A personalized restaurant recommender agent for mobile e-service

Author

Tung, Hung-Wen ; Soo, Von-Wun

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Nat. Tsing Hua Univ., Hsinchu, Taiwan

fYear

2004

fDate

28-31 March 2004

Firstpage

259

Lastpage

262

Abstract

A recommender agent in mobile environments should be context-aware to assist users while the users are moving. Many different kinds of contexts can be used by a recommender agent, such as weather, route conditions, time and location, etc. We demonstrate a prototype design of a software agent that recommends travel-related information according to contexts of the user in mobile environment. The recommendation procedure includes the dialogue between the user and the agent for modifying constraints given to the agent. We illustrate with a scenario of recommending a restaurant to a tourist in Taipei city by interacting with a personalized agent in a mobile device.

Keywords

catering industry; mobile computing; software agents; travel industry; user interfaces; Taipei city; mobile e-service; mobile environment; personalized restaurant recommender agent; software agent prototype; Cellular phones; Cities and towns; Computer science; Global Positioning System; Mobile computing; Personal digital assistants; Pervasive computing; Software agents; Software design; Software prototyping;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

e-Technology, e-Commerce and e-Service, 2004. EEE '04. 2004 IEEE International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7695-2073-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EEE.2004.1287319

Filename

1287319