Software Engineering for Adaptive Hypermedia Applications

Abstract

ludes a design method for adaptive hypermedia applications and a development process for such applications. UWE is a systematic and object-oriented -- in this way they differ from AHAM -- design and development approach. We propose an integrated methodology for object-oriented development of adaptive hypermedia (Web) applications by presenting an extension to the Unified Modeling Language (UML). As basis for the software engineering approach we have developed the Munich Reference Model, i.e. a Dexter-based reference model which is formally specified using UML and OCL (Koch, 2000). Third Workshop on Adaptive Hypertext and Hypermedia at the 8 th International Conference on User Modeling, Sonthofen, Germany, July 13-17, 2001 Our Approach By way of an analogy to hypermedia engineering (Lowe & Hall, 1999), engineering for adaptive hypermedia applications can be defined as a systematic, disciplined and measurable approach that sup