Welcome

Australasian Computing Doctoral Consortium (ACDC'11)

Monday 17th January 2011

• Introduction
• Invited Speaker
• Programme
• Panel
• Student Attendees
• Location
• Eligibility
• Submission
• Selection Criteria
• Important Dates
• Organisation

Introduction

The ACDC provides an opportunity for doctoral students to present their research and early results and receive advice and constructive commentary from research experts. Submissions are invited from current PhD students in computing who would benefit from feedback on their research by a panel of established researchers. The consortium will operate in a workshop format. It will contain at least one presentation by a distinguished academic on the challenges and approaches to succeed in a PhD program. Up to ten applicants will be invited to present their work during ACDC 2011, and experts will be invited to attend the presentations and discuss each student's work. These selected applicants will receive complimentary ACSW 2011 student conference registration. Note, however, that ACDC will not provide travel or accommodation costs, but possible support from CORE may be available. Finally, PhD students who wish to attend, but have not submitted a paper, are welcome --- however, be sure to notify the organisers well in advanced since numbers are limited.

Invited Speaker

Programme

9:00 Keynote Talk, Anyone can do a PhD!, Dr Ajmal Mian

11:00 Interpretation and Delivery of ICT Curricula in Secondary Schools
Christine Mclachlan (Deakin University)

11:45 Structured Learning of Local Features for Human Action Recognition and Segmentation in Video
Tuan Hue Thi (University of NSW)

13:30 Anonymously Establishing Digital Provenance in Reseller Chains
Ben Palmer (Victoria University Wellington)

14:15 Passive learning of conditional preferences
Adrian Schoenig (UNSW and NICTA)

15:00 Mechanising Local Rely-Guarantee Reasoning
Allan Tabilog (Victoria University Wellington)

15:45 Situation Discovery from Sensor Data
Anthony Blond (University of Western Australia)

Panel

• Rachel Cardell-Oliver, The University of Western Australia (chair)
• Falk Scholer, RMIT University, Australia (co-chair)
• Shane Culpepper, RMIT University, Australia
• Wei Liu, The University of Western Australia
• Ajmal Mian, The University of Western Australia
• Lin Padgham, RMIT University, Australia
• Sandra Uitdenbogerd, RMIT University, Australia

Location

Curtin University, Building 300, level 2, Room 219

Eligibility

Students wishing to participate in ACDC should have been enrolled in a PhD program in any area of computing in any CORE university in Australia or New Zealand for between one and 2.5 years by the time of submission.

A Letter of Nomination from either the Head of Department or School or Faculty, detailing the students they are nominating, must be available upon request.

Submission

Each submission should be no longer than FOUR pages including the text, references, figures, and tables. All initial submissions must be in PDF format (paper size: A4), although there are no other style requirements. The submission should clearly specify:

• Student’s full name, affiliation, address, email address, and phone number.
• Student’s PhD enrolment date.
• Title of thesis.
• Keywords.
• Key references.
• Research problem.
• Methodology.
• Preliminary results.

Submissions should be emailed to the Doctoral Symposium Chair, Rachel Cardell-Oliver at href=rachel@csse.uwa.edu.au by the closing date.

Selection Criteria

Important Dates

Closing Date for submissions: 16 August 2010 (midnight)

See ACSW 2011 Important Dates

Organisation

• Prof. Rachel Cardell-Oliver, The University of Western Australia (chair)
• Dr. Falk Scholer, RMIT University, Australia (co-chair)