Dr. Dr. Recommender Systems: Mounia Lalmas becomes an honorary doctor in Gothenburg
The University of Gothenburg has appointed Mounia Lalmas (-Roelleke) as an honorary doctor at its Faculty of Science and Technology. That is a nice sentence...
Update of the RecSys Expert Map
We updated our recommender-systems expert map to a new system. It’s not yet perfect, e.g. for some entries the roles are missing, and members of...
A New RecSys Blog: MagicMag on Recommender Systems and the Missing ChatGPT Moment
We stumbled on an interesting new blog. It is called MagicMag, and the simple reason to note it is this: our community needs much more...
Call for Papers: Challenges in Modern Multimodal Recommender Systems (ACM TORS)
Multimodal recommendation is one of those ideas that sounds obvious until one looks more closely. Of course recommender systems should use more than one signal....
Music Recommender Systems: Call for Papers by ACM TORS for a Special Issue
Music recommendation is an unusually difficult problem. It is not only about matching listeners to songs. It is also a matter of balancing the interests...
RS_c moves from X/Twitter to LinkedIn as the primary social channel
For years, RS_c treated X (and Twitter before it) as the natural place to “ship” recommender-systems news. You published a post, you dropped a link,...
ACM UMAP 2025: (Preliminary) Call for Papers
UMAP (B ranked) released a preliminary Call for Papers for the UMAP 2025 conference in New York from June 16 – 20, 2025. We also...
Green Recommender-Systems at ACM RecSys 2024
There are only a few days left until the 18th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems begins, and one topic is quite prominently represented this year:...
Green Recommender Systems: A Call for Attention
Recommender systems are a cornerstone of many industries, from e-commerce to streaming services. Their role in shaping user choices is significant, driving customer engagement and...
CfP ACM TOIS: Special Section on Causality Representation Learning in LLMs-Driven Recommender Systems
The ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS) announces a special section dedicated to “Causality Representation Learning in LLMs-Driven Recommender Systems.” This call for papers invites...