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Development costs For the purpose of this article we will assume that development costs (equipment, instruments, vehicles, and training staff) will be financed by one-time investments from the government, non-governmental organisations (NGOs), local philanthropists or hospital savings. These development investments are very important; however, they are occasional and once made they are no longe...

This paper addresses the issue of how hyperdocuments, accessible via electronic books (E-books) which are read using the World Wide Web, can be endowed with features that enable the personalisation of the interaction process that takes place between the reader and the E-book itself. We introduce a novel, abstract approach to modelling the personalisation of hyperdocuments. This approach aims to...