CALL FOR PAPERS: ACM Transactions on Recommender Systems
Special Issue on Recommender Systems for Good
Submission deadline: 24. December 2024
Guest Editors:
- Marko Tkalčič, University of Primorska, Slovenia
- Noemi Mauro, University of Turin, Italy
- Alan Said, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
- Nava Tintarev, University of Maastricht, Netherlands
- Antonela Tommasel, ISISTAN, CONICET-UNCPBA, Argentina
Recommender systems are among the most widely used applications of
machine learning. …
[View More]Since they are so widely used, it is important that
we, as practitioners and researchers, think about the impact these
systems may have on users, society, and other stakeholders. In practice,
the focus is often on systems and values of improving key performance
indicators (KPIs), such as increased sales or customer retention.
Recommendation technology is currently underutilized to serve societal
goals that go beyond the business objectives of individual corporations.
However, other values, bound more to societal good, could be considered
in the development and goals of a recommender system. In fact,
recommender systems have already been explored to stimulate healthier
eating behavior and for improved health and well-being in general, to
help low-income families make school choices, to suggest successful
learning paths for students, to entice climate-protecting energy-saving
behavior, to support fair micro-lending, or improve the information
diets of news readers. Research in these areas is however limited in
numbers, compared to the many papers that are published every year that
propose new models for improved movie recommendations.
Moreover, concerning the methodology and evaluation perspective in this
area, it is essential to find a clear methodology and criteria for
evaluating the effectiveness and "goodness" of the proposed algorithms.
This includes acknowledging that different values may be conflicting, as
well as resolving how and when (and by whom) certain values should be
prioritized over others such as in the NORMalize workshop
(https://sites.google.com/view/normalizeworkshop).
Research on "Recommender Systems for Good" may benefit from an
interdisciplinary approach, drawing on insights from fields such as
computer science, ethics, sociology, psychology, law, and economics.
Collaborations with stakeholders from diverse backgrounds can enrich the
research and ensure that recommendations are grounded in real-world
needs and values.
This special issue aims to present state-of-the-art research works where
recommender systems have a positive societal impact and help us address
urgent societal challenges. It will thereby serve as a call to action
for more research in these areas. Ultimately, through this special
issue, we hope to establish a vision of "Recommender Systems for Good',
following the spirit of the "AI for Good" initiative
(https://aiforgood.itu.int) to achieve the United Nations Sustainable
Development Goals (2015) and the more recent UNESCO recommendation on
the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence (2024)
(https://www.unesco.org/en/artificial-intelligence/recommendation-ethics).
Topics:
We aim to collect the latest research on recommender systems for
societal good. The topics of the special issues include (but are not
limited to):
- Recommender systems for safety, security, and privacy (e.g., reducing
poverty and inequality)
- Recommender systems that protect the environment and ecosystems (e.g.,
lower energy consumption, water and energy management)
- Recommender systems that give control of data back to the users (e.g.,
transparency of data, models, and outputs)
- Recommender systems for the interconnected society (e.g., increase of
solidarity, online conversational health, multi-stakeholder recommenders)
- Accountability in recommender systems, including addressing emerging
regulations, such as the DSA (Digital Service Act)
- Recommender systems for the public good (e.g., mental and physical
health, welfare, digital literacy, stakeholder engagement, e-learning)
- Introspective studies on the current state of RSs concerning societal good
- Fairness-preserving and fairness-enhancing recommender systems,
unbiased recommendations (e.g. to preserve gender equality)
- Responsible recommendation (e.g., in social media and traditional
news, avoiding filter bubbles and echo chambers)
- Sustainability and Cultural recommendations (e.g., art, cultural heritage)
- Recommendations to support disadvantaged groups (e.g., elderly,
minorities)
- Recommender systems for personal development and well-being (e.g.,
behavioral change, fitness, self-actualization, personal growth)
Important Dates:
- Submission deadline: December 24, 2024
- First-round review decisions: March 24, 2025
- Deadline for revision submissions: May 24, 2025
- Notification of final decisions: June 24, 2025
Submissions that are received before the first deadline will be directly
sent out for review; papers will be immediately published online after
acceptance.
