SCOPE
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Education is the cornerstone of any society and it serves as one of the foundations for many of its social values and characteristics. State-of-the-art and novel methodologies and technologies allow researchers, designers, and domain experts to pursue Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) solutions targeting not only cognitive processes but also motivational, personality or emotional factors. Nowadays, we can identify two main legs, providing necessary and complementary strengths to a TEL oriented design process: appropriate technologies should be applied, and appropriate methods should guide such application. Technologies in TEL are capable of delivering smart, personalized, tailored, and motivating learning solutions. Methods are coming from different fields, such as education psychology, medicine, computer science, and from diverse communities, where collaboration and co-working is used, such as maker communities and participatory design communities. In addition, Learning Analytics can help manage available (big) data and allow to augment learning opportunities for learners and educators alike, for instance by supporting self-regulated learning or adaptation of the learning material.

As to these topics, the annual appointment of MIS4TEL established itself as a consolidated fertile forum where scholars and professionals from the international community, with a broad range of expertise in the TEL field, share results and compare experiences. The 10th edition of the conference calls for novel research in TEL and expands the topics of the previous editions, highlighting the role of the most recent methods and technological opportunities (ranging from Artificial Intelligence and agent-based systems to Robotics, Virtual Reality, Internet of Things and wearable solutions, among others) and looking for papers discussing how they can be employed to create novel approaches to TEL, innovative TEL solutions and valuable TEL experiences. As in the tradition of MIS4TEL, this edition aims at offering the different perspectives, and complementary voices, coming from the multidisciplinary field of TEL (e.g., engineering, computer science, education, medicine) from this multidisciplinary field.

MIS4TEL 2020 will be held in L'Aquila (Italy) on June 17th-19th, 2020, in parallel with the PAAMS'20 International Conference.



info@mis4tel-conference.net






TOPICS
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Technologies and technology-based solutions for TEL

-AI technologies and tools for TEL
-Agent-based and multi-agent TEL systems
-Knowledge representation, reasoning and management systems for TEL
-Natural language systems for TEL
-Recommendation, personalisation and adaptation in TEL systems
-Social networks for TEL
-Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC) for TEL
-Internet of things (IoT) solutions for TEL
-Smart solutions or environments for TEL
-Wearable technologies for TEL
-Robotics for TEL
-Virtual reality environments for TEL
-Games for TEL or gamified TEL
-Sharing and interoperability between TEL environments
-Making and fabrication for TEL


Learning analytics for TEL

-Big data and data visualisation in TEL
-Learning analytics for curriculum design
-Learning analytics for personalising the learner experience
-Learning analytics for predicting behaviour
-Learning analytics for designing learning interventions
-Learning analytics for stakeholders


Methodologies and experiences for TEL

-Methodologies for personalisation, user modelling and adaptation in TEL
-Methodologies for recommendation systems and user modelling in TEL
-Methodologies for fostering motivation and engagement in TEL
-Methodologies for the design of accessible and usable TEL systems
-Methodologies for including different voices in the design process of TEL
-Methodologies for informal learning for TEL
-Methodologies for fostering TEL in small, medium and large companies
-Methodologies, tools and frameworks supporting experiments in TEL
-Methodologies or approaches from game design and gamification for TEL
-Novel experiences and studies (e.g., case studies, ethnographic studies, field studies, experimentations) with methodologies for TEL






COMMITTEE
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General Co-Chair


Pierpaolo Vittorini
University of L'aquila
Italy

Tania Di Mascio
University of L'aquila
Italy



Technical Program Co-Chair


Laura Tarantino
University of L'aquila
Italy

Marco Temperini
University of Roma
Italy



Workshop Chair


Zuzana Kubincova
Comenius University of Bratislava
Slovakia






INVITED SPEAKERS
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Virginia Dignum

"Developing and using AI responsibly"
Umeå University
(Sweden)
Supported by: EurAI (European Association for Artifical Intelligence)



Alessio Lomuscio

"Towards formally verifying forthcoming multi-agent systems"
Imperial College London
(UK)
Supported by: EurAI (European Association for Artifical Intelligence)



Sascha Ossowski

"Building multiagent applications with agreement technologies"
University Rey Juan Carlos
(Spain)
Supported by: EurAI (European Association for Artifical Intelligence)






ACCEPTED WORKSHOPS
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- Workshop on TEL in nursing education programs (NURSING)
- Workshop on Interactive Environments and Emerging Technologies for e-Learning (IEETeL)
- Workshop on Social and Personal Computing for Web-Supported Learning Communities (SPeL)
- Workshop on Technology-Enhanced Learning for Future Citizens (TEL4FC)








CALL FOR WORKSHOPS MIS4TEL 2020
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Following the successful initiative from previous years, the International Conference in Methodologies and Intelligent Systems for Technology Enhanced Learning (MIS4TEL) intends to host a number of workshops on different TEL-related areas also in the next edition of the conference. Therefore, the MIS4TEL 2020 Organizing Committee invites workshop proposals.

The aim of the workshops is to provide participants with the opportunity to present and discuss novel research ideas on emerging topics in the scope of the conference.

Please note that workshop organizers will be responsible for creating and advertising the Call for Papers, managing the review process and collecting the camera ready papers. A dedicated Easychair installation will be provided by MIS4TEL conference organizers (under a centralized management).

