Business Intelligence & Data Mining

Description of this research area
The research area "Business Intelligence & Data Mining" deals with different aspects of collecting, managing and analysing business relevant data as input to decision support and intelligent tourism services. Important aspects are:
- Information extraction from structured and unstructured data
- Data warehouse modelling
- Analytical business intelligence and data mining
- Meta learning and adaptive decision support systeme
Keywords
Business Intelligence, Data Mining, Information Extraction, Sentiment Analysis, Web Mining
Institution
University of Applied Science Ravensburg-Weingarten
Researchers
Prof. Dr. Wolfram Höpken
MSc. Dimitri Keil
MSc. Thomas Menner
Beihang University:
Research projects in this research area
Customer based innovation in tourism (CBIT)
Engineering the Knowledge Destination
Publications published by this institute characterizing this research area
Fuchs, M., Höpken, W., Lexhagen, M. (2014): Big Data Analytics for Knowledge Generation in Tourism Destinations – A Case from Sweden. Journal of Destination Management & Marketing, 3 (4), pp. 198-209.
Fuchs, M., Abadzhiev, A., Svensson, B, Höpken, W. & Lexhagen, M. (2013): Knowledge Destination framework for tourism sustainability – a Business Intelligence application from Sweden, Tourism - An Interdisciplinary Journal, (forthcoming).
Fuchs, M., Höpken, W., Lexhagen, M. (2015): Applying Business Intelligence for Knowledge Generation in Tourism Destinations - A Case Study from Sweden. In: Pechlaner, H., Smeral, E. (eds) Tourism and Leisure - Current Issues and Perspectives of Development, Wiesbaden, Springer Gabler, pp. 161174.
Höpken, W., Fuchs, M. & Lexhagen, M. (2013): The Knowledge Destination – Applying Methods of Business Intelligence to Tourism Applications. In: Wang, J. (ed.) Encyclopedia of Business Analytics and Optimization, (in print).
Schmunk, S., Höpken, W., Fuchs, M., Lexhagen, M. (2014): Sentiment analysis – extracting decisionrelevant knowledge from UGC. In: Xiang, Z., Tussyadiah, I. (eds.). Information and Communication Technologies in Tourism, Springer, Heidelberg, pp. 253265.
Höpken, W., Fuchs, M., Höll, G. Keil, D. & Lexhagen, M. (2013): Multidimensional data modelling for a tourism destination data warehouse. In: Cantoni, L. & Xiang, Ph. (eds.). Information and Communication Technologies in Tourism 2013, Springer, New York, pp. 157169.
Kuttainen, Ch., Lexhagen, M., Fuchs, M. & Höpken, W. (2012): Social Media Monitoring and Analysis in Tourism. In: Christou, E., Chionis, D., Gursory, D. & Sigala, M. (eds.). Advances in Hospitality and Tourism Marketing & Management, Corfu, ISBN: 9789602871393.
Lexhagen, M., Kuttainen, Ch., M. Fuchs & Höpken, W. (2012): Destination Talk in Social Media: A Content Analysis for Innovation. In: Christou, E., Chionis, D., Gursory, D. & Sigala, M. (eds.). Advances in Hospitality and Tourism Management, Corfu, ISBN: 9789602871393.