Harmonise: A Step Toward an Interoperable E-Tourism Marketplace

Fodor, Oliver; Werthner, Hannes

doi:10.1080/10864415.2005.11044324

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“…An ontology is considered as the specification of a conceptualization, in other words, a specific artifact designed with the purpose of expressing the intended meaning of a shared vocabulary (Hirst, 2004). Having a common semantic base compensates the interoperability problem (Fodor, 2005) that comes along with the integration of heterogeneous data sources by converting existing heterogeneous unstructured tourism data into structured ontological data. In the tourism area, some researches have already tackled the design of ontologies.…”

Section: Tourism Objects Modellingmentioning

confidence: 99%

DataTourism: Designing an Architecture to Process Tourism Data

Soualah-Alila

Coustaty

Rempulski

et al. 2016

Information and Communication Technologies in Tourism 2016

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With the rapid diffusion of new technologies in tourism, professionals face new challenges to use efficiently the vast amount of data created by tourists. Nowadays, these information come from multiple and varied sources, as cellular or social networks, touristic location attendance or dematerialized satisfaction surveys, and in huge amount. They are an important resource for the tourism industry, but their heterogeneity makes it difficult to aggregate and analyse them. The key issue for tourism actors, professionals or politics, is to manage and operate tourism information about their territory effectively. The purpose of this paper is to describe synthetically how tourism information are managed under the Tourinflux project. We describe in this paper an architecture named DataTourism for tourism data management which solve multiple technical locks encountered when working with tourism data: heterogeneity, quality, interoperability, reusability and standardisation.

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Section: Tourism Objects Modellingmentioning

confidence: 99%

DataTourism: Designing an Architecture to Process Tourism Data

Soualah-Alila

Coustaty

Rempulski

et al. 2016

Information and Communication Technologies in Tourism 2016

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“…The discussion on leveraging SOA and Web Services in cross-organizational integration has not yet been intensified in the academic discourse. Current research of [26], [28], [96] is discussing the application of SOA concepts and Web Service technology in dedicated B2B scenarios, while in the eGovernment realm both [2] and [55] adopt a Web Service oriented architecture solely for internal application integration.…”

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Service and Document Based Interoperability for European eCustoms Solutions

Vogel

Schmidt

Lemm

et al. 2008

J. theor. appl. electron. commer. res.

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Innovative eCustoms solutions play an important role in the pan-European eGovernment strategy. The underlying premise is interoperability postulating a common understanding of processes, services and the documents that are exchanged between business and government organizations as well as between governmental authorities of different EU member states. This article provides a stringent approach for deriving documents and services from current eCustoms procedures based on the UN/CEFACT standards framework and for embedding these in a service oriented architecture for Collaborative eGovernment. In doing so, we put a special focus on document engineering by applying the UN/CEFACT Core Component Technical Specification (CCTS), a conceptual framework for modeling document components in a syntax neutral and technology independent manner. By relying on CCTS, we want to tackle the challenge of handling different document configurations imposed by divergent national legislations, different customs procedures (export, import, transit, and excise) and different industries. The resulting conceptual model is transferred to XML schema serving as a basis for Web Services design and implementation. These Web Services are designed for seamless interoperable exchange of electronic customs documents between heterogeneous IS landscapes both on business and government side. Beyond the theoretical deduction practical insights are gained from a European research project implementing the artifacts proposed in a real-world setting.

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“…Fodor and Werthner (2004) presented Harmonise, a project that deals with business integration in tourism using ontologies for mediation. The SATINE project by Dogac et al (2004) describes how to deploy semantically enriched travel Web services and how to exploit semantics through Web service registries.…”

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Sem-Fit: A semantic based expert system to provide recommendations in the tourism domain

García-Crespo

López-Cuadrado

Colomo‐Palacios

et al. 2011

Expert Systems with Applications

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a b s t r a c tThe hotel industry is one of the leading stakeholders in the tourism sector. In order to reduce the trav eler's cost of seeking accommodations, enforce the return ratio efficiency of guest rooms and enhance total operating performance, evaluating and selecting a suitable hotel location has become one of the most critical issues for the hotel industry. In this scenario, recommender services are increasingly emerg ing which employ intelligent agents and artificial intelligence to ''cut through'' unlimited information and obtain personalized solutions. Taking this assumption into account, this paper presents Sem Fit, a seman tic hotel recommendation expert system, based on the consumer's experience about recommendation provided by the system. Sem Fit uses the consumer's experience point of view in order to apply fuzzy logic techniques to relating customer and hotel characteristics, represented by means of domain ontolo gies and affect grids. After receiving a recommendation, the customer provides a valuation about the rec ommendation generated by the system. Based on these valuations, the rules of the system are updated in order to adjust the new recommendations to past user experiences. To test the validity of Sem Fit, the validation accomplished includes the interaction of the customer with the system and then the results are compared with the expert recommendation for each customer profile. Moreover, the values of preci sion and recall and F1 have been calculated, based on three points of view, to measure the degree of rel evance of the recommendations of the fuzzy system, showing that the system recommendations are on the same level as an expert in the domain.

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Harmonise: A Step Toward an Interoperable E-Tourism Marketplace

Cited by 97 publications

References 21 publications

DataTourism: Designing an Architecture to Process Tourism Data

DataTourism: Designing an Architecture to Process Tourism Data

Service and Document Based Interoperability for European eCustoms Solutions

Sem-Fit: A semantic based expert system to provide recommendations in the tourism domain

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