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News UM2007 Proceedings available through Springer The UM2007 Proceedings are published as a volume of Lecture Notes on Artificial Intelligence (subseries of the Lecture Notes on Computer Science book series) and you can access it from here. The full bibliographic reference is:
UM2007 Photoblog
now available The UM2007 Organizing Committee has prepared a blog with photos from the days of conference. The photoblog is available through the Blogger platform from here. Visitors may comment on these photos or contribute, but because of policy limitations of the platform these actions require a Google account. Those who don't have a Google account and do not want to create one please contact Giannis Tsakonas (remove protection) for alternative means of access (please include subject title: UM2007 Photoblog). Electronic subscription to UMUAI 2007 and 2008 We would like to inform those people who requested the electronic subscription to the UMUAI journal when they registered, that we have forwarded their email addresses to Springer in July and Springer should contact them with further instrunctions. If this has not happened yet, please inform George Paliouras (remove protection). Workshop
and Tutorial proceedings now available The workshop and tutorial proceedings have been uploaded. You can find them in the respective webpages (here for workshops and here for tutorials), as well as in the programme webpage. Awards announcement The James Chen Family Student Paper Award was given to the following papers:
The Springer Best Paper Award was given to the paper:
Delegates
webpage is now updated Just a few moments before UM2007 the final details for delgates and accompanying persons have been announced. Find this useful information here,while delegates will be given the corresponding information sheet during their registration. Demonstrations
webpage is now updated The webpage of Demonstrations is now updated. You can find the UM2007 Demonstrations' Leaflet, as well as the tentative schedule. Find this useful information here. Poster size The size of posters is now announced. Posters should have 2m x 1,2m dimensions. NOKIA added
to UM2007 Sponsors List NOKIA, the world leader in mobile communications, has been added to the Sponsors of UM2007. See complete list of sponsors here. OTE added
to UM2007 Sponsors List OTE, the Hellenic Telecommunications Organization, has been added to the Sponsors of UM2007. See complete list of sponsors here. Programme
webpage updated with workshop information The programme webpage has been updated and includes the internal programme for tutorials and workshops. Also visit the workshops' webpages in the UM2007 website to preview the respective schedules. Questionnaire
survey on the interests and needs of the Affective Natural Language
Generation tutorial participants The organizers of the Affective Natural Language Generation tutorial have prepared a questionnaire survey that will be used to allow them to tailor the tutorial to the interests and needs of the participants. Find the questionnaire link here. Extended
deadline for "Personalized Access, Profile Management, and
Context Awareness in Digital Libraries" workshop The submission deadline for the collocated DELOS Workshop "Personalized Access, Profile Management, and Context Awareness in Digital Libraries" has been extended to 11 May, 2007. Find also updated information in the respective webpage. 2006 James
Chen Annual Award for Best Journal Article is Announced The following announcement regards the 2006 James Chen Annual Award for Best Journal Article. "User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction: The Journal of Personalization Research (UMUAI) is pleased to announce that the paper A Model of Perceptual Task Effort for Bar Charts and its Role in Recognizing Intention by Stephanie Elzer, Nancy Green, Sandra Carberry and James Hoffman in Volume 16, Number 1 / March, 2006 has been elected as the winner of the 2006 James Chen Annual Award for Best Journal Article. It was selected based on nominations from journal reviewers, editorial board members, and a subsequent comparative review by an award committee chaired by Judy Kay from the University of Sydney, Australia. The UMUAI annual best paper award has been donated by the Chen family in commemoration of James R. Chen, a creative researcher in the area of user modeling and information retrieval, and twice a UMUAI author. It carries a cash prize of U.S. $1,000. UMUAI provides an interdisciplinary forum for the dissemination of new research results on interactive computer systems that can be adapted or adapt themselves to their current users, and on the role of user models in the adaptation process. More information is available from http://www.umuai.org or the publisher's website. Alfred Kobsa, Editor New promotional
material uploaded You can now download the new poster of UM2007 and the new leaflet containing the programme of the conference. Programme
details announced You can visit the programme webpage to see the final programme of UM2007. You can also visit the Doctoral Consortium webpage to see the list of accepted papers. Delegate
information updated You can visit the delegates webpage to read more information about your staying in Corfu, as well as to get informed about tours and excusions that are available. Collocated