Submission Information:
The special issue welcomes technical research papers, survey papers, and
opinion/reflective papers. Each paper should address one or more of the
abovementioned topics or be in other scopes of Recommender Systems for
Good. The special issue will also consider peer-reviewed journal
versions (at least 30% new content) of top papers from related
recommender system conferences such as RecSys, SIGIR, KDD, CIKM, IUI,
UMAP, CHI, WSDM, ACL, etc. Prospective authors may take advantage of
submitting an early version of their work to the ACM RecSys RecSoGood
Workshop https://recsogood.github.io/recsogood24/. The new content must
be in terms of intellectual contributions, technical experiments, and
findings.
Submissions must be prepared according to the TORS submission guidelines
(https://dl.acm.org/journal/tors/author-guidelines) and must be
submitted via Manuscript Central (https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/tors).
For questions and further information, please contact the guest editors
at rs4good(a)acm.org.
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Dr. Marko Tkalcic
http://markotkalcic.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/#!/RecSysMare
Linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/in/markotkalcic
Google Scholar: http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=JQ2puysAAAAJ
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* SCIMago H-Index = 36
** Google Scholar H5-Index = 19
*** Indexed in Scopus, WoS, EI-Compendex, DBLP, Google Scholar, etc.
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ICITS'25 - 8th Int. Conference on Information Technology & Systems
Mexico City, Mexico, 22-24 January 2025
https://icits.me/ <https://icits.me/>
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ICITS'25 - 8th International Conference on Information Technology &
Systems, to be held at Politécnico Nacional, Mexico City, Mexico,
between the 22th and the 24th of January 2025, is an international
forum for researchers and practitioners to present and discuss the
most recent innovations, trends, results, experiences and concerns in
the several perspectives of Information Technology & Systems.
We are pleased to invite you to submit your original papers to
ICITS'25. They can be written in English, Spanish or Portuguese. All
submissions will be reviewed on the basis of relevance, originality,
importance and clarity.
TOPICS
Submitted papers should be related with one or more of the main themes
proposed for the Conference:
A) Information and Knowledge Management (IKM);
B) Organizational Models and Information Systems (OMIS);
C) Software and Systems Modeling (SSM);
D) Software Systems, Architectures, Applications and Tools (SSAAT);
E) Multimedia Systems and Applications (MSA);
F) Computer Networks, Mobility and Pervasive Systems (CNMPS);
G) Intelligent and Decision Support Systems (IDSS);
H) Big Data Analytics and Applications (BDAA);
I) Human-Computer Interaction (HCI);
J) Ethics, Computers and Security (ECS)
K) Health Informatics (HIS);
L) Information Technologies in Education (ITE);
M) Media, Applied Technology and Communication (MATC).
SUBMISSION & DECISION
Submitted papers written in English (until 10-page limit) must comply
with the format of the Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems series
(see Instructions for Authors at Springer Website), must not have been
published before, not be under review for any other conference or
publication and not include any information leading to the authors’
identification. Therefore, the authors’ names and affiliations should
not be included in the version for evaluation by the Scientific
Committee. This information should only be included in the
camera-ready version, saved in Word or Latex format and also in PDF
format. These files must be accompanied by the Consent to Publish form
filled out, in a ZIP file, and uploaded at the conference management
system.
Submitted papers written in Spanish or Portuguese (until 15-page
limit) must comply with the format of RISTI - Revista Ibérica de
Sistemas e Tecnologias de Informação (download instructions/template
for authors in Spanish or Portuguese), must not have been published
before, not be under review for any other conference or publication
and not include any information leading to the authors’
identification. Therefore, the authors’ names and affiliations should
not be included in the version for evaluation by the Scientific
Committee. This information should only be included in the
camera-ready version, saved in Word. These files must be uploaded at
the conference management system in a ZIP file.
All papers will be subjected to a “double-blind review” by at least
two members of the Scientific Committee.
Based on Scientific Committee evaluation, a paper can be rejected or
accepted by the Conference Chairs. In the later case, it can be
accepted as paper or poster.
The authors of papers accepted as posters must build and print a
poster to be exhibited during the Conference. This poster must follow
an A1 or A2 vertical format. The Conference can include Work Sessions
where these posters are presented and orally discussed, with a 7
minute limit per poster.
The authors of accepted papers will have 15 minutes to present their
work in a Conference Work Session; approximately 5 minutes of
discussion will follow each presentation.
PUBLICATION & INDEXING
Papers accepted as posters are not published; they are only exhibited,
presented and discussed during the conference.
