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Smart Spaces Based Construction and Personalization of Recommendation Services for Historical e-Tourism

Authors:
Oksana Petrina
Dmitry Korzun
Aleksey Varfolomeyev
Aleksandrs Ivanovs

Keywords: Historical e-Tourism; Recommender Systems; Point of Interest; Semantic Network; Smart Spaces; Personalized Services

Abstract:
The smart spaces approach enables development of advanced digital services referred now as ``smart services''. In this paper, we discuss the development problem of smart services for the domain of historical e-Tourism. We show the applicability of recommender systems for constructing and personalizing services within a smart space. The latter is created to accompany a tourist or a group of them. A corpus of historical data distributed among multiple sources in the Internet is collected in a tourist's smart space, forming a kind of custom and dynamical historical knowledge. In particular, context-aware semantic relations between historical objects are dynamically established and manipulated in the smart space. This semantics-rich information is an input for recommendation-making. Personalized recommendations with quantitative and qualitative estimates can be constructed. The result then is visualized to assist a historian tourist in historical analysis of points of interests. The contribution consists of the concept definition and system design for creating a smart space with assistance services of personalized recommendations.

Pages: 85 to 95

Copyright: Copyright (c) to authors, 2016. Used with permission.

Publication date: June 30, 2016

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ISSN: 1942-2679