Publications

Dichev C., Dicheva D (2012) Is It Time to Change OER Repositories Role?, In Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries - JCDL 2012, June 10-14, 2012, Washington, DC, pp. 31-34.

Dichev C., Dicheva D. (2012) Open Educational Resources in Computer Science Teaching, In Proceedings of the ACM SIGSE 2012, Raleigh, NC, pp. 619-624.

Dicheva D., Dichev C. (2011) Can Collective Use Help for Searching?, In Proceedings of the IEEE 2011 International Conference on Cyber-Enabled Distributed Computing and Knowledge Discovery, 10/10-10/12, 2011, Beijing, China, 2011, 24-31.

Dichev C., Bhattarai B., Clonch C., Dicheva D (2011) Towards Better Discoverability and Use of Open Content. In: Software, Services and Semantic Technologies, Springer, AICS 101, 195-203

Johnsen L., Dicheva D., Dichev C. (2011) Visualizing and Presenting Story Maps in TM4Book. In: Software, Services and Semantic Technologies, Springer, AICS 101, 53-58.

Dicheva D., Dichev C., Damova M. (2011) Ontological Support for Creative Writing. In Proceedings of the 24th International FLAIRS Conference, Palm Beach, FL, May 18-20, 2011, 576-578.

Sosnovsky, S., Dicheva, D. (2010) Ontological Technologies for User Modeling, International Journal of Metadata, Semantics and Ontologies, 5(1), 2010, 32-71.

Koychev, I., Dicheva, D., Nikolov, R. (2010) SmartBook: Semantics Inside, Serdica Computing Journal, 2010.

Dicheva D., Dichev C. (2010) Finding Resources and Collaborators within Digital Collections, In Proceedings of the IEEE/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence, 08/31-09/03, 2010, Toronto, Canada, 2010, 631-638

Dicheva D., Dichev C, Drayton R. (2010) Search and Exploration in LinkedCourse. In Proceedings of the 23rd International FLAIRS Conference, Daytona Beach, FL, May 18-22, 2010.

Dicheva, D., Dichev, C. (2009) Authoring and Exploring Learning Content: Share Content by Sharing Concepts, In Dicheva, D., Mizoguchi, R. Greer, J.  (Eds.) Semantic Web Technologies for e-Learning, IOS Press, The Netherlands, 24-43. 

Koychev, I., Nikolov, R., Dicheva, D. (2009) SmartBook: The New Generation e-Book. 2nd Workshop on Research Advances in Large Digital Book Collections (BooksOnline'09) at the 13th European Conference on Digital Libraries, Sep 27 – Oct 2, 2009, Corfu, Greece.

Dichev, C., Xu, J., Dicheva, D., Zhang, J. (2009) Measuring Similarity of Interests for Clustering Taggers and Resources, International Journal of Virtual Communities and Social Networking (IJVCSN), 1(3), 2009, 1-20.

Zhu, Y. , Dicheva, D., Dichev, C., Moran, M. (2009). Connecting and Sharing Open-Content Learning Resources, International Conference on Software, Services and Semantic Technologies – S3T’09, Sofia, Bulgaria, October 28-29, 2009, 68-75.

Irwin, K., Dicheva, D., Dichev, C. (2009). A Digital Repository Supporting Collaboration, International Conference on Software, Services and Semantic Technologies – S3T’09, Sofia, Bulgaria, October 28-29, 2009, 100-107.

Bittencourt, I., Costa, E., Braz. B., Dicheva, D. (2009) Supporting Interoperability between Web-based Educational Systems, 39th Annual Frontiers in Education (FIE) Conference, San Antonio, Texas, October 18 - 21, 2009.

Koychev, I., Nikolov, R., Dicheva, D. (2009). SmartBook: the New Generation E-book Meets University 2.0, International Conference on Software, Services and Semantic Technologies – S3T’09, Sofia, Bulgaria, October 28-29, 2009, 60-67.

Dicheva, D., Dichev, C., Zhu, Yi (2009). Sharing Open-Content Learning Resources in Emerging Disciplines. Seventh Int’l Workshop on Ontologies and Social Semantic Web for E-Learning, in conjunction with Int. Conf. on AI in Education – AIED’09, Brighton, UK, July 6-10, 2009, 23-30.

