*** Ph.D. Award: First Call for Applications ***
36th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering
(CAiSE'24)
June 3-7, 2024, 5* St. Raphael Resort and Marina, Limassol, Cyprus
https://cyprusconferences.org/caise2024/
(*** Submission Deadline: 1st March, 2024 AoE ***)
The deadline to apply for the CAiSE 2024 PhD Award is March 1st 2024. The conditions to
apply are:
• having participated as an author in a previous CAiSE Doctoral Consortium or at a main
CAiSE Event: either the main conference, the CAiSE Forum, EMMSAD, or BPMDS;
• having successfully defended the PhD thesis in the last two years (i.e., since January 2022).
The application must be submitted electronically to the PhD Awards track of CAiSE 2024 via
EasyChair <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=caise2024> . The application must be
a single PDF file containing:
• a short cover letter that includes the list of PhD committee members,
• a support letter from the thesis advisor,
• the candidate's defended PhD thesis,
• the candidate’s CV.
About the PhD Award
The CAiSE PhD Award 2024 is granted annually to an outstanding recent PhD thesis in the
field of Information Systems Engineering.
The award is co-sponsored by the CAiSE Steering Committee and Springer. It consists of a
certificate, free full registration (5 days) to the next two editions of the CAiSE conference,
and a book voucher for a free selection worth EUR 500 from Springer’s printed books
collection. In addition, the selected thesis will be recommended for publication as a
monograph in the LNBIP series published by Springer, provided that Springer’s publication
conditions are met.
The PhD theses submitted for the award will be reviewed by a standing committee of senior
members selected from the CAiSE Advisory Committee, the CAiSE Steering Committee, and
the CAiSE Program Committee.
Award Chair
Professor Andreas L Opdahl, University of Bergen, Norway
Key Dates
• Submission of application: 1st March, 2024 (AoE)
• Notification: 15th April, 2024
Past Recipents
• 2023: Anna Bernasconi, PhD from Politecninco Milano (Italy), thesis title “Model, Integrate,
Search... Repeat: a Sound Approach to Building Integrated Repositories of Genomic Data” (link to the forthcoming monograph: https://link.springer.com/book/9783031449062)
• 2022: Volodymyr Leno, PhD from University of Melbourne (Australia), thesis title
“Robotic Process Mining: Accelerating the adoption of Robotic Process Automation” (link to the thesis: https://minerva-access.unimelb.edu.au/bitstream/handle/
11343/297274/98f9efca-4dd2-eb11-94dc-0050568d0279_manuscript.pdf)
• 2021: Orlenys Lopez Pintado, PhD from University of Tartu (Estonia), thesis title
“Collaborative Business Process Execution on the Block Chain: the Caterpillar System” (link to the thesis: https://dspace.ut.ee/items/1e09072c-5442-463a-b8c6-0425951cb90b)
• 2020: Steven Mertens, PhD from Ghent University (Belgium), thesis title “Enabling process
management for loosely framed knowledge-intensive processes” (link to the published monograph: https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783030661922)
• 2019: Giovanni Meroni, PhD from Politecnico di Milano (Italy), thesis title “Artifact-driven
business process monitoring” (link to the published monograph: https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783030324117)
• 2018: Wei Wang, PhD from University of Queensland (Australia) thesis title “Integrated
Modeling of Business Processes and Business Rules” (link to the published monograph: https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783030118082)
• 2017: Marcela Ruiz, PhD from the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia (Spain), thesis title
“TraceME: A Traceability-Based Method for Conceptual Model Evolution” (link to the published monograph: https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783319897158)
• 2016: Le Minh Sang Tran, PhD from University of Trento (Italy), thesis title “Managing the
Uncertainty of the Evolution of Requirements Models” (testimony of the 2016 CAiSE PhD Award winner: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-vvlH66lC4)
*** Apologies for cross-posting ***
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CALL FOR PAPERS: Adaptive eXplainable AI Workshop 2024
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We are excited to announce the call for papers for the Adaptive XAI (AXAI) Workshop, to be held in conjunction with ACM IUI 2024. This workshop is dedicated to exploring the design and development of intelligent interfaces that adaptively explain AI's decision-making processes, with a strong focus on human-centric principles.
== Important Dates ==
* Submission Deadline: January 16, 2024
* Notification: February 9, 2024
* Camera Ready: February 23, 2024
* Workshop Date: March 18, 2024
== Submission Guidelines ==
* Length: 5-10 pages
* Format: CEUR-ART 1-column Template
* Selected papers may be invited to submit an extended version to a dedicated Special Issue of Springer's "Personal and Ubiquitous Computing"
* Submission Website: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/AXAI2024
== Topics Include ==
We welcome submissions that address, but are not limited to, the following topics:
1. Transparent AI Decision-Making
2. Human-Centric AI Design
3. Adaptive Explanation Interfaces
4. Cognitive Needs and Situational Awareness
5. Seamless AI-HCI Integration
6. Diversity and Inclusivity in AI Explanations
7. Ethical Considerations in AI Explanations
8. Case Studies and Real-World Applications
9. Future Directions in Adaptive XAI
10. Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives
== Organizers ==
* Tommaso Turchi, University of Pisa
* Alessio Malizia, University of Pisa
* Fabio Paternò, CNR-ISTI, Pisa
* Simone Borsci, University of Twente
* Alan Chamberlain, University of Nottingham
For more information, please visit our website at https://axai.trx.li or contact Tommaso Turchi (tommaso.turchi(a)unipi.it).
