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Ontology Based Middleware for Ranking and Retrieving Information on Locations Adapted for People with Special Needs

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Computers Helping People with Special Needs (ICCHP 2012)

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Current leisure or touristic services searching tools do not take into account the special needs of large amount of people with functional diversities. However, the combination of different semantic, web and storage technologies make possible the enhancement of such search tools, allowing more personalized searches. This contributes to the provision of better and more suitable results. In this paper we propose an innovative ontology driven solution for personalized tourism directed to people with special needs.

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  1. Vicomtech-IK4, Mikeletegi Pasealekua, 57. Miramon, 20009, Donostia/San Sebastián, Spain

    Kevin Alonso, Naiara Aginako, Javier Lozano & Igor G. Olaizola

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  1. Institut Integriert Studieren, University of Linz, Altenbergerstraße 69, 4040, Linz, Austria

    Klaus Miesenberger

  2. University of San Francisco, 2130 Fulton St., 94117, San Francisco, CA, USA

    Arthur Karshmer

  3. Support Centre for Students with Special Needs, Masaryk University, Botanická 68A, 602 00, Brno, Czech Republic

    Petr Penaz

  4. Institute "integriert studieren", Vienna University of Technology, Favoritenstr. 11/029, 1040, Vienna, Austria

    Wolfgang Zagler

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Alonso, K., Aginako, N., Lozano, J., Olaizola, I.G. (2012). Ontology Based Middleware for Ranking and Retrieving Information on Locations Adapted for People with Special Needs. In: Miesenberger, K., Karshmer, A., Penaz, P., Zagler, W. (eds) Computers Helping People with Special Needs. ICCHP 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7382. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-31522-0_53

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