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In this paper we present IM3 (Intelligent Mobile MatchMaker), a system that recommends tourist events to users. The system, based on a centralised server and accessible through mobile devices, matches user preferences (demand) with descriptions of tourist events (supply), in order to provide the user with information about the events that he/she is likely to be interested in. User and event descriptions in IM3 are represented with a formalism borrowed from AI and based on Description Logics; such descriptions are allowed to be incomplete in the parts that are considered irrelevant by the demander/supplier. The algorithms implemented in IM3 are able to deal with both conflicting and missing information between user and event profiles. Motivated by the nature of its application domain, IM3 can operate in a location-based fashion: it can provide the user with information related to events close to the user terminal, allowing the clients to connect via Bluetooth to registered local servers. Finally, also mobile terminals, running suitable software included in IM3, can match demand and supply profiles among them via Bluetooth, without relying on any centralised server.
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Calì, A. (2005). IM3: A System for Matchmaking in Mobile Environments. In: Khosla, R., Howlett, R.J., Jain, L.C. (eds) Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems. KES 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 3681. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11552413_39
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