itwp 2011 - 9th Workshop on Intelligent Techniques for Web Personalization & Recommender Systems

9th Workshop on Intelligent Techniques for Web Personalization

& Recommender Systems

In conjunction with IJCAI 2011

July 16, 2011 - Barcelona, Spain

http://ls13-www.cs.uni-dortmund.de/homepage/itwp20...

Submission Deadline: April 10, 2011



Web Personalization and recommendation systems have been steadily
gaining ground as essential components of today's Web based
applications, including in e-commerce and customer relationship
management, in the delivery of business services, in providing support
for Web search and navigation, and in reducing cognitive overload in
information rich interactive social Web applications. The
proliferation of Web 2.0 applications has allowed users to go beyond
simple consumers of information and instead actively participate in
shaping collaborative environments in which users, resources, and
user-provided content are all networked together. This, in turn has
increased the need for more intelligent and personalized services that
help users interact with and navigate these complex information
spaces. These include a new generation of recommender systems that
integrate multiple online channels, are more scalable, are more
adaptive, can better handle user interactivity, and are more adept at
user preference elicitation. To achieve this, such applications must
rely on intelligent techniques from AI, machine learning, Web mining,
statistics, and user modelling in order to leverage all available
data, including the usage and click-stream data (reflecting user
behaviour), the content and meta-data associated with resources,
semantic domain knowledge, user profile information, and underlying
network structures. Efficient and intelligent techniques are needed to
mine this data for actionable knowledge, and to effectively use the
discovered knowledge to enhance the users' experience.

The aim of this workshop is to bring together researchers and
practitioners From Web Mining, Web Personalization, Recommender
Systems, and User Modeling communities in order to foster an exchange
of information and ideas and to facilitate a discussion of current and
emerging topics related to the development of intelligent Web
personalization and Recommender Systems.

PAPER SUBMISSION AND PARTICIPATION

We invite original contributions in a variety of areas related to Web
personalization and Recommender Systems, including Data Modeling and
Integration; User Modeling and Preference Elicitation; Systems and
Architectures; Enabling Technologies; and Evaluation Methodologies,
Metrics, and Case Studies.

For a detailed list of topics, please see the workshop Web site:

http://ls13-www.cs.uni-dortmund.de/homepage/itwp20...

itwp2011-AT-ls13.cs.uni-dortmund.de

The format for submissions is the same as that of IJCAI 2011.

Please check the IJCAI 2011 website for the style files.

(http://ijcai-11.iiia.csic.es/calls/call_for_papers)

Papers should be no longer than 8 pages inclusive of all references
and figures. All papers must be submitted in PDF. All papers must be
original, and must not have not been published or submitted elsewhere.
At least one author for each accepted paper is expected to attend the
workshop. In addition to the standard long paper submission, we also
invite short position or demo papers that may be no longer than 4
pages.

Citable CEUR-WS (http://ceur-ws.org/) working notes will be produced
containing the papers presented at the workshop. Selected papers from
the workshop may be considered for expansion and inclusion in a
special issue of a journal.

IMPORTANT DATES

* 10 Apr: Paper submission deadline

* 22 May: Author notification

* 05 Jun: Camera-ready versions due

* 16 Jul: Workshop held

WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS

Bamshad Mobasher, School of Computer Science, DePaul University, Chicago, USA

E-mail: mobasher-AT-cs.depaul.edu

Dietmar Jannach, Department of Computer Science Technische Universitat
Dortmund, Germany

E-mail: dietmar.jannach-AT-udo.edu

Sarabjot Singh Anand, Department of Computer Science, University of Warwick, UK

E-mail: S.S.Anand-AT-warwick.ac.uk

Alfred Kobsa, University of California, Irvine, USA

E-mail: kobsa-AT-uci.edu