Other stereotypes have been conceptualized similarly and their complete list
and a detailed description of their utilization can be found in Gawinecki, Kruszyk,
and Paprzycki (2005).
When a new user logs onto the system he/she will be requested to fill out a short
questionnaire about age, gender, income level, occupation, address (matching user
features defined by the user ontology), as well as questions about travel preferences.
While the basic user ontology-based data will be required, answering questions
about travel preferences will be voluntary. Personal data collected through the
questionnaire will be used to match a person to a stereotype. More precisely, we
will calculate a distance measure between user-specified characteristics and these
appearing in stereotypes defined in the system and find one that matches his/her
profile the closest. To achieve this we will use the following formula:
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