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Edited books and special issues

• Choquet, C., V. Luengo and K. Yacef, (Guest editors) (in press). Usage Analysis in Learning Systems: Existing Approaches and Scientific Issues. Special Issue in the Journal of Interactive Learning Research (JILR).  Planned for 18(1) 2007.
  
• Heiner, C., R. Baker and K. Yacef, Eds (2006). Proceedings of "Educational Data Mining" workshop, held in conjunction with the 8th International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Jhongli, Taiwan, July 2006. Online proceedings here.
  
• Choquet, C., V. Luengo and K. Yacef, Eds. (2005). Proceedings of "Usage Analysis in Learning Systems" workshop, held in conjunction with the 12th Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, July 2005.
  
• Aleven, V., U. Hoppe, J. Kay, R. Mizoguchi, H. Pain, F. Verdejo and K. Yacef, Eds. (2003). Supplementary Proceedings of the 11th Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education, University of Sydney, Australia. Online proceedings here.
  

Refereed journal publications and book chapters

• D. Perera, J. Kay, I. Koprinska, K. Yacef, O. Zaiane(in press). Clustering and Sequential Data Mining of Online Collaborative Learning Data, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, accepted 06/2008.
  
• D. Cummins, K. Yacef and I. Koprinska (2006). A Sequence Based Recommender System for Learning Resources. Australian Journal of Intelligent Information Processing Systems, Volume 9, Number. 2, pp 49-56.
  
• Yacef, K. (2005). "The Logic-ITA in the classroom: a medium scale experiment." International Journal on Artificial Intelligence in Education 15: 41-60. Online access.
• Merceron, A. and K. Yacef (2005). "Clustering students to help evaluate learning". Technology Enhanced Learning, J.-P. Courtat, C. Davarakis and T. Villemur (eds) Springer, pp31-42.
• Merceron, A. and K. Yacef (2005). "TADA-Ed for Educational Data Mining." Interactive Multimedia Electronic Journal of Computer-Enhanced Learning Volume 7, Number 1.
• Holden, S., J. Kay, J. Poon and K. Yacef (2005). "Workflow-based Personalised Document Delivery", International Journal on e-Learning Vol. 4, Issue 1: 131-148. Online access.
  
• Merceron, A. and K. Yacef (2004). "Mining Student Data Captured from a Web-Based Tutoring Tool: Initial Exploration and Results." Journal of Interactive Learning Research (JILR) 15(4): 319-346. Online access.
  
• Abraham, D., L. Crawford, L. Lesta, A. Merceron and K. Yacef (2001). "The Logic Tutor: a Multimedia Presentation". Interactive Multimedia Electronic Journal of Computer-Enhanced Learning 3(2).

Refereed conference and workshop publications

• Merceron, A. and K. Yacef (2008). Interestingness Measures for Association Rules in Educational Data. Proceedings of Educational Data Mining Conference, Montreal, Canada, June 2008.
  
• Merceron, A. and K. Yacef (2008). Règles d'association et analyse d'interactions d'apprenants : Mesures d'intérêt. Proceedings of TICE conference, Paris, France.
  
• Merceron, A. and K. Yacef (2007). Revisiting interestingness of strong symmetric association rules in educational data. Proceedings of International Workshop on Applying Data Mining in e-Learning (ADML'07), Crete, Grece.
  
• Perera, D., J. Kay, K. Yacef and I. Koprinska (2007). Mining learners' traces from an online collaboration tool. Proceedings of Educational Data Mining workshop, held in conjunction with AIED'07. Los Angeles, USA.
• Kay, J., P. Reimann and K. Yacef (2007). Visualisations for team learning: small teams working on long-term projects.Proceedings of International Conference on Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL'07), New Brunswick, USA.
• Kay, J., P. Reimann and K. Yacef (2007). Mirroring of group activity to support learning as participation.Proceedings of International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED'07), R. Luckin and K. Koedinger (eds), Los Angeles, USA, IOS Press.
  
• Merceron, A. and K. Yacef (2007). Web-based Learning Tools: Storing Usage Data Makes a Difference. Proceedings of International Conference on Web-based Education, Chamonix, France.
  
