UNIVERSITÀ DEGLI STUDI DI NAPOLI FEDERICO II
POLO DELLE SCIENZE E DELLE TECNOLOGIE
Dipartimento di Informatica e Sistemistica
DR. Paolo MARESCA
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF COMPUTER ENGINEERING
DET 2007 PROGRAM CHAIR
2007 International Workshop on Distance Education Technologies
(DET 2007)
San Francisco, CA, USA
September 6 – September 8, 2007
Organized by
Knowledge Systems Institute, U.S.A.
THEME
Bridging the gap between communication and intelligence in elearning systems
http://www.dis.unina.it/congress
Call for papers
Theme
DET 2007 focuses on creative solutions on distance education. It combines several advanced topics on design,
implementation, and applications of E-learning systems. Submissions may cover novel approaches on
communication mechanisms, intelligent methods, new educational technologies, and so on. Our special attention
will be devoted to intelligent tools in various distance education systems.
This workshop is being held in conjunction with 13th International Conference on Distributed Multimedia
Systems (DMS'2007) http://www.ksi.edu/seke/dms07.html. You can also reach the website of DET'07
conference at http://www.dis.unina.it/congress
Scope
Distance education technologies cover important aspects of Communication Technologies, Intelligent
Technologies and Educational Technologies. The technical issues to be addressed include, but are not limited to:
E-learning based on mobile device
 new network infrastructures,
 real-time protocols,
 broadband and wireless communication tools,
 open source tools
 Quality-of-Services issues,
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UNIVERSITÀ DEGLI STUDI DI NAPOLI FEDERICO II
POLO DELLE SCIENZE E DELLE TECNOLOGIE
Dipartimento di Informatica e Sistemistica
DR. Paolo MARESCA
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF COMPUTER ENGINEERING
DET 2007 PROGRAM CHAIR
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multimedia streaming technology,
Intelligent learning agent
 multi-agent system/platform
 applications
 case studies
 multi-agent collaboration process
Intelligent information delivery/reuse
 search engines
 data mining for e-learning system
 applications
 case studies
 environment
Eclipse Open source ecosystem and E-learning
 eclipse intelligent resources
 eclipse intelligent projects
 eclipse intelligent environment
 applications
 case studies and best practice
 eclipse community for e-learning
Intelligent Technologies
 intelligent tutoring,
 individualized distance learning,
 approaches to behavior analysis,
 automatic FAQ reply methods,
 application soft computing methodologies,
 visual computing.
Educational Technologies practical and new learning models,
 assessment tools,
 authoring systems,
 distance learning and knowledge management.
Societal, Legal and Ethical Considerations
 copyright protection,
 authentication mechanisms.
Intelligent resources
 learning objects (LO) and LO reusability,
 tracking activities,
 concept assessment problems.
Advanced tools
 collaboration tools
 remote lab,
 knowledge management tools.
Advanced Distance Education Projects
 theory,
 methodology,
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UNIVERSITÀ DEGLI STUDI DI NAPOLI FEDERICO II
POLO DELLE SCIENZE E DELLE TECNOLOGIE
Dipartimento di Informatica e Sistemistica
DR. Paolo MARESCA
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF COMPUTER ENGINEERING
DET 2007 PROGRAM CHAIR

tools
Distance Education Management
 distance education design,
 virtual classroom organization,
 tutoring,
 practice communities,
 world wide LO management,
 Instructional design.
Invited Session
Session 1 Eclipse as intelligent tool for communication
The ECLIPSE community is made up of developers, and all of them contribute to the improvement of the
platform, from all points of view. ECLIPSE is used in schools, universities and for long-life learning, and there
are several reasons why it was chosen: it is open source, has many plug-ins, allows collaborations and is free.
For these motives contributions and experiences should focus on
a) Eclipse & Teaching
- Eclipse in Teaching (example: Eclipse as an IDE to teach a computer language or ECLIPSE as IDE to
manage the process of formation of the students (examinations, homeworks, virtual classroom, self assessment
etc)
- Teaching with Eclipse (example: extend Eclipse or develop an RCP application as part of a teaching stream)
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- ECLIPSE & Teaching case studies and best practice
b) Eclipse as a Platform
Contributions should highlight the platform capabilities of Eclipse, for example the language IDE platform,
the RCP platform and its components, the embedded device development platform, Eclipse as a server-side
application platform in order to build and share virtual laboratories and resources for students and learning
c) Eclipse as a governance and collaboration environment for people
 experiences and tools for cooperate and collaborate
 project management and project sharing applications
 community for e-learning
Session 2 Collaboration in E-Learning
E-learning brings a vast amount of information available for learners but also makes them isolated with each
other. One of the biggest challenges for modern E-learning systems is to provide effective tools that can facilitate
instructors and learners to work together. In this session, we will discuss many interesting topics:
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Time/Knowledge Exchange
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Collaborative Learning over the Internet
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Multi-Relational Data Mining in E-learning System
Special Issue
Papers focusing on pivotal transformational issues will be recommended to the International Journal of Distance
Education Technologies (http://www.mine.tku.edu.tw/JDET/ ) (JDET, EI: COMPENDEX beginning in 2007)¨.