Join us in Greenville, South Carolina (USA) to shape the future of human-AI interaction!
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Tommaso Turchi
Department of Computer Science
University of Pisa
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(Apologies for cross-postings)
************WORKSHOP CALL FOR PAPERS**************
SOCIALIZE Workshop @ ACM IUI 2024
Fourth Workshop on SOcial and Cultural IntegrAtion with PersonaLIZEd Interfaces (SOCIALIZE)
March 18, 2024
Co-located with the 29th ACM International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI) 2024 (https://iui.acm.org/2024/ <https://iui.acm.org/2024/>) Greenville, South Carolina, USA, March 18-21, 2024
Workshop website: http://socialize2024.di.unito.it/ <http://socialize2024.di.unito.it/>
Submission: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=socialize2024 <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=socialize2024>
For any information: socialize2024(a)easychair.org <mailto:socialize2024@easychair.org>
******************Important Dates*******************
Submission deadline: January 16, 2024
Authors notification: February 9, 2024
Camera-ready: March 1, 2024
Workshop date: March 18, 2024
*********************Overview**********************
The SOCIALIZE workshop aims to bring together those interested in the development of interactive techniques, including social robots, that may foster the social and cultural inclusion of a broad range of users, with a focus on vulnerable groups (e.g., children, elderly, autistic, and disabled people) and disadvantaged, at-risk categories (e.g., refugees and migrants).
**********************Topics***********************
The main topics of the workshop are (but not limited to):
* Multi-cultural and social system design;
* Empirical studies on the impact of culture and social aspects on systems;
* Information retrieval and filtering techniques for vulnerable and disadvantaged people;
* Cultural and social influence in recommender systems;
* Cultural and social aspects as contextual factors;
* Inclusive recommender systems;
* Cultural and social influence in online learning platforms (e.g., MOOC);
* Methods for automatic assessment of social and cultural background from social media;
* Strategies for adapting systems to groups of users with different backgrounds;
* Social-cultural integration and large language models;
* Cultural and social situation awareness;
* Cross-cultural analyses of trust in systems;
* Human-robot adaptation for cross-cultural users, including under-represented groups;
* Personalized Human-Robot Interaction (HRI);
* Adaptation strategies for social HRI;
* Emotion, personality, and empathy detection in social HRI;
* Machine learning for social robots;
* Social robots as conversational recommender systems;
* Social robots in the real world;
* Social assistive robots (e.g., for elderly people or children with autism spectrum disorder);
* Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on cultural and social inclusion;
* Algorithmic bias detection and mitigation for marginalized groups;
********************Submissions********************
Papers should be submitted via Easychair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=socialize2024 <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=socialize2024>) by January 16, 2024. All submissions will undergo a peer-review process. Reviewers will consider originality, significance, technical soundness, clarity, and relevance to the workshop’s topics.
At least one author of each accepted paper must register for and attend the workshop.
The papers accepted at IUI workshops 2024 will be published in common proceedings via CEUR-WS (please see https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3359/ <https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3359/> for last year’s workshop proceedings).
- Paper template (single column): http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-XXX/CEURART.zip <http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-XXX/CEURART.zip>
- Regular papers need to be at least ten pages long (single column) to be published in CEUR-WS proceedings, and short papers need to have at least five pages (please see https://ceur-ws.org/HOWTOSUBMIT.html <https://ceur-ws.org/HOWTOSUBMIT.html> for more details).
For further questions, please contact the workshop organizers at <socialize2024(a)easychair.org> <mailto:socialize2024@easychair.org>.
********************Organization********************
Fabio Gasparetti, Roma Tre University
Cristina Gena, University of Torino
Giuseppe Sansonetti, Roma Tre University
Marko Tkalčič, University of Primorska
* We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this CfP *
* Online version: https://www.um.org/umap2024/call-for-doctoral-consortium-papers/
ACM UMAP 2024 - Call for Doctoral Consortium Papers
ACM UMAP 2024: The 32nd ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization
Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy
July 1-4, 2024
The 32nd International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation, and Personalization (ACM UMAP 2024) is the premier international conference for researchers and practitioners working on systems that adapt to individual users or groups of users, and that collect, represent, and model user information. The ACM UMAP 2024 Doctoral Consortium (DC) will take place as part of the conference. The DC provides an opportunity for doctoral students to explore and develop their research interests under the guidance of distinguished researchers and industry practitioners from the field.
Doctoral students are invited to apply for presenting their research to experienced scholars who will provide constructive feedback and advice. Students should consider participating in the DC if they are at least one year away from completing their dissertation at the time of the event, but after having settled on a research area or dissertation topic.
This forum will provide doctoral students with an opportunity to:
* Present and discuss their research ideas to experienced scholars in a supportive, formative, and yet critical environment.
* Explore and develop their research interests under the guidance of distinguished researchers from the field who will provide constructive feedback and advice.
* Explore career pathways available after completing their doctoral degree.
* Network and build collaborations with other members of the community.
Students are asked to submit a brief proposal outlining their doctoral research (see detailed requirements below), which will be evaluated by the doctoral consortium committee. Good quality applications will be selected for presentation at a DC session as part of the conference. Each student with an accepted submission will be assigned a mentor who will provide feedback on the student’s work. A mentoring session will take place during the conference, and the DC students are expected to attend.
