A Survey on Recent Recommendation Systems for the Tourism Industry

2020 ◽  
pp. 205-237
Author(s):  
S. Ranjith ◽  
P. Victer Paul
Keyword(s):  
User Satisfaction ◽  
Recommendation System ◽  
Recommendation Systems ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
User Preferences ◽  
Reference List ◽  
Current State ◽  
Recent Recommendation ◽  
Important Field ◽  
Preference Criteria

Data mining is an important field that derives insights from the data and recommendation systems. Recommendation systems have become common in recent years in the field of tourism. These are widely used as a tool that can input various selection criteria and user preferences and yields travel recommendations to tourists. User's style and preferences should be constructed accurately so as to supply most relevant suggestions. Researchers proposed various types of tourism recommendation systems (TRS) in order to improve the accuracy and user satisfaction. In this chapter, the authors studied the current state of tourism recommendation system models and discussed their preference criteria. As a part of that, the authors studied various important preference factors in TRS and categorized them based on their likeness. This chapter reports TRS model future directions and compiles a comprehensive reference list to assist researchers.

scholarly journals Hybrid POI Recommendation System for Tourism

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Monishkanna Barathan ◽  
Ershad Sharifahmadian
Keyword(s):  
Recommendation System ◽  
Recommendation Systems ◽  
User Interaction ◽  
User Preferences ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Point Of Interest ◽  
Poi Recommendation ◽  
Information Finding ◽  
Hybrid Recommender ◽  
Available Information

Due to the increase in amount of available information, finding places and planning of the activities to be done during a tour can be strenuous. Tourists are looking for information about a place in which they have not been before, which worsen the selection of places that fit better with user’s preferences. Recommendation systems have been fundamentally applicable in tourism, suggest suitable places, and effectively prune large information from different locations, so tourists are directed toward those places where are matched with their needs and preferences. Several techniques have been studied for point-of-interest (POI) recommendation, including content-based which builds based on user preferences, collaborative filtering which exploits the behavior of other users, and different places, knowledge-based method, and several other techniques. These methods are vulnerable to some limitations and shortcomings related to recommendation environment such as scalability, sparsity, first-rater or gray sheep problems. This paper tries to identify the drawbacks that prevent wide spread use of these methodologies in recommendation. To improve performance of recommendation systems, these methods are combined to form hybrid recommenders. This paper proposes a novel hybrid recommender system which suggests tourism destinations to a user with minimal user interaction. Furthermore, we use sentiment analysis of user’s comments to enhance the efficiency of the proposed system.

scholarly journals CourseQ: the impact of visual and interactive course recommendation in university environments

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Boxuan Ma ◽  
Min Lu ◽  
Yuta Taniguchi ◽  
Shin’ichi Konomi
Keyword(s):  
User Satisfaction ◽  
Recommendation System ◽  
User Study ◽  
Recommendation Systems ◽  
User Interaction ◽  
Design Concepts ◽  
System A ◽  
Accuracy Of Prediction ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Academic Interests

AbstractThe abundance of courses available in a university often overwhelms students as they must select courses that are relevant to their academic interests and satisfy their requirements. A large number of existing studies in course recommendation systems focus on the accuracy of prediction to show students the most relevant courses with little consideration on interactivity and user perception. However, recent work has highlighted the importance of user-perceived aspects of recommendation systems, such as transparency, controllability, and user satisfaction. This paper introduces CourseQ, an interactive course recommendation system that allows students to explore courses by using a novel visual interface so as to improve transparency and user satisfaction of course recommendations. We describe the design concepts, interactions, and algorithm of the proposed system. A within-subject user study (N=32) was conducted to evaluate our system compared to a baseline interface without the proposed interactive visualization. The evaluation results show that our system improves many user-centric metrics including user acceptance and understanding of the recommendation results. Furthermore, our analysis of user interaction behaviors in the system indicates that CourseQ could help different users with their course-seeking tasks. Our results and discussions highlight the impact of visual and interactive features in course recommendation systems and inform the design of future recommendation systems for higher education.

scholarly journals IMPROVEMENT OF SVD ALGORITHM TO INCREASE THE EFFICIENCY OF RECOMMENDATION SYSTEMS

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 55-59
Author(s):  
Svitlana Krepych ◽  
Iryna Spivak
Keyword(s):  
Recommendation System ◽  
Recommendation Systems ◽  
User Preferences ◽  
Automated Generation ◽  
Resource Information ◽  
Web Resource ◽  
Internet Resources ◽  
The People ◽  
Static Information ◽  
System Data

