This research was designed to explore the learning experiences of state college students using mobile electronic textbook (e-book) readers. The purpose of the study was to build a rich description of how students used e-books delivered on mobile computing devices for college-level, introductory sociology courses at a public state college in the southeastern United States. This research employed...

Mobile banking is getting a lot of attention as a result of the fact that the majority of the world population has some kind of mobile device and the rate of acceptance of mobile banking is increasing. To stay ahead of competition banks should take this opportunity to re-engineer the traditional time consuming process of loan negotiation and introduce mobile loan negotiation. In this work we pr...

The business trends to trade more complex goods and services in inter-connected e-marketplaces and to use mobile communication channels drive the requirements for the next generation of emarketplaces including more advanced trading, mobile access and user support capabilities. This paper presents an attempt to address the above requirements by proposing an intelligent mobile agent-based e-marke...

Order picking accounts for most of the operating expense of a typical distribution center. In discrete order picking a single worker walks to pick all the items necessary to fulfill a single customer order. Discrete order picking is common not only because of its simplicity and reliability, but also because of its ability to pick orders quickly upon receipt, and thus is commonly used by e-comme...

The portability of a mobile device and the ubiquity of mobile Internet provide e-market users with more opportunities of access to e-commerce sites throughout a day. In this paper, we examine the access affordance of mobile technologies by analyzing the changes in purchase time dispersion of e-marketplace users after their adoption of mobile channel. By analyzing a large archival dataset includ...

This study examines the use of mobile devices for the delivery of emergency notifications to end users from a mobile government (m-government) perspective. The study is informed by the task-technology fit model, technology acceptance models, and the literature on emergency management. Our findings indicate that the task, technology, behavioral, and to a lesser extent situational characteristics...

Electronic commerce on the Internet receives much attention now. The workflow management is regarded as an effective mechanism for managing those business processes behind the electronic commerce. But today’s workflow management model has many drawbacks in this field. This paper gives a novel workflow management model based on mobile agents for Internet electronic commerce. And its advantages a...

Mobile commerce has been a tremendous success regarding individuals' adoption in many developing countries. This paper discusses the realities of m-commerce and the major differences between mobile commerce and Internet-based e-commerce. Based on this understanding, driving critical factors in the adoption of m-commerce applications and services is being discussed. The e paper focuses on factor...

This paper focuses on Mobile Agents as the fine vehicle of modern decision systems. Changes don’t just happen but are the result of changes in the environment, which itself is changing as a result of the changes mentioned above. In this paper the authors will look at the agents as a state of the art solution to decision-making problems of today’s highly demanding environment. Potential problems...