WCCI2008-- Special Session Call for Papers

Session Title: Computational Intelligence Approach for E-Learning

Introductions

E-learning systems have been widely adopted by numerous organizations in recent years. It has also been proved to be effective and efficient to improve learners’ knowledge. The most attractive characteristic of e-learning system is that it can provide flexible learning path depending on the learner’s skills and learning abilities. Such flexibility can further eliminate some limitations so that learners can decide where and when to learn what materials according to their needs.

Although adopting e-learning systems have been widely accepted by organizations, there still exist some obstacles. For example, e-learning performance is difficult to be evaluated. Meanwhile, learner behavior changes so fast that predefined learning materials cannot catch up the learner’s needs. Furthermore, it is also difficult to design an e-learning system that meets all the learner’s needs because the computers are not human teachers that can make proper reactions when difficulty occurs. On the other hand, constructing e-learning systems require large amount of time, money, and human resources. Thus, it is required to improve the existed e-learning systems to maximize the learning result while reduces constructing costs as well.

Fortunately, computational intelligent methodologies are capable to remove the limitations mentioned above. This special session focuses on intelligent systems that can improve the performance of e-learning applications. Concepts, algorithms, and applications of artificial intelligence for e-learning systems are welcome. We anticipate this special session can bring in top researchers to make vital contributions of future e-learning studies. All papers accepted in this special session will also be published by EI indexed IEEE CS. Extensions of best papers accepted and presented in this special session will also be recommended to SCI/SSCI indexed journals and be published as a special issue. However, the recommended papers must pass a second-round reviewing process in order to be accepted for post-publishing.
　

Focused Topics

This session focuses on the use of modern computational intelligent methodologies such as Neural Network, Generic Algorithm, Fuzzy Logic, Expert Systems, Adaptive Algorithm, Evolutionary Systems and other Artificial Intelligence methodologies (but not limited) related to the following topics:

Coming Generations of E-Learning Technologies
Quality Learning Technologies for Online Distributed Classrooms
Advanced Learning Technologies for Disabled and Non-Disabled People
Multimodal Communications
Educational Data Mining
E-learning Performance and Assessment
Adaptive Learning Systems
Evolutionary Learning Systems
Interactions between Learners & E-Learning Systems
Cost Management of E-Learning Projects
Learning Behaviour & Paradigm Shift
Other E-Learning Related Issues

Important dates

Full paper submission due: 31/12/2007
Paper acceptance notification date: 1/2/2008 (Will be delayed for 3 to 5 days)
Final (Camera-ready) paper submission due: 1/3/2008

Review Procedure of This Special Session:

There are 34 submissions received by this special session, and thus a more critical review process is applied.
1. At least 3 reviewers are required to review each manuscript where at least one reviewer is listed in the technical committee (TC) board of this special session.
2. More than 3 reviewers (up to 6) would be invited if conflict opinions occurred.
3. The submitted manuscript would be rejected if any TC reviewer placed “Reject” recommendations.
4. At least 2 “Accept” recommendations are required for a manuscript to be accepted by this special session.
5. For those papers received “Accept” recommendations but been rejected by this special session, they will be recommended to WCCI to determine if they could be accepted by the main program.

* All review process has been done.

Technical Committees

John MacIntyre
    Editor in Chief of Neural Computing and Applications
    Associate Dean, Professor of Adaptive Systems, Director, Centre for Adaptive Systems, The School of Computing and Technology, University of Sunderland, UK

Vincenzo Loia
    Co-Editor in Chief of Soft Computing
    Professor and Chair, Dept. Mathematics & Computer Science, University of Salerno, Italy

Ching-Hsue Cheng
Professor, Department of Information Management, National Yunlin University of Science and Technology, Taiwan

Florentin Wörgötter
Professor, Head of the Computational Neurosciences Group, University of Göttingen, Germany

Dragan Gašević
Assistant Professor, School of Computing and Information Systems, Athabasca University, Canada

Permanand Mohan
Ph.D, Senior Computer Science lecturer in the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine campus, Trinidad and Tobago

Ke Tang
Associate Professor, Nature Inspired Computation and Applications Laboratory (NICAL), Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, China

Roland Kaschek
Associate Professor, Department of Information Systems, Massey University, New Zealand

Jingan Yang
Professor, School of Computer and Information Engineering, Changzhou Institute of Technology, Changzhou 213002, Jiangsu Province, China

Mª Victoria Belmonte Martinez
Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingeniería Informática, Universidad de Málaga, Bulevar Luis Pasteur s/n, Málaga 29071, Spain
　

Session Chair

        Chieh-Chung Shen, Ph.D
          Assistant Professor, Department/Institute of Information Management of Yu-Da business college, Taiwan.
          Email: sam-cc@umail.hinet.net
          Tel: +886935591401

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