LATEST NEWS ON THE JOURNAL

Planned special issues:

Semantic Technologies for User Modeling and Adaptation Guest editors: Nicola Henze and Gerd Stumme	DEADLINE: April 30, 2008
Personalizing Real and Virtual Explorations of Cultural Heritage Guest editors: Liliana Ardissono and Daniela Petrelli	CLOSED: scheduled to appear in 2008/09
Data Mining for Personalization Guest editors: Bamshad Mobasher and Alexander Tuzhilin	CLOSED: scheduled to appear in 2008/09

Recent publication history:

• UMUAI 18(1+2) appeared in January 2008. It features the special issue on Affective Modeling and Adaptation.
• UMUAI 17(5) appeared in October 2007.
• UMUAI 17(4) [regular issue]  appeared in September 2007
• UMUAI 17(3) [regular issue]  appeared in July 2007.
• UMUAI 17(1-2) appeared in March 2007. It features the special issue on Statistical and Probabilistic Methods for User Modeling.
• UMUAI 16(5) [regular issue] appeared in December 2006.
• UMUAI 16(3-4) appeared in Fall 2006. It features the special issue on User Modeling for Groups, Communities and Collaboration
• UMUAI 16(2) [regular issue] appeared in June 2006.
• UMUAI 16(1) [regular issue] appeared in April 2006.
• UMUAI 15(5) [regular issue] appeared in December 2005.
• UMUAI 15(3+4) appeared in September 2005. It features the special issue on User Modeling in Ubiquitous Computing..
• UMUAI 15(1+2) appeared in April 2005. It features the special issue on Language-Based Interaction.
• UMUAI 14(5) [regular issue] appeared in December 2004.
• UMUAI 14(4) [regular issue] appeared in November 2004.
• UMUAI 14(2+3) appeared in July 2004. It contains the special issue on User Modeling for Web Information Retrieval
• UMUAI 14(1) appeared in April 2004. It contains the special issue on User Modeling and Personalization for Television.

If you are subscribed to UMUAI but did not receive one of these issues, please contact your local distributor or the Springer Distribution Centre (attn: Mrs. Wilma v.d. Klooster or Greet Vermaas), P.O. Box 17, NL-3300 AA Dordrecht, NETHERLANDS.

"Spin-off" books:

• Peter Brusilovsky, Alfred Kobsa and Julita Vassileva: Adaptive Hypertext and Hypermedia. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1998.

• Susan Haller, Susan McRoy and Alfred Kobsa: Computational Models of Mixed-Initiative Interaction. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1999.

• Liliana Ardissono, Alfred Kobsa and Mark Maybury: Personalized Digital Television: Targeting Programs to Individual Viewers, 2004.

Not a "spin-off", but very comprehensive:

• Peter Brusilovsky, Alfred Kobsa and Wolfgang Nejdl, eds. (2007): The Adaptive Web: Methods and Strategies of Web Personalization. Heidelberg, Germany: Springer Verlag. [Print edition]

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