Science, Technology and Engineering

Research Groups

Department of Computer Science & Computer Engineering

Research in the Department of Computer Science and Computer Engineering is conducted in a broad range of fields. Students can choose to pursue studies in any of the following areas. These areas have been chosen because of their strategic importance to the class of computer systems that are going to be produced over the next decade as well as their intellectual challenge. If you need to know more about a particular research area please look at the students research handbook.

The Artificial Intelligence Research Group (AIRG) performs research into, and development of, intelligent systems.

If you would like to contact us please check out our webpage http://www.latrobe.edu.au/cs/research/researchgroups/AIRG or send us an email at: airg@cs.latrobe.edu.au

The Games Technology Research Group researches 3D interactive graphics, audio, algorithms, game world design and development tools.

If you would like to contact us please feel free to send us an email at: gtrg@cs.latrobe.edu.au

With its key focus areas encompassing web and semi-structured data, new generation database technologies and environments, specialized domain data management, and data centric knowledge management, the main aim of the group is to combine fundamental research and system development that can serve as proof of research concepts as well as provide inputs to industry practices.

If you would like to contact us please check out our webpage http://dekm.cs.latrobe.edu.au/ or send us an email at: dekm@cs.latrobe.edu.au

The research of this group deals with many aspects of computer networking and distributed computation, including Performance and Reliability Studies, and protocols for these. Lately there has been some emphasis on wireless networks, sensor and ad hoc networks, and support for mobility.

Pervasive Computing might be thought of as a "buzz-phrase" but we are beginning to see real technology that has been developed under this banner and there continues tremendous activity under this concept. In fact, it is a useful label for the idea of mobile and ubiquitous computing devices and systems working together synergistically for the user. To quote ICT minister Coonan: "Advances in ICT technologies in the next 20 years will mostly be in 'ubiquitous' computing and communications, the ones pervading economic life." (March 2006)

The Pervasive Computing Interest Group aims to provide an avenue for people interested in the area to congregate, exchange ideas and talk about the latest happenings and developments in the area.

If you would like to contact us please send us an email at: pcig@cs.latrobe.edu.au

With a focus on ICT business and development processes, quality, reuse, and modelling, the Software Engineering Interest Group (SEIG) seeks to improve the competitive advantage of the Australian Software Industry through collaboration and research by: capturing, improving, and promoting best practice; the trial and validation of research ideas; and by contributing to raising standards by disseminating results to industry and through teaching.

The group's research centres on the development of quality software for the evaluation of quadratures and cubatures in moderately low dimensions. Currently, research is focused upon the use of lattice-based rules in general-purpose cubature algorithms. In addition, work is progressing on the development of methodologies for creating efficient, reliable and effective heuristics-based error estimates. Flowing from the group's ongoing work, two very successful general-purpose routines have been developed: r2d2lri in two dimensions and elrint3d in three dimensions.