Integrated Profile Management for Mobile Computing
In this paper we identify the main requisites of an infrastructure for the integrated management of profile data and propose a high-level description of its implementation. The main goal of our system is to offer to mobile users contents targeted to their needs, using a presentation suited to their device. This task can be accomplished by offering to content providers every information that can be useful for identifying the content and the presentation that best fit the user’s expectations and the device capabilities. We identify the entities that are more feasible for providing profile data, and propose a mechanism for retrieving and integrating information from the different sources in this distributed environment. The presentation and content directives to be applied are determined by evaluating rules declared by both users and content providers, resolving possible conflicts.