This paper describes how hypermedia instruction manuals can be generated from a discourse plan: intentional and rhetorical knowledge in the plan tree are employed to construct the hypermedia elements, to assemble them into pages and to introduce links among them. Plan tree transformation functions are defined so as to ensure that generated hypermedia respect interface usability and Web design c...

Today's open hypermedia systems (OHS) provide middleware services for a range of hypertext applications. However, con guration and adaptation to speci c applications' requirements is a tedious task. Research has been conducted into further splitting hypermedia middleware systems up into sets of interacting components that can be combined, extended and con gured dynamically. These componentbased...

Hypermedia communicative devices are patterns of hypermedia presentation structure with specific affects on the user. Some devices have been determined for affecting the user with abstract authoring constructs, such as rhetorical structure. However, these devices each typically focus on particular aspects of the structure of hypermedia presentation. This paper presents a framework for hypermedi...

The goal of this research is to provide hypermedia functionality to all information systems. In this paper I present the architecture of a system-level hypermedia engine, designed both to manage fill hypermedia finctionality for an information system and to bind intelfaceoriented 'Ifront-end" systems with separate computationoriented "back-end "systems. The engine dynamically superimposes a hyp...

The plethora of networked devices and platforms that continuously come to light, as well as the emergence of alternative ways to access the internet, have increased the demand for multichannel access to hypermedia applications. Researchers and practitioners nowadays not only have to deal with the challenges that classic hypermedia applications pose, but also have to face numerous considerations...

We reviewed the findings of 35 experimental studies of hypermedia use in educational tasks which emphasized quantitative, empirical methods to assess learning outcomes. The review found three broad themes in the literature: studies of learner comprehension compared across hypermedia and between other media; effects on learning outcome of the increased learner control offered users in hypermedia...

The AEH follows a successful series of workshops on Adaptive and Adaptable Educational Hypermedia. This workshop focuses on models, design and authoring of AEH, on assessment of AEH, conversion between AEH and evaluation of AEH. The workshop has paper presentations, poster session and panel discussions. As you see, we have a full agenda, so don’t hesitate to join us! Introduction This workshop ...

Open Hypermedia Systems (OHS) are characterized by distributed, heterogeneous pieces of information. To cope with the main challenges of OHS one has to tackle consistency, eeciency, and interoperability issues. In this position paper we propose an OHS architecture based on an active object-oriented database system as well as SGML/HyTime as standardized interchange formats. By using active objec...

While current Semantic Web technologies are well-suited for data publication and integration, the design deployment of dynamic, autonomous long-lived multi-agent systems (MAS) on is still in its infancy. Following vision hypermedia MAS Linked Systems, we propose to use a value-passing fragment Milner’s Calculus formally specify generic hypermedia-driven behaviour Data agents as their embedding ...

Large-scale distributed hypermedia systems comprise a generation of powerful tools to meet the demands of the new information globalization era. The most promising of such systems have characteristics that allow for the easy adaptation both to an, actually, unpredictable technological evolution and to the constantly evolving information needs of users. Such systems are generally known as Open H...