User Modeling, Adaptation, and Personalization: 21th International Conference, UMAP 2013, Rome, Italy, June 10-14, 2013 Proceedings

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by  à tefan Pero, Tomáš Horváth (auth.), Sandra Carberry, Stephan Weibelzahl, Alessandro Micarelli, Giovanni Semeraro (eds.)

Sandra Carberry
Stephan Weibelzahl
Alessandro Micarelli
Giovanni Semeraro (Eds.)
User Modeling,
Adaptation,
and Personalization
21th International Conference, UMAP 2013
Rome, Italy, June 2013
Proceedings
123
LNCS 7899
Lecture Notes in Computer Science 7899
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David Hutchison
Lancaster University, UK
Takeo Kanade
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Josef Kittler
University of Surrey, Guildford, UK
Jon M. Kleinberg
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
Alfred Kobsa
University of California, Irvine, CA, USA
Friedemann Mattern
ETH Zurich, Switzerland
John C. Mitchell
Stanford University, CA, USA
Moni Naor
Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
Oscar Nierstrasz
University of Bern, Switzerland
C. Pandu Rangan
Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India
Bernhard Steffen
TU Dortmund University, Germany
Madhu Sudan
Microsoft Research, Cambridge, MA, USA
Demetri Terzopoulos
University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Doug Tygar
University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA
Gerhard Weikum
Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Saarbruecken, Germany
Sandra Carberry Stephan Weibelzahl
Alessandro Micarelli Giovanni Semeraro (Eds.)
User Modeling,
Adaptation
and Personalization
21th International Conference, UMAP 2013
Rome, Italy, June 10-14, 2013
Proceedings
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Volume Editors
Sandra Carberry
University of Delaware
Newark, DE 19716, USA
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Preface
The 21st International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personal-
ization (UMAP 2013) was held at Roma Tre University in Rome, Italy, during
June 10–14, 2013. The General Chairs were Alessandro Micarelli from the Roma
Tre University and Giovanni Semeraro from University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy.
UMAP is the successor to the biennial User Modeling and Adaptive Hyperme-
dia conferences that were merged in 2009 and is organized under the auspices of
User Modeling Inc.
The Research Track solicited papers presenting substantive new research re-
sults on user modeling, adaptation, and/or personalization. The Research Track
Program Chairs were Sandra Carberry from the University of Delaware, USA,
and Stephan Weibelzahl from the National College of Ireland. The interna-
tional Program Committee consisted of 56 leading members of the user modeling
and adaptive hypermedia communities as well as highly promising younger re-
searchers. They were assisted by 24 additional reviewers. A separate Industry
Track solicited innovative commercial implementations of UMAP technologies
and experience in applying recent research advances in practice. The Industry
Track Program Chairs were Alejandro Jaimes from Yahoo! Research, Spain, and
Michael Pazzani from the University of California Riverside, USA. They were as-
sisted by a Program Committee of leading industrial researchers. The conference
solicited Long Research Papers and Industrial Track Papers of up to 11 pages
of content. In addition, the conference solicited Short Research Papers of up to
six pages in content, whose merit was assessed more in terms of originality and
importance than maturity and technical validation. Both long and short papers
were allowed unlimited extra pages for references. Papers in the Research and
Industry Tracks were reviewed by three reviewers; reviewing was stringent and
the overall acceptance rate was 30%.
The Main Technical Program of research and industrial track papers included
sessions on a variety of established as well as emerging topics in user modeling,
adaptation, and personalization. Among these were sessions on recommender
systems, student modeling, social media and teams, human cognition, personal-
ity, privacy, Web curation and user profiles, travel and mobile applications, and
systems for elderly and disabled individuals. In addition, three distinguished re-
searchers gave plenary invited talks on allied topics: Andrei Broder who is a
Distinguished Scientist at Google, Geert-Jan Houben who is Professor of Web
Information Systems in the Software Technology Department at Delft University
of Technology, and Lillian Lee who is Professor of Computer Science at Cornell
University.
