Abstract:
The emergence of the World Wide Web during the past few years has provided a medium for
communicating information faster and to more people than before. The technologies used allow for the
development of personalised, adaptive to the users’ needs, information systems. So far, the complexity
of the design and implementation of Virtual Environments has restricted their usage in locally
executed, stand-alone applications. In this paper we propose an architecture that permits and facilitates
the dynamic, on-the-fly creation of Virtual Environments on the Web that adapt to the users’
preferences and profiles. We focus on the algorithms available for creating an efficient virtual
environment generation engine. We illustrate the proposed architecture with examples from a case
study of a Virtual Museum.
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