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Knowledge Representation and Reasoning Research Group
School of Computing, University of Leeds
READING GROUP
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Meetings During 2009 |
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| Monday 23rd November |
Talk:Context Aware Systems by Dimoklis Despotakis |
Dimoklis Despotakis |
Paper Presentation Slides |
| Monday, 16th November |
Events Attended: The 8th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2009) | Ronald Denaux |
Presentation Slides |
| Monday 9th November |
Talk: Evaluation of a Semantic Web Application( A Pragmatic Approach) by Chris Martin |
Chris Martin Principal Scientist, Research and Innovation Dep., Environment Agency |
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| Monday, 2nd November |
Events Attended: User Modeling Adaptation and Personalisation Conference (UMAP '09) | Vania Dimitrova |
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| Monday 19th October |
Talk: Multi-perspective Ontology Engineering by Ronald Denaux |
Ronald Denaux School of Computing |
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| Monday 20th July |
Talk: Yorkshire Forward interactive (YFi) by David Hopkins and Trish Grant |
David Hopkins and Trish Grant, Yorkshire Forward |
Yorkshire Forward web site |
| Tuesday 21st July |
Talk: Msc Project: a Web 2.0 approach to library services by Alexandra Matthews |
Alexandra Matthews, School of Computing |
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| Monday 13th July |
Talk: Intelligent Computer Tutoring Group: overview of current and past projects by Prof. Tanja Mitrovic |
Prof. Tanja Mitrovic |
Tanja Mitrovic web page |
| Monday, 29th June |
Talk: AIED 2009: presentations and demo |
Lydia Lau School of Computing Sirisha Bajanki School of Computing |
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| Monday, 8th June |
Talk: Intelligent Augmentation & Intelligence Augmentation |
Vania Dimitrova
School of Computing Lydia Lau School of Computing |
Vania's Slides Lydia's Slides |
| Monday, 1st June |
Paper Discussion B.S.Sirisha, V.K.J.Jeevan, R.V.Raja Kumar (2009), A. Goswami, A personalised information support system for searching portals and e-resources, Electronic Library and Information Systems Vol. 43, No.1,77-93 |
Group Discussion |
Paper |
| Tuesday, 19th May |
AWESOME Project: lessons learned and open issues by Vania Dimitrova |
Vania Dimitrova
School of Computing |
Link to the AWESOME paper |
| Monday, 28 April |
Joint Seminar-Report: Web Science Conference -WebSci '09- by Professor Peter Dew |
Professor Peter Dew
School of Computing |
Conference Program Link |
| Monday, 20 April |
Talk: Cloud Resource Brokering for Scientific Communities by Shahzad Ahmed Nizamani |
Shahzad Ahmed
Nizamani, School of Computing |
Presentation Slides |
| Monday, 30th March |
Paper Discussion Claus Zinn, Joanna D. Moore and Mark G. Core, A 3-Tier Planning Architecture for Managing Tutorial Dialogue (2002), In Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS '02), Springer-Verlag, London, UK, pp. 574--584 |
Group Discussion |
Paper |
| Monday, 23rd March |
Paper Discussion
Simon J. Buckingham Shum, Victoria Uren, Gangmin Li, Bertrand Sereno and Clara Mancini (2007), Modeling Naturalistic Argumentation in Research Literatures: Representation and Interaction Design Issues, International Journal of Intelligent Systems, (Special Issue on Computational Models of Natural Argumentation), 22, (1), pp.17 - 47. |
Group Discussion |
Paper |
| Monday, 9th March |
Talk: Verifying and Extending Domain Specific Ontologies by Lee Tunnicliffe |
Lee Tunnicliffe, School of Computing |
Presentation Slides |
| Monday, 2nd March |
Paper Discussion Michele Pasin, Enrico Motta and Zdenek Zdrahal (2007), Capturing Knowledge about Philosophy, K-CAP '07: Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Knowledge capture. |
Group Discussion |
Paper |
| Monday, 23rd February |
Talk: Building an ontology for non-domain experts: Dynamic Risk Assessment Ontology case study by Wichai Eamsinvattana |
Wichai Eamsinvattana, School of Computing |
Presentation Slides |
| Monday, 16th February |
Paper Discussion: Christine L. Borgman (2006) What can Studies of e-Learning Teach us about Collaboration in e-Research? Some Findings from Digital Library Studies", Journal of Computer Supported Cooperative Work, Volume 15, Issue 4, pp. 359 - 383 | Group Discussion |
Paper |
