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RecSys 2014: CALL FOR DEMOS

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8th ACM International Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2014)

October 6-10, 2014, Foster City, Silicon Valley, USA

Demo Submission Deadline: May 19th 2014

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RecSys 2014 is pleased to invite proposals for demos to be presented in conjunction with the conference. The demo session provides an exciting way for researchers and developers to present new recommender ideas, show off their work, and get valuable feedback from the recommender systems community.

We invite demonstrations of developments in all aspects of recommender systems, including (but not limited to):

- Interaction techniques (preference elicitation interfaces, recommendation presentation, explanations, and more);

- Tools for development and analysis of recommender systems (design tools, evaluation systems, analytics tools);

- Innovative applications of recommender systems;

- Recommender experiments (showing something new to RecSys attendees could be a valuable source of data on user interaction with your recommender concept).

RecSys demos provide innovators and researchers a unique opportunity to get feedback from the recommender systems community on their ideas. RecSys has an excellent history of being well-attended by industry representatives — past conferences have had attendees and presenters from Ebay, Pandora, Twitter, Google, Facebook, LinkedIn, Netflix, Amazon, IBM, etc. The blend of industry and academic attention provides an excellent environment to demonstrate and discuss your latest invention or idea. Taking advantage of this environment, the demo track is particularly useful for several groups:

- Researchers wanting to allow attendees to interact with their work, not just see it - presented, and possibly gather usage data for feedback;

- Deployed recommender systems available to interact with;

- Early stage start-ups looking to showcase their ideas and gain feedback and exposure.

Submissions

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Demos should be submitted in PDF format through the Easychair system (https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=recsys14demoposter)  and must include:

- A two-page demo summary that includes a link to a narrated screen capture of your system in action (ideally a video). This two-page summary of accepted demo will be included in the conference proceedings. For a formatting template, please see http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates (tighter alternate style);

- A one-page description of the demonstrated system and the required setup. If the system will feature an installable component (e.g., mobile app) or web site for users to use throughout or after the conference, please mention this. The description should also provide information about the presenter(s), including their relationship to the project.

Note: At least one of the authors of each accepted demo is required to attend the conference.

Important Dates

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Demo submission deadline: May 19, 2014

Demo notification: July 7, 2014

Camera ready demo summary: July 24, 2014

Poster and Demo Chairs

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Li Chen, Hong Kong Baptist University, China

Jalal Mahmud, IBM Research, USA

Please visit the conference website http://recsys.acm.org/recsys14/

for more information.

Check out the ACM RecSys Wiki at www.recsyswiki.com

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