5 Feb
2024
5 Feb
'24
8:29 p.m.
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* Online version: https://www.um.org/umap2024/call-for-doctoral-consortium-papers/
ACM UMAP 2024 - Call for Doctoral Consortium Papers
ACM UMAP 2024: The 32nd ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization
Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy
July 1-4, 2024
The 32nd International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation, and Personalization (ACM
UMAP 2024) is the premier international conference for researchers and practitioners
working on systems that adapt to individual users or groups of users, and that collect,
represent, and model user information. The ACM UMAP 2024 Doctoral Consortium (DC) will
take place as part of the conference. The DC provides an opportunity for doctoral students
to explore and develop their research interests under the guidance of distinguished
researchers and industry practitioners from the field.
Doctoral students are invited to apply for presenting their research to experienced
scholars who will provide constructive feedback and advice. Students should consider
participating in the DC if they are at least one year away from completing their
dissertation at the time of the event, but after having settled on a research area or
dissertation topic.
This forum will provide doctoral students with an opportunity to:
* Present and discuss their research ideas to experienced scholars in a supportive,
formative, and yet critical environment.
* Explore and develop their research interests under the guidance of distinguished
researchers from the field who will provide constructive feedback and advice.
* Explore career pathways available after completing their doctoral degree.
* Network and build collaborations with other members of the community.
Students are asked to submit a brief proposal outlining their doctoral research (see
detailed requirements below), which will be evaluated by the doctoral consortium
committee. Good quality applications will be selected for presentation at a DC session as
part of the conference. Each student with an accepted submission will be assigned a mentor
who will provide feedback on the student’s work. A mentoring session will take place
during the conference, and the DC students are expected to attend.
** Important Dates **
Paper Submission: March 28, 2024
Notification: April 26, 2024
Camera-ready Submission (TAPS system): May 9, 2024
Conference: July 1 – 4, 2024
DC Day: July TBD, 2024 (it will happen in one of the conference days)
Note: The submissions deadlines are at 11:59 pm AoE (Anywhere on
Earth)<https://www.timeanddate.com/time/zones/aoe> time.
** Submission **
All submissions must be written in English. Submissions should be a single PDF document
consisting of: (i) the recommendation letter, (ii) the research description, and (iii) the
curriculum vitae. This PDF document should be submitted electronically through the
EasyChair submission system, https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=umap24, by selecting
the “UMAP24 Doctoral Consortium Papers” track.
** Length and Formatting **
Format and Content Guidelines. Consult the ACM UMAP 2024 general call for full and short
papers<https://www.um.org/umap2024/call-for-full-and-short-papers/> concerning the
key topics of this call as well. Each proposal should be a single PDF document, with three
required components: (i) a recommendation letter, (ii) a description of your doctoral
path, (iii) and a curriculum vitae. If you are unable to obtain a letter of recommendation
from your dissertation advisor, please include a short explanation. Specifically, for each
component, please consider the following instructions:
1. Letter of Recommendation (from your primary dissertation advisor, in any format):
* Describe your interaction with the student and your assessment of the quality of
their work. Explain how the ACM UMAP 2024 doctoral consortium would benefit this student
at this point in their doctoral program, as well as the contributions you expect the
student to make to the group.
* The DC targets students who have a clear idea of their research plans and have
started their research but have not yet executed a majority of their research. Please
explain the structure of your student’s program and their expected level of progress by
July 2024.
* Recall that students who are unable to obtain a letter of recommendation from
their dissertation advisor (or the equivalent) should instead include a short explanation
and a description of where the student is in their doctoral progress and the anticipated
timeline.
1. Research description (6 pages at most plus additional pages for references; figures,
tables, proofs, appendixes, acknowledgments, and any other content count toward the page
limit): using a single-column manuscript formatted according to the guidelines discussed
below, please include the following:
* Your name, advisor(s) name(s), and the university where you are conducting your
doctoral work.
* Current year of study and projected completion date (plus information about the
regulations of your doctoral program regarding length, any part-time study, etc.).
* Context and motivation for your research.
* Key related work that frames your research.
* Specific research objectives, goals, or questions.
* Research approach, methods, and rationale.
* Results and contributions to date.
* Expected next steps.
* Dissertation status and long-term goals.
1. Curriculum vitae (2 pages at most, in any format): a concise summary of your current
curriculum vitae, including research publications. Clearly separate published papers from
those under review or in press.
Please ensure that your submission is complete and conforms to the format and content
guidelines above. Submissions that do not meet these requirements will be desk-rejected.
