Sem-Fit: A semantic based expert system to provide recommendations in the tourism domain

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 38, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 13310-13319

  García Crespo, Ángel ^a   López Cuadrado, José Luis ^a   Colomo Palacios, Ricardo ^a   González Carrasco, Israel ^a   Ruiz Mezcua, Belén ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD CARLOS III DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Fuzzy logic; Hotels; Recommender systems; Semantic labeling; Semantic technologies

Indexed keywords

CRITICAL ISSUES; CUSTOMER PROFILES; CUT-THROUGH; DEGREE OF RELEVANCE; DOMAIN ONTOLOGIES; EXPERT RECOMMENDATIONS; FUZZY LOGIC TECHNIQUES; HOTEL INDUSTRY; OPERATING PERFORMANCE; PRECISION AND RECALL; RETURN RATIO; SEMANTIC LABELING; SEMANTIC TECHNOLOGIES; USER EXPERIENCE;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; CUSTOMER SATISFACTION; EXPERT SYSTEMS; FUZZY SETS; FUZZY SYSTEMS; HOTELS; INTELLIGENT AGENTS; ONTOLOGY; SALES; SEMANTICS;

FUZZY LOGIC;

EID: 79957996380     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2011.04.152     Document Type: Article

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