Darina Dicheva

Biography

I lead the Intelligent Information Systems Research Group at the Department of Computer Science, WSSU.

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Educational Background

PhD, 1981, University of Sofia, Bulgaria

Research and Project Interests

Human Computer Interaction, Adaptive Information Retrieval and Filtering, User Modeling.
Gamification in Education, Teaching Programming to Novices.
Knowledge Networks, Ontology Engineering, Digital Libraries.
Application of Artificial Intelligence in Education: Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Intelligent Learning Environments, Web-based Educational Systems.

Awards

ACM Recognition of Service Award, 2007.
The Wilveria B. Atkinson Distinguished Research Award, 2005.
The John Fountain WSSU Master Teacher Award, 2003.

Funded Projects

NSF DUE - 1821189 (2018-2023) "Collaborative Research: Online Interactive Learning Platforms in STEM Education: A Study of Motivation and Engagement" (PI), $400,177.
NSF HBCU-UP - 1623236 (2016-2020) "TIP: Increasing Student Motivation and Engagement in STEM Courses through Gamification" (PI), $399,742.
WSSU RIP 121205 (2015-2016) Gamifying a Core Computer Science Course to Support
Student Motivation and Engagement (PI).
NSF DUE-1432438 (2014-2017) IUSE Collaborative Research: Data Computing for All:
Developing an Introductory Data Science Course in Flipped Format (in collaboration with Villanova University) (Co-PI).
NSF DUE-1044224 (2011-2013) NSDL: Social Bookmarking for Digital Libraries: Improving Resource Sharing and Discoverability (PI).
WSSU RIP 121205 (2007-2008) Semantic Annotation of Digital Cultural Heritage Collections (PI).
UNC GA RDI 3-12175-01 (2006-2007) Undergraduate Research Expansion (Program Director).
NSF DUE-0442702 (2005-2007) CCLI-EMD: Topic Maps-based Courseware to Support
Undergraduate Computer Science Courses (Co-PI).
NSF DUE-0333069 (2004-2006) NSDL: Towards Reusable and Shareable Courseware: Topic Maps-based Digital Libraries (PI).
WSSU Instructional Development Grant "The CSC 1306 Virtual Classroom: Web-based
Distance Delivery of CSC 1306" (June 1999 - May 2000), $3,000.
WSSU Instructional Development Grant "Developing Instructional Materials to Support Web-based and Practical Work in CSC 3392" (June 2000 - May 2001), $3,000.
WSSU Instructional Development Grant "Developing Instructional Materials to Support Web-based and Lab Work in CSC 2311" (June 2001 - May 2002), $3,000.
INCO-COPERNICUS (1998-2001) "Learning Foreign Language Scientific Terminology
(LARFLAST)" (Senior Personnel).
INCO-COPERNICUS 1099 (1997-2001) "INTELLECT - Intelligent Learning Environment for Course Telematics" (Senior Personnel).
COPERNICUS 1445 (1995-1998): "Flexible and Distance Learning through Telematics
Networks". (Research coordinator of the WP 4 at Sofia University).
Bulgarian Science Fund Project I-502/95 (1995-1998): "Advanced Information and
Communication Technologies in Education: Application of Artificial Intelligence Methods;
Multimedia and Distance Learning" (Project Leader).
TEMPUS JEP 11087-96 (1996-1999): "Modular Education in Mathematics and Informatics" (Member of the Project board).
TEMPUS JEN 01497 (1994-1996): "Transferring Knowledge Based System Skills to Bulgaria" (Contact person at Sofia University).
TEMPUS JEP 01497 (1991-1994): "Transferring Knowledge Based System Skills to Bulgaria" (Contact person at Sofia University).

Journals and Books

Islam, S.R., Russell, I., Eberle, W., Dicheva, D. (2022) Instilling Conscience about Bias and Fairness in Automated Decisions, Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges, Vol. 37, Number 8, pp. 22-31.

Dichev, C., Dicheva, D., & Irwin, K. (2020). Gamifying Learning for Learners. International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education, 17:54, https://rdcu.be/b8c2K

Demmese, F., Yuan, X., & Dicheva, D. (2020) Evaluating the Effectiveness of Gamification on Students' Performance in a Cybersecurity Course. Journal of The Colloquium for Information System Security Education (CISSE).

Dicheva, D., Irwin, K., & Dichev, C. (2019). Exploring Learners Experience of Gamified Practicing: For Learning or for Fun? International Journal of Serious Games, 6(3), 5-21.

Dicheva, D., Irwin, K., & Dichev, C. (2018) OneUp: Supporting Practical and Experimental Gamification of Learning. International Journal of Serious Games, 5(3), 5 - 21.

Dicheva, D., Irwin, K., & Dichev, C. (2018) Gamifying with OneUp: For Learning, Grades or Fun? In: Gentile M., Allegra M., Söbke H. (eds) Games and Learning Alliance. GALA 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 11385. Springer, Cham

Dichev, C. & Dicheva, D. (2017). Gamifying education: what is known, what is believed and what remains uncertain: a critical review. In International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education 14:9, DOI: 10.1186/s41239-017-0042-5.

Dicheva, D., Irwin, K., and Dichev, C. (2017) OneUp Learning: A Course Gamification Platform, Springer International Publishing, J. Dias at al. (Eds): Games and Learning Alliance - GALA 2017, LNCS 10653, 148-158.

Cena, F., Desmarais, M., Dicheva, D., Zhang, J. (2016) UMAP 2016 Extended Proceedings: Late-breaking Results, Posters, Demos, Doctoral Consortium and Workshops Proceedings of the 24th ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP 2016), Halifax, Canada, July 13-16, 2016. CEUR Workshop Proceedings, Vol-1618, urn:nbn:de:0074-1618-1. Available at http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1618/.

Dicheva D., Dichev C., Agre G. and Angelova G. (2015) Gamification in Education: A Systematic Mapping Study, Journal of Educational Technology and Society, Volume 18 Number 3, 75-88. Formerly available at https://www.j-ets.net/ETS/journals/18_3/6.pdf.

Dichev, C., Dicheva, D., Agre, G., & Angelova, G. (2015). Trends and Opportunities in Computer Science OER Development. Journal of Cybernetics And Information Technologies, 15(3), 114-126.

Dichev, C., Dicheva, D., Angelova, G., Agre, G. (2014) From Gamification to Gameful Design and Gameful Experience in Learning, Journal of Cybernetics And Information Technologies, Volume 14, No 4.

Dichev C., Dicheva D (2014) Gamifying Self Directed Learning, Journal of Network and Innovative Computing (JNIC), Vol. 2(2).

Dichev, C., Dicheva, D., Agre, G., Angelova, G. (2013) Current Practices, Trends and Challenges in K-12 Online Learning, Journal of Cybernetics And Information Technologies, Volume 13, No 3, 91-110.

Sosnovsky, S., Dicheva, D. (2010) Ontological Technologies for User Modeling, International Journal of Metadata, Semantics and Ontologies, 5(1), 2010, 32-71.

Koychev, I., Dicheva, D., Nikolov, R. (2010) SmartBook: Semantics Inside, Serdica Computing Journal, 2010.

Dichev, C., Xu, J., Dicheva, D., Zhang, J. (2009) Measuring Similarity of Interests for Clustering Taggers and Resources, International Journal of Virtual Communities and Social Networking (IJVCSN), 1(3), 2009, 1-20.

Koper, R., Stefanov, K., Dicheva, D. (2009) Stimulating Personal Development and Knowledge Sharing. International Journal of Continuing Engineering Education and Life-long Learning (IJCEELL), Vol. 19, No. 4/5, 2009, pp. 271-275, Editorial, Special Issue, Guest Editors.

Dicheva, D., Dichev, C. (2008). Ontological Support for Learning Content Management. Scientia Journal, Special Issue of Semantic Web for Educational Systems, 19(2), 2008, 68-76.

Dicheva, D., Dichev, C. (2007). Authors Support in the TM4L Environment, Intl. Journal "Information Technologies and Knowledge" Vol.1 / 2007, 215-219.

Dicheva, D. & Dichev, C. (2006) TM4L: Creating and Browsing Educational Topic Maps, British Journal of Educational Technology - BJET, 37(3), 391-404.

Dicheva D., Aroyo L. (2006). An Approach to Interoperability of Ontology-based Educational Repositories. Intl. J. Cont. Engineering Education and Life-long Learning, 16(1/2), 92-109.

Dicheva, D., Dichev, C. (2004). A Framework for Concept-Based Digital Course Libraries, Journal of Interactive Learning Research – JIRL, Special issue on Computational Intelligence In Web-Based Education, A.V. Vasilakos, V. Devedzic, Kinshuk (Eds), 15(4), 2004, 347-364.

