Software Agents for Mobile Commerce Services Support

2011 ◽  
pp. 246-266
Author(s):  
Mihhail Matskin ◽  
Amund Tveit
Keyword(s):  
User Interface ◽  
Mobile Devices ◽  
Mobile Device ◽  
Software Agents ◽  
Mobile Commerce ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Wireless Devices ◽  
Agent Based ◽  
Customer Profiles ◽  
Active Processing

This chapter considers an application of software agents to mobile commerce services provision. With the increasing number of e-commerce services for mobile devices, there are challenges in making these services more personalized and in taking into account the severely constrained bandwidth and restricted user interface these devices currently provide. In this chapter we present an agent-based platform for support of mobile commerce using wireless devices. Agents represent mobile device customers in the network by implementing highly personalized customer profiles. The platform allows customization and adaptation of mobile commerce services as well as pro-active processing and notification of important events. Information to the customers is delivered via both an access to the Internet and SMS messages. Usage of the platform is illustrated by examples of valued customer membership services and subscription services support. We hope that the presented work demonstrates benefits of software agents as assistants in mobile commerce services.

Plugging into the Online Database and Playing Secure Mobile Commerce

2010 ◽  
pp. 16-31
Author(s):  
I-Horng Jeng
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Devices ◽  
Mobile Device ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Mobile Commerce ◽  
Cloud Services ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Online Database ◽  
Research Areas ◽  
Secure Information ◽  
Wireless Broadband

Mobile commerce is one of emerging inter-discipline technology which integrates the network protocol, multimodal sensation, storage management, and other research areas. It intends to make paperless applications for both convenience and ecology on the mobile devices -- including those used for ticketing, coupons, loyalty rewards, payments, etc. By the innate limitations of the physical properties, mobile device -- particularly the handheld mobile device -- must make their best tradeoffs among the available hardware resources to reach their dedicated specifications. However, one of the recent progresses in the new technologies of the Internet, cloud computing, is capable of appearing ubiquitously with mobile devices and intends to outstretch its various applications by the devices. The next generation of mobile devices will use wireless broadband access and human-computer interaction technologies which support cloud services and interface designs respectively advances to allow remote plug-and-play with web 2.0 applications that is suitable for mobile commerce in which this chapter emphasizes. Besides, for sustainable development of a mobile commerce solution, workable but not securable is absolutely not enough. Therefore, a secure information retrieval and reveal protocol for mobile commerce based on modified RSA digital signature is also proposed and demonstrated.

scholarly journals The Influence of the Frequency of the Internet Use on the Behavioral Relationship Model of the Mobile Device-Based Shopping

2016 ◽  
Vol 11 (6) ◽  
pp. 32 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shwu-Ing Wu ◽  
Rou Jyun Chen
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Devices ◽  
Mobile Device ◽  
Internet Use ◽  
Information Quality ◽  
Positive Influence ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Relationship Model ◽  
Significant Positive Influence

<p class="ArticleTitle">In recent years, the increasingly innovative and diverse mobile devices have significantly promoted the mobile device-based shopping. What factors influence this kind of shopping? Will consumers purchase things with mobile devices? These are two topics that need to be explored. Through the literature analysis and the empirical research, this study aims to analyze the quality of information, system, service and mobile devices on the mobile device-based shopping platform. Moreover, it studies the attitude of consumers towards mobile device-based shopping, their willingness to adopt the shopping method and the behavioral relationship model in the actual mobile device-based shopping as well as compares the groups of different frequencies of the Internet use in terms of the relationship model.</p>　　With the convenient sampling, this study made an investigation among some of those who had experienced shopping on such mobile devices as tablets or smart phones. The 765 retrieved valid copies of questionnaire were divided into three groups—“often”, “average” and “seldom” according to the frequency consumers undertook mobile device-based shopping and were then compared. The results showed that there were significant differences among the three groups in four relationship paths, including: 1) the information quality of the mobile device-based shopping platform has more significant positive influence on consumers’ attitude path of mobile device-based shopping in the “average” group than in the other two; 2) the service quality of the mobile device-based shopping platform has more significant positive influence on consumers’ attitude path of mobile device-based shopping in the “seldom” group than in the other two; 3) the preference for mobile device-based shopping has much significant positive influence on the behavior path of mobile device-based shopping in the “often” group. According to the research results, different groups have different behavior models. These results can serve as reference information in the decision-making of those who establish mobile device-based shopping platforms and manufacture mobile devices.

scholarly journals Free and Open Source Tools for Volunteer Geographic Information and Geo-Crowdsourcing

