Software engineering for adaptive hypermedia systems

Introduction there is an important increase in the number of software applications that use adaptation. Engineering selfadaptive systems through feedback loops. Interception of users interests on the web proceedings of. Siemens plm software modelbased systems engineering for.

Extending the representational state transfer rest architectural style for decentralized systems. Reference model, modeling techniques and development process. Welcome to the website of the symposium on software engineering for adaptive and selfmanaging systems 2019 conference. Our modern software solutions are built to be an exact fit for your needs today and tomorrow. Web engineering is multidisciplinary and encompasses contributions from diverse areas. Chapter 2 adaptive educational hypermedia systems gives an overview of the stateoftheart in the aehs field. Adaptive hypermedia ah systems build a model of the individual user and apply.

Originating from a dagstuhl seminar held in december 20, this book constitutes the third volume in the series software engineering for selfadaptive systems, and. Modelbased systems engineering for automotive electronics and software brochure. It briefly describes some popular methods and techniques for adaptation. In addition, adaptive hypermedia systems ahs for elearning represent a continuously growing research domain, involving knowledge from several fields adaptive systems, adaptive hypermedia, learning management systems, user modeling, educational psychology, instructional science. Adaptive hypermedia systems ahs are almost always based on some artificial. Adaptive hypermedia, educational systems, visual design modeling. Adaptive hypermedia ah is an emerging field in education research which investigates how computer systems can overcome this problem. The automated traffic routing problem was first discussed, and formally defined, in 3.

For instance, one of the main goals of adaptive hypermedia ah systems is to decrease the cognitive load caused by pieces of information that are irrelevant to the goals andor the abilities of users. The workshop on software engineering for adaptive and selfmanaging systems seams is an academic conference for exchanging research results and experiences in the areas of autonomic computing, selfmanaging, selfhealing, selfoptimizing, selfconfiguring, and. Software engineering for adaptive hypermedia systems citeseerx. It supports the entire lifecycle of adaptive hypermedia applications from feasibility study to maintenance and includes project management, software development and quality managemen t activities. Ontology of systems and software engineering sciencedirect. Also included in this book is an invited roadmap paper on the research challenges facing selfadaptive systems within the area of software engineering, based on discussions at the dagstuhl seminar and put together by several of its participants. Formalising the design process of webbased adaptive educational. An increasingly important requirement for softwareintensive systems is the ability to selfmanage by adapting at runtime to handle such things as resource variability, changing user needs, and system intrusions or faults.

Meta adaptive systems are able to vary the adaptation technique based on various factors. The new trends in adaptive educational hypermedia systems. Recommender system for adaptive hypermedia applications 231 module for every adaptive hypermedia system. Hypermedia systems are strongly affected by these functions. In contrast to generic software engineering, where significant progress has been made. In order to solve these limitations, in this paper, we propose a hybrid approach combining software engineering, control theory, and ai to design for software selfadaptation.

The user metamodel manages a set of users repre sented by their user attributes with the. Section 4 presents a case study for a hinting adaptive elearning system driven by semantic web technologies where the model is applied. This work proposes an engineering approach for adaptive hypermedia applications. The emergence of meta adaptive systems seems to be a natural evolution process in adaptive systems. The 27 revised full papers and 18 revised short papers presented together with 3 abstracts.

This taxonomy allows an exhaustive description of all user models, facilitating analysis and design of the corresponding adaptive systems. Software engineering for adaptive hypermedia systems cinufpe. Institute of informatics and software engineering, faculty of informatics and information technologies, slovak university of technology in bratislava, bratislava, slovakia. Pdf software engineering for adaptive hypermedia applications. Pdf adaptive hypermedia systems in elearning predrag dasic. For each view, we present the stateoftheart and the challenges that our community must address. This software engineering approach consi sts of an object oriented, incremental and iterative development process. Modelbased systems engineering for automotive electronics. Modeling elementary cognitive abilities for adaptive. Welcome to the website on software engineering for selfadaptive systems. Pdf software engineering for adaptive hypermedia systems.