Aroyo, L., Dicheva, D. (2004). The New Challenges for E-learning: The Educational Semantic Web. J. Educational Technology & Society, 7 (4), 59-69.

Dichev C., Dicheva D., & Aroyo L. (2004). Using Topic Maps for Web-based Education, Int. J. of Advanced Technology for Learning, Vol. 1, No 1, 2004, 1-7.

Dicheva D., Aroyo L. (2004). Concepts and Ontologies in Web-based Educational Systems. Int. J. Cont. Engineering Education and Life-long Learning, Vol. 14, No. 3, 187-190, Editorial, Special Issue, Guest Editors.

Aroyo L., Dicheva D. (2004). Authoring Support in Concept-based Web Information Systems for Educational Applications. Int. J. Cont. Engineering Education and Life-long Learning, Vol. 14, No. 3, 297-312.

Dicheva, D., Aroyo, L., Cristea, A. (2003).Cooperative Courseware-Authoring Support. International Journal of Computers and Applications, Vol. 25, No. 3, 2003, pp. 179-187.

Dicheva D., McLoughlin, C. (2003) Web-based Educational Environments for Lifelong Learning, International Journal for Continuing Engineering Education and Life-long Learning, Vol. 13, No. 1/2, 2003, pp. 1-4, Editorial, Special Issue, Guest Editors.

Brna P., Dicheva D. (2002) Collaborative Learning In Networked Environments, International Journal for Continuing Engineering Education and Life-long Learning, Vol. 12, No. 5/6, 2002, pp. 367-370. Editorial, Special Issue, Guest Editors.

Aroyo L., Dicheva D. (2001). AIMS: Learning and Teaching Support for WWW-based Education. International Journal for Continuing Engineering Education and Life-long Learning, Vol. 11, No. 1/2, pp. 152-164.

Dicheva, D., Du Boulay, B., Kommers, P., La Velle L., Nichol, J. (Eds) (2001). Past into Present into Future: Information and Communications Technology Tools for the 21^st Century, International Journal for Continuing Engineering Education and Life-long Learning, Vol. 11, No. 3, pp. 175-178. Editorial, Special Issue, Guest Editors.

Dicheva, D., Kommers, P. (Eds) (1999). Microworlds for Education and Continuous Learning, International Journal for Continuing Engineering Education and Life-long Learning, Vol. 9, No. 2, pp. 177-182. Editorial, Special Issue, Guest Editors.

Dicheva, D., Iliev, T. (1999). Handling the Diversity in a Reactive Microworld: A Case-Based Approach, International Journal for Continuing Engineering Education and Life-long Learning, Vol. 9, No. 3/4, 237-248.

Stefanov K., Dicheva D., Nikolov R., Djakova I. (1999). User Interface for a Virtual Learning Environment: Two Study Cases. Education and Information Technology, Vol. 3 (3), 1999, Kluwer Academic Publisher, 307-319.

Brna P., Dicheva D. (Eds) (1998) Flexible Education and the New Technology, British Journal of Educational Technology, Vol. 29, No. 1, pp. 3-4. Editorial, Special Issue, Guest Editors.

Dicheva D., Dimitrova V.(1998). An Approach to Representation and Extraction of Terminological Knowledge in ICALL. Journal of Computing and Information Technology CIT, Vol. 6, No. 1, March 1998, pp. 39-52.

Dimitrova V., Dicheva D. (1998). "Who is Who": The Roles in an Intelligent System for Foreign Language Terminology Learning". British Journal of Educational Technology BJET, Vol. 29, No. 1, 1998, pp. 47-57.

Brna P., Dicheva D. (Eds) (1998) Meeting the Challenge of New Technologies, Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, Vol. 14, No. 2, pp. 81-82. Editorial, Special Issue, Guest Editors.

Dicheva D., Close S. (1996). Mental Models of Recursion. Journal of Educational Computing Research, Vol. 14, Number1, 1996, pp. 1-23.

Vasko T., Dicheva D. (1987). Informatics and Computers in Education. Moscow: Mir Nauki, Vol. XXXI, 1, 1987, pp. 14-19 (in Russian).

Dicheva D. (1983). A Data Model for Representing Data Completeness, Validation and Specificity. Serdica, Vol. 9, Sofia, pp. 90-95 (in Russian).

Dicheva D. (1981). Using Some Semantic Relations for Improving Data Validity. Annual of Sofia University "Kl. Ohridski", Sofia, pp. 171-176 (in Bulgarian).

Books

Dicheva, D., Mizoguchi, R., Greer, J. (Eds), Semantic Web Technologies for e-Learning, IOS Press, The Netherlands, 2009.

Dicheva, D. Intelligent Tutoring Systems. Sofia: SofTeh, 1997 (in Bulgarian).

Dicheva, D., Nikolov, R., Sendova, E. Informatics in Logo Style. Sofia: Prosveta, 1997 (in Bulgarian).

Dicheva, D., Bekjarova, M., Logo: An Introduction and Applications. Sofia: Nauka Izkustvo, 1994 (in Bulgarian).

Sendov, Bl., Bojanov, T., Dicheva, D., et al, Mathematics for 11. grade. Sofia: Narodna Prosveta, 1991 (in Bulgarian).

Sendov Bl., Bojanov T., Dicheva D., et al, Informatics for 10. grade. Sofia: Narodna Prosveta, 1990 (in Bulgarian).

Sendov Bl., Bojanov T., Dicheva D., et al, Mathematics and Informatics for 9. grade. Sofia: Narodna Prosveta, 1989 (in Bulgarian).

Sendov Bl., Bojanov T., Dicheva D., et al, Mathematics for 8. grade. Sofia: Narodna Prosveta, 1988 (in Bulgarian).

Bachvarov St., Dicheva D. et al, A collection of Programming Problems Solved in Pascal. Sofia: SU "Kl. Ohridski", 1989 (in Bulgarian).

Dicheva D., Sendov B., Pascal Handbook, in: Radenski A., Introduction to Programming through Pascal and Fortran. Sofia: Nauka i Izkustvo, 1989 (in Bulgarian).

Brna, P. Dicheva, D. (Eds.) (1997) Proceedings of IFIP WG 3.3 Working Conference "Human Computer Interaction and Educational Tools", Sozopol, Bulgaria, 27-28, May, 1997, VirTeh, Sofia.

Special Journal Issues

Koper, R., Stefanov, K., Dicheva, D. (Eds) (2009) Stimulating Personal Development and Knowledge Sharing, International Journal of Continuing Engineering Education and Life-long Learning (IJCEELL), Vol. 19, No. 4/5/6, 2009.

Dicheva, D., Aroyo, L. (Eds) (2006) Application of Semantic Web Technologies for e-Learning of the Int. J. Cont. Engineering Education and Life-long Learning – IJCEELL, Vol. 16, No. 2, 2006.

Dicheva, D., Aroyo, L. (Eds) (2004) Concept and Ontologies in Web-based Educational Systems. Int. J. Cont. Engineering Education and Life-long Learning – IJCEELL, Volume 14, No. 3, 2004.

Dicheva, D., McLoughlin, C. (Eds) (2003) Web-Based Educational Environments for Life-Long Learning. Int. J. Cont. Engineering Education and Life-long Learning – IJCEELL, Volume 13, No. 1/2 2003.

Brna, P., Dicheva, D. (Eds) (2002) Collaborative Learning in Networked Environments. Int. J. Cont. Engineering Education and Life-long Learning - IJCEELL, Volume 12, No. 5/6, 2002.

D. Dicheva, du Boulay, B., Kommers, P., La Velle, L., Nichol, J. (Eds) (2002) Past into Present into Future: Information and Communication Technology Tools for the 21st. Century". Int. J. Cont. Engineering Education and Life-long Learning - IJCEELL, Volume 11, No. 3, 2001.

Dicheva, D., Kommers, P. (Eds) (1999) Microworlds for Education and Continuous Learning Int. J. Cont. Engineering Education and Life-long Learning - IJCEELL, Volume 9, No. 3/4.

Brna, P., Dicheva, D. (Eds) (1998) Flexible Education and the New Technologies. British Journal of Educational Technology - BJET, Volume 29, No 1, 1998.

Brna, P., Dicheva, D. (Eds) (1998) Meeting the Challenge of New Technologies. Journal of Computer Assisted Learning - JCAL, Volume 14, No. 2, 1998.

Research Papers

Dicheva, D., Irwin, K., Dichev, C. (2023) A Software System to Support Student Engagement in Academic Courses. Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Information Technology & Systems, (ICITS 2023), Cusco, Peru, April 24-26, 2023.

