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Conference Room ITC-irst
Via Sommarive 18, 38050 Povo (TN), Italy

Monday, August 28, 2000

8:30 - 9:30: Registration

9:30 - 9:45: Opening

9:45 - 10:45: Invited talk

Adaptive Personalization for the Wireless Web
Michael Pazzani, UC Irvine, USA

10:45 - 11:15: Coffee Break

11:15 - 12:30: Mobile Applications (chair Carlo Strapparava)

Providing Tailored (Context-Aware) Information to City Visitors
Keith Cheverst, Nigel Davies, Keith Mitchell and Paul Smith

WAPing the Web: Content Personalisation for WAP-Enabled Devices
P. Cotter and B. Smyth

Concept Filtering and Spatial Filtering in an Adaptive Information System (short paper)
Serge Garlatti, Sebastien Iksal

12:30 - 13:30: Adaptive Courseware (chair Vittorio Scarano)

Adaptive Content in an Online Lecture System
Mia K. Stern and Beverly Park Woolf

Adaptivity for Conceptual and Narrative Flow in Hyperbooks: the MetaLinks System
Tom Murray, Tina Shen, Janette Piemonte, Chris Condit, Jason Thibedeau

13:30 - 14:30: Lunch

14:30 - 15:45: Web Information Retrieval (chair Carlo Tasso)

Group User Models for Personalized Hyperlink Recommendations
Johan Bollen

Case-Based User Profiling for Content Personalisation
K. Bradley, R. Rafter and B. Smyth

Automated Collaborative Filtering Applications for Online Recruitment Services (short paper)
Rachael Rafter, Keith Bradley, and Barry Smyth

15:45-17:00: Coffee Break and Poster Session 1

An Agent-Based approach to Adaptive Hypermedia using a link service
Christopher Bailey and Wendy Hall

Adaptive Testing by Test++
M.Barra, G.Palmieri, S.Napolitano, V.Scarano, L.Zitarosa

What Does the User Want to Know About Web Resources? A User Model for Metadata
Diana Bental, Alison Cawsey, Patrick McAndrew and Bruce Eddy

Web Information Retrieval for Designing Distance Hypermedia Courses
A. Boitel and D. Leclet

How Adaptivity Affects the Development of TANGOW Web-based Courses
R.M. Carro, E. Pulido and P. Rodríguez

An Adaptive Web Content Delivery System
Jinlin Chen, Yudong Yang, and Hongjiang Zhang

Knowledge Computing Method for Enhancing the Effectiveness of a WWW Distance Education System
Alexandra Cristea and Toshio Okamoto

Interface Adaptation to Style of User-Computer Interaction
M. Dimitrova, D. Boyadjiev and N. Butorin

Adaptation and Generation in a Web-based Lisp Tutor
Fernández-Anta A., Millán E., Pérez-de-la-Cruz J.L.

Collaborative Maintenance in ULYSSES
Ferrario, M.A., Waters, K, Smyth, B.

Towards an Adaptive Learners' Dictionary
Johann Gamper and Judith Knapp

Analysing Web Search Logs to Determine Session Boundaries for User-Oriented Learning
A. Göker and D. He

17:00 - 18:00: Evaluation (chair Marcus Specht)

Formative Evaluation of Adaptive CALLware: A Case Study (short paper)
L. Calvi

A Study Comparing the Use of Shaded Text and Adaptive Navigational Support in Adaptive Hypermedia (short paper)
Jatinder K. Hothi, Wendy Hall and Tim Sly

Layered Evaluation of Adaptive Applications and Services (short paper)
C. Karagiannidis and D. Sampson

18:30: Welcome Reception

Tuesday, August 29, 2000

8:50 - 9:50: Invited talk

Adaptive Multimedia Information Access
Mark Maybury, Mitre, USA

9:50 - 11:05: Tools for Web Personalization (chair Paul De Bra)

Towards Zero-Input Personalization: Referrer-Based Page Prediction
N. Kushmerick, J. McKee, F. Toolan

LiveInfo: Adapting Web Experience by Customization and Annotation
P. P. Maglio and S. Farrell

ConTexts: Adaptable Hypermedia (short paper)
m.c. schraefel

11:05 - 11:30: Coffee Break

11:30 - 12:45: Machine Learning and Neural Networks for Web-based Education (chair Barry Smyth)

Adaptive Navigation Support and Adaptive Collaboration Support in WebDL
Jesus G. Boticario, Elena Gaudioso and Felix Hernandez

A Connectionist Approach for Supporting Personalized Learning in a Web-based Learning Environment
K.A. Papanikolaou, G.D. Magoulas and M. Grigoriadou

