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<font face='Lucida Grande' size='4'><b>*** FIRST CALL FOR DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM SUBMISSIONS *** <br></b><br>27th ACM International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation<br>and Personalization (ACM UMAP 2019)<br><br>Golden Bay Beach Hotel 5*, Larnaca, Cyprus, June 9-12, 2019<br><br><a href="http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=c2NlLmNhcmxldG9uLmNhICwJCQlmZy1hcmNAbGlzdHMudW5pLXBhZGVyYm9ybi5kZQlUaGUgMjd0aCBBQ00gQ29uZmVyZW5jZSBvbiBVc2VyIE1vZGVsaW5nLCBBZGFwdGF0aW9uIGFuZCBQZXJzb25hbGl6YXRpb24gKFVNQVAgMjAxOSk6IEZpcnN0IENhbGwgZm9yIERvY3RvcmFsIENvbnNvcnRpdW0gU3VibWlzc2lvbnMJMjk4CUxpc3RzCTE0MgljbGljawl5ZXMJbm8=&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.um.org%2Fumap2019%2F">https://www.um.org/umap2019/</a><br></font><font face='Lucida Grande'><br><br><u>Submissions due</u>: March 1, 2019<br><br><br>ACM UMAP 2019, the premier international conference for researchers and<br>practitioners working on systems that adapt to individual users or to groups<br>of users, and which collect, represent, and model user information, will, as<br>in previous issues of the conference series, include a Doctoral Consortium<br>(DC) Session, which provides an opportunity for doctoral students to explore<br>and develop their research interests under the guidance of distinguished<br>researchers from the field. Doctoral students are invited to apply to present<br>their research to experienced scholars who will provide constructive<br>feedback and advice.<br><br>The Doctoral Consortium is implemented as a student mentoring program<br>that introduces students to senior researchers from the relevant fields.<br>Students are expected to document in a brief submission their doctoral<br>research (see below described submission information for further details),<br>which will be evaluated by the consortium committee.<br><br>Good quality applications will be selected for presentation at a Doctoral<br>Consortium Session as part of the conference. Promising, but less well-<br>developed applications will be selected for presentation at a poster session.<br>Each student with an accepted submission will be assigned a mentor who<br>will provide feedback on the student's work and will discuss the doctoral<br>research with the student and the audience at the consortium.<br><br><br><b><u>How to Submit to the Doctoral Consortium<br></u></b><br>To apply for the ACM UMAP 2019 Doctoral Consortium, students are asked<br>to submit a paper presenting their doctoral research that describes:<br>• The problem being addressed.<br>• Motivation outlining the relevance of the problem and referring to<br>related work.<br>• The main contributions that the PhD project aims to achieve.<br>• The progress made to date (including a clear description of the<br>proposed approach, methodology and preliminary results) as well as the<br>plan for further research.<br>• Topics include (but are not limited to) the ACM UMAP 2019 key areas.<br><br>Each DC submission is encouraged to consider the following: identification<br>of related (state of the art) work, indication of the potential innovation,<br>application or advancement of the state-of-the-art that the work intends to<br>achieve. In addition, as appropriate for the PhD project, the submissions can<br>consider: indication of data to be used for experimentation, indication of<br>implementation approach, indication of evaluation criteria and experimental<br>design.<br><br>Each submission should contain a cover page including the paper title, name<br>of the PhD candidate, the name of his/her supervisor(s) and University, a<br>paragraph describing the stage they are in the PhD programme, together<br>with a brief description of their background. This will enable the committee<br>to adapt its assistance to each student.<br><br>Papers should be submitted via the EasyChair Doctoral Consortium<br>submission system:<br></font><font face='Lucida Grande' color='#AE81A6'><u><a href="http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=c2NlLmNhcmxldG9uLmNhICwJCQlmZy1hcmNAbGlzdHMudW5pLXBhZGVyYm9ybi5kZQlUaGUgMjd0aCBBQ00gQ29uZmVyZW5jZSBvbiBVc2VyIE1vZGVsaW5nLCBBZGFwdGF0aW9uIGFuZCBQZXJzb25hbGl6YXRpb24gKFVNQVAgMjAxOSk6IEZpcnN0IENhbGwgZm9yIERvY3RvcmFsIENvbnNvcnRpdW0gU3VibWlzc2lvbnMJMjk4CUxpc3RzCTE0MgljbGljawl5ZXMJbm8=&url=https%3A%2F%2Feasychair.org%2Fconferences%2F%3Fconf%3Dacmumap2019dc">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=acmumap2019dc</a></u></font><font face='Lucida Grande'><br><br>Submissions should be pdf documents consisting of 1 cover page and the<br>paper (up to 4 pages long), formatted using the ACM SIG proceedings<br>template.<br><br><br><b><u>ACM UMAP Proceedings<br></u></b><br>The accepted ACM UMAP 2019 Doctoral Consortium papers will be included<br>in the Conference Proceedings, which will be published by ACM and that will<br>be available via the ACM Digital Library. The main author (doctoral student)<br>must register for the conference for the paper to be included in the<br>proceedings.<br><br><br><b><u>Financial Support<br></u></b><br>ACM UMAP has a history of supporting students to attend. Further details<br>will be announced on the website soon.<br><br><br><b><u>Important Dates<br></u></b><br>• Paper submission: 1st March, 2019<br>• Notification to authors: 22nd March 2019<br>• Camera ready submission: 3rd April 2019<br>• ACM UMAP 2019 DC Session: 11th and 12th June 2019<br>Note: The submissions times are 11:59pm AoE time (Anywhere on Earth)<br><br><br><b><u>Doctoral Consortium Chairs<br></u></b><br>• Laurens Rook, TU Delft, The Netherlands (l.rook AT tudelft.nl)<br><br>• Markus Zanker, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy (mzanker AT unibz.it)<br></font>
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