TY - GEN
T1 - Semantic platform for the composition of tourism products and services
AU - Bilbao, Sonia
AU - Herrero, Jesús
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=77950502086&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/SMAP.2009.14
DO - 10.1109/SMAP.2009.14
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:77950502086
SN - 9780769538945
T3 - SMAP '09 - 4th International Workshop on Semantic Media Adaptation and Personalization
SP - 111
EP - 114
BT - SMAP '09 - 4th International Workshop on Semantic Media Adaptation and Personalization
T2 - 4th International Workshop on Semantic Media Adaptation and Personalization, SMAP '09
Y2 - 14 December 2009 through 15 December 2009
ER -