Important Dates
- Paper Submission deadline: Sunday, November 23rd, 2008.
- Early registration closes: Monday, March 23rd, 2009.
Call for Papers
Papers are solicited for a Special Track on Intelligent Tutoring
Systems (ITS) at the
22nd International FLAIRS Conference (FLAIRS-2009).
This special track is intended to bring together an international audience
to present and discuss issues related to intelligent tutoring systems.
The focus will be on ITS research applying modern AI
techniques to problems of education, such as, but not limited to:
- Game-based, narrative-based and virtual learning environments
- NLP and dialogue in tutoring systems
- Modeling and shaping the student's affective state
- Metacognition
- Gaming the system
- Ill-defined domains
- Educational data mining
- Web-based systems
- Authoring tools for non-experts
- Adaptive educational hypermedia
- Collaborative and group learning
- Open learner modeling
- Ontology engineering for educational purposes
- Novel interfaces
Papers on traditional ITS topics such as problem solving, tutoring strategies,
knowledge representation, and system architectures are also encouraged.
Evaluation data and results should be included when appropriate.
Submission Guidelines
Submitted papers must be original, and not submitted concurrently to a journal
or another conference. Full papers may be up to 6 pages, and poster papers up
to 2 pages. Papers must be in AAAI format. Fake author names and affiliations
must be used on submitted papers, to provide double-blind reviewing. Papers
must be submitted as PDF through the EasyChair conference system (N.B. Do not
use a fake name for your EasyChair login - your EasyChair account information
is hidden from reviewers.). The proceedings of FLAIRS will be published by the
AAAI. Authors of accepted papers will be required to sign a form transferring
copyright of their contribution to AAAI. An author of each accepted paper is
required to register, attend, and present the paper at FLAIRS.
Reviewers will be asked to focus on the technical content of the papers to
provide expert, constructive feedback. Reviewers are not expected to act as
proof-readers, and inadequately prepared papers may be rejected.
Online Resources
Questions regarding the track should be addressed to co-chairs
Art Ward (artward@cs.pitt.edu) or Chas Murray (cmurray@carnegielearning.com).
Program Committee
- Vincent Aleven, Human-Computer Interaction Institute, Carnegie Mellon University
- Kevin D. Ashley, University of Pittsburgh, Learning Research and Development Center
- Ryan Baker, Carnegie Mellon University
- Carole R. Beal, Information Sciences Institute, University of Southern California
- Stephen Blessing, University of Tampa
- Paul Brna, University of Edinburgh
- Mark G. Core, Institute for Creative Technologies, University of Southern California
- Myroslava Dzikovska, University of Edinburgh
- Reva Freedman, Northern Illinois University
- Robert Hausmann, University of Pittsburgh
- Neil Heffernan, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
- H. Chad Lane, Institute for Creative Technologies, University of Southern California
- James Lester, North Carolina State University
- Noboru Matsuda, Carnegie Mellon University
- Bruce M. McLaren, DFKI, Germany and CMU, USA
- Tanja Mitrovic, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand
- Chas Murray, Carnegie Learning
- Roger Nkambou, University of Quebec at Montreal (Canada)
- Niels Pinkwart, Clausthal University of Technology
- Steve Ritter, Carnegie Learning
- Carolyn Penstein Rosé, Carnegie Mellon University
- Amy Soller, USA
- Art Ward, University of Pittsburgh
