Ontology-based Stereotyping in a Travel Support System

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to address the problem of user profile initialization in a travel support system. In the system under consideration, ontologically demarcated data is stored in a central repository, while user profiles are functionalized as instances of travel object ontologies. Creation of an initial user profile is achieved through stereotyping. An example of utilization of this technique, in the case of restaurant stereotypes, is presented.