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Implementation of a Personal Internet of Thing Tourist Guide
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Although its unique geographical location and one of the oldest cultures in Europe and the world our cultural heritage is little known outside Bulgaria. Currently, modern information and communication technologies have not been used in their full potential to promote and advertise it. This article presents an intelligent touristic guide, known as TG, that takes into account various factors, such as the tourist's preferences, location, time available, and the presence and location of cultural and historical objects in the area, in order to propose virtual or real cultural and historical routes. The guide is being implemented as an Internet of Thing (IoT) application. Furthermore, the general architecture and individual components of the touristic guide are presented in detail. Some remarks about the implementation of the TG software are given as well.
... Meta-ontology (with an initial version developed, and described partly in Glushkova et al. (2018) includes ObjectName class with individuals, such as Costumes. Individuals are defined analogously using a property isPartOfOntology connected to the IRI of the relevant ontology. ...
... The ontologies that are depicted in green are repeating by name and have some common elements. The blue ones (including the overlapping ones in green) are ontologies which are developed by Mariya Miteva (Glushkova et al., 2018) in the CHH's subdomain traditional costumes. The ontologies OldHouses, Functionalities, Agents, Subjects, Objects, Materials and Locations are part of a doctoral dissertation (Madanska, 2023). ...
... It is possible for a museum organization to move its location, and this is a good reason not to make equivalents -'а revival house' and that 'it houses a museum'. The Museums ontology also includes individuals of specific museums (that is, a given costume is located in an given exposition and museum) (Glushkova et al., 2018). Therefore, these two individuals could be described by axioms of equivalence, or by using only one of both IRI in the whole project. ...
In the article, we will explain the concept of alternative tourism and its subtypes, we will dwell on its role in the preservation of cultural and historical heritage of an architectural type by means of technological solutions – an intelligent guide with ontological knowledge.
... A team of scientists at the 'Paisii Hilendarski' University of Plovdiv deals with the Bulgarian cultural and historical heritage, increasing the scope of objects of interest with different subdomains of it, for example traditional costumes, described in Miteva et al. (2018) and Glushkova et al. (2018); National Revival houses (Madanska, 2022b;Madanska et al., 2021) with one of the modules of the architectural heritage topic, e.g. historical figures (Madanska, 2022a); an ontology in the field of humanities (Grancharova-Hristova et al., 2021); and now -traditional folklore dances. ...
This article introduces an ontology of a Bulgarian Dance Folklore. There are a lot of specific performances (popular in Bulgaria as ‘horá ’), but our experimental focus is on some Professor Dzhenev’s works. An ontology classifying traditional dances according to several characteristics will be considered.
... Information and communication technologies enable increased efficiency (Yolal, 2003), reduce costs (Gürbüz & İnce, 2016), and provide information flow (Sharma et al., 2020) in management, production, and quality processes. With smart systems, which is one of the latest examples of information technologies in tourism, various operations such as planning, reservations, and payments can be carried out (Glushkova et al., 2018); It can reach its customers without restriction of space (Ansen & Fırat, 2009). The fact that consumers can make price comparisons and make reservations more easily on the internet directs them to digital channels (Malik & Sharma, 2019). ...
The purpose of this study is to determine the effect of travel agencies' reservation systems and online transaction capacities on their competitiveness. With the developments in technology and the integration of these developments in all business areas, travel agencies have also had to benefit from information and communication technologies. In the research, the primary data were used, and the data were collected by the questionnaire method. The convenience sampling method was used, and data were collected from a total of 566 travel agency managers in Istanbul. According to the results of the research, reservation systems and online transactions capacities of travel agencies affect their competitiveness. Reservation systems and online transactions capacities of travel agencies affect their competitiveness in specific issues such as cost, service quality and market share. Although appropriate and enlightening results were obtained regarding travel agencies technological capacity and competitiveness, research was carried out on the perceptions and evaluations of the managers in this study. In this context, in future studies, studies can be conducted on the relationships between measurable quantitative variables such as the online transactions of travel agencies and the capacity and transaction volume of reservation systems and competition structures. The study reveals that the traditional office travel agencies should be more successful than their competitors in terms of reservation systems and online transaction capacities to gain affordable cost, quality service and more market share.