** Important Dates **
Paper Submission: March 28, 2024
Notification: April 26, 2024
Camera-ready Submission (TAPS system): May 9, 2024
Conference: July 1 – 4, 2024
DC Day: July TBD, 2024 (it will happen in one of the conference days)
Note: The submissions deadlines are at 11:59 pm AoE (Anywhere on Earth)<https://www.timeanddate.com/time/zones/aoe> time.
** Submission **
All submissions must be written in English. Submissions should be a single PDF document consisting of: (i) the recommendation letter, (ii) the research description, and (iii) the curriculum vitae. This PDF document should be submitted electronically through the EasyChair submission system, https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=umap24, by selecting the “UMAP24 Doctoral Consortium Papers” track.
** Length and Formatting **
Format and Content Guidelines. Consult the ACM UMAP 2024 general call for full and short papers<https://www.um.org/umap2024/call-for-full-and-short-papers/> concerning the key topics of this call as well. Each proposal should be a single PDF document, with three required components: (i) a recommendation letter, (ii) a description of your doctoral path, (iii) and a curriculum vitae. If you are unable to obtain a letter of recommendation from your dissertation advisor, please include a short explanation. Specifically, for each component, please consider the following instructions:
1. Letter of Recommendation (from your primary dissertation advisor, in any format):
* Describe your interaction with the student and your assessment of the quality of their work. Explain how the ACM UMAP 2024 doctoral consortium would benefit this student at this point in their doctoral program, as well as the contributions you expect the student to make to the group.
* The DC targets students who have a clear idea of their research plans and have started their research but have not yet executed a majority of their research. Please explain the structure of your student’s program and their expected level of progress by July 2024.
* Recall that students who are unable to obtain a letter of recommendation from their dissertation advisor (or the equivalent) should instead include a short explanation and a description of where the student is in their doctoral progress and the anticipated timeline.
1. Research description (6 pages at most plus additional pages for references; figures, tables, proofs, appendixes, acknowledgments, and any other content count toward the page limit): using a single-column manuscript formatted according to the guidelines discussed below, please include the following:
* Your name, advisor(s) name(s), and the university where you are conducting your doctoral work.
* Current year of study and projected completion date (plus information about the regulations of your doctoral program regarding length, any part-time study, etc.).
* Context and motivation for your research.
* Key related work that frames your research.
* Specific research objectives, goals, or questions.
* Research approach, methods, and rationale.
* Results and contributions to date.
* Expected next steps.
* Dissertation status and long-term goals.
1. Curriculum vitae (2 pages at most, in any format): a concise summary of your current curriculum vitae, including research publications. Clearly separate published papers from those under review or in press.
Please ensure that your submission is complete and conforms to the format and content guidelines above. Submissions that do not meet these requirements will be desk-rejected.
*Single-Blind Policy*. Proposals will be reviewed single-blind and, therefore, do not need to be anonymized before submission.
*Template for the Research Description*. Following the ACM Publication Workflow<https://www.acm.org/publications/taps/word-template-workflow>, the research description component should be arranged based on the new ACM single-column format. Instructions for students are given below:
* LaTeX (use \documentclass[manuscript, review, anonymous]{acmart} in the sample-authordraft.tex file for single-column). Please carefully follow the ACM’s instructions for preparing your article with LaTeX<https://authors.acm.org/proceedings/production-information/preparing-your-a…>.
* Overleaf (use \documentclass[manuscript,review,anonymous]{acmart} for single-column). Please carefully follow the ACM’s instructions for preparing your article with Overleaf<https://authors.acm.org/proceedings/production-information/overleaf>.
* Word. Please carefully follow the ACM’s instructions for preparing your article with Microsoft Word<https://authors.acm.org/proceedings/production-information/preparing-your-a…>
Should you have any questions or issues going through the instructions above, please contact support at acmtexsupport(a)aptaracorp.com<mailto:acmtexsupport@aptaracorp.com> for LaTeX and Microsoft Word inquiries.
*Accessibility*. DC students are strongly encouraged to provide “alt text” (alternative text) for floats (images, tables, etc.) in their content so that readers with disabilities can be given descriptive information for these floats that are important to the work. The descriptive text will be displayed in place of a float if the float cannot be loaded. This benefits the author and it broadens the reader base for the author’s work. Moreover, the alt text provides in-depth float descriptions to search engine crawlers, which helps to properly index these floats. Additionally, authors should follow the ACM Accessibility Recommendations for Publishing in Color and SIG ACCESS guidelines on describing figures<https://authors.acm.org/journals/accessibility-recommendations-for-publishi…>.
*Submission Policy*. Please consider the following ACM’s publication policies:
1. “By submitting your article to an ACM Publication, you are hereby acknowledging that you and your co-authors are subject to all ACM Publications Policies<https://www.acm.org/publications/policies>, including ACM’s new Publications Policy on Research Involving Human Participants and Subjects<https://www.acm.org/publications/policies/research-involving-human-particip…>. Alleged violations of this policy or any ACM Publications Policy will be investigated by ACM and may result in a full retraction of your paper, in addition to other potential penalties, as per ACM Publications Policy.”
2. “Please ensure that you and your co-authors obtain an ORCID ID<https://orcid.org/register>, so you can complete the publishing process for your accepted paper. ACM has been involved in ORCID from the start and we have recently made a commitment to collect ORCID IDs from all of our published authors<https://authors.acm.org/author-resources/orcid-faqs>. We are committed to improve author discoverability, ensure proper attribution and contribute to ongoing community efforts around name normalization; your ORCID ID will help in these efforts.”
