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- User modeling and recommendation strategies for tourismPublication . Coelho, Bruno Ernesto da Silva; Figueiredo, Ana Maria Neves de Almeida Baptista; Martins, ConstantinoTourism is a privileged area for the application of Artificial Intelligence technologies, namely Decision Support Systems and particularly Recommender Systems. The current state of the art concerning the user role and importance within systems is not cheering. User Modeling is used in a poor and rudimentary fashion, when even present; systems do not make use of all information given by the users, sometimes in a tedious and boring manner. As opposed to community and social-based suggestions, recommendations based on the user itself are far from being perfect and optimally used given its potential. This work has the main purposes of developing a User Modeling platform which acts as the basis for a Recommender System for the tourism area. The developed architecture features a myriad of knowledge representation and reasoning techniques which complement themselves in order to assimilate a coherent, complex and diverse user image. The Recommender System is then the culmination of the collaborative effort performed by all User Modeling building blocks. Besides making use of traditional techniques, such as user interests / preferences, the system also innovates in what concern to misused features or unexplored techniques in the area of tourism, such as stereotypes.