[Air-L] ACM UMAP 2021: Call for Workshop and Tutorial Proposals

[Oana Inel]

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29th ACM International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (ACM UMAP 2021)

Utrecht, Netherlands, and Online
June 21-25, 2021
https://www.um.org/umap2021/


CALL FOR WORKSHOPS

Important Dates:
Proposals due: January 15, 2021
Notification to proposers: January 29, 2021
Workshop Day(s): June TBA, 2021

Submission email: umap2021-workshop at um.org<mailto:umap2021-workshop at um.org>

ACM UMAP 2021 is pleased to invite proposals for workshops to be held in conjunction with the conference. ACM UMAP is 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. 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.

Information about Hybrid Conference Format
ACM UMAP 2021 is planned to be a hybrid event, which welcomes everyone who is willing, able and allowed to travel in Utrecht, the Netherlands. However, there will also be an opportunity to attend the conference and the workshops online. Please check the conference website for updates: https://www.um.org/umap2021/

Workshops can therefore be held by the presenters at Utrecht (with synchronous online streaming), or designed as fully virtual workshops. The workshops will most probably be scheduled to start in the mornings or evenings local time (UTC+1).

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

Instructions for Proposers
Workshop proposals should not exceed 5 pages and should be organized as follows:
• Workshop title and acronym
• Workshop chair(s), including affiliation, email address, homepage, and experiences in organizing such events
• Abstract (up to 300 words) and topics of interest
• Motivation on why the workshop is of particular interest at this time
• Workshop format, discussing the mix of events such as paper presentations, invited talks, panels, and general discussions
• Intended audience and expected number of participants
• List of (potential) members of the program committee
• Requested duration (half day or full day)
• Proposed workshop format (e.g. hybrid or fully virtual)
• 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

Submission and Review Process
Workshop proposals should be submitted in PDF by email to: umap2021-workshop at um.org<mailto:umap2021-workshop at um.org>

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.

Schedule
• Proposal submission: January 15, 2021
• Notification of proposal acceptance: January 29, 2021
• Send the workshop description & website URL: February 15, 2021
• (Suggested) 1st call for papers: February 20, 2021
• (Suggested) 2nd call for papers: March 2, 2021
• (Suggested) paper submission: March 26, 2021
• (Suggested) notification to authors: April 19, 2021
• Workshop summary camera-ready deadline: May 7, 2021
• Workshop papers camera-ready deadline: May 7, 2021
• Workshop Date: June TBA, 2021

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.



CALL FOR TUTORIALS

Important Dates:
Proposals due: January 15, 2021
Notification to proposers: January 29, 2021
Tutorial Day: June TBA, 2021

Submission email: umap2021-workshop at um.org<mailto:umap2021-workshop at um.org>

ACM UMAP 2021 is pleased to invite proposals for tutorials to be given in conjunction with the conference. ACM UMAP is 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, Tutorials are intensive instructional sessions aimed to provide a comprehensive introduction to established or emerging research topics of interest for the UMAP community.

Information about Hybrid Conference Format
ACM UMAP 2021 is planned to be a hybrid event, which welcomes everyone who is willing, able and allowed to travel in Utrecht, the Netherlands. However, there will also be an opportunity to attend the conference and the tutorials online. Please check the conference website for updates: https://www.um.org/umap2021/

Tutorials can therefore be held by the presenters at Utrecht (with synchronous online streaming), or designed as fully virtual tutorials. The tutorials will most probably be scheduled to start in the morning or evening local time (UTC+1).

Tutorial Topics
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
• new user modeling technologies, methods, techniques, and trends (e.g. exploiting data mining and big data analytics for user modeling, evaluation methodologies, data visualization, etc.)
• user modeling and personalization techniques for specific domains (e.g., health sciences, e-government, e-commerce, cultural heritage, education, internet of things, mobile, music, information retrieval, human-robot interaction etc.)
• application of user modeling and personalization techniques for information retrieval and recommender systems
• eliciting and learning user preferences by taking into account users’ emotional state, physical state, personality, trust, cognitive factors

Instructions for Proposers
An ideal tutorial should be broad enough to provide a basic introduction to the chosen area, but it should also cover the most important topics in depth. Tutorial presenters can have one page in the adjunct proceedings.

Tutorial proposals should not exceed 5 pages and should contain the following information:
• Title and abstract of the tutorial for inclusion on the ACM UMAP 2021 website (200 words maximum)
• Tutorial description:
• learning objectives of the tutorial and relevance to ACM UMAP 2021
• targeted audience (introductory, intermediate, advanced) and prerequisite knowledge or skills
• a brief outline of the tutorial structure
• Information about potential practical sessions
• Tutorial length: full (6 hours) or half day (3 hours)
• Other venues to which the tutorial or part thereof has been or will be presented, in addition to explaining how the current tutorial differs from the other editions
• Proposed tutorial format (hybrid or fully virtual)
• Name, email address, affiliation and brief professional biography of the tutorial instructor(s), indicating previous training and speaking experience

Submission and Review Process
Tutorial proposals should be submitted in PDF by email to: umap2021-workshop at um.org<mailto:umap2021-workshop at um.org>

All proposals will be reviewed by the tutorial chairs. The features that will be evaluated are:
• ability of the tutorial to contribute to strengthening the foundations of UMAP research
• clarity of the tutorial, which should emerge from its description
• organization, as appearing from the outline
• background/experience of tutorial instructor(s) in teaching the target topics

Timeline
• Proposals due: January 15, 2021
• Notification of acceptance: January29, 2021
• Adjunct proceedings camera ready: May 7, 2021
• Tutorial Day: June TBA, 2021

Proceedings and Registration Policy
A “Workshop/Tutorial Only” fee will be available, as well as the option for student registration.



Workshop and Tutorial Chairs
Berardina Nadja De Carolis, University of Bari "Aldo Moro", Italy
berardina.decarolis at uniba.it<mailto:berardina.decarolis at uniba.it>

Dietmar Jannach, University of Klagenfurt, Austria
dietmar.jannach at aau.at<mailto:dietmar.jannach at aau.at>