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International Workshop on Information Heterogeneity and Fusion in Recommender Systems

26 or 30 September 2010 | Barcelona, Spain http://ir.ii.uam.es/hetrec2010/

In conjunction with the 4th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2010)

Important dates

• Paper submission:                         30 June 2010
• Notification of paper acceptance:         22 July 2010
• Camera-ready copies of accepted papers:   30 July 2010
• HetRec 2010 Workshop:                     26 or 30 September 2010

Motivation

Recent years have shown much progress in the field of recommender systems, including the development of innovative models and very efficient algorithms. Almost all current systems are trying to make best use of a single kind of data, and are designed for specific domains and applications, without explicitly addressing the heterogeneity of the existing information. As an example, some systems are based on analyzing user ratings, while others concentrate on understanding purchase history.

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