Program

Workshop Program

9:00 – 10:30 Session 1: Workshop Opening and Keynote 

• Workshop opening
• Keynote  Recommender Systems in Tourism: A Case for Interactive Approaches by Dietmar Jannach (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Austria)

10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 – 12:30 Session 2: Hotel Recommendation and Trip Planning

• Marie Al-Ghossein, Talel Abdessalem and Anthony Barré: Cross-Domain Recommendation in the Hotel Sector.
• Catalin-Mihai Barbu and Jürgen Ziegler: Designing Interactive Visualizations of Personalized Review Data for a Hotel Recommender System.
• Daniel Herzog, Nikolaos Promponas-Kefalas and Wolfgang Wörndl: Integrating Public Displays into Tourist Trip Recommender Systems.
• Koji Kawamata and Kenta Oku. Roadscape-based Route Recommender System using Coarse-to-fine Route Search.

12:30 – 14:00 Lunch Break

14:00 – 15:30 Session 3: Industry Perspective

• Keynote  User Experience and Data: Bridging the Gap by Themis Mavridis (Booking.com, Netherlands) [Slides]
• Alejandro Mottini, Alix Lheritier, Rodrigo Acuna-Agost and Maria A. Zuluaga: Understanding Customer Choices to Improve Recommendations in the Air Travel Industry.

15:30 – 16:00 Coffee Break

16:00 – 17:30 Session 4: Crowdsourcing and Evaluation

• Öykü Kapcak, Simone Spagnoli, Vincent Robbemond, Soumitri Vadali, Shabnam Najafian and Nava Tintarev: TourExplain: A Crowdsourcing Pipeline for Generating Explanations for Groups of Tourists.
• Linus W. Dietz and Achim Weimert: Recommending Crowdsourced Trips on wOndary.
• Pablo Sánchez and Alejandro Bellogin: Challenges on Evaluating Venue Recommendation Approaches: Position Paper.
• Closing discussion

(15 minutes presentation and 7 minutes discussion per paper)