1st FRAME Workshop

The FRAME Workshop is a novel workshop aimed at piloting a new paradigm for recommender systems research execution and evaluation. The workshop will foster the identification and formalization of new recommendation tasks beyond the saturated top-N setting, with shared and rigorous evaluation methodologies. In parallel, the workshop will explore a new paradigm for research assessment and validation, where contributions are initially judged solely on their experimental and methodological rigor with respect to predefined, industry-relevant tasks, and only in a second stage evaluated for their originality and broader scientific impact. The workshop will combine (i) an invitation-only interactive format structured as a moderated discussion aimed at jointly rethinking both the research agenda and the evaluation culture of the research community, and (ii) an open paper submission session, piloting new experimental and reviewing methodologies. The long-term goal is to establish a sustainable and iterative initiative, in which successive editions of the workshop progressively experiment with and refine alternative publication assessment models, applied to both established and newly proposed tasks, while continuously discussing and formalizing emerging recommendation tasks and their corresponding evaluation methodologies, ultimately strengthening experimental standards and bridging the gap between academic research and industry needs.