-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [isworld] CFP doctoral consortium associated with UMAP 2010 Datum: Tue, 15 Dec 2009 10:50:06 +0100 Von: Liana Razmerita liana.razmerita@gmail.com Antwort an: Liana Razmerita liana.razmerita@gmail.com An: AISWORLD Information Systems World Network isworld@lyris.isworld.org

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2nd CALL FOR PAPERS DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM (DC)

To be held in conjunction with the International Conference on User Modeling Adaptation and Personalization: UMAP 2010 in the Big Island of Hawaii, between 20-24 June 2010, http://www.hawaii.edu/UMAP2010/

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DEADLINE: January 31, 2010 NOTIFICATION OF ACCEPTANCE: March 15, 2010

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The UMAP 2010 Conference will include, as usual, a Doctoral Consortium Session. This has been a tradition of UMAP Conferences since 1994, where lively and useful discussions enabled students to receive suggestions and feedback about their on-going research, and allowed more experienced participants to hear about the emerging work in the field. Students will benefit in several ways by participating in the consortium; primarily by presenting work to a knowledgeable audience, but also by meeting established researchers and other graduate students working in the field.

FORMAT OF THE CONSORTIUM Doctoral students are invited to apply to present their research to scholars and researchers in the field who will provide constructive comments about their work. Students are expected to document in a brief submission the thesis topic, the approach to be taken and the amount of work that has already been completed. Good quality applications will be chosen by the consortium committee to present their work in a short (15-20 minute) presentation, which may include a demonstration if appropriate.

Each student will be assigned a mentor who will provide feedback on the student’s work, and collate feedback from other Program Committee members. Students whose submissions are selected for presentation will be asked to submit a short list of questions to the committee to help identify areas where the students feel that the Committee can be of assistance. After the presentation, these and other questions can be discussed with the audience of the Consortium.

The Doctoral Consortium will be conducted in one or two separate sessions, totaling about 3-4 hours in length. A limited number of fellowships will be available to enable students with accepted contributions to participate in the meeting.

Accepted papers will be included in the Conference Proceedings, which will be published as a book by Springer. In addition, the Proceedings will be made available on the World Wide Web.

SUGGESTED TOPICS Just as the research in User Modeling spans different areas, graduate research may cover a wide range of topics, but should contribute to some aspect of user modeling and user-adapted interaction. These include (but are not limited to) the topic areas listed in the general Call for Papers http://www.hawaii.edu/UMAP2010/cfp.txt

DC COMMITTEE: Liliana Ardissono, University of Torino, Italy Anne Boyer, LORIA, Nancy University, France Armelle Brun, LORIA, Nancy University, France Paul de Bra, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands Peter Brusilovsky, University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania David Chin, University of Hawaii, Hawaii Alexandra Cristea, University of Warwick, United Kingdom Vania Dimitrova, University of Leeds, United Kingdom Eric Horvitz, Microsoft Research, Washington Geert-Jan Houben, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands Anthony Jameson, DFKI, Germany Judy Kay, University of Sydney, Australia Alfred Kobsa, University of California, Irvine Joseph Konstan, University of Minnesota, Minnesota Diane Litman, University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Bamshad Mobasher, DePaul University, Illinois Julita Vassileva, University of Saskatchewan

DC CO-CHAIRS: Ingrid Zukerman, Faculty of Information Technology, Monash University, Ingrid.Zukerman@infotech.monash.edu.au Liana Razmerita, Copenhagen Business School, lr.isv@cbs.dk

SUBMISSION FORMAT Students are asked to submit to the conference web site an abstract of maximum 4 pages (including references and pictures) describing their doctoral research. Submissions should be in the Springer LNCS format specified in the UMAP2010 Call for Papers. Only pdf documents will be accepted. The document should comprise keywords identifying the thesis main topic areas, a statement regarding the main contributions that the thesis aims to achieve, a description of the approach, and information regarding the amount of work that has already been completed so far, and the timing for this work. Students should also include the stage they are in the PhD programme, and a brief description of their background in order to enable the committee to adapt its assistance to each student.

FOR MORE INFORMATION, PLEASE CONTACT: Ingrid Zukerman, Ingrid.Zukerman@infotech.monash.edu.au Liana Razmerita, lr.isv@cbs.dk