Learning Analytics & Knowledge (LAK) DATA CHALLENGE 2014

 

LAK DATA CHALLENGE 2014

http://lak.linkededucation.org

collocated with Learning Analytics & Knowledge 2014

The LAK Dataset (http://lak.linkededucation.org/) provides access to
structured metadata from research publications in the field of learning
analytics. Beyond merely publishing the data, we are actively
encouraging its innovative use and exploitation as part of a public LAK
Data Challenge sponsored by the European Project LinkedUp
(http://linkedup-project.eu<http://linkedup-project.eu/>), co-located with the Learning Analytics &
Knowledge Conference 2014 conference in Indianapolis, Indiana (US) in
March 2014.


IMPORTANT DATES
---------------

- 20th January, 2014: submission deadline
- 3rd February, 2014: notification deadline
- 24-28 March, 2014: LAK2014 Conference.


CHALLENGE OBJECTIVE
-------------------
What do analytics on learning analytics tell us? How can we make sense
of this emerging fieldís historical roots, current state, and future
trends, based on how its members report and debate their research?
Challenge submissions should exploit the LAK Dataset for a meaningful
purpose. This may include submissions which cover one or more of the
following, non-exclusive list of topics:

- Analysis & assessment of the emerging LAK community in terms of
topics, people, citations or connections with other fields
- Innovative applications to explore, navigate and visualise the dataset
(and/or its correlation with other datasets)
- Usage of the dataset as part of recommender systems
- Analysis of the evolution of the LAK discipline
- Improvement and enrichment of the LAK Dataset


SUBMISSION FORMAT
-----------------
Each submission should be accompanied by a 2-4 page paper (ACM format,
see http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates) that
contains at least:

- an abstract of the submission
- motivation: which purposes does your system or dataset serve?
- description of your dataset (e.g. if the LAK data is combined with
other datasets), system or demo
- a link to your dataset and/or system or demo

Please use the EasyChair submission form
(https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lakdatachallenge2014) for
all submissions.


EVALUATION
----------
There will be a light review by members of the challenge committee to
pre-select submissions for presentation. During the LAK conference and
based on the presentations, the challenge winner(s) will be identified
based on votes by the audience and the committee.


PUBLICATION, PRESENTATION & AWARDS
----------------------------------
Accepted submissions will be published in online proceedings and
presented during an interactive LAK Data workshop collocated with the
LAK 2014 conference in Indianapolis, Indiana (US). The three best papers
of each workshop will be invited to a Special Issue in the Journal for
Learning Analytics. In addition, there will be awards for the winning
submissions with very cool prizes (further details to be announced)!


CHALLENGE COMMITTEE
-------------------

- Mathieu D'Aquin (The Open University, United Kingdom)
- Stefan Dietze (L3S Research Center, Germany)
- Hendrik Drachsler (Open Universiteit Nederland, Netherlands)
- Eelco Herder (L3S Research Center, Germany)
- Davide Taibi (Institute for Educational Technologies CNR, Italy)


CONTACT
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lakdatachallenge2014@easychair.org<mailto:lakdatachallenge2014@easychair.org>

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LinkedUp Vidi Competition: Linked and Open Data for Education

LinkedUp Vidi Competition: Linked and Open Data for Education

*Submission deadline 14 February 2014* 

Presentations and awards at ESWC 2014 

(25-29 May 2014, Crete)  

http://linkedup-challenge.org/

The LinkedUp Project launches the second of the LinkedUp Challenge competitions – the Vidi Competition.

The LinkedUp Project aims to push forward the exploitation of the vast amounts of public, open data available on the Web, in particular by educational institutions and organizations.

For Vidi we're inviting you to design and build innovative and robust prototypes and demos for tools that analyse and/or integrate open web data for educational purposes. You can submit your Web application, App, analysis toolkit, documented API or any other tool that connects, exploits or analyses open or linked data and that addresses real educational needs. For Vidi your tool may contain some bugs, as long as it has a stable set of features and you have some proof that it can be deployed on a realistic scale.

