Employment history
2004-present
Deputy Head of School, School of Information and Communication Technology, Griffith University, Nathan Campus
1992-2004
Associate Professor January 2000-, Senior Lecturer 1994-; Lecturer 1992-
School of Computing and Information Technology, Griffith University
1991-1992
Senior Research Fellow 1991-Research Fellow 1989-
Department of Computer Science, University of Queensland
1970-1989
Senior Research Fellow 1980-1989, Research Fellow 1976-; 1970-1974 Resarech Assistant
Computer and Automation Institute, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Qualifications
1986
Hungarian Academy of Sciences
PhD (Candidate of Engineering Sciences)
1974
Faculty of Electronic Engineering, Budapest Technical University
Dipl.Ing in Electronic Engineering (Electronic Technology)
1968
Baccalaureate in Mathematics and Computing,
Fazekas Mihaly College, Budapest, Hungary
Professional memberships
1996-
International Federation of Information Processing (IFIP)
Foundation Chair WG5.12 Architectures for Enterprise Integration (since 1996)
1996-
International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC)
Member (former chair) TC 5.3. Enterprise Integration and Networking (since 1996)
1991-2002
Chair IFIP-IFAC Task Force on Architecture for Enterprise Integration (1996-2002); Vice Chair (1993-1996); Member (1991-1993)
Special studies programmes / fellowships
- 07/1998 Center for Coordination Science (CCS), MIT Sloan School of Management, Visiting Researcher
- 10/1986- 12/1988 Stichting Matematisch Centrum, Centre for Mathematics and Computer Science, Amsterdam, Holland. (On Grant of Dutch Initiative of Innovative Applications of Information Technology), Visiting Research Fellow
- 09/1979 - 12/1979 Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Artificial Intelligence Lab., Cambridge, MA, U.S.A. and Computer Science Department Brown University Providence, RI, U.S.A. , (US National Academy of Sciences Scholarship), Visiting Research Fellow
- 08/1974 - 08/1976 Department of Electronic Technology, Budapest Technical University (Grant of Hungarian Ministry of Education), Postgraduate Research Fellow
Teaching
Semester 1 2008
- 3601ICT Professional Practice and Portfolio (Multimedia) (convener, course + design)
- 7301ICT/NA Enterprise Architecture Concepts (convener, lecturer, new course)
- 2601ICT Modelling and Animation (convener)
- 6118CIT/NA Enterprise Architecture (convener/lecturer/tutor)
- 3621ICT/NA Industry Practice (convener + new course design)
- 3632CIT Software Architecture (convener)
- 6108CIT Advanced Organisational Analysis (convener)
Semester 2 2008
- 7302ICT Enterprise Architecture Applications (convener, lecturer, new course)
- 2601ICT Modelling and Animation (convener)
- 2623ICT/NA Interaction and Educational Design for Multimedia (convener, lecturer)
- 2623ICT/GC Interaction and Educational Design for Multimedia (convener, lecturer)
Semester 1 2007
- 2531CIT/NA Multimedia IIA: Production & Management Processes convener
- 2535CIT/NA Modelling & Animation Techniques convener
- 6118CIT/NA Enterprise Architecture convener/lecturer/tutor
- 1513CIT/NA Multimedia Authoring (convener)
Semester 2 2007
- 2533CIT/NA Multimedia IIB: Computer Mediated Communication convener
- 2536CIT/NA Interactive Entertainment Programming convener
- 2538CIT/NA Interactive & Educational Design for Multimedia convener/lecturer
- 2538CIT/GC Interactive & Educational Design for Multimedia convener/lecturer/tutor
- 3533CIT/NA Multimedia III: Industry Contexts & Practice convener
- 6118CIT/LG Enterprise Architecture (ONLINE) convener/lecturer/tutor
- 6118CIT/NA Enterprise Architecture convener/lecturer/tutor
Other courses earlier convened
- 2002ICT Database Design (convener, lecturer)
- 3166CIT Database Management Systems (convener, lecturer)
- 2531CIT Multimedia 2A (Project Management for Multimedia(lecturer, convener)
- 2533CIT Multimedia IIB: Computer Mediated Communication (convener)
- 2536CIT Interactive Entertainment Programming (convener)
- 3530CIT Object Oriented Programming for Interactive Entertainment (convener)
- 1511CIT Introduction to Multimedia (convener)
PhD supervision
- Hadi Esmaeilzadeh Kandjani (principal supervisor)
- Hugo Rehesaar (principal supervisor)
- David Tuffley (associate supervisor)
- Dr Rob Baltrusch (principal supervisor, completed)
- Dr Bela Stantic (associate supervisor, completed)
- Dr Ovidiu Noran (principal supervisor, completed)
- Dr Greg Uppington (principal supervisor, completed)
Research - Grants and consultancies
2003
Grant of the National Bank of Denmark facilitating my Academic Studies Program (ASP) to develop a unified theory of management and engineering. Approximate value AUD$25,000.
