Reminder: Deadlines for paper submission The 4th International Conference on Educational Data Mining (EDM 2011) March 28, 2011 Abstract submissions due (required for full and short papers) April 5, 2011 Full and short paper submissions due May 10, 2011 Poster and demo submissions due May 15, 2011 Notification of acceptance June 5, 2011 Final papers due July 6-8, 2011 Conference days ====================================================================== Call for Papers The 4th International Conference on Educational Data Mining (EDM 2011) July 6-8, 2011, Eindhoven, the Netherlands Website: educationaldatamining.org/EDM2011/ ====================================================================== *** Apologies for possible cross-postings. Please send it to interested colleagues and students. *** The 4th International Conference on Educational Data Mining (EDM2011 @ Eindhoven, the Netherlands, July 6-8) invites papers that study how to apply data mining to analyze data generated by various information systems supporting learning or education (in schools, colleges, universities, and other academic or professional learning institutions providing traditional and modern forms and means of teaching, as well as informal learning). EDM may require adaptation of existing or development of new approaches that build upon techniques from a combination of areas, including but not limited to statistics, psychometrics, machine learning, information retrieval, recommender systems and scientific computing. ================== TOPICS OF INTEREST ================== - Generic frameworks, methods and approached for EDM - Learner or student modeling - Mining assessment data - Mining browsing or interaction data - Mining the results of educational research (e.g. A/B tests) - Educational process mining - Data-driven adaptation and personalization - Improving educational software - Evaluating teaching interventions - Emotion, affect, and choice - Integrating data mining and pedagogical theory - Improving teacher support - Replication studies - Best practices for adaptation of data mining, information retrieval, recommender system, opinion mining, and question answering techniques to educational context ================== SUBMISSION PROCESS ================== We solicit: - Full papers (up to 10 pages) should present original reports of substantive new research. They should place the work within the field, and clearly indicate its innovative aspects and its significance. - Short papers (up to 5 pages) should present original and unpublished highly promising research, whose merit will be assessed in terms of originality and importance rather than maturity and technical validation. - Posters (up to 2 pages) category provides an opportunity to submit work in progress and last minute results. The acceptance of submissions in this category will be based primarily on their relevance to the topics of the conference and interestingness for the discussions. - Demos (up to 2 pages) category encourages submissions of reports describing educational data mining tools and systems, or educational tools like intelligent tutoring systems that use EDM techniques for enhancing their performance. Authors should follow the ACM single column paper formatting guidelines (http://www.acm.org/publications/latex_style/ms_word_template.doc) and submit their works via EasyChair submission system at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=edm2011. Each submitted paper will be reviewed by at least three reviewers. Accepted papers will be published in the EDM2011 proceedings and will also appear online at http://educationaldatamining.org. ==================== IMPORTANT DATES ==================== March 28, 2011 Abstract submissions due April 5, 2011 Full and short paper submissions due May 10, 2011 Poster and demo submissions due May 15, 2011 Notification of acceptance June 5 ,2011 Final papers due July 6-8, 2011 Conference days ===================== CONFERENCE ORGANIZERS ===================== -- Conference Chairs Mykola Pechenizkiy, Eindhoven University of Technology Toon Calders, Eindhoven University of Technology -- Program Chairs Cristina Conati, University of British Columbia, Canada Sebastian Ventura, University of Cordoba, Spain -- Posters and Demos Chairs Cristobal Romero, University of Cordoba, Spain John Stamper, Carnegie Mellon University, USA -- Web Chair Arnon Hershkovitz Tel Aviv University, Israel -- Local Organizing Committee Jorn Bakker, Paul De Bra, Evgeny Knutov, Lam Hoang, Faisal Kamiran, Ekaterina Vasilyeva, Sicco Verwer, Indre Zliobaite