Koychev, I., Nikolov, R., Dicheva, D. (2009) SMARTBOOK - The Future E-Book and Educational Hypermedia, Proceedings of the Conference "Education in Information Society", May, 11-12, Plovdiv, Bulgaria, (Barnev, P., Editor), Sofia: ADIS & IMI-BAS, 30-37.

Xu, J., Dichev, C., Esterline, A., Dicheva, D., Zhang, J. (2009) On the Effectiveness of Collaborative Tagging Systems for Describing Resources, World Congress on Computer Science and Information Engineering (CSIE 2009), March 31 - April 2, 2009, Los Angeles/Anaheim, USA.

Dicheva, D. (2008) Ontologies and Semantic Web for e-Learning. In Pawlowski, J.M., Adelsberger, H.H., Kinshuk, Sampson, D. (Eds.): Handbook on Information Technologies for Education and Training, 2nd Edition, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 47-65. (uncorrected proof)

Dichev, C., Dicheva, D., Ditcheva, B. and Moran, M. (2008) Translation between RDF and Topic Maps: Divide and Translate, In Proceedings of Balisage: The Markup Conference, 12 - 15 August 2008, Montreal, Canada.

Dicheva, D., Johnsen, L. (2008). Connecting Connexions: Organizing and Integrating Open Learning Content with Topic Maps, Sixth Int’l Workshop on Ontologies and Semantic Web for E-Learning (SWEL@ITS'08), in conjunction with Int. Conf. on Intelligent Tutoring Systems – ITS’08, Montreal, Canada, June 23-27, 2008, 55-60.

Dicheva, D., Dichev, Ch., Brown, C., Veetil, D., Thomas, W. (2008). Easy Creation of Semantics-Enhanced Digital Artwork Collections, International Conference on Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems, July 1-4, 2008, Varna, Bulgaria, 92-98. (pdf)

Dicheva, D., Dichev, C. (2008). Ontological Support for Learning Content Management. Scientia Journal, Special Issue of Semantic Web for Educational Systems, 19(2), 2008, 68-76.

Dicheva D. (2007). Topic Maps Based Digital Artworks Collections, Workshop on Cultural Heritage on the Semantic Web, 6th Intl. Semantic Web Conference, ISWC 2007, November 11-15, 2007, Busan, Korea.

Dichev C. , Dicheva D., Fisher, J. (2007). Identity: How to Name It, How to Find It, Workshop on I3: Identity, Identifiers, Identification, 16th Int. Conference on World Wide Web, WWW 2007, May 8-12, 2007, Banff, Alberta, Canada.

Dicheva D., Dichev C., (2007). Helping Courseware Authors to Build Ontologies: the Case of TM4L, 13th Int. Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education, AI-ED 2007, July 9-13, 2007, LA, California, 77-84.

McDonald, J., Dicheva, D. (2007). Mobile Topic Maps for e-Learning, Intl Workshop on Ontologies and Semantic Web for e-Learning,13th Int. Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education, AI-ED 2007, July 9-13, 2007, LA, California, 65-73.

Brown, C. (2007) Topic Map Editing in a Java Web Portal, 45th ACM Southeast Conference, Winston-Salem, NC, March 23-24, 2007.

Wang, D., Dicheva, D., Dichev, C., Akouala, J. (2007) Retrieving Information in Topic Maps: the Case of TM4L, 45th ACM Southeast Conference, Winston-Salem, NC, March 23-24, 2007.

Roberson, S., Dicheva, D. (2007) Semi-Automatic Ontology Extraction to Create Draft Topic Maps, 45th ACM Southeast Conference, Winston-Salem, NC, March 23-24, 2007.

Dichev C. , Dicheva D. (2006). View-Based Semantic Search and Browsing, 2006 IEEE/ACM International Conf. on Web Intelligence (WI?06), December 18-22, 2006, Hong-Kong, China, IEEE Computer Society Press.

Ditcheva, B., Dicheva, D. (2006). Visual Browsing and Editing of Topic Map-Based Learning Repositories), Int. Conf. on Topic Maps Research and Applications (TMRA?06): Leveraging the Semantics, October 10-12, 2006, Leipzig, Germany.

