An Ontology for Service Semantic Interoperability in the Smartphone-Based Tourist Trip Planning System

Abstract

This paper presents an ontology-based approach for semantic interoperability tourist trip planning services. The proposed ontology describes a tourist, an attraction route and context information about tourist and his/her environment. This ontology is developed within the Tourist Trip Planning System, which consists of a set of interacting services. All services work accordingly to the proposed ontology which leads to service semantic interoperability and allows to increase interaction speed between them.

Keywords

• tourist trip planning system
• ontology
• semantic interoperability
• context awareness