Important Dates:
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* 10 February 2017: Abstracts for Full and Short Papers (compulsory)
* 17 February 2017: Full and Short Papers
* 20 March 2017: Doctoral consortium papers


Conference Scope:
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UMAP is the premier international conference for researchers and practitioners working on systems that adapt to individual users, to groups of users, and that collect, represent, and model user information. UMAP is the successor to the biennial User Modeling (UM) and Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web-based Systems (AH) conferences that started in 1986.

UMAP 2017 covers a wide variety of research areas where adaptation may be applied. This include (but is in no way limited to) a number of domains in which researchers are engendering significant innovations based on advances in user modeling and adaptation: recommender systems; adaptive educational systems; intelligent user interfaces; eCommerce; advertising; digital humanities; social networks; personalized health; entertainment, and many more.

Key Areas / Tracks:
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UMAP 2017 will explore, study and shape a broad range of dimensions faced by modern user adaptive systems, covering the following Key Areas chaired by leading researchers.

* PERSONALIZED RECOMMENDER SYSTEMS
(chair: Bamshad Mobasher, DePaul University)
* ADAPTIVE HYPERMEDIA AND THE SEMANTIC WEB
(chair: Peter Brusilovsky, University of Pittsburgh)
* INTELLIGENT USER INTERFACES
(chair: Nava Tintarev, Delft University of Technology)
* TECHNOLOGY-ENHANCED ADAPTIVE LEARNING
(chair: Milos Kravcik, RWTH Aachen University)
* PERSONALIZED SOCIAL WEB
(Luca Maria Aiello, Bell Labs Cambridge)

Submissions:
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UMAP 2016 will include high quality peer-reviewed papers related to the above key areas. Maintaining the high quality and impact of the UMAP series, each paper will have three reviews by program committee members and a meta-review presenting the reviewers' consensual view; the review process will be coordinated by the program chairs in collaboration with the corresponding area chairs.

* Long (8 pages + references) and Short (4 pages + references) papers in ACM style Peer reviewed, original, and principled research papers addressing both the theory and practice of UMAP and papers showcasing innovative use of UMAP and exploring the benefits and challenges of applying UMAP technology in real-life applications and contexts are welcome.

* Long papers should present original reports of substantive new research techniques, findings, and applications of UMAP. They should place the work within the field and clearly indicate innovative aspects. Research procedures and technical methods should be presented in sufficient detail to ensure scrutiny and reproducibility. Results should be clearly communicated and implications of the contributions/findings for UMAP and beyond should be explicitly discussed.

Short papers should present original and highly promising research or applications. Merit will be assessed in terms of originality and importance rather than maturity, extensive technical validation, and user studies.

Separation of long and short papers will be strictly enforced so papers will not compete across categories, but within each category. Papers that receive high scores and are considered promising by reviewers, but didn't make the acceptance cut, will be directed to the poster session of the conference and will be invited to be resubmitted as posters.

Publication:
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All accepted papers will be published by ACM and will be available via the ACM Digital Library. At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the conference and present the paper there.

Important Dates:
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* 10 February 2017: Abstracts for Full and Short Papers (compulsory)
* 17 February 2017: Full and Short Papers
* 20 March 2017: Doctoral consortium papers

* 24 March 2017: Notification for full, short, posters & DC papers
* 21 April 2017: Camera-ready for Full, Short, Posters & DC papers (main proceedings)

* 9-12 July 2017: UMAP 2016 Conference

The submissions times are 11:59pm Hawaii time.

Organization:
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GENERAL CHAIRS
Eelco Herder, L3S Hannover
Maria Bielikova, Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava

PROGRAM CHAIRS
Federica Cena, University of Torino
Michel Desmarais, Polytechnique University, Montreal

TRACK CHAIRS
Personalized Recommender Systems
Bamshad Mobasher, DePaul University

Adaptive Hypermedia and the Semantic Web
Peter Brusilovsky, University of Pittsburgh

Intelligent User Interfaces
Nava Tintarev, Delft University of Technology

Technology-Enhanced Adaptive Learning
Milos Kravcik, RWTH Aachen University

Personalized Social Web
Luca Maria Aiello, Bell Labs Cambridge

WORKSHOPS AND TUTORIAL CHAIRS
Cecile Paris, CSIRO ICT Centre
Olga Santos, Spanish National University for Distance Education

LATE-BREAKING RESULT AND DEMO CHAIRS
Marco Tkalcic, Free University of Bolzano Dhaval Thakker, University of Leeds

DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM CHAIRS
Panagiotis Germanakos, University of Cyprus Kalina Yacef, University of Sydney

STUDENT SUPPORT CHAIRS
David Chin, University of Hawaii
Michael Yudelson, Carnegie Mellon University

PUBLICITY CHAIRS
Rikki Prince, University of Southampton
Cataldo Musto, University of Bari

LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS CHAIRS
Jakub Simko, Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava Milena Zeithamlova, Action M Agency

WEB MASTER
Patrik Hlavac, Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava