This open access book covers all facets of entity-oriented search—where “search” can be
interpreted in the broadest sense of information access—from a unified point of view, and …

Recommender systems have been pervasively applied as a technique of suggesting travel
recommendations to tourists. Actually, recommendation systems significantly contribute to …

Increasing number of researchers and designers are envisioning a wide range of novel
proactive conversational services for smart speakers such as context-aware reminders and …

Recommendation systems play an indispensable role in tourists' decision-making process.
An important issue for tourists concerns the selection of accommodation in accordance with …

Voice assistants, such as Amazon's Alexa and Google Home, increasingly find their way into
consumer homes. Their functionality, however, is currently limited to being passive answer …

Smart tourism platforms have made it easier for travelers to plan and manage their trips as a
decision support. This paper is focuses on three applications in tourist intelligent (tourism …

During the COVID-19 outbreak, crowdsourcing-based context-aware recommender systems
(CARS) which capture the real-time context in a contactless manner played an important …

Travelers and tourists nowadays rely on a variety of online services or mobile apps for
planning their trips, for making travel arrangements, and for making the choice between …

This paper presents a test collection for contextual point of interest (POI) recommendation in
a narrative-driven scenario. There, user history is not available, instead, user requests are …

In this work we address the development of a smart personal assistant that is capable of
anticipating a user's information needs based on a novel type of context: the person's activity …