Adaptive Hypermedia
Special issue on Adaptive Hypermedia
Guest editors: Peter Brusilovsky & Paul De Bra
Adaptive hypermedia is a research area at the crossroads of hypermedia and user modeling. Adaptive hypermedia systems offer an alternative to the traditional “one-size-fits-all”hypermedia and Web systems by adapting to the goals, interests, and knowledge of individual users as they are represented in the individual user models. This chapter is focused on adaptive navigation support technologies originally developed in the field of adaptive hypermedia. By adaptively altering the appearance of links or and the content on every browsed page, these technologies support personalized access to information. Over the last 10 years, adaptive navigation support technologies have been used in many adaptive Web systems in a range of application areas from e-learning to e-commerce.
The two earlier special issues of the NRHM journal focused on adaptive hypermedia (1998 and 2004) presented a collection of papers reporting projects focused on classic pre-Web hypermedia as first generation adaptive hypermedia systems on the Web. Since that the field has achieved its maturity. Five international conferences on adaptive hypermedia and adaptive Web systems (AH2000 to AH2008) and a number of workshops have reported a variety of work devoted to all aspects of adaptive hypermedia and the adaptive Web. However, there is a clear lack of archival journal papers that present in detail state-of-the-art works on the “modern-Web” adaptive hypermedia. This special invites research papers on all topics related to the area of Adaptive Hypermedia.
For this special issue by adaptive hypermedia we mean any hypermedia application that automatically adapts its behavior to the broader context in which it is being used. This includes adapting to the user of the application, as well as groups of users, and a range of usage factors such as time, place, platform, and other context conditions.
The special issue focuses on foundations of adaptive hypermedia that are not specific to a particular application domain. (However, such foundations may be illustrated by applications in a specific domain.) Suggested topics include but are not limited to:
* acquisition and updating of individual and group user models
* (distributed) user modeling service architectures
* intelligent agent technology for adaptive systems
* composition of and communication between adaptive systems
* data mining for personalization and adaptation
* adaptation methods and techniques
* architectures for scalable high-performance adaptive systems
* usability and scrutability in user modeling and adaptive systems
* security and privacy in adaptive systems
Submissions that extend mature research publications at major conferences related to (adaptive) hypermedia are encouraged.
Submissions may take the form of research papers or shorter technical notes and should be submitted electronically at the Journal’s Manuscript Central site http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/tham. Questions and enquiries are welcome.
Important Dates:
Submission deadline: November 17, 2008
Acceptance notification: December 28, 2008
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