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Integrating public transportation in personalised electronic tourist guides
Ander Garcia
Department of eTourism and Cultural Heritage, Vicomtech, Paseo Mikeletegi 57, E-20009 Donostia, San Sebastian, Spain
,Pieter Vansteenwegen
Department of Industrial Management, Ghent University, Belgium
,Olatz Arbelaitz
Department of Computer Architecture and Technology, University of the Basque Country, Spain
,Wouter Souffriau
Centre for Industrial Management, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
,Maria Teresa Linaza
Department of eTourism and Cultural Heritage, Vicomtech, Paseo Mikeletegi 57, E-20009 Donostia, San Sebastian, Spain
Computers and Operations Research, Volume 40, Issue 3•March, 2013, pp 758-774 • https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cor.2011.03.020Personalised electronic tourist guides (PETs) are mobile hand-held devices able to create tourist routes matching tourists' preferences. Transportation information has been identified as one of the most appreciated functionalities of a PET. We model the ...
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The Multiconstraint Team Orienteering Problem with Multiple Time Windows
Wouter Souffriau
CODes, Industrial Sciences, KaHo St.-Lieven, B-9000 Ghent, Belgium; and Centre for Industrial Management, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, B-3000 Leuven, Belgium
,Pieter Vansteenwegen
Department of Industrial Management, Ghent University, B-9052 Zwijnaarde, Belgium
,Greet Vanden Berghe
CODes, Industrial Sciences, KaHo St.-Lieven, B-9000 Ghent, Belgium
,Dirk Van Oudheusden
Centre for Industrial Management, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, B-3000 Leuven, Belgium
Transportation Science, Volume 47, Issue 1•02 2013, pp 53-63 • https://doi.org/10.1287/trsc.1110.0377This paper introduces the multiconstraint team orienteering problem with multiple time windows MC-TOP-MTW. In the MC-TOP-MTW, a set of vertices is given, each with a service time, one or more time windows, and a score. The goal is to maximize the sum of ...
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The City Trip Planner
Pieter Vansteenwegen
Ghent University, Department of Industrial Management, Technologiecampus 903, 9052 Zwijnaarde (Gent), Belgium
,Wouter Souffriau
KaHo St.-Lieven, Information Technology, Gebr. Desmetstraat 1, 9000 Ghent, Belgium
,Greet Vanden Berghe
KaHo St.-Lieven, Information Technology, Gebr. Desmetstraat 1, 9000 Ghent, Belgium
,Dirk Van Oudheusden
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Centre for Industrial Management, Celestijnenlaan 300A, 3001 Leuven (Heverlee), Belgium
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal, Volume 38, Issue 6•June, 2011, pp 6540-6546 • https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2010.11.085Research highlights City Trip Planner integrates selection of attractions with routing between them. It provides personalised interest estimation. The real-time planning takes into account personal constraints and opening hours. Usage statistics and ...
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Solving the mobile mapping van problem: A hybrid metaheuristic for capacitated arc routing with soft time windows
Pieter Vansteenwegen
Centre for Industrial Management, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Celestijnenlaan 300A, 3001 Leuven, Heverlee, Belgium
,Wouter Souffriau
Centre for Industrial Management, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Celestijnenlaan 300A, 3001 Leuven, Heverlee, Belgium and Information Technology, KaHo Sint-Lieven Gebroeders, Desmetstraat 1, 9000 Gent, Belgium
,Kenneth Sörensen
Universiteit Antwerpen, Faculteit Toegepaste Economische, Wetenschappen, Prinsstraat 13, 2000 Antwerp, Belgium
Computers and Operations Research, Volume 37, Issue 11•November, 2010, pp 1870-1876 • https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cor.2009.05.006Creating digital maps often requires driving around the streets in a so-called ''mapping van''. Tele Atlas, the world leading supplier of maps and map data, uses a fleet of such vehicles to take pictures of streets and road signs. Minimising the number ...
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A Path Relinking approach for the Team Orienteering Problem
Wouter Souffriau
KaHo St.-Lieven, Information Technology, Gebr. Desmetstraat 1, 9000 Ghent, Belgium and Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Centre for Industrial Management, Celestijnenlaan 300A, 3001 Leuven (Heverlee), Belgium
,Pieter Vansteenwegen
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Centre for Industrial Management, Celestijnenlaan 300A, 3001 Leuven (Heverlee), Belgium
,Greet Vanden Berghe
KaHo St.-Lieven, Information Technology, Gebr. Desmetstraat 1, 9000 Ghent, Belgium
,Dirk Van Oudheusden
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Centre for Industrial Management, Celestijnenlaan 300A, 3001 Leuven (Heverlee), Belgium
Computers and Operations Research, Volume 37, Issue 11•November, 2010, pp 1853-1859 • https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cor.2009.05.002This paper introduces a Path Relinking metaheuristic approach for solving the Team Orienteering Problem (TOP), a particular routing problem in which a score is earned for visiting a location. The objective is to maximise the sum of the scores, while not ...
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Personalized tourist route generation
Ander Garcia
Department of eTourism and Cultural Heritage, Visual Communication Technologies, San Sebastian, Spain
,Olatz Arbelaitz
Department of Computer Architecture and Technology, University of the Basque Country, San Sebastian, Spain
,Maria Teresa Linaza
Department of eTourism and Cultural Heritage, Visual Communication Technologies, San Sebastian, Spain
,Pieter Vansteenwegen
Centre for Industrial Management, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
,Wouter Souffriau
Centre for Industrial Management, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
ICWE'10: Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Current trends in web engineering•July 2010, pp 486-497When tourists are at a destination, they typically search for information in the Local Tourist Organizations. There, the staff determines the profile of the tourists and their restrictions. Combining this information with their up-to-date knowledge ...
