ABIS-95 ? GI Workshop on Adaptivity and User Modeling in Interactive Software Systems

Abstract

this year's workshop the focus was explicitly set on demonstration of adaptivity and user modeling techniques in existing systems; -short presentation of innovative ideas; -discussion of topics that are most important barriers on the way to massive usage of adaptivity and user modeling in commercial applications. During the workshop, 6 long presentations including system presentations, and 9 short presentations of research ideas or current projects were given. Their abstracts are given following this introduction. From the papers presented, proceedings were produced. Copies are available from Uwe Malinowski (contact see above; note that the papers are written in German). Additionally, two discussion groups worked on the topics "Adaptivity in Commercial Applications" and "Group Modeling". The main ideas from the discussions are presented following the presentation abstracts.From the presentations and discussions it became obvious that industry as well as universities are currently trying to apply research results to real world applications. The questions addressed vary from providing shell systems on different platforms to reducing complexity in inference or decision algorithms. It was generally agreed that it is necessary to reduce the cost of building adaptive systems; it is still too expensive to build an adaptive interactive system, especially if the effect of adaptivity cannot be proven in advance.The next ABIS workshop will take place in Dortmund from 9-11 October 1996. It will be organized by Hans-Gianter Lindner from VEW AG (hg.lindner@vew.de). Information will be accessible via the WWW homepage of the GI work-