The conference also included a Doctoral Consortium, a forum for PhD stu-
dents to present their ongoing research work and obtain feedback and advice
from a Doctoral Consortium Committee of 17 leading UMAP researchers. The
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Doctoral Consortium was chaired by Stephanie Elzer Schwartz from Millersville
University, USA, and Marco de Gemmis from the University of Bari Aldo Moro,
Italy. This track received 16 submissions of which 12 were accepted. The Poster
and Demo Session of the conference was chaired by Olga C. Santos, UNED,
Spain, and Eelco Herder, L3S Research Center, Germany. There were 27 sub-
missions reviewed by a Program Committee of 39 researchers, and 10 submis-
sions were accepted for the conference. The UMAP 2013 program also included
the following workshops and tutorials that were selected by the Chairs, Shlomo
Berkovsky from NICTA, Australia, and Pasquale Lops from the University of
Bari Aldo Moro, Italy:
Tutorials
– Context-Aware User Modeling for Recommendation by Bamshad Mobasher
– Design and Evaluation of Recommender Systems — Bridging the Gap be-
tween Algorithms and User Experience by Paolo Cremonesi, Franca Gar-
zotto, and Pearl Pu
– User Community Discovery: The Transition from Passive Site Visitors to
Active Content Contributors by Georgios Paliouras
Workshops
– Emotions and Personality in Personalized Services by Marko Tkalˇciˇc, Nadja
De Carolis, Marco de Gemmis, Ante Odi´c, and Andrej Koˇsir
– Group Recommender Systems: Concepts, Technology, Evaluation by Tom
Gross, Judith Masthoff, and Christoph Beckmann
– LifeLong User Modelling by Frank Hopfgartner, Till Plumbaum, Judy Kay,
and Bob Kummerfeld
– Personalization Approaches in Learning Environments by Milos Kravcik,
Olga C. Santos, Jesu´s G. Boticario, and Diana P´erez-Mar´ın
– Personal Access to Cultural Heritage by Liliana Ardissono, Lora Aroyo, Lu-
ciana Bordoni, Tsvi Kuflik, and Judy Kay
– Personalization in eGovernment Services and Applications by Nikos Loutas,
Fedelucio Narducci, Matteo Palmonari, and C´ecile Paris
– Trust, Reputation and User Modeling by Surya Nepal, Julita Vassileva,
C´ecile Paris, and Jie Zhang
– User-Adaptive Visualization by Cristina Conati, Ben Steichen, Melanie Tory,
and Paolo Buono
– Computational Models of Natural Argument by Nancy Green, Floriana Grasso,
and Chris Reed
In addition to the contributors mentioned above, we would also like to thank
Iva´n Cantador from the Universidad Auto´noma de Madrid, Spain, who served
as Publicity Chair, Fabio Gasparetti and Giuseppe Sansonetti from Roma Tre
University, Italy, who served as Local Arrangements Chairs, Carla Limongelli
from Roma Tre University, Italy, who organized the student volunteers, and
Giuseppina Meniconi of Consulta Umbria, who provided secretarial support.
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We also gratefully acknowledge our sponsors who helped us with funding and
organizational expertise: User Modeling Inc., U.S. National Science Foundation,
Microsoft Research, IPSE: Innovation Projects and Studies for Europe, Roma
Tre University, the University of Bari Aldo Moro, the Italian Association for
Artificial Intelligence, the Chen Family Foundation, and Springer. Finally, we
want to acknowledge the use of EasyChair for the management of the review
process and the preparation of the proceedings.
April 2013 Sandra Carberry
Stephan Weibelzahl
Alessandro Micarelli
Giovanni Semeraro
Organization
UMAP 2013 was organized by Roma Tre University, Italy, and University of
Bari Aldo Moro, Italy, under the auspices of User Modeling Inc. The conference
took place during June 10–14, 2013, in Rome, Italy.
