Important Dates
- Submission deadline: November 22, 2010
- Acceptance notification: January 21, 2011
- Final versions due: February 21, 2011
Papers are being solicited for a special track on AI Education at
the 24th International FLAIRS Conference (FLAIRS-2011). The FLAIRS Special Track on AI Education is intended to
provide a setting in which educators and researchers from all areas of AI can
come together to share ideas and approaches for teaching AI at both the
undergraduate and graduate levels.
We are especially interested in submissions that describe innovative
curricular materials, teaching methods, pedagogical experiences, or ways to
promote student interest in AI and the participation of underrepresented groups.
We welcome submissions on all aspects of AI pedagogy, including, but not limited
to:
- Model assignments, course syllabi, software, or other curricular
resources
- Implementation of the Computing Curricula 2001 Intelligent Systems area
- AI classroom techniques or innovations for undergraduate and/or graduate
instruction
- Intelligent applications for instruction of AI and assessment of such
applications
- The use of robots or other hands-on equipment for teaching AI
- Strategies for incorporating AI research into AI courses
- Strategies for encouraging wider student interest and participation in
AI
- Descriptions or case studies of successful class projects or other
pedagogical experiences
Note: There is a separate special track for Intelligent Tutoring Systems.
Submission Guidelines
Interested authors must submit completed manuscripts for double-blind review
by November 22, 2010.
Papers
should follow
AAAI formatting guidelines. Submission guidelines can be obtained by referring
to the conference website (http://www.flairs-24.info/).
Papers will be refereed and those accepted for presentation will appear in the
conference proceedings which will be published by AAAI Press. Authors may be
invited to submit a revised copy of their paper to a special issue of the International
Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools (IJAIT). Questions regarding the
track should be addressed to Todd Neller (http://cs.gettysburg.edu/~tneller/)
or Jim Marshall (http://science.slc.edu/~jmarshall/).
Online Resources
Program Committee
- Todd Neller, co-chair (Gettysburg College)
- Jim Marshall, co-chair (Sarah Lawrence College)
- Bob Aiken (Temple University)
- Steven Bogaerts (Wittenberg University)
- Debra Burhans (Canisius College)
- Eric Chown (Bowdoin College)
- Andrea Danyluk (Williams College)
- Zachary Dodds (Harvey Mudd College)
- Susan Fox (Macalester College)
- David Furcy (University of Wisconsin at Oshkosh)
- Ioannis Hatzilygeroudis (University of Patras, Greece)
- Ellen Hildreth (Wellesley College)
- Tim Huang (Middlebury College)
- Frank Klassner (Villanova University)
- Simon Levy (Washington and Lee University)
- Chun Wai Liew (Lafayette College)
- Shieu-Hong Lin (Biola University)
- Derek Long (University of Strathclyde, UK)
- Stephen Majercik (Bowdoin College)
- Myles McNally (Alma College)
- R. Mark Meyer (Canisius College)
- Dave Mooney (Shippensburg University)
- Jeffrey Pfaffmann (Lafayette College)
- John Rager (Amherst College)
- Ingrid Russell (University of Hartford)
- Mehran Sahami (Stanford University)
- Rebecca Thomas (Bard College)
- Ellen Walker (Hiram College)
- Sarah Zelikovitz (College of Staten Island of CUNY)
