Monday Program
08:30 – 09:00 Registration
09:00 – 09:30 Opening and welcome
Prof. Gustavo Mesh - Rector of the University of Haifa
Prof Eran Vigoda-Gadot - Dean of the Social Sciences Faculty
Prof Gadi Landau - Head of CRI
09:30 – 11:00 Session I
Anthony Jameson (Choosable AG and the German Research Center for AI) : A Choice Support Perspective on Temporal Aspects of User Modeling and Recommendation
Fedelucio Narducci (The University of Bari Aldo Moro): Temporal Semantic Techniques for Content-based Recommender Systems
11:00 – 11:30 Coffee Break
11:30 – 13:00 Session II
Judy Kay (The University of Sydney): Towards Personal Informatics for Learners
Bob Kummerfeld (The University of Sydney): Managing User Models that are Life-Long
Veronika Bogina (The University of Haifa): Addressing Temporal Aspects in User Modelling
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch Break
14:00 – 15:30 Session III
Ido Guy (eBay): Recommending Travel Tips from User-Generated Reviews
Dietmar Jannach (Technical University of Dortmund): Session-aware Recommendation
Asi Messica (Ben Gurion University of the Negev): Personal Price-Aware Recommender System
15:30 – 16:00 Coffee Break
16:00 – 17:30 Session IV
David Bodoff (The University of Haifa): Timing Issues in the Presentation of Personalized Recommendations
Tsvi Kuflik (The University of Haifa): The challenges of lifelong user modeling in cultural heritage
17:30 - 18:00 Discussion
What are the temporal challenges we face in user modeling?
18:00 – 19:30 Posters Session
Avital Shulner (The University of Haifa): Exploring the Potential of Analyzing Twitter Data for Identifying Tweeting Patterns about TV Series
Oren Szigeti (The University of Haifa): Twitter Users' Demographic Distribution and Its Relationship with the General Population and Television Viewers Demographic Distribution
Yaakov Danone (The University of Haifa): Helping customers make the most out of product reviews: A framework for visualizing services comparisons – a case study of restaurants
Moshe Unger (Ben Gurion University of the Negev): Inferring Contextual Preferences Using Deep Auto-Encoding
Veronika Bogina (The University of Haifa): Addressing Temporal Aspects in User Modelling
Gregory Jerusalemsky (Tel Aviv Academic College): A sentiment-Based UX System For Recommending Restaurants According To Contextual Characteristics
Yonit Rusho, Gindos Arel, Kondratenko Gregory, Dassi Rosen (Shenkar): Trust based recommender system - a case study of matching three user profiles: babysitter-parent-child
Ronit Marco (The University of Haifa): Wandering Minds: Temporal Trends in Researchers’ Tendency toward Discipline Shift