CFP: 4th International Workshop on Social Recommender Systems

[Rob St. Amant]

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

4th International Workshop on Social Recommender Systems

in conjunction with 22nd World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2013) http://www2013.org/

Rio DeJaneiro, Brazil, May 14th, 2013

http://cslinux0.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/~fwang/srs2013/

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Social media sites have become tremendously popular in recent years. Yet,
the abundance and popularity of social media floods users with huge volumes
of information and hence poses a great challenge in terms of information
finding. Social Recommender Systems aim to alleviate information overload
for users by presenting the most relevant and useful information items.
Social recommender systems that suggest content (e.g., wikis and forum
posts), people, and communities often use personalization techniques to
adapt to the needs and interests of individual users, or a group of users.
This workshop will bring together researchers and practitioners around the
emerging topics of social recommender systems. We will review
state-of-the-art advances in the field and identify key challenges going
forward.

Topics of interests include, but are not limited to:

Social recommender technologies and applications
Model of recommendation context for social recommender systems
Characteristics of online social sites in need of social recommenders
Culture-specific social recommenders
New algorithms suitable for social recommender systems
People recommendation and social matching
Filtering and personalization of social streams
Emerging applications for social recommender systems
Recommendations for groups and communities
Recommender systems and the semmantic web
Social recommender systems in the enterprise
Diversity and novelty in social recommender systems
Recommendations for new social media users
 
User Interfaces in social recommender systems
Transparency and explanations in SRS
Adaption and personalization for SRS
User feedback in SRS
Trust and reputation in SRS
Social awareness and visualization
Privacy of SRS 
 
Evaluation
Evaluation methods and evaluations of SRS
User studies
Crowdsourcing for recommendation evaluation

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IMPORTANT DATES

     February 25, 2013: Submissions due
     March 15, 2013: Author notification
     March 29, 2013: Submission of final versions
     May 14, 2013: Workshop held

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PAPER SUBMISSION

We solicit long papers, short papers, and demonstrations on all aspects 
of social recommender systems. Long papers should present original research 
work and can be of up to 8 pages in length. Short papers report on work in 
progress and can have up to 4 pages. Presenters of demos are asked to submit 
short papers describing their system.

Papers should be submitted in PDF format through the EasyChair system at 
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=srs20130 
Formatting should be according to the ACM SIG Proceedings templates:
http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates
Paper selection will be based on a peer review process; there will be no 
double-blind review process – author names and affiliations should be included 
in the paper. 

At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the workshop. 
Information about registration is provided at the WWW 2013 web page: 
http://www2013.org/registration

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PUBLICATION

All accepted submissions will be published online via ACM Digital Library, 
as part of the companion volume of the WWW 2013 proceedings.

Depending on submission quality, it is planned to propose a special issue on 
the topic for an international journal, in continutation to the two ACM TIST 
special issues published in 2011 and 2013.

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Organizers

Ido Guy, IBM Haifa Research Lab, Israel 
Li Chen, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong 
Michelle X. Zhou, IBM Almaden Research Lab, USA 

Program Committee 

Shlomo Bekovsky (NICTA, Australia)
Robin Burke (DePaul University, USA)
Ed H. Chi (Google, USA)
Alexander Felfernig (Graz University of Technology, Austria)
Werner Geyer (IBM T.J. Watson Research, USA)
Dietmar Jannach (TU Dortmund, Germany)
Alfred Kobsa (University of California, Irvine, USA)
Joseph Konstan (University of Minnesota, USA)
Tsvika Kuflik (Haifa University, Israel)
Luiz Augusto Pizzato (University of Sydney, Australia)
Lior Rokach (Ben-Gurion University, Israel)
Lars Schmidt-Thieme (University of Hildesheim, Germany) 
Sarabjot Singh Anand (University of Warwick, UK)
Barry Smyth (University College Dublin, Ireland)

Question and inquiries: srs2...@easychair.org