[topicmapmail] 2 CFP: SW-EL'06@AH'06 - deadline March 31, 2006

Dicheva, Darina dichevad at wssu.edu
Mon Mar 13 20:41:51 EST 2006 

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 SW-EL'06: Workshop on Applications of Semantic Web Technologies 
 	   for Adaptive Educational Hypermedia	            
 																 				
 	   in conjunction with AH 2006: 				
    International Conference on Adaptive Hypermedia 	
 	   and Adaptive Web-Based Systems    			
 	(Dublin, Ireland, June 20-23, 2006)

  Supported by the Knowledge Web Network of Excellence
        http://knowledgeweb.semanticweb.org/   
	      								
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     http://www.win.tue.nl/SW-EL/2006/swel06-ah06.html 								
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The Semantic Web promises an advancement in the intelligent Web-
based educational systems design and development by enabling more 
adequate and accurate representation of learners, their learning 
goals, learning materials and contexts of their use, as well as 
more efficient access to and navigation through learning resources.

This workshop will discuss the application of Semantic Web standards 
and technologies to achieve adaptation and personalization in Web-
based educational systems and will focus on issues related to learner 
modeling, learning content and design adaptation, learning 
repositories personalization, and personalization of mobile 
educational applications.

SW-EL'06 is forth in the series, following the successful workshop 
on Concepts and Ontologies in Web-based Educational Systems, held 
in conjunctions with ICCE 2002, the three sessions of SW-EL'04 (in 
conjunction with ITS'04, AH'04, and ISWC'04), and the three sessions 
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; 
		- 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: 
		- to support personalized information retrieval; 
		- to support adaptive information filtering; 
		- to support mobile learning applications personalization.

* Using semantic web standards and tools in adaptive Web-based educational
  systems to improve: 
		- learning objects representation and retrieval;
		- learning designs;
		- learner modeling;
            - authoring of educational AHS.

* Web standards and metadata specifications for educational AHS: 
	- information exchange protocols between educational AHS; 
	- consistency in standards evolution; 
	- mappings between existing semantic web and educational
          standards;  
	- educational metadata specification languages. 
 
* Semantic web-based educational AH architectures. 

* Real-world systems, case studies and empirical research for semantic
  web-based educational AH. 

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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 

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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 
workshop proceedings. Similarly to the main conference, all papers 
should be formatted according to the Springer LNCS guidelines.

Submit your papers in electronic form to the workshop co-chairs at 
dichevad at wssu.edu and l.m.aroyo at tue.nl 
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 at AH'06 workshop will be printed in workshop 
proceedings. After the workshop, the proceedings will be made available 
online at the SW-EL website. Possibilities will be investigated to 
publish the best workshop papers in a special issue of a refereed 
journal (e.g. IJEL or IJCEELL).

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Workshop Co-chairs
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Darina Dicheva, Winston-Salem State University, USA 
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 
Weiqin Chen, University of Bergen, Norway
Hugh Davis, University of Southampton, UK		
Cyrille Desmoulins, University of Grenoble, France 
Vladan Devedzic,  University of Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro 
Vanja Dimitrova, Univeristy of Leeds, UK 
Peter Dolog, L3S and University of Hanover, Germany 
Monique Grandbastien, LORIA, France 
Nicola Henze, University of Hanover, Germany 
Geert-Jan Houben, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium 
Judy Kay University of Sydney, Australia 
Frank Linton, MITRE, USA 
Gordon McCalla, Uniersity of Saskatchewan, Canada 
Dave Millard, University of Southampton, UK 
Tanja Mitrovic, University of Cantebury, New Zealand 
Riichiro Mizoguchi, University of Osaka, Japan 
Ossi Nykänen, Tampere University of Technology, Finland
Hiroaki Ogata, Tokushima University, Japan	
Niels Pinkwart, Carnegie Mellon University, USA 
Demetrios Sampson, CERTH - Hellas, Greece 
Miguel-Angel Sicilia, University of Alcalá, Spain
 	
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Contact
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Darina Dicheva, http://myweb.wssu.edu/dichevad/, dichevad(at)wssu.edu 
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 
Department of Computing Science, Eindhoven University of Technology 
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 Elva J. Jones Computer Science Building
Winston Salem, N.C. 27110
Phone: (336) 750-2484	Fax: (336) 750-2499
Email: dichevad(at)wssu.edu 	
http://myweb.wssu.edu/dichevad/
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