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29th ACM International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (ACM UMAP 2021)
Utrecht, Netherlands, and Online
June 21-25, 2021
https://www.um.org/umap2021/
CALL FOR WORKSHOPS
Important Dates:
Proposals due: January 15, 2021
Notification to proposers: January 29, 2021
Workshop Day(s): June TBA, 2021
Submission email: umap2021-workshop(a)um.org<mailto:umap2021-workshop@um.org>
ACM UMAP 2021 is pleased to invite proposals for workshops to be held in conjunction with the conference. ACM UMAP is the premier international conference for researchers and practitioners working on systems that adapt to individual users or to groups of users, and which collect, represent, and model user information. The workshops provide a venue to discuss and explore emerging areas of User Modelling and Adaptive Hypermedia research with a group of like-minded researchers and practitioners from industry and academia.
Information about Hybrid Conference Format
ACM UMAP 2021 is planned to be a hybrid event, which welcomes everyone who is willing, able and allowed to travel in Utrecht, the Netherlands. However, there will also be an opportunity to attend the conference and the workshops online. Please check the conference website for updates: https://www.um.org/umap2021/
Workshops can therefore be held by the presenters at Utrecht (with synchronous online streaming), or designed as fully virtual workshops. The workshops will most probably be scheduled to start in the mornings or evenings local time (UTC+1).
Workshop Format
In this edition, our goal is to have a balanced workshop program comprising different workshop formats, combining newly emerging, currently evolving and established research topics. Different full-day and half-day workshop schemas are possible, such as:
• Working group meetings around a specific problem or topic; participants may be asked to submit a white paper or position statement
• Mini-conferences on specialized topics, having their own paper submission and review processes
• Mini-competitions or challenges around selected topics with individual or team participation
• Interactive discussion meetings focusing on subtopics of the UMAP general research topics.
• Joint panels for different workshops
Instructions for Proposers
Workshop proposals should not exceed 5 pages and should be organized as follows:
• Workshop title and acronym
• Workshop chair(s), including affiliation, email address, homepage, and experiences in organizing such events
• Abstract (up to 300 words) and topics of interest
• Motivation on why the workshop is of particular interest at this time
• Workshop format, discussing the mix of events such as paper presentations, invited talks, panels, and general discussions
• Intended audience and expected number of participants
• List of (potential) members of the program committee
• Requested duration (half day or full day)
• Proposed workshop format (e.g. hybrid or fully virtual)
• When available, past editions of the workshop, including URLs, a brief statement on the development of the workshop series, e.g., in terms of topics, number of paper submissions and participants, post-workshop publications over the years and acceptance statistics
Submission and Review Process
Workshop proposals should be submitted in PDF by email to: umap2021-workshop(a)um.org<mailto:umap2021-workshop@um.org>
We encourage both researchers and industry practitioners to submit workshop proposals.
Researchers interested in submitting a workshop proposal are invited to contact us in advance, so we can help to design successful proposals. In particular, for workshop proposals with novel interactive formats, we are happy to assist in further developing and implementing the ideas.
We strongly suggest involving organizers from different institutions, bringing different perspectives to the workshop topic. We welcome workshops with a creative structure that may attract various types of contributions and may ensure rich interactions.
The organizers of accepted workshops will prepare a workshop web site containing the call for papers and detailed information about the workshop organization and timeline. They will be responsible for their own publicity and reviewing processes.
There will be a conference adjunct proceedings published by ACM where all the workshop papers will be published. Hence, the workshop organizers will need to adhere to the adjunct proceedings publication timeline.
Schedule
• Proposal submission: January 15, 2021
• Notification of proposal acceptance: January 29, 2021
• Send the workshop description & website URL: February 15, 2021
• (Suggested) 1st call for papers: February 20, 2021
• (Suggested) 2nd call for papers: March 2, 2021
• (Suggested) paper submission: March 26, 2021
• (Suggested) notification to authors: April 19, 2021
• Workshop summary camera-ready deadline: May 7, 2021
• Workshop papers camera-ready deadline: May 7, 2021
• Workshop Date: June TBA, 2021
Proceedings and Registration Policy
Workshop papers will be included in the Adjunct Proceedings published by ACM. To be included in the Proceedings, at least one author of each accepted workshop paper must register for the conference or the workshop and present the paper there. Student registration fee is allowed to students who present a student paper. A "Workshop/Tutorial Only” fee will be available as well.
