Authors: Souffriau, Wouter¹; Vansteenwegen, Pieter²; Vertommen, Joris²; Berghe, Greet Vanden³; Oudheusden, Dirk²

Source: Applied Artificial Intelligence, Volume 22, Number 10, November 2008 , pp. 964-985(22)

Publisher: Taylor and Francis Ltd

Abstract:

Mobile tourist guides evolve towards automated personalized tour planning devices. The contribution of this article is to put forward a combined artificial intelligence and metaheuristic approach to solve tourist trip design problems (TTDP). The approach enables fast decision support for tourists on small footprint mobile devices. The orienteering problem, which originates in the operational research literature, is used as a starting point for modelling the TTDP. The problem involves a set of possible locations having a score and the objective is to maximize the total score of the visited locations, while keeping the total time (or distance) below the available time budget. The score of a location represents the interest of a tourist in that location. Scores are calculated using the vector space model, which is a well-known technique from the field of information retrieval. The TTDP is solved using a guided local search metaheuristic. In order to compare the performance of this approach with an algorithm that appeared in the literature, both are applied to a real data set from the city of Ghent. A collection of tourist points of interest with descriptions was indexed and subsequently queried with popular interests, which resulted in a test set of TTDPs. The approach presented in this article turns out to be faster and produces solutions of better quality.

Document Type: Research article

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08839510802379626

Affiliations: 1: KaHo St.-Lieven, Information Technology, Ghent, Belgium,Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Centre for Industrial Management, Heverlee, Belgium 2: Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Centre for Industrial Management, Heverlee, Belgium 3: KaHo St.-Lieven, Information Technology, Ghent, Belgium

Publication date: 2008-11-01

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