| Monday, 9th February |
Talk: Evaluation of Intelligent Systems: An Example by Styliani Kleanthous |
Styliani Kleanthous, School of Computing |
Presentation Slides |
| Monday, 26th Jan |
Paper Discussion: Writing for Computer Science, Justin Zobel, 2004 |
Group Discussion |
Paper Justin Zobel web site |
| Tuesday, 20th Jan |
Video Discussion: High Order Bit by Kevin Kelly presented at the Web 2.0 Summit. |
Joint Seminar with Collaborative Architecture and Performance group |
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Meetings During 2008 |
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| Friday, 12th Dec |
Paper Discussion: Analysing Community Knowledge Sharing Behaviour by Styliani Kleanthous and Vania Dimitrova |
Group Discussion |
Paper |
| Wednesday, 3rd Dec |
Talk: Ordnance Survey and the Semantic Web | Glen Hart Ordnance Survey |
Link to Abstract |
| Friday, 28th Nov |
Talk: SemWeB - A Semantic Web Browser for Supporting Open-Corpus Linking and Adaptive Hypermedia |
Melike Sah Intelligence, Agents, Multimedia Group School of Electronics and Computer Science University of Southampton |
Link to Abstract Presentation |
| Friday, 21st Nov |
Events Attended: International Semantic Web Conference PartII | Ronald Denaux |
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| Friday, 14th Nov |
Talk: Integrating Affect into Learning Environments |
Konstantin Zakharov |
Link to Abstract |
| Friday, 7th Nov |
Events Attended: International Semantic Web Conference |
Vania Dimitrova and Ronald Denaux |
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| Friday, 24th Oct |
Paper Presentation:Vania Dimitrova, Ronald Denaux, Glen Hart, Catherine Dolbear, Ian Holt and Anthony Cohn: Involving Domain Experts in Authoring OWL Ontologies at 7th International Semantic Web Conference 2008 Demo: Ronald Denaux, Vania Dimitrova, Anthony Cohn, Catherine Dolbear and Glen Hart. ROO: Involving Domain Experts in Authoring OWL Ontologies Demo at 7th International Semantic Web Conference 2008 |
Vania Dimitrova Ronald Denaux |
Link to Papers |
| Friday, 17th Oct |
Paper Discussion: Agent-based Semantic Web Services Gibbins, N., Harris, S. and Shadbolt, N. (2003) Agent-based Semantic Web Services. Journal of Web Semantics: Science, Services and Agents on the World Wide Web, 1 (2). pp. 141-154. ISSN 1570-8268 | Group Discussion |
Link to Paper |
| Friday, 10th Oct |
Events attended: John Sowa on "Dynamic Ontology, A Wittgensteinian Method of Relating Language to the World" Paper Discussion: Wilks, Y. (2008) The Semantic Web: Apotheosis of annotation, but what are its semantics? IEEE Intelligent Systems, 23 (3). pp. 41-49 |
Group Discussion |
Link to Talk Link to Paper |
| Friday, 3rd Oct |
Talk: Interacting with an Ontology to Explore Historical Domains |
Ilaria Corda |
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| Friday, 26th Sep |
Paper Discussion: How to Succeed in Graduate School: A Guide for Students and Advisors Part II by Marie desJardins | Group Discussion |
Link to Paper Link to PDF |
| Friday, 19th Sept |
Demonstration: AWESOME project |
Lydia Lau Sirisha Bajanki |
Suggested Reading |
| Thursday, 11th Sept |
Events Attended: 5th International Conference on Adaptive Hypermedia & Adaptive Web-based Systems - AH'2008 9th International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS 2008) Please Note Room Change: This meeting will be at Room 7.15, Level 7 |
Vania Dimitrova |
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| Thursday, 4th Sept |
Events Attended: The Sixth Summer School on Ontological Engineering and the Semantic Web (SSSW'08) | Ronald Denaux |
Presentation Slides |
| Tuesday, 10th June |
Practical Session: Reading Academic Papers | Group Discussion |
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| Tuesday, 3rd June |
Paper Discussion: Blog Community discovery and Evolution Based on Mutual Awareness Expansion by Yu-Ru Lin, Hari Sundaram, Yun Chi, Jun'ichi Tatemura, Belle L. Tseng. published at the IEEE/WIC/ACM Int. Conf. on Web Intelligence 2007 | Group Discussion |
Link to Paper |
| Tuesday, 20th May |
Paper Discussion: Bridging the Gap Between Folksonomies and the Semantic Web: An Experience Report by Sofia Angeletou, Marta Sabou , Lucia Specia, and Enrico Motta | Group Discussion |
Link to Paper |
| Tuesday, 13th May |
Presentation: The Influence of Cognitive Styles on the Design of Adaptive Web-based Learning Materials | Elizabeth Uruchurtu |
Link to Abstract |
