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