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Research Projects

Software Engineering in the Research Environment (SERE)

Status: Current and priority

SERE expands on the RAISER / RESET SDLC (developed as part of the USE CSR research) in an experiment involving three cohorts of MSc students (i.e. over three years). The research looks at process improvement within the academic computer science context and forms the basis of my doctoral thesis.

The three years of experimentation have been completed and data analysis and write up are currently taking place. If you are interested in this area, have a look at the Improving Research Productivity in Computing workshop (paper deadline 1st March 2007), as co-chair I'm happy to answer any questions about the workshop.

The SERE web site is still available, but you need a password to access it. If you want one, ask.

My process plan (restricted access)

Operations Research: Search and Rescue

Status: Current

A paper on the design pattern used in SORAL, the optimal resource allocation library for land based search and rescue has been accepted for the ITNG 07 (Software Specification and Modeling) in Las Vegas.

A demo of Probability Mapper and AGM SAR was carried out for the New South Wales police search and rescue unit in Sept (06), this follows demos to the Victoria State Police between 2001 and 2003.

Web Technologies: Combatting Racism in Google

Status: Current

Work continues in this area, but it's very difficult work out what or how to publish any of this with out destorying the good work that has been done. A confidential report was released to some fairly important people and seems to have got their interest... if not any resources.

Use of Software Engineering in Computer Science Research

Status: Finished

USE CSR, my honours thesis from 2002 involved research into the ways computer science research is carried out in universities. I examined corrolations between the use of good software engineering practices and research outcomes. I have shown that while some form of software engineering is beneficial to the goals of the research, it is often unbeneficial to the researchers. A new SDLC was created to help achieve both the goals of the research and the goals of the researchers given the specific needs and constraints of academic research. The research was carried out through surveys, interviews and case studies.

Publications

  1. Andre Oboler, Enhancing Research: A Strategic Approach, poster for Emerging landscapes: Research into quality management in higher education' conference, Birmingham, 27 June 2007.
  2. Andre Oboler, Formal Technical Reviews for Research Projects, CAQDAS 07 Conference - "Advances in Qualitative Computing", London, 18-20 April 2007. [Slides]
  3. Andre Oboler and Ian Sommerville, Research Documentation Guidelines: Capturing knowledge, improving research, in proceedings of Fourth International Conference on Information Technology : New Generations (ITNG 2007), Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, April 2-4, 2007
  4. Andre Oboler, Charles Twardy and David Albrecht, Super Iterator: A design pattern for Algorithm and Data structure collections, in proceedings of Fourth International Conference on Information Technology : New Generations (ITNG 2007), Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, April 2-4, 2007
  5. Andre Oboler, Ian Sommerville, Simon Lock, Reflection: Improving research through knowledge transfer, in proceedings of the first International Conference on Software Engineering Advances (ICSEA 2006), Tahiti, French Polynesia, 29 October - 1 November 2006
  6. Andre Oboler, David McG. Squire and Kevin B. Korb, Software Engineering for Computer Science Research - Facilitating Improved Research Outcomes, International Journal of Computer and Information Science, 5, 1, pp. 24-34, January 2004.
  7. Andre Oboler (2003). Examining the use of Software Engineering by Computer Science Researchers. In Proceedings of Education Students' Third Regional Research Conference, Graduate School in Humanities University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa. pp. 37-45, 26-27 September 2003.
    You can also download the presentation slides
  8. Andre Oboler, David McG. Squire and Kevin B. Korb, Why don't we practice what we teach? Engineering Software for Computer Science Research in Academia, In Proceedings of the First International Conference on Software Engineering Research and Applications (ICSERA'03), San Francisco, USA, pp. 25-30, 25-27 June 2003.
    You can also download the presentation slides
  9. Andre Oboler (2002). USE CSR. School of Computer Science and Software Engineering, Monash University. B. Computer Science (Honours) Thesis.

Other publications

ERP and Legacy Systems
After studying ERPs in a number of subjects through SIMS I undertook some research into the question of whether ERP systems are bound to become legacy systems over time. My research into this resulted in a paper that was recommended for publication.

Security
I've undertake some research into Information Security, including a complete review of a large IT organisation's security. The report is naturally confidential, though most recomendations have been implemented.

Bayesian AI
Over summer (2001-2002) I worked with Kevin Korb on the CaMML project. My main role was the analysis of Camml from the liturature and the creation of a design for rebuilding the software.
In summer 2002-2003 I worked with Charles Twardy and David Albrecht on SARBayes, a software library for resource allocation in the search and rescue domain. As part of this I co-wrote the SORAL API User's Guide and the SORAL Developer's Guide
As part of the honours Bayesian Learning subject I wrote a paper on Knowledge Engineering with Baysian nets.

Positions

2006-2007 PhD Candidate (write up) & General Teaching Assistant (contract), Computing Department, Lancaster University, UK

2003-2006 PhD Candidate & General Teaching Assistant, Computing Department, Lancaster University, UK

2003 Research Assistant, School of Computer Science and Software Engineering, Monash University, Australia

2002-2003 Summer Vacation Scholar, SARBayes Search and Rescue Project, CSSE, Monash University, Australia

2002 Computer Science Honours (1st Class), School of Computer Science and Software Engineering, Monash University, Australia

2002, 2003 Demonstrator and Tutor, CSSE, Monash University, Australia

2001-2002 Summer Vacation Scholar, The CaMML project, CSSE, Monash University, Australia

1999-2001 Bachelor of Computer Science, School of Computer Science and Software Engineering, Monash University, Australia