Dear MIR community,
We are excited to announce that Nancy Baym, Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research New England, will be the keynote speaker of the 2nd edition of MuRS, the Music Recommender Systems workshop at RecSys 2024 (October 14th, 2024):
The Call for Papers is out: https://sites.google.com/view/murs-2024/call-for-papers
We invite the submission of papers --from both academia and industry-- on methods for music recommendation topics such as:
Fundamentals
Sequential music recommendation
Bandits and reinforcement learning for music recommendation
Large language models for music recommendation
Multi-stakeholder and multi-objective music recommendation
Music representation learning and music similarity metric learning (for music recommendation)
Music content understanding and automatic music tagging (for music recommendation)
Methods that mitigate cold-start and popularity bias
Content-based/Hybrid methods that leverage multi-modal information
Listener taste modeling
Listener intent modeling (session-level, and long-term) and Context-understanding
Transparency, interpretability & explainability at scale
Algorithmic bias, fairness
Online and offline evaluation of music recommender systems
Engineering aspects of music recommendation at very large scale
User studies of music consumption
Applications
Playlist generation and continuation
Algorithmic radio programming
Visual recommendations and homepage personalization
Music discovery
Music search and browsing
Conversational music interactions
Virtual reality and music recommendation
Music recommendation in social media
Recommender systems in the live music industry
Recommender systems for record labels
Recommender systems for music creation and generation
Societal aspects
Cross-cultural music recommendation
Local music recommendation
Socially-aware music recommender systems
Studies of the societal impact of algorithmic music recommendation
Ethics of music recommender system development
Important Dates
Paper submission: August 2nd, 2023 AoE
Author notification: August 27th, 2023
Camera-ready version: September 10th, 2023
Workshop: 14th October, 2024
MuRS Organizing Committee
Christine Bauer, Andrés Ferraro, Peter Knees, Lorenzo Porcaro