Date of Publication :7th October 2015

Abstract: This paper presents an ontology-based approach, formal concept analysis (FCA) approach and a Bayesian Analysis to integrating heterogeneous tourism information for online tour planning. Ontology is playing a crucial role in knowledge management and semantic web. The tourism information ontology is becoming a core research field in the domain of information retrieval. The intent of this study is to scrutinize the potential role of formal concept analysis (FCA) for integration of heterogeneous tourism information. Two ontologies are developed, one for tourists and the other for tourism information providers. Both of these ontologies are mapped using FCA and Bayesian analysis to evaluate tourist preferences against the information published by the tourism information providers

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