RECSYS

It is our great pleasure to welcome you to the 10th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2016), held in Boston, MA, USA, from September 15th through 19th. Since it was first held ten years ago, RecSys has grown to become the leading conference for the presentation and discussion of recommender systems research, bringing together the world's leading recommender systems researchers and e-commerce companies.

The program for RecSys 2016 reflects the growth of the Recommender Systems community. For the second time in the history of RecSys we will offer two parallel tracks during the three days of the main conference with a record breaking 112 contributions including 51 technical papers, 9 Past, Present, and Future papers, 15 industry papers, four tutorials, three keynotes, and 30 demos and posters. We again offer an extensive pre-conference program with nine workshops, the RecSys Challenge and a doctoral symposium.

The technical program for RecSys 2016 drew upon a record 294 total submissions. To celebrate the tenth year of the conference, the program features a new track reflecting on past, present, and future research in the field of recommender systems. Papers in this track consider a broad perspective on how the field has evolved and the challenges and directions that lie ahead. The review process for all tracks was highly selective. In the main program, 29 long papers were accepted out of 159 submissions (18.2% acceptance rate), 22 out of 110 short papers (20% acceptance rate), and 9 out of 25 Past, Present and Future paper submissions (36% acceptance rate). Prominent topics covered by these papers include human factors, social aspects, context awareness, cold start, novelty and diversity, and core algorithmic research (matrix factorization, deep learning, probabilistic approaches, etc.).

Building on the tradition established by previous years, RecSys 2016 features a strong focus on significant real-world challenges facing industrial practitioners and practical solutions to those challenges. The three industry sessions feature a rich set of talks from Mendeley, Meetup, Bloomberg, Foursquare, Spotify, Netflix, Pandora, Stitch Fix, Expedia, Nara Logics, GraphSQL, Retail Rocket, Quora, Google and Pinterest. A wide range of domains are represented in these sessions including publishing, news, Q & A, events, music, movies, television, fashion, apps and games.