Adaptation languages as vehicles of explicit intelligence in Adaptive Hypermedia. (7th September 2007)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Stash, Natalia; Cristea, Alexandra I.; De Bra, Paul
• Is Part Of: International journal of continuing engineering education and lifelong learning. Volume 17:Number 4/5(2007)
• Page Start: 319
• Page End: 336
• Publication Date: 2007-09-07
• Subjects: plug-and-play intelligence -- learning styles -- user modelling -- adaptive hypermedia -- AH -- authoring -- web-based education -- e-learning -- online learning -- personalised web courseware; Engineering -- Study and teaching -- Periodicals; 620.00715
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1560-4624

Abstract

This paper deals with a new challenge in Adaptive Hypermedia (AH) and web-based systems: finding the adaptation language to express, independently from the domain model or platform, the intelligent, adaptive behaviour of personalised web courseware. The major requirements for the ideal language are: reuse, flexibility, high level semantics, and ease of use. To draw closer to this ideal language, we compare two such language proposals: LAG, a generic adaptation language, and a new XML adaptation language for Learning Styles (LS) in AHA!, LAG-XLS.