-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: HAIS'10-CFP - Special Session on Computational Intelligence for Recommender Systems Datum: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 11:13:41 -0800 (PST) Von: neveen ghali nev_ghali@yahoo.com An: hoche@borneo.ais.fraunhofer.de

Dear colleague,

We are in charge of organizing a special session on “Computational Intelligence for Recommender Systems (CIRS’2010)”. http://www.ehu.es/ccwintco/hais2010/specialsessions/SS02.html This session is organized as a part of The 5th International Workshop on Hybrid Artificial Intelligence Systems (HAIS’10) 23rd -25th June, 2010, San Sebastián, Spain. http://www.ehu.es/ccwintco/hais2010 Recommender Systems (RS) are software applications that suggest useful and interesting items to users in their decision-making while interacting with large information spaces. They recommend items of interest to users based on preferences they have expressed, either explicitly or implicitly. The ever-expanding volume and increasing complexity of information on the Web has therefore made such systems essential tools for users in a variety of information seeking or various e-applications. RS help overcome the information overload problem by exposing users to the most interesting items, and by offering novelty, surprise, and relevance. Recommender technology is hence the central piece of the information seeking puzzle. Computational Intelligence (CI) paradigms reveal to be potential tools to face the Web uncertainty. In particular, CI techniques may be properly exploited to handle Web usage data and develop Web-based applications tailored on users' preferences. Recommended topics include but are not limited to the following:

1) Case studies of RS implementations 2) Context-aware and multidimensional RS 3) Evaluation of RS 4) Novel paradigms of RS 5) Recommendation algorithms 6) Recommendation in social networks 7) RS interfaces 8) Scalability issues 9) Security and privacy 10) Semantic web technologies for RS 11) Theoretical aspects of RS 12) User modeling and RS

Authors are invited to submit a paper by February 15, 2010, through the online paper submission system http://www.ehu.es/ccwintco/hais2010/

Papers must be prepared according to the LNCS-LNAI style template http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-7-72376-0 and should ideally not exceed 8 pages, including figures and bibliography. Additional pages (over 8 pages) will be charged at 100 Euro each.

/NOTICE: All papers must be submitted in electronic form (PDF format) through the link given below and must be prepared according to the //Springer LNCS style template/ http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-7-72376-0/. /http://www.ehu.es/ccwintco/hais2010/

Important dates

· February 15, 2010 Deadline for paper submission. · March 15, 2010 Acceptance/Rejection notifications. · April 11, 2010 Deadline for submission of final versions of papers

We would appreciate very much if we could count on your support and also if you could divulge the special session among your co-workers.

With kind regards,

Session Organizer

Assoc. Prof. Neveen I. Ghali Al-Azhar University, Faculty of Science, Cairo-Egypt Email: nev_ghali@yahoo.com

Dr. Soumya Banerjee Birla Institute of Technology Department of Computer Science, Mesra-India Email: soumyabanerjee@bitmesra.ac.in

====================== Neveen I. Ghali, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Computer Science Faculty of Science Al-Azhar University Cairo - Egypt email: nev_ghali@yahoo.com