UMAP 2016 Posters, Demos,
                           and Late-Breaking Results Papers
                                       Preface

                         Darina Dicheva                                     Michel C. Desmarais
                Department of Computer Science                       Computer and Software Engineering,
                 Winston-Salem State University                           Polytechnique Montreal
                   Winston-Salem, NC, USA                               Montreal, Quebec, Canada
                      dichevad@wssu.edu                                michel.desmarais@polymtl.ca

   The 24th International Conference on User Modeling,           Program Committee
Adaptation, and Personalization (UMAP 2016) was held in          Mathias Bauer, mineway GmbH, Germany
Halifax, Canada, on July 13-16, 2016. In addition to the reg-    Maria Bielikova, Slovak University of Technology in
ular research papers track in which substantive research was          Bratislava, Slovakia
presented, the UMAP conference provided the opportunity          Pradipta Biswas, Vanderbilt University, USA
for presenting original and unpublished accounts of innova-      Paul Brna, University of Leeds, UK
tive research ideas, preliminary results of recently started     Joost Broekens, TU Delft, Netherlands
research projects, industry showcases, and system proto-         Paolo Cremonesi, ecnico di Milano, Italy
types, addressing both the theory and practice of user mod-      Ernesto Diaz-Aviles, IBM Rearch, USA
eling, adaptation and personalization, in the form of posters,   Bruce Ferwerda, Johannes Kepler University, Austria
demonstrations, or late-breaking results. A total of 15 sub-     Panagiotis Germanakos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus
missions were received on the first call. The submissions        Bradley Goodman, The MITRE Corporation, USA
were reviewed by at least two independent reviewers. They        Jesse Hoey, University of Waterloo, Canada
were assessed based on their originality and novelty, poten-     Geert-Jan Houben, TU Delf, Netherlands
tial contribution to the research field, potential impact in     Dietmar Jannach, TU Dortmund, Germany
particular use cases, and the usefulness of presented experi-    Marius Kaminskas, Insight Centre for Data Analytics,
ences, as well as their overall readability.                        UCC, Ireland
   A total of 11 papers were accepted, including 5 posters, 1    Tsvi Kuflik, University of Haifa, Israel
demo, and 5 late-breaking results papers, which are included     W. Lewis Johnson, Alelo Inc., USA
in these online extended proceedings of UMAP 2016. In ad-        James Lester, North Carolina State University, USA
dition, 15 submissions to the main conference were accepted      Gordon McCalla, University of Saskatchewan, Canada
for poster presentation and were published in the main pro-      Riichiro Mizoguchi, Japan Advanced Institute of Science
ceedings of UMAP 2016, published by Springer.                    and Technology, Japan
   We extend our thanks to all authors who submitted their       Cataldo Musto, University of Bari, Italy
research to the UMAP 2016 Poster, Demo, and Late Break-          Elena Not, FBK-irst, Italy
ing Results track. We are also thankful to the following         Ma. Mercedes T. Rodrigo, Ateneo de Manila University,
members of the UMAP 2016 Program Committee, who re-                 Philipines
viewed the papers submitted to the UMAP 2016 Poster,             Domenico Rosaci, University Mediterranea of Reggio
Demo, and Late Breaking Results track.                              Calabria, Italy
                                                                 Ben Steichen, University of British Columbia, Canada
                                                                 Marko Tkalcic, Johannes Kepler University, Austria
                                                                 Amali Weerasinghe, The University of Adelaide, Australia
                                                                 Michael Yudelson, Carnegie Learning, Inc., USA
                                                                 Jie Zhang, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
                                                                 Ingrid Zukerman, Monash University, Australia