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Personalization in Privacy-Aware Highly Dynamic Systems Stef an Sackmann, Jens Strüker, Raf ael Accorsi Institute of Comput er Science and Social Studies, Depa rtment of Telematics, University of Freiburg, Germany 1 Fifteen years after Mark Weiser ’s inspiring paper on ubiquitous computing [ ], his vision has become technically feasible. Objects of everyday use are becoming increasingly interconnected and mobile communication of all bandwidth and devices of all sizes are used in various ways. Highly dynamic information systems (HDS) are emerging, bringing new challenges for the management of information systems: having to cope with compone nts that enter and leave the system spontaneously and be autonomous in their actions. The changing and possibly conflicting requirements of the single components have to be taken into account leading to a dynamic negotiation of requirements. Moreover, such highly dynamic systems have to be able to contend with constant growth of communicated data avidly collected in various forms. Solving the challenges of HDS is accompanied with a prospect of economic potential. A first realization is the present rollout of RFID by maj or retail groups worldwide Currently, cost savings through process automation is of prime importance but the use of this technology in retailing goes beyond mere productivity improvements. Tagging items with RFID-chips in combination with other wireless technologies, equipping customers with mobile communication devices, and using upcoming sensor-networks allow, for example, personalizing services that have so far been successfully used in cli