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Adaptivity, Personalization
and the Semantic Web |
Important Dates: 17th May : Submissions 23rd of August
2006: Workshop day |
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joining: The 2nd
International Workshop on Adaptive and Personalized Semantic Web and
IASACS: The 1st
Workshop on Interfacing Adaptive Systems with Academia and Corporate Systems:
towards Semantic Web Technology Interoperability |
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Workshop Chairs: Alexandra Cristea, Technische
Universiteit Eindhoven (NL), Spiros Sirmakessis, Research Academic Computer Technology Institute, ( Craig Stewart, Queen Mary University of London ( |
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The most famous Hypermedia
environment, the Web has been formed to be an integral part of numerous
applications in which a user interacts with a service provider, product
sellers, governmental organizations, friends and colleagues. Content and
services are available at different sources and places. Hence, Web applications
need to combine all available knowledge in order to form personalized,
user-friendly, and business-optimal services.
Personalization and adaptation to
user, vendor needs, and network or machine requirements is therefore an
important topic on current hypermedia environments and beyond. In commercial
environments, this is known as “the client is the king”. In learning
environments, this is “learner centered education”. Although they are much sought
after and considered useful, up until recently, adaptive solutions were not so
widely spread. Among the reasons one was that they were mainly stand-alone
implementations, aimed at specific systems only. This was a serious problem
when systems became obsolete, and the created material was not exportable. For
authors, this was difficult because it meant that each time they changed the
system, the material had to be created from scratch. The users (buyers or
learners) had to put up with and learn about many different environments with
different reactions. Adaptive solutions being therefore difficult to author/create, to maintain and to use, no
wonder that, although considered desirable, not many were employed.
This workshop’s aim is to merge two recent developments in the domains
of adaptive hypermedia (AH) and semantic web (SW):
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AH is moving
towards reusable solutions, starting with interfacing exercises with other AH
or non-adaptive systems (academia as well as corporate), in order to alleviate
the problems outlined above.
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SW has been built
from the very beginning with the goal of reuse, via standards, tools,
technologies, machine-interpretable semantics, etc. Recently, after creating
the basis tools, SW is moving towards reasoning and personalization mechanisms,
therefore creating the basis of exchanging adaptive solutions.
Our planned
outcome is therefore to merge these two streams, extracting elements
necessary to interface and exchange partial or complete adaptive solutions,
based on the experience of these two communities of research: AH and SW.
The aim of this workshop is to bring together
researchers and practitioners in the fields of web engineering, adaptive
hypermedia, semantic web technologies, knowledge management, information
retrieval, user modeling, and other related disciplines which provide enabling
technologies for personalization and adaptation on the World Wide Web.
- design,
methodologies and architectures of adaptable and adaptive Web information
systems based on Semantic Web
- authoring and
creation of adaptive hypermedia for the Semantic Web
- personalized
taxonomies or ontologies
- distributed
user modelling and adaptation for the Semantic
Web
- automated
Semantic Web techniques for generation and updating of user profiles
- semantic web
techniques for adaptation
- interfacing and
interoperability for authoring of adaptive hypermedia
- interoperability
and interfacing adaptive systems: total or partial (modular)
- interoperability
and interfacing corporate and learning environments: total or partial
(modular)
- exchanging
domain models, user models, pedagogical models, commercial models,
adaptation strategies on the Semantic Web
- applying
Semantic web solutions in interfacing and interoperability
- adaptive
personalized Semantic Web applications
- Semantic Web
solutions for corporate systems
- Semantic Web
solutions for Learning environments
- Web Services
for adaptive systems in the Semantic Web
- machine
learning techniques for information extraction and integration for the Semantic
Web
Type of workshop
The workshop will host full papers (20
min presentation, 10 min Q&A) and short papers (10 min presentation, 5 min
Q&A) on interfacing systems, models, elements, adaptation languages from
the two communities: AH and SW. The workshop
will end with a panel discussion (1 hours) of invited
speakers and presenters, with balanced input from the two communities.
The program of the workshop is posted
below. There will be 7 paper presentations. The expected total duration of the
workshop is of 4 hours and 30 minutes. Accepted papers are:
1.
Adaptivity, Personalization,
and the Semantic Web (introduction; by A.I.
Cristea, S. Sirmakessis and C. Stewart)
2.
Adaptive
Hypermedia on the Semantic Web (full paper; by M. Kravcik and D. Gašević)
3.
Towards more
efficient generic semantic authoring for adaptive hypermedia (full paper; by M. Saksena and A. I. Cristea)
4.
Interoperability
between AEH User Models (full paper; by C. Stewart,
5.
Learner Profile
Management for Collaborative Adaptive eLearning
Application (short paper; M. Alrifai, P.
Dolog and W. Nejdl)
6.
A Method for
Personalized Clustering in Data Intensive Web Applications (full paper; by M. Rigou, S.
Sirmakessis and G. Tzimas)
7.
User behavior
patterns in the course of programming in C++ (short paper; by Z. Velart and P. Saloun)
PROGRAM:
9.00-10.30 session
10.30-11.00 break
11.00-12.30 session
12.30-14.00 lunch
14.00-15.30 session
15.30-16.00 break
16.00-17.30 session
Submissions (closed)
Your paper needs to be a ACM DL formatted
publication of 8 pages (FULL PAPERS) or
4 pages (SHORT PAPERS) on interfacing systems, models, elements,
adaptation languages from the two communities: AH and SW.
