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Call for Papers: Workshop on Interoperability of Web-Based Educational Systems

01. 02. 2005

CALL FOR PAPERS

Workshop on Interoperability of Web-Based Educational Systems
(http://www.l3s.de/~olmedilla/events/interoperability.html)

Chiba, Japan, May 10, 2005
in conjunction with the 14th International World Wide Web Conference

Workshop Outline
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Nowadays learning resources are increasingly available via web-based educational systems, such as learning (content) management systems, electronic market places for learning materials and courses, or knowledge repositories. With the dawn of various specialised e-learning tools, learning resources became more and more stored in closed environments, restricting accessibility to a closed user community. While standardization bodies and consortia such as ADL, CEN/ISSS, IEEE, IMS, and ISO have already identified the need for interoperability of web-based educational systems, learners' choices to fill a particular knowledge gap are in many cases still limited to the offers of the system they are registered at.

Recently, researchers have started to focus in these issues in more depth. Web technologies have appeared as promising approaches where XML, RDF, Web query languages, and ontology-based data integration approaches became essential ingredients of this infrastructure.

This workshop will bring together researchers and interoperability experts from different communities (E-learning, Information Systems, Database, Semantic Web) interested in making educational systems interoperable. The workshop will deliver a state-of-the-art overview of successful interoperability cases and will provide guidelines for future research.

Topics
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Workshop topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

   Repository interoperability (query, replication and access)
   Distributed learner profile
   Query languages interoperability
   Cross-organizational learning-related workflows
   Distributed access of learning objects
   Interoperability interfaces
   Metadata models for heterogeneous learning resources
   Ontologies for interoperable educational systems
   Metadata mapping
   Federated search in educational systems
   Peer-to-peer networks in Education
   Interoperability use cases
   Experience reports of interoperable educational systems
   Design of application program interface
   Standards for interoperability
   Business models for interoperable systems
  * Adhoc networks for Education

Submissions
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As well as full research papers describing completed research, we welcome position papers describing proposed research, so long as they are well-argued, fully-justified and contain some preliminary results. We also seek demonstration papers outlining practical work in this field.

Submissions must conform to the ACM formatting guidelines for WWW2005 (follow the instructions for "Formatting your Paper") and must not exceed 8 pages (for research papers) and 4 pages (for demo papers), including all text, references, appendices, and figures. Submissions must be in Portable Document Format (PDF).

Selected papers will be fast-tracked for publication in a special issue of IEEE TCLT's Journal of Educational Technology & Society (http://www.ifets.info/) scheduled for April 2006.

To submit your paper, please email a PDF copy of your paper to

[email protected]

For papers with multiple authors, the sender of the email should be the contact person.

For accepted papers, at least one author is expected to participate in the workshop. Registration for the workshop is via the WWW2005 website. The organizers reserve the right to withdraw from the proceedings a paper whose authors do not attend the workshop. If you have any questions, please contact one of the chairs (see below for contact details).

   Submissions due: February 28, 2005
   Notification for acceptance: March 20, 2005
  * Camera ready due: April 6, 2005

Venue
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The workshop will be held at the 14th International World Wide Web Conference on 10 May, 2005 in Chiba, Japan

Organizing Committee
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* Daniel Olmedilla, L3S Research Center and Hanover University
* Nobuo Saito, Keio University
* Bernd Simon, Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration

Program Committee
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   Lorna M. Campbell, University of Stathclyde
   Stefano Ceri, Politecnico Milano
   Hiroaki Chiyokura, Keio University
   Peter Dolog, L3S and University of Hanover
   Matthew J. Dovey, Oxford University
   Erik Duval, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
   Norm Friesen, Research Centre, Athabasca University
   Marek Hatala, Simon Fraser University
   Mitsuru Ikeda, Institute of Scientific and Industrial Research
   Kinshuk K Kinshuk, Massey University
   Seok-Choon Lew, Yonsei University
   Nobuyau Makoshi, Tokyo Institute of Technology
   Massimo Marchiori, World Wide Web Consortium
   Makiko Miwa, National Institute of Multimedia Education
   Ambjörn Naeve, Kungl. Tekniska Högskolan (KTH)
   Wolfgang Nejdl, L3S and University of Hanover
   Gustaf Neumann, Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration
   Juan Quemada, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid
   Daniel R. Rehak, Carnegie Mellon University
   Simos Retalis, University of Piraeus
   Demetrios Sampson, Centre for Research and Technology Hellas
   Ruimin Shen, Shanghai Jiaton University
   Michael Sintek, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI)
   Kinya Tamaki, Aoyama Gakuin University
   Jeffrey D. Ullman, Stanford University
   Frans Van Assche, European Schoolnet
  * John Williams, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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