MINOTAURUS: A distributed multimedia tourism information systemMINOTAURUS: A distributed multimedia tourism information system Δημοσίευση σε Συνέδριο Conference Publication 2015-11-161997enThe rapidly expanding technology of mobile computers, wireless data networks, vehicle navigation, multimedia and database systems has caused the development of powerful mobile information systems. These systems, consisting of a portable computer (Laptop, PDA), have large storage capacities, capabilities of wireless connection to a worldwide information network and provide to their users many functionalities like access to WWW, shopping, banking, reservations and other transactions. This paper presents such a mobile system named Minotaurus which combines the above technologies to achieve the development of a mobile, multimedia tourist information system.http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Proceedings of the International Conference in Edinburgh Christodoulakis Stavros Χριστοδουλακης Σταυρος Kontogiannis Petros Κοντογιαννης Πετρος Petridis P. Moumoutzis Nektarios Μουμουτζης Νεκταριος Anastasiadis M. Margazas T. Data display systems Display systems, Information Dynamic display systems Electronic displays information display systems data display systems display systems information dynamic display systems electronic displays