==================================================================== 2nd CALL FOR PAPERS for the 6th Workshop on RECOMMENDER SYSTEMS AND THE SOCIAL WEB (RSWeb 2014) Held in conjunction with ACM RecSys'14 in October in Foster City, Silicon Valley, CA * http://ls13-www.cs.uni-dortmund.de/homepage/rsweb2014/ Paper submission deadline: *** 21 July, 2014 *** ==================================================================== The exponential growth of the Social Web poses challenges and new opportunities for recommender systems. The Social Web has turned information consumers into active contributors creating massive amounts of information. Finding relevant and interesting content at the right time and in the right context is challenging for existing recommender approaches. At the same time, social systems by their definition encourage interaction between users and both online content and other users, thus generating new sources of knowledge for recommender systems. Web 2.0 users explicitly provide personal information and implicitly express preferences through their interactions with others and the system (e.g. commenting, friending, rating, etc.). These various new sources of knowledge can be leveraged to improve recommendation techniques and develop new strategies which focus on social recommendation. The Social Web provides huge opportunities for recommender technology and in turn recommender technologies can play a part in fuelling the success of the Social Web phenomenon. The goal of this workshop is to bring together researcher and practitioners to explore, discuss, and understand challenges and new opportunities for recommender systems and the Social Web. TOPICS OF INTEREST ================== We solicit original contributions in the following areas: * Social network and folksonomy development: Recommending friends, tags, bookmarks, blogs, music, communities etc. * Leveraging models of user behavior on the Social Web for recommendation * Recommender systems mash-ups, intelligent user interfaces, rich media recommender systems * Collaborative knowledge authoring, collective intelligence * Topic emergence and evolution on the Social Web and their role in recommendation process * Recommender applications involving users or groups directly in the recommendation process * Exploiting folksonomies, social network information, user interactions, and communities in the recommendation process * The role of context in Social Web recommendation * Trust and reputation aware social recommendations * Semantic Web recommender systems, use of ontologies or microformats * Empirical evaluation of social recommender techniques, success and failure measures * Case studies and novel fielded social recommender applications * Economy of community-based systems: Using recommenders to encourage users to contribute and sustain participation * Social recommender systems in the enterprise * Recommendation for groups * Processing big Social Web data volumes for recommendation, scalability issues We also encourage submissions which relate research results from other areas to the workshop topics. WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS =================== * Dietmar Jannach, Department of Computer Science, TU Dortmund, Germany * Jill Freyne, CSIRO ICT Center, Australia * Werner Geyer, IBM Research, Cambridge, MA, USA * Ido Guy, IBM Research, Haifa, Israel * Andreas Hotho, Universität Würzburg, Germany * Bamshad Mobasher, School of Computing, DePaul University, USA SUBMISSIONS AND STYLE ===================== We solicit short and long papers as well as research demos on all aspects of recommender systems in the Social Web. Papers should be formatted according to the style guide of RecSys'14. Long papers present original research work and can be of up to 8 pages in length. Short papers report on work in progress and can have up to 4 pages. Presenters of demo systems are asked to submit short papers describing their system. Papers should be submitted in PDF format through the EasyChair system at https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rsweb2014. Paper selection will be based on a peer review process; author names and affiliations should be included in the paper. At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the workshop. Information about registration is provided at the RecSys 2014 Web page: http://recsys.acm.org/recsys14/ IMPORTANT DATES =============== 21 July, 2014 : Paper submission 21 August, 2014 : Author notification 3 September, 2014 : Camera-ready papers October 2014 : Workshop held Question and inquiries: [log in to unmask] --------------------------------------------------------------- For news of CHI books, courses & software, join CHI-RESOURCES mailto: [log in to unmask] To unsubscribe from CHI-ANNOUNCEMENTS send an email to mailto:[log in to unmask] For further details of CHI lists see http://listserv.acm.org ---------------------------------------------------------------