Minotaurous: A distributed multimedia tourism information system

Summarization: The rapidly expanding technology of mobile computers, wireless data networks, vehicle navigation, multimedia and database systems has caused the development of powerful mobile information systems. These systems, consisting of a portable computer (Laptop, PDA), have large storage capacities, capabilities of wireless connection to a worldwide information network and provide to their users many functionalities like access to WWW, shopping, banking, reservations and other transactions.Παρουσιάστηκε στο: Information and Communication Technologies in Tourism , Proceedings of the International Conference in Edinburg

Intelligent information interactions for tourism destinations

Summarization: A new approach for the promotion of tourism destinations is presented. This approach attempts to bridge the "community gap" (i.e., the lack of any interaction between content providers and content consumers) and to provide support for the promotion of a visitor attraction. This approach handles both typical tourism information about an attraction and the "warm knowledge" related to the experiences of other visitors/locals associated with the attraction. Its cornerstone is the Knowledge Base that efficiently supports a rich set of services and diverse interaction means. Main services include: enhanced topics of discussion; support for communities of people; matchmaking; awareness; semi-automatic creation and maintenance of personal diaries; personalized maps; advanced searching; time support; and content generation.Παρουσιάστηκε στο: In the proceedings of the Conference on Information and Communication Technologies in Touris

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D1.1.1 Final 1/39 Second generation DLs have new requirements. Firstly, these requirements include the way to make data and specialized DL applications available to a large set of users by means of well-defined services. Secondly, the interaction between independent data/service providers (peers) within a network needs to be addressed. Finally, the computing and storage resources that are available in large networks have to be made available in an efficient and effective way by means of grid technology. We provide a survey in order to highlight whether and to what extent i.) service-oriented architectures, peer-to-peer infrastructures, and grid infrastructures can contribute to satisfy the requirements of these new DLs. This survey contains a detailed summary of state-of-the-art in th

A Modular approach to support GIS functionality in tourism applications

Summarization: Geographic Information Systems (GIS) is a rapidly expanding field enabling the development of applications that manage and use geographic information in combination with other media. This technology, offers great opportunities for the development of modern tourism applications using maps to present information to the users in a natural and effective way. One approach to provide GIS functionality to applications is to exploit the facilities offered by modern operating systems for interoperability. This paper presents such an effort to build tools incorporating MS Windows OLE technology to provide GIS functionality to applications developed for the MS Windows platform. The first tool is Map Studio, a GIS editor used to prepare maps. The second is Map Control, an ActiveX control which can be used by an application in order to present and browse the maps created with Map Studio integrating them with other media or data coming from relational databases.Παρουσιάστηκε στο: nternational Conference in Istanbul, Turke