UMAP 2011

19th International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation, and Personalization

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.

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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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Conference Topics

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 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.

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Submission Categories

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 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.

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Organization Committee

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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 Marc Torrens, Strands Labs, Spain

Publicity Chair

Eelco Herder, L3S Research Center, Germany