Peter Brusilovsky: Research

Associate Professor

School of Information Sciences and Intelligent Systems Program
University of Pittsburgh

Other affiliations:
Adjunct Associate Professor
Human-Computer Interaction Institute @ Carnegie Mellon University


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On my research page you can find some information about my research interests, past and current projects, activities, edited books, workshop proceedings, special journal issues, and my vitae.

Research Interests

Projects and Systems

Current NSF grants

Systems

Some earlier AH systems TALER Lab systems PAWS educational systems PAWS info access systems

Current Professional Activities

The following links may be of interest for you if your research interests are close to mine. Do not hesitate to contact me if you are interested to submit a paper to one of the conferences and journals listed below. I update this list 2-3 times a year.

Conferences and Workshops

In 2008-2009 Academic Year I am serving as the Co-Chair of Industry Track at UMAP'2009, 17th International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation, and Personalization, Trento, Italy, June 22-26, 2009 and Co-Chair of

I am also serving as a program committee for the following forthcoming conferences that I highly recommend:

Journals

I am an Associate Editor-in-Chief for the new IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies. If you work in the area if E-Learning technologies, consider to submit to this journal!

I am an editorial, consulting, or reviewing board member of the following journals that I also recommend:

Professional Societies

I am the President of User Modeling Inc., a professional organization of User Modeling researchers. I am also a member of the following professional societies:

Edited Books

Brusilovsky, P., Kobsa, A., Neidl, W. (eds.) (2007) The Adaptive Web: Methods and Strategies of Web Personalization. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 4321. Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg New York. [Get an electronic version of all papers from Springer-Verlag] [Order it from Springer.com] [Order it from amazon.com]

Brusilovsky, P., Corbett, A. and de Rosis, F. (eds.) (2003) User Modeling 2003. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 2702, Berlin: Springer-Verlag. Get an electronic version of all papers or order the book from Springer-Verlag or order it from bn.com or from amazon.com

De Bra, P., Brusilovsky, P., and Conejo, R. (eds.) (2002) Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web-based Systems, AH2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 2347, Berlin: Springer-Verlag. Get an electronic version of all papers or order the book from Springer-Verlag or order it from bn.com.

Brusilovsky, P., Stock, O., Strapparava C. (eds.) (2000) Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web-based Systems. Proceedings of AH'2000 International Conference. Trento, Italy, August 2000. Get an electronic version or order paper version from Springer-Verlag or order it from Amazon.com.

Brusilovsky, P., Kobsa, A., Vassileva, J. (eds.) (1998) Adaptive Hypertext and Hypermedia. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers. Order it directly from the publisher or order it from Amazon.com.

Kommers, P., Dovgiallo, A., Petrushin, V., Brusilovsky, P. (Eds.) (1997) New media and telematic technologies for education in Eastern European countries. Twente University Press, Enschede. Order it from the publisher.

Brusilovsky, P., Kommers, P., Streitz, N. (Eds.) (1996) Multimedia, Hypermedia, and Virtual Reality (LNCS Vol. 1077). Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 1996. Order it from Amazon.com.

Brusilovsky, P. (Ed.) (1994) Proceedings of East-West International Conference on Multimedia, Hypermedia and Virtual Reality, Moscow, Russia, Sept. 14-16, 1994. ICSTI, Moscow.

Brusilovsky, P., Dikareva, S., Greer, J., and Petrushin, V. (1994) Proceedings of 3-rd East-West Conference on Computer Technologies in Education (EW-ED'94). Crimea, Ukraine, September 1994.

Brusilovsky, P. and Stefanuk, V. (Eds.) (1992) Proceedings of East-West Conference on Emerging Computer Technologies in Education, Moscow, 6-9 April, 1992. ICSTI, Moscow.

Edited workshops proceedings available online

Peter Brusilovsky, Maria Grigoriadou, Kyparissia Papanikolaou (eds.) (2007) Proceedings of the Workshop on Personalization in E-learning Environments at Individual and Group Level at the UM 2007, 11th International Conference on User Modeling, UM 2007, June 25, 2007. Corfu, Greece.

Peter Brusilovsky, Jon Dron, Jaakko Kurhila (eds.) (2006) Proceedings of the Workshop on the Social Navigation and Community-Based Adaptation Technologies (SNC-BAT 2006 ) at AH 2006, 4th International Conference on Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web-based Systems, June 20, 2006, Dublin, Ireland

Peter Brusilovsky, Charles Callaway, Andreas Nürnberger (eds.) (2005) Proceedings of the Workshop on New Technologies for Personalized Information Access (PIA 2005) at the UM 2005, 10th International Conference on User Modeling. Edinburgh, UK, July 24-25, 2005.

Peter Brusilovsky, Ricardo Conejo, Eva Millán (eds.) (2005) Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Adaptive Systems for Web-based Education, WASWBE 2005, at 12th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED'2005), July 18, 2005, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

Peter Brusilovsky, Nicola Henze, Eva Millán (eds.) (2002) Proceedings of the workshop on Adaptive Systems for Web-Based Education at the 2nd International Conference on Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web-Based Systems (AH'2002). Málaga, Spain: University of Málaga.

