Ubiquitous Information Agents

Ubiquity is one of the most important keyword of the next generation software systems. We want our systems to follow users wherever they go, and we want our systems to extend their reach to the telephony world and to its base of several hundred million users. The ever-increasing diffusion of handy appliances, e.g. palmtops and cellular phones, is familiarizing people with the use of computers for their everyday job and, more impressively, for their everyday life. This suggests that the market of software systems for mobile applications will increase dramatically in the near future.