Personalisation of Next Generation Mobile Services

Abstract. As communication technologies are becoming more and more advanced, the opportunities to deliver improved, user friendly services using these technologies are increasing. One of the possible ways to improve the services is to enable personalisation. However, to enable personalisation it is not sufficient to consider the service on its own as it has been the case until now. It is necessary to consider personalisation as a higher-layer function, which should span different services, be it different service instances or different service implementations. Personalisation should also span different terminal platforms and different network technologies. It is therefore appropriate to consider personalisation as a function in the higher-layers of the service platforms, above or integrated with the existing middleware. This paper provides a precise definition of personalisation and clarifies how it will be possible to build advanced mobile services in the future which make extensive u...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2006
• Where: CAISE
• Authors: Ivar Jørstad, Do Van Thanh, Schahram Dustdar
• Keywords: CAISE 2006, Information Management, Personalisation, Personalisation Function, User Friendly Services