Welcome to ABIS Special Interest Group

ABIS is the German Special Interest Group (SIG) on Adaptivity and User Modeling in Interactive Software Systems. Our aim is to advance research on adaptive systems and foster exchange within the research community.

We organize annual workshops and maintain a mailing list and several social media channels to connect researchers and practitioners interested in the field. 

The group is open to everyone with an interest in adaptivity, personalization, recommender systems, and user modeling. We especially encourage students and early-career researchers to join, benefit from the expertise within our community, and actively contribute to its activities. We also warmly welcome members from outside Germany and encourage international collaboration.

Announcements (last update July 2026)

• ABIS 2026-Workshop: A Reflection Summary of the Effects of the Adaptive Web on Society
• The proceedings of ABIS 2026 are available online in the ACM Digital Library (link).
• The ABIS 2026 workshop will take place at the ACM Web Science Conference 2026 in Braunschweig (26 May 2026). See the Call for Papers.
• The results of the board elections are in. We are delighted that Laura Stojko has been elected as Chair, and Julia Seitz and Jannis Strecker-Bischoff as Vice-Chairs. Thomas Neumayr, Enes Yigitbas, Mirjam Augstein and Eelco Herder are further members of the steering committee.
• The proceedings of ABIS 2025 are available online in the GI Digital Library (link).
• The ABIS 2025 workshop will take place at Mensch und Computer 2025 in Chemnitz (30 August 2025).
• The proceedings of ABIS 2024 are available online in the GI Digital Library (link).
• The ABIS 2024 workshop will take place at Mensch und Computer 2024 in Karlsruhe (1 September 2024).

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