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CALL FOR PAPERS: ImpactRS 2019 Workshop
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Workshop on the IMPACT of RECOMMENDER SYSTEMS with ACM RecSys 2019
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Abstracts submission deadline: ***July 1, 2019***
Author notification: ***July 29, 2019***
Workshop date: ***September 19, 2019***
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Workshop website:
https://impactrs19.github.io/
Contact:
impactrs19@ainf.at ===========================
BACKGROUND AND SCOPE
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Research in the area of recommender systems is largely focused on
helping individual users finding items they are interested in.
This is usually done by learning to rank the recommendable items
based on their assumed relevance for each user. The implicit
underlying goal of a such system is to affect users in different
positive ways, e.g., by making their search and decision processes
easier or by helping them discover new things.
Recommender systems can, however, also have other more
directly-measurable impacts, e.g., such that go beyond the
individual user or the short term influence. A recommender system
on a news platform, for example, can lead to a shift in the
reading patterns of the entire user base. Similarly, on e-commerce
platforms, it has been shown that a recommender can induce
significant changes in the purchase behavior of consumers,
leading, for example, to generally higher sales diversity across
the site. On the other hand, recommender systems usually serve
certain business goals and can have an impact not only on the
customers, e.g., by stimulating higher engagement on a media
streaming platform or a social network, but also direct and
indirect affect sales, revenue or conversion and churn rates.
GOALS
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With the proposed workshop, we pursue different goals. * First,
the workshop will serve as a platform where researchers can
present their latest works in which they analyzed different forms
of impact of recommenders. * Second, the goal of the interactive
session is to explore new ways how the impact of recommender
systems can be measured within academic settings, i.e., were some
impacts can only be analyzed based on simulations or alternative
computational measures.
* Third, the workshop shall serve as an instrument to raise
awareness in the community regarding the importance of
impact-oriented research.
TOPICS
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The topics of interest include, e.g.,
* Field studies on the impact and business value of recommender
systems
* Offline evaluation protocols and measures to assess the impact
or recommenders
* User studies on the effects of recommenders on users, e.g., on
decision making
* Simulation-based approaches to impact assessment
* Price- and profit-awareness of recommender systems
* Network effects of recommender systems
* Multi-stakeholder recommender systems
* Beyond accuracy optimization methods for recommender systems
(e.g., business metrics, user satisfaction)
* Long-term implications of deployed recommender systems
SUBMISSION
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Submission types are long research papers reporting on complete
research (8 pages plus references), short papers reporting on work
in progress (4 pages plus references), and position papers (up to
two pages). Submissions must be formatted according to the
conference guidelines (ACM SIG Proceedings Template) and submitted
via EasyChair.
Template:
https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template
Submission site:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=impactrs2019
The review process is single-blind, i.e., please include author
names in the papers. All papers will be peer reviewed by the
workshop's program committee.
Accepted papers will be published within formal proceedings at
CEUR-WS.org.
IMPORTANT DATES
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- Paper submission deadline: July 1st, 2019
- Author notification: July 29th, 2019
- Camera-ready version deadline: August 27th,2019
- ImpactRS'19 Workshop: September 19th, 2019
- RecSys conference: September 16-20th, 2019
ORGANIZERS
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- Oren Sar Shalom (Intuit)
- Dietmar Jannach (University of Klagenfurt, Austria)
- Ido Guy (eBay Research)
If you have questions regarding the workshop, do not hesitate to
contact the workshop chairs:
impactrs19@ainf.at
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