Mobile recommender systems in tourism

Journal of Network and Computer Applications

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 319-333

  Gavalas, Damianos ^a,b   Konstantopoulos, Charalampos ^b,c   Mastakas, Konstantinos ^b,d   Pantziou, Grammati ^b,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE AEGEAN   (Greece)

^b Univ of Patras   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PIRAEUS   (Greece)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WEST ATTICA   (Greece)

Author keywords

Context awareness; Location awareness; Mobile recommender systems; Mobile tourism; Personalization; Points of interest; Proactive; Pull based; Reactive; Route planning; Tour planning

Indexed keywords

CONTEXT-AWARENESS; LOCATION AWARENESS; MOBILE RECOMMENDER SYSTEMS; MOBILE TOURISM; PERSONALIZATIONS; POINTS OF INTEREST; PROACTIVE; PULL-BASED; REACTIVE; ROUTE PLANNING;

ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNOLOGY; INFORMATION SERVICES; SOCIAL SCIENCES COMPUTING;

RECOMMENDER SYSTEMS;

EID: 84893733531     PISSN: 10848045     EISSN: 10958592     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jnca.2013.04.006     Document Type: Review

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