*Camera-ready Information*. Accepted proposals (i.e., the research description component) will require a further revision in order to meet the requirements and the page limits of the camera-ready format required by ACM. Instructions for the preparation of the camera-ready versions of the papers will be provided after acceptance. We strongly recommend the usage of LaTeX/Overleaf for the camera-ready papers to minimize the extent of reformatting. Users of the Word template must use either the version for Microsoft Word for Windows, Macintosh Office 2011, or Macintosh Office 2016 (other formats such as Open Office, etc., are not admitted) for the camera-ready submission to avoid incompatibility issues.
** Registration and Presentation Policy **
Each accepted proposal in the doctoral consortium track must be accompanied by a distinct full author registration, completed by the doctoral student by the early registration date cut-off. Each accepted proposal must be presented in person in the doctoral consortium session to be included in the conference proceedings, published by ACM and available via the ACM Digital Library. The official publication date is when the proceedings are made available in the ACM Digital Library. This date may be up to two weeks before the first day of UMAP 2024. The official publication date affects the deadline for any patent filings related to published work.
** Financial Support **
ACM UMAP has a long history of supporting students who want to attend the conference. Doctoral students of the accepted DC proposals will have higher priority for the ACM UMAP grant applications. Please periodically consult the page that summarizes grants and support opportunities, available at https://www.um.org/umap2024/grants-and-support/.
** Doctoral Consortium Chairs **
* Martijn C. Willemsen, Eindhoven University of Technology & JADS, The Netherlands
* Styliani Kleanthous, CYENS CoE and Open University of Cyprus, Cyprus
* Rodrygo Santos, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil
Contact information: umap2024-dc at um.org
* We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this CfP *
* Online version: https://www.um.org/umap2024/call-for-tutorial/
ACM UMAP 2024 - Call for Tutorial Proposals
ACM UMAP 2024: The 32nd ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization
Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy
July 1-4, 2024
The 32nd International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation, and Personalization (ACM UMAP 2024) is the premier international conference for researchers and practitioners working on systems that adapt to individual users or groups of users, and that collect, represent, and model user information. ACM UMAP 2024 is pleased to invite proposals for tutorials to be given in conjunction with the conference.
Tutorials are expected to be instructional sessions aimed to provide a comprehensive introduction to established or emerging research topics of interest for the UMAP community. An ideal tutorial should be broad enough to provide a basic introduction to the chosen area, but it should also cover the most important topics in depth. Tutorials are encouraged to be as dynamic and interactive as possible. Example topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
* User modeling in the era of generative artificial intelligence.
* Responsible user modeling and personalization.
* Effective evaluation of personalized applications.
* Strategies to let users be in control of the personalization process.
Tutorial presenters can have 4 pages + 1 for references in the adjunct proceedings.
** Important Dates **
· Tutorial Proposal Submission: January 11, 2024
· Notification: February 1, 2024
· Tutorial Description & Website URL Submission: February 24, 2024
· Tutorial Summary Camera-ready Submission (TAPS system): May 16, 2024
Note: The submission deadlines are at 11:59 pm AoE (Anywhere on Earth)<https://www.timeanddate.com/time/zones/aoe> time.
** Submission **
All tutorial proposals must be written in English. Proposals should be submitted electronically, in a PDF format, through the EasyChair submission system, https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=umap24, by selecting the “UMAP24 Workshop and Tutorial Proposals” track.
** Length and Formatting **
*Format*. Each proposal should be arranged into a single PDF document, not exceeding 5 pages (references included).
*Template*. Following the ACM Publication Workflow<https://www.acm.org/publications/taps/word-template-workflow>, the proposal should be arranged based on the new ACM single-column format. Instructions for the organizers are given below:
* LaTeX (use \documentclass[manuscript, review, anonymous]{acmart} in the sample-authordraft.tex file for single-column). Please carefully follow the ACM’s instructions for preparing your article with LaTeX<https://authors.acm.org/proceedings/production-information/preparing-your-a…>.
* Overleaf (use \documentclass[manuscript,review,anonymous]{acmart} for single-column). Please carefully follow the ACM’s instructions for preparing your article with Overleaf<https://authors.acm.org/proceedings/production-information/overleaf>.
* Word. Please carefully follow the ACM’s instructions for preparing your article with Microsoft Word<https://authors.acm.org/proceedings/production-information/preparing-your-a…>.
Should you have any questions or issues going through the instructions above, please contact support at acmtexsupport(a)aptaracorp.com<mailto:acmtexsupport@aptaracorp.com> for LaTeX and Microsoft Word inquiries.
*Structure*. The proposal should include the following information:
* Title and abstract of the tutorial (200 words maximum).
* Tutorial description:
· Learning objectives of the tutorial and relevance to ACM UMAP 2024.
· Targeted audience (introductory, intermediate, advanced) and prerequisite knowledge or skills.
· Brief outline of the tutorial structure.
· Brief description of the practical sessions.
* Tutorial length (ideally 1 hour and a half).
* Other venues to which the tutorial or part thereof has been or will be presented, in addition to explaining how the current tutorial differs from the other editions, and from other tutorials on the same or similar topics (please specify conference name and year).
* Name, email address, affiliation and brief professional biography of each tutorial organizer, indicating previous training and speaking experience.
