[TYPES/announce] ThEdu'15, Theorem proving components for Educational software, cfp

[Walther Neuper]

             Last Call for Extended Abstracts & Demonstrations
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                                 ThEdu'15
            Theorem proving components for Educational software
                             July 13-17, 2015
               http://www.uc.pt/en/congressos/thedu/thedu15
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                               at CICM 2015
              Conferences on Intelligent Computer Mathematics
                            Washington DC, USA
                      http://cicm-conference.org/2015
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THedu'15 Scope:

   The distinguishing feature of mathematics is reasoning: questionable
   statements are proved by the laws of logic. This kind of reasoning
   makes mathematics a central thinking technology of modern science.

   Educational software tools have integrated technologies from
   Computer Algebra, from Dynamic Geometry, from Spreadsheets and
   others, but not from (computer) theorem proving (TP) with few
   exceptions: the latter have been developed to model mathematical
   reasoning in software; theorem provers (TPs) are successfully used
   to tackle difficult proofs in the science of mathematics, like the
   Four Color Problem or the Kepler Conjecture; and TPs are
   successfully used to verify safety critical software in industry.

   This workshop addresses support for reasoning in mathematics education
   by use of TP technology.

   The workshop addresses educators and designers and developers of TPs
   as well as of other educational mathematics software; and the
   discussions shall clarify the requirements of education, identify
   advantages and promises of TP for learning and motivate development
   of a novel kind of tools probably establishing a new generation of
   educational mathematical tools.

   Important Dates

    * Extended Abstracts:   24 May 2015
    * Author Notification:  08 June 2015
    * Final Version:        21 June 2015
    * Workshop Day:         1 day (13-17 July)

    Points of interest include:

   Adaptation of TP - concepts and technologies for education: knowledge
     representation, simplifiers, reasoners; undefinedness, level of
     abstraction, etc.

   Requirements on software support for reasoning - reasoning appears
     as the most advanced method of human thought, so at which age
     and what kind of support TP can provide?

   Automated TP in geometry - relating intuitive evidence with logical
     rigour: specific provers, adaption of axioms and theorems, visual
     proofs, etc.

   Levels of authoring - in order to cope with generality of TP:
     experts adapt to specifics of countries or levels, teachers adapt
     to courses and students.

   Adaptive modules, students' modelling and learning paths - services
     for user guidance provided by TP technology: which interfaces
     enable flexible generation of adaptive user guidance?
     Next-step-guidance, which suggests a next step when a student gets
     stuck in problem solving: which computational methods can extend
     TP for that purpose?

   TP as unifying foundation - for the integration of technologies like
     CAS, DGS, Spreadsheets etc: interfaces for unified support of
     reasoning?

   Continuous tool chains - for mathematics education from high-school
     to university, from algebra and geometry to graph theory etc.


Submission

   We welcome submission of extended abstracts and demonstration
   proposals presenting original unpublished work which is not been
   submitted for publication elsewhere.
     All accepted extended abstracts and demonstrations will be presented
   at the workshop. The extended abstracts will be made available
   online.
     Extended abstracts and demonstration proposals should be submitted via
   THedu'15 easychair (https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=thedu15).
     Extended abstracts and demonstration proposals should be no more than
   4 pages in length and are to be submitted in PDF format. They must
   conform to the EPTCS style guidelines (http://style.eptcs.org/).
     At least one author of each accepted extended abstract/demonstration
   proposal is expected to attend THedu'15 and presents his/her extended
   abstract/demonstration.
         Program Committee

	Francisco Botana, University of Vigo at Pontevedra, Spain
	Roman Hašek, University of South Bohemia, Czech Republic
	Filip Maric, University of Belgrade, Serbia
	Walther Neuper, Graz University of Technology, Austria(co-chair)
	Pavel Pech, University of South Bohemia, Czech Republic
	Pedro Quaresma, University of Coimbra, Portugal (co-chair)
	Vanda Santos, CISUC, Portugal
	Wolfgang Schreiner, Johannes Kepler University, Austria
	Burkhart Wolff, University Paris-Sud, France

Proceedings

Following ThEdu'13 and ThEdu'14 practise we expect to have a joint
proceedings of the workshops co-located with the Conferences on
Intelligent Computer Mathematics.