-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [AISWorld] Call for papers: The 1th International Workshop on Temporal Aspects in User Modelling (UMTempAspects) Datum: Fri, 24 Feb 2017 11:18:03 +0200 Von: Tsvi Kuflik tsvikak@is.haifa.ac.il An: AISWorld@lists.aisnet.org

Call for papers: The 1th International Workshop on Temporal Aspects in User Modelling (UMTempAspects)

https://sites.google.com/edu.haifa.ac.il/umtempaspects/home

UMTempAspects 2017 is co-located with ACM UMAP 2017, 9-12th July 2017 at FIIT STU, Bratislava, Slovakia

Abstract and Topics

The workshop will focus on considering temporal aspects for user modelling.

Nowadays computerized systems strive to provide personalized services to their users, from product recommendations, to education and personalized medicine – tailoring online courses and healthcare services to the individual needs and preferences. An essential component to support personalization of services is a user model – a representation of the user in the specific domain of interest, whether it is a recommendation about a product, a piece of content, a route to a destination or a medical treatment, all must take the user characteristics into consideration. Naturally, the user model needs to be adapted over time, as new information is acquired by the system and user behavior evolves. The need to continuously update the user model stems from the simple fact that new information about users becomes continuously available and that users change: their characteristics and preferences change over time – they acquire new skills, gain experience, their tastes, preferences, goals change as well as their physical, psychological and physiological characteristics… Therefore, there is a strong temporal aspect in user modelling and a need to research it further.

The workshop aims at bringing together researchers and practitioners working in order to look at the challenges from the point of view of the temporal aspects in user modelling. All in all, the workshop will aim at attracting presentations of novel ideas for addressing these challenges and how to advance the current state of the art in this field.

Topics (of interest) include (but are not limited to):

• Specific applications and case studies (evaluation)

• Specific methods and techniques for integrating temporal aspects into the user modelling

• Considering temporal aspects in group modelling

• Lifelong user modelling

• Concept drift in user modelling

• Temporal-based Personalization

• Cross domain temporal patterns

• Interaction

o Temporal aspects of conversational interfaces

o Interaction concepts with personal (mobile or desktop) and group (on-site public or desktop) displays

o Information needs, information access (incl. visualization) and search patterns

o Personalized explanations (in recommendation systems: movies, people, e-commerce products etc.)

Submissions Page limits: Long papers ­ 6 pages + references;

Short pages: 4 pages + references;

Position paper/Demo paper 2 pages + references.

Note that the references do not count towards page limits. Papers that exceed the page limits or formatting guidelines will be returned without review.

Submissions should be single blinded, i.e. authors names should be included in the submissions.

Papers must be formatted using the ACM Standard SIGCONF templates: http://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings%C2%AC-template.

All papers should be submitted in PDF format via the online submission system. (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=umtempaspects2017).

An international panel of experts will review all submissions.

Demos need to provide links to the systems presented. Work that has already been published should not be submitted unless it introduces a significant addition to the previously published work.

Important dates:

April 20, 2017: Submission deadline (23:59 PM Hawaiian time)

May 20, 2017: Notification deadline (23:59 PM Hawaiian time)

May 28, 2017: Camera-Ready deadline (23:59 PM Hawaiian time)

Workshop organizers

Veronika Bogina, sveron@gmail.com, The University of Haifa, Israel

Judy Kay, judy.kay@sydney.edu.au, The University of Sydney, Australia

David Konopnicki, davidko@il.ibm.com, IBM Research – Haifa

Tsvi Kuflik, tsvikak@is.haifa.ac.il , The University of Haifa, Israel

Bamshad Mobasher, mobasher@cs.depaul.edu, DePaul University, Chicago, USA

List of members of the program committee

Liliana Ardissono, University of Torino

Shlomo Berkovsky, Data61 CSIRO

Robin Burke, DePaul University

Alfred Kobsa, University of California

Pasquale Lops, University of Bari

Inbal Ronen, IBM Haifa Labs

Giuseppe Sansonetti, Università Degli Studi Roma Tre, Rome

Amit Tiroshi, Atlassian

Tsvika

Tsvi Kuflik, PhD.

Associate Professor

The University of Haifa

Email: mailto:tsvikak@is.haifa.ac.il tsvikak@is.haifa.ac.il

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