Tuesday Program

09:00 – 09:30 Registration

09:30 – 11:00 Session I

Robert Moskovitch (Ben Gurion University of the Negev): Temporal Conceptualization Analytics

Pasquale Lops (The University of Bari Aldo Moro): Generating Natural Language Explanations for Recommender Systems

Nadeem Bader (The University of Haifa): Exploring Emotions in Online Movie Reviews

11:00 – 11:30 Coffee Break

11:30 – 13:00 Session II

Inbal Ronen (IBM Haifa Research Lab): Recommendations for raising your social eminence in the enterprise

Ronny Lempel (Outbrain): Personalization is a Two-Way Street

Hagit Ben Shoshan (The University of Haifa): Create and Identify users’ signature in social media

13:00 – 14:00 Lunch Break

14:00 – 15:30 Session III

Giuseppe Sansonetti (Roma Tre University): Bag-of-signals: a novel user model for time-aware personalized systems

Alain Hertz (POLYTECHNIQUE MONTRÉAL): Resolving sets for multi-attribute recommender systems

Renana Gonen (The University of Haifa): Optimizing message propagation over social network while considering users' personal availability.

15:30 – 16:00 Coffee Break

16:00 – 17:30 Session IV

Fabio Gasparetti (Roma Tre University): Improving News Recommendation by Monitoring the Perception of News Content on Social Networks: A Methodology

Shaked Bar (Outbrain): Profile-based Personalization Algorithms for Content Recommender Systems

17:30 - 18:00 Discussion

Should we, and how do we go beyond matrix factorization in recommender systems?

19:30 – 21:30 Evening

Free evening – downtown Haifa – enjoy Haifa’s events