Research
Helen's primary research interests are in Web services, Service Oriented Architectures, Business Process Modelling/Management (BPM) and Personal Process Management. Her current research topics are motivated by the opportunities and challenges brought on by the ever-increasing pervasiveness of the Internet and mobile devices in our daily activities, especially in the form of social computing/software and context-aware systems. For example, in her recent project 'personal process management', she explores the relationships between the traditional framework of BPM and social software and context modelling principles to provide a flexible solution to designing and building a personalised workflow system on a mobile handset.
Keywords: Services, business processes, personal processes, social computing, context-awareness
Smart Services CRC
Services Engineering Group is a key partner in Smart Services CRC which has been awarded a $30.8 million grant from the Department of Education, Science and Training. The grant comes under the Australian Government's Cooperative Research Centres (CRC) Programme.
I am currently involved in the following Smart Services CRC projects:
- Service Aggregation – methods and tools to create composite services and their lifecycle management including alignment of policies, privacy, security, governance, transaction management, quality of service and other key elements of service provision. Tools to analyse and manage complex sets of services.
- Service Delivery Framework – based on use cases and outputs from Service Aggregation and Common Business and Service Frameworks, develop a foundation framework of the next generation of service-orientation – service ecosystems, to enable services to be seamlessly repurposed into new business contexts and delivered into new markets by different channels.
We have a number of PhD scholarships and honour student scholarships available. Please contact me, if you are interested.