Call for Papers

Special Issue of *The New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia*
            on *Adaptive Hypermedia and the Adaptive Web*

http://www.comp.glam.ac.uk/pages/research/hypermedia/nrhm/call.htm

NRHM is a refereed journal covering research on practical and
theoretical developments in hypermedia, interactive multimedia and
related technologies. Two issues a year review and explore a
topical theme from diverse perspectives.

The main theme for NRHM 2004 (part 1) is "Adaptive Hypermedia and the
Adaptive Web". Please, find the Call for Papers below.

*       Submission deadline:    January 5th, 2004
*       Acceptance notification:        March 1st, 2004
*       Final manuscripts due:  April 26th, 2004


Adaptive Hypermedia and the Adaptive Web
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Guest Editors:
Paul De Bra - [log in to unmask]
Peter Brusilovsky - [log in to unmask]

Hypermedia and Web-based systems suffer from an inability to satisfy
the heterogeneous needs of many users. Hypertextual courses present
the same static learning material to students with widely differing
knowledge of the subject. Web e-stores offer the same selection of
"featured items" to customers with different needs and preferences.
Virtual museums on the web offer the same "guided tour" to visitors
with very different goals and interests. Adaptive Hypermedia and
Adaptive Web-based systems offer a remedy for the negative effects of
the traditional "one-size-fits-all" approach by adapting their
behavior to the knowledge, goals, tasks, interests, and other
features of individual users and groups of users. Starting with a few
pioneering works on adaptive hypertext in early 1990, the research
area of adaptive hypertext and the adaptive Web has rapidly grown
into an exploration platform for researchers from different
communities such as hypertext, user modeling, machine learning,
natural language generation, information retrieval, intelligent
tutoring systems, cognitive science, and Web-based education.

The 1998 special issue of the NRHM journal
(http://www.comp.glam.ac.uk/pages/research/hypermedia/nrhm/volume4/volume4.h
tm)
presented a collection of papers reporting on projects focused on
classic pre-Web adaptive hypermedia as well as some early attempts to
implement adaptivity on the Web. Since then the field has gained
maturity. Two international conferences on adaptive hypermedia and
adaptive Web systems (2000 and 2002) and a number of workshops have
reported on a variety of work devoted to all aspects of adaptive
hypermedia and the Adaptive Web. This series of conferences continues
with a conference in Eindhoven, the Netherlands, in August 2004
(http://www.ah2004.org/). However, there is a clear lack of archival
journal papers that present in detail state-of-the-art works on the
adaptive hypermedia (in a Web context). The goal of this special
issue is to provide an opportunity for the researchers on adaptive
hypermedia and the adaptive Web to report on the result of their most
recent and most influential projects. The NRHM issue will serve as a
snapshot of the modern research on adaptive hypermedia and the
adaptive Web.

This issue was directly inspired by the most recent workshop
(http://wwwis.win.tue.nl/ah2003/) on adaptive hypermedia that was
held at three very relevant conferences in 2003: World Wide Web
(Budapest, Hungary, May 2003), User Modeling (Johnstown,
Pennsylvania, June 2003), and ACM Hypertext (Nottingham, UK, August
2003). To follow up on this workshop, this special issue attempts to
focus on a number of critical issues listed below that were in the
focus of the workshop. However, the spectrum of possible topics is
not limited to these topics. The guest editors welcome any archival
quality work related to adaptive hypermedia and the adaptive Web.

*       How can we make authoring adaptive Web-based applications easier?
*       How can Semantic Web technology improve both adaptation and
information retrieval?
*       How can Web Services be (successfully) used in an adaptive
environment?
*       How do device adaptation and content adaptation combine?
*       How can we best visualize the results of adaptation?
*       What should be in a Web standard for adaptation?
*       Can we agree on a standard UM representation for adaptive
applications?
*       How can we dynamically construct UMs for dynamic Web-based systems?
*       What are specific UM issues for adaptive information retrieval?
*       How individualized does personalization need to be? Are
stereotype user models and group-based personalization good enough?
*       How to give the user a sense of control over the personalization of
AH?
*       Sharing UMs: what about privacy and security?
*       UM evaluation: How to decide which UM representation leads to
"better" possibilities for adaptation?
*       How can link structures be generated automatically (and adaptively)?
*       Are there adaptive hypermedia interaction/interface design
heuristics, and how do we validate these?
*       How do we measure how adaptive a hypertext structure is?
*       Can we find design patterns for adaptive link structures?
*       Is there such a thing as an adaptive hypermedia rhetoric or
narrative?
*       How should adaptive link structures be visualized?
*       How do adaptive hypermedia and open hypermedia combine?

Please contact the Guest Editors if you have any questions on the
scope of the call or require further information.

Guest Editors:
Paul De Bra - [log in to unmask]
Peter Brusilovsky - [log in to unmask]

About NRHM and the submission process
=====================================

NRHM has recently been acquired by Taylor & Francis
(http://www.tandf.co.uk) and NRHM will now appear in both print and
digital formats. We are particularly interested in exploring
possibilities for the digital medium, for example digital video clips
illustrating environments, data or interfaces discussed in the paper.
Authors are encouraged to contact the Editor regarding other
proposals for related digital material.

While he main theme for NRHM 2004 (part 1) is "Adaptive Hypermedia
and the Adaptive Web", we are also continuing the open topic
sub-theme for high quality papers meeting NRHM's scope in general
(see
http://www.comp.glam.ac.uk/pages/research/hypermedia/nrhm/introduction.htm).

Authors are invited to submit original unpublished papers
electronically to the Guest Editors at the e-mail addresses below.
There is no explicit restriction on length but authors who wish to
submit a long article should contact the Guest Editors prior to
submission. In addition to full papers we will also consider smaller
Technical Notes of 3500 words maximum - typically reporting on a
technical achievement or implementation in an early state of
research. Open theme submissions should be submitted electronically
to the NRHM Editor at the e-mail address below.

Initial submissions for reviewing can be sent in PDF, Postscript, RTF
or HTML following any conventional readable document format. For
Instructions to Authors for final submission of accepted papers
please see the Taylor & Francis Website
(http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/13614568.asp).

NRHM Editor Douglas Tudhope - [log in to unmask]
Associate Editor Daniel Cunliffe - [log in to unmask]
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Peter Brusilovsky <[log in to unmask]>
Department of Information Science and Telecommunications
School of Information Sciences
University of Pittsburgh
135 North Bellefield Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15260

Phone: 412 624 9404
Fax:     412 624 2788
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