A3H 2009 - A3H: Seventh International Workshop on Authoring of Adaptive and Adaptable Hypermedia

A3H: Seventh International Workshop on Authoring of Adaptive and
Adaptable Hypermedia
At EC-TEL 2009:
The Fourth European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning
"Learning in the Synergy of Multiple Disciplines"
http://www.ectel09.org/
Nice, France, September 29 - October 2, 2009

(Submission deadline: 30th June, 2009)

WORKSHOP SITES:
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* at the ECTEL site: http://www.ectel09.org/calls.workshops.html
* independent site: http://www.dcs.warwick.ac.uk/~acristea/A3H09/

Suggested themes that the papers should be addressing include, but are
not limited to:

THEMES:
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* Authoring for adaptivity based on Semantic Web standards or other
standards
* Authoring for adaptivity based on Web 2.0 ideas, methodology,
technology, applications
* Folksonomies and ontologies in authoring of adaptive hypermedia
* Automation in authoring of adaptive hypermedia
* Verification, termination and confluence
* Multi-modal and multi-layered authoring models
* Design patterns for adaptive hypermedia
* Authoring user models and group models for adaptive/adaptable hypermedia
* Collaborative authoring
* Role-based authoring
* Automatic, adaptive authoring
* Generic authoring frameworks for adaptive/adaptable hypermedia
* Generic authoring tools in adaptive/adaptable hypermedia
* Reusable user models, group user models, and pedagogic models
* Evaluation of authoring tools for adaptive hypermedia


MOTIVATION OF THE WORKSHOP:
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This workshop follows a successful series of workshops on the same
topic: A3H at AH?8 in Hannover, UM?7, in Corfu, AH?6, in Dublin, at
AIED?5, in Amsterdam, at AH?4, in Eindhoven, and at WBE?4 in Innsbruck.

The current workshop targets work on design, implementation and
evaluation of general Adaptive and Adaptable (Educational) Hypermedia,
with special emphasis on major trends in web authoring and the design
and creation of web material:
?General frameworks and advanced tools for authoring Adaptive Hypermedia
?Visual and graphical authoring environments for Adaptive Hypermedia
?Multi-modal and multi-layered authoring models
?Termination, confluence and verification from an authoring point of view
?Authoring for the Web 2.0 and the Semantic Web
?Collaborative authoring

Authoring of Adaptive Hypermedia has been long considered as secondary
to adaptive hypermedia delivery. However, authoring is not trivial at
all. There exist some approaches to help authors to build
adaptive-hypermedia-based systems, yet there is a strong need for
high-level approaches, formalisms and tools that support and facilitate
the description of reusable adaptive websites. However, a shift in
interest occurred (fuelled in part by this workshop series), as it
became clearer that the implementation-oriented approach would forever
keep adaptive hypermedia away from the �ayman?author. The creator of
adaptive hypermedia cannot be expected to know all facets of this
process, but can be reasonably trusted to be an expert in one of them.
It is therefore necessary to research and establish the components of an
adaptive hypermedia system from an authoring perspective, catering for
the different author personas that are required. This type of research
has proven to lead to a modular view on the adaptive hypermedia.

Therefore, important issues to discuss are, among others:
* How can frameworks and advanced tools facilitate and contribute to
automate authoring?
* How can visual, e.g. drag and drop environments make authoring easier?
* How can verification be made possible in authoring environments? To
what extent can it be automated?
* How and to what extent can Semantic Web standards be applied in the
authoring process?
* How can Web 2.0 concepts and methodology be used in authoring?
* How does grouping of authors or assignment of authoring roles
influence the authoring process, and are there ways to optimize this?



