From: XAVIER AMATRIAIN RUBIO <[email protected]>
Date: July 8, 2009 11:34:06 AM EDT
To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Subject: [SIG-IRList] [CfP] Recommender-based Industrial
Applications Workshop @ Recsys '09
CALL FOR PAPERS
RECOMMENDER-BASED INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS Workshop
in conjunction with the 3rd ACM Conference on
Recommender Systems (New York City, October 22-25, 2009).
http://corp.strands.com/recsys/index.html
Recommender systems help users deal with large amounts of
information by
assisting them in their decision-making processes. Recommender systems
have been applied very successfully in a variety of domains, and one
of
their most exciting characteristics is that they combine interest from
industry while posing very interesting research challenges, having
significant impact on end user experience, and on business.
DATES
* August 3, 2009: Submission of papers
* August 17, 2009: Notification of acceptance
* October 25, 2009: Worskshop held
MOTIVATION AND TOPICS
Recommender-based industrial applications have hit the mainstream:
they
are being used today by millions of users in a variety of domains
(e.g.,
film, music, book purchases, travel, advertising, etc.), having
significant impact end users and contributing to the generation of
millions of dollars of revenue in some industries.
In addition, the explosion of social network websites, on-line user-
generated content platforms, and tremendous growth in computational
power
of mobile devices are generating incredibly large amounts of user
data,
and an increasing desire of users to find what best matches their
personal interests. This is creating new technical challenges as
well as
new business opportunities. However, in spite of significant
progress in
the research community, there are still important gaps in making
accurate
and timely recommendations in industrial applications.
This workshop aims at bringing the gap between academic researchers
and
industry practitioners on the area of Recommender Systems. We are
interested both in research work that faces real industry problems,
and
in industry cases that create research challenges.
We aim to discuss problems the industry is facing in real-world
applications when applying recommendation and personalization
techniques.
The goal is to bring together top-level researchers from academia and
recommendation practitioners. Ideally the workshop should serve to
establish new collaborations and projects involving academic
researchers
and companies.
Topics of interest include industrial applications and research
challenges related but not limited to::
* case studies of recommender system implementations and
deployments
* personalization vs. content-based vs. collaborative-based
applications
* evaluation and user studies of recommender systems
* recommendations in the long tail
* user preferences and recommender systems
* social and cultural impact of recommender systems
* security and privacy in recommender systems
* sparsity and lack of data in recommender systems
* context-aware and ubiquitousness in recommender systems
* user interfaces and usability issues in recommender systems
* scalability in large recommender systems
* new business models related to recommendation and
personalization
* search vs. recommendation
Types of papers & Workshop format
We welcome research papers dealing with industrial applications,
business
focused papers discussing the challenges of recommenders techniques,
opportunities, and open issues in business applications, and position
papers in any of the above topics. Short papers may be up to 4
pages, and
long papers up to 8 pages long.
We welcome papers from practitioners and researchers in any field of
interest to recommender systems (psychology, sociology, business, and
relevant technical areas).
The workshop will consist of short presentations possibly combined
with a
poster session. The goal of the format is to use the meeting time for
discussions rather than for conference-style presentations. Please
note
that attendees must register for the workshop, but attendance is
open to
everyone (no paper necessary to attend the workshop). Please note that
the early registration deadline for the workshop is August 21, 2009
(late
and on-site registration will also be available, but space will be
limited). Registration details can be found at the RecSys website.
Submissions
All submissions will be peer-reviewed by at least 3 members of the
program committee. Accepted papers will be published online on the
workshop homepage. The best papers will be considered for a special
issue
of a recognized journal. Papers should be formatted according to the
style guide of RecSys'09. Papers should be submitted in PDF format
through an email addressed to recsys [at] strands.com
Workshop Chairs
* Dr. Alejandro Jaimes, Telefonica Research
* Dr. Marc Torrens, Strands
Please address questions to recsys [at] strands.com.
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