Intelligent Information Systems Group

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January 27, 2008 -- O4E Wiki is launched! This ended several-month efforts to create a XWiki-based virtual wiki and transfer all content from the Ontologies for Education (O4E) Portal.

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January 05, 2008 -- Freshmen Adam Williams, Darrian Cunningham and Gregory Goddard joined the IIS Research Group. Welcome!!

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November 21, 2007 -- Dr. Lars Johnsen presented a talk "Onto-Rhetorical Topic Maps: A Framework for Integrating Learning Content" on the CS Research seminar.

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November 19-25, 2007 -- Dr. Lars Johnsen from the Department of Business Communication and Information Science University of Southern Denmark, visited the IIS Group to discuss possible research collaboration. He uses TM4L in his classes.

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November 12, 2007 -- Darina Dicheva presented a paper on the Workshop on Cultural Heritage on the Semantic Web, 6th Intl. Semantic Web Conference, ISWC 2007, November 11-15, 2007, Busan, Korea

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October 10, 2007 -- A new version of the TM4L software has been released. It had 487 downloads in the first week.

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October 4-7, 2007 -- Tim Campbell and Jerry Akouala presented at the 2007 HBCU-UP National Research Conference, Washington, DC, Greensboro, NC

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September 28, 2007 -- Will Thomas,  Tim Campbell and Cris Brown presented at the 6th Annual OPT-ED Alliance Day, Greensboro, NC

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September 1, 2007 -- Welcome to the new IIS Group members: Dhanya Shyamjith and Sun Kyong An!

News/Events

• January 27, 2008 -- O4E Wiki is launched! This ended several-month efforts to create a XWiki-based virtual wiki and transfer all content from the Ontologies for Education (O4E) Portal.

• January 05, 2008 -- Freshmen Adam Williams, Darrian Cunningham and Gregory Goddard joined the IIS Research Group. Welcome!

• November 21, 2007 -- Dr. Lars Johnsen presented a talk "Onto-Rhetorical Topic Maps: A Framework for Integrating Learning Content" on the CS Research seminar.

• November 19-25, 2007 -- Dr. Lars Johnsen from the Department of Business Communication and Information Science University of Southern Denmark, visited the IIS Group to discuss possible research collaboration. He uses TM4L in his classes.

• November 12, 2007 -- Darina Dicheva presented a paper on the Workshop on Cultural Heritage on the Semantic Web, 6th Intl. Semantic Web Conference, ISWC 2007, November 11-15, 2007, Busan, Korea.

• October 10, 2007 -- A new version of the TM4L software has been released. It had 487 downloads in the first week!

• October 4-7, 2007 -- Tim Campbell and Jerry Akouala presented at the 2007 HBCU-UP National Research Conference, Washington, DC, Greensboro, NC

• September 28, 2007 -- Will Thomas,  Tim Campbell and Cris Brown presented at the 6th Annual OPT-ED Alliance Day, Greensboro, NC

• September 1, 2007 -- Welcome to the new IIS Group members: Dhanya Shyamjith and Sun Kyong An!

• May 15, 2007 -- Welcome to the IIS Group Summer 2007 Research Interns: Will Thomas, Tim Campbell, Jerry Akouala, Chris Brown, and Boriana Ditcheva!

• March 25, 2007 -- Christo Dichev, Darina Dicheva & Jan Fisher to present a paper at the WWW 2007' Workshop on Identity, Identifiers, and Identification.

• March 18, 2007 -- Jeff Heflin of Lehigh University presents a keynote talk on the Scalability of the Semantic Web at ACMSE'07

• March 18, 2007 -- Christo Dichev presented a tutorial on Creating Ontology-driven Repositories based on Topic Maps at ACMSE'07.

• March 18-19, 2007 -- Strong participation of the IIS Group in ACMSE'07: 2 regular papers, 1 student paper, 1 poster paper, and 1 tutorial. Well done!

• March 18-19, 2007 -- Darina Dicheva is a Program Committee Co-Chair of the 45th Southeast ACM Conference co-organized by Wake Forest University and WSSU.

• February , 2007 -- Darina Dicheva & Christo Dichev have a paper accepted for the 13th Int. AI-ED 2007 conference, July 9-13, 2007, LA, California.

