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A Semantic Grid Oriented to E-Tourism

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With increasing complexity of tourism business models and tasks, there is a clear need of the next generation e-Tourism infrastructure to support flexible automation, integration, computation, storage, and collaboration. Currently several enabling technologies such as semantic Web, Web service, agent and grid computing have been applied in the different e-Tourism applications, however there is no a unified framework to be able to integrate all of them. So this paper presents a promising e-Tourism framework based on emerging semantic grid, in which a number of key design issues are discussed including architecture, ontologies structure, semantic reconciliation, service and resource discovery, role based authorization and intelligent agent. The paper finally provides the implementation of the framework.

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  1. College of Computer and Communication, Hunan University, 410082, Changsha, China

    Xiao Ming Zhang

  2. School of Hospitality & Tourism Management, Florida International University, 33181, Miami, USA

    Xiao Ming Zhang

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    Martin Gilje Jaatun

  2. School of Computer Science, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, China

    Gansen Zhao

  3. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Stavanger, NO- 4036, Stavanger, Norway

    Chunming Rong

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Zhang, X.M. (2009). A Semantic Grid Oriented to E-Tourism. In: Jaatun, M.G., Zhao, G., Rong, C. (eds) Cloud Computing. CloudCom 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5931. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-10665-1_44

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