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There have been a great number of research efforts in designing and implementing web-based education systems that offer personalized learning or other personalized educational facilities to users. Personalization concerns a number of educational activities/facilities, like lesson planning, teaching content specification, answer/solution analysis, problem solving support, student evaluation, test generation, student collaboration, class monitoring, educational resources recommendation, etc. Personalization is achieved by using methods/techniques coming from two main sources: Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Adaptive Hypermedia (AH). AI methods/techniques include: knowledge representation and reasoning, expert systems, AI planning, machine learning, neurocomputing, etc. AH methods/techniques include: adaptive text presentation, adaptive link annotation, adaptive link sorting, etc. AH methods/techniques may use AI methods/techniques for their implementation. However, most of the existing Adaptive Education Hypermedia Systems use methods/techniques that can hardly be considered as "intelligent". Also, apart from "traditional" AI methods/techniques, there have been Web-oriented AI methods/techniques, like web usage mining or filtering techniques. Furthermore, Semantic Web is a source of additional intelligent methods/techniques, like ontologies based representation, description logics based reasoning etc. So, web-based intelligent/adaptive education systems that combine an AI method/technique either with another AI method/technique or with an AH method/technique for implementing the same or different educational activities/facilities seem to be an interesting research direction.
Topics of interest include (but not limited to) the following:
We are interested in high quality research papers on the above or related topics. Interested authors should submit electronic versions of their papers (in pdf, ps or word format) by email to the Workshop chair (see at the end of the page). The papers should not exceed 10 pages (following standard ACM guidelines) and are due by June 12th, 2005. All papers will be refereed by at least two members of the program committee of the Workshop.
There were 18 submissions to the Workshop including authors from 11 different countries. Submitted papers were reviewed by at least two members of the PC. From those submissions 6 have been accepted as full papers and 6 as short papers, based on the comments of the reviewers. So, there is a total of 12 accepted papers that will be presented at the Workshop, which we hope that will be quite interesting.
Paper submission due: June 24th, 2005
Proceedings of all accepted papers in pdf format are available (here)
. Revised versions of selected papers will be published in the ACM Digital Library after the end of the conference. Selected authors may be asked to submit extended versions of their papers to be considered (after a second review round) for publication in a special issue of an international journal.
One of the authors of each accepted paper is expected to present it at the Workshop. Workshop participants are limited to 20-30 persons. Workshop program is now available here. A photo
of some of the participants is now available.
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We thank the European Social Fund (ESF), Operational Program for Educational and Vocational Training II (EPEAEK II), and particularly the Postgraduate Program "Informatics in Life Sciences" for funding this Workshop.
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Lora Aroyo
** HELLAS and GREECE are equivalent names of my country. Although GREECE has dominated for historical reasons, HELLAS is its proper name.