<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>The mountain hiking destinations become more popular as this is one of the possible ways to cope with workplace stress and to prevent burnout. In contrast to the tourist destinations, mountain hiking requires special attention due to the variety of mountain trails satisfying the same starting and finishing point for a particular route. For the goal, a two-stage search-based approach for a determining of possible routes considering the users’ preferences is developed. The first stage is focused on the determining of possible hiking routes taking into account the requirements and tourists’ preferences, while the second stage concerns the sorting of already determined hiking routes. The applicability of the described approach is illustrated and the obtained results demonstrate the capability in searching and sorting of mountain hiking trails using directed weighted multigraph including tourists’ preferences.</p></abstract>

The mountain hiking destinations become more popular as this is one of the possible ways to cope with workplace stress and to prevent burnout. In contrast to the tourist destinations, mountain hiking requires special attention due to the variety of mountain trails satisfying the same starting and finishing point for a particular route. For the goal, a two-stage search-based approach for a determining of possible routes considering the users’ preferences is developed. The first stage is focused on the determining of possible hiking routes taking into account the requirements and tourists’ preferences, while the second stage concerns the sorting of already determined hiking routes. The applicability of the described approach is illustrated and the obtained results demonstrate the capability in searching and sorting of mountain hiking trails using directed weighted multigraph including tourists’ preferences.

Two-Stage Search-Based Approach for Determining and Sorting of Mountain Hiking Routes Using Directed Weighted Multigraph

University of Library Studies and Information Technologies

Cybernetics and Information Technologies

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The mountain hiking destinations become more popular as this is one of the possible ways to cope with workplace stress and to prevent burnout. In contrast to...

Two-Stage Search-Based Approach for Determining and Sorting of Mountain Hiking Routes Using Directed Weighted Multigraph

Published Online: Dec 31, 2020

Page range: 28 - 39

Received: Jul 25, 2020

Accepted: Sep 25, 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/cait-2020-0058

Keywords
Directed weighted multigraph, Search-based approach, Mountain hiking algorithm, Mountain routes sorting, Geographic scalability

© 2020 Zornitsa Dimitrova et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Two-Stage Search-Based Approach for Determining and Sorting of Mountain Hiking Routes Using Directed Weighted Multigraph

Published Online: Dec 31, 2020

Page range: 28 - 39

Received: Jul 25, 2020

Accepted: Sep 25, 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/cait-2020-0058

KeywordsDirected weighted multigraph, Search-based approach, Mountain hiking algorithm, Mountain routes sorting, Geographic scalability

© 2020 Zornitsa Dimitrova et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Keywords
Directed weighted multigraph, Search-based approach, Mountain hiking algorithm, Mountain routes sorting, Geographic scalability