An Agent Framework of Tourism Recommender System

¹ Yunnan University, Tourism and Culture College, 674100 Lijiang, China
² Yunnan Normal University, School of Information Science, 650500 Kunming, China

^a Corresponding author: jdyjazz@gmail.com

Abstract

This paper proposes the development of an Agent framework for tourism recommender system. The recommender system can be featured as an online web application which is capable of generating a personalized list of preference attractions for tourists. Traditional technologies of classical recommender system application domains, such as collaborative filtering, content-based filtering and content-based filtering are effectively adopted in the framework. In the framework they are constructed as Agents that can generate recommendations respectively. Recommender Agent can generate recommender information by integrating the recommendations of Content-based Agent, collaborative filtering-based Agent and constraint-based Agent. In order to make the performance more effective, linear combination method of data fusion is applied. User interface is provided by the tourist Agent in form of webpages and mobile app.