-- Sincere apologies for cross postings --
Call for Participation.
Please note that registration is open for The 2nd ACM International
Conference on Recommender Systems(RecSys'08)
Date/Venue: October 23-25, 2008 / Lausanne, Switzerland
!!! EARLY REGISTRATION DEADLINE: AUG 28th, 2008 !!!
For further details see: http://recsys.acm.org/registration.html
We are pleased to invite you once again to participate in this
premier annual event on research and applications of recommender
technologies. Some details of the key highlights are provided below.
Keynote speaker Andrei Z. Broder (Fellow & VP Computational
Advertising Yahoo! Research, USA) will give a talk on “Computational
Advertising and Recommender Systems”. The main part of this talk will
give an introduction to computational advertising and present some
illustrative research. In the second part he will discuss connections
to recommender systems and present a couple of open problems of
potential interest to both communities.
24 selected full papers will be presented at the main conference,
covering themes such as: Social Networks and Recommenders, User
Studies, Conversational Systems, Robust Recommenders, Collaborative
Filtering, and Hybrid Systems. In addition, 18 further papers will be
presented as short papers and or as posters/demos.
Also, the RecSys08 Doctoral Symposium provides an opportunity for
doctoral students to explore and develop their research interests in
an interdisciplinary workshop, under the guidance of a panel of
distinguished research faculty.
The following tutorials will take place on the first day of the
conference:
1) “Robust Recommender Systems” - Robin Burke
2) “Recent Progress in Collaborative Filtering” - Yehuda Koren
3) “Context-Aware Recommender Systems” - Gedas Adomavicius and Alex
Tuzhilin
Of course, a major highlight at RecSys’08 will be the presentation of
those projects that have been selected by Strands Inc. as the “best
early stage project in the area of recommendation technologies”. As
part of RecSys08 five finalists have been invited to present their
projects to the judging panel. The winner will be announced at the
RecSys gala dinner and they will receive a $100,000 investment in the
form of a convertible loan from Strands Inc.! Further details
relating this are available at: http://recommender-startups.strands.com.
Full program details and practical information can be found at the
RecSys’08 conference website http://recsys.acm.org. Looking forward
to seeing you in Lausanne.
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ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
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Pearl Pu, General Chair,
Ecole Polytechnique Fèdèrale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland
Bamshad Mobasher, Program Co-Chair,
DePaul University, USA
Francesco Ricci, Program Co-Chair,
Free University Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
Derek Bridge, Short Papers Chair,
University College Cork, Ireland
Francisco Martin, Industry Program Co-Chair,
Strands, Inc.
Shail Patel, Industry Program Co-Chair,
Unilever UK
Alexander Felfernig, Doctoral Symposium Co-Chair,
Klagenfurt University, Austria
Joseph A. Konstan, Doctoral Symposium Co-Chair,
University of Minnesota, United States
Lorraine McGinty, Publicity Chair,
UCD Dublin, Ireland
Yuan Chun Shi, Asia Liaison,
Tsinghua University, China
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