ITS2025 Conference Program
Wednesday, June 04 – 9:00 to 9:30 – REGISTRATION
DAY 1 : Wednesday, JUNE 04
09:30 – 10:00
OPENING SESSION (PLENARY)
Greetings from the Host University: Prof. Antonios Gasteratos (General Chair)
Greetings from the Program Chairs: Prof. Sabine Graf, and Prof. Angelos Markos
Greetings from the President of the ITS Steering Committee: Prof. Claude Frasson
Greetings from the Organization Chair: Dr. Kitty Panourgia
10:00 – 11:00
KEYNOTE SPEECH (PLENARY)
Session Chair: Angelos Markos
Prof. Elvira Popescu (University of Craiova, Romania)
Technology-Enhanced Peer Assessment in Education: Exploring Solutions and Trends
11:00 – 11:30
COFFEE BREAK
11:30 – 13:00
SESSION 1: INTELLIGENT TUTORING SYSTEMS
SESSION 2: NEURAL NETWORKS & DATA MINING
Session 1 : Mixed (Online & Onsite)
Session Chair: Angelos Markos
Session 2 : Online
Session Chair: Azza Basiouni
#3 (Full):
Edger P. Rutatola, Koen Stroeken and Tony Belpaeme
Leveraging Large Language Models for a Swahili Mathematics ITS in Tanzania: Designing Effective Prompts
#31 (Full)*:
Woojin Kim and Hyeoncheol Kim
Counterfactual Fairness Evaluation of Machine Learning Models on Educational Datasets
#66 (Full):
Evandro Costa, Emanuele Silva, Priscylla Silva, Marlos Silva, Leandro da Silva and Dante Costa
A Negotiation and Explainable Approach to Automatically Reduce Cognitive Conflicts and Enhance Learner Model Accuracy in an Intelligent Tutoring System for Propositional Logic
#60 (Short)*:
Sun Woo Park and Hyeoncheol Kim
Two-Level Imbalance Mitigation (TLIM): A Dual-Strategy Approach for Multi-Class Error Classification in Programming Education
#42 (Short)*:
Sun Woo Park and Hyeoncheol Kim
A Comprehensive Survey and Taxonomy on Large Language Model-Based Knowledge Tracing
#49 (Short)*:
Therese Nuelle Roca and Jasmine Malinao
Model Decomposition of Multi-dimensional Workflows to Petri Nets for Well-handledness Verification
* Online presentation
13:30 – 14:00
LUNCH
14:00 – 16:00
SESSION 3: GAMES, VIRTUAL REALITY & ROBOTS
SESSION 4: INTELLIGENT TUTORING SYSTEMS
Session 3 : Mixed (Online & Onsite)
Session Chair: Elvira Popescu
Session 4 : Online
Session Chair: Pin-Chuan Lin
#35 (Short):
Ariadni Barmpari, Eleni Voyiatzaki and Ioannis Hatzilygeroudis
An Educational Virtual World System with Gamification Features and LLM Guided NPCs#
#20 (Short)*:
Ange Tato and Roger Nkambou
Leveraging LLMs for Bayesian and Deep Knowledge Tracing in the Logic-Muse Intelligent Tutoring System
#46 (Full)*:
Amin Bonyad Khalaj, Hamdi Ben Abdessalem and Claude Frasson
Impact of Experience on Cognitive Load and Physiological Responses in Aviation Pilots
#8 (Full)*:
Daniel Soto Forero, Julien Henriet and Marie-Laure Betbeder
Ensemble Stacking Case-Based Reasoning and a Stochastic Recommender Algorithm with the Hawkes Process Applied to ITS AI-VT
#18 (Poster):
Michail Kosmidis, Ioannis Kansizoglou, Vasiliki Balaska, Athanasios Psomoulis, Daniel Bratanov and Antonios Gasteratos
Virtual Reality Application for Enhanced Cognitive Rehabilitation and Occupational Therapy
#12 (Full)*:
Viktor Uglev
An Approach to Organizing Intelligent Tutoring Systems with Customizable Decision-Making Logic
#28 (Short)*:
Yeonju Jang, Seongyune Choi, Heeseok Jung and Hyeoncheol Kim