This PhD dissertation describes a semantic modelling of the Bulgarian cultural and historical heritage, with the main focus being houses built during and around the Bulgarian National Revival period, including the architecture and a prototype implementation of the necessary ontologies for optimal modelling of the area of interest. An international standard for cataloguing cultural objects was used in the concept modelling. The buildings were semantically “built” with as much detail as possible in terms of elements, which were then divided and systematized according to the architectural and construction codes and their typological diversity in view of the regional character and period. Real representatives, both individually and in sets (classes), were considered; the rooms in a National Revival house were compared to the rooms in a modern home. A detailed description of individuals and organizations from the National Revival period to the present day are included. Building materials, techniques and constructions used by the “old masters” are included; also periodization of Bulgaria in historical and architectural terms, events important for the National Revival period and the buildings themselves are discussed. Ontologically, the localization of the sites is presented, with their administrative, physical geographical, coordinate and cadastral characteristics. The author is not aware of the existence of similar studies or an ontological project of the same nature.
Докторската дисертация описва семантично моделиране на българското културно-историческо наследство, като на главен фокус са къщите от и около периода на Възраждането – с архитектура и прототипна реализация на необходимите онтологии за оптимално моделиране на областта на интерес. При моделирането на концепцията е използван международен стандарт за каталогизиране на културни обекти. Постройките са семантично „изградени“ с възможно най-голям детайл откъм елементи, които са поделени и систематизирани спрямо архитектурно-строителните норми и типовото им разнообразие с оглед на регионалния характер и периода. Разгледани са реални представители както индивидуално, така и на множества (класове); възрожденски помещения, които са съпоставени със съвременни такива. Включено е детайлно описание на личности и организации от Българското възраждане до наши дни. Приложени са строителни материали, техники и конструкции използвани от старите майстори; също и периодизация на България в исторически и архитектурен план, разгледани са събития важни за периода на Възраждането и самите постройки. Онтологично е представена и локализация на обектите, като са заложени административни, физически географски, координатни и кадастрални техни характеристики. Не ни е известно съществуването на подобни изследвания или онтологичен проект от същото естество.
Докторската дисертация описва семантично моделиране на българското културно-историческо наследство, като на главен фокус са къщите от и около периода на Възраждането – с архитектура и прототипна реализация на необходимите онтологии за оптимално моделиране на областта на интерес. При моделирането на концепцията е използван международен стандарт за каталогизиране на културни обекти. Постройките са семантично „изградени“ с възможно най-голям детайл откъм елементи, които са поделени и систематизирани спрямо архитектурно-строителните норми и типовото им разнообразие с оглед на регионалния характер и периода. Разгледани са реални представители както индивидуално, така и на множества (класове); възрожденски помещения, които са съпоставени със съвременни такива. Включено е детайлно описание на личности и организации от Българското възраждане до наши дни. Приложени са строителни материали, техники и конструкции използвани от старите майстори; също и периодизация на България в исторически и архитектурен план, разгледани са събития важни за периода на Възраждането и самите постройки. Онтологично е представена и локализация на обектите, като са заложени административни, физически географски, координатни и кадастрални техни характеристики. Не ни е известно съществуването на подобни изследвания или онтологичен проект от същото естество.
Following a concise description of the structure, the paper focuses on the potential of the Ontology of the Bulgarian Dialects, which demonstrates a novel usage of the ontological modelling for the purposes of dialect digital archiving and information processing. The ontology incorporates information on the dialects of the Bulgarian language and includes data from 84 dialects, spoken not only on the territory of the Republic of Bulgaria, but also abroad. It encodes both their geographical distribution and some of their main diagnostic features, such as the different mutations (also referred to as reflexes) of some of the Old Bulgarian vowels. The mutations modelled so far in the ontology include the reflex of the back nasal vowel /ѫ/ under stress, the reflex of the back er vowel /ъ/ under stress, and the reflex of the yat vowel /ѣ/ under stress when it precedes a syllable with a back vowel. Besides the opportunity for formal structuring of the considerable amount of data gathered through the years by dialectologists, the ontology also provides numerous possibilities for information retrieval-searches by dialect, country, dialect region, city or village, various combinations of diagnostic features.
This paper briefly presents a reference architecture called Virtual Physical Space. The purpose of the architecture is to adapt to the development of various Cyber-Physical-Social applications. In the paper, the basic components of the space are described in more detail. Adapting the proposed architecture to implement an intelligent personal touristic guide is also considered.
