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Call for Doctoral Symposium Submissions
** IMPORTANT NOTE **
Due to concerns about COVID-19, RecSys 2020 will cancel its
physical component and go fully virtual. To support authors
through these stressful times, deadlines are extended.
The ACM RecSys 2020 Doctoral Symposium provides an opportunity for
doctoral students to explore and develop their research interests
under the guidance of a panel of distinguished researchers from
both academia and industry. We invite students who feel that they
would benefit from this kind of feedback on their work to apply
for this unique opportunity, which will allow them to share their
work with their peers as well as with senior researchers in the
field. The strongest candidates will be those who have made some
research progress, but who are not so far along that they can no
longer make changes in their research plans. Typically, this means
that they have defined their topic and have completed some
research, but still have at least a year of research remaining
before completing a dissertation (in many universities this
corresponds to the dissertation proposal stage). The feedback from
attendees in previous years has been very positive and the
Doctoral Symposium has been considered very useful in providing
research guidance.
The symposium has the following objectives:
1. Provide a supportive setting for feedback on students’ current
research and guidance on future research directions.
2. Offer each student comments and fresh perspectives on their
work from faculty and students outside their own institution.
3. Promote the development of a supportive community of scholars
and a spirit of collaborative research.
4. Contribute to the conference goals through interaction with
other researchers and conference events.
Student participants will have their extended abstracts published
in the conference proceedings. They will also present a poster of
their work at the conference.
SYMPOSIUM FORMAT AND PARTICIPATION EXPECTATIONS
Participants are expected to attend the entire symposium,
including the dinner, and are also expected to attend the ACM
RecSys 2020 conference. Accepted participants will be considered
for travel support for the RecSys 2020 conference directly from
the ACM.
The format of the symposium will be primarily student
presentations supplemented by one or two panel sessions to provide
advice and Q&A opportunities with senior researchers in the
field. Student presentations will be structured to provide maximum
feedback. In particular:
* Presentations will be limited to 15 minutes, followed by 20-25
minutes for feedback and discussion.
* Two of the symposium faculty will be assigned to provide
"primary" feedback for each presenter; following this primary
feedback there will be a period of open feedback from all
participants.
* Students will be expected to take notes for another participant
so that each of you can focus on interacting during the discussion
surrounding your presentation.
* During the main conference, students will also present their
dissertation work and plans in the form of a poster presentation.
Being accepted into the symposium is an honor, and involves a
commitment to giving and receiving thoughtful commentary with an
eye towards shaping the field and upcoming participants in the
research area.
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
Applications are invited from graduate students pursuing a PhD
project who would benefit from detailed workshop discussions of
their doctoral research by a panel of established researchers. All
submissions and reviews will be handled electronically.
Application. Applications should include the following:
1. An extended abstract (see below).
2. A curriculum vitae.
3. A one-paragraph statement of expected benefits of
participation, including questions regarding your dissertation
that you would like to ask your symposium mentors.
4. A brief letter of recommendation from your doctoral advisor,
focused on how your participation in the doctoral symposium will
benefit your dissertation research.
Submit these four items in a single PDF file to PCS by 23:59, AoE
(Anywhere on Earth) on June 15th, 2020. There will be no
extensions to the submission deadline.
Extended Abstract. Your extended abstract will be evaluated with
regard to:
1. Originality of the work with respect to current concepts and
techniques (provide relevant citations).
2. Importance of the work with respect to fundamental issues in
recommender systems (clearly identify the problems you are trying
to solve).
3. Rigor and validity of claims, argumentation, methodology,
results, and interpretations.
4. Clarity and persuasiveness of expression.
Please write your extended abstract to the same quality standards
as a regular RecSys submission.
Formatting. ACM is changing the archive format of its publications
to separate content from presentation in the new Digital Library,
enhance accessibility, and improve the flexibility and resiliency
of our publications. Following the new ACM publication workflow,
all authors should submit manuscripts for review in a
single-column format. The maximum length for extended abstracts is
7 pages (excluding references) in the new single-column format.
