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Call for Doctoral Symposium Submissions
The ACM RecSys 2023 Doctoral Symposium provides an opportunity for doctoral students to explore and develop their research interests under the guidance of a panel of distinguished researchers from both academia and industry. We invite students who feel that they would benefit from this kind of feedback on their work to apply for this unique opportunity, which will allow them to share their work with their peers as well as with senior researchers in the field. The strongest candidates will be those who have already made some research progress, but who are not so far along that they can no longer make changes in their research plans. Typically, this means that they have defined their topic and have completed some research, but still have at least a year of research remaining before completing a dissertation (in many universities this corresponds to the dissertation proposal stage). The feedback from attendees in previous years has been very positive and the Doctoral Symposium has been considered very useful in providing research guidance.

The symposium has the following objectives:

1. Provide a supportive setting for feedback on students’ current research and guidance on future research directions.
2. Offer each student feedback and fresh perspectives on their work from faculty and students outside their own institution.
3. Promote the development of a supportive community of researchers and a spirit of collaborative research.
4. Contribute to the conference goals through interaction with other researchers and conference events.

Student participants will have their extended abstracts included in the conference proceedings. They will also present a poster of their work at the conference.

Symposium Format and Participation Expectations
Participants are expected to attend the entire symposium, and are also expected to attend the RecSys 2023 conference. The RecSys conference will be held from September 18th-22nd, 2023, and the symposium will be held on September 18th, 2023. The conference as well as the symposium will take place in Singapore, with an inclusive format that accommodates remote attendance.

The format of the symposium will be primarily student presentations and Q&A opportunities with senior researchers in the field, supplemented by one or two panel sessions to provide advice.

Student presentations will be structured to provide maximum feedback. In particular:

* Presentations will be limited to 10 minutes, followed by 20-25 minutes for feedback and discussion.
* Two of the symposium faculty will be assigned to provide “primary” feedback for each presenter; following this primary feedback there will be a period of open feedback from all participants.
* Students will be expected to take notes for another participant so that each of you can focus on interacting during the discussion surrounding your presentation.
* During the main conference, students will also present their dissertation work and plans in the form of a poster presentation.
* Being accepted into the symposium is an honor, and involves a commitment to giving and receiving thoughtful commentary with an eye towards shaping the field and upcoming participants in the research area.

Submission Guidelines
Applications are invited from graduate students pursuing a PhD project who would benefit from detailed workshop discussions of their doctoral research by a panel of established researchers. All submissions and reviews will be handled electronically.

APPLICATION
Applications should include the following:

1. An extended abstract (see below).
2. A curriculum vitae or resumé.
3. A one-paragraph statement of expected benefits of participation, including questions regarding your dissertation that you would like to ask your symposium mentors.
4. A brief letter of recommendation from your doctoral advisor, focused on how your participation in the Doctoral Symposium will benefit your dissertation research.

Submit these four items in a single PDF file to EasyChair by 23:59, AoE (Anywhere on Earth) on May 23rd, 2023.

EXTENDED ABSTRACT
The maximum length for extended abstracts is 8 pages (plus up to 2 pages of references) in the new single-column format. See below for formatting instructions and selection criteria. Note that the student is the sole author of the abstract. Advisor(s) can be thanked in the acknowledgments.

Please write your extended abstract to the same quality standards as a regular RecSys submission.

FORMATTING
ACM’s archival publication format separates content from presentation in the Digital Library to enhance accessibility and improve the flexibility and resiliency of our publications. Following the ACM publication workflow, all authors should submit manuscripts for review in a single-column format. Instructions for Word and LaTeX authors are given below:

* Microsoft Word: Write your paper using the Submission Template (Review Submission Format). Follow the embedded instructions to apply the paragraph styles to your various text elements. The text is in single-column format at this stage and no additional formatting is required.
* LaTeX: Please use the latest version of the Primary Article Template – LaTeX to create your submission. You must use the “manuscript” option with the \documentclass[manuscript,anonymous]{acmart} command to generate the output in a single-column format which is required for review. Please see the LaTeX documentation and ACM’s LaTeX best practices guide for further instructions. To ensure 100% compatibility with The ACM Publishing System (TAPS), please restrict the use of packages to the whitelist of approved LaTeX packages.

A document with some frequently asked questions can be found here.

Authors are strongly encouraged to provide “alt text” (alternative text) for floats (images, tables, etc.) in their content so that readers with disabilities can be given descriptive information for the floats that are important to the work. The descriptive text will be displayed in place of a float if the float cannot be loaded. This benefits the author as well as it broadens the reader base for the author’s work. Moreover, the alt text provides in-depth float descriptions to search engine crawlers, which helps to properly index these floats. Additionally, authors should follow the ACM Accessibility Recommendations for Publishing in Color and SIG ACCESS guidelines on describing figures.

Should you have any questions or issues going through the instructions above, please contact support at [log in to unmask] for both LaTeX and Microsoft Word inquiries.

Accepted papers will be later submitted to ACM’s production platform where authors will be able to review PDF and HTML output formats before publication.

