SCARCE: an adaptive hypermedia environment based on virtual documents and the semantic Web

International audienceFlexible hypermedia or more precisely virtual documents can lead to methods facilitating web service design and maintenance. Indeed, they have the ability to compose on the fly real documents on user demand. We have designed a flexible environment for adaptive virtual documents based on a semantic web approach. In this environment, selection, filtering and organization are managed and specified at semantic level. These three declarative specifications which are composition engine parameters, are called a generic document. The filtering specification is defined by semantic properties associated with the generic document. These properties have the following roles: define how to evaluate the selected resources for classifying them in different equivalence classes according to a user model, determine how to choose an adaptive navigation technique according to the current user