Thursday 3 Nov, 1:15PM, room: G45
Tessa Berg: Art as a Form of Enquiry
Information systems drive us all bonkers! How many times are we left hanging on the phone, stuck waiting in queues, sent wrong information, billed incorrectly or told ‘the computer says.. no’. They affect all of us on a daily basis. Why then, in this amazing technical world we live in, do we keep failing to get systems right?
I will endeavour to unwrap this mystery in 10 minutes!! The rich picture will be introduced as an effective tool for knowledge elicitation. Come along and I will explain my research area, what I am doing, how I am doing it and most importantly why I believe it to be significant to systems.
Ahmad Hadinata Fauzi: Community Trust Stores for Peer-to-Peer e-Commerce Applications
E-commerce applications have evolved from web-based selling via the Internet to selling in a P2P manner. P2P can enhance e-commerce applications to create lower cost systems compared to conventional client-server systems. However, P2P e-commerce applications will only be acceptable to users if they can provide robust, secure and equitable services to the peers involved during commercial transactions. In this paper, we propose use of a P2P shared store for trust information to support community based e-commerce applications. Nowadays, it can be economical and cheap to implement either in the cloud or in a distributed manner over the platforms of participating peers. Usage of a cheap and secure community store for trust data provides an effective alternative to conventional trusted third party support services for e-commerce transactions.
Fraser Blackmun: An Ongoing/Temporary Perspective in Social Network Analysis
Social Network Analysis (SNA) is a discipline that has explored people's networks of connections to one another for decades, using network-based measures and analytic techniques to identify and explain a social network's structure and properties. The modern rise of online social networking suggests a growing role for technology to mediate people's social connections. Looking ahead to the future, the concept of pervasive computing anticipates a world where technology is in a position to exploit real-world human interactions and bridge the physical/digital divide. New ways of thinking about social networks may be needed to help realise such a world, as well as to better understand the social world as it is now.
I am investigating a perspective in social network analysis that views any given social network as either 'Ongoing' or 'Temporary', which is the foundation of what I call the Ongoing/Temporary perspective. Mathematical models and assertion-based theories will be developed on Ongoing and Temporary networks that can work in harmony with traditional SNA methods to enrich analysis on any network. This perspective is intended to cast social networks in a new light, and to provide information about any given network's nature and likely future developments that would not necessarily be obvious using the SNA tools currently available.
Bamhdi, Alwi M: Mobile Ad Hoc Networks and Algorithms
Mobile Ad Hoc Networks have many applications, not least in 3rd world countries,disaster areas, and on the battlefield. There are many routing algorithms designed to effectively route packets through such networks. Our research is to investigate the effect of high density and high velocity on routing protocols by using NS2.
No comments:
Post a Comment