Augmenting Collaboration with Personalization Services

Augmenting E-learning Standards with Adaptation

Collaborative learning, in the context of Learning Management Systems (LMSs), is becoming an important factor in the e-Learning process. LMSs such as Blackboard, Sakai, allow various forms of collaboration between students. Moreover, LMSs allow a high degree of reuse by relying on e-Learning standards. Nevertheless, LMSs lack adaptation and personalization facilities. Adaptive Hypermedia enviro...

Identities Management: An Approach to Overcome Basic Barriers in E-Commerce and Collaboration Applications

The development of the Internet was originally based on the assumption that a user remains anonymous. In the real world, however, people always have an identity – often even more than one. The transfer of real world transactions to the online world therefore requires identity information. More and more services, especially in e-commerce and collaboration applications, need to know the user for ...

Augmenting Web-Based Collaboration with Adaptive Replication and Mobility

We survey two systems. First, the middleware DIRECS, for supporting the adaptive wide-area replication of collaboration data and thereby the availability, responsiveness and failure resilience of web-based collaborative systems. Availability is adaptive with regard to replication consistency requirements, and vice-versa. Second, the middleware MOVE, for supporting adaptive voice/data-integrated...

Augmenting knowledge-intensive systems with Dynamic Personalization concepts

The eLogBook Framework: Sustaining Interaction, Collaboration, and Learning in Laboratory-oriented CoPs

Convinced by the important role of CoPs (communities of practice) and the innovative learning modality they offer, the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne is currently developing a framework to sustain interaction, collaboration, and learning in laboratory-oriented CoPs, namely the eLogBook. This paper describes the services provided by this framework, the 3A model on which it is based, an...