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<div>Special Track on Search, Comparison and Recommender Systems</div>
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<div>16th International Conference on Electronic Commerce and Web Technologies - EC-Web 2015</div>
<div>Valencia, Spain</div>
<div>September 1 - 2, 2015</div>
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<div>EC-Web is an international scientific conference series devoted to technology related aspects of e-Commerce and e-Business. The 16th edition of the conference, EC-Web 2015, will take place in Valencia, Spain in September 2015 and will serve as a forum
to bring together researchers and practitioners to present and discuss recent advances in their fields.</div>
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<div>SPECIAL TRACK on Search, Comparison and Recommender Systems</div>
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<div>In the Web era, resource retrieval techniques play a fundamental role in helping the users to deal with the issues related to information overload. Today's search engines as well as matchmaking systems are no more working solely on pure text/keyword analysis.
Their results are computed and enriched by putting together, e.g., link-based data, user preferences as well as information encoded into the so called knowledge graphs. The same happens for personalized information filtering systems, such as recommender systems,
where pure collaborative and content-based approaches are hybridized with each other, combined and fed by many different and diverse data sources in order to improve not only the accuracy of results but also their novelty, diversity, and serendipity.</div>
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<div>This track will mainly focus on:</div>
<div>- Search</div>
<div>- Knowledge graphs</div>
<div>- Matchmaking</div>
<div>- Recommender systems</div>
<div>- User modeling</div>
<div>- Preference representation and reasoning</div>
<div>- Similarity metrics</div>
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<div>Authors are invited to submit original and unpublished research papers at http://confdriver.ifs.tuwien.ac.at/dexa2015</div>
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<div>The manuscripts are limited to 12 pages using the Springer LNBIP style sheet: http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-791344-0</div>
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<div>The selection of papers will be based on a peer-review process by selected international experts. Each paper will be peer-reviewed by at least 3 reviewers. The proceedings will be published in the Springer Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing
(LNBIP) series.</div>
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<div>IMPORTANT DATES</div>
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<div> Submission of full papers: April 15, 2015</div>
<div> Notification of acceptance: May 20, 2015</div>
<div> Camera-ready copies due: June 06, 2015</div>
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<div>PROGRAM CHAIRS</div>
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<div>Heiner Stuckenschmidt - University of Mannheim [Germany]</div>
<div>Dietmar Jannach - TU Dortmund [Germany]</div>
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<div>TRACK CHAIR</div>
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<div>Tommaso Di Noia - Politecnico di Bari [Italy]</div>
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<div>PROGRAMME COMMITTEE</div>
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<div>Liliana Ardissono - University of Torino [Italy]</div>
<div>Pierpaolo Basile - University of Bari Aldo Moro [Italy]</div>
<div>Alejandro Bellogín - Universidad Autonoma de Madrid [Spain]</div>
<div>Robin Burke - De Paul University [USA]</div>
<div>Federica Cena - University of Turin [Italy]</div>
<div>Paolo Cremonesi - Politecnico di Milano [Italy]</div>
<div>Marco de Gemmis - University of Bari, Aldo Moro [Italy]</div>
<div>Ernesto William De Luca - FH Potsdam [Germany]</div>
<div>Alexander Felfernig - Graz University of Technology [Austria]</div>
<div>Fabio Gasparetti - Roma Tre University [Italy]</div>
<div>Stuart E. Middleton - University of Southampton [UK]</div>
<div>Cataldo Musto - University of Bari Aldo Moro [Italy]</div>
<div>Fedelucio Narducci - University of Bari Aldo Moro [Italy]</div>
<div>Vito Claudio Ostuni - Mandora Media, Inc. [USA]</div>
<div>Umberto Panniello - Polytechnic University of Bari [Italy]</div>
<div>Francesco Ricci - Free University of Bozen-Bolzano [Italy]</div>
<div>Matthew Rowe - University of Lancaster [UK]</div>
<div>Markus Zanker - Alpen-Adria Universität Klagenfurt [Austria]</div>
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