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29th ACM International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and
Personalization (ACM UMAP 2021)
Utrecht, Netherlands, and Online
June 21-25, 2021
https://www.um.org/umap2021/
CALL FOR WORKSHOPS
Important Dates:
Proposals due: January 15, 2021
Notification to proposers: January 29, 2021
Workshop Day(s): June TBA, 2021
Submission email:
umap2021-workshop@um.org<mailto:umap2021-workshop@um.org>
ACM UMAP 2021 is pleased to invite proposals for workshops to be
held in conjunction with the conference. ACM UMAP is the premier
international conference for researchers and practitioners working
on systems that adapt to individual users or to groups of users,
and which collect, represent, and model user information. The
workshops provide a venue to discuss and explore emerging areas of
User Modelling and Adaptive Hypermedia research with a group of
like-minded researchers and practitioners from industry and
academia.
Information about Hybrid Conference Format
ACM UMAP 2021 is planned to be a hybrid event, which welcomes
everyone who is willing, able and allowed to travel in Utrecht,
the Netherlands. However, there will also be an opportunity to
attend the conference and the workshops online. Please check the
conference website for updates:
https://www.um.org/umap2021/
Workshops can therefore be held by the presenters at Utrecht (with
synchronous online streaming), or designed as fully virtual
workshops. The workshops will most probably be scheduled to start
in the mornings or evenings local time (UTC+1).
Workshop Format
In this edition, our goal is to have a balanced workshop program
comprising different workshop formats, combining newly emerging,
currently evolving and established research topics. Different
full-day and half-day workshop schemas are possible, such as:
• Working group meetings around a specific problem or topic;
participants may be asked to submit a white paper or position
statement
• Mini-conferences on specialized topics, having their own paper
submission and review processes
• Mini-competitions or challenges around selected topics with
individual or team participation
• Interactive discussion meetings focusing on subtopics of the
UMAP general research topics.
• Joint panels for different workshops
Instructions for Proposers
Workshop proposals should not exceed 5 pages and should be
organized as follows:
• Workshop title and acronym
• Workshop chair(s), including affiliation, email address,
homepage, and experiences in organizing such events
• Abstract (up to 300 words) and topics of interest
• Motivation on why the workshop is of particular interest at this
time
• Workshop format, discussing the mix of events such as paper
presentations, invited talks, panels, and general discussions
• Intended audience and expected number of participants
• List of (potential) members of the program committee
• Requested duration (half day or full day)
• Proposed workshop format (e.g. hybrid or fully virtual)
• When available, past editions of the workshop, including URLs, a
brief statement on the development of the workshop series, e.g.,
in terms of topics, number of paper submissions and participants,
post-workshop publications over the years and acceptance
statistics
Submission and Review Process
Workshop proposals should be submitted in PDF by email to:
umap2021-workshop@um.org<mailto:umap2021-workshop@um.org>
We encourage both researchers and industry practitioners to submit
workshop proposals.
Researchers interested in submitting a workshop proposal are
invited to contact us in advance, so we can help to design
successful proposals. In particular, for workshop proposals with
novel interactive formats, we are happy to assist in further
developing and implementing the ideas.
We strongly suggest involving organizers from different
institutions, bringing different perspectives to the workshop
topic. We welcome workshops with a creative structure that may
attract various types of contributions and may ensure rich
interactions.
The organizers of accepted workshops will prepare a workshop web
site containing the call for papers and detailed information about
the workshop organization and timeline. They will be responsible
for their own publicity and reviewing processes.
There will be a conference adjunct proceedings published by ACM
where all the workshop papers will be published. Hence, the
workshop organizers will need to adhere to the adjunct proceedings
publication timeline.
Schedule
• Proposal submission: January 15, 2021
• Notification of proposal acceptance: January 29, 2021
• Send the workshop description & website URL: February 15,
2021
• (Suggested) 1st call for papers: February 20, 2021
• (Suggested) 2nd call for papers: March 2, 2021
• (Suggested) paper submission: March 26, 2021
• (Suggested) notification to authors: April 19, 2021
• Workshop summary camera-ready deadline: May 7, 2021
• Workshop papers camera-ready deadline: May 7, 2021
• Workshop Date: June TBA, 2021
Proceedings and Registration Policy
Workshop papers will be included in the Adjunct Proceedings
published by ACM. To be included in the Proceedings, at least one
author of each accepted workshop paper must register for the
conference or the workshop and present the paper there. Student
registration fee is allowed to students who present a student
paper. A "Workshop/Tutorial Only” fee will be available as well.
