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The
school focuses its teaching and research activities on the application of
computer and related technologies to business problems. The school has a staff
of forty equivalent full-time staff.
The school offers the Bachelor of Business Systems, the Bachelor of Business
Systems with honours, the Bachelor of Commerce/Bachelor of Business Systems,
the Bachelor of Business Systems/Bachelor of Laws, the Graduate Diploma in
Business Systems and the Master of Business Systems by Coursework, Master of
Business Systems by Projects, Master of Business Systems by Research and a PhD
program.
The
Bachelor of Business Systems came into existence at the request of the Business
Council of Australia and the Commonwealth Government. This degree educates
people in computing and management, with graduates readily able to apply their
skills to the world of business. The course is designed to train the future
senior management of Australian and overseas business, by combining practical
computing ability with an awareness of and skill in general management roles
such as finance, accounting, operations management and operations research. The
school currently has the equivalent of 700 full-time students, and virtually
100 per cent graduate employment.
The aims of the postgraduate teaching are similar, but the teaching load and
options available reflect the maturity and needs of postgraduate students.
A key feature of the undergraduate course is the link with industry. A large number of Australia's most significant organisations sponsor the degree, support students with scholarships, and provide industry-based learning for students as part of their studies.
The school is actively involved in research. In line with the school's aims, this research concentrates on the enhancement of computing and other technologies and their direct application to business problems. The main areas of research activity are project management, operations management, accounting, financial and strategic systems, advanced trading and marketing systems, multimedia for business, quality, reliability and software metrics, Chinese language and multilingual computing, timetabling and scheduling and applications of evolutionary computing to business. The school's research degrees are the Master of Business Systems and PhD.
Project compression; human resource scheduling; resource-constrained project scheduling; project evaluation and analytic hierarchy process; application of evolutionary computing to scheduling; automatic graph scheduling; use of simulated annealing.
Professor R J Willis, Dr R K-Y Li, Mr S B Huxford.
Distributed operations scheduling; visual interactive operations scheduling; lean production; computer-aided production management; plant layout using genetic algorithms.
Dr C White, Mr R B Johnston, Mr R L Martin, Dr Y P Cheung.
Financial modelling; option pricing models; financial index forecasting systems; financial and strategic planning; shareholder value analysis; corporate budgeting models; applications of management science and operations research to finance; statistical business modelling.
Professor A M Flitman, Mr E J G Wilson, Ms A Parr, Mr P Lajbcygier.
Electronic commerce, electronic data interchange; automatic identification; bar coding, electronic funds transfer; data encryption; EDI-compatible business software; electronic marketing on networks; supply and distribution chain improvements.
Mr R B Johnston, Dr C White, Mr D C-K Goh
Development and use of state-of-the-art tools; project management of multimedia development; Lip Sync; creation of multimedia applications for business.
Dr R K-Y Li.
Quality management; quality and reliability software; statistical tools in quality and reliability; software metrics; quality information systems; reliability and maintenance systems.
Dr B W Jenney, Mr K B G Luxford, Dr K A Smith, Mr B J Milne.
Software development; information retrieval; development of special tools; applications to Chinese business systems; software internationalisation; fuzzy logic applications.
Dr C-H Yeh, Mr D C-K Goh.
Resource allocation; program algorithms; constraint handling; dynamic scheduling.
Professor R J Willis, Mr B J Milne, Ms S E Bedingfield, Dr K A Smith.
Marketplace competition; game theory; genetic algorithms; human resource planning
Dr
Y P Cheung, Ms S E Bedingfield, Mr S B Huxford, Dr K A Smith.
As well as publishing in a range of industrial journals, presenting at
international conferences, and liaising with Australian industry, the school
also produces the Business Systems Research journal. Students may
undertake research by enrolling in Masters or PhD programs. Competitive
scholarships are available to full-time research students.
Further information on the school may be found in the following publications:
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