LAST MILE: EC-Web 2015 - Special Track on Search, Comparison and Recommender Systems

[Tommaso Di Noia]

** apologies for cross-posting **

Special Track on Search, Comparison and Recommender Systems

16th International Conference on Electronic Commerce and Web 
Technologies - EC-Web 2015
Valencia, Spain
September 1 - 2, 2015

EC-Web is an international scientific conference series devoted to 
technology related aspects of e-Commerce and e-Business. The 16th 
edition of the conference, EC-Web 2015, will take place in Valencia, 
Spain in September 2015 and will serve as a forum to bring together 
researchers and practitioners to present and discuss recent advances in 
their fields.

SPECIAL TRACK on Search, Comparison and Recommender Systems

In the Web era, resource retrieval techniques play a fundamental role in 
helping the users to deal with the issues related to information 
overload. Today's search engines as well as matchmaking systems are no 
more working solely on pure text/keyword analysis. Their results are 
computed and enriched by putting together, e.g., link-based data, user 
preferences as well as information encoded into the so called knowledge 
graphs. The same happens for personalized information filtering systems, 
such as recommender systems, where pure collaborative and content-based 
approaches are hybridized with each other, combined and fed by many 
different and diverse data sources in order to improve not only the 
accuracy of results but also their novelty, diversity, and serendipity.

This track will mainly focus on:
- Search
- Knowledge graphs
- Matchmaking
- Recommender systems
- User modeling
- Preference representation and reasoning
- Similarity metrics

Authors are invited to submit original and unpublished research papers 
at http://confdriver.ifs.tuwien.ac.at/dexa2015

The manuscripts are limited to 12 pages using the Springer LNBIP style 
sheet: http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-791344-0

The selection of papers will be based on a peer-review process by 
selected international experts. Each paper will be peer-reviewed by at 
least 3 reviewers. The proceedings will be published in the Springer 
Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing (LNBIP) series.

IMPORTANT DATES

Submission of full papers: April 15, 2015
Notification of acceptance: May 20, 2015
Camera-ready copies due: June 06, 2015

PROGRAM CHAIRS

Heiner Stuckenschmidt - University of Mannheim [Germany]
Dietmar Jannach - TU Dortmund [Germany]

TRACK CHAIR

Tommaso Di Noia - Politecnico di Bari [Italy]

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE

Liliana Ardissono - University of Torino [Italy]
Pierpaolo Basile - University of Bari Aldo Moro [Italy]
Alejandro Bellogín - Universidad Autonoma de Madrid [Spain]
Robin Burke - De Paul University [USA]
Federica Cena - University of Turin [Italy]
Paolo Cremonesi - Politecnico di Milano [Italy]
Marco de Gemmis - University of Bari, Aldo Moro [Italy]
Ernesto William De Luca - FH Potsdam [Germany]
Alexander Felfernig - Graz University of Technology [Austria]
Fabio Gasparetti - Roma Tre University [Italy]
Stuart E. Middleton - University of Southampton [UK]
Cataldo Musto - University of Bari Aldo Moro [Italy]
Fedelucio Narducci - University of Bari Aldo Moro [Italy]
Vito Claudio Ostuni - Mandora Media, Inc. [USA]
Umberto Panniello - Polytechnic University of Bari [Italy]
Francesco Ricci - Free University of Bozen-Bolzano [Italy]
Matthew Rowe - University of Lancaster [UK]
Markus Zanker - Alpen-Adria Universität Klagenfurt [Austria]