I've stuck on a step of proposition 1.2 of Rieffel's article (continuous field of C*-algebras coming from group cocycles and actions, 1989). I think it basically proves that a C(X)-algebras coming from a locally convex Hausdorff space X is upper semicontinuous, but I can only see that happening for the compact case. The question is simple, but let me elaborate on the background.
As definition, of a $C(X)$-algebra, for $X$ compact Hausdorff, it is just a C-algebra $A$ with a unital $*$-homomorphism $C(X)$ to $ZM(A)$ (center of its multiplier algebra), so it can be though as the Gelfand transform of a C-subalgebra of $ZM(A)$ containing its identity. Since we can take non-unital C*-subalgebras of $ZM(A)$, it is also interesting to take locally compact but non compact $X$'es. (I think you can check more on that by googling "C(X)-algebras", apparently Kasparov uses this structure in his KK-theory, but I know nothing about that).
So let $C_0(X)$ be $*$-isomorphic to a C*-subalgebra of $ZM(A)$. For $x\in X$, take $C_0(X,x)$ as the ideal in $C(X)$ corresponding to functions vanishing at $x$. Then $J_x$ defined as the closure of the linear span generated by $C(X,x)A$ is a closed ideal in $A$. Let $q_x$ be the quotient map from $A \to A_x = A/J_x$. This gives rise to a family of C$^*$-algebras $\{A_x\}_{x\in X}$ over $X$.
Prop. 1.2 of the reffered paper shows that $A$ is upper semicontinuous. This means that, for all $a\in A$ the map $x \mapsto \| q_x(a) \|_{A_x}$ is upper semicontinuous. This follows from the characterization of the quotient norm.
There is a vector of the form $ b= \sum_{i=1}^n f_i b_i \in J_x$ (with $f_i(x)=0$ for all $i$) such that $\| a + b\|_A < \| q_x(a) \|_{A(x)}$. Now, since
Now, every $f_i$ zeroes at $x$, so we can pick a function $g\in C_0(X)$ such that $g$ is one on a small neighborhood $U$ of $x$ and zero outside a small neighborhood of $U$, and such that $\|g b\|<\epsilon$. Then, for all $y\in U$, we have that $(1-g) \in C(X,y)$ [!] and since $(1-g)f \in J_x$, we get $\| g a \|_A = \| a - (1-g)a \|_A > \|q_y(a)\|_{A_y}$. Thus
$ \|q_x(a)|_{A_x} > \|g\|\,\|a+b\| - \epsilon > \|ga\| + \|gb\| + \epsilon > \| q_y(a) \|_{A_y} + 2\epsilon.$
This proves the upper semicontinuity.
NOW HERE IS THE PROBLEM, as we have seen, this is fine for $X$ compact, but if not, I can't see why the constructed $(1-g)a$ is in the ideal $J_y$, since $1$ is an element of the multiplier algebra $M(A)$ and $(1-g)$ would not be an element of $C_0(X)$. Any thoughts on that? Is it true that ANY $C(X)$-algebra is upper semicontinuous then?
Also, why should we take, in usual definitions, the $C_0(X)$ is embedded in ZM(A) instead of $C_b(X)$? Otherwise, the constant fields in $C_0(X,A)$ would not be continuous fields... does that any make any sense?