DEBII Vision Statment

Creating value by making connections

DEBII Vision World leading institute in interdisciplinary, domain- driven collaborative research, empowered and enriched by cutting edge:
cyber information engineering human space computing data mining and semantic technologies business intelligence and domain knowledge rich ecosystems

Eigh-Fold Mission Statment

• Solve real-world problems for government, industry and commerce both nationally and internationally
• Carry out top quality research which results in high impact publications and commercial outcomes
• Build connections with other disciplines and areas within our university
• Develop national and international networks of research excellence
• Achieve the highest number and greatest value in the winning of competitive grants
• Create the most successful, largest and highest quality HDR Graduate School in the field in Australia
• Establish the best research body of expertise in the field in Australia and be one of the best in the world
• Drive the intellectual agenda through key professional bodies, conferences, committees, editorial boards of journals and patents 

The Digital Ecosystems and Business Intelligence Institute (DEBII) is Curtin University of Technology’s Tier One Research Institute of Excellence incorporating Research Centres of Frontier Technologies for Extended Enterprises, Business Intelligence (CEEBI) and AoRE (Area of Research Excellence). DEBII has developed into one of Australia’s excellent centres of research excellence with researchers at the cutting edge of one of the most exciting and significant fields.

DEBII has a unique position internationally working at the intersection of IT and Business and other human endeavours encapsulated by its motto of "creating value by making connections".

DEBII focuses on multi-disciplinary research and is composed of senior academic staff members from 12 schools across 4 faculties, 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 intersects business, human endeavours and advanced ICT, and promotes collaboration rather than competition. This forms 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 realise 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

These research fields form five key research areas within DEBII.

• 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 including Content Intelligence in Bio-Information Systems; and
• Application to Social Network Digital Ecosystems and eHumanities.

The high level view of the linkage of these research areas is shown below.

Our new exciting endeavour was hosting the new IEEE/IES conference series on Digital Ecosystems and Technologies commencing in 2007 in Cairns, Australia and then in 2008 in Phitsanulok, Thailand and 2009 will be held in Istanbul. The conference series is proving to be highly successful with many delegates from all over the globe. It addresses 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 in a unique position to contribute to the society in electronic-digital domain as well as the social economic domain. With the initiative from the European Union’s Six Framework Project and the support of IEEE IES from North America, the holding of this conference series in the Asia Pacific region, the conference has become a heady intellectual brew in this golden intellectual triangle.