The IASTED International Conference on
Knowledge Sharing and Collaborative Engineering
~KSCE 2006~

November 29 – December 1, 2006
St. Thomas, US Virgin Islands

TUTORIAL SESSION

Intelligent Web-Based Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning

Prof. Vladan Devedzic
University of Belgrade, Serbia
devedzic@gmail.com

Qualifications of the Instructor(s)

Tutorial Session Portrait

Vladan Devedžić is both an active researcher and a practitioner in the fields of intelligent systems and software engineering. His major long-term professional goal is a continuous effort to bring close together the ideas from the broad fields of intelligent systems and software engineering. To this end, his current efforts and research interests are oriented towards practical engineering aspects of developing intelligent educational systems on the Web.

He has authored/co-authored more than 300 research papers (about 60 of them have been published in internationally recognized journals by publishers such as ACM, IEEE, Elsevier, etc.), six books, and several chapters in books on intelligent systems and software engineering edited by distinguished scientists.

His recent 2 books, entitled Model Driven Engineering and Ontology Development (2nd ed.) and Semantic Web and Education (Springer Verlag, Berlin/New York) have appeared in 2009 and 2006.

He has also developed several practical systems and tools, and actively participates as a consultant to several ongoing projects in industry. He is a participant in the EU Framework 7 ICT project IntelLEO (started in February 2009), and has participated to a number of other international research and development projects. He was also an associated partner in the EU Framework 6 IST Network of Excellence project ProLearn, and is a member of the ARIADNE Foundation for the European Knowledge Pool.

Vladan Devedžić is a Professor of Computer Science with the Department of Software Engineering, FON - School of Business Administration, University of Belgrade. He teaches several courses on intelligent systems and software engineering, and is the chair of intelligent systems tracks in the program committees of several international conferences. He was the Program Chair/Co-Chair of three international conferences, several international workshops, and has given invited talks at three international conferences. So far, he has also given 26 different tutorials on intelligent systems and software engineering at international conferences, numerous lectures and in-house seminars on different software engineering topics, and seven nationwide tutorials on current trends in software engineering.