Ismailova, R., Dichev, C., Dicheva, D. (2022) Estimating Engagement in Gamified Activities Proceedings of the 2022 IEEE International Conference on Teaching, Assessment and Learning for Engineering (TALE 2022), December 5-8, 2022, Hong Kong.

Dichev C., Dicheva D., Ismailova R. (2022) Learning Activity Motivators Matter When Gamifying It. In Proc. of the International Conference on Interactive Collaborative Learning (ICL 2022), September 27-30, 2022, Vienna, Austria.

Dicheva, D., Cassell, L., Stayner, B., Dichev, C., Guy, B., Irwin, K. (2022) An Empirical Study of the Effects of Virtual Currency on Learners in Out of Class Practicing,17th European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning (EC-TEL 2022), 12-16 September 2022, Toulouse, France, pp.74-87. (Nominated for the Best Full Paper Award)

Dichev, C., Dicheva, D. (2022) What Motivators Matter When Gamifying a Learning Activity. 13th IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference (EDUCON 2022), March 28-31, 2022, Tunis, Tunisia.

Smith, I., Dicheva, D., Irwin, K.. (2022) Thinking Quickly: A Competitive Trivia Engine for an Online Course Gamification Platform, 2022 Symposium on Computing at Minority Institutions (ADMI 2022), March 24-27, 2002, Virtual.

Smith, E., Dicheva, D., Irwin, K.. (2022) Putting Yourself in the Game: An Avatar Editor for an Online Course Gamification Platform, 2022 Symposium on Computing at Minority Institutions (ADMI 2022), March 24-27, 2002, Virtual.

Islam, S.R., Russell, I., Eberle, W., Dicheva, D. (2022) Instilling Conscience about Bias and Fairness in Automated Decisions, CCSC Northeastern Conference 2022, Pace University, Pleasantville, NY, April 1-2, 2022.

Islam, R.S., Russell, I., Elberte, W., Dicheva, D. (2022) Incorporating the Concepts of Fairness and Bias into an Undergraduate Computer Science Course to Promote Fair Automated Decision Systems, 53rd ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education - SIGCSE 2022, March 2-5, 2022, Providence, Rhode Island (poster).

Dicheva, D., Hsin, W.J., Dichev, C., Guy, B., Cassel, L. & Irwin, K.. (2021) Exploring the Effect of Virtual Currency on Learners Engagement, 2021 International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT), 83-87, https://doi.org/10.1109/ICALT52272.2021.00033. (Nominated for the Best Full Paper Award)

Dicheva, D., Dichev, C., Cassel, L., Guy, B., & Irwin, K., (2021) Exploring the Impact of Non-conventional Gamification Elements on Student Motivation and Engagement, IEEE Frontiers in Education (FIE) Conference, 2021, 1-9, https://doi.org/10.1109/FIE49875.2021.9637199

Dicheva, D., Guy, B., Yorgov, V., Dichev, C., Irwin, K. & Mickle, C. (2021) A Study of Using Virtual Currency in a Discrete Mathematics Course. Proceedings of the 2021 IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference (EDUCON 2021), 2021, 567-576, https://doi.org/10.1109/EDUCON46332.2021.9453893.

Mickle, C., Smith, I., & Dicheva, D., (2021). Mining Twitter for Institutional Insights. 2021 Symposium on Computing at Minority Institutions (ADMI 2021), March 25-27, Virtual.

Smith, I., Mickle, C., Dicheva, D., & Irwin, K. (2021). On Personalization of a Course Gamification Platform. 2021 Symposium on Computing at Minority Institutions (ADMI 2021), March 25-27, Virtual.

Dicheva, D., Caldwell, R., & Guy, B. (2020) Do Badges Increase Student Engagement and Motivation?. Proceedings of the 21st ACM Annual Conference on Information Technology Education (SIGITE ’20), October 2020, 81-86, https://doi.org/10.1145/3368308.3415393

Dichev, C., Dicheva, D., & Irwin, K. (2019) Towards Activity-Centered Gamification Design. Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Teaching, Assessment, and Learning for Engineering (TALE 2019) , December 10-13, Yogyakarta, Indonesia. https://doi.org/10.1109/TALE48000.2019.9225948

Dicheva, D., Irwin, K., & Dichev, C. (2019) The Role of Activity Motivators and Demotivators In Gamifying Learning. Proceedings of the XIV International Conference on Modern (e-) Learning, July 01-14, 2019, Varna, Bulgaria.

Cassel, L., Dicheva, D., Irwin, K., Dichev, C., & Guy, B. (2019) Student Motivation and Engagement in STEM Courses: Exploring the Potential Impact of Gamification. 24th Annual Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education (ITiCSE 2019), Aberdeen, UK, July 15-17, 2019.

Hodge, A., Oumar, M., Irwin, K., & Dicheva, D. (2019) Incorporating Chat and Dueling in Academic Courses, Presented at the Annual Symposium on Computing at Minority Institutions (ADMI'19), April 11-14, 2019, Memphis, Tennessee.

Gonzalez Moctezuma, G., A., Martin, Q., & Dicheva, D. (2019) Using Parson’s Problems in Programming Courses, Presented at the Annual Symposium on Computing at Minority Institutions (ADMI'19), April 11-14, 2019, Memphis, Tennessee.

Dicheva, D., Irwin, K., & Dichev, C. (2019) OneUp: Engaging Students in a Gamified Data Structures Course. SIGCSE’19: Proceedings of the 50th ACM Technical Symposium on Computing Science Education (SIGCSE'19), Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, February 2019, 386-392.

Dicheva, D., Irwin, K., Dichev, C., Guy, B., & Cassel, L (2019) Online Interactive Learning Platforms in STEM Education: A Study of Motivation and Engagement. NSF Showcase at the 50th ACM Technical Symposium on Computing Science Education (SIGCSE’19), Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, February 2019, p. 5.

Irwin, K., Hodge, A., & Dicheva, D. (2019) Gamifying Computer Science Courses with OneUp SIGCSE’19: Proceedings of the 50th ACM Technical Symposium on Computing Science Education (SIGCSE'19), Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, February 2019, p. 1289 (Demo).

Dicheva, D., Dichev, C., Irwin, K., Jones, E., Cassel, L., & Clarke, P.J. (2019) Can Game Elements Make Computer Science Courses More Attractive? SIGCSE’19: Proceedings of the 50th ACM Technical Symposium on Computing Science Education (SIGCSE'19), Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, February 2019, p. 1245 (BOF).

Dicheva, D., Irwin, K., Dichev, C., Tao, X., Jones, E., & Cassel, L. (2019) Gamifying STEM Courses for Motivating and Engaging Students, HBCU-UP/CREST PI/PD Meeting, February 20-22, 2019, Washingthon, DC (poster).

Dicheva, D., Irwin, K., & Dichev, C. (2018) Motivational Factors in Educational Gamification. 18th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT 2018), July 9th-13th, 2018, Mumbai, India, 408 410. DOI: 10.1109/ICALT.2018.00102.

Dichev, C., Dicheva, D., & Irwin, K. (2018) Gamification Driven Learning Analytics. 13th International Conference on e-Learning, 5 - 6th July 2018, Cape Town, South Africa, pp. 70-76.

Dicheva, D., Irwin, K., Dichev, C., Tao, X., Jones, E. (2018). Gamifying STEM Courses for Motivating and Engaging Students. 2018 Symposium on Computing at Minority Institutions (ADMI 2018), New Orleans, Louisiana.

Dicheva, D. and Hodge, A. (2018) Active Learning through Game Play in a Data Structures Course. In Proceedings of SIGCSE’18, Baltimore, MD, USA, February 2018 (SIGCSE '18), 6 pages.

Dicheva, D., Dichev, C., Jones, E., Clarke, P. and Cassel, L. (2018) Using Gamification Strategies to Motivate and Engage Students in Computer Science Courses, In Proceedings of SIGCSE’18, Baltimore, MD, USA, February 2018 (SIGCSE '18) (BOF)

Posner, M.., Dichev, C., Dicheva, D., Cassel L., and Goelman, D. (2018) 1 Grant + 2 Institutions + 3 Course Variations = Data Science 4 All. In Proceedings of SIGCSE’18, Baltimore, MD, USA, February 2018 (SIGCSE '18)

Goelman, D., Cassel L., Posner, M., Dichev, C., and Dicheva, D., (2018) Designing an Introductory Course in Data Science: Topics and Pedagogy, In Proceedings of SIGCSE’18, Baltimore, MD, USA, February 2018 (SIGCSE '18) (BOF)

Dichev, C. and Dicheva, D. (2017) Towards Data Science Literacy, Proceedings of the International Conference on Computational Science (ICCS), Zürich, Switzerland, June, 12-14, 2017, 2151-2160.