• Kay, J., N. Maisonneuve, K. Yacef and P. Reimann (2006). The Big Five and Visualisations of Team Work Activity. Proceedings of Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS06), M. Ikeda, K. D. Ashley & T-W. Chan (eds). Taiwan. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 4053, Springer-Verlag, 197-206. Online access
  
• Kay, J., N. Maisonneuve, K. Yacef and O. Zaïane (2006). Mining patterns of events in students' teamwork data. Proceedings of Educational Data Mining Workshop, held in cïonjunction with ITS'06, C. Heiner, R. Baker and K. Yacef (eds). Taiwan, 45-52. pdf
  
• Merceron, A. and K. Yacef (2005). Educational Data Mining: a Case Study, Proceedings of the 12th Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, July 2005, IOS Press. PDF file.
  
• Reimann, P., J. Kay, K. Yacef and P. Goodyear (2005). "Adaptive Visualisation Support for Self-managed Learning Groups". Proceedings of Representing and Analyzing Collaborative Interactions, held in conjunction with 12th conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, July 2005.
  
• Merceron, A. and K. Yacef (2004). "Clustering students to help evaluate learning". Proceedings of Proceedings of TeL'04 - Technology Enhanced Learning, 18th IFIP World Computer Congress J.-P. Courtat, C. Davarakis and T. Villemur (eds) Toulouse, France, Kluwer Press, 31-42.
• Merceron, A. and K. Yacef (2004). "Train, store, analyse for more adaptive teaching". Proceedings of International Symposium Information and Knowledge Technologies in Higher Education and Industry (TICE2004) Compiegne, France, Technical University of Compiègne, 52-59.
• Benchaffai, M., G. Debord, A. Merceron and K. Yacef (2004). "TADA-Ed, a tool to visualize and mine students' online work". Proceedings of International Conference on Computers in Education, (ICCE04) E. McKay and B. Collis (eds) Melbourne, Australia, RMIT, 1891-1897.
• Yacef, K. (2004). "Making large class teaching more adaptive with the Logic-ITA". Proceedings of Sixth Australasian Computing Education Conference (ACE2004) R. Lister and A. Young (eds) Dunedin, New Zealand, 343-347.
• Davis, J., J. Kay, B. Kummerfeld, J. Poon, A. Quigley, G. Saunders and K. Yacef (2003). "Using Workflow, User Modeling and Tutoring Strategies for Just-in-time Document Delivery". L. Alem and A. McLean (eds), Proceedings of Technologies for Electronic Documents, held in conjunction with Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED'03), University of Sydney, Australia., Sydney.
• Lin, K. and K. Yacef (2003). "InfoDel, a personalised organisational training system". Proceedings of International Conference on Computers in Education (ICCE'03), Hong-Kong,
• Merceron, A. and K. Yacef (2003). "A Web-based Tutoring Tool with Mining Facilities to Improve Learning and Teaching". Proceedings of 11th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education. F. Verdejo and U. Hoppe (eds) Sydney, IOS Press. PDF file.
• Yacef, K. (2003). "Some thoughts about the synergetic effects of integrating ITS and LMS technologies together to the service of Education". R. Calvo and M. Grandbastien (eds), Proceedings of Towards Intelligent Learning Management Systems, held in conjunction with AIED'03, University of Sydney, Australia, Sydney. PDF file.
• Abraham, D. and K. Yacef (2002). "Adaptation in the Web-based Logic-ITA". Proceedings of 2nd International Conference on Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web Based Systems (AH2002) P. d. Bra (eds) Malaga, Spain, Springer-Verlag,
• Abraham, D. and K. Yacef (2002). "The XML tutor". L. Aroyo and D. Dicheva (eds), Proceedings of Workshop on Concepts and Ontologies in Web-based Educational Systems, held in conjunction with International Conference on Computers in Education (ICCE), CS-Report 02-15 Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, Auckland, New Zealand.
• Davis, J., J. Kay, K. Lin, J. Poon, A. Quigley, G. Saunders and K. Yacef (2002). "Workflow Based Just-in-time Training". Proceedings of Seventh Australasian Document Computing Symposium (ADCS 2002) J. T. Judy Kay (eds) Sydney, Australia.
