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A lack of information forces many tourists on the same crowded paths. The Dynamic Tour Guide (DTG) is a mobile agent which computes an itinerary of a couple of hours to explore a city. For this the DTG interrogates Tour Building Blocks (TBB), e.g. potential sights or restaurants, to determine current information, e.g. opening hours or availability. An ontology is used to capture the profiles of the TBBs and the interests of a tourist. Both are used by a semantic match algorithm to rank the TBBs. Based on the start point and the available time period a heuristic approximate algorithm computes an individual tour within seconds. Benchmarks of relevant complexity have shown that a tour computed in 5 seconds deviates only by 5% from the optimal tour.
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ten Hagen, K., Kramer, R., Hermkes, M., Schumann, B., Mueller, P. (2005). Semantic Matching and Heuristic Search for a Dynamic Tour Guide. In: Frew, A.J. (eds) Information and Communication Technologies in Tourism 2005. Springer, Vienna. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-211-27283-6_14
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