FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS Industry Track at UMAP 2009
The 17th International Conference in User Modeling, Adaptation, and Personalization http://umap09.fbk.eu June 22-26, 2009, Trento, Italy Important Dates =============== January 30, 2009: Submission of Industry Track papers March 9, 2009: Notification to authors March 30, 2009: Submission of final versions The Industry Track ================== In recent years, user modeling, adaptation, and personalization technologies have increasingly moved from the realm of research into industrial and governmental applications. Academic researchers have started companies to commercialize UMAP technologies; industrial research labs have embraced this research area by exploring a range of practice-driven ideas; and companies have invested in UMAP technologies and demonstrated their commercial value. At the same time, people have shown increasing interest in products and services that adapt to their personal tastes and needs, creating a wide range of application areas for new technologies and services. As a consequence, the UMAP field is finding more and more ways of integrating techniques from multiple disciplines (such as data mining, HCI, cognitive science and sociology) for new types of real-world application. To support this trend, a special Industry Track is being organized as part of UMAP 2009. The goal of the track is to provide a forum, focused on real-world scenarios, for exchanging ideas between industry and academia. The UMAP 2009 Industry Track seeks to: - showcase high-quality research results stemming from practical industrial deployment of techniques and applications of user modeling and personalization - highlight challenges, lessons, concerns, and research issues related to user modeling and personalization in real-world scenarios (such as customer privacy issues, analysis of data not generally available in academia, and issues of scale that arise in a corporate setting) Industry Track submissions must describe work performed in industry or concerning specific industrial applications. They will typically include at least one industry author. The Industry Track program committee invites submissions in four areas: - Emerging applications and technology - Case studies of UMAP deployment - Comparative studies of UMAP technology - Pragmatic issues and research considerations involved in fielding real applications Emerging application and technology papers discuss prototype applications, tools for focused domains or tasks, useful techniques or methods, useful system architectures, scalability enablers, tool evaluations, or the integration of UMAP and other technologies. Case studies describe UMAP deployment projects with measurable benefits. Such papers need to demonstrate the importance and impact of the work clearly. Comparative studies compare and contrast UMAP technologies using specific examples (without serving as product advertisements). Pragmatic issues and research considerations include important practical and research considerations, approaches, and architectures that enable successful applications. The primary emphasis is on papers that advance our understanding of practical, applied, or pragmatic issues and highlight new research challenges in real UMAP applications. Authors should explain why the application is important, describe any resulting innovations, and summarize the lessons learned. The papers should be formatted according to the conference style). Industry Track submissions may be either full-length papers (12 pages), whose technical density should be comparable to that of research submissions, or short papers (6 pages). Accepted papers will appear along with Research Papers in the conference proceedings published in the Springer LNCS series. About UMAP ========== The biennial conference series User Modeling (UM, 1986-2007) and Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web-Based Systems (AH, 2000-2008) have been merged into the annual conference series User Modeling, Adaptation, and Personalization (UMAP). UMAP is the most important conference for those interested in any aspect of (interaction with) systems that acquire information about a user (or group of users) so as to be able to adapt their behavior to that user or group. In addition to the Industry track, UMAP 2009 will feature a regular research track, several interesting workshops and tutorials, Doctoral Consortium, system demonstrations and the following invited speakers: Susan Dumais, Microsoft Research, USA Alessandro Vinciarelli, Idiap Research Institute, Switzerland Vincent Wade, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland Among conference workshops, which will be of interest to industrial researchers are: Adaptation and Personalization for Web 2.0 (half-day) Organizers: Carlo Tasso, Antonina Dattolo, Rosta Farzan, Styliani Kleanthous, David Bueno Vallejo, and Julita Vassileva Lifelong User Modelling Organizers: Judy Kay and Bob Kummerfeld Personalization in Mobile and Pervasive Computing Organizers: Doreen Cheng, Kinshuk, Alfred Kobsa, Kurt Partridge, and Zhiwen Yu Ubiquitous User Modeling Organizers: Shlomo Berkovsky, Francesca Carmagnola, Dominikus Heckmann, and Tsvi Kuflik User-Centred Design and Evaluation of Adaptive Systems Organizers: Stephan Weibelzahl, Judith Masthoff, Alexandros Paramythis, and Lex van Velsen Industry Track Chairs ===================== Peter Brusilovsky, University of Pittsburgh, U.S.A. Alejandro Jaimes, Telefonica Research, Spain Industry Track Program Committee ================================ Mauro Barbieri (Philips Research, The Netherlands) Mathias Bauer (Mineway, Germany) Ron Bekkerman (HP Labs, USA) Daniel Billsus (Shopping.com, USA) Elizabeth Churchill (Yahoo! Research, USA) Enrique Frias-Martinez (Telefonica Research, Spain) Gustavo Gonzalez-Sanchez (Mediapro R&D, Spain) Ido Guy (IBM Research, Israel) William Clancey (NASA, USA) Ashish Kapoor (Microsoft Research, USA) Ravi Kumar (Yahoo! Research, USA) Paul Lamere (Sun Microsystems, USA) Greg Linden (Microsoft, USA) Jiebo Luo (Kodak Research Lab, USA) Francisco Martin (MyStrands, USA) Andreas Nauerz (IBM, Germany) Nuria Oliver (Telefonica Research, Spain) Igor Perisic (LinkedIN, USA) Jeremy Pickens (FXPAL, USA) Prakash Reddy (HP Labs, USA) Christoph Rensing (HTTC, Germany) John Riedl (University of Minnesota, USA) Monica Rogati (LinkedIN, USA) Doree Duncan Seligmann (Avaya Labs, USA) Xuehua Shen (Google, USA) Malcolm Slaney (Yahoo! Research, USA) Barry Smyth (UCD and ChangingWorlds, Ireland) Neel Sundaresan (E-bay Laboratories, USA) Ryen White (Microsoft Research, USA) Cong Yu (Yahoo! Research, USA) Michelle Zhou (IBM Research, China)
