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cs.usask.ca>*** YOU ARE CORDIALLY INVITED TO PARTICIPATE IN UM99! *** 7th International Conference on User Modelling June 20 - 24, 1999 The Banff Centre, Banff, Canada http://www.cs.usask.ca/UM99 The DEADLINE FOR EARLY REGISTRATION -- APRIL 15, 1999 -- is RAPIDLY approaching! User modelling has been found to enhance the effectiveness and/or usability of software systems in a wide variety of situations. A system that constructs and consults user models can adapt diverse aspects of its performance to individual users. Techniques for user modelling have been developed and evaluated by researchers in a number of fields, including artificial intelligence, education, psychology, linguistics, human-computer interaction, and information science. The 7th International Conferences on User Modelling, UM99 will provide a forum in which academic and industrial researchers from all of these fields can exchange their complementary insights on user modelling issues. The size and format of the meetings support intensive discussion, which often continues long after the conference has ended. Some of the HIGHLIGHTS of UM99 are: Two pre-conference TUTORIALS on Sunday, 20 June: - Anthony Jameson: User Adaptive Systems: An Integrative Overview - David Chin: Evaluating The Effectiveness of User Models by Experiments INVITED SPEAKERS: - Alan Biermann (Duke University, USA) - Gerhard Weber (Department of Psychology, University of Education Freiburg, Germany) - Pat Langely (Institute for the Study of Learning and Expertise, Palto Alto, CA, USA) - Gerhard Fischer (University of Boulder, CO, USA) We have received 103 high quality submissions. The competition was intense, with only 27 of the papers (26%) being accepted as full papers. Five (4.5%) of these papers have been proposed for best paper awards, which speaks for the high quality of the conference submissions! : The BEST PAPER award nominees are: - Zukerman, Albrecht and Nicholson: Predicting Users' Requests on the WWW - Encarnacao and Stoev: An Application-Independent Intelligent User Support System Exploiting Action-Sequence Based On User Modelling - Petrelli, De Angeli and Convertino, A User Centered Approach to User Modelling - Berthold and Jameson: Interpreting Symptoms of Mental Load and Time Pressure in Speech Input - Winter and McCalla: The Emergence of Student Models from an Analysis of Ethical Decision Making in a Scenario-Based Learning Environment To allow more authors present their promising ideas, the program of UM99 will provide for: - Eleven SHORT PAPER presentations - Twenty POSTERS. - DEMONSTRATIONS of software. UM99 will feature also: - Doctoral Consortium where 8 Ph.D. students will have the chance to present their work. - FIVE post-conference WORKSHOPS: Workshop 1: Machine Learning for User Modelling Workshop 2: Standards for Learner Modelling Workshop 3: Attitude, Personality and Emotions in User-Adapted Interaction Workshop 4: Second Workshop on Adaptive Systems and User Modelling on the WWW Workshop 5: User Models in TeleLearning The preliminary program of UM99 is available at: http://www.cs.usask.ca/UM99/prog.shtml It is important to REGISTER EARLY for UM99 for the following reasons: - The early (by April 15) registration fee is significantly lower ($450 versus $600)! - Those who register early will be entered in a draw for attractive prices. - There is only a limited amount of rooms reserved for UM99 attendees. They are booked on first come-first serve principle. After April 21, the remaining rooms will be freed for general booking. It will be hard to find any other accommodation in Banff, since usually everything in this season is booked usually months in advance. The REGISTRATION FORM is available at: http://www.cs.usask.ca/UM99/reg.shtml Banff in June is one of the World's most desired travel destinations. So, please, MAKE YOUR TRAVEL PLANS EARLY! Detailed travel information is available at http://www.cs.usask.ca/UM99/get-there.shtml We are looking forward to welcoming you in Banff! JJJ Judy Kay Jim Greer Julita VassilevaMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue