This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems, ITS 2006, held in Jhongli, Taiwan, June 2006. The book presents 67 revised full papers and 40 poster papers, together with abstracts of 6 keynote talks, organized in topical sections on assessment, authoring tools, bayesian reasoning and decision-theoretic approaches, case-based and analogical reasoning, cognitive models, collaborative learning, e-learning and web-based intelligent tutoring systems, and more.

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Assessment.- Automated Expert Modeling for Automated Student Evaluation.- Multicriteria Automatic Essay Assessor Generation by Using TOPSIS Model and Genetic Algorithm.- Better Student Assessing by Finding Difficulty Factors in a Fully Automated Comprehension Measure.- Predicting State Test Scores Better with Intelligent Tutoring Systems: Developing Metrics to Measure Assistance Required.- Authoring Tools.- Authoring Constraint-Based Tutors in ASPIRE.- A Teaching Strategies Engine Using Translation from SWRL to Jess.- The Cognitive Tutor Authoring Tools (CTAT): Preliminary Evaluation of Efficiency Gains.- Bayesian Reasoning and Decision-Theoretic Approaches.- A Bayesian Network Approach for Modeling the Influence of Contextual Variables on Scientific Problem Solving.- A Decision-Theoretic Approach to Scientific Inquiry Exploratory Learning Environment.- Conceptual Change Modeling Using Dynamic Bayesian Network.- A Bayes Net Toolkit for Student Modeling in Intelligent Tutoring Systems.- A Comparison of Decision-Theoretic, Fixed-Policy and Random Tutorial Action Selection.- Case-Based and Analogical Reasoning.- Evaluation of a System That Generates Word Problems Through Interactions with a User.- Time in the Adaptive Tutoring Process Model.- Coaching Within a Domain Independent Inquiry Environment.- Cognitive Models.- How "Consciousness" Allows a Cognitive Tutoring Agent Make Good Diagnosis During Astronauts' Training.- Learning Factors Analysis - A General Method for Cognitive Model Evaluation and Improvement.- Collaborative Learning.- A Constraint-Based Collaborative Environment for Learning UML Class Diagrams.- A Collaborative Learning Design Environment to Integrate Practice and Learning Based on Collaborative Space Ontology and Patterns.- The Big Five and Visualisations of Team Work Activity.- Cognitive Tutors as Research Platforms: Extending an Established Tutoring System for Collaborative and Metacognitive Experimentation.- Forming Heterogeneous Groups for Intelligent Collaborative Learning Systems with Ant Colony Optimization.- Toward Legal Argument Instruction with Graph Grammars and Collaborative Filtering Techniques.- SPRITS: Secure Pedagogical Resources in Intelligent Tutoring Systems.- The Pyramid Collaborative Filtering Method: Toward an Efficient E-Course.- eLearning and Web-Based Intelligent Tutoring Systems.- From Black-Box Learning Objects to Glass-Box Learning Objects.- Adaptation in Educational Hypermedia Based on the Classification of the User Profile.- Combining ITS and eLearning Technologies: Opportunities and Challenges.- From Learner Information Packages to Student Models: Which Continuum?.- Towards a Pattern Language for Intelligent Teaching and Training Systems.- Semantic Web Technologies Applied to Interoperability on an Educational Portal.- Studying the Effects of Personalized Language and Worked Examples in the Context of a Web-Based Intelligent Tutor.- Error Detection and Handling.- A Plan Recognition Process, Based on a Task Model, for Detecting Learner's Erroneous Actions.- Handling Errors in Mathematical Formulas.- Feedback.- Supporting Tutorial Feedback to Student Help Requests and Errors in Symbolic Differentiation.- The Help Tutor: Does Metacognitive Feedback Improve Students' Help-Seeking Actions, Skills and Learning?.- The Role of Feedback in Preparation for Future Learning: A Case Study in Learning by Teaching Environments.- Gaming Behavior.