Hypermedia has initiated an explosion of application development based on a navigational model of information access. However, many thousands of existing applications continue to operate successfully without hypermedia services, even if they could benefit from a navigational paradigm. One of the reasons why developers of an existing application might choose to ignore the benefits of hypermedia ...

Document structures are a crucial mechanism for the creation and the usability of complex hypermedia documents. They form a possibility to deal with the inherent complexity of such documents and with document structures it is also possible to support the reuse of parts of hypermedia documents. In several theoretical approaches different kinds of document structures have been proposed. For examp...

The success of the WWW has served as an illustration of how hypermedia functionality can enhance access to large amounts of distributed information. However, the WWW and many other distributed hypermedia systems offer very simple forms of hypermedia functionality which are not easily applied to existing applications and data formats, and cannot easily incorporate alternative functions which wou...

Hypermedia is a powerful information management technology that couples the enhanced representative capabilities of multimedia with the power to define ever more meaningful relationships between data. It is only in recent years that hypermedia has been popularised, due in large measure to the surge of the ubiquitous World Wide Web. Of course, not all hypermedia applications are Web-based, nor c...

The World Wide Web is a vast global distributed hypermedia system providing an access to large amount of hypermedia information. This thesis analyzes the possibilities to support different knowledge transfer processes on the Web. Such processes might improve facilities for managing or retrieving hypermedia information on the Web. To analyze such possibilities this thesis looks on the Web from t...

Hypermedia authors are now acquiring experience to build good hypermedia systems and assess their quality, and this experience should be compiled and organized in order to be shared with other authors. We propose three hypermedia design patterns for hypermedia publishing: hyper-book, hyper-map and virtual product.

This paper1 describes a technique for extending user-interface toolkits with hypermedia functionality. The technique employs a separation-of-concerns approach which is incremental, reusable, and maintainable. The essence of the approach is to integrate a user-interface toolkit with an open hypermedia system. The integration occurs through a set of integrated widgets and a hypermedia infrastruct...

Adaptive hypermedia is a new area of research at the crossroads of hypermedia and adaptive systems and. Education is the largest application area of adaptive hypermedia systems. The goals of this paper are to provide a brief introduction into adaptive hypermedia and supply the reader with an organized reading on adaptive educational hypermedia. Unlike some other papers that are centered around ...

This paper deals with the automatic building of personalized hypermedia. We build upon ideas developed for educational hypermedia; the definition of a domain model and the use of overlay user models. Since much work has been done on learning user models and adapting hypermedia based on such models, we tackle the core problem: the automatic definition of a domain model for a static hypermedia.

This article introduces Atomic Hypermedia which, unlike traditional hypermedia approaches, does not use the concept of a node. Instead, all content is represented as single character ‘atoms’ which are placed along an arbitrary number of dimensions. This approach addresses some of the issues with node-based hypermedia. The article describes the basic mechanics of Atomic Data Structure, and how h...