The UMAP conferences have historically been organized under the auspices of User Modeling Inc.,[1] a professional organization of User Modeling researchers.[2] Until 2015, the conference proceedings were published by Springer.[3] In 2016, the UMAP conference series became affiliated with the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM),[4] where it is supported by ACM SIGWEB and ACM SIGCHI.
History
UMAP is the successor of the biennial conference series on User Modeling and Adaptive Hypermedia.[5] The User Modeling series started in 1986 as the First International Workshop on User Modeling (UM)[6] at Maria Laach, Germany and was first officially called a conference at the Fourth International Conference on User Modeling[7] in Hyannis, Massachusetts. The last conference in the original series was UM 2007.[8] The International Conference on Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web-based Systems (abbreviated as AH) started in 2000.[9][10] The last conference in this original series was AH 2008,[11][12] held in 2008. For several years between 2000 and 2008, UM and AH ran biennially in alternate years. In 2009, the conference series merged into a single annual series under the UMAP designation. The first UMAP conference was in 2009.[13]
The full list of conferences in the series can be found on the UM Inc. website[14] and in a timeline on the Springer publisher website.[15]
^Litman, Diane; Kobsa, Alfred; Goodman, Brad (1996-03-15). "The Fourth International Conference on User Modeling". AI Magazine. 17 (1): 96. doi:10.1609/aimag.v17i1.1219.