TARGET AUDIENCE:
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The workshop is targeted at all people working towards or just
interested in state-of-the art on the discovery and use of patterns,
formalisms, mechanisms and implementations that can help them to develop
and author adaptive hypermedia, in educational domain and beyond. The
richer the adaptation of a hypermedia-based system is, the more complex
its specification needs to be. Therefore, there is a clear need of using
standards, automation, discovering patterns and developing formalisms,
mechanisms or tools to facilitate and support the task of authoring
adaptive hypermedia, by performing it, in some cases,
(semi-)automatically. The necessity of these patterns can be as a result
of authoring push or AH system interfacing or ultimately open (adaptive)
hypermedia or pull. This means that patterns can emerge from repetitive
structures used by AH authors; alternatively, patterns can emerge from
interface programs or interface languages between different adaptive
hypermedia systems, or from trying to interface to the open adaptive
hypermedia. As the technology advances, and as the web standards are
becoming more competitive, communities from different corners, such as
Adaptive Hypermedia and Semantic Web need to be put together, to solve
old problems, such as the one of Authoring of Adaptive Hypermedia.
Moreover, this workshop is also targeted at people interested in the new
Web 2.0 methods technologies, and in how these can be applied to push
forward the authoring process, by using the force of the masses, instead
of the expertise of the few (as is the case in the Semantic Web).
Thus, the target audience includes researchers and practitioners that
are active in all these fields, as well as representatives of larger
projects or networks dealing with these issues. We encourage this
audience to submit papers to the workshop on their latest results and ideas.
Moreover, the workshop is also targeted at people who are interested to
hear and discuss the state of the art and the future of this important
domain of adaptive hypermedia and adaptive web authoring. We encourage
them to participate actively in the discussions for which time will be
especially allocated, as well as in the other interactive sections, such
as questionnaires and (if possible) demos.
The workshop抯 main aim is to bring together researchers working or
interested in the emerging fields of semantic web, Web 2.0 and adaptive
hypermedia authoring. We expect to extract and discuss these merge of
research and application directions, as well as see their
implementations and evaluations, encouraging the transition towards
standard extensions and improvements in the field.
Participants are expected to leave with a better knowledge of the state
of the art of the field, as well as to have a fruitful brain-storming
session generating new ideas and opening new paths.
Results of the discussions and questionnaire processing will be posted
after the workshop on-line on the workshop site, as is the case with the
previous editions of this workshop.



ORGANIZATION OF THE WORKSHOP:
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This is a half-day workshop. There will be paper presentation (full;
short; posters) and discussions+panel.These discussions will be open to
all; not only those who have papers accepted at the workshop but also
any other interested parties are welcome.
After the paper presentations, the discussion based on these questions
will begin. Both the presenters and the audience will be asked to
contribute to the answering of these questions. We intend to continue
the tradition started in the past workshop series, where this discussion
was organized in the form of a panel of well-known invited speakers,
which triggered and broadened the discussion with the rest of the audience.


EXPECTED RESULTS:
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The workshop will also lead to a better understanding and
cross-dissemination of how Semantic Web technology, standards and
methods, as well as Web 2.0 methods can be applied in the field of
Authoring of Adaptive and Adaptable Hypermedia and Web Personalization.
Moreover, this workshop will lead to a better understanding of how
manual and automatic authoring can be combined to achieve best results,
especially based on patterns extracted from existing design and
authoring processes in AH.
The workshop aims to attract the interest of the related research and
practitioner communities to the important issues of design and
authoring, with special focus on Semantic Web and Web 2.0 applied in
adaptive hypermedia; to discuss the current state of the art in this
field; and to identify new challenges in the field.
Moreover, the workshop can be seen as a platform that enables the
cooperation and exchange of information between European and
non-European projects.



PAPERS AT THE WORKSHOP:
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We welcome discussion proposals as well as research papers. Papers
accepted for the workshop will be published in the workshop proceedings
of the ECTEL?009 conference.
Selected papers will also be invited for a Special Issue in a selected
journal.


IMPORTANT DATES:
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Submission deadline: 30th June, 2009
Notification of acceptance or rejection: 15 August, 2009
Final versions due: 5th September, 2009
Workshop: September 29/30 (TBC), 2009
Main conference: September 29- October 2, 2009

Earlier submission is encouraged. Please send an intention e-mail with a
title and a short intentional abstract as soon as you decide to submit.
Submit to contacts as below by email
(acristea-AT-dcs.warwick.ac.uk,Rosa.Carro-AT-uam.es). Online submission may be
available later - check site for more information.

