Please note - Swinburne University of Technology

on a monthly basis may preclude final submission for the
Masters Degree.
To enable other candidates to share the benefits from the
applied nature of the projects, all students in the masters
program shall attend two or three seminars in second
semester (open also to the general public, interested persons
and employers) where final year students will present the
salient resub of their research.
The duration of the project will be equivalent to four units
of the Masters Degree. The project will be normally taken in
the final year of the course. Prior to commencing their
project, students shall undertake a short course of study in
research concepts and methodologies.
As a guide, the following may be examples of topics
appropriate for research:
performance and implementation issues in database
crash recovery;
evaluation of information system planning and its
relationship to information systems performance;
a systems model for improving human factors of
computer environments;
a strategic planning methodology for a management
information system;
designing dependable information systems;
the effectiveness of knowledge based systems in a
commercial environment;
attitudes of office personnel towards advanced office
technology;
expert systems for design problem solving;
decision support systems in a manufacturing
environment;
distributed knowledge based system for an intelligent
manufacturing system;
decision support systems using expert system techniques;
organisational structures to support end-user computing.