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CALL FOR PAPERS
User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction:
The Journal of Personalization Research
Special Issue on USER MODELLING TO SUPPORT GROUPS, COMMUNITIES, AND
COLLABORATION
http://www.ia.uned.es/~elena/umuai-special-issue/
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Multi-user environments provide the necessary tools to allow
individuals to communicate and share information. Examples of such
environments can be found in computer supported collaborative work,
learning management systems, communities of common interests, and
peer-to-peer systems.
Because of the great number and diversity of users and types of
information, the system should facilitate users'
interaction. Supporting users in multi-user adaptive environments
requires an understanding of the interaction that takes place, which is
shaped not only by the individuals' characteristics, but also the
group members' individual behaviors, their relationships, and the
dynamics of their interaction.
The new information to be represented includes information about the
users and groups, and the collaboration and relationships between
users. These models could then be used for different purposes (e.g.,
supporting collaboration, supporting group awareness in multi-user
environments and sustainability of groups) and in different areas
(e.g. collaborative environments, communities of common interest or
multi-agent environments).
To encourage researchers to report on the construction and application
of user models and group models, we are calling for contributions to a
special issue of User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction: The
Journal of Personalization Research (UMUAI) (http://www.umuai.org/).
Topics of interests include, but are not limited to: group model
specifications, usage data acquisition and representation, analysis of
interactions, modeling social relationships in groups, support for
coordination in cooperative multi-agent systems, support for
coordination, motivation and group decision in collaborative
environments, multi-user plan recognition, evaluation of collaboration
within multi-user collaborative scenarios, social network learning and
analysis, analysis of interactions within peer-to-peer environments,
and support to group awareness.
ABOUT UMUAI
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User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction (UMUAI) publishes mature
and substantiated research results on the (dynamic) adaptation of
computer systems to their human users, and the role that the system's
model of the user plays in this context. Papers that present untested
research ideas are not ready to be submitted to UMUAI. Instead, these
ideas should first be presented at workshops to get feedback from
colleagues. Once you can demonstrate ideas that are backed up by
results, then they are ready for UMUAI. These results may be generated
by building a (partial) computer implementation and from that, either
analyze its behavior, run empirical experiments, or analyze the idea
using formal means. Many articles in UMUAI are therefore quite
comprehensive and describe the results of several years of
work. Consequently, UMUAI gives "unlimited" space to authors (as long
as what they write is important) and also does not mind if research
that is being submitted to UMUAI has been previously published in bits
and pieces at workshops and conferences (as long as the synthesis
provides significant new insights).
UMUAI has been published since 1991 by Kluwer Academic Publishers (now
merged with Springer Verlag). Based on the ISI impact factor, the
journal is currently ranked #6 among 451 Computer Science journals
(#20 in 2002).
SUBMISSIONS
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Detailed instructions for the submission of manuscripts can be found
via the journal home page http://www.umuai.org. When submitting,
please make it clear that your manuscript is to be considered for the
special issue on User Modelling to support groups, communties and
collaboration.
Potential authors are encouraged to submit a tentative title and
abstract to the guest editors by Sept. 1, 2005. This information will
help us to advise authors on the suitability of the planned paper, and
will help the journal to set up a well-qualified team of reviewers for
the issue and to send further relevant information to authors as it
becomes available.
*****SUBMISSION DEADLINE OCTOBER 1, 2005******
REVIEW PROCESS
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Submissions will undergo the normal review process, and will be
reviewed by three established researchers selected from a panel of
reviewers formed for the special issue.
GUEST EDITORS
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Elena Gaudioso
Artificial Intelligence Department
UNED, Madrid, Spain
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Amy Soller
Institute for Defense Analyses
Science and Technology Division
Washington, USA
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Julita Vassileva
Department of Computer Science
University of Saskatchewan,
Saskatoon, Canada
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Dpto. Inteligencia Artificial Fax: +34-1-3988895
UNED. Juan del Rosal,16 mailto:[log in to unmask]
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