Design and implementation of a daily activity scheduler in the context of a personal travel information system

Abstract

How to effectively schedule individual’s daily activities in actual temporal–spatial environments is a challenging task especially when considering various dynamic conditions and constraints. In this chapter, we present a prototype of a personal daily activity scheduler based on our previously developed travel information system, where point of interest (POI) information and travel information have been integrated into an individual’s agenda service. The scheduler provides all operations based on constraints checking, agenda operations (e.g., inserting, updating and deleting activities), recommending locations, detecting deviations from schedule, detecting real-time event consequences and detecting relevant POIs. Initial tests for the basic operations indicate that the approach works well and more comprehensive tests will be conducted in the future.