This time we also have two focused tracks to run alongside our open track. In these tracks we are asking you to design a solution to the problem we have described.
- *Simplificator* calls for applications easing access to complex information by summarizing them in a simpler form.
- *Pathfinder* requires applications easing access to recommendation and guidance when chosing appropriate curriculum of courses and related resources.

You can find out more about the focused tracks from the LinkedUp Challenge website.

The Vidi competition will run from 4th November 2013 till 14th February 2014. Prizes (up €3,000 for first prize) will be awarded at the European Semantic Web Conference in Crete, Greece in May 2014. That gives you 3 months to get designing and building. You can find out more details about the catalogue of datasets we've collated for you and ideas to get you started on the LinkedUp Challenge website.

So get designing!


More information:

- Find out about the LinkedUp challenge: http://linkedup-challenge.org/
- You can take a look at our new video to get a better idea of what we are after: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMRnNmNjdS8
- Explore the LinkedUp Data Cataloque:
http://data.linkededucation.org/linkedup/catalog/
- Subscribe to our mailinglist:
https://www.l3s.de/mailman/listinfo/linkedup-public
- Follow @linkedupproject and #linkedupproject :
http://twitter.com/linkedupproject
- Contact us directly: http://linkedup-project.eu/contact/
- Get more information about the LinkedUp Project:
http://linkedup-project.eu/

Important dates:

- November 2013: Launch of the Challenge
- 14 February 2014: Submission deadline
- 28 March 2014: Notifications and Nominations
- 25-29 May 2014: Presentations and Award Ceremony at ESWC 2014 (Crete)

LinkedUp Challenge Team:

Mathieu d'Aquin, KMI, Open University (UK) Stefan Dietze, L3S Research Center (Germany) Hendrik Drachsler, Open Universiteit Nederland (Netherlands) Marieke Guy, Open Knowledge Foundation (UK) Eelco Herder, L3S Research Center (Germany) Sander van der Waal, Open Knowledge Foundation (UK)

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The Third International Video Browser Showdown Competition (VBS2014)

Call for Papers for
The Third International Video Browser Showdown Competition (VBS2014)

January 7, 2014, held in conjunction with the 20th International
MultiMedia Modeling Conference (MMM) in Dublin, Ireland

http://www.videobrowsershowdown.org/


The VBS2014 will be a half-day workshop that will take place one day
before MMM2014 at the conference venue of MMM2014 in Dublin, Ireland. Only
the last 45 minutes will be public to the audience and act as a live and
moderated "special demo session" of MMM2014 right before the Welcome
Reception. This new schedule will allow a much more detailed analysis of
the search performance of participating teams as well as different kinds
of search tasks. The evaluation of the results will be published in an own
paper after the workshop.

Test Procedure

In VBS2014 we will use four different search categories:
- Visual KIS in a single video: the moderator presents a short video clip,
randomly selected from a common video file, which has to be found within 3
minutes (the video file will be mentioned).
- Descriptive KIS in a single video: the moderator presents a textual
description about a specific segment, randomly selected from a common
video file, which has to be found within 3 minutes (the video file will be
mentioned).
- Visual KIS in a video archive: the moderator presents a short video
clip, randomly selected from a common collection of ten videos, which has
to be found within 6 minutes.
- Descriptive KIS in a video archive: the moderator presents a textual
description about a specific segment, randomly selected from a common
collection of ten videos, which has to be found within 6 minutes.

Each search category will consist of several Known Item Search (KIS) tasks
that should be solved as fast as possible by interactive search. A
participant may register for only one or even for all four search
categories.

Interactive Search

The videos to be used for the Video Browser Showdown will be provided
without any metadata. However, participants are allowed to perform content
analysis that supports interactive browsing in the video (e.g., through
novel content visualization, content clustering, or advanced seeker-bars
etc.). The search process must be interactive, i.e., no text-queries are
allowed.

