The school focuses its teaching and research activities on the application
of computer and related technologies to business problems. It publishes in a
range of industrial journals, presents at international conferences, liaises
with Australian industry and produces the Business Systems Research
journal.
Further information on the school may be found in the publication
Postgraduate Programs in Business Systems, or visit the website
at http://www.bs.monash.edu.au or email
bsinfo@infotech.monash.edu.au
Project
management - 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.
Operations management - distributed operations scheduling; visual
interactive operations scheduling; lean production; computer-aided production
management; plant layout using genetic algorithms and just-in-time systems.
Accounting, financial and administrative systems - 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.
Advanced trading and marketing systems - 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.
Multimedia for business - development and use of state-of-the-art tools;
project management of multimedia development; Lip Sync; creation of multimedia
applications for business.
Quality, reliability and software metrics - quality management; quality
and reliability software; statistical tools in quality and reliability;
software metrics; quality information systems; reliability and maintenance
systems.
Chinese language and multilingual computing - software development;
information retrieval; development of special tools; applications to Chinese
business systems; software internationalisation; fuzzy logic applications.
Timetabling and scheduling - resource allocation; program algorithms;
constraint handling; dynamic scheduling.
Evolutionary computing - study of evolutionary computing; game theory
and genetic algorithms; applications to business such as simulation of
marketplace interactions and human resource planning; development of GA-based
business applications; investigations on useful ways of analysing GA-generated
data.
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