28/5/2002 - Malaga, Spain
http://ectrl.itc.it/rpec/

at
2nd International Conference on Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive
Web Based Systems
29/5/2002 - 31/5/2002
Malaga, Spain
http://sirius.lcc.uma.es/AH2002/

 

Context and Objectives
Electronic commerce is the process of managing business occurring over networks, which use non-proprietary protocols such as Internet. Business includes buying and selling of information, services and goods and maintaining a network of relationships between organizations and individuals.

Recommender systems are e-commerce applications that provide advice to users about products or services they might be interested in. Web based recommender systems are the most notable application of the web personalization, i.e., the process of tailoring a web site to individual users' characteristics or preferences. Recommender systems are exploiting a vast range of AI technologies and are defining new scenarios for human to human and human to machine interaction. The ultimate goal is to offer an enhanced one-to-one solution for each single user and meet his needs more effectively and efficiently.

There remain difficulties limiting the full exploitation of personalization and recommendation, arising both from technology and from the "human factor." The goal of this workshop is to bring together academic and industrial researchers to discuss the most innovative approaches to recommendation in the context of personalised e-Commence applications and in particular to discuss emerging related topics such as: modelling decision making in recommendation systems, cooperative query answering, session modelling, user modelling, web mining, methodologies for comparison and explanation of recommendations.

Topics
Topics for submission include but are not limited to:
 
* Modelling decision making in e-commerce systems * User modelling
* Web mining * Content management and modelling
* Collaborative and content based filtering * Cooperative query answering
* Pro-active recommendation * Comparison and explanation
* Adaptive and multi-modal user interfaces * Web architectures for recommendation systems
* Session Modelling and click-stream analysis * Measuring personalization effectiveness
* Hybrid Recommendation Systems * Evaluation methods and Knowledge Validation
* Temporal Modelling, Concept Drift * Incorporation of domain knowledge, business processes

Format and Submission Procedure
We invite contributions that advance the state of the art in Recommendation and Personalization in eCommerce and with particular respect to the mentioned topics above. Prospective authors are invited to submit an extended abstract (about 4 to 5 pages, no more than 2500 words) or a full paper (no more that 10 pages or 5000 words) to the workshop organizer (Francesco Ricci). The first page of the draft paper should include: title of the paper, name, affiliation, postal address, E-mail, telephone number and fax number for each author.

Papers will be evaluated for significance, originality, soundness and clarity by one or more members of the programme committee.

The length of the camera-ready papers (if accepted) will be limited to a maximum of 10 pages. The final format for camera ready papers will be that of Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html.

The final paper will be available on-line at the conference web site, and will be published as a book (University of Malaga).

Electronic submission: e-mail a PDF version of your manuscript to the workshop organizer at ricci@itc.it.

Workshop Organizer
Francesco Ricci, eCTRL ITC-irst, via Sommarive 18, 38050 Povo-Trento, Italy. email ricci@itc.it, phone +39-0461-314521, fax +39-0461-302040.

Programme Committee

Important Dates

    Extended abstract submission deadline  March 31th 2002
  Notification of acceptance April 15th 2002
  Final version due May 5th 2002
  Date of the workshop May 28th 2002

Last update 04.06.2002