MSLE 2014 - International Workshop on MultiAgent System Based Learning Environments

The MASLE workshop intends to highlight the increasing impact of the Multiagent Systems (MAS) paradigm in educational learning environments in recent years.
MAS technologies have been used in different educational applications such as Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS), Interactive Learning Systems (ILS) and Intelligent Learning Environments (ILE). The research focus of these field has been on improving interactivity among human and no human agents, ascribing different roles to agents, 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. This workshop will be intended for all researchers dealing with MAS cognitive architectures for Intelligent Learning Environments, simulation (school management, class interaction), MAS social interaction (peer, collaborative and cooperative), agent-agent and human-agent interaction, interaction between peers, argumentation, Artificial Assistant and also Pedagogical agents.
The 1st edition of MASLE took place in the IBERAMIA 2012, 13th edition of the Ibero-American Conference on Artificial Intelligence, a leading symposium where the Ibero-American AI community comes together to share research results and experiences with researchers in Artificial Intelligence from all over the world, in Cartagena, Colombia at november 13. We intend to continue with this propose by offering this space for sharing of research knowledge in this area during the course of PAAMS 2014.