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UMAP 2013 Doctoral Consortium - 2nd Call for Papers
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21st International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation, and 
Personalization - Rome, Italy, June 10-14, 2013
www.umap2013.org

ABOUT THE DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM
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The UMAP 2013 Conference, following a tradition started in 1994, will 
include a Doctoral Consortium Session, which provides an opportunity for 
doctoral students to explore and develop their research interests under 
the guidance of a panel of distinguished research faculty. Doctoral 
students are invited to apply to present their research to scholars and 
researchers in the field who will provide constructive comments about 
their work.
The doctoral consortium is implemented as a student mentoring program 
that introduces students to senior researchers in the relevant fields.

Students are expected to document in a brief submission their doctoral 
research (see SUBMISSION INFORMATION for further details), which will be 
evaluated by the consortium committee. Good quality applications will be 
selected to be presented in a short (15-20 minute) presentation at the 
conference. Each student with an accepted application will be assigned a 
mentor who will provide feedback on the student's work and will discuss 
the doctoral research with the student and the audience at the consortium.

TOPICS
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Topics include (but are not limited to) the areas listed on the UMAP 
2013 website:
Purposes of UMAP
User Characteristics for UMAP
Application domains for UMAP
Environments for UMAP
Computational methods for UMAP
Architectures for UMAP
Methods for design and evaluation of UMAP
Usability issues for UMAP

SUBMISSION INFORMATION
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To apply for the UMAP 2013 doctoral consortium, students are asked to 
submit an abstract of their doctoral research that describes:
- the problem being addressed
- the motivation for addressing the problem
- the main contributions that the thesis aims to achieve
- the progress made to date (including a clear description of the 
proposed approach) and the plan of further research
- related work.

Students should also include the stage they are in the PhD programme, 
and a brief description of their background in order to enable the 
committee to adapt its assistance to each student.

Papers must be submitted via the DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM EASYCHAIR INSTANCE:

https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=umap2013doctoralcons

Submissions should be pdf documents formatted according to the Springer 
LNCS style specified in the UMAP 2013 Call for Papers:
Style files, templates, and details about the format can be found at 
http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0.
The length of the abstract is limited to 4 pages.

PROCEEDINGS
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Accepted papers will be included in the Conference Proceedings, which 
will be published as a book by Springer.

FINANCIAL SUPPORT
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Funding for selected students with accepted contributions may be 
available to cover some travel and accommodation expenses. More details 
will be provided on the conference web site as soon as funds will be 
available.

IMPORTANT DATES
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Submission deadline: March 8, 2013.
Acceptance notifications: March 28, 2013.
Camera-ready version: April 5, 2013.

PROGRAM COMMITTEE (to be extended)
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Liliana Ardissono, Italy
Maria Bielikova, Slovakia
Federica Cena, Italy
Li Chen, Hong Kong
Paolo Cremonesi, Italy
Berardina De Carolis, Italy
Vania Dimitrova, UK
Fabio Gasparetti, Italy
Cristina Gena, Italy
Tsvi Kuflik, Israel
Kathy McCoy, USA
Francesco Ricci, Italy
Melike Sah, Ireland
Marko Tkalcic, Slovenia
Jie Zhang, Singapore
Ingrid Zukerman, Australia

For more information, please contact the DC chairs:
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Stephanie Elzer Schwartz, Millersville University, USA
(emailto: [log in to unmask])
Marco de Gemmis, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy
(emailto: [log in to unmask])