Dichev C., Dicheva D. (2006). Context-based Search in Topic-centered Digital Repositories, 3rd International Semantic Web User Interaction Workshop (SWUI06), collocated with 5th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC?06), November 6th, 2005, Athens, GA.

Dicheva D., Dichev C. (2006). TM4L: Creating and Browsing Educational Topic Maps British Journal of Educational Technology - BJET, 37(3), 391-404.

Dicheva D., Aroyo L. (2006). An Approach to Interoperability of Ontology-based Educational Repositories. Int. J. Cont. Engineering Education and Life-long Learning, 16(1/2), 92-109.

Hooben, G, Aroyo, L., & Dicheva, D. (2006). Engineering Adaptive Concept-Based Systems for the Web, In Encyclopedia of E-Commerce, E-Government, and Mobile Commerce, Mehdi Khosrow-Pour (Ed), Idea Group Inc, PA: Hershey, 424-430.

Dichev C. , Dicheva D. (2006). Using Contexts to Personalize Educational Topic Maps, International Conference on Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web-Based Systems (AH2006), June 21-23, 2006, Dublin, Ireland, (to appear).

Dichev C. , Dicheva D. (2005). Contexts as Abstraction of Grouping, Workshop on Contexts and Ontologies, 12th National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AAAI 2005, July 9-13, 2005, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 49-56.

Dichev C., Dicheva D. (2005). Contexts as Collection of Alternatives, Workshop on Applications of Semantic Web in E-Learning (SW-EL@K-CAP?05), in conjunction with 3rd International Conference on Knowledge Capture, K-CAP?05, October 2, 2005, Banff, Canada, 53-58.

Dicheva D., Dichev C. (2005). Authoring Educational Topic Maps: Can We Make It Easier? 5th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies, ICALT 2005, July 5-8, 2005, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, 216-219.

Dicheva, D., Dichev, C., Wang. D. (2005). Visualizing Topic Maps For E-Learning, Workshop on Applications of Semantic Web in E-Learning (SW-EL@ICALT'05), in conjunction with 5th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies, ICALT 2005, July 5-8, 2005, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, 950-951.

Dichev C., Dicheva D. (2005). Contexts in Educational Topic Maps. 12th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education, AI-ED 2005, July 18-22, 2005, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 789-791.

Dicheva, D., Sosnovsky, S., Gavrilova, T., Brusilovsky, P. (2005). Ontological Web Portal for Educational Ontologies. Workshop on Applications of Semantic Web in E-Learning (SW-EL@AI-ED?05), in conjunction with 12th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education, AI-ED 2005, July 18-22, 2005, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Dicheva D., C. Dichev, C. Wang, D. and Zhu Y. (2005) Editing and Exploring Topic Map-based E-Learning Repositories, In Proc of 9th IASTED Int. Conf. Internet and Multimedia Systems and Applications, Honolulu, Hawaii, August 15-17, 2005, 139-144.

Nordeng, T.W., Dicheva, D., Garshol, L.M., Rønningsbakk, L., Lavik, S., Meløy, J.R. (2005). Using Topic Maps for integrating ePortfolio with eCurriculum, Int. Conf. on ePortfolio 2005, October 27-28, 2005, Cambridge UK.

Hooben, G, Aroyo, L., de Bra, P., & Dicheva, D. (2005). Adaptation Engineering in Adaptive Concept-based Systems, In Adaptable and Adaptive Hypermedia Systems, Sherry Chen and George Magoulas (Eds), IRM Press, 36-58.

Dicheva, D., Dichev, C. (2004). A Framework for Concept-Based Digital Course Libraries, J. of Interactive Learning Research - JIRL, Special issue on Computational Intelligence In Web-Based Education, A.V. Vasilakos, V. Devedzic, Kinshuk (Eds), 15(4), 2004, 347-364.

Aroyo, L., Dicheva, D. (2004). The New Challenges for E-learning: The Educational Semantic Web. J. Educational Technology & Society, 7 (4), 59-69.

Dichev C., Dicheva D., & Aroyo L. (2004). Using Topic Maps for Web-based Education , Int. J. of Advanced Technology for Learning, 1(1), 2004, 1-7.

