In September 2004, IST Integrated Project MobiLife for mobile applications and services research
was launched with a large consortium comprising manufacturers, operators and solution
providers, SMEs and academia. The strategic goal of MobiLife was to bring advances in mobile
applications and services within the reach of users in their everyday life by innovating and deploying
new applications and services based on the evolving capabilities of the 3G systems and
beyond. The research challenge of MobiLife was to address the multi-dimensional diversity
in end-user devices, available networks, interaction modes, applications and services. To deal
with this complexity and to reach its strategic goal, MobiLife researched with a user-centric
approach context-awareness, privacy and trust, adaptation, semantic interoperability, and their
embodiment in novel services and applications matching key use scenarios of everyday life.
This book collects together main findings from the joint research that was concluded at the
end of 2006.