Call for Industry Track Papers
The annual UMAP conference is the premium international forum for User experience, user modeling, recommender systems, personalization system researchers to present new research insights and demonstrate advanced techniques. The 33rd UMAP, will be held in New York, from June 16 to June 19th. The UMAP Conference invites submissions for its Industry Track, a platform for practitioners and researchers to present innovative solutions and insights in the field of User Modeling, Adaptation, and Personalization. This track aims to bridge the gap between academia and industry, fostering collaboration and knowledge exchange.
Topics of Interest
We welcome submissions on a wide range of topics, including but not limited to:
- User modeling and personalization in real-world applications
- Adaptive systems and technologies
- Data-driven personalization strategies
- Case studies and best practices in industry
- Innovative tools and platforms for user adaptation
- Privacy and ethical considerations in user modeling
- Recommender systems
- Data mining techniques for user modeling, adaptation, and personalization
- Generative AI techniques for user modeling, adaptation, and personalization
- Knowledge graphs, Linked Data, and semantics for user modeling, adaptation, and personalization
- Intelligent user interfaces
- Intelligent and personalized e-learning applications and educational games
- Personalized behavior change and persuasive applications
- Virtual assistants, conversational agents, personalization in augmented reality
- Group modeling and collaborative team formation
- Ethical issues of personalization and human-centered AI systems: Privacy, Fairness, Accountability, Transparency
- Creativity in User Modeling, Adaptation, and Personalization
- Sustainability-aware methods and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for user modeling, adaptation, and personalization
- Personalized approaches for preventing eco-chambers, user manipulation, and disinformation
- Research methods and reproducibility
Important Dates
March 2, 2025 -> March 9, 2025
Paper submission
April 2, 2025 -> April 9, 2025
Notification of acceptance
May 2, 2025
Camera-ready submission
May 2, 2025
Registration deadline for authors
June 16-19, 2025
Conference
Note: the submission deadline is at 11:59 pm AoE (Anywhere on Earth) time.
Submission Guidelines
All submissions must be written in English. Papers should be submitted electronically, in a PDF format, through the EasyChair submission system, https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=umap2025, by selecting the “UMAP25 UMAP25 Industry & Start-up Track” track. Each submission will undergo a peer-review process to ensure the quality and relevance of the content.
Submission Length: up to 2 pages excluding references and author bios. Author bios are not mandatory.
Review process: single anonymous review process will be conducted by an industry program committee.
Authors do not have to make their authorship, any reference to their work, institutions, products, code, etc. anonymous. Each submission will receive at least 3 reviews. There will not be rebuttals.
Format. Submissions should adhere to the conference formatting guidelines.
Language. All submissions must be in English.
Templates. Following the ACM Publication Workflow, all authors should submit manuscripts for review in the ACM double-column format. Instructions for authors are given below:
- LaTeX: Please use the latest version of the Primary Article Template – LaTeX to create your submission. Start the document with the \documentclass[sigconf,review]{acmart} command to generate the output in a double-column format. Please see the LaTeX documentation and ACM’s LaTeX best practices guide for further instructions, ignoring the single-column instructions. Do not use the “manuscript” option, otherwise, the document will not be compiled in double-column, as required. Check the sample-sigconf.tex file included in the template package for a formatting example. To ensure 100% compatibility with The ACM Publishing System (TAPS), please restrict the use of packages to the whitelist of approved LaTeX packages.
- Overleaf: (use \documentclass[sigconf,review]{acmart} for double-column). Please carefully follow the ACM’s instructions for preparing your article with Overleaf.
- Word: Please carefully follow the ACM’s instructions for preparing your article with Microsoft Word, ignoring the single-column instructions and the single-column submission template. Please use the double-column Word template.
Accessibility. Authors 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.
Registration and Presentation Policy
Each accepted paper must be accompanied by a distinct full author registration, completed by the early registration date cut-off. Each accepted paper must be presented in person to be included in the main 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 2025. The official publication date affects the deadline for any patent filings related to published work.
Presentation Format
Accepted papers will be presented during the Industry Track sessions at the UMAP Conference. Presenters will have the opportunity to engage with an audience of industry professionals and academic researchers.
Track Chairs
- Kriti Kohli, Netflix
- Nandana Mihindukulasooriya, IBM Research
- Jacopo Tagliabue, Bauplan / NYU
- Tao Ye, Amazon Music
Contact Information
For any questions or further information, please contact the Industry Track Chair at umap2025-industry@um.org.
We look forward to your contributions and to an exciting exchange of ideas at the UMAP Conference!