Michael Kenteris

• M.Eng M.Sc PhD
• University of the Aegean

This study deals with the problem of deriving personalised recommendations for daily sightseeing itineraries for tourists visiting any destination. The authors' approach considers selected places of interest that a traveller would potentially wish to visit and derives a near-optimal itinerary for each day of visit; the places of potential interest...

Recommender systems are software frameworks that employ a specific type of information filtering technique, aiming at recommending information items or social elements that are likely to be of interest to the user. Herein, we present the evaluation results of the recently prototyped tourism recommender system (TRS). We followed a formal evaluation...

Mobile tourist guides have attracted considerable research interest during the past decade, resulting in numerous standalone and web-based mobile applications. Particular emphasis has been given to personalization of services, typically based on travel recommender systems used to assist tourists in choosing places to visit; these systems address an...

This paper deals with the problem of deriving personalized recommendations for daily sightseeing itineraries for tourists visiting any destination. Our approach considers selected places of interest that a traveler would potentially wish to visit and derives a near-optimal itinerary for each day of visit; the places of potential interest are select...

This paper proposes a new method that combines input-output fuzzy clustering and optimal fuzzy clustering for the efficient design of radial basis function neural networks. We first apply the fuzzy c-means in the product (i.e. input-output) space to pre-process the available data. The resulting clusters are projected on the input space. The corresp...

This paper introduces an approach of enhancing the tourism experience by incorporating a tool that adopts a “web-to-mobile” model into tourism websites that allows for the adaptation of personalized tourism web content to be transferred to a mobile application hosted at users’ mobile device. These applications upon installation to mobile devices al...

Mobile tourist guides have been in the spot light for the past decade and are becoming increasingly available in various forms to tourists visiting places. The majority of these mobile tourist guides are to be used via a constant network connection and some as proprietary standalone mobile applications installed on-device. Some are solely navigatio...

This short paper deals with the problem of deriving personalized recommendations for daily sightseeing itineraries for tourists visiting any destination. Our approach considers selected places of interest that a traveller would potentially wish to visit and derives a near-optimal itinerary for each day of visit; the places of potential interest are...

Mobile tourist guides have been in the spotlight during the past decade resulting in many prototypes, either full-fledged standalone mobile applications or web-based applications. Particular emphasis has been given to personalisation of services, typically based on travel recommender systems used to assist tourists in choosing places to visit; thes...

The use of wireless networks in mobile tourist applications has brought about many services that have been branded "necessary" in many research projects. Though, latest Eurobarometer findings argue that tourists are reluctant in using such services, arguing that high costs of roaming are the major deterrent factor. This paper presents the design is...

This paper identifies authoring tools requirements for the development of cultural applications tailored for deployment on mobile devices: Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs) and mobile phones. To address this issue it recognizes and evaluates the development and design facilities provided by state-of-the-art multimedia application development tools...

Mobile tourism'' represents a relatively new trend in the field of tourism and involves the use of mobile devices as electronic tourist guides. While much of the underlying technology is already available, there are still open challenges with respect to design, usability, porta- bility, functionality and implementation aspects. Most existing ''mobi...

Mobile guides have been in the spot light for the past decade or so they are becoming excessively available to tourists visiting places around the world. Most of which are to be used via a network connection on a browser based device and others as such as proprietary mobile applications, installed on-device. As such, some guides are used as navigat...

This paper introduces an approach of enhancing tourism web sites, giving the ability for such sites to be used as a tool to allow tourists to tag content of choice for downloading and viewing on their own mobile device whilst on visit. Tourists, upon installation to their mobile device, can view content material and a map of Mytilene (Lesvos, Greec...

Notwithstanding the Web is the most popular piece of software in human society has been unstudied in many aspects. What is the social, political and economical change after Web invention? Could be a useful tool for developing countries? Do we need a new privacy framework? Do we need regulation or liberalization? These and many other questions motiv...

The present paper argues that CI could offer useful input in the Web science paradigm by providing theoretical and practical examples in socio-technical applications. Specifically, we demonstrate the case of an operational mobile cultural tourism guide for the city of Mytilene in Greece. We explore the potential of the Web to promote local cultural...

This paper explores requirements that authoring tools and development platforms should satisfy for the development of cultural applications tailored for deployment on Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs) and mobile phones. To effectively determine such requirements the paper reviews the use of mobile technologies in the context of cultural organizati...

This paper explores requirements application authoring tools should satisfy for the development of cultural applications tailored for deployment on Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs) and mobile phones. The paper reviews the use of mobile technologies in the context of cultural organizations and tourism. It identifies and evaluates the development a...

Internet technologies and mobile computing started to converge to enable wireless Internet access through portable devices. This article represents a review of the main technological, architectural and business issues related to the existing wireless web technologies, i.e. WAP, i-mode and J2ME. It includes a critical analysis of the main assets and...

Many research projects have been undertaken on the use of context-aware mobile technologies for tourism that rely on the use of personal digital assistants and mobile phone devices. Many milestone projects rely on the use of a network connection and the use of GPS technologies which offer location based services. This paper presents a mobile touris...