<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><b class="" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 18px;">*** SECOND CALL FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSALS *** </b><br class=""><div class=""><div class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 21px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">27th ACM International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">and Personalization (ACM UMAP 2019)</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 21px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">Golden Bay Beach Hotel 5*, Larnaca, Cyprus, June 9-12, 2019</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 21px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';"><a href="https://www.um.org/umap2019/" class="">https://www.um.org/umap2019/</a></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';"><span class="" style="text-decoration: underline;">Proposals due</span>: December 14, 2018</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">ACM UMAP 2019, the premier international conference for researchers and</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">practitioners working on systems that adapt to individual users or to groups</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">of users, and which collect, represent, and model user information, is</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">pleased to invite proposals for workshops to be held in conjunction with the</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">conference. The workshops provide a venue to discuss and explore emerging</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">areas of User Modelling and Adaptive Hypermedia research with a group of</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">like-minded researchers and practitioners from industry and academia.</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">In this edition, our goal is to have a balanced workshop program comprising</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">different workshop formats and combining emerging and established</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">research topics. Different full-day and half-day workshop schemas are</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">possible, such as:</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Working group meetings around a specific problem or topic;</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">participants may be asked to submit a white paper or position statement.</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Mini-conferences on specialized topics, having their own paper</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">submission and review processes.</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Mini-competitions or challenges around selected topics with</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">individual or team participation.</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Interactive discussion meetings focusing on subtopics of the UMAP</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">general research topics.</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';"><span class="" style="text-decoration: underline;"><b class="">PROPOSAL FORMAT</b></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;"><span class="" style="text-decoration: underline;"><b class=""></b></span><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">Workshop proposals should be submitted in PDF format to both workshop</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">chairs, not exceeding 5 pages and organized as follows:</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Workshop title and acronym.</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Workshop chair(s), including affiliation, email address, homepage,</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">and experiences in organizing such events.</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Abstract (up to 300 words) and topics of interest.</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Motivation on why the workshop is of particular interest at this time.</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Workshop format, discussing the mix of events such as paper</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">presentations, invited talks, panels, and general discussions.</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Intended audience and expected number of participants.</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>List of (potential) members of the program committee (at least 50%</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">have to be confirmed at the time of the proposal).</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Requested duration (half day or full day).</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>When available, past editions of the workshop, including URLs, a brief</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">statement on the development of the workshop series, e.g., in terms of</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">topics, number of paper submissions and participants, post-workshop</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">publications over the years and acceptance statistics.</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';"><span class="" style="text-decoration: underline;"><b class="">INSTRUCTIONS</b></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;"><span class="" style="text-decoration: underline;"><b class=""></b></span><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">We encourage both researchers and industry practitioners to submit</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">workshop proposals.</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">Researchers interested in submitting a workshop proposal are invited to</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">contact us in advance, so we can help to design successful proposals. In</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">particular, for workshop proposals with novel interactive formats, we are</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">happy to assist in further developing and implementing the ideas.</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">We strongly suggest to have organizers from different institutions, bringing</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">different perspectives to the workshop topic. We welcome workshops with a</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">creative structure that may attract various types of contributions and may</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">ensure rich interactions.</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">The organizers of accepted workshops will prepare a workshop web site</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">containing the call for papers and detailed information about the workshop</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">organization and timeline. They will be responsible for their own publicity</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">and reviewing processes.</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">There will be a conference adjunct proceedings published by ACM where all</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">the workshop papers will be published. Hence, the workshop organizers will</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">need to adhere to the adjunct proceedings publication timeline.</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';"><span class="" style="text-decoration: underline;"><b class="">IMPORTANT DATES</b></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;"><span class="" style="text-decoration: underline;"><b class=""></b></span><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">• Proposal submission: December 14, 2018</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">• Notification of proposal acceptance: January 9, 2019</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">• Send the workshop description & website URL : January 23, 2019</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">• (Suggested) 1st call for papers: January 28, 2019</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">• (Suggested) 2nd call for papers: February 20, 2019</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">• (Suggested) paper submission: March 13, 2019</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">• (Suggested) notification to authors: March 26, 2019</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">• Workshop summary camera-ready: April 3, 2019</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">• Workshop papers camera-ready: April 3, 2019</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">• Adjunct proceedings camera ready: April 15, 2019</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;"> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';"><span class="" style="text-decoration: underline;"><b class="">WORKSHOP CHAIRS</b></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;"><span class="" style="text-decoration: underline;"><b class=""></b></span><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">• Milos Kravcík, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), Germany (milos.kravcik AT <a href="http://dfki.de/" class="">dfki.de</a>)</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">• Iván Cantador, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain (ivan.cantador AT <a href="http://uam.es/" class="">uam.es</a>)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div></div></body></html>