Paper Info
Title
Developing Location Based Services for Tourism - The Service Providers View
Abstract
Even conservative estimations suggest that future services for mobile Internet applications for nomadic users have a great potential - especially in terms of user penetration. Future higher-bandwidth mobile networks like HSCSD (High-Speed Cicuit-Switched Data), GPRS (General Packet Radio Service) and UMTS (Universal Mobile Telecommunications System) together with next generation smart phones and web-enabled PDAs (Personal Digital Assistants) will allow more acceptable services than today's - sometimes cumbersome - WAP (Wireless Application Protocol) services. Bundled with localization technology like (d)GPS (differential Global Positioning System), or even only information about the actual mobile network cell, it is possible to develop a range of new and exciting tourism-related applications. Combined with new technologies like intelligent software agents and user modelling like profiling of personal interests the potential for intelligent tourism-related services is even higher. First examples of research projects heading in that direction are for example "Deep Map" (Malaka and Zipf 2000, Malaka et al. 2000). Now, the new EU- funded project "CRUMPET" focuses research on the "CReation of User -friendly Mobile services PErsonalized for Tourism". . Within the IST framework of the European Commission, researchers are aiming at implementing, validating, and trialling tourism-related value-added services for nomadic users across mobile and fixed networks. In particular the use of agent technology will be evaluated in terms of user-acceptability, performance and best practice as a suitable approach for fast creation of seamlessly accessible nomadic services. The implementation will be based on a standards-compliant open source agent framework (FIPA), extended to support nomadic applications, devices, and networks. Features of the CRUMPET approach include:
Year
Venue
Keywords
2001
International Symposium on Information and Communication Technologies
best practice,location based service,mobile network,telecommunications,information technology,wireless application protocol,tourism,general packet radio service,service provider
Field
DocType
Citations 
UMTS frequency bands,Information technology,Computer science,Location-based service,Software agent,Service provider,Cellular network,Wireless Application Protocol,General Packet Radio Service,Marketing
Conference
18
PageRank 
References 
Authors
3.24
0
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
alexander zipf1183.24
Rainer Malaka249392.68
p j sheldon35115.34
k w wober47219.72
d r fesenmaier539249.31