Program Committee:

Chairs:

Julita Vassileva (co-organizer)
1C101 Engineering Bldg, 57 Campus Dr.
University of Saskatchewan
Saskatoon, SK, CANADA S7N 5A9

Peter Dolog (co-organizer)
L3S Research Center,
University of Hannover,
Expo Plaza 1,
30539 Hannover,
Germany

PC Members:

• Liliana Ardissono, University of Torino, Italy
• Lora Aroyo,Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
• Mathias Bauer, DFKI, Germany
• Peter Brusilovsky, University of Pittsburgh, PA, USA
• Susan Bull, University of Birmingham, UK
• Keith Cheverst, University of Lancaster, UK
• Robin Cohen, University of Waterloo, Canada
• Nadia de Carolis, University of Bari, Italy
• Ludger van Elst, DFKI, Germany
• Elena Gaudioso,University for Distance Learning, Spain
• Piotr Gmytrasiewicz University of Illinois, Chicago, USA
• Dominik Heckmann, DFKI, Germany
• Judy Kay, University of Sydney, Australia
• Alfred Kobsa, University of California at Irvine, USA
• Antonio Krueger, DFKI, Germany
• Daniel Kudenko, University of York, UK
• Gord McCalla, University of Saskatchewan, Canada
• Daniel Olmedilla, L3S Research Center, University of Hannover, Germany
• Olayide Olorunleke, University of Saskatchewan, Canada
• Fiorella de Rosis, University of Bari, Italy
• Boris De Ruyter, Philips Research, The Netherlands
• Michael Sintek, DFKI, Germany
• Amy Soller, Institute for Defense Analyses, USA
• Thomas Tran, University of Ottawa, Canada
• Marianne Winslett, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA

Previous Experience of the Organizers

Julita Vassileva has served as program co-chair (with Piotr Gmytrasiewicz) of UM’2001.  She has organized or co-organized several workshops:

• Special Interest Group Meeting on User Modelling and Information Retrieval at UM’94 (chair),
• Workshop on Instructional Planning at EuroAIED’96 (co-chair, with Barbara Wasson),
• Workshop on Multi-Agent Architectures Supporting Distributed Learning in a Wired and Wireless Future associated with AIED'2001 (chair)
• Workshop on Teamwork and Coalition Formation, at AAMAS’2002 (co-chair, with Onn Shehory, John Yen, Thomas Joerger)
• Workshop on Teamwork and Coalition Formation at AAMAS’2004 (co-chair, with Onn Shehory and Gal Kaminka)

Peter Dolog has extensive experience in the area of the web engineering, semantic web and adaptive learning environments. He has recently served on a number of program committees including:

• Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing’s Special Track on Web Technologies and Applications
• the Workshop on Adaptivity and User Modelling in Interactive Software Systems (ABIS'04)
• Workshop on Applications of Semantic Web Technologies for Adaptive Educational Hypermedia (SW-EL'04) (he co-organized a session at AH'2004)
• the Workshop on Applying Adaptive Hypermedia Techniques to Service Oriented Environments at AH'2004