Important Dates
- Submission deadline: Monday, November 21, 2005.
- Acceptance notification: Friday, January 20, 2006.
- Final versions due: Friday, February 13, 2006.
Call for Papers
Papers are being solicited for a special track on Intelligent Tutoring
Systems (ITS) at the
19th International FLAIRS Conference (FLAIRS-2006).
The special track is intended to bring together an international audience
to present and discuss all issues related to intelligent tutoring systems.
The track will focus on ITS research that represents application of modern AI
techniques to the problems of education, such as, but not limited to:
- Natural Language Processing (NLP) and dialogue in educational systems
- Game- and narrative-based learning environments
- Learner modelling, including modelling of emotions, affective state, diligence, engagement,
and motivation
- Pedagogical agents and tutoring in virtual learning environments
- Authoring of domain and tutoring knowledge for non-experts
- Adaptive and interactive hypermedia for learning
In addition, papers on traditional ITS topics, such as problem solving, feedback,
knowledge representation, etc. will also be included. Papers should include
evaluation data and results when appropriate.
Those interested in the ITS special track may also want to consider
viewing the
FLAIRS special
track in AI Education.
Submission Guidelines
Submitted papers must be original, and not submitted concurrently to a journal or
another conference. Completed manuscripts must be submitted by
Monday, November 21, 2005.
The proceedings of FLAIRS will be published by the AAAI and may be up to 6 pages.
Submission guidelines can be obtained by referring to the
conference website (http://www.indiana.edu/~flairs06/).
Reviewers will be asked to focus on the technical content of the papers, so that all
reviews are substantive, providing expert constructive feedback to the authors.
There will be no expectation that reviewers should act as editorial proof-readers -
high quality presentation is the responsibility of the authors,
and inadequately prepared papers may be rejected.
Online Resources
Questions regarding the track should be addressed to
H. Chad Lane (http://www.ict.usc.edu/~lane/).
Program Committee
- H. Chad Lane, chair (University of Southern California/ICT)
- Vincent Aleven (Carnegie-Mellon University)
- Cristina Conati (University of British Columbia)
- Mark G. Core (University of Southern California/ICT)
- Rebecca Crowley (University of Pittsburgh/UPMC)
- Arthur Graesser (University of Memphis)
- Reva Freedman (Northern Illinois University)
- Neil Heffernan (Worcester Polytechnic University)
- W. Lewis Johnson (University of Southern California/ISI)
- Pamela Jordan (University of Pittsburgh/LRDC)
- Sandra Katz (University of Pittsburgh/LRDC)
- Chun-wai Liew (Lafayette College)
- Noboru Matsuda (Carnegie Mellon University)
- R. Charles Murray (Carnegie Learning)
- Carolyn P. Rose (Carnegie Mellon University)
- Amy Soller (Institute for Defense Analyses)
- Douglas M. Towne (University of Southern California/BTL)
- Beverly Woolf (University of Massachusetts at Amherst)
FLAIRS 2006 Invited Speakers
- Alan Bundy, University of Edinburgh, Scotland
- Bob Morris, NASA Ames Research Center, USA
- Mehran Sahami, Stanford University and Google, USA
- Barry Smyth, University College Dublin, Ireland
