Creating Value by Making Connections
DEBII has a unique position internationally working at the intersection of IT and Business and other human endeavors encapsulated by its motto of creating value by making connections.
DEBII focuses on multi-disciplinary research field, and is composed senior academic staff members from 12 Schools across 4 Divisions, as well as 20 Centre funded Research Fellows and Research Assistants and targets the key areas of research identified by the university, local government and ARC, namely ICT for Growth and Prosperity, ICT for health and sustainability, ICT for business intelligence, extended enterprises and industrial informatics.
DEBII researches Frontier ICT that intersect between business, human endeavors and advanced ICT, and that promote collaboration rather than competition, which form the very foundation of digital ecosystems. Specific services and information infrastructures are built to support the different application domains in digital ecosystems. These frequently take the form of cutting edge advanced IT, internet communication and intelligent information systems. It is important to realize that these do not constitute development work but rather application driven research or domain oriented ICT research.
DEBII, therefore, focuses on the following fundamental research fields:
1. Frontier Technologies for Digital Ecosystems
2. Digital Ecosystem Applications
Therefore, these research fields form five key research areas within DEBII, namely:
• Frontier Technologies for Digital Ecosystems (web services, XML, ontologies, data mining)
• Application to Digital Business Ecosystems as well as Evolable Industrial Automation Systems
• Application to Digital Education Ecosystems as well as Digital Learning Ecosystems
• Application to Digital Health Ecosystems include Content Intellgence in Bio-Information Systems
• Application to Social Network Digital Ecosystems and e-humanities.
The high level view of the linkage of these research areas is shown below.
Our new exciting endeavour namely the hosting of the 1st IEEE/IES Conference on Digital Ecosystems and Technologies in Cairns Australia during 20-23 Feb 2007. The conference was highly successful with 150 registered attendees for this first conference. It addressed open technological challenges in the intersections between IT and Industry, IT and government, IT and Business IT and Humanities, IT and its Social Economic and Political Impact. The conference provided a new vision of strategically inspired and application driven research and created new synergies between enabling technologies and Industry as well as human society, and placed itself a unique position to contribute to the society in electronic-digital domain as well as social economic domain. With the initiative from European Union’s Six Framework Project and the support of IEEE IES from North America, the holding of the conference in Australia in the Asia Pacific region, the conference has become a heady intellectual brew in this golden intellectual triangle.
See our conference
2007 Inaugural IEEE International Conference on Digital Ecosystems and Technologies
and download keynote papers and Tutorials.
See our fouthcoming conference Digital Ecosystems Conference in Thailand at
http://www.ieee-dest.curtin.edu.au/2008/index.php
