Reference List for CSA3200

This list is recommended reading. The Web is likely to be the biggest source of reference material for this course. These references will be made available in the on-line notes for the course, during lectures, or both.

Some of the lectures will be based on paper-based resources and will be added to this list as and when (but will always be announced during lectures).

Some of the papers are available in the on-line location announced during lectures. The on-line location contains other papers that may be read if you are interested.

Information Retrieval

van Rijsbergen, C.J. (1979). Information Retrieval. Available on-line at http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/Keith/Preface.html

Baeza-Yates, R., and Ribeiro-Neto, B. (1999). Modern Information Retrieval. Addison-Wesley.

Hypertext

Halasz, F., and Schwartz, M. (1994). The Dexter Hypertext Reference Model. In Communications of the Association for Computing Machinery. 37, 2. February, 1994.

Balasubramanian, V. (1994). A State of the Art Review on Hypermedia Issues and Applications. Available on-line at http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/322764.html. Read especially the chapters entitled "Hypertext: An introduction" and "Integration Issues".

User Modelling

Kobsa, A. (1993): User Modeling: Recent Work, Prospects and Hazards. In: M. Schneider-Hufschmidt, T. Kühme and U. Malinowski, eds.: Adaptive User Interfaces: Principles and Practise. Amsterdam: North Holland Elsevier. Available online at: http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/709390.html.

Adaptive Hypertext

Brusilovsky, P., Kobsa, A., and Vassileva, J. (eds.) (1998) Adaptive Hypertext and Hypermedia. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers

Brusilovsky, P. (1996) Methods and techniques of adaptive hypermedia. In User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction, 6 (2-3), pp. 87-129. Available on-line at: http://www.contrib.andrew.cmu.edu/~plb/UMUAI.ps

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Date last amended: 10th October 2007