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UMAP 2014 Welcome General Chairs: Peter Dolog and Geert-Jan Houben Program Chairs: Vania Dimitrova and Tsvi Kuflik. Thanks !!!. Program co-chairs Vania Dimitrova, University of Leeds, United Kingdom Tsvi Kuflik , The University of Haifa, Israel Workshop co-chairs
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UMAP 2014 WelcomeGeneral Chairs: Peter Dolog and Geert-Jan HoubenProgram Chairs: Vania Dimitrova and TsviKuflik
Thanks !!! Program co-chairs Vania Dimitrova, University of Leeds, United Kingdom TsviKuflik, The University of Haifa, Israel Workshop co-chairs RostaFarzan , University of Pittsburg, USA Robert Jäschke , University of Hannover, Germany Tutorialco-chairs Judith Masthoff, University of Aberdeen, United Kingdom Robin Burke, DePaulUniversity, USA Doctoral Symposium co-chairs Francesco Ricci, FreeUniversity of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy David Chin, University of Hawaii, USA Demo and Poster co-chairs Min Chi, North Carolina State University, USA Ivan Cantador, AutonomousUniversity of Madrid, Spain Project liaison co-chairs Oliver Brdiczka, Palo Alto Research Center, USA Dhaval Thakker, University of Leeds, United Kingdom Christoph Trattner, Know-Center, Austria Publicity co-chairs Ben Steichen, University of British Columbia, Canada Nava Tintarev, University of Aberdeen, United Kingdom Local Organizing Chair Hanne Kristiansen, VisitAalborg, Denmark Conference secretary Lise Søndergaard Jensen, VisitAalborg, Denmark Student Volunteers Chair and Web Chair Martin Leginus, Aalborg University, Denmark
Outline • Participation • Social Program • Scientific Program
Participants • 135 registered participants • 89 Senior Researchers and 46 Students • 77 in all fivedays, 43 in the mainconferencedays, 15 in workshops only
UMAP in the Era of Pervasive Computing and Big DataUMAP 2014 Program Overview
Areas Submissions were invited in the following areas: • UMAP in the social era [area chairs: KalinaBontcheva & Werner Geyer] • UMAP in the era of big data [area chairs: BamshadMobasher & Wolfgang Nejdl] • UMAP in the era of pervasive computing [area chair: Keith Cheverst] • Infrastructures, architectures, and methodologies [area chairs: Bob Kummerfeld & Owen Conlan] • Human factors and Models [area chairs: Elisabeth Andre & Cristina Conati] • Personal and Societal issues [area chairs: KaskaPorayska-Pomsta & Alfred Kobsa]
Papers • 146 Submissions (44 countries) • 125 research papers • 21 experience papers • Accepted papers • 23 papers were accepted for long presentations • 19 papers were accepted for short presentations • Overall acceptance rate 29%
Review Process • 102 PC members (20 countries) • 40 additional reviewers • Selected and assigned based on expertise and bidding • Review process • 3 reviews for each paper • Discussions maintained by a lead reviewer • Area chairs consulted for border line cases • Thanks to everybody who helped with the review process!
Program at a Glance • 3 Keynote speakers • 4 parallel tracks • 3 regular tracks • Posters and demos • Panel – UMAP in the era of big data, social data, and pervasive computing and beyond
Program at a Glance We wish y’all a fruitful and enjoyable conference