Bringing pervasive services to mobile users

We are living in a world in which digital services are increasingly provided at the "street level". Such services which include information services such as public transport information, payment systems, and ticketing are becoming one of the media through which we interact with the environment in which we live. In this trend, mobile phones are the tool through which we gain access to these services, and through them to operate in the real world. This poses new problems of how to discover services in a new contextual way, how to provision them in such a way that they make sense to a busy user on the run, and how to support the user when things go wrong. In this talk I will discuss our experience with developing a mobile platform to deploy on mobile phones that for intelligent service provisioning, and I will try to highlight the emerging challenges for the Autonomic computing.