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(with apologies for multiple cross-postings) ******************************************************************* ONTOLOGIES AND SOCIAL SEMANTIC WEB FOR INTELLIGENT EDUCATIONAL SYSTEMS (SWEL) Special Track at The 24th International FLAIRS Conference In cooperation with the American Association for Artificial Intelligence Palm Beach, Florida, USA May 18th - 20th, 2011 ******************************************************************* http://compsci.wssu.edu/iis/swel/SWEL11/ ******************************************************************* PAPER SUBMISSION DEADLINE: ***November 22nd, 2010*** ******************************************************************* Ontologies, the Semantic Web, and the Social Semantic Web offer a new perspective on intelligent educational systems by providing intelligent access to and management of Web information and semantically richer modeling of the applications and their users. This allows for 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 goal is to advance intelligent educational systems, so as to achieve improved e-learning efficiency, flexibility and adaptation for single users and communities of users (learners, instructors, courseware authors, etc). This special track follows the workshop series "Ontologies and Semantic Web for e-Learning"- SWEL which was conducted successfully from 2002-2009 at different hosting conferences (http://compsci.wssu.edu/iis/swel/). ******************************************************************* Workshop goals ******************************************************************* * to discuss the current state-of-the-art in using ontologies and Semantic Web technologies in e-learning applications; and * 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: November 22nd, 2010 Notification: January 21st, 2011 Camera-ready due: February 21st, 2011 ******************************************************************* Workshop topics ******************************************************************* Papers and contributions are encouraged for any work relating to the application of ontologies, Semantic Web, and Social Semantic Web technologies to education. Topics of interest may include (but are in no way 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 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 Note: We invite original papers (i.e. work not previously submitted, in submission, or to be submitted to another conference during the reviewing process). ******************************************************************* Submission ******************************************************************* Interested authors should format their papers according to AAAI formatting guidelines. The papers should be original work (i.e., not submitted, in submission, or submitted to another conference while in review). Papers should not exceed 6 pages (2 pages for a poster) and are due by November 22nd, 2010. For FLAIRS-24, the 2011 conference, the reviewing is a double blind process. Fake author names and affiliations must be used on submitted papers to provide double-blind reviewing. Papers must be submitted as PDF through the EasyChair conference system, which can be accessed through the main conference web site (http://www.flairs-24.info/). Note: do not use a fake name for your EasyChair login - your EasyChair account information is hidden from reviewers. *Authors should indicate the SWEL special track for submissions.* The proceedings of FLAIRS will be published by the AAAI. Authors of accepted papers will be required to sign a form transferring copyright of their contribution to AAAI. An author of each accepted paper is required to register, attend, and present the paper at FLAIRS. ******************************************************************* Organizing Committee ******************************************************************* Darina Dicheva, Winston-Salem State University, USA Riichiro Mizoguchi, University of Osaka, Japan Roger Nkambou, Université du Québec, Montréal, Canada Niels Pinkwart, Clausthal University of Technology, Germany ******************************************************************* Program Committee ******************************************************************* Ig Ibert Bittencourt, Federal University of Alagoas, Brazil Lillian N. Cassel, Villanova University, USA Federica Cena, , University of Turin, Italy Evandro Costa, Federal University of Alagoas, Brazil Cyrille Desmoulins, University of Grenoble, France Paloma Diaz, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain Christo Dichev, Winston-Salem State University, USA Vania Dimitrova, Univeristy of Leeds, UK Peter Dolog, Aalborg University, Denmark Martin Dzbor, T-Systems, Slovakia Albert Esterline, North Carolina A&T State University, USA Rosta Farzan, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Jeffrey Forbes , Duke University, USA Serge Garlatti, Institut TELECOM, TELECOM Bretagne, France Monique Grandbastien, LORIA, France Yusuke Hayashi, University of Osaka, Japan Seiji Isotani, HCII, Carnegie Mellon, USA Jelena Jovanovic, University of Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro Lydia Lau, University of Leeds, UK Gordon McCalla, Uniersity of Saskatchewan, Canada Erica Melis, DFKI, Germany Dave Millard, University of Southampton, UK Tanja Mitrovic, University of Canterbury, New Zealand Rafael Morales, Universidad de Guadalajara, Mexico Demetrios Sampson, Center for Research and Technology - Hellas, Greece Miguel-Angel Sicilia, University of Alcalá, Spain Sergey Sosnovsky, DFKI, Germany Thanassis Tiropanis, University of Southampton, UK Maria Felisa Verdejo, Univ. Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Spain ******************************************************************* Further Information ******************************************************************* Questions regarding the SWEL Special Track should be addressed to the track co-chairs: Darina Dicheva, dichevad@wssu.edu Riichiro Mizoguchi, miz@ei.sanken.osaka-u.ac.jp Roger Nkambou, Nkambou.Roger@uqam.ca Niels Pinkwart, niels.pinkwart@tu-clausthal.de Questions regarding any other FLAIRS special tracks should be addressed to the FLAIRS special track coordinator: Chutima Boonthum-Denecke, chutima.boonthum@hamptonu.edu Conference Chair: Hans Guesgen, Massey University, New Zealand Program Co-Chairs: Chas Murray, Carnegie Learning, USA Philip McCarthy, University of Memphis, USA Special Track Coordinator: Chutima Boonthum-Denecke, chutima.boonthum@hamptonu.edu Conference Web Sites Paper submission site: follow the link for submissions at http://www.FLAIRS-24.info SWEL Special Track web page: http://compsci.wssu.edu/iis/swel/SWEL11/ Florida AI Research Society (FLAIRS): http://www.flairs.com ******************************************************************* Darina Dicheva Winston-Salem State University 601 S. Martin Luther King Jr. Drive Winston Salem, NC 27110 Phone: 336-750-2484 http://myweb.wssu.edu/dichevad/
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