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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">CIKM 2024 Workshop on Online and Adaptive Recommender Systems (OARS)</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><br>
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</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Call For Papers</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><br>
</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">==================</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><br>
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</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">CIKM OARS is a full day workshop taking place on October 25, 2024 in conjunction with CIKM 2024 in Boise, Idaho, USA.</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><br>
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</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Workshop website: </span><a href="https://oars-workshop.github.io/"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">https://oars-workshop.github.io/</span></a><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Important Dates:</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><br>
</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">==================</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><br>
</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">- Submissions Due - Aug 16, 2024<br>
- Notification - Aug 30, 2024<br>
- Camera Ready Version of Papers Due - Sept 30, 2024<br>
- CIKM OARS Workshop - Oct 25, 2024</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><br>
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</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Details:</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><br>
</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">==================</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><br>
</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">The CIKM 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.
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</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">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-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><br>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Foundation and LLM models in RecSys <o:p>
</o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;margin-top:14.0pt;line-height:106%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Novel algorithms and paradigms (deep learning, reinforcement learning, online learning etc.)<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;line-height:106%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Use cases (product, content, fashion/decor, job, healthy lifestyle, interactive/conversational recommendations, etc.)<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;line-height:106%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">User modeling and representations (real-time user intent/style/taste modeling, combine with long term interest, incorporation of knowledge graph)<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;line-height:106%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Architecture and infrastructure (novel and scalable deep learning architectures, steaming and event-driven processing, etc.)<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;line-height:106%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Evaluations and explanations (evaluation, comparison, explanation of OARS for a recommendation task, off-policy and counterfactual evaluation, etc.)<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;margin-bottom:14.0pt;line-height:106%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Social and user impact (UX, welfare, and objectives of OARS, privacy and ethics considerations, etc.)<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><br>
</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Submission Instructions:</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><br>
</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">==================</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><br>
</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">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.</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><br>
<br>
</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">All submissions must be formatted according to the ACM Conference Proceeding templates (two column format).</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><br>
<br>
</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">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.</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><br>
<br>
</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Please note that at least one of the authors of each accepted paper must register for the workshop and present the paper in-person.</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><br>
<br>
</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Submissions to CIKM OARS workshop should be made at
</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><a href="https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=oarscikm2024">https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=oarscikm2024</a></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">ORGANIZERS:</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><br>
</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">==================</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><br>
</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Xiquan Cui</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">
</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> The Home Depot, USA</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Vachik Dave</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">
</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Walmart Labs, USA<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Yi Su UC Berkeley, USA<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Julian McAuley</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">
</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">UCSD, USA<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Khalifeh Al-Jadda</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">
</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Google Inc, USA<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Srijan Kumar</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">
</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Georgia Institute of Technology, USA<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Amazon, USA<span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Indeed, USA<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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