WORKSHOP: Doctoral Symposium at the 2014 Recommender System Conference

八名研究生将被支持积极参加2014年硅谷计算机械协会RecSys-2014年推荐系统会议的研究生研讨会。这个博士研讨会旨在为学生提供一个没有威胁的环境，特别是那些可能是第一次参加重大国际会议的学生。为此，组织者将偏离通常的会议结构，通过展示自己的工作并接受同行和经验丰富的研究人员的反馈，通过两次关于学术界与行业职业和生活的特邀演讲，以及在会议期间观察和与该领域的其他专业人员互动，让学生接触到他们的研究社区。被选中资助的学生将获得注册，共享酒店住宿，并根据需要提供机票支持。已经建立了一个精心开发的评估系统，以最有效地分配资金。优先考虑的是支持来自不同机构的学生、准备了最具实质性论文的学生、来自代表性不足群体的学生以及有经济需要的学生。在这一领域，学生需要多学科的培训。这次会议计划由来自世界各地的学术界和行业研究人员的科学家、国际知名的特邀演讲者以及各种演示和其他学术和行业活动组成的强大的论文计划。ACM RecSys会议和博士研讨会将通过为初级和高级研究人员提供一个开放和友好的环境来探索该领域的创造性、原创性或潜在的变革性概念，从而推动推荐系统的最新发展。推荐系统利用过去的用户行为和用户相似性来生成针对最终用户偏好的个人定制的信息项。它们迅速成为访问文档网站、社交网站、电子商务系统、移动系统、娱乐系统等上可用的信息的最有用的工具之一。在未来，它们可能会给教育和医疗保健等其他领域带来革命性的变化。由于RecSys汇聚了致力于推荐系统的主要国际研究小组以及许多世界领先的公司？S，它已经成为最重要的推荐系统研究展示和讨论的年度会议，因此是学生职业生涯中至关重要的一步。

Eight graduate students will be supported to participate actively in the Graduate Symposium at the 2014 Recommender Systems conference of the Association for Computing Machinery in Silicon Valley, RecSys-2014. This doctoral symposium is structured to provide a non-threatening environment for students, in particular for those who may be attending a major international meeting for the first time. To do so, the organizers will depart from the usual conference structure and give students exposure to their research community by presenting their own work and receiving feedback from peers and experienced researcher, by two invited talks about career and life in academia versus industry, and by observing and interacting with other professionals in the field during the conference.Students selected for funding will receive registration, shared hotel accommodation, and need-based airfare support to attend the conference. A carefully-developed evaluation system has been set up to allocate the funds most effectively. Among the priorities are supporting students from different institutions, students who have prepared the most substantial papers to present, students from under-represented groups, and students with financial need. In this area, students require multidisciplinary training. The conference plans a strong program of papers by scientists from both academia and industry researchers around the world, internationally known invited speakers, and a variety of demos and other academia and industry activities.The ACM RecSys conference and the Doctoral Symposium will advance the state of art in recommender systems by proving an open and friendly environment for both junior and senior researchers to explore creative, original, or potentially transformative concepts in the area. Recommender systems exploit past user behaviors and user similarities to generate information items that are personally tailored to an end-user's preferences. They have quickly become among the most useful tools available for accessing information available on the document web, social web sites, ecommerce systems, mobile systems, entertainment systems and more. In the future, they are likely to revolutionize other domains such as education and health care. As RecSys brings together the main international research groups working on recommender systems, along with many of the world?s leading companies, it has become the most important annual conference for the presentation and discussion of recommender system research, and thus a crucial step in a student's career.