*Evaluation Criteria*. All proposals will be reviewed by the ACM UMAP 2024 Tutorial Chairs. The features that will be evaluated are:
* ability of the tutorial to contribute to strengthening the foundations of UMAP research.
* clarity of the tutorial, which should emerge from its description.
* good organization, as appearing from the outline.
* the value of any materials released with the tutorial for the community.
* background/experience of tutorial instructor(s) in teaching the target topics.
** Instructions **
*Support*. We encourage both researchers and industry practitioners to submit tutorial proposals. Researchers interested in submitting a tutorial proposal are invited to contact us in advance, so we can help to design successful proposals. In particular, for tutorial proposals with novel interactive formats, we are happy to assist in further developing and implementing the ideas.
*Diversity*. We strongly suggest involving organizers from different institutions, bringing their different perspectives to the tutorial topic. We welcome tutorials with a creative structure that may attract various types of participants and may ensure rich interactions.
*Expectations*. The organizers of accepted tutorials are expected to set up a webpage for the tutorial including detailed information about the tutorial organization and timeline, and disseminate a call for participation. They will be responsible for their own publicity.
*Proceedings*. There will be conference adjunct proceedings published by ACM, and available via the ACM Digital Library. A camera-ready summary of the tutorial should be written by the organizers to be included in these adjunct proceedings.
*Camera-ready Information*. Accepted summaries will require a further revision in order to meet the requirements and the page limits of the camera-ready format required by ACM. Instructions for the preparation of the camera-ready versions of the summaries will be provided after acceptance. We strongly recommend the usage of LaTeX/Overleaf for the camera-ready papers to minimize the extent of reformatting. Users of the Word template must use either the version for Microsoft Word for Windows, Macintosh Office 2011, or Macintosh Office 2016 (other formats such as Open Office, etc., are not admitted) for the camera-ready submission to avoid incompatibility issues.
** Registration and Presentation Policy **
Each accepted tutorial summary must be accompanied by a distinct full author registration, completed by the early registration date cut-off. Each tutorial has to be run by all organizers. Therefore, each tutorial organizer must be registered (at least 25% in person, the remaining online). Each accepted tutorial summary will be included in the conference adjunct proceedings. The official publication date is when the proceedings are made available in the ACM Digital Library. This date may be up to two weeks before the first day of UMAP 2024. The official publication date affects the deadline for any patent filings related to published work.
** Tutorial Chairs **
* Amra Delic, University of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
* Eelco Herder, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands
* Noemi Mauro, University of Turin, Italy
Contact information: umap2024-wt at um.org
Ricevo e volentieri inoltro.
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From: Matjaž Kljun <matjaz.kljun(a)upr.si>
Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2023 at 18:02
Subject: 8th HCI Slovenia conference - deadline 22 December
To: <CHI-ANNOUNCEMENTS(a)listserv.acm.org>
Dear all,
the 8th edition of the HCI SI conference organised by the Slovene HCI
community
(ACM Chapter Bled) will be held
on 26 January 2024 in Maribor, Slovenia
The CFP is available here https://hci.si/hci-si-2023/
Submission deadline: 22 December 2023.
In the name of the organising committee,
Matjaž Kljun
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Prof. Lucio Davide Spano
Dipartimento di Matematica e Informatica
Università di Cagliari
Via Ospedale 72, 09124, Cagliari, Italy
Tel: +39 070 675 8760
Website <https://www.unica.it/unica/page/it/luciod_spano> | RG
<https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Lucio_Spano> | ORCHID
<https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7106-0463>
* We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this CfP *
* Online version: https://www.um.org/umap2024/call-for-workshop/
ACM UMAP 2024 - Call for Workshop Proposals
ACM UMAP 2024: The 32nd ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization
Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy
July 1-4, 2024
The 32nd International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation, and Personalization (ACM UMAP 2024) is the premier international conference for researchers and practitioners working on systems that adapt to individual users or groups of users, and that collect, represent, and model user information. ACM UMAP 2024 is pleased to invite proposals for workshops to be held in conjunction with the conference. The workshops will provide a venue to discuss and explore key emerging areas of user modeling, recommender systems and adaptive hypermedia research, among others, with a group of like-minded researchers and practitioners from industry and academia. Please consult the ACM UMAP 2024 general call for full and short papers<https://www.um.org/umap2024/call-for-full-and-short-papers/> concerning the key topics of this call as well.
In this edition, our goal is to have a balanced workshop program, comprising different workshop formats and combining newly emerging, currently evolving, and established research topics. Workshops are encouraged to be as dynamic and interactive as possible. Different full-day and half-day workshop schemas are possible, such as:
* Working group meetings around a specific problem or topic where participants are asked to submit a white paper or position statement.
* Traditional mini-conferences on key, emerging, specialized topics, having their own paper submission and review processes.
* Mini-competitions or research challenges around selected topics, with either individual or team participation and their own evaluation processes
* Interactive discussion meetings focusing on subtopics of the main conference general tracks, with interactivity and engagement in mind.
* Joint panels aiming to synthesize insights from diverse perspectives by bringing together experts from different workshops or sessions.
