Development of a personalization model for web applications in a context of model-driven development

ABSTRACT: This dissertation develops and validates a maintainable approach to improve the modifiability of personalized web applications and to reduce the technical complexity to integrate personalization strategies in a short time in a business environment. The Software Reference Architecture to face the maintainability problem was proposed and the MAMPA framework (Model-driven Approach to enhance the Modifiability of Personalized Web Applications) was implemented

Content personalization in adaptive educational hypermedia systems: Review

RESUMEN: En un Sistema Hipermedia Adaptativo Educativo (SHAE), la información que describe a los estudiantes y su comportamiento son elementos significativos para el soporte personalizado que se pueda brindar. Este artículo hace una reseña de los SHAE, analiza la manera como usan diversas características del estudiante en el proceso de adaptación y hace un especial énfasis en los avances logrados en combinar la información del usuario individual con los grupos que se conformen; elemento que cobra relevancia en aquellas ocasiones que el SHAE disponga de limitada información individual del usuario.ABSTRACT: For Educational Adaptive Hypermedia Systems (EAHS), user behavior and user profile information are meaningful issues for the personalization process. This paper offers a review of EAHS and analyzes how user profile is used by adaptation techniques. As a central point, it emphasis in advances obtained of combining user profiles with user groups; this approach is especially useful when EAHS lacks of enough individual user information