Data Set and Search Tasks

The data set will consist of about 30 video files (average duration of 1
hour) and will be made available to accepted participants several weeks
before the competition. These video files will have the following
characteristics: .mp4 file format, MPEG-4 video codec (H.264/AVC), AAC-LC
audio codec, standard-definition resolution. The KIS search tasks will be
presented on-site. The goal of each KIS task is to find a preselected
segment of interest (typically with a duration of 20 seconds) within a
specified time limit by interactive search. The segment of interest
doesn't necessarily start and stop at shot boundaries.

VBS Server

The Video Browser Showdown uses an own server application to evaluate
found segments for correctness. Therefore, all participants will be
connected to the server via a dedicated WiFi network and need to submit
found segments to the server via a simple HTTP-like protocol. The server
is connected to a beamer and presents the current score of all teams in a
live manner.

Participation

Anyone with a video browsing tool that allows for interactive browsing,
exploration, or navigation in a single video file or in video archives may
participate. However, search shouldn't be based on automatic queries.
Examples of tools of interest are: a video shot browser (e.g.,
temporal-based or concept-based), a video player with extended
navigation/interaction means, a video content exploration tool, or tools
using advanced visualizations for improved navigation/interaction (video
surrogates), etc. Tools developed for interactive video search on mobile
devices are of special interest. Moreover, also tools with collaborative
interactive search (e.g., with two users) are allowed.

Submission

To apply for participation please submit a scientific demo paper (2-3
pages in Springer LNCS format) via the MMM2014 submission system at
https://www.conftool.com/mmm2014/ (VBS track) until September 16, 2013.
The submission should include a detailed description of the video browsing
tool and how it supports interactive search in video. Submissions will be
peer-reviewed to ensure maximum quality. Accepted submissions will be
published in the conference proceedings of MMM 2014.

Important Dates

Demo paper submission deadline: September 16, 2013
Notification of acceptance: September 30, 2013
Camera-ready paper due: October 16, 2013
Author registration deadline: October 16, 2013

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ACIS presentation - A Dynamic Topic Model of Learning Analytics Research

Michael Derntl from the ACIS group at RWTH Aachen University gave a presentation at the ACM LAK 2013 Data Challenge Track. The proceedings are published online by SunSITE CEUR. The D-VITA tool is also online.

A Dynamic Topic Model of Learning Analytics Research from Michael Derntl

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2013 Best Practices in Education Award - "Informatics Education in School"

2013 BEST PRACTICES IN EDUCATION AWARD "INFORMATICS EDUCATION IN SCHOOL"

EUR 5,000.00 PRIZE
Funded by Microsoft


Informatics Europe proudly announces its 2013 Best Practices in Education
Award devoted to curriculum initiatives for promoting the informatics
education in primary and secondary schools.

The Informatics Europe Best Practices in Education Award recognizes
outstanding European educational initiatives that improve the quality of
informatics teaching and the attractiveness of the discipline, and can be
applied and extended beyond their institutions of origin.

The Award will reward a successful teaching effort in Europe that:

- has made a measurable difference in informatics education in schools
- is widely applicable and useful for the teaching community
- has made a measurable impact in its original institution and beyond it

The 2013 Award is devoted to curriculum initiatives for promoting
informatics in schools as a mandatory subject for all students. The Award
will honor original contributions who emphasize successful initiatives for
teaching of informatics fundamentals in schools. Experiences and reports
showing how to use software or hardware tools in order to improve learning
in other disciplines than informatics will not be considered.

Examples of impact include course results, student projects, textbooks,
influence on the curriculum of other schools.

The 2013 Award is devoted to curriculum initiatives promoting informatics
education in primary and secondary schools and funded through a generous
grant from Microsoft.


The Award carries a prize of EUR 5,000.00


The Award can be given to an individual or to a group. To be eligible,
participants must be located in one of the member or candidate member
countries of the Council of Europe (www.coe.int), or Israel. Members of the
Informatics Europe Board and of the Award Committee are not eligible.
The Award Committee will review and evaluate each proposal. It reserves the
right to split the prize between at most two di fferent proposals
(individuals or teams).


