Connectionists: Spotify RecSys 2018 Music Recommendation Challenge

[Aanchan mohan]

Hello,

Here is a call for participation in the Spotify RecSys 2018 challenge!
Visit the competition page for more details :
http://recsys-challenge.spotify.com/details

*About the competition*

Spotify is an online music streaming service with over 140 million active
users and over 30 million tracks. One of its popular features is the
ability to create playlists, and the service currently hosts over 2 billion
playlists.

This year's challenge focuses on music recommendation, specifically the
challenge of automatic playlist continuation. By suggesting appropriate
songs to add to a playlist, a Recommender System can increase user
engagement by making playlist creation easier, as well as extending
listening beyond the end of existing playlists.

The goal of the challenge is to develop a system for the task of automatic
playlist continuation. Given a list of details about a playlist, the system
should be able to recommend a set of tracks that can be added to it,
thereby 'continuing' the playlist.

*About RecSys 2018 (**https://recsys.acm.org/recsys18/
<https://recsys.acm.org/recsys18/>**)*

The ACM Recommender Systems conference (RecSys) is the premier
international forum for the presentation of new research results, systems
and techniques in the broad field of recommender systems. Recommendation is
a particular form of information filtering, that exploits past behaviors
and user similarities to generate a list of information items that is
personally tailored to an end-user’s preferences. As RecSys brings together
the main international research groups working on recommender systems,
along with many of the world’s leading e-commerce companies, it has become
the most important annual conference for the presentation and discussion of
recommender systems research. RecSys 2018, the twelfth conference in this
series, will be held in Vancouver, Canada. It will bring together
researchers and practitioners from academia and industry to present their
latest results and identify new trends and challenges in providing
recommendation components in a range of innovative application contexts. In
addition to the main technical track, RecSys 2018 program will feature
keynote and invited talks, tutorials covering state-of-the-art in this
domain, a workshop program, an industrial track and a doctoral symposium.

Published papers will go through a rigorous full peer review process. The
conference proceedings, which will be available both on a USB drive and via
the ACM Digital Library, are expected to be widely read and cited.

ACM RecSys 2018 will take place in Vancouver, Canada, from October 2-7,
2018.
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