This paper presents a Cyber-Physical-SocialSpace (CPSS)-like application known as BLISS. The system supports a kind of lifelong learning where people who need to be educated have dropped out of school for various reasons but wish to complete their education through individual training. The active components of BLISS called personal assistants are implemented as intelligent agents. The agents' environment consists of three parts - an event-driven BLISS server, a set of personal assistants that will be described in the publication and a School Diary implemented as a blockchain. Furthermore, the reference architecture named Virtual Physical Space (ViPS), used to develop the application, is briefly described.
With large parts of human population increasingly living in big cities, the mobility
behavior of humans is about to change faster than ever before. Not only convenience and
increasing ecological awareness lead to more intermodal mobility behavior, also the rise of
new mobility options like car-or bike sharing are becoming more and more common. Wide
distribution of smartphones and the on-trip availability of high-speed Internet let users inform
themselves about a vast variety of mobility options. This information overload can ...
Social interaction is a central component of human experience. The ability to interact with others and communicate effectively within an interactive context is a fundamental necessity for professional success as well as personal fulfillment. Individuals with visual impairment face significant challenges in social communication, which if unmitigated, may lead to lifelong needs for extensive social and economic support. Unfortunately, today's multimedia technologies largely cater to the needs of the 'able' population, resulting in solutions that mostly meet the needs of that community. Individuals with disabilities (such as visual impairment) have largely been absent in the design process, and have to adapt themselves (often unsuccessfully) to available solutions. In this paper, we propose a social interaction assistant for individuals who are blind or visually impaired, incorporating novel contributions in: 1) person recognition through batch mode active learning; 2) reliable multimodal person recognition through the conformal predictions framework; and 3) facial expression recognition through topic models. Moreover, individuals with visual impairments often have specific requirements that necessitate a personalized, adaptive approach to multimedia computing. To address this challenge, our proposed solutions place emphasis on understanding the individual user's needs, expectations and adaptations toward designing, and developing and deploying effective multimedia solutions. Our empirical results demonstrate the significant potential in using person centered multimedia solutions to enrich the lives of individuals with disabilities.
Learn how to employ JADE to build multi-agent systems! JADE (Java Agent DEvelopment framework) is a middleware for the development of applications, both in the mobile and fixed environment, based on the Peer-to-Peer intelligent autonomous agent approach. JADE enables developers to implement and deploy multi-agent systems, including agents running on wireless networks and limited-resource devices. Developing Multi-Agent Systems with JADE is a practical guide to using JADE. The text will give an introduction to agent technologies and the JADE Platform, before proceeding to give a comprehensive guide to programming with JADE. Basic features such as creating agents, agent tasks, agent communication, agent discovery and GUIs are covered, as well as more advanced features including ontologies and content languages, complex behaviours, interaction protocols, agent mobility, and the in-process interface. Issues such as JADE internals, running JADE agents on mobile devices, deploying a fault tolerant JADE platform, and main add-ons are also covered in depth. Developing Multi-Agent Systems with JADE: • Comprehensive guide to using JADE to build multi-agent systems and agent orientated programming. • Describes and explains ontologies and content language, interaction protocols and complex behaviour. • Includes material on persistence, security and a semantics framework. • Contains numerous examples, problems, and illustrations to enhance learning. • Presents a case study demonstrating the use of JADE in practice. • Offers an accompanying website with additional learning resources such as sample code, exercises and PPT-slides. This invaluable resource will provide multi-agent systems practitioners, programmers working in the software industry with an interest on multi-agent systems as well as final year undergraduate and postgraduate students in CS and advanced networking and telecoms courses with a comprehensive guide to using JADE to employ multi agent systems. With contributions from experts in JADE and multi agent technology.
This paper presents the current state of development environment for building common catalogue for representation of our culture-historical heritage. To achieve this, we choose model-driven development approach (MDDA), which is based on the ideas of Object Management Group (OMG) for flexible evolution and standartization of software. In the paper the basic ideas and principles for building a UML-based platform independent model (PIM), based on the CCO (Cataloguing Cultural Objects) standard are presented, and the development environment BECC as well.
Computer are becoming the vehicle for an increasing range of everyday activities. Acquisition of news and information, mail and even social interactions and entertainment have become more and more computer based. This article focuses on a novel approach to building interface agents. It presents results from several prototype agents that have been built using this approach, including agents that provide personalized assistance with meeting schedules, email handling, electronic news filtering and selection of entertainment.
A Virtual Space Supporting eLearning
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Personal Mobility Service System in Urban Areas: the IRMA Project
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