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Adding client-side adaptation to the conceptual design of e-learning web applications

2005; River Publishers; Volume: 4; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

1544-5976

Stefano Ceri, Peter Dolog, Maristella Matera, Wolfgang Nejdl,

Service-Oriented Architecture and Web Services

In this paper, we integrate WebML, a high-level model and technology for building server-side Web applications, with UML-Guide, a UML-based system that generates client-side guides for the adaptation of Web applications. The combination of the two systems is shown at work on an e-Learning scenario: WebML is the basis of the specification of a generic e-Learning system, collecting a large number of learning objects, while UML-Guide is used for building company-specific e-Learning curricula. The resulting system can be considered an adaptive hypermedia generator in full strength, whose potential expressive power goes beyond the experiments reported in this paper.