MIT WORLD PEACE UNIVERSITY

CAPSTONE PROJECT

Group Recommendation System for Trek planning based on social network

The Trek Planner project is intended to bring together trekkers and adventurers who want to
go on treks, with random strangers with planned schedules. The treks may be organized for a
single day or multiple days. The treks will be based on the concept of Group Formation
which will be done through machine learning algorithms. Trekkers will be suggested
different trekking destinations based on their preferences using filtering techniques.
Our proposed system will use a method of group recommendation based on external social-
trust networks is proposed, which builds a group profile by analyzing not only users’
preferences, but also the social relationships between members inside and outside of the
group. We employ the users’ degree of disagreement to adjust group preference rating by
external information of social-trust network. Moreover, having a discussion about different
social network utilization ratio, we proposed a method to work for smaller group size
This application will be device independent and can be accessed from any smart device
connected to the internet.The tools used for coding of the workflow of the application will be
IDEs such as Eclipse and NetBeans.The breakthrough technology to be used will be Web
Services, Web hosting for Server Configuration and platform connectivity.
The future scope of the project will expand to tourism which can get strangers together and
have tours to spice up their lives up a bit. From the technical point it can include features like
altimeter, location services,chatting, route scheduling as well as transportation services. This
application can further be expanded to world treks and tourism.

Group Members Guide

Manoj Patil Mrs Preeti Chakurkar
Sahil Pawar
Ishan Kundekar
Abhishek Bahuguna