Submit
your paper in PDF format, formatted as above, to a.i.cristea@tue.nl, syrma@cti.gr, craig.stewart@elec.qmul.ac.uk ,
mentioning in the subject of the email ‘APS Workshop Submission’.
Panel
The
panel of this workshop inherits its name from the workshop: “Adaptivity, Personalization and the Semantic Web”; the main
focus of the panel is “Mutual Benefits between Semantic Web and Adaptive
Hypermedia”. The duration of the panel will be of one hour.
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Ready for Accepted Authors
Your paper needs to be a ACM DL formatted
publication of 8-10 pages (FULL PAPERS) or
4-6 pages (SHORT PAPERS) on interfacing systems, models, elements,
adaptation languages from the two communities: AH and SW.
Send
a copy of your paper in source & PDF format, formatted as above, to: a.i.cristea@tue.nl,
syrma@cti.gr, craig.stewart@elec.qmul.ac.uk
You
shall receive also direct instructions from the publishers.
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"International
Workshop on Adaptive and Personalized Semantic Web" in ACM-HT05: http://www.hci.gr/HT05.asp
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"Methods
& Technologies for Personalized and Adaptive Web Interaction" on the
3rd International Conference on Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction
(UAHCI 2005): http://www.hci.gr/hci_2005.asp
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AWELS: Adaptive
Web-Based Education and Learning Styles at ICALT 2006: http://www.win.tue.nl/~acristea/AWELS/
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4th
International workshop on Adaptive and Adaptable Authoring at AH 2006 (A3EH): http://www.win.tue.nl/~acristea/A3H/
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3rd
International workshop on Adaptive and Adaptable Authoring at AIED05 (A3EH): http://wwwis.win.tue.nl/~acristea/AAAEH05/AIED2005.htm
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2nd
International workshop on Adaptive and Adaptable Authoring at AH 2004 (A3EH): http://wwwis.win.tue.nl/~acristea/AH04/workshopAH.htm
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1st
International workshop on Adaptive and Adaptable Authoring at WBE 2004 (A3EH): http://www.iasted.org/conferences/2004/Innsbruck/wbe-specsess-cristea.htm
Intended audience
There
are no restrictions regarding the background of the participants. Thus, both
researchers and practitioners will be welcome.
This
workshop is also linked with activities performed within the PROLEARN network
of excellence; therefore it is partially
aimed at members of this network. The problematic of the proposal is however much more general, therefore the
intended audience goes beyond it.
The workshop is
aimed at all researchers and
practitioners that work with or use adaptive
hypermedia systems and are interested in durable, reusable solutions, as
well as researchers and practitioners that work with or use semantic web
technology, and are interested in adding to it and defining the (elements of)
adaptation and personalization. We expect that researchers from AH will be able
to design more reusable, less ad-hoc systems, that conform to semantic web
methodology. We expect that semantic web
researchers will benefit from what has already been studied and tested in
AH on adaptivity and personalization, and take that
into account when extending existing SW languages, descriptions and standards.
We expect that practitioners in the
fields will leave with a better understanding of the capability that is to
be expected from interfacing adaptive solutions, in academic, as well as
corporate environments.
Description of activities
planned
As has been the case with all
previous workshops, at the end of the workshop, all participants will be asked
to fill-in questionnaires about their perception of the workshop. These will be
collected, processed and results will be displayed online. The papers,
discussion issues, powerpoint presentations of the
discussions will also be available online.
All workshop participants will
be invited, as is already traditional, to have dinner together, for continuing
the discussion in a more informal atmosphere.
Workshop Organizers
Alexandra Cristea, Technische
Universiteit Eindhoven (NL), http://wwwis.win.tue.nl/~acristea/ (a.i.cristea@tue.nl)
Spiros
Sirmakessis, TEI of Messolongi and Research Academic
Computer Technology Institute, (Greece), http://www.hci-course.gr/bio.htm (syrma@cti.gr)
Craig
Stewart, Queen Mary University of London (UK), http://www.elec.qmul.ac.uk/department/staff/research/craigs.htm
(craig.stewart@elec.qmul.ac.uk)
Program
Committee (invited):
Helen
Ashman,
Tim
Brailsford,
Valentin Cristea, Politehnica
Hugh
Davis,
Paul De
Bra, Eindhoven University of Technology, The
Peter
Dolog, L3S,
Ronen Feldman,
Department of Computer Science, Bar-Ilan University,
Israel.
Franca
Garzotto,
Peter Haase, Institute AIFB, University of Karlsruhe,
Germany.
Ioannis Hatzilygeroudis, Computer Engineering and Infomatics
Department, University of Patras and Computer
Technology Institute, Cristina Hava Muntean,
Nicola Henze,
Miltiadis Lytras, Computer Engineering and Infomatics
Department, University of Patras and Computer
Technology Institute, Greece.
Gabi
Muntean,
Bamshad Mobasher, School of Computer Science, Telecommunication, and Information
Systems, DePaul University, USA.
Olfa Nasraoui, Dept of Computer Engineering & Computer Science, the University of
Louisville, USA.
Maria Rigou, Research Academic Computer Technology Institute
& University of Patras, Greece.
Lars Schmidt-Thieme, Computer-based New Media, Institute for Computer Science,
Spiros Sirmakessis, Computer Technology Institute and Technological Educational
Institution of Messolongi, Greece.
Carlo
Strapparava, IRST,
John Tzimas, Research Academic Computer Technology Institute
& University of Patras, Greece.
Michalis Vazirgiannis, Department of Informatics, Athens University of Economics &
Business, Greece.
Michalis Xenos, Hellenic Open University, Greece.