Mandurah 2K Tenth University of Western Australia Computer Science Research Conference   "Research Directions for the New Millennium" Mandurah Gates Resort, April 27-28, 2000

Invitation to Participate

Welcome to the Home Page of Mandurah 2K: The Tenth U.W.A. Computer Science Research Conference. This page will be added to as information becomes available. If the information you require is not here, please email Cara MacNish.

Programme

Accommodation List

Registration Form

(Registrations closed)

Honours Earlybird Registration

Venue This year's conference will once again be held at the Mandurah Gates Resort, 110 Mandurah Terrace, Mandurah. This is just north of the Mandurah City Centre and Estuary on the old Mandurah road (just after Stewart St. on the right as you head into Mandurah), and is about 60 mins drive from the University of Western Australia. For relaxing after a mentally invigorating day of talks the resort offers a swimming pool, heated spa, sauna, mini-golf, half-sized tennis court, volley ball, and games room. The beach is about 100m walk, and there is a licensed bar and restaurant.

Accommodation Accommodation is in two bedroom self-contained apartments which include a sitting area, kitchen facilities, private bathrooms, TV, and reverse cycle air conditioning. The basic unit contains one double bed and two single beds. An additional moveable bed can be added to each room to sleep up to five people. Accommodation List

Invited Plenary Speakers

Academic Speaker

Dr Michael Kölling, Monash University

Biography and abstract

Industry Speaker

Mark Potts, Director, Products and Tools division, Xpedior

Biography and abstract

Call for Papers and Presentations

The expectations on students at various stages of their studies are clarified below. Contributions are also encouraged from staff, and from participants from other W.A. universities and industry or government organisations.

Beginning Postgraduates

[Those starting after 1st January 2000]

You should submit a short (1 or more pages) abstract or research proposal outlining the area that you wish to study, and present a short talk (up to 10 minutes). The proposal and discussion need not be very detailed, and are in no way binding. Its purpose is simply to give others some idea of your planned area of research, and allow them to share with you the benefit of any experience they may have in related areas. For example, it may be that some of the staff or students can help with some pointers to literature, software, and resources within the Department that have been used on previous projects in related areas.

Postgraduates

[Full-time PhD students within their first 3 years, part-time PhD students within their first 4 years, MSc students within their first 2 years.]

You are expected to submit a paper related to your work for inclusion in the proceedings, and to present a talk on the work at the conference. For those who have completed one year this might be oriented more towards surveying the state of the art in your chosen field, discussing of problems you plan to address, and your progress so far. For those in later years it is likely to include more of your own contributions, and might be used as a practice paper for a conference or journal. If you'd like to discuss further what is expected please see your supervisor or one of the organisers.

Finishing Postgraduates

[Postgraduates outside the above categories.]

You are strongly encouraged to give a talk on your work, but since it is recognised that you may be finishing off and writing up according to fairly tight deadlines, a single abstract page may optionally be submitted in place of a written paper. The page should contain title, author(s) and abstract (title and authors centred and abstract in a centred block flush left and right as it would appear on the front of a paper).

Staff, Visitors, Research Fellows, etc

You are invited to give a talk on a subject of interest, and submit either an abstract page (see above) or a paper for the proceedings. These may be technical research talks, or talks on topics of broader interest (eg. the future of computer science, etc).

Honours Students

If you have some work that you would like to showcase you are welcome to submit a paper. But otherwise you are invited to just come along, observe, question, discuss, and have fun!

Information for Speakers

It is anticipated that each speaker will be allocated 30 minutes. The talks themselves should be 20 to 25 minutes in length, leaving 5 to 10 minutes for questions and discussion.

Facilities available will include an overhead projector and computer projector. Please contact one of the organisers if you require any special equipment.

Information for Authors

Papers should be prepared in single column format (right and left justified) using 10pt roman font. This is the default for LaTeX article class. Page numbers should not be included, but rather printed lightly in pencil on the back of the pages.

A sample LaTeX file that can be used as a template can be found here. For those using Gatesware, please view either the dvi output or the postscript output from the sample file and attempt to match it as closely as possible.

Further guidelines for preparing your camera-ready copy can be found in the Instructions for Authors.

Deadlines for Papers and Abstracts

The deadlines for papers submitted to the conference are as follows:

1. Draft papers to SUPERVISORS: FRIDAY 31st MARCH

2. Final papers and abstracts: FRIDAY 7th APRIL

These deadlines are necessary in order to allow time for reviewing, collating and printing the proceedings before the event.

Note that even if your draft paper is not complete on the 31st March you should still submit what you have so far to your supervisor at this time.

Organisers

Convenor

Postgraduate Representatives

Luigi Barone, Room G.12, Department of Computer Science, U.W.A. (luigi@csse.uwa.edu.au)

Last modified: Thu Apr 20 23:41:21 WST 2000