General Information

UM 2005 will feature 9 promising workshops covering wide spectrum of curent user modeling topics. The Call for Participation for each workshop can be found on that workshop's web page (see below).

Links to Detailed Information about the Workshops
(in alphabetical order)

W1: Adapting the Interaction Style to Affective Factors

Web page: http://www.di.uniba.it/intint/UM05/WS-UM05.html Organizers: Sandra Carberry, Fiorella de Rosis

W2: Decentralized, Agent-Based and Social Approaches to User Modeling (DASUM)

Web page: http://www.l3s.de/~dolog/dasum/ Organizers: Julita Vassileva, Peter Dolog

W3: Evaluation of Adaptive Systems (EAS)

Web page: http://www.easy-hub.org/hub/workshops/um2005/index.html Organizers: Stephan Weibelzahl, Alexandros Paramythis, Judith Masthoff

W4: Machine Learning for User Modeling: Challenges

Web page: http://www-connex.lip6.fr/~artieres/UM2005/index.html Organizers: Colin de la Higuera

W5: PROLEARN: Personalized Adaptive Technologies for Professional Training

Web page: http://www.win.tue.nl/~laroyo/UM2005-workshop/PROLEARN-UM05.html Organizers: Marcus Specht

W6: Personalisation for eHealth

Web page: http://www.csc.liv.ac.uk/~floriana/UM05-eHealth/ Organizers: Floriana Grasso, Silvana Quaglini, Cecile Paris, Alison Cawsey, Ross Wilkinson

W7: Personalized Information Access

Web page: http://irgroup.cs.uni-magdeburg.de/pia2005/ Organizers: Peter Brusilovsky, Andreas Nuernberger, Charles Callaway

W8: Personalization on the Semantic Web (PerSWeb)

Web page: http://www.win.tue.nl/~laroyo/UM2005-workshop/PerSWeb-2005.html Organizers: Lora Aroyo, Vania Dimitrova, Judy Kay

W9: Privacy-Enhanced Personalization

Web page: http://www.ics.uci.edu/~kobsa/PEP05 Organizers: Alfred Kobsa, Lorrie Cranor

For general questions about the workshop organization contact the workshop co-chairs:

• Kathleen McCoy, University of Delaware, US
• Vania Dimitrova, University of Leeds, UK