=================================================== RecSys 2014: CALL FOR TUTORIALS ===================================================
8th ACM International Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2014) October 6-10, 2014, Foster City, Silicon Valley, USA http://recsys.acm.org/recsys14/ Tutorial Submission Deadline: May 19th 2014 =============================================================== RecSys 2014 is pleased to invite proposals for tutorials to be held in conjunction with the conference. The goal of the tutorials is to provide the larger conference community an opportunity to learn about recommender system concepts and techniques and serve as a venue to share presenters’ expertise with the global community of recommender system researchers and practitioners. Tutorials are 90 minute intensive instructional sessions focused on specific topics including, but not limited to: • Introductions to recommender systems or specific techniques • Methodologies for evaluating and measuring • Building and deploying recommender systems • Designing the user experience • Intersections of recommender systems with other domains We actively encourage both researchers and industry practitioners to submit tutorial proposals. Tutorial Chairs • Alexander Felfernig, Graz University of Technology, Austria • Bee-Chung Chen, LinkedIn, USA Important Dates Please submit tutorial proposals on or before May 19. We will inform the authors about the results of the review process on June, 9, and the camera-ready versions are due on July 24. All deadlines refer to 23:59 in the UTC time zone. Proposal Format and Submission The tutorial proposal should be a PDF document no more than 2 pages long, submitted by e-mail to [email protected] and organized as follows: 1. Tutorial Title 2. Name, email address, and affiliation for tutorial instructor(s). Each listed instructor should present at the conference. 3. Detailed bulleted outline of the tutorial (this should take most of the proposal’s space) 4. Targeted audience, prerequisite knowledge 5. Importance of this topic for the RecSys community 6. History of prior tutorials from the instructor(s) 7. List of relevant publications Please visit the conference website http://recsys.acm.org/recsys14/ for more information. Check out the ACM RecSys Wiki at www.recsyswiki.com -- Dr. Alan Said Information Access research group CWI - Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica Room M345, Science Park 123 P.O. Box 94079, 1090 GB Amsterdam e: [email protected] t: @alansaid w: www.alansaid.com
