SPEL 2009 - 2nd International Workshop on Social and Personal Computing for Web-Supported Learning Communities (SPeL 2009)

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Category SPEL 2009

Deadline: April 30, 2009 | Date: September 15, 2009

Venue/Country: Milan, Italy

Updated: 2010-06-04 19:32:22 (GMT+9)

Call For Papers - CFP

* http://software.ucv.ro/~popescu_elvira/spel2009/

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* in conjunction with The 2009 IEEE / WIC / ACM International Conferences

* on Web Intelligence (WI'09) and Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT'09)

* http://www.wi-iat09.disco.unimib.it/

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* Milan, ITALY

* 15-18 September 2009

Motivation

The workshop follows the previous SPeL 2008 workshop

(http://software.ucv.ro/~popescu_elvira/spel2008), held in conjunction

with the SAINT 2008 conference. The workshop combines research in the area

of e-Learning, Social Networks and Social Intelligence, and Web

Personalization and focuses this year on the application of Web

Intelligence research paradigm to the next generation of e-learning systems.

Web-based learning is moving from a centralized, institution-based system

to a decentralized and informal creation and sharing of knowledge. Social

software (e.g., blogs, wikis, podcasts, and media-sharing services) has

started to be used for e-learning purposes, helping to create novel

learning experiences. In the world of pervasive Internet, learners are

also evolving: the so-called “digital natives?want to be in constant

communication with their peers, they expect an individualized instruction

and a personalized learning environment, which automatically adapt to

their individual needs.

This workshop deals with current research on e-learning as an intelligent

e-technology, more specifically the challenges of social and

personalization aspects in Web-supported learning communities. Its aim is

to provide a forum for discussing new trends and initiatives in this area,

including research about the planning, development, application, and

evaluation of intelligent learning environments, where people can learn

together in a personalized way.

Topics of interest

The workshop welcomes submissions covering all aspects of Web Intelligence

related to social and personal computing in web-based learning

communities, including (but not limited to):

- Web 2.0 and social computing for learning

- Virtual spaces for learning communities

- Web supported ubiquitous learning

- Service-oriented computing for e-learning

- Ontologies and semantic Web for e-learning

- Mobile e-learning applications

- Intelligent learner and group modeling

- Adaptive and personalized learning environments

- Adaptive Web interfaces for learning scenarios

- Cognitive aspects in intelligent web-based learning systems

- Web mining in learning settings

- Collaborative filtering and recommendations for learners

- Web-based cooperative learning

- Intelligent agent technology in web-based education

- Pervasive e-learning scenarios

- Knowledge community formation and support

- Lifelong learning networks

- Social software for collaborative learning

- Socially intelligent agents

- Semantic social networks

- Community discovering in social learning systems

- Social structure exploitation in e-learning

- Socially-inspired e-learning systems

Paper subsmission and publication

The length of the workshop papers should not exceed 4 pages, IEEE-CS

format (extra payment is available for one more extra page).

The Proceedings of the Workshop will be published by the IEEE Computer

Society Press (indexed by IEEE Xplore, EI, INSPEC).

Please follow the instructions on the WI 2009 website

(http://www.wi-iat09.disco.unimib.it/WI09/submission.htm), where you can

find the Manuscript Formatting Guidelines.

Important dates

April 30, 2009 Workshop paper submission

June 8, 2009 Workshop paper notification

June 30, 2009 Camera ready paper

September 15, 2009 SPeL 2009 workshop

Program Committee

Costin Badica, University of Craiova, Romania

Dumitru Dan Burdescu, University of Craiova, Romania

Alexandra Cristea, University of Warwick, UK

Michael Derntl, University of Vienna, Austria

Adrian Giurca, BTU Cottbus, Germany

Ian Kennedy, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

Tania Kerkiri, University of Macedonia, Greece

Kinshuk, Athabasca University, Canada

Vive Kumar, Athabasca University & Simon Fraser University, Canada Chung

Hsien Lan, Nanya Institute of Technology, Taiwan

Chien-Sing Lee, School of Interactive Computing, Georgia Institute of

Technology, USA

Frederick Li, University of Durham, UK

Oscar Lin, Athabasca University, Canada

Alessandro Longheu, University of Catania, Italy

Giuseppe Mangioni, University of Catania, Italy

Toshio Okamoto, University of Electro-Communications, Japan

Angela-M. Paleologou, University of Ioannina, Greece

Timothy K. Shih, National Taipei University of Education, Taiwan

Jirarat Sitthiworachart, Walailak University, Thailand

Julita Vassileva, University of Saskatchewan, Canada

Stephen J.H. Yang, National Central University, Taiwan

Organizers

Elvira Popescu - University of Craiova (Romania)

Sabine Graf - National Central University (Taiwan)

Please visit the workshop web site

(http://software.ucv.ro/~popescu_elvira/spel2009/) for further details.