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Towards Generic Adaptive Systems: Analysis of a Case Study

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This paper analyses one of the most well-known general purpose adaptive hypermedia systems, AHA!, and, based on this analysis, make some general observations about adaptive hypermedia systems and some improvement suggestions for the AHA! system. We suggest here a concept-based approach to the structuring of adaptive hypermedia systems, as well as an extension of the well-known rule-based overlay method for user-adaptation. This approach is another step towards flexible generic-purpose adaptive hypermedia.

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  1. Information Systems Department, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

    Licia Calvi & Alexandra Cristea

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  1. School of Information Sciences Department of Information Science and Telecommunications, University of Pittsburgh, 135 North Bellefield Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA, 15260, USA

    Peter Brusilovsky

  2. Department of Computer Science, Eindhoven University of Technology, P.O. Box 513, 5600 MB, Einhoven, The Netherlands

    Paul De Bra

  3. Escuela Tecnica Superior de Ingenieros en Informatica Departamento de Lenguajes y Ciencias de la Computacion, Universidad de Málaga, Boulevard Luis Pasteur, 35, Málaga, Spain

    Ricardo Conejo

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Calvi, L., Cristea, A. (2002). Towards Generic Adaptive Systems: Analysis of a Case Study. In: De Bra, P., Brusilovsky, P., Conejo, R. (eds) Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web-Based Systems. AH 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2347. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-47952-X_10

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