| Tuesday, 6th May |
Paper Discussion: Personalized Web Exploration with Task Models by J.Ahn, P. Brusilovsky, D. He, J. Grady & Q.Li | Group Discussion |
Link to Paper |
| Tuesday, 29th Apr |
Paper Discussion: Activity-Based Adaptive Mobile Learning in Fire and Rescue Services | Group Discussion |
Link to Paper |
| Tuesday, 15th Apr |
Paper Discussion: How to Succeed in Graduate School: A Guide for Students and Advisors by Marie desJardins | Group Discussion |
Link to Paper |
| Tuesday, 11th Mar |
Presentation: Personalised Intelligent Travel Assistant Mashup | George Sheppard |
Abstract |
| Tuesday, 4th March |
Discussion: The use of reasoners in our practice | Group Discussion |
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| Tuesday, 26th Feb |
Presentation: Confluence Project | Group Discussion |
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| Tuesday, 19th Feb |
Presentation: Events Attended | Ilaria Corda |
CIDOC Conceptual Reference Model Presentation |
| Tuesday, 5th Feb |
Practical Session: How to write good papers? | Group Discussion |
Paper to Read |
| Tuesday, 22nd Jan |
Presentation: Events Attended | Vania Dimitrova |
IST CORDIS |
| Tuesday, 15th Jan |
Presentation: Events Attended |
Styliani Kleanthous, School of Computing |
Professional Training Facts 2007 |
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Meetings During 2007 |
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| Tuesday, 20th Nov |
Paper Discussion: A Framework for Web Scisnce |
Joint Seminar with Collaborative Architecture and Performance group |
Link to Paper Link to Session Notes Link to Web sociology Notes Link to Social Aspects notes |
| Tuesday, 27th Nov |
Paper Discussion: Interactive Ontology-Based User Knowledge Acquisition: A Case Study |
Group Discussion
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Link to Paper |
| Tuesday, 20th Nov |
Paper Discussion: A Framework for Web Scisnce |
Joint Seminar with Collaborative Architecture and Performance group |
Link to Paper Link to Session Notes Link to Web sociology Notes Link to Social Aspects notes |
| Tuesday, 13th Nov |
Talk: Using Scenarios for System Design |
Lydia Lau Wichai Eamsinvattana |
Link to Paper Link to Presentation1 Link to Presentation2 |
| Wednesday, 7th Nov |
School of Computing Research Away Day |
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| Monday, 5th Nov |
Talk: Discovering and Analysing Social Networks through the Mining of Logs from Collaborative Tools
Please Note: This meeting will take place at the Department of Computer Science, University of York, Room CS/103 Time: 15:00 |
Department of Computer Science, University of York |
Link to Presentation |
| Wednesday, 31st Oct |
Presentations at the School of Computing annual postgraduate workshop | From our group will present: Wichai Eamsinvattana |
Link to Presentation
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| Tuesday, 30th Oct |
Talk: Semantic-Enhanced Community Modelling to Support Knowledge Sharing |
Styliani Kleanthous, School of Computing |
Link to pressentation
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| Tuesday, 23rd Oct |
Paper Discussion: Papers from WWW'07 Part II |
Group Discussion
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Papers to be discussed: Wichai Eamsinvattana - A Mobile Application Framework for the Geospatial Web Vania Dimitrova - Semantic Web: Tutorial1 - Technologies and Applications for the Real-World Digital Libraries Tutorial2 - Semantic Digital Libraries Ilaria Corda - How to name it, how to find it Ronald Denaux - ActiveRDF Lydia Lau - Explorations in the use of semantic web technologies for product information management |
| Tuesday, 16th Oct |
Paper Discussion: Papers from WWW'07 Part I |
Group Discussion
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Papers to be discussed: Roger Hartley - Investigating Behavioural Variabilty in Web Search Peter Dew - The Two Cultures: Mashing up Web 2.0 and the Semantic Web Stella Kleanthous - Expertise Networks in Online Communities: Structure and Algorithms" |
| Tuesday, 9th Oct |
Talk: Confluence Project | Ronald Denaux Ilaria Corda Vania Dimitrova |
Talk Overview |
| Tuesday, 25th Sep |
Talk: Using Protege | Ronald Denaux , School of Computing |
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| Tuesday, 4th Sept |
Talk: Building a Generic Framework for Handling Context: The CEMANTIKA approach | Dr. Patricia Tedesco, Centre for Informatics-Federal, University of Pernambuco, Brazil |