An Adaptive Open Hypermedia System on the Web (short paper)
G. Fulantelli, R. Rizzo, M. Arrigo and R. Corrao

12:45 - 14:00: Lunch

14:00 - 15:30: Intelligent Tutoring in Web Context (chair Mia Stern)

An Intelligent Tutor for a Web-based Chess Course
Antonio Baena, Maria-Victoria Belmonte, and Lawrence Mandow

A Web-Based Soctratic Tutor for Tree Recognition
Mónica Trella, Ricardo Conejo, Eduardo Guzmán

Logically Optimal Curriculum Sequences for Adaptive Hypermedia Systems
Roland Hübscher

15:30-16:45: Coffee Break and Poster Session 2

Learning User Profiles in NAUTILUS
M. Gori, M. Maggini, E. Martinelli, and F. Scarselli

Lexical Chaining for Web based Retrieval of Breaking News
Paula Hatch, Nicola Stokes, Joe Carthy

Designing for Social Navigation of Food Recipes
K. Höök, J. Laaksolahti, M. Svensson, and A. Waern

Exploratory Activity Support based on a Semantic Feature Map
Mizue Kayama, Toshio Okamoto, and Alexandra I. Cristea

Adaptivity in AHMED
J. Kurhila and E. Sutinen

An Adaptive Document Generation Based on Matrix of Contents
Mona Laroussi, Mohamed Benahmed, and Mauro Marinilli

Logical Dimensions for the Information Provided by a Virtual Guide
L. Marucci, F. Paternò

Coherence in Modularly Composed Adaptive Learning Documents
Cornelia Seeberg, Achim Steinacker, and Ralf Steinmetz

ACE* Adaptive Courseware Environment
Marcus Specht

The Adaptive University Calendar
Manfred Stede and Stephan Koch

Sense-Based User Modelling for Web Sites
C. Strapparava and B. Magnini and A. Stefani

Generating Personal Travel Guides from Discourse Plans
Ross Wilkinson, Shijian Lu, François Paradis, Cécile Paris, Stephen Wan, MingFang Wu

16:45-18:00 Doctoral Consortium (chair Liliana Ardissono)

Distributed Systems for Group Adaptivity on the Web
Maria Barra

Open Multimedia Environment to Retrieve and Organise Documents: an Adaptive Web-based IR System in the Field of Textile and Clothing Industry
Cristiano Chesi and Francesca Rizzo

The Role of Task Analysis Methods In Support of the Design and Development of Interactive Multimedia Systems
Yousef Daabaj

Researching Adaptive Instruction
Juan E. Gilbert and Chia Y. Han

A Modular Approach for User Modelling
I. Torre

19:30: Social Dinner

Wednesday, August 30, 2000

8:50 - 9:50: Invited talk

Enhancing Adaptive Hypermedia Presentation Systems by Lifelike Synthetic Characters
Elisabeth André, DFKI, Germany

9:50 - 11:20: Adaptive Presentation in Information Systems (chair Wendy Hall)

Dynamic Generation of Adaptive Web Catalogs
Liliana Ardissono and Anna Goy

Adapting Web-Based Information to the Needs of Patients with Cancer
Diana Bental, Alison Cawsey, Janne Pearson and Ray Jones

The MacroNode Approach: Mediating between Adaptive and Dynamic Hypermedia
Elena Not and Massimo Zancanaro

11:20 - 11:45: Coffee Break

11:45 - 12:45: Authoring Issues (chair Wolfgang Nejdl)

Adaptive Hypertext Design Environments: Putting Principles into Practice
Daniela Petrelli, Daniele Baggio and Giovanni Pezzulo

Adaptation Control in Adaptive Hypermedia Systems
H. Wu, P. De Bra, A. Aerts and G.J. Houben

12:45 - 14:00: Lunch

14:00 - 15:00: Virtual Realilty (chair Massimo Zancanaro)

Adding Adaptive Features to Virtual Reality Interfaces for E-Commerce
L. Chittaro and R. Ranon

ECHOES: An Immersive Training Experience
Gregory O'Hare, Katherine Sewell, Aidan Murphy, Thomas Delahunty

15:00 - 15:20: Coffee Break

15:20 - 16:20: Web-based Education (chair Ricardo Conejo)

ECSAIWeb: A Web-based Authoring System to Create Adaptive Learning Systems
C. Sanrach and M. Grandbastien

Extendible Adaptive Hypermedia Courseware: Integrating Different Courses and Web Material
N. Henze and W. Nejdl

16:20 - 17:20: Invited talk

User Modeling, Privacy and Security
Alfred Kobsa, GMD FIT, Germany

Closing