Personalized location based tourism service for mobile users | |
| Author | Wang, Hua |
| Call Number | AIT Thesis no.IM-03-13 |
| Subject(s) | Tourism Personal communication service systems |
| Note | A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Engineering, School of Advanced Technologies |
| Publisher | Asian Institute of Technology |
| Series Statement | Thesis ; no. IM-03-13 |
| Abstract | Mobile users such as tourists require mobile services. Handheld devices promise access to a range of travel-related services while on tour. A number of usability issues, however, still ask for intelligent new solutions. Issues are, for example, the limited capacity of handheld devices, user interaction via small screens, mediation of heterogeneous services, as well as other issues of wireless access to internet-based services. They offer new opportunities for mobile commerce application and services to end-users, mobile network operators continuously seek new and innovative ways to create differentiation and increase profits. One of the best ways to accomplish this is through . the delivery of highly personalized services. One of the most powerful ways to personalize mobile services is based on location. The thesis constructs a personalized location based services model for tourism in order to improve the tourism services. In the implementation part, a prototype of restaurant recommendation system was developed. The proposed system provides a restaurant recommendation by using of computerized-matchmaking called collaboration filtering. Finally, two experimental results demonstrate that the personalized algorithm can produce a better predication than the non-personalized one and that system performance improves when the number of user rating increases. |
| Year | 2003 |
| Corresponding Series Added Entry | Asian Institute of Technology. Thesis ; no. IM-03-13 |
| Type | Thesis |
| School | School of Advanced Technologies (SAT) |
| Department | Department of Information and Communications Technologies (DICT) |
| Academic Program/FoS | Information Management (IM) |
| Chairperson(s) | Vatcharapom Esichaikul; |
| Examination Committee(s) | Sadananda, Ramakoti.;Haddawy, Peter; |
| Scholarship Donor(s) | Asian Institute of Technology Fellowship; |
| Degree | Thesis (M.Eng.) - Asian Institute of Technology, 2003 |