RecoMMender Systems
If you’re reading this, you might have read my previous posts about RecSys2010, and in that case you might know that I had axtremely high expectations for this year’s RecSys conference, and I was not dissappointed.
The conference program had been extended from last year and now included two days of workshops: the first day of the conference, and the last.
The workshop taking place on the first day were CARS (the workshop on context-aware recommender systems), RSWEB (recommender systems and the social web), HetRec (the workshop on informaiton heterogeneity and fusion in recommender systems) and WOMRAD (the workshop on music recommendation and discovery), additionally this was also the day of the doctoral symposium (which I attended). This meant that for the second year in a row I could not attend the CARS workshop (I had a paper at RSWEB 2009). Luckily though, the doctoral symposium started an hour later than the workshops which presented me with the opportunity to attend the beginning of the CARS keynote which was held by Bamshad Mobasher, the topic of this was Contextual User Modeling for Recommendation and gave broad overview of the benefits of context-awareness as well as the problems involved in its usage.
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