Call for Papers
** IMPORTANT NOTE **
Due to concerns about COVID-19, RecSys 2020 will cancel its physical component
and go fully virtual. To support authors through these stressful times,
deadlines are extended.
We are pleased to invite you to contribute to the 14th ACM Conference on
Recommender Systems (RecSys 2020), the premier venue for research and
applications of recommendation technologies. The upcoming RecSys conference
will be held online, from September 22nd to September 26th, 2020. The
conference will continue RecSys' practice of connecting the research and
practitioner communities to exchange ideas, frame problems, and share
solutions. All accepted papers will be published by ACM.
We invite submissions on all aspects of recommender systems, including
applications ranging from e-commerce to social networking, and a wide variety
of technologies ranging from collaborative filtering to knowledge-based
reasoning or deep learning. We welcome new research on recommendation
technologies coming from very diverse communities ranging from psychology to
mathematics. In particular, we care as much about the human and economic impact
of these systems as we care about their underlying algorithms.
Topics of interest for RecSys 2020 include but are not limited to
(alphabetically ordered):
* Algorithm scalability, performance, and implementations
* Bias, fairness, bubbles and ethics of recommender systems
* Case studies of real-world implementations
* Context-aware recommender systems
* Conversational recommender systems (e.g., conversational interaction,
spoken language interfaces, dialogue systems)
* Cross-domain recommendation
* Economic models and consequences of recommender systems
* Evaluation metrics and studies
* Explanations and evidence
* Innovative/New applications
* Interfaces for recommender systems
* Novel machine learning approaches to recommendation algorithms
* Preference elicitation
* Privacy and security
* Social recommenders
* User modelling
* User studies
* Voice, VR, and other novel interaction paradigms
Authors will be asked to assign a selection of predefined custom tags to
describe their paper in the submission system. Tags can be assigned to indicate
algorithms, interfaces, automated or user-centric evaluations, for example.
Reviewers will also report their expertise over these tags, and the information
will be used in review assignments.
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
All submissions and reviews will be handled electronically. Papers must be
submitted to PCS by 23:59, AoE (Anywhere on Earth) on June 1st, 2020. There
will be no extensions to the submission deadline.
Formatting. ACM is changing the archive format of its publications to separate
content from presentation in the new Digital Library, enhance accessibility,
and improve the flexibility and resiliency of our publications. Following the
new ACM publication workflow, all authors should submit manuscripts for review
in a single-column format. Instructions for Word and LaTeX authors are given
below:
* Microsoft Word: Write your paper using the Submission Template (Review
Submission Format). Follow the embedded instructions to apply the paragraph
styles to your various text elements. The text is in single-column format at
this stage and no additional formatting is required at this point.
* LaTeX: Please use the latest version of the Master Article Template -
LaTeX to create your submission. You must use the "manuscript" option with the
\documentclass[manuscript]{acmart} command to generate the output in a
single-column format which is required for review. Please see the LaTeX
documentation and ACM's LaTeX best practices guide for further instructions. To
ensure 100% compatibility with The ACM Publishing System (TAPS), please
restrict the use of packages to the whitelist of approved LaTeX packages.
Authors are strongly encouraged to provide "alt text" (alternative text) for
floats (images, tables, etc.) in their content so that readers with
disabilities can be given descriptive information for these floats that are
important to the work. The descriptive text will be displayed in place of a
float if the float cannot be loaded. This benefits the author as well as it
broadens the reader base for the author's work. Moreover, the alt text provides
in-depth float descriptions to search engine crawlers, which helps to properly
index these floats.
Should you have any questions or issues going through the instructions above,
please contact support at [email protected] for both LaTeX and
Microsoft Word inquiries.
Accepted papers will be later submitted to ACM's new production platform where
authors will be able to review PDF and HTML output formats before publication.
