Architectures of Adaptive Hypermedia Systems

This page is a tentative home for an anticipated workshop code-named "Architectures of Adaptive Hypermedia Systems" (working title). Its main purpose is to maintain awareness of the workshop organization process.

Choosing The Right Name And Focus

Most recent first

• Scalability And Infrastructure Issies Of User Adaptive And Cognitive Systems (Michael)
  • compromised abstract version, covers all important buzz-words (SIIUACS)
• Framework/infrastructure issues in [distributed/component-based] adaptive hypermedia systems (Michael)
  • Infrastructure Issues In Adaptive Hypermedia Systems - IIIAHS - cool abbreviation :) logo ideas
• Architectures and Approaches for Personalization and Adaptation (Eelco) - not just architectures, but also approaches to personalization
• Architectures of [distributed] [component-based] personalized/user-adaptive systems (Peter)
• Architectures of Adaptive Hypermedia Systems - too restrictive?

Related Work

• Scalability Issues in AIED Workshop at AIED 2009, Brighton, United Kingdom
• DAH’09: International Workshop on Dynamic and Adaptive Hypertext: Generic Frameworks, Approaches

and Techniques

Topics

To include (address, be aware, or relate to)

• CMS and AS: striking the right balance while separating the two, ways to implement "hooks"/callbacks on CMS for connecting to AS
• metadata for content: self-aware content (knows own metadata) vs. agnostic content
• UM - AS: one-to-many and many-to-one
  • mapping/conversion/exchange of UMs
  • cross-system modeling
  • cross-domain generalization
  • standardizing UM representation
• user interface considerations of AS
  • manifested UI (changing the UI) vs. hidden
  • scopes of most effective applicability of the two
• framework/architecture/infrastructure implementation
  • ubiquity of infrastructure (extravert approach, third-party services) vs. utility (tradeoffs of introvert approach)
  • infrastructure "penetration" thresholds
  • existence of standards
  • applicability scopes of approaches
• case studies and lessons learned

Not to include

• yet-another-[pseudo-]architecture

Vocabulary

• content management system (CMS), aka Web CMS (WCMS) - users' entry point, the portal, the content aggregator
• user model (UM), aka user modeling server/service (UMS)
• adaptation service (AS), aka personalization service (PService), aka adaptive functionality (AF)
• content, aka materials, aka resources
• [domain] vocabulary, aka [domain] ontology - [structured] set of concepts, describing items of content
• [content] metadata - [weighted] list of domain concepts describing content item

Host conference(s)

UMAP 2010

Organization Committee

• Abel, Fabian (University of Hannover)
• Herder, Eelco (University of Hannover)
• Yudelson, Michael (University of Pittsburgh)

Program Committee (tentative)

• de Bra, Paul (Technical University of Eindhoven)
• Brusilovsky, Peter (University of Pittsburgh)
• Conlan, Owen (Trinity College Dublin)
• Davis, Hugh (University of Southampton)
• Henze, Nicola (University of Hannover) - pending agreement
• O'Keeffe, Ian (Trinity College Dublin)
• Knutov, Evgeny (Technical University of Eindhoven)
• Koidl, Kevin (Trinity College Dublin)
• Wade, Vincent (Trinity College Dublin)

(and maybe more)

Contacts

Michael Yudelson