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This paper describes the techniques used to dynamically generate personalized Web catalog pages in a prototype toolkit for the creation of adaptive Web stores. We focus on the integration of personalization strategies for selecting the layout and ...

Web-based intelligent tutoring systems try to fill the gap between human teachers and printed textbooks as distance learning aids. Actually, intelligent tutoring systems research is concerned with the development of computer tools that show adaptive ...

Good patient education can help to reduce health service costs and improve the quality of life of people with chronic or terminal conditions. Adapting educational materials to the patients' needs and interests can make them more effective. Computer-...

This paper presents a system that combines adaptive hypertext linking based on group link preferences with an implicit navigation-based mechanism for personalized link recommendations. A methodology using three Hebbian-style learning rules changes ...

This article presents adaptive navigation support and adaptive collaboration support tasks in WebDL, an interactive system for focusing teaching on student performance and resolving problems detected in Internet use for distance learning. This ...

As it stands the Internets one size fits all approach to information retrieval presents the average user with a serious information overload problem. Adaptive hypermedia systems can provide a solution to this problem by learning about the implicit and ...

The GUIDE system has been developed in order to provide city visitors with an intelligent and context-aware tourist guide. The system has been deployed in the city of Lancaster and integrates the use of hand-held personal computing technologies, ...

Virtual Reality (VR) interfaces to e-commerce sites have recently begun to appear on the Internet, promising to make the e-shopping experience more natural, attractive, and fun for customers. Adaptivity is an important issue for these VR applications, ...

Content personalisation technologies may hold the key to solving the information overload problem associated with the Internet, by facilitating the development of information services that are customised for the needs of individual users. For example, ...

Adaptive hypermedia courseware benefits from being distributed over the Web: content can always be kept up-to-date, discussions and interactions between instructors and learners can be supported, new courses can easily be distributed to the students. ...

Curriculum sequencing is an important technique used in many adaptive hypermedia systems. When following one of the possible page sequences, visiting some pages may become redundant, because its content has been covered already by another page. Using ...

Most web services take a "one size fits all" approach: all visitors see the same generic content, formatted in the same generic manner. But of course each visitor has her own information needs and preferences. In contrast to most personalization systems,...

Intermediaries are perfectly suited to customizing and annotating web pages, as they can stand in the flow of data between web browser and web server, monitoring user behavior and modifying page markup. In this paper, we present LiveInfo, an ...

In this paper we discuss MetaLinks, a framework and authoring tool for web-based adaptive hyper-books. We focus on how features of the system address the problem issues of disorientation, cognitive overload, discontinuous flow (poor narrative flow or ...

In this paper, we discuss an approach that tries to blur the distinction between adaptive hypermedia and dynamic NLG-based hypermedia. The approach aims at finding an optimal trade-off between resource reuse and flexibility: existing atomic pieces of ...

The main objective of the ECHOES project is to build a distributed, adaptive, dynamic environment for educating and supporting technicians in the use and maintenance of complex industrial artefacts. To pursue this objective, Web Based Training, Virtual ...

The paper investigates the use of computational intelligence for adaptive lesson presentation in a Web-based learning environment. A specialized connectionist architecture is developed and a formulation of the planning strategy retrieval in the context ...

This paper discusses the design of a tool for authoring adaptive hypertext. First we describe the task of adaptive hypertext design. The network editing task as well as the testing phase are explored showing the importance of a design environment for ...

ECSAIWeb is a variant of ECSAI, an environment for designing intelligent tutoring systems. The tutoring knowledge contained in a tutor agent designed to run in a non-networked environment is reused and updated for the World Wide Web. We concentrate on a ...

This paper discusses techniques for adapting the content in an online lecture system for a specific user. A two pass method is used: 1) determine the appropriate level of difficulty for the student and 2) consider the student's learning style ...

Socratic dialogues has been widely uses as a way of implement an ITS. The idea behind it is that the teaching and learning process should be based upon a personal reflection that can be obtained posing the right question on a guided dialogue. This ...

A hypermedia application offers its users a lot of freedom to navigate through a large hyperspace, described by a domain model. Adaptive hypermedia systems (AHS) aim at overcoming possible navigation and comprehension problems by providing adaptive ...

This paper describes an approach to adaptive hypermedia by incorporating linkbases into an agent-based system (PAADS). The agents are built on top of an agent framework developed at Southampton University. Personal agents keep a local user model and ...

We present the adaptive features of Test++, an adaptive system for training and teaching on the Internet. The system integrates an adaptive training environment for personalized training and a cooperative environment for exams both accessible via ...

MIRADOR aims to create tailored descriptions which assist users in selecting relevant resources on the Web. In this paper, we distinguish between the processes of searching with a query and selection among the results of the query, and we describe a ...

This paper presents research work in progress that aims to desgin a Web educative information retrieval system in a Distance Education (DE) context. In order to adapt it to trainers features, experimental information searches were performed with ...

The paper presents the results of a formative evaluation concerning an on-line adaptive system to learn Italian. The purpose of this evaluation was to verify the validity of the chosen design methodology and to decide on the system's future development. ...

In this paper we describe those aspects a designer has to take into account when designing Web-based adaptive courses with TANGOW. The discussion is specifically focused on the adaptivity issues, which are not covered by any standard design methodology. ...

The desktop-centric design of most of the current web contents pose many difficulties for pervasive browsing. In this paper, we present our study on the problem to support pervasive browsing in the heterogeneous environment of today's Internet. A system ...