CfP: 18th Int'l Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation, and Personalization
UMAP 2010 -- 18th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON
USER MODELING, ADAPTATION, AND PERSONALIZATION
Big Island of Hawaii, June 20-24, 2010
http://www.hawaii.edu/UMAP2010/
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
UMAP is the premier international conference for researchers and
practitioners working on systems that adapt to their individual users,
or to groups of users, and collect and represent information about users
for this purpose. UMAP is the successor to the biannual User Modeling
<http://bistrica.usask.ca/UM/conferences_previous.html> and Adaptive
Hypermedia
<http://bistrica.usask.ca/UM/conferences_previous.html> conferences that
were merged in 2009. It is organized under the auspices of User Modeling
Inc <http://www.um.org/>.
TOPICS
The conference spans, but is not restricted to, the following topics:
- Purposes of UMAP: personalizing information, recommending products,
tailoring search results, enhancing learning outcomes, personalizing
help, assuming routine tasks, adapting interfaces, ...
- User characteristics for UMAP: knowledge and skills, interests and
preferences, special needs, affective states, goals and plans, contexts
of use, roles, cultural characteristics, ...
- Application domains for UMAP: e-commerce, e-learning, cultural
heritage, healthcare, assistive technologies, digital libraries, office
work, recommender systems, targeted advertisement, digital TV, ...
- Environments for UMAP: web-based systems (including the
semantic/social Web), desktop systems, groupware systems, mobile
and wearable systems, smart environments, smart objects, virtual
environments, ...
- Computational methods for UMAP: data collection, user model extraction
and representation, adaptation methods, architectures for UMAP, ...
- Evaluation of UMAP: requirements specification, formative evaluation,
user testing, validation, performance tests, ...
- Practical aspects of UMAP: privacy and security, cost-justifying UMAP,
integrating UMAP, valuing user experience, ...
SUBMISSION CATEGORIES
WORKSHOP PROPOSALS (due Nov. 23, 2009)
Workshop proposals (3 pages) should outline the area, goals, scope and
format of the workshop, introducing also the members of the organizing
team and their backgrounds. Preference will be given to workshops
that aim to produce answers to one or more explicitly
formulated questions and that involve interactive presentations
and constructive work, as opposed to "miniconferences" that
comprise mainly paper presentations.
TUTORIAL PROPOSALS (due Nov. 23, 2009)
Tutorial proposals (3 pages) should describe the topic of the tutorial
and its importance, the intended style of presentation, and
the instructor's qualifications. Conference participants can attend
tutorials at no extra charge. Tutorial instructors will receive a
complementary conference registration.
RESEARCH PAPERS (abstracts due Jan. 11, 2010; full papers Jan. 18)
- Long research papers (12 pages maximum) should present original
reports of substantive new research. They should place the work
within the field, and clearly indicate its innovative aspects and its
significance.
- Short research papers (6 pages) should present original
and unpublished highly promising research, whose merit will be assessed
in terms of originality and importance rather than maturity and
technical validation.
Both categories will be strictly kept apart in the review process. Only
in extremely unusual circumstances can long papers be relegated to the
short paper category.
INDUSTRY PAPERS (abstracts due Jan. 11, 2010; full papers Jan. 18)
The Industry Track solicits submissions covering innovative commercial
implementations or applications of UMAP technologies, and experience in
applying recent research advances to practical situations. Submissions
may be either long papers (12 pages maximum) whose technical density
should be comparable to that of research track submissions, or short
papers (6 pages). Industry Track submissions must describe work
performed in industry or concern industrial applications, and will
typically include at least one industry author.
DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM PAPERS (due Jan. 18, 2010)
The Doctoral Consortium is a forum for Ph.D. students to get feedback
and advice from the Doctoral Consortium committee. Submissions (3
pages) should include original and unpublished descriptions of
the student's topic, proposed contributions, and results achieved
so far. They should clearly indicate the work that remains to be done
and the questions on which the student would especially like to receive
advice.
DEMONSTRATIONS (due May 18, 2010)
Demonstrations will showcase research prototypes of UMAP-based systems
at the conference. Descriptions of demonstrations (3 pages) should be
original and unpublished accounts of such systems. They should be
accompanied by a specification of the system requirements, and by a
draft poster of up to 9 slides or a single slide of about 24"x36" / ISO A1.
POSTERS (due May 18, 2010)
Descriptions of posters (3 pages) should be original and unpublished
accounts of innovative research ideas, projects, or results. They should
be accompanied by a draft poster of up to 9 slides or a single slide of
about 24"x36" / ISO A1.
SUBMISSION FORMAT AND REVIEW PROCESS
All submissions must adhere to the Springer LNCS format
<http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-7-72376-0>, and be
made through the EasyChair
<http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=umap10> conference system
(workshop and tutorial proposals should be sent directly to the
respective co-chairs). They will be reviewed for relevance, originality,
significance, validity and clarity. Reviews for research papers will
be integrated by a lead reviewer and by the program chairs.
PUBLICATION
Accepted research, industry and doctoral consortium papers will be
published by Springer in their Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS
<http://www.springer.com/lncs>) series, both in hardcopy and
electronically through SpringerLink <http://www.springerlink.com/>. They
will also be indexed in the ACM Digital Library
<http://www.acm.org/dl>. Accepted descriptions of posters,
demonstrations, workshops and tutorials will be published in the UMAP
Adjunct Proceedings. Significantly enhanced versions of research papers
can be submitted to User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction: The
Journal of Personalization Research (UMUAI <http://www.umuai.org/>)
after the conference.
CONFERENCE COMMITTEE
General Chair
David N. Chin, University of Hawaii, Manoa
Program Co-Chairs
Alfred Kobsa, University of California, Irvine
Paul De Bra, Eindhoven Univ. of Technology, Netherlands
Industry Track Co-Chairs
Kurt Partridge, PARC, Palo Alto, California
Bhaskar Mehta, Google, Zurich, Switzerland
Workshop and Tutorial Co-Chairs
Judith Masthoff, University of Aberdeen, United Kingdom
Yang Wang, University of California, Irvine
Doctoral Consortium Co-Chairs
Ingrid Zukerman, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
Liana Razmerita, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
Demo and Poster Co-Chairs
Luz Quiroga, University of Hawaii, Manoa
Fabian Bohnert, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
Local Arrangements Chair
Keith Edwards, University of Hawaii, Hilo
VENUE
UMAP 2010 will be held at the Hilton Waikoloa Village
<http://www.hiltonwaikoloavillage.com/> on the Kona side of the “Big
Island” of Hawaii. Additional student housing will be available at
the Aston Shores
<http://www.resortquesthawaii.com/hawaii/propertyOverview.do?propertyGroupId=25580> at
Waikoloa and the Aston Waikoloa Colony Villas
<http://www.astonhotels.com/aston/propertySpecials.do?propertyGroupId=45451>.
STUDENT SUPPORT
This conference series has awarded considerable travel support to
students in the past, and it is expected that there will also be student
funds available for UMAP 2010. Authors of accepted technical and
doctoral consortium papers will receive highest priority.
--
Rina Dechter dech...@ics.uci.edu
Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences (949) 824-6556
University of California, Irvine fax: (949)-824-4056
Irvine, CA 92697-3425
http://www.ics.uci.edu/~dechter
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