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• User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction (UMUAI). Guest editor, special issue on Recommender Systems based on Rich Item Descriptions.

• ACM Transactions on the Information Systems (2017)
• Electronic Commerce Research and Applications, Elsevier (2017)
• International Journal on Semantic Web and Information Systems (2017)
• ACM Transactions on the Web (2016)

• Generating Natural Language Explanations for Recommender Systems, Keynote at the Research Workshop of the Israel Science Foundation on User Modeling and Recommender Systems, Haifa, Israel, July 18, 2017.

• WWW 2018, 2017 (World Wide Web Conference);
• UMAP 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014 (International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization);
• SAC 2018, 2017, 2014 (ACM Symposium on Applied Computing);

• IUI 2017, 2016 (International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, Senior Program Committee);

• RecSys 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014 (ACM Conference on Recommender Systems, Senior Program Committee);

• Generating Natural Language Explanations for Recommender Systems, Keynote at the Research Workshop of the Israel Science Foundation on User Modeling and Recommender Systems]], Haifa, Israel, July 18, 2017.

• Late-Breaking Results and Demos co-chair at 26th International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP 2018), Singapore, June 2018;

• A look behind the curtains of semantics-aware techniques for user modelling and recommender systems, Dipartimento di Informatica, Università degli Studi di Torino, Turin (Italy), September 22, 2017.
• Recent Developments of Content-Based Recommender Systems, ACM Summer School on Recommender Systems, Bolzano (Italy), August 25, 2017.
• Generating Natural Language Explanations for Recommender Systems, Keynote at , Haifa, Israel, July 18, 2017.

• Late-Breaking Results and Demos co-chair at 26th International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP 2018), Singapore, June 2018;

• Member of the Editorial Board of the Frontiers in Robotics and AI (Computational Intelligence)
• Member of the Editorial Board of the International Journal on Semantic Web and Information Systems (IJSWIS)

• Semantics-Aware Techniques for Social Media Analysis, User Modeling, and Recommender Systems, Tutorial at 25th Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP), 9-12 July 2017 - Bratislava.

• Program co-chair of the Joint Workshop on Interfaces and Human Decision Making for Recommender Systems (IntRS), at the 11th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2017), Como, Italy, August 27-31, 2017;

• Beyond TFIDF, Coursera Interview for the Introduction to Recommender Systems: Non-Personalized and Content-Based specialization, Recommender Systems course, January 2017.

• Beyond TFIDF, Coursera Interview for the Introduction to Recommender Systems: Non-Personalized and Content-Based specialization, Recommender Systems course, January 2017. (Download interview).

• Beyond TFIDF, Coursera Interview for the Introduction to Recommender Systems: Non-Personalized and Content-Based specialization, Recommender Systems course, January 2017.

	\item \textbf{Coursera Interview} su ``Beyond TFIDF, nell'ambito della specializzazione ``Introduction to Recommender Systems: Non-Personalized and Content-Based del corso online su Recommender Systems, Gennaio 2017. 

• Beyond TFIDF, Coursera Interview for the specialization Introduction to Recommender Systems: Non-Personalized and Content-Based, of the online course Recommender Systems, January 2017.

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• Semantics-Aware Techniques for Social Media Analysis, User Modeling, and Recommender Systems, Tutorial at 24th Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP), 13-17 July 2016 - Halifax, Canada. (slides available on Slideshare).

• Semantics-Aware Techniques for Social Media Analysis, User Modeling, and Recommender Systems, Tutorial at 24th Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP), 13-17 July 2016 - Halifax, Canada. (More info here).

Invited Talks and Tutorials

• Semantics-Aware Techniques for Social Media Analysis, User Modeling, and Recommender Systems, Tutorial at 24th Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP), 13-17 July 2016 - Halifax, Canada. (More info [[http://www.um.org/umap2016/program/tutorials|here).

