ITS2008 - 9th International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems

The 9th International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems provides a leading international forum for the dissemination of original results in the design, implementation, and evaluation of intelligent tutoring systems and related areas. The conference will draw researchers from a broad spectrum of disciplines ranging from artificial intelligence and cognitive sciences to pedagogy and educational psychology. The conference explores the real world impact of intelligent tutoring systems (ITSs) on an increasingly global scale. Improved authoring tools and learning object standards enable fielding systems and curricula in real world settings on an unprecedented scale. Researchers deploy ITSs in ever larger studies, and increasingly use data from real students, tasks, and settings to guide new research. With high volumes of student interaction data, data mining and machine learning, tutoring systems can learn from experience and improve their teaching performance. Increasing number of realistic evaluation studies also broaden researchers’ knowledge about the educational contexts for which ITSs are best suited. At the same time, researchers explore how to expand and improve student-tutor communication, for example, how to achieve more flexible and responsive discourse with students, help students integrate Web resources into learning, use mobile technologies and games to enhance student motivation and learning, and address multicultural perspectives. ITS 2008 will be supported by a strong international program committee that will ensure full and effective refereeing of all submitted papers. Important dates

1. Submission deadline: January 18, 2008
2. Acceptance notification: March 20, 2008
3. 3 pages final camera-ready manuscript: April 6, 2008
4. Copyright form submission : April 6, 2008
5. Author registration deadline: April 16, 2008

Areas of Interest

1. Adaptive Hypermedia

1. Affect and Models of Emotion
2. Agent-based Tutoring Systems
3. Architectures
4. Assessment
5. Authoring Systems
6. Case-Based Reasoning Systems
7. Cognitive Modeling
8. Collaborative Learning
9. Digital Learning Games
10. Distributed Learning Environments
11. Electronic Commerce and Learning
12. Evaluation of Instructional Systems
13. Human Factors and Interface Design
14. Instructional Design
15. Intelligent Agents
16. Intelligent Web-Based Learning
17. Intelligent Multimedia Systems
18. Knowledge Acquisition
19. Knowledge Construction
20. Knowledge Representation
21. Learning Companions
22. Learning Environments
23. Machine Learning in ITS
24. Narratives in Learning, Natural Language and Discourse
25. Pedagogical Agent
26. Pedagogical Planning
27. Situated Learning
28. Speech and Dialogue Systems
29. Student Modeling
30. Virtual Reality
31. Web-based Training Systems
32. Wireless and Mobile Learning

Contact us

• Roger Nkambou (co-chair), University of Quebec at Montreal, Canada – [email protected]

• Susanne Lajoie (co-chair), McGill University, Canada – [email protected]
• Line Marier (conference secretary ), University of Quebec at Montreal, Canada – [email protected]

Paper Formatting

Papers must comply with the LNCS formatting instructions. Papers in LaTeX, please follow the instructions and sample files Springer provides. Submissions must be in MS Word (.doc), Portable Document Format (.pdf), or Rich Text Format (.rtf). Submissions must be in English, double-spaced, and not to exceed 5000 words. The cover page should include: title of the paper, authors' names and affiliations, postal address, phone number, email, and a 200 word abstract. The content of the cover page is not included in the 5000 word limit. Submissions requirements All submissions will be (double) blind reviewed (i.e. in addition to authors not knowing the identity of reviewers, reviewers will not be told the identity of authors). Please ensure that you remove author names and contact details from your submission, by replacing the contents of the author field with "Tracking Number: ###", where ### is the Tracking Number you received when you submitted your abstract. Please also ensure that any reference to your own previous work is made in a way that does not disclose author identity. In some cases you may consider removing citations to your own previous work until the final version. All papers must be submitted electronically to the ITS’2008 Submission System: http://its2008.confmaster.net/ Submission is a two-step process. First, authors register with the confmaster submission management software, which provides a user id and password that enables them to submit papers. Second, they upload their paper to the system.

Publication

Accepted papers (10 pages) will be included in the conference proceedings that will be published by Springer Verlag in its Lecture Notes in Computer Science series.

Steering Committee

Chair Claude Frasson, Univesity of Montreal, Canada

Members Stefano Cerri (University of Montpellier II, France)

Isabel Fernandez-Castro (University of the Basque Country, Spain)

Gilles Gauthier (University of Quebec at Montreal, Canada)

Guy Gouardères (University of Pau, France)

Mitsuru Ikeda (Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology)

Marc Kaltenbach (Bishop's University, Canada)

Judith Kay (University of Sidney, Australia)

Alan Lesgold (University of Pittsburgh, USA)

James Lester (North Carolina State University)

Elliot Soloway (University of Michigan, USA)

Daniel Suthers (University of Hawai, USA)

Beverly Woolf (University of Massachussets, USA)

Conference Committee

Conference Chairs

Susanne Lajoie, McGill, Canada

Roger Nkambou, University of Quebec at Montreal, Canada

General Chairs

Claude Frasson, University of Montreal, Canada

Gilles Gauthier, University of Quebec at Montreal, Canada

Program Chairs

Esma Aïmeur, University of Montreal, Canada

Beverly P. Woolf, University of Massachusetts, USA

Local Arrangements

Jacqueline Bourdeau, Téléuniversité, Canada

Workshop Chairs

Roger Azevedo, University of Memphis, USA

Tak-Wai Chan, National Central University, Taiwan

Tutorial Chairs

Peter Brusilovsky, University of Pittsburg, USA

Valery Shute, ETS, USA

Panel Chairs

Riichiro Mizoguchi, Osaka University, Japan

Kenneth Koedinger, Carnegie Mellon University, USA

Poster Chairs

Judy Kay, University of Sydney, Australia

Cristina Conati, University of British Columbia, Canada

Young Researchers Track

Guy Gouardères, Université de Pau et des pays de l'Adour, France

Rosa Maria Vicari, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

Demonstration Chairs

Neil Heffernan, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA

Aude Dufresne, University of Montreal, Canada

André Mayers, University of Sherbrooke, Canada

Local Assistance

Amal Zouaq, Emmanuel Blanchard, Daniel Dubois, Mohamed Gaha, Geneviève Gauthier, Hicham Hage, Philippe Fournier-Viger, Sebastien Gambs,Usef Faghihi, Valery Psyché.