It is the process of socio-technical change and the complex relations between technology design and the social and organisational use of that technology that is the focus of the STC (Socio-Technical Change) research theme within the IICT. As a collaborative research group, our focus is on understanding the complex interplay between the drivers of social, organisational and technical change within organisations and the impact this has on the design, implementation and use of information and communication systems. This focus, and the balance of skills which exist within the group to support it, is unique in Australia.

This project aims to assist participants in the Australian over-the-counter (OTC) wholesale financial markets assess the impact of emerging Internet enabled electronic business (e-business) initiatives.

This research seeks to assist Australian firms assess the impact of emerging Internet enabled electronic business (e-business) initiatives in the area of procurement and supply chain management. The focal point of the project is a series of longitudinal case studies of organisations implementing e-procurement initiatives.

The research project is part of an ongoing research programme that is investigating enterprise information design and management. The project seeks to understand the semantic and operational implication of metadata schemes and document encoding standards, and to develop/improve methods for identifying, mapping and managing digital information assets.

The nature of web system development is significantly different from conventional software and IT development. Amongst other factors, there is substantial uncertainty in both clients, understanding of their needs and developers' understanding of the systems domain. This projects aims to develop an uncertainty model relevant to the development of internet-enabled systems, and then use this model to adapt the design process to support elicitation of requirements, as well as developing support for this adapted process. This will facilitate the development of systems that more accurately reflect clients' needs, and result in an understanding of what would be involved in reducing development costs

The project is developing techniques to allow complex machine-to-machine interaction between mobile devices and the rest of the world's land-based systems. This system addresses the problem of allowing a mobile device to autonomously gather information about its surrounds via discovering and accessing standard XML-based services available in its vicinity.

This project aims to develop extensions to existing modeling languages that facilitate information modeling at a higher level of abstraction, such as architectural and business process modeling. The extensions under development will provide a clearer connection between an understanding of business models and processes, and the lower-level designs typically represented in existing models.