Context-based tourism information filtering with a semantic rule engine

Sensors (Switzerland)

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 5273-5289

  Lamsfus, Carlos ^a   Martín, David ^a   Alzua Sorzabal, Aurkene ^b   López de Ipiña, Diego ^b   Torres Manzanera, Emilio ^c  

^a CICtourGUNE   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DEUSTO   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OVIEDO   (Spain)

Author keywords

Context awareness; Digital broadcasting; Push technology; Reasoning; Semantic web; Tourism

Indexed keywords

EID: 84861541093     PISSN: 14248220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/s120505273     Document Type: Article

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