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CALL FOR PAPERS AND APPLICATIONS:
* UMAP Project Synergy (UMAP ProS) Workshop *
** A forum for UMAP related projects to exchange ideas and practices **

http://umappros.wordpress.com/

International Workshop at UMAP 2014,Aalborg,Denmark.


IMPORTANT DATES
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- Presentation Proposal submission deadline: April 1, 2014
- Notification to authors: May 1, 2014
- Workshop days: July 7 or July 11, 2014:

OVERVIEW
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UMAP(http://um.org/umap2014/) is the premier international conference for researchers and practitioners working on systems that adapt to their individual users, or to groups of users, and collect and represent information about users for this purpose.

UMAP ProS workshop aims to bring together participants from several International projects to exchange ideas and experience relating to the approaches they are implementing or planning to implement, based on experiences in user modelling, adaptation and personalisation.

The workshop invites projects employing User modelling, adaptation and personalisation techniques and technologies in these themes to submit a presentation proposal to present their project at the workshop.

The workshop program will contain presentation from 8-10 projects and a panel discussion.


TOPICS OF INTEREST
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UMAP Project Synergy workshop is a specialised workshop organised to provide a platform to International projects related to UMAP to showcase the exciting work they are doing.

In particular, we are inviting projects in the following UMAP themes to submit their presentation proposal:

- UMAP in the social era
- UMAP in the era of big data
- UMAP in the era of pervasive computing
- Infrastructures, architectures, and methodologies
- Human factors and Models
- Personal and Societal issues


Further details: http://umappros.wordpress.com/

PAPER SUBMISSION
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UMAP ProS will be conducted in a highly interactive manner.

We envisage two sessions of project presentations followed by a panel discussion.The discussion session will be organized as an interactive panel. The format of the discussion session is intended to deliver concrete action plans.

Project presentation proposals are invited. The proposal of maximum 4 pages should contain description of the overall project or particular aspect of the project.

All submissions must be written in English and must be formatted according to the information for LNCS authors: Information for LNCS Authors.

Please submit your contributions electronically in PDF format at

https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=umappros2014

The workshop proceedings will (most likely) be published as a volume at CEUR Workshop Proceedings.

WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS
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- Dhaval Thakker, University of Leeds, United Kingdom
- Oliver Brdiczka, Palo Alto Research Center, USA
- Christoph Trattner, Know-Center, Austria