The Australasian Computer Science Conference is an annual forum for exploring research, development, and novel applications in Computer Science. The Thirty-Second Australasian Computer Science Conference, ACSC 2009, will be held at the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa in Wellington in January, 2009 by the Victoria University of Wellington as part of the Australasian Computer Science Week. Registration to the Australasian Computer Science Conference enables delegates to attend sessions in any conference participating in the Australasian Computer Science Week.

Key Areas

ACSC 2009 solicits contributions in all fields of Computer Science research. Typical, but not exclusive topics of interest are:

• Algorithms
• Artificial Intelligence
• Communications and Networks
• Compilers
• Computer Architecture
• Computer Vision
• Computational Geometry
• Concurrency
• Databases
• Data Structures
• Distributed Systems
• E-Commerce
• Education
• Embedded Systems
• Fault Tolerance
• Formal Methods
• Functional Programming
• Graphics
• High Performance Computing
• Human-Computer Interaction
• Logic and Logic Programming
• Mobile Computing
• Multimedia
• Natural Language
• Object-Oriented Systems
• Operating Systems
• Pattern Matching and Image Processing
• Persistence
• Programming Languages
• Real-time Systems
• Reliability
• Robotics
• Security
• Scientific Computing
• Simulation
• Software Engineering
• Speech
• Theory
• Trusted Systems
• Visualization

Paper Submission

We welcome papers describing original contributions in all fields of Computer Science research. Its contribution should be clearly explained in both general and technical terms, and authors should make every effort to ensure that its technical content is understandable by a broad audience without taking away from its impact and significance. Submission of a paper should be regarded as an undertaking that, should the paper be accepted, at least one author will attend the conference to present the work.

Each paper will be judged on its originality, significance, technical quality, relevance to ACSC, and presentation. Papers should be no more than 10 pages in length conforming to the formatting instructions for the series Conferences in Research and Practice in Information Technology. Instructions available from the ACSC2009 web site main page.

Submission to ACSC 2009 will only be accepted electronically via the conference web page at http://www.comp.mq.edu.au/conferences/acsc09/submission. Authors are asked to submit an abstract first, then to upload the full paper using the paper-id assigned by the system.

By submitting to the conference authors accept that they are aware of the Guidelines on Research Practice in Computer Science by the Computer Research and Education Association (CORE - previously CSA). In particular, authors are encouraged to review the points on authorship.

Best Student Paper

A prize will be awarded to the best student paper as chosen by the programme committee. The student paper award is given on the conditions that:

(1)  all other non-student co-authors confirm to the program chair(s) that the nominated author has had a substantial participation into the paper and

(2)   the student academic supervisor confirms to the program chair that the contribution reflected in the paper is the result of a major component from progress for a research higher degree.

Publication

The proceedings of the conference will be published through the Australian Computer Society as the Australasian Computer Science Conference 2008 - Australian Computer Science Communications. Each paper will be fully refereed. Complete instructions for authors regarding submission and formatting procedures can be found at the ACSC 2009 website. The proceedings are included in the ACM digital library.

After the conference, authors of the best papers will be invited to submit an extended version for publication in the Journal of Research and Practice in Information Technology (JRPIT).

• Bernard Mans, Macquarie University

Programme Committee

• Michael H. Albert, University of Otago (New Zealand)
• Steve Blackburn, Australian National University (Australia)
• Stephane Bressan, National University of Singapore (Singapore)
• Fred Brown, The University of Adelaide (Australia)
• Kris Bubendorfer, Victoria University of Wellington (New Zealand)
• Neville Churcher, University of Canterbury (New Zealand)
• Amitava Datta, University of Western Australia (Australia)
• Trevor Dix, Swinburne University (Australia)
• Curtis Dyreson, Utah State University (USA)
• Jenny Edwards, University of Technology Sydney (Australia)
• Vladimir Estivill-Castro, Griffith University (Australia)
• Ansgar Fehnker, NICTA, Sydney (Australia)
• Aditya Ghose, University of Wollongong (Australia)
• Ken Hawick, Massey University - Albany (New Zealand)
• Seok-Hee Hong, University of Sydney (Australia)
• Nigel Horspool, University of Victoria (Canada)
• Michael Houle, National Institute for Informatics (Japan)
• Paddy Krishnan, Bond University (Australia)
• Francis Lau, Hong Kong University
• Bruce Litow, James Cook University (Australia)
• Maurice Pagnucco, University of New South Wales (Australia)
• Paul Strooper, University of Queensland (Australia)
• Markus Stumptner, University of South Australia (Australia)
• Antonis Symvonis, National Technical University of Athens (Greece)
• Andrew Turpin, RMIT (Australia)
• Hua Wang, University of Southern Queensland (Australia)
• Thomas Wolle, NICTA, Sydney (Australia)
• Burkhard Wuensche, University of Auckland (New Zealand)
• Masafumi Yamashita, Kyushu University (Japan)
• Yanchun Zhang, Victoria University (Australia)