[topicmapmail] SW-EL'06@AH'06: Workshop on Applications of Semantic Web Technologies for e-Learning - CFP
Dicheva, Darina
dichevad@wssu.edu
Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:31:17 -0500
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SW-EL'06: Workshop on Applications of Semantic Web Technologies=20
for Adaptive Educational Hypermedia =20
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in conjunction with AH 2006: =09
International Conference on Adaptive Hypermedia =09
and Adaptive Web-Based Systems =09
(Dublin, Ireland, June 20-23, 2006) =09
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http://www.win.tue.nl/SW-EL/2006/swel06-ah06.html =09
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The Semantic Web promises an advancement in the intelligent Web-
based educational systems design and development by enabling more=20
adequate and accurate representation of learners, their learning=20
goals, learning materials and contexts of their use, as well as=20
more efficient access to and navigation through learning resources.
This workshop will discuss the application of Semantic Web standards=20
and technologies to achieve adaptation and personalization in Web-
based educational systems and will focus on issues related to learner=20
modeling, learning content and design adaptation, learning=20
repositories personalization, and personalization of mobile=20
educational applications.
SW-EL'06 is forth in the series, following the successful workshop=20
on Concepts and Ontologies in Web-based Educational Systems, held=20
in conjunctions with ICCE 2002, the three sessions of SW-EL'04 (in=20
conjunction with ITS'04, AH'04, and ISWC'04), and the three sessions=20
of SW-EL in 2005 (in conjunction with AIED'05, ICALT'05, and K-CAP'05).
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Workshop goals
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* To discuss the current state-of-the-art of the applications of
semantic web technologies and standards in adaptive educational
hypermedia.
* To attract the interest of the related research communities to the
problems in adaptive educational hypermedia and serve as an
international platform for knowledge exchange and cooperation between
researchers.
* To provide feedback to educational and semantic web standardization
bodies.
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Workshop topics
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Topics of interest include, but are not restricted, to:
* Using ontologies for adaptation and personalization of e-learning
applications:
- to represent learning content;=20
- to organize learning repositories / digital libraries;
- to enable sharable learning objects and learner models;
- to support authoring of adaptive Web-based educational systems.
* Using contexts for adaptation and personalization of
e-learning applications:=20
- to support personalized information retrieval;=20
- to support adaptive information filtering;=20
- to support mobile learning applications personalization.
* Using semantic web standards and tools in adaptive Web-based =
educational
systems to improve:=20
- learning objects representation and retrieval;
- learning designs;
- learner modeling;
- authoring of educational AHS.
* Web standards and metadata specifications for educational AHS:=20
- information exchange protocols between educational AHS;=20
- consistency in standards evolution;=20
- mappings between existing semantic web and educational
standards; =20
- educational metadata specification languages.=20
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* Semantic web-based educational AH architectures.=20
* Real-world systems, case studies and empirical research for semantic
web-based educational AH.=20
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Important Dates
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Paper submission: March 31, 2006
Notification: May 6, 2006
Camera-ready submission: May 26, 2006
Workshop date: June 20, 2006=20
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Submission
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The participants can submit full (up to 10 pages) or short (up to 4
pages) position papers. The accepted papers will be published in the=20
workshop proceedings. Similarly to the main conference, all papers=20
should be formatted according to the Springer LNCS guidelines.
Submit your papers in electronic form to the workshop co-chairs at=20
dichevad@wssu.edu and l.m.aroyo@tue.nl=20
in (*.doc), (*.rdf) or (*.pdf) formats no later than March 31, 2006.
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Workshop proceedings
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The papers from the SW-EL'06@AH'06 workshop will be printed in workshop=20
proceedings. After the workshop, the proceedings will be made available=20
online at the SW-EL website. Possibilities will be investigated to=20
publish the best workshop papers in a special issue of a refereed=20
journal (e.g. IJEL or IJCEELL).
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Workshop Co-chairs
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Darina Dicheva, Winston-Salem State University, USA=20
Lora Aroyo, Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands
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Session Chair
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Martin Dzbor, Open University, UK
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Workshop Committee
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Peter Brusilovsky, University of Pittsburgh, USA=20
Weiqin Chen, University of Bergen, Norway
Hugh Davis, University of Southampton, UK =09
Cyrille Desmoulins, University of Grenoble, France=20
Vladan Devedzic, University of Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro=20
Vanja Dimitrova, Univeristy of Leeds, UK=20
Peter Dolog, L3S and University of Hanover, Germany=20
Martin Dzbor, Open University, UK=20
Monique Grandbastien, LORIA, France=20
Nicola Henze, University of Hanover, Germany=20
Judy Kay University of Sydney, Australia=20
Frank Linton, MITRE, USA=20
Gordon McCalla, Uniersity of Saskatchewan, Canada=20
Dave Millard, University of Southampton, UK=20
Tanja Mitrovic, University of Cantebury, New Zealand=20
Riichiro Mizoguchi, University of Osaka, Japan=20
Ossi Nyk=E4nen, Tampere University of Technology, Finland
Hiroaki Ogata, Tokushima University, Japan=09
Niels Pinkwart, Carnegie Mellon University, USA=20
Demetrios Sampson, CERTH - Hellas, Greece=20
Miguel-Angel Sicilia, University of Alcal=E1, Spain
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Contact
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Darina Dicheva, http://myweb.wssu.edu/dichevad/, dichevad(at)wssu.edu=20
Department of Computer Science, Winston-Salem State University
601 Martin Luther King, Jr. Drive, Winston Salem, N.C. 27110, USA
Phone: +1 336-750-2484, Fax: +1 336-750-2499
Lora Aroyo, http://wwwis.win.tue.nl/~laroyo, l.m.aroyo(at)tue.nl=20
Department of Computing Science, Eindhoven University of Technology=20
PO Box 513, 5600 MD Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Phone: +31 40-247-2765, Fax: +31 40-246-3992
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Darina Dicheva
Professor of Computer Science
3206 Computer Science Building
Winston Salem, N.C. 27110
Phone: (336) 750-2484 Fax: (336) 750-2499
Email: dichevad (at) wssu.edu =09
http://myweb.wssu.edu/dichevad/
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