Co-Chairs
Gulden Uchyigit
University of Brighton, UK
gu1@doc.ic.ac.uk

Background and Goals
 

Since the development of the first recommender system in the early 90's there has been a lot of interest both from academia and industry in the area of recommender systems research. With the deployment of recommender technology by e-commerce giants such as amazon.com, the basic technology has very quickly gone from the research world to popular applications. With today’s increasing information overload problem the area of recommender systems research remains to be more challenging than ever before.
The main goal of this workshop is to provide a forum where current researchers and practitioners can meet and discuss the issues related to recommender systems research. The themes will be in algorithms, applications and interfaces.
This workshop solicits high-quality papers for presentation describing original research results in recommender systems, some of which will be considered for special issue journal publication.
WPRSIUI'08, is the fourth in the series and follows the successful workshops WPRSIUI'05, WPRSIUI'06, and IEEE WPRSIUI’07 held in conjunctions with ICETE 2005 , AH 2006, IEEE ICDE 2007.
This workshop will offer an opportunity for researchers and practitioners to exchange ideas about past, present and future trends in Web personalization, Recommender systems and Intelligent User Interfaces.

Topics of interest
We invite submissions covering the full range of topics related to Personalization, Recommender Systems and Intelligent User Interfaces. Topics for submission include but are not limited to:

Personalization techniques
• Machine learning methods in personalization.
• Data mining techniques for user profiling.
• Group modelling techniques.
• Profile initialisation and learning methods.

Recommender Systems
• Collaborative, Content and Hybrid systems.
• Algorithms and Evaluation techniques.
• Security issues for Recommender systems.
• User interfaces for recommender systems.

Agent Architectures
• Personal Assistant Agents,
• User Modelling Agents,
• Interface Agents for personalization.
• Multi-agent architectures for recommender systems.

Intelligent User Interfaces
• Interactive Multi-Modal
• User interfaces for personalised environments.
• Personalised user interfaces for people with disabilities.

Application Areas
• E-commerce.
• Personalised TV.
• Tutoring environments.
• Dynamic, adaptive hypermedia.

Submission of Papers
Prospective authors are invited to submit papers in any of the areas listed above. All papers must be written in English, and the length of the paper should not exceed 5,000 words or 10 pages (including figures and tables). Papers (in PDF format) should be submitted online through the online submission system. Instructions for preparing the manuscripts are available at the ICEIS web-site: http://www.iceis.org/ In addition, an e-mail must be sent to both co-chairs of the Workshop indicating the title of the submitted paper and the area of interest.

Workshop Proceedings
All accepted papers will be published in a workshop proceedings book with an ISBN#, which will be issued by INSTICC Press. The proceedings will be available at the time of the workshop.

Important Dates
Paper Submission: Deadline Expired
Author Notification: Deadline Expired
Final Camera-Ready and Registration: Deadline Expired

Workshop Program Committee (preliminary)
Liliana Ardissono University of Torino, Italy
Marko Balabanovic Lastminute.com. London, UK
Mark Levene Birkbeck College, University of London, UK
Sofus Macskassy Fetch Technologies, USA
Judith Masthoff University of Aberdeen, Scotland, UK
Dunja Mladenic J. Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Workshop Location
The workshop will take place in conjunction with the 10th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems (ICEIS 2008) in Barcelona - Spain.

Registration Information
At least one author of an accepted paper must register for the workshop. If the registration fees are not received by April 14, 2008, the paper will not be published in the proceedings. Attending the Workshop requires registration. For registering go to http://www.iceis.org

Secretariat
ICEIS 2008 Secretariat - The Fourth International Workshop on Web Personalization, Recommender Systems and Intelligent User Interfaces (WPRSIUI 2008)
E-mail: workshops@iceis.org
Web site: http://www.iceis.org