ECML/PKDD Discovery Challenge 2011: VideoLectures.Net recommender system

The challenge is organized in order to improve the website's recommender system. The challenge consists of two main tasks and a "side-by" contest. Due to the nature of the problem, each of the tasks has its own merit: the first task simulates new-user and new-item recommendation (cold-start mode) situation; the second task simulates (normal mode) clickstream based recommendation. A side-by contest is organized for the best computational workflow, to be chosen by an expert panel.

For more information and participation please visit
ECML/PKDD 2011 Discovery Challenge web page.

Competition web page: tunedit.org/challenge/VLNetChallenge

VideoLectures.net is a free and open access multimedia repository of video lectures, mainly of research and educational character. The lectures are given by distinguished scholars and scientists at the most important and prominent events like conferences, summer schools, workshops and science promotional events from many fields of Science.

Important Dates:

• April 18, 2011 - start of the challenge (10:00 AM Central European Time)
• July 8, 2011 - closing of the challenge - participants submit last predictions (11:59 PM Central European Time)
• July 22, 2011 - paper submission deadline
• August 8, 2011 - paper notifications
• August 15, 2011 - camera-ready version due
• September 5, 2011 - workshop

• Matko Bošnjak, Nino Antulov-Fantulin, Tomislav Šmuc -- Ruđer Bošković Institute
• Nada Lavrač, Mitja Jermol, Martin Žnidaršič - Jožef Stefan Institute
• Peter Keše - Viidea Ltd