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Smart Tourism Platform Based on Microservice Architecture and Recommender Services

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Smart tourism platforms have made it easier for travelers to plan and manage their trips as a decision support. This paper is focuses on three applications in tourist intelligent (tourism marketplace, trip planning and heritage education), integrated in a microservice architecture as a suite of small services. Each microservice exposes a small set of functionalities and runs in its own process, communicating with other external services.

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    Laura Martínez Garcia, Raynel Mendoza & Juan José Puello

  2. Universidad Nacional de San Juan, San Juan, Argentina

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Garcia, L.M., Aciar, S., Mendoza, R., Puello, J.J. (2018). Smart Tourism Platform Based on Microservice Architecture and Recommender Services. In: Younas, M., Awan, I., Ghinea, G., Catalan Cid, M. (eds) Mobile Web and Intelligent Information Systems. MobiWIS 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10995. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-97163-6_14

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