- From: Dicheva, Darina <dichevad@wssu.edu>
- Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2009 13:26:49 -0400
- To: <semantic-web@w3c.org>
******************************************************************* SWEL'09: ONTOLOGIES AND SOCIAL SEMANTIC WEB FOR INTELLIGENT EDUCATIONAL SYSTEMS in conjunction with AIED 2009: The 14th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education Brighton, UK, July 6-10, 2009 ******************************************************************* http://compsci.wssu.edu/iis/swel/SWEL09/index.html ******************************************************************* PAPER SUBMISSION DEADLINE: APRIL 14, 2009 ******************************************************************* An important target for educational Web application researchers and developers today is to provide means to unite, as much as possible, the efforts in creating information and knowledge components that are easily accessible, shareable, reusable and modifiable by others. Within the educational field, this motivates efforts to achieve semantically rich, well-structured, standardised and verified learning content. Ontologies and Semantic Web standards allow achieving such reusability, shareability and interoperability among educational Web resources. Conceptualizations, ontologies and the available Web standards such as XML, XTM, RDF(S), OWL, OWL-S, RuleML, LOM, SCORM and IMS-LD allow specification of components in a standard way. The notion of Social Semantic Web describes an emerging design approach for building Semantic Web applications which employs Social Software approaches. Social Semantic Web systems are usually characterized through their emphasis on collaborative creation, usage and continuous refinement of Semantic Web structures by groups of humans. Social Semantic Web systems typically elicit domain knowledge through semi-formal ontologies, taxonomies or folksonomies. Ontologies, Semantic Web and Social Semantic Web techniques offer new perspectives on intelligent educational systems by supporting more adequate and accurate representations of learners, their learning goals, learning material and contexts of its use, as well as more efficient access and navigation through learning resources. The SWEL'09@AIED'09 workshop, the seventh in the SWEL workshop series, will focus on the best practices of using these technologies for knowledge representation, adaptation and personalization in educational settings. We will discuss lessons learned, benefits and further steps to be undertaken. ******************************************************************* Workshop goals ******************************************************************* * to discuss the current state-of-the-art in using ontologies and Semantic Web standards in e-learning applications * to attract the interest of the related research communities to the problems in the educational Social Semantic Web and serve as an international platform for knowledge exchange and cooperation between researchers ******************************************************************* Important Dates ******************************************************************* Paper submission: April 14, 2009 Notification: May 14, 2009 Camera-ready submission: May 28, 2009 Workshop: July 6 or 7, 2009 ******************************************************************* Workshop topics ******************************************************************* Appropriate topics for the AIED'09 edition of the SWEL workshop include but are not limited to: * Building ontologies for e-learning: - ontology development - theoretical issues in ontology engineering * Using ontologies and Semantic Web standards in e-learning applications: - to represent learning content (knowledge) - to organize learning repositories / digital libraries - to enable sharable learning objects and learner models - to support authoring of intelligent Web-based educational systems - to support adaptive modularised and standardized architectures - to exchange user model information between Semantic Web applications - to facilitate the reuse of content and tools in different contexts and cultures * Using Semantic Web and Social Web techniques for adaptation and personalization of e-learning applications: - to support personalized information retrieval - to support adaptive information filtering - to support mobile learning applications personalization - to support exchange of user model information between semantic web applications - reuse of content and tools in different contexts and cultures - to support intelligent learning group formation - to support collaborative learning * Educational dimensions of the Social Semantic Web: - collaborative tagging of learning resources - semi-formal ontologies, taxonomies and folksonomies in education - social perspective: motivations and benefits of Social Semantic Web approaches in education * Real-world systems, case studies and empirical research for semantics-based Web educational systems: - lessons learnt - best practices - case studies for improved learners, instructors and authors experience - case studies of successful integrations of Web2.0 applications as services ******************************************************************* Workshop Format ******************************************************************* * Keynote talk (to be announced) * Paper presentation sessions * Poster & Software demonstration and discussion session ******************************************************************* Submission ******************************************************************* High quality research papers are encouraged, including position papers and work in progress, in order to present the current state of the art on various perspectives of intelligent educational systems within the context of educational Semantic Web. They will serve as an input for a scientific discussion to identify main problems and to set the basis for novel solutions. Participation of young researchers is encouraged. All submissions will be reviewed by at least two PC members. Participants can submit full papers up to 10 pages, short and position papers up to 5 pages, and posters up to 3 pages. Papers should be formatted in compliance with the AIED'09 paper format (see htp://www.iospress.nl/). Follow the link from the IOS homepage via Books and Authors Corner to Book Publishing and then to Instructions and tools for book authors. Template for Word users: http://www.iospress.nl/authco/iospressbookarticle-word.zip Template for Latex users: http://www.iospress.nl/authco/iospressbookarticle-latex.zip Submit your papers in PDF format via EasyChair at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=swel09 ******************************************************************* Workshop proceedings ******************************************************************* The accepted workshop papers will be printed in the AIED 2009 Workshop proceedings. After the workshop, they will also be made available online at the SWEL workshop website. Possibilities will be investigated to publish the best workshop papers in a special issue of a refereed journal. ******************************************************************* Workshop Organizers ******************************************************************* Niels Pinkwart, Clausthal University of Technology, Germany Darina Dicheva, Winston-Salem State University, USA Riichiro Mizoguchi, University of Osaka, Japan ******************************************************************* Workshop Committee ******************************************************************* Lora Aroyo, Free University Amsterdam, The Netherlands Ig Ibert Bittencourt, Federal University of Alagoas, Brazil Paul Brna, University of Glasgow, UK Patrick Carmichael, University of Cambridge, UK Evandro Costa, Federal University of Alagoas, Brazil Hugh Davis, University of Southampton, UK Cyrille Desmoulins, University of Grenoble, France Vladan Devedzic, University of Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro Paloma Diaz, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain Lydia Lau, Univeristy of Leeds, UK Martin Dzbor, Knowledge Media Institute, UK Peter Dolog, Aalborg University, Denmark Serge Garlati, Institut TELECOM, TELECOM Bretagne, France Dragan Gasevic, Athabasca University, Canada Monique Grandbastien, LORIA, France Andreas Harrer, Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, Germany Yusuke Hayashi, University of Osaka, Japan Jelena Jovanovic, University of Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro Judy Kay, University of Sydney, Australia Niki Lambropoulos, London South Bank University, London, UK Gordon McCalla, Uniersity of Saskatchewan, Canada Erica Melis, DFKI, Germany Dave Millard, University of Southampton, UK Tanja Mitrovic, University of Canterbury,New Zealand Margarida Romero, Université de Toulouse II, FR Demetrios Sampson, Center for Research and Technology, Greece Miguel-Angel Sicilia, University of Alcalá, Spain Sergey Sosnovsky, University of Pitttsburgh, USA Thanassis Tiropanis, University of Southampton, UK *******************************************************************
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