Cassel, L., Goelman, D., Posner, M., Dicheva, D., and Dichev, C. (2017) Data Science for All: A Tale of Two Cities, 22nd Annual Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education (ITiCSE 2017), Bologna, Italy, 3-5 July 2017, 382-382.

Irwin, K., Dicheva, D., and Dichev, C. (2017) Open Extensible System for Dynamic Problem Creation for Computer Science, SIGCSE ‘17: Proceedings of the 48th ACM Technical Symposium on Computing Science Education, Seattle, Washington, March, 7-11, 2017.

Cassel, L., Posner, M., Dicheva, D., Goelman, D., Topi, H., Dichev, C. (2017) Advancing Data Science for Students of All Majors, SIGCSE ‘17: Proceedings of the 48th ACM Technical Symposium on Computing Science Education, Seattle, Washington, March, 7-11, 2017, 722-722.

Hodge, A., Dicheva, D. (2017) Learning Data Structures with Fun: The Stack Game, 2017 Emerging Researchers National Conference in STEM, Washington, DC, March 3-4, 2017.

Dicheva, D., Hodge, A., Dichev, C. & Irwin, K. (2016). On the Design of an Educational Game for a Data Structures Course. In Proceedings of the 2016 IEEE International Conference on Teaching, Assessment, and Learning for Engineering (TALE), Bangkok, Thailand DOI: 10.1109/TALE.2016.7851763.

Dicheva, D. & Dichev, C. (2016). An Active Learning Model Employing Flipped Learning and Gamification Strategies. In Proceedings of the First Int. Workshop on Intelligent Mentoring Systems (IMS 2016)@ ITS 2016,Zagreb, Croatia, 7-10 June, 2016.

Alvarado-Beltran, A., Vemuri,R., Perry, J., Dicheva, D., Irwin, K., & Dichev, C. (2016). Instructor Support For Gamifying STEM Courses. In Proceedings of 8th Annual International Conference on Education and New Learning Technologies (EDULearn), Barcelona, Spain, July 4th - 6th, 2016.

Cassel, L.N., Dicheva, D., Dichev, C., Goelman, D., and Posner, M. (2016) Artificial Intelligence in Data Science. In AIMSA 2016: Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence: Methodology, Systems, Applications, Varna, Bulgaria, September 7-9, 2016, 343-346, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-44748-3.

Nikolova, I., Dicheva, D., Agre, G., Angelov, Z., Dichev, C., Angelova, G., and Madzharov, D. (2016) Exploring the Use of Resources in the Educational Site Ucha.se. In AIMSA 2016: Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence: Methodology, Systems, Applications, Varna, Bulgaria, September 7-9, 2016.

Dicheva, D., Dichev, C. (2014) Finding Open Educational Resources in Computing, In: Proceedings of 14th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies, July 8-11, 2014, Athens, Greece.

Dicheva, D., Irwin, K. Dichev, C., Talasila, S. (2014) A Course Gamification Platform Supporting Student Motivation and Engagement, In: Proceedings of IEEE ICWOAL'14, Dubai, UAE, November 2014, 25-27.

Dicheva, D., Dichev, C. (2013) Leveraging Domain Specificity to Improve Findability in OER Repositories, In: Proceedings of 17th Int. Conf. on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries, September 22-26, 2013, Valetta, Malta.

Dichev, C., Dicheva, D., Agre, G., Angelova, G. (2013) Current Practices, Trends and Challenges in K-12 Online Learning, In: Journal of Cybernetics And Information Technologies, Volume 13, No 3, 91-110.

Dichev C., Dicheva D. (2012) Is It Time to Change the OER Repositories Role?, In: Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries - JCDL 2012, June 10-14, 2012, Washington, DC, 31-34.

Dichev C., Dicheva D. (2012) Open Educational Resources in Computer Science Teaching, In: Proceedings of the ACM SIGSE 2012, 03/01-03/03, 2012, Raleigh, NC, 619-624.

Dicheva D., Dichev C. (2011) Can Collective Use Help for Searching?, In: Proceedings of the IEEE 2011 International Conference on Cyber-Enabled Distributed Computing and Knowledge Discovery, 10/10-10/12, 2011, Beijing, China, 2011, 24-31.

Dichev C., Bhattarai B., Clonch C., Dicheva D. (2011) Towards Better Discoverability and Use of Open Content. In: Software, Services and Semantic Technologies, Springer, AICS 101, 195-203.

Johnsen L., Dicheva D., Dichev C. (2011) Visualizing and Presenting Story Maps in TM4Book. In: Software, Services and Semantic Technologies, Springer, AICS 101, 53-58.

Dicheva D., Dichev C., Damova M. (2011) Ontological Support for Creative Writing. The 24th International FLAIRS Conference, Palm Beach, FL, May 18-20, 2011, 576-578.

Sosnovsky, S., Dicheva, D. (2010) Ontological Technologies for User Modeling, International Journal of Metadata, Semantics and Ontologies, 5(1), 2010, 32-71.

Koychev, I., Dicheva, D. and Nikolov, R. (2010) SmartBook: Semantics Inside, Serdica Journal of Computing.

Dicheva D., Dichev C. (2010) Finding Resources and Collaborators within Digital Collections, In Proceedings of the IEEE/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence, 08/31-09/03, 2010, Toronto, Canada, 2010, 631-638 (acceptance rate for regular papers 16.6%)

Dicheva D., Dichev C, Drayton R. (2010) Search and Exploration in Linked Course. The 23rd International FLAIRS Conference, Daytona Beach, FL, May 18-22, 2010.

Dicheva, D., Dichev, C. (2009) Authoring and Exploring Learning Content: Share Content by Sharing Concepts, In Dicheva, D., Mizoguchi, R. Greer, J. (Eds.) Semantic Web Technologies for e-Learning, IOS Press, The Netherlands, 24-43.

Dichev, C., Xu, J., Dicheva, D., Zhang, J. (2009) Measuring Similarity of Interests for Clustering Taggers and Resources, International Journal of Virtual Communities and Social Networking (IJVCSN), 1(3), 2009, 1-20.

Koychev I., Nikolov, R. & Dicheva D. (2009) SmartBook – a vision for the future of e-book. Advances in Bulgarian Science, (3), 2009, ISSN 1312-6164.

Koychev, I., Nikolov, R., Dicheva, D. (2009) SmartBook: The New Generation e-Book. 2nd Workshop on Research Advances in Large Digital Book Collections (BooksOnline'09) at the 13th European Conference on Digital Libraries, Sep 27 – Oct 2, 2009, Corfu, Greece.

Zhu, Y., Dicheva, D., Dichev, C., Moran, M. (2009). Connecting and Sharing Open-Content Learning Resources, 1st International Conference on Software, Services and Semantic Technologies – S3T’09, Sofia, Bulgaria, October 28-29, 2009, 68-75.

Irwin, K., Dicheva, D., Dichev, C. (2009). A Digital Repository Supporting Collaboration, 1st International Conference on Software, Services and Semantic Technologies – S3T’09, Sofia, Bulgaria, October 28-29, 2009, 100-107.

Bittencourt, I., Costa, E., Braz. B., Dicheva, D. (2009) Supporting Interoperability between Web-based Educational Systems, 39th Annual Frontiers in Education (FIE) Conference, San Antonio, Texas, October 18 - 21, 2009.

Koychev, I., Nikolov, R., Dicheva, D. (2009). SmartBook: the New Generation E-book Meets University 2.0, 1st International Conference on Software, Services and Semantic Technologies – S3T’09, Sofia, Bulgaria, October 28-29, 2009, 60-67.

Dicheva, D., Dichev, C., Zhu, Yi (2009). Sharing Open-Content Learning Resources in Emerging Disciplines. Seventh Int’l Workshop on Ontologies and Social Semantic Web for E-Learning, in conjunction with Int. Conf. on AI in Education – AIED’09, Brighton, UK, July 6-10, 2009, 23-30.

Koychev, I., Nikolov, R., Dicheva, D. (2009) SMARTBOOK - The Future E-Book and Educational Hypermedia, Proceedings of the Conference "Education in Information Society", May, 11-12, Plovdiv, Bulgaria, (Barnev, P., Editor), Sofia: ADIS & IMI-BAS, 30-37.