Crowdsourcing ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 838-863
Author(s):  
Maria Antonia Brovelli ◽  
Blagoj Delipetrev ◽  
Giorgio Zamboni
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Devices ◽  
Mobile Device ◽  
Technological Development ◽  
Geographic Information ◽  
Geospatial Data ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Volunteer Geographic Information ◽  
The World ◽  
User Friendly ◽  
Gis Software

The availability of new mobile devices (tablets and smartphones) equipped with many sensors is changing or, better, enriching the way we monitor and sense the world that surrounds us. The internet has permeated completely not only our scientific and technological development, but also our life. Only some years ago, we used geospatial data and GIS software installed within our computers. Nowadays, data and operators are provided via the net by means of distributed and shared geo-services and a simple and powerless mobile device is enough to connect them. The possibility of interaction has become not only faster and more user friendly but also active, being individuals and communities free of adding, deleting, and changing contents in real time in the new GeoWeb2.0. This chapter explores GeoWeb2.0.

Present and Future of Mobile Commerce

2018 ◽  
pp. 1431-1447
Author(s):  
Barkha Narang ◽  
Jyoti Batra Arora
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Devices ◽  
Pervasive Computing ◽  
Mobile Device ◽  
Context Awareness ◽  
Mobile Commerce ◽  
The Other ◽  
Commercial Activity ◽  
Software Applications ◽  
Information Appliances ◽  
The One

Mobile Commerce is a term to describe any commercial activity on a mobile device, such as a mobile phone (iPhone, Android, Blackberry) or a tablet (iPad, Galaxy Tab, Surface). This includes all steps of the customer journey; reach, attract, choose, convert and retain. Hence mobile commerce is probably best described as shopping that takes advantage of unique properties of mobile devices. It is also called as m-commerce. Pervasive computing aims at availability and invisibility. On the one hand, pervasive computing can be defined as availability of software applications and information anywhere and anytime. On the other hand, pervasive computing also means that computers are hidden in numerous so-called information appliances that we use in our day-to-day lives Characteristics of pervasive computing applications have been identified as interaction transparency, context awareness, and automated capture of experiences.

Present and Future of Mobile Commerce

2016 ◽  
pp. 293-308 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barkha Narang ◽  
Jyoti Batra Arora
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Devices ◽  
Pervasive Computing ◽  
Mobile Device ◽  
Context Awareness ◽  
Mobile Commerce ◽  
The Other ◽  
Commercial Activity ◽  
Software Applications ◽  
Information Appliances ◽  
The One

Mobile Commerce is a term to describe any commercial activity on a mobile device, such as a mobile phone (iPhone, Android, Blackberry) or a tablet (iPad, Galaxy Tab, Surface). This includes all steps of the customer journey; reach, attract, choose, convert and retain. Hence mobile commerce is probably best described as shopping that takes advantage of unique properties of mobile devices. It is also called as m-commerce. Pervasive computing aims at availability and invisibility. On the one hand, pervasive computing can be defined as availability of software applications and information anywhere and anytime. On the other hand, pervasive computing also means that computers are hidden in numerous so-called information appliances that we use in our day-to-day lives Characteristics of pervasive computing applications have been identified as interaction transparency, context awareness, and automated capture of experiences.

Using Mobile Devices for Electronic Commerce

2011 ◽  
pp. 913-917
Author(s):  
Raul Fernandes Herbster ◽  
Hyggo Almeida ◽  
Angelo Perkusich
Keyword(s):  
Electronic Commerce ◽  
Mobile Devices ◽  
Mobile Device ◽  
Fast Food ◽  
Mobile Commerce

In this article, we describe an architecture for mobile commerce which allows the use of mobile devices for electronic commerce. The architecture enables the development of applications to be executed on a mobile device, which lists selling products having their own textual descriptions and pictures. We discuss architectural modules and the implementation of an application for selling fast food called Mobile Menu. We begin with the main background concepts related to our proposed architecture.

