[Air-l] Fwd: CALL FOR PAPERS- UM 2003: 9th International Conference on User Modeling

[jeremy hunsinger]

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> From: Zia Syed <zs at COMP.RGU.AC.UK>
> Date: Mon Oct 21, 2002  2:45:26 PM US/Eastern
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> Subject: CALL FOR PAPERS- UM 2003: 9th International Conference on 
> User Modeling
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> UM 2003: 9th International Conference on User Modeling
>
> http://www2.sis.pitt.edu/~um2003
>
> June 22 to June 26, 2003
> University of Pittsburgh Conference Center
> Johnstown, Pennsylvania, USA
>
>
> CALL FOR PAPERS
>
> The International User Modeling Conferences are the events at which 
> research
> foundations are being laid for the personalization of computer 
> systems. In
> the last 15 years, the field of User Modelling has produced 
> significant new
> theories and methods to analyze and model computer users in short and
> long-term interactions. A user model is an explicit representation of
> properties of individual users or user classes. It allows the system to
> adapt its performance to user needs and preferences. Methods for
> personalizing human-computer interaction based on user models have been
> successfully developed, applied and evaluated in a number of domains, 
> such
> as information filtering, e-commerce, adaptive natural language and
> hypermedia presentation and tutoring systems.
>
> New trends in HCI create new and interesting challenges for User 
> Modeling.
> While consolidating results in traditional domains of interest, the 
> User
> Modeling field now also addresses problems of personalized interaction 
> in
> mobile, ubiquitous and context-aware computing and in user 
> interactions with
> embodied, autonomous agents. It also considers adaptation to user 
> attitudes
> and affective states. Previous successes in User Modeling research 
> reflect
> the cooperation of researchers in different fields, including 
> artificial
> intelligence, human-computer interaction, education, cognitive 
> psychology
> and linguistics. The International User Modeling Conferences are
> characterized by active participation of people from these areas and by
> lively discussions in a pleasant environment. UM 2003 is the latest in 
> a
> conference series begun in 1986, and follows recent meetings in 
> Sonthofen
> (2001), Banff (1999), Sardinia (1997), Hawaii (1996) and Cape Cod 
> (1994). As
> in past conferences, UM03 offers the following forms of participation:
> tutorials, invited talks, paper and poster sessions, a doctoral 
> consortium,
> workshops and system demonstrations.
>
> AREAS OF INTEREST  include, but are not limited to:
>
> *  theoretical issues of user modeling:
>     inference techniques (neural networks, numerical uncertainty 
> management,
> logic-based formalisms, machine learning); consistency checking;
> *  construction of user models:
>     contents of user and student models (including knowledge, beliefs,
> goals, plans, attitudes, personalities and emotions);
>     observation of users' behavior,  user modeling agents; user 
> modeling in
> mobile systems;
> *  exploitation of user models to achieve:
>     adaptive information filtering and retrieval, personalized natural
> language understanding and generation,    delegation of tasks from 
> user to
> system, adaptation of tutorial strategies;
> *  applications of user modeling techniques:
>     teaching systems, on-line help environments, e-commerce, adaptive 
> NL and
> hypermedia generation, embodied conversational agents, support of
> collaboration, support of users with special needs;
> *  practical issues of user modeling: privacy, security, evaluation.
>
> DEADLINES
>
> November 11, 2002 - preliminary workshop proposals
> November 18, 2002 - papers
> November 25, 2002 - posters
> November 25, 2002 - final workshop proposals
> November 25, 2002 - tutorial proposals
> January 25, 2003 - Doctoral Consortium submissions
>
> INVITED SPEAKERS
>
> Michael Pazzani, Information and Computer Science, University of 
> California,
> Irvine
> Rosalind Picard, MIT Media Laboratory
> Kurt VanLehn, Computer Science Department, University of Pittsburgh
>
> SUBMISSIONS:
>
> Papers and Posters:
>
> Submissions are invited that describe original academic or industrial
> research on some aspect of user modeling. Following the past User 
> Modeling
> conferences, the proceedings of UM'2003 will be published by 
> Springer-Verlag
> in Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI/LNCS). The paper and
> poster submissions should follow as close as possible the Springer LNCS
> format and should be submitted electronically as PDF or Postscript 
> files.
> For instructions on the LNCS paper format, see
> http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html
>
> The page limit is 10 pages for paper submissions and 3 pages for 
> posters.
> Please indicate whether the first (or main) author is a student to 
> qualify
> for the best student award. Detailed submission instructions will be
> available from the conference web site.