Xu, J., Dichev, C., Esterline, A., Dicheva, D., Zhang, J. (2009) On the Effectiveness of Collaborative Tagging Systems for Describing Resources, World Congress on Computer Science and Information Engineering (CSIE 2009), March 31 - April 2, 2009, Los Angeles/Anaheim, USA.

Dicheva, D. (2008) Ontologies and Semantic Web for e-Learning. In Handbook on Information Technologies for Education and Training, 2nd Edition, Springer-Verlag Heidelberg, 47-65.

Dicheva, D., Dichev, C., and Valtchev, P. (2008) Integrating Metadata Harvesting with Semantic Search, IEEE/WIC/ACM Int’l Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology, Dec 9-12, 2008, Sydney, Australia (18% acceptance rate).

Dichev, C., Xu, J., Dicheva, D., Zhang, J. (2008) A Study on Community Formation in Collaborative Tagging Systems, 2nd Workshop on Collective Intelligence in Semantic Web and Social Networks (CISWSN 2008), IEEE/WIC/ACM Int’l Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology, Dec 9-12, 2008, Sydney, Australia.

Dichev, C., Dicheva, D., Ditcheva, B. and Moran, M. (2008) Translation between RDF and Topic Maps: Divide and Translate, In Proceedings of Balisage: The Markup Conference , 12 - 15 August 2008, Montreal, Canada.

Dicheva, D., Johnsen, L. (2008). Connecting Connexions: Organizing and Integrating Open Learning Content with Topic Maps, Sixth Int’l Workshop on Ontologies and Semantic Web for E- Learning (SWEL@ITS'08), in conjunction with Int. Conf. on Intelligent Tutoring Systems – ITS’08, Montreal, Canada, June 23-27, 2008.

Dicheva, D., Dichev, Ch., Brown, C., Veetil, D., Thomas, W. (2008). Easy Creation of Semantics-Enhanced Digital Artwork Collections, International Conference on Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems, July 1-4, 2008, Varna, Bulgaria, 92-98.

Johnsen, L., Dicheva, D. (2008). From Connexions Content to Content Connexions: Organizing Open Learning Resources with Topic Maps and XSLT, Fourth Int’l Conference on Topic Maps Research and Applications – TMRA’08, Leipzig, Germany, October 15-17, 2008.

Dicheva, D., Dichev, C. (2008). Ontological Support for Learning Content Management. Scientia Journal, Special Issue of Semantic Web for Educational Systems, 19(2), 2008.

Dicheva D. (2007). Topic Maps Based Digital Artworks Collections, Workshop on Cultural Heritage on the Semantic Web, 6th Intl. Semantic Web Conference, ISWC 2007, November 11-15, 2007, Busan, Korea.

Dichev C. , Dicheva D., Fisher, J. (2007). Identity: How to Name It, How to Find It, Workshop on I3: Identity, Identifiers, Identification, 16th Int. Conference on World Wide Web, WWW 2007, May 8-12, 2007, Banff, Alberta, Canada.

Dicheva D., Dichev C., (2007). Helping Courseware Authors to Build Ontologies: the Case of TM4L, 13th Int. Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education, AI-ED 2007, July 9-13, 2007, LA, California, 77-84 .

Ditcheva, B., Dicheva, D. (2007). Visual Browsing and Editing of Topic Map-Based Learning Repositories), In: Maicher, L. Sigel, A., Garshol, LM (Eds) Leveraging the Semantics of Topic Maps, Springer LNAI 4438, 44-55.

Wang, D., Dicheva, D., Dichev, C., Akouala, J. (2007) Retrieving Information in Topic Maps: the Case of TM4L, 45th ACM Southeast Conference, Winston-Salem, NC, March 23-24, 2007.

Roberson, S., Dicheva, D. (2007) Semi-Automatic Ontology Extraction to Create Draft Topic Maps, 45th ACM Southeast Conference, Winston-Salem, NC, March 23-24, 2007.

Dicheva, D., Dichev, C. (2007). Authors Support in the TM4L Environment, Intl. Journal Information Technologies and Knowledge, Vol.1 / 2007, 215-219.

McDonald, J., Dicheva, D. (2007). Mobile Topic Maps for e-Learning, Intl Workshop on Ontologies and Semantic Web for e-Learning (SWEL@AIED'07), 13th Int. Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education, AI-ED 2007, July 9-13, 2007, LA, California, 65-73.

Dichev C., Dicheva D., Fisher, J. (2006). Contextual Retrieval of Digital Content in Topic Maps, 13th National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AAAI 2006, July 16-18, 2006, Boston, MA (accepted).

Dichev C., Dicheva D. (2006). View-Based Semantic Search and Browsing, , 2006 IEEE/ACM International Conf. on Web Intelligence (WI’06), December 18-22, 2006, Hong-Kong .

Ditcheva, B., Dicheva, D. (2006). Visual Browsing and Editing of Topic Map-Based Learning Repositories) , Int. Conf. on Topic Maps Research and Applications (TMRA’06): Leveraging the Semantics, October 10-12, 2006, Leipzig, Germany.

Dichev C., Dicheva D. (2006). Context-based Search in Topic-centered Digital Repositories, 3rd International Semantic Web User Interaction Workshop (SWUI06), collocated with 5th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC’06), November 6th, 2005, Athens, GA.

Dichev C., Dicheva D. (2006). Using Contexts to Personalize Educational Topic Maps, International Conference on Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web-Based Systems (AH2006), Dublin, Ireland, V. Wade, H. Ashman, and B. Smith (Eds): AH 2006, Springer- Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg, 269-273.

Dicheva, D., Dichev, C. (2006). Confronting Some Ontology-building Problems in Educational Topic Map Authoring, Weibelzahl, S. & Cristea, A. (Eds), Proc. of the Workshop on Applications of Semantic Web in E-Learning (SW-EL@AH’06), in conjunction with AH2006, June 21-23, 2006, Dublin, Ireland, 55-64.

Hooben, G, Aroyo, L., & Dicheva, D. (2006). Engineering Adaptive Concept-Based Systems for the Web, In Encyclopedia of E-Commerce, E-Government, and Mobile Commerce, Mehdi Khosrow-Pour (Ed), Idea Group Inc, PA: Hershey, 424-430.

Dicheva, D., Dichev, C. (2006). Authors’ Support in the TM4L Environment, Int. Conf. on Modern e-Learning (MeL’06), July 1-5, 2006, Varna, Bulgaria, 129-134.

Dichev C., Dicheva D. (2005). Contexts as Abstraction of Grouping, Workshop on Contexts and Ontologies, 12th National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AAAI 2005, July 9-13, 2005, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 49-56.

Dichev C., Dicheva D. (2005). Contexts as Collection of Alternatives, Workshop on Applications of Semantic Web in E-Learning (SW-EL@K-CAP’05), in conjunction with 3rd International Conference on Knowledge Capture, K-CAP’05, October 2, 2005, Banff, Canada, 53-58.

Dicheva D., Dichev C. (2005). Authoring Educational Topic Maps: Can We Make It Easier? 5th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies, ICALT 2005, July 5-8, 2005, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, 216-219.

Dicheva, D., Dichev, C., Wang. D. (2005). Visualizing Topic Maps For E-Learning, Workshop on Applications of Semantic Web in E-Learning (SW-EL@ICALT'05), in conjunction with 5th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies, ICALT 2005, July 5-8, 2005, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, 950-951.

Dichev C., Dicheva D. (2005). Contexts in Educational Topic Maps. 12th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education, AI-ED 2005, July 18-22, 2005, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 789-791.

Dicheva, D., Sosnovsky, S., Gavrilova, T., Brusilovsky, P. (2005). Ontological Web Portal for Educational Ontologies. Workshop on Applications of Semantic Web in E-Learning (SW-EL@AI-ED’05), in conjunction with 12th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education, AI-ED 2005, July 18-22, 2005, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Dicheva D., C. Dichev, C. Wang, D. and Zhu Y. (2005) Editing and Exploring Topic Map-based E-Learning Repositories, In Proc of 9th IASTED Int. Conf. Internet and Multimedia Systems and Applications, Honolulu, Hawaii, August 15-17, 2005, 139-144.

Nordeng, T.W., Dicheva, D., Garshol, L.M., Rønningsbakk, L., Lavik, S., Meløy, J.R. (2005). Using Topic Maps for integrating ePortfolio with eCurriculum, Int. Conf. on ePortfolio 2005, October 27-28, 2005, Cambridge UK.

Hooben, G, Aroyo, L., de Bra, P., & Dicheva, D. (2005). Adaptation Engineering in Adaptive Concept-based Systems, In Adaptable and Adaptive Hypermedia Systems, Sherry Chen and George Magoulas (Eds), IRM Press, 36-58.

