[sem-grd] CFP: Grid Learning Services

[David De Roure <dder@ecs.soton.ac.uk>]

The GLS'04 GRID Learning Services workshop is being held 
in conjunction with ITS 2004 (7th International Conference
on Intelligent Tutoring Systems) on August 30, 2004.

The workshop CFP is on

    http://www.semanticgrid.org/GLS04flyer1.pdf

(some selected extracts below for info) and the conference 
workshops page is

    http://www.itsconference.com.br/content/workshops.html

The paper deadline is May 24, 2004.

Incidentally, the workshop is inspired by an EU Integrated 
Project called ELeGI, which has Semantic Grid aspects - see

    http://www.cordis.lu/ist/directorate_e/telearn/fp6_elegi.htm

Please feel free to circulate the CFP to your Semantic Grid 
(and learning) colleagues.

Thanks

-- Dave

GLS'04 GRID Learning Services

Workshop papers due: May 24
Workshop authors notified: June 10
Camera-ready papers due: July 7
Workshop proceedings due: July 15

Workshop co-chairs

Guy Gouardres, IUT de Bayonne, UPPA
Roger Nkambou, Universit du Quebec a Montreal

AIMS & SCOPE

The workshop adresses the issues of integrating human and machine 
learning into models, systems, applications and abstracting them into
theories for advanced Human learning, based on the dynamic generation 
of GRID services.  The purpose of the ITS'04 "GRID Learning Services"
workshop is to advance significantly the current state of the art, 
both of fundamental research results and of technological applications
concerned with technology enhanced learning supporting ubiquitous,
collaborative, experiential-based, contextualised and personalised
learning (socioconstructivist approach to Human Learning) by defining,
developing and using GRID services.  The workshop is inspired by an EU
Integrated Project ELeGI

	http://www.cordis.lu/ist/directorate_e/telearn/fp6_elegi.htm

and has among its main proposers some key leaders active within the
Network of Excellence LeG-WG and the "GRID for learning" communities 
in the South Pacific and North America.

Topics of interest include, but are not restricted to:

Human learning service requirements and service provision based 
on  GRID: teaching services, training services, abstracting and 
generalizing interoperable mechanisms, negotiating, qualifying 
then fusing Semantic descriptions.

Organisational Learning, Ubiquitous learning services Learning 
as a side effect of Interaction, Serendipitous Learning Community 
learning by jointly constructing Ontologies, Constructivist 
learning, Social Learning

GRID Learning services: Granularity, composition, dynamic 
generation, learning services Learning Agents (human and 
artificial)

Enhanced presence on Grid: Rationality, Motivation and Emotions 
enabling Learning e-Qualification, QoS Provision, Adaptive QoS

Applications to (not limited):
- Virtual Scientific Experiments
- Virtual Labs
- e-Training (Medicine, Aeronautics,...)
- Learning Environments for Accountancy and Business Finance
- Learning Environments for Mechanical Engineering

REVIEW COMMITTEE

Colin Allison, (University of St Andrews, UK)
Jeff Bradshaw (University of South Florida, USA)
Rajkumar Buyya (University of Melbourne, Australia)
Stefano A. Cerri (LIRMM: CNRS & Universit Montpellier II, France)
Marc Eisenstadt (Open University, UK)
Guy Gouardres (Universit de Pau & Pays de l'Adour, France)
Michel Liquire, (LIRMM: CNRS & Universit Montpellier II, France)
Roger Nkambou (Universit de Quebec a Montreal, Canada)
Liana Razmerita (University of Toulouse III, France)
Pierluigi Ritrovato (CRMPA, Salerno, Italy)
David De Roure (University of Southampton, UK)
Roland Yatchou (Universit de Quebec a Montreal, Canada)