Gamified Team Programming in MUVEs: Effects on Student Engagement and Achievement
#50 (Short)*:
Marc-Antoine Courtemanche, Roger Nkambou and Valéry Psyché
A Unified Ontological Approach for Modeling Domain Theory and Procedures: Applications, issues and prospects
#48 (Short):
Sarantis Antoniou, Vasiliki Balaska, Ioannis Kansizoglou, Symeon Symeonidis, Theoklitos Karakatsanis and Antonios Gasteratos
Humanized TASC: Tag-less and automated stock counting in smart warehouses
16:00 – 16:30
COFFEE BREAK
16:30 – 18:00
SESSION 5: INTELLIGENT TUTORING SYSTEMS
SESSION 6: DATA MINING, NEURAL NETWORKS & APPLIED NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING
Session 5 : Mixed (Online & Onsite)
Session Chair: Gayathri Nadarajan
Session 6 : Online
Session Chair: Reva Freedman
#33 (Full):
Mateusz Kawulok, Michał Maćkowski and Maria Rosiak
A Method and Semi-automated AI Tool Supporting Tutors in Preparing Audio-Tactile Exercises for Blind Students
#57 (Full)*:
Sihem Hamza and Yassine Ben Ayed
Person identification with arrhythmic and normal ECG signals using hybrid machine learning and deep learning models
#67 (Short):
Evandro Costa, Jean Tenório, Alison Martires, Rian Américo, Wallace de Sousa, Davi Melo and Dante Costa
Large Language Models Performance in Propositional Logic Proof Problems: Solving and Evaluating Argument Validity
#44 (Short)*:
Gaganpreet Jhajj, Jerry Ryan David Gustafson, Raymond Morland, Carlos Enrique Gutierrez, Michael Pin-Chuan Lin, M Ali Akber Dewan and Fuhua Lin
Neuromorphic Knowledge Representation: SNN-Based Relational Inference and Explainability in Knowledge Graphs
#45 (Full)*:
Jason Bernard and Sabine Graf
Language Models for Educational Question Generation: Practical challenges, Personalization opportunities, and Parameter Optimization
#29 (Short)*:
Doru Anastasiu Popescu, Michalis Stefanidakis, Anna Sotiropoulou, Nicolae Bold and Ion Alexandru Popescu
Multidisciplinary educational assessment model using genetic algorithms
#63 (Short)*:
Giseldo da Silva Neo, J. Antão B. Moura, Alana Viana Borges da Silva Neo and Evandro de Barros Costa
A Predictive Model for Story Points leveraging features like readability and sentiment from User Story description
18:30 – 19:30
RECEPTION
DAY 2: THURSDAY, JUNE 05
10:00 – 11:00
KEYNOTE SPEECH (PLENARY)
Session Chair: Sabine Graf
Prof. Angelo Sifaleras (University of Macedonia, Greece)
Towards a Manufacturing as a Service Framework: Decentralized Value Chains with Embedded Volume and Variety Dynamics
11:00 – 11:30
COFFEE BREAK
11:30 – 13:00
SESSION 7: INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS FOR EDUCATION AND HEALTH
SESSION 8: APPLIED NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING FOR ITS
Session 7 : Mixed (Online & Onsite)
Session Chair: Ioannis Hatzilygeroudis
Session 8 : Online
Session Chair: Muhammad Anwar
#59 (Full):
Renu Balyan, Kayla Thompson and Francisco Iacobelli
LLMs for Question-Answer & Synthetic Data Generation and Evaluation
#4 (Full)*:
Unggi Lee, Yoorim Son, Jaeyoon Shin, Gyuri Byun, Yunseo Lee, Junbo Koh, Minji Jeon and Hyeoncheol Kim
LLaVA-Docent-V2: Improving Data Quality to Train Large Multimodal Models for Art Appreciation Education#
#43 (Short):
