Mobile computing : concepts, methodologies, tools, and applications

Continual enhancements and innovation in the mobile computing industry have redesigned and simplified the way businesses and individuals can communicate and conduct their everyday professional and social interactions. So significant are these technological contributions such as PDAs, media players, and wireless sensor networks that it has deeply impacted and influenced nearly every industry in modern societies. Mobile Computing: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications advances the emergent field of mobile computing through a substantial six-volume set of highly developed entries from over 400 leading researchers. This key reference collection contains over 300 chapters of fascinating approaches, observations, and models in topic areas such as mobile devices, surveillance technologies, and wireless communications. Mobile Computing: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications is a must-have for practitioners, academicians, and learners in the field of mobile computing and a valuable resource for any library. Title......Page 2 List of Contributors......Page 6 Contents......Page 19 Preface......Page 45 An Introduction to Mobile Technology and Its Applications: A Data-Centric Perspective......Page 49 About the Editor......Page 88 Ubiquitous Access to Information Through Portable, Mobile and Handheld Devices......Page 90 Mobile Computing and Commerce Framework......Page 99 Mobile Electronic Commerce......Page 107 Mobile Communications and Mobile Commerce: Conceptual Frames to Grasp the Global Tectonic Shifts......Page 116 Adoption and Diffusion of M-Commerce......Page 127 Evolution of Mobile Commerce Applications......Page 136 Context-Awareness in Mobile Commerce......Page 145 Context as a Necessity in Mobile Applications......Page 154 A Proposed Framework for Mobile Services Adoption: A Review of Existing Theories, Extensions, and Future Research Directions......Page 173 Mobile Learning: Learning on the Go......Page 197 Environments for Mobile Learning......Page 206 Mobile Education: Lessons Learned......Page 211 Anywhere, Anytime Learning Using Highly Mobile Devices......Page 233 Current Status of Mobile Wireless Technology and Digital Multimedia Broadcasting......Page 241 Mobile Portals......Page 260 Mobile Portals as Innovations......Page 270 Mobile Portals for Knowledge Management......Page 277 Mobile Knowledge Management......Page 286 Assessing Human Mobile Computing Performance by Fitts' Law......Page 295 Evaluating Mobile Human-Computer Interaction......Page 314 Mobile Public Relations Strategies......Page 329 Introducing Mobile Government......Page 337 Key Issues in Mobile Marketing: Permission and Acceptance......Page 346 Dynamic Pricing Based on Net Cost for Mobile Content......Page 358 A Technology Intervention Perspective of Mobile Marketing......Page 368 Definitions, Key Characteristics, and Generations of Mobile Games......Page 378 Mobile Agents......Page 385 Protection of Mobile Agent Data......Page 394 Indexing Mobile Objects: An Overview of Contemporary Solutions......Page 402 Database Queries in Mobile Environments......Page 423 A Taxonomy of Database Operations on Mobile Devices......Page 439 Addressing the Credibility of Mobile Applications......Page 461 Developing Smart Client Mobile Applications......Page 472 Engineering Wireless Mobile Applications......Page 477 Conceptual Framework for Mobile-Based Application in Healthcare......Page 492 Design of an Enhanced 3G-Based Mobile Healthcare......Page 508 The M-Health Reference Model: An Organizing Framework for Conceptualizing Mobile Health Systems......Page 521 Design Methodology for Mobile Information Systems......Page 540 Distribution Patterns for Mobile Internet Applications......Page 548 Web-Based Seamless Migration for Task-Oriented Mobile Distance Learning......Page 562 TCP Enhancements for Mobile Internet......Page 577 A Cooperative Framework for Information Browsing in Mobile Enivornment......Page 586 Describing the Critical Factors for Creating Successful Mobile Data Services......Page 595 A Design Framework for Mobile Collaboration......Page 607 Interface Design Issues for Mobile Commerce......Page 615 Handheld Computing and Palm OS Programming for Mobile Commerce......Page 623 Privacy-Preserving Transactions Protocol Using Mobile Agents with Mutual Authentication......Page 