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Multimedia content today can be considered as the composition of media objects into an interactive multimedia presentation. Typically, multimedia content comprises continuous and discrete media objects such as videos and images which are arranged in space and time with interaction possibilities. Personalization of such multimedia content means that the content reflects a user's personal context. To achieve such personalized multimedia content, a manual creation of many different documents for all the different user contexts, however, is not feasible let alone economical, particular in the heterogeneous mobile world. Rather a dynamic process of selecting and assembling personalized multimedia content depending on the user context seems reasonable. In this paper, we are presenting mobileMM4U, a component-based software framework, which provides the generic components for typical tasks of multimedia …