The proposal should include:

* Names and addresses of the applicant or applicants;
* Indication of whether the submission is on behalf of an individual or a
group;
* Description of the achievements (max 5 pages);
* Evidence of availability of the curriculum materials to the teaching
community (max 2 pages);
* Evidence of impact (max 5 pages);
* A reference list (which may include URLs of supporting material);
* One or two letters of support. The letters of support may come for
example from school management or colleagues in the same or another
institution.


Proposals should be submitted only at:

https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=iebpea2013


Deadlines:

Abstract: May 1, 2013
Full proposal: June 1, 2013
Notification of winner(s): August 1, 2013

The Award will be presented at the 9th European Computer Science Summit, in
Amsterdam, 8-9 October 2013, where the winner or winners (one representative
in the case of an institution) will be invited to give a talk on their
achievements.


Award Committee:

Walter Gander (chair)
Avi Mendelson
Barbara Demo
Jan Vahrenhold
Juraj Hromkovic
Alexander Repenning
Gérard Berry

(More names to be announced)


For up to date information see the Award website:

http://informatics-europe.org/services/curriculum-award.html


Further inquires:

curriculum-award@informatics-europe.org

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Participate in the LAK Data Challenge 2013

The LAK Dataset provides access to structured metadata from research publications in the field of learning analytics.

Beyond merely publishing the data, we are actively encouraging its innovative use and exploitation as part of a public LAK Data Challenge sponsored by the European Project LinkedUp, co-located with the ACM
LAK13 Conference, Leuven, Belgium (April 2013).

Challenge submission deadline: February 8, 2013

More info: http://www.solaresearch.org/events/lak/lak-data-challenge/

CHALLENGE OBJECTIVES

What do analytics on learning analytics tell us? How can we make sense of
this emerging field's historical roots, current state, and future trends,
based on how its members report and debate their research?

Challenge submissions should exploit the LAK Dataset for a meaningful
purpose. This may include submissions which cover one or more of the
following, non-exclusive list of topics:
- Analysis & assessment of the emerging LAK community in terms of topics,
people, citations or connections with other fields
- Innovative applications to explore, navigate and visualise the dataset
(and/or its correlation with other datasets)
- Usage of the dataset as part of recommender systems

SUBMISSION FORMAT

Each submission should be accompanied by a 2-4 page paper (ACM format) that
contains at least:
- an abstract of the submission
- motivation: which purposes does your system or dataset serve?
- description of your dataset (e.g. if the LAK data is combined with other
datasets), system or demo
- a link to your dataset and/or system or demo

https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lakdatachallenge2013

EVALUATION

There will be a light review by members of the challenge committee to
pre-select submissions for presentation. During the LAK conference and based
on the presentations, the challenge winner(s) will be identified based on
votes by the audience and the committee.

PUBLICATION, PRESENTATION AND AWARDS

Accepted submissions will be published in online proceedings and presented
during an interactive session at the LAK 2013 conference in Leuven, Belgium.
In addition, it is intended to feed successful submissions into additional
challenges related to the LinkedUp project to support entries to further
expand their work as part of the LinkedUp activities. This will also provide
opportunities to present your work to a wider audience in the context of
LinkedUp. There will be awards for the winning submissions with very cool
prizes!…

1st prize: Apple iPad 4 64GB Wi-Fi
2nd prize: Apple iPad 2 16GB Wi-Fi
3rd prize: Apple iPod touch 4 16 GB

IMPORTANT DATES

February 8, 2013: Challenge submission deadline February 25, 2013:
Notification of acceptance April 8-12, 2013: LAK 2013 conference