Many existing websites use recommendation systems for their users. They generate various offers for them, for example, similar products or recommend the people registered on this site with similar interests. Such referral mechanisms process vast amounts of information to identify potential user preferences. Recommendation systems are programs that try to determine what users want to find, what might interest them, and recommend it to them. These mechanisms have improved the interaction between the user and the site. Instead of static information, they provide dynamic information that changes: recommendations are generated separately for each user, based on his previous activity on this web resource. Information from other visitors may also be taken into account. The methods of collecting information provided by the Internet have greatly simplified the use of human thought through collaborative filtering. But, on the other hand, the large amount of information complicates the implementation of this possibility. For example, the behavior of some people is quite clearly amenable to modeling, while others behave completely unpredictably. And it is the latter that affect the shift of the results of the recommendation system and reduce its effectiveness. An analysis of Internet resources has shown that most of the recommendation systems do not provide recommendations to users, and the part that does, for example, offers products to the user, selects recommendations manually. Therefore, the task of developing methods for automated generation of recommendations for a limited set of input data is quite relevant. The problems of data sparseness, new user problem, scalability of the widely used SVD algorithm for the development of such recommendation systems are proposed to be eliminated by improving this algorithm by the method of the nearest k-neighbors. This method will allow you to easily segment and cluster system data, which will save system resources.

Meta-Rule Based Recommender Systems for Educational Applications

2012 ◽  
pp. 211-231 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vicente Arturo Romero Zaldivar ◽  
Daniel Burgos ◽  
Abelardo Pardo
Keyword(s):  
Recommendation System ◽  
Recommendation Systems ◽  
Relevant Information ◽  
User Preferences ◽  
Personalized Recommendation ◽  
Rule Based ◽  
User Data ◽  
Rule Sets ◽  
Rule Set ◽  
Educational Applications

Recommendation Systems are central in current applications to help the user find relevant information spread in large amounts of data. Most Recommendation Systems are more effective when huge amounts of user data are available. Educational applications are not popular enough to generate large amount of data. In this context, rule-based Recommendation Systems seem a better solution. Rules can offer specific recommendations with even no usage information. However, large rule-sets are hard to maintain, reengineer, and adapt to user preferences. Meta-rules can generalize a rule-set which provides bases for adaptation. In this chapter, the authors present the benefits of meta-rules, implemented as part of Meta-Mender, a meta-rule based Recommendation System. This is an effective solution to provide a personalized recommendation to the learner, and constitutes a new approach to Recommendation Systems.

scholarly journals Recommendation Systems: Algorithms, Challenges, Metrics, and Business Opportunities

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (21) ◽  
pp. 7748
Author(s):  
Zeshan Fayyaz ◽  
Mahsa Ebrahimian ◽  
Dina Nawara ◽  
Ahmed Ibrahim ◽  
Rasha Kashef
Keyword(s):  
Recommender Systems ◽  
Recommendation System ◽  
Information Overload ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Recommendation Systems ◽  
Qualitative Evaluation ◽  
Potential Influence ◽  
Systems Research ◽  
Current State

Recommender systems are widely used to provide users with recommendations based on their preferences. With the ever-growing volume of information online, recommender systems have been a useful tool to overcome information overload. The utilization of recommender systems cannot be overstated, given its potential influence to ameliorate many over-choice challenges. There are many types of recommendation systems with different methodologies and concepts. Various applications have adopted recommendation systems, including e-commerce, healthcare, transportation, agriculture, and media. This paper provides the current landscape of recommender systems research and identifies directions in the field in various applications. This article provides an overview of the current state of the art in recommendation systems, their types, challenges, limitations, and business adoptions. To assess the quality of a recommendation system, qualitative evaluation metrics are discussed in the paper.

scholarly journals Systematic Review of Contextual Suggestion and Recommendation Systems for Sustainable e-Tourism

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (15) ◽  
pp. 8141
Author(s):  
Haseeb Ur Rehman Khan ◽  
Chen Kim Lim ◽  
Minhaz Farid Ahmed ◽  
Kian Lam Tan ◽  
Mazlin Bin Mokhtar
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Review ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Recommendation System ◽  
Recommendation Systems ◽  
Time Of Day ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Time Data ◽  
Model Framework ◽  
Agenda 2030 ◽  
The Government

