Faculty of Organizational Sciences

Agent-based systems are one of the most important and exciting areas of research and development that emerged in information technology (IT) in the past two decades. In a nutshell, an agent is a computer program that is capable of performing a flexible, autonomous action in typically dynamic and unpredictable domains (Luck, McBurney, Shehory, & Willmott, 2005).

An ever increasing number of Web sites that allow users to easily collaborate, produce, and share content and interact have turned the Web into a more dynamic social place often referred to as Social Web. One form of Social Web sites is collaborative tagging systems that allow their users to annotate Web resources using tags, thus intuitively organizing them and making them easily findable.

Abstract. The chapter presents our research aimed at providing teachers with finegrained and contextualized feedback about students' activities in online learning environments. The rational is that teachers provided with such advanced feedback are able to better organize/revise the course content and customize that content to the students needs.

Abstract. The Social Semantic Web has emerged recently as a new paradigm for creating, managing and sharing information through the combined use of technologies and approaches from the Social Web (aka Web 2.0) and the Semantic Web. In this chapter, we first introduce the fundamental concepts of the Social Semantic Web.

Abstract Recent research in Technology-Enhanced Learning (TEL) demonstrated several important benefits that semantic technologies can bring to the TEL domain. An underlying assumption for most of these research efforts is the existence of a domain ontology. The second unspoken assumption follows that educators will build domain ontologies for their courses. However, ontologies are hard to build, especially for not-tech-savvy users. Tools for Ontology extraction from text aim to overcome this problem.

Abstract The paper presents Abstract Compound Content Model (ACCM), a generic content model which we have devel-oped aiming to facilitate interoperability, repurposing and integration of diverse platform specific content models. Based on this model we have developed the ACCM ontology in order to turn the ACCM's elements (ie, content units and content aggregations) into resources that can be directly accessed and thus reused.

The paper describes JavaDON, an open-source expert systems shell based on the OBOA framework for developing intelligent systems. The central idea of the JavaDON project was to make an easy-to-use and easy-to-extend tool for building practical expert systems. Since JavaDON is rooted in a sound theoretical framework, it is well-suited for building even complex expert system applications, both stand-alone and Web-based ones.

The paper describes JessGUI, a graphical user interface developed on top of the Jess expert system shell. The central idea of the JessGUI project was to make building, revising, updating, and testing Jess-based expert systems easier, more flexible, and more user friendly. There are many other expert system building tools providing a rich and comfortable integrated development environment to expert system builders. However, they are all either commercial or proprietary products.

Abstract A Call for Papers (CfP) is a small, but well-structured and information-rich message with a relatively short lifespan. CfP plays an important role in academic life, not just as an advertisement format, but also as a trigger of and advance organiser for collaborative academic writing.

CSCL (Computer Supported Collaborative Learning) is an interdisciplinary field that integrates researchers with different backgrounds, but one common goal: to support new learning experiences where students can interact mediated by technology and learn more effectively through exploration, discussion and self-regulation. Collaboration support is a complex issue due to the context of group learning where the synergy among learners' interactions affects learning processes and hence, the learning outcome.

Abstract. Teaching and learning software design patterns (DPs) is not an easy task. Apart from learning individual DPs and the principles behind them, students should learn how to apply them in real-life situations. Therefore, to make the learning process of DPs effective, it is necessary to include a project component in which students, usually in small teams, develop a medium-sized software application.

ABSTRACT Self-regulated learning processes have a potential to enhance the motivation of knowledge workers to take part in learning and reflection about learning, and thus contribute to the resolution of an important research challenge in workplace learning. An equally important research challenge for successful completion of each step of a selfregulatory process is to enable learners to be aware of characteristics of their organizationally-embedded learning context.

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Abstract The main objective of the 1 st International Workshop on Learning Analytics and Linked Data (# LALD2012) is to connect the research efforts on Linked Data and Learning Analytics in order to create visionary ideas and foster synergies between the two young research fields. Therefore, the workshop will collect, explore, and present datasets, technologies and applications for Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) to discuss Learning Analytics approaches that make use of educational data or Linked Data sources.

Abstract Teaching and learning software design patterns (DPs) is not an easy task. Apart from learning individual DPs and the principle behind them, students should learn how to apply them in real-life situations. Therefore, to make the learning process of DPs effective, it is necessary to include a project component in which students, usually in small teams, develop a medium-sized software application.

As more and more user traces become available as Linked Data Web, using those traces for expert finding becomes an interesting challenge, especially for the open innovation platforms. The existing expert search approaches are mostly limited to one corpus and one particular type of trace–sometimes even to a particular domain.

Abstract Intelligent Learning Extended Organization (IntelLEO) is a new paradigm in learning communities. It represents a community that emerges as a temporal integration of two or more different business and educational communities and organizational cultures (industrial, research, and educational). The concept of IntelLEO is going to be investigated in a 3-year R&D project accepted for funding within the EU Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) and starting in early 2009.

Abstract. Software engineering education faces increasing pressure to provide students with those skills required to solve different kinds of software problems both, alone or as a member of a development team. Consequently, one of the main goals of software engineering curriculum is to teach students how to model, design and implement software, as well as how to exploit previous successful experiences and knowledge of others in solving similar problems.

Today's students and educators live in the world of Facebook, Twitter, Wikipedia and YouTube. These and many other social networking and social media applications are part of the so-called Social Web (ie, Web 2.0), best characterised by the notions of social interaction, content sharing, and collective intelligence.

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