[AISWorld] UMUAI: James Chen best paper award

[Judith Masthoff (Editor, UMUAI)]

User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction: The Journal of Personalization Research (UMUAI) is pleased to announce that the paper:
 Mor Peleg, Yuval Shahar, Silvana Quaglini, Adi Fux, Gema García-Sáez, Ayelet Goldstein, M. Elena Hernando, Denis KlimovIñaki, Martínez-Sarriegui, Carlo Napolitano, Enea Parimbelli, Mercedes Rigla, Lucia Sacchi, Erez Shalom, Pnina SofferMobiGuide: a personalized and patient-centric decision-support system and its evaluation in the atrial fibrillation and gestational diabetes domainsVol.  27, issue 2, pp. 159–213http://doi.org/10.1007/s11257-017-9190-5
has been chosen as the recipient of the 2017 James Chen Annual Award for Best Journal Article. It was selected based on nominations from journal reviewers, special issue editors and editorial board members, and a subsequent comparative review by an award committee. UMUAI is a highly-ranked http://www.umuai.org/journal_rankings.html interdisciplinary journal for the dissemination of new research results on interactive computer systems that adapt themselves to their current users, and on the role of user models in the adaptation process. More information on the journal is available from http://www.umuai.org/ . A free special issue that celebrates the first 25 years of user modeling research is available at http://link.springer.com/journal/11257/22/1/page/1 The UMUAI annual best paper award has been established by the Chen Family in commemoration of James R. Chen, a creative researcher in the area of user modeling and information retrieval, and twice a UMUAI author. Each award carries a cash prize of U.S. $1,000. 
The 2016 award was won by:
Bruno Lepri, Jacopo Staiano, Erez Shmueli, Fabio Pianesi, AlexPentlandThe role of personality in shaping social networks and mediating behavioral changeVol.  26, issue 2-3, pp. 143–175http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11257-016-9173-y
All previous awardees are listed at http://www.umuai.org/james-chen-award.html . Judith Masthoff, EditorUser Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction:The Journal of Personalization Research