DEVELOPMENT OF THE INFORMATION SYSTEM FOR SOLVING THE PROBLEM OF RENTING AND BUYING HOUSING IN THE NETHERLANDS WITH THE INTRODUCTION OF A CONTEXTUAL SEARCH ALGORITHM: PERSONALIZED AND ACCELERATED SELECTION OF REAL ESTATE
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https://doi.org/10.20998/2413-3000.2024.9.9Keywords:
information system, real estate objects, housing, home, rent, purchase, Gaversinus formula, algorithm, contextual searchAbstract
The current state of the real estate market in most European countries, including the Netherlands, requires the introduction of innovative solutions that can facilitate and speed up the process of finding housing and meet the needs of its applicants. This is largely due to the lack of reliable, up-to-date data and the neglect of the need to adapt existing web applications and information systems for foreigners who do not speak Dutch, which is very important in the context of growing migration. In addition, existing solutions often offer information about real estate that varies depending on the user's preferences, including information about their age and nationality, which leads to discrimination. In view of this, it becomes important to introduce applications that contain detailed, up-to-date, and reliable data on residential properties, as well as allow customizing the process of selecting a home to meet the individual needs of users. The purpose of this paper is to develop an information system for solving the problem of renting and buying housing in the Netherlands, to create a contextual search algorithm to speed up the search for real estate, and to implement it in this web system. The algorithm consists of three main stages. The first step involves geocoding the address entered by the user. The second stage involves sending a request to Google Places, calculating the search radius based on the boundaries of the square, and then using the Gaversus formula, and checking the objects contained in the service's database for their inclusion in the calculated area. The third step involves sending the coordinates of the first received object and the type of real estate to the server. If ads are found in the information system database, they are displayed to the user. The developed information system and the contextual search algorithm implemented in it allow providing home seekers with detailed, up-to-date and reliable information about real estate available for rent and purchase, speeding up the process of finding a home and meeting the needs of home seekers. The main functionality of the web system also includes the ability to publish, modify, delete ads and establish communication with their authors.
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