Overview |
| Tuesday, 24th July |
Talk: Interaction with sets of digitized images in the context of the British Library - MSc project with the British Library | Tomi Malomo, School of Computing |
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| Tuesday, 17th July |
Follow-up Discussion: Context | Group Discussion |
Link to Paper1 Link to Paper2 |
| Thursday, 12th July |
Paper Discussion: What We Talk About When We Talk About Context Paul Dourish, Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, Volume 8 , Issue 1 (February 2004), Pages: 19 - 30, Year of Publication: 2004 Please Note: This meeting will take place at Leeds Business School, Room 1.33 Time: 15:00 |
Joined Seminar with Leeds Business School AIMTech Research Group |
Link to Paper |
| Tuesday, 10th July |
Report: International Workshop on Virtual Research Environments and Collaborative Work Environments in May 07 at the e-Science Institute, Edinburgh | Lydia Lau |
Workshop Link |
| Tuesday, 3rd July |
Report: 11th International Conference on User Modeling - UM '07, 25th - 30th June Corfu, Greece |
Vania Dimitrova Stella Kleanthous |
Conference Website |
| Tuesday, 19th June |
Talk: Interoperability among user-adaptive systems in the World Wide Web - A report of the results I have achieved during my stay in Leeds - | Francesca Carmagnola , Department of Computer Science, University of Turin |
Overview |
| Tuesday, 15th May |
Talk: Handling Viewpoint Discrepancies for Learning | Christiana Panayiotou, School of Computing, University of Leeds |
Overview Presentation Slides |
| Tuesday, 8th May |
Talk: Interoperability among user-adaptive systems in the World Wide Web. |
Francesca Carmagnola , Department of Computer Science, University of Turin |
Overview Presentation Slides |
| Tuesday, 27th Mar |
Talk: Personalised Web Services for Activity-Based Mobile Learning | Wichai Eamsinvattana, School of Computing, University of Leeds |
Abstract Presentation Slides |
| Wednesday, 21st Mar |
Talk: Principles of Activity Theory: Relevance to Information Behaviour and Learning Note: This meeting will take place at Active Leraning Lab, Level 9 Time: 12:00 - 13:00 |
Dr. Mira Slavova Research Fellow in Information Management, AIMTech Research Group, Leeds University Business School |
Brief Description
Reccommended Reading Reccommended Reading Presentation Slides |
| Tuesday, 20th Mar |
Talk: Motivating Participation in Virtual Communities | Prof. Julita Vassileva Department of Computer Science, University of Saskatchewan |
Brief Overview Presentation Slides |
| Tuesday, 6th Mar |
Talk: A tool to support effective team collaboration: A case study of Leeds University Union Executive Officers
Note: This meeting will take place at Level 7 Room 7.15 |
Stuart Ross |
Link to Abstract |
| Wednesday, 28th Feb |
Presentation: Integrating RFID within an Intelligent Mashup Note: This meeting will take place at Level 7 Room 7.20 Note: This meeting will take place on Wednesday 28th and not Tuesday 27th Feb |
Michael Hollander |
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| Tuesday, 20th Feb |
Discussion: Evaluation of intelligent systems - scenarios and open questions | Group Discussion |
GSLIS (The Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illiniois at Urbana-Champaign)
University of Maryland MSc Project: Chapters 3,4 and 5 |
| Tuesday, 6th Feb |
Paper Discussion: Adaptive Interfaces and Agents by Anthony Jameson, In J. A. Jacko & A. Sears (Eds.), Human-computer interaction handbook (pp. 305-330). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum. | Vania Dimitrova | Link to the paper |
| Tuesday, 23rd Jan |
Practical Session: Reviewing Research Papers Note: This meeting will take place at Level 8 Board Room |
Group Activity |
Paper to Review
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| Tuesday, 16th Jan |
Presentation: Report on EVIE Usage |
Vania Dimitrova Ilaria Corda Stella Kleanthous Lydia Lau |
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| Tuesday, 9th Jan |
Practical Session: Information and Resource Searching Techniques | Group Discussion |
Session Outcome
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Meetings During 2006 |
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| Tuesday, 31st Jan |
Talk: Modelling Individual Learners, Groups, and Closely-knit Communities | Vania Dimitrova | Slides (ps) |
| Tuesday, 7th Feb |