Islam Barchouch, Nathalie Girard, Eric Anquetil, Laura Leconte and Eric Jamet
Improving feedback generation in a drawing-based ITS
#32 (Full)*:
Adam Wynn, Jingyun Wang and Xiaoyan Li
Unravelling Emotional Nuances: A Cross-Linguistic Analysis of Sentiment Differences in Multilingual Movie Versions
#51 (Full)*:
Rahma Kadri, Bassem Bouaziz, Mohamed Tmar and Faiez Gargouri
Efficient Attention-Guided CNN for Alzheimer’s Disease Prediction
#15 (Short)*:
Dohee Kim, Unggi Lee, Sookbun Lee, Jiyeong Bae, Taekyung Ahn, Jaekwon Park, Gunho Lee and Hyeoncheol Kim
ES-KT-24: A Multimodal Knowledge Tracing Benchmark Dataset with Educational Game Playing Video and Synthetic Text Generation
13:00 – 14:00
LUNCH
14:00 – 15:30
SESSION 9: INTELLIGENT TUTORING SYSTEMS
SESSION 10: ITS, METAVERSE & GAMES FOR EDUCATION
Session 9: Mixed (Online & Onsite)
Session Chair: Sabine Graf
Session 10 : Online
Session Chair: Kwok Ng
#11 (Full):
Adrian Marius Dumitran, Vasile Paul Alexe and Theodor-Pierre Moroianu
From Struggle (06-2024) to Mastery (2025) — LLMs Conquer Advanced Algorithm Exams and Pave the Way for Editorial Generation
#14 (Full)*:
Nikita Moskalenko, Andrey Sidor and Oleg Sychev
Enhancing Intelligent Tutor for Program Element Scope Training: Lessons Learned
#16 (Short):
Rachel Van Campenhout, Jeffrey Dittel and Benny Johnson
Scaling effective characteristics of ITSs: A preliminary analysis of LLM-based personalized feedback
#47 (Short)*:
Amin Bonyad Khalaj, Hamdi Ben Abdessalem and Claude Frasson
Heat of the Moment: Exploring the Influence of Stress and Workload on Facial Temperature Dynamics
#23 (Full)*:
Michael Pin-Chuan Lin, Arita Li Liu, Saeed Saffari, Daniel Chang and Jeeho Ryoo
Mapping AI Tools in Education: A Topic Modeling Analysis of Cognitive, Metacognitive, & Affective Insights
#13 (Full)*:
Guy Carlos Tamkodjou Tchio, Roger Nkambou, Valéry Psyché and Ange Adrienne Nyamen Tato
Enhancing Pilot Training and Decision-Making Using Ontologies: A Cognitive Assistance Approach
15:30 – 16:00
COFFEE BREAK
16:00 – 18:00
SESSION 11: DATA MINING, NEURAL NETWORKS & APPLIED NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING
SESSION 12: INTELLIGENT TUTORING SYSTEMS
Session 11: Mixed (Online & Onsite)
Session Chair: Evandro de Barros Costa
Session 12 : Online
Session Chair: Valéry Psyché
#30 (Full):
Haemin Choi and Gayathri Nadarajan
Automatic Piecewise Linear Regression for Predicting Student Learning Satisfaction
#39 (Full)*:
Juan Diego Lugo Sanchez, Brena Marques, Ruben Manrique and Kelly Garcés
AI-Powered Tutoring for Novice Programmers: Supporting Students Throughout Project Development
#7 (Short):
Irina-Gabriela Nedelcu, Stefan Alexandru Mocanu, Daniela Saru, Simona Iuliana Caramihai and Anca Daniela Ionita
Performance of Neural Networks for Recognizing Images of UML Class, Sequence and State Diagrams
#41 (Short)*:
Pablo Alejandro Guatibonza Briceño, Daniel Osorio Cárdenas, Rubén Francisco Manrique Piramanrique, Edgar Eduardo Rosales Rosero and Mario Eduardo Sanchez Puccini
Evaluating an AI-Driven Chatbot Tutor for Enhancing Introductory Programming Learning
#22 (Poster):
Vasileios Vlachou, Theoklitos Karakatsanis, Dimitrios Efstathiou, Eftychios Vlachou, Stavros Vologiannidis and Antonios Gasteratos
