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      <journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">109</journal-id>
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        <journal-title xml:lang="en">JUCS - Journal of Universal Computer Science</journal-title>
        <abbrev-journal-title xml:lang="en">jucs</abbrev-journal-title>
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      <issn pub-type="ppub">0948-695X</issn>
      <issn pub-type="epub">0948-6968</issn>
      <publisher>
        <publisher-name>Journal of Universal Computer Science</publisher-name>
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      <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.3217/jucs-016-19-2756</article-id>
      <article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">29810</article-id>
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        <subj-group subj-group-type="heading">
          <subject>Research Article</subject>
        </subj-group>
        <subj-group subj-group-type="scientific_subject">
          <subject>M.5 - KNOWLEDGE PERSONALIZATION AND CUSTOMIZATION</subject>
          <subject>M.6 - KNOWLEDGE PUBLISHING</subject>
          <subject>M.7 - KNOWLEDGE RETRIEVAL</subject>
          <subject>M.8 - KNOWLEDGE REUSE</subject>
        </subj-group>
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      <title-group>
        <article-title>Merging Strategies for Authoring QoE-based Adaptive Hypermedia</article-title>
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        <contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes">
          <name name-style="western">
            <surname>Scotton</surname>
            <given-names>Joshua</given-names>
          </name>
          <email xlink:type="simple">jscotton@dcs.warwick.ac.uk</email>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="A1">1</xref>
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        <contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="no">
          <name name-style="western">
            <surname>Moebs</surname>
            <given-names>Sabine</given-names>
          </name>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="A2">2</xref>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="no">
          <name name-style="western">
            <surname>Mcmanis</surname>
            <given-names>Jennifer</given-names>
          </name>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="A2">2</xref>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="no">
          <name name-style="western">
            <surname>Cristea</surname>
            <given-names>Alexandra I.</given-names>
          </name>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="A3">3</xref>
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      <aff id="A1">
        <label>1</label>
        <addr-line content-type="verbatim">The University of Warwick, Warwick, United Kingdom</addr-line>
        <institution>The University of Warwick</institution>
        <addr-line content-type="city">Warwick</addr-line>
        <country>United Kingdom</country>
      </aff>
      <aff id="A2">
        <label>2</label>
        <addr-line content-type="verbatim">Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland</addr-line>
        <institution>Dublin City University</institution>
        <addr-line content-type="city">Dublin</addr-line>
        <country>Ireland</country>
      </aff>
      <aff id="A3">
        <label>3</label>
        <addr-line content-type="verbatim">University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom</addr-line>
        <institution>University of Warwick</institution>
        <addr-line content-type="city">Coventry</addr-line>
        <country>United Kingdom</country>
      </aff>
      <author-notes>
        <fn fn-type="corresp">
          <p>Corresponding author: Joshua Scotton (<email xlink:type="simple">jscotton@dcs.warwick.ac.uk</email>).</p>
        </fn>
        <fn fn-type="edited-by">
          <p>Academic editor: </p>
        </fn>
      </author-notes>
      <pub-date pub-type="collection">
        <year>2010</year>
      </pub-date>
      <pub-date pub-type="epub">
        <day>01</day>
        <month>10</month>
        <year>2010</year>
      </pub-date>
      <volume>16</volume>
      <issue>19</issue>
      <fpage>2756</fpage>
      <lpage>2779</lpage>
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      <uri content-type="zenodo_dep_id" xlink:href="https://zenodo.org/record/7001441">7001441</uri>
      <permissions>
        <copyright-statement>Joshua Scotton, Sabine Moebs, Jennifer Mcmanis, Alexandra I. Cristea</copyright-statement>
        <license license-type="creative-commons-attribution" xlink:href="" xlink:type="simple">
          <license-p>This article is freely available under the J.UCS Open Content License.</license-p>
        </license>
      </permissions>
      <abstract>
        <label>Abstract</label>
        <p>Personalization is desirable, but writing the adaptation behaviour description to go with it is taxing. Even more challenging is the application of multiple adaptation strategies over the same static content. This paper focuses on recent work on strategy modularisation and merger development in the authoring process of adaptive hypermedia. The reason for the modularisation of strategies is to break a complex adaptation decision into a number of simpler ones, which may be reused more easily and applied in different orders. The rationale for strategy merger is to be able to apply multiple adaptation strategies over the same content — a challenge which is not yet fully addressed in current adaptive hypermedia systems. To demonstrate the proposed method we present an example case study and sample strategies written in the LAG adaptation language. The case study is based on a recently proposed model for Quality of Experience in e-learning. This model exposes the complex interaction between a number of factors affecting QoE and hence presents a good candidate for the application of a strategy merger, as well as modularisation. We have then evaluated this approach via structured questionnaires used with a number of design experts of hypermedia content creation, especially in the domain of education. This allows us to draw generic conclusions for both our own further research, as well as for the community at large, interested in the area of reuse and modularisation of adaptation.</p>
      </abstract>
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