The notifications for "IR for Good" at ECIR2024 are out! Ludovico Boratto and I would like to thank the community for the overwhelming response to this track🤩 We hope to see you all in Glasgow😀

Now hiring! Postdoctoral researcher to study discrimination risk in algorithmic hiring. Project FINDHR MAIN RESEARCH FIELD: Computer Science CAREER STAGE: Postdoctoral Researcher ANNUAL GROSS SALARY: 39.952,92€ apply.interfolio.com/141006

This survey was a labor of love that lasted for months. I’m grateful to my co-authors and hope the user modeling community will resonate with this work 🤩 If you have thoughts or feedback of any type, get in touch with us 😊

Interested on algorithmic bias in #search and #recsys? Check a new edition of the #BIAS workshop, this time co-located with #sigir2024 SIGIR 2025 organized by Alejandro Bellogin Ludovico Boratto Styliani Kleanthous @elisab79 Francesca Maridina & Mirko Marras Submission on April 25th

💥 Excited to share that our Special Issue "User Perspectives in Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence" on the International Journal of Human-Computer Studies (#IJHCS) is now online! 📝 Submissions Due: Nov 18, 2024 Further info on: sciencedirect.com/journal/intern…

Only two more weeks to submit to the International Workshop on Algorithmic #bias in #search and #recsys co-located with #sigir2024 Organized by Alejandro Bellogin Ludovico Boratto Styliani Kleanthous @elisab79 Francesca Maridina & Mirko Marras

Deadline extended for 1 week to submit to the International Workshop on Algorithmic #bias in #search and #recsys co-located with #sigir2024: May 2, 2024. Check the website for more information biasinrecsys.github.io/sigir2024/

Don't miss out on this amazing opportunity to join the #hypertext research community at the 1st ACM Hypertext #SummerSchool. Deadline extended to 14 June! Funding available! Scholars, pls share with your #PhD or #Master students. → ht.acm.org/ht2024/worksho… ACM Hypertext 2025 Association for Computing Machinery

Yesterday, at UMAP, we delivered our tutorial "Paradigm Shifts in User Modeling: A Journey from Historical Foundations to Emerging Trends". You can find all the info, including the slides, on the tutorial website: link.erasmopurif.com/tutorial-umap24 Ludovico Boratto Ernesto W. De Luca

Si è svolta nei giorni scorsi la 32^ conferenza internazionale #UMAP (User Modeling Adaption and Personalization), promossa dall’Association for Computer Machinery, la principale associazione mondiale dei ricercatori e dei professionisti di #informatica. shorturl.at/JR8TY

Attention, #RecSys2024 enthusiasts: the RecSys Summer School is open for registrations. You can still apply for students grants until July 23rd, so have a look and see you in Bari! 🙌😎acmrecsys.github.io/rsss2024/

The #RecSys24 Reproducibility Track will feature "Fair Augmentation for Graph Collaborative Filtering" w\ Ludovico Boratto, Francesco Fabbri, GianniFenu, Mirko Marras. Graph augmentation for #fairness was tested on 11 #GNNs, 5 non-GNN #RecommenderSystems. 📃: arxiv.org/abs/2408.12208

#ECIR2025 will again have an “IR for Good” track on advances in fair, unbiased, transparent, ethical, inclusive, and sustainable IR: ecir2025.eu/call-for-ir-fo…. Full/short abstract submission: Oct. 30, 2024. Full/short paper submission: Nov. 6, 2024. Notification: Dec. 16, 2024.

⏰🚨 Summer school virtual participation opportunity! 🚨⏰ For a short time only, it is now possible to register for the 2024 ACM RecSys Summer School in Bari, taking place October 8-12. It is an excellent opportunity to deepen your RecSys knowledge! acmrecsys.github.io/rsss2024/

If you are interested on algorithmic bias in #search or #recsys, join us at the #BIAS workshop at #SIGIR2025 SIGIR 2025 Submission deadline on April 23rd biasinrecsys.github.io/sigir2025/

Our proposed SI on “Knowledge Discovery from Graphs” in #Springer Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery (IF: 2.8) will soon open for submissions (tinyurl.com/y2phcy3y)! Guest editors: Ludovico Boratto Daniele Malitesta Fragkiskos Malliaros Mirko Marras Giacomo Cataldo Musto Erasmo Purificato ⤵️