Advanced Machine Learning and Data Mining Techniques for Fault Diagnosis in Industrial Applications
#26 (Short)*:
Nicolás Klopstock, Ernesto Duarte, Edier Becerra and Rubén Manrique
Manchita: An AI-powered gamified learning environment
#37 (Full):
Seanghort Born, Madeth May, Claudine Piau Toffolon and Sébastien Iksal
Towards a Smarter Homophone Correction Tool: A Case Study in Khmer Writing
#38 (Short)*:
Reva Freedman, Ian Sullivan, Annalise Brockmann and Minhaz Patel
Using Minigames to Teach Computer Architecture
#19 (Full)*:
Arwa Al Saqaabi, Craig Stewart, Eleni Akrida and Alexandra. I Cristea
Multi-Domain Evaluation of Auto-Paraphrase Generation at Paragraph-Level: Insights for Education and Plagiarism Detection
#56 (Short)*:
Cherie Lum, Erin Deye, Grace Brazil, Tim Bydlon, Shashank Verma, Rochan Madhsudhana, Rahul Dass and Ashok Goel
Designing an AI Coaching System for Interactive Video-Based Skill Learning
20:00
GALA DINNER
THURSDAY, JUNE 13
DAY 3: FRIDAY, JUNE 06
10:00 – 11:30
PANEL DISCUSSION (PLENARY)
“TRUSTWORTHY AND EXPLAINABLE AI IN EDUCATION”
Moderator: Prof. Antonios Gasteratos (Democritus University of Thrace, Greece)
Participants: Prof. Elvira Popescu (University of Craiova, Romania), Prof. Angelo Sifaleras (University of Macedonia), Prof. Angelos Markos (Democritus University of Thrace), and Dr Ioannis Kanzizoglou (Democritus University of Thrace)
Topics:
– Explainable AI (XAI) and transparency in education
– Building trust and human oversight
– Acceptance by students/teachers
– Bias, fairness, ethical implications
– Challenges in transitioning from research models to real-world applications
11:30 – 12:00
COFFEE BREAK
12:00 – 13:00
SESSION 13: INTELLIGENT TUTORING SYSTEMS
SESSION 14: COGNITIVE ROBOTS
Session 13 : Mixed (Online & Onsite)
Session Chair: Angelos Sifaleras
Session 14 : Online
Session Chair: Sunday Olaleye
#25 (Short):
Juan Esteban Cuellar and Ruben Francisco Manrique
AI-Generated Code Detection: An Examination of Current Tools in Education
#5 (Short)*:
Unggi Lee, Hansung Kim, Juhong Eom, Hyeonseo Jeong, Seungyeon Lee, Gyuri Byun, Yunseo Lee, Minji Kang, Gospel Kim, Jihoi Na, Jewoong Moon and Hyeoncheol Kim
Echo-Teddy: Preliminary Design and Development of Large Language Model-based Social Robot for Autistic Students
#6 (Short):
Azza Basiouni and Ray Al-Barazie
Assessing the Potential of AI-Generated Assessments in Medical Education: A Study on Diagnostic Microbiology Using Copilot and Gemini
#54 (Short)*:
Leila Haj Meftah and Sirine Mnejja
Real-Time Adaptive Navigation for AVs via Hybrid Deep Learning
#34 (Poster)*:
Dimitrios Tolis, Stylianos Mystakidis, Ioannis Hatzilygeroudis and Konstantinos Siozopoulos
Generative AI Agents for Instructional Co-Design: A Sequential Agent-Based Approach Using a Low-Code/No-Code Platform
13:00 – 14:00
ITS2025 AWARDS AND CLOSING SESSION (PLENARY)
Notes:
1. Full papers: 30 minutes (25′ of presentation plus 5′ Q&A)
Short papers: 20 minutes (15′ of presentation plus 5′ Q&A)
Posters: 15 minutes (10′ of presentation plus
2. All times are in EET (Eastern European Time, UTC+2)
3. Papers marked with an asterisk * are presented online
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