[PragmaticWeb] ACM UMAP 2016: Call for Tutorial

[Federica Cena]

Call for Tutorials

ACM UMAP 2016 invites tutorials that address the interests of its varied 
audience: people new to the User Modeling, User Modeling and 
Personalisation researchers and practitioners who wish to learn new 
technologies, users of Personalized technologies, and representatives of 
government and funding agencies as well as potential private investors 
in Personalized technologies. We welcome submissions of tutorial 
proposals on all major topics related to user modeling and 
personalisation technologies. We especially solicit proposals for 
tutorials of the following types:
•    Tutorials with a coherent theme providing an introduction to new 
user modeling technologies, methods, techniques, and trends (e.g. 
exploitation of Linked Open Data, ontology-based user modeling, user 
modeling design principles, etc.).
•    Tutorials describing the application of user modeling technologies 
in specific domains (e.g., life-sciences, e-government, e-commerce, 
cultural heritage, educations, mobile, music, etc.).
•   Tutorials presenting techniques from other fields that are of 
relevance for User Modeling research, including semantic web, social 
sciences, digital humanities, biomedical research, HCI, Information 
Retrieval, database, NLP, Internet of Things, data visualization, etc.
Tutorials may focus on theoretical topics, however, we encourage 
organizers to incorporate hands-on sessions where appropriate. The 
tutorial should reach a good balance between the topic coverage and its 
relevance to the community. Tutorials can be half a day or a full day.

Timeline for Tutorials
Tutorial proposals due: May 1, 2016
Notification of acceptance: May 5, 2016
Tutorial Days:  13 July 2016

Responsibilities
Organizers of accepted tutorials are responsible for submitting the 
material for attendees (slide sets, additional teaching material, 
software installation and usage guides for practical hands-on sessions, 
etc.) to the Tutorial Chairs. The UMAP 2016 Organizing Committee is 
responsible for providing publicity for the tutorials as part of the 
conference publicity activities, and on-site logistical support to the 
organizers and attendees.

General Information
In the interest of the overall quality of the conference, the Tutorial 
Chair reserves the right to merge tutorials and/or adjust the scope 
thereof in case a minimum number of registrations is not reached by the 
early registration deadline.

Submission details

Tutorial proposals should not exceed 5 pages, and should contain the 
following information:
•    Abstract. 200 words maximum, for inclusion on the UMAP2016 website.
•    Tutorial description: objectives of the tutorial and relevance to 
UMAP2016; information about the scope and level of detail of the 
material to be covered; intended audiences; learning objectives; 
practical sessions.
•    Tutorial length. The tutorial can be full or half day
•    Specify other venues to which the tutorial or part thereof has or 
will be presented, in addition to explaining how the current tutorial 
differs from the other editions. Links to the slides of those tutorial 
editions should be included in the proposal.
•    Brief professional biography of the presenter(s) indicating 
previous training and speaking experience (such as teaching and tutorial 
presentation).
All proposals will be reviewed by the tutorial chairs and discussed 
within the organization committee of the UMAP2016.

Submission
Proposals should be submitted in PDF format by email to the tutorial 
chairs at workshopumap2016 at gmail.com by May 1, 2016.

Tutorials Chairs
Federica Cena, Università degli Studi di Torino, Italy, email: 
cena at di.unito.it
Jie Zhang, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, email: 
zhangj at ntu.edu.sg

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Federica Cena, Ph. D.
Assistant Professor - Researcher
Dipartimento di Informatica
Universita' di Torino
Corso Svizzera 185, 10149 Torino, Italy
  
Phone +39 0116706779
Fax +39 011751603
email: cena at di.unito.it
web: www.di.unito.it/~cena/