Instructions for Word and LaTeX authors are given below:
* Microsoft Word: Write your submission using the Submission
Template (Review Submission Format). Follow the embedded
instructions to apply the paragraph styles to your various text
elements. The text is in single-column format at this stage and no
additional formatting is required at this point.
* LaTeX: Please use the latest version of the Master Article
Template - LaTeX to create your submission. You must use the
"manuscript" option with the \documentclass[manuscript]{acmart}
command to generate the output in a single-column format which is
required for review. Please see the LaTeX documentation and ACM's
LaTeX best practices guide for further instructions. To ensure
100% compatibility with The ACM Publishing System (TAPS), please
restrict the use of packages to the whitelist of approved LaTeX
packages.
Authors are strongly encouraged to provide "alt text" (alternative
text) for floats (images, tables, etc.) in their content so that
readers with disabilities can be given descriptive information for
these floats that are important to the work. The descriptive text
will be displayed in place of a float if the float cannot be
loaded. This benefits the author as well as it broadens the reader
base for the author's work. Moreover, the alt text provides
in-depth float descriptions to search engine crawlers, which helps
to properly index these floats.
Should you have any questions or issues going through the
instructions above, please contact support at
acmtexsupport@aptaracorp.com for both LaTeX and Microsoft Word
inquiries.
Accepted extended abstracts will be later submitted to ACM's new
production platform where authors will be able to review PDF and
HTML output formats before publication.
Confidentiality. Confidentiality of submissions is maintained
during the review process. All rejected submissions will be kept
confidential in perpetuity. All submitted materials for accepted
submissions will be kept confidential until two weeks prior to the
start of the conference. Submissions should contain no information
or materials that are proprietary at publication time.
SELECTION CRITERIA
To provide maximum feedback to each student, participation in the
doctoral symposium is limited. Selection is based on two broad
criteria:
* Value of the symposium to the student:
* The degree to which the applicant is positioned to benefit from
participation, including the student’s position in the doctoral
process (the greatest benefit is for students with a developed
research idea but much of the work yet undone).
* The degree to which the student may otherwise lack access to a
diverse set of feedback and input on his or her research plans
(e.g., availability of local experts and advisors).
* Value of the student’s participation to other students.
* The quality of the extended abstract (as identified above), both
as a model of excellent research and as an indication of the
student’s potential in the field.
* Diversity of participation, including diversity by institution,
country, research topic and approach, and demographics. In general
we will limit participation to one or two students per
institution, depending on the number of applicants.
* Evidence that the student will be an effective and active
participant, providing feedback to others and helping to build a
research network.
APPLICATION CHECKLIST
Well in advance of the deadline:
1. Write an extended abstract according to the formatting
instructions above. The maximum length for extended abstracts is 7
pages (excluding references) in the new single-column format. Note
that the student is the sole author of the abstract. Advisor(s)
can be thanked in the acknowledgments.
2. Write a curriculum vitae.
3. Write a one-paragraph statement of expected benefits of
participation.
4. Obtain a letter of recommendation from your advisor.
By the deadline (June 15th, 2020, 23:59 AoE):
1. Submit items 1-4 above in a single PDF file to PCS.
SUPPORT
Accepted students will receive free registration to RecSys 2020.
Students receiving support will be requested to be part of the
student volunteer cohort.
IMPORTANT DATES
* Doctoral symposium submission deadline: June 15th, 2020
* Doctoral symposium submission notification: July 13th, 2020
* Camera-ready abstract deadline: July 27th, 2020
Deadlines refer to 23:59 (11:59pm) in the AoE (Anywhere on Earth)
time zone.
DOCTORAL SYMPOSIUM CHAIRS
* Michael Ekstrand, Boise State University, USA
* Marcelo Manzato, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil
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