Context planning and user profiling in mobile services

The objective of this paper is to analyze the prerequisites and enablers for context-aware mobile services, to make context-aware services a reality, the user perspective, the business perspective, as well as the required technological enablers, have to be understood. This paper aims at summarizing briefly the current issues and prioritizing future work to foster the evolution of user-centric services that adapt to changing context and, therefore, also to user needs. Furthermore, we analyze the enablers for context-aware services: context provisioning and user profiling respectively. Finally, we discusses the envisioned user-centric services that employ the enablers to adapt to changing context and user needs.