2nd Call for Papers - WOMRAD: Workshop on Music Recommendation and Discovery, Barcelona. September, 26th 2010

[Amelie Anglade <amelie.anglade@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dear all,

Apologies for any cross-posting.

This is a reminder that the deadline for short, long and positional 
paper submissions to the Workshop on Music Recommendation and Discovery 
is 28th June 2010.
A later deadline has been assigned for late-breaking demo submissions: 
23rd August 2010.


++ 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

. Long/Short and Positional Paper Submission
   June, 28th

. Camera Ready Submission
   August, 9th

. Notification of Results
   July, 22nd

. Late-breaking Demo Submission
   August, 23rd

- 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