- Detection and Analysis of Off-Task Gaming Behavior in Intelligent Tutoring Systems.- Adapting to When Students Game an Intelligent Tutoring System.- Generalizing Detection of Gaming the System Across a Tutoring Curriculum.- Learner Models.- Using Multiple Intelligence Informed Resources in an Adaptive System.- 20000 Inspections of a Domain-Independent Open Learner Model with Individual and Comparison Views.- Automatic Calculation of Students' Conceptions in Elementary Algebra from Aplusix Log Files.- The Potential for Chatbots in Negotiated Learner Modelling: A Wizard-of-Oz Study.- Improving Intelligent Tutoring Systems: Using Expectation Maximization to Learn Student Skill Levels.- Automatic Recognition of Learner Groups in Exploratory Learning Environments.- Estimating Student Proficiency Using an Item Response Theory Model.- Student Preferences for Editing, Persuading, and Negotiating the Open Learner Model.- Student Modeling with Atomic Bayesian Networks.- A Ubiquitous Agent for Unrestricted Vocabulary Learning in Noisy Digital Environments.- Learning Styles Diagnosis Based on User Interface Behaviors for the Customization of Learning Interfaces in an Intelligent Tutoring System.- Comparison of Machine Learning Methods for Intelligent Tutoring Systems.- Motivation.- Raising Confidence Levels Using Motivational Contingency Design Techniques.- Motivating the Learner: An Empirical Evaluation.- Approximate Modelling of the Multi-dimensional Learner.- Diagnosing Self-efficacy in Intelligent Tutoring Systems: An Empirical Study.- Natural Language Techniques for Intelligent Tutoring Systems.- Using Instant Messaging to Provide an Intelligent Learning Environment.- ArikIturri: An Automatic Question Generator Based on Corpora and NLP Techniques.- Observing Lemmatization Effect in LSA Coherence and Comprehension Grading of Learner Summaries.- Scaffolding.- Adaptable Scaffolding - A Fuzzy Approach.- P.A.C.T. - Scaffolding Best Practice in Home Tutoring.- Scaffolding Problem Solving with Annotated, Worked-Out Examples to Promote Deep Learning.- Scaffolding vs. Hints in the Assistment System.- Simulation.- An Approach to Intelligent Training on a Robotic Simulator Using an Innovative Path-Planner.- Robust Simulator: A Method of Simulating Learners' Erroneous Equations for Making Error-Based Simulation.- Tutorial Dialogue and Narrative.- Evaluating the Effectiveness of Tutorial Dialogue Instruction in an Exploratory Learning Context.- Narrative-Centered Tutorial Planning for Inquiry-Based Learning Environments.- Poster Papers.- Using Simulated Students for the Assessment of Authentic Document Retrieval.- Designing a Tutoring Agent for Facilitating Collaborative Learning with Instant Messaging.- An Approach of Learning by Demonstrating and Tutoring a Virtual Character.- e-Learning System to Provide Optimum Questions Based on Item Response Theory.- BEEweb: A Multi-domain Platform for Reciprocal Peer-Driven Tutoring Systems.- A Multimedia Tool for English Learning Using Text Retrieval Techniques on DVD Subtitles.- A Profiling System and Mobile Middleware Framework for U-Learning.- Responding to Free-Form Student Questions in ERM-Tutor.- Behaviors Analysis with a Game-Like Learning System for Pre-school Children.- Studying Human Tutors to Facilitate Self-explanation.- An Ontology-Based Solution for Knowledge Management and eLearning Integration.- Computer-Mediated Collaborative Visual Learning System to Generate Evidence-Based Nursing Care Plans.- Prevention of Off-Task Gaming Behavior in Intelligent Tutoring Systems.- Learning Linear Equation Solving Algorithm and Its Steps in Intelligent Learning Environment.- The Design of a Tutoring System with Learner-Initiating Instruction Strategy for Digital Logic Problems.- Reflective Tutoring for Immersive Simulation.- Knowledge Engineering for Intelligent Tutoring Systems: Assessing Semi-automatic Skill Encoding Methods.- Towards Teaching Metacognition: Supporting Spontaneous Self-Assessment.- Automat…