Adaptive Tourism Modeling and Socialization System

This paper presents an undertaken research work about the development of an Adaptive Tourism Modeling System which attempts to correctly model a tourism Web application user profile. This paper will follow the methodology used behind the concept of the application, `User Modeling as a process´, which consists of three specific modules in order to achieve a clear user modeling technology. The user representation module devises a collection of knowledge representation formalisms that co-exist in order to constitute the system´s view of the user; the user reasoning module is responsible for the execution of several inference tasks as well as the generation of possibly new and valuable information about the user, using the latter module. The user concept that comes out of these two modules will ultimately be used by various kinds of application-level systems, namely a recommender system, therefore instantiating a project-dependent third module.