Fine grained content-based adaptation mechanism for providing high end-user quality of experience with adaptive hypermedia systems

Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on World Wide Web

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 53-62

  Muntean, Cristina Hava ^a   McManis, Jennifer ^a  

^a DUBLIN CITY UNIVERSITY   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Adaptive hypermedia; Content based adaptation mechanism; Distance education; End user quality of experience

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS; CONTENT BASED RETRIEVAL; DISTANCE EDUCATION; QUALITY OF SERVICE; USER INTERFACES; WEB SERVICES; TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER; TRAFFIC CONGESTION;

ADAPTIVE HYPERMEDIA; CONTENT-BASED ADAPTATION MECHANISM; QUALITY OF EXPERIENCE (QOE); WEB CONTENTS;

HYPERMEDIA SYSTEMS; WORLD WIDE WEB;

ACCESS TIME; ADAPTATION MECHANISM; ADAPTIVE HYPERMEDIA; ADAPTIVE HYPERMEDIA SYSTEMS; COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES; CONTENT-BASED; CONTENT-BASED ADAPTATION MECHANISM; END USERS; END-USER QUALITY OF EXPERIENCE; FINE GRAINED; HIGH QUALITY; LOW BIT RATE; MOBILITY SUPPORTS; MULTIPLE FACTORS; NETWORK ENVIRONMENTS; OPERATIONAL ENVIRONMENTS; PERFORMANCE CHARACTERISTICS; PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENTS; QUALITY OF EXPERIENCES; SIMULATION TESTS; VARIABLE ENVIRONMENT; WEB CONTENT; WEB USERS;

EID: 34250684631     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1135777.1135790     Document Type: Conference Paper

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