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10th International Conference on User Modeling, UM'05

Edinburgh, Scotland, UK, 24-30 July, 2005
http://gate.ac.uk/conferences/um2005/

Call for Papers

The recognition and management of individual user preferences and needs
plays a key role in the development of usable services and products.
The International User Modeling Conferences represent the central forum for the
discussion and presentation of research and industry results in the
development of personalized systems, as well as basic research about
personalization. In the last 25 years, the field of User Modeling has
produced significant new theories and methods to analyze and model computer
users in short and long-term interactions. Moreover, methods for
personalizing human-computer interaction based on user models have
been successfully developed, applied and evaluated in a number of
domains, such as information filtering, e-commerce, adaptive
natural language and adaptive educational systems. Previous successes in
User Modeling research reflect the cooperation of researchers in different
fields, including artificial intelligence, human-computer interaction,
education, cognitive psychology and linguistics.
New trends in HCI create new and interesting challenges for User Modeling.
While consolidating results in traditional domains of interest, the
User Modeling field now also addresses problems of personalized interaction
in mobile, ubiquitous and context-aware computing and in user interactions
with embodied, autonomous agents. It also considers adaptation to user
attitudes and affective states. Furthermore, the User Modeling research is
being influenced by interdisciplinary fields, such as Customer Relationship
Management, and could benefit from new emerging technologies for the
communication in the Web, such as, for instance, Web Services and the Semantic Web.

The International User Modeling Conferences are characterized by active
participation of people from the Academy and the Industry, and by lively
discussions in a pleasant environment. UM'05 is the latest in a conference series begun
in 1986, and follows recent meetings Johnstown (2003), Sonthofen (2001),
Banff (1999), Sardinia (1997), Hawaii (1996) and Cape Cod (1994).
As in past conferences, UM05 offers the following forms of participation: tutorials,
invited talks, paper and poster sessions, a doctoral consortium,
workshops and system demonstrations.
UM'05 invites submissions in following categories:
*       Papers and posters
*       Workshops
*       Tutorials
*       Doctoral Consortium


Relevant topics for the conference include, but are not limited, to:

*       acquisition, updating and management of user models and student models
*       security and privacy aspects in the management of user data
*       evaluation of user modeling techniques
*       user model representation standards
*       user model information sharing in ubiquitous services and smart environments
*       user modeling servers
*       user modeling in the Semantic Web
*       user modeling and adaptive systems
*       applications of user modeling systems and techniques
*       data mining for personalization and cross-recommendation
*       affective computing
*       adaptation to the handicapped and elderly
*       adaptive hypermedia and Web systems
*       intelligent information retrieval, information filtering and content personalization
*       collaborative filtering and recommender systems
*       adaptive user interfaces
*       dialog planning and response tailoring
*       plan recognition and generation
*       presentation planning
*       recognition and correction of misconceptions
*       intelligent tutoring systems
*       human-computer cooperation, user support
*       adaptive learning environments
*       personalized Web sites and services
*       personalized interaction in Virtual Reality and 3D Interfaces
*       personalized interaction in mobile, ubiquitous and context-aware computing
*       embodied animated agents
*       support of collaboration and group modeling
*       engineering adaptive systems


All submissions will be reviewed on the basis of relevance, originality,
significance, soundness and clarity. Three referees will review each submission.

DEADLINES:
Preliminary workshop proposals                          November 15, 2004
Papers and posters                                                 November 22, 2004
Tutorial proposals, final workshop proposals      December 6, 2004
Doctoral Consortium Papers                                January 28, 2005
Papers/Posters Notification                                  January 28, 2005
Camera-Ready Versions Submission                  February 28, 2005
Workshop Papers Submission                              March 7, 2005
Conference                                                            24-30 July, 2005

FORMATS:
The proceedings of the conference will be published by Springer-Verlag
in Lecture Notes in Computer Science (http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/index.html)
under the title
"UM2005 User Modeling: Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference".
For camera-ready format instructions, please see "For Authors"
instructions at http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html.
The page limit is 10 pages for papers, 5 pages for posters,
and 3 pages for the Doctoral Consortium submissions.

ORGANIZATION:
Conference Chair: Paul Brna, School of Informatics, Northumbria University, UK
Program Co-Chairs: Liliana Ardissono, Dipartimento di Informatica,
                                      Universita` di Torino, Italy
                                  Antonija Mitrovic, Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering,
                                      University of Canterbury, New Zealand
Organizing Chair: Alison Cawsey, School of Mathematics and Computer Science
                                      Heriot-Watt University, Scotland
Workshop and Tutorial Co-Chairs: Kathleen McCoy, University of Delaware, US
                                                           Vania Dimitrova, School of Computing, Leeds University, UK
Doctoral Consortium Co-Chairs:   Jon Oberlander, University of Edimburgh, UK
                                                         Kalina Bontcheva, Department of Computer Science,
                                                                                        Sheffield University, UK

Program Committee:

Lora Aroyo, The Netherlands
Mathias Bauer, Germany
Joseph Beck, USA
Peter Brusilovsky, USA
Susan Bull, UK
Sandra Carberry, USA
Noelle Carbonell, France
Keith Cheverst, UK
David Chin, USA
Luca Chittaro, Italy
Cristina Conati, Canada
Albert Corbett, USA
Paul De Bra, The Netherlands
Nadja De Carolis, Italy
Fiorella de Rosis, Italy
Vania Dimitrova, UK
Peter Dolog, Germany
Gerhard Fischer, USA
Elena Gaudioso, Spain
Piotr Gmytrasiewicz, USA
Brad Goodman, USA
Jim Greer, Canada
Haym Hirsh, USA
Eric Horvitz, USA
Anthony Jameson, Germany
Gal Kaminka, Israel
Judy Kay, Australia
Alfred Kobsa, USA
Joseph Konstan, USA
Antonio Krueger, Germany
Frank Linton, USA
Diane Litman, USA
Brent Martin, New Zealand
Mark Maybury, USA
Gordon McCalla, Canada
Kathleen McCoy, USA
Eva Millan, Spain
Riichiro Mizoguchi, Japan
Wolfgang Nejdl, Germany
Helen Pain, UK
George Paliouras, Greece
Cecile Paris, Australia
Daniela Petrelli, UK
Candy Sidner, USA
Barry Smyth, Ireland
Markus Specht, Germany
Carlo Tasso, Italy
Julita Vassileva, Canada
Gerhard Weber, Germany
Stephan Weibelzahl, Germany
Ross Wilkinson, Australia
Frank Wittig, Germany
Ingrid Zukerman, Australia