Dr Shaowen Qin

Position/s:Senior Lecturer
School of Computer Science, Engineering and Mathematics
Phone: +61 8 82013669
Email:
Location: Information, Science & Technology (339)
Postal address: GPO Box 2100, Adelaide 5001, South Australia

Biography

Shaowen joined the School of Computer Science, Engineering and Mathematics in 2005.  She worked for Motorola Global Software Group as a senior staff engineer and program manager from 1997 to 2005. She was a lecturer at the National University of Singapore from 1993 to 1997.

Qualifications

Ph.D. in Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, U.S., 1991.
M.S. in Applied Mathematics, Illinois Institute of Technology, IL, U.S., 1987.
M. Eng. in Solid Mechanics, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, 1985.
B.Eng. in Engineering Mechanics, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, 1982.

Honours, awards and grants

JSPS (Japan Society for Promotion of Sciences) Scholarship, 1996
Motorola Six Sigma Green Belt, 2004
Scientific Visit to China Grant, 2006
Teaching and Learning Innovation Grant, 2007

Key responsibilities

Director of Studies - Computing

Teaching

Topic Coordinator:

Research and supervision

Research expertise

  • Information systems
  • Other engineering
  • Other information and computing sciences

Research interests

Shaowen's current research interests include problem identification and design optimisation of complex processes and socio-technical systems through modeling and simulation; and uncertainty management and decision support methodologies for software engineering and hospital care capacity planning.

Supervisory interests

  • Data mining and knowledge discovery
  • Decision support systems
  • Software engineering
  • Systems dynamic modelling and simulation

RHD research supervision

Current

Principal supervisor: Patient flow data processing and knowledge discovery (1); Software Aquisition Process Modelling (1);

Completion

Associate supervisor: Software Quality Management (1);

Publications

Refereed journal articles
Perimal-Lewis, L., Li, J., Hakendorf, P., Ben-Tovim, D., Qin, S. and Thompson, C. (2012). The relationship between in-hospital location and outcomes of care in patients of a large general medical service. Internal Medicine Journal. [online]. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/imj.12066.
Alfaraj, H.M.A. and Qin, S. (2011). Operationalising CMMI: integrating CMMI and CoBIT perspective. Journal of Engineering, Design and Technology, 9(3), pp.323-335. [online]. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/17260531111179933.
Alfaraj, H. and Qin, S. (2010). Deriving Software Acquisition Process from Maturity Models-An Experience Report. Journal of Software Engineering and Applications, 3(3), pp.280-286. [online]. Available from: http://search.proquest.com/docview/375338978?accountid=10910.
Chiew, K. and Qin, S. (2009). Scheduling and routing of AMOs in an intelligent transport system. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 10(3), pp.547-552. [online]. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TITS.2009.2026449.
Qin, S. (2007). Managing Process Change in Software Organizations: Experience and Reflection. Software Process: Improvement and Practice, 12(5), pp.429-435. [online]. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/spip.338.
Refereed conference papers
Perimal-Lewis, L., Thompson, C., Qin, S. and Hakendorf, P. (2013). Analysing homogenous patient journeys to assess quality of care for patients admitted outside of their "home-ward". In K. Gray and A. Koronios, ed. 6th Australasian Workshop on Health Informatics and Knowledge Management (HIKM 2013), Adelaide, South Australia, January-February 2013. Conferences in Research and Practice in Information Technology (CRPIT). 6th Australasian Workshop on Health Informatics and Knowledge Management (HIKM 2013), Adelaide, South Australia, January-February 2013. Conferences in Research and Practice in Information Technology (CRPIT).
Perimal-Lewis, L., Qin, S., Thompson, C. and Hakendorf, P. (2012). Gaining Insight from Patient Journey Data using a Process-Oriented Analysis Approach. In Kerryn Butler-Henderson and Kathleen Gray, ed. Proceedings of the Fifth Australasian Workshop on Health Informatics and Knowledge Management (HIKM 2012). CRPIT. Australasian Computer Science Week 2012 (ACSW2012). p. ACS. 59-66. [online]. Available from: http://crpit.com/Vol129.html.
Qin, S. and Mooney, C.H. (2009). Using game-oriented projects for teaching and learning software engineering. In Australian Association for Engineering Education 2009 (AAEE09). Australian Association for Engineering Education 2009 (AAEE09). pp. 49-54. [online]. Available from: http://aaee.com.au/conferences/AAEE2009/PDF/AUTHOR/AE090110.PDF.
Qin, S., Yin, B.-B. and Cai, K.-Y. (2009). Mining components with software execution data. In Hamid R. Arabnia, ed. Proceedings of the 2009 International Conference on Software Engineering Research and Practice (SERP'09). The 2009 International Conference on Software Engineering Research and Practice (SERP'09). pp. 643-649.
Alfaraj, H.M.A. and Qin, S. (2008). Business process modeling for software acquisition - A literature review. In L. Cuthbert, Z. T. Wang, ed. 2008 International Conference on Wireless Communications, Networking and Mobile Computing, WiCOM 2008. 2008 International Conference on Wireless Communications, Networking and Mobile Computing, WiCOM 2008. pp. 1-3.

