ITWP 2007

The 5th Workshop on

Intelligent Techniques for Web Personalization

Held in conjunction with
The 22nd National Conference on Artificial Intelligence - AAAI 2007

July 22–23, 2007, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
 


Call for Papers Program Committee Instructions for Authors Workshop Program Related Events

Joint ITWP + RS Workshop Program - July 23

The schedule below is comprised of papers accepted for the workshop on Intelligent Techniques for Web Personalization (ITWP) and papers accepted for the workshop on Recommender Systems in e-Commerce (RS).


08:30-08:45 Opening

Technical session 1

08.45-09:05 [ITWP] Learning Query Reformulations for Personalized Web Search Using a Probabilistic Inference Network
Erika Torres-Verdin and Manfred Huber
09.05-09:25 [ITWP] Personalizing Image Search Results on Flickr
Kristina Lerman, Anon Plankprasopchop, Chio Wong
09.25-09:45 [ITWP] Ontological User Profiles for Personalized Web Search
Ahu Sieg, Bamshad Mobasher, Robin Burke
09.45-10:05 [ITWP] Learning Web Users Profiles With Relational Clustering Algorithms
Nicolas Labroche
10.05-10:25 [ITWP] Evaluating the Use of Semantics in Collaborative Recommender Systems: A User Study
Patricia Kearney, Mary Shapcott, Sarabjot S. Anand, David Patterson


Coffee break (10:25 - 10:55)
Technical session 2

10.55-11:15 [RS] Information Sources Selection Methodology for Recommender Systems Based on Intrinsic Characteristics and Trust Measure
Silvana Aciar
11.15-11:35 [RS] A Common Framework and Metric for Recommender System: A Proposal
Felix H. del Olmo, Eduardo H. Martin and Elena Gaudioso
11.35-11:55 [RS] A Stereotypes-Based Hybrid Recommender System for Media Items
Guy Shani
11.55-12:15 [RS] Improving E-Commerce Recommender Systems by the Identification of Seasonal Products
Henrik Stormer


Lunch (12:15 - 13:45)
Technical session 3

13.45-14:05 [RS] Improving Memory-based Collaborative Filtering Using A Factor-based Approach
Zhenxue Zhang, Dongsong Zhang and Zhiling Guo
14.05-14:25 [RS] A Document Recommendation System Blending Retrieval and Categorization Technologies
Khalid Al-Kofahi, Peter Jackson, Charles Elberti and William Keenan
14.25-14:45 [ITWP] Effectiveness of Crawling Attacks Against Web-based Recommender Systems
Runa Bhaumik, Robin Burke, Bamshad Mobasher
14.45-15:05 [ITWP] The SeniorGezond Recommender: Exploration Put into Practice
Vera Hollink, Maarten van Someren and Stephan ten Hagen

15:05-15:30 POSTER INTRODUCTIONS [RS] (5 minutes each)

Coffee break & Poster Session (15:30 - 16:30)
 
* [RS] Rank Aggregation and Presentation-Centric Preference Estimation
Evgeny Televitckiy and Carmel Domshlak
* [RS] Research Lines in Secure and Robust Recommender Systems
Neil Hurley and Guenole Silvestre
* [RS] Introducing Context into Recommender Systems
Wolfgang Woerndl and Johann Schlichter
* [RS] An Infrastructure for Participatory Media
Aaditeshwar Seth
* [RS] Generating Recommendation Dialogues from Product Models
Sven Radde, Matthias Beck and Burkhard Freitag


16.30-17:30 Wrap-up and discussion