CHALLENGE COMMITTEE

Simon Buckingham Shum (The Open University, United Kingdom) Mathieu D'Aquin
(The Open University, United Kingdom) Stefan Dietze (L3S Research Center,
Germany) Hendrik Drachsler (Open Universiteit Nederland, Netherlands) Eelco
Herder (L3S Research Center, Germany) Davide Taibi (Institute for
Educational Technologies CNR, Italy)

CONTACT

http://www.solaresearch.org/events/lak/lak-data-challenge/
lakdatachallenge2013@easychair.org

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ACM RecSys Challenge 2012

Call for Presentations – RecSysChallenge 2012 Workshop of the Recommender

Systems Challenge

in conjunction with ACM Recommender Systems 2012

Dublin, Ireland, 13 September 2012

http://www.recsyschallenge.com

*** Extended abstract (2-4 pages) submission deadline: 20 August 2012 ***
*** Accepted presentations to be invited to post-proceedings volume on data-oriented RecSys Challenges ***


The Recommender Systems Challenge of ACM RecSys 2012 (RecSysChallenge 2012)
will take place as a full-day workshop on Thursday September 13th and will
run as an interactive event during which participants will be guided through
the whole process of participating in such a data-oriented contest.

Taking as examples the datasets that drove the contest of this year's
challenge (with data from the Moviepilot and Mendeley platforms), we want to
present, discuss and reflect on all the important steps of developing,
testing and deploying recommendation algorithms over a real-life dataset. It
will start from the way a dataset may be acquired and processed, explore how
an evaluation that will produce results comparable and reproducable by
others may be performed, and close with a discussion on how novel
recommendation approaches can reach final deployment in commercial
applications.

Confirmed speakers include contributors to recommender systems' frameworks
such as Lenskit, Mahout and MyMediaLite; recommender system technology
companies such as Gravity R&D; as well as chief technology officers from
real-life platforms like the Moviepilot and Mendeley ones.

We invite interested researchers and developers to share their experience of
working with a dataset in the context of the RecSysChallenge and report on
their succesful or unsuccesful efforts. Contributions can be related to any
stage of the participation to the challenge. We are particularly interested
to hearing from groups that have gained access to this year's datasets from
Moviepilots and Mendeley but have faced difficulties in developing a
complete and competitive contribution to the RecSysChallenge.


Important dates
—————

Extended abstract (2-4 pages) submission deadline: 20 August 2012 Presenter
notification: 30 August 2012 RecSysChallenge 2012: 13 September 2012 Full
paper submission for post-proceedings: 1 November 2012 Author notification
for post-proceedings: 1 December 2012 Camera ready submission for
post-proceedings: 20 December 2012 Publication of post-proceedings volume:
~spring 2013


Submission
———-
Submissions of extended abstracts of proposed presentations that will report
on the experience of working with a dataset are welcome.
One submission type is accepted: short manuscripts of 2 to 4 pages.

Proposed presentations will be evaluated by the Programme Committee for
originality, contribution significance, and overall quality.

Submissions should be sent as a PDF file through the EasyChair online
submission system at
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=recsyschallenge2012


Publication
———-
Accepted speakers will be invited to submit a short paper describing their
experience and results that is planned to be published online as part of the
CEUR Workshop proceedings series.
CEUR-WS.org is a recognised ISSN publication series, with ISSN 1613-0073.

In addition, presenters will be invited to submit extended versions of their
papers to be considered for a post-proceedings volume that will be published
after the Workshop.


Organisation
———-

Context-Aware Movie Recommendation (CAMRa'12) Chairs:
- Domonkos Tikk, Gravity R&D (Hungary)
- Jannis Hermanns, moviepilot (Germany)
- Benjamin Kille, Technische Universitat Berlin (Germany)

Scientific Paper Recommendation (ScienceRec'12) Chairs:
- Katrien Verbert, KU Leuven (Belgium)
- Hendrik Drachsler, Open University of the Netherlands (The Netherlands)
- Kris Jack, Mendeley (UK)

RecSysChallenge 2012 Chairs:
- Nikos Manouselis, Agro-Know Technologies & ARIADNE Foundation (Greece)
- Alan Said, Technische Universitat Berlin (Germany)


More info
———
URL: www.recsyschallenge.com
email: info@recsyschallenge.com
twitter: www.twitter.com/recsychallenge

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Introducing the European Serious Games Awards!