*Single-Blind Policy*. Proposals will be reviewed single-blind and, therefore, do not need
to be anonymized before submission.
*Template for the Research Description*. Following the ACM Publication
Workflow<https://www.acm.org/publications/taps/word-template-workflow>ow>, the research
description component should be arranged based on the new ACM single-column format.
Instructions for students are given below:
* LaTeX (use \documentclass[manuscript, review, anonymous]{acmart} in the
sample-authordraft.tex file for single-column). Please carefully follow the ACM’s
instructions for preparing your article with
LaTeX<https://authors.acm.org/proceedings/production-information/prepari…ex>.
* Overleaf (use \documentclass[manuscript,review,anonymous]{acmart} for
single-column). Please carefully follow the ACM’s instructions for preparing your article
with Overleaf<https://authors.acm.org/proceedings/production-information/over…af>.
* Word. Please carefully follow the ACM’s instructions for preparing your article with
Microsoft
Word<https://authors.acm.org/proceedings/production-information/preparin…
Should you have any questions or issues going through the instructions above, please
contact support at acmtexsupport@aptaracorp.com<mailto:acmtexsupport@aptaracorp.com>
for LaTeX and Microsoft Word inquiries.
*Accessibility*. DC students are strongly encouraged to provide “alt text” (alternative
text) for floats (images, tables, etc.) in their content so that readers with disabilities
can be given descriptive information for these floats that are important to the work. The
descriptive text will be displayed in place of a float if the float cannot be loaded. This
benefits the author and it broadens the reader base for the author’s work. Moreover, the
alt text provides in-depth float descriptions to search engine crawlers, which helps to
properly index these floats. Additionally, authors should follow the ACM Accessibility
Recommendations for Publishing in Color and SIG ACCESS guidelines on describing
figures<https://authors.acm.org/journals/accessibility-recommendations-f…or>.
*Submission Policy*. Please consider the following ACM’s publication policies:
1. “By submitting your article to an ACM Publication, you are hereby acknowledging that
you and your co-authors are subject to all ACM Publications
Policies<https://www.acm.org/publications/policies>es>, including ACM’s new
Publications Policy on Research Involving Human Participants and
Subjects<https://www.acm.org/publications/policies/research-involving-hu…ts>.
Alleged violations of this policy or any ACM Publications Policy will be investigated by
ACM and may result in a full retraction of your paper, in addition to other potential
penalties, as per ACM Publications Policy.”
2. “Please ensure that you and your co-authors obtain an ORCID
ID<https://orcid.org/register>er>, so you can complete the publishing process for your
accepted paper. ACM has been involved in ORCID from the start and we have recently made a
commitment to collect ORCID IDs from all of our published
authors<https://authors.acm.org/author-resources/orcid-faqs>qs>. We are committed to
improve author discoverability, ensure proper attribution and contribute to ongoing
community efforts around name normalization; your ORCID ID will help in these efforts.”
*Camera-ready Information*. Accepted proposals (i.e., the research description component)
will require a further revision in order to meet the requirements and the page limits of
the camera-ready format required by ACM. Instructions for the preparation of the
camera-ready versions of the papers will be provided after acceptance. We strongly
recommend the usage of LaTeX/Overleaf for the camera-ready papers to minimize the extent
of reformatting. Users of the Word template must use either the version for Microsoft Word
for Windows, Macintosh Office 2011, or Macintosh Office 2016 (other formats such as Open
Office, etc., are not admitted) for the camera-ready submission to avoid incompatibility
issues.
** Registration and Presentation Policy **
Each accepted proposal in the doctoral consortium track must be accompanied by a distinct
full author registration, completed by the doctoral student by the early registration date
cut-off. Each accepted proposal must be presented in person in the doctoral consortium
session to be included in the conference proceedings, published by ACM and available via
the ACM Digital Library. The official publication date is when the proceedings are made
available in the ACM Digital Library. This date may be up to two weeks before the first
day of UMAP 2024. The official publication date affects the deadline for any patent
filings related to published work.
** Grants and Support **
ACM UMAP has a long history of supporting students who want to attend the conference.
Doctoral students of the accepted DC proposals will have higher priority for the ACM UMAP
grant applications. Please periodically consult the page that summarizes grants and
support opportunities, available at https://www.um.org/umap2024/grants-and-support/.
** Doctoral Consortium Chairs **
* Martijn C. Willemsen, Eindhoven University of Technology & JADS, The
Netherlands
* Styliani Kleanthous, CYENS CoE and Open University of Cyprus, Cyprus
* Rodrygo Santos, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil
Contact information: umap2024-dc at um.org