Paul De Bra, Peter Brusilovsky, and Alfred Kobsa (eds.) (2001) Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Adaptive Hypertext and Hypermedia at Twelfth ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia , Hypertext'2001 and 8-th International Conference on User Modeling. Also available as a Computing Science Report 01/11, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, the Netherlands.

ISIV (2000) Proceedings of the International Workshop on Adaptive and Intelligent Web-based education systems held in conjunction with ITS'2000. Also available as a Technical Report, Institute of Semantic Information Processing, Osnabrück, Germany.

Peter Brusilovsky and Paul De Bra (eds.) (1999) Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Adaptive Systems and User Modeling on WWW at 8th International Word Wide Web Conference and 7-th International Conference on User Modeling. Also available as a Computer Science Report No. 99/12, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, the Niederlands.

Peter Brusilovsky and Paul De Bra (eds.) (1998) Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Adaptive Hypertext and Hypermedia at Ninth ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia , Hypertext'98. Pittsburgh, USA. Also available as Report No. 98/12, Computer Science Reports, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, the Niederlands.

Peter Brusilovsky, Kiyoshi Nakabayashi, and Steven Ritter (eds.) (1997) Proceedings of the Workshop "Intelligent Educational Systems on the World Wide Web" at AI-ED'97, 8th World Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education. 8-22 August, 1997, Kobe International Conference Center, Kobe, Japan. Published by ISIR, Osaka, Japan.

Peter Brusilovsky, Josef Fink, and Judy Kay (eds.) (1997) Proceedings of the Workshop "Adaptive Systems and User Modeling on the World Wide Web" at 6th International Conference on User Modeling, UM97. 2-5 June 1997, Sardinia, Italy

Maria Milosavljevic, Peter Brusilovsky, Johanna D Moore, Jon Oberlander and Oliviero Stock (eds.) (1997) Proceedings of the Flexible Hypertext Workshop at the Eighth ACM International Hypertext Conference, Hypertext'97, April 6-11 1997. Southampton, UK. Also available as Macquarie University Technical Report C/TR97-06, Sydney, Australia.

Peter Brusilovsky and Ian Beaumont (eds.) (1994) Proceedings of the Workshop "Adaptive Hypertext and Hypermedia" at 4th International Conference on User Modeling, UM97. Hyannis, MA

Special Journal Issues

Here are special journal issues that I edited in the past:

Peter Brusilovsky and Colin Higgins (eds.) Automated Assessment of Programming Assignments. Special issue of ACM Journal on Educational Resources in Computing, Volume 5, Number 3, 2005.

Peter Brusilovsky and Paul De Bra (eds.) Adaptive Hypermedia and the Adaptive Web. Special issue of The New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia, Volume 10, Number 1, 2004.

Peter Brusilovsky and Carlo Tasso (eds.) User Modeling for Web Information Retrieval. Special issue of User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction (UMUAI) in Honor of James Chen, Volume 14, Issue 2-3, 2004.

Peter Brusilovsky and Christopher Peylo (eds.) Adaptive and Intelligent Web-based Educational Systems. Special double issue of the International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education (IJAIED), Vol. 12, Issue 4, 2001 and Vol. 13, Issue 2-4, 2003.

Peter Brusilovsky and Mark T. Maybury (eds.) The Adaptive Web. Special Issue of the Communications of the ACM, Vol. 45 (5) 2002

Peter Brusilovsky and Maria Milosavljevic (eds.) Adaptivity and user modeling in hypermedia systems. Special Issue of The New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia, Vol. 4, 1998.

Brusilovsky, P. and Vassileva, J. (eds.) Adaptive Hypertext and Hypermedia, Special Issue of User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction, Vol. 6 (2-3), 1996

Vitae

Below is my brief "linked" vitae. And here is my CV in PDF format.

Born in Moscow, Graduated with honor (1983) from the Moscow State University (Applied Mathematics). PhD from the Moscow State University, 1987 (Computer Science, advisor Prof. Lev Korolev). Junior and Senior Research Scientist in All-Union Scientific and Technical Information Center (1987 to 1990). Senior Research Scientist in International Centre for Scientific and Technical Information (1990-1994). Part-time lecturer and student advisor at School of Computational Mathematics and Cybernetics of the Moscow State University (1987-1994). Part-time Senior Research Scientinst in Russian Academy of Science Research Institute for System Research (1993-1996). Visiting researcher at the University of Sussex, School of Cognitive and Computing Sciences, UK (1993). Visiting Assistant Professor at the Tokio Denki University, Japan (1993). Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at the Cognition and Communication Group, Department of Psychology, University of Trier, Germany (1994-1996). Visiting Research Scientist at School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University (1996-1998). My reseach work with John Anderson was suppoprted by a grant from James S. McDonnell Foundation. Director of Computer-Managed Instruction at Carnegie Technology Education, a wholly owned, non-profit subsidiary of Carnegie Mellon University (1998-1999).

In 2000 I joined the School of Information Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, where I am currently an Associate Professor. I am also an Adjunct Associate Professor at the Human-Computer Interaction Institute, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University and a faculty of Intelligent Systems Program at the University of Pittsburgh. I hold visiting professor appointments at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano and National College of Ireland.


Last updated on July 1, 2008