<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class=""><b class="">*** THIRD CALL FOR PAPERS *** </b></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 21px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">27th ACM International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">and Personalization (ACM UMAP 2019)</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 21px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">“Making Personalization Transparent: Giving control back to the User"</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 21px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">Golden Bay Beach Hotel 5*, Larnaca, Cyprus, June 9-12, 2019</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 21px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class=""><a href="https://www.um.org/umap2019/" class="">https://www.um.org/umap2019/</a></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline" class="">Abstracts due</span>: January 25, 2019 (mandatory)</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline" class="">Papers due</span>: February 1, 2019</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline" class=""><b class="">BACKGROUND AND SCOPE</b></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">ACM UMAP, "User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization", is the premier</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">international conference for researchers and practitioners working on</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">systems that adapt to individual users, to groups of users, and that collect,</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">represent, and model user information. ACM UMAP is sponsored by ACM</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">SIGCHI and SIGWEB. The proceedings are published by ACM and will be part</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">of the ACM Digital Library.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">ACM UMAP covers a wide variety of research areas where personalization</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">and adaptation may be applied. This include (but is in no way limited to) a</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">number of domains in which researchers are engendering significant</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">innovations based on advances in user modeling and adaptation,</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">recommender systems, adaptive educational systems, intelligent user</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">interfaces, e-commerce, advertising, digital humanities, social networks,</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">personalized health, entertainment, and many more. </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">This year the conference hosts three new tracks, one on privacy and</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">fairness, one on personalized music access, and one on personalized health.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline" class=""><b class="">CONFIRMED INVITED SPEAKERS</b></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">• Marios Avraamides, University of Cyprus</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">• Judith Masthoff, Utrecht University</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">• Mounia Lalmas-Roelleke, Spotify London</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline" class=""><b class="">CONFERENCE TRACKS</b></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">For details, see the conference website ( <a href="https://www.um.org/umap2019/" class="">https://www.um.org/umap2019/</a> ).</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">• Track 1 - Personalized Recommender Systems</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">• Track 2 - Adaptive Hypermedia and the Semantic Web</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">• Track 3 - Intelligent User Interfaces</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">• Track 4 - Personalized Social Web</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">• Track 5 - Technology-Enhanced Adaptive Learning</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">• Track 6 - Privacy and Fairness </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">• Track 7 - Personalized Music Access</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">• Track 8 - Personalized Health </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline" class=""><b class="">SUBMISSION AND REVIEW PROCESS</b></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">Papers have to be submitted through EasyChair: </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class=""><a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=acmumap2019" class="">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=acmumap2019</a></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">Long (8 pages + references) and Short (4 pages + references) papers in ACM</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">style, peer reviewed, original, and principled research papers addressing</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">both the theory and practice of UMAP and papers showcasing innovative</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">use of UMAP and exploring the benefits and challenges of applying UMAP</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">technology in real-life applications and contexts are welcome.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">Long papers should present original reports of substantive new research</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">techniques, findings, and applications of UMAP. They should place the work</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">within the field and clearly indicate innovative aspects. Research procedures</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">and technical methods should be presented in sufficient detail to ensure</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">scrutiny and reproducibility. Results should be clearly communicated and</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">implications of the contributions/findings for UMAP and beyond should be</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">explicitly discussed.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">Short papers should present original and highly promising research or</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">applications. Merit will be assessed in terms of originality and importance</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">rather than maturity, extensive technical validation, and user studies.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">Papers must be formatted using the ACM SIG Standard (SIGCONF) proceedings</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">template: <a href="https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template" class="">https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template</a> .</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">All accepted papers will be published by ACM and will be available via the</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">ACM Digital Library. At least one author of each accepted paper must register</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">for the conference and present the paper there.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline" class=""><b class="">IMPORTANT DATES</b></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">• Abstracts: January 25, 2019 (mandatory)</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">• Full paper: February 1, 2019</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">• Notification: March 11, 2019</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">• Camera-ready: April 3, 2019</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline" class="">Note</span>: The submission time is 11:59pm AoE time (Anywhere on Earth).</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline" class=""><b class="">GENERAL CHAIRS</b></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">• George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">• George Samaras, University of Cyprus, Cyprus</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">• Stephan Weibelzahl, PFH Private University of Applied Sciences,</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">Göttingen, Germany </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline" class=""><b class="">RELATED EVENTS</b></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">Separate calls will be later sent for Workshops and Tutorials, Doctoral</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">Consortium, Demos, Late Breaking Results and Theory, Opinion and</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">Reflection works, as they have different deadlines and submission</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">requirements.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div></body></html>