CALL FOR TUTORIALS
Important Dates:
Proposals due: January 15, 2021
Notification to proposers: January 29, 2021
Tutorial Day: June TBA, 2021
Submission email: umap2021-workshop(a)um.org<mailto:umap2021-workshop@um.org>
ACM UMAP 2021 is pleased to invite proposals for tutorials to be given in conjunction with the conference. ACM UMAP is the premier international conference for researchers and practitioners working on systems that adapt to individual users or to groups of users, and which collect, represent, and model user information, Tutorials are intensive instructional sessions aimed to provide a comprehensive introduction to established or emerging research topics of interest for the UMAP community.
Information about Hybrid Conference Format
ACM UMAP 2021 is planned to be a hybrid event, which welcomes everyone who is willing, able and allowed to travel in Utrecht, the Netherlands. However, there will also be an opportunity to attend the conference and the tutorials online. Please check the conference website for updates: https://www.um.org/umap2021/
Tutorials can therefore be held by the presenters at Utrecht (with synchronous online streaming), or designed as fully virtual tutorials. The tutorials will most probably be scheduled to start in the morning or evening local time (UTC+1).
Tutorial Topics
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
• new user modeling technologies, methods, techniques, and trends (e.g. exploiting data mining and big data analytics for user modeling, evaluation methodologies, data visualization, etc.)
• user modeling and personalization techniques for specific domains (e.g., health sciences, e-government, e-commerce, cultural heritage, education, internet of things, mobile, music, information retrieval, human-robot interaction etc.)
• application of user modeling and personalization techniques for information retrieval and recommender systems
• eliciting and learning user preferences by taking into account users’ emotional state, physical state, personality, trust, cognitive factors
Instructions for Proposers
An ideal tutorial should be broad enough to provide a basic introduction to the chosen area, but it should also cover the most important topics in depth. Tutorial presenters can have one page in the adjunct proceedings.
Tutorial proposals should not exceed 5 pages and should contain the following information:
• Title and abstract of the tutorial for inclusion on the ACM UMAP 2021 website (200 words maximum)
• Tutorial description:
• learning objectives of the tutorial and relevance to ACM UMAP 2021
• targeted audience (introductory, intermediate, advanced) and prerequisite knowledge or skills
• a brief outline of the tutorial structure
• Information about potential practical sessions
• Tutorial length: full (6 hours) or half day (3 hours)
• Other venues to which the tutorial or part thereof has been or will be presented, in addition to explaining how the current tutorial differs from the other editions
• Proposed tutorial format (hybrid or fully virtual)
• Name, email address, affiliation and brief professional biography of the tutorial instructor(s), indicating previous training and speaking experience
Submission and Review Process
Tutorial proposals should be submitted in PDF by email to: umap2021-workshop(a)um.org<mailto:umap2021-workshop@um.org>
All proposals will be reviewed by the tutorial chairs. The features that will be evaluated are:
• ability of the tutorial to contribute to strengthening the foundations of UMAP research
• clarity of the tutorial, which should emerge from its description
• organization, as appearing from the outline
• background/experience of tutorial instructor(s) in teaching the target topics
Timeline
• Proposals due: January 15, 2021
• Notification of acceptance: January29, 2021
• Adjunct proceedings camera ready: May 7, 2021
• Tutorial Day: June TBA, 2021
Proceedings and Registration Policy
A “Workshop/Tutorial Only” fee will be available, as well as the option for student registration.
Workshop and Tutorial Chairs
Berardina Nadja De Carolis, University of Bari "Aldo Moro", Italy
berardina.decarolis(a)uniba.it<mailto:berardina.decarolis@uniba.it>
Dietmar Jannach, University of Klagenfurt, Austria
dietmar.jannach(a)aau.at<mailto:dietmar.jannach@aau.at>
Call for Papers
22nd IEEE Conference on Mobile Data Management (IEEE MDM 2021)
http://mdmconferences.org/mdm2021
June 15 - 18, 2021 Toronto, Canada
The MDM series of conferences, since its debut in December 1999, has
established itself as a prestigious forum for the exchange of innovative
and significant research results in mobile data management. The term
mobile in MDM has been used from the very beginning in a broad sense to
encompass all aspects of mobility – aspects related to wireless,
portable and tiny devices. The conference provides unique opportunities
for researchers, engineers, practitioners, developers, and users to
explore new ideas, techniques, and tools, and to exchange experiences.
