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MINOTAURUS: A distributed multimedia tourism information system

Christodoulakis Stavros, Kontogiannis Petros, Petridis P., Moumoutzis Nektarios, Anastasiadis M., Margazas T.

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URI: http://purl.tuc.gr/dl/dias/4C6332AC-311D-4724-8D68-F349C1211249
Year 1997
Type of Item Conference Publication
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Bibliographic Citation S. Christodoulakis, P. Kontogiannis, P. Petridis, N. Moumoutzis, M. Anastasiadis and T. Margazas, "MINOTAURUS: A Distributed Multimedia Tourism Information System", in Proceedings of the International Conference in Edinburgh, Information and Communication Technologies in Tourism 1997, pp. 295-306.
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The rapidly expanding technology of mobile computers, wireless data networks, vehicle navigation, multimedia and database systems has caused the development of powerful mobile information systems. These systems, consisting of a portable computer (Laptop, PDA), have large storage capacities, capabilities of wireless connection to a worldwide information network and provide to their users many functionalities like access to WWW, shopping, banking, reservations and other transactions. This paper presents such a mobile system named Minotaurus which combines the above technologies to achieve the development of a mobile, multimedia tourist information system.

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