(m)AS&ILE 2013 - (multi)Agent Systems & Intelligent Learning Environments

Educational technologies have been used in different educational applications such as in intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS), Interactive Learning Systems (ILS) or Intelligent Learning Environments (ILE) . The main research focus of these applications has been on improving interactivity between agents (human vs. machine, machine vs. machine) ascribing different roles to agents (as in a classroom environment), promoting dialogue across different actors in learning environments, exploring possible ways to extract information from the application environment, such as, students’ capabilities and needs and finally, fostering student interactivity and building software environments in which students share their knowledge with synthetic agents, acquiring meta-cognitive abilities . Automatic assessment is also an area in expansion where the use of data-mining techniques provide feedback from students’ misconceptions and improve their results in on-line tests.
Clarifying the relationship between (multi-)agent systems and educational applications also improves the discussion around the background technical issues with respect to agent specific modelling languages, formal languages and agent interaction. Finally the focus on empirical research supported by the specific methodologies, such as testing and results validation, can contribute to the discussion about testing and validating technology methodologies applied to agent and multi-agent systems and related fields.
The aim of (m)AS&ILE ? EPIA 2013 thematic track is to provide an opportunity for all researchers to discuss the latest research advances in the area, dealing with architectures for intelligent learning environments, simulation (school management, class interaction), social interaction (peer, collaborative and cooperative), virtual learning environments, agent-agent and human-agent interaction, interaction between peers, argumentation, artificial assistant, pedagogical agents and other related topics.
Topics of interest
- Meta-cognitive tutoring and self-regulated learning educational technologies;
- Intelligent Collaborative learning and classroom management applications in multi-agent systems;
- Animated Pedagogical Agents;
- Agent-based learning systems;
- Emotional and cognitive agents;
- Virtual instructors and peers in mixed reality environments;
- Virtual learning environments and (multi-)agent systems;
- Modelling multi-agent systems fostering creative activity;
- Modelling intelligent artificial assistants (helpers) and instructors;
- Multi-agent simulation educational environments;
- Storytelling/Narrative Engines;
- Formal models for ITS;
- Game development applied to pedagogical scenarios;
- Cognitive, emotion and personality modelling;