Mobile Commerce Applications

Today, various m-commerce applications are increasingly enhancing enterprises' abilities to offer mobile services that are easily accessed by a mobile device anytime and anywhere. With unique advantages of emerging mobile communications and wireless technologies, m-commerce applications are generally used to fulfill some tasks that are not suitable for Web-enabled e-commerce applications, such as mobile inventory tracking and dispatching, mobile transactions and payments, mobile messaging, mobile gaming, mobile health care, mobile portal, global positioning, mobile ticketing and etc.The crucial challenge or success factor to modern organizations is whether they are able to provide enough useful m-commerce applications that consumers can access and are willing to use. However, constructing mobile applications has some inherent complexities and architectural issues as m-commerce embraces many emerging technologies.This book addresses and explores the critical architectural issues in constructing m-commerce applications and in applying mobile technologies in different areas, including methodologies, enabling technologies, models, paradigms, architectures, standards and innovations.

fourteen Contributions Describe The Construction Of Mobile Commerce Systems And Applications, And Examine Knowledge Management In A Mobile Computing Context, Technology For Mobile Message And Data Services, And The Development Of Mobile Financial Services. Specific Topics Include Java 2 Micro Edition For Wireless Enterprise Applications, Configuring Mobile Commerce Portals, An Evolutionary Approach For Query Formation And Information Retrieval, A Java Multimedia Messaging Client For Personal Digital Assistants, And Quality Of Service-oriented Medium Access Control. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, Or

Addressing critical architectural issues in constructing m-commerce applications and in applying mobile technologies in different areas, this book includes: methodologies, enabling technologies, models, paradigms, architecture, standards and innovations. The emergence of wireless and mobile networks has made possible the introduction of electronic commerce to new application and research subject: mobile commerce.