Hi,
I agree with Michael about the difficulties of adaptive learning.
Regarding with what ILMS means, I do not have a precise answer. In fact, because it is a somewhat an open question is that I will be chairing a workshop in July this year entitled "Towards Inteligent Learning Management Systems" at the Artificial Intelligence in Education Conference, in Sydney July this year.
The workshop's aim is basically to have a lot of researhcers discuss and hopefully answer that question.
The conference will bring around 500 researchers from around world, and I expect to have about 50 in the workshop.
Please visit: http://www.cs.usyd.edu.au/~aied/ for more information. I will be able to give more details about the workshop in a few days.
I do believe that dotLRN has a great chance of being ahead in this game. The reason is that since it is open source all the researchers (as the ones I mentioned above) should find it a great tool to work with.
