text_combined: ingrid zukerman irqtywvudfghuzinfotechmonasheduau apologies multiple postings note submission deadline oct 31 2005 call papers special issue statistical probabilistic methods user modeling user modeling useradapted interaction journal personalization research international journal published springer verlag background growth popularity online resources highlights importance developing machinery access resources time access resources large numbers users provides opportunities collecting leveraging vast amounts data user activity last decade significant developments probabilistic dataintensive technologies accessing information online resources field user modeling also part trend development statistical models behaviour capabilities preferences users groups users special issue user modeling useradapted interaction explore recent developments different aspects statistical probabilistic techniques user modeling contributions particularly welcome limited following areas user modeling applications machine learning statistical techniques bayesian networks decision trees graphs clustering techniques decisiontheoretic approaches neural networks theoretical developments statistical modeling machine learning relevant user modeling issues methods statistical evaluation user models adaptations user models time including cold start concept drift combination contentbased collaborative user models learning statistical user models data sets different characteristics eg imbalanced data sets large data sets synthetic data sets submit submissions special issue follow umuai submission instructions obtainable web site httpwwwumuaiorg electronic submissions preferred submission note intended special issue statistical probabilistic methods user modeling umuai archival journal publishes mature substantiated research results dynamic adaptation computer systems human users role model system user plays context many articles umuai quite comprehensive describe results several years work consequently umuai gives unlimited space authors long write important potential authors asked notify guest editors david albrecht email kticssemonasheduau ingrid zukerman email ibzstdcssemonasheduau soon possible intent submit article sometime thereafter preferably month prior submission deadline submit tentative title short abstract altered actual submission assist formation panel appropriate reviewers review process submissions undergo normal review process reviewed three established researchers selected panel reviewers formed special issue barring unforeseen problems authors expect notified regarding review results within three months submission important dates notification intent submit soon possible deadline date submissions october 31 2005 please address questions guest editors david albrecht ingrid zukerman computer science software eng monash university httpwwwcssemonasheduaudwaingrid phone 61 3 99055526202 email dwaingridcssemonasheduau alfred kobsa university california irvine httpwwwicsuciedukobsa wed 06 aug 2008 170442 1100 uai special issue statistical probabilistic methods user modeling