across 41 universities, QUT's IS Discipline was the only one to achieve the top score. The assessment that QUT's IS Discipline is 'well above world standards' is also reflected in international citation analyses based on top IS journals globally. During 2008-2010, QUT ranked higher than any other university in Australia or Europe in terms of its research productivity as measured by publications in the top six IS journals worldwide. Drivers behind this high-quality evaluation include commitment to a shared vision and values, sound research quality practices, emphasis on industry partner relationship management, a mentoring schema for mid-career researchers, a carefully designed research portfolio that does not trade-off relevance and rigor, and an unconditional commitment to our PhD program.
Our PhD students produced three of the last four winners of the ACPHIS (Australian Council of Professors and Head of Schools of Information Systems) award for the best Australian PhD thesis. With 10 Professors (level D/E), a further 15 academic staff and more than 80 research students, QUT's IS Discipline is one of the largest IS groups in the country. This size is materialised in Discipline-wide Doctoral Consortia, a research seminar series, dedicated research training courses, and the provision of centralised research support services. The Discipline has been the selected host for the two largest regional IS conferences in 2010 (ACIS) and 2011 (PACIS). It was also the first host of the Business Process Management conference outside Europe (2007).
Grants and projects
This is just a sample of our research activity in this area.
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
- Data Quality and Incident Reporting
- Business model innovation
- Advanced Process Model Repository
- Business Process Management for Product Traceability
- Privacy Protecting Access Control
- Cost Management Service for Workflow Systems
- High Assurance Information Sharing Networks
- Business Visual Simulation Engine
- 3D virtual environment BPMN editor
- Virtual Environment Process Modelling
- Implementing Quantum Decision Theories
- Mapping questionnaire models to configurable process models
- Service-oriented business models
- Where Services and Processes Meet
- Region-of-Interest detection for Mobile Video Applications
- Business process automation solution for product recall
- Business Process Intelligence: Utilizing Insights from Process Automation
- Business Process Visualisation
- 3D Virtual Environment Conceptual Modelling
- Support for Process Monitoring in BPM Systems
- A decision tool for supporting complex human decision making
- Information System Impact: Analytics and Reporting
- Business Activity Monitoring (BAM) including time and cost analysis
- Optimising and facilitating business process improvement
- Interactive questionnaire-based configuration of process models
- Collaborative 3D Process Model Rendering and Editing
- 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
- 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
- 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
Commercial research enquiries
Science and Engineering Faculty - Commercial Research and Corporate Education
- Phone: 3138 9948
- Int. phone: +61 3138 9948
- Email: sef.industryenquiry@qut.edu.au