SUBMISSION CATEGORIES:
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Full papers: 10-15 pages
original mature research results
Short papers: 4-6 pages
original ongoing research
Posters: 2 pages
original ongoing research or research ideas of visual nature

All submissions must be formatted according to Springer LNCS guidelines
and submitted as informed by the AH2008 website.
All submissions will undergo a thorough reviewing and refereeing process
in order to decide on acceptance.

The submissions should be in the format of Springer Lecture Notes in
Computer Science (LNCS).
Please check http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html for
instructions on how to prepare submissions.

IMPORTANT: Selected papers will also be invited for a Special Issue in a
selected journal!

WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS:
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Alexandra I. Cristea, University of Warwick (UK)
Rosa M. Carro, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid (Spain)



WORKSHOP PROGRAM COMMITTEE MEMBERS (TBC):
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Helen Ashman, University of Nottingham (UK) http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~hla/
Susan Bull, University of Birmingham (UK) http://www.eee.bham.ac.uk/bull/
Paul De Bra, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven (Netherlands)
http://wwwis.win.tue.nl/~debra/
Tim Brailsford, University of Nottingham (UK) www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~tjb/
Licia Calvi, University of Pavia (Italy)
http://soc.kuleuven.be/com/mediac/cuo/?p=member&id...
Cristina Conati, University of British Colombia (Canada)
http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~conati/
Declan Dagger, Trinity College Dublin (Irland)
https://www.cs.tcd.ie/Declan.Dagger/
Hugh Davis, Southampton University (UK) http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~hcd/
Serge Garlatti, GET-ENST Bretagne (France)
http://perso.enst-bretagne.fr/~garlatti/HomePage/
Franca Garzotto, Milano Politecnic (Italy)
http://www.iei.pi.cnr.it/SIMOS/People/garzotto.htm
Nicola Henze, University of Hannover (Germany)
http://www.kbs.uni-hannover.de/~henze/
Judy Kay, University of Sydney (Australia) http://www.cs.usyd.edu.au/~judy/
Kinshuk, Athabascau University (Canada)
http://scis.athabascau.ca/scis/staff/index.jsp?ct=...
Toshio Okamoto, University of Electro-Communications (Japan)
http://www.ai.is.uec.ac.jp/
Alvaro Ortigosa, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid (Spain),
http://www.ii.uam.es/~ortigosa/index-e.htm
Helen Pain, University of Edinburgh (UK)
http://www.dai.ed.ac.uk/homes/helen/
Simos Retalis, University of Piraeus (Greece)
http://www.softlab.ntua.gr/~retal/
Pilar Rodr韌uez, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid (Spain)
http://www.ii.uam.es/~pilar/
Marcus Specht, Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Information Technology
(Germany) http://www.marcuspecht.de/home.html
Daniel Schwabe, PUC - Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)
http://www-di.inf.puc-rio.br/schwabe//
Carlo Strapparava, IRST (Italy) http://tcc.itc.it/people/strapparava.html
Craig Stewart, Queen Mary, University of London (UK)
http://www.elec.qmul.ac.uk/department/staff/resear...
Lorna Uden, Staffordshire University (UK) http://www.soc.staffs.ac.uk/lu1/
Vincent Wade, Trinity College (Ireland) https://www.cs.tcd.ie/Vincent.Wade/
Gerhard Weber, Freiburg University of Education (Germany)
http://art.ph-freiburg.de/psy/people/GWeber.html


CONTACT:
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Dr. Alexandra Cristea, Associate Professor
Department of Computer Science, Room 321
University of Warwick
Coventry CV4 7AL, UK
tel.: /direct/:(+44) 24 765 73774; /secretary/: (+44) 24 7652 3668
fax: +44 24 7657 3024
http://www.dcs.warwick.ac.uk/~acristea/
Email: a.i.cristea-AT-warwick.ac.uk, acristea-AT-dcs.warwick.ac.uk

Dr. Rosa M. Carro - Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain
Universidad Auté?‡onoma de Madrid
Escuela Polité??nica Superior
Office B-318
Phone: + 34 91 497 22 76
Fax :+ 34 91 497 22 35
http://www.ii.uam.es/~rcarro/r_home_e.html
E-mail: Rosa.Carro-AT-uam.es