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.
Author(s): David Taniar, David Taniar
Edition: 1
Publisher: Information Science Reference
Year: 2008
Language: English
Pages: 3722
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