ITWP 2009


The 7th Workshop on
Intelligent Techniques for Web Personalization &
Recommender Systems

Held in conjunction with
The Twenty-first International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-09)

July 11-17, 2009 - Pasadena, California, USA
 



Call for Papers

Program Committee

Instructions for Authors

Workshop Program

Related Events


Workshop Program - Saturday, July 11

08:30-08:45 Opening

Technical session 1 - Modeling and Personalization Strategies

08:45-09:10 Online Selection of Mediated and Domain-Specific Predictions for Improved Recommender Systems
Stephanie Rosenthal, Manuela Veloso, Anind Dey
09:10-09:35 Using Gaussian Spatial Processes to Model and Predict Interests in Museum Exhibits
Fabian Bohnert, Ingrid Zukerman, and Daniel F. Schmidt
09:35-10:00 Optimal Set Recommendations based on Regret
Paolo Viappiani, Craig Boutilier


Coffee break (10:00 - 10:30)
Technical session 2 - Enabling Technologies

10:30-10:55 Analysis of Web Usage Patterns in Consideration of Various Contextual Factors
Jinhyuk Choi,  Jeongseok Seo and Geehyuk Lee
10:55-11:20 Functional Dependencies in MDD-Compiled Product Catalogues
Tarik Hadzic and Barry O'Sullivan
11:20-11:35 Intelligent Web Navigation Using Virtual Assistants
Eduardo Eisman


Lunch (11:35 - 13:15)
Invited Talk  

13:15-14:10  Barry Smyth, University College Dublin
  
Personalization and Collaboration in Social Search
 


Technical session 3 - Recommendation Algorithms

14:10-14:35 Effectiveness of different recommender algorithms in the Mobile Internet: A case study
Kolja Hegelich and Dietmar Jannach
14:35-15:00 Adapting K-Nearest Neighbor for Tag Recommendation in Folksonomies
Jonathan Gemmell, Thomas Schimoler, Maryam Ramezani, Bamshad Mobasher
 


Coffee break (15:00 - 15:30)

Technical session 4 - Hybrid Recommenders

15:30-15:45 Collaborative Filtering With Adaptive Information Sources
Neal Lathia, Xavier Amatriain and Josep M. Pujol
15:45-16:00 Exploiting Semantic Web Technologies for Recommender Systems: A Multi View Recommendation Engine
Houda Oufaida

16:00-17:00 Wrap-up and discussion