Ontology-Based Human-Computer Cloud for Decision Support: Architecture and Applications in Tourism

Avarietyofinformationprocessinganddecisionsupporttasks(especiallyinthecontextofsmart cityorsmarttouristdestination)relybothontheautomatedandhuman-basedprocedures.Thearticle proposesamulti-layercloudenvironmentthat,first,unifiesvariouskindsofresourcesusedbythese informationprocessinganddecision-supportscenarios(hardware,software,andhuman),andsecond, implementsanontology-basedautomaticservicecompositionproceduresthatcanbeusedtobuildad hocdecision-supportservicesforproblemsunknowninadvance.Theservicecompositionisbased onuniformdescriptionofallpartsoftheenvironmentwithahelpofontologies.Thearticledescribes thearchitectureandmodelsofthenovelhuman-computercloudenvironment.Italsodescribesseveral scenariosofdecisionsupportintourismleveragingtheproposedhuman-computercloudconcept. KEywORDS Crowd Computing, Crowdsourcing, Human in the Loop, Human-Machine Systems, Smart City, Smart Tourism

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