Second Workshop on Adaptive Systems and User Modeling on the World Wide Web

Workshop Focus

Web-based application systems are designed for a much greater variety of users than traditional interactive applications. A possible remedy for the negative effects of the traditional "one-size-fits-all" approach in the development of Web-based applications is to equip them with the ability to adapt to the needs of their individual users. Adaptive Web-based systems maintain a model of the goals, interests, preferences and knowledge of the individual user and apply this throughout the interaction for adaptation to the needs of that user. The Second Workshop on Adaptive Systems and User Modeling on the World Wide Web (WWW) aims to bring together researchers and practitioners from various areas working on user modeling and adaptive systems on the Web.

Topics of interest include:

• adaptive hypermedia on the WWW
• intelligent tutoring systems on the WWW
• user models and adaptivity in E-commerce
• adaptive Web-based collaboration systems
• user modeling in WWW-based search tools
• distributed adaptive applications on the WWW
• acquisition and management of user models on the WWW
• security and privacy aspects of user models on the WWW
• methods, techniques, and tools for user modeling
• Web metadata as a basis for user modeling
• dealing with people's changing interests and preferences
• usability aspects of adaptivity
• user model/profile Web servers
• future trends and perspectives

Workshop Format

The format of the workshop was designed to promote a more close integration of "Web-centered" and "User-Model-centered" research communities working on adaptive Web-based systems. The workshop consists of two independent sessions. First session was held as a full day workshop at 8th International Word Wide Web Conference, Toronto, Canada, May 11-14, 1999. Second session was held as a full day workshop at 7-th International Conference on User Modeling, Banff, Canada, June 20-24, 1999. At each of the sessions the number of participants was limited to 25-30 in order to encourage participation in workshop discussions.

Previous Workshops

• Second Workshop on Adaptive Hypertext and Hypermedia, held at Ninth ACM International Hypertext Conference (Hypertext'98)
• Workshop on Adaptive Systems and User Modeling on the World Wide Web, held in conjunction with the Sixth International Conference on User Modeling (UM'97)
• Worksho p on Intelligent educational systems on the World-Wide Web, held in conjunction with the 8th World Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education (AI-ED97)

Program Committee

• Liliana Ardissono, University of Torino, Italy
• Marko Balabanovic, Ricoh Silicon Valley, California Research Center, USA
• Peter Brusilovsky, Carnegie Technical Schools, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
• Mark Craven, CMU, USA
• Paul De Bra, Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands
• Josef Fink, GMD, Germany
• Lynda Hardman, CWI, the Netherlands
• Haym Hirsh, Rutgers University, USA
• Tanja Jörding, Dresden University of Technology, Germany
• Alfred Kobsa, GMD, Germany
• Henry Lieberman, MIT, USA
• Paul Maglio, IBM Almaden Research Center, USA
• Maria Milosavljevic, CSIRO, Australia
• Alessandro Micarelli, Terza Università di Roma, Italy
• Kiyoshi Nakabayashi, NTT, Japan
• Jon Oberlander, University of Edinburgh, U.K.
• Mike Perkowitz, University of Washington, USA

Organizers

Peter Brusilovsky is a Director of CMI at Carnegie Technical Schools and an adjunct research scientist at the School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, USA. His research interests are centered around adaptive Web-based systems, user modeling, intelligent tutoring systems, and adaptive hypermedia. For the last five years he has been involved in several projects related to developing adaptive systems on the Web and integration of different Web-based adaptive systems. He is an author of many papers and an editor of several books related to the topic of the workshop.

Paul De Bra is a full professor at the Eindhoven University of Technology, in Eindhoven, the Netherlands. He has a part-time position at the University of Antwerp and at the "Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica, CWI" in Amsterdam. His main research interests are adaptive hypermedia, Web-based information systems, and user- and task-adapted information filtering for applications in electronic commerce. He is an author of many papers on database theory, hypermedia models and applications, Web applications and adaptive hypermedia.

Alfred Kobsa is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Essen, Germany, and an Institute Director at the German National Research Center for Information Technology. His research focuses on methods for facilitating users' interaction with information, and includes areas such as user-tailored hypermedia environments, user modeling, and information visualization. He is the Editor-in-Chief of User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction.

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