Applications
of
Semantic Web Technologies for Web-based ITS
The
research on web-based ITS traditionally
combines
research interests and efforts from various fields. Currently, the
efforts in
the field of semantic web and ontologies play an important role in the
development
of new ITS methods and types
of
courseware.
Starting with the traditional ITS and going towards web applications,
the
research on adaptive and intelligent courseware strengthens its
positions
within this context. Employing semantic web technologies seems to be a
promising way to improve reasoning,
adaptation and flexibility for in single and group users (e.g.
instructors, courseware authors and learners). The goal of this
workshop
is to present the state-of-the-artthe application of semantic web
technologies and standards for problems in current
web-based intelligent tutoring systems and adaptive
courseware. We will explore, among others, various architecture trends,
reference models, user models and knowledge representation techniques
inspired
and empowered by the achievements in the field of semantic web. Thus,
the goal of the workshop is twofold:
- To discuss the current state-of-the-art of the
application of semantic web technologies in web-based ITS.
- To attract the interest of the related research communities
to the problems in e-learning and serve as an international platform
for knowledge exchange and cooperation between researchers.
SWEL’04 follows the successful workshop on Concepts
and Ontologies in Web-based Educational Systems, held in
conjunctions with ICCE’2002
in Auckland, New Zealand.
Due to the large interest, we are planning to organize the 2004 edition
of the workshop in three sessions held at three different conferences.
The aim is to discuss the current problems in e-learning from different
perspectives, including those of web-based intelligent tutoring systems
and adaptive educational hypermedia courseware, and the implications of
applying semantic web and educational standards and technologies for
solving them:
Session
Topics
The ITS’04
session of the SWEL’04
workshop will approach the problems of semantic web applications from
the perspective of ITS, starting with the traditional view on ITS and
their
movement towards the web and the implications of adopting the emerging
semantic
web technologies.
Topics of interest include, but are not restricted to:
- Using ontologies and/or
semantic web technologies to decrease the complexity of ITS modelling and implementation (e.g. new types of
modularized ITS architectures).
- Using semantic web technologies to move from ITS to web-based
ITS.
- Using ontologies and/or semantic web technologies to support authoring of ITS (e.g. modelling
of authoring and engineering process,
authoring feedback, authoring GUI).
- Semantic web and ontologies for user
modelling in ITS
(e.g. shareability of UM, interoperability between different ITS on the
basis of their UM).
- Using Web services for modularization
of ITS and web-based systems’ components (e.g. UM service,
domain modelling
service, etc.).
- Web standards issues for
ITS and intelligent web-based systems.
- Real-world systems, case
studies and empirical research for semantic web-based ITS.
The topics can be approached from difference
perspectives: theoretical, systems
engineering, application, case study and system evaluation, etc.
Contact
Lora Aroyo
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
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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