** Important Dates **
* Workshop Proposal Submission: January 11, 2024
* Notification: February 1, 2024
* Workshop Description & Website URL Submission: February 24, 2024
* Workshop Summary Camera-ready Submission (TAPS system): May 16, 2024
* Workshop Day: July TBD, 2024 (it will happen in one of the conference days)
We strongly encourage the organizers of accepted workshops to diligently follow the suggested deadlines in the schedule for the authors of workshop papers:
* (Suggested) 1st Call for Workshop Papers: February 28, 2024
* (Suggested) 2nd Call for Workshop Papers: April 13, 2024
* (Suggested) Workshop Paper Submission: April 24, 2024
* (Suggested) Notification: May 8, 2024
* (Mandatory) Workshop Papers Camera-ready Submission (TAPS system): May 16, 2024
These dates are synchronized with the notification of paper acceptance in the main conference track, and the availability of early registration for the authors of accepted workshop papers.
Note: The submissions deadlines are at 11:59 pm AoE (Anywhere on Earth)<https://www.timeanddate.com/time/zones/aoe> time.
** Submission **
All workshop proposals must be written in English. Proposals should be submitted electronically, in a PDF format, through the EasyChair submission system, https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=umap24, by selecting the “UMAP24 Workshop and Tutorial Proposals” track.
** Length and Formatting **
*Format*: Each proposal should be arranged into a single PDF document, not exceeding 5 pages (references included).
*Template*: Following the ACM Publication Workflow<https://www.acm.org/publications/taps/word-template-workflow>, the proposal should be arranged based on the new ACM single-column format. Instructions for the organizers are given below:
* LaTeX (use \documentclass[manuscript, review, anonymous]{acmart} in the sample-authordraft.tex file for single-column). Please carefully follow the ACM’s instructions for preparing your article with LaTeX<https://authors.acm.org/proceedings/production-information/preparing-your-a…>.
* Overleaf (use \documentclass[manuscript,review,anonymous]{acmart} for single-column). Please carefully follow the ACM’s instructions for preparing your article with Overleaf<https://authors.acm.org/proceedings/production-information/overleaf>.
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Should you have any questions or issues going through the instructions above, please contact support at acmtexsupport(a)aptaracorp.com<mailto:acmtexsupport@aptaracorp.com> for LaTeX and Microsoft Word inquiries.
*Structure*: Each proposal is expected to include the following information:
* Workshop title and acronym.
* Workshop chair(s), including, for each organizer, their affiliation, main email address, website link, and experiences in organizing such events. Note that organizers are expected to attend the workshop and be actively involved in its organization.
* Abstract (up to 300 words) and topics of interest.
* Keywords (at least 3).
* Motivation on why the workshop is of particular interest at this time and how it complements (rather than duplicates) the topics of the main conference.
* Workshop format, particularly discussing the mix of expected events, such as paper presentations, invited talks, panels, and general discussions.
* Short description of the intended audience and the expected number of participants, including how they will be selected.
* List of (potential) members of the program committee (at least 50% have to be confirmed at the time of the proposal). The program committee is mandatory.
* Requested duration (half day or full day).
* When available, past editions of the workshop, including their website URLs, a brief statement on the development of the workshop series, e.g., in terms of topics, number of paper submissions and participants, post-workshop publications over the years and acceptance statistics.
* If this would be the first edition of the workshop, a description of how this workshop differs from others on the same or similar topics (include conference name and year).
* Any other relevant information to support your proposal.
** Instructions **
*Support*:
We encourage both researchers and industry practitioners to submit workshop proposals. Researchers interested in submitting a workshop proposal are invited to contact us in advance, so we can help to design successful proposals. In particular, for workshop proposals with novel interactive formats, we are happy to assist in further developing and implementing the ideas.
*Diversity*:
We strongly suggest involving organizers from different institutions, bringing their different perspectives to the workshop topic. We welcome workshops with a creative structure that may attract various types of participants and may ensure rich interactions.
*Expectations*:
The organizers of accepted workshops are expected to set up a webpage for the workshop including detailed information about the workshop organization and timeline, disseminate a call for papers, a call for participation, select reviewers, and gather reviews before selecting the final program. They will be responsible for their own publicity and reviewing processes.
*Proceedings*:
There will be conference adjunct proceedings published by ACM, and available via the ACM Digital Library. A camera-ready summary of the workshop should be written by the organizers to be included in these adjunct proceedings. Moreover, all workshop papers will be published in the same proceedings. Hence, the workshop organizers will need to make sure that the authors of workshop papers adhere to the adjunct proceedings publication timeline.
*Camera-ready Information*:
Accepted summaries/papers will require a further revision in order to meet the requirements and the page limits of the camera-ready format required by ACM. Instructions for the preparation of the camera-ready versions of the summaries/papers will be provided after acceptance. We strongly recommend the usage of LaTeX/Overleaf for the camera-ready papers to minimize the extent of reformatting. Users of the Word template must use either the version for Microsoft Word for Windows, Macintosh Office 2011, or Macintosh Office 2016 (other formats such as Open Office, etc., are not admitted) for the camera-ready submission to avoid incompatibility issues.
** Registration and Presentation Policy **
Each accepted workshop summary must be accompanied by a distinct full author registration, completed by the early registration date cut-off. Each workshop has to be run by all organizers. Therefore, each workshop organizer must be registered (at least 25% in person, the remaining online). Each accepted workshop summary will be included in the conference adjunct proceedings. The official publication date is when the proceedings are made available in the ACM Digital Library. This date may be up to two weeks before the first day of UMAP 2024. The official publication date affects the deadline for any patent filings related to published work.
