-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [AISWorld] 2nd CfP for ACM RecSys Workshop on Context-Aware Recommender Systems (CARS '12) Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2012 06:27:30 +0000 From: Hussein, Tim tim.hussein@uni-due.de To: um@di.unito.it um@di.unito.it, aisworld@lists.aisnet.org aisworld@lists.aisnet.org, editor1@kdnuggets.com editor1@kdnuggets.com, CHI-ANNOUNCEMENTS@LISTSERV.ACM.ORG CHI-ANNOUNCEMENTS@LISTSERV.ACM.ORG

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2nd CALL FOR PAPERS 4TH WORKSHOP ON CONTEXT-AWARE RECOMMENDER SYSTEMS (CARS-2012) (In conjunction with the 6th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems) September 9, 2012 - Dublin, Ireland

http://www.cars-workshop.org

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This workshop builds upon the success of the previous three Workshops on Context-Aware Recommender Systems held in New York (2009), Barcelona (2010), and Chicago (2011), which brought together an international group of researchers to explore the importance and use of contextual information in recommender systems as well as to discuss new research directions.

The importance of contextual information has been recognized by researchers and practitioners in many disciplines, including e-commerce personalization, information retrieval, ubiquitous and mobile computing, data mining, marketing, and management. While a substantial amount of research has already been performed in the area of recommender systems, the vast majority of existing approaches focuses on recommending the most relevant items to users and does not take into account any additional contextual information, such as time, location, weather, or the company of other people. Therefore, this workshop aims to bring together researchers with wide-ranging backgrounds to identify important research questions, to exchange ideas from different research disciplines, and, more generally, to facilitate discussion and innovation in the area of context-aware recommender systems (CARS). In particular, topics of interest for this workshop include (but are not limited to):

-- Context modeling techniques for recommender systems; -- Context-aware user modeling for recommender systems; -- Data sets for context-dependent recommendations; -- Algorithms for detecting the relevance of contextual data -- Algorithms for incorporating contextual information into recommendation process; -- Algorithms for building explicit dependencies between contextual features and ratings; -- Interacting with context-aware recommender systems; -- Novel applications for context-aware recommender systems; -- Mobile context-aware recommender systems; -- Context-aware group recommendations; -- Large-scale context-aware recommender systems; -- Evaluation of context-aware recommender systems.

In case the main topic of the paper is a challenging dataset for context-aware recommender systems, the author(s) should describe the data model and the main features of this dataset, and make the dataset available for the research community.

PAPER SUBMISSION The length of research submissions is 5 pages in the standard ACM SIG proceedings format. We also encourage the submission of industry papers, which can have a length of 2-5 pages. Microsoft Word and LaTeX templates for papers in ACM SIG format are provided at:

http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates

All submissions must be in English and the files should be in PDF format. Paper submissions and reviews will be handled electronically; each paper will be evaluated by the workshop program committee based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity. All papers must be submitted through the CARS-2012 page on the EasyChair conference management site (https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cars2012).

ACCEPTED PAPERS Authors will present their work at the workshop. Depending on the number of submissions, we are planning to have presentations in front of the workshop audience as well as a poster session, in which participants can discuss their ideas. The accepted papers will be made available on the workshop website. It is planned to publish the proceedings on CEUR as well.

The workshop will NOT request the copyright transfer from the authors; therefore, after receiving feedback at the workshop, the authors will be able to submit the improved versions of their papers to conferences and journals (the workshop organizers are currently exploring the possibilities to organize a special issue on this topic in some research journal).

IMPORTANT DATES Deadline for paper submission: June 18, 2012 Notification of acceptance: July 9, 2012

Please note that the deadline is final and we we can not grant any extension.

WORKSHOP CHAIRS Gediminas Adomavicius, University of Minnesota, USA Linas Baltrunas, Telefonica Research, Spain Ernesto William De Luca, University of Applied Sciences Potsdam, Germany Tim Hussein, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany Alexander Tuzhilin, New York University, USA

PROGRAM COMMITTEE Hideki Asoh, Intelligent Systems Research Institute, Japan Licia Capra, University College London, UK Matthias Boehmer, DFKI GmbH, Germany Pablo Castells, Universidad Autononoma de Madrid, Spain Michele Gorgoglione, Politecnico di Bari, Italy Alexandros Karatzoglou, Telefonica Research, Spain Neal Lathia, University of Cambridge, UK Bamshad Mobasher, DePaul University, USA Lathia Neal, University of Cambridge, UK Denis Parra, University of Pittsburgh, USA Kenta Oku, Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University, Japan Francesco Ricci, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy Alan Said, TU Berlin, Germany Yue Shi, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands Barry Smyth, University College Dublin, Ireland _______________________________________________ AISWorld mailing list AISWorld@lists.aisnet.org