Subject: [IFETS-DISCUSSION:3601] ICCE02 workshop on Concepts and Ontologies in WBES - CFP
From: Kinshuk (kinshuk@massey.ac.nz)
Date: Mon 08 Jul 2002 - 08:08:34 MEST
From: "Kinshuk" <kinshuk@massey.ac.nz> Subject: [IFETS-DISCUSSION:3601] ICCE02 workshop on Concepts and Ontologies in WBES - CFP Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2002 18:08:34 +1200
International Conference on Computers in Education (ICCE 2002)
3-6 December 2002
Auckland, New Zealand
http://icce2002.massey.ac.nz
Workshop on Concepts and Ontologies in Web-based Educational Systems
CALL FOR PAPERS
Workshop Objectives
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With the rapidly increasing popularity of Web-based education, there is a
proportional increase of the expectations and requirements towards Web-based
Educational Systems (WBES). A challenging research goal at present is the
development of advanced adaptive and intelligent WBES. There is an increased
recognition of the need for individual support to the learners in their
retrieving, evaluating, comprehending, and memorising information, in their
problem solving and efficient task performance in Web-based educational
environments. Concept-oriented (ontology-based) architectures come as a
promising option in the development of such systems. Conceptual
(ontological) structures, such as concept maps, topic maps, and conceptual
graphs have a great deal of potential for organizing, processing, and
visualizing domain knowledge in WBES. Developments in concept-based
visualisation and navigation allow the system to help the students get
oriented within the subject domain and build up their own understanding and
conceptual association. They enhance their visual thinking and memory and
trigger associative ways of processing, reflecting and analyzing
information.
Concept-oriented support within educational environments has been advocated
by various researchers including Mizugoshi, Bourdeau, Kay, Self, Peylo,
Murray, Brusilovski, De Bra, Aroyo, Dicheva, Dimitrova, Greer, McCalla,
Vassileva, Kommers, Puntambekar, Okamoto, Cristea, and others. The common
theme is to use an explicit representation of a well-founded and agreed
system of domain concepts (ontology) to advance interoperability and
knowledge sharing. A number of developments have been employed to support a
variety of instructional and authoring activities within WBES, including
information retrieval, hypertext and hypermedia navigation and exploration,
problem solving, collaborative learning and training, collaborative
courseware authoring, user interaction, etc. Ontology-based architectures
have potential to support resource and knowledge reuse as well as WBES
adaptivity. The issues of ontological engineering for WBES resources and
ontology-aware courseware and authoring become more and more in focus of the
AIED society.
The importance of concepts and ontology use in learning environments has
received considerable attention in previous workshops, such as 'Knowledge
Representation and Ontologies in Education' held at ECAI 2000, Berlin, and
the International Workshop on Adaptive and Intelligent WBES, held at ITS
2000, Montreal.
The goal of the proposed workshop is to provide a forum for discussion of
the above-mentioned issues. Topics of interest include, but are not limited
to:
· Using conceptual structures (concept maps, conceptual graphs, topic
maps, ontologies) in WBES to support
o knowledge organization and processing (acquisition, systematization,
reasoning)
o information retrieval
o hypertext and hypermedia navigation and exploration
o problem solving
o collaborative learning
o collaborative courseware authoring
o user/group interactions
o adaptivity with respect to learners, instructors, and courseware
authors
· Design and implementation aspects of concept-based WBES
o architectures and methodologies
o specification languages
o visualization of conceptual structures
o sharing and reuse of conceptual structures
o conceptual structures and authoring tools
· Evaluation of concept-based WBES
Workshop Format
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The workshop will include full-paper presentations and a demonstration
session. We are also planning a round table discussion to identify common
themes and problems relevant to the design and development of concept-based
educational systems. The discussion will also address a set of questions
that have been raised from the presented papers. We plan to make available
the accepted papers to all workshop participants beforehand in order to
ensure an informed discussion.
Target Audience
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This workshop intends to bring together researchers and practitioners with
expertise in diverse fields such as computer science, cognitive science,
education and psychology. We encourage the active participation of
experienced researchers as well as those new to the field, especially
students.
Submissions
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The participants should submit a two-page position paper to the workshop
chairs by July 23rd, 2002, which, if accepted, will be printed in the
conference proceedings. Then, they should prepare full-size papers (7 pages)
by extending their position papers, which will be reviewed by members of the
workshop organizing committee. The accepted papers will be published in the
workshop proceedings. Please note that both the 2-page position papers and
the 7-page full papers should be submitted in electronic form in Word or RTF
format. Please follow author guidelines available at the conference website
http://icce2002.massey.ac.nz/.
Send your submissions to the workshop co-chairs: dichevad@wssu.edu,
l.m.aroyo@TUE.nl.
Expected Outcomes
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The accepted short position papers (2 pages) will be included in the
ICCE2002 conference proceedings. The accepted full papers (7 pages) will be
included in the workshop proceedings, and will also be made available on the
workshop Web site. The authors of selected contributions that were not
recommended for inclusion in the proceedings will be also invited to
participate in the discussion. Finally, a suitable journal will be sought
for publication of selected papers.
Organizing Committee
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Lora Aroyo, The Netherlands (co-chair),
Jacqueline Bourdeau, Canada
Peter Brusilovsky, USA
Hugh Davis, United Kingdom
Darina Dicheva, USA, (co-chair)
Vania Dimitrova, England
Judy Kay, Australia
Piet Kommers, The Netherlands
Kinshuk, New Zealand
Tanja Mitrovic, New Zealand
Riichiro Mizugushi, Japan
Toshio Okamoto, Japan
Sadhana Puntambekar, USA
Julita Vassileva, Canada
Important Dates
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July 12, 2002: Register at least one author. *
July 23, 2002: Submit 2-page position papers to the workshop chairs.
July 29, 2002: Notification for acceptance.
August 02, 2002: Send Copyright form for the 2-page position paper to the
conference organisers. **
August 02, 2002: We upload a conference proceedings file with all workshop
position papers.
September 15, 2002: Submit full 7-page papers to the workshop chairs.
October 07, 2002: We send our comments to you.
October 25, 2002: Submit camera-ready papers to the workshop chairs.
November 01, 2002: Workshop proceedings publishing.
*Registration form is available at http://icce2002.massey.ac.nz/. If the
conference organizers do not receive your registration form and appropriate
fee by this date, your position paper would not be included in the
Conference Proceedings.
**Copyright form is available at
http://icce2002.massey.ac.nz/icce02_copyright_form.pdf
Please complete and sign the copyright form and send by fax to +64 6 350
5725 or by airmail to: Dr Kinshuk, Information Systems Department, Massey
University, Private Bag 11-222, Palmerston North, New Zealand.
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