Lecturer/Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor in Information Systems in UNSW, Australia

Salary:
Lecturer: $71,779 - $84,618 pa
Senior Lecturer: $87,182 - $100,022 pa
Associate Professor: $104,301 - 114,433 pa

Applications are invited for this position from suitably qualified people in
the field of information systems or a related discipline. The successful
applicant will join a vibrant School that aims to provide high-quality
educational programs as well as a dynamic, productive, output-driven research
environment.

As well as undergraduate programs offered to officer cadets and midshipmen, the
School offers postgraduate programs to civilian and defence personnel,
including postgraduate coursework programs and research masters and PhD
degrees. A professional doctorate, the Doctor of Information Technology, is
also available. In addition to undergraduate and postgraduate programs, the
School also provides a number of technology awareness courses for defence
personnel, including several in enterprise architecture.

Active research programs in information systems are maintained in the areas of
decision making, enterprise architecture, information and communication
technology governance, risk management, soft systems modelling, systems
thinking, and software metrics. Other research programs in the School include
antenna arrays, artificial intelligence, complex systems, control theory,
evaluation of computer networks, image and video coding and transmission image
processing and interpretation, mobile communications, operations research,
quantum computing, radar and electromagnetic engineering, remote sensing,
robotics, speech processing and virtual environments. Bodies like the
Australian Research Council support many of these projects.

The successful applicant will be expected to undertake an active research
program. Applicants whose research interests are different, but complementary,
to existing areas are encouraged to apply.

The School is looking to appoint a staff member who will add to the School.s
research activities and who will complement the School.s teaching profile in
the area of Information Systems.

Depending on the qualifications and experience of the successful applicant, an
appointment may be offered at Lecturer (Level B), Senior Lecturer (Level C) or
Associate Professor (Level D). The School is prepared to consider various types
of appointment, including continuing and fixed-term contract, full and part
time.

Membership of an approved University superannuation scheme is a condition of
employment of this position.

Position description and selection criteria are available at
http://www.unsw.adfa.edu.au/hr/emp_opps/index.html Further information is
available from the Head of School Professor Michael Frater on (02) 6268 8236 or
by email on m.frater@adfa.edu.au.

Information on current research programs in the School can be found at
http://www.itee.adfa.edu.au/research.

Applications close 7th December 2007. Please quote reference number: ITEE
11907. Interviews for this position will be held on Monday 17th and Tuesday
18th December 2007.

A written application addressing the selection criteria, a resume, and the
names and addresses (preferably email) of at least three referees should be
submitted to: HR Recruitment, UNSW@ADFA, Australian Defence Force Academy,
Northcott Drive, CANBERRA ACT 2600. You may email your application to:
uni.college.recruitment@adfa.edu.au For confirmation of receipt of
application telephone (02) 6268 8726. People from EEO groups are encouraged to
apply.

UNSW: PhD APAI Scholarship available - Integrating end user processes with SOA paradigm

Position opening for a PhD student:

The school of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) at UNSW just
acquired a linkage grant with an industry partner Beacon IT Group
(http://www.beaconit.com.au) for a research project on Integrating end
user processes with SOA paradigm. The academic members involved at CSE,
UNSW are A/Prof. Boualem Benatallah and Dr. Hye-young Helen Paik. The
project will be conducted at CSE, UNSW in Sydney in close collaboration
with the industry partner.

The scholarship on offer through the grant is APA(I) (Australian
Postgraduate Awards -Industry) scholarship. The annual stipend for 2007
is $25,627 per annum (tax free). The stipend is paid in fortnightly
instalments. The industry partner makes upto $6,000 extra contribution
towards the project. There is also adequate funding for PhD students to
travel.

Below is a brief description of the project. Interested candidates can
contact A/Prof. Benatallah (boualem@cse.unsw.edu.au) or Dr. Paik
(hpaik@cse.unsw.edu.au) directly.

Project Title: Integrating end-user processes with SOA paradigm

Service oriented architecture and business process modelling emerged as
response to the general problems of enterprise application integration
(EAI) and enterprise information integration (EII). The technologies
offer standardised support for integrating heterogeneous resources, data
sources, and applications in the form of standardised APIs. Clearly,
professional developers now benefit from high-level and integrated
access to data, computing and application resources. However, the
benefits of SOA and business process technologies have not reached the
end-users who have some knowledge in using IT systems but are not
professional programmers. This is indeed a large population of user
base and constitutes a key component of major enterprise and end user
applications including e-government, e-business, media, e-health. For
instance, it was estimated in 2001, that in the USA alone 45 millions of
such users rely on tools such spreadsheet to visualize, manipulate, and
analyze data. This project proposes to design and develop abstractions,
models and languages in SOA paradigm which are focused on assisting the
end-users with their everyday computing tasks and business processes.