Second Workshop on Empirical Evaluation of Adaptive Systems

in conjunction with UM2003

Tobar, C. M. (2003). Yet Another Evaluation Framework. In: Weibelzahl, S. and Paramythis, A. (eds.). Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Empirical Evaluation of Adaptive Systems, held at the 9th International Conference on User Modeling UM2003, Pittsburgh.

Separation of concerns can play an important role in empirical evaluation of systems with adaptation characteristics, that of clarifying what to evaluate in order to prepare the how to evaluate. This present proposal integrates different design perspectives to better understand adaptation assessment and design through a comprehensive framework with: abstract levels, necessary to step-by-step approaches; services or modeling issues to support proper specification mechanisms for data manipulation; specification dimensions or traditional-concerns, defined for software modeling; and goal conditions behind the application descriptions, related to main external concepts. The result is a map to be used to perceive and exploit those different perspectives in evaluation as well as design of adaptation systems.