Lightweight tourism recommendation
Nuno Luz, Ricardo Anacleto, Constantino Lopes Martins, Ana Maria Lima Almeida, Joel Pinho Lucas · International Journal of Web Engineering and Technology · 2013
In this paper, we present the tours planning system entitled TOURSPLAN, along with a new lightweight user modelling (UM) process intended to work as a tourism recommendation system in a commercial environment. The new process tackles issues like cold start, grey sheep and over-specialisation through a rich user model and the application of a gradual forgetting function to the collected user action history. Also, significant performance improvements were achieved regarding the previously proposed UM process.