[comp.ai] International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems

bjr@mind.UUCP (Brian J. Reiser) (11/26/87)

                    Updated Call for Papers

                  INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON
                  INTELLIGENT TUTORING SYSTEMS

	        	1-3  JUNE  1988
	        	MONTREAL, CANADA

Conference Objectives: ITS 88 will be a forum for presenting new
results in research, development, and applications of intelligent
tutoring systems.  The aims of the conference are to bring together
specialists in the field of Artificial Intelligence and Education, to
share state of the art information among the attendees and to outline
future developments of ITS and their applications.

Topics of interest: The ITS 88 Conference will accept scientific and
techincal papers on all areas of ITS development, but will primarily
focus on the following areas:

  Learning environments
  Methodologies and architectures for educational systems
  AI programming environments for educational use
  Student modelling and cognitive diagnosis
  Curriculum and knowledge representation
  Evaluation of tutoring systems
  Theoretical foundations of ITS
  Knowledge acquisition in ITS
  Design issues in building ITS
  Practical uses of ITS
  Empirical aspects of ITS

Program Committee Chairs are Prof. Gregor Bochmann of the University
of Montreal and Dr. Marlene Jones of the Alberta Research Council.

Program Committee: Ehud Bar-On, Dick Bierman, Jeffrey Bonar, Lorne
Bouchard, Jacqueline Bourdeau, Bernard Causse, Andy diSessa, Philippe
Duchastel, Gerhard Fischer, Jim Greer, Wayne Harvey, Lewis Johnson,
Heniz Mandl, Stuart Macmillan, Gordon McCalla, Vitoro Midoro, Riichiro
Mizoguchi, Andre Ouellet, Maryse Quere, Brian Reiser, Lauren Resnick,
John Self, Derek Sleeman, Elliot Soloway, Hans Spada, Georges Stamon,
Harold Stolovitch, Akira Takeuchi, Martial Vivet, Karl Wender, Beverly
Woolf, Massoud Yazdani.

Authors are requested to submit 5 copies (in English or French) of a
double-spaced manuscript of up to 5000 words by 15 December 1987 to:

  Prof. Gregor Bochmann
  Department d'informatique et de recherche operationnelle
  Universite de Monteal
  C.P. 6128, Succ "A"
  Montreal CANADA
  H3C 3J7

Authors will be notified of acceptance by February 29, 1988. Camera-ready
copies will be due April 10, 1988.