Dicheva D., Dichev, Ch. (2004). A Framework for Concept-Based Digital Course Libraries. Journal of Interactive Learning Research (JILR), 15(4), pp. 347-364.

Dicheva D., Dichev C., Sun, Y., & Nao, S. (2004). A Topic Map Authoring Tool For E-Learning, Proceedings of ADMI’ 2004, May 20-22, 2004, Orlando, Florida, pp. 62-67.

Dicheva D., Dichev C. (2004). Educational Topic Maps, 3rd International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC'2004) Poster Abstracts, November 7-11, 2004, Hiroshima, Japan, 19-20.

Dicheva D., Aroyo L. (2004). A pragmatic Approach to Support Concept-based Educational Information Systems Communication, Workshop on Applications of Semantic Web Technologies for e-Learning (SW-EL@ISWC’04), in conjunction with 3rd International Semantic Web Conference, November 7-11, 2004, Hiroshima, Japan, 25-32.

Dicheva D., Aroyo L. (2004). General Architecture Supporting Component-based EIS Interoperability, Workshop on Applications of Semantic Web Technologies for e-Learning (SW- EL@ITS’04), in conjunction with ITS 2004, 30 August-03 September, 2004, Maceió, Brazil, pp. 21-28.

Dicheva D., Dichev C., Sun, Y., & Nao, S. (2004). Authoring Topic Maps-based Digital Course Libraries, Workshop on Applications of Semantic Web Technologies for Adaptive Educational Hypermedia (SW-EL@AH’04), in conjunction with AH 2004, August 23-26, 2004, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, pp. 331-337.

Dicheva D., Dichev C. (2004). Creating Topic Maps for E-Learning, International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Programming (ICTP’04), Varna, Bulgaria, June 24-26, 2004, pp. 104-112.

Dichev, C., Dicheva, D. (2003). Reusable and Shareable Digital Course Libraries. Fifth International Workshop on Symbolic and Numeric Algorithms for Scientific Computing (SYNASC03), October 1 - 4, 2003, Timisoara, Romania, pp. 27-38 (invited paper).

Dichev, C., Dicheva, D., Aroyo, L. (2003). Using Topic Maps for E-Learning. Computers and Advanced Technology in Education (CATE 2003), Rhodes, Greece, June 30 - July 2, 2003, pp. 26-31.

Dicheva, D., Dichev, C. (2003). Building and Using Open Web-Based Course Libraries. Twelfth International Turkish Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Neural Networks (TAINN 2003), Canakkale, Turkey, July 02 - 04, 2003, pp. 349-357.

Aroyo L., Dicheva D. (2002). Authoring Framework for Concept-based Web Information Systems. Workshop on Concepts and Ontologies in Web-based Educational Systems, ICCE'2002, Auckland, New Zealand, pp. 41-48.

Aroyo L., Dicheva D., Cristea, A. (2002). Ontological Support for Web Courseware Authoring. International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems ( ITS 2002), Biarritz, France, June 5- 8, 2002, pp. 270-280.

Dicheva, D., Aroyo, L., Cristea, A. (2002). Collaborative Concept-based Courseware Authoring Support. Computers and Advanced Technology in Education (CATE 2002), May 20-22, 2002, Cancun, Mexico, pp. 52-57.

Dichev Ch., Dicheva D. (2002). "Interesting" as a Category in Information Retrieval. International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IC-AI'02), Las Vegas, USA, June 24-27, 2002, pp. 833-839.

Aroyo L., Cristea, A., Dicheva D. (2002). A Layered Approach towards Domain Authoring Support. International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IC-AI'02), Las Vegas, USA, June 24- 27, 2002, pp. 615-621.

Dicheva, D., Aroyo, L. (2002). Concept-based Courseware Authoring: An Engineering Perspective. Second IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies, Kazan, Russia, September 9-12, 2002, pp. 46-49.

Aroyo L. and Dicheva, D. (2002). Courseware Authoring Tasks Ontology. International Conference on Computers in Education, ICCE 2002, Auckland, New Zealand, 3-6 December, 2002, pp. 1319-1321.

Aroyo L., Dicheva D., Velev I. (2001). A Concept-Based Approach to Support Learning in a Web-based Course Environment. J. Moore, C.L. Redfield, W.L. Johnson (Eds.) Artificial Intelligence in Education, Amsterdam: IOS Press, Frontiers of AI and Applications, pp. 1-10.

Aroyo L., Dicheva D. (2001). Informational Support for Learners and Teachers in Web-Based Education. Ruokamo, H., Nykanen, O., Pohjolainen, S., and Hietala, P. (Eds.) 10th International PEG Conference (PEG'2001), Tampere, Finland, pp. 23-29.

Dichev Ch., Dicheva D. (2001). Deriving Context Specific Information on the Web. World Conference on the WWW and Internet (WebNet'2001), Orlando, Florida, pp. 296-301.

Dichev Ch., Dicheva D., Radenski A. (2001). A Framework for Dynamic Topic Clustering on the Web. International Conference on Internet Computing, IC'2001, Las Vegas, Nevada, pp. 983- 989.

Dicheva D., Aroyo L. (2000). An Approach to Intelligent Information Handling in Web-Based Learning Environments. International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IC-AI'2000, Las Vegas, Nevada, pp. 1327-1333.

Aroyo L., Dicheva D. (2000). Domain and User Knowledge in a Web-based Courseware Engineering Course. T. Hruska, M. Hashimoto (Eds), Proc. of the Fourth Joint Conference on Knowledge-Based Software Engineering, Brno, Czech Republic, IOS Press, pp. 293-300.

Aroyo, L., Dicheva, D., & Velev, I. (2000). Conceptual Visualization in a Task-based Information Support System, In J. Bourdeau & R. Heller (Eds.), Proceedings of EdMedia 2000 Conference, Charlottesville, VA: AACE, pp.125-130.

Aroyo L., Dicheva D. (2000). AIMS: Learning and Teaching Support for WWW-based Education. Presented at the 16th IFIP World Computer Congress, ICEUT 2000, Beijing, China.

Stefanov K., Dicheva D., Nikolov R., Djakova I. (1999). User Interface for a Virtual Learning Environment: Two Study Cases. IFIP TC-3 Journal "Education and Information Technology", Vol. 3, No. 3, January 1999, Kluwer Academic Publisher, pages 307-319.

Aroyo L., Dicheva D. (1999). Information Retrieval and Visualization within the Context of an Agent-based Information Management System. In: Collis B., Oliver R. (Eds.) Proceedings of ED-MEDIA 99, Seattle, Washington, pp. 195-200.

Dicheva D., Dimitrova V.(1998). An Approach to Representation and Extraction of Terminological Knowledge in ICALL. Journal of Computing and Information Technology CIT, Vol. 6, No. 1, March 1998, pp. 39-52.

Dimitrova V., Dicheva D. (1998). "Who is Who": The Roles in an Intelligent System for Foreign Language Terminology Learning". British Journal of Educational Technology BJET, Vol. 29, No. 1, 1998, pp. 47-57.

Dicheva D., Djakova I., Bachvarova Y. (1998). Building and Using a Business English Virtual Classroom: Lessons Learned. In: Davies (Ed) Proc. of the 15th IFIP World Computer Congress, Teleteaching '98, Vienna-Budapest, pp. 271-280.

Dimitrova V., Dicheva D., Brna P., Self J. (1998). A Knowledge Based Approach to Support Learning Technical Terminology. In: Ueno H., Navrat P.(Eds.) Proc. of the Third Joint Conference on Knowledge-Based Software Engineering, Smolenice, Slovakia, IOS-Press, pp. 270-277.

Aroyo L., De Diana I., Dicheva D. (1998). Agents to Make Your Information Meaningful and Visible: An Agent-based Visual Information Management System. In: Proceedings of WebNet'98, Orlando, Florida.

Dicheva D. (1997). Reactive Microworlds. In: P. Kommers et al. (Eds.), New Media and Telematic Technologies for Education in Eastern European Countries, Enschede: Twente University Press, pp. 111-118.

Dimitrova V., Dicheva D. (1997). Learning Terminology in a Foreign Language. In: Proceedings of the Second International Conference "Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing" RANLP'97, 11-13 September 1997, Tzigov Chark, Bulgaria, pp. 348-353.

Iliev T., Dicheva D. (1997). MYCROFT-CBR: A Case-Based Debugger for Simple Logo Programs. In: Brna P. & Dicheva D. (Eds) Proceedings of the Eighth International PEG Conference "Meeting the Challenge of the New Technologies", Sozopol, Bulgaria, pp. 396-397.

