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UM2005 Workshops Announcement =============================
The 10th International Conference on User Modeling (UM'2005), held from 24 to 30 of July 2005 in Edinburgh, Scotland, will feature nine promising workshops covering a wide spectrum of current user modeling topics:
Adapting the Interaction Style to Affective Factors Web page: http://www.di.uniba.it/intint/UM05/WS-UM05.html Organizers: Sandra Carberry, Fiorella de Rosis
Decentralized, Agent-Based and Social Approaches to User Modeling (DASUM) Web page: http://www.l3s.de/~dolog/dasum/ Organizers: Julita Vassileva, Peter Dolog
Evaluation of Adaptive Systems (EAS) Web Page: http://www.easy-hub.org/hub/workshops/um2005/index.html Organizers: Stephan Weibelzahl, Alexandros Paramythis, Judith Masthoff
Machine Learning for User Modeling: Challenges Web Page: http://www-connex.lip6.fr/~artieres/UM2005/index.html Organizers: Colin de la Higuera
PROLEARN: Personalized Adaptive Technologies for Professional Training Web Page: http://www.win.tue.nl/~laroyo/PROLEARN05-Workshop/index.html Organizers: Marcus Specht
Personalisation for eHealth Web Page: http://www.csc.liv.ac.uk/~floriana/UM05-eHealth/ Organizers: Floriana Grasso, Silvana Quaglini, Cecile Paris, Alison Cawsey, Ross Wilkinson
Personalized Information Access Web Page: http://irgroup.cs.uni-magdeburg.de/pia2005/ Organizers: Peter Brusilovsky, Andreas Nuernberger, Charles Callaway
Personalization on the Semantic Web (PerSWeb) Web Page: http://www.win.tue.nl/~laroyo/PersWeb05/index.html Organizers: Lora Aroyo, Vania Dimitrova, Judy Kay
Privacy-Enhanced Personalization Web Page: http://www.ics.uci.edu/~kobsa/PEP05 Organizers: Alfred Kobsa, Lorrie Cranor
Important dates ------------------- Workshop paper submission deadline: 7th March Workshops will be held on 24th-26th July prior to the main conference (26th-29th July). The personalisation for e-health workshop will be held on 29th July in the afternoon.
More information about the conference and its workshop program can be found on the UM2005 web site: http://gate.ac.uk/conferences/um2005/