• Program co-chair of the Workshop on New Trends in Content-based Recommender Systems (CBRecSys), at the 10th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2016), Boston, USA, September 15-19, 2016;
• Program co-chair of the Joint Workshop on Interfaces and Human Decision Making for Recommender Systems (IntRS), at the 10th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2016), Boston, USA, September 15-19, 2016;

• CIKM 2016 (ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management);

• RecSys 2016, 2015, 2014 (ACM Conference on Recommender Systems, Senior Program Committee);

• Program co-chair of BLINKS 2015: 1st Workshop on Big, LINKed and Social data for User Modeling and Personalized Intelligent Systems, at the ACM Conference on User Modelling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP 2016), Halifax, Canada, 13-17 July, 2016;

• SOAP@UMAP 2016 (International Workshop on Surprise, Opposition, and Obstruction in Adaptive and Personalized Systems);

• Area Chair on User Modelling for Recommender Systems at UMAP 2016, International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (Halifax, Canada, July 13-17, 2016);

• Track Chair on User Modelling for Recommender Systems at UMAP 2016, International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (Halifax, Canada, July 13-17, 2016);

• IUI 2016 (International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, Senior Program Committee);

• Computer Science Review, Elsevier (2015)
• Knowledge-Based Systems, Elsevier (2015)

e-mail: pasquale.lops___AT___uniba.it

• FinRec 2016, 2015 (International Workshop on Personalization and Recommender Systems in Financial Services);

• IUI 2016 (International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, Senior Program Committee);

• SNOW@WWW 2016, 2014 (Social News on the Web)

• International Journal of Computational Intelligence Systems (2015)

• RecSys 2015, 2014 (ACM Conference on Recommender Systems, Senior Program Committee);

• SocInf@IJCAI 2015 (International Workshop on Social Influence Analysis);
• CBRecSys@RecSys 2015, 2014 (International Workshop on New Trends in Content-based Recommender Systems);

• HT 2015, 2014 (ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media);

• ESWC 2015, 2014 Challenge on Linked Open Data-enabled Recommender Systems;

• Program co-chair of DeCAT 2015: 1st International Workshop on Deep Content Analytics Techniques for Personalized and Intelligent Services, at the 23rd Conference on User Modelling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP 2015), Dublin, Ireland, June 30, 2015;

• Semantics-aware Content-based Recommender Systems: the Big Picture, Keynote at RecSoc 2015: Social and Semantic aspects of recommender systems - A workshop on advances in recommender systems, Haifa, Israel, June 16-17, 2015.

• Semantics-aware Content-based Recommender Systems: the Big Picture, Keynote at the RecSoc 2015: Social and Semantic aspects of recommender systems - A workshop on advances in recommender systems, Haifa, Israel, June 16-17, 2015.

• Publicity co-chair of the 9th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2015), Vienna, Austria, September 16-20, 2015;
• Program co-chair of the Joint Workshop on Interfaces and Human Decision Making for Recommender Systems (IntRS), at the 9th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2015), Vienna, Austria, September 16-20, 2015;
• Program co-chair of the DeCAT 2015: 1st International Workshop on Deep Content Analytics Techniques for Personalized and Intelligent Services, at the 23rd Conference on User Modelling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP 2015), Dublin, Ireland, June 30, 2015;

• My publications on DBLP | Bibsonomy

• HRSUNE@IUI2015 (International Workshop on Human Aspects of Making Recommendations in Social Ubiquitous Networking Environments);

• FinRec 2015 (International Workshop on Personalization and Recommender Systems in Financial Services);
• HRSUNE@IUI2015 (International Workshop on Human Aspects of Making Recommendations in Social Ubiquitous Networking Environments

• FinRec 2015 (International Workshop on Personalization and Recommender Systems in Financial Services);

• IIR 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012 (Italian Information Retrieval Workshop);

• Publicity co-chair of the 9th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2015), Vienna, Austria, September 16-20, 2015;

• ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (2014), Special issue on Recommender System Benchmarking;
• The Computer Journal, Oxford Journals (2014)
• Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, Wiley (2014)

• UMAP 2015, 2014 (International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization);
• IUI 2015, 2014 (International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces);

• Program co-chair of the Joint Workshop on Interfaces and Human Decision Making for Recommender Systems (IntRS), at the 8th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2014), Foster City, Silicon Valley (USA), October 6, 2014;

• Semantics-aware Content-based Recommender Systems: the Big Picture, Keynote at the 1st Workshop on New Trends in Content-Based Recommender Systems, in conjunction with the ACM International Conference on Recommender Systems, Foster City, Silicon Valley (USA), October 6, 2014 (slides available on Slideshare).

• LiUD@UMAP2014 (Linking User Data);

• EMPIRE@UMAP2014 (Emotions and Personality in Personalized Services);
• LLUM@UMAP2014 (Lifelong User Modeling);

• RecSys 2014 (ACM Conference on Recommender Systems, Senior Program Committee);

• '''RecSys 2014 (ACM Conference on Recommender Systems, Senior Program Committee);

• AVI 2014 (ACM Advanced Visual Interfaces);

• EMPIRE@UMAP2014 (Emotions and Personality in Personalized Services)

• CaRR 2014, 2012, 2011 (International Workshop on Context-awareness in Retrieval and Recommendation);

• Li Chen, Marco de Gemmis, Alexander Felfernig, Pasquale Lops, Francesco Ricci, Giovanni Semeraro, Martijn Willemsen, editors. Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Human Decision Making in Recommender Systems 2013 (Decisions 2013), Hong Kong, China, October 13, 2013. CEUR Workshop Proceedings, 2013. ISSN 1613-0073.

• ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems (ACM TiiS). Guest editor, special issue on Human Decision Making and Recommender Systems.
• ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (ACM TIST). Guest editor, special issue on Semantic Adaptive Social Web (SASWeb).

• Semantics-aware Recommender Systems, Dipartimento di Ingegneria Elettrica e Tecnologie dell'Informazione, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Naples (Italy), November 25, 2013.

• UMAP 2014 (International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization);
• UMAP 2014 Doctoral Consortium;
• HT 2014 (ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media);
• SAC 2014 (ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, Senior PC for the Track on Recommender Systems: Theory and Applications);
• ESWC 2014 Challenge on Linked Open Data-enabled Recommender Systems;
• LREC 2014 (International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation);

• SNOW@WWW2014 (Social News on the Web)

• IIR 2014, 2013, 2012 (Italian Information Retrieval Workshop);

• International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, Elsevier (2013, 2009)
• Artificial Intelligence, Elsevier (2013, 2012)

• WSDM 2014, 2013 (International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining);

• AIIA 2013 (International Congress of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence);

• UMAP 2013, 2010 (International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization);

• IUI 2014 (International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces);

• Journal of Intelligent Information Systems, Springer (2013, 2012)

• Program co-chair of the Workshop on Human Decision Making in Recommender Systems (Decisions), at the 7th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2013), Hong Kong, China, October 12-16, 2013;
• Program co-chair of the Workshop on Recommender Systems meet Big Data and Semantic Technologies, at the 7th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2013), Hong Kong, China, October 12-16, 2013;
• Program co-chair of the International Workshop on Recommender Systems meet Databases, at the 24th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA 2013), Prague, Czech Republic, August 26-29, 2013;

• RecSys 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010 (ACM Conference on Recommender Systems);

• RecSys 2012 Doctoral Symposium;
• ISMIS 2012, 2011 (International Symposium on Methodologies for Intelligent Systems);
• DART 2012, 2011 (International Workshop on New Challenges in Distributed Information Filtering and Retrieval);
• HSI 2010 (Session: Accessing, Structuring, Analyzing and Adapting Information in Web 2.0), (IEEE International Conference on Human System Interaction);
• PICom 2009 (IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Intelligence and Computing);
• ISDA 2009 (Session S1: Computational Intelligence for Personalization in Web Content and Service Delivery), (International Conference on Intelligent Systems Design and Applications);
• EC-Web 2009 (International Conference on Electronic Commerce and Web Technologies);
• ICADIWT 2009 (International Conference on the Applications of Digital Information and Web Technologies);

• KES 2008 (International Conference on Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Information \& Engineering Systems);
• ECML-PKDD 2007 (European Conference on Machine Learning and $11^{th}$ European Conference on Principles and Practice on Knowledge Discovery in Databases);