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Tourist trip planning functionalities: state-of-the-art and future
Wouter Souffriau
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Centre for Industrial Management, Leuven, Belgium
,Pieter Vansteenwegen
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Centre for Industrial Management, Leuven, Belgium
ICWE'10: Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Current trends in web engineering•July 2010, pp 474-485When tourists visit a city or region, they cannot visit every point of interest available, as they are constrained in time and budget. Tourist recommender applications help tourists by presenting a personal selection. Providing adequate tour scheduling ...
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Hybrid approach for the public transportation time dependent orienteering problem with time windows
Ander Garcia
Vicomtech, Spain
,Olatz Arbelaitz
University of the Basque Country, Spain
,Pieter Vansteenwegen
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
,Wouter Souffriau
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
,Maria Teresa Linaza
Vicomtech, Spain
HAIS'10: Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Hybrid Artificial Intelligence Systems - Volume Part II•June 2010, pp 151-158• https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-13803-4_19The Time Dependent Orienteering Problem with Time Windows (TDOPTW) consists of a set of locations with associated time windows and scores Visiting a location allows to collect its score as a reward Traveling time between locations varies depending on ...
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A hybrid tabu search algorithm for automatically assigning patients to beds
Peter Demeester
KaHo Sint-Lieven, Information Technology, Gebroeders Desmetstraat 1, 9000 Gent, Belgium
,Wouter Souffriau
KaHo Sint-Lieven, Information Technology, Gebroeders Desmetstraat 1, 9000 Gent, Belgium
,Patrick De Causmaecker
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Campus Kortrijk, Computer Science and Information Technology, Etienne Sabbelaan 53, 8500 Kortrijk, Belgium
,Greet Vanden Berghe
KaHo Sint-Lieven, Information Technology, Gebroeders Desmetstraat 1, 9000 Gent, Belgium
Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, Volume 48, Issue 1•January, 2010, pp 61-70 • https://doi.org/10.1016/j.artmed.2009.09.001Objective: We describe a patient admission scheduling algorithm that supports the operational decisions in a hospital. It involves efficiently assigning patients to beds in the appropriate departments, taking into account the medical needs of the ...
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Iterated local search for the team orienteering problem with time windows
Pieter Vansteenwegen
Centre for Industrial Management, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Celestijnenlaan 300A-bus 2422, 3001 Leuven, Belgium
,Wouter Souffriau
Centre for Industrial Management, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Celestijnenlaan 300A-bus 2422, 3001 Leuven, Belgium and Information Technology, Katholieke Hogeschool Sint-Lieven, Gebroeders Desmetstraat 1, 9000 Gent, Belgium
,Greet Vanden Berghe
Information Technology, Katholieke Hogeschool Sint-Lieven, Gebroeders Desmetstraat 1, 9000 Gent, Belgium
,Dirk Van Oudheusden
Centre for Industrial Management, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Celestijnenlaan 300A-bus 2422, 3001 Leuven, Belgium
Computers and Operations Research, Volume 36, Issue 12•December, 2009, pp 3281-3290 • https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cor.2009.03.008A personalised electronic tourist guide assists tourists in planning and enjoying their trip. The planning problem that needs to be solved, in real-time, can be modelled as a team orienteering problem with time windows (TOPTW). In the TOPTW, a set of ...
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A Detailed Analysis of Two Metaheuristics for the Team Orienteering Problem
Pieter Vansteenwegen
Centre for Industrial Management, Katholieke Universiteit, Leuven, Belgium
,Wouter Souffriau
Centre for Industrial Management, Katholieke Universiteit, Leuven, Belgium and Information Technology, KaHo St.-Lieven, Ghent, Belgium
,Dirk Oudheusden
Centre for Industrial Management, Katholieke Universiteit, Leuven, Belgium
SLS '09: Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Engineering Stochastic Local Search Algorithms. Designing, Implementing and Analyzing Effective Heuristics•September 2009, pp 110-114• https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-03751-1_9This paper presents different techniques that can be used to improve the metaheuristic design and insight in the problem at hand. The presented techniques are applied to analyse the performance of two different metaheuristics for the team orienteering ...
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A Personalized Tourist Trip Design Algorithm For Mobile Tourist Guides
Wouter Souffriau
KaHo St.-Lieven, Information Technology, Ghent, Belgium,Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Centre for Industrial Management, Heverlee, Belgium
,Pieter Vansteenwegen
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Centre for Industrial Management, Heverlee, Belgium
,Joris Vertommen
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Centre for Industrial Management, Heverlee, Belgium
,Greet Vanden Berghe
KaHo St.-Lieven, Information Technology, Ghent, Belgium
,Dirk Van Oudheusden
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Centre for Industrial Management, Heverlee, Belgium
Applied Artificial Intelligence, Volume 22, Issue 10•November 2008, pp 964-985 • https://doi.org/10.1080/08839510802379626Mobile tourist guides evolve towards automated personalized tour planning devices. The contribution of this article is to put forward a combined artificial intelligence and metaheuristic approach to solve tourist trip design problems (TTDP). The ...
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Dynamic scheduling of multi-media streams in home automation systems
Koen Vangheluwe
Information Technology, Gent, Belgium
,Wouter Souffriau
Information Technology, Gent, Belgium
,Katja Verbeeck
Information Technology, Gent, Belgium
,Patrick De Causmaecker
DDS, KUL, Kortrijk, Belgium
AAMAS '08: Proceedings of the 7th international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems: demo papers•May 2008, pp 1683-1684A new trend in home automation is to integrate audio en video applications. However in current domotics systems, these are usually conFigured statically. We implemented a home automation tool that dynamically (re)schedules bandwidth for different types ...
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