635 Robust Algorithms for DOA Estimation and Adaptive Beamforming in Wireless Mobile COmmunications......Page 647 Mobile Information Filtering......Page 654 Information Management in Mobile Environments Using a Location-Aware Intelligent Agent System......Page 662 Topology for Intelligent Mobile Computing......Page 678 Robust Intelligent Control Of Mobile Robots......Page 686 A Neural Network-Based Mobile Architecture for Mobile Agents......Page 707 Semantic Web Services for Smart Devices Based on Mobile Agents......Page 719 Towards Autonomic Infrastructures via Mobile Agents and Active Networks......Page 731 Mobility Management in Mobile Computing and Networking Environments......Page 739 Location Area Design Algorithms for Minimizing Signalling Costs in Mobile Networks......Page 771 Market Configuration and the Success of Mobile Services: Lessons from Japan and Finland......Page 785 A Mobile Intelligent Agent-Based Architecture for E-Business......Page 801 A Framework for Information Systems Integration in Mobile Working Environments......Page 818 “It’s the Mobility, Stupid”: Designing Mobile Government......Page 845 Design of Government Information for Access by Wireless Mobile Technology......Page 865 Evaluation of Mobile Technologies in the Context of Their Applications, Limitations, and Transformation......Page 874 Knowledge Representation in Semantic Mobile Applications......Page 885 Mobile Portal Technologies and Business Models......Page 894 Mobile Learning Technologies......Page 900 Enhancing Learning Through Mobile Computing......Page 906 Mobile Technology and its Applications in Instructional Conversation......Page 924 Embedded Agents for Mobile Services......Page 939 A Database Service Discovery Model for Mobile Agents......Page 947 Databases for Mobile Applications......Page 959 A Virtual Community for Mobile Agents......Page 970 Concepts and Operations of Two Research Projects on Web Services and Mobile Web Services......Page 980 Handheld Computing and J2ME Programming for Mobile Handheld Devices......Page 998 Tools for Rapidly Prototyping Mobile Interactions......Page 1009 Real-Time 3D Design Modelling of Outdoor Structures Using Mobile Augmented Reality Systems......Page 1026 Mobile Ad Hoc Network......Page 1041 Convergence Technology for Enabling Technologies......Page 1050 Document Management, Organizational Memory, and Mobile Environment......Page 1057 Business and Technology Issues in Wireless Networking......Page 1065 Mobile Phone Based Augmented Reality......Page 1073 Pen-Based Mobile Computing......Page 1087 The Smart Card in Mobile Communications: Enabler of Next-Generation (NG) Services......Page 1093 Unobtrusive Movement Interaction for Mobile Devices......Page 1118 Positioning Technologies for Mobile Computing......Page 1136 Emerging Mobile Technology and Supply Chain Integration: Using RFID to Streamline the Integrated Supply Chain......Page 1142 Content Personalization for Mobile Interfaces......Page 1153 Distributed Mobile Services and Interfaces for People Suffering from Cognitive Deficits......Page 1158 Context-Aware Mobile Capture and Sharing of Video Clips......Page 1169 From CCTV to Biometrics through Mobile Surveillance......Page 1185 Discovering Multimedia Services and Contents in Mobile Environments......Page 1192 DRM Technology for Mobile Multimedia......Page 1206 V-Card: Mobile Multimedia for Mobile Marketing......Page 1214 Acoustic Data Communication with Devices......Page 1224 The Design of Mobile Television in Europe......Page 1232 The MP3 Player as a Mobile Digital Music Collection Portal......Page 1257 Wireless Technologies for Mobile Computing and Commerce......Page 1264 Mobile Handheld Devices for Mobile Commerce......Page 1272 Mobile Commerce Multimedia Messaging Peer......Page 1283 Mobile and Electronic Commerce Systems and Technologies......Page 1293 E-Commerce Services Based on Mobile Agents......Page 1315 B-POS Secure Mobile Payment System......Page 1326 Mobile Banking Systems and Technologies......Page 1335 Mobile Clinical Learning Tools Using Networked Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs)......Page 1345 3G Mobile Medical Image Viewing......Page 1350 Dynamics of Mobile Service Adoption......Page 1362 Exploring the Use of Mobile Data Services in Europe: The Cases of Denmark and Greece......Page 1385 The Mobile Phone Telecommunications Service Sector in China......Page 