A Cloud-Services-Oriented Personal Travel Application

Abstract

Nowadays, the demand for travel personality and intelligence is growing with each passing day. In this paper, the authors have designed a cloud-services-oriented personal travel application called "Cloud Travel" which used in mobile phones. The "Cloud Travel" is a highly personalized travel arrangement and auxiliary tool with distributed computing technology, it recommends travel services published by trusted provider to customers. For a particular user, our application uses personal information gained from the transaction process or other ways to establish the model for users. Our application also models travel services, then by comparing user model and travel service model, the "Cloud Travel" can recommends appropriate travel services to users. In our application, a user has three different roles called customer (user can buy some travel services), supplier (user can publish some travel services) and operator (users can combine some of the travel services to formation a new travel package).