AH2003
Workshop on Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web-Based Systems

AH2003 is a workshop with sessions proposed at three conferences:

The Twelfth International World Wide Web Conference
(Budapest, Hungary, May 20-24, 2003).

The Fourteenth Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia
(Nottingham, UK, August 26-30, 2003).

Schedule

Here are links to the schedules and photos for the Workshop Sessions:

Proceedings

The proceedings are now on-line. Authors can verify their papers before the final printing.

All candidate participants to the workshop (without paper presentation) are invited to submit a short position paper, describing their ongoing research.

Background and Motivation

The research area of adaptive hypermedia originates from the coming together of the areas of hypertext and hypermedia, user modeling and Web-based information systems, all of which have embraced the topic of adaptation.

Under different names workshops have been organized, mainly at the world Wide Web Conference (1999), the user Modeling Conference (1994, 1996, 1997, 1999, 2001) and the ACM Hypertext Conference (1997, 1998, 2001). The Workshop on Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web-Based Systems builds on the tradition that was started in 1994 as a workshop on adaptive hypertext and hypermedia at the User Modeling Conference, followed by 1998 at the ACM Hypertext Conference, and organized as a two-session workshop in 2001, at the User Modeling and Hypertext conferences. The 2001 workshop also started a tradition of having a workshop in between the main Adaptive Hypermedia conferences which have been organized in 2000 (Trento, Italy) and 2002 (Malaga, Spain). The adaptive hypermedia community is growing (around 90 in 2000, 180 in 2002) and working actively in preparation of a third full conference in 2004. Adaptive hypermedia researchers are getting together in 2003 to discuss issues and questions that are important in this field. this is be done in a three session workshop, where each session has a different focus.

Topics and Applications

In 2003 the adaptive hypermedia workshop focuses on adaptation engineering. Each part of the workshop approaches this problem from a different perspective, starting with the enabling technologies for realizing adaptation engineering at WWW 2003, discussing issues with respect to user modelling (as the main driving part of adaptive applications) at UM 2003, and finally presenting various ways of constructing adaptive hypermedia at HyperText 03. The three sessions feature joint proceedings, published on the Web at http://wwwis.win.tue.nl/ah2003/ and also as a TU/e Computer Science Report.

The workshop takes a question-oriented approach. All contributions are required to make an explicit statement, within the abstract, explaining which research question(s) they are addressing. They can approach the questions from different angles: from field observations, from an application area, from a theoretical perspective, from a systems engineering perspective, etc. appropriate research questions are listed in the table below, but contributors are free to suggest (and defend) additional questions.

Conference	WWW 2003	UM 2003	Hypertext 2003
Key Questions	How can we make authoring adaptive Web-based applications easier? How can Semantic Web technology be used to improve both adaptation and information retrieval? How can Web Services be (successfully) used in an adaptive environment? How do device adaptation and content adaptation combine? How can we best visualize the results of adaptation? What should be in a Web standard for adaptation?	Can we agree on a standard UM representation for adaptive applications? How can we dynamically construct UMs for dynamic Web-based systems? What are specific UM issues for adaptive information retrieval? How individualised does personalization need to be? Are stereotype user models and group-based personalization good enough? Sharing UMs: what about privacy and security? How to give the user a sense of control over the personalization of AH? UM evaluation: How to decide which UM representation leads to "better" possibilities for adaptation?	How can link structures be generated automatically (and adaptively)? Are there adaptive hypermedia interaction/interface design heuristics, and how do we validate these? How do we measure how adaptive a hypertext structure is? Can we find design patterns for adaptive link structures? Is there such a thing as an adaptive hypermedia rhetoric or narrative? How should adaptive link structures be visualized? How do adaptive hypermedia and open hypermedia combine?

Workshop Format

Each workshop session consist of the following items:

Paper presentations: we plan to have three 90 minute time slots per day, in which there are three short (20 minute) presentations of closely related research, addressing (and hopefully answering) one of the key questions, followed by at least 30 minutes of discussion. If more or fewer contributions address the same questions these time slots can be made longer or shorter.
Poster sessions: a long lunch break is used to present and discuss posters. We invite all workshop participants to bring a poster.
Panel discussions: each workshop day ends with a 90 minute discussion of the general theme of the day. The workshop organizers prepare the discussion based on the session's key questions and the positions of the presented papers.

Workshop Committee

general chair: Paul De Bra, eindhoven University of Technology.

Each workshop session has a co-chair, who supervises the selection of papers, the session program and who moderates the discussions during the workshop day. The co-chairs are:

WWW2003 session: Hugh Davis, University of Southampton
UM2003 session: Judy Kay, University of Sydney
HT'03 session: monica schraefel, University of Southampton (formerly at the University of Toronto)

Members: A program committee of 15 to 20 people has performed the selection of papers for all three sessions jointly. the following people have already agreed to be on the program committee:
Lora Aroyo (Eindhoven University of Technology)
Peter Brusilovsky (University of Pittsburgh)
Ricardo Conejo (University of Malaga)
Alexandra Cristea (Eindhoven University of Technology)
Fiorella De Rosis (University of Bari)
Serge Garlatti (ENST, Brest)
Franca Garzotto (Politecnico di Milano)
Nicola Henze (Institut für Technische Informatik, Hannover)
Paul Maglio (IBM Almaden Research)
Tanja Mitrovic (University of Canterbury, New Zealand)
Wolfgang Nejdl (University of Hannover)
Vittorio Scarano (University of Salerno)
Daniel Schwabe (Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro)
Barry Smyth (Changingworlds and University College Dublin)
Julita Vassileva (University of Saskatchewan)
Gerhard Weber (Pedagogical University of Freiburg)
Ross Wilkinson (RMIT University, Australia)

Address

All mail regarding this workshop should be sent to Paul De Bra at debra@win.tue.nl. All mail should include AH2003 in the Subject in order to pass a spam filter. In case of problems you can also use the following contact information:
Paul De Bra
Department of Computing Science
Eindhoven University of Technology
PO Box 513
NL 5616 DE Eindhoven
The Netherlands
phone: +31 40 2472733
fax: +31 40 2463992

AH2003 Workshop on Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web-Based Systems

The Twelfth International World Wide Web Conference (Budapest, Hungary, May 20-24, 2003).

The Fourteenth Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia (Nottingham, UK, August 26-30, 2003).