CALL FOR TUTORIALS
Important Dates:
Proposals due: January 15, 2021
Notification to proposers: January 29, 2021
Tutorial Day: June TBA, 2021
Submission email:
umap2021-workshop@um.org<mailto:umap2021-workshop@um.org>
ACM UMAP 2021 is pleased to invite proposals for tutorials to be
given in conjunction with the conference. ACM UMAP is the premier
international conference for researchers and practitioners working
on systems that adapt to individual users or to groups of users,
and which collect, represent, and model user information,
Tutorials are intensive instructional sessions aimed to provide a
comprehensive introduction to established or emerging research
topics of interest for the UMAP community.
Information about Hybrid Conference Format
ACM UMAP 2021 is planned to be a hybrid event, which welcomes
everyone who is willing, able and allowed to travel in Utrecht,
the Netherlands. However, there will also be an opportunity to
attend the conference and the tutorials online. Please check the
conference website for updates:
https://www.um.org/umap2021/
Tutorials can therefore be held by the presenters at Utrecht (with
synchronous online streaming), or designed as fully virtual
tutorials. The tutorials will most probably be scheduled to start
in the morning or evening local time (UTC+1).
Tutorial Topics
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
• new user modeling technologies, methods, techniques, and trends
(e.g. exploiting data mining and big data analytics for user
modeling, evaluation methodologies, data visualization, etc.)
• user modeling and personalization techniques for specific
domains (e.g., health sciences, e-government, e-commerce, cultural
heritage, education, internet of things, mobile, music,
information retrieval, human-robot interaction etc.)
• application of user modeling and personalization techniques for
information retrieval and recommender systems
• eliciting and learning user preferences by taking into account
users’ emotional state, physical state, personality, trust,
cognitive factors
Instructions for Proposers
An ideal tutorial should be broad enough to provide a basic
introduction to the chosen area, but it should also cover the most
important topics in depth. Tutorial presenters can have one page
in the adjunct proceedings.
Tutorial proposals should not exceed 5 pages and should contain
the following information:
• Title and abstract of the tutorial for inclusion on the ACM UMAP
2021 website (200 words maximum)
• Tutorial description:
• learning objectives of the tutorial and relevance to ACM UMAP
2021
• targeted audience (introductory, intermediate, advanced) and
prerequisite knowledge or skills
• a brief outline of the tutorial structure
• Information about potential practical sessions
• Tutorial length: full (6 hours) or half day (3 hours)
• Other venues to which the tutorial or part thereof has been or
will be presented, in addition to explaining how the current
tutorial differs from the other editions
• Proposed tutorial format (hybrid or fully virtual)
• Name, email address, affiliation and brief professional
biography of the tutorial instructor(s), indicating previous
training and speaking experience
Submission and Review Process
Tutorial proposals should be submitted in PDF by email to:
umap2021-workshop@um.org<mailto:umap2021-workshop@um.org>
All proposals will be reviewed by the tutorial chairs. The
features that will be evaluated are:
• ability of the tutorial to contribute to strengthening the
foundations of UMAP research
• clarity of the tutorial, which should emerge from its
description
• organization, as appearing from the outline
• background/experience of tutorial instructor(s) in teaching the
target topics
Timeline
• Proposals due: January 15, 2021
• Notification of acceptance: January29, 2021
• Adjunct proceedings camera ready: May 7, 2021
• Tutorial Day: June TBA, 2021
Proceedings and Registration Policy
A “Workshop/Tutorial Only” fee will be available, as well as the
option for student registration.
Workshop and Tutorial Chairs
Berardina Nadja De Carolis, University of Bari "Aldo Moro", Italy
berardina.decarolis@uniba.it<mailto:berardina.decarolis@uniba.it>
Dietmar Jannach, University of Klagenfurt, Austria
dietmar.jannach@aau.at<mailto:dietmar.jannach@aau.at>
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