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29th ACM International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (ACM UMAP 2021)<br class="">
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</span><span class="">Utrecht, Netherlands, and Online<br class="">
</span><span class="">June 21-25, 2021<br class="">
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</span><span class=""><b class="" style="font-size: 15px;">CALL FOR WORKSHOPS</b><br class="">
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</span><span class=""><b class="">Important Dates:</b><br class="">
</span><span class="">Proposals due: January 15, 2021<br class="">
</span><span class="">Notification to proposers: January 29, 2021<br class="">
</span><span class="">Workshop Day(s): June TBA, 2021<br class="">
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</span><span class=""><b class="">Submission email: <a href="mailto:umap2021-workshop@um.org" class="">umap2021-workshop@um.org</a> </b><br class="">
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</span><span class="">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.<br class="">
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</span><span class=""><b class="">Information about Hybrid Conference Format</b><br class="">
</span><span class="">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: <a href="https://www.um.org/umap2021/" class="">https://www.um.org/umap2021/</a> <br class="">
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</span><span class="">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).<br class="">
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</span><span class=""><b class="">Workshop Format</b><br class="">
</span><span class="">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,
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<div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"></span>• Working group meetings around a specific problem or topic; participants may be asked to submit a white paper or position statement<br class="">
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<div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"></span>• Mini-conferences on specialized topics, having their own paper submission and review processes<br class="">
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<div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"></span>• Mini-competitions or challenges around selected topics with individual or team participation<br class="">
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<div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"></span>• Interactive discussion meetings focusing on subtopics of the UMAP general research topics.<br class="">
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<div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"></span>• Joint panels for different workshops<br class="">
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</span><span class=""><b class="">Instructions for Proposers</b><br class="">
</span><span class="">Workshop proposals should not exceed 5 pages and should be organized as follows:<br class="">
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<div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"></span>• Workshop title and acronym<br class="">
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<div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"></span>• Workshop chair(s), including affiliation, email address, homepage, and experiences in organizing such events<br class="">
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<div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"></span>• Abstract (up to 300 words) and topics of interest<br class="">
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<div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"></span>• Motivation on why the workshop is of particular interest at this time<br class="">
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<div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"></span>• Workshop format, discussing the mix of events such as paper presentations, invited talks, panels, and general discussions<br class="">
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<div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"></span>• Intended audience and expected number of participants<br class="">
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<div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"></span>• List of (potential) members of the program committee<br class="">
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<div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"></span>• Requested duration (half day or full day)<br class="">
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<div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"></span>• Proposed workshop format (e.g. hybrid or fully virtual)<br class="">
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<div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"></span>• 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<br class="">
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</span><span class=""><b class="">Submission and Review Process</b><br class="">
</span><span class="">Workshop proposals should be submitted in PDF by email to: <a href="mailto:umap2021-workshop@um.org" class="">umap2021-workshop@um.org</a> <br class="">
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</span><span class="">We encourage both researchers and industry practitioners to submit workshop proposals.<br class="">
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</span><span class="">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.<br class="">
</span><span class="">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.<br class="">
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</span><span class="">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.<br class="">
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</span><span class="">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.<br class="">
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</span><span class=""><b class="">Schedule</b><br class="">
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<div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"></span>• Proposal submission: January 15, 2021<br class="">
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<div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"></span>• Notification of proposal acceptance: January 29, 2021<br class="">
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<div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"></span>• Send the workshop description & website URL: February 15, 2021<br class="">
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<div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"></span>• (Suggested) 1st call for papers: February 20, 2021<br class="">
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<div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"></span>• (Suggested) 2nd call for papers: March 2, 2021<br class="">
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<div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"></span>• (Suggested) paper submission: March 26, 2021<br class="">
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<div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"></span>• (Suggested) notification to authors: April 19, 2021<br class="">
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<div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"></span>• Workshop summary camera-ready deadline: May 7, 2021<br class="">
