[agents] UMAP 2014 Doctoral Consortium - Call for Papers

[Ben Steichen]

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UMAP 2014 Doctoral Consortium - Call for Papers
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22nd International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation, and
Personalization - Aalborg, Denmark, 7-11 July, 2014
um.org/umap2014


ABOUT THE DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM
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The UMAP 2014 Conference, following a tradition started in 1994, will
include a Doctoral Consortium Session, which provides an opportunity for
doctoral students to explore and develop their research interests under the
guidance of a panel of distinguished research faculty. Doctoral students
are invited to apply to present their research to scholars and researchers
in the field who will provide constructive comments about their work.

The doctoral consortium is implemented as a student mentoring program that
introduces students to senior researchers in the relevant fields.

Students are expected to document in a brief submission their doctoral
research (see SUBMISSION INFORMATION for further details), which will be
evaluated by the consortium committee. Good quality applications will be
selected to be presented at a dedicated workshop as part of the conference.
Promising, but less well-developed applications will be selected for
presentation at a poster session. Each student with an accepted application
will be assigned a mentor who will provide feedback on the student's work
and will discuss the doctoral research with the student and the audience at
the consortium.


TOPICS
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Topics include (but are not limited to) the areas listed on the UMAP 2014
website:

- User modelling, adaptation and personalization in the social era
- User modelling, adaptation and personalization in the era of big data
- User modelling, adaptation and personalization in the era of pervasive
computing
- Infrastructures, architectures, and methodologies
- Human factors and Models
- Personal and Societal issues


SUBMISSION INFORMATION
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To apply for the UMAP 2014 doctoral consortium, students are asked to
submit an abstract of their doctoral research that describes:

- the problem being addressed
- the motivation for addressing the problem
- the main contributions that the dissertation aims to achieve
- the progress made to date (including a clear description of the proposed
approach) and the plan of further research
- related work.

Students should also include the stage they are in the PhD program, and a
brief description of their background in order to enable the committee to
adapt its assistance to each student.

Papers must be submitted via the DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM EASYCHAIR INSTANCE:
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=umap2014dc

Submissions should be pdf documents formatted according to the Springer
LNCS style specified in the UMAP 2014 Call for Papers: Style files,
templates, and details about the format can be found at
http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0.

The length of the abstract is limited to 6 pages.


PROCEEDINGS
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Accepted abstracts will be included in the Conference Proceedings, which
will be published as a book by Springer.


FINANCIAL SUPPORT
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Funding for selected students with accepted contributions may be available
to cover some travel and accommodation expenses. More details will be
provided on the conference web site as soon as funds will be available.


IMPORTANT DATES
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Submission deadline: March 7, 2014.
Acceptance notifications: March 28, 2014.
Camera-ready version: April 14, 2014.


PROGRAM COMMITTEE
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Liliana Ardissono, University of Turin, Italy
Maria Bielikova, Slovak University of Technology, Slovakia
Peter Brusilovsky, University of Pittsburgh, USA
Iván Cantador, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain
Berardina Nadja De Carolis, University of Bari, Italy
Federica Cena, University of Turin, Italy
Fabio Gasparetti, Third University of Rome, Italy
Marco de Gemmis, University of Bari, Italy
Cristina Gena, University of Turin, Italy
Li Chen, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong
Eelco Herder, L3S Research Center, Germany
Pasquale Lops, University of Bari, Italy
Kathleen Mccoy, University of Delaware, USA
Melike Sah, Trinity College, Ireland
Olga C. Santos, aDeNu Research Group (UNED), Spain
Nava Tintarev, University of Aberdeen, United Kingdom
Marko Tkalcic, Johannes Kepler University, Austria
Ingrid Zukerman, Monash University, Australia


DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM CHAIRS:
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For more information, please contact the DC chairs:

Francesco Ricci, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy (email to:
fricci at unibz.it)
David N. Chin, University of Hawaii, USA (email to: chin at hawaii.edu)


-- 
Dr. Ben Steichen
Department of Computer Science
University of British Columbia
2366 Main Mall, Vancouver, BC
V6T14Z, Canada
www.cs.ubc.ca/~steichen/