Software engineering for selfadaptive systems lecture notes. On the modelling of adaptive hypermedia systems using. The objective of seams is to bring together researchers and practitioners from academia, industry and government, to investigate, discuss, examine and advance the fundamental principles, the. Hall, 1999, engineering for adaptive hypermedia applications can be defined as a systematic, disciplined and measurable approach.

Jansen department of electrical engineering and computer science united states military. Proceedings of the international conference on software engineering icse, may, 2004, edinburgh, scotland. An adaptive hypermedia system for improving an organization. At the ah2003 workshop paper presentations are combined with discussions on the presented topics. The paper is partitioned into four parts, one for each of the identified. This work analyzes the main aspects related to adaptivity by using a general metamodel of adaptive hypermedia systems, intended to serve as a basis for a. A software engineering model for the development of. Pdf software engineering for selfadaptive systems ii. Software engineering for selfadaptive systems software. Communications in computer and information science, vol 181.

A software engineering model for the development of adaptation rules 205 section 2 is devoted to the related work. Special thanks go to all my colleagues from the software engineering department and automatic control department university of craiova, romania and. Providing support in all phases of the life cycle of adaptive software systems is thus an important challenge facing the software engineering research community. While the details of what, exactly, constitutes hypermedia systems and hypermedia apis remain subject to debate, one thing is clear. Our primary business targets are the japanese and other asian markets. The 15th edition of the international symposium on software engineering for adaptive and selfmanaging systems will be colocated with icse 2020 and will be held in seoul, south korea on may 2526, 2020. Development process and evaluation methods for adaptive. This road map paper is a result of the dagstuhl seminar 08031 on \ software engineering for self adaptive systems in january 2008. In the illustrative case study there are no dependencies since there is a single goal. Our solution proposes a hierarchical and dynamic system manager with performance tuning.

This life cycle goes from conception through the elaboration. Design and engineering of adaptive software systems open. Dynamic adaptive hypermedia systems for elearning elvira popescu to cite this version. Three main classes of adaptive conceptbased systems are identified. The goal of this roadmap paper is to summarize the stateoftheart and to identify critical challenges for the systematic software engineering of self adaptive systems. Kidissertation software engineering for adaptive hypermedia. An adaptive hypermedia system for improving an organizations customer support. At adaptive systems core, is a culture of software engineering excellence. We introduce a multidimensional approach to model different aspects of the adaptation process, which is based on three different adaptivity dimensions. The main focus of the work is the description of a systematic methodology for the analysis and design of adaptive hypermedia applications. Finally, we propose a customized development process supported by asf, a special framework designed to build adaptive hypermedia systems. Software engineering for self adaptive systems lecture notes in computer science programming and software engineering cheng, betty h. Second, we discuss evaluation methodologies that constitute a very important part of the development process.

Recommender system for adaptive hypermedia applications. Software systems with the capability to acquire information about the user, to build a user model with it, and to utilise the user model to dynamically adapt themselves are called adaptive systems. The data preprocessing module takes the stream of user actions as its input. Adaptive hypermedia systems for elearning of mechanisms by which the links and nodes are re lated and navigated. The proposed model and its advantages are explained in section 3. High performance, reliability, scalability and predictability.

Susan bull, norasnita ahmad, matthew johnson, rasyidi johan, andrew mabbott, alice kerly, adaptive navigation support, learner control and open learner models, proceedings of the 5th international conference on adaptive hypermedia and adaptive webbased systems, july 29august 01, 2008, hannover, germany. This chapter highlights current research on methods and techniques for the design and engineering of adaptive software systems. This roadmap paper is a result of the dagstuhl seminar 08031 on software engineering for selfadaptive systems, which took place in january 2008. Web applications are software artifacts, and as such can benefit by making use of established practices stemming from several related disciplines such as software engineering, hypermedia, information systems, humancomputer interaction and organizational science, enabling creation, management and reuse of structures of the information space as. Erenkrantz, michael gorlick, girish suryanarayana, richard n. Software engineering for selfadaptive systems lecture. This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the third international conference on adaptive hypermedia and adaptive webbased systems, ah 2004, held in eindhoven, the netherlands in august 2004. This module forms also the interface to an authoring tool, where adaptation knowledge is defined by the author. Software engineering for adaptive hypermedia systems. Regarding the role of software engineering in the development of different types of elearning systems, a traditional situation is contrasted with a modern. The new trends in adaptive educational hypermedia systems somyurek this work is licensed under a creative commons attribution 4. Adaptive hypermedia is used in educational hypermedia, online information and help systems, as well as institutional information systems. The automated traffic routing problem involves vehicles, traveling on.