Each accepted workshop paper must be accompanied by a distinct full author registration, completed by the early registration date cut-off. Each accepted workshop paper can be presented either in person or online and will be included in the conference adjunct proceedings. The official publication date is when the proceedings are made available in the ACM Digital Library. This date may be up to two weeks before the first day of UMAP 2024. The official publication date affects the deadline for any patent filings related to published work.
** Workshop Chairs **
* Amra Delic, University of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
* Eelco Herder, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands
* Noemi Mauro, University of Turin, Italy
Contact information: umap2024-wt at um.org
*** First Call for Workshop Papers ***
36th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering
(CAiSE'24)
June 3-7, 2024, 5* St. Raphael Resort and Marina, Limassol, Cyprus
https://cyprusconferences.org/caise2024/
(*** Submission Deadline: 26th February, 2024 AoE ***)
CAiSE is a well-established, highly visible conference series on Advanced Information Systems
(IS) Engineering. It covers all relevant topics in the area, including methodologies and
approaches for IS engineering, innovative platforms, architectures and technologies, and
engineering of specific kinds of IS. CAiSE conferences also have the tradition of hosting
workshops in related fields. Workshops are intended to focus on particular topics and provide
ample room for discussions of new ideas and developments.
CAiSE'24, the 36th edition of the CAiSE series, will host the following workshops. For more
information including important dates for each workshop, please visit the workshops' web
sites.
CAiSE'24 Workshops
• 3rd International Workshop on Agile Methods for Information Systems Engineering (Agil-ISE)
https://agilise.github.io/2024/index.html
• International Workshop on Blockchain for Information Systems (BC4IS24) and Blockchain for
Trusted Data Sharing (B4TDS)
https://pros.unicam.it/bc4isb4tds/
• 2nd International Workshop on Hybrid Artificial Intelligence and Enterprise Modelling for
Intelligent Information Systems (HybridAIMS)
https://hybridaims.com/
• 2nd Workshop on Knowledge Graphs for Semantics-driven Systems Engineering
https://www.omilab.org/activities/events/caise2024_kg4sdse/
• 16th International Workshop on Enterprise & Organizational Modeling and Simulation
(EOMAS 2024)
https://eomas2024.fel.cvut.cz/
• Digital Transformation with Business Process Mining (DigPro2024)
https://digpro.iiita.ac.in/
IMPORTANT DATES
• Paper Submission Deadline: 26th February, 2024 (AoE)
• Notification of Acceptance: 27th March, 2024
• Camera-ready Deadline: 5th April, 2024
• Author Registration Deadline: 5th April, 2024
Workshop Chairs
• João Paulo A. Almeida, Federal University of Espírito Santo, Brazil
• Claudio di Ciccio, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
• Christos Kalloniatis, University of the Aegean, Greece
**** PLEASE, EXCUSE MULTIPLE POSTINGS ****
*CFP for the 1st Workshop on Information Retrieval for Understudied Users
(IR4U2)*
Please join us at IR4U2, co-located with the 46th European Conference on
Information Retrieval (ECIR), which will take place 24th-28th March 2024 in
Glasgow, Scotland
Information Retrieval (IR) remains an active, fast-paced area of research.
Nevertheless, most advancements in this domain have primarily favored what
we might term 'conventional' users, such as English-speaking adults.
We envision IR4U2 as a forum to spotlight efforts that, while sparse,
consider diverse, and often understudied, user groups when designing,
developing, assessing, and deploying the IR technologies that directly
impact them.
Among these groups, we find, for example, older adults, young children and
adolescents, individuals afflicted by mental health disorders, users with
autism spectrum disorder (ASD), individuals with intellectual disabilities,
or those with specific learning needs.
We aim to
1.
Raise awareness about ongoing efforts focused on IR technologies
designed for and used by often understudied user groups;
2.
Identify challenges and open issues impacting this area of research;
3.
Ignite discussions to identify common frameworks for future research;
4.
Outline a general approach to facilitate research endeavors driven by
and at the service of specific user groups.
5.
Cross-fertilization and community-building by sharing lessons learned
gathered from research catering to different audiences by researchers and
(industry) practitioners across various disciplines.
IR4U2 will be a highly participatory, full-day, in-person workshop. This
will involve informal interactions, facilitated group work, and brief
presentations of accepted contributions. These contributions will help
construct a snapshot of the current works in this area.
Topics of interest include:
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User modeling to enable IR and recommendation technologies tailored to
understudied populations.
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Data collection and benchmark development of IR catering to understudied
populations.
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IR applications targeting understudied populations.
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UI/UX for search, recommender, and question-answering systems for
understudied populations.
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IR-related technology (clustering, classification, text processing, text
complexity) and their impact on understudied populations.
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Different perspectives of evaluation.
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Design of the user interaction with IR systems.
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Ethical issues associated with IR technologies for understudied users;
e.g., their right to be represented, acknowledged, have access, and be
served by existing and to-be-developed systems.
This is not an exhaustive list, as we are also interested in contributions
discussing challenges inherent to designing IR technology at the service of
understudied user groups–from the need for multidisciplinary,
multi-stakeholder collaborations to how to build datasets.
Submissions:
Peer-reviewed contributions. These include research papers presenting
empirical explorations, user studies, and/or new algorithms related to the
open problems listed in topics of interest, as well as position/vision
contributions discussing uses cases, challenges, and future research
directions. These contributions should be submitted on EasyChair (
https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=ir4u2) at least 4 pages, but up to
12 (excluding references) formatted in CEURART’s single-column template.
