Mobile Information Systems

Research Article

A Cold Start Context-Aware Recommender System for Tour Planning Using Artificial Neural Network and Case Based Reasoning

Table 1

Context-aware recommender systems applied to the tourism domain.
Recommender system Context-aware properties Recommender System properties
Used context Context-aware recommendation Recommended Item Recommendation techniqueUser feedback
UserEnvironmentLocationTimeContextual prefilteringContextual postfilteringContextual modelingPOIHotelRestaurantLeisureRouteTourContent-basedCollaborativeKnowledge-basedHybridYesNo
Cyberguide [14]✓ ✓✓ ✓ ✓     ✓   ✓ 
GeoWhiz [22]✓✓✓ ✓    ✓    ✓   ✓
Magitti [16]✓✓✓✓  ✓   ✓     ✓✓ 
LBSRM [9]✓✓✓ ✓   ✓    ✓   ✓ 
MTRS [20]✓✓✓✓  ✓✓      ✓  ✓ 
REJA [15]✓ ✓✓✓    ✓   ✓    ✓
I’m feeling Loco [13]✓ ✓✓✓  ✓     ✓    ✓
ReRex [11]✓✓✓✓  ✓✓      ✓  ✓ 
iTravel [27]✓ ✓  ✓ ✓      ✓   ✓
SigTur/E-Destination [25]✓✓✓  ✓✓✓        ✓✓ 
TRIPBUILDER [17]✓✓✓✓  ✓    ✓ ✓    ✓
[26]✓✓✓✓ ✓ ✓      ✓   ✓
SocoTraveler [21]✓✓✓   ✓✓      ✓   ✓
POST-VIA 360 [19]✓✓✓   ✓✓      ✓  ✓ 
PlanTour [18]✓✓✓✓✓  ✓      ✓   ✓
[28]✓✓✓✓ ✓✓✓      ✓   ✓