2000
DISR Grant to support the participation at Globemen Consortium plenary meetings (jointly held with two of my CSIRO partner researchers) (Griffith share) AUD$60,000 Dr Laszlo Nemes CSIRO (Griffith / Peter Bernus as participant funded from the grant)
2000
Australian Defence Force Joint Logistic Systems Agency, Consultancy & project mentoring contract, approximately AUD$130,000
1998-99
DIST IMST Grant of AUD$20,000 to support new research consortium formation for Virtual Transport Enterprise (project leader)
1997/98
DIST IMST Competitive Research Grant of AUD$110,000, Department of Industry Science and Tourism, for two projects in the Globeman 21 Research Consortium (project leader).
1993-95
An ARC large grant (AUD$150,000) for the research into the foundations of deductive object-oriented languages (with Prof Rodney Topor as a co-principal investigator).
1992-96
Approximately AUD$55,000 in grants, from which approximately AUD$35,000 to Griffith University (Bernus) and AUD$20,000 to CSIRO (Nemes) from DIST, Bilateral Science and Technology Collaboration Programme / ISTEP to support Research on Enterprise Reference Architectures in the IFIP-IFAC Task Force.
1976-86
My research group was supported by 25% Government grants and 75% industry grants. Between 1985 and 1987 Mechatrosoft Coop., the private R&D organisation I directed, was earning research contracts supporting two to three full time research engineers equivalent (seven part time).
Service
Internal
- Deputy Head of School ICT
- Programme convener Bachelor of Information Technology (cross campus)
- Programme convener Bachelor of Multimedia (cross campus, and Nathan)
- Programme convener BIT/BMM combined degree (cross campus and Nathan)
- Member Faculty Board
- Member SEET Teaching and Learning Committee
- Member University Learning Environment Committee
- Member University Academic Integrity Management (AIM) Trial Change Management Group
- Member University Lectopia (Lecture Capture) Project Board
- Member School of ICT School Committee
- Member School of ICT Publicity Committee
- Member School of ICT Masters Renewal Working party
- Member Industry Advisory Board ( BMM and BIT )
External
- Chair IFIP (International Federation of Information Processing) Working Group 5.12 Architectures for Enterprise Integration
- Member IFIP Technical Committee 5, Computer Applications in Technology
- Member IFAC TC 5.3 (previously chair)
- Member (Aus delegate) ISO/IEC JTC1 SC7 Software and Systems Engineering WG 42 Architecture
- Member (Aus delegate) ISO TC184 Industrial Automation Systems and Integration SC5 Architecture, Communications, and Integration Frameworks WG1 Modelling and Architecture
- 1997- Series co-Editor (Bernus, P., Blazewicz, J., Schmidt, G.J., Shaw, M.J.) International Handbooks on Information Systems, Springer Verlag
Member editorial boards
- 1996- Member, Editorial Review Board, International Journal of Concurrent Engineering: Research and Applications. (Technomic Publ.Co.) ISSN:1063-293X
- 1998- Member Editorial Board, Int. J. Computers in Industry, Elsevier-North Holland, Amsterdam ISSN 0166-3615
- 2002-2007 Member Editorial Board International Journal of Networking and Virtual Organisations Inderscience, ISSN: 1740-9503
- 2001- Member, Advisory Board, Int.J. Information Systems and eBusiness Management, Springer Verlag ISSN: 1617-9846
Conference and other memberships
- Co-Chair IFIP/IFAC 3rd International Workshop on Enterprise Integration, Interoperability and Networking (EI2N '08) (part of OTM Federated Conferences)
- 1999- Member International Program Committee of ICEIS (International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems) 2000, 2002
- 2001-2006 Member International Program Committee PRO-VE - IFIP Working Conferences on Virtual Enterprises
- 1997- Chair IPC ICEIMT-09; Chair IPC, ICEIMT2004; Member IPC ICEIMT2002; Member International Advisory Board ICEIMT1997 (International Conference on Enterprise Integration Modelling and Technology)
- 1999 Member Review Committee ISA-Interkarma 1999
- 1999 Member International Program Committee IFIP World Congress (ITBM2000 conference)
- 2001- Member Advisory Board European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS 2001)
- 1998- Member Coordinating Committee 1-Int. Programme Committee, IFAC World Congress 1999, 2002
- 2000 Member International Program Committee (IPC) of the IFAC Symposium on Manufacturing, Modeling, Management and Control, MIM 2000
- 1998 Chair Strategic Workshop on Enterprise Integration and Enterprise Computing (IFIP, IFAC, ISO)
- 1997, 2002 Member IPC BASYS98
- 1996-7 Member IPC of CAPE97
- 1993-97, 2002 Member Programme Committee Australian Database Conference
- 1990-present Member Advisory Board Int. Conf. Artificial Intelligence in Design
- 1996-2002 Chair IFAC Technical Committee MIA (Enterprise Integration)
- 1994 Chair International Programme Committee and chair national organising committee, IFIP Working Conference on Modelling and Methodologies for Enterprise Integration (EI95).