• December 10, 2006 -- Christo Dichev and Darina Dicheva to present a paper at the Web Intelligence'06 conference, Hong Kong (acceptance rate 18%)

• November 05, 2006 -- Christo Dichev and Darina Dicheva will present on the Int. Semantic Web User Interaction Workshop at ISWC 2006, Athens, Georgia. At the same workshop Tim Berners Lee announced the Semantic Web browser Tabulator.

• May 15, 2006 -- Welcome to Jerry Akouala, Cristan Brown, and Joseph Barnett - our summer research interns! They are supported by a grant we received from the UNC GA Undergraduate Research Opportunity Expansion Initiative.
• May 4th 2006 -- Dandan Wang is the first recipient of the WSSU Graduate Student of the Year Award. 
• Darina Dicheva invited as a Specialist Reviewer for the Intl. Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education (IJAIED)
• Jerry Akouala won 2nd place for his poster at NCLSAMP 2006.

 

• Past Events
  • 4th International Workshop on Applications of Semantic Web Technologies for E-Learning (SW-EL'06)
    Organizers: Dr. Darina Dicheva, Dr. Lora Aroyo (PC Co-chairs)
    AH'06 session: Dublin, Ireland, June 20, 2006
  • 3rd International Workshop on Applications of Semantic Web Technologies for E-Learning (SW-EL'05)
    Organizers: Dr. Darina Dicheva, Dr. Lora Aroyo (PC Co-chairs)
    AIED'05 session: Amsterdam, The Netherlands, July 18, 2005
    ICALT'05 session: Kaohsiung, Taiwan, July 5, 2005
    K-CAP'05 session: Banff, Canada, October 3, 2005
  • WSSU CS Seminar Series
    Guest Speaker: Dr. Tatiana Gavrilova, St. Petersburg State Polytechnic University, Russia
    Title: "Ontologies for Teaching and Learning"
    Abstract
    When: January 26, 2005, 4:00-5:00pm
    Where: CS 2200
  • WSSU CS Seminar Series
    Speaker: Dr. Darina Dicheva, Computer Science Department, WSSU
    Title: "Impact of the Semantic Web on E-Learning"
    Abstract
    When: November 29, 2004, 4:00-5:00pm
    Where: CS 2200
  • 2nd International Workshop on Applications of Semantic Web Technologies for E-Learning (SW-EL'04)
    Organizers: Dr. Darina Dicheva, Dr. Lora Aroyo (PC Co-chairs)
    AH'04 session: Eindhoven, The Netherlands, August 23, 2004
    ITS'04 session: Maceio-Alagoas, Brazil, August 30, 2004
    ISWC'04 session: Hiroshima, Japan, November 7-11, 2004
  • Eleventh International Conference on Artificial Intelligence: Methodology, Systems, Applications Semantic Web Challenges (AIMSA 2004)
    Speaker (Invited Talk): Dr. Darina Dicheva
    Title: Impact of the Semantic Web on E-Learning
    When: September 2-4, 2004
    Where: Varna, Bulgaria
  • ADMI 2004 Symposium Asserting Our Role in Information Assurance
    Organizers: Dr. Elva Jones (ADMI Technical Program Chairperson)
    When: May 20-22, 2004
    Where: Orlando, Florida
  • NSF NSDL 2003 Annual Meeting
    Speaker: Dr. Darina Dicheva
    Title: Reusable and Shareable Digital Course Libraries
    When: October 12, 2003
    Where: Washington DC
  • 5^th International Workshop on Symbolic and Numeric Algorithms for Scientific Computing (SYNASC 2003)
    Speaker (Invited Talk): Dr. Christo Dichev
    Title: Topic Maps-based Digital Libraries
    Abstract
    When: October 1-4, 2003
    Where: Timisoara, Romania
  • WSSU CS Seminar Series
    Guest Speaker: Dr. Edward Gehringer, North Carolina State University
    Title: "PG: Producing Resources through Peer Grading and Peer Review over the Web"
    Abstract
    When: September 17, 2003, 4:00-5:00pm
    Where: Carolina Hall 208
  • 1^st Workshop on Concepts, Ontologies, and Application of Semantics in Web-based Educational Systems, in conjunction with ICCE 2002
    Organizers: Dr. Darina Dicheva, Dr. Lora Aroyo (PC Co-chairs)
    When: December 2-5, 2002
    Where: Auckland, New Zealand

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