Lightweight tourism recommendation

  • Authors:
  • Nuno Luz;Ricardo Anacleto;Constantino Martins;Ana Almeida;Joel Pinho Lucas

  • Affiliations:
  • GECAD - Knowledge Engineering and Decision Support Group, R. Dr. António Bernardino de Almeida, 431, 4200-072 Porto, Portugal;GECAD - Knowledge Engineering and Decision Support Group, R. Dr. António Bernardino de Almeida, 431, 4200-072 Porto, Portugal;GECAD - Knowledge Engineering and Decision Support Group, R. Dr. António Bernardino de Almeida, 431, 4200-072 Porto, Portugal;GECAD - Knowledge Engineering and Decision Support Group, R. Dr. António Bernardino de Almeida, 431, 4200-072 Porto, Portugal;Universidad de Salamanca, Departamento de Informática y Automática, Plaza de la Merced s/n 37008, Salamanca, Spain

  • Venue:
  • International Journal of Web Engineering and Technology
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

In this paper, we present the tours planning system entitled TOURSPLAN, along with a new lightweight user modelling UM process intended to work as a tourism recommendation system in a commercial environment. The new process tackles issues like cold start, grey sheep and over-specialisation through a rich user model and the application of a gradual forgetting function to the collected user action history. Also, significant performance improvements were achieved regarding the previously proposed UM process.