Dicheva D., Djakova I. (1997). Interface Metaphors: the Case of a WWW Based Distant Learning Business English Course. In: Proceedings of the IFIP WG 3.3 Working Conference "Human-Computer Interaction and Educational Tools", Sozopol, Bulgaria, pp. 189-197.

Dicheva D., R. Nikolov, E. Sendova (1997). School Informatics in Logo Style: a Textbook Facing the New Challenge of the Bulgarian Informatics Curriculum. In: Proceedings of the Sixth EUROLOGO Conference "Learning and Exploring with Logo", Budapest, Hungary, pp. 234-239.

Close J., Dicheva D. (1997). Misconceptions in Recursion: Diagnostic Teaching. In: Proceedings of the Sixth EUROLOGO Conference "Learning and Exploring with Logo", Budapest, Hungary, pp. 132-140.

Dicheva D., Dimitrova V.(1996). Knowledge Representation in Intelligent Computer Assisted Language Learning. In: Proceedings of the Fifth Turkish Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Neural Networks TAINN'96, Istanbul, Turkey, pp. 345-351.

Dicheva D., Dimitrova V.(1996). Representation and Extraction of Terminological Knowledge in ITELS - an Intelligent System for Foreign Language Terminology Learning. In: Proceedings of the Second Joint Conference on Knowledge-Based Software Engineering, Sozopol, Bulgaria, pp. 90-96.

Dicheva D. (1996). Informatics in Logo Style: Today. Invited paper, Logo Congress "Logo: Creative uses of that language", Barcelona, Spain, 26-28.04.1996.

Dicheva D., Ivanov, St. (1995). Opening the Knowledge Box: An Expert System Shell for School Use, in: E. Sendova et al. (Eds.) "Informatics in the Secondary School - Today and Tomorrow", UNESCO Workshop, Bankya, pp. 49-58.

Close S., Dicheva D. (1994). Mental Models in Constructing Recursive Procedures. In: Proceedings of East-West Conference on Computer Technologies in Education, Crimea, Ukraine, pp. 48-53.

Dicheva D., Close S. (1993). Misconceptions and Mental Models of Recursion. In: Proceedings of the Forth EUROLOGO Conference, Athens, Greece, pp. 11-20.

Dicheva D. (1991). How to introduce recursion in Logo. In: Proceedings of the Third European Logo Conference (E. Calabrese, ed), Parma, Italy, pp. 641-650.

Stankulova V., Dicheva D. (1991). PGS Tutor: the expert module. In: Proceedings of the Sixth International PEG Conference "Knowledge Based Environment for Teaching and Learning", Rapallo, Italy, pp. 414-422.

Dicheva D., Stankulova V., (1989). On some issues of the domain in the PGS Tutor. In: Proceedings of the Fourth International PEG Conference "Learning with Artificial Intelligence", Uppsala, Sweden, p. 7, pp. 1-14.

Nikolov R., Dicheva D. ( 1989). Introducing the concept of data types using Logo. In: Proceedings of the Second European Logo Conference (G. Schuyten & M. Valcke, eds), Gent, Belgium, pp. 650-662.

Dicheva D., Nikolov R. (1989). Glass box toy systems in school informatics. In: Proceedings of the Second European Logo Conference (G. Schuyten & M. Valcke, eds), Gent, Belgium, pp. 638- 649.

Sendova E., Nikolov R., and Dicheva D. (1989). Mathematics and Informatics - an Attempt for Integration in the Secondary School Curriculum. In: Proceedings of the Third International Conference "Children in the Information Age", Sofia, pp. 155-166.

Dicheva D. and du Boulay B. (1989). "Do what I do and do what I say": An Improved BLOCKS Tutor., In: Proceedings of the Third International Conference "Children in the Information Age", Sofia, pp. 164-175.

Dicheva D. and du Boulay B.( 1989). Rebuilding the BLOCKS Tutor, University of Sussex, CSRR #136.

Vasko, T., Dicheva, D. (1989). Educational Policies: An international overview. Anno Domini 1989. WP-89-XX. Laxenburg, Austria, Institute for Applied Systems Analysis.

Nikolov R., Sendova E. and Dicheva D. ( 1988). What to teach in Informatics and how: A Bulgarian Experiment. In: Fr. Lovis and E.D. Tagg Eds., Computers in Education, IFIP, ECCE'88, North Holland, Amsterdam, pp. 427-431.

Sendov Boj. and Dicheva D. ( 1988). A Mathematical Laboratory in Logo Style. In: Fr. Lovis and E.D. Tagg Eds.,Computers in Education, IFIP, ECCE'88, North Holland, Amsterdam, pp. 213-217.

Sendov Boj., Filimonov R. and Dicheva D. (1987). A System for Teaching Plane Geometry. In: Proceedings of the Second International Conference "Children in the Information Age", Sofia, pp. 215-226.

Vasko T., Dicheva D. (1987). Informatics and Computers in Education. Moscow: Mir Nauki, Vol. XXXI, 1, 1987, pp. 14-19 (in Russian).

Dicheva D. (1983). A Data Model for Representing Data Completeness, Validation and Specificity. Serdica, vol. 9, Sofia, pp. 90-95 (in Russian).

Dicheva D. (1982). An Experimental System Supporting Data Completeness and Validity In: Proceedings of XI Spring Conference of UBM, Sofia, pp. 369-374 (in Bulgarian).

Dicheva D. (1981). Using Some Semantic Relations for Improving Data Validity. Annual of Sofia University "Kl. Ohridski", Sofia, pp. 171-176 (in Bulgarian).

Dicheva D. (1981). Dealing with Incompleteness and Uncertainty of the Information in DBMS. Ph.D. Thesis, Sofia University (in Bulgarian).

Editorials

Koper, R., Stefanov, K., Dicheva, D. (2009) Stimulating Personal Development and Knowledge Sharing. International Journal of Continuing Engineering Education and Life-long Learning (IJCEELL), Vol. 19, No. 4/5, 2009, pp. 271-275, Editorial, Special Issue, Guest Editors.

Dicheva D., Aroyo L. (2004). Concepts and Ontologies in Web-based Educational Systems. Int. J. Cont. Engineering Education and Life-long Learning, Vol. 14, No. 3, 187-190, Editorial, Special Issue, Guest Editors.

Dicheva D., McLoughlin, C. (2003) Web-based Educational Environments for Lifelong Learning, International Journal for Continuing Engineering Education and Life-long Learning, Vol. 13, No. 1/2, 2003, pp. 1-4, Editorial, Special Issue, Guest Editors.

Brna P., Dicheva D. (2002) Collaborative Learning In Networked Environments, International Journal for Continuing Engineering Education and Life-long Learning, Vol. 12, No. 5/6, 2002, pp. 367-370. Editorial, Special Issue, Guest Editors.

Aroyo L., Dicheva D. (Eds) (2002). Concepts and Ontologies in Web-based Educational Systems. Proceedings of the Workshop on Concepts and Ontologies in WBES, ICCE'2002, pp.

Dicheva, D., Du Boulay, B., Kommers, P., La Velle L., Nichol, J. (Eds) (2001). Past into Present into Future: Information and Communications Technology Tools for the 21st Century. International Journal for Continuing Engineering Education and Life-long Learning, Vol. 11, No. 3, pp. 175-178.

Dicheva, D., Kommers, P. (Eds) (1999). Microworlds for Education and Continuous Learning. International Journal for Continuing Engineering Education and Life-long Learning, Vol. 9, No. 2, pp. 177-182.

Brna P., Dicheva D. (Eds) (1998) Flexible Education and the New Technology. British Journal of Educational Technology, Vol. 29, No. 1, pp. 3-4.

Brna P., Dicheva D. (Eds) (1998) Meeting the Challenge of New Technologies. Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, Vol. 14, No. 2, pp. 81-82.

Dicheva, D. (2017) Gamification in Education: A Passing Trend or A Genuine Potential? 18th International Conference on Computer Systems and Technologies CompSysTech'17, 23-24 June 2017, Ruse, Bulgaria (Keynote talk, http://www.compsystech.org/index.php?cmd=dPage&pid=ks)

Dicheva, D. (2014) Gamification in Education: Is It Just a Hype and Should We Bother?, 125-year Jubilee Conference of Faculties of Mathematics and Sciences, Sofia University “St., Kliment Ohridski”, Sofia, Bulgaria, December 05-08, 2014 (Plenary talk)

Dicheva, D. (2014) Gamification in Education: What, Why, How?, Advanced Computing for Innovation Seminar series, Institute of Information and Communication Technologies, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria, July 03, 2014, IICT-BAS (Invited talk)

Dicheva, D. (2013) Open Educational Resources: Does Open Imply Findable? Third IEEE Congress on Information and Communication Technologies (WICT 2013), Hanoi, Vietnam, 15-18 December, 2013 (Plenary talk).

