Heinrich (Heinz) W Schmidt PhD (Bremen), VDI, MIEEE, MACM   Professor of Software Engineering, RMIT University Mail: Computer Science and Information Technology   124 La Trobe Street, RMIT University, VIC 3001 AUSTRALIA Map: City Campus 14.10.1, next to Melbourne Central Station (Metlink) Email: Heinz (dot) Schmidt [at] rmit (dot) edu (dot) au Tel: T +61 (3) 99 25 36 70 F +61 (3) 96 62 16 17 I +61 (3) 90 15 97 53 Video: Skype: bauhws, iChat: hausbau, Marratech: FIT DSSE Scape Heinz CoE: PROGRESS Centre for Predictable Embedded Software Systems at MdH NoE: European FP7 Network of Excellence Embedded Systems Design   Adjunct Professor, Mälardalen Real-Time Research Centre, MdH, Västerås, Sweden   Adjunct Professor, Monash University, Australia More: About  Quest  Papers  Teaching  Admin  Hobby  Learn

Organising Committee member COMPARCH - Component-based software engineering and software architecture 2009
PC member ESEC/FSE 2009 (European Software Engineeering Conference (ESEC) and ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE) 2009 24-28.8.09
PC member FACS 2009 - Formal Aspects of Component Software 2-3.11.09
PC member CORCS 2009 - Component-Based Design of Resource-Constrained Systems 20-24.7.09

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Units I have taught and introduced
@RMIT

• ISYS2425 Software Engineering for Large Scale Systems
• ISYS2379 Enterprise Architecture Case Studies

• CSE1401 Introduction to Software Engineering
• CSE4002 Software Engineering Studio Project
• CSE4333 Parallel Systems,
• CSE463: Parallel Programming
• CSE3420 Developing Graphical WWW Applications With Java (some of that material is reused in Multimedia Applications Using Java)
• CSE3416 Concurrent Programming
• CSE5000 Distributed Object Technology

Curricula I initiated and helped introduce

Bachelor of Software Engineering (BSE)

Industrial PhD (Computer Science)

Curricula worthwhile working on (watch this space)

Introduction to Advanced Programming
Bachelor of Informatics (Life sciences | Software-intensive systems engineering )
Masters of IT (Services Engineering and Management)

Research and Consulting

• Publications
• Research Links

• Software Engineering: requirements, risk management, specification, verification/testing, reliability engineering
• Modeling simulation and analysis: Petri nets, graph theory, cluster, cloud and grid performance
• Component technology: UML, .NET, OOD, IDL, Eiffel, Sather, Java, C/C++
• Software architecture: distributed systems, frameworks and architectures, many-core and real-time architectures
• I-services: Web, Java, CGI, Perl, PHP, HTML, Linux
• Databases: SQL, Java-ODBC, mySQL, ACCESS, Workflow
• Mathematics: logic, algebra and statistics using Prolog, CLOS, SPSS, Maple, Matlab from Java to Matlab or Distributed Matlab calling Java

Hobbies & Kultur

Administrative Posts

Current

Role	Unit	During absence please contact
Discipline Head	Distributed Software Engineering and Architecture, School of Computer Science and IT, RMIT	Ms. Astrid Bauers
Chair	Research Technology Advisory Group, RMIT	Dr. April Weiss

Prior

• Director Monash Centre for Distributed Systems and Software Engineering 2000-2006
• Director Distributed Systems Technology Centre (DSTC CRC) Pty Ltd 2004-2006
• Alternate Associate Dean Research, Faculty of IT, Monash University 2005-2006
• Director Monash Cluster Computing Laboratory, 2000-2002
• Head of Department of Software Development, Monash University 1994-1997
• Associate Dean (Research), Faculty of IT, Monash University,1997-1999
• Director Pearcey Centre for Computing, Monash University,1997-1998
• Advisory board member, Swedish SAVE initiative (Component Based Design of Safety Critical Vehicular Systems) [SSF,ARTES]

Initiatives

• A model for fair workload calculation see also the load calculator derived from that.
• School Consulting guide lines
• Creation of an Information Technology Research Office at Monash University.
• Research strength funding scheme FITR aiming at preserving existing research strength and seeding new ones.
• Creation of the DSSE Research Centre.
• Creation of the MCC Research Centre.
• Creation of the Plagiarism Research Group.