• SPIM 2013, 2012, 2011 (Semantic Personalized Information Management);
• Personalized Knowledge Modeling with Big (Usage \& Context) Data 2012, nell'ambito della International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptiation and Personalization (UMAP);
• Human Decision Making in Recommender Systems (Decisions) 2012, nell'ambito della ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys);
• IIR 2013, 2012 (Italian Information Retrieval Workshop);
• CaRR 2012, 2011 (International Workshop on Context-awareness in Retrieval and Recommendation) nell'ambito della conferenza internazionale Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI);
• HetRec 2011 (International workshop on Information Heterogeneity and Fusion in Recommender Systems), nell'ambito della conferenza internazionale ACM Recommender Systems (RecSys);
• CAMRa 2011 (Challenge on Context-Aware Movie Recommendation), nell'ambito della conferenza internazionale ACM Recommender Systems (RecSys);
• SASWeb 2010 (International Workshop on Adaptation in Social and Semantic Web), nell'ambito della International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptiation and Personalization (UMAP);
• Towards User Modelling and Adaptive Systems for All (TUMAS-A) 2008: Web Intelligence \& Intelligent Agent Technology in eLearning, nell'ambito della conferenza internazionale IEEE/WIC/ACM 2008 (Joint International Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology);
• Web X.0 and Web mining workshop (WWM), nell'ambito della First International Conference on Human Computer Interaction (HCI 2009);
• International Workshop on Wikis, Blogs, Bookmarking Tools - Mining the Web 2.0, nell'ambito della conferenza internazionale ECML/PKDD 2008 ($19^{th}$ European Conference on Machine Learning \& $12^{th}$ European Conference on Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases);
• International Workshop on ``Recommender Systems and Personalized Retrieval (RSPR 2008), nell'ambito della conferenza internazionale ICADIWT 2008 ($1^{st}$ IEEE International Conference on the Applications of Digital Information and Web Technologies);
• Engineered Applications of Semantic Web (SWEA), invited session at the International Conference on Knowledge-Based \& Intelligent Information \& Engineering Systems (KES 2008);
• Workshop on Web Mining 2.0 2007, in congiunzione con $18^{th}$ European Conference on Machine Learning (ECML) and Principles and $11^{th}$ European Conference on Practice on Knowledge Discovery in Databases (PKDD) 2007;
• Engineered Applications of Semantic Web (SWEA), invited session at the International Conference on Knowledge-Based \& Intelligent Information \& Engineering Systems (KES 2007);
• SWAP 2007 (Workshop on Semantic Web Applications and Perspectives);
• Workshop on Web Mining 2006 (WebMine), in congiunzione con $17^{th}$ European Conference on Machine Learning (ECML) and $10^{th}$ Principles and Practice on Knowledge Discovery in Databases (PKDD) 2006.

• IIR 2013, 2012 (Italian Information Retrieval Workshop);
• SPIM 2013, 2012 (International Worksop on Semantic Personalized Information Management at WSDM 2013, ICWE 2012);
• RecSys 2012, 2011, 2010 (ACM Conference on Recommender Systems);

• CaRR 2012, 2011 (International workshop on Context-awareness in Retrieval and Recommendation at IUI 2012, 2011);

• HIS 2008, 2007, 2006 (International Conference on Hybrid Intelligent Systems);

• AC 2007, 2006 (IADIS International Conference Applied Computing);

• Semantic Personalized Information Management 2013 (at International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining WSDM 2013);

• WSDM 2013 (International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining);
• ECIR 2013, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007 (European Conference on Information Retrieval);

• ECML-PKDD 2010, 2008, 2006, 2005, 2004 (European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases);
• LREC 2012, 2010 (International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation);

• SWAP 2010, 2005 (Italian Workshop on Semantic Web Applications and Perspectives);
• RecSys 2009, 2008 (ACM International Conference on Recommender Systems);
• ECAI 2008, 2004 (European Conference on Artificial Intelligence)

• SIGIR 2007 (Poster and Demonstration Session alla International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval)

• ADMA 2006, 2005 (Advanced Data Mining and Applications)
• ISMIS 2006, 2003 (International Symposium on Methodologies for Intelligent Systems)

• ISMIS 2006, 2003 (International Symposium on Methodologies for Intelligent Systems)

• IIR 2013 (4th Italian Information Retrieval Workshop);

• Big Data, Small Brains: Deep Content Analytics for Better Recommendations and Human-Computer Decision Making, Distretto Produttivo dell'Informatica, Gruppo di Lavoro su Business Process Management, Dipartimento di Informatica, Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro, 7 Giugno 2012.

• Tecnologie del linguaggio a supporto dei Sistemi per l'Accesso Intelligente all'Informazione orientati ai contenuti, Forum per il Trattamento Automatico della Lingua (TAL 2010), Rome, October 29, 2010.

• Semantic Personalized Information Management 2013 (at International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining WSDM 2013);

• Marco de Gemmis, Tommaso Di Noia, Pasquale Lops, Thomas Lukasiewicz, Giovanni Semeraro, editors. Proceedings of the Workshop on Semantic Technologies meet Recommender Systems & Big Data (SeRSy 2012), Boston, USA, November 11, 2012. CEUR Workshop Proceedings, 2012. ISSN 1613-0073.

• Program co-chair of the 14th International Conference on Electronic Commerce and Web Technologies (EC-Web 2013), Prague, Czech Republic, August 26-30, 2013;

• Machine (Learn/Read)ing for Knowledge Infusion in Small Brains from Big Data, Dipartimento di Ingegneria Informatica Automatica Gestionale, Università Sapienza, Rome (Italy), June 13, 2012.

