Program
Research Workshop of the Israel Science Foundation on:
User Modeling and Recommender Systems
Monday July 17th
08:30 – 09:00 - Registration
09:00 – 09:30 - Opening and welcome
Prof. Gustavo Mesh - Rector of the University of Haifa
Prof Eran Vigoda-Gadot - Dean of the Social Sciences Faculty
Prof Gadi Landau - Head of CRI
09:30 – 11:00 - First session
Anthony Jameson : A Choice Support Perspective on Temporal Aspects of User Modeling and Recommendation
Fedelucio Narducci: Temporal Semantic Techniques for Content-based Recommender Systems
11:00 – 11:30 - Coffee break
11:30 – 13:00 Judy Kay : Towards Personal Informatics for Learners
Bob Kummerfeld : Managing User Models that are Life-Long
Veronika Bogina : Addressing Temporal Aspects in User Modelling
13:00 – 14:00 - Lunch break
14:00 – 15:30 Ido Guy : Recommending Travel Tips from User-Generated Reviews
Dietmar Jannach : Session-aware Recommendation
Asi Messica : Personal Price-Aware Recommender System
15:30 – 16:00 - Coffee break
16:00 – 17:30 David Bodoff : Timing Issues in the Presentation of Personalized Recommendations
Tsvi Kuflik: The challenges of lifelong user modeling in cultural heritage
17:30 - 18:00 - Discussion
What are the temporal challenges we face in user modeling?
18:00 – 19:30 - (All participants) Posters:
Avital Shulner:Exploring the Potential of Analyzing Twitter Data for Identifying Tweeting Patterns about TV Series
Moshe Unger:Inferring Contextual Preferences Using Deep Auto-Encoding
Veronika Bogina: Addressing Temporal Aspects in User Modelling
Gregory Jerusalemsky: A sentiment-Based UX System For Recommending Restaurants According To Contextual Characteristics
Yonit Rusho, Gindos Arel, Kondratenko Gregory, Dassi Rosen: Trust based recommender system - a case study of matching three user profiles: babysitter-parent-child
Ronit Marco:Wandering Minds: Temporal Trends in Researchers’ Tendency towardDiscipline Shift
Tuesday July 18th
09:00 – 09:30 - Registration
09:30 – 11:00 - First Session
Robert Moskovitch :Temporal Conceptualization Analytics
Pasquale Lops :Generating Natural Language Explanations for Recommender Systems
Nadeem Bader: Exploring Emotions in Online Movie Reviews
11:00 – 11:30 - Coffee break
11:30 – 13:00 Inbal Ronen: Recommendations for raising your social eminence in the enterprise
Ronny Lempel : Personalization is a Two-Way Street
Hagit Ben Shoshan: Create and Identify users’ signature in social media
13:00 – 14:00 - Lunch break
14:00 – 15:30 - Giuseppe Sansonetti : Bag-of-signals: a novel user model for time-aware personalized systems
Roy Sasson : Optimizing mobile application communication with users
Alain Hertz : Resolving sets for multi-attribute recommender systems
Renana Gonen: Optimizing message propagation over social network while considering users' personal availability.
15:30 – 16:00 - Coffee break
16:00 – 17:30 - Fabio Gasparetti : Improving News Recommendation by Monitoring the Perception of News Content on Social Networks: A Methodology
Shaked Bar:Profile-based Personalization Algorithms for Content Recommender Systems
17:30 - 18:00 - Discussion
Should we, and how do we go beyond matrix factorization in recommender systems?
19:30 - 21:30 - Evening
Free evening – downtown Haifa – enjoy Haifa’s events
Wednesday July 19th
09:00 – 09:00 - Registration
09:30 – 11:00 Maria Bielikova : Towards Personalization of UsereXperience Studies
Giovanni Semeraro : An investigation on the serendipity problem in recommender systems
11:00 – 11:30 - Coffee break
11:30 – 13:00 David Carmel: Supporting Human Answers for Advice Seeking Questions in CQA sites
Cataldo Musto : Recommender Systems based on Linked Open Data
Eugenia Pritsker: Predicting Personal Traits from Social Media Using a Graph-based Approach.
13:00 – 14:00 - Lunch break
14:00 – 15:30 Christoph Trattner : Towards Health-Aware Food Recommender Systems
Hilik Berezin: Music Recommendations in Microsoft Groove
Moshe Unger: Inferring Contextual Preferences Using Deep Auto-Encoding
15:30 – 16:00 - Coffee break
16:00 – 17:00 Tal Zarsky : Dancing with Algorithms: How the Law Can Foster Good Decisions by Proxy
Ran Wolff: Emergent Privacy as a Fundamental Model
17:00 – 17:30 - Discussion
The good the bad and the ugly – multifaceted look at personalization what we usually tend to ignore - how can we integrate privacy into UM
19:00 - 21:00 - Dinner
Invited speakers’ dinner at Ben-Ezra Hadayag, Atlit