Sanibel Island, Florida, USA
Sundial Beach and Golf Resort
May 19-21, 2009

We invite you to submit papers to the Special Track on Intelligent Tutoring Systems at the 22nd International FLAIRS Conference. This special track will bring together an international audience to present and discuss issues related to intelligent tutoring systems. The focus will be on ITS research applying modern AI techniques to problems of education, including, but not limited to:

* Game-based, narrative-based and virtual learning environments
* NLP and dialogue in tutoring systems
* Modeling and shaping the student's affective state
* Metacognition
* Gaming the system
* Ill-defined domains
* Educational data mining
* Web-based systems
* Authoring tools for non-experts
* Adaptive educational hypermedia
* Collaborative and group learning
* Open learner modeling
* Ontology engineering for educational purposes
* Novel interfaces

Papers on traditional ITS topics such as problem solving, tutoring strategies, knowledge representation, and system architectures are also encouraged. Evaluation data and results should be included when appropriate.

Reviewing is double blind, and each submission will receive at least three careful reviews. Full papers may be up to 6 pages, while poster papers may be up to two pages. The paper submission deadline is November 23rd, 2008

The following people have generously agreed to serve on the Program Committee:
* Vincent Aleven, Human-Computer Interaction Institute, Carnegie Mellon University
* Kevin D. Ashley, University of Pittsburgh, Learning Research and Development Center
* Ryan Baker, Carnegie Mellon University
* Carole R. Beal, Information Sciences Institute, University of Southern California
* Stephen Blessing, University of Tampa
* Paul Brna, University of Glasgow
* Mark G. Core, Institute for Creative Technologies, University of Southern California
* Myroslava Dzikovska, University of Edinburgh
* Reva Freedman, Northern Illinois University
* Robert Hausmann, University of Pittsburgh
* Neil Heffernan, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
* H. Chad Lane, Institute for Creative Technologies, University of Southern California
* James Lester, North Carolina State University
* Noboru Matsuda, Carnegie Mellon University
* Bruce M. McLaren, DFKI, Germany and CMU, USA
* Tanja Mitrovic, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand
* Chas Murray, Carnegie Learning
* Roger Nkambou, University of Quebec at Montreal (Canada)
* Niels Pinkwart, Clausthal University of Technology
* Steve Ritter, Carnegie Learning
* Carolyn Penstein Rosé, Carnegie Mellon University
* Amy Soller, USA
* Art Ward, University of Pittsburgh

The ITS track web page, which contains additional details, is here:
http://www.isp.pitt.edu/~artward/Flairs09_ITS_Track.html
This page also contains a link to an ITS track poster. Please feel free to print it out and post it where you and your colleagues can see it. Also feel free to forward this CFP to your colleagues, as appropriate.

If you should have any questions or suggestions, please contact co-chairs Chas Murray (cmurray@carnegielearning.com) or Art Ward
(artward@cs.pitt.edu).