From honeydew.srv.cs.cmu.edu!das-news.harvard.edu!noc.near.net!howland.reston.ans.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!uunet!sparky!rick Thu Aug 26 19:50:34 EDT 1993 Article: 4606 of news.announce.conferences Xref: honeydew.srv.cs.cmu.edu news.announce.conferences:4606 Newsgroups: news.announce.conferences Path: honeydew.srv.cs.cmu.edu!das-news.harvard.edu!noc.near.net!howland.reston.ans.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!uunet!sparky!rick From: plb@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Peter Brusilovsky) Subject: Computer Technologies in Education: ICCTE'93, Kiev, Ukraine - Call for Participation Message-ID: <1993Aug26.224317.16970@sparky.sterling.com> Sender: rick@sparky.sterling.com (Richard Ohnemus) Organization: University of Sussex Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1993 22:43:17 GMT Approved: rick@sparky.sterling.com Expires: Sun, 19 Sep 1993 08:00:00 GMT Lines: 217 X-Md4-Signature: 7e369f3a78f9eba10671627bbc77bdd1 1993 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMPUTER TECHNOLOGIES IN EDUCATION ICCTE'93 You are invited to attend the International Conference on Computer Technologies in Education (ICCTE'93), a forum focusing on the theory and application of the new information technologies in education. ICCTE'93 will take place in Kiev, the capital of Ukraine and the ancient capital of all Slavs founded in V century A.C. The city has its unique history, heritage, and architectural and cultural masterpieces. CALL FOR PARTICIPATION 14-18 September, 1993 Kiev, Ukraine ORGANIZED BY: International Training and Research Centre, UNESCO/IIP, Kiev Institute for Cybernetics, Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, Kiev International Centre for Scientific and Technical Information (ICSTI), Moscow THE CONFERENCE: ICCTE '93 is to provide a forum for scientific interchange among computer scientists, educators, and cognitive scientists on a broad spectrum of inter-disciplinary research topics, focusing on the theory and application of the new information technologies in education. There will be tutorials and invited talks on the state of the art, special workshops, paper and panel sessions as well as demonstrations of systems, prototypes and selected commercial products. TOPICS OF INTEREST: The conference will address the problems connected to the three main directions: * Educational Hypermedia and Multimedia * Knowledge-based Systems for Education * Telematics for Distance Learning. Areas of interest include but are not limited to * Authoring Systems and Tools for ITS Design * Cognitive Models and Cognitive Diagnosis * Student Modelling and Formal Models * Learning System Management * Expert Systems Application in Education * Knowledge Representation and Acquisition * Distributed Learning Systems * Evaluation of Instructional Computer Systems ***************************************************************** GENERAL CHAIR: V.I Gritsenko, Institute for Cybernetics, Kiev, Ukraine PROGRAM COMMITTEE CO-CHAIRS: David Jonassen, University of Colorado, Denver, USA Alexey Dovgyallo, Institute for Cybernetics, Kiev, Ukraine CONFERENCE ORGANIZING BOARD: Valery Petrushin, Institute for Cybernetics, Kiev, Ukraine Peter Brusilovsky, ICSTI, Moscow, Russia Piet Kommers, University of Twente, Enschede, the Netherlands David Jonassen, University of Colorado, Denver, USA Jury Mohyla, Flinders University, Adelaida, Australia PROGRAM COMMITTEE: KSR Anjanejuly (India) Philip Barker (UK) Peter Brusilovsky (Russia) Sergey Christochevsky (Russia) Pierre Dillenbourg (Swiss) Tom Duffy (USA) Victor Gladun (Ukraine) Vladimir Goodkovsky (Russia) Joel Greenberg (UK) Peter Holt (Canada) Heinz-Ulrich Hoppe (Germany) Greg Kearsley (USA) Piet Kommers (the Netherlands) Vladimir Marik (CzechRepublic) Ray McAleese (UK) Jury Mohyla (Australia) Jef Moonen (the Netherlands) Valery Petrushin (Ukraine) Romi Romisovsky (USA) Luigi Sarti (Italy) Vadim Stefanuk (Russia) Ivan Tomek (Canada) Julita Vassileva (Bulgaria) Radboud Winkels (the Netherlands) ***************************************************************** VISIT KIEV in INDIAN SUMMER ! The ICCTE'93 conference will be held in Kiev, the capital of Ukraine and the ancient capital of all Slavs founded in V century A.C. The city has its unique history, heritage, and architectural and cultural masterpieces. Kiev is also the gateway for understanding of the East European way of living. The dates of the ICCTE'93 fall during the best weather in the region when you may enjoy banks of the Dnieper, picturesque vicinity of Kiev and open air museum of folk art and architecture. Special social and culture programme will be proposed with bus-tour around the city, visit to the famous Pechersky Monastery and its caves, the Museum of Historical Treasures of Ukraine, a theater performance or a concert. TO KIEV THROUGH MOSCOW You are welcome to visit Moscow before/after the conference. ICSTI being a co-organiser of the conference provides Russian visa support, cheap hotel accomodation, arrival/departure transportation and special culture and social programme. Please, request Elena Alferova elena@plb.icsti.su for more information. You are also wellcome to attend the "East-West AI Conference: from theory to practice - EWAIC'93", which will be held in Moscow, 7-9 September 1993. For further information please contact EWAIC'93 Scientific Secretary Peter Brusilovsky plb@plb.icsti.su. CLIMATE The Conference falls in Indian Summer - the best weather in the region when you may enjoy banks of the Dnieper, picturesque vicinity of Kiev and open air museum of folk art and architecture. It must be warm in Kiev in September. Usually, the temperature is about +20 C or more. But it may be some surprises. Bring some warm clothing and a raincoat. PROGRAMME The conference language will be English. 13 Sept - a registration day and introductory culture programme. 14-17 Sept - the main technical programme. 18 Sept - a day for culture programme. The preliminary program of the conference can be requested from the LOC REGISTRATION FEE The registration fee is 120 USD, for students - 60 USD, for accompanying persons - 40 USD. It should be payed in cash (only in USD ) on your arrival at the registration. Registration fee includes: - the technical programme; - conference facilities; - conference proceedings; - transport from/to the airport; - culture programme (theatre, a tour around the city); - cocktail. INVITATION AND VISA Visa may be obtained at the Kiev airport for 50 USD in cash. You need an official invitation to obtain visa at airport. To receive an official invitation you should send your personal data by fax. ARRIVAL AND ACCOMMODATION You will be met in the Kiev airport and accompanied to the hotel. You should inform LOC ICCTE'93 about flight No as well as date and time of arrival and departure. Host organization - Glushkov Institute for sybernetics. Accommodation is provided for participants in the hotel near the Institute. CURRENCY Please, don't take credit cards. The best exchange rate to national currency, "karbovanets", is for USD. You can also use USD for payments in some restaurants and shops. So, please, bring USD in cash. ***************************************************************** LOCAL ORGANISING COMMITTEE (LOC): Olga Romanovich (Ukraine) Katherine Sinitsa (Ukraine) Please, contact Katherine Sinitsa by e-mail: kath%its lab.kiev.ua@relay.ussr.eu.net or kath%itslab.kiev.ua@fuug.fi phones: (7-044)-266-63-11 (Office) (7-044)-272-79-30 (Home) mail address: Katherine Sinitsa, P.O.Box 933, Kiev, 252087, Ukraine