AI4Tourism 2016 - Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for Tourism (AI4Tourism)

The tourism industry has become one of the fastest growing industries in the world. Furthermore, the travel and tourism industry has always been open to new technologies.
With the increased interest in the travel and tourism industry in the world, developing new information and communication technologies (ICT) in the travel and tourism industry has become quite important in these days. Since artificial intelligence technologies can be considered one of the key technologies in ICT, they should play a key role in the travel and tourism industry.
Today, AI-based developments in the field are at the forefront. In fact, AI developments and researches have induced much change in this industry. We can expect this innovation to continue: at both the industrial level and the academic level.
This workshop offers a worldwide and unique forum for attendees from academia, industry, government, and other organizations to actively exchange, share, and challenge state-of-the-art researches and industrial case studies on the application of artificial intelligence technologies to travel and tourism.
Topics to be covered at the workshop include, but are not limited to, the following areas:
Mobility and Embedded Intelligence
Natural Multilingual Interfaces
Personalization and Context-based Services
Information-to-knowledge Transformations
Data Mining and Knowledge Management
User Decision Modeling and Usage Analysis
Big Data, Measurement and Analytics Location-based Services and Context-Aware Systems
Travel Information Search and Retrieval
Social Networking, Social Media and Social Inspiration AI and Tourism Experience
AI Adoption, Use, and Value Creation
AI-enabled Partnership and Collaboration
AI for Innovation and Service Design