Organizers: Vito Walter Anelli (Polytechnic University of Bari), Antonio Ferrara (Polytechnic University of Bari), Cataldo Musto (University of Bari), Fedelucio Narducci (Polytechnic University of Bari), Azzurra Ragone (University of Bari) and Markus Zanker (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano)

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The purpose of the Knowledge-aware and Conversational Recommender Systems (KaRS) Workshop is to provide a meeting forum for stimulating and disseminating research in Knowledge-aware and Conversational Recommender Systems, where researchers can network and discuss their research results in an informal way.The 6th Knowledge-aware and Conversational Recommender Systems (KaRS) Workshop focuses on all aspects related to the exploitation of external and explicit knowledge sources to feed and build a recommendation engine, and on the adoption of interactions based on the conversational paradigm. The aim is to go beyond the traditional accuracy goal and to start a new generation of algorithms and approaches with the help of the methodological diversity embodied in fields such as Machine Learning (ML), Human–Computer Interaction (HCI), Information Retrieval (IR) and Information Systems (IS). Consequently the focus lies on works improving the user experience and following goals such as user engagement and satisfaction or customer value.