International
workshop at ITS
2002
2nd June, 2002, San Sebastian, Spain
General
Information
MONET
is a European Network of Excellence on Model Based Systems
and Qualitative Reasoning (MBS/QR). MONET-2 is the successor
of MONET-1 and active since January 2002. Within MONET-2
a task-force focuses on the application of MBS/QR for
educational purposes. This task-force is responsible for
organizing the workshop at the ITS conference on this
theme. An important goal for the workshop is to bring
together the researchers interested in this area and discuss
the future of Model-Based Systems and Qualitative Reasoning
for Educational purposes. The workshop is international
and open to participants from all countries (including
Non-European). Financial support for travel-expenses is
available for European participants who are MONET members.
For
further information, contact:
[
TOP ]
Workshop
goals
The workshop will discuss the use Model Based Systems
and Qualitative Reasoning (MBS/QR) for Intelligent Tutoring
Systems. The importance of MBS/QR for tutoring and training
systems has been indentified by many researchers in the
area of Artificial Intelligence in Education. They agree
on the necessity for rich, articulate and well indexed
simulations to facilitate a communicative interaction
between learners and educational software. MBS/QR appears
to be appropriate for the implementation of the major
functions of intelligent training, help and teaching environments.
During this workshop we will further discuss and establish
the role and use of MBS/QR for instructional systems.
The workshop participants are asked to submit research,
review, or position papers on issues related to this theme.
The workshop will focus on (but is not limited to) the
following main topics:
-
Use of MBR techniques for realising tutoring and training
functions (e.g.: topic generation for explanation
and its relation with natural language and/or multimedia
presentation; cognitive diagnosis and student modelling
in general; curriculum generation techniques; etc.).
-
MBR techniques usually encompass many details and
may therefore turn out to be complex and difficult
to manage in learning environments. How can we cope
with this problem (e.g. using: assumptions; (A)TMS;
aggregation techniques; etc.).
-
Knowledge visualisation and Multiple representations.
How to present information and knowledge on the screen?
(what representation forms should be taken; are multiple
visualisations required and what from should they
take; can multiple representation be drawn from a
single simulation or are multiple simulations techniques
required? etc.)
-
Support for the construction of subject matter representation
and simulation models (e.g.: model construction tools;
library of predefined models; use of ontologies; validation
and debugging techniques; enhancing/extending models
with learning knowledge by means of compilation, abstraction,
chunking; etc.).
-
MBR by itself is probably insufficient: What does
it take in to develop fully operational education
systems based on MBR techniques?
-
There is the preliminary question of what kind of
models MBS/QR-in-ITS is concerned with and what is
exactly meant by MBR in this context. There is a need
for theoretical clarification. The term 'model' and
'model-based' is used rather differently within different
research communities and the question here is: What
does the notion of model-based mean within the context
of intelligent education systems? Contributions to
the workshop should discuss ideas, solutions or present
work in progress. Contributions can be technical papers
and position papers.
[
TOP ]
Contributions
and schedule
A
copy of the Full Workshop Proceedings can be found in
the
following PDF.
For Individual papers please use the links below in the Schedule.
-
09.00 - 9.30 Welcome - introduction
-
09.30 - 11.00 Paper session - 3 papers
-
Model-Based
Reasoning for Tutorial Dialogue in Shipboard Damage
Control
Owen Bratt, E., Clark, B., Thomsen-Gray,
Z., Peters, S., Treeratpituk, P., Pon-Barry, H.,
Schultz, K., Wilkins, D.C. and Fried, D.
-
Aggregation of Qualitative Simulations for Explanation
Bouwer, A. and Bredeweg, B.
-
Intelligent
Agents an Approach to Supporting Multiple Model
Based Training Systems
Brown, K., Taylor, N., Jing, Y, and Khan,
T.
-
11.00 - 11.30 Coffee break
-
11.30 - 13.00 Paper session - 3 papers
-
13.00 - 15.00 Lunch
-
15.00 - 17.00 Paper session - 5 papers
-
17.00 - 17.30 Coffee break
-
17.30 - 18.30 Discussion (in
PDF) (incl. European Framework 6 Expression
of Interest)
Programme
Committee Members
[
TOP ]
Deadlines
and author instructions
-
Call for contributions: March 11th, 2002
-
Submit contributions before: April 15th, 2002
-
Notification of acceptance: April 18th, 2002
-
Submit camera-ready copies before: April 22nd
Papers
should be submitted electronically.
Papers should be in PDF (MsWord is also acceptable)
and not exceed 12 pages (12 points and approximately
5000 words). Each submission must include 1 cover page
which should describe:
-
Title of the paper with an abstract of no more than
500 words
-
A few keywords giving a clear indication of topic
and subtopic
-
Author names with affiliations, addresses, and phone
numbers
-
Email address of the principal author.
[
TOP ]
Miscellaneous
This is the fifth international workshop in a series of
workshops dealing with research on how to use Model-Based
Reasoning (MBR) techniques for the construction of education
systems. The first workshop was held during the
international conference on AI in Education (AIED)
in August 1995 in Washington DC (USA) and focused mainly
on the use of qualitative reasoning techniques. Other
workshops have been held at the
international conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems
(ITS) in June 1996 in Montreal (Canada), at the
European conference on AI in Education in October
1996 in Lisbon (Portugal) and at the
European conference on Artificial Intelligence in
August 1998 in Brighton (United Kingdom).
[
TOP ]
|