Paper discussion: Knowledge management: Problems, Promises, Realities and Challenges, Gerhard Fischer and Jonathan Ostwald, University of Colorado, IEEE Intelligent Systems, 2001 | Stella Kleanthous | Link to the paper |
| Tuesday, 14th Feb |
Support for Virtual Scientific Communities
Discussion: What is really scientific research collaboration? Is knowledge (and resource) sharing a kind of scientific research collaboration? The life cycle of research collaboration. |
Tran Vu Pham | Supporting papers:
WHAT IS RESEARCH COLLABORATION J. Sylvan Katz and Bem R. Martin Relationships and tasks in scientific research collaboration by Robert Kraut |
| Tuesday, 21st Feb |
Talk: User Cognitive Style and Interface Design for Personal, Adaptive Learning. What to Model? | Elizabeth Uruchrutu | Link to the paper |
| Tuesday, 28th Feb |
Discussion: Mobile Web Initiative and Web 2.0 | Vania Dimitrova | Links:
W3C "Mobile Web Initiative" Workshop What Is Web 2.0 |
| Tuesday, 14th Mar |
Paper Discussion: Detecting knowledge flows in weblogs, Anjewierden, A., de Hoog, R., Brussee, R. & Efimova, L., 13th International Conference on Conceptual Structrues (ICCS 2005). | Karon McBride | Link to the paper |
| Tuesday, 21th Mar |
Talk: Schema-theory based approach to support children's conceptual understanding | Zukri Ibrahim | Slides |
| Tuesday, 28th Mar |
Discussion: The use of Semantic Web technologies in our research
(Part 1: Ontologies) |
Related papers:
What Are Ontologies, And Why Do We Need Them? by B. Chandrasekaran, John R. Josephson, and V. Richard Benjamin, IEEE Intelligent Systems, 1999 14(1). Ontology Development 101: A Guide to Creating Your First Ontology by Natalya F. Noy and Deborah L. McGuinness, Technical Report, KSI, Stanford, 2001. Reasoning and Ontologies for Personalized E-Learning in the Semantic Web by Nicola Henze, Peter Dolog, and Wolfgang Nejdl, Educational Technology and Society, 2004,7 (4) |
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| Tuesday, 4th Apr |
Discussion with Gord McCalla, followed by a presentation by Gord on 5th April | Gord McCalla | Slides |
| Tuesday, 25th Apr |
Paper Discussion: Community-based learning: Design patterns and frameworks, by John M. Carroll and Umer Farooq, 9th European Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work, Sept 2005. | Lydia Lau | Link to the paper
Notes with links to other papers Informal Education and Lifelong Learning |
| Tuesday, 2nd May |
Talk: Support for knowledge sharing and construction in virtual learning communities | Stella Kleanthous | Link to extended abstract |
| Tuesday, 9th May |
Paper discussion: Towards community-driven development of educational materials: the Edukalibre approch, submitted to the The First European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning |
Chris Tebb
Vania Dimitrova Julika Matravers Stella Kleanthous |
Link to paper
Edukalibre site at Leeds Edukalibre project web site |
| Tuesday, 23rd May |
Discussion: Use of ontologies to structure access to digital libraries: A case study in History of Science | Ilaria Corda | Supporting papers:
History ontology building: The technical view by Gabor Nagypal Towards Ontological Modelling of Historical Documents by Vanesa Mirzaee, Lee Iverson, and Babak Hamidzadeh |
| Tuesday, 6th June |
Talk: A knowledge-based approach for semantic extraction |
Weiqiang Ou APT Research Lab, Department of Computing and Electronic Technology, The University of Bolton | Link to abstract |
| Tuesday, 27th June |
Talk: Semantic Web and Personalised e-Learning | Vania Dimitrova | Tutorial given at AH06 Summer School on Personalised Learning |
| Tuesday, 4th July |
Practical session: Reading research papers |
Paper discussed: Fischer J, Gantner Z, Rendle S, Stritt M, and Thieme L, Ideas and Improvements for Semantic Wikis, European Semantic Web Conference, ESWC06. |
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| Tuesday, 18th July |
Talks: Reports from events attended by group members |
Sixth International Workshop on Global and Peer-2-Peer Computing
"Theory and Experience of Desktop Grids and P2P systems"
European Semantic Web Conference Workshop on SW personalisation Workshop on Semantic Web and Adaptive Hypermedia for Learning Summer School on Professional Leaning |
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| Tuesday, 5th Sept |
Talk: How can we describe and use digital learning materials more effectively? | Scott Bateman, ARIES Lab, Department of Computer Science, University of Saskatchewan, Canada | Link to slides |