<html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <style type="text/css" style="display:none"></style> </head> <body dir="ltr" style="font-size:12pt;color:#000000;background-color:#FFFFFF;font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> <p></p> <font face="Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif" style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> <div align="center" style="text-align: center;"><font face="Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><font face="Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif" size="4"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">====================================================</span></font></span></font></div> <div align="center" style="text-align: center;"><font face="Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><font face="Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">13th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems</span></font><font face="Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><br> </font></span></font></div> <div align="center" style="text-align: center;"><font face="Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><font face="Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><strong>FashionXRecsys</strong></font><font face="Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> - </font><font face="Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Workshop</font><font face="Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> on Recommender Systems in Fashion</font></span></font></div> <div align="center" style="text-align: center;"><font face="Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><font face="Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Copenhagen, Denmark, 20th September 2019</font></span></font></div> <div align="center" style="text-align: center;"><font face="Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><a href="https://zalandoresearch.github.io/fashionxrecsys/" target="_blank" id="gmail-m_2115814335650990290m_-1207103717610114703NoLP"><font face="Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><font face="Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif" color="#1155CC">https://zalandoresearch.github.io/fashionxrecsys/</font></font></a></span></font></div> <div align="center" style="text-align: center;"><font face="Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size: 16px;"> <div><font face="Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> </font></div> <div><font face="Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><font face="Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif" size="4"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">====================================================</span></font></font></div> <div><font face="Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><font face="Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif" size="4"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><br> </span></font></font></div> </span></font></div> </font></font><span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></span> <div align="center" style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: center;"> <font face="Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif" size="3" color="black"><font face="Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size: 16px;"> <div align="justify"><font face="Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><font face="Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">We are pleased to invite you to participate in the 1st full-day </font><font face="Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">workshop</font><font face="Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> on Recommender Systems in Fashion (FashionXRecsys) that will be held on September 20th, 2019 in Copenhagan, Denmark. </font></font></div> <div align="justify"><font face="Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><br> </font></div> <div align="justify"><font face="Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><font face="Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">This </font><font face="Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">workshop</font><font face="Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> aims to bring together researchers and practitioners in the fashion, recommendations and machine learning domains to discuss open problems in the aforementioned areas. This involves addressing interdisciplinary problems with all of the challenges it entails. Within this </font><font face="Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">workshop</font><font face="Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> we aim to start the conversation among professionals in the fashion and e-commerce industries and recommender systems scientists, and create a new space for collaboration between these communities necessary for tackling these deep problems. To provide rich opportunities to share opinions and experience in such an emerging field, we will accept paper submissions on established and novel ideas, as well as new interactive participation formats.</font><font face="Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><br> </font></font></div> <div align="justify"><font face="Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><br> </font></div> </span></font></font> <div align="justify"><font face="Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif" size="3" color="black"><font face="Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif" size="2"><font face="Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><font face="Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Suggested topics for submissions are (but not limited to):</font><font face="Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><br> </font> <ul style="margin-top: 14pt; margin-bottom: 14pt;"> <font face="Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> <li style="margin-left: 15px;"><font face="Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><font face="Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Computer vision in Fashion (image classification, semantic segmentation, object detection.)</font></font></li><li style="margin-left: 15px;"><font face="Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><font face="Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Deep learning in recommendation systems for Fashion.</font></font></li><li style="margin-left: 15px;"><font face="Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><font face="Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Learning and application of fashion style (personalized style, implicit and explicit preferences, budget, social behaviour, etc.)</font></font></li><li style="margin-left: 15px;"><font face="Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><font face="Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Size and Fit recommendations through mining customers implicit and explicit size and fit preferences.</font></font></li><li style="margin-left: 15px;"><font face="Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><font face="Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Modelling articles and brands size and fit similarity.</font></font></font></li><li style="margin-left: 15px;"><font face="Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Usage of ontologies and article metadata in fashion and retail (NLP, social mining, search.)</font></li><li style="margin-left: 15px;"><font face="Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Addressing cold-start problem both for items and users in fashion recommendation.</font></li><li style="margin-left: 15px;"><font face="Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Knowledge transfer in multi-domain fashion recommendation systems.</font></li><li style="margin-left: 15px;"><font face="Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Hybrid recommendations on customers’ history and on-line behavior.</font></li><li style="margin-left: 15px;"><font face="Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Multi- or Cross- domain recommendations (social media and online shops)</font></li><li style="margin-left: 15px;"><font face="Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Privacy preserving techniques for customer’s preferences tracing.</font></li><li style="margin-left: 15px;"><font face="Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Understanding social and psychological factors and impacts of influence on users’ fashion choices (such as Instagram, influencers, etc.)</font></li></ul> </font></font></font></div> <div align="justify"><font face="Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><br> </font></div> <div align="justify"><font face="Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><font face="Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><strong>Paper submission deadline</strong></font><font face="Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">: July 19th, 2019</font><font face="Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><br> </font><font face="Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><strong>Author notification</strong></font><font face="Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">: August 15th, 2019</font><font face="Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><br> </font><font face="Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><strong>Camera-ready version deadline</strong></font><font face="Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">: August 27th, 2019</font><font face="Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><br> </font><font face="Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><strong>Workshop</strong></font><font face="Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">: September 20th, 2019</font><font face="Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><br> </font></font></div> <div align="justify"><font face="Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><br> </font></div> <div align="justify"><font face="Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><font face="Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">All deadlines refer to 23:59 (11:59pm) in the AoE (Anywhere on Earth) time zone.</font><font face="Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><br> </font></font></div> <div align="justify"><font face="Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><br> </font></div> <div align="justify"><font face="Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><font face="Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">The peer review process is double-blind (i.e. anonymised). All accepted papers will be available through the program website which will be linked from the official RecSys19 site. Moreover, selected authors will be invited to contribute an extended version of their paper to be published </font><font face="Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">in a Springer volume with similar title as the workshop. </font><font face="Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">For more information on paper submission instructions, please check the website: </font><a href="https://zalandoresearch.github.io/fashionxrecsys/" target="_blank" id="gmail-m_2115814335650990290m_-1207103717610114703NoLP"><font face="Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><font face="Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif" color="#1155CC">https://zalandoresearch.github.io/fashionxrecsys/</font></font></a><font face="Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> </font><font face="Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><br> </font><font face="Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><br> </font></font></div> <div align="justify"><font face="Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><font face="Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">If you have any questions, please contact us on: </font><a href="mailto:recsysxfashion@gmail.com" target="_blank"><font face="Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><font face="Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif" color="#1155CC"><strong>recsysxfashion@gmail.com</strong></font></font></a><font face="Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">.</font><font face="Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><br> </font></font></div> <div align="justify"><font face="Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><br> </font></div> <div align="justify"><font face="Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><font face="Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Kindest Regards,</font><font face="Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><br> </font></font></div> <div align="justify"><font face="Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">FashionXRecsys Organizers</font></div> </div> <p><br> </p> <div id="Signature"> <div name="divtagdefaultwrapper" style="font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:; margin:0"> </div> </div> </body> </html>