• Artificial Intelligence, Elsevier (2012)
• ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems (2012), Special issue on Human Decision Making and Recommender Systems
• Journal of Intelligent Information Systems, Springer (2012)

• Workshop and Tutorial co-chair of the 21st International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP 2013), Rome, Italy, June 10-14, 2013;

• Marco de Gemmis, Alexander Felfernig, Pasquale Lops, Francesco Ricci, Giovanni Semeraro, Martijn Willemsen, editors. Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Human Decision Making in Recommender Systems 2012 (Decisions 2012), Dublin, Ireland, September 9, 2012. CEUR Workshop Proceedings, 2012. ISSN 1613-0073.

• Program co-chair of the International Workshop on Semantic Technologies meet Recommender Systems & Big Data (SeRSy), at the 11th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2012), Boston, USA, November 11-15, 2012;

• Program co-chair of the Workshop on Human Decision Making in Recommender Systems (Decisions), at the 6th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2012), Dublin, Ireland, September 9-13, 2012;

• Program co-chair of the International Workshop on Semantic and Adaptive Social Web (SASWeb), at the 20th International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP 2012), Montreal, Canada, July 16-20, 2012;

• Personalized Knowledge Modeling with Big (Usage \& Context) Data 2012 (at User Modeling, Adaptiation and Personalization UMAP 2012);
• Semantic Personalized Information Management: Linking Social and Semantic Web 2012 (at International Conference on Web Engineering ICWE 2012);

• RecSys 2012 (6th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems);

• Personalized Knowledge Modeling with Big (Usage \& Context) Data 2012 (at User Modeling, Adaptiation and Personalization UMAP 2012)

• Program co-chair of the International Workshop on Recommender Systems meet Databases, at the 23rd International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA 2012), Wien, Austria, September 3-7, 2012;

• Big Data, Small Brains: Deep Content Analytics for Better Recommendations, Dipartimento di Informatica e Automazione, Università degli Studi Roma 3, Rome (Italy), January 9, 2012.

• Google Scholar profile (citations and H-Index)

• Google Scholar profile (citations and H-Index

• My publications on DBLP | Bibsonomy

• Google Scholar profile

• ISMIS 2012 (20th International Symposium on Methodologies for Intelligent Systems);
• IIR 2012 (3rd Italian Information Retrieval Workshop);

• Program co-chair of the 13th International Conference on Electronic Commerce and Web Technologies (EC-Web 2012), Wien, Austria, September 3-7, 2012;
• Program co-chair of the International Workshop on Semantic Personalized Information Management: Retrieval and Recommendation, at the 10th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2011), Bonn, Germany, October 23-27, 2011;
• Program co-chair of the International Workshop on Semantic Adaptive Social Web (SASWeb), at the 19th International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP 2011), Girona, Spain, July 11-15, 2011;
• Program co-chair of the International Workshop on Decision Making and Recommendations Acceptance Issues in Recommender Systems (DEMRA), at the 19th International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP 2011), Girona, Spain, July 11-15, 2011;
• Program co-chair of the International Workshop on Recommender Systems meet Databases, at the 22nd International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA 2011), Toulouse, France, August 29-September 2, 2011;

• Program co-chair of the International Workshop on Web 3.0: Merging Semantic Web and Social Web at the 20th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia (Hypertext 2009), Turin, Italy, June 29-July 1, 2009;
• Program co-chair of the International Workshop on Recommender Systems and Personalized Retrieval (RSPR 2008) at the First IEEE International Conference on the Applications of Digital Information and Web Technologies (ICADIWT 2008), Ostrava, Czech Republic, August 4-6, 2008;

• Program chair of the 13th International Conference on Electronic Commerce and Web Technologies (EC-Web 2012), Wien, Austria, September 3-7, 2012;

• Program chair EC-Web 2012 13th International Conference on Electronic Commerce and Web Technologies (Wien, Austria, September 3-7, 2012);

• Program chair http://www.dexa.org/ecweb2012, 13th International Conference on Electronic Commerce and Web Technologies (Wien, Austria, September 3-7, 2012);

• Citation Indexes (November 11, 2011 by Publish or Perish 3.3.4291, query p lops)
  • H-Index = 11
  • G-Index=18
  • Citations=488

• CaRR 2012 (International workshop on Context-awareness in Retrieval and Recommendation at Intelligent User Interfaces IUI 2012);

• Marco de Gemmis, Ernesto William De Luca, Tommaso Di Noia, Aldo Gangemi, Michael Hausenblas, Pasquale Lops, Thomas Lukasiewicz, Till Plumbaum, Giovanni Semeraro, editors. Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Semantic Personalized Information Management: Retrieval and Recommendation 2011 (SPIM 2011), Bonn, Germany, October 24, 2011. CEUR Workshop Proceedings, 2011. ISSN 1613-0073.

http://tiis.acm.org/special-issues.html#si-call-hdmrs

• ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems (ACM TiiS). Guest editor, special issue on Human Decision Making and Recommender Systems (to appear at the end of 2012).

