• DocumentCode
    3401278
  • Title

    Smart Travel Planner: A mashup of travel-related web services

  • Author

    Jafri, Rabia ; Alkhunji, Amal Saad ; Alhader, Ghada Khaled ; Alrabeiah, Hanan Rabeiah ; Alhammad, Noura Abdullah ; Alzahrani, Sara Khader

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Inf. Technol., King Saud Univ., Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
  • fYear
    2013
  • fDate
    11-12 Dec. 2013
  • Firstpage
    181
  • Lastpage
    185
  • Abstract
    The Smart Travel Planner is a web-based intelligent system for facilitating the travel planning process, which is implemented as a mashup of several travel-related services´ APIs. Unlike other similar applications which essentially work as calendaring programs, our system is unique in that it integrates the information and functions needed for travel planning in their entirety within a single piece of software providing such features as checking hotel availability and calculating optimum routes between user-specified locations at various travel destinations, and offering suggestions for sightseeing, all the while making sure to take into consideration the user-specified needs for particular meeting days, times and locations and personal preferences for dining, relaxation and sleep. Furthermore, these services are not limited to a particular city but are offered for any city around the world for which such information exists within the databases of the services included in the mashup.
  • Keywords
    Web services; knowledge based systems; travel industry; Web-based intelligent system; calendaring programs; hotel availability checking; optimum routes calculation; smart travel planner; travel destinations; travel planning process; travel-related Web services mashup; user-specified locations; Google; Mashups; Presses; intelligent systems; mashup; travel; web applications; web services;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Current Trends in Information Technology (CTIT), 2013 International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Dubai
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/CTIT.2013.6749499
  • Filename
    6749499