KN-AHS: an adaptive hypertext client of the user modeling system BGP-MS
Alfred Kobsa, Dietmar Müller, Andreas Nill · 1998
1 This paper describes the automatic adaptation of hypertext to the user's presumed domain knowledge in the KN-AHS system, and the support that the user modeling shell system BGP-MS can provide for this adaptation. First, basic hypertext concepts will be introduced and reasons given for why hypertext should adapt to the current user (especially to his/her state of knowledge). A brief overview of those representation and inference components of BGP-MS that are used by KN-AHS will then be provided, followed by a description of its adaptive user interface. The interaction between the adaptive hypertext system and the user modeling system will be investigated in detail based on a possible dialog with a user. Finally, the inter-process communication between KN-AHS and BGP-MS will be described and related work discussed. The aim of this work was to demonstrate the feasibility of user modeling with BGP-MS in a "normal" hardware and software environment that is frequently found in the workpla...