-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [isworld] CfP WI/IAT'09 Wks on Explicit Knowledge Models for Web Personalization and Adaptation Datum: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 09:13:28 -0500 Von: Dietmar Jannach dietmar.jannach@tu-dortmund.de Antwort an: Dietmar Jannach dietmar.jannach@tu-dortmund.de An: AISWORLD Information Systems World Network isworld@lyris.isworld.org

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CALL FOR PAPERS

WI/IAT'09 Workshop on Explicit Knowledge Models for Web Personalization and Adaptation

September, 15, 2009 - Milano, Italy http://ls13-www.cs.uni-dortmund.de/kmwp09/ Submission Deadline: April 30, 2009

====================================================================== In personalized web applications, different strategies for implementing the desired adaptive behavior are possible. Personalization can either be achieved by self-adaptation and learning based strategies, or through the interpretation of explicit knowledge models (for instance personalization rules or constraints).

Learning-based and collaborative approaches are most widely used, especially in the Web context. However, in some domains the second option is more appropriate, for instance when initially not enough interaction data is available for learning, when the desired personalized behavior is too complex to be learned or when the personalization behaviour needs to be exhaustively validated.

In the past, several forms of describing (or modeling) knowledge required for personalizing applications along the dimensions content, presentation, and structure have been proposed. Common techniques include rule-based systems, knowledge-based selection of predefined personalization strategies, finite-state automata and dialogue grammars for modeling interactive preference elicitation processes in recommender systems, grammars for authoring adaptive Web applications or hybrids that aim to extract rules from interaction logs, see for an example in the domain of recommender systems. Up to now, however, no general-purpose mechanism or agreement of how to acquire and represent such explicit personalization knowledge has been found.

The proposed workshop should therefore bring together researchers working on explicit knowledge models for personalized and adaptive Web applications.

TOPICS OF INTEREST include, but are not limited to, the following: ====================================================================== Knowledge Acquisition * Explicit modeling approaches, environments and tools * Learning-based approaches * Hybrid approaches, conflict resolution * Personalization rules and knowledge mining * Exploiting Web2.0 and the Semantic Web

Knowledge Representation Approaches * Domain-specific and visual modeling languages * Dialogue grammars * Personalization rule languages * Learning-based techniques

Software Engineering issues * Integration with industrial software engineering practices and tools * Web Engineering approaches * Automated code generation * Testing and debugging of explicit knowledge models

Applications / Case studies * Decision Support Systems * Recommender Systems * e-Learning applications * Other fielded systems and experimental evaluations.

PAPER SUBMISSION, PUBLICATION AND PARTICIPATION ====================================================================== Papers have to be submitted via the WI-IAT 2009 Cyberchair system, http://www.wi-iat09.disco.unimib.it/WI09/submission.htm

All submitted papers will be reviewed on the basis of technical quality, relevance, significance, and clarity by at least two reviewers. The length of accepted papers should not exceed 4 pages in IEEE-CS format; extra payment is only possible for one more extra page.

The workshop will be open to everyone interested in attending. There will not be a separate workshop registration fee this year (i.e., WI/IAT registration covers everything).

Accepted workshop papers will be published in the Proceedings of WI-IAT'09 Workshops, IEEE-CS Press.

IMPORTANT DATES ====================================================================== Submission of papers April 30, 2009 Acceptance notification June 11, 2009 Camera-ready version due June 27, 2009 Workshop day September 15, 2009

WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS / CONTACT ====================================================================== Dietmar Jannach, Technische Universität Dortmund, Germany Markus Zanker, Universität Klagenfurt, Austria

Please send all enquiries via e-mail to workshop_wiiat@ifit.uni-klu.ac.at

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