Milestone Working Package 2

This working package describes adaptation aspects in adaptive web applications semantically and investigates conflicts between them. Different adaptation techniques in the hypermedia domain have already been investigated and classified in the past. We assume that most complex adaption techniques can be reduced to a set of simple basic composition operations (add, remove, replace, sort). Based on the semantic description of adaptation techniques and their mapping to basic operators, conflicts between adaption actions can then be analysed.

Basic goals for this milestone

• classification and semantic description of adaptation techniques
  • design of a generic description language for adaptation patterns
• mapping of existing adaptation techniques to a set of basic operators
• analysis and classification of conflicts between XML adaptation aspects
  • conflict matrix ?
  • semantical analysis of XML adaptations
    • name and type analysis

Innovations achieved by this milestone

• method for semantic analysis of aspects in the area of context adaptation of web application
• classification of conflict types when composing XML fragments