1401 United States of America: Renewed Race for Mobile Services......Page 1420 M-Learning with Mobile Phones......Page 1433 Using Mobile Communication Technology in Student Mentoring......Page 1440 A Mobile Portal for Academe......Page 1448 Accessing Learning Content in a Mobile System: Does Mobile Mean Always Connected?......Page 1456 Using Learning Objects for Rapid Deployment to Mobile Learning Devices for the U.S. Coast Guard......Page 1470 Using Mobile Phones and PDAs in Ad Hoc Audience Response Systems......Page 1485 Perception of Mobile Technology Provision in Health Service......Page 1497 Relevance of Mobile Computing in the Field of Medicine......Page 1518 Integrating Mobile-Based Systems with Healthcare Databases......Page 1531 Adopton of Mobile Technology in the Supply Chain: An Exploratory Cross-Case Analysis......Page 1555 Enabling the Glass Pipeline: The Infusion of Mobile Technology Applications in Supply Chain Management......Page 1572 Mobile Automotive Cooperative Services (MACS): Systematic Development of Personalizable Interactive Mobile Automotive Services......Page 1588 Using the Railway Mobile Terminals in the Process of Validation and Vending Tickets......Page 1605 An Evaluation of U.S. City Government Wireless Networks for Mobile Internet Access......Page 1619 The Prospects of Mobile Government in Jordan: An Evaluation of Different Delivery Platforms......Page 1632 Usability Driven Open Platform for Mobile Government (USE-ME.GOV)......Page 1651 Mobile Computing for M-Commerce......Page 1673 Mobile Commerce Applications and Adoption......Page 1682 Mobile Computing: An Enabler in International Financial Services......Page 1691 E-Commerce and Mobile Commerce Applications Adoptions......Page 1704 Consumer and Merchant Adoption of Mobile Payment Solutions......Page 1715 An Electronic Auction Service Framework Based on Mobile Software Agents......Page 1729 Mobile Advertising: A European Perspective......Page 1742 China: M-Commerce in World's Largest Mobile Market......Page 1754 Canada: Mobile Commerce Under Construction......Page 1764 Mobile Commerce in South Africa......Page 1779 Mobile Payment Issues and Policy Implications: The Case of Korea......Page 1788 Payment Mechanism of Mobile Agent-Based Restaurant Ordering System......Page 1802 Structural Effects of Platform Certification on a Complementary Product Market: The Case of Mobile Applications......Page 1810 Buongiorno! MyAlert: Creating a Market to Develop a Mobile Business......Page 1827 Location-Based Services in the Mobile Communications Industry......Page 1843 Mobile Virtual Communities......Page 1852 Mobile Virtual Communities of Commuters......Page 1860 Wireless Local Communities in Mobile Commerce......Page 1869 From Communities to Mobile Communities of Values......Page 1877 Economics of Immediate Gratification in Mobile Commerce......Page 1885 Consumer Perceptions and Attitudes Towards Mobile Marketing......Page 1899 An Empirical Examination of Customer Perceptions of Mobile Advertising......Page 1912 Effects of Consumer-Perceived Convenience on Shopping Intention in Mobile Commerce: An Empirical Study......Page 1929 Factors Influencing Segmentation and Demographics of Mobile-Customers......Page 1946 Identified Customer Requirements in Mobile Video Markets-A Pan-European Case......Page 1956 Special Features of Mobile Advertising and Their Utilization......Page 1967 Personalization and Customer Satisfaction in Mobile Commerce......Page 1975 Cross-Cultural Consumer Perceptions of Advertising via Mobile Devices: Some Evidence from Europe and Japan......Page 1982 Do Mobile CRM Services Appeal to Loyalty Program Customers?......Page 2000 Contractual Obligations Between Mobile Service Providers and Users......Page 2018 Accessibility of Mobile Applications......Page 2026 Propagating the Ideal: The Mobile Communication Paradox......Page 2035 Portals Supporting a Mobile Learning Environment......Page 2049 Secure Collaborative Learning Practices and Mobile Technology......Page 2056 Gender Difference in the Motivations of Mobile Internet Usage......Page 2064 Hand Measurements and Gender Effect on Moble Phone Messaging Satisfcation: A Study Based on Keypad Design Factors......Page 2073 User Acceptance of Mobile Services......Page 2085 User-Centered Mobile Computing......Page 2108 User Experience of Camera Phones in Social Contexts......Page 2116 Mobile Evaluations in a