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User Modeling for Personalized City Tours

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Several current support systems for travel and tourism are aimed at providing information in a personalized manner, taking users' interests and preferences into account. In this vein, personalized systems observe users' behavior and, based thereon, make generalizations and predictions about them. This article describes a user modeling server that offers services to personalized systems with regard to the analysis of user actions, the representation of assumptions about the user, and the inference of additional assumptions based on domain knowledge and characteristics of similar users. The system is open and compliant with major standards, allowing it to be easily accessed by clients that need personalization services.

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Fink, J., Kobsa, A. User Modeling for Personalized City Tours. Artificial Intelligence Review 18, 33–74 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1016383418977

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