Workshop Schedule
9:00 – 10:30 Session 1
- 9:00 – 9:15 Workshop opening and motivation
- 9:15 – 10:00 Keynote E-tourism: History and Challenges by Hannes Werthner
- 10:00 – 10:30 Research papers: Context-aware recommender systems I
- Mesut Kaya and Derek Bridge: Improved Recommendation of Photo-Taking Locations using Virtual Ratings.
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 – 12:30 Session 2
- 11:00 – 12:30: Research papers: Context-aware recommender systems II
- Patrick Hiesel, Matthias Braunhofer and Wolfgang Wörndl: Learning the Popularity of Items for Mobile Tourist Guides.
- Christoph Trattner, Alexander Oberegger, Lukas Eberhard, Denis Parra and Leandro Balby Marinho: Understanding the Impact of Weather for POI Recommendations.
- Khadija Vakeel and Sanjog Ray: A Motivation-Aware Approach for Point of Interest Recommendations.
12:30 – 14:00 Lunch break
14:00 – 15:30 Session 3
- 14:00 – 15:00 Research papers: Advanced topics in tourism recommender systems
- Amra Delic, Julia Neidhardt, Thuy Ngoc Nguyen and Francesco Ricci: Research Methods for Group Recommender Systems.
- Paula Saavedra, Pablo Barreiro, Roi Durán, Rosa Crujeiras, María Loureiro and Eduardo Sánchez Vila: Choice-based recommender systems.
- 15:00 – 15:30 Demo papers: Event recommendations
- Stacey Donohue, Nevena Dragovic and Maria Soledad Pera: Anything Fun Going On? A Simple Wizard to Avoid the Cold-Start Problem for Event Recommenders.
- Sean MacLachlan, Nevena Dragovic, Stacey Donohue and Maria Soledad Pera: “One Size Doesn’t Fit All”: Helping Users Find Events from Multiple Perspectives.
15:30 – 16:00 Demo session/Coffee break
16:00 – 17:30 Session 4
- 16:00 – 16:45 Position papers: Further research challenges
- Jan Fabian Ehmke, Dirk Christian Mattfeld and Linda Albrecht: Combining Mobility Services by Customer-Induced Orchestration.
- Daniel Herzog and Wolfgang Wörndl: Exploiting Item Dependencies to Improve Tourist Trip Recommendations.
- Manoj Reddy Dareddy: Challenges in Recommender Systems for Tourism.
- 16:45 – 17:30 Panel discussion and workshop summary
- Panel discussion: Specific challenges for recommender systems in the tourism domain.
- Daniel Fesenmaier, University of Florida, USA
- Hannes Werthner, TU Wien, Austria
- Wolfgang Wörndl, Technische Universität München, Germany
- Panel discussion: Specific challenges for recommender systems in the tourism domain.
Types of contributions:
- Research paper: The presentation length of a research paper is 20 minutes. After that, there will be time for discussion (approximately 10 minutes).
- Demo paper: The authors of a demo paper will introduce their system to the audience in session 3. These presentations should not exceed 10 minutes, with a short discussion (approximately 5 minutes) directly afterwards. In the coffee break after session 3, the workshop participants have the opportunity to interact with the introduced systems.
- Position paper: The position papers provide the basis for the panel discussion in session 4. The authors of such a paper will present background and motivation of their contribution, phrase specific challenges and outline important future research directions. These presentations should not exceed 10 minutes, with a short discussion (approximately 5 minutes) directly afterwards.
Location
ACM RecSys 2016 and the workshops held in conjunction with the conference will take place at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and IBM Research in Cambridge, MA, USA. The RecTour workshop will take place at IBM Research (Room 2224).
The workshop proceedings have been published online by by CEUR Workshop Proceedings (Vol-1685). They can also be downloaded here in a single PDF file (8 MB).