An object oriented intelligent tourist advisor system

This paper describes the design and developmentof an expert system for tourist information center. The expert system was built to recommend a suitable travel schedule that satisfies user input constraints such as time period, budget and preferences. Tourist center officers need to answer similar set of queries in their day-to-day work which could be replaced by an intelligent tourist advisor system. There are many different tourist information such as activities and places which can be stored as similar data structure and can be modeled into a object-oriented knowledge-based system. A highly generic knowledge structure is proposed to generalize the commonalties and eliminate duplication. The proposed knowledge structure would be flexible enough to cope with high volatility in some tourist information such as transportation routes. Object-oriented modeling has been used for the entire development of the proposed intelligent expert system. A case study is presented to demonstrate the be...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 1996
• Where: ANZIIS
• Authors: C. H. K. Tsang, M. H. C. Woo, C. Bloor
• Keywords: ANZIIS 1996, Expert System Shell, Expert Systems, Information Systems, Tourist Information