A Ridesharing Recommendation Framework with Hard and Soft Constraints

Mow Kim, Hamidah Ibrahim

2021

Abstract

Ridesharing, the act or practice of sharing automobile trips, has now becoming very popular due to many benefits it provides not only to the society, economic but also the environment. There are several ridesharing frameworks and applications being proposed, however in identifying a ridesharing group consisting of a driver and passengers (also known as riders), most of these solutions rely on the hard constraints which include timeslot (departure and arrival), location (departure and arrival), and capacity of the vehicle. Since these people will be sharing a ride together and they are strangers to each other, it is important to consider their preferences in identifying an ideal group. These preferences, called soft constraints in this paper, include among others race, age group, gender, non-smoking, etc. This is for assuring a pleasant, cosy, and most importantly a safe journey. Hence, this paper proposes a ridesharing recommendation framework that aims at identifying an ideal group by considering both the hard and the soft constraints. The framework is then embedded into a mobile application prototype, named SAGE, which aims to provide a safe, available, green, and economical ridesharing service.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Kim M. and Ibrahim H. (2021). A Ridesharing Recommendation Framework with Hard and Soft Constraints. In Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: WEBIST, ISBN 978-989-758-536-4, pages 371-379. DOI: 10.5220/0010705900003058

in Bibtex Style

@conference{webist21,
author={Mow Kim and Hamidah Ibrahim},
title={A Ridesharing Recommendation Framework with Hard and Soft Constraints},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: WEBIST,},
year={2021},
pages={371-379},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0010705900003058},
isbn={978-989-758-536-4},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: WEBIST,
TI - A Ridesharing Recommendation Framework with Hard and Soft Constraints
SN - 978-989-758-536-4
AU - Kim M.
AU - Ibrahim H.
PY - 2021
SP - 371
EP - 379
DO - 10.5220/0010705900003058