<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal"><i>We are delighted to announce the workshop on <b>S</b>tate-based <b>U</b>ser <b>M</b>odelling (<b>SUM ‘20</b>) organised at the <span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">ACM Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM)</span></i><i><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"> </span></i><i>held on February 03, 2020 in Houston, TX, US.</i><br></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><u></u> <u></u></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i>Please find further details about the workshop and the focussed topics at: <a href="https://www.k4all.org/event/wsdmsum20/" target="_blank">https://www.k4all.org/event/wsdmsum20/</a><u></u><u></u></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><u></u> <u></u></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i>We welcome contributions in the form of research papers, ongoing work and position/vision papers in the topics:<u></u><u></u></i></p><ul type="square" style="margin-bottom:0cm"><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:15px;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><i><span style="color:black">User representation and recommender systems</span></i><i><u></u><u></u></i></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:15px;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><i><span style="color:black">Task understanding and supporting user tasks</span></i><i><u></u><u></u></i></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:15px;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><i><span style="color:black">State-aware evaluation</span></i><i><u></u><u></u></i></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:15px;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><i><span style="color:black">Human in the loop</span></i><i><u></u><u></u></i></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:15px;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><i><span style="color:black">User-aware systems</span></i><i><u></u><u></u></i></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:15px;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><i><span style="color:black">Cognitive/contextual user understanding</span></i><i><u></u><u></u></i></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:15px;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><i><span style="color:black">State-aware ML algorithms</span></i><i><u></u><u></u></i></li></ul><p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">All submissions and reviews will be handled electronically. Papers must be submitted through Easychair by</span></i><i><span style="color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"> 23:59, AoE (Anywhere on Earth) on December 1st, 2019.</span><span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><u></u><u></u></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><u></u> <u></u></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i>We invite you to submit your contributions at: <a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wsdmsum20" target="_blank">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wsdmsum20</a><u></u><u></u></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u><br></p><p class="MsoNormal">--<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Kind regards<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Sahan<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">--<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:Bahnschrift,sans-serif;color:rgb(84,130,53)"><u></u> <u></u></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:Bahnschrift,sans-serif;color:rgb(84,130,53)">Sahan Bulathwela</span></b><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Bahnschrift SemiBold",sans-serif">Research Assistant (Machine Learning,<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Bahnschrift SemiBold",sa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