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# BEYOND 2025
BEYOND Workshop at RecSys 2025

### Proceedings of Beyond Algorithms: Reclaiming the Interdisciplinary Roots of Recommender Systems Workshop (BEYOND 2025)
co-located with the 19th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2025)

### Prague, Czech Republic, September 26, 2025.

Edited by

### Eva Zangerle, Department of Computer Science, Universität Innsbruck, Austria
Alan Said, Department of Applied Information Technology, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
Christine Bauer, Department of Artificial Intelligence and Human Interfaces, Paris Lodron University Salzburg, Austria

## Table of Contents

- Summary: There were 19 papers submitted for peer-review to this workshop. Out of these, 5 papers were accepted for this volume (1 case study, 4 position papers).

### Keynote

- Exploration–Exploitation Dilemma in Recommender Systems: Is It the Time to Switch to the Exploration Mode Again?
  Alexander Tuzhilin

### Case Studies and Position Papers

- What News Recommendation Research Did (But Mostly Didn't) Teach Us About Building A News Recommender
  Karl Higley, Robin Burke, Michael D. Ekstrand, Bart Knijnenburg
- Toward Operationalizing a Comprehensive Evaluation Framework for Recommender Systems Explanations
  Kathrin Wardatzky, Oana Inel, Abraham Bernstein
- Why Do Recommenders Recommend? Three Waves of Research Perspectives on Recommender Systems
  Annelien Smets, Christine Bauer
- A Goal-based approach for Persuasive Health-Behaviour Recommender Systems
  Wald Habets, Karin Coninx
- We're Still Doing It (All) Wrong: Recommender Systems, Fifteen Years Later
  Alan Said, Maria Soledad Pera, Michael D. Ekstrand

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