Web services are an important way for enterprises to interoperate. They are also becoming important for user access to services that depend on location and they are appearing in mobile devices. We consider the security standards needed for the use of web services in wireless networks. Web services security standards are used for the secure design of the communications between a web service and ...

The most expedient and prevalent devices in today’s world are mobile devices. The web services approach is proficient enough to work with the assorted nature of the mobile environment. However, the diversity in the mobile devices challenges the development of the web services which work on these environments. Existing discovery approaches lack adequate techniques that can incorporate the user p...

Mobile Geographical Information System (Mobile GIS) is a Geographical Information System based on mobile computing and mobile Internet. It is not a conventional GIS modified to operate on a smaller computer, but an extension of Web GIS to mobile Internet including wireless Internet/Intranet and mobile communication network. But architectures of Web GIS are unsuitable for Mobile GIS, because of ...

This article presents a framework which enables end users to create small, sharply focused mobile services directly on a mobile device. By this, end users are no longer only consumers of mobile services – they also become producers and providers of mobile services. The domain of mobile health and fitness applications has been chosen to demonstrate the feasibility of the approach. The article pr...

One of the current trends of mobile computing are location-based services. For those services and many other applications like navigation systems it is often necessary to know what portion of the client‟s environment is visible from the current location. For this purpose analyses of three-dimensional elevation data are necessary, which are increasingly acquired by airborne laser scanning. 3D an...

providing adaptive resource intensive Web services from mobile hosts needs to be done in a rather light-weight manner to allow continuous service provisioning. Processing and communication will drain the battery rapidly; hence both should be kept at a minimum. This paper describes the outcomes of an investigation into offloading and migration mechanisms that facilitate provision of adaptive and...

understanding the antecedents and consequences of customer satisfaction in the mobile communications market is important. this study explores the effects of service quality, trust and perceived value on customer satisfaction, which, in turn, affects continuance intention of mobile services. service quality and customer satisfaction were measured by multiple dimensions. a research model was deve...

Mobile devices with their more and more powerful resources allow the development of mobile information systems in which services are not only provided by traditional systems but also autonomously executed and controlled in the mobile devices themselves. Services distributed on autonomous mobile devices allow both the development of cooperative applications without a back-end infrastructure and ...

The rising popularity of Mobile Computing creates new methods for accessing Web content. At the same time Really Simple Syndication (RSS) feed is another new trend of constantly updating Web documents that are available on the Internet. The questions arises how to most efficiently access such new type of Web content from mobile devices. This study compares the performance of the .NET Compact Fr...