Research Interests:

Jim's primary research interest is in Artificial Intelligence, especially the area of intelligent tutoring systems (ITS). His research has focused on granularity-based reasoning to recognize student strategies and on qualitative reasoning techniques in ITS.

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2008

• M. Anwar and J. Greer (2008) Role and Relationship-Based Identity Management for Private yet Accountable E-Learning IFIPTM 2008 Joint iTrust and PST Conferences on Privacy, Trust Management and Security, Trondheim, Norway
• M. Anwar and J. Greer (2008) Enabling Reputation-based Trust in Privacy-Enhanced Learning Systems Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Montreal, Canada.

2007

• Z. Guo and J. Greer (2007) Bootstrapping Accurate Learner Models from E-Portfolios. 13th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED 2007) pg 297-304. Los Angeles, July 9-13, 2007

2006

• M. Anwar and J. Greer, (2006) Reputation Management in Privacy-Enhanced E-learning. 3rd Annual Scientific Conference of the LORNET Research Network (I2LOR-06), Montreal, Canada, November 2006.
• Z. Guo and J. Greer (2006) Electronic Portfolios as a Means for Initializing Learner Models for Adaptive Tutorials. EC-TEL 2006, Crete, Greece, October 1-4, 2006. pp. 482-487
• M. Anwar, J. Greer, C. Brooks. (2006) Privacy Enhanced Personlization in E-learning. 2006 International Conference on Privacy, Security and Trust (PST06), Oct. 30 - Nov. 1, 2006. Toronto, Canada.
• C. Brooks, S. Bateman, W. Liu, G. McCalla, J. Greer, D. Gasevic, T. Eap, G. Richards, K. Hammouda, S. Shehata, M. Kamel, F. Karray, J. Jovanovic. (2006) Issues and Directions with Educational Metadata. In the Proceedings of the Third Annual International Scientific Conference of the Learning Object Repository Research Network, Montreal, November 8-10, 2006. 10 pages.
• C. Brooks, S. Bateman, G. McCalla, J. Greer. (2006) Applying the Agent Metaphor to Learning Content Management Systems and Learning Object Repositories. In the Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS2006), June 26 - June 30, 2006. Jhongli, Taiwan. pp. 808-810.
• C. Brooks, R. Panesar, J. Greer. (2006) Awareness and Collaboration in the iHelp Courses Content Management System. 1st European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning (EC-TEL 2006), October 1 - 4, 2006. Crete, Greece.
• C. Brooks, J. Greer, E. Melis, C. Ullrich. (2006) Combining ITS and eLearning Technologies: Opportunities and Challeneges. 8th International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS2006), June 26 - June 30, 2006. Jhongli, Taiwan.

2005

• Z. Guo and J. Greer (2005) Toward a Specification for Electronic Portfolios for Groups. ePortfolio 2005, Cambridge UK, on 27th and 28th October 2005.
• Z. Guo and J. Greer (2005) Connecting E-portfolios and Learner Models. E-Learn 2005, Vancouver, Canada, October 24-28, 2005.
• M. Winter, C. Brooks, J. Greer. (2005) Towards Best Practices for Semantic Web Student Modelling 12th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED 2005), July 18 - 22, 2005. Amsterdam, The Netherlands.