Ciudad – Unleashing mobile user-provided services

This paper presents the concept of mobile user-provided services small services that users can create and provide on the go from their mobile terminals. It addresses the technological challenges to apply this concept and describes an architectural approach to realize it. Ultimate personalization and access to the most relevant information are the main drivers for user-provided services, which have been materialized in the m:Ciudad project. By extending the widget model with advanced service aspects and semantics, m:Ciudad defines a novel architecture in the mobile terminal as well as in the framework.