Mobile E-Commerce as a Strategic Imperative for the New Economy

2007 ◽  
pp. 472-480
Author(s):  
M. Raisinghani
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Commerce ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Wireless Internet ◽  
Wireless Devices ◽  
Doing Business ◽  
The World ◽  
New Business ◽  
New Form ◽  
Strategic Imperative ◽  
The Way

A new form of technology is changing the way commerce is being done globally. This article provides an overall description of mobile commerce and examines ways in which the Internet will be changing. It explains the requirements for operating mobile commerce and the numerous ways of providing this wireless Internet business. While the Internet is already a valuable form of business that has already changed the way the world is doing business, it is about to change again. Telecommunications, the Internet, and mobile computing are merging their technologies to form a new business called mobile commerce or the wireless Internet. This is being driven by consumer demand for wireless devices and the desire to be connected to information and data available through the Internet. There are many new opportunities that have only begun to be explored, and for many this will become a large revenue source for those who capitalize upon this new form of technology. However, like other capital ventures, these new opportunities have their drawbacks, which may limit growth of the mobile commerce market if not dealt with. Mobile e-commerce technology is changing our world of business just as the Internet alone has changed business today.

scholarly journals Linked Data Aware Agent Development Framework for Mobile Devices

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (10) ◽  
pp. 1831 ◽  
Author(s):  
İlker Boztepe ◽  
Rıza Erdur
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Devices ◽  
Mobile Device ◽  
Linked Data ◽  
Process Data ◽  
Agent Based ◽  
Development Framework ◽  
Close Relationship ◽  
Data Environment ◽  
Networking Technologies ◽  
Agent Development

Due to advances in mobile device and wireless networking technologies, it has already been possible to transfer agent technology into mobile computing environments. In this paper, we introduce the Linked Data Aware Agent Development Framework for Mobile Devices (LDAF-M), which is an agent development framework that supports the development of linked data aware agents that run on mobile devices. Linked data, which is the realization of the semantic web vision, refers to a set of best practices for publishing, interconnecting and consuming structured data on the web. An agent developed using LDAF-M has the ability to obtain data from the linked data environment and internalize the gathered data as its beliefs in its belief base. Besides linked data support, LDAF-M has also other prominent features which are its peer-to-peer based communication infrastructure, compliancy with Foundation for Intelligent Physical Agents (FIPA) standards and support for the Belief Desire Intention (BDI) model of agency in mobile device agents. To demonstrate use of LDAF-M, an agent based auction application has been developed as a case study. On the other hand, LDAF-M can be used in any scenario where systems consisting of agents in mobile devices are to be developed. There is a close relationship between agents and linked data, since agents are considered as the autonomous computing entities that will process data in the linked data environment. However, not much work has been conducted on connecting these two related technologies. LDAF-M aims to contribute to the establishment of the connections between agents and the linked data environment by introducing a framework for developing linked data aware agents.

scholarly journals Free and Open Source Tools for Volunteer Geographic Information and Geo-Crowdsourcing

2019 ◽  
pp. 837-862
Author(s):  
Maria Antonia Brovelli ◽  
Blagoj Delipetrev ◽  
Giorgio Zamboni
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Devices ◽  
Mobile Device ◽  
Technological Development ◽  
Geographic Information ◽  
Geospatial Data ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Volunteer Geographic Information ◽  
The World ◽  
User Friendly ◽  
Gis Software

The availability of new mobile devices (tablets and smartphones) equipped with many sensors is changing or, better, enriching the way we monitor and sense the world that surrounds us. The internet has permeated completely not only our scientific and technological development, but also our life. Only some years ago, we used geospatial data and GIS software installed within our computers. Nowadays, data and operators are provided via the net by means of distributed and shared geo-services and a simple and powerless mobile device is enough to connect them. The possibility of interaction has become not only faster and more user friendly but also active, being individuals and communities free of adding, deleting, and changing contents in real time in the new GeoWeb2.0. This chapter explores GeoWeb2.0.

scholarly journals Consumers Trust, Privacy and Security Issues on Mobile Commerce Websites

2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (12) ◽  
pp. 21
Author(s):  
Mohammad awni ahmad mahmoud ◽  
laith Talal khrais ◽  
Rasha mohammad alolayan ◽  
Asyah muzahim alkaabi ◽  
Sara qasem Al- suwaidi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Devices ◽  
Mobile Commerce ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Privacy And Security ◽  
Security Issues ◽  
Regulatory Bodies ◽  
User Perspectives

The proliferation of mobile devices and the increased adoption of the internet across the globe has led to the rise of m-commerce. reports highlight that in spite of the different advancements in the technology, trust in the platform is still a significant hindrance to its adoption. Consequently, the current study seeks to identify privacy and security issues affecting m-commerce users of three shopping sites: Amazon, Alibaba and eBay. The aim here is to develop recommendations that mitigate these challenges. The expected output of the study is an anticipation for insights regarding user perspectives on trust in m-commerce and as a result, contribute to existent knowledge in the area benefitting regulatory bodies and online vendors.

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