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### Extended Deadline: 8 April ###
Workshop on Group Recommender Systems: Concepts, Technology,
Evaluation (GroupRS) at UMAP 2013 (June 10-14, Rome, Italy)
http://cmlab.net/events/umap13grouprs/
Overview
Recommender systems research for a long time focused mainly on
recommending to individual users, over the last decade, there has been
a substantial increase in research into group recommenders. The
wide-spread research into group recommender systems and algorithms has
led to an increased discussion on the importance of the decision
making process as well as the relevancy and influence of the
respective domain on the users' needs and behaviour. While group
discussion and decision making has for some decades been supported in
specific CSCW and groupware applications, it is now increasingly done
via social media such as Facebook and Yammer. Furthermore, mobile
devices such as smart phones are spreading rapidly. This availability
and experience with communication and cooperation support are
triggering a need for novel concepts for flexible support of group
recommendations and decisions in various domains.
Topics
This workshop aims at cross-fertilising group recommender systems and
CSCW in order to tackle interesting open research questions. These
include, but are not limited to:
- Modelling users (in particular aspects relevant for group decision
making such as personality), groups, and the decision making process
- Handling evolving group members' needs and interests
- Supporting convergence and divergence for plurality
- Designing group recommenders that allow for user interaction (e.g.,
balancing and mediating conversation and negotiation, allowing
critiquing)
- User-centred design and evaluation of group recommender systems
(e.g., measuring the long-term effect of group decisions on users'
satisfaction)
- Explaining group recommendations
- Privacy and security issues associated with group recommenders
Participation and Submission
This workshop aims at bringing together participants from
academia and industry with diverse backgrounds and a broad interest in
designing, developing, and evaluating group recommender systems. We
invite long (max. 6 pages) and short (max. 3 pages) papers in Springer
LNCS format. Acceped papers will be published in the CEUR-WS volume of
UMAP 2013.
Important Dates
- 8 Apr. 2013: Submission of Papers
- 1 May 2013: Notification of Acceptance
Workshop Co-Chairs
Tom Gross, University of Bamberg, Germany
Judith Masthoff, University of Aberdeen, Scotland, UK
Christoph Beckmann, University of Bamberg, Germany
Program Committee
Liliana Ardissono, University of Torino, Italy
Linas Baltrunas, Telefonica Research, Spain
Shlomo Berkovsky, CSIRO, Australia
Anthony Jameson, DFKI, Germany
Francesco Ricci, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
Barry Smyth, University College Dublin, Ireland
Zhiwen Yu, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China
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Tom Gross
University of Bamberg
Kapuzinerstr. 16, 96047 Bamberg, Germany
WWW: http://www.tomgross.net
Tel.: (+49-951)863-3940
Fax.: (+49-951)863-3945
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