Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web-Based Systems 5th International

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web-Based Systems, AH 2008, held in Hannover, Germany in July 2008. The 24 revised full papers and 26 revised short papers presented tog

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Editorial Board David Hutchison Lancaster University, UK Takeo Kanade Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA Josef Kittler University of Surrey, Guildford, UK Jon M. Kleinberg Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA Alfred Kobsa University of California, Irvine, CA, USA Friedemann Mattern ETH Zurich, Switzerland John C. Mitchell Stanford University, CA, USA Moni Naor Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel Oscar Nierstrasz University of Bern, Switzerland C. Pandu Rangan Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India Bernhard Steffen University of Dortmund, Germany Madhu Sudan Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MA, USA Demetri Terzopoulos University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA Doug Tygar University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA Gerhard Weikum Max-Planck Institute of Computer Science, Saarbruecken, Germany

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Wolfgang Nejdl Judy Kay Pearl Pu Eelco Herder (Eds.)

Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web-Based Systems 5th International Conference, AH 2008 Hannover, Germany, July 29 – August 1, 2008 Proceedings

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Volume Editors Wolfgang Nejdl Eelco Herder L3S Research Center and University of Hannover Appelstr. 9a, 30167 Hannover, Germany E-mail: {nejdl, herder}@L3S.de Judy Kay University of Sydney, School of Information Technologies Building J12, Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia E-mail: [email protected] Pearl Pu Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) Station 14, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland E-mail: pearl.pu@epfl.ch

Library of Congress Control Number: 2008931488 CR Subject Classification (1998): H.5.4, H.4, H.5, H.3 LNCS Sublibrary: SL 3 – Information Systems and Application, incl. Internet/Web and HCI ISSN ISBN-10 ISBN-13

0302-9743 3-540-70984-3 Springer Berlin Heidelberg New York 978-3-540-70984-8 Springer Berlin Heidelberg New York

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Preface

Adaptive Hypermedia has emerged as an important area of both academic and deployed research. It encompasses a broad range of research that will enable personalized, adaptive hypermedia systems to play an even more effective role in people’s lives. The Web has enabled the widespread use of many personalized systems, such as recommenders, personalized filters and retrieval systems, e-learning