Show all publications

Refereed journal articles
Perimal-Lewis, L., Li, J., Hakendorf, P., Ben-Tovim, D., Qin, S. and Thompson, C. (2012). The relationship between in-hospital location and outcomes of care in patients of a large general medical service. Internal Medicine Journal. [online]. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/imj.12066.
Alfaraj, H.M.A. and Qin, S. (2011). Operationalising CMMI: integrating CMMI and CoBIT perspective. Journal of Engineering, Design and Technology, 9(3), pp.323-335. [online]. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/17260531111179933.
Alfaraj, H. and Qin, S. (2010). Deriving Software Acquisition Process from Maturity Models-An Experience Report. Journal of Software Engineering and Applications, 3(3), pp.280-286. [online]. Available from: http://search.proquest.com/docview/375338978?accountid=10910.
Chiew, K. and Qin, S. (2009). Scheduling and routing of AMOs in an intelligent transport system. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 10(3), pp.547-552. [online]. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TITS.2009.2026449.
Qin, S. (2007). Managing Process Change in Software Organizations: Experience and Reflection. Software Process: Improvement and Practice, 12(5), pp.429-435. [online]. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/spip.338.
Refereed conference papers
Perimal-Lewis, L., Thompson, C., Qin, S. and Hakendorf, P. (2013). Analysing homogenous patient journeys to assess quality of care for patients admitted outside of their "home-ward". In K. Gray and A. Koronios, ed. 6th Australasian Workshop on Health Informatics and Knowledge Management (HIKM 2013), Adelaide, South Australia, January-February 2013. Conferences in Research and Practice in Information Technology (CRPIT). 6th Australasian Workshop on Health Informatics and Knowledge Management (HIKM 2013), Adelaide, South Australia, January-February 2013. Conferences in Research and Practice in Information Technology (CRPIT).
Perimal-Lewis, L., Qin, S., Thompson, C. and Hakendorf, P. (2012). Gaining Insight from Patient Journey Data using a Process-Oriented Analysis Approach. In Kerryn Butler-Henderson and Kathleen Gray, ed. Proceedings of the Fifth Australasian Workshop on Health Informatics and Knowledge Management (HIKM 2012). CRPIT. Australasian Computer Science Week 2012 (ACSW2012). p. ACS. 59-66. [online]. Available from: http://crpit.com/Vol129.html.
Qin, S. and Mooney, C.H. (2009). Using game-oriented projects for teaching and learning software engineering. In Australian Association for Engineering Education 2009 (AAEE09). Australian Association for Engineering Education 2009 (AAEE09). pp. 49-54. [online]. Available from: http://aaee.com.au/conferences/AAEE2009/PDF/AUTHOR/AE090110.PDF.
Qin, S., Yin, B.-B. and Cai, K.-Y. (2009). Mining components with software execution data. In Hamid R. Arabnia, ed. Proceedings of the 2009 International Conference on Software Engineering Research and Practice (SERP'09). The 2009 International Conference on Software Engineering Research and Practice (SERP'09). pp. 643-649.
Alfaraj, H.M.A. and Qin, S. (2008). Business process modeling for software acquisition - A literature review. In L. Cuthbert, Z. T. Wang, ed. 2008 International Conference on Wireless Communications, Networking and Mobile Computing, WiCOM 2008. 2008 International Conference on Wireless Communications, Networking and Mobile Computing, WiCOM 2008. pp. 1-3.
Chiew, K. and Qin, S. (2008). Analysis of privacy-preserving mechanisms for outsourcing data mining tasks. In ? IEEE, ed. 2008 International Conference on Wireless Communications, Networking and Mobile Computing, WiCOM 2008. 2008 International Conference on Wireless Communications, Networking and Mobile Computing, WiCOM 2008. pp. 1-5.
Kroeger, T., Shu, F. and Qin, S. (2008). A defect typology to support process verification and validation. In Hamid R. Arabnia and Hassan Reza, ed. Proceedings of the 2008 International Conference on Software Engineering Research and Practice (SERP'08). The 2008 International Conference on Software Engineering Research and Practice (SERP'08). pp. 245-250. [online]. Available from: http://www.cs.uga.edu/~hra/2008-proceedings/serp/serp-book.pdf.
Zhao, X., Sammut, K., He, F. and Qin, S. (2007). Split private and shared L2 cache architecture for snooping-based CMP. In R. Lee, M. Chowdhury, et. al., ed. Proceedings of the 6th IEEE/ACIS International Conference on Computer and Information Science (ICIS2007). 6th IEEE/ACIS International Conference on Computer and Information Science (ICIS2007). pp. 900-905.
Qin, S. (2006). Implementing process change in a software organization - an experience based study. In Q. Wang et al., ed. Proceedings of SPW/ProSim 2006. SPW/ProSim 2006. pp. 342-347.
Conference publications
Leach, A. and Qin, S. (2008). A practical cost estimation process for game development project management in small studios. In Dr. Edmond Prakash, ed. Proceedings of Computer Games & Allied Technology 2008. CGAT'08: Animation, multimedia, security, IPTV and edutainment. pp. 257-264.

Show selected publications



inspiring achievement