UMAP 2020 - Call for Workshop Proposals [Deadline approaching]

*** CALL FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSALS ***



28th ACM International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation

and Personalization (ACM UMAP 2020)



University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy, July 14-17, 2020



https://www.um.org/umap2020/



Proposals due:     January 20, 2020

Submission site:   https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=umap2020



ACM UMAP 2020, the premier international conference for researchers and
practitioners working on systems that adapt to individual users or to
groups of users, and which collect, represent, and model user information,
is pleased to invite proposals for workshops to be held in conjunction with
the conference. The workshops provide a venue to discuss and explore
emerging areas of User Modelling and Adaptive Hypermedia research with a
group of like-minded researchers and practitioners from industry and
academia.



In this edition, our goal is to have a balanced workshop program comprising
different workshop formats, combining newly emerging, currently evolving
and established research topics. Different full-day and half-day workshop
schemas are possible, such as:



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   Working group meetings around a specific problem or topic; participants
   may be asked to submit a white paper or position statement.
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   Mini-conferences on specialized topics, having their own paper
   submission and review processes.
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   Mini-competitions or challenges around selected topics with individual
   or team participation.
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   Interactive discussion meetings focusing on subtopics of the UMAP
   general research topics.
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   Joint panels for different workshops.



PROPOSAL FORMAT



Workshop proposals should be submitted in PDF format via Easychair
submission site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=umap2020, not
exceeding 5 pages and organized as follows:



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   Workshop title and acronym
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   Workshop chair(s), including affiliation, email address, homepage, and
   experiences in organizing such events
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   Abstract (up to 300 words) and topics of interest
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   Motivation on why the workshop is of particular interest at this time
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   Workshop format, discussing the mix of events such as paper
   presentations, invited talks, panels, and general discussions
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   Intended audience and expected number of participants
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   List of (potential) members of the program committee (at least 50% have
   to be confirmed at the time of the proposal)
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   Requested duration (half day or full day)
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   When available, past editions of the workshop, including URLs, a brief
   statement on the development of the workshop series, e.g., in terms of
   topics, number of paper submissions and participants, post-workshop
   publications over the years and acceptance statistics.





INSTRUCTIONS



We encourage both researchers and industry practitioners to submit workshop
proposals.

Researchers interested in submitting a workshop proposal are invited to
contact us in advance, so we can help to design successful proposals. In
particular, for workshop proposals with novel interactive formats, we are
happy to assist in further developing and implementing the ideas.



We strongly suggest involving organizers from different institutions,
bringing different perspectives to the workshop topic. We welcome workshops
with a creative structure that may attract various types of contributions
and may ensure rich interactions.



The organizers of accepted workshops will prepare a workshop web site
containing the call for papers and detailed information about the workshop
organization and timeline. They will be responsible for their own publicity
and reviewing processes.



There will be a conference adjunct proceedings published by ACM where all
the workshop papers will be published. Hence, the workshop organizers will
need to adhere to the adjunct proceedings publication timeline.





IMPORTANT DATES



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   Proposal submission: January 20, 2020
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   Notification of proposal acceptance: January 31, 2020
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   Send the workshop description & website URL: February 23, 2020
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   (Suggested) 1st call for papers: February 28, 2020
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   (Suggested) 2nd call for papers: March 20, 2020
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   (Suggested) paper submission: April 10, 2020
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   (Suggested) notification to authors: May 5, 2020
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   Workshop summary camera-ready deadline: May 3, 2020
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   Workshop papers camera-ready deadline: May 12, 2020
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   Adjunct proceedings camera ready deadline: May 15, 2020
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   Workshop Date: July 17, 2020





PROCEEDINGS AND REGISTRATION POLICY



Workshop papers will be included in the Adjunct Proceedings published by
ACM.



To be included in the Proceedings, at least one author of each accepted
workshop paper must register for the conference or the workshop and present
the paper there.



Student registration fee is allowed to students who present a student
paper. A “Workshop/Tutorial Only” fee will be available as well.







WORKSHOP CHAIRS



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   Pasquale Lops, Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro, Italy
   pasquale.lops AT uniba.it
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   Veronika Bogina, Haifa University, Israel
   sveron AT gmail.com <http://uam.es/>



Regards,
Oghenemaro Anuyah
Graduate Research Assistant
Dept. of Computer Science, Boise State University
ACM UMAP Conference 2020 - *Co-publicity Chair*
oghenemaroanuyah@u.boisestate.edu