Lab Environment......Page 2131 Mobile E-Work to Support Regional and Rural Communities......Page 2150 Mobile Phone and Autonomy......Page 2155 The Sociotechnical Nature of Mobile Computing Work: Evidence from a Study of Policing in the United States......Page 2168 Social Context for Mobile Computing Device Adoption and Diffusion: A Proposed Research Model and Key Research Issues......Page 2181 Mobile Phone Use Across Cultures: A Comparison Between the United Kingdom and Sudan......Page 2199 Mobile Phone Communication Innovation in Multiple Time and Space Zones: The Case of Hong Kong Culture......Page 2213 Mobile Networked Text Communication: The Case of SMS and Its Influence on Social Interaction......Page 2219 Comprehensive Impact of Mobile Technology on Business......Page 2234 Mobile Business Applications......Page 2252 Business Model Typology for Mobile Commerce......Page 2258 Business Strategies for Mobile Marketing......Page 2268 Applying Mobile Technologies to Banking Business Processes......Page 2277 Consumers' Preferences and Attitudes Toward Mobile Office Use: A Technology Trade-Off Research Agenda......Page 2292 Customer Relationship Management on Internet and Mobile Channels: An Analytical Framework and Research Directions......Page 2301 Exploring Mobile Service Business Opportunities from a Customer-Centric Perspective......Page 2322 Strategy Aligned Process Selection for Mobile Customer Services......Page 2346 Universal Approach to Mobile Payments......Page 2369 Influence of Mobile Technologies on Global Business Processes in Global Organizations......Page 2378 Optimal Number of Mobile Service Providers in India: Trade-Off between Efficiency and Competition......Page 2395 Evolution of Telecommunications and Mobile Communications in India: A Synthesis in the Transition from Electronic to Mobile Business......Page 2412 Linking Businesses for Competitive Advantage: A Mobile Agent-Based Approach......Page 2432 Integrating Mobile Technologies in Enterprise Architecture with a Focus on Global Supply Chain Management Systems......Page 2457 Mobile Business Process Reengineering: How to Measure the Input of Mobile Applications to Business Processes in European Hospitals......Page 2480 Information Delivery for Mobile Business: Architecture for Accessing Large Documents through Mobile Devices......Page 2507 Resource-Based Interdependencies in Value Networks for Mobile E-Services......Page 2529 Channel Choices and Revenue Logics of Software Companies Developing Mobile Games......Page 2552 3G Mobile Virtual Network Operators (MVNOs): Business Strategies, Regulation, and Policy Issues......Page 2564 A Mobile Portal Solution for Knowledge Management......Page 2585 Strategies of Mobile Value-Added Services in Korea......Page 2598 Semantic Location Modeling for Mobile Enterprises......Page 2619 Mobile Code and Security Issues......Page 2657 Security of Mobile Code......Page 2672 Security in Mobile Agent Systems......Page 2689 Security Issues and Possible Countermeasures for a Mobile Agent Based M-Commerce Application......Page 2703 XML Security with Binary XML for Mobile Web Services......Page 2722 Security Issues Concerning Mobile Commerce......Page 2742 Security Architectures of Mobile Computing......Page 2749 Security Architectures for B3G Mobile Networks......Page 2763 Privacy and Anonymity in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks......Page 2785 Integrity Protection of Mobile Agent Data......Page 2804 Key Distribution and Management for Mobile Applications......Page 2814 Modeling Fault Tolerant and Secure Mobile Agent Execution in Distributed Systems......Page 2828 Security in 2.5G Mobile Systems......Page 2841 Evaluation of Security Architectures for Mobile Broadband Access......Page 2855 Developing a Theory of Portable Public Key Infrastructure (PORTABLEPKI) for Mobile Business Security......Page 2873 Authentication, Authorisation, and Access Control in Mobile Systems......Page 2881 Antecedents of Consumer Trust in B2C Electronic Commerce and Mobile Commerce......Page 2896 Trust Models for Ubiquitous Mobile Systems......Page 2916 Quality of Service in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks......Page 2922 Quality of Service Issues in Mobile Multimedia Transmission......Page 2932 Classification of 3G Mobile Phone Customers......Page 2951 Mobile Phone Customer Type Discrimination via Stochastic Gradient Boosting......Page 