Article,
Semantic-Based Context Modeling in Tourism
Information Technology & Tourism, 13 (4): 309-325 (2011)
DOI: 10.3727/109830512X13364362859894
Abstract
This article presents an approach to context awareness in tourism.
It begins by focusing on the nature of context in the realm of tourism
and providing then an adapted definition to context. This insight
provides specific requirements for context modeling for the domain
of tourism. Based on that, a new model for context information management
based on a network of ontologies is presented. The innovation of
this model is that as opposed to the existing examples it is focused
on the dynamic part of context, that is, on the visitor, the personal
sphere. In addition, using networks of ontologies instead of single
or double level ontologies to model context increases the modularity,
scalability, and interoperability of the model, thus addressing some
of the major drawbacks found in the existing literature of context
awareness. The reasoning process provides a mathematical model that
enables to give each of the reasoning variables different weights,
therefore, providing the way to a more natural reasoning process
not merely based on true and false conception.
