Is Music Recommendation Broken? How can we fix it?
Save the date: 26th September 2010 for The Workshop on Music Recommendation and Discovery being held in conjunction with ACM RecSys in Barcelona, Spain. At this workshop, community members from the Recommender System, Music Information Retrieval, User Modeling, Music Cognition, and Music Psychology can meet, exchange ideas and collaborate.
Topics of interest
Topics of interest for Womrad 2010 include:
Music recommendation algorithms
Theoretical aspects of music recommender systems
User modeling in music recommender systems
Similarity Measures, and how to combine them
Novel paradigms of music recommender systems
Social tagging in music recommendation and discovery
Social networks in music recommender systems
Novelty, familiarity and serendipity in music recommendation and discovery
Exploration and discovery in large music collections
Evaluation of music recommender systems
Evaluation of different sources of data/APIs for music recommendation and exploration
Context-aware, mobile, and geolocation in music recommendation and discovery
Case studies of music recommender system implementations
User studies
Innovative music recommendation applications
Interfaces for music recommendation and discovery systems
Scalability issues and solutions
Semantic Web, Linking Open Data and Open Web Services for music recommendation and discovery
More info: Wormrad 2010 Call for papers