WORKSHOP on DATA MINING FOR USER MODELING

Monday, 25 June 2007
 
NEW: Schedule  

This full-day workshop covers a variety of topics in data mining as it relates to user modeling issues in ubiquitous computing and education, and is composed of three sessions.
  • The morning session is on Educational Data Mining (see www.educationaldatamining.org/UM2007.html)
  • A mid-day shared session on data mining for UM for education in ubiquitous contexts. This will consist of an invited talk by
    Gord McCalla: The Ecological Approach: Using Patterns in Learner Behaviour to Inform Pedagogical Goals (abstract)
    and (depending on the submissions) paper presentations.
  • The afternoon session will be on Ubiquitous Knowledge Discovery for User Modeling (see vasarely.wiwi.hu-berlin.de/K-DUUM07)

The workshop aims to bring together researchers and practitioners from a variety of backgrounds.  We expect that participants will come from a variety of research areas, including: user modelling, ubiquitous computing, student modeling, personalization, Web mining, machine learning, intelligent tutoring systems, and assessment. 

We are considering both papers describing original, unpublished research (10 pages max) as well as position papers and work at the formative stage (5 pages max).  Submissions should use the same paper format as for the main conference, but with margins of: TOP and BOTTOM - 3cm; LEFT and RIGHT - 3.5cm. To do this, you can use this cls file (for an example of how to use this in a Latex file, use llncs.dem from the llncs2e.zip available from the Springer Website, and replace llncs.cls by llncs_modified.cls).
Contributions should be emailed to dm.um07@googlemail.com. Submissions should indicate the target session (EDM, K-DUUM, or shared session). Submissions will be reviewed by three reviewers.

Important Dates

  • Paper submissions deadline: February 7, 2007
  • Notification: March 14, 2007
  • Early registration deadline UM2007: March 19, 2007
  • Workshop: June 25, 2007

Proceedings and Programme

The proceedings are available here, and the programme is available here.

Queries

Please address general questions to the DM@UM07 workshop organisers at dm.um07@googlemail.com

Workshop chairs

Ryan S.J.d. Baker, University of Nottingham
Joseph E. Beck, Carnegie Mellon University
Bettina Berendt, Humboldt University Berlin
Alexander Kröner, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence
Ernestina Menasalvas, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
Stephan Weibelzahl, National College of Ireland, Dublin 

Program committee

Sarabjot Singh Anand, University of Warwick, UK
Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Director of Yahoo! Research Barcelona, Spain and Yahoo! Research Latin America at Santiago, Chile
Jörg Baus, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, Saarland Univ., Germany
Shlomo Berkovsky, University of Haifa, Israel
Christophe Choquet, University of Maine, France
Michel Desmarais, Ecole polytechnique Montreal
Marko Grobelnik, Jozef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Dominik Heckman, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, Germany
Pilar Herrero, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain (r)
Anthony Jameson, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, Germany
Judy Kay, University of Sydney
Christian Kray, Informatics Research Institute. University of Newcastle, UK
Bruce McLaren,  DFKI
Tanja Mitrovic, University of Canterbury
Dunja Mladenic, Jozef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Bamshad Mobasher, DePaul University Chicago, Chicago / IL, USA
Junichiro Mori, University of Tokyo, Japan
Katharina Morik, University of  Dortmund,  Germany
Helen Pain, University of Edinburgh
Kaska Porayska-Pomsta, University of London
Thorsten Prante, Fraunhofer IPSI, Germany
Cristobal Romero, Universidad de Cordoba, Spain
Valerie Shute, ETS
Myra Spiliopoulou, University of Magdeburg, Germany
Sebastian Ventura, Universidad de Cordoba, Spain
Silvia Viola, Universita' Politecnica delle Marche, Ancona, Italy
Titus Winters, DirecTV
Kalina Yacef, University of Sydney
Panayiotis Zaphiris,City University London, UK

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