CARE 2016 - Seventh International Workshop on Collaborative Agents Research & Development

"CARE for Digital Education” aims to discuss computational models, social computing, and intelligence applied to Digital Education. We are motivated by a recent OECD Report (OECD, 2015), which points out that despite many years of effort in bringing computing technology to learning practices, there is no appreciable improvement in student achievement. How can Computation Intelligence and Agent-based technology help with that?
We aim to bring together experiences around the utilisation of innovative models of ICT in education, particularly in the fields of: content provisioning and intelligent repositories of learning objects; content composition and recommendation systems for composing personalised and adaptive digital content; content delivery and intelligences for content adaptation, personalised tutoring, and reaction to student behaviour; new forms of automatic assessment, and models to understand the impact of social behaviour, and; learning analytics, models to analyse and understand student behaviour, models to predict student behaviour, and so on.
The CARE workshop series intends to address a gap in Multi-Agent Systems and AI landscape around practical application of the technology to analyse and address social issues in daily life problems, such as education, health, safety, mobility, and social connectedness. These solutions exploit the combination of social applications, ambient intelligence, social networks, and collective thinking to promote the participation of users, social connectedness, and social intelligence.
We expect contributions from members in the industry and applied research in academia. The contributions shall apply AI and agent technology, including distributed AI, situatedness, local interaction, user profiling, social simulation, and others.