DELOS Workshop information announced You can visit the workshops webpage to get more information about the 10th DELOS Thematic Workshop on "Personalized Access, Profile Management, and Context Awareness in Digital Libraries" (PersDL 2007), which is going to take place at 29-30 June 2007, Corfu, Greece in conjuction with UM2007. Daily programme
plan updated You can visit the programme webpage to get more information for the daily programme of the UM2007 conference. Early registration
deadline extended The early registratoin deadline has been extended until March 30. Information
page for delegates and accompanying persons uploaded The webpage containing all information about delegates and accompanying persons is now uploaded. Get this information here. Update on
Student Support Applications for student support are going to be accepted until Friday, March 16. Student
Support Programme now announced You can now find detailed information regarding the Student Support Programme here. United States
National Science Foundation added to UM2007 Sponsors List United States National Science Foundation has been added to the Sponsors of UM2007. See complete list of sponsors here. Swets and
InterOptics added to UM2007 Sponsors List Swets Information Services and InterOptics have been added to the Sponsors of UM2007. See complete list of sponsors here. Springer
support Best Paper Award Springer have confirmed that will continue to support the best paper award for the UM conference series and will increase the prize to 500 Euros. Extended
Deadlines for three workshops Three workshops have new dates for paper submission. More specific the Fifth International Workshop on Authoring of Adaptive and Adaptable Hypermedia has extended its deadline to February 27, the Personalisation in E-Learning Environments at Individual and Group Level workshop to February 18 and the Towards User Modelling and Adaptive Systems for All workshop February 25. Check the respective webpages for more information. Extended
Deadline for the International Workshop on Ubiquitous and Decentralized
User Modeling International Workshop on Ubiquitous and Decentralized User Modeling has a new date for paper submission. The new date is February 19th, 2007. Programme
Overview available You can have an overview of the programme by visiting the respective webpage. In this page you can see all the accepted papers and posters. You can also see the general time schedule of the Conference days.More detailed versions of the programme are going to follow. Extended
Deadline for the International Workshop on Personalization Enhanced
Access to Cultural Heritage International Workshop on Personalization Enhanced Access to Cultural Heritage has a new date for paper submission. The new date is February 16th, 2007. Registration
now open You may now register to UM2007 conference main track and the related workshops and tutorials. You can find the registration webpage here. Tutorials
webpage uploaded / Workshops webpage updated The webpage concerning UM2007 tutorials and their respective webpages are now uploaded. You can find all the information needed here. Also there is an updated workshop webpage that you can find here. Workshop
webpage uploaded The webpage concerning UM2007 workshops and their respective webpages are now uploaded. You can find all the information needed here. Invited
Speakers webpage uploaded The webpage concerning UM2007 invited speakers is now uploaded. You can find it here. Tutorials
and Workshops announced Tutorials and Workshops have been announced. Webpages for each event are under development and will be hosted on UM2007 website. See full list of Tutorials here and Workshops here. New sponsorship The UM2007 sponsorship proposal has been accepted by PASCAL Network of Excellence. See the updated list of sponsors here. Paper submission
webpage removed Since the paper submission is now closed, the related webpage is removed from the website. Paper submission
instructions for Authors now available Paper submission instructions for Authors are now available, as well as the Submission System. Read more here. Dates changed Deadline for paper and poster submission changed. The new deadline is November 13, 2006. Also notification of acceptance changed. The new date is February 1, 2007. All deadlines are at midnight (Hawaii time). View new dates here. Poster available UM2007 poster is now available at two different versions. Get "Day" version here and "Night" version here. Promotional
leaflet available UM2007 promotional leaflet is now available. It is a two-sided brochure that you can find it here. James Chen
Best Student Paper Awards Information User Modeling Inc. is pleased to announce that two 2006 James Chen Best Student Paper Awards went to the following students who presented their papers at Adaptive Hypermedia 2006 conference in Dublin: Rosta Farzan, University of Pittsburgh for the paper "Social navigation support in a course recommendation system" and Jiyong Zhang, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne for the paper "A Comparative Study of Compound Critique Generation in Conversational Recommender Systems" Next year two 2007 James Chen Best Student Paper Awards will be awarded for two best student papers presented at User Modeling 2007 in Corfu, Greece. All accepted full papers where a PhD student is the first and primary author will be considered for these awards. Each award carries a cash prize of US $1000. You can find more about this award at www.um.org. If you are a PhD student, it seems to be the right time to start thinking about it. More... Information
about Doctoral Consortium, Workshop Proposal and Tutorial Proposal
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