Anonymity. The peer review process is double-blind (i.e. anonymized). This
means that all submissions must not include information identifying the authors
or their organization. Specifically, do not include the authors' names and
affiliations, anonymize citations to your previous work and avoid providing any
other information that would allow to identify the authors, such as
acknowledgments and funding. However, it is acceptable to explicitly refer in
the paper to the companies or organizations that provided datasets, hosted
experiments or deployed solutions, if there is no implication that the authors
are currently affiliated with the mentioned organization.
Originality. Each paper should not be previously published or accepted to any
peer-reviewed journal or conference/workshop, nor currently under review
elsewhere (including as another paper submission for RecSys 2020). We generally
discourage authors to submit the same paper to institutional or other preprint
repositories such as arXiv.org before the reviewing process is complete,
because it will place anonymity at risk. Please refer to the ACM Publishing
License Agreement and Authorship Policy for further details.
Plagiarism. Plagiarized papers will not be accepted for RecSys 2020. Our
committees will be checking the plagiarism level of all submitted papers to
ensure content originality using an automated tool. Hence, authors are advised
in their own interest to use a similar tool (e.g., iThenticate, Turnitin,
Viper, PlagScan, etc.) to check the plagiarism level of their manuscripts
before submission. The originality report generated by the tool may also be
submitted at the time of paper submission.
Papers violating any of the above guidelines are subject to rejection without
review.
Patenting. Please take note that the official publication date is the date the
proceedings are made available in the ACM Digital Library. This date may be up
to two weeks prior to the first day of the conference. The official publication
date affects the deadline for any patent filings related to published work.
PAPER SUBMISSION CATEGORIES
LONG PAPERS should report on substantial contributions of lasting value. The
maximum length is 14 pages (excluding references) in the new single-column
format. Each accepted long paper will be included in the conference proceedings
and presented in a plenary session as part of the main conference program. Each
accepted long paper will also be allocated a presentation slot in a poster
session to encourage discussion and follow-up between authors and attendees. We
expect the review process to be highly selective: the acceptance rate for full
papers in the past few years was about 20%.
SHORT PAPERS typically discuss exciting new work that is not yet mature enough
for a long paper. In particular, novel but significant proposals will be
considered for acceptance into this category despite not having gone through
sufficient experimental validation or lacking strong theoretical foundation.
Applications of recommender systems to novel areas are especially welcome. The
maximum length is 7 pages (excluding references) in the new single-column
format. Each accepted short paper will be included in the conference
proceedings and presented in a poster session. The poster presentation may
include a system demonstration. Selected short papers may be invited as oral
presentations. Note that rejected long paper submissions will not be considered
as short papers.
SIGCHI SUBMITTER AGREEMENT
RecSys 2020 is a SIGCHI conference and making a submission to a SIGCHI
conference is a serious matter. Submissions require time and effort by SIGCHI
volunteers to organize and manage the reviewing process, and, if the submission
is accepted, the publication and presentation process. Thus, anyone who submits
to RecSys 2020 implicitly confirms the following statements:
1. I confirm that this submission is the work of myself and my co-authors.
2. I confirm that I or my co-authors hold copyright to the content, and have
obtained appropriate permissions for any portions of the content that are
copyrighted by others.
3. I confirm that any research reported in this submission involving human
subjects has gone through the appropriate approval process at my institution.
4. I confirm that if this paper is accepted, I or one of my co-authors will
attend the conference. Papers that are not presented at the conference by an
author may be removed from the proceedings at the discretion of the program
chairs.
IMPORTANT DATES
* Abstract submission deadline: May 25th, 2020
* Paper submission deadline: June 1st, 2020
* Author notification: July 22nd, 2020
* Camera-ready version deadline: August 10th, 2020
Deadlines refer to 23:59 (11:59pm) in the AoE (Anywhere on Earth) time zone.
PROGRAM CHAIRS
* Elizabeth M. Daly, IBM Research, Ireland
* Li Chen, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong, China
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