Introducing the European Serious Games Awards!

The European Serious Games Awards aim to celebrate the best videogames for learning created in Europe. We will rely on scientific evaluation of the submitted games in order to award prizes not only to the best Serious Games, but also to the best academic works in the field. The Awards Ceremony will take place during the VS-Games 2012 Conference in Genoa, Italy, on October 30th 2012 (http://www.vs-games2012.org/).

*Prizes*
Each winner of one the 4 European Serious Games Awards will be rewarded by the following cash prizes:

Awards for the Serious Games:
- Best Learning Game Award (1st place): 1000€
- Best Learning Game Award (2nd place): 500€

Award for the evaluation of Serious Games:
- Best Learning Game Evaluation: 500€

Award for the academic students:
- Best Student Academic Paper: 500€

Each winner will also get a free entrance to the VS-Games 2012 Conference, where the Awards ceremony will take place. We will offer one conference registration (worth about 400€) for each award winner who will attend to the Awards ceremony (travel and accommodation costs remaining at the charge of the winners).

*Submission*

To submit a Serious Game:
- Your game must have been created by and/or funded by an organization within Europe (private company, school or university, NGO...)
- Your game is available in English language.
- You agree to provide us with at least three working copies of your game (to perform the evaluations).
- Fulfil the game submission form and send it to sgawards@gmail.com before June 30th.
(http://www.irit.fr/sgawards/files/static/File/sgawards_game_submission.doc)


To volunteer for the scientific evaluation of Serious Games:
- The scientific evaluation of the submitted games will be performed by the members of the GALA Young Academy.
- If you wish to participate in the evaluation process of the games for the European Serious Games Awards and maybe win the "Best Learning Game Evaluation Award", you need to be a member of the Young Academy first.
The young academy is open to students, researchers, teachers and professional working on Serious Games. Check the GALA Young Academy to subscribe and see how you can participate in the evaluation process.
- If you are interested, be sure to get in touch with the GALA Young Academy before June 30th.
(http://www.galanoe.eu/SocialNet/pg/groups/14723/official-european-serious-games-evaluators/)


To submit an academic student paper:
- You are a Master or PhD Student studying in an European school or university.
- Your article is between 4 and 8 pages long.
- Your article is written in English language.
- Your article was accepted to a conference or journal (reference needed for verification - if you have been accepted to a conference that didn't take place yet or in a journal issue that is yet to be published, please send the acceptation letter).
- Only one paper can be submitted per student.
- Fulfil the student paper submission form and send it to sgawards@gmail.com before June 30th.
(http://www.irit.fr/sgawards/files/static/File/sgawards_paper_submission.doc)


*More Information*
For further information, please check the official European Serious Games Awards website: http://www.galanoe.eu/sgawards.html

The European Serious Games Awards are organized by GALA, an European Network of Excellence dedicated to research on Serious Games (http://www.galanoe.eu).

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4th ROLE Widget Competition: submission is now open!

The ROLE project opens the 4th competition on the development of widget specifications and widgets useful for self-regulated learning. The first round has already started on May 28th: now you have two month to submit your specification of a learning widget! The winners of the first round will be announced on August 3rd and will be sponsored by ROLE to develop the widgets. Winners of the first round will each receive an iPad after the specifications are implemented! The winner of the second (widget development) round will be announced on October 12th!