One of the workshop organizers will be invited to co-edit the proceedings of the conference.

Please note that workshop proposals will be evaluated on a continuous basis and acceptance / rejection decisions will be sent to the workshop organizers within one week from submission. Early submissions are highly encouraged, so that workshop organizers have sufficient time to attract papers.

The proposals should be no longer than 4 pages and include the following information:

-Workshop title
-Workshop organizers' short bio (including prior experience in organizing workshops) and contact information
-Workshop description and topics
-Relevance of the workshop to the conference
-Information about previous editions of the workshop (if applicable)
-Program Committee members (tentative)
-Estimated number of submitted papers
-Draft CFP

Please submit your workshop proposal by email to info@mis4tel-conference.net (Subject: MIS4TEL 2020 Workshop Proposal) before 25th November, 2019.






CALL FOR Ph.D. AND MASTER’S STUDENT COMPETITION
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For the first time, the International Conference on Methodologies and Intelligent Systems for Technology Enhanced Learning (MIS4TEL2020) is organizing a Ph.D. and Master’s Student Competition as part of the main conference. The event is held in collaboration with the Workshop on Enhanced Learning for Future Citizens (TEL4FC), as well as Italian companies and universities.

The goal of the competition is to create a setting in which students can present their work and receive valuable feedback from both established researchers and attending students

The research topics of the competition correspond to those addressed at MIS4TEL and TEL4FC.

Contributions must be formatted according to the Springer AISC Template, and have a minimum length of 4 pages, including figures and references.

The 4 best contributions will be selected during the submission phase. Authors of these contributions will:

1. Receive reimbursement of expenses (up to 500 euros) associated with participating in the conference (e.g., conference fees, travel, housing, etc.), from the Department of Computer Science (DI) of the University of Salerno, Italy. In case the submitted paper is accepted for reimbursement, it will be communicated to the author in the notification of paper acceptance;

2. In addition to the reimbursement, following the authors’ presentation at the main conference, they will be eligible for one of the prizes awarded by Armundia Group, s.r.l:

- 1st place: 800EUR
- 2nd place: 600EUR
- 3rd place: 400EUR
- 4th place: 200EUR

Each participant will be assigned a mentor (expert researcher in the field) to help them interact with the research community, exchanging ideas and comments before the conference/workshop. The mentor will introduce the student and will provide guidance throughout the event. All the sessions will be in English.






SPECIAL ISSUES
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Authors of selected papers from MIS4TEL 2020 will be invited to submit an extended and improved version to special issue in different journals.

-The research that receives an award for best paper on the topic of Data Fusion, will be sent to Information Fusion (ISSN: 1566-2535, JCR 2018: 10.716) and submitted for a quick review.

-Authors of selected papers from PAAMS 2020 and Co-located Events will be invited to submit an extended and improved version to a Special Section published in Neurocomputing (JCR 2018 Neurocomputing: 4.072).

-Authors of selected papers from PAAMS 2020 and Co-located Events will be invited to submit an extended and improved version to a Special Section published in Electronics (JCR 2018 Electronics: 1.764 (Q3)).

-Authors of selected papers from PAAMS 2020 and Co-located Events will be invited to submit an extended and improved version to a Special Section published in IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society.

-Authors of selected papers from PAAMS 2020 and Co-located Events will be invited to submit an extended and improved version to a Special Section published in Smart Cities.

-Authors of selected papers from PAAMS 2020 and Co-located Events will be invited to submit an extended and improved version to a Special Issue published in ADCAIJ (ISSN: 2255-2863, indexed in DOAJ, ProQuest, Scholar, WorldCat, Dialnet, Sherpa ROMEO, Dulcinea, UlrichWeb, Emerging Sources Citation Index of Thomson Reuters, BASE y Academic Journals Database)





AWARDS
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Electronics MDPI will award the best paper with 300 CHF

More information: www.mdpi.com/journal/electronics





PUBLICATION
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Accepted papers will be published by Springer Verlag in the Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing series.



** Indexing: The books of this series are submitted to ISI Proceedings, EI-Compendex, DBLP, SCOPUS, Google Scholar and Springerlink **






IMPORTANT DATES
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Submission deadline: --31st January, 2020-- --7th February, 2020-- 17th February, 2020 (EXTENDED)
Workshops proposal deadline: 25th November, 2020
Ph.D. and Master's Competition deadline: 29th February, 2020
Notification date: 16th March, 2020
Ph.D. and Master's Competition notification date: 16th March, 2020
Camera-ready deadline: 30th March, 2020
Conference dates: 17th-19th June, 2020






FORMAT
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All papers must be formatted according to the AISC template, with a maximum length of 8 pages, including figures and references

-Microsoft Word Format

-Latex Format






SUBMISSION
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All proposed papers must be submitted in electronic form (PDF format) using the MIS4TEL 2020 conference management system.






ORGANIZERS
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University of L'Aquila (Italy)
Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (Brazil)
Sapienza University, Rome (Italy)
Comenius University of Bratislava (Slovakia)
Free University of Bozen-Bolzano (Italy)
University of Salamanca (Spain)
University of Craiova (România)






SPONSORS
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IBM
INDRA





SUPPORT FROM NATIONAL ASSOCIATIONS
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AEPIA
APPIA
Artificial Intelligence and Intelligent Systems
EurAi