Paper Info
Title
Semantic Platform for the Composition of Tourism Products and Services.
Abstract
In order to be competitive, tourism intermediaries (i.e. travel agents, tour operators, etc.) require flexible and customizable solutions to adapt the wide variety of products and services on demand according to customers’ preferences. In addition, tourism intermediaries need to provide added value to customers by mapping their preferences or wishes into a composition of specific market products and services offered by different suppliers, e.g. hotel supplier plus car rental service supplier plus flight supplier plus attraction supplier. This paper presents a platform where the combination of ontologies and Semantic Web Services (SWS) allows tourism intermediaries to seamlessly offer customized and diversified services and products that can rapidly satisfy market and end-users’ demands. This platform includes an infrastructure to register, catalogue and discover services; a graphical tool for the composition of services; middleware to deploy and execute the composed services, and a Web 2.0-oriented interface generator.
Year
DOI
Venue
2009
10.1109/SMAP.2009.14
San Sebastian
Keywords
Field
DocType
diversified service,tourism products,customizable solution,semantic web services,car rental service supplier,attraction supplier,tourism intermediary,semantic platform,flight supplier,hotel supplier,different supplier,specific market product,xml,web services,middleware,semantic web,data mining,travel industry,electronics packaging,ontologies,satisfiability,servers
Middleware,Services computing,WSMO,World Wide Web,Server,Semantic Web,Tourism,Added value,Web service,Business
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-0-7695-3894-5
2
0.41
References 
Authors
2
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Sonia Bilbao121.09
Jesús Herrero252.40