A Semantic Grid Oriented to E-Tourism

A promising e-Tourism framework based on emerging semantic grid is presented, in which a number of key design issues are discussed including architecture, ontologies structure, semantic reconciliation, service and resource discovery, role based authorization and intelligent agent.

Abstract

With increasing complexity of tourism business models and tasks, there is a\nclear need of the next generation e-Tourism infrastructure to support flexible\nautomation, integration, computation, storage, and collaboration. Currently\nseveral enabling technologies such as semantic Web, Web service, agent and grid\ncomputing have been applied in the different e-Tourism applications, however\nthere is no a unified framework to be able to integrate all of them. So this\npaper presents a promising e-Tourism framework based on emerging semantic grid,\nin which a number of key design issues are discussed including architecture,\nontologies structure, semantic reconciliation, service and resource discovery,\nrole based authorization and intelligent agent. The paper finally provides the\nimplementation of the framework.\n