Workshop on CBR and Personalization at EECBR 2002

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The workshop website is at : http://www.cs.tcd.ie/cbrpws/

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Mehmet Goker

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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 data in
general. Customizing data access, retrieval, processing and display
according to the users’ preferences is the main task of current
personalization systems. These systems obtain user preferences through
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 areas to
retrieve relevant information. While typical personalization approaches on
the Internet focus on computing similarities between users of the sites,
leaving the actual content out of scope, CBR typically focuses on the
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. With the
advent of personalization, a new direction of CBR research and systems has
appeared. The developed personalized CBR systems adapt their knowledge
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 hybrid
systems have introduced a need to integrate case-based methods with
alternative techniques such as collaborative filtering. This workshop
intends to bring together researchers from both the Personalization and CBR
communities to discuss and share their ideas and to demonstrate developed
systems.

Date : 	September 4th , 2002 (afternoon)
Duration: 	3 hrs.

Format:
One provocative, invited speaker from an adjacent community: 20 minutes
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 presenter will
prepare an accompanying invited paper to be published in the workshop
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 PDF) or a
brief statement of interest in plain text, and may propose up to two
researchers/practitioners that they would like to have present at the
workshop. The position papers will ensure active participation of the
registered colleagues and also act as a survey of current activities in the
field. Accepted position papers will be made available on the workshop web
site (http://www.cs.tcd.ie/cbrpws/ ). All workshop participants must
register for ECCBR 2002  (http://www.scms.rgu.ac.uk/eccbr2002/ ).

Participation to the workshop will be limited to 45 persons. The selection
of the participants will be based on the position papers and statements of
interest.

Position papers, statements of interest, and names of potential speakers
must be emailed to [email protected] by 7 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 7th, 2002 	Deadline for submission of position papers.
June 14th, 2002	Notice of acceptance of position papers
July 5th, 2002	Announcement of invited speakers
July 5th, 2002	Deadline for final version of position papers
July 15th, 2002	Position papers are made available on the website
August 9th, 2002		Invited papers are made available on the website.
September 4th, 2002 	Workshop (afternoon)

Program Committee:

Ralph Bergmann 		[email protected]
Pádraig Cunningham	[email protected]
Mehmet Göker (Chair)	[email protected]
David Leake			[email protected]
Barry Smyth (Chair)	[email protected]