Agenda 2030 of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 9 and 11 recognizes tourism as one of the central industries to global development to tackle global challenges. With the transformation of information and communication technologies (ICT), e-tourism has evolved globally to establish commercial relationships using the Internet for offering tourism-related products, including giving personalised suggestions. The contextual suggestion has emerged as a modified recommendation system that is integrated with information-retrieval techniques within large databases to provide tourists with a list of suggestions based on contexts, such as location, time of day, or day of the week (weekdays or weekends). This study surveyed literature in the field of contextual suggestion and recommendation systems with a focus on e-tourism. The concerns linked with approaches used in contextual suggestion and recommendation systems are highlighted in this systematic review, while motivations, recommendations, and practical implications in e-tourism are also discussed in this paper. A query search using the keywords “contextual suggestion system”, “recommendation system”, and “tourism” identified 143 relevant articles published from 2012 to 2020. Four major repositories are considered for searching, namely, (i) Science Direct, (ii) Scopus, (iii) IEEE, and (iv) Web of Science. This review was carried out under the protocols of four phases, namely, (i) query searching in major article repositories, (ii) removal of duplicates, (iii) scan of title and abstract, and (iv) complete reading of articles. To identify the gaps in current research, a taxonomy analysis was exemplified into categories and subcategories. The main categories were highlighted as (i) review articles, (ii) model/framework, and (iii) applications. Critical analysis was carried out on the basis of the available literature on the limitations of approaches used in contextual suggestion and recommendation systems. In conclusion, the approaches used are mainly based on content-based filtering, collaborative filtering, preference-based product ranking, and language modelling. The evaluation measures for the contextual suggestion system include precision, normalized discounted cumulative, and mean reciprocal rank, while test collections comprise Internet resources. Given that the tourism industry contributed to the environmental and social-economic development, contextual suggestion and recommendation systems have presented themselves to be relevant in integrating and achieving SDG 9 and SDG 11 in many ways such as web-based e-services by the government sector and smart gadgets based on reliable and real-time data and information for city planners as well as law enforcement personnel in a sustainable city.

scholarly journals A Personalized Location Recommendation System based on Probability and Proximity

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 714-718
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Big Data ◽  
Recommendation System ◽  
Predictive Analytics ◽  
Information Filtering ◽  
Recommendation Systems ◽  
User Preferences ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Location Recommendation ◽  
Short Period

Big data is an emerging field plays a valuable role in the extraction of information from raw data. It has found its applications in areas such as predictive analytics, healthcare analytics, financial analytics, and retail analytics and so on. The enormous growth of the Internet has become a source for availability of the huge volume of data online. It is difficult to find out the necessary information from huge data within a short period. The availability of enormous data craves the need of an information filtering system and this information filtering systems are capable of providing the required data to users. The rapid growth of big data lays the path to recommendation systems. A recommendation system is an information filtering tool which has more impacts in day to day life of everyone and also redefines our lives. Recommendation systems provide suggestions based on user preferences, requirements, and interests. The reviews and rating values given by people are used to answer similar interest queries with predictions and suggestions. Reviews and Feedback play a key role in the decision-making process. People share their experiences in the form of feedback, ratings, and reviews and so on. If a user wants to visit a location and if he does not have prior knowledge of it, then he may use reviews and feedback given by others who visited the location already. It is not possible for a user to go through huge volumes of reviews and sometimes it may mislead the user to take wrong decisions if he goes by the review given by a person with a contrasting taste. In such cases, Recommendation systems are needed, which helps users in the decision-making process. In most of the existing methods, they used Point of Interest (POI) of users to recommend the locations. The main objective is to develop a Personalized Location Recommendation System, which will recommend the locations to users using Probability and Proximity. Our model uses Probability and Proximity measures to recommend the locations.

scholarly journals Web crawling based context aware recommender system using optimized deep recurrent neural network

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Venugopal Boppana ◽  
P. Sandhya
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Recurrent Neural Network ◽  
Recommender System ◽  
Recommendation System ◽  
Contextual Information ◽  
Recommendation Systems ◽  
User Preferences ◽  
Bald Eagle ◽  
Context Aware ◽  
Deep Recurrent Neural Network

