The primary difference between mobile commerce (m-Commerce) and electronic commerce is its use in various contexts. Electronic commerce is mostly used in the predetermined environment of the Internet. Delivering relevant things to the right people at the right time in the right way becomes a key issue for m-Commerce: user information and context information are critical to the success of m-Comm...

This chapter introduces reputation systems as a means of facilitating trust and minimizing risks in m-commerce and e-commerce in general. It first illustrates the importance of reputation systems in m-commerce by analyzing a list of risks through example scenarios and discusses a number of challenges of building an effective and robust reputation system in e-commerce applications. It then descr...

Although personalization is a widely used technology in e-commerce it has not yet gained the importance it should have in mcommerce. With the availability of mobile services operating on huge content sets (e.g. audio archives) the need for personalization rises. In this paper we present the current state of a music personalization system designed to improve a large mobile music portal.

Electronic commerce technology offers the opportunity to integrate and optimize the global production and distribution on supply chain. Computers of various corporations, located throughout the world, communicate with each other to determine the availability of components, to place and confirm orders, and to negotiate delivery timescales. Software agents help to automate a variety of tasks incl...

Mobile agent technology has become a new paradigm for distributed real-time systems because of their inherent advantages. In any distributed system, along with other issues, survivability and fault tolerance are vital issues for deploying mobile-agent systems. E-business becoming a prominent domain for deploying agent technology, it also faces reliability problems due to the failure of agent pl...

This study uses an electronic commerce (E-commerce) innovation model to analyze the differences in technological knowledge, business model, and dynamic capability aspects used in Internet-enabled commerce (I-commerce) versus mobile commerce (M-commerce) versus ubiquitous commerce (U-commerce). The results indicate that the innovation from I-commerce to M-commerce is radical, leading to drastic ...

For software agents to become part of e-commerce they have to be flexible—to engage in negotiations of forms which are not known in advance, and mobile—to migrate to remote locations. This note aims at combining flexibility with mobility by joining rule-based mechanism representation with modular mobile agents. Furthermore, we focus on a more complete e-commerce scenario and address questions l...

In order for mobile agents to be accepted as a basic technology for enabling electronic commerce, proper security mechanisms must be developed. Hosts must be protected from malicious agents, agents must be protected from other agents and also agents must be protected from malicious hosts. For solving the first three problems, existing technology from operating systems and distributed systems re...

Over the last year Peer-to-Peer (p2p) implementations have evolved from experimental to sophisticated systems. Mobile agents have a long e-Commerce history dating back to the middle 1990’s, and have not been generally accepted by the corporate, e-Commerce mainstream. This is because of a misfit with the client-server model. With the advent of p2p networks, sub-network, eco-system like communiti...