Research Initiatives - University of Malta

Mediterranean Journal of Educational Studies

Fri, 06 Jun 2008 11:02:18 +0200

Past issues of the Mediterranean Journal of Educational Studies are available free of charge from in front of Room 226 in the Faculty of Education (across from HSBC, up one floor, corridor on left). There is a limited number of all the 24 issues that have been published since 1996, so do help yourselves if your personal collection has any of the volume numbers missing and you wish to complete the set.

News Portal by Ph.D. Student Joel Azzopardi

Fri, 23 May 2008 14:17:57 +0200

Joel Azzopardi is reading for an MPhil/PhD degree in Artificial Intelligence under the supervision of Dr Chris Staff.

As part of his research he needs some evaluations and is therefore inviting the readers of News on Campus to visit an online portal and submit their evaluation online.

Jnews is a news portal built by Joel Azzopardi a Ph.D. student in the Department of Artificial Intelligence at the University of Malta, under the supervision of Dr Chris Staff.

The portal downloads news reports from different news sites, categorizes them according to the event they are reporting, and then constructs a fused report for each category of reports. An ideal fused report contains all the different details found in the source reports without repeating any information. Thus by reading a fused report, a reader will learn all the information present in the different reports without having to go through them all.

We invite you to visit the portal, and submit evaluation for the news report fusion system. The portal contains fused reports of the latest events, and one can submit evaluation forms for each fused report. All evaluation forms are anonymous, and no personal information is collected. For more information, please contact Joel Azzopardi.

The First Workshop in ICT: Call for Papers

Fri, 23 May 2008 10:45:38 +0200

Workshop in Information & Communication Technology 2008 (WICT 2008)
Malta, 17–18 November 2008

WICT 2008 is the first National ICT Conference organised by the Faculty of ICT within the University of Malta. The purpose of this conference is to promote research and applications of technologies and practices in the field of ICT. WICT 2008 solicits the submission of original papers dealing with both theoretical and practical aspects of the field. Papers of the latter type are encouraged to present repeatability of their experiments and share with the community the data and test harnesses. Topics should include (but are not limited to) any aspect of the following fields:

Computer Information Systems
Computer Science
Artificial Intelligence
Communications and Computer Engineering
Micro and Nano Electronics.

Important Dates
Abstracts Due:                     4 July
Submission:                         19 September
Notification:                         17 October
Camera Ready:                     24 October

(Dates can be subject to slight modifications, pending final Faculty Board approval)

Paper Submission
Submissions and reviewing will be handled through the conference website using the Easy Chair system. Submission of a 300 word abstract on 4 July is a strict requirement. The abstract must follow the template provided on the conference website. Final papers can be submitted until September 19th. The submission plat-form will be opened from beginning of June.

Paper submissions must be formatted in the style of the IEEE format for Computer Society Conference Papers (please refer to the conference website). Formatted papers must be no longer than 6 pages. Papers that exceed this limit will be rejected without review. WICT 2008 will not accept research papers that, at the time of submission, are under review for or have already been published in or accepted for publication in a journal or another conference. At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the conference.

Paper Evaluation
To assess papers, reviewers will judge originality of papers, significance for further research and/or practice related to the topics mentioned above, technical soundness of the proposed approaches and readability of the submitted papers.

Specific weight will be given to the evaluation of the approaches described in the papers. We strongly encourage evaluations that are repeatable. For instance, theoretical papers may want to offer links to full proofs of theorems, empirical work may want to offer download of training and test data and experimental results, case study work may link to case study journals for deeper insights, system papers may provide download of the software or a Web client together with full assessments in user studies, algorithmic work may want to provide the algorithm in source code and in an easy-to-install manner.

Questions and Suggestions
General questions for the conference can be sent by email to the WICT 2008 Committee or visit conference website.