A translation approach to portable ontology specifications
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Harmonise: A Step Toward an Interoperable E-Tourism Marketplace
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Modeling Semantic Web Services: The Web Service Modeling Language
Modeling Semantic Web Services: The Web Service Modeling Language
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Journal of Theoretical and Applied Electronic Commerce Research
Assisting Tourists on the Move- An Evaluation of Mobile Tourist Guides
ICMB '08 Proceedings of the 2008 7th International Conference on Mobile Business
TODWEB: training-less ontology based deep web source classification
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SigTur/E-Destination: Ontology-based personalized recommendation of Tourism and Leisure Activities
Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence
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Personalized online tourism services play a crucial role for tourists. In order to deliver adequate information, a semantic matching between tourism services and user context is needed. In the phase of trip planning, the essential user context comprises primarily user preferences and interests, while during the trip location and time context are added. While being on the move, unexpected events might force tourists to completely reschedule their travel plan and look for alternatives. In order to facilitate semantic matching between alternative touristic sites and user context, a specific vocabulary for the tourism domain, user type, time and location is needed. We demonstrate in this paper that existing tourism ontologies can hardly fulfill this goal as they mainly focus on domain concepts. The goal of this paper is to provide an alternative approach for covering the semantic space of tourism through the integration of modularized ontologies, such as user, W3C Time or W3C Geo, that center around a core domain ontology for the tourism sector.