DEADLINE EXTENDED
Industry Track at UMAP 2009
The 17th International Conference in User Modeling, Adaptation, and
Personalization
http://umap09.fbk.eu
June 22-26, 2009, Trento, Italy
Important Dates
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February 9, 2009: Submission of Industry Track papers (extended deadline)
March 9, 2009: Notification to authors
March 30, 2009: Submission of final versions
The Industry Track
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In recent years, user modeling, adaptation, and personalization
technologies have increasingly moved from the realm of research into
industrial and governmental applications. Academic researchers have
started companies to commercialize UMAP technologies; industrial
research labs have embraced this research area by exploring a range
of practice-driven ideas; and companies have invested in UMAP
technologies and demonstrated their commercial value. At the same
time, people have shown increasing interest in products and services
that adapt to their personal tastes and needs, creating a wide range
of application areas for new technologies and services.
As a consequence, the UMAP field is finding more and more ways of
integrating techniques from multiple disciplines (such as data
mining, HCI, cognitive science and sociology) for new types of
real-world application.
To support this trend, a special Industry Track is being organized as
part of UMAP 2009. The goal of the track is to provide a forum,
focused on real-world scenarios, for exchanging ideas between
industry and academia.
The UMAP 2009 Industry Track seeks to:
- showcase high-quality research results stemming from practical
industrial deployment of techniques and applications of user modeling
and personalization
- highlight challenges, lessons, concerns, and research issues
related to user modeling and personalization in real-world scenarios
(such as customer privacy issues, analysis of data not generally
available in academia, and issues of scale that arise in a corporate
setting)
Industry Track submissions must describe work performed in industry
or concerning specific industrial applications. They will typically
include at least one industry author.
The Industry Track program committee invites submissions in four areas:
- Emerging applications and technology
- Case studies of UMAP deployment
- Comparative studies of UMAP technology
- Pragmatic issues and research considerations involved in fielding
real applications
Emerging application and technology papers discuss prototype
applications, tools for focused domains or tasks, useful techniques
or methods, useful system architectures, scalability enablers, tool
evaluations, or the integration of UMAP and other technologies.
Case studies describe UMAP deployment projects with measurable
benefits. Such papers need to demonstrate the importance and impact
of the work clearly.
Comparative studies compare and contrast UMAP technologies using
specific examples (without serving as product advertisements).
Pragmatic issues and research considerations include important
practical and research considerations, approaches, and architectures
that enable successful applications.
The primary emphasis is on papers that advance our understanding of
practical, applied, or pragmatic issues and highlight new research
challenges in real UMAP applications. Authors should explain why the
application is important, describe any resulting innovations, and
summarize the lessons learned.
The papers should be formatted according to the conference style).
Industry Track submissions may be either full-length papers (12
pages), whose technical density should be comparable to that of
research submissions, or short papers (6 pages). The papers should be
submitted through EasyChair system
(https://www.easychair.org/login.cgi?conf=umap09). While the paper
deadline has been extended, we request the authors to submit the
abstracts at their early convenience, preferably by February 2, 2009
so that paper allocation can be done early. Accepted papers will
appear along with Research Papers in the conference proceedings
published in the Springer LNCS series.
About UMAP
==========
The biennial conference series User Modeling (UM, 1986-2007) and
Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web-Based Systems (AH, 2000-2008)
have been merged into the annual conference series User Modeling,
Adaptation, and Personalization (UMAP).
UMAP is the most important conference for those interested in any
aspect of (interaction with) systems that acquire information about a
user (or group of users) so as to be able to adapt their behavior to
that user or group.
In addition to the Industry track, UMAP 2009 will feature a regular
research track, several interesting workshops and tutorials, Doctoral
Consortium, system demonstrations and the following invited speakers:
Susan Dumais, Microsoft Research, USA
Alessandro Vinciarelli, Idiap Research Institute, Switzerland
Vincent Wade, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
Among conference workshops, which will be of interest to industrial
researchers are:
Adaptation and Personalization for Web 2.0 (half-day)
Organizers:
Carlo Tasso, Antonina Dattolo, Rosta Farzan, Styliani
Kleanthous, David Bueno Vallejo, and Julita Vassileva
Lifelong User Modelling
Organizers:
Judy Kay and Bob Kummerfeld
Personalization in Mobile and Pervasive Computing
Organizers:
Doreen Cheng, Kinshuk, Alfred Kobsa, Kurt Partridge, and
Zhiwen Yu
Ubiquitous User Modeling
Organizers:
Shlomo Berkovsky, Francesca Carmagnola, Dominikus Heckmann,
and Tsvi Kuflik
User-Centred Design and Evaluation of Adaptive Systems
Organizers:
Stephan Weibelzahl, Judith Masthoff, Alexandros Paramythis,
and Lex van Velsen
Industry Track Chairs
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Peter Brusilovsky, University of Pittsburgh, U.S.A.
Alejandro Jaimes, Telefonica Research, Spain
Industry Track Program Committee
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Mauro Barbieri (Philips Research, The Netherlands)
Mathias Bauer (Mineway, Germany)
Ron Bekkerman (HP Labs, USA)
Daniel Billsus (Shopping.com, USA)
Elizabeth Churchill (Yahoo! Research, USA)
Enrique Frias-Martinez (Telefonica Research, Spain)
Gustavo Gonzalez-Sanchez (Mediapro R&D, Spain)
Ido Guy (IBM Research, Israel)
William Clancey (NASA, USA)
Ashish Kapoor (Microsoft Research, USA)
Ravi Kumar (Yahoo! Research, USA)
Paul Lamere (Sun Microsystems, USA)
Greg Linden (Microsoft, USA)
Jiebo Luo (Kodak Research Lab, USA)
Francisco Martin (MyStrands, USA)
Andreas Nauerz (IBM, Germany)
Nuria Oliver (Telefonica Research, Spain)
Igor Perisic (LinkedIN, USA)
Jeremy Pickens (FXPAL, USA)
Prakash Reddy (HP Labs, USA)
Christoph Rensing (HTTC, Germany)
John Riedl (University of Minnesota, USA)
Monica Rogati (LinkedIN, USA)
Doree Duncan Seligmann (Avaya Labs, USA)
Xuehua Shen (Google, USA)
Malcolm Slaney (Yahoo! Research, USA)
Barry Smyth (UCD and ChangingWorlds, Ireland)
Neel Sundaresan (E-bay Laboratories, USA)
Ryen White (Microsoft Research, USA)
Cong Yu (Yahoo! Research, USA)
Michelle Zhou (IBM Research, China)
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