International workshop on recommendation and collaboration (ReColl 2008)

Abstract

The International Workshop on Recommendation and Collaboration (ReColl 2008) aims to identify emerging trends in recommendation technology and collaborative environments in the context of intelligent user interfaces. We explore these two topics separately and the synergies between them. RecommendationIn recent years, recommender technology has become a popular component of web-based commerce sites. With the growth of the social web, increasing mobility, and the rise of software as a service, a variety of new opportunities are opening for the application of recommender technology. These, and other trends, are driving a number of advances in this area.The ReColl workshop gives researchers in the area of recommender technology an opportunity to come together and discuss the "next generation" of research problems to be addressed. Emphasis of the workshop is on both the collaborative aspects of recommender systems, as well as other appropriate technologies, such as knowledge-based systems. The workshop aims to address following topics of interest:• Applications of recommender technology • Hybrid recommender technologies • Combining social networking systems and recommenders • Knowledge-based recommenders • Evaluation approaches • Intelligent and adaptive interfaces • Semantic web technologies and recommender systems • User intent and preference modeling • Recommendation as a service • Mathematical validity vs. scalability of algorithms • Explanations and other mechanisms to increase user confidence Permission to make digital or hard copies of all or part of this work for personal or classroom use is granted without fee provided that copies are not made or distributed for profit or commercial advantage and that copies bear this notice and the full citation on the first page. To copy otherwise, to republish, to post on servers or to redistribute to lists, requires prior specific permission and/or a fee.Modern collaborative environments enable large groups of users to share data and memories, different views about events, ratings about web sites or products, and models of user behavior. The internet, the World Wide Web (WWW) and modern peer-to-peer technology provide an infrastructure on top of which a variety of communication channels and collaborative environments have been established. Successful examples of collaborative environments include Web 2.0 content sharing systems (such as Flickr, YouTube and Del.icio.us), recommender systems for products or other resources, peer-to-peer content sharing systems, and collaborative assistance systems. Design of novel interfaces for better supporting collaboration scenarios has been intensively studied in the recent research. The ReColl workshop reverses the common problem definition and poses the novel question: how can intelligent user interfaces benefit from user collaboration? Topics of discussion include:• Combination and representation of content from different sources • Evidence combination for assistance interfaces • Interface personalization in collaborative environmen...