Postgraduate courses and subjects 2000 - Gippsland School of Computing and Information Technology

Gippsland School of Computing and Information Technology

General information
Research

General information

The Gippsland School of Computing and Information Technology serves both the Gippsland region of the state of Victoria and, through the use of distance education and innovative teaching technologies, the wider national and international community.
The school makes extensive use of off-campus teaching modes. All its courses are available by distance education, and it also offers a number of subjects through Open Learning Australia. In addition, the school delivers courses and subjects by distance education offshore in Southeast Asia. A number of staff have particular interests in the use of information technology to support teaching and learning, with a focus on techniques appropriate to the distance learning modes.
Further information may be found on the Gippsland School of Computing and Information Technology website at http:// www.gscit.monash.edu.au/

Research

Research interests of staff in the school include databases, data communications, image processing, multimedia information systems, multimedia communication, multiple-valued logic, artificial intelligence, operations management, operations research and optimisation techniques.
Computer-mediated communication and multimedia courseware - Application to the delivery of courses by distance education.
Data communications - Asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) networks, performance analysis.
Image processing - Image processing, video coding and computer graphics.
Multimedia information systems and communication - Distributed systems: design and synchronisation issues, multimedia information retrieval, system development over broadband ISDN (ATM), applications of distributed multimedia to education, multimedia communication.
Multiple-valued logic - Applications to concurrent systems and to logic synthesis.
Operations management - Management of quality, just-in-time, flexible manufacturing systems, technology management, forecasting and applications of neural networks.
Optimisation techniques - Application of genetic algorithms and related heuristics to combinatorial optimisation and control problems and to scheduling.
Reliability modelling - Reliability modelling of power station plant life. Business systems reliability analysis.