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SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS (Deadline November 18)

AI Communications:
SPECIAL ISSUE ON RECOMMENDER SYSTEMS

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SPECIAL ISSUE HOMEPAGE:
http://www.configworks.com/AICOM/index.html

PAPER SUBMISSION DEADLINE:
November 18, 2007

GUEST EDITORS:
Dietmar Jannach, Joseph Konstan and Markus Zanker

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SCOPE:

Recommender Systems have proven to be a valuable means for online
users to cope with the virtual information overload. Correspondingly,
various techniques for information filtering and recommendation
generation have been proposed and during the last decade, many of
them have also been successfully deployed in commercial environments.

Still, research in Recommender Systems has not come to an end, in
particular because the growing number of practical applications of
such systems continuously raises new research questions.
Innovative applications of recommender technology for instance may
require more interactivity between the system and the online user or
even different forms of recommendation reasoning. In addition, trust
in the system's proposals and its explanations may play an important
role for consolidating the acceptance of such systems. Finally, in
order to further promote the industrial application of recommendation
technology, the understanding of the effects of recommender systems
on the user's buying behaviour has to be further improved and evaluated.

This special issue of AI Communications shall concentrate on recent
research in these areas and thus solicits research articles on
recommender system algorithms and applications, including
but not limited to:

* Advances in recommendation techniques and algorithms
* Recommender system user interfaces and conversational approaches
* Explanations in recommender systems
* Hybrid approaches
* Evaluation of real-world recommender applications
* Group recommender systems
* Security and trust in recommender systems
* Semantic Web technologies and recommender systems
* New application areas for recommender system technology
* Consumer decision making and consumer buying behaviour models.

PAPER SUBMISSION:

Articles should be prepared according to the AICOM guidelines described
at http://aicom.star.dist.unige.it/cfp.html and should be submitted
via e-mail to dietmar@.... Extended and revised
versions of papers published in conference or workshop proceedings are
also welcome. Paper submitters may be asked to review other papers
submitted to the special issue.

TIMELINE:

- Submissions due to review: 18 Nov. 2007
- Final decisions: 31 Jan 2008
- Final versions due: 29 Feb 2008

GUEST EDITORS:

Dietmar Jannach, University Klagenfurt, Austria
dietmar@...

Joseph A. Konstan. University of Minnesota
konstan@...

Markus Zanker, University Klagenfurt, Austria
markus@...


JOURNAL HOMEPAGE:
http://aicom.star.dist.unige.it

SPECIAL ISSUE HOMEPAGE / CFP:
http://www.configworks.com/AICOM/index.html



--
Sean M. McNee, Ph.D.
Nil Desperandum.