To ensure that a paper accepted as paper is published, at least one of
the authors must be fully registered by the 28th of October 2024, and
the paper must comply with the suggested layout and page-limit.
Additionally, all recommended changes must be addressed by the authors
before they submit the camera-ready version.
No more than one paper per registration will be published. An extra
fee must be paid for publication of additional papers, with a maximum
of one additional paper per registration. One registration permits
only the participation of one author in the conference.
Papers written in English and accepted and registered will be
published in Proceedings by Springer, in a book of the Lecture Notes
in Networks and Systems series, will be submitted for indexation by
Scopus, WoS, DBLP, Google Scholar, among others, and will be available
in the SpringerLink Digital Library.
Papers written in Spanish or Portuguese and accepted and registered
will be published in a Special Issue of RISTI and will be submitted
for indexation by Scopus, among others.
IMPORTANT DATES
Paper Submission: September 10, 2024
Notification of Acceptance: October 17, 2024
Payment of Registration, to ensure the inclusion of an accepted paper
in the conference proceedings: October 28, 2024.
Camera-ready Submission: October 28, 2024
Website of ICITS'25: https://icits.me/ <https://icits.me/>
See you in Mexico City.
ICITS'25 Team
https://icits.me/ <https://icits.me/>
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* SCIMago H-Index = 36
** Google Scholar H5-Index = 19
*** Indexed in Scopus, WoS, EI-Compendex, DBLP, Google Scholar, etc.
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ICITS'25 - 8th Int. Conference on Information Technology & Systems
Mexico City, Mexico, 22-24 January 2025
https://icits.me/ <https://icits.me/>
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ICITS'25 - 8th International Conference on Information Technology &
Systems, to be held at Politécnico Nacional, Mexico City, Mexico,
between the 22th and the 24th of January 2025, is an international
forum for researchers and practitioners to present and discuss the
most recent innovations, trends, results, experiences and concerns in
the several perspectives of Information Technology & Systems.
We are pleased to invite you to submit your original papers to
ICITS'25. They can be written in English, Spanish or Portuguese. All
submissions will be reviewed on the basis of relevance, originality,
importance and clarity.
TOPICS
Submitted papers should be related with one or more of the main themes
proposed for the Conference:
A) Information and Knowledge Management (IKM);
B) Organizational Models and Information Systems (OMIS);
C) Software and Systems Modeling (SSM);
D) Software Systems, Architectures, Applications and Tools (SSAAT);
E) Multimedia Systems and Applications (MSA);
F) Computer Networks, Mobility and Pervasive Systems (CNMPS);
G) Intelligent and Decision Support Systems (IDSS);
H) Big Data Analytics and Applications (BDAA);
I) Human-Computer Interaction (HCI);
J) Ethics, Computers and Security (ECS)
K) Health Informatics (HIS);
L) Information Technologies in Education (ITE);
M) Media, Applied Technology and Communication (MATC).
SUBMISSION & DECISION
Submitted papers written in English (until 10-page limit) must comply
with the format of the Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems series
(see Instructions for Authors at Springer Website), must not have been
published before, not be under review for any other conference or
publication and not include any information leading to the authors’
identification. Therefore, the authors’ names and affiliations should
not be included in the version for evaluation by the Scientific
Committee. This information should only be included in the
camera-ready version, saved in Word or Latex format and also in PDF
format. These files must be accompanied by the Consent to Publish form
filled out, in a ZIP file, and uploaded at the conference management
system.
Submitted papers written in Spanish or Portuguese (until 15-page
limit) must comply with the format of RISTI - Revista Ibérica de
Sistemas e Tecnologias de Informação (download instructions/template
for authors in Spanish or Portuguese), must not have been published
before, not be under review for any other conference or publication
and not include any information leading to the authors’
identification. Therefore, the authors’ names and affiliations should
not be included in the version for evaluation by the Scientific
Committee. This information should only be included in the
camera-ready version, saved in Word. These files must be uploaded at
the conference management system in a ZIP file.
All papers will be subjected to a “double-blind review” by at least
two members of the Scientific Committee.
Based on Scientific Committee evaluation, a paper can be rejected or
accepted by the Conference Chairs. In the later case, it can be
accepted as paper or poster.
The authors of papers accepted as posters must build and print a
poster to be exhibited during the Conference. This poster must follow
an A1 or A2 vertical format. The Conference can include Work Sessions
where these posters are presented and orally discussed, with a 7
minute limit per poster.
