Improving the dependability of destination recommendations using information on social aspects

Tourismos

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 13-34

  Daramola, Olawande J ^a   Adigun, Mathew O ^b   Ayo, Charles K ^a   Olugbara, Oludayo O ^a  

^a Centre for Economic Policy and Development Research   (Nigeria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZULULAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Content based filtering; Destination recommendation; Ontology; Recommender systems; Social attributes

Indexed keywords

EID: 77953279903     PISSN: 17908418     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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