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                          FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS

 3rd IJCAI Workshop on Intelligent Techniques in Web Personalization
                  August 1, 2005, Edinburgh, Scotland

               http://maya.cs.depaul.edu/~mobasher/itwp05/

               Extended Submission Deadline: April 4, 2005

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Web Personalization can be defined as any set of actions that can tailor the
Web experience to a particular user or set of users. To achieve effective
personalization, organizations must rely on all available data, including the
usage and click-stream data (reflecting user behaviour), the site content,
the site structure, domain knowledge, as well as user demographics and
profiles. In addition, efficient and intelligent techniques are needed to
mine this data for actionable knowledge, and to effectively use the
discovered knowledge to enhance the users' Web experience. These techniques
must address important challenges emanating from the size and the
heterogeneous nature of the data itself, as well as the dynamic nature of
user interactions with the Web. These challenges include the scalability of
the personalization solutions, data integration, and successful integration
of techniques from machine learning, information retrieval and filtering,
databases, agent architectures, knowledge representation, data mining, text
mining, statistics, user modelling and human-computer interaction.

This workshop represents the third in a successful series of workshops held at
IJCAI. The goal of the workshop is to stimulate the future development of new
models, methodologies, and tools for Web intelligence, including effective
and scalable Web-based personalization solutions and recommender systems. A
full list of topics for the workshop is available at:

http://maya.cs.depaul.edu/~mobasher/itwp05/.

Paper Submission

All submissions must be made electronically to mobasher@cs.depaul.edu no
later than noon (US Central Time) on Monday April 4, 2005. Authors are
required to submit a version of their full papers in camera-ready format
as prescribed by the IJCAI web site. Complete instructions for formatting are
available at the IJCAI-05 Web site (http://www.ijcai-05.org/). Papers should
be no more than 8 pages inclusive of all references and figures. All papers
must be submitted in either PDF (preferred) or postscript. It is the
responsibility of the authors to ensure that the submitted papers print
correctly on a variety of printers. If any special fonts are used, they must
be included in the submission. All papers must be original, and have not been
published or submitted elsewhere.

Note: Workshop participants are not required to register for the main IJCAI
conference.

Post Workshop Publication

In addition to the workshop proceedings published by IJCAI, selected papers
from the workshop will be expanded and published as part of a special issue
of ACM Transactions on Internet Technology.

Important Dates

Full Paper Submission: April 4, 2005 (Extended Deadline)
Notification of Acceptance: May 2, 2005
Camera Ready Papers Due: May 23, 2005

Note: It is not necessary to submit an abstract prior to April 4 deadline.

Workshop Chairs

Sarabjot Singh Anand, University of Warwick, UK
Bamshad Mobasher, DePaul University, USA

Program Committee

Liliana Ardissono, University of Torino, Italy
Bettina Berendt, Humbolt University, Germany
Robin Burke, DePaul University, USA
Robert Cooley, KXEN., USA
Asuman Dogac, METU, Turkey
C. Lee Giles, Pennsylvania State University, USA
Andreas Hotho, University of Karlsruhe, Germany
Mark Levene, Birkbeck University of London, UK
Jiming Liu, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong
Stuart E. Middleton, University of Southampton
Maurice Mulvenna, University of Ulster, N. Ireland, UK
Dunja Mladanic, Josef Stefan Institute, Slovenia
David Pennock, Yahoo Research Labs, USA
Enric Plaza, Institut d'Investigació en Intel.ligència Artificial, Catalonia, Spain
Francesco Ricci, ITC-irst, Italy
Barry Smyth, University College Dublin, Ireland. UK
Myra Spiliopoulou, University of Magdeburg, Germany
Jaideep Srivastava, University of Minnesota, USA
Alex Tuzhilin, New York University, USA