{"id":91,"date":"2016-03-20T17:28:27","date_gmt":"2016-03-20T17:28:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ec.tuwien.ac.at\/rectour2016\/?page_id=91"},"modified":"2016-09-16T01:37:21","modified_gmt":"2016-09-16T01:37:21","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.ec.tuwien.ac.at\/rectour2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to RecTour 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This one-day workshop held in conjunction with <a href=\"https:\/\/recsys.acm.org\/recsys16\/\" target=\"_blank\">RecSys 2016<\/a> addresses specific challenges for recommender systems in the tourism domain.\u00a0Planning a vacation usually involves searching for a set of products that are interconnected (e.g., transportation, lodging, attractions) with limited availability, and where contextual aspects may have a major impact (e.g., spatiotemporal context). RecTour 2016 aims at attracting presentations of novel ideas in order to advance the current state of the art in the field of tourism recommenders; topics include specific applications and case studies (evaluation), specific methods and techniques, context and mobility, the cold-start problem, preference elicitation, and emotions and recommenders. Researchers and practitioners from different fields are invited to submit research and position papers as well as demonstration systems. The workshop\u00a0will take place at <a href=\"https:\/\/recsys.acm.org\/recsys16\/location-ibm\/?from=location\" target=\"_blank\">IBM Research<\/a>, Cambridge, MA, USA\u00a0at September 15th, 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Authors of selected best papers will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers to an upcoming special issue of the Springer\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.springer.com\/business+%26+management\/business+information+systems\/journal\/40558\">Journal of Information Technology &amp; Tourism<\/a> (JITT), which is affiliated with the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ifitt.org\" target=\"_blank\">International Federation for IT and Travel &amp; Tourism<\/a> (IFITT).<\/p>\n<h3>Latest News<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>The workshop proceedings have been published online by\u00a0by CEUR Workshop Proceedings (<a href=\"http:\/\/ceur-ws.org\/Vol-1685\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span class=\"CEURVOLNR\">Vol-1685<\/span><\/a>). They\u00a0can also be downloaded <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ec.tuwien.ac.at\/rectour2016\/wp-content\/uploads\/RecTour2016_Proceedings.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\">here<\/a>\u00a0in a\u00a0single PDF file (8 MB).<\/li>\n<li>Please check out the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ec.tuwien.ac.at\/rectour2016\/program\/\">workshop program<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>We are pleased\u00a0to announce that our\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ec.tuwien.ac.at\/rectour2016\/keynote\/\">keynote speaker<\/a> will be Hannes Werthner from TU Wien, Austria.<\/li>\n<li>Please find <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ec.tuwien.ac.at\/rectour2016\/accepted-papers\/\">here<\/a> the list of\u00a0accepted\u00a0contributions.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This one-day workshop held in conjunction with RecSys 2016 addresses specific challenges for recommender systems in the tourism domain.\u00a0Planning a vacation usually involves searching for a set of products that are interconnected (e.g., transportation, lodging, attractions) with limited availability, and&#8230;<br \/><a class=\"read-more-button\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ec.tuwien.ac.at\/rectour2016\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-91","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ec.tuwien.ac.at\/rectour2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/91","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ec.tuwien.ac.at\/rectour2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ec.tuwien.ac.at\/rectour2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ec.tuwien.ac.at\/rectour2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ec.tuwien.ac.at\/rectour2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"http:\/\/www.ec.tuwien.ac.at\/rectour2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/91\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":350,"href":"http:\/\/www.ec.tuwien.ac.at\/rectour2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/91\/revisions\/350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ec.tuwien.ac.at\/rectour2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}