Division 08 Information and Computing Sciences
This division covers information and computing sciences. This division has eight groups:
GROUP 0801 ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND IMAGE PROCESSING
This group covers artificial intelligence, expert systems and image processing. It includes:
- technologies supplementing or supporting information systems or presentation, such as computer graphics, natural
- language processing, pattern recognition and data mining; and
- virtual and artificial realities and related simulation.
This group has twelve fields:
- 080101 Adaptive Agents and Intelligent Robotics
- 080102 Artificial Life
- 080103 Computer Graphics
- 080104 Computer Vision
- 080105 Expert Systems
- 080106 Image Processing
- 080107 Natural Language Processing
- 080108 Neural, Evolutionary and Fuzzy Computation
- 080109 Pattern Recognition and Data Mining
- 080110 Simulation and Modelling
- 080111 Virtual Reality and Related Simulation
- 080199 Artificial Intelligence and Image Processing not elsewhere classified
GROUP 0802 COMPUTATION THEORY AND MATHEMATICS
This group covers computation theory and mathematics of computing. This group has six fields:
- 080201 Analysis of Algorithms and Complexity
- 080202 Applied Discrete Mathematics
- 080203 Computational Logic and Formal Languages
- 080204 Mathematical Software
- 080205 Numerical Computation
- 080299 Computation Theory and Mathematics not elsewhere classified
GROUP 0803 COMPUTER SOFTWARE
This group covers technologies related to computer software, software programming, computer languages and software operating systems. This group has ten fields:
- 080301 Bioinformatics Software
- 080302 Computer System Architecture
- 080303 Computer System Security
- 080304 Concurrent Programming
- 080305 Multimedia Programming
- 080306 Open Software
- 080307 Operating Systems
- 080308 Programming Languages
- 080309 Software Engineering
- 080399 Computer Software not elsewhere classified
GROUP 0804 DATA FORMAT
This group covers data format technologies in the information and computing sciences. This group has five fields:
- 080401 Coding and Information Theory
- 080402 Data Encryption
- 080403 Data Structures
- 080404 Markup Languages
- 080499 Data Format not elsewhere classified
GROUP 0805 DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING
This group covers computing distributed over multiple independent systems. It includes web technologies. This group has six fields:
- 080501 Distributed and Grid Systems
- 080502 Mobile Technologies
- 080503 Networking and Communications
- 080504 Ubiquitous Computing
- 080505 Web Technologies (excl. Web Search)
- 080599 Distributed Computing not elsewhere classified
GROUP 0806 INFORMATION SYSTEMS
This group covers information systems. It includes:
- computer and information systems organisation, design and management;
- interfaces and presentation, including computer-human interaction, and the application of psychology to computer-human interfaces;
- web services other than web search;
- traditional information and knowledge systems; and
- systems theory and conceptual modelling.
This group has fifteen fields:
- 080601 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Information and Knowledge Systems
- 080602 Computer-Human Interaction
- 080603 Conceptual Modelling
- 080604 Database Management
- 080605 Decision Support and Group Support Systems
- 080606 Global Information Systems
- 080607 Information Engineering and Theory
- 080608 Information Systems Development Methodologies
- 080609 Information Systems Management
- 080610 Information Systems Organisation
- 080611 Information Systems Theory
- 080612 Interorganisational Information Systems and Web Services
- 080613 Maori Information and Knowledge Systems
- 080614 Pacific Peoples Information and Knowledge Systems
- 080699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
GROUP 0807 LIBRARY AND INFORMATION STUDIES
This group covers library and information studies. It includes:
- management, organisation and retrieval of information and knowledge;
- librarianship; and
- research on how information is used.
This group has ten fields:
- 080701 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Knowledge Management
- 080702 Health Informatics
- 080703 Human Information Behaviour
- 080704 Information Retrieval and Web Search
- 080705 Informetrics
- 080706 Librarianship
- 080707 Organisation of Information and Knowledge Resources
- 080708 Records and Information Management (excl. Business Records and Information Management)
- 080709 Social and Community Informatics
- 080799 Library and Information Studies not elsewhere classified
GROUP 0899 OTHER INFORMATION AND COMPUTING SCIENCES
This group covers information and computing sciences not elsewhere classified. This group has one field:
- 089999 Information and Computing Sciences not elsewhere classified
