Exploration of Location-Based Services Adoption

Exploration of Adoption of Service Innovations through Technology Road-Mapping: Case of Location Based Services

This paper utilizes a technology road-mapping approach to demonstrate how a traditional technology management process can be applied to improve planning practices for technology-driven service innovations. With location based services (LBS) as the focus, the paper explores business, market, product and services drivers in developing the technology roadmap. Thus, the study demonstrates that tech...

Location - Based Services

Over the past ten years location-based services (LBS) have been variously touted as the next generation of GIS; as the killer application that will bring the GIS industry to its next level of prosperity; and as a growing threat to human privacy. This chapter attempts to provide a basic introduction to LBS, and a discussion of some of the major issues surrounding them. It begins with basic defin...

Location-Based Services

Location-based services (LBS) evolved from mobile service. A mobile service is determined by the interaction of the user, the mobile device, and the mobile provider. Since the value for the users depends on the context (i.e. environmental factors surrounding them), mobile services can be assigned to different context-aware services which are characterized by integrating information about the us...

Location-based Services

Advanced location-based services

This special issue of Computer Communications presents state-of-the-art research and applications in the area of location-based services (LBS). Initial location-based services entered the market around the turn of the millennium and for the greater part appeared in the form of restaurant finders and tourist guides, which never gained widespread user acceptance. The reasons for this were numerou...