ACM Europe School on
Recommender Systems 2025

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The following schedule is tentative and will be updated once all details are finalized.

  Monday, 15.09. Tuesday, 16.09. Wednesday, 17.09. Thursday, 18.09. Friday, 19.09.

9:00

10:30

Registration Irina Nalis:
You Might Also Like… Complexity Recommender Systems, Psychology and Human Agency in an Age of Personalization
Alan Said:
tbd
Kim Falk:
Recommenders in the Wild
Erich Prem:
The Ethics of Recommendations
Welcome Session

11:00

12:30

Dietmar Jannach: Introduction Aonghus Lawlor:
Graph Neural Networks for Recommender Systems
Yashar Deldjoo and Reza Yousefi Maragheh:
Modern Topics in Recommender Systems: From Generative to Agentic RecSys
Morten Arngren:
Bayesian A/B Testing and Bayesian Bandits: A Practical Guide for Recommender Systems
Michael Ekstrand: Fairness and Social Impact
Lunch Breaks (12.30-14.00)

14:00

15:30

Dietmar Jannach: Recommender Systems: Value, Methods, Measurements Lien Michiels:
Best Practices for Offline Evaluation
Toine Bogers and Mesut Kaya: Recommendation in the Labor Market Li Chen:
User Evaluation on Conversational Recommender Systems
tbd

16:00

17:30

Barry Smyth:
People Who Liked This Also Liked … A Publication Analysis of Three Decades of Recommender Systems
All:
Reflecting on Use Cases
Francesco Barile, Ludovico Boratto, Amra Delic, and Ladislav Peska:
Group Recommender Systems
All:
Reflecting on Use Cases
Closing Session
Evening Welcome Reception   Summer School Dinner Networking Event (optional) Goodbye!

Coffee breaks are scheduled at around 10:30-11:00 and 15:30-16:00.