Recommender Systems Conference Doctoral Consortium, 2007 (October 19-20, 2007)

该基金资助研究生参加计算机协会（ACM）推荐系统的相对较新的创新年度会议，ACM是当前计算机和信息科学中发展迅速的一个领域。推荐系统是一种信息系统，通常与主要的商业网站联系在一起，它根据顾客和其他用户过去的选择以及其他有类似偏好的用户的选择，向他们提供有关书籍或电影等产品的建议。继之前成功的关于推荐系统的研讨会和会议之后，研究界率先创建了一个ACM赞助的该领域会议。会议将于10月19日至20日在明尼苏达州的明尼阿波利斯举行，届时将有一个同行评议的研究项目（包括ACM数字图书馆的印刷会议和出版物）和一个行业项目，以更好地将行业实践和学术研究的经验和需求结合起来。论文全文、海报和演示将构成会议的主体。会议的博士联盟部分将于10月18日举行。六到八名高级研究生将展示他们的研究成果，并接受教师和同学的反馈。这个博士联盟将帮助年轻的研究人员在这个领域进行研究生学习，为他们提供一个在社区中获得更广泛的创新工作的机会，并从研究社区的资深成员那里获得反馈和指导。它将进一步帮助培养这些年轻研究人员之间的社区意识，允许他们在他们自己之间以及与处于专业发展关键阶段的资深研究人员建立一个社会网络。

This grant provides funding to involve graduate students in the relatively new and innovative annual meeting on recommender systems of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), an area of currently great and rapid development in computer and information science. Recommender systems are information systems, often associated with major commercial websites, that advise customers and other users about products such as books or movies, on the basis of their own past choices and the choices of other users who have similar preferences. Following up on previous successful workshops and conferences on recommender systems, the research community has taken the lead in creating an ACM sponsored conference in the field. To be held October 19-20 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, it will feature a peer-reviewed research program (with both a printed proceedings and publication in the ACM Digital Library) and an industry program, to better bring together the experiences and needs of industry practice and academic research. Presentations of full papers, posters, and demonstrations will make up the main body of the conference. The Doctoral Consortium component of the conference will be held on October 18. Between six and eight advanced graduate students will present their research and receive feedback from faculty and fellow students. This doctoral consortium will help expand the participation of young researchers pursuing graduate studies in this field, by providing them an opportunity to gain wider exposure in the community for their innovative work and to obtain feedback and guidance from senior members of the research community. It will further help foster a sense of community among these young researchers, by allowing them to create a social network both among themselves and with senior researchers at a critical stage in their professional development.