>
> Workshops and Tutorials
>
> The purpose of the workshops is to provide an informal forum for
> practitioners and researchers to discuss novel applications and 
> techniques
> of user modeling. The formats of the workshops will be determined by 
> their
> organizers, who are encouraged to foster discussion and exchange of 
> ideas by
> including mechanisms other than traditional paper presentations,
> differentiating their workshops clearly from typical conference 
> sessions.
> All workshops will last either one-half day or (preferably) a full day.
>
> The purpose of a tutorial is either to offer an introduction to a 
> fairly
> broad topic for newcomers to user modeling or to enable experienced
> participants to deepen their knowledge of a more specific topic. Each
> tutorial will last one-half day. Detailed submission instructions for
> workshop proposals and tutorials will be available
> from the conference web site http://www2.sis.pitt.edu/~um2003.
>
> Doctoral Consortium
>
> Continuing a tradition that started in 1994, the UM Doctoral 
> Consortium aims
> to provide qualified Ph.D. students with the opportunity to present 
> their
> on-going research to the UM community. The Doctoral Consortium is a 
> great
> forum to receive useful feedback from a knowledgeable audience, to 
> exchange
> ideas, compare approaches and meet fellow researchers in the field.
> Submissions should describe Ph.D. research that is at a stage where 
> feedback
> from the broader UM community might be of value.  Thus, we expect 
> students
> to be close to make their research proposal, or to have made it but 
> have at
> least a year of work remaining before completion of their thesis.
>
> Submissions must be a maximum of three pages (including references) and
> should clearly specify: (i) the problem(s) that the proposed research 
> is
> addressing (ii) the main contribution(s) of the research to the UM 
> field
> (iii) the proposed solution(s), including a brief description of work
> already done and a tentative plan for future
> work. Detailed submission instructions will be available from the 
> conference
> web site http://www2.sis.pitt.edu/~um2003
>
> CONFERENCE SITE:
>
> Following UM conference series practice, UM'03 conference will be held 
> at
> the Conference Center at the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown
> (http://www.pitt.edu/~ccupj). The center is tucked into 650 acres of
> beautiful woodlands in the Laurel Highlands of Pennsylvania, a region 
> well
> known for its hiking, biking, and whitewater opportunities as well as 
> for
> several world-class attractions such as Frank Lloyd Wright's 
> Fallingwater
> (http://www.paconserve.org)
>
>
> ORGANIZATION:
>
> Conference Chair:
> Peter Brusilovsky, University of Pittsburgh, USA
>
> Program Co-Chairs:
> Albert Corbett, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
> Fiorella de Rosis, University of Bari, Italy
>
> Doctoral Consortium Co-Chairs:
> Sandra Carberry, University of Delaware, USA
> Cristina Conati, University of British Columbia, Canada
>
> Workshop Co-Chairs:
> Frank Wittig, Saarland University, Germany
> Anthony Jameson, DFKI, Germany
>
> Program Committee:
> David Albrecht, Australia
> Liliana Ardissono, Italy
> Mathias Bauer, Germany
> Sandra Carberry, USA
> Noelle Carbonell, France
> Keith Cheverst, UK
> David Chin, USA
> Cristina Conati, Canada
> Piotr Gmytrasiewicz, USA
> Brad Goodman, USA
> Haym Hirsh, USA
> Kristina H=F6=F6k, Sweden
> Eric Horvitz, USA
> Anthony Jameson, Germany
> Judy Kay, Australia
> Alfred Kobsa, USA
> Antonio Krger, Germany
> Diane Litman, USA
> Gordon McCalla, Canada
> Kathleen McCoy, USA
> Antonija Mitrovic, New Zealand
> Riichiro Mizoguchi, Japan
> Helen Pain, UK
> Cecile Paris, Australia
> Barry Smyth, Ireland
> Constantine Stephanidis, Greece
> Carlo Tasso, Italy
> Julita Vassileva, Canada
> Gerhard Weber, Germany
> Ingrid Zukerman, Australia
>
> Local Advisory Committee:
> Ken Koedinger, Carnegie Mellon University
> Christian Lebiere, Carnegie Mellon University
> Jack Mostow, Carnegie Mellon University
>
> Publicity Chair:
> Ayse Goker, The Robert Gordon University, UK
>
>
> CONTACT INFORMATION:
>
> Chair: Peter Brusilovsky
> School of Information Sciences
> University of Pittsburgh
> 135 North Bellefield Avenue
> Pittsburgh, PA 15260
> email: peterb at pitt.edu
> Tel.: +1 (412) 624 9404
> http://www2.sis.pitt.edu/~peterb
>
>
> UM03 is being organized under the auspices of User Modeling, Inc. The 
> list
> of sponsors currently includes Microsoft, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 
> and
> James Chen Family.
>
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>
jeremy hunsinger
jhuns at vt.edu
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www.cddc.vt.edu/jeremy
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