Call for Papers
Workshop on Architectures and Building Blocks of Web-Based User-Adaptive
Systems
Monday June 21, 2010 | Big Island of Hawaii
http://adapt2.sis.pitt.edu/wiki/WABBWUAS
In conjunction with 2nd and 18th Conference on User Modeling,
Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP)
http://www.hawaii.edu/UMAP2010/
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Important dates
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* Submissions due March 29, 2010
* Notification of acceptance May 3, 2010
* Camera-ready versions due May 24, 2010
* Workshop held June 21, 2010
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Submitting
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* All papers should represent original and unpublished work that is
not
currently under review
* Submission types
- Full paper (up to 12 pages)
- Short paper (up to 6 pages)
- Demo (up to 3 pages)
* Format
LNCS instructions for authors can be found here
http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-7-72376-0
* Submission procedure
Submit via EasyChair
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wabbwuas2010
* Review
Each submission will be reviewed by at least three members of the
workshop
program committee. Papers will be evaluated according to their
significance,
originality, technical content, style, clarity, and relevance to
the
workshop.
There will be no separate workshop registration fees. At least one of
the
authors of an accepted submission must register to the main conference
and
participate to the workshop with paper presentation.
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Overview
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User-adaptive systems have evolved from small-scale stand-alone
applications to
interactive Web-based applications that are often deployed on a larger
scale.
Consequently, the need has arisen to move from prototypical systems to
scalable,
deployable solutions. At the same time, a shift can be seen from
rule-based,
mentalistic user modeling approaches to 'Web 2.0' approaches that
involve
machine learning, data mining, and collaborative techniques.
Past research provided a large body of methods for
adaptation/personalization,
and techniques for user modeling, usage mining, and collaborative
filtering.
Conceptual frameworks splitting the adaptation process into various
layers
provide guidance for implementing user-adaptive systems. Based on these
building
blocks, various groups have created their own frameworks, among others
AHA!,
APELS, and Personal Reader. Framework design provides an opportunity to
reuse
components or even whole layers of the adaptation process. Reuse of
components
such as user behavior observation and logging tools, user model storage
promotes
faster development, better feature selection, and more robust systems.
Although, system fragmentation enables component reuse and speeds up
the
development of the new systems, there are several issues. First,
decomposition
of a monolithic system should result in a good abstraction of the data
and
process model to provide a convenient basis for reuse. Second, the data
traffic
between the separated system components may intensify. As the number of
system
users increases issues related to scalability might arise. This is
especially
true for user-adaptive and cognitive systems where the modeling
and
personalization components are traditionally computationally and data
intensive.
Existing work on the Web-based user-adaptive and cognitive systems,
including
work on frameworks, shown that there exists a strong overlap between
conceptual
models of the decomposed adaptation process and the practical
implications of
its design. In this situation, a logical step is to compare already
working
systems with emerging approaches and models. In this workshop we
seek to
identify current practices and experiences with concrete
implementations of
user-adaptive and cognitive systems or specific components - varying
from
experimental, small-scale prototypes to systems that are deployed on a
larger
scale.
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Topics
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Topics include but are not limited to:
* user behavior observation and user data collection: embedded into the
adaptive
system or available as standalone components or add-ons,
* user data management: data storage platforms and formats, the use of
open
standards, querying techniques or APIs, interoperability issues,
* reusing reasoning and adaptation techniques,
* scalability and performance issues of user modeling and adaptation,
* generalizable techniques for adaptation, personalization and
recommendation,
* translations of conceptual designs into concrete implementati
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Organizing Commitee
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* Abel, Fabian (University of Hannover)
* Geert-Jan Houben (Delft University of Technology)
* Herder, Eelco (University of Hannover)
* Pechenizkiy, Mykola (Eindhoven University of Technology)
* Yudelson, Michael (University of Pittsburgh)
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Program Committee
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* De Bra, Paul (Technical University of Eindhoven)
* Brusilovsky, Peter (University of Pittsburgh)
* Conlan, Owen (Trinity College Dublin)
* Davis, Hugh (University of Southampton)
* Heffernan, Neil (Worcester Polytechnic Institute)
* Henze, Nicola (University of Hannover)
* Knutov, Evgeny (Technical University of Eindhoven)
* Koidl, Kevin (Trinity College Dublin)
* Krause, Daniel (University of Hannover)
* O'Keeffe, Ian (Trinity College Dublin)
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Contact Information
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Michael V. Yudelson
School of Information Sciences
University of Pittsburgh
Email: mvy3@pitt.edu
Tel: +1 (412) 624-9437
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