CfP :: WOMRAD - Workshop on Music Recommendation and Discovery :: Barcelona. September, 26th

[Amelie Anglade <amelie.anglade@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

++ WOMRAD - Workshop on Music Recommendation and Discovery
http://womrad.org

In conjunction with ACM Recommender Systems 2010
http://recsys.acm.org/2010

++ September, 26th. Barcelona, Spain

We are pleased to invite you to participate in the premier event on
research and applications of music recommendation and discovery, a
workshop held in conjunction with the Fourth ACM Conference on
Recommender Systems.

The Workshop on Music Recommendation and Discovery (WOMRAD) is meant
to be a platform where the Recommender System, Music Information
Retrieval, User Modeling, Music Cognition, and Music Psychology
communities can meet, exchange ideas and collaborate.

- TOPICS OF INTEREST

. Music recommendation algorithms
. Theoretical aspects of music recommender systems
. User modeling in music recommender systems
. Similarity Measures, and how to combine them
. Novel paradigms of music recommender systems
. Social tagging in music recommendation and discovery
. Social networks in music recommender systems
. Novelty, familiarity and serendipity in music recommendation and 
discovery
. Exploration and discovery in large music collections
. Evaluation of music recommender systems
. Evaluation of different sources of data/APIs for music
recommendation and exploration
. Context-aware, mobile, and geolocation in music recommendation and 
discovery
. Case studies of music recommender system implementations
. User studies
. Innovative music recommendation applications
. Interfaces for music recommendation and discovery systems
. Scalability issues and solutions
. Semantic Web, Linking Open Data and Open Web Services for music
recommendation and discovery

- IMPORTANT DATES

. Full Paper Submission
   June, 28th

. Notification of Results
   July, 22nd

. Camera Ready Submission
   August, 9th

- PAPER FORMAT & SUBMISSION

All the details can be found in: http://womrad.org/submission/

- ORGANIZERS

. Amélie Anglade - Centre for Digital Music, Queen Mary University of 
London, UK
. Claudio Baccigalupo - Ph.D. at the Artificial Intelligence
Research Institute, IIIA-CSIC, Barcelona, Spain
. Norman Casagrande - last.fm, London, UK
. Òscar Celma - BMAT, Barcelona, Spain
. Paul Lamere - The Echo Nest, Somerville, MA, US