CFP: ACM RecSys'09 Workshop on Recommender Systems and the Social Web

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CALL FOR PAPERS
ACM RecSys'09 Workshop on Recommender Systems & the Social Web

New York, October 25, 2009
http://ls13-www.cs.uni-dortmund.de/homepage/RSWEB/
Submission Deadline: July 13, 2009

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The Social Web has been enjoying huge popularity in recent years,
attracting millions of visitors on sites such as Facebook, Delicious,
YouTube. We are no longer mere consumers of information, but we also
actively participate in social networks, upload our personal images,
share our bookmarks, write web logs and annotate and comment on the
information provided by others.

This Social Web provides huge opportunities for recommender technology
and in turn recommender technologies can play a part in fuelling the
success of the Social Web phenomenon as new application areas for RS
technology emerge, new sources of knowledge for RS become available,
and richer user Web interfaces are possible.

The goal of this workshop is to explore, discuss, and understand new
opportunities for recommender systems and the social Web. We solicit
original contributions in the following areas:

* Economy of community-based systems:
* Encouraging users to contribute and sustain participation.
* Social network and folksonomy development:
* Recommending friends, tags, bookmarks, blogs, music, communities etc.
* Recommender systems mash-ups, Web 2.0 user interfaces, rich media
recommender systems
* Collaborative knowledge authoring, collective intelligence
* Recommender applications involving users or groups directly in the
recommendation process
* Exploiting folksonomies, social network information, interaction,
user context and communities or groups for recommendations
* Trust and reputation aware social recommendations
* Semantic Web recommender systems, use of ontologies or microformats
* Empirical evaluation of social recommender techniques, success and
failure measures
* Case studies and fielded applications
* Barriers of acceptance for social recommendations and the role of
social dynamics and online identities in acceptance of recommendations

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IMPORTANT DATES
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* July 13, 2009: Paper/position statement submission due
* August 10, 2009: Notification of workshop submitters
* August 17, 2009: Camera-ready workshop abstract due
* October 25, 2009: Workshop held

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PAPER SUBMISSION
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Papers should be submitted PDF format by email to
rsweb09@ls13.cs.uni-dortmund.de.

The formatting guidelines of the ACM'09 Recommender Systems apply
(see http://recsys.acm.org/submission.html). Paper selection will be
based on a peer review process; there will be no blind review process
- author names and affiliations should be included in the paper.

Paper categories:
* Long papers (up to 8 pages) describing original research results
or case studies.
* Short papers (up to 4 pages) describing preliminary results or
work-in-progress.

Demos:
* Workshop participants can also show demos. Demos should be submitted
as a short paper describing the research and the demo itself.

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Organizers
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Dietmar Jannach, TU Dortmund, Germany
Werner Geyer, IBM Research, Cambridge, MA, USA
Jill Freyne, CSIRO, TasICT Centre, Australia
Sarabjot Singh Anand, University of Warwick, UK
Casey Dugan, IBM Research, Cambridge, MA, USA
Bamshad Mobasher, DePaul University, USA
Alfred Kobsa, University of California, Irvine, USA