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Location- and Time-Based Information Delivery in Tourism

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Advances in Spatial and Temporal Databases (SSTD 2003)

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Today’s mobile devices allow end users to get information related to a particular domain based on their current location, such as the fastest route to the nearest drugstore. However, in such Location-Based Services (LBS), richer and more targeted information is desirable. In many applications, end users would like to be notified about relevant events or places to visit in the near future according to their profile. They also do not wish to get the same information many times unless they explicitly ask for it. In this paper, we describe our system, TIP (Tourism Information Provider), which delivers various types of information to mobile devices based on location, time, profile of end users, and their “history”, i.e., their accumulated knowledge. The system hinges on a hierarchical semantic geospatial model as well as on an Event Notification System (ENS).

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  1. Computer Science Institute, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany

    Annika Hinze & Agnès Voisard

  2. Fraunhofer ISST, Berlin, Germany

    Agnès Voisard

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    Yannis Manolopoulos

  3. Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia

    John Roddick

  4. Department of Informatics, University of Piraeus, Greece

    Yannis Theodoridis

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Hinze, A., Voisard, A. (2003). Location- and Time-Based Information Delivery in Tourism. In: Hadzilacos, T., Manolopoulos, Y., Roddick, J., Theodoridis, Y. (eds) Advances in Spatial and Temporal Databases. SSTD 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2750. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-45072-6_28

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