LSRS 2013 - The 1st workshop on Large-Scale Recommender Systems: Research and Best Practice

As we enter the era of Big Data, the modern Recommender System faces greatly increased data volume and complexities. Previous computational models and experience on small data may not hold today, thus, how to build an efficient and robust system has become an important issue for many practitioners. Meanwhile, there is an increasing gap between academia research of recommendation systems focusing on complex models, and industry practice focusing on solving problems at large scale using relatively simple techniques.
Chances favor connected minds. The motivation of this workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners working on large-scale recommender system in order to: (1) share experience, techniques and methodologies used to develop effective large-scale recommender, from architecture, algorithm, programming model, to evaluation (2) identify key challenges and promising trends in the area, and (3) identify collaboration opportunities among participants.
We invite industrial level recommendation system practitioners to submit extended abstracts (1-4 pages), or slides (~10pages). We also invite recommendation systems researchers to submit extended abstract (1-4 pages) on their new research related to system aspect of recommendation with Big Data.
Our topics of interests include, but are not limited to:
Systems of Large-scale RS:
Architecture
Programming Model
Distributed systems
Real-time recommendation
Online learning for recommendation
Scalability and Robustness
Data & Algorithms in Large-scale RS:
Big data processing in offline/near-line/online modules
Streaming data for recommendation
Data platforms for recommendation
Large, unstructured and social data for recommendation
Heterogeneous data fusion
Sampling techniques
Parallel algorithms
Incremental algorithms
Algorithm validation and correctness checking
Application & Evaluation of Large-scale RS:
Emerging applications
Explanations in Large-scale RS
Anti-attack of Large-scale RS
Large data and privacy issue
Evaluation methodology
Large user studies
Measurement platforms
Visualization
Important Dates:
Submission deadline: 2013-07-21
Author notification: 2013-08-20