Accepted contributions will be presented at the workshop and published in
workshop proceedings.
Editorially-reviewed contributions. To enable potential attendees to
articulate their views on the topics of the workshop, share
already-published works, bring awareness to ongoing European projects in
this area, etc., we ask the submission of a short extended abstract. This
type of informal submission (via this form:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1yZcqJiY9tMP03DXrDtJkeX0rY9ZB0AH5Dvs9DdehSO…)
will be editorially
reviewed by workshop organizers to gauge fit as well as themes of interest
for group discussions. Accepted contributions will be presented at the
workshop, but not published in the proceedings.
Important dates
All the deadlines are set at 11:59 PM AoE.
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Submission: January 29, 2024
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Author notification: February 20, 2024
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Camera-ready: February 26, 2024
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Workshop day: March 24, 2024
At least one author of each accepted paper must register and attend the
workshop. Please feel free to reach out to the ir4u2.research(a)gmail.com with
questions. For further information, see Home | Ir4u2
(ir4u2workshop.wixsite.com) <https://ir4u2workshop.wixsite.com/ir4u2>.
Organizers:
Sole Pera, TU Delft, The Netherlands
Federica Cena, University of Turin, Italy
Theo Huibers, University of Twente, The Netherlands
Monica Landoni,Università della Svizzera Italiana, Switzerland
Noemi Mauro, University of Turin, Italy
Emiliana Murgia, Università di Genova, Italy
*** Third Call for Papers ***
21st International Conference on Software and Systems Reuse (ICSR 2024)
June 10-12, 2024, 5* St. Raphael Resort and Marina, Limassol, Cyprus
https://cyprusconferences.org/icsr2024/
(*** Submission Deadline: 12th February, 2024 AoE ***)
The International Conference on Software and Systems Reuse (ICSR) is a biannual conference
in the field of software reuse research and technology. ICSR is a premier event aiming to
present the most recent advances and breakthroughs in the area of software reuse and to
promote an intensive and continuous exchange among researchers and practitioners.
The guiding theme of this edition is Sustainable Software Reuse.
We invite submissions on new and innovative research results and industrial experience
reports dealing with all aspects of software reuse within the context of the modern software
development landscape. Topics include but are not limited to the following.
1 Technical aspects of reuse, including
• Reuse in/for Quality Assurance (QA) techniques, testing, verification, etc.
• Domain ontologies and Model-Driven Development
• Variability management and software product lines
• Context-aware and Dynamic Reuse
• Reuse in and for Machine Learning
• Domain-specific languages (DSLs)
• New language abstractions for software reuse
• Generative Development
• COTS-based development and reuse of open source assets
• Retrieval and recommendation of reusable assets
• Reuse of non-code artefacts
• Architecture-centric reuse approaches
• Service-oriented architectures and microservices
• Software composition and modularization
• Sustainability and software reuse
• Economic models of reuse
• Benefit and risk analysis, scoping
• Legal and managerial aspects of reuse
• Reuse adoption and transition to software reuse
• Lightweight reuse approaches
• Reuse in agile projects
• Technical debt and software reuse
2 Software reuse in industry and in emerging domains
• Reuse success stories
• Reuse failures, and lessons learned
• Reuse obstacles and success factors
• Return on Investment (ROI) studies
• Reuse in hot topic domains (Artificial Intelligence, Internet of Things, Virtualization,
Network functions, Quantum Computing, etc.)
We welcome research (16 pages) and industry papers (12 pages) following the Springer
Lecture Notes in Computer Science format. Submissions will be handled via
EasyChair (https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=icsr2024). Submissions will be
**double-blindly** reviewed, meaning that authors should:
• Omit all authors’ names and affiliations from the title page
• Do not include the acknowledgement section, if you have any, in the submitted paper
• Refer to your own work in the third person
• Use anonymous GitHub, Zenondo, FigShare or equivalent to provide access to artefacts
without disclosing your identity
Both research and industry papers will be reviewed by members of the same program
committee (check the website for details). Proceedings will be published by Springer in
their Lecture Notes for Computer Science (LNCS) series. An award will be given to the best
research and the best industry papers.
The authors of selected papers from the conference will be invited to submit an extended
version (containing at least 30% new material) to a special issue in the Journal of Systems and
Software (Elsevier). More details will follow.
IMPORTANT DATES
• Abstract submission: February 12, 2024, AoE
• Full paper submission: February 19, 2024, AoE
• Notification: April 8, 2024, AoE
• Camera Ready: April 15, 2024, AoE
• Author Registration: April 15, 2024 AoE
ORGANISATION
Steering Committee
• Eduardo Almeida, Federal University of Bahia, Brazil
• Goetz Botterweck, Lero, University of Limerick, Ireland
• Rafael Capilla, Rey Juan Carlos University, Spain
• John Favaro, Trust-IT, Italy
• William B. Frakes, IEEE TCSE committee on software reuse, USA
• Martin L. Griss, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
• Oliver Hummel, University of Applied Sciences, Germany
• Hafedh Mili, Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada
• Nan Niu, University of Cincinnati, USA
• George Angelos Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus
• Claudia M.L. Werner, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
General Chair
• George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus
Program Co-Chairs
• Achilleas Achilleos, Frederick University, Cyprus
• Lidia Fuentes, University of Malaga, Spain