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Postgraduate handbook 2004
Information Technology

Gippsland School of Computing and Information Technology

The Gippsland School of Computing and Information Technology serves both the Gippsland region of the state of Victoria and, through the use of off-campus learning and innovative teaching technologies, the wider national and international community.
The school makes extensive use of off-campus teaching modes. In addition, the school in collaboration with offshore partners in Singapore and Hong Kong delivers courses by partner supported off-campus learning. 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 off-campus learning.
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.
Multimedia technology - multimedia signal processing and compression, multimedia databases, multimedia information in ordering and retrieval.
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.

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