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CALL FOR PAPERS
2nd WORKSHOP ON CONTEXT-AWARENESS IN RETRIEVAL AND
RECOMMENDATION (CARR 2012) in conjunction with IUI 2012
February 14, 2012 - Lisbon, Portugal
http://carr-workshop.org
General Information:
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Following the successful 2011 Workshop on Context-awareness
in Retrieval and Recommendation we are delighted to invite
you to the second installment which will be held in
conjunction with the 2012 Conference on Intelligent User
Interfaces.
Context-aware information is widely available in various
ways such as interaction patterns, location, devices,
annotations, query suggestions and user profiles and is
becoming more and more important for enhancing retrieval
performance and recommendation results. At the moment, the
main issue to cope with is not only recommending or
retrieving the most relevant items and content, but defining
them ad-hoc. Further relevant issues are personalizing and
adapting the information and the way it is displayed to the
user’s current situation (device, location) and interests.
In this workshop we focus on the integration of context for
retrieval and recommendation. We recognize a general content
context and a user-centric content context. A general
content context is a common case defined by time, weather,
location and many similar other aspects. A user-centric
content context is given by the content of user profiles
such as language, interests, devices used for interaction,
etc.
Important Dates:
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* Paper submission [EXTENDED]: January 6th, 2012
* Notification: January 20th, 2012
* Camera-ready submission: January 27th, 2012
* Workshop: February 14th, 2012
Call for Papers:
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The aim of the CaRR Workshop is to invite the community to a
discussion in which we will try to find new creative ways to
handle context-awareness. Furthermore, the workshop aims at
improving the exchange of ideas between different
communities involved in research concerning, among other
HCI, machine learning, information retrieval and
recommendation.
The workshop is especially intended for researchers working
on multidisciplinary tasks who want to discuss problems and
synergies.
The participants are encouraged to address the following
questions:
* Which benefits come from context-aware retrieval and
recommendation systems?
* How do user interfaces handle context?
* In what ways can context improve HCI?
* How can we combine general- and user-centric context-aware
technologies?
* How should context affect the way information is
presented?
* Which new means for collecting user feedback does UbiComp
provide?
* What new type of items (beyond books, news and movies) are
worth recommending by means of context-aware systems (e.g.
places, friends, apps)?
The topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the
following aspects:
* Context-aware information retrieval
* Context-aware profiling, clustering and collaborative
filtering
* Machine learning for context-aware information retrieval
and ontology learning
* Ubiquitous and context-aware computing
* Use of context-aware technologies in UI/HCI
* Context-aware advertising
* Recommendations for mobile users
* Context-awareness in portable devices
Paper submissions and reviews will be handled electronically
through the CaRR page in EasyChair (which will be made
available at a later point in time).
Organizers and Committees:
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General Chairs (
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* Ernesto William De Luca - TU-Berlin
* Matthias Böhmer - German Research Center for Artificial
Intelligence (DFKI)
* Alan Said - TU-Berlin
* Ed Chi - Google Inc.
Program Committee:
* Omar Alonso - Microsoft, USA
* Hideki Asoh - AISt, Japan
* Tim Hussein - University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
* Linas Baltrunas - Telefonica Research, Spain
* Toine Bogers - Royal School of Library Information
Science, Denmark
* Li Chen - Hong Kong Baptist University, China
* Karen Church - Telefonica Research, Spain
* Marco Degemmis - University of Bari “Aldo Moro”, Italy
* Ido Guy - IBM, Israel
* Brijnesh-Johannes Jain - TU-Berlin, Germany
* Dietmar Jannach - TU-Dortmund, Germany
* Alexandros Karatzoglou - Telefonica Research, Spain
* Carsten Kessler - University of Münster, Germany
* Alfred Kobsa, UC Irvine, USA
* Antonio Krüger - DFKI, Saarbrücken, Germany
* Michael Kruppa - DFKI, Berlin, Germany
* Martha Larson - TU-Delft, The Netherlands
* Ulf Leser - Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany
* Pasquale Lops - University of Bari “Aldo Moro”, Italy
* Petteri Nurmi - HIIT, Finnland
* Till Plumbaum - TU-Berlin, Germany
* Francesco Ricci - Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
* Markus Schedl - Johannes Kepler University, Austria
* Armando Stellato - University of Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy
* Domonkos Tikk - Gravity, Hungary