AbstractRecommendation systems are obtaining more attention in various application fields especially e-commerce, social networks and tourism etc. The top items are recommended based on the ability of recommender system which predict the future preference out of the available items. Because of the internet, the people in the current society has too many options that’s why the recommendation system is very essential. The recommendation is achieved by the particular users who predict the ratings for numerous items and recommend those items to other users. Majorly, content and collaborative filtering techniques are employed in typical recommendation systems to find user preferences and provide final recommendations. But, these systems commonly lacks to take growing user preferences in various contextual factors. Context aware recommendation systems consider various contextual parameters into account and attempt to catch user preferences appropriately. The majority of the work in the recommender system domain focuses on increasing the recommendation accuracy by employing several proposed approaches where the main motive remains to maximize the accuracy of recommendations while ignoring other design objectives, such as a user’s an item’s context. Therefore, in this paper an effective deep learning based context aware recommendation model is proposed which can be act as an efficient recommender system by showing minimum error during recommendation. Initially, the dataset is pre-processed using Natural Language Tool Kit (NLTK) in Python platform. After pre-processing, the TF–IDF and word embedding model is used for every pre-processed reviews to extract the features and contextual information. The extracted feature is considered as an input of density based clustering to group the negative, neutral and positive sentiments of user reviews. Finally, deep recurrent neural Network (DRNN) is employed to get the most preferable user from every cluster. The recurrent neural network model parameter values are initialized through the fitness computation of Bald Eagle Search (BES) algorithm. The proposed model is implemented using NYC Restaurant Rich Dataset using Python programming platform and performance is evaluated based on the metrics of accuracy, precision, recall and compared with existing models. The proposed recommendation model achieves 99.6% accuracy which is comparatively higher than other machine learning models.

scholarly journals Assessing a Multi-Objective Genetic Algorithm with a Simulated Environment for Energy-Saving of Air Conditioning Systems with User Preferences

Symmetry ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 344
Author(s):  
Alejandro Humberto García Ruiz ◽  
Salvador Ibarra Martínez ◽  
José Antonio Castán Rocha ◽  
Jesús David Terán Villanueva ◽  
Julio Laria Menchaca ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Genetic Algorithm ◽  
Energy Consumption ◽  
Energy Saving ◽  
User Satisfaction ◽  
Air Conditioning ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
User Preferences ◽  
The State ◽  
Nsga Ii ◽  
Air Conditioning System

Electricity is one of the most important resources for the growth and sustainability of the population. This paper assesses the energy consumption and user satisfaction of a simulated air conditioning system controlled with two different optimization algorithms. The algorithms are a genetic algorithm (GA), implemented from the state of the art, and a non-dominated sorting genetic algorithm II (NSGA II) proposed in this paper; these algorithms control an air conditioning system considering user preferences. It is worth noting that we made several modifications to the objective function’s definition to make it more robust. The energy-saving optimization is essential to reduce CO2 emissions and economic costs; on the other hand, it is desirable for the user to feel comfortable, yet it will entail a higher energy consumption. Thus, we integrate user preferences with energy-saving on a single weighted function and a Pareto bi-objective problem to increase user satisfaction and decrease electrical energy consumption. To assess the experimentation, we constructed a simulator by training a backpropagation neural network with real data from a laboratory’s air conditioning system. According to the results, we conclude that NSGA II provides better results than the state of the art (GA) regarding user preferences and energy-saving.

scholarly journals Fashion Recommendation Systems, Models and Methods: A Review

Informatics ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 49
Author(s):  
Samit Chakraborty ◽  
Md. Saiful Hoque ◽  
Naimur Rahman Jeem ◽  
Manik Chandra Biswas ◽  
Deepayan Bardhan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Recommendation System ◽  
Recommendation Systems ◽  
Fast Fashion ◽  
Potential Models ◽  
Scholarly Article ◽  
Enormous Amount ◽  
Shopping Experience ◽  
Tremendous Amount ◽  
Systems Models ◽  
Filtering Techniques

In recent years, the textile and fashion industries have witnessed an enormous amount of growth in fast fashion. On e-commerce platforms, where numerous choices are available, an efficient recommendation system is required to sort, order, and efficiently convey relevant product content or information to users. Image-based fashion recommendation systems (FRSs) have attracted a huge amount of attention from fast fashion retailers as they provide a personalized shopping experience to consumers. With the technological advancements, this branch of artificial intelligence exhibits a tremendous amount of potential in image processing, parsing, classification, and segmentation. Despite its huge potential, the number of academic articles on this topic is limited. The available studies do not provide a rigorous review of fashion recommendation systems and the corresponding filtering techniques. To the best of the authors’ knowledge, this is the first scholarly article to review the state-of-the-art fashion recommendation systems and the corresponding filtering techniques. In addition, this review also explores various potential models that could be implemented to develop fashion recommendation systems in the future. This paper will help researchers, academics, and practitioners who are interested in machine learning, computer vision, and fashion retailing to understand the characteristics of the different fashion recommendation systems.

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