• H-Index = 10
• G-Index=16
• Citations=408

• Francesco Ricci, Giovanni Semeraro, Marco de Gemmis, Pasquale Lops, Judith Masthoff, Floriana Grasso, Jaap Ham, editors. Joint Proceedings of the Workshop on Decision Making and Recommendation Acceptance Issues in Recommender Systems (DEMRA 2011) and the 2nd Workshop on User Models for Motivational Systems: The affective and the rational routes to persuasion (UMMS 2011), Girona, Spain, July 11, 2011. CEUR Workshop Proceedings, 2011. ISSN 1613-0073.
• Federica Cena, Antonina Dattolo, Ernesto William De Luca, Pasquale Lops, Till Plumbaum, Julita Vassileva, editors. Proceedings of the Workshop on Semantic Adaptive Social Web 2011 (SASWeb-2011), Girona, Spain, July 15, 2011. CEUR Workshop Proceedings, 2011. ISSN 1613-0073.

• Francesco Ricci, Giovanni Semeraro, Marco de Gemmis, Pasquale Lops, Judith Masthoff, Floriana Grasso, Jaap Ham, editors. Joint Proceedings of the Workshop on Decision Making and Recommendation Acceptance Issues in Recommender Systems (DEMRA 2011) and the 2nd Workshop on User Models for Motivational Systems: The affective and the rational routes to persuasion (UMMS 2011), Girona, Spain, July 11, 2011. CEUR Workshop Proceedings, 2011. ISSN 1613-0073.

• Federica Cena, Rosta Farzan, Pasquale Lops, editors. Proceedings of the Workshop on Web 3.0: Merging Semantic Web and Social Web, Turin, Italy, June 29, 2009. ISSN 1613-0073.

• Federica Cena, Antonina Dattolo, Ernesto William De Luca, Pasquale Lops, Till Plumbaum, Julita Vassileva, editors. Proceedings of the Workshop on Semantic Adaptive Social Web 2011 (SASWeb-2011), Girona, Spain, July 15, 2011. CEUR Workshop Proceedings, 2011. ISSN 1613-0073.

• ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (ACM TIST). Guest editor, special issue on Semantic Adaptive Social Web (SASWeb) (to appear in 2012).
• Semantic Adaptive Social Web (SASWeb), CEUR Workshop Proceedings, 2011. Online at http://ceur-ws.org/#Vol-730. ISSN 1613-0073.

• Local organizer of Intelligent Information Access (IIA) 2008. Cagliari, December 9-11, 2008;
• Local organizer of the 4th Workshop on Semantic Web Applications and Perspectives (SWAP) 2007. Bari, December 18-20, 2007;
• Local organizer of the Convegno Italiano di Logica Computazionale (CILC) 2006. Bari, June 26-27, 2006;
• Co-organizer of the parallel session Future Directions in Personalization and Context-Aware Access, at UAHCI 2005, 3rd International Conference on Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction. Las Vegas, USA, July 22-27, 2005;
• Local organizer of the Workshop on Environments for Personalized Information Access (EPIA) at Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI) 2004. Gallipoli, May 25-28, 2004.

• Co-organizer of the International Workshop on Semantic Personalized Information Management: Retrieval and Recommendation, at the 10th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2011), Bonn, Germany, October 23-27, 2011;
• Co-organizer of the International Workshop on Semantic Adaptive Social Web (SASWeb), at the 19th International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP 2011), Girona, Spain, July 11-15, 2011;
• Co-organizer of the International Workshop on Decision Making and Recommendations Acceptance Issues in Recommender Systems (DEMRA), at the 19th International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP 2011), Girona, Spain, July 11-15, 2011;
• Co-organizer of the International Workshop on Recommender Systems meet Databases, at the 22nd International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA 2011), Toulouse, France, August 29-September 2, 2011;

