** Please forward to anyone who might be interested ** -------------------------------------------------------------- UMAP 2016 CALL FOR PAPERS The 24th Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization to be held on July 13-17, 2016, Nova Scotia, Canada co-located with ACM Hypertext 2016 http://www.um.org/umap2016/ -------------------------------------------------------------- Conference Scope: ================== UMAP is the premier international conference for researchers and practitioners working on systems that adapt to individual users, to groups of users, and that collect, represent, and model user information. UMAP is the successor to the biennial User Modeling (UM) and Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web-based Systems (AH) conferences that were merged in 2009. UMAP 2016 covers a wide variety of research areas where adaptation may be applied. This include (but is in no way limited to) a number of domains in which researchers are engendering significant innovations based on advances in user modeling and adaptation: recommender systems; adaptive educational systems; intelligent user interfaces; eCommerce; advertising; digital humanities; social networks; personalized health; entertainment, and many more. Key Areas / Tracks: ================== UMAP 2016 will explore, study and shape a broad range of dimensions faced by modern user adaptive systems, covering the following Key Areas chaired by leading researchers. * User Modelling for Recommender Systems ** Semantic recommenders ** Social recommenders ** User Experience, Explanations, Trust, Control ** Context-aware recommender systems ** Conversational recommender systems ** Implicit and explicit user feedback ** Preference elicitation ** Machine learning for recommender systems ** Case studies of real-world implementations * Adaptive & Personalized Educational Systems ** Learner modeling ** Intelligent tutoring systems ** Adaptive and personalized learning support ** Collaborative and group learning ** Emerging environments such as MOOCs and educational games ** Educational data mining and learning analytic modeling techniques ** Learning at scale ** Modeling affective, motivational, and metacognitive aspects of learning ** Case studies of real-world implementations * Personalization in the Social Web & Crowdsourcing Era ** Data-driven approaches and big data techniques ** Deep learning for personalization with social and crowd-generated data ** Social network analysis ** Modeling individuals, groups, and communities ** Engagement & sustainability for personalization ** User awareness and control ** Privacy, perceived security, and trust ** Adaptations based on personality, society, and culture ** Mining of social media and crowd-generated data ** Human computation and machine intelligence for personalization ** Harnessing wisdom of the crowd for personalization ** Case studies of real-world implementations * Adaptive, Intelligent, & Multimodal User Interfaces ** Multimodal user models ** Natural interaction (speech, language, gestures) ** Brain-computer interfaces ** Adaptive information visualization ** Adaptive hypermedia systems ** Adaptive collaboration support ** User modeling for special needs ** Case studies of real-world implementations * Architectures, techniques & methodologies for UMAP ** Models of perception, action, cognition, and affect ** Neurobiological and physiological models ** User experience ** Ongoing continuous modeling ** Lifewide modeling ** Data-driven approaches ** Non-standard database representations (networks, graphs) ** Sensor networks ** Handheld and mobile devices ** Standards and specifications ** Interoperability, semantics ** Evaluation methodologies and metrics ** Case studies of real-world implementations Submissions: ================== UMAP 2016 will include high quality peer-reviewed papers related to the above key areas. Maintaining the high quality and impact of the UMAP series, each paper will have three reviews by program committee members and a meta-review presenting the reviewers' consensual view; the review process will be coordinated by the program chairs in collaboration with the corresponding area chairs. * Long and Short papers Peer reviewed, original, and principled research papers addressing both the theory and practice of UMAP and papers showcasing innovative use of UMAP and exploring the benefits and challenges of applying UMAP technology in real-life applications and contexts are welcome. * Long papers should present original reports of substantive new research techniques, findings, and applications of UMAP. They should place the work within the field and clearly indicate innovative aspects. Research procedures and technical methods should be presented in sufficient detail to ensure scrutiny and reproducibility. Results should be clearly communicated and implications of the contributions/findings for UMAP and beyond should be explicitly discussed. Short papers should present original and highly promising research or applications. Merit will be assessed in terms of originality and importance rather than maturity, extensive technical validation, and user studies. Separation of long and short papers will be strictly enforced so papers will not compete across categories, but within each category. Papers that receive high scores and are considered promising by reviewers, but didn't make the acceptance cut, will be directed to the poster session of the conference and will be invited to be resubmitted as posters. Publication: ================== Accepted papers will be published by ACM and will be available via the ACM Digital Library. At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the conference and present the paper there. Submission details will appear soon. Important Dates: ================== * 23 February 2016: Abstracts for Full and Short Papers (compulsory) * 1 March 2016: Full and Short Papers * 1 April 2016: Doctoral consortium papers * 15 April 2016: Notification for full, short, posters & DC papers * 1 May 2016: Camera-ready for Full, Short, Posters & DC papers (main proceedings) * 7 May 2016: Workshop papers & Demos, Late-Breaking Results papers * 1 June 2016: Notification of workshop papers & Demos, Late-Breaking Results papers * 7 June Camera-ready for Workshop papers & Demos, Late-Breaking Results papers (extended proceedings) * 1 May 2016 - Author registration for main proceedings * 7 June 2016 - Early registration and author registration for extended proceedings * 12 July - Regular registration * 13-17 July 2016: UMAP 2016 Conference The submissions times are 11:59pm Hawaii time. Organization: ================== Program Chairs: Lora Aroyo and Sidney DíMello General Chairs: Julita Vassileva and James Blustein Follow us on: ================== Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/UMAP2016/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/UMAPconf -- ------------------------------------------------------- Dipl.-Ing. Dr.techn. Christoph Trattner BSc Know-Center Research Center for Big Data Analytics & Data Driven Business Graz University of Technology, Austria E-mail: ctrattner@know-center.at Tel: +43 650 2402801 Homepage: http://christophtrattner.info ------------------------------------------------------- New book: Mining, Modeling, and Recommending 'Things' in Social Media* by M. Atzmueller, A. Chin, C. Scholz, C. Trattner (eds.) http://link.springer.com/978-3-319-14723-9 -------------------------------------------------------