RE: Workshop on Case Based Reasoning and Personalization at ECCBR - Updated Deadlines !

I hate it when this happens - but:

the new deadline is June 28th. Apparently the old deadline was still
mentioned somwehere in the text. The websites are currently being upd=
ated.

Sorry for this.

Regards,
Mehmet

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mehmet H. G=F6ker [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Monday, June 17, 2002 1:58 PM
> To: AI-CBR
> Cc: Padraig Cunningham; Barry. Com; Ralph Bergmann; David Leake
> Subject: Workshop on Case Based Reasoning and Personalization at EC=
CBR -
> Updated Deadlines !
>
>
>
> Aplologies if you receive multiple copies of this.
> Based on feedback from interested colleagues, we decided to change =
the
> deadlines.
>
> The workshop website is at : http://www.cs.tcd.ie/cbrpws/
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Mehmet Goker
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Call for Participation
> Workshop on Case Based Reasoning and Personalization
> ECCBR 2002
> September 4th, 2002
> Aberdeen, Scotland
>
>
> With information becoming a commodity and access to data becoming
> ubiquitous, computer users are increasingly faced with the problem =
of
> locating information relevant and interesting to them rather than d=
ata in
> general. Customizing data access, retrieval, processing and display
> according to the users=92 preferences is the main task of current
> personalization systems. These systems obtain user preferences thro=
ugh
> interactions with users, summarize these preferences in a user
> model and use
> this model to adapt and generate customized information or behavior=
. They
> deliver the customized results in the manner that is most
> desirable for the
> current user, thereby increasing the quality of both the
> interaction and the
> generated result.
>
> Case Based Reasoning has been used in a variety of application area=
s to
> retrieve relevant information. While typical personalization approa=
ches on
> the Internet focus on computing similarities between users of the s=
ites,
> leaving the actual content out of scope, CBR typically focuses on t=
he
> content, rather than on providing information based on user
> characteristics.
> Initial applications of CBR concentrate primarily on the
> application-specific customization of retrieval and adaptation, and=
 not on
> retrieving and delivering user dependent, customized information. W=
ith the
> advent of personalization, a new direction of CBR research and syst=
ems has
> appeared. The developed personalized CBR systems adapt their knowle=
dge
> containers according to the characteristics of individual users (or=
 user
> groups) in addition to the application area.
>
> The use of CBR methods for personalization and the development of h=
ybrid
> systems have introduced a need to integrate case-based methods with
> alternative techniques such as collaborative filtering. This worksh=
op
> intends to bring together researchers from both the
> Personalization and CBR
> communities to discuss and share their ideas and to demonstrate dev=
eloped
> systems.
>
> Date : =09September 4th , 2002 (afternoon)
> Duration: =093 hrs.
>
> Format:
> One provocative, invited speaker from an adjacent community: 20 min=
utes
> Discussion: 25 minutes
>
> 3 system presentations : 30 minutes, discussion 30 minutes
> 3 research presentations: 30 minutes, discussion 30 minutes
>
> 15 minutes frantically trying to summarize.
>
> Participation:
> The seven presentations at the workshop will be by invitation only.=
 The
> selection of presenters will be based on their experience and the
> relevance
> of their work in the area of personalization and/or case-based
> reasoning as
> well as the suggestions of interested participants. The system
> presentations
> will feature live demonstrations and analyses of the effects of
> personalization on system behavior and user response.  Each present=
er will
> prepare an accompanying invited paper to be published in the worksh=
op
> proceedings.
>
> Colleagues interested in participating in the workshop should
> submit either
> a two-page position paper (in Springer LNCS format
> http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html , as postscript or PD=
F) or a
> brief statement of interest in plain text, and may propose up to tw=
o
> researchers/practitioners that they would like to have present at t=
he
> workshop. The position papers will ensure active participation of t=
he
> registered colleagues and also act as a survey of current
> activities in the
> field. Accepted position papers will be made available on the works=
hop web
> site (http://www.cs.tcd.ie/cbrpws/ ). All workshop participants mus=
t
> register for ECCBR 2002  (http://www.scms.rgu.ac.uk/eccbr2002/ ).
>
> Participation to the workshop will be limited to 45 persons. The se=
lection
> of the participants will be based on the position papers and statem=
ents of
> interest.
>
> Position papers, statements of interest, and names of potential spe=
akers
> must be emailed to [email protected] by 28 Jun 2002.
>
> The invited papers will be made available to registered
> participants on the
> workshop website three weeks before the workshop. This ensures that=
 the
> participants are informed and will facilitate interesting
> discussions during
> the workshop.
>
>
> Dates:
> June 28th, 2002 =09Deadline for submission of position papers.
> July 5th, 2002=09Notice of acceptance of position papers
> July 5th, 2002=09Announcement of invited speakers
> July 15th, 2002=09Deadline for final version of position papers
> July 22th, 2002=09Position papers are made available on the website
> August 9th, 2002=09=09Invited papers are made available
> on the website.
> September 4th, 2002 =09Workshop (afternoon)
>
> Program Committee:
>
> Ralph Bergmann [email protected]
> P=E1draig [email protected]
> Mehmet G=F6ker (Chair)[email protected]
> David [email protected]
> Barry Smyth (Chair)[email protected]
>
>
>
>