Personalized Access to Distributed Data Sources

The widespread diffusion of mobile communication systems is paving the way for new information services to be provided to users. This paper dea ls 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 t hey 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 information and user preferences in order to provide context -aware information. This paper presents early results of the PALIO Project for what concerns adaptation to the access technologies, terminal characteristics and user preferences.