Continuing its history, MDM 2021 seeks submissions of original research
contributions at the intersection of mobile computing and data
management. Topics of interest include, but not limited to:
- Mobile Cloud Computing and Data Management in the Mobile Cloud
- Data Management for Internet of Things (IoT) and Sensor Systems
- Data Management for Augmented Reality Systems
- Data Management for Connected Cars, Intelligent Transportation
Systems, Smart Spaces
- Mobile Crowd-Sourcing and Crowd-Sensing
- Mobile Data Analytics
- Behavioural/Activity Sensing and Analytics
- Mobile Location-Based Social Networks
- Mobile Recommendation Systems
- Context-aware Computing for Intelligent Mobile Services
- Middleware and Tools for Mobile and Pervasive Computing
- Theoretical Foundations of Data-intensive Mobile Computing
- Data Stream Processing in Mobile/Sensor Network
- Indexing, Optimisation and Query Processing for Moving Objects/Users
- Location and Trajectory Analytics
- Security and Privacy in Mobile Systems
- Routing, Personalized Routing, Eco-Routing, Routing for Electrical
Vehicles
- Transportation-As-A-Service, Mobility-As-A-Service
- Innovative Applications driven by Mobile Data
Submission Guidelines
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TBA
Important Dates
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- Paper Registration & Abstract: January 17, 2021, 23:59 (AoE)
- Paper Submission: January 23, 2021, 23:59 (AoE)
- Notification of Acceptance: March 31, 2021
- Camera-ready: April 24, 2021, 23:59 (AoE)
Important Dates
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- Paper Registration and Abstract: January 17, 2021, 23:59 (AoE)
- Paper Submission: January 23, 2021, 23:59 (AoE)
- Notification of Paper Acceptance: March 31, 2021
- Camera-ready: April 24, 2021, 23:59 (AoE)
Organizing Committee
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General Chairs
Nick Koudas (University of Toronto, Canada)
Vana Kalogeraki (Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece)
Jianliang Xu (Hong Kong Baptist University, China)
PC Chairs
Panos Chrysanthis (University of Pittsburgh)
Evaggelia Pitoura (University of Ioannina, Greece)
Kai Zheng (University of Electronic Science and Technology of
China, China)
Advanced Seminar Chairs
Demetris Zeinalipour (University of Cyprus, Cyprus)
Industry Track Chairs
Lei Chen (Huawei Noah's Ark Lab, Hong Kong, China)
Raghu Ganti (IBM, US)
Demo Chairs
Bin Yang (Aalborg University, Denmark)
Proceedings Chairs
Edison Tsz Nam Chan (Hong Kong Baptist University, China)
Local Organization Chairs
Manos Papagelis (York University, Canada)
Xiaohui Yu (York University, Canada)
Suprio Ray (University of New Brunswick, Canada)
Morteza Zihayat (Ryerson University, Canada)
Heidar (Kourosh) Davoudi (Ontario Tech, Canada)
Steering Committee Liaison
Arkady Zaslavsky (Deakin University, Australia)
Publicity Chairs
Nikos Bikakis (Athena Research Center, Greece)
Web Chair
Tilemachos Pechlivanoglou (York University, Canada)
Best Paper Award Committee
Takahiro Hara (Osaka University, Japan)
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Call for Papers - ACM UMAP 2021
29th ACM International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization
Theme: "Re-Evaluating Evaluation in Personalization Research"
Hybrid: Utrecht (The Netherlands) and Online
June 21-25th (tentative), 2021
Website: https://www.um.org/umap2021/
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Abstracts due: January 17, 2021 (mandatory)
Full paper due: January 24, 2021
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BACKGROUND AND SCOPE:
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ACM UMAP – User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization – is the premier international conference for researchers and practitioners working on systems that adapt to individual users or to groups of users, and that collect, represent, and model user information. ACM UMAP is sponsored by ACM SIGCHI and SIGWEB, and organized with User Modeling Inc. as the core Steering Committee, extended with past years’ chairs. The proceedings are published by ACM and will be part of the ACM Digital Library.
