[AISWorld] 3rd Call for Papers GMAP at UMAP 2022

[Amra Delić]

*** Apologies for cross postings ***
 
GMAP Workshop @UMAP 2022 - CALL FOR PAPERS
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Workshop on Group Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (GMAP at UMAP 2022)

co-located with UMAP 2022 (https://www.um.org/umap2022/ <https://www.um.org/umap2022/>), July 4-7, 2022 | Barcelona (Spain) 
  
Web: https://sites.google.com/view/gmap2022 <https://sites.google.com/view/gmap2022/>/
Submission: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=umap22 <https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=umap22> (select track GMAP Workshop)
For any information: adelic at etf.unsa.ba <mailto:adelic at etf.unsa.ba>, f.barile at maastrichtuniversity.nl <mailto:f.barile at maastrichtuniversity.nl> 
 
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ABSTRACT
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Group modeling adaptation and personalization is an area explored in parallel by two different research communities. On the one side, the user modeling community focuses on the preferences aggregation problem: how to combine preferences of individuals in a group so as to personalize,  adapt, and explain content for this group to consume or experience? On the other side, the computer-supported collaboration community focuses on the group formation problem: how to construct a group that will work together efficiently to solve a particular task? This area  becomes increasingly significant as work becomes more flexible, online, and distributed.

The connecting tissue between both communities is the urgent need to design algorithms, whether for recommending group content or group formations, that steer away from top-down algorithmic decision-making, which has proven to stifle user agency and create power inequalities between users and algorithms. 

The aim of the workshop is, for the first time, to bring together the two communities working on the two sides of Group Recommendations, inviting academics and researchers to share their contributions, work-in-progress and latest research results with an overall goal to rethink group recommendation and shift paradigms from the current algorithm-centric to user- and group-centric focus.

 
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TOPICS
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Topics of interests include but are not limited to:
 
GROUP FORMATION PROBLEM
Adaptive team formation systems. How to design systems and algorithms that adapt their team formation decisions to the involved users' suggestions?

Personalization and tailored group task and teammate recommendations. How to ascertain that workers can efficiently explore the very large space of potential collaborators, and form the work alliances that are optimal for themselves but also for each (creative) task?

Explanations. How to assist online crowd workers to interpret the team formation algorithm's decisions? How to assist them comprehend the impact that their own input to the algorithm has, in the context of several decision interconnections?

Ethics-centred user modeling. How to develop modeling approaches that afford users personal liberty and flexibility (e.g. in selecting their teammates), while maintaining appropriate collaboration and work conduct standards (e.g. in avoiding workplace discrimination)?
 
RECOMMENDATIONS FOR GROUPS 
Group modelling. Going beyond standard aggregation strategies, by incorporating adaptable user and group profiles as the group advances towards their choice.

Group decision-making process support. How can we best help groups to reach their joint decisions, when discussion or several rounds of suggestions are supported by the system?

Explanations. How can we design effective explanations for such suggestions to groups but keeping in mind that sensitive personal data of group members is not revealed (privacy protection)?

Evaluation. What are the benefits and drawbacks of different evaluation approaches, i.e., user studies vs. offline evaluations with synthetic data? How to appropriately design evaluation studies? What evaluation metrics should such systems use, standard accuracy-based metrics, or something else?

 
 
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SUBMISSIONS
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We encourage the submission of original and novel contributions.
 
(A) Short Papers (till 7 pages + reference - new ACM single column format);
(B) Long Papers (between 8 and 14 pages + reference - new ACM single column format);
 
Submission site: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=umap22 <https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=umap22> (select track GMAP Workshop)

 
All submitted papers will be evaluated by at least two members of the program committee, based on originality, significance, relevance and technical quality. 

Papers must be formatted as a single-column manuscript according to the new workflow for ACM publications. The templates and instructions are available here: https://www.acm.org/publications/taps/word-template-workflow <https://www.acm.org/publications/taps/word-template-workflow>.  
Available templates include:

LaTeX (use \documentclass[manuscript,review,anonymous]{acmart} in the sample-authordraft.tex file for single-column):
https://www.acm.org/binaries/content/assets/publications/consolidated-tex-template/acmart-primary.zip <https://www.acm.org/binaries/content/assets/publications/consolidated-tex-template/acmart-primary.zip>
Overleaf (use \documentclass[manuscript,review,anonymous]{acmart} for single-column):
https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/acm-conference-proceedings-master-template/pnrfvrrdbfwt <https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/acm-conference-proceedings-master-template/pnrfvrrdbfwt>
MS Word:
https://www.acm.org/binaries/content/assets/publications/taps/acm_submission_template.docx <https://www.acm.org/binaries/content/assets/publications/taps/acm_submission_template.docx>  

Note: Accepted papers will be subject to a further revision to meet the requirements of camera-ready format required by ACM. We strongly recommend the usage of LaTeX/Overleaf for the camera-ready papers to minimize the extent of reformatting. Users of the Word template must use a recent version Microsoft Word(Windows: Word 2007 or above, Mac: Word 2011 or above; other formats such as Open Office, etc., are not admitted) for the camera-ready submission to avoid incompatibility issues. Instructions for the preparation of the camera-ready versions of accepted papers will be provided after acceptance. This might include instructions to prepare a video of the accepted contribution.
Authors are strongly encouraged to provide “alt text” (alternative text) for floats (images, tables, etc.) in their content so that readers with disabilities can be given descriptive information for these floats that are important to the work. The descriptive text will be displayed in place of a float if the float cannot be loaded. This benefits the author as well as it broadens the reader base for the author’s work. Moreover, the alt text provides in-depth float descriptions to search engine crawlers, which helps to properly index these floats. Additionally, authors should follow the ACM Accessibility Recommendations for Publishing in Color and SIG ACCESS guidelines on describing figures.
Should you have any questions or issues going through the instructions above, please contact support at acmtexsupport at aptaracorp.com <mailto:acmtexsupport at aptaracorp.com> for both LaTeX and Microsoft Word inquiries.
Accepted papers will be later submitted to ACM’s new production platform where authors will be able to review PDF and HTML output formats before publication. 
Submissions must be made through the EasyChair conference system prior to the specified deadline (all deadlines refer to GMT). 
All accepted papers will be published by ACM within the UMAP 2022 adjunct proceedings and will be available via the ACM Digital Library. 
At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the particular workshop and present the paper there. 
 
 
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IMPORTANT DATES
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* Full paper submission: April 15 April 22, 2022
* Paper notification: May 11, 2022
* Camera-ready paper: May 18, 2022
 
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ORGANIZATION
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Federica Lucia Vinella - Utrecht University, The Netherlands
Amra Delić - University of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Francesco Barile -  Maastricht University, The Netherlands
Ioanna Lykourentzou - Utrecht University, The Netherlands
Judith Masthoff - Utrecht University, The Netherlands