This journal publishes original research articles about distance education in four issues per year. JDET is the
primary forum for researchers and practitioners to disseminate practical solutions to the automation of open and
distance learning. The journal is for academic researchers and engineers who work on distance learning
programs and software systems, as well as educators and general participants of distance education.
Submission of papers
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POLO DELLE SCIENZE E DELLE TECNOLOGIE
Dipartimento di Informatica e Sistemistica
DR. Paolo MARESCA
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF COMPUTER ENGINEERING
DET 2007 PROGRAM CHAIR
Papers should be prepared according to the DMS'2007 submission requirements. Electronic submissions are
encouraged (http://conf.ksi.edu/det07/submit/SubmitPaper.php). Each manuscript should include a 200-word
abstract and not more than 20 pages of double-spaced text (including figures and references). Papers should also
be e-mailed in Postscript, PDF, or MS Word versions to prof. ing. Paolo Maresca paolo.maresca@unina.it, by
the specified deadline.
Important dates
April 20, 2007
May 15, 2007
June 15, 2007
June 15, 2007
Paper submission due (extended)
Notification of acceptance
Final manuscript due
Early conference registration due
In the period between June 15 and August 28, 2007, all accepted papers will be made available for access to all
registered participants in order to initiate a discussion on the topics via a blog. The details on this forum will be
disseminated with the notice of receipt of the registration fee.
Contact information:
prof. ing. Maresca Paolo
Dipartimento di Informatica e Sistemistica (DIS)
Polo Scientifico e Tecnologico dell' Universita' di Napoli Federico II
Facoltà di Ingegneria
Via Claudio, 21
80125 NAPOLI
ITALY
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Sponsor
Knowledge Systems Institute, U.S.A.
Workshop Program Chair
Paolo Maresca, Università Federico II, Napoli, Italy, paolo.maresca@unina.it
Workshop Program Co-chairs
Xin Li, Google Inc, USA, flying.li@gmail.com
Yasir Khalifa, University of Pittsburgh, USA, khalifa@cs.pitt.edu
Steering Committee
S. K. Chang, University of Pittsburgh, USA
International Program Committee
Saud Aldarmi, Kuwait University, Kuwait, aldarmi@hotmail.com
KuwaitAlfio Andronico, University of Siena, Italy, andronico@unisi.it
Giovanni Adorni, University of Genova, Italy, adorni@dist.unige.it
Aziz Barber, American University College of Science & Technology, Lebanon, abarbar@aust.edu.lb
Jinwei Cao, University of Delaware, USA, jcao@lerner.udel.edu
Heng-Shuen Chen, National Taiwan University, Taiwan, chenhs@ntu.edu.tw
Luigi Colazzo, University di Trento, Italy, colazzo@cs.unitn.it
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UNIVERSITÀ DEGLI STUDI DI NAPOLI FEDERICO II
POLO DELLE SCIENZE E DELLE TECNOLOGIE
Dipartimento di Informatica e Sistemistica
DR. Paolo MARESCA
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF COMPUTER ENGINEERING
DET 2007 PROGRAM CHAIR
Rita Francese, University of Salerno, Italy, francese@unisa.it
Kwei-Liang Ho, Taipei Municipal University of Education, Taiwan, tho1wc@ms65.hinet.net
Kao-Shing Hwang, National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan, hwang@ee.ccu.edu.tw
Pedro Isaias, Portuguese Open University, Portugal, isaias@iadis.org
Kusai Kayali, University of Aleppo, Syria
Souhail Khawatmi, University of Aleppo, Syria
Ammar Kheirbek, Damascus University, Syria, kheirbek@netcourrier.com
Gabriele Meiselwitz, Towson University, USA, gmeiselwitz@towson.edu
Atif Memon, University of Maryland, USA, atif@cs.umd.edu
Giuseppe Scanniello, University of Salerno, Italy, giuseppe.scanniello@unibas.it
Georgi Stojanov, American University in Paris, France, gstojanov@aup.fr
Yu-Huei Su, National Hsin Chu University of Education, Taiwan, chenhs@ntu.edu.tw
Mahbubur R. Syed, Minnesota State University, USA, mahbubur.syed@mnsu.edu
Gang Tan, Boston College, USA, gtan@cs.bc.edu
Goran Trajkovski, Towson University, USA, gtrajkovski@towson.edu
Huahui Wu, Google Inc., USA, hwu@google.com
Kui Xie, Mississippi State University, USA, kxie@colled.msstate.edu
Ling-Ling Yang, Taipei Medical University, Taiwan, llyang@tmu.edu.tw
Changhe Yuan, Mississippi State University, USA, cyuan@cse.msstate.edu
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