RMIT University, Computer Science and IT
2006 Seminar Series

Date/Day

Time/Location

 Presenter

 Topic

Friday 17^th February

11:30-12:30

10.08.04

Prof. Subbarao Kambhampati , Arizona State University

Scale-up Revolution in Automated Planning (Or 1001 Ways to Skin a Planning Graph for Heuristic Fun & Profit)

Friday 3^rd March

11:30-12:30

10.08.04

Charles Theva

Java 1.5 - Implications for Teaching

Friday 10^th March

11:30-12:30
10.08.04

Keith Frampton

Information Technology Architects: Approaching the Longer View

Friday 17^th March

11:30-12:30
10.08.04

Dr John Reece, Senior Lecturer, Division of Psychology (School of Health Sciences)

A Practical Guide to Human Research Ethics Issues at RMIT

Friday 24^th March

11:30-12:30

10.08.04

Alice Wang

 A New Fingerprint Orientation Model and Its Applications

Monday 27^th March

12:30-13:30

10.08.04

Chris J. Date

Foundation matters

Tuesday 28^th March

12:30-13:30

10.11.04

Prof. Hartmut Schmeck, Institute AIFB, University of Karlsruhe

Organic Computing - Visions and Challenges for Informatics and Computer Engineering

Friday 7th April

11:30-12:30
10.08.04

Professor Tim Hendtlass, Faculty of ICT, Swinburne University of Technology

Swarms, evolution and all that jazz

Friday 14^th April

11:30-12:30
10.08.04

Thursday 20^th April

11:30-12:30
12.08.02

Prof. Stefan Boettcher, University of Paderborn

Selected research topics in XML data management - an overview

Friday 28^th April

11:30-12:30
10.08.04

Robert Shelton, The University of Melbourne

A Lock-Free IPC For Computer Music

Monday 15^th May

11:30-12:30
10.10.03

Dr. Kevin Korb, Monash University

The Causal Interpretation of Bayesian Networks

Friday 19^th May

11:30-12:30
10.08.04

Dr Sebastian Sardina

Hierarchical Planning in BDI Agent Programming Languages

Friday 26^th May

11:30-12:30
10.08.04

Simon Wilkinson

How to use Blackboard?

Friday 2^nd June

11:30-12:30
10.08.04

Prof. Geoff Webb, Monash University

K-optimal pattern discovery: An efficient and effective approach to exploratory data mining

Friday 9^th June

11:30-12:30
10.08.04

Cara Thomson, SMS.ac

Bridging the Gap between Web and Mobile

Friday 16^th June

11:30-12:30
10.08.04

Dr. Hongyu Zhang

Software Size Estimation

Friday 23^rd June

10:30-12:30
10.08.04

COSC2273 Software Engineering postgrads

Software Engineering Postgraduate Projects

Friday 30^th June

11:30-12:30
10.08.04

Dr. Toby Richer,

 Goldsmiths College,

University of London

The Levy Particle Swarm

Friday 21^st July

11:30-12:30
10.08.03

A/Prof. Jamie Callan, Carnegie Mellon University

The Reap Project: Information Retrieval that Enables Reader-Specific Vocabulary Instruction

Friday 28^th July

11:30-12:30
10.08.03

Dr. Andrew Turpin

Do Typical IR System Experiments Measure Anything Useful?

Friday 4^th August

11:30-12:30
10.08.03

Dr. Michael Winikoff and Dr. Falk Scholer

Tips for early career supervisors

Friday 11^th August

11:30-12:30
10.08.03

A/Prof James Harland

Gamekeeping for the Zany Zoo: How to Hunt Busy Beavers, Placid Platypodes* and other Alliterative Animals

Friday 18^th August

11:30-12:30
10.08.03

Keith Frampton

The Information Technology Workforce: Trends and Implications 2005 - 2008

Friday 25^th August

11:30-12:30
10.08.03

Prof. Justin Zobel, A/Prof. James Harland, A/Prof. Jamie Thom, and Kathleen Lynch

Tips on supervision

Friday 8^th September

11:30-12:30
10.08.03

Dr. Lawrence Cavedon

Building robust spoken dialogue systems

Friday 29^th September

11:30-12:30
10.08.03

Dr. Xiaodong Li

Particle Swarm Optimization

Friday 6^th October

11:30-12:30
12.05.02

Image Biometric Verification in Spatial Frequency Domain

Friday 13^th October

11:30-12:30
12.05.02

Prof. Lin Padgham

Grants and Industry collaboration

Friday 20^th October

11:30-12:30
12.05.02

Dr. Michael Winikoff

RQF and the supervisor

Friday 27^th October

11:30-12:30
12.05.02

Dr. Lawrence Cavedon

An overview of the CALO (Cognitive Assistant that Learns and Observes) project

Friday 3^rd November

11:30-12:30
12.05.02

A/Prof. Nathalie Japkowicz, University of Ottawa

Revising our Evaluation Practices in Machine Learning

Friday 24^th November

11:30-12:30
12.05.02

Prof. Heinz Schmidt, Monash University

Architecture-based reasoning about performability in component-based systems