Dicheva D., Dichev C. (2004). Educational Topic Maps, 3rd International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC'2004) Poster Abstracts, November 7-11, 2004, Hiroshima, Japan, 19-20.

Dicheva D., Dichev C., Sun, Y., & Nao, S. (2004). Authoring Topic Maps-based Digital Course Libraries, Workshop on Applications of Semantic Web Technologies for Adaptive Educational Hypermedia (SW-EL@AH'04), in conjunction with AH 2004, August 23-26, 2004, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, 331-337.

Dicheva D., Dichev C., Sun, Y., & Nao, S. (2004). A Topic Map Authoring Tool for E-Learning, Proceedings of ADMI 2004, May 20-22, 2004, Orlando, Florida, 62-67.

Aroyo L., Dicheva D. (2004). Authoring Support in Concept-based Web Information Systems for Educational Applications. Int. J. Cont. Engineering Education and Life-long Learning, 14(3), pp. 297-312.>

Dicheva, D., Aroyo, L., Cristea, A. (2003). Cooperative Courseware-Authoring Support. International Journal of Computers and Applications, 25(3), pp. 179-187.

Dichev,C., Dicheva, D. (2003). Reusable and Shareable Digital Course Libraries. Fifth International Workshop on Symbolic and Numeric Algorithms for Scientific Computing (SYNASC03), October 1 - 4, 2003, Timisoara, Romania, pp. 27-38 (invited paper).

Dicheva, D., Dichev, C. (2003). Building and Using Open Web-Based Course Libraries. Twelfth International Turkish Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Neural Networks (TAINN 2003), Canakkale, Turkey, July 02 - 04, 2003, pp. 349-357.

Aroyo L., Dicheva D. (2002). Authoring Framework for Concept-based Web Information Systems. Workshop on Concepts and Ontologies in Web-based Educational Systems, ICCE'2002, Auckland, New Zealand, pp. 41-48.

Aroyo L., Dicheva D., Cristea, A.  (2002). Ontological Support for Web Courseware Authoring. International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems ( ITS 2002), Biarritz, France, June 5-8, 2002, pp. 270-280.

Dicheva, D., Aroyo, L., Cristea, A. (2002). Collaborative Concept-based Courseware Authoring Support. International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IC-AI'02), May 20-22, 2002, Cancun, Mexico, pp. 52-57.

Dichev Ch., Dicheva D. (2002). "Interesting" as a Category in Information Retrieval. International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IC-AI'02), Las Vegas, USA, June 24-27, 2002, pp. 833-839.

Aroyo L., Cristea, A., Dicheva D.(2002). A Layered Approach towards Domain Authoring Support. International Conference , Las Vegas, USA, June 24-27, 2002, 615-621.

Aroyo L., Dicheva D. (2001). AIMS: Learning and Teaching Support for WWW-based Education. International Journal for Continuing Engineering Education and Life-long Learning, Vol. 11, No. 1/2, 152-164.

Aroyo L., Dicheva D., Velev I. (2001). A Concept-Based Approach to Support Learning in a Web-based Course Environment. J. Moore, C.L. Redfield, W.L. Johnson (Eds.) Artificial Intelligence in Education, Amsterdam: IOS Press, Frontiers of AI and Applications, 1-10.

Aroyo L., Dicheva D. (2001). Informational Support for Learners and Teachers in Web-Based Education. Ruokamo, H., Nykanen, O., Pohjolainen, S., and Hietala, P. (Eds.) 10^th International PEG Conference(PEG'2001), Tampere, Finland, 23-29.

Dichev Ch., Dicheva D. (2001). Deriving Context Specific Information on the Web. World Conference on the WWW and Internet (WebNet'2001), Orlando, Florida, 296-301.

Dichev Ch., Dicheva D., Radenski A. (2001). A Framework for Dynamic Topic Clustering on the Web. International Conference on Internet Computing, IC'2001, Las Vegas, Nevada, pp. 983-989.

Dicheva D., Aroyo L. (2000). An Approach to Intelligent Information Handling in Web-Based Learning Environments. International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IC-AI'2000, Las Vegas, Nevada, 1327-1333.