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resources from the Internet. Such materials collected by agents will be put
into a resource pool. Users can edit their own travel topic and access these
materials after they logged into the travel topic management server.
The server platform is designed for storing and analyzing information
collected from users. On a journey, visitors capture images or videos and add
annotations. The intelligent travel topic wizard will upload these resources
automatically to the server side. There are also other resources and materials
collected by agents to be uploaded to the server. By such materials, users can
edit their own travel topics and publish them on the Internet. The manage-
ment server not only stores information from the wizard application and
agents but also would be responsible for presenting travel topics in the form
of web pages.
The final component is the management interface. The interfaces are a
subcomponent for providing means to users so they can access resources
stored in the management server. In the developed system, a simple inter-
face is provided to users in the form of web pages. The users log in into the
management server using their accounts and passwords, and they can access
image, video, audio files, and textual comments recorded on their journey.
Other materials collected from agents are also displayed in the resources
section. Users can also browse the usage history to observe resources that
were used in the past.
The rest of this chapter is organized as follows: adopted methodologies
for gathering information around visitors are discussed in Section 13.2,
the architecture of the system and detailed functionalities are described
in Section 13.3; the implementation of each component mentioned in
Section 13.3 are presented in Section 13.4, comments and suggestions from
users are listed in Section 13.5; related research and developed systems are
mentioned in Section 13.6; and finally, the conclusion and contribution will
be discussed in Section 13.7.
13.2 Methodologies
In this section, we will introduce adopted approaches for collecting and
filtering meaningful information to help users to create their personal travel
topics. Two major objectives are considered in the developed system: land-
mark selection and similar travel route searches.
13.2.1 Landmark Selection
Landmark selection is an important function to help visitors to collect related
resources for creating travel topics. With several procedures, landmarks will
be generated and transferred to an agent for further processing.
