[Dbworld] SWEL'04 @ ISWC'04: Applications of Semantic Web Technologiesfor E-learning

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      *** Submission deadline extended: 27 July 2004 ***
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                          Workshop on 
    Applications of Semantic Web Technologies for E-learning
                                             
                                             
                 in conjunction with ISWC 2004:                   
             International Semantic Web Conference
            (7 - 11 November 2004, Hiroshima, Japan) 
    http://iswc2004.semanticweb.org/CFParticipation/workshops.html
    
                                             
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        http://wwwis.win.tue.nl/SW-EL04/swel-iswc.html
    
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    This workshop will focus on the engineering and application 
    of Semantic Web technologies and standards for the needs of 
    e-learning and will discuss issues with respect to various 
    ways of constructing intelligent courseware and modelling 
    the learner. 
    
    SWEL'04 follows the successful workshop on Concepts and 
    Ontologies in Web-based Educational Systems, held in 
    conjunctions with ICCE'02 in Auckland, New Zealand.
    
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    Workshop Goals
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    - To discuss the current state-of-the-art of the applications 
      of Semantic Web technologies and standards in Intelligent 
      Educational Systems and e-learning applications.
    - To attract the interest of the related research communities 
      to the problems in educational Web-based systems and serve 
      as an international platform for knowledge exchange and 
      cooperation between researchers.  
    - To provide feedback to educational and Semantic Web 
      standardization bodies.
    
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    Workshop Topics
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    Topics of interest include, but are not restricted to:
    
    * Using ontologies and/or Semantic Web technologies within 
      e-learning applications:
        -- to support authoring of WBES;
        -- to achieve better personalization/adaptation in WBES;
        -- to achieve interoperability of e-learning applications;
    
    * Using Semantic Web services for:
        -- e-learning services;
        -- user modelling;
        -- WBES authoring;
    
    * Web standards issues for WBES 
        -- combinations of existing Semantic Web and/or 
           educational standards;
        -- mappings between Semantic Web and educational standards;
        -- moving LOM and SCORM closer to the Semantic Web;
        -- Role of RDF, OWL or TML as a basis for educational 
           metadata specification languages;
    
    * Ontology engineering and knowledge representation in WBES;
      
    * Semantic Web-based educational applications architectures.
    
    * Real-world systems, case studies and empirical research for WBES. 
    
    The topics can be approached from different perspectives: 
    theoretical, systems engineering, application, case study, 
    system evaluation, etc. All contributions are required to state 
    explicitly in the abstract which topic they are addressing. 
    
    
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    Important Dates
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    Paper submission:           27 July 2004 (extended)
    Notification:               12 September 2004
    Camera-ready submission:    27 September 2004
    Workshop date:              8 November 2004
    
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    Submission
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    The participants can submit full (up to 16 pages) or short 
    (up to 4 pages) position papers. The accepted papers will be 
    published in the workshop proceedings. All papers should be 
    formatted according to the Springer LNCS guidelines. 
    Please check the general ISWC'04 page for details:
    http://iswc2004.semanticweb.org/submission/authors_instruction.php
    
    Submit your papers in electronic form to the workshop co-chairs 
    at l.m.aroyo-ZS/VO/AiPhU@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx and 
dichevad-ZhBHK6W/tTk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx in (*.doc), (*.rtf) or 
    (*.pdf) format no later than 20 July 2004.
    
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    Workshop Proceedings
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    The papers of the workshop will be printed in add-on to the main 
    conference proceedings. The proceedings will be also made available 
    online on the workshop web site. Possibilities will be investigated 
    to publish the best workshop papers in a special issue of a 
    refereed journal (e.g. JWE, IJCEELL).
    
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    Workshop Co-chairs
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    Lora Aroyo
    Darina Dicheva
    
    Workshop session chairs:
    Riichiro Mizoguchi
    Yukihiro Itoh
    
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    Workshop Committee
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    Peter Brusilovsky (University of Pittsburgh) 
    Paloma Diaz (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)
    Vanja Dimitrova (University of Leeds)
    Erik Duval (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven)
    Jim Greer (University of Saskatchewan)
    Tsukasa Hirashima, (Hiroshima University)
    Ulrich Hoppe (University of Duisburg)
    Geert-Jan Houben (Technische Universiteit Eindhoven)
    Mitsuru Ikeda(JAIST)
    Judy Kay (University of Sydney)
    Kinshuk (Massey University)
    Erica Melis (Universität des Saarlandes, DFKI)
    Ambjörn Naeve (Royal Institute of Technology) 
    Ossi Nykänen (Tampere University of Technology)
    Gilbert Paquette (LICEF) 
    Simos Retalis (University of Cyprus)
    Demetrios Sampson (Center for Research and Technology-Hellas(CERTH) 
    Katherine Sinitsa (Kiev University) 
    Amy Soller (ITC-IRST) 
    Steffen Staab (AIFB, University of Karlsruhe) 
    Julita Vassileva (University of Saskatchewan) 
    Felisa Verdejo (Ciudad Universitaria) 
    Gerd Wagner (Eindhoven University)
    
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    Contact
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    Lora Aroyo, http://wwwis.win.tue.nl/~laroyo, 
    mailto:l.m.aroyo-ZS/VO/AiPhU@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
    Department of Computing Science, 
    Eindhoven University of Technology 
    PO Box 513, 5600 MD Eindhoven, The Netherlands
    tel: +31 40 2472765 fax: +31 40 2463992
    
    Darina Dicheva, http://www.wssu.edu/~dicheva/, 
    mailto:dichevad-ZhBHK6W/tTk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
    Department of Computer Science, 
    Winston-Salem State University 
    601 Martin Luther King, Jr. Drive, 
    Winston Salem, N.C. 27110, USA
    tel: +1 (336) 750-2484 fax: +1 (336) 750-2499
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