Generic Adaptation Framework: a Process-Oriented Perspective
Authors
Evgeny Knutov
Eindhoven University of Technology
Paul De Bra
Eindhoven University of Technology
Mykola Pechenizkiy
Eindhoven University of Technology
Abstract
Adaptive Hypermedia Systems (AHS) have long been mainly represented by domain- or application-specific systems. Few reference models exist and they provide only a brief overview of how to describe and organize the `adaptation process' in a generic way. In this paper we consider the process aspects of AHS from the very first classical `user modelling-adaptation' loop to a generic detailed flowchart of the adaptation in AHS. We introduce a Generic Adaptation Process and by aligning it with a layered (data-oriented) AHS architecture we show that it can serve as the process part of a new reference model for AHS.