Behavioral Analysis and Personalization

We invite original research submissions addressing all the aspects of user behavior and personalization. Relevant topics include but are not restricted to the ones below.

  • User modeling and personalization
  • Behavioral targeting and predictive behavioral models
  • Analysis of log data
  • Efficient algorithms for large-scale analysis of log data
  • Spatio-temporal analysis of user behavior
  • Privacy-preserving behavioral analysis
  • Live experiments and bucket testing
  • Metrics of user behavior
  • Recommendations and recommender systems
  • Recommender systems and social media
  • Evaluation of recommender systems with real users

For questions related to this call, please email: research-personalization@www2015.it

Area Chairs

  • David Carmel, Yahoo Labs Haifa
  • Ryen White, Microsoft Research Redmond

Program Committee

  • Mikhail Ageev, Moscow State University, Russia
  • Eugene Agichtein, Emory University, USA
  • Amr Ahmed, Google, USA
  • Omar Alonso, Microsoft Bing, USA
  • Jaime Arguello, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA
  • Peter Bailey, Microsoft Bing, Australia
  • Linas Baltrunas, Telefonica Research, Spain
  • Nicholas Belkin, Rutgers University, USA
  • Ralf Bierig, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
  • Peter Brusilovsky, University of Pittsburgh, USA
  • Pablo Castells, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain
  • Ed Chi, Google, USA
  • Wei Chu, Microsoft Bing, USA
  • Michael Cole, Rutgers University, USA
  • Nick Craswell, Microsoft Bing, USA
  • Paolo Cremonesi, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
  • Alex Deng, Microsoft Bing, USA
  • Chabane Djeraba, LIFL, University of Sciences and Technologies of Lille, France
  • Debora Donato, StumbleUpon, USA
  • Doug Downey, Northwestern University, USA
  • Georges Dupret, Yahoo!, USA
  • Andy Edmonds, Ebay, USA
  • Carsten Eickhoff, ETHZ, Switzerland
  • Hui Fang, Nayang Technological University, Singapore
  • Henry Feild, Endicott College, USA
  • Qi Guo, Microsoft Bing, USA
  • Ido Guy, Yahoo!, Israel
  • Jiawei Han, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA
  • Ahmed Hassan Awadallah, Microsoft Research, USA
  • Victor Hu, Microsoft Bing, USA
  • Jeff Huang, Brown University, USA
  • Pan Hui, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong
  • Alejandro Jaimes, Yahoo!, Spain
  • Dieter Jannach, TU Dortmund, Germany
  • Robert Jäschke, L3S Research Center, Germany
  • Jiepu Jiang, University of Massachusetts, USA
  • Rosie Jones, Microsoft, USA
  • Joemon Jose, University of Glasgow, UK
  • Bhargav Kanagal, Google, USA
  • Diane Kelly, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA
  • Youngho Kim, University of Massachusetts, USA
  • Alex Kotov, Wayne State University, USA
  • Dmitry Lagun, Emory University, USA
  • Mounia Lalmas, Yahoo!, Spain
  • Kristen Lefevre, Google, USA
  • Jingjing Liu, University of South Carolina, USA
  • Weike Pan, Shenzhen University, China
  • Dan Pelleg, Yahoo!, Israel
  • Kira Radinsky, SalesPredict, Israel
  • Karthik Raman, Cornell University, USA
  • Oleg Rokhenko, Yahoo!, Israel
  • Pavel Serdyukov, Yandex, Russia
  • Milad Shokouhi, Microsoft Bing, UK
  • Fabrizio Silvestri, Yahoo!, Spain
  • Mark Smucker, University of Waterloo, Canada
  • Oren Somekh, Yahoo!, Israel
  • Markus Strohmaier, University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany
  • Idan Szpektor, Yahoo!, Israel
  • Paul Thomas, CSIRO, Australia
  • Nava Tintarev, University of Aberdeen, UK
  • Hanghang Tong, CUNY, USA
  • Robert Villa, University of Sheffield, UK
  • Jian Wang, LinkedIn, USA
  • Jun Wang, University College London, UK
  • Robert West, Stanford University, USA
  • Emine Yilmaz, University College London, UK
  • Lanbo Zhang, Twitter, USA
  • Mi Zhang, Fudan University, China