Adaptive hypermedia applications are usercentred systems that are based on the hypermedia paradigm, i. Most online course designs do not address the issue that users with different goals and knowledge may be interested in different pieces of information about a topic. Since 2000 to october 2003, he worked as a fulltime lecturer at carlos iii university working actively in the area of adaptive hypermedia and elearning systems. Subsequently, the taxonomy is used to describe the user modeling process in a concrete adaptive hypermedia system and to analyze the model of a student appropriate for use in a general educational environment. Adaptive hypermedia applications are complex software systems whose development process demands an exhaustive feasibility study, adequate planning and experience in the construction of hypermedia applications, user modeling and adaptation techniques. The workshop on adaptive hypermedia and adaptive webbased systems provides a forum for researchers to discuss their ongoing work, in preparation of the next adaptive hypermedia conference in 2004. Engineering method for adaptive manufacturing systems design. Methods and techniques of adaptive hypermedia springerlink. Computers and internet humancomputer interaction research hypertext educational aspects online education. Software engineering for selfadaptive systems betty h. Adaptive educational hypermedia tailors what the learner sees to that learners goals, abilities, needs, interests, and knowledge of the subject, by providing hyperlinks that are most relevant to the user in an effort to shape the users. The paper is partitioned into four parts, one for each of the identified essential views of selfadaptation. Engineering self adaptive systems through feedback loops. That information can provide familiarization, first stage of technology adoption.

By utilizing superior expertise in efficient software development, network engineering, data center design, facilities management, and project management, hypermedia systems develops critical network infrastructure and applications for our business clients. Atrp software engineering for selfadaptive systems. A general metamodel for adaptive hypermedia systems. Mechatronic design of intelligent manufacturing behaviours is of paramount importance for the final performances of complex systems and requires deep integration between. We specialize in video chat, rich media and ecommerce systems utilizing cuttingedge technology and advanced development techniques. Lncs 7475 software engineering for selfadaptive systems. Software engineering for adaptive and selfmanaging systems seams 2007, workshop at 29th ieeeacm international conference on software engineering. Adaptive ir systems ir, from 1980 use wordlevel pro. Special thanks go to all my colleagues from the software. Software engineering for adaptive hypermedia applications. A proposed architecture for self adaptive expert systems international journal of software engineering and knowledge engineering. User modeling in adaptive hypermedia educational systems. Learning styles and instructional design as inputs for. Adaptive educational hypermedia tailors what the learner sees to that learners goals, abilities, needs, interests, and knowledge of the subject, by providing hyperlinks that are most relevant to the user in an effort to shape the users cognitive load.

From 1997 to 1999 he worked as assistant professor at the pontifical university. This paper presents xahm, a model for adaptive hypermedia systems based on xml. Early adaptive hypermedia work concentrated on applicationled research. An agentbased framework to support adaptive hypermedia core. Adaptive manufacturing systems achieve intelligence and adaptation capabilities through the close interaction between mechanics, electronics, control and software engineering. Software engineering for adaptive and selfmanaging systems. A way to a simple development of adaptive hypermedia systems. Adaptive hypermedia is a new area of research at the crossroads of hypermedia, adaptive systems, and intelligent tutoring systems. The goal of this roadmap paper is to summarize the stateoftheart and to identify critical challenges for the systematic software engineering of selfadaptive systems. This paper introduces a framework for adaptive hypermedia systems ahs. The following table table 1 adaptive hypermedia systems are hypermedia systems which reflect some features of the user in a user model and use this model by adapting various visible aspects of. Adaptive hypermedia attempts to overcome these problems by adapting the presentation of information and the overall link structure, based on a user model.