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Lecture Notes in Computer Science 5145
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David Hutchison
Lancaster University, UK
Takeo Kanade
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Josef Kittler
University of Surrey, Guildford, UK
Jon M. Kleinberg
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
Alfred Kobsa
University of California, Irvine, CA, USA
Friedemann Mattern
ETH Zurich, Switzerland
John C. Mitchell
Stanford University, CA, USA
Moni Naor
Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
Oscar Nierstrasz
University of Bern, Switzerland
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Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India
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University of Dortmund, Germany
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MA, USA
Demetri Terzopoulos
University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Doug Tygar
University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA
Gerhard Weikum
Max-Planck Institute of Computer Science, Saarbruecken, Germany
Frederick Li Jianmin Zhao
Timothy K. Shih Rynson Lau
Qing Li Dennis McLeod (Eds.)
Advances in
Web Based Learning –
ICWL 2008
7th International Conference
Jinhua, China, August 20-22, 2008
Proceedings
13
Volume Editors
Frederick Li
Rynson Lau
University of Durham, Department of Computer Science, United Kingdom
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Jianmin Zhao
Zhejiang Normal University, College of Mathematics, Physics
and Information Engineering, P.R.China
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Timothy K. Shih
Tamkang University, Dep. of Computer Science and Information Eng., P.R.China
E-mail:
Qing Li
City University of Hong Kong, Dep. of Computer Science, Hong Kong, P.R.China
E-mail:
Dennis McLeod

University of Southern California, Dep. of Computer Science, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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Preface
This year, we received about 170 submissions to ICWL 2008. There were a total of 52
full papers, representing an acceptance rate of about 30%, plus one invited paper
accepted for inclusion in this LNCS proceedings. The authors of these accepted papers

came from many different countries. We would like to thank all the reviewers for
spending their precious time reviewing the papers and for providing valuable com-
ments that aided significantly in the paper selection process. Authors of the best
papers presented in this conference will be invited to submit extended versions of their
papers for possible publication in a special issue of IEEE Internet Computing.
This was the second time that the ICWL conference was organized in China. It was
particularly special this year to hold ICWL 2008 in China, as the Beijing 2008 Olympic
Games were co-located in the same country during the conference period. We would like
to especially thank our Organization Co-chair, Lanfang Miao, for spending an enormous
amount of effort in coordinating the local arrangements. In fact, we would like to thank
the entire conference Organizing Committee for their hard work in putting together the
conference. In particular, we would like to express our appreciation to our Registration
Chairs, Jiying (Jean) Wang and Lanfang Miao, and Treasurer Howard Leung for their
tremendous efforts in communicating with the authors regarding registration matters and
maintaining the registration lists up-to-date. Our Workshop Co-chairs, Elvis Leung and
Philips Wang, organized a Workshop on Blended Learning (WBL 2008), which was co-
located with ICWL 2008. At this workshop, participants could share their ideas on and
experiences in supplementing e-learning with classroom learning.
We would also like to thank Won Kim for delivering an invited speech and sharing
his insightful views on Web-based learning research issues. Finally, we would like to
thank all the authors of the submitted papers, whether accepted or not, for their contri-
bution to the high quality of this conference. We will continue to count on your sup-
port of the Web-based learning community in the future.


Frederick Li
Jianmin Zhao
Timothy Shih
Rynson Lau
Qing Li

Dennis McLeod


Organization
Organizing Committee
General Chair Jifeng He (East China Normal University, China)
General Co-chairs Jianmin Zhao (Zhejiang Normal University, China)
Qing Li (City University of Hong Kong)
Rynson Lau (University of Durham, UK)
Program Co-chairs Timothy Shih (Tamkang University, Taiwan)
Frederick Li (University of Durham, UK)
Dennis McLeod (University of Southern California, USA)
Organization Co-chairs Zhangxin Wu (Zhejiang Normal University, China)
Lanfang Miao (Zhejiang Normal University, China)
Taku Komura (University of Edinburgh, UK)
Publicity Co-chairs Marc Spaniol (RWTH Aachen University, Germany)
Shu-Ching Chen (Florida International University, USA)
Taku Komura (University of Edinburgh, UK)
Yuanchun Shi (Tsinghua University, China)
Registration Co-chairs Jiying Wang (City University of Hong Kong)
Lanfang Miao (Zhejiang Normal University, China)
Workshop Co-chairs
Elvis Leung (City University of Hong Kong)
Philips Wang (City University of Hong Kong)
Treasurer Jianyang Wang (Zhejiang Normal University, China)
Howard Leung (City University of Hong Kong)
Steering Committee
Chair Qing Li (Hong Kong Web Society, Hong Kong)
Members Shi-Kuo Chang (University of Pittsburgh, USA)
Joseph Fong (Hong Kong Web Society, Hong Kong)

Horace Ip (City University of Hong Kong)
Rynson W.H. Lau (University of Durham, UK)
Xiaoming Li (Peking University, China)
Maria Orlowska (The University of Queensland, Australia)
Yuanchun Shi (Tsinghua University, China)
Timothy Shih (Tamkang University, Taiwan)
International Program Committee
Stephane Bressan (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
Liz Burd (Univeristy of Durham, UK)
Zhiqiang Cai (University of Memphis, USA)