2960 An Immune Systems Appraoch for Classifying Mobile Phone Usage......Page 2985 Mobile Ontologies: Concept, Development, Usage, and Business Potential......Page 2997 Web Mining System for Mobile-Phone Marketing......Page 3013 Semantic Web Services and Mobile Agents Integration for Efficient Mobile Services......Page 3025 Advanced Resource Discovery Protocol for Semantic-Enabled M-Commerce......Page 3046 Improving Mobile Web Navigation Using N-Grams Prediction Models......Page 3058 A Study on the Performance of IPv6-Based Mobility Protocols: Mobile IPv6 vs. Hierarchical Mobile IPv^......Page 3071 A Novel Fuzzy Scheduler for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks......Page 3085 Energy-Efficient Cache Invalidation in Wireless Mobile Environment......Page 3101 Ensuring Serializability for Mobile-Client Data Caching......Page 3110 Mobile Caching for Location-Based Services......Page 3120 Location-Aware Query Resolution for Location-Based Mobile Commerce: Performance Evaluation and Optimization......Page 3129 Data Dissemination in Mobile Environments......Page 3157 Data Broadcasting in a Mobile Environment......Page 3168 Multimedia over Wireless Mobile Data Networks......Page 3219 High Performance Scheduling Mechanism for Mobile Computing Based on Self-Ranking Algorithm......Page 3240 Multilayered Approach to Evaluate Mobile User Interfaces......Page 3257 Mobile Information Processing Involving Multiple Non-Collaborative Sources......Page 3274 A Bio-Inspired Approach for the Next Generation of Cellular Systems......Page 3293 Bridging Together Mobile and Service-Oriented Computing......Page 3301 Context-Awareness and Mobile Devices......Page 3311 Policy-Based Mobile Computing......Page 3325 Field Evaluation of Collaborative Mobile Applications......Page 3340 Mobile Design for Older Adults......Page 3359 Design for Mobile Learning in Museums......Page 3371 Component Agent Systems: Building a Mobile Agent Architecture That You Can Reuse......Page 3389 Building Applications to Establish Location Awareness: New Approaches to Design, Implementation, and Evaluation of Mobile and Ubiquitous Interfaces......Page 3409 From Ethnography to Interface Design......Page 3422 Mobile e-Learning for Next Generation Communication Environment......Page 3438 An Interactive Wireless Morse Code Learning System......Page 3450 A Mobile Computing Framework for Passive PFID Detection System in Health Care......Page 3457 Widely Usable User Interfaces on Mobile Devices with RFID......Page 3476 Matching Dynamic Demands of Mobile Users with Dynamic Services Offers......Page 3493 A Multi-Agent System Approach to Mobile Negotation Support Mechanism by Integrating Case-Based Reasoning and Fuzzy Cognitive Map......Page 3510 Intelligent User Interfaces for Mobile Computing......Page 3531 mCity: User Focused Development of Mobile Services Within the City of Stockholm......Page 3544 Mobile Speech Recognition......Page 3557 Voice-Enabled User Interfaces for Mobile Devices......Page 3583 Voice Driven Emotion Recognizer Mobile Phone: Proposal and Evaluations......Page 3600 Mobile Multimedia for Speech and Language Therapy......Page 3618 A Proposed Tool for Mobile Collaborative Reading......Page 3629 Mobile Decision Support for Time-Critical Decision Making......Page 3641 OFDM Transmission Technique: A Strong Candidate for the Next Generation Mobile Communications......Page 3650 Malicious Software in Mobile Devices......Page 3677 Index......Page 3688 This book provides comprehensive insights into the field of mobile computing and technology. It describes in detail the various techniques and applications of this science in present day scenario. Mobile computing and technology refers to the technology of human and computer interaction. It allows to transfer of data, video and voice. It includes mobile softwares, hardwares and mobile communication. Mobile software includes applications and operating systems while, hardware includes mobile devices and device components. This text attempts to understand the multiple branches that fall under the discipline of mobile computing and technology and how such concepts have practical applications. The topics included in it on this subject are of utmost significance and bound to provide incredible insights to readers. It aims to serve as a resource guide for students and experts alike and contribute to the growth of the discipline.