Special Issue on IWINAC 2015: 6th Int. Work-Conference on the Interplay between Natural and Artificial Computation

Special Issue on "INTELLIGENCE IN EDUCATIONAL ENVIRONMENTS"

The special issue related to “IWINAC 2015: 6th Int. Work-Conference on the Interplay between Natural and Artificial Computation” will contain the best revised papers dealing with different issues concerning Intelligent Systems for making teaching / learning more effective and accessible. Education needs in today's societies are steadily increasing. It is a challenge to find new ways of teaching to increase educational level of society. The most advanced technology would be a great help by making teaching / learning more effective and accessible. Effectiveness is mainly based on the analysis of the student situation and the adaptation of the educational experience and environment, including teaching methods and material. This include learner analytics and accessibility in order to understand learner needs and enable and facilitation access to education in very different problematic cases, including physical distance between educator and student, student cognitive physical or emotional problems, or any other special situation. In particular, Artificial Intelligence (AI) techniques can foster this process in these situations and provide an enriched learning experience.

We launch this special issue (SI) as a forum where research and applied AI in education show solutions and research experiences.

Topics covered

The SI on Intelligent Systems for Education is dedicated to a cutting-edge research, its current practices and trends; and it links together topics related to pedagogy, cognitive psychology, computer interaction and artificial intelligence. The main topics faced by this SI are:

• Educational robotics. Emotional robotic.
• Human Robot Interaction for education.
• Help and advice systems
• Intelligent frameworks for learning
• Educational interactive games
• Reputation models in education
• Ontologies in education
• Intelligent systems and simulation
• Intelligent assessment systems
• Case-based reasoning for learning
• Cognitive tools for learning
• Smart environments for education
• Intelligent training systems
• Motivation tools
• Multimedia educational environments
• Human-agent interaction
• Knowledge-based communities
• Big data in education
• Learning analytics and educational data mining
• Adaptive learning and adaptive learning design

Important Dates:

• Paper Submission EXTENDED Deadline: December, 13th, 2015.
• Decision Notification: January, 31th, 2016.
  
• Final Paper Submission: February, 29th, 2016.

Submision of manuscripts:

To be considered, authors will need to establish relevance of their paper to the scope of the Special Issue and the journal. Authors will be required to follow the Author’s Guide for manuscript submission to Expert Systems
Authors are requested to submit their manuscripts via the online submission manuscript system, available at https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/exsy.

During submission, authors should explicitly choose the title of the special issue: S.I. : IWINAC2015, Intelligent Educational Systems.

Review Process:

The Guest Editors will first evaluate all manuscripts. Those manuscripts that meet the minimum criteria are passed on for peer review by two external experts. The method of review in this special issue will employ single blind review, where the referee remains anonymous throughout the process. The Guest Editors board is responsible for the final decision to accept or to reject the article, based on the recommendations of the reviewers.

Guest Editors:

- Rafael Martínez Tomás, Departamento de Inteligencia Artificial, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia.

- Miguel Rodríguez Artacho, Departamento de Lenguajes y Sistemas Informáticos, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia.

Related Link:

IWINAC 2015: 6th Int. Work-Conference on the Interplay between Natural and Artificial Computation