Travel agency call centers are intended to complement advisory services of the bricks-and-mortar travel agencies by providing remote advisory services. Currently, they are ill-prepared for giving such advisory services due to their limitations in several areas of their work practice. This article presents the organizational as well as information and communication-related issues in work practic...

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Mobile devices are becoming an inseparable part of our lives and personalized location-based mobile services are gaining more and more popularity. The scope of this paper is to illustrate the design choices, the implementation, and the testing, of a personalized mobile city transport advisory system (PECITAS), built for the citizens and city guests of Bolzano, Italy. Using PECITAS the user can ...

A knowledge-based interactive system for choosing abstract data structures and concrete represent.* tions for them is described. The system acts as an "expert" on data structures and is to be consulted by programmers during the design stage of their work A specification method is described which assumes a restricted vocabulary of data structure terminology common to the user and the system. The...

This paper presents a web based recommender system aimed at supporting a user in information filtering and product bundling. The system enables the selection of travel locations, activities and attractions, and supports the bundling of a personalized travel plan. A travel plan is composed in a mixed initiative way: the user poses queries and the recommender exploits an innovative technology tha...

In country like India, the technology should be provided to farmers with appropriate guidance to save their crops and their lives. We focused on introducing the latest technologies such as sensors, Cloud computing to radically revise approaches to agriculture by collecting the data about the various parameters of soil, analyze the data and performed the computations, giving the best optimal sol...

Plastics product design is very experience dependent process. In spite of various computer tools available on the market, the designer has to rely on personal or supporting experts’ knowledge and experience when designing plastics products. Proposed development of the intelligent advisory system presented in this paper involves two methodologies. “Design for X” strategy will be applied to consi...

The paper presents a hierarchical routing strategy for an Urban Driving Advisory System (UDAS), based on agent technology. UDAS assists the drivers to get the desired destination taking into account the current situation of traffic characteristics. It gives the estimated arrival time and the corresponding distance between a start and an arrival point. The necessary information is obtained from ...