ITWP 2008

The 6th Workshop on

Intelligent Techniques for Web Personalization &
Recommender Systems

Held in conjunction with
The 23nd National Conference on Artificial Intelligence - AAAI 2008

July 13-17, 2008 - Chicago, Illinois, USA
 


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

Tentative Workshop Program - Sunday, July 13

08:45-09:00 Opening

Technical session 1 - Personalization in Search and Navigation

09:00-09:25 A Retrieval Model for Personalized Searching relying on Content-based User Profiles
Marco de Gemmis, Giovanni Semeraro, Pasquale Lops,  Pierpaolo Basile
09:25-09:50 Exploring Client-Side Instrumentation for Personalized Search Intent Inference
Qi Guo, Eugene Agichtein
09:50-10:15 An Integrated Architecture for Personalized Query Expansion in Web Search
Alex Salamanca, Elizabeth Leon
10:15-10:30 A Platform to Support Web Site Adaptation & Monitoring of its Effects: A Case Study
Marcos Domingues, Jose Paulo Leal, Alipio Jorge,  Carlos Soares, Pedro Machado


Coffee break (10:30 - 11:00)
Technical session 2 - Personalization on the Social Web

11.00-11:25 Personalization in Folksonomies Based on Tag Clustering
Jonathan Gemmell, Andriy Shepitsen, Bamshad Mobasher, Robin Burke
11.25-11:50 Tagging-Based User Profiling for Social Media Recommendation
Chia-Chuan Hung, Yi-Ching Huang, Jane Yung-jen Hsu
11.50-12:15 A Framework for the Analysis of Attacks Against Social Tagging Systems
JJ Sandvig, Runa Bhaumik, Maryam Ramezani, Robin Burke, Bamshad Mobasher


Lunch (12:15 - 13:45)
Invited Talk  

13.45-14:35   Paul Lamere, Sun Microsystems
  
Music Recommendation is Broken, and Only You Can Fix It!
 [Abstract]


Technical session 3 - Modeling and Strategies for Recommendation

14.35-15:00 A Subjective Credibility Model for Participatory Media
Aaditeshwar Seth, Jie Zhang, Robin Cohen
15.00-15:15 A Content-Based User Model Generation and Optimization Approach for Movie Recommendation
Oznur Kirmemis, Aysenur Birturk
15.15-15:30 Recommendation Strategies for Promoting eLearning Performance Factors for All
Olga Santos, Jesus Boticario

Coffee break (15:30 - 16:00)
16.00-17:00 Wrap-up and discussion