- From: Scott Luebking <phoenixl@netcom.com>
- Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2000 11:13:41 -0800 (PST)
- To: charles@w3.org, love26@gorge.net
- Cc: phoenixl@netcom.com, w3c-wai-gl@w3.org
Hi, Charles
Here's an announcement on adaptive web-based systems. It might
be helpful for you to get a better understanding on why web
pages being generated dynamically can benefit users by having
a wide range of ability to adapt to users instead of the limited
variations offered by stylesheet technology.
Scott
PS Or if you are extremely confident in your analyses, you might
send the organizers of the conference a note explaining
that they need not expend the effort for this type of conference
since adaptive web-based technology needs only style sheets. (smile)
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INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
ON
ADAPTIVE HYPERMEDIA AND ADAPTIVE WEB-BASED SYSTEMS
(AH2000)
28-30 August 2000
ITC/IRST Trento, Italy
Sponsored by the European Commission:
"High Level Scientific Conference Program"
Cooperating Societies:
Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence (AI*IA)
ACM - Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction (SIGCHI)
http://AH2000.itc.it
Web-based application systems, as well as other complex hypermedia
systems with a large variety of users, suffer from an inability to
satisfy heterogeneous needs. A Web course presents the same static
explanation of a concept to students with widely differing knowledge
of the subject. A Web bookstore offers the same selection of
bestsellers to customers with different reading preferences. A Web
museum offers the same "guided tour" and the same narration to
visitors with very different goals and interests.
A remedy for the negative effects of the traditional
"one-size-fits-all" approach is to enhance a system's ability to adapt
its own behaviour to the goals, tasks, interests, and other features
of individual users. Starting in the 1990s, many research teams began
to investigate ways of modelling features of the users of hypermedia
systems. This has led to a number of interesting adaptation techniques
and adaptive hypermedia systems. The Web, with its clear demand for
personalization, served as a real booster for this research area,
providing both a challenge and an attractive platform.
CONFERENCE TOPICS
Topic of interest include but are not limited to:
- adaptive hypermedia systems and techniques
- information filtering in the WWW context
- adaptive IR systems with Web or hypermedia interfaces
- intelligent tutoring systems on the WWW
- Web recommender systems
- personalized Web sites and services
- adaptive Web-based collaboration systems
- adaptive natural language generation in hypermedia and Web
contexts
- adaptive navigation support in large hyperspaces
- adaptive presentation of non-textual content
- empirical studies of adaptive hypermedia and adaptive Web-based
systems
- Web data mining for personalization and adaptivity
- personalization and adaptivity in E-commerce
- user modeling in Web-based applications
- intelligent Web agents for personalization and adaptivity
- 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 changing interests and preferences of Web users
- user interfaces for all
- usability aspects of adaptivity
- Web servers for user models/profiles
* EC GRANTS *
The European Commission sponsors the conference ("High Level
Scientific Conference" Program) and through IRST offers particicpation
grants for various kind of attendees. See the conference web site
(http://AH2000.itc.it) for more detail.
INVITED SPEAKERS
- Elisabeth Andre (DFKI, Germany)
- Alfred Kobsa (GMD, Germany)
- Fiorella DeRosis (University of Bary, Italy)
- Michael Pazzani (University of California, Irvine, USA)
GENERAL CHAIR
Oliviero Stock (IRST Trento, Italy)
PROGRAM CHAIR
Peter Brusilovsky (Carnegie Technology Education /
Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
LOCAL ORGANIZATION CHAIR
Carlo Strapparava (IRST Trento, Italy)
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Marko Balabanovic (InsightMarket.com, UK)
Paul De Bra (Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands)
Dayne Freitag (Just Research, USA)
Wendy Hall (University of Southampton, UK)
Kristina Hook (HUMLE - Swedish Institute of Computer Science,
Sweden)
Lewis Johnson (University of Southern California, USA)
Paul Maglio (IBM Almaden Research Center, USA)
Alessandro Micarelli (University of Rome 3, Italy)
Maria Milosavljevic (Dynamic Multimedia Pty Ltd, Australia)
Johanna Moore (University of Edinburgh, UK)
Marc Nanard (LIRMM, France)
Wolfgang Nejdl (University of Hannover, Germany)
Jon Oberlander (University of Edinburgh, UK)
Carlo Tasso (University of Udine, Italy)
Julita Vassileva (University of Saskatchewan, Canada)
Massimo Zancanaro (IRST Trento, Italy)
DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM CHAIRS
Liliana Ardissono (University of Torino, Italy)
Vittorio Scarano (University of Salerno, Italy)
PROCEEDINGS AND SUBMISSIONS
Conference proceedings will be published in the Springer Verlag
LNCS series.
See the conference web site (http://AH2000.itc.it) for details
about submissions.
IMPORTANT DATES
Submission of contributions: 15 March 2000
Submission of grant application: 30 March 2000
Notification of grant assignment: 25 April 2000
Notification of paper acceptance: 25 April 2000
Submission of final contributions: 25 May 2000
Received on Wednesday, 19 January 2000 14:13:43 UTC