Architectures of Future Services and Applications for the Mobile User

Although advanced mobile infrastructures exist for many years in developed countries, developers of mobile services for 3G and beyond systems can still not rely on an architecture that provides a common set of functionalities to make full use of the mobile environment. This paper presents essential building blocks of architectures for future services and applications for the mobile user. These building blocks are a starting point towards the definition of an environment supporting personalization, context awareness, user interface adaptation and miscellaneous functionalities that support the service developer in realizing ubiquitous mobile services.