Expanding the Boundaries: Recommender Systems and the Multifaceted World of Tourism
by Alejandro Bellogín, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM)
Abstract
This keynote presentation explores the transformative potential of recommender systems within the tourism industry, while also examining the broader technological and sustainable trends emerging in adjacent fields. Moving beyond the traditional tasks and vocabulary known in the RecSys community, this presentation will showcase techniques and methods in use in other research areas (such as IoT, Operational Research, or Data Mining) that could be useful for the attendees of this workshop. Through case studies and real-world examples, we illustrate the synergies, challenges, and potential impact such technologies may bring to the community.
About the Speaker
Alejandro Bellogín is Associate Professor at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM), Spain. Previously, he was associated to the Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica under a postdoctoral Marie Curie research grant. Dr. Bellogín has worked in several areas of user modeling and personalization, including recommender systems, evaluation, and reproducibility, where he has published over 80 conference and journal papers, while being involved as program or organization committees in venues related to these areas, such as RecSys, WWW, and UMAP, among others. In the last years, his focus was around the topics of fairness and tourism, where he leads national and industry projects aiming at transferring these research problems and solutions to the society.
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