This paper describes our participation in the TREC 2013 Contextual Suggestion Track. The goal of the track is to evaluate systems that provide suggestions for activities to users in a specific location, taking into account their personal preferences. As a source for travel suggestions we use Wikitravel, which is a community-based travel guide for destinations all over the world. From pages dedi...

It is often difficult for individual tourists to make a sightseeing tour plan because they do not have prior knowledge about the destination. Although several systems have been developed for assisting the user’s tour planning, these systems lack interactivity, while demanding a lot of data input from the user. In this paper, we introduce a new computer-aided tour planning system, called CT-Plan...

SIMpliCity is an application developed in the RFID Lab of CATTID (Centre for the Applications of Television and for Distance Learning Techniques), research centre of Rome University “La Sapienza”, that helps tourists in their sightseeing around the city and offers value-added services for both tourists and local citizens, thanks to the use of mobile phones equipped with Near Field Communication...

Collective intelligence is shared (or group) intelligence that emerges when aggregating the collective efforts of many individuals (Woolley et al., 2010). The success of collective intelligence (CI) systems rely heavily on the effectiveness of the aggregation mechanism (Surowiecki, 2005). Individuals may contribute a simple data element (for instance, a number representing an estimated or predi...