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SIGIR 2001 Workshop on RECOMMENDER SYSTEMS

Thursday, September 13th
New Orleans, LA - USA
http://www.cs.orst.edu/~herlock/rsw2001/

* NOTE: You can participate even if you do not attend!  Please see "WHO'S WHO IN RECOMMENDER SYSTEMS" below.

Recommender systems assist and augment the transfer of recommendations between members of a community. A typical system collects preferences or opinions from individual users, then aggregates and transfers those recommendations to other members of the community. Recommender systems are often referred to as "collaborative filtering systems".

In recent years, interest in recommender systems has dramatically increased, driven primarily by demand for Internet personalization applications. Many major e-commerce web sites are currently using recommender systems to personalize their content layout and target sales. Most notably, the largest online retailer Amazon.com makes extensive use of recommender system technology.

There is also considerable potential for recommender systems to make a difference off the Internet as well. As one example, recommender systems are an important part of knowledge management solutions on corporate intranets - notably in recommending expertise. Another example is the Tivo digital video recorder appliance, which has demonstrated that recommender systems can benefit those who have never used a computer or the Internet.

This recommender workshop is a follow up to the extremely successful recommender systems workshop that was hosted by SIGIR 1999 in Berkeley, CA.

WORKSHOP GOALS

1. Provide a forum where current practitioners can meet and discuss recommender system issues
2. Identify the most important open problems
3. See presentations of important work or results related to recommender systems

PLANNED ACTIVITIES & SELECTION PROCESS

ATTENDANCE & PARTICIPATION REQUIREMENTS

1. We invite any individual or group involved in the research, development, or production of recommender systems to submit a one page summary of their recommender systems related work. These will be aggregated and published. See the "WHO'S WHO IN RECOMMENDER SYSTEMS" section below for more info. No attendance is required!
2. If you plan to attend the workshop, please submit a summary as described in 1. However, attendees may extend their summaries to two pages. Please also include an indication of your intent to attend.
3. In addition, if you have recent research results related to recommender systems that you would like to present at the workshop, you can submit a research paper. Papers will be reviewed as described below. Accepted papers will be published in the workshop notes.

Attendance at the workshop is limited to 50 people. Attendees will be accepted on a first-come, first-served basis. Don't wait until the last minute, as the '99 SIGIR recommender workshop filled up entirely.

The workshop will include a number of presentations of current research work and results. Those who would like time to present their research should include with their position statement a research paper that is suitable for publication (up to 12 pages). Those research papers that are accepted will be published in the workshop notes.

Position papers of potential presenters will be reviewed by the organizing committee. Papers will be selected with the following considerations:

1. Quality of work
2.  Impact of work
3. Applicability of work to the interests of workshop attendees
4. Diversity of presentations (given that a limited number of presentation slots will be available, we want to ensure that no two presentations are overly similar)

WHO'S WHO IN RECOMMENDER SYSTEMS

Non-attendees are invited to submit a one-page summary, attendees two pages. We would prefer to receive only one summary per institution or company, although multiple summaries will be accepted from the same institution or company if the authors work independently and the summaries describe significantly different work.

Summaries should include the names of members associated with the work, contact information, and a web URL, if appropriate. Summaries will not be peer reviewed, although we reserve the right to refuse summaries that we feel are inappropriate. Summaries will not be proof-read or edited - they will be published as submitted.

DEADLINES

For potential presentors:
    Submissions due:              Friday, July 27th, 2001
    Notification of presenters:   Friday, August 10th, 2001 
    Camera ready copy due:      Friday, August 24th, 2001

Electronic submissions are preferred. Please submit in Adobe Acrobat PDF format if at all possible. Electronic submissions should be sent to: herlock@cs.orst.edu.

Hardcopy submissions will be accepted if electronic submission is not possible. If necessary, send 2 copies to:

Jon Herlocker
Department of Computer Science
102 Dearborn Hall
Oregon State University Corvallis, OR 97370
Phone: (541) 737-8894
Fax: (541) 737-3014
email: herlock@cs.orst.edu

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