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CALL FOR CHAPTERS

Recommender Systems Handbook:
A Complete Guide for Research Scientists & Practitioners

an Edited Book to Be Published by Springer in 2009

Editors:

Paul Kantor, Rutgers University, School of Communication, USA
Francesco Ricci, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Faculty of Computer Science, Italy
Lior Rokach, Information System Engineering, Ben-Gurion University, Israel
Bracha Shapira, Information System Engineering, Ben-Gurion University, Israel

Important Dates:

Chapter Proposal Submission Deadline: November 15, 2008
Proposal Acceptance Due Date: November 30, 2008
Full Chapter Submission Deadline: March 1, 2009
Planned Publishing Date: November 2009

Introduction

Recommender systems aim at supporting the user in decision-making,
planning and purchasing processes. The explosive growth of e-commerce
and online environments has made the issue of information search and
selection increasingly serious; users are overloaded by options to
consider and they may not have the time or knowledge to personally
evaluate these options. Recommender systems have proven to be a
valuable way for online users to cope with the information overload
and have become one of the most powerful and popular tools in
electronic commerce. Correspondingly, various techniques for
recommendation generation have been proposed. During the last decade,
many of them have also been successfully deployed in commercial
environments.

Development of recommender systems is a multi-disciplinary effort that
involves experts from diverse fields such as Artificial intelligence,
Human Computer Interaction, Information Technology, Data Mining,
Statistics, Adaptive User Interfaces, Decision Support Systems,
Marketing, and Consumer Behavior. Theoreticians and practitioners from
these fields are continually seeking techniques to make recommender
systems more efficient, cost-effective and accurate.

Book Aims

Recommender Systems Handbook: A Complete Guide for Research Scientists
& Practitioners aims to impose a degree of order on this diversity, by
presenting a coherent and unified repository of recommender systems'
major concepts, theories, methodologies, trends, challenges and
applications. This is the first comprehensive book that is dedicated
entirely to the field of recommender systems and covers all aspects of
all the important techniques.

Scopes of Interest
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1. Recommendation Algorithms
2. User Studies of Recommender Systems
3. Trust and Recommendations
4. Explanation in Recommender Systems
5. Conversational Recommender Systems
6. User Modeling and Recommender Systems
7. Recommender Interfaces
8. Security and Privacy
9. Recommenders and communities
10. Context Dependent Recommender Systems
11. Group Recommendations
12. Preferences Elicitation in Recommender Systems
13. Recommender Systems and Information Retrieval
14. Ontologies and semantic web technologies for recommender systems
15. Case Studies for Recommender Systems: showcasing real complex applications
16. Ubiquitous Computing and Recommender Systems

Submission Procedure

First, interested researchers and practitioners are invited to submit
a chapter proposal clearly stating your focused problems and
contributions to one of the above topics due on November 15, 2008; A
chapter should include a comprehensive survey of the state of the art
in the selected topic and must provide a detailed but wide description
of the technical details. Alternatively a chapter may cover a
sub-topic of the one of the above topics.

Chapter proposal guideline: The proposal is expected to be 1-2 pages
in .doc or .pdf format, composed of title, authors (name, affiliation,
phone number, and e-mail address), extended abstract (background,
related work, principal contributions, and so on), table of content,
and contact. Submissions should be forwarded electronically (Word or
PDF document as attachment) to RecSysHB@gmail.com

Second, authors of accepted proposals will be notified by November 30,
2008 about the status of their proposals and sent chapter
organizational guidelines. Upon acceptance of your proposal, you will
have until March 1, 2009, to prepare your chapter of 20-30 pages.
All submitted chapters will be peer reviewed. In addition to your
contribution as a submitter, we may invite you to help in the review
process of your peer's chapters. The book is scheduled to be published
during 2009 by Springer. Detailed manuscript instructions are
available from Springer Book Author Guidelines, only Latex format is
acceptable.

Enquiries

For any questions, please contact the editors:

Paul Kantor -- kantor@scils.rutgers.edu
Francesco Ricci -- Francesco.Ricci@unibz.it
Lior Rokach -- liorrk@bgu.ac.il
Bracha Shapira -- bshapira@bgu.ac.il