PhD and Masters Scholarships

Check here for information about PhD or research Masters (HDR) scholarships linked to projects in the Caulfield and Clayton Schools of Information Technology (former School of Computer Science and Software Engineering). There is also information regarding scholarships offered by the Australian Government, Victorian Government, and Monash University. Enquiries about scholarships should be directed to pgenquiries@csse.monash.edu.au, or the person mentioned in the announcement.

Project-linked scholarships available in the Caulfield and Clayton Schools of Information Technology

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DSSE Scholarship in mobile computing: "Mobile transactional middleware to support web-services"

DSSE Scholarship in mobile computing: "Mobile transactional middleware to support web-services"

The Distributed Systems and Software Engineering (DSSE) Centre is offering an MGS-level scholarship for a student to work on mobile transactional middleware to support web-services.
Wireless web services (also denoted by M-Services) are facing great technical challenges. M-Service platforms must support (i) new kind of transactional models (enabling relaxation of traditional ACID properties and the use of sophisticated commit and recovery protocols, which are needed by loosely coupled, long-running business transactions, sometimes in presence of disconnections). Such complex business transactions must rely on (ii) an adaptable mobile SOAP-based middleware to support various characteristics of mobile environments such as limited processing resources on mobile hosts and the unreliable, low bandwidth wireless links and frequent disconnections. Finally, these transactions must also rely on (iii) efficient SOAP protocol that will provide greater performance in terms of throughput (i.e. number of transactions served in a given period) and latency (i.e. round-trip time between sending a request and receiving a response). The complex issues related to M-Service platforms have been dealt separately by different research communities (e.g. complex transactional models for mobile databases, adaptable mobile protocols for CORBA middlewares, and XML compression, load balancing and persistent connections for HTTP traffic). Transactional models for M-Services require dynamic incorporation of transactional support in mobile nodes and provide the foundation for adaptable self-organising transaction systems. Such mobile transactions should use an appropriate reliable and efficient mobile XML-based communication protocol. SOAP, as a de-facto standard for web services, is really problematic for wireless access, as this has not been originally designed to deal with various characteristics of mobile environments. The aim of this project is to enable an efficient and reliable execution of business transactions over mobile services deployed by various enterprises and to develop an adaptable transaction model to support loosely coupled and long-lived mobile transactions that need to run in presence of disconnection. This model will provide flexible synchronisation principles by relaxing ACID properties (e.g. providing semi- atomicity and control of the degree of visibility), extending existing commit and recovery protocols to deal with long-running transactions.
Contact: Arkady Zaslavsky

Scholarships offered by the Australian and Victorian Governments, and Monash University

Australian Postgraduate Awards and Monash Graduate Scholarships
Many HDR students in the School of Computer Science and Software Engineering are supported by scholarships offered by the Australian Government and/or Monash University. Monash has a number of scholarship schemes available for both local and international students. Information on these is available at http://www.mrgs.monash.edu.au/scholarships/. If you wish to apply for a scholarship you should contact the CSSE Postgraduate administration officer to obtain an application form. Note that the closing date for most scholarship applications is October 31st each year. Outstanding applicants, however, may sometimes be awarded a school or faculty scholarship at any time of the year.
Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) Postgraduate Research Scholarships
The Victorian Government is offering postgraduate research scholarships in 2006 to attract high quality students to undertake research in priority areas of ICT.
To be eligible for these research scholarships the applicant must be an Australian citizen or an Australian permanent resident who has been offered a postgraduate scholarship to undertake a research higher degree in the field of Information and Communication Technology at a Victorian university in 2006. The ICT scholarships will provide a top-up stipend equal to the maximum allowance permitted by the Australian Postgraduate Awards Scheme guidelines. This amount will be adjusted annually, and in 2005 was set at $14,127p.a., making the total stipend comparable with the net or ex tax graduate starting salaries in the industry.
Further details, the application form and scholarship conditions of award can be downloaded from http://www.highered.vic.gov.au/news/default.asp
An application for an ICT scholarship MUST be lodged with an application for a Monash University Postgraduate Research Scholarship e.g. the Australian Postgraduate Award (APA) or the Monash Graduate Scholarship (MGS).
Closing date: 31 October 2005
Address applications to:
Monash Research Graduate School
Research Services
Building 3D, Clayton Campus
Wellington Road
Monash University
Victoria, Australia, 3800

Scholarships Database

There is a searchable on-line database of scholarships available around Australia, JASON (Joint Academic Scholarships On-line Network). Visit JASON to find out about further scholarship opportunities.

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