Organizing Committee
General Co-chairs
Alessandro Micarelli Roma Tre University, Italy
Giovanni Semeraro University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy
Program Co-chairs
Sandra Carberry University of Delaware, USA
Stephan Weibelzahl National College of Ireland
Industry Track Co-chairs
Alejandro Jaimes Yahoo! Research, Spain
Michael Pazzani University of California Riverside, California,
USA
Workshop and Tutorial Co-chairs
Shlomo Berkovsky NICTA, Australia
Pasquale Lops University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy
Doctoral Consortium Co-chairs
Stephanie Elzer Schwartz Millersville University, USA
Marco de Gemmis University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy
Demo and Poster Co-chairs
Olga C. Santos UNED, Spain
Eelco Herder L3S Research Center, Germany
Publicity Chair
Iva´n Cantador Universidad Auto´noma de Madrid, Spain
Local Arrangements Co-chairs
Fabio Gasparetti Roma Tre University, Italy
Giuseppe Sansonetti Roma Tre University, Italy
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Student Volunteers
Carla Limongelli Roma Tre University, Italy
Research Track Program Committee
Fabian Abel TU Delft, The Netherlands
Kenro Aihara National Institute of Informatics, Japan
David Albrecht Monash University, Australia
Liliana Ardissono University of Turin, Italy
Lora Aroyo VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Mathias Bauer mineway GmbH, Germany
Shlomo Berkovsky NICTA, Australia
Peter Brusilovsky University of Pittsburgh, USA
Susan Bull University of Birmingham, UK
Richard Burns West Chester University, USA
Sandra Carberry University of Delaware, USA
Rosa M. Carro Universidad Aut´onoma de Madrid, Spain
Federica Cena University of Turin, Italy
Mihaela Cocea University of Portsmouth, UK
Robin Cohen University of Waterloo, Canada
Cristina Conati University of British Columbia, Canada
Albert Corbett Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Alexandra Cristea University of Warwick, UK
Paul De Bra Eindhoven University of Technology,
The Netherlands
Marco de Gemmis University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy
Michel Desmarais Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal, Canada
Vania Dimitrova University of Leeds, UK
Benedict Du Boulay University of Sussex, UK
Cristina Gena University of Turin, Italy
Bradley Goodman The MITRE Corporation, USA
Eduardo Guzm´an Universidad de Ma´laga, Spain
Melanie Hartmann AGT Group GmbH, Germany
Nicola Henze University of Hannover, Germany
Eelco Herder L3S Research Center, Germany
Geert-Jan Houben Delft University of Technology,
The Netherlands
Anthony Jameson DFKI, Germany
Dietmar Jannach TU Dortmund, Germany
W. Lewis Johnson Alelo Inc., USA
Judy Kay University of Sydney, Australia
Alfred Kobsa University of California, Irvine, USA
Tsvi Kuflik The University of Haifa, Israel
James Lester North Carolina State University, USA
Tobias Ley Tallinn University, Estonia
Organization XI
Judith Masthoff University of Aberdeen, UK
Gordon McCalla University of Saskatchewan, Canada
Tanja Mitrovic University of Canterbury, New Zealand
Riichiro Mizoguchi University of Osaka, Japan
Georgios Paliouras NCSR Demokritos, Greece
Alexandros Paramythis CYBERhouse, Austria
C´ecile Paris CSIRO, Australia
Mykola Pechenizkiy Eindhoven University of Technology,
The Netherlands
Francesco Ricci Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
Cristobal Romero Morales University of Cordoba, Spain
Ryan S.J.D. Baker Columbia University Teachers College, USA
Olga C. Santos UNED, Spain
Barry Smyth University College Dublin, Ireland
Carlo Tasso University of Udine, Italy
Nava Tintarev University of Aberdeen, UK
Julita Vassileva University of Saskatchewan, Canada
Yang Wang Syracuse University, USA
Gerhard Weber University of Education Freiburg, Germany
Stephan Weibelzahl National College of Ireland, Ireland
Kalina Yacef University of Sydney, Australia
Ingrid Zukerman Monash University, Australia
Industry Track Program Committee
Kamal Ali Consumer Internet Start Up, USA
Daniel Billsus eBay, USA
Robin Burke DePaul University, USA
Pradheep Elango Facebook, USA
Alejandro Jaimes Yahoo! Research, Spain
Michael Pazzani University of California Riverside, USA
Marco Pennacchiotti eBay, USA
Poster and Demo Program Committee
Kenro Aihara National Institute of Informatics, Japan
David Albrecht Monash University, Australia
Liliana Ardissono University of Turin, Italy
Mathias Bauer mineway GmbH, German
Shlomo Berkovsky NICTA, Australia
Richard Burns West Chester University, USA
Federica Cena University of Turin, Italy
David Chin University of Hawaii, USA
Mihaela Cocea University of Portsmouth, UK
Alexandra Cristea University of Warwick, UK