Dicheva, D. (2010) Ontologies for Knowledge Management and Learning on the Semantic Web, Computer Science Seminar, UNCG, March 30th, 2010 (Invited talk)

Dicheva, D., Dimitrova, V. (2008) Semantic Web and Intelligent Learning Environments at the Int. Conf. on Intelligent Tutoring Systems – ITS’08, Montreal, Canada, June 23-27, 2008 (Tutorial)

Dicheva, D. (2006) TM4L - Creating and Browsing Educational Topic Maps, FMI Conference “The Pioneers of Bulgarian Mathematics”, 8 – 10 July, 2006, Sofia, Bulgaria (Invited talk)

Dicheva D. (2004). Impact of the Semantic Web on E-Learning, Eleventh International Conference on Artificial Intelligence: Methodology,Systems, Applications (AIMSA 2004), Varna, Bulgaria, September 2-4, 2004 (Plenary talk)

Dichev, C., Dicheva, D. (2003). Reusable and Shareable Digital Course Libraries. Fifth International Workshop on Symbolic and Numeric Algorithms for Scientific Computing (SYNASC03), October 1 - 4, 2003, Timisoara, Romania (Invited talk)

Dicheva D. (1996). Informatics in Logo Style: Today. Logo Congress "Logo: Creative uses of that language", Barcelona, Spain, April 26-28, 1996 (Plenary talk)

CST 6307 Data Mining (Fall 2004, 2010, 2011, Spring 2014, S2021, S2022, S2023)
CST 5322 Advanced Software Engineering (Fall 2010 - current)
CST 6306 Advanced Database Management Systems (2004 - 2011)
CST 6302 Programming Languages and Compilers (2005 - 2013, 2015, 2017)
CST 5326 Human-Computer Interaction (Fall 2006, 2008, 2009, Spring 2015, 2016, 2018)
CSC 5350 Intelligent Information Organization and Retrieval (Fall 2011, 2012, 2013)
CST 5130 Special Topics in CS: Semantic Web (Fall 2005, 2007, 2008)
CST 6504 Principles of Information Technology (Fall 2003)
CSC 2331 Data Structures (every semester from Fall 2014)
CSC 2310 Introduction to Computer Software Systems (Spring 2003, Spring & Fall 2002,
2001)
CSC 3355 Principles of Data Base Management (Fall 2002, 2001, 2000, 1999, 1998)
CSC 4355 Data Base Management System Design (Spring 2009, 2007, 2005, 2004, 2003,
2002, 2001, 2000, 1999)
CSC 2311 Java Programming (Spring 2000, 2001)
CSC 3321 Operating Systems (Fall 1999)
CSC 3390 Artificial Intelligence (Fall 1999)
CSC 1306 Computer and Its Use I (Spring 2003, Spring & Fall 2002, 2001, 2000, 1999, 1998)

Program Committee Chair/Co-Chair

13^th Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS) 2016 conference, Young Researchers Track, June 6 – 10, 2016, Zagreb, Croatia
24th Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization, Posters, Demos and Late-Breaking Results Track, July 13-17, 2016 - Halifax, Canada
International Conference on Web & Open Access to Learning (ICWOAL’14), Track on Web Technologies for Open Access to Learning (Chair), Nov 25-27, 2014, Dubaj, UAE
14th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies, Track on Applications of Semantic Web technologies for E-Learning (SW-EL@ICALT2014), July 7-10, 2014, Athens, Greece.
3rd International Conference on Software, Services and Semantic Technologies (S3T 2011), Burgas, Bulgaria, September 1-3, 2011.
Special Track on Ontologies and Social Semantic Web for E-Learning at the 24th International FLAIRS Conference, May 18-20, 2011, Palm Beach, Florida, USA (together with Riichiro Mizuguchi, Osaka University, Japan, and Niels Pinkwart, Clausthal University of Technology, Germany).
14th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence: Methodology, Systems, Applications (AIMSA 2010), Varna, Bulgaria, September 8-10, 2010.
1st International Conference on Software, Services and Semantic Technologies (S3T 2009), Sofia, Bulgaria, October 28-29, 2009.
14th Int’l Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED’09), Brighton, UK, July 6-10, 2009 (Conference Workshop Co-Chair)
Seventh Int'l Workshop on Ontologies and Social Semantic Web for E-Learning, in conjunction with 14th Int’l Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education – AIED’09, Brighton, UK, July 6-10, 2009 (together with Riichiro Mizuguchi, Osaka University, Japan, and Niels Pinkwart, Clausthal University of Technology, Germany)
6th Int'l Workshop on Ontologies and the Semantic Web for e-Learning (SWEL'08) in conjunction with the Int'l Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems – ITS’08, Montreal,
Canada, June 23-27, 2008.
5th Int'l Workshop on Ontologies and Semantic Web Services for Intelligent Distributed
Educational Systems (SWEL'07) in conjunction with the 13th Int'l Conference on Artificial
Intelligence in Education (AIED 2007), Marina Del Rey, California, July 9-13, 2007.
45th ACM Southwest Conference, Winston-Salem, NC, March 18-19, 2007.
4th Int'l Workshop on Applications of Semantic Web Technologies for Adaptive Educational Hypermedia (SW-EL'06) in conjunction with the International Conference on Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web-Based Systems (AH2006), Dublin, Ireland, June 21-23, 2006.
3rd International Workshop on Applications of Semantic Web Technologies for E-Learning (SW-EL'05):
AI-ED 2005 session: July 18-22, 2005, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
ICALT 2005 session: July 5-8, 2005, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
K-CAP 2005 session: October 2-5, 2005, Banff, Canada.
2nd International Workshop on Applications of Semantic Web Technologies for E-Learning (SW-EL'04):
AH 2004 session: Eindhoven, The Netherlands, August 23, 2004.
ITS 2004 session: Maceio-Alagoas, Brazil, August 30, 2004.
ISWC 2004 session: Hiroshima, Japan, November 7-11, 2004.
Workshop on Concepts and Ontologies in Web-based Educational Systems, held in conjunction with ICCE 2002, 3-6 December 2002, Auckland, New Zealand.
Eight International PEG Conference "Meeting the Challenge of the New Technologies", Sozopol, Bulgaria, 30 May - 1 June, 1997.
IFIP WG 3.3 Working Conference "Human Computer Interaction and Educational Tools",
Sozopol, Bulgaria, 27-28, May, 1997.

Editorships

Member of the Advisory Board of the IEEE Educational Technologies & Society Journal - ET&S (ISSN 1436-4522) (2004-2016 ).
Associate Editor of the International Journal of Knowledge and Learning - (IJKL) (ISSN 1741-1009) (2006- ).
Associate Editor of the International Journal of Continuing Engineering Education and Life-long Learning - IJCEELL (ISSN 0957-4344) (2001- ).
Associate Editor of the International Journal of Advanced Technology for Learning - ATL (ISSN 1710-2251) (2003-2005).
Member of the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Metadata, Semantics and
Ontologies (IJMSO) (ISSN 1744-2621) (2005- ).
Member of the Editorial Board of the International Journal on Information Technologies and Knowledge (2006- ).
Specialist Reviewer for the International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education - IJAIED (ISSN 1560-4292) (2006- ).
Member of the Review Board of the Interactive Multimedia Electronic Journal of Computer-Enhanced Learning - IMEJ (ISSN 1525-9102) (2002- ).

Reviewer for

International Journal on AI in Education,
IEEE’s Transactions on Learning Technologies
IEEE Educational Technologies and Society Journal
IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Systems
IEEE Internet Computing
IEEE MultiMedia Journal
International Journal on Semantic Web Information Systems (IJSWIS)
International Journal on Metadata, Semantics, and Ontologies
Interactive Learning Environments

Reviewer and Panelist for

U.S. National Science Foundation (2002 - 2020)
7th EU RTD Framework Program (2009, 2012, 2013, 2015)
Singapore Ministry Of Education Tertiary Education Research Fund (2016 - 2020)
National Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) of Canada

Memberships

Executive Committee of the Central European Chapter of AACE (Association for Advancement of Computers in Education).
IFIP WG 3.3 "Research on Educational Applications of Information Technologies."
International Society of AI in Education.
EUROLOGO International Scientific Committee (1986-2005).
Bulgarian Association for Artificial Intelligence.
ACM
IEEE Computer Society
IFETS and IEEE Learning Technology Task Force.