barcelona

IJCAI 2011 - 9th Workshop on

INTELLIGENT TECHNIQUES FOR WEB PERSONALIZATION

&

RECOMMENDER SYSTEMS (ITWP'11)

Barcelona, Spain, 16 July 2011

Important dates


  • Submission of papers:
    20 April 2011
  • Notification of authors:
    14 May 2011
  • Camera-ready papers due:
    5 June 2011

Workshop program

  • 09:00 - 09:10 Welcome, Introduction

  • 09:10 - 10:10 Invited talk by Ernesto de Luca, DAI-Labor, TU Berlin
    Personalization and context-awareness in Retrieval and Recommender Systems
  • (slides)
  • 10:10 - 11:00 Session 1: Content-based recommendation
    • Measuring Semantic Similarity using a Multi-Tree Model (20+5)
      Behnam Hajian and Tony White
    • Keyword-Based TV Program Recommendation (20+5)
      Christian Wartena, Wout Slakhorst, Martin Wibbels, Zeno Gantner, Christoph Freudenthaler, Chris Newell and Lars Schmidt-Thieme

  • 11:00 - 11:30: Coffee break

  • 11:30 - 13:00: Session 2: Recommender Systems & the Social Web
    • A topology-based approach for followees recommendation in Twitter (20+5)
      Marcelo G. Armentano, Daniela L. Godoy and Analía A. Amandi
    • Context-Aware Recommendation Based On Review Mining (20+5)
      Negar Hariri, Bamshad Mobasher, Robin Burke and Yong Zheng
    • A Bayesian Concept Learning Approach to Crowdsourcing (20+5)
      Paolo Viappiani, Sandra Zilles, Howard J. Hamilton and Craig Boutilier
    • Using Social and Pseudo Social Networks for Improved Recommendation Quality (10+5)
      Alan Said, Ernesto W. De Luca and Sahin Albayrak

  • 13:00 - 14:30: Lunch break

  • 14:30 - 15:35: Session 3: User modeling & The Adaptive Web
    • Modelling and Predicting Movements of Museum Visitors: A Simulation Framework for Assessing the Impact of Sensor Noise on Model Performance (20+5)
      Fabian Bohnert, Ingrid Zukerman, David W. Albrecht and Timothy Baldwin
    • IntWEB: An AI-Based Approach for Adaptive Web (20+5)
      Oznur Kirmemis Alkan and Pinar Senkul
    • Placing High-Diversity Items in Top-N Recommendation Lists (10+5)
      Mouzhi Ge, Fatih Gedikli and Dietmar Jannach

  • 15:35 - 16:30: Wrap-up and discussion

  • 16:30 - 17:00: Coffee break