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industry partnership

The focus of the Centre for Object Technology Applications and Research (COTAR) is applications of OT in industry and commerce. This requires initial basic research and then evaluative research of the technology transfer into industry.

The Centre can only succeed with industry collaboration. Collaboration can take many forms, for instance participation in the development of research training programmes, staff development, research directions, joint development of software, student projects and training, collaborative development of professional development courses.

Specifically, COTAR offers the following benefits to its industry partners

• immediate access to modern ideas on software development
• advice on migrating to OT
• advice on object-oriented language choice
• networking to other companies adopting OT for similar projects
• priority access to in-house and public professional development courses
• hands-on access to a wide range of object-oriented CASE tools, language compilers and support tools for evaluation
• access to research students providing collaborative input to appropriate projects

Support and funding for research students and research projects is sought for a range of exciting new ideas which need to be evaluated, developed and tested. Students at Masters and PhD level undertake these projects in close collaboration with their academic and industry supervisors. In addition, these new ideas add to the training potential at undergraduate and coursework Masters degree levels ensuring, through such industry support, that UTS graduates in Computing Sciences are highly focussed on industry's emerging needs.

current partners

other direct industry contributions

COTAR represents UTS in its membership of the Object Management Group (OMG). Ongoing involvement with the OMG's Software Process Engineering initiative (Henderson-Sellers acting as official reviewer during early part of 2001). COTAR is also involved in the preparation of a response for UML 2.0.

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Industry partners will benefit by participating in COTAR and will be investing in our nation's software engineering future in different ways. Investment can (and already has) taken a number of forms. These include:

1. provision of funds for PhD scholarship ($25,000 p.a. for three years)
2. provision of funds for MSc scholarship ($25,000 p.a. for two years)
3. provision of top-up funding for an existing government (APA) scholarship ($5-10,000 p.a. for three years)
4. sponsoring of specific research project or researcher
5. sponsoring of a researcher, preferably at postdoctoral level ($60-80,000 p.a.)
6. higher level funding to permit a flexible research and technology transfer environment (>$100,000 p.a.)
7. collaborative grant proposals to government (e.g. GIRD, collaborative ARC)
8. provision of software
9. provision of hardware
10. provision of industrially-focussed data for use in research projects
11. provision of industrial "test-bed" environment for ideas generated by COTAR researchers
12. provision of travel funding to allow young researchers to attend national and international conferences (perhaps $500-$5000, one-off or annually)
13. sponsor seminar series
14. secondment of personnel to COTAR to undertake joint research projects and teaching ventures
15. willingness to act as an "expert" on some aspect of OT e.g. on products, methodologies, tools etc. to whom specific enquiries can be channeled by the staff at COTAR.

ALL support will be fully acknowledged. The name of the sponsoring organization will appear in all research publications and presentations arising from the sponsorship and full details will appear in the Annual Report of the Centre which will be circulated widely nationally and internationally.