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Interests

Our members' research includes the following areas:

• Component-based software architecture
• Trusted distributed component software
• Safety-critical and mission-critical distributed real-time system verification
• Adaptive distributed software systems and configuration
• Concurrent and parallel programming languages, methods and tools
• Grid and cloud software architecture and platforms
• Biomedical and bioinformatics software engineering
• Software engineering education

Projects

Current and recent research projects involving our members include:

• Parallel nanospace computation for controlling bacterial growth on prosthetic implants; Heinz Schmidt, Ian Peake, Iman Yusuf, in collaboration with Prof. Ivanova's group an Swinburne University.
• Virtual Enterprise Architecture Modelling; Amit Goel, Heinz Schmidt, David Gilbert (Business).
• Intelligent distributed health care management; Heinz Schmidt, Ian Thomas,Kumari Ramasinghe, Christian Guttman, in collaboration with Monash University researchers.
• Enterprise Grid; Zahir Tari, Heinz Schmidt in collaboration with Monash, QUT and Deakin researchers.
• Distributed Medical Image Analysis and Visualisation Engine; Heinz Schmidt in collaboration with Monash, VPAC and Howard Florey Insitute researchers.
• Action learning in student mentoring (RMIT); Daryl D'Souza (Information Storage, Analysis and Retrieval), Charles Thevathayan, Margaret Hamilton, Cecily Walker, James Harland (Intelligent Systems).
• LP0455105 Formal Context Analysis in Rapidly Evolving Knowledge Webs (4CareK) - Investigators: Prof Heinrich Wilhelm Schmidt, Dr David McGregor Squire.
• LP0774944 Intelligent Collaborative Care Management - Investigators: Prof Michael Peter Georgeff, A/Prof Donald Alexander Campbell, Prof Heinrich Wilhelm Schmidt, Dr Simon Thompson, Prof Geoffrey Ian Webb.

International Industry Collaboration

Collaborations and memberships (current and recent) involving our staff include:

• ABB Corporate Research Centres: Germany and Sweden (in predecessor DSEA lab at Monash University) - extra-functional prediction of component-based control systems (eCAP-CBCS), PLC code reuse in digital models of automation systems.
• Artist2 European (FP6) Network of Excellence on Embedded Systems Design - real time components.
• Mälardalen Real-Time Research Centre, MdH, Västerås, Sweden (Heinz Schmidt is an Adjunct Professor) and PROGRESS Centre for Predictable Embedded Software Systems at MdH.
• International ACM Sigsoft Component-Based Software Engineering symposium (CBSE) - steering committee.
• iPlatforms institute RMIT - Intelligent Industrial Information Technologies program.
• Opaltree Systems Pty/Ltd (4CareK project).
• Swedish SAVE initiative on component-based software in safety-critical vehicular systems.

Members

Please, contact Heinz Schmidt for more information.