Date: Tuesday, 7 December 2021
Join the workshop: Zoom link
Meeting ID: 968 5341 6886 Passcode: VWd6rwKH@h


New Zealand Time(UTC+13:00) Central Europe Time(UTC+1:00) New York Time(UTC-5:00) Event Chair
2:00pm-2:10pm 2:00am-2:10am 8:00pm-8:10pm Opening Remarks (10’)
Xiuzhen Zhang, Yan Wang
Xiuzhen Zhang, Yan Wang
2:10pm-3:05pm 2:10am-3:05am 8:10pm-9:05pm Keynote Speach 1 (55’)
Guandong Xu, University of Technology Sydney, Australia
Causal Learning for Recommender Systems
Yan Wang
3:05pm-3:45pm 3:05am-3:45am 9:05pm-9:45pm Session 1 (15’+15’+10’)
Joonyoung Yi, Beomsu Kim, and Buru Chang
"Embedding Normalization: Significance Preserving Feature Normalization for Click-Through Rate Prediction" (Best Paper Award)

Shaina Raza, Syed Raza Bashir, Dora D. Liu, and Usman Naseem
"Balanced News Neural Network for a News Recommender System"

Shaoliang Zhang, Xuefeng Liu, Jianwei Niu, and Huiyong Li
"ContentHE: Content-enhanced Network Embedding for Hashtag Representation"
Qi Zhang
3:45pm-3:55pm 3:45am-3:55am 9:45pm-9:55pm Coffee Break (10’)
Gather Town 10mins Break
3:55pm-4:50pm 3:55am-4:50am 9:55pm-10:50pm Keynote Speach 2 (55’)
Fangzhao Wu, Microsoft Research Asia, China
Personalized and Responsible News Recommendation
Wenpeng Lu
4:50pm-5:30pm 4:50am-5:30am 10:50pm-11:30pm Session 2 (15’+15’+10’)
Tobias Koopmann, Konstantin Kobs, Konstantin Herud, and Andreas Hotho
"CoBERT: Scientific Collaboration Prediction viaSequential Recommendation"

Wenxiong Wu, Yongli Cheng, Hong Jiang, Fang Wang, Xianghao Xu, Dan He, and Jing Yu
"IBFM: An Instance-weight Balanced Factorization Machine for Sparse Prediction"

Junbeom Kim, Sihyun Jeong, Goeon Park, Kihoon Cha, Ilhyun Suh, and Byungkook Oh
"DynaPosGNN: Dynamic-Positional GNN for Next POI Recommendation"
Qi Zhang
5:30pm-5:40pm 5:30am-5:40am 11:30pm-11:40pm Coffee Break (10’)
Gather Town 10mins Break
5:40pm-6:35 5:40am-6:35am 11:40pm-12:35pm Keynote Speach 3 (55’)
Jian Cao, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China
Towards Building a Fair Recommender Systems
Liang Hu
6:35pm-7:15pm 6:35am-7:15am 12:35pm-01:15am Session 3 (15’+15’+10’)
Wei Jiang, Fangquan Lin, Jihai Zhang, Cheng Yang, Hanwei Zhang, and Ziqiang Cui
"Dynamic Sequential Recommendation: Decoupling User Intent from Temporal Context" (Best Paper Runner Up Award)

Vladimir Provalov, Elizaveta Stavinova, and Petr Chunaev
"SynEvaRec: A Framework for Evaluating Recommender Systems on Synthetic Data Classes"

Domokos Miklós Kelen and András Benczúr
"A probabilistic perspective on nearest neighbor for implicit recommendation"
Liang Hu
7:15pm-7:25pm 7:15am-7:25am 01:15am-01:25am Coffee Break (10’)
Gather Town 10mins Break
7:25pm-8:20pm 7:25am-8:20am 01:25am-02:20am Keynote Speach 4 (55’)
Dietmar Jannach, University of Klagenfurt, Austria
Recommender Systems, McNamara, and the Illusion of Progress
Shoujin Wang
8:20pm-8:55pm 8:20am-8:55am 02:20am-02:55am Session 4 (15’+10’+10’)
Chuanyan Zhang and Xiaoguang Hong
"Challenging the Long Tail Recommendation on Heterogeneous Information Network"

Alexander Dallmann, Johannes Kohlmann, Daniel Zoller, and Andreas Hotho
"Sequential Item Recommendation in the MOBA Game Dota 2"

Minghao Chen and Jiale Zheng
"Incorporating Adjacent User Modeling into Session-based Recommendation with Graph Neural Networks"
Sunny Verma
8:55pm-9:00pm 8:55am-9:00am 02:55am-03:00pm Closing Remarks (5’)
Xiuzhen Zhang,Yan Wang