Open PhD Workshop on Technology-Enhanced
Learning and Semantics, Software and Services
03 September 2008, Varna, Bulgaria
in conjunction with the 13th International
Conference on Artificial Intelligence: Methodology, Systems, Applications – AI@Work (AIMSA 2008)
04-06 September, Varna, Bulgaria
LOCATION
LAIC 2008 will be held at Grand Hotel
Varna, St. Constantine and Helena Resort, 10 km to the north-east of Varna.
SCOPE
The Workshop
is organized by the 7FP project SISTER.
The project focuses, especially, on strengthening
the PhD and PostDoc level of education and training of researchers, and
thus attracting more young scientists to the research profession and
retaining them. The project SISTER is structured around two ICT strategic
research areas - Software and services, and Intelligent Content and
Semantics. The
research workshops and seminars will support the research in the particular
area through brainstorming sessions, discussions and strategic planning. Some
of them will be of benefit to the PhD students and Post Docs and the
advancement in their careers, while others will be devoted to further research
collaboration in selected EU research programmes.
The
main research areas addressed are:
- Creation
of digital libraries with intelligent content. Semantic annotation of
digital content – Creation of ontologies for the digital content in the
libraries. Semantic annotation of the learning materials in the
repositories. The created ontologies and their semantic annotation will
allow searching materials using semantic web techniques.
- Development
of adaptive intelligent learning systems based on intelligent ontologies
and digital learning materials. New innovative pedagogical approaches,
assessment models and organisational models for lifelong competence
development
- Software
for the effective support of users who create, store, use and exchange
knowledge resources, learning activities, units of learning and competence
development programmes within a learning network.
- Models
and tools for competence development into a common, easy to use
infrastructure. Training programs to learn users how to work with the
infrastructure, and to train instructors and companies (specifically SMEs)
to deliver services using the infrastructure.
- Responsive
environments for technology-enhanced learning higher education and
business organisations “that motivate, engage and inspire learners, and
which can be embedded in the business processes and human resources
management systems of organisations”. Special attention will be given to
using the research outcomes related to Intelligent Content and Semantics
and Digital Libraries for building intelligent Adaptive and intuitive
learning systems and Web 2.0 oriented applications.
- Development
of a semantics-based reference frameworks for the conceptualisation of
learning content, learning objectives, and teaching strategies, and the
implementation of pedagogically-driven and semantically-enhanced adaptive
learning systems. This will lead to consolidating existing theoretical and
technological frameworks for explicitly modelling educational content,
teaching strategies, and learner characteristics, and integrating them
under a common semantic model.
TOPICS
The main research topics are:
- Learning
Design for formal and informal Lifelong Learning and Competence
Development
- Instructional
Design Theories
- Adaptation Patterns and
Techniques
- Competencies in Workplace
Learning
- Building Learning
Communities
- Educational
Modelling Languages / Learning Design
- Pedagogical and
Organizational Frameworks
- Virtual Spaces
for Learning Communities
- Business Processes and
Learning
- Informal Learning
- Organizational
Learning
- Authoring,
discovery, advise and/or exchange of knowledge resources
- Authoring,
discovery, advise and/or exchange of learning activities or units of
learning
- Learning Objects,
Learning Activities, Learning Design
- Learning Objects
for Personalized Learning
- Media for
Learning in Multicultural Settings
- Autoring of Multimedia/
Virtual Reality Content
- Web Video Lectures
- Re-Use of Learning
Objects
- Metadata for Search and
Information Retrieval
- Re-Authoring and
Re-Purposing
- Knowledge
Management issues related to competence development, lifelong learning or
HRM
- Knowledge Sharing.
