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Subject: [prolearn] UM2005: 10th Int. Conf. on User Modeling - first call for papers Date: Wednesday 16 June 2004 15:01 From: "Peter Dolog" dolog@l3s.de To: prolearn@learninglab.de

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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

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