Research Grants
Amount: $217,000
Investigator: Dr Michael Sheng
Administration organisation: University of Adelaide
Type: ARC (Australian Research Council) Discovery Project
Period: 2008-2010
Summary: Living cells within our bodies can adapt themselves to changes in their environment. However, this is impossible for current Web services, which are largely inflexible. The proposed project explores ways to make Web services behave more like living cells: sensitive, adaptive, and context-aware. This research will develop novel techniques aimed at simplifying the task of creating and maintaining context-aware Web services. The result of this project will be a model-driven framework where services can be described in a high-level modeling language and can be automatically transformed into executable target platforms, thus contributing significantly to both design flexibility and cost savings.
PhD Topup Scholarship: Student who successfully gets a research scholarship (e.g., IPRS, APA, Divsional) for his/her PhD/Masters study will get additional stipend $5,000 p.a. for doing research with Dr Michael Sheng. Please contact Michael for details.
Towards Scalable, Internet-Based RFID Traceability Networks
Amount: $235,000
Invistigator(s): Dr Michael Sheng, Prof. Peter H. Cole
Administration organisation: University of Adelaide
Type: ARC (Australian Research Council) Discovery Project
Period: 2008-2010
Summary: RFID (Radio Frequency Identification, check more information from an old page created by me) technology is gaining significant momentum for tracking and tracing individual objects, a powerful capability that is essential to many aspects of modern life such as anti-counterfeiting and performing product recalls. Existing centralised solutions are only effective in small scale RFID tracking applications. This project will develop a Web-based Peer-to-Peer (P2P) system that enables tracking applications to share traceability data efficiently and effectively across independent enterprises in large RFID networks. The result of this project will underpin many innovative applications such as a tracking supply chain for drugs and food safety.