ACM UMAP covers a wide variety of research areas where personalization and adaptation may be applied. This includes a number of domains in which researchers are engendering significant innovations based on advances in user modeling and adaptation, recommender systems, adaptive educational systems, intelligent user interfaces, e-commerce, advertising, digital humanities, social networks, personalized health, entertainment, and many more.
We welcome submissions related to user modeling, personalization and adaptation; the conference web site provides a detailed list. Below we present a short (but not proscriptive) list of topics of importance to the conference. As the theme for UMAP 2021 is “Re-Evaluating Evaluation” we encourage submissions in all areas that offer a critical analysis of evaluations of personalized systems. We particularly want to acknowledge that some of the research might be influenced by Covid-19 related constraints (e.g., difficulty of running lab studies), and welcome submissions which introduce novel methodologies arising from a need to conduct research in new ways.
CONFERENCE TOPICS:
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We welcome submissions related to user modeling, personalization and adaptation in any area. The topics listed below are not intended to limit possible contributions.
Final decisions will be made on the basis of suitability for, and fit to, the overall conference (not for specific tracks). Additionally, there is no quota for the maximal number of accepted papers per track. Topics include (but are not limited to):
• Personalized Recommender Systems
• Track chairs: Alejandro Bellogin, Sole Pera, Ludovico Boratto
• Adaptive Hypermedia and the Semantic Web
• Track chairs: Maria Bielikova, Panagiotis Germanakos, Ben Steichen
• Intelligent User Interfaces
• Track chairs: Katrien Verbert, Denis Parra
• Personalized Social Web
• Track chairs: Julita Vassileva, Jie Zhang
• Technology-Enhanced Adaptive Learning
• Track chairs: Ella Haig, Manolis Mavrikis
• Fairness, Transparency, Accountability, and Privacy
• Track chairs: Christine Bauer, Michael Ekstrand
• Personalization for Persuasive and Behavior Change Systems
• Track chairs: Jaap Ham, Rita Orji
SUBMISSION AND REVIEW PROCESS
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Papers will be submitted through EasyChair:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=acmumap2021
Long (8 pages + references) and Short (4 pages + references) papers in ACM style. Original research papers addressing the theory and/or practice of UMAP, and papers showcasing innovative use of UMAP and exploring the benefits and challenges of applying UMAP technology in real-life applications and contexts are welcome.
* Long papers should present original reports of substantive new research techniques, findings, and applications of UMAP. They should place the work within the field and clearly indicate its innovative aspects. Research procedures and technical methods should be presented in sufficient detail to ensure scrutiny and reproducibility. Results should be clearly communicated and implications of the contributions/findings for UMAP and beyond should be explicitly discussed.
* Short papers should present original and highly promising research or applications. Merit will be assessed in terms of originality and importance rather than maturity, extensive technical validation, and user studies. Separation of long and short papers will be strictly enforced so papers will not compete across categories, but only within each category.
Papers must be formatted using the ACM SIG Standard (SIGCONF) proceedings template: https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template.
UMAP uses a double blind review process. Authors must omit their names and affiliations from submissions, and avoid obvious identifying statements. For instance, citations to the authors' own prior work should be made in the third-person.
All accepted papers will be published by ACM and will be available via the ACM Digital Library. To be included in the Proceedings, at least one author of each accepted paper must register for the conference and present the paper there. Student registration fee is allowed for students who present a student paper.
IMPORTANT DATES
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Abstracts: January 17, 2021 (mandatory)
Full paper: January 24, 2021
Notification: March 8, 2021
Camera-ready: April 11, 2021
Video submission: May 5th, 2021
Conference: June 21-June 25, 2021 (tentative)
Note: The submissions times are 11:59pm AoE time (Anywhere on Earth)
ORGANIZERS
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General chairs
Judith Masthoff, University of Utrecht
Eelco Herder, Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen
Program chairs
Nava Tintarev, University of Maastricht
Marko Tkalcic, University of Primorska
RELATED EVENTS
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Separate calls will be sent for Workshops and Tutorials, Doctoral Consortium, and Demo/Late Breaking Results, as these have different deadlines and submission requirements.
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