In this paper, we introduce an algorithm that automatically plans a touristic trip by considering some hard and soft constrains. Opening and closing hours of POIs (Points of Interest), trip duration and trip allocated budget represent the hard constraints, while the satisfaction factors of the POIs and travelling distance in the trip are considered as soft constraints. We use the soft constrain...

In this paper we describe SARA Singapore’s Automated Responsive Assistance – an Android mobile phone application for touristic information in Singapore. The application provides information about local attractions, restaurants, sightseeing direction and transportation services. Using a GPS integrated module SARA is able to detect the user’s location on a map providing orientation and direction ...

A basic kinetic model that incorporates a coupled dynamics of the carbon atoms and dimers on a copper surface is used to compute growth of a single-layer graphene island. The speed of the island’s edge advancement on Cu[111] and Cu[100] surfaces is computed as a function of the growth temperature and pressure. Spatially resolved concentration profiles of the atoms and dimers are determined, and...

In this article we propose a research whose main objective will be to reach a methodology for assessment, comparing and improving the quality of hotels Websites. The need for this methodology is justified by the fact that, so far, we haven´t identified any methodology that widely integrates and focus the technical quality and the content quality of the Websites. INTRODUCTION Tourism is now one ...

The Wied il-Mielaħ Window (Gozo–Malta) is a limestone natural arch on the north-western coast of island Gozo in Malta. It located at end valley north village Għarb. This less well known than Azure Window, which collapsed March 2017 following heavy storm, but notwithstanding, it an imposing and important monument too. In past, il-Mielah was responsible for discharging wastewater from surrounding...

The paper describes the design of a robot architecture which allows the robot to be perceived as a social agent. The proposed architecture autonomously allocates computational resources to different activities via an evaluation of environmental stimuli and robot state based on an emotional model of attention and effort. Moreover, the robot carries out a dramatization of its own work, according ...

Interconnected service providers constitute a highly dynamic, complex, distributed environment. Multi-agent system design-methodologies have been trying to address this kind of environments for a long time. The European project ALIVE presents a framework of three interconnected levels that tackles this issue relying on organisation and coordination techniques, as well as on developments in the ...

The Recife Metropolitan Region (PE, Brazil) appears as a typical "hot spot" illustrating the problems of southern countries such as urbanization or rapid industrial and touristic development. All these factors induce high pressures on water resources both on quantity and quality in the context of global social and environmental changes. This paper focuses on the groundwater geochemistry in a co...

Dr. Neilson (Ph.D. Queen’s University, Marketing and MIS) is an Assistant Professor at the Sprott School of Business. She taught Information Systems courses in her previous appointment at the University of Guelph, and currently teaches in the Marketing area at the Sprott School. Her research focuses on social and cultural influences on consumption, consumer culture theory, morality in marketpla...

environmental protection is not at odds with the proper use of all the offered possibilities.along these lines, the touristic products available to the consumer has increased exponentially over the lastfew years which has made it possible to convert territorial and patrimonial resources into significant elementsof recreational use put into value at service of the consumer. surveys on the recrea...