Evaluation of a web recommender system in electronic and mobile tourism

International Journal of Web Engineering and Technology

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 4-21

  Gavalas, Damianos ^a   Kenteris, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE AEGEAN   (Greece)

Author keywords

Context awareness; Electronic tourism; Field trials; Mobile guides; Mobile tourism; Sensor networks; User evaluation; User profile; Web engineering; Web recommender systems; wTRS

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION FILTERING; SENSOR NETWORKS;

CONTEXT- AWARENESS; ELECTRONIC TOURISM; FIELD TRIAL; MOBILE GUIDES; MOBILE TOURISM; USER EVALUATIONS; USER PROFILE; WEB ENGINEERING; WEB RECOMMENDER SYSTEMS; WTRS;

RECOMMENDER SYSTEMS;

EID: 84858224126     PISSN: 14761289     EISSN: 17419212     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJWET.2012.045763     Document Type: Article

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