Title :
Recommendation system for tourist attraction information service
Author :
Smirnov, Alexander ; Kashevnik, Alexey ; Ponomarev, Anton ; Shilov, Nikolay ; Schekotov, Maksim ; Teslya, Nikolay
Author_Institution :
St. Petersburg Inst. for Inf. & Autom., St. Petersburg, Russia
Abstract :
The paper proposes a description of information decision support system in the tourism domain and a set of methods and algorithms for generating recommendations for a user that allow significant increase of the system usability. The system generates for the user recommendations which attractions at the moment are better to attend based on the user preferences and the current situation in the location area. The system also allows showing the user information about interesting attraction in more detail, which is based on analyzing information evaluations made by other users.
Keywords :
information services; recommender systems; travel industry; information decision support system; information evaluations; system usability; tourism domain; tourist attraction information service; user preferences; user recommendation system; Companies; Context; Estimation; Filtering; Information services; Internet; Meteorology; context management; mobile devices; ontology; ratings; recommendations; tourism;
Conference_Titel :
Open Innovations Association (FRUCT), 2013 14th Conference of
Conference_Location :
Espoo
DOI :
10.1109/FRUCT.2013.6737957
