Integration of distributed data sources for mobile services

This paper deals with the Personalised Access to Local Information and services for tOurists (PALIO-IST 20656) Project within the fifth research framework of the European Commission. The focus is on tourists that need to access information on the city or on the region they are visiting by means of a cellular phone or at specific locations (kiosks). The PALIO project is committed to produce a prototype showing the potentialities of combining user position and user preferences in order to provide context-aware information. This paper presents the envisaged architecture and proposes a solution to map and to retrieve information contents from distributed databases.