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******************************************************** >>> Education Track <<< Official Refereed Track of The Fourteenth International World Wide Web Conference May 10-14, 2005 Chiba, Japan http://www2005.org/
******************************************************** Paper submission deadline: November 8, 2004 ********************************************************
The World Wide Web has caused a revolution in the way we teach and learn. The technology enables us to provide interactive learning material in new ways, to support learning collaboration and learning communities, to provide personalized learning experience, and to incorporate diverse re-usable learning objects into the local learning experience. In the context of Semantic Web and ontologies we find new technologies to facilitate more intelligent access and management of the Web information and semantically richer modeling of the applications and their users. Furthermore, this all provides the possibility to create new learning designs to make learning more flexible, adaptable, attractive, and accessible to learners.
To make these and other experiences possible, many educational and training projects not only bring new learning materials or designs to the Web but also contribute to numerous Web-related methodologies or technologies. The WWW2005 Education Track is aimed at researchers who wish to share innovative experiences and research results that are (at least partially) domain independent and can thus benefit other teachers and learners who wish to get more out of the Web.
The Education track is now an official refereed track of the WWW Conference. The relevant topics include, but are not restricted to, the following:
* Agents in Web-based teaching and learning * Architectures for web-based education delivery environments * Authoring of Web-based learning material and environments * Business models for the exchange of learning objects * Case studies in the implementation and use of educational applications in a Web-based environment * Collaboration and communities in web-based educational environments * Data protection and privacy in Web-based education and training * Distributed and P2P-based learning repositories * Empirical studies of web-based educational systems * Identification, reuse and granularity issues of learning objects * Integrating (Web-based) multimedia in educational applications * Integration of web-based learning with enterprise systems * Intellectual property issues arising from the use of learning objects * IR and text classification methods in open learning environments * Learning technology specifications & standards for interoperability * (On-line) adaptation to a learner's knowledge, goals, interests, or learning style * Semantic Web and ontologies in Web-based educational systems * Social, cultural and multilingual issues in Web-based learning * Student modeling in open learning environments * Web educational portals and learning management systems * Web log mining applied to student performance data * Web standards as a basis for educational metadata specification languages
Education Track Vice/Deputy Chairs ******************************************************** Riichiro Mizoguchi (Vice Chair) Lora Aroyo (Deputy Chair)
Education Track PC Members ******************************************************** Jacqueline Bourdeau, LICEF, Canada Peter Brusilovsky, University of Pittsburgh, USA Tak-Wai Chan, National Central University of Taiwan Ricardo Conejo, University of Malaga, Spain Paul De Bra, Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands Darina Dicheva, Winston-Salem State University, USA Vanja Dimitrova, University of Leeds, UK Erik Duval, University of Leuven, Belgium Jim Greer, University of Saskatchewan, Canada Ulrich Hoppe, University of Duisburg, Germany Mitsuru Ikeda, JAIST, Japan Akihiro Kashihara, University of Electro-Communications, Japan Judy Kay, University of Sydney, Australia Alfred Kobsa, University of California at Irvine, USA Chee Kit Looi, National University of Singapore, Singapore Tanja Mitrovic, University of Canterbury, New Zealand Ambjorn Naeve, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden Wolfgang Nejdl, L3S and University of Hannover, Germany Hiroaki Ogata, Tokushima University, Japan Felisa Verdejo, UNED, Spain
******************************************************** WWW2005 CALL FOR PAPERS CALL FOR PROPOSALS FOR WORKSHOPS / TUTORIALS http://www2005.org/ ******************************************************** WWW2005 will be held in Chiba, Japan at Nippon Convention Center (or better known as Makuhari Messe). The technical program will include refereed paper presentations, special interest tracks, plenary sessions, panels, and poster sessions. Tutorials and workshops will precede the main program, and a Developers Day will follow, which will be devoted to in-depth technical sessions designed specifically for web developers.
IMPORTANT DATES
Paper submission deadline: November 8, 2004 Author notification (papers): January 28, 2005 Final papers due: February 28, 2005 Poster submission deadline: February 7, 2005 Author notification (posters): March 7, 2005 Tutorial/workshop proposals deadline: October 15, 2004 Tutorial/workshop notification: November 15, 2004 Panel proposals deadline: November 8, 2004 Conference: May 10-14, 2005
REFEREED PAPERS TRACK
WWW2005 seeks original papers describing research in all areas of the web. Papers should not have been published or be in submission at another conference or journal. Topics include but are not limited to:
* Applications * Browser and User Interface * Data Mining * Education * Performance and Reliability * Search * Security / E-Commerce * Semantic Web * Web Engineering * XML and Web Services
Papers will be peer-reviewed by at least 3 reviewers from an International Program Committee. Accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings published by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), and will also be accessible to the general public via http://www2005.org/. Detailed formatting and submission requirements will be available at http://www2005.org/papers/submission.html.
SPECIAL INTEREST TRACKS
Special interest tracks include a combination of peer-reviewed papers and invited presentations. Accepted papers will appear in a separate printed proceedings to the main refereed track proceedings.
* Embedded Web * Hardware Device Innovation
Detailed formatting and submission requirements will be available at http://www2005.org/papers/submission.html.
TUTORIALS
Tutorial proposals are desired for both half-day and full-day sessions on topics of current and ongoing relevance to Web design, services, operation, use, and evaluation. Known areas of interest include, but are not limited to:
* XML technologies * Web Applications and Services Development * Web Engineering * Web-based Collaboration and Communication Technologies * Usability/Interface Design * Web Metrics * Web Mining * The Role of Grid Computing in Web Services and Applications * Information Architecture * Graphics and Multimedia * E-commerce and E-payments * Server and Client-Side Scripting * Mobile Systems * Internationalization * Open Software Development * Security and Privacy * Semantic Web Technologies * SOAP * Web Accessibility * Web-based Education * Metadata/Information Retrieval
Other topics expected to be of special interest and relevance at the time of WWW2005 are also encouraged. Proposals submitted for tutorials in English and Japanese will be considered. If you are interested in giving a tutorial, please e-mail your proposal to tutorials@www2005.org. All proposals must include:
* Tutorial title; * Presenter contact information; * Aims/Learning objectives; * Duration (half or full day; if full day, could it scaled to half-day if necessary?); * Scope (general topic area); Relevance to Spring 2005 time frame; * Keywords; * Target audience; * Prerequisite knowledge of audience; * Tutorial abstract (1-2 paragraphs suitable for inclusion in conference registration materials); * Full description (1-2 pages to be used for evaluation); * Tutorial history; * Presenter biography; * Relevant references;
WORKSHOPS
WWW2005 workshops are intended to provide a forum for highly interactive discussion on focused topics. Workshop proposals should address current Web-related issues which can benefit from small-group information exchange and discussion. Attendance at past workshops has been limited in order to promote interactivity. Workshop organizers are responsible for determining whether the workshop will be open registration or by invitation-only. Workshop organizers are responsible for conducting, if appropriate, their own "Workshop Call for Participation." The WWW2005 site will link to these CFPs. If you are interested in organizing a full-day workshop, please email your proposal to workshops@www2005.org. All proposals must include:
* A two-paragraph description of the workshop topic and content; * A statement of the workshop's anticipated outcome; * A statement why you believe the workshop topic to be important to the Web in the Spring 2005 timeframe; * A statement describing how the workshop registration will be managed (open or closed); * If workshop submissions will be solicited, a description of how these submissions will be evaluated; * A short description of your qualifications relative to the topic area including your past experience in organizing/facilitating workshops.