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Postgraduate handbook 2005 - Information Technology

School of Business Systems

The School of Business Systems is an internationally recognised centre of information technology and business excellence, attracting high-quality students and world-class staff. The school focuses on leading-edge research in different areas of business and IT, including finance, the corporate sector, health, the public sector, industry and logistics. Most of the research carried out arises from real business issues and situations, which gives the school an original and pertinent view of business and IT in the real world.
School of Business Systems staff are experts in their field, using the most sophisticated and state-of-the-art methods and techniques for the cutting-edge research for which the school is known. Staff regularly publish papers in prestigious international journals, present at high-level conferences worldwide, are members of professional societies, and have worked in business relevant to their research area for most of their working lives.
The school has an enviable record of winning competitive research funding and is continually exchanging information and findings with industry and business on a global scale. In the last few years, the school has collaborated on research projects with organisations in Spain, Germany, Thailand, France and Canada - including student and staff exchanges.
The school also enjoys productive, close links with industry and commerce, collaborating extensively with local and international industries, universities and other organisations. Most of the starting points for the school's research arise in the real business world.
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.
For further information on the school, visit http://www.bsys.monash.edu.au or email bsinfo@infotech.monash.edu.au.

Research

Business Decision Support Systems

Efficiency and productivity analysis; multiple criteria decision making; data envelopment analysis; project evaluation and analytical hierarchy processes; scheduling applications; fuzzy logic applications; multilingual decision support; architectures of integrated information systems.

Business modelling - optimisation and simulation

Sequential decision making; dynamic programming; global optimisation; event-driven process chains; discrete event simulation; simulation agents and software; risk analysis applications of simulations to epidemiology and public health.

Data mining

Business intelligence; database analysis; data utilisation; customer relationship management; consumer modelling; market segmentation; forecasting and prediction; neural networks; genetic algorithms; expert systems and applications to finance, marketing, retail, insurance telecommunications and health.

e-Business

Electronic commerce; electronic data interchange; automatic identity; bar coding; electronic funds transfer; data encryption; EDI-compatible business software; electronic marketing on networks.

Financial modelling and administrative systems

Financial modelling; option pricing models; financial index forecasting systems; financial and strategic planning; shareholder value analysis; corporate budgeting models; enterprise systems, applications of management science and operations research to finance, statistical and business modelling.

Health care systems

Epidemic modelling; hospital management; case mix funding models; integrated health information systems; genome analysis; diagnostic decision support.

Economic and social implications of IT

Information technology, people and society.

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