ORIGINALITY
Each paper should not be previously published or accepted to any peer-reviewed journal or conference, nor currently under review elsewhere (including as another paper submission for RecSys 2023). Papers published in workshop proceedings may only be submitted if the RecSys submission includes at least 30% substantially new approaches and results; such papers must also reference the original workshop paper in the submission form (but not in the anonymized paper).

PLAGIARISM
Plagiarized papers will not be accepted for RecSys 2023. Our committees will be checking the plagiarism level of all submitted papers to ensure content originality using an automated tool.
If you reuse non-novel text from a prior publication (e.g., the description of an algorithm or dataset), please make sure to cite the prior publication as the source of that text. If you have questions about reuse of text or simultaneous submission, please contact the program chairs at least one week prior to the submission deadline. Please refer to the ACM Publishing License Agreement and Authorship Policy for further details.
Papers violating any of the above guidelines are subject to rejection without review and cases may be referred to the ACM Publications Ethics and Plagiarism committee for further action where warranted.

CONFIDENTIALITY
Confidentiality of submissions is maintained during the review process, where only the DS Chairs will have access to the submissions. All rejected submissions will be kept confidential in perpetuity. All submitted materials for accepted submissions will be kept confidential until two weeks prior to the start of the conference. Submissions should contain no information or materials that are proprietary at publication time.

Selection Criteria
Your extended abstract will be evaluated by the DS Chairs with regard to:

1. Originality of the work with respect to current concepts and techniques (provide relevant citations).
2. Importance of the work with respect to fundamental issues in recommender systems (clearly identify the problems you are trying to solve).
3. Rigor and validity of claims, argumentation, methodology, results, and interpretations.
4. Clarity and persuasiveness of expression.

To provide maximum feedback to each student, participation in the Doctoral Symposium is limited. Selection is based on two broad criteria:

Value of the symposium to the student:
* The degree to which the applicant is positioned to benefit from participation, including the student’s position in the doctoral process (the greatest benefit is for students with a developed research idea but much of the work yet undone).
* The degree to which the student may otherwise lack access to a diverse set of feedback and input on his or her research plans (e.g., availability of local experts and advisors).
Value of the student’s participation to other students:
* The quality of the extended abstract (as identified above), both as a model of excellent research and as an indication of the student’s potential in the field.
* Diversity of participation, including diversity by institution, country, research topic and approach, and demographics. In general we will limit participation to one or two students per institution, depending on the number of applicants.
* Evidence that the student will be an effective and active participant, providing feedback to others and helping to build a research network (such as, e.g., prior experience in meetings, workshops, etc., or any feedback the advisor may provide on this).

Application Checklist
Well in advance of the deadline:

1. Write an extended abstract according to the formatting instructions above. The maximum length for extended abstracts is 8 pages (+ up to 2 pages references) in the new single-column format. Note that the student is the sole author of the abstract. Advisor(s) can be thanked in the acknowledgments.
2. Write a curriculum vitae.
3. Write a one-paragraph statement of expected benefits of participation.
4. Obtain a letter of recommendation from your advisor.

By the deadline (May 23rd, 2023, 23:59 AoE): Submit items 1-4 above in a single PDF file to EasyChair.

Support
We very strongly advise students to also apply for a spot as a student volunteer (SV). Student volunteers will receive free registration to RecSys 2023. Students accepted for the Doctoral Symposium will be prioritized for a student volunteer spot. The deadline for SV applications is planned to be after the notifications for the Doctoral Symposium.

Regarding travel grants, students could apply for Gary Marsden Travel Awards (GMTA) established by SIGCHI to get support for attending the conference. Eligible members can be undergraduate and graduate students, early-career researchers (such as those who are ≤ 5 years post-graduation), and those suffering from financial hardship or lacking institutional support. You can apply even before having an accepted submission. (Still, GMTA “will prioritize first-time attendees and presenters”.) You can find detailed information on the Travel Grants page.

SIGCHI Submitter Agreement
RecSys 2023 is a SIGCHI conference and making a submission to a SIGCHI conference is a serious matter. Submissions require time and effort by SIGCHI volunteers to organize and manage the reviewing process, and, if the submission is accepted, the publication and presentation process. Thus, anyone who submits to RecSys 2023 implicitly confirms the following statements:

1. I confirm that this submission is the work of myself.
2. I confirm that I hold copyright to the content, and have obtained appropriate permissions for any portions of the content that are copyrighted by others.
3. I confirm that any research reported in this submission involving human subjects has gone through the appropriate approval process at my institution.
4. I confirm that if this paper is accepted, I or one of my co-authors will present the paper at the conference, either in person or through a conference-designated remote presentation option. Papers that are not presented at the conference by an author may be removed from the proceedings at the discretion of the program chairs.

Important Dates
* Doctoral Symposium submission deadline: May 23rd, 2023
* Doctoral Symposium submission notification: June 28th, 2023
* Deadline for the camera-ready version of the extended abstract: July 25th, 2023
* Deadlines refer to 23:59 (11:59pm) in the AoE (Anywhere on Earth) time zone.

Doctoral Symposium Chairs
* Cataldo Musto, University of Bari, Italy
* Xiangnan He, University of Science and Technology of China
* Christine Bauer, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
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