• Lesta, L. and K. Yacef (2002). "An Intelligent Teaching-Assistant System for Logic". Proceedings of International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS'02) S. Cerri and F. Paraguo (eds) Biarritz, France, Springer-Verlag.
• Yacef, K. (2002). "Intelligent Teaching Assistant Systems". Proceedings of International Conference on Computers in Education (ICCE'02) Kinshuk (eds) Auckland, New Zealand.
• Abraham, D., Crawford, L., Lesta, L., Merceron, A., Yacef, K (2001). "The Logic Tutor". Proceedings of International conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education (ITiCSE), Canterbury, England.
• Abraham, D., Crawford, L., Lesta, L., Merceron, A., Yacef, K (2001). "A tool to practice formal proofs". Proceedings of International Conference ED-MEDIA (eds) Tampere, Finland.
• Kay, J. and K. Yacef (2001). "Personalisation for a Just-In-Time Training System". Proceedings of the Sixth Australasian Document Computing Symposium (ADCS) J. Kay and AM Vercoustre (eds) Coffs Harbour, NSW, 83-86.
• Zhang, D. M., L. Alem and K. Yacef (1998). "Using Multi-Agent Approach for the Design of an Intelligent Learning Environment". Agents and Multi-agent Systems, M. : W. Wobcke and C. Z. Pagnucco (eds), Springer Verlag. LNAI 1441: pp 220-230.
• Yacef, K. and L. Alem (1997). "Towards an assessment of skill acquisition in student modelling". Proceedings of AI-ED'97 (Artificial Intelligence in Education) B. du Boulay and R. Mizoguchi (eds) Kobe, Japan, 530-536. PDF file.
• Yacef, K. (1997). Student modelling for operational skill training in air traffic control. Proceedings of User Modeling, C. P. Anthony Jameson, and Carlo Tasso (Eds) Sardinia, Springer Wien New York, 457-458.
• Yacef, K. and L. Alem (1997). "The role of context in the assessment of operational skills: a case in Air Traffic Control." Proceedings of CONTEXT'97 (International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Modeling and Using Context), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 343-350.
• Zhang, D., L. Alem and K. Yacef (1997). "Using a multi-agent approach for the design of an intelligent learning environment". Proceedings of Third Workshop, Distributed Artificial Intelligence (organised within the Australian Conference on Artificial Intelligence), Perth, Australia, 135-144.
• Alem, L., K. Yacef and D. Zhang (1996). "Simulation Based Learning Technology :its use for high performance task training". Proceedings of ITS'96 ("Simulation-based learning technology" workshop) (eds) Montreal, Canada, 11-15.
• Alem, L., K. Yacef and D. Zhang (1996). "FILIP: a Framework for Intelligent Learning Through Interactive Practice". Proceedings of PRICAI'96 ("Knowledge-based Instructional Systems in an Industrial Setting"), Cairns, Australia, 47-54.
• Yacef, K. and L. Alem (1996). "Student and expert modelling for simulation-based training : a cost effective framework". Proceedings of ITS'96 (Third International Conference in Intelligent Tutoring Systems) C. Frasson, G. Gauthier and A. Lesgold (eds) Montreal, Canada, 614-622.
• Yacef, K. and L. Alem (1996). "Evaluation of learner's skills in the context of dynamic and complex systems". Proceedings of IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics (SMC'96), Beijing, China, 2200-2204.

Other publications

• Zaiane, R. O., K. Yacef and J. Kay (2007). Finding Top-n Emerging Sequences to Contrast Sequence Sets, Technical Report TR07-03, Department of Computing Science, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada.
  
• Kay, J., Maisonneuve, N., Yacef K. and Reimann, P. (2006) "Wattle Tree: What'll it tell us?", Technical Report 582, School of Information Technologies, University of Sydney. January 2006. pdf 
• Kay, J., Maisonneuve, N., Yacef K. and Reimann, P. (2006) "The Big Five and Visualisations of Team Work Activity", Technical Report 581, School of Information Technologies, University of Sydney.
• Yacef, K. (2003). Experiment and Evaluation Results of the Logic-ITA. Technical Report 542, School of Information Technologies, University of Sydney.
• Yacef, K. (1999).Vers un assistant tutoriel intelligent pour la formation d'opérateurs de systèmes complexes, PhD dissertation, University of Paris 5, Paris, France.