- 1994 Member International Programme Committee IEEE / ECLA International Conference on Architectures and Design Methods for Balanced Automation Systems, BASYS'95
- 1993-95 Vice-chair, IFIP Special Interest Group on Enterprise Integration
- 2000 Member international advisory Board for Int Conf Human System Learning
- 1993-95 Vice-chair, Technical Committee on Architectures for Enterprise Integration, International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC)
- 1999, 2001 Member IPC International Conference on CAD/CAM, Robotics and Factories Of the Future, CARS and FOF 2000 and 2002
- 1993-96 Voting member: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), SIGART, SIGMOD
- 1993-1996 Member Computer Science Association, Australia (membership No. 0330)
- 2000 Member IPC IFIP Working Conference Design of Information Integration Infrastructures for Manufacturing DIISM 2000.
- 1993 Member advisory board, Australian Workshop on Distributed Collaborative Work and its Computational Support
- 1984-97 Member IFIP Working Group 5.8 on Industrial Systems Specification and Documentation (now defunct)
- 1991 International Advisory Committee of the Workshop on Artificial Intelligence in Design, International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Sydney 1991
- 1991 Programme Committee of the Workshop on Intelligent & Cooperative Information Systems, International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Sydney 1991
- 1986-89 International Programme Committee of the Eurographics Workshops on Intelligent CAD Systems
- 1985-90 Elected Member of the Systems Technology Committee of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (in the academic period of 1985-1990)
Invited talks and tutorials at Industry Conferences
- Bernus, P. (2008) (Half-day tutorial) SOA for the Whole of Business, IQPC (International Quality and Productivity Center) : Service Oriented Architecture. Sydney 18-21 February 2008
- Bernus, P. (2008) (Invited talk) Long-term SOA Principles: Laying the Foundation for the Future, IQPC (International Quality and Productivity Center) : Service Oriented Architecture. Sydney 18-21 February 2008
- Bernus, P (2006) (Invited Talk) The Perfect Recipe: Combining Academia and Practicality for your Optimal EA Framework. IQPC (International Quality and Productivity Center). Enterprise Architecture for Government. Canberra.
- Bernus, P (2006) (One Day Executive Workshop) How to Initiate and Implement a Powerful EA Framework to Save Your Organisation Time and Money? Presented at the Enterprise Architecture for Government Conference. Canberra, February 2006 Organised by the International Quality and Productivity Center (IQPC)
- Bernus, P. (2006) (Invited Talk) ‘Developing an effective and flexible Enterprise Architecture (EA)‘ presented in Melbourne at 2006 Industrial IT Forum, org, Markus Evans
- Bernus, (2006) Enterprise Networks and Virtual Organisations. Invited talk at Engineers Australia, Brisbane 27 April 2006
- Bernus, P. (2006) (One Day Workshop) Establishing an Enterprise Architecture (EA) Practice. Enterprise Architecture Regional Summit, Singapore organised by FLIPSIDE, 25-28 September 2006
- Bernus, P. (2006) (International Keynote) Implementing Enterprise Architecture
- Drivers, Best Practices and Methodology. Enterprise Architecture Regional Summit, Singapore organised by FLIPSIDE, 25-28 September 2006
- Bernus, P (2005) (Invited Talk) Supporting Interaction Within Networked Armed Forces. ARC Group Dominant Battlespace Knowledge Asia 2005, Singapore.
- Bernus, P (2005) (Executive Tutorial) Architecting Networked Armed Forces: adopting industry best practice to build and operate networked organisations. ARC Group Dominant Battlespace Knowledge Asia 2005, Singapore.
- Bernus, P (2005) (Invited Talk) Pragmatic Approaches to Technology, Design Principles and Methodologies. Australian Enterprise Architecture Conference. BTELL Sydney.
- Bernus, P (2005) (Invited Talk) Advances in methodologies for doing architecture. Strategic Business Planning for Defence Canberra, 17-18 February, 2005
- Bernus, P (2004) (Invited Talk) Implementing Enterprise Architecture Australian Enterprise Architecture Conference. BTELL Sydney.
- Bernus, P (2004) (One day tutorial) Architecting Enterprise Networks and Virtual Enterprises. Australian Enterprise Architecture Conference. BTELL Sydney.