Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing Volume 374 Series editor Janusz Kacprzyk, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland e-mail: [email protected] About this Series The series “Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing” contains publications on theory, applications, and design methods of Intelligent Systems and Intelligent Computing. Virtually all disciplines such as engineering, natural sciences, computer and information science, ICT, eco- nomics, business, e-commerce, environment, healthcare, life science are covered. The list of top- ics spans all the areas of modern intelligent systems and computing. The publications within “Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing” are primarily textbooks and proceedings of important conferences, symposia and congresses. They cover sig- nificant recent developments in the field, both of a foundational and applicable character. An important characteristic feature of the series is the short publication time and world-wide distri- bution. This permits a rapid and broad dissemination of research results. Advisory Board Chairman Nikhil R. Pal, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India e-mail: [email protected] Members Rafael Bello, Universidad Central “Marta Abreu” de Las Villas, Santa Clara, Cuba e-mail: [email protected] Emilio S. Corchado, University of Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain e-mail: [email protected] Hani Hagras, University of Essex, Colchester, UK e-mail: [email protected] László T. Kóczy, Széchenyi István University, Gyor,˝ Hungary e-mail: [email protected] Vladik Kreinovich, University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, USA e-mail: [email protected] Chin-Teng Lin, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan e-mail: [email protected] Jie Lu, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia e-mail: [email protected] Patricia Melin, Tijuana Institute of Technology, Tijuana, Mexico e-mail: [email protected] Nadia Nedjah, State University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil e-mail: [email protected] Ngoc Thanh Nguyen, Wroclaw University of Technology, Wroclaw, Poland e-mail: [email protected] Jun Wang, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong e-mail: [email protected] More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/11156 Tania Di Mascio · Rosella Gennari · Pierpaolo Vittorini Fernando De la Prieta Editors Methodologies and Intelligent Systems for Technology Enhanced Learning ABC Editors Tania Di Mascio Pierpaolo Vittorini Department of Information Engineering, Department of Life, Health and Computer Science and Mathematics Environmental Sciences University of L’Aquila University of L’Aquila L’Aquila Coppito Italy Italy Rosella Gennari Fernando De la Prieta Computer Science Faculty Department of Computer Science Free University of Bozen-Bolzano and Automation Control Bolzano University of Salamanca Italy Salamanca Spain ISSN 2194-5357 ISSN 2194-5365 (electronic) Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing ISBN 978-3-319-19631-2 ISBN 978-3-319-19632-9 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-19632-9 Library of Congress Control Number: 2015940027 Springer Cham Heidelberg New York Dordrecht London c Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015 This work is subject to copyright. 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Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. Printed on acid-free paper Springer International Publishing AG Switzerland is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com) Preface Education is the cornerstone of any society and it is the basis of most of the values and characteristics of that society. Knowledge societies offer significant opportunities for new techniques and applications, especially in the fields of education and learning. Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) provides knowledge processing technologies to support learning activities in knowledge societies. The role of intelligent systems, rooted in Artificial Intelligence (AI), has become increasingly relevant to shape TEL for knowledge societies. However, AI-based technology alone is clearly not sufficient for improving the learning experience. Design methodologies that are based on evidence and involve end users are essential ingredients as well. Stronger with them, AI-based TEL can cater to its learners’ tasks and, at the same time, support learning while per- forming tasks. In brief, we believe that it is the masterful combination of evidence, users and AI that can allow TEL to provide an enhanced learning experience. The 2nd MIS4TEL conference will build on the experience matured within the 1st MIS4TEL conference as well as a series of evidence based TEL workshops: ebTEL, ebuTEL & iTEL. The conference and these proceedings bring together researchers and developers from industry and the academic world to report on the latest AI-based scientific re- search and advances as well as empirical methodologies for TEL. This volume presents all papers that were accepted for MIS4TEL 2015. All under- went a peer-review selection: each paper was assessed by at least two different review- ers, from an international panel composed of about 60 members of 14 countries. The program of mis4TEL counts 11 contributions from diverse countries such as Colombia, Italy, Malaysia, Portugal and Spain. The quality of papers was on average good, with an acceptance rate of approximately 75%. Last but not least, we would like to thank all the contributing authors, reviewers and sponsors (Telefónica Digital, Indra, INSA - Ingeniería de Software Avanzado S.A (IBM), IEEE Systems Man and Cybernetics Society Spain, AEPIA Asociación Es- pañola para la Inteligencia Artificial, APPIA Associação Portuguesa Para a Inteligência Artificial, CNRS Centre national de la recherché scientifique and STELLAR, as well as VI Preface the members of the Program Committee, of the Organising Committee for their hard and highly valuable work. The work of all such people crucially contributed to the success of mis4TEL’15. Tania Di Mascio Rosella Gennari Pierpaolo Vittorini Fernando De la Prieta (Editors) Organization MIS4TEL 2015 – http://mis4tel.usal.es Steering Committee Fernando De la Prieta University of Salamanca, Spain Tania Di Mascio University of L’Aquila, Italy Rosella Gennari Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy Pierpaolo Vittorini University of L’Aquila, Italy Program Committee Silvana Aciar Universidad Nacional de San Juan, Argentina Yaxin Bi University of Ulster, UK Maria Bortoluzzi Università degli Studi di Udine, Italy Margherita Brondino University of Verona, Italy Edgardo Bucciarelli University of Chieti-Pescara, Italy Davide Carneiro Universidade do Minho, Portugal Gina Chianese Free University of Bolzano/Bozen, Italy Vincenza Cofini University of L’Aquila, Italy Juan Cruz-Benito University of Salamanca, Spain Paola D’Orazio University Chieti Pescara, Italy Giovanni De Gasperis University of L’Aquila, Italy Vincenzo Del Fatto Free University of Bolzano/Bozen, Italy Tania Di Mascio University of L’Aquila, Italy Gabriella Dodero Free University of Bolzano, Italy Liliana Dozza Free University of Bolzano/Bozen, Italy Néstor Darío Duque Méndez Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Colombia Richard Duro Universidade da Coruna, Spain Florentino Fdez-Riverola University of Vigo, Spain Manuel Jose Fernandez Iglesias Universidade de Vigo, Spain Rosella Gennari Free U. of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy Barbara Giacominelli Verona University, Italy VIII Organization MIS4TEL 2015 Ana Belén Gil González University of Salamanca, Spain Gianfranco Giulioni University of Chieti-Pescara, Italy Sérgio Gonçalves Universidade do Minho, Portugal Carina Gonzalez ULL, Spain Angélica González Arrieta University of Salamanca, Spain Francisco D. Guillen-Gamez Open University of Madrid (UDIMA), Spain Rob Hall Environmetrics, Social and Marketing Research, Australia Felipe Hernández Perlines Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Spain Natasa Hoic-Bozic University of Rijeka, Croatia Martina Holenko Dlab University of Rijeka Oleksandr Kolomiyets Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium Ralf Krestel Hasso Plattner Institute for Software Systems Engineering, Germany Aurelio Lopez INAOE, México Katherine Maillet Télécom Ecole de Management, France Andrea Mangiatordi Universita’ degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, Italy Ivana Marenzi L3S Research Center, Germany Alessandra Melonio Free University of Bolzano/Bozen, Italy Marco Montali Free University of Bolzano/Bozen, Italy Besim Mustafa Edge Hill University, UK Paulo Novais University of Minho, Portugal Werner Nutt Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy Massimiliano Palmiero University of L’Aquila,