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A Flexible Content Adaptation System Using a Rule-Based Approach
January 2007 (vol. 19 no. 1)
pp. 127-140
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Jiang He, Tong Gao, Wei Hao, I-Ling Yen, Farokh Bastani, "A Flexible Content Adaptation System Using a Rule-Based Approach," IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, vol. 19, no. 1, pp. 127-140, January, 2007.
 
 
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@article{ 10.1109/TKDE.2007.3,
author = {Jiang He and Tong Gao and Wei Hao and I-Ling Yen and Farokh Bastani},
title = {A Flexible Content Adaptation System Using a Rule-Based Approach},
journal ={IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering},
volume = {19},
number = {1},
issn = {1041-4347},
year = {2007},
pages = {127-140},
doi = {http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/TKDE.2007.3},
publisher = {IEEE Computer Society},
address = {Los Alamitos, CA, USA},
}
 
 
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A1 - Jiang He,
A1 - Tong Gao,
A1 - Wei Hao,
A1 - I-Ling Yen,
A1 - Farokh Bastani,
PY - 2007
KW - Application-aware adaptation
KW - rule-based processing
KW - fuzzy and uncertainty
KW - Web browsers.
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Content adaptation is an important technique for mobile devices. Existing content adaptation systems have been developed with specific adaptation goals. In this paper, we present an extensible content adaptation system, Xadaptor. We take a rule-based approach to facilitate extensible, systematic, and adaptive content adaptation. It integrates adaptation mechanisms for various content types and organizes them into the rule base. Rules are invoked based on the individual client information. We classify HTML page objects into structure, content, and pointer objects. Existing content adaptation techniques mainly focus on content objects and do not consider adaptation for structure and pointer objects. In Xadaptor, novel adaptation techniques for the structure object HTML table have been developed. We use fuzzy logic to model the adaptation quality and guide the adaptation decision. To demonstrate the feasibility of our approach, we have implemented a prototype system. Experimental studies show that Xadaptor is capable of on-the-fly content adaptation and is easily extensible.

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Index Terms:
Application-aware adaptation, rule-based processing, fuzzy and uncertainty, Web browsers.
Citation:
Jiang He, Tong Gao, Wei Hao, I-Ling Yen, Farokh Bastani, "A Flexible Content Adaptation System Using a Rule-Based Approach," IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, vol. 19, no. 1, pp. 127-140, Jan. 2007, doi:10.1109/TKDE.2007.3
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