TIScover Recommendations

The main objective of the project is to develop and validate a recommendation system for destination decision making. It will provide personalized recommendations based on user profile and contextual information. It will be compliant with existing eCommerce and technological standards (component based and multi tiers) and give support for accessing heterogeneous data from plain text to semi structured (XML) and structured (RDBMS). It will be interactive and "conversal" adapting the dialogue process as it learns more about the user. The dialogue will be driven by a tourist destination selection decision making model. It will support the user during the travel (recall events, advise traffic conditions, etc.) by means of his / her cellular phone. The project will bring innovative results in the area of Case-Based Reccomendation Systems and Tourist Decision Modelling.