UMAP 2011  --  19th International Conference on
User Modeling, Adaptation, and Personalization

Girona - Spain, July 11-15, 2011
http://www.umap2011.org

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Research and Industry Papers: 31 January 2011, abstracts due 24 January 2011
Doctoral Consortium Papers: 7 February 2011
Demos and Posters: 15 April 2011 (late 13 May 2011)
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UMAP is the premier international conference for researchers and practitioners working on systems that adapt to their individual users, or to groups of users, and collect and represent information about users for this purpose. It is organized under the auspices of User Modeling Inc.

The 19th edition, UMAP 2011, will be held at the Centre Cultural la Mercè in the city of Girona, Spain.

Conference Topics

The conference spans a wide scope of topics related to user modeling and personalization, including tailoring of search results, recommending products, Web usage mining and collaborative filtering. The following lists describe several dimensions along which UMAP systems can vary.

• Purposes (recommending products, tailoring search results, enhancing learning outcomes, assuming routine tasks, etc.)
• User characteristics (knowledge and skills, interests and preferences, contexts of use, roles, , etc.)
• Application domains (e-commerce, healthcare, office work, targeted advertisement, digital TV, etc.)
• Environments (web-based, desktop, groupware, mobile and wearable systems, smart objects, etc.)
• Computational methods (data collection, user model extraction and representation, adaptation methods, architectures, etc.)
• Evaluation (requirements specification, formative evaluation, user testing, validation, performance tests, etc.)
• Practical aspects (privacy and security, cost-justifying, integrating UMAP, valuing user experience, etc.)
• User interfaces and interaction (design principles, experimental evaluation, profile gathering and editing, etc.)
• Case studies of UMAP systems:  examples of deployed systems with significant detail and analysis to guide and motivate future systems development and research.

Submission Categories

RESEARCH AND INDUSTRY PAPERS (deadline 31 January 2011, abstracts due 24 January 2011)

- Long research papers (12 pages maximum) should present original reports of substantive new research.
- Short research papers (6 pages) should present original and unpublished highly promising research.
- Industry Papers (long or short) should report on innovative commercial implementations or applications or experiences in practical situations.

DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM PAPERS (deadline 7 February 2011)

The Doctoral Consortium is a forum for Ph.D. students to get feedback and advice from the Doctoral Consortium committee. Submissions (4 pages) should include original and unpublished descriptions of the student's topic, proposed contributions, and results achieved so far.

DEMOS AND POSTERS (deadline 15 April 2011, late submission 13 May 2011)

UMAP 2011 invites demonstrations of innovative UMAP-based systems (including research prototypes) and posters.  Descriptions (max. 3 pages in Springer LNCS format) must be original and unpublished accounts of such systems.

More details and submission instructions at http://www.umap2011.org/paper-submission

Accepted research, industry and doctoral consortium papers will be published by Springer in their Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series, both in hardcopy and electronically through SpringerLink. They will also be indexed in the ACM Digital Library.

Organization Committee

General Co-Chairs
Jose L Marzo, University of Girona, Spain
Nuria Oliver, Telefonica Research, Spain

Program Co-Chairs
Joe Konstan, University of Minnesota, US.
Ricardo Conejo, Universidad de Malaga, Spain

Industry Track Co-Chairs
Enrique Frias-Martinez, Telefonica Research, Spain
Marc Torrens, Strands Labs, Spain

Workshop and Tutorial Co-Chairs
Tsvi Kuflik, University of Haifa, Israel
Liliana Ardissono, Università degli Studi di Torino, Italy

Doctoral Consortium Co-Chairs
Julita Vassileva, University of Saskatchewan, Canada
Peter Brusilovsky, University of Pittsburgh, USA

Demo and Poster Co-Chairs
Slivia Baldiris, Universitat de Girona, Spain
Nicola Henze, University of Hannover, Germany

Local Arrangements Chair
Ramon Fabregat, University of Girona, Spain

Publicity Chair
Eelco Herder, L3S Research Center, Germany

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