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<font face='Lucida Grande' size='4'><b>*** FIRST CALL FOR THEORY, OPINION AND REFLECTION PAPERS *** <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=c2NlLmNhcmxldG9uLmNhICwJCQlmZy1hcmNAbGlzdHMudW5pLXBhZGVyYm9ybi5kZQlUaGUgMjd0aCBBQ00gQ29uZmVyZW5jZSBvbiBVc2VyIE1vZGVsaW5nLCBBZGFwdGF0aW9uIGFuZCBQZXJzb25hbGl6YXRpb24gKFVNQVAgMjAxOSk6IEZpcnN0IENhbGwgZm9yIFRoZW9yeSwgT3BpbmlvbiBhbmQgUmVmbGVjdGlvbiBQYXBlcnMJMzExCUxpc3RzCTE0MgljbGljawl5ZXMJbm8=&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 16, 2019<br><br><br>ACM UMAP - User Modelling, Adaptation and Personalization is the premier<br>international conference for researchers and practitioners working on<br>systems that adapt to individual users, to groups of users, and that collect,<br>represent, and model user information. <br><br>Theory, Opinion and Reflection (TOR) are position papers that critically look<br>at ongoing and emerging research topics, reflections on persistent or<br>fleeting trends in the field and blue sky future ideas for UMAP research.<br>They offer an opportunity for discussing thought-provoking work relevant<br>to the UMAP community, albeit they are not yet ready to be published as a<br>full length research papers at a refereed conference. They should be of<br>sufficient quality and relevance to the UMAP community and demonstrate<br>the ability to spur discussion and debate on the future course of the UMAP<br>research.<br><br>The presentations will be in the form of a 10 minute pitch in a plenary<br>conference session, just before a break. The presenters will present the topic<br>and raise relevant questions to stimulate discussion during the breaks.<br><br>Submissions should have a maximum length of 4 pages in the ACM SIG proceedings template.<br><br><br><b>SUBMISSION AND REVIEW PROCESS<br></b><br>Submissions must adhere to the ACM SIG Standard (SIGCONF) proceedings<br>template. A template can be found at:<br></font><font face='Lucida Grande' color='#A786A9'><u><a href="http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=c2NlLmNhcmxldG9uLmNhICwJCQlmZy1hcmNAbGlzdHMudW5pLXBhZGVyYm9ybi5kZQlUaGUgMjd0aCBBQ00gQ29uZmVyZW5jZSBvbiBVc2VyIE1vZGVsaW5nLCBBZGFwdGF0aW9uIGFuZCBQZXJzb25hbGl6YXRpb24gKFVNQVAgMjAxOSk6IEZpcnN0IENhbGwgZm9yIFRoZW9yeSwgT3BpbmlvbiBhbmQgUmVmbGVjdGlvbiBQYXBlcnMJMzExCUxpc3RzCTE0MgljbGljawl5ZXMJbm8=&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.acm.org%2Fpublications%2Fproceedings-template">https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template</a></u></font><font face='Lucida Grande'>.<br><br>Submit your papers in PDF format via EasyChair for UMAP 2019 TOR at:<br></font><font face='Lucida Grande' color='#A786A9'><u><a href="http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=c2NlLmNhcmxldG9uLmNhICwJCQlmZy1hcmNAbGlzdHMudW5pLXBhZGVyYm9ybi5kZQlUaGUgMjd0aCBBQ00gQ29uZmVyZW5jZSBvbiBVc2VyIE1vZGVsaW5nLCBBZGFwdGF0aW9uIGFuZCBQZXJzb25hbGl6YXRpb24gKFVNQVAgMjAxOSk6IEZpcnN0IENhbGwgZm9yIFRoZW9yeSwgT3BpbmlvbiBhbmQgUmVmbGVjdGlvbiBQYXBlcnMJMzExCUxpc3RzCTE0MgljbGljawl5ZXMJbm8=&url=https%3A%2F%2Feasychair.org%2Fconferences%2F%3Fconf%3Dumap2019tor">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=umap2019tor</a></u></font><font face='Lucida Grande'>.<br><br>The review process will be single blinded, i.e. authors' names should be<br>included in the papers. Submissions will be reviewed by at least two<br>independent reviewers. They will be assessed based on their originality and<br>novelty, potential to stimulate discussion on important research questions,<br>potential contribution to UMAP research and practice, potential impact in<br>particular use cases, as well as their overall readability.<br><br>Papers that exceed the page limits (4 pages for TOR) or do not adhere to<br>the formatting guidelines will be returned without review.<br><br><br><b>IMPORTANT DATES<br></b><br>• Submission of TOR papers: March 16th, 2019 <br>• Notification of acceptance: April 5th, 2019<br>• Camera-ready versions of accepted papers: April 15th, 2019 <br><br><u>Note:</u> The submissions times are 11:59 pm Anywhere on Earth.<br><br><br><b>PUBLICATION AND PRESENTATION<br></b><br>Accepted Theory, Opinion and Reflection papers will be published in the<br>ACM UMAP 2019 Adjunct Proceedings in the ACM Digital Library. All<br>categories will be presented at the poster reception of the conference, in the<br>form of a poster and/or a software demonstration following poster format. <br>This form of presentation will provide presenters with an opportunity to<br>obtain direct feedback about their work from a wide audience during the<br>conference. <br><br>At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the conference<br>and present the paper there.<br><br><br><b>THEORY, OPINION AND REFLECTION PAPERS CHAIRS<br></b><br>• Jan-Geert Houben, Delft University, The Netherlands (g.j.p.m.houben AT tudelft.nl)<br><br>• Bamshad Mobasher, DePaul University, USA (mobasher AT cs.depaul.edu)<br></font>
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