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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1D1D1D;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual">KDD 2023 Workshop on Online and Adaptive Recommender Systems (OARS)<br>
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Call For Papers<br>
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KDD OARS is a half day workshop taking place on August 7th, 2023 in conjunction with KDD 2023 in Long Beach, CA, USA.<br>
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Workshop website: <span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1D1D1D;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual"><a href="https://oars-workshop.github.io/" title="https://oars-workshop.github.io/"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#0058B9">https://oars-workshop.github.io/</span></a></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1D1D1D;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual">Important Dates:<br>
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- Submissions Due - </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual">June 9th<span style="color:#1D1D1D">, 2023 <br>
- Notification - June 23rd, 2023</span></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1D1D1D;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual"><br>
- Camera Ready Version of Papers Due - July 10th, 2023<br>
- KDD OARS Workshop - August 7th, 2023</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1D1D1D;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual"><br>
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Details:<br>
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The KDD workshop on online and adaptive recommender (OARS) will serve as a platform for publication and discussion of OARS. This workshop will bring together practitioners and researchers from academia and industry to discuss the challenges and approaches to
implement OARS algorithms and systems, and improve user experiences by better modeling and responding to users’ intent. <span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br>
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We invite submission of papers and posters of two to ten pages (including references), representing original research, preliminary research results, proposals for new work, and position and opinion papers. All submitted papers and posters will be single-blind
and will be peer reviewed by an international program committee of researchers of high repute. Accepted submissions will be presented at the workshop.</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:<br>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual">Novel algorithms and paradigms (deep learning, reinforcement learning, online learning etc.)</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;line-height:11.55pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3">
<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual">Use cases (product, content, fashion/decor, job, healthy lifestyle, interactive/conversational recommendations, etc.)</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;line-height:11.55pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3">
<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual">User modeling and representations (real-time user intent/style/taste modeling, combine with long term interest, incorporation of knowledge graph)</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;line-height:11.55pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3">
<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual">Architecture and infrastructure (novel and scalable deep learning architectures, steaming and event-driven processing, etc.)</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;line-height:11.55pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3">
<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual">Evaluations and explanations (evaluation, comparison, explanation of OARS for a recommendation task, off-policy and counterfactual evaluation, etc.)</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;margin-bottom:14.0pt;line-height:11.55pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3">
<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual">Social and user impact (UX, welfare, and objectives of OARS, privacy and ethics considerations, etc.)</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual"><o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1D1D1D;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual"><br>
Submission Instructions:<br>
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All papers will be peer reviewed (single-blind) by the program committee and judged by their relevance to the workshop, especially to the main themes identified above, and their potential to generate discussion.<br>
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All submissions must be formatted according to the ACM Conference Proceeding templates (two column format).<br>
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Submissions must describe work that is not previously published, not accepted for publication elsewhere, and not currently under review elsewhere. All submissions must be in English.<br>
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Please note that at least one of the authors of each accepted paper must register for the workshop and present the paper in-person.<br>
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Submissions to KDD OARS workshop should be made at<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=oarskdd2023" title="https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=oarskdd2023"><span style="color:#0058B9">https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=oarskdd2023</span></a></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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ORGANIZERS:<br>
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Xiquan Cui <span class="apple-converted-space"> </span> The Home Depot, USA</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin:0in;line-height:12.6pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1D1D1D">Vachik Dave <span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Walmart Labs, USA</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin:0in;line-height:12.6pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1D1D1D">Yi Su UC Berkeley, USA</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin:0in;line-height:12.6pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1D1D1D">Julian McAuley <span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>UCSD, USA</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin:0in;line-height:12.6pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1D1D1D">Khalifeh Al-Jadda <span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Google Inc, USA</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin:0in;line-height:12.6pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1D1D1D">Srijan Kumar <span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Georgia Institute of Technology,
USA</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin:0in;line-height:12.6pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1D1D1D">Tao Ye <span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Amazon, USA</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin:0in;line-height:12.6pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1D1D1D;background:white">Stephen Guo</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1D1D1D"> </span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1D1D1D"> <span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Indeed,
USA</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Contact: Please direct all your queries to<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1D1D1D;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual"><a href="mailto:xiquan_cui@homedepot.com" title="mailto:xiquan_cui@homedepot.com"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#0058B9">xiquan_cui@homedepot.com</span></a></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1D1D1D;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual"> </span></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1D1D1D;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual">for
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;color:#01163A;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual">Xiquan Cui</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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