[AISWorld] RecSys 2011: Call for Tutorial Proposals and 2nd Call for Papers

[Zeno Gantner]

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Second CALL FOR PAPERS, CALL FOR TUTORIAL PROPOSALS

RecSys 2011: Fifth ACM Conference on Recommender Systems
http://recsys.acm.org/2011/

October 23-27, 2011
Chicago, IL, USA

Paper Abstract Submission Deadline: May 9, 2011
Paper Submission Deadline: May 16, 2011
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We are pleased to invite you once again to participate in the premier
annual event on research and applications of recommendation
technologies, the Fifth ACM Conference on Recommender Systems. The
previous conferences have been distinguished by a strong level of
interaction between practitioners and researchers in the sharing of
ideas, problems and solutions, and the 2011 conference will continue
in this tradition. The fully-refereed proceedings will be published by
the ACM and, like past RecSys proceedings, are expected to be widely
read and cited.

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TOPICS OF INTEREST
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We construe recommender systems broadly, including applications
ranging from e-commerce to social networking, platforms from web to
mobile and beyond, and a wide variety of technologies ranging from
collaborative filtering to case-based reasoning. Therefore, topics of
interest for RecSys 2011 include (but are not limited to):

* Case studies of recommender system implementations
* Computational advertising
* Conversational recommender systems
* Context-aware and multidimensional recommender systems
* Evaluation of recommender systems
* Group recommenders
* Impact of recommenders in practice
* Innovative recommender applications
* Machine learning and recommender systems
* Novel paradigms of recommender systems
* Personalization
* Preference elicitation
* Recommendation algorithms
* Recommendation in social networks
* Recommender system interfaces
* Scalability of recommendation techniques
* Security, privacy, trust, and robustness
* Semantic web technologies for recommender systems
* Theoretical aspects of recommender systems
* User modeling and recommender systems
* User studies

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IMPORTANT DATES
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Deadline for abstracts (mandatory for long/short papers): May 9, 11.59 pm (PST)
Paper submission deadline: May 16, 11.59 pm (PST)
Paper Acceptance Notifications: July 15
Camera-ready copy: August 7

Please see the conference website (http://recsys.acm.org/2011/) for
additional important dates for submitting workshop papers, tutorial
proposals, and doctoral symposium applications.

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PAPER FORMAT & SUBMISSION
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All submissions and reviews will be handled electronically in PDF
format. RecSys 2011 submissions should be prepared according to the
standard ACM SIG proceedings format. For your convenience, we provide
paper templates in Microsoft Word and LaTeX on the conference website.
 More details on the submission procedure will be available soon at
the conference website http://recsys.acm.org/2011/

There are two paper submission categories:

- LONG PAPER submissions should report on substantial contributions of
lasting value. The maximum length is 8 pages in the standard ACM SIG
proceedings format.

- SHORT PAPER submissions typically discuss exciting new work that is
not yet mature enough for a long paper. Each accepted short paper will
be presented in a poster/demo session. The presentation may include a
system demonstration. The maximum length is 4 pages in the standard
ACM SIG proceedings format.

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RECSYS 2011 CHAIRS
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Bamshad Mobasher, General Chair,
DePaul University, USA

Robin Burke, General Chair,
DePaul University, USA

Dietmar Jannach, Program Chair,
TU Dortmund, Germany

Gediminas Adomavicius, Program Chair,
University of Minnesota, USA


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CALL FOR TUTORIAL PROPOSALS
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RecSys 2011 is pleased to invite proposals for 90-minute tutorials to
be held as part of the main conference. Tutorials provide the larger
conference community an opportunity to learn about RecSys concepts and
techniques and serve as a venue to share presenters' expertise with
the global community of RecSys researchers and practitioners.
Tutorials are intensive instructional sessions focused on specific
topics including, but not limited to, the following:

*	Introduction to Recommender Systems
*	The intersection of RecSys and other domains (e.g., HCI, machine
learning, IR, AI)
*	Specific methodologies for deploying and evaluating RecSys applications
*	Techniques for developing RecSys applications

We actively encourage both researchers and industry practitioners to
submit tutorial proposals.

Important Dates

May 10, 2011: Tutorial proposals due
May 24, 2011: Decisions announced
June 7, 2011: Camera-ready tutorial summaries due

Proposal Format

The tutorial proposal should be a one-page PDF submitted by e-mail to
ido at il.ibm.com 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.	Target audience and prerequisite knowledge, if any
5.	Related tutorials or other presentations previously given (if any)

See also: http://recsys.acm.org/2011/

RecSys 2011 Tutorial Chairs

Ido Guy, IBM Research, Haifa
Shlomo Berkovsky, CSIRO, Australia

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Zeno Gantner
Machine Learning Lab
University of Hildesheim
Tel. +49 5121 / 883 856
http://www.ismll.uni-hildesheim.de/

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