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Call for Workshop Proposals

RecSys 2012 is pleased to invite proposals for workshops to be held in conjunction with the conference. The goal of the workshops is to provide additional venues for presenting research on topics of interest and an informal forum to discuss research questions and challenges.

We encourage proposals for a wide range of workshops, including but not limited to:

• Working group meetings organized around a specific problem; such workshops may wish to ask participants to submit a short white paper or position statement.
• One day mini-conferences on specialized topics; such workshops may have their own paper submission and review processes.
• Mini-competitions or challenges around selected topics with individual or team participation.

We welcome proposals for half-day and full-day workshops.

We encourage you to contact us in advance (workshop2012@recsys.acm.org) with workshop ideas; we will work with prospective workshop organizers to help them design successful proposals. We actively encourage both researchers and industry practitioners to submit workshop proposals.

Important Dates

• March 15, 2012: Workshop proposals due
• Apr 7, 2012: Decisions announced
• Jun 8, 2012: Workshop paper submission deadline
• Jun 22, 2012: Author notification
• Jul 6, 2012: Camera-ready workshop papers due
• Sept 9, 2012: Workshops day 1
• Sept 13, 2012: Workshops day 2

Proposal Format

The workshop proposal should be a PDF document no more than 4 pages long, submitted by e-mail and organized as follows:

1. Workshop Title
2. Name, email address, and affiliation for workshop chair(s)
3. Requested duration (half day or full day), and maximum number of participants
4. Short description of workshop for use in advertising workshop to prospective participants. This description should include the topic, format, and details about what type of submission is requested from prospective attendees. It should not include the title, organizers, or fee structure (all of which will be inserted by the conference).
5. Description of workshop activities. Outline how the workshop will be organized and how the time will be spent. If the workshop is selective, also outline the process of selecting participants.
6. Description of plans for promoting the workshop (aside from the conference website and announcements, how will you let people know about this workshop).
7. Plans for disseminating the results of the workshop (if any).
8. History of prior workshops on this topic (if any).

Please visit the conference website at http://recsys.acm.org/2012/ for more information.

RecSys 2012 Workshop Chairs

Jill Freyne, CSIRO, Australia
Pearl Pu, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland

Accepted Workshops

Sunday 9th September

• Recommender Systems and the Social Web (RSWeb) (Full day)
• Human Decision Making in Recommender Systems (Full day)
• Context-Aware Recommender Systems (CARS) (Full day)
• Recommendation Utility Evaluation (RUE) (Full day)

Thursday 13th September

• RecSys Data Challenge (Full day)
• Interfaces for Recommender Systems (Interfaces) (Half day, am)
• Lifestyle (Half day, pm)
• Personalizing the Local Mobile Experience (Full day)

* The Local Experience and PeMa half-day workshops have been merged into a single full-day workshop (Personalizing the Local Mobile Experience) to be held on Thursday 13th September.