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AltRecSys: A Workshop on Alternative, Unexpected, and Critical Ideas in Recommendation

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The AltRecsys workshop, held in conjunction with the 18th edition of the ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys) in Bari, Italy, provides a platform for highlighting “alternative” work in recommender systems. Modeled after alt.chi and the CRAFT sessions at the FAccT conference, AltRecSys offers a space to discuss interesting, preliminary, offbeat, unexpected, and critical ideas in recommender systems that do not (yet) fit well into the kinds of publications and formats for the main conference or traditional workshops. This workshop is not a venue to showcase research advances. Instead, it is envisioned as a forum where researchers, (industry) practitioners, and other associated stakeholders can exchange ideas and together identify areas of study and new questions to expand the discussions and research agendas of the RecSys community in future years. The call for contributions and the workshop sessions are centered around the question “what are the vital questions, needs, or opportunities that the RecSys community is currently overlooking?”

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    RecSys '24: Proceedings of the 18th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems
    October 2024
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    1. alternative ideas
    2. criticism
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    4. methodology
    5. recommender systems
    6. speculative design

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