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<div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"></span>• Workshop papers camera-ready deadline: May 7, 2021<br class="">
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<div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"></span>• Workshop Date: June TBA, 2021<br class="">
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</span><span class=""><b class="">Proceedings and Registration Policy</b><br class="">
</span><span class="">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.</span>
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<span class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 15px;"><b class="">CALL FOR TUTORIALS</b></span><br class="">
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<b class="">Important Dates:</b><br class="">
Proposals due: January 15, 2021<br class="">
Notification to proposers: January 29, 2021<br class="">
Tutorial Day: June TBA, 2021<br class="">
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<b class="">Submission email: <a href="mailto:umap2021-workshop@um.org" class="">umap2021-workshop@um.org</a></b><br class="">
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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.<br class="">
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<b class="">Information about Hybrid Conference Format</b><br class="">
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: <a href="https://www.um.org/umap2021/" class="">https://www.um.org/umap2021/</a> <br class="">
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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).<br class="">
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<b class="">Tutorial Topics</b><br class="">
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:<br class="">
<div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"></span>• 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.)<br class="">
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<div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"></span>• 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.)<br class="">
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<div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"></span>• application of user modeling and personalization techniques for information retrieval and recommender systems<br class="">
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<div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"></span>• eliciting and learning user preferences by taking into account users’ emotional state, physical state, personality, trust, cognitive factors<br class="">
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<b class="">Instructions for Proposers</b><br class="">
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.<br class="">
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Tutorial proposals should not exceed 5 pages and should contain the following information:<br class="">
<div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"></span>• Title and abstract of the tutorial for inclusion on the ACM UMAP 2021 website (200 words maximum)<br class="">
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<div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"></span>• Tutorial description: <br class="">
<div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"></span>• learning objectives of the tutorial and relevance to ACM UMAP 2021<br class="">
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<div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"></span>• targeted audience (introductory, intermediate, advanced) and prerequisite knowledge or skills<br class="">
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<div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"></span>• a brief outline of the tutorial structure<br class="">
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<div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"></span>• Information about potential practical sessions<br class="">
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<div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"></span>• Tutorial length: full (6 hours) or half day (3 hours) <br class="">
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<div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"></span>• 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<br class="">
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<div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"></span>• Proposed tutorial format (hybrid or fully virtual)<br class="">
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<div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"></span>• Name, email address, affiliation and brief professional biography of the tutorial instructor(s), indicating previous training and speaking experience <br class="">
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<b class="">Submission and Review Process</b><br class="">
Tutorial proposals should be submitted in PDF by email to: <a href="mailto:umap2021-workshop@um.org" class="">umap2021-workshop@um.org</a> <br class="">
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All proposals will be reviewed by the tutorial chairs. The features that will be evaluated are:<br class="">
<div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"></span>• ability of the tutorial to contribute to strengthening the foundations of UMAP research<br class="">
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<div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"></span>• clarity of the tutorial, which should emerge from its description<br class="">
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<div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"></span>• organization, as appearing from the outline<br class="">
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<div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"></span>• background/experience of tutorial instructor(s) in teaching the target topics<br class="">
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<b class="">Timeline</b><br class="">
<div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"></span>• Proposals due: January 15, 2021<br class="">
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<div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"></span>• Notification of acceptance: January29, 2021<br class="">
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<div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"></span>• Adjunct proceedings camera ready: May 7, 2021<br class="">
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<div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"></span>• Tutorial Day: June TBA, 2021<br class="">
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<b class="">Proceedings and Registration Policy</b><br class="">
A “Workshop/Tutorial Only” fee will be available, as well as the option for student registration.<br class="">
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</span><span class="">Berardina Nadja De Carolis, University of Bari "Aldo Moro", Italy<br class="">
</span><span class=""><a href="mailto:berardina.decarolis@uniba.it" class="">berardina.decarolis@uniba.it</a><br class="">
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</span><span class="">Dietmar Jannach, University of Klagenfurt, Austria<br class="">
</span><span class=""><a href="mailto:dietmar.jannach@aau.at" class="">dietmar.jannach@aau.at</a></span></div>
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