Smart Fair Guide: Requirements and Design of a Smart Fair Management System

Reading is an essential part of our life, and it is a way by which we acquire new knowledge, discover ourselves and develop our skills. A book fair is an event that provides visitors with the opportunity to further enhance their knowledge, to obtain rare books and to meet their favorite authors. In this event, the staff aim to achieve visitor's satisfaction, and to increase the fair's value. Every year Kingdom of Saudi Arabia alos arrange such events to promote knowledge. These events provide readers a chance to acquire international books that may not be available in the Kingdom. The Book Fair organizers are always seeking to reach a better level of organization to gain visitors' satisfaction and avoid losing the basic value of the Book Fair. SmartFair Guide is a web- based and application-based system that will manage the Kingdom's book fair event and that will enhance the experience of all individuals involved. The reason the system is referred to as smart is its outstanding features and most specifically, the system includes implementing number of data mining techniques anticipated to have a direct effect on the books classification process and the recommendation system. In this research paper the proposed model structure will display the main procedures and the user's role behavior in the cycle of the system. The cycle includes seven of the system's processes which are the donation, ticket trade, barcode scanning, crowd deduction, recommendation, classification and section locating processes. The system analysis demonstrates the diagrams which includes the Use Case, DFDs, ER, Activity, Sequence diagrams and their description.