CALL FOR PAPERS ************************* Web-based Adaptive User Interfaces: Problems, methods and applications http://ia-serv.dia.uned.es/personal/jgb/waui01/ Invited Session at Fifth World Multiconference On Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics (SCI'2001) July 22-25, 2001 Orlando, Florida Sheraton World Resort http://www.iiis.org/sci/ Background and Motivation Adaptive User Interfaces are software artifacts that improve their ability to interact with a user by constructing a user model based on partial experience with that user. Although they can be used in a number of different tasks, Internet is one of the domains that can benefit most from this kind of software. The growing amount of contents and services available on the WWW makes very difficult to find and select the pieces of information required by the users. Web-based Adaptive User Interfaces can provide a personalized user interaction improving the user experience in a variety of contexts such as e-commerce, distance education or cooperative work. For a system to be really adaptive, simple memorization of its interaction with the user does not suffice. Ideally, adaptation results from generalizing previous experiences and applying these generalizations to new user interactions, i.e., from learning. However, although learning should play a key role in Adaptive User Interfaces, their design goes far beyond the simple application of a learning method. A number of research issues have been addressed from a variety of disciplines such as as machine learning, web mining, intelligent tutoring, adaptive hypermedia, human-computer interaction and user modeling. The goal of this Session is to bring together researchers and practitioners from all of these areas to meet and discuss common issues and problems. Submissions Potential participants should submit an extended abstract or paper draft of their work in the area. Submissions will be reviewed by independent referees from the Program Committee and should not exceed 2000 words for extended abstracts and 5000 words for paper drafts. Paper submissions should be sent via electronic mail as a PostScript or PDF file to waui2001@dia.uned.es. Alternatively, 4 hard copies of the submission can be sent to: Elena Gaudioso Dpto. Inteligencia Artificial Facultad de Ciencias, UNED Senda del Rey 9 28040 Madrid, Spain In order to get an early estimate of the possible attendance, we would appreciate that you send an email to waui2001@dia.uned.es or to some of the organizers indicating whether you intend to submit a paper. Of course, by doing so, you make no commitment whatsoever. Accepted papers will be published in the SCI proceedings. We are talking with Springer Verlag for including selected papers in a volume of a new Springer International series on Advanced Information Systems. Registration Attendants to the Invited Session must register for the main conference. There is no additional fee for the Session. See the SCI2001 web page for details. Important Dates Submission of manuscripts: 16 March, 2001 Notification of acceptance: 16 April, 2001 Camera-ready copy: 4 May, 2001 Please, note that you should follow this timetable in order to submit to this Session and not the one for the main SCI conference. Program Committee Liliana Ardissono, University of Torino, Italy Mathias Bauer, German Research Center for AI (DFKI), Germany Peter Brusilovsky, University of Pittsburgh, USA Brian Davison, Rutgers University, USA Carlos Domingo, Synera Systems, Spain Pete Edwards, University of Aberdeen, UK Bamshad Mobasher, DePaul University, USA Jude Shavlik, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA Julita Vassileva, University of Saskatchewan, Canada Organizers Luis Talavera Synera Systems Research & Development, Data Mining ltalavera@synerasystems.com Jesús G. Boticario Dpto. Inteligencia Artificial Facultad de Ciencias, UNED jgb@dia.uned.es Elena Gaudioso Dpto. Inteligencia Artificial Facultad de Ciencias, UNED elena@dia.uned.es