Smart Services CRC Scholarship Offers
Smart Services CRC is a university-industry collaboration with some of the largest organizations in Australia, including Fairfax Digital, SAP Research, the NSW and Qld Governments, and Suncorp Bank. A number of PhD scholarships are now available for students commencing PhD study in 2010, in the areas of service-oriented computing and machine learning.
Service Delivery Framework Project: In the context of service management and delivery in enterprise environment, there are many facets to a description of a service: the operational view, the business protocol, the terms and conditions, SLAs, privacy or compliance issues, etc. The lifecycles of these concerns are often disparate, and manually managing the complexity that stems from their combination is often a hard task. In collaboration with CRC industry partners, we seek concepts, methods, and solutions to support this type of management. The project aims to semi-automate various management tasks, namely; (i) verification of services with respect to policies, regulations, terms and conditions, etc., (ii) transformation of a service description model into an executable language which can be used for runtime monitoring and (iii) transforming non-formal descriptions of lifecycle aspects (e.g., natural languages) to formal ones (e.g., rules or state machines) to create the foundation on which the above techniques can build.
Scholarships are either top-up or full scholarships. Top-up scholarships provide a tax-exempt amount of $10,000 per year for three years plus $5,000 per year for travel and other expenses; this is in addition to any other scholarships you may hold (subject to the particular conditions of those scholarships). Full scholarships provide a tax-exempt amount of $25,000 per year for three years plus $5,000 per year for travel and other expenses. Applicants do not need to be Australian citizens or permanent residents.