IST-2000: CRUMPET- Creation of User-friendly Mobile services Personalised for Tourism
2000-2002
See also: CRUMPET Web site
Service: To provide the customer with tourism-related content, that supports intelligent, anytime, anywhere communication. Specific tourism-related content of interest includes: Restaurants, Local attractions, Travel Shopping.
Functionality: (Pre-)determine a customer's physical location; be aware of the customer's preferences associate the customer's preferences with (for example): the location / type of location time of day weather conditions previous actions in similar circumstances .... To search for the relevant information and retrieve and present information (eg. a map). To suggest actions to the customer. To react to the customer's choice with further relevant information. To be aware of the (network) communication capabilities (WLAN, GSM, GPRS, UMTS / fixed) and the corresponding Quality of Service in all communication. To be aware of changes to the communication capabilities, and to adapt the presentation accordingly. To take account of the terminal type, including next generation mobile phone / PDA / PC hybrid terminals. To make reservations. To make payments.
Participants
Stefan Poslad (Principal Investigator at QMUL and Project Coordinator)
Laurie Cuthbert
Funding
European Union
Achievements
- Reference implemenation of FIPA compliant agent platform for low-resource platforms such as PDAs
- Trials of multi-agent system design to offer context-aware (persoanlsied and localtion-aware) tourism information in two EU cities: Helsinki (infrastructure trials for wireless networking, WiFi/GEM handoevers etc; Heidelberg (user trials for tourist service content access)
Related QMUL Publications (see Stefan's publications)
- Titkov L., Poslad S., Tan J.J. An Integrated Approach to User-Centered Privacy for Mobile Information Services. Applied Artificial Intelligence J., 2006, Vol. 20, No.2-4, pp 159-178
- Titkov L., Poslad S. Supporting privacy for U-Commerce tourism services. Agents for Ubiquitous Computing. UbiAgents Workshop at the AAMAS-2004 Conf. , New York, July 2004.
- Titkov L., Poslad S., Tan J.J. Enforcing Privacy via Brokering within Nomadic Environment. Cybernetics & Systems, 2004. Proc. 17th European Meeting on Cybernetics and Systems Research, Vienna, Austria, ISBN 3-85206-169-5, 2004, Vol 2, pp 541-546.
- Schmidt-Belz B., Poslad S. User-Validation of a Mobile Tourism Service. In: Proceedings of the Workshop "HCI in mobile guides" / Schmidt-Belz B, Cheverst K [Eds.], Udine, Sept 2003, pp 57 – 62.
- Schmidt-Belz B., Laamanen H, Poslad S, Zipf, Location-based Mobile Tourist Services - First User Experiences. In: Information and Communication Technologies in Tourism 2003 / Frew, A.[Ed.], Springer Verlag, ISBN 3-211-83910-0, 2003, pp 115 – 123.
- Poslad S, Schmidt-Belz B, Titkov L, Malaka R. Digital Agents for City Tourism. In: City Tourism 2002 / Wöber, Karl [Ed.], (2002), Springer-Verlag, ISBN 3-211-83831-7, pp 296 – 302.
- Schmidt-Belz B, Makelainen, Nick A and Poslad S. Intelligent Brokering of Tourism Services for Mobile Users. In: Information and Communication Technologies in Tourism 202 / Wöber, Karl W. et al. [Eds.], Springer, ISBN 3-211-83780-9, 2002, pp 275 – 284.
- Laamanen H, Helin H, Laukkanen Mikko, Poslad S. Adaptation to Wireless Data Communications in Location Based Services. 1st European Workshop on Location Based Systems (LBS-2002). IEE, Savoy Place, London, September 2002.
- Schmidt-Belz B., Poslad S., Zipf A.: Creation of User-friendly Mobile Tourism Services. In: Schmidt-Belz, Barbara; Cheverst, Keith (Eds): HCI in Mobile Tourism Support. Sankt Augustin, ISBN: 3-88457-980-0, 2002, pp 36-42.
2001
- Poslad S, Laamanen H, Malaka R, Nick A, Buckle P and Zipf A. CRUMPET: Creation of User-friendly Mobile services PErsonalised for Tourism. Proc. IEE 3G2001 Conf. Mobile Communication Technologies, London, March 2001, pp 28-32.
- Poslad S, Buckle P and Hadingham R.G. The FIPA-OS agent platform: Open Source for Open Standards, Proceedings of PAAM 2000, Manchester, UK, 2000, pp355-368
- Buckle P, Moore T, Robertshaw S, Treadway A, Tarkoma S and Poslad S. Scalability in Multi-Agent Systems: the FIPA-OS Perspective. In, Foundations and Applications of Multi-Agent Systems. LNCS Vol. 2403, 2002, pp110-130.
- Hayzelden A, Bigham J., Poslad S., Buckle P., Mamdani E.H. Communications Systems Driven by Software Agent Technology. J Network System Management, 2000, Vol. 8, No. 3, pp 321 – 347.
- Poslad S, Buckle P, Hadingham R.G. Open Source, Standards and Scaleable Agencies. Lecture notes in computer science (Lect. notes comput. sci.), 2000, vol. 1887, pp. 296-303.
Further work and ongoing work