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Dear Colleagues,

I am cordially inviting you to submit a paper at the SAINT2008 Workshop on Social and Personal Computing for Web-Supported Learning Communities - SPeL 2008 (see CfP below). Please feel free to distribute the CfP to all the interested persons and groups.

Best regards,
Sabine Graf

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International Workshop on Social and Personal Computing

• for Web-Supported Learning Communities (SPeL 2008)
• http://software.ucv.ro/~popescu_elvira/spel2008/

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• In conjunction with The 2008 International Symposium on
• Applications and the Internet.
• http://www.icta.ufl.edu/saint08/

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• Turku, FINLAND
• July 28 - August 1, 2008

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Motivation

The Internet has been revolutionizing and changing not only the way we communicate, access information and conduct businesses, but also the way we learn. Online learning is moving from a centralized, institution-based system to a decentralized and informal creation and sharing of knowledge.
Social software (in the form of blogs, wikis, podcasts, media-sharing
services...) has started to be used for e-learning purposes, helping to create novel learning experiences. In the world of pervasive Internet, learners are also evolving: the so-called “digital natives” want to be in constant communication with their peers, they expect an individualized instruction and a personalized learning environment.

The learning community can be modeled as a social network, where members interact and learn together, creating and sharing resources. The study of Web-supported learning communities implies a highly interdisciplinary approach, involving knowledge not only from ICT fields (such as Web computing, agents, mobile and ubiquitous computing) but also from sociology, educational psychology, organizational and behavioral theories.

This workshop deals with current research on social and personalization aspects in Web-supported learning communities and aims at providing a forum for discussing new trends in this area.

Topics of interest

The workshop welcomes submissions covering all aspects of online learning communities and social networks, including (but not limited to):

• Web 2.0 and social computing for learning
• Virtual spaces for learning communities
• Internet supported ubiquitous learning
• SOA for e-learning
• Ontologies and semantic Web standards for e-learning
• Mobile e-learning applications
• Adaptive and personalized educational hypermedia
• Pervasive e-learning scenarios
• Peer-to-Peer learning applications
• Multi-agent technology applications in Web-based education - Lifelong learning networks
• Social software for collaborative learning
• Socially intelligent agents
• Semantic social networks
• Community discovering in social learning systems
• Social structure exploitation in e-learning
• Socially-inspired e-learning systems

Paper submission and publication

Workshop papers should be within 4 pages, no extra page is allowed.

The Proceedings of the Workshop will be published by the IEEE Computer Society Press.

Please follow the instructions on the SAINT 2008 website (http://www.icta.ufl.edu/saint08/ > Information for Authors) where you can find Page Form and appropriate pointers for LaTeX Macros.

Submissions and reviews are automatically handled by a system provided by the organizers. The submission web site is:
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=spel2008.

Important dates

Workshop paper submission: March 12, 2008 (Extended deadline!!)
Notification of acceptance: March 30, 2008
Camera-ready manuscript: May 1, 2008
SPeL Workshop: July 28 - August 1, 2008 (exact date is TBD)

Organizers

Elvira Popescu - University of Craiova (Romania), University of Technology of Compiègne (France) Vincenzo Nicosia - University of Catania (Italy) Sabine Graf - Vienna University of Technology (Austria)

Program Committee

Costin Badica, University of Craiova, Romania Dumitru Dan Burdescu, University of Craiova, Romania Alexandra Cristea, University of Warwick, UK Adrian Giurca, BTU Cottbus, Germany Eva Heinrich, Massey University, New Zealand Kinshuk, Athabasca University, Canada Line Kolas, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway Vive Kumar, Massey University, New Zealand, Simon Fraser University, Canada Fuhua (Oscar) Lin, Athabasca University, Canada Tzu-Chien Liu, National Central University, Taiwan Alessandro Longheu, University of Catania, Italy Giuseppe Mangioni, University of Catania, Italy Philippe Trigano, University of Technology of Compiègne, France Julita Vassileva, University of Saskatchewan, Canada Silvia R. Viola, Universita' Politecnica delle Marche, Italy

Please see the workshop web site
(http://software.ucv.ro/~popescu_elvira/spel2008/) for further details.