The authors of accepted papers will have 15 minutes to present their
work in a Conference Work Session; approximately 5 minutes of
discussion will follow each presentation.
PUBLICATION & INDEXING
Papers accepted as posters are not published; they are only exhibited,
presented and discussed during the conference.
To ensure that a paper accepted as paper is published, at least one of
the authors must be fully registered by the 28th of October 2024, and
the paper must comply with the suggested layout and page-limit.
Additionally, all recommended changes must be addressed by the authors
before they submit the camera-ready version.
No more than one paper per registration will be published. An extra
fee must be paid for publication of additional papers, with a maximum
of one additional paper per registration. One registration permits
only the participation of one author in the conference.
Papers written in English and accepted and registered will be
published in Proceedings by Springer, in a book of the Lecture Notes
in Networks and Systems series, will be submitted for indexation by
Scopus, WoS, DBLP, Google Scholar, among others, and will be available
in the SpringerLink Digital Library.
Papers written in Spanish or Portuguese and accepted and registered
will be published in a Special Issue of RISTI and will be submitted
for indexation by Scopus, among others.
IMPORTANT DATES
Paper Submission: September 10, 2024
Notification of Acceptance: October 17, 2024
Payment of Registration, to ensure the inclusion of an accepted paper
in the conference proceedings: October 28, 2024.
Camera-ready Submission: October 28, 2024
Website of ICITS'25: https://icits.me/ <https://icits.me/>
See you in Mexico City.
ICITS'25 Team
https://icits.me/ <https://icits.me/>
Alvaro Rocha
World's Top 0.05% Scientist, according to ScholarGPS
World's Top 1% Scientist, according to Stanford University and Elsevier
World's Top 1% Scientist, according to ResearchGate
ISEM's Book Series Scientific Manager at Springer Nature:
https://www.springer.com/serie s/17396
Chair of ITMA - Information and Technology Management Association:
http://itmas.org <http://itmas.org/>
Founder and Vice-Chair of IEEE SMC Portugal Chapter
Professor of Information Systems, ISEG, University of Lisbon, Portugal
Invited Professor at University of Calabria, Italy
Honorary Professor at Amity University, India
E-mail: amrrocha(a)gmail.com
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Alles Gute
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Prof. Dr. Philipp Schaer
Institute of Information Science
Technische Hochschule Köln (University of Applied Sciences)
Gustav-Heinemann-Ufer 54, 50968 Köln, Germany
Visit me at Campus Südstadt, Claudiusstr. 1, Room B5.420
Tel: + 49 221 / 8275-3845
https://ir.web.th-koeln.de
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Call For Participation KI 2024
47th German Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Sep 25 – Sep 27, 2024, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany
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Please register to participate!
KI is one of the major European AI conference series and traditionally brings together academic and industrial researchers from all areas of AI, providing an ideal place for exchanging news and research results on theory and applications. KI 2024 takes …
[View More]place at the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science at the Julius-Maximilians-University Würzburg. This year, we are excited to announce that the conference is jointly organized with the LWDA 2024 conference [1]. The organization is carried out by members of CAIDAS und the Institute for Computer Science. Here [4] you can find more details about the venue and Würzburg.
The technical program of KI 2024 comprises presentations of selected AI papers and discussions, a panel, a doctoral symposium, as well as tutorials and workshops, plus keynotes by the following renowned AI experts:
• Elisabeth André (University of Augsburg): Amplifying Human-Human and Human-Agent Interaction with AI
• Christian Baukhage (University of Bonn): Quantum AI / ML – Hype or Hope?
See also [2] for abstracts of the invited talks, and [3] for the overall program. KI 2024 will also host the FBKI general assembly (Mitgliederversammlung).
For detailed program information and how to register and attend see:
https://www.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de/ki24/attending/registration/
Participation requires registration. Early bird prices are available until August 20, 2024, 23:59 (Berlin time).
KI 2024 is the 47rd edition of the German conference on Artificial Intelligence organized in cooperation with the AI chapter of the GI (GI-FBKI).
We hope to see you at KI 2024!
Andreas Hotho and Sebastian Rudolph
(KI2024 Co-Chairs)
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[1] https://www.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de/lwda24/
[2] https://www.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de/ki24/program/invited-speakers/
[3] https://www.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de/ki24/program/ki-schedule/
[4] https://www.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de/ki24/
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