Last CfP: Intl. Workshop on Reommendation and Collaboration ReColl'08

CALL FOR PAPERS

**submission deadline approaching**

International Workshop on Recommendation and Collaboration (ReColl) 
(in conjunction with IUI 2008) 
Canary Islands, Spain 
13 January 2008 

http://isweb.uni-koblenz.de/recoll2008 

Topics of interest 

This workshop aims to identify emerging trends in recommendation
technology and collaborative environments in the context of
intelligent user interfaces. We will explore these two topics
separately and the synergies between them. 

Recommendation: 
In recent years, recommender technology has become a popular component
of web-based commerce sites. With the growth of the social web,
increasing mobility, and the rise of software as a service, a variety
of new opportunities are opening for the application of recommender
technology. These, and other trends, are driving a number of advances
in this area. This workshop will give researchers in the area of 
recommender technology an opportunity to come together and discuss the
"next generation" of research problems to be addressed. Emphasis will
be on both the collaborative aspects of recommender systems, as well
as other appropriate technologies, such as knowledge-based systems. 

Topics that may be covered include: 
- Applications of recommender technology 
- Hybrid recommender technologies 
- Combining social networking systems and recommender systems 
- Knowledge-based recommenders 
- Evaluation approaches 
- Intelligent and adaptive interfaces 
- Semantic web technologies and recommender systems 
- User intent and preference modeling 
- Recommendation as a service 
- Mathematical validity vs. scalability of algorithms 
- Explanations and other mechanisms to increase user confidence 

Collaboration: 
Modern collaborative environments enable large groups of users to
share data and memories, different views about events, ratings about
web sites or products, and models of user behavior. The internet, the
World Wide Web (WWW) and modern peer-to-peer technology provide an
infrastructure on top of which a variety of communication channels and
collaborative environments have been established. Successful examples
of collaborative environments include Web 2.0 content sharing systems
(such as Flickr, YouTube and Del.icio.us), recommender systems for
products or other resources, peer-to-peer content sharing systems, and
collaborative assistance systems. Design of novel interfaces for
better supporting collaboration scenarios has been intensively studied
in the recent research. Our workshop reverses the common problem
definition and poses the novel question: how can intelligent user
interfaces benefit from user collaboration? 

Topics of discussion include, but are not limited to: 
- Combination and representation of content from different sources 
- Evidence combination for assistance interfaces 
- Interface personalization in collaborative environments 
- Summarization of content from different sources 
- Collaborative methods for personalized web search and retrieval
interfaces 
- Combination of decision models from multiple users 
- Collaborative methods for Web 2.0 applications 
- Collaborative recommender systems 
- Security and privacy aspects of collaborative interfaces 

Submission instructions 

Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished contributions that
are not being 
considered for publication or presentation in any other forum.  ReColl
2008 submissions 
should be prepared according to the standard SIGCHI publications format: 

Submissions must be in PDF format. All papers must be submitted
electronically via the Workshop Review site. You can continue to
upload revised copies up until the deadline. Submission formats
include research papers (up to 8 pages), 2-page position papers, or 1- 
2 page descriptions of demonstrations. ReColl does not use blind
review, so please include authors' names and affiliations on your
submission. Authors should explicitly specify the type of submission
(full paper, position paper, or demo paper).

Submissions will be judged according to their scientific merits and
evaluated on significance, originality, technical quality, and
exposition. At least one author per accepted submission is required to
register for IUI 2008 workshop day at the full rate and to present the 
contribution in the workshop. 

All accepted submissions will appear in the IUI workshop proceedings. 
Workshop proceedings will be published in the CEUR Workshop
Proceedings Series (CEUR-WS.org, ISSN 1613-0073) which is indexed by
services such as DLBP. 

Important Dates 

All submissions: November 19, 2007 (5pm US EDT, 2100 UTC) 
Notification to authors: December 03, 2007 
Camera-ready version due: December 13, 2007 
Workshop date: January 13, 2008 

Organizers 

Lawrence Bergman, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA 
Jihie Kim, University of Southern California, USA 
Bamshad Mobasher, DePaul University, USA 
Stefan Rueger, Open University, Knowledge Media Institute, UK 
Stefan Siersdorfer, University of Sheffield, UK 
Sergej Sizov, University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany 
Markus Stolze, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA 

Program Committee 

Rangachari Anand, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA 
Jim Blythe, University of Southern California, ISI, USA 
Robin Burke, DePaul University, USA 
Alexander Felfernig, University Klagenfurt, Austria 
Georg Groh, TU Muenchen, Germany 
Anthony Jameson, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence 
(DFKI), Germany 
Andreas Nauerz, IBM Research and Development, Germany 
Claudia Perlich, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA 
Stefan Pietschmann, TU Dresden, Germany 
Pearl Pu, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EFPL), Switzerland 
Francesco Ricci, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy 
Barry Smyth, University College, Dublin, Ireland 
Wolfgang Woerndl, TU Muenchen, Germany


http://isweb.uni-koblenz.de/recoll2008