- Methods
and tools for learner support in distributed environments
- Methods
and tools to support peer tutoring, teaching, mentoring, coaching
- Use
of language technologies to support learning processes
- Open
standards and specifications usable for learning networks
- Personal
data, profiles, and portable ePortfolios for competence registration
Technologies for the discovery of suitable learning resources
- Personalised
and collaborative trails using knowledge resources or learning activities
- Social
Software for Collaborative Learning at a Distance
- Social software usable for lifelong competence development
- Collaborative Knowledge Building and Sharing
- Collaborative Games
- Mobile
and Ubiquitous Learning
- Mobile
support for lifelong competence development
- Mobile
Learning Applications
- Models for software
services
- ICT Architectures
supporting software services
- Distributed implementation
of software services
- Role of services in the
middleware architecture
- Extended Security in
software services
- Interoperability between
different WS providers
WORKSHOP
LANGUAGE
English
SUBMISSION
DETAILS
The papers submitted to the
workshop must be up to 4000 words. The submissions may report research, technology development,
reviews and applications but are not limited to these. All submissions will be
reviewed on the basis of relevance, originality, significance, soundness, and
clarity.
Deadline
for submission: 22nd August 2008.
Electronic
submissions should be forwarded as a Portable Document Format (.pdf)
attachment to: ics08@uni-sofia.bg. All submissions must be
papers of up to 4000 words that are formatted according to the workshop publication
guidelines (http://ics08.uni-sofia.bg/CFP_Instructions for Authors.pdf)
Conference Proceedings
All papers
accepted for the workshop will be published in the workshop proceedings with
ISBN and will be distributed to the participants after the workshop. All paper will be reviewed by two referees, preferably associate
professors or full professors. The workshop will publish only the approved by
the referees papers.
PROGRAMME COMMITTEE CHAIR
Krassen Stefanov, University
of Sofia “St. Kliment Ohridski”,
Sofia, Bulgaria
PROGRAMME
COMMITTEE:
Iraklis Papaskakis, SEERC
(Research centre related to Sheffield University), Thessaloniki, Greece
Sylvia Ilieva,
University of Sofia “St. Kliment Ohridski”,
Sofia, Bulgaria
Preslav Nakov, Institute
for Parallel Information Processing - BAS, Sofia, Bulgaria
Darina Dicheva, Winston-Salem University, USA
Alexander Grigorov, University of Sofia “St. Kliment Ohridski”, Sofia, Bulgaria
Mariana Vassileva, Institute of Information Technologies - BAS, Sofia, Bulgaria
Vassil Alexandrov, University of Reading, Reading, UK
Slavi Stoyanov, Open
University, Heerlen, Netherlands
Valentin Kisimov,
University for World and National Economics, Sofia, Bulgaria
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:
Svetla Boycheva (Chairman), University of Sofia “St. Kliment Ohridski”, Sofia, Bulgaria
Maria Nisheva, University
of Sofia “St. Kliment Ohridski”, Sofia, Bulgaria
Eliza Stefanova, University
of Sofia “St. Kliment Ohridski”, Sofia, Bulgaria
Ivan Koychev,
University of Sofia “St. Kliment Ohridski”, Sofia, Bulgaria
Kamenka Staykova, Institute of Information Technologies, Sofia
Bulgaria
Krassimira Genova, Institute of Information Technologies, Sofia
Bulgaria
IMPORTANT DATES:
Submission deadline: August
22, 2008
Notification of acceptance:
August 29, 2008
Deadline for camera-ready
submissions: September 1, 2008
Workshop: September
03, 2008
LOCATION:
The Workshop will be held
at the Sunny Day Tourist Complex, 10 km to the
north-east of Varna.
REGISTRATION AND
ACCOMODATION
Registration
and accommodation form (HERE)
Deadline
for the registration: 29th August.
Accommodation is guaranteed for registrations made up to 11th August,
though the organisers will do their best to help the late registered
participants.
FEES
100 Euros,
covering proceedings, participation, coffee break + student registration for
the conference AIMSA 2008.
All fees for
the Authors (PhD students from Sofia University) of papers, accepted for
the workshop, will be covered by the SISTER project.