We are now living in a mobile information era, which is fundamentally changing science and
society. Location Based Services (LBS), which deliver information depending on the location …

The amount of touristic and travel information existing on the Internet is overwhelming.
Recommender systems are typically used to filter irrelevant information and to provide …

The emergence and penetration of smart mobile devices has given rise to the development
of context-aware systems that utilize sensors to collect available data about users in order to …

Sales Promotion has been the routine marketing of businesses appealing consumers to
making orders and increasing media exposure in recent years. Sales Promotion is a tactic …

Internet-connected mobile devices have changed how people access information. Like other
information sources, maps have benefited from and been re-envisioned for mobile devices …

Recommender systems have typically been used in tourism applications to filter out
irrelevant information and to provide personalized recommendations to the users. With the …

This article identifies the factors that have an impact on mobile recommender systems.
Recommender systems have become a technology that has been widely used by various …

Location-based services (LBS) have been a research field since the early 2000s. With the
recent rapid advances in mobile computing technologies and the ubiquity of mobile devices …

Nowadays, large amounts of tourism information and services are available over the Web.
This makes it difficult for the user to search for some specific information such as selecting a …

This chapter introduces, in Sect. 1.1, the area of research and development of Mobile
Information Retrieval. In Sect. 1.2 it gives the motivation for this review and explains briefly …