Authors:
Silvia Rossi
1
;
Vincenzo Scognamiglio
2
and
Ernesto Burattini
1
Affiliations:
1
University of Naples ”Federico II”, Italy
;
2
Centro di Ateneo per i Servizi Informativi, University of Naples ”Federico II”, Italy
Keyword(s):
Web Personalization, User Modeling, Metamodeling.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Data Engineering
;
Metadata and Metamodeling
;
Ontologies and the Semantic Web
;
User Modeling
;
Web Information Systems and Technologies
;
Web Interfaces and Applications
;
Web Personalization
Abstract:
The aim of this work is the design and the implementation of a prototype for supporting a user through the
navigation in a web-site. We exploit the potentiality of having a representation of an hypermedia based on the
concept of an abstract semantic description of the knowledge tree, in order to use some adaptivity processes,
typical of many hypermedia systems, without the limitation of having a fixed set of resources. Our prototype
was implemented for the archaeological Herculaneum Excavations, but the novelty of this work is an attempt to
combine methodologies coming from Adaptive Hypermedia, Recommendation Systems and SemanticWeb in
order to have a context-independent approach for Hypermedia on theWeb. What we propose is an architecture
with modules that can be reused and adapted in many different contexts. In order to have a context independent
behavior the system was implemented with a structural adaptivity itself. This means that changing the tree the
system adapts its
elf to the modifications and dynamically regenerates the code of its components.
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