LOCATION: The Women's College, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, Q Australia

Link to Delegates

Link to Presentations

From Services Composition to End Users Programming: Boualem Benatallah, The University of New South Wales

Amazon's EC2 Infrastructure: Blair Bethwaite, Monash University

Service Computing: Evolution in the Computing Food Chain: Athman Bouguettaya, CSIRO ICT Centre

Service Science and the Service Web: Conceptual Foundations, Emerging Directions: Joseph Davis, The University of Sydney

Introduction to Social Computing: Irwin King, Chinese University of Hong Kong

An Overview of Cloud Computing: Young Choon Lee, The University of Sydney

Google ApEngine: Gianni Mariana, Google

Common Sense as a Service: Haixun Wang, Microsoft Research Asia, China

Statistical Language Models for Information Retrieval and Text Mining: Chengxiang Zhai, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaigne, USA

Best Research Poster Awards

EII hosted the Best Research Poster Awards during the 2010 School. Delegates displayed their current research in poster form during the event. Four prizes were awarded by guest judges: Irwin King, City University of Hong Kong; Haixun Wang, Microsoft Research Asia, China; and Chengxiang Zhai, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaigne, USA

First Prize: Haiyang Sun, Macquarie University

Highly Commended:

• Tao Guo, Monash University
• Gaofeng Zhang, Swinburne University
• Lina Yao, The University of Adelaide

Objectives

The 6th EII PhD School brings research students and early career researchers [ECRs] together with experienced national and international experts to enhance and invigorate research education, and to improve the depth of understanding of emerging and fundamental topics in ICT. In 2010, the School will focus on Cloud Computing, Service Computing and Social Networks. The EII PhD Schools offer an opportunity for PhD students and ECRs to share and discuss their research with peers and mentors, and to start developing ideas & concepts into research papers for submission to major international journals and conferences. The experience will also advance the development and raise the standard of the students' dissertations and research publications in general.

Program - Link to Program here

The program commences at 9am Tuesday 23 November and runs until midday Saturday 27 November, on the St Lucia Campus of The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.

Best Research Poster Awards

EII is pleased to announce Best Research Poster Awards for the 2010 School. Delegates are invited to display their current research in A3 poster form during the event.

• First Prize $150
• Highly Commended $50 x 3 prizes

The winners will be announced at the Research Poster session 6.00 - 8.00pm Thursday 25 November.

Application for Travel Bursary - Link to form here

EII is pleased to announce the availability of up to 30 travel bursaries and 20 registration waivers to assist students to attend our PhD School. The travel bursary will include: registration fee waiver, return economy airfare, and up to 5 nights on-campus accommodation. To apply, please complete and submit this form by 15 October.

Registration - Link to Registration Form here

The registration fee covers lunch and teas during the school, and the banquet on the evening of Wednesday 24 November. Registration fees (Australian dollars & GST inclusive) are as follows:

REGISTRATION - EARLY BIRD (by 31 October 2010)
-- Student $77
-- Staff $110

REGISTRATION - LATE or ON SITE REGISTRATION (from 1 November 2010)
-- Student $110
-- Staff $160

Accommodation

The Women's College - Link to Accommodation Booking Form here

College Road, St Lucia Qld 4067 Australia
Telephone +61 7 3377 4500
Fax +61 7 3870 9511

Email manager@womens.uq.edu.au or conferences@womens.uq.edu.au

Please note that an additional $20 booking fee is charged per booking.

• Single room with ensuite facilities shared between two single rooms - $88 per night - includes breakfast and dinner
• Single room with shared bathroom facilities - $78 per night - includes breakfast and dinner

St. Leo's College- Link to Accommodation Booking Form here

College Road, St Lucia Q 4067
Ph: +61 7 3878 0661
Fax: +61 7 3878 0620

Ruth Morahan - College Secretary - Email r.morahan@stleos.uq.edu.au

• Single room with ensuite facilities shared between two single rooms - $80 per night - includes breakfast and dinner
• Single room with shared bathroom facilities - $65 per night - includes breakfast and dinner

Link to off campus accommodation

Important Dates

• 15 October 2010: Deadline Applications for Travel Bursary
• 31 October 2010: Deadline Early Bird Registration
• 1 November - 23 November 2010: Late or On Site Registration
• 23-27 November 2010: PhD School

How the School is Funded

This event is supported under the Australian Research Council's Research Networks scheme. EII is funded from the Australian Research Council (ARC) in conjunction with contributions from 21 institutions.

Contact:

Ms Kathleen Williamson, EII Network Manager
Tel 0434 070 948 Fax (07) 3365 3248
School of Information Technology & Electrical Engineering
The University of Queensland
Brisbane Q 4072 Australia