Workshop Topics

TUMAS-A 2008 workshop focus on new research challenges and initiatives in Web Intelligence (WI) and Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT) to support the needs for all in the lifelong learning paradigm.

The workshop will provide an informal and vibrant forum for researchers and industry practitioners to share their research results and practical development experiences in these two fields. Suggested, but not limited to, workshop topics include:

Knowledge Community Formation and Support
Web Mining techniques in standard based inclusive learning settings
Semantics and Ontology Engineering for intelligent inclusive support
Intelligent Web Agents for inclusive personalization
Web Services for interoperability with open standard based learning management systems
Web Information Filtering and Retrieval in inclusive learning scenarios
Intelligent Human-Web Interaction: adaptation, usability and accessibility issues
Personalized Interfaces
Recommender systems
Agent-Based Distributed Data Mining, Knowledge Discovery and Sharing
Learning and Self-Adaptation in Multi-Agent Systems
Learning User Profiles
Social and Psychological Issues