IMPORTANT DATES

Submission Start: 28 May 2012

Submission Deadline (Widget Specifications): 29 July 2012 

Winners Announcement (Round 1): 03 August 2012 

Submission Deadline (Widgets): 07 October 2012 

Winner Announcement (Round 2): 12 October 2012

FOR MORE INFORMATION PLEASE SEE: http://www.role-project.eu/WidgetCompetition

For any questions regarding the ROLE Widget Competition please contact:

Ms. Diana Dikke diana.dikke@im-c.de

Mr. Alexander Mikroyannidis a.mikroyannidis@open.ac.uk

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The Recommender Systems Challenge (RecSysChallenge 2012) @ ACM RecSys

1st Call for Papers 

RecSysChallenge 2012 The Recommender Systems Challenge

in conjunction with ACM Recommender Systems 2012

Dublin, Ireland, 13 September 2012

http://www.recsyschallenge.com

*** Submission deadline: 8 June 2012 ***

As in other research areas, the availability of data sets in recommender systems can be considered as key for research and application purposes.
These data sets serve as benchmarks to develop new algorithms and to compare them to other algorithms in given settings.
Furthermore, they can be used for experimenting with new recommendation methods, services, as well as added-value services related to recommendation (such as supporting visualisation and argumentation).

The Recommender System Challenge, in conjunction with ACM RecSys 2012, invites participants to work on two tracks with real-world datasets.

Benchmarking Track: Context-Aware Movie Recommendation (CAMRa'12)

This track focuses on contextual recommendation of movie-related news and uses a data set from moviepilot.com The aim is to measure classification accuracy metrics when trying to find the right users to recommend certain items in order to gain a large impact in social networks.
It asks participants to use and evaluate their approaches in an off-line manner, but in addition an on-line evaluation will be performed in the final stages of the challenge.
The track is following the previous Challenges on Context-Aware Movie Recommendation that took place in 2010 and 2011.

URL: http://www.recsyschallenge.com/tracks/camra/

Exploratory Track: Scientific Paper Recommendation (ScienceRec'12)

This track focuses on recommendations to users about scientific papers that they might be interested in, using a data set that comes from the Mendeley system (www.mendeley.com).
The aim is to share recommendation approaches and discuss issues like the types of scientific recommendation services that social research platforms like Mendeley could implement or the types of data sets that could help advance research around scientific paper recommendation.
It asks participants to use and evaluate their approaches in an off-line manner, but is also interested in proposals for relevant services, navigational interfaces, visualisations of recommendations etc. Thus it welcomes submissions that will combine the data set with the Mendeley API (http://dev.mendeley.com).
The track is following the publication of the Mendeley data set
(http://dev.mendeley.com/datachallenge/) after the 1st DataTEL challenge that took place within the 2010 Recommender Systems in Technology Enhanced Learning Workshop (RecSysTEL).

URL: http://www.recsyschallenge.com/tracks/sciencerec/

Submission

Two submission types are accepted: full papers of up to 8 pages, and short papers up to 4 pages.
Each paper will be directed to the relevant track and will be evaluated by at least three reviewers from the track's Programme Committee.
The papers will be evaluated for their originality, contribution significance, soundness, clarity, and overall quality.

Submissions should be sent as a PDF file through the EasyChair online submission system at
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=recsyschallenge2012
All submissions shall adhere to the standard ACM SIG proceedings format:
http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates.

Papers accepted in previous challenges have been published through the ACM Digital Library.

Important dates

Paper submission deadline: 22 June 2012
Author notification: 6 July 2012
Camera ready version due: 20 July 2012
RecSysChallenge 2012: 13 September 2012

RecSysChallenge 2012 Chairs
Nikos Manouselis, Agro-Know Technologies & ARIADNE Foundation
Alan Said, Technische Univeristät Berlin

CAMRa 2012 Chairs

Domonkos Tikk, Gravity R&D
Jannis Hermanns, moviepilot
Benjamin Kille, TU Berlin

ScienceRec 2012 Chairs

Katrien Verbert, KU Leuven, Belgium
Hendrik Drachsler, Open University of the Netherlands Kris Jack, Mendeley

More info

URL: www.recsyschallenge.com
email: info@recsyschallenge.com
twitter: www.twitter.com/recsychallenge

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