• Co-organizer of the International Workshop on Web 3.0: Merging Semantic Web and Social Web at the 20th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia (Hypertext 2009), Turin, Italy, June 29-July 1, 2009;
• Co-organizer of the International Workshop on Recommender Systems and Personalized Retrieval (RSPR 2008) at the First IEEE International Conference on the Applications of Digital Information and Web Technologies (ICADIWT 2008), Ostrava, Czech Republic, August 4-6, 2008;

• Program Co-chair of the International Workshop on Semantic Personalized Information Management: Retrieval and Recommendation, at the 10th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2011), Bonn, Germany, October 23-27, 2011;

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Invited Talks

• Information Retrieval and Information Filtering: two battlefields for NLP techniques, University of Basque Country, San Sebastian (Spain), May 6, 2011.
• Tecnologie del linguaggio e tecnologie della semantica, Forum per il Trattamento Automatico della Lingua (TAL 2010), Rome, October 29, 2010.
• Document Indexing based on Word Sense Disambiguation, WordNet and Wikipedia, Workshop on Natural Language Processing, AI*IA 2008, Cagliari (Italy), September 11, 2008.
• Accesso Intelligente all'Informazione, Dipartimento di Ingegneria Elettrica ed Elettronica dell'Università degli Studi di Cagliari, April 8, 2008.

• DART 2011 (5th International Workshop on New Challenges in Distributed Information Filtering and Retrieval);
• HetRec 2011 (International workshop on Information Heterogeneity and Fusion in Recommender Systems at RecSys 2011;
• CAMRa 2011 Challenge on Context-Aware Movie Recommendation (CAMRa 2011) at RecSys 2011;

• Web 3.0: Merging Semantic Web and Social Web, CEUR Workshop Proceedings, 2009. Online at http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-467. ISSN 1613-0073.

• Citation Indexes (April 11, 2011 by Publish or Perish 3.1.3926, query p lops)
  • H-Index = 11
  • G-Index=18
  • Citations=490

• ACM TOIT (Transactions on Internet Technologies), Special Issue on Intelligent Techniques for Web Personalization;

• ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems (2011), Special issue on Personalization and Persuasion;
• Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, Elsevier (2011);

• K-CAP 2011 (International Conference on Knowledge Capture);

• RecSys 2011 (5th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems);

• RecSys 2010 (4th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems);

• Program Co-chair of the International Workshop on Semantic Adaptive Social Web (SASWeb), at the 19th International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP 2011), Girona, Spain, July 11-15, 2011;
• Program Co-chair of the International Workshop on Decision Making and Recommendations Acceptance Issues in Recommender Systems (DEMRA), at the 19th International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP 2011), Girona, Spain, July 11-15, 2011;
• Program Co-chair of the International Workshop on Recommender Systems meet Databases, at the 22nd International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA 2011), Toulouse, France, August 29-September 2, 2011;
• Track Chair on Recommender Systems at EC-Web 2011, 12th International Conference on Electronic Commerce and Web Technologies (Toulouse, France, 29 August-2 September, 2011);

Reviewing Committees

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Editorial Boards

• ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (ACM TIST). Guest editor, special issue on Semantic Adaptive Social Web (SASWeb). January 2011.
• Web 3.0: Merging Semantic Web and Social Web.

Organizing Committees

Program Committees

Organizing Committee

• Program Co-chair of the International Workshop on Semantic Adaptive Social Web (SASWeb), at the 19th International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP 2011), Girona, Spain, July 11-15, 2011;
• Program Co-chair of the International Workshop on Decision Making and Recommendations Acceptance Issues in Recommender Systems, at the 19th International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP 2011), Girona, Spain, July 11-15, 2011;
• Program Co-chair of the International Workshop on Recommender Systems meet Databases, at the 22nd International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA 2011), Toulouse, France, August 29-September 2, 2011;

• ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (2010), Special issue on Search and Mining User Generated Contents;

• Track Chair on Recommender and Business Intelligence at EC-Web 2011, 12th International Conference on Electronic Commerce and Web Technologies (Toulouse, France, 29 August-2 September, 2011);

• IEEE Internet Computing (2010), Special issue on Information Overload;
• International Journal of Web Semantics, Elsevier (2009)
• Recommender Systems Handbook: A Complete Guide for Research Scientists & Practitioners, edited by Paul Kantor, Francesco Ricci, Lior Rokach, Bracha Shapira (2009)
• International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, Elsevier (2009)
• Encyclopaedia of Digital Libraries, Edited by Yin-Leng Theng, Schubert Foo, Dion Goh Hoe Lian, and Jin-Cheon Na, School of Communication and Information, Nanyang Technological University (Singapore)
• IJMSO International Journal of Metadata, Semantics and Ontologies
• DKE Data & Knowledge Engineering Journal

• ACM TOIT ACM Transactions on Internet Technologies, Special Issue on Intelligent Techniques for Web Personalization;
• IJEC International Journal of Electronic Commerce, special issue on Recommender Systems

• Track Chair on Recommender and Business Intelligence at EC-Web 2011, 12th International Conference on Electronic Commerce and Web Technologies (Tolouse, France, 29 August-2 September, 2011);

Events Co-organizer

• Track Chair on Recommender Systems at EC-Web 2011, 12th International Conference on Electronic Commerce and Web Technologies (Tolouse, France, 29 August-2 September, 2011);
• Track Chair on Recommender Systems at EC-Web 2010, 11th International Conference on Electronic Commerce and Web Technologies (Bilbao, Spain, 30 August-3 September, 2010);
• Program Co-chair of the International Workshop on Web 3.0: Merging Semantic Web and Social Web at the 20th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia (Hypertext 2009), Turin, Italy, June 29-July 1, 2009;
• Program Co-chair of the International Workshop on Recommender Systems and Personalized Retrieval (RSPR 2008) at the First IEEE International Conference on the Applications of Digital Information and Web Technologies (ICADIWT 2008), Ostrava, Czech Republic, August 4-6, 2008;
• Intelligent Information Access (IIA) 2008. Cagliari, December 9-11, 2008. Role: local organizer;
• 4th Workshop on Semantic Web Applications and Perspectives (SWAP) 2007. Bari, December 18-20, 2007. Role: local organizer;
• Convegno Italiano di Logica Computazionale (CILC) 2006. Bari, June 26-27, 2006. Role: local organizer;
• Co-chair of the parallel session Future Directions in Personalization and Context-Aware Access, at UAHCI 2005, 3rd International Conference on Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction. Las Vegas, USA, July 22-27, 2005;
• Workshop on Environments for Personalized Information Access (EPIA) at Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI) 2004. Gallipoli, May 25-28, 2004. Role: Local organizer.

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Member of the Program Committee

Referee

Associations

• Citation Indexes (December 16, 2010 by Publish or Perish 3.1.3926, query p lops)

• G-Index=16
• Citations=366

• Track Chair on Recommender Systems at EC-Web 2011, 12th International Conference on Electronic Commerce and Web Technologies (Tolouse, France, 29 August-2 September, 2011);

• ECIR 2011 (European Conference on Information Retrieval);
• IIR 2011 (2nd Italian Information Retrieval Workshop);
• UMAP 2010 (International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization);
• ECML-PKDD 2010 (European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases);
• LREC 2010 (International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation);
• ECIR 2010 (European Conference on Information Retrieval);
• IRCDL 2010 (Italian Research Conference on Digital Libraries);
• ISDA 2010 (International Conference on Intelligent Systems Design and Applications);
• SWAP 2010 (Italian Workshop on Semantic Web Applications and Perspectives);
• RecSys 2009 (ACM International Conference on Recommender Systems);

• CaRR 2011 (International workshop on Context-awareness in Retrieval and Recommendation at Intelligent User Interfaces IUI 2011);

• SaSWeb 2010 (International Workshop on Adaptation in Social and Semantic Web at 18th International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptiation and Personalization UMAP 2010);

• IEEE Internet Computing (2010), Special issue on Information Overload;
• International Journal of Web Semantics, Elsevier (2009)
• Recommender Systems Handbook: A Complete Guide for Research Scientists & Practitioners, edited by Paul Kantor, Francesco Ricci, Lior Rokach, Bracha Shapira (2009)
• International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, Elsevier (2009)

• ISMIS 2011 (19th International Symposium on Methodologies for Intelligent Systems);
• RecSys 2010 (18th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems);
• HSI 2010 Session: Accessing, Structuring, Analyzing and Adapting Information in Web 2.0 (3rd IEEE International Conference on Human System Interaction);
• PICom 2009 (8th IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Intelligence and Computing);
• ISDA 2009 Session S1: Computational Intelligence for Personalization in Web Content and Service Delivery (9th International Conference on Intelligent Systems Design and Applications);

• ICADIWT 2009 (2nd International Conference on the Applications of Digital Information and Web Technologies);

Short CV | Research Interests | Activities | Publications | Teaching

• Citation Indexes (October 18, 2010 by Publish or Perish 3.1.3926, query p lops)
  • H-Index = 10
  • G-Index=15
  • Citations=360

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