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...

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...

Most current e-commerce transactions are conducted by users in fixed locations using workstations and personal computers. Soon, we expect a significant portion of e-commerce will take place via wireless, Internet-enabled devices such as cellular phones and personal digital assistants. Wireless devices provide users mobility to research, communicate, and purchase goods and services from anywhere...

The mobile application market and e-commerce sales have grown steadily, along with the growth of studies and product recommendation solutions implemented in e-commerce systems. In this context, this paper proposes a recommendation algorithm for mobile devices based on the COREL (CustOmer purchase pREdiction modeL) framework. The proposed recommendation algorithm is a customization of the COREL ...

This chapter provides an overview of contemporary trends relevant to the development of geographies based on new digital technologies such as the Internet and mobile phones. Visions of utopian and ubiquitous information superhighways and placeless commerce are clearly passé, yet privileged individuals and places are ever more embedded in these new digital geographies while private and state ent...

As wireless communications and mobile multimedia services are booming nowadays, systematic research of the overall aspects of mobile security is crucial. This paper presents a framework model for guiding the systematic investigation of mobile security. Based on the introduction of some background viewpoints of security targets from a novel perspective, the framework is described as a hierarchic...

Although the extent of e-commerce and m-commerce is continually increasing, the vast majority of the payment transaction potential remains in real-world scenarios such as customary retail POS. However, without adding substantial value, current business models rely on simple transaction-based revenues. The aim of this paper is to evaluate and exploit the freedom degrees of the m-payment business...

This paper presents the E _-C_ommerce through W_ ireless dE _vices (E-CWE) project that uses software agents in the design and development of an m-commerce environment. Users of the E-CWE environment are able to use their wireless devices, such as mobile phones, to undertake e-commerce transactions. Conducting these transactions raises new issues that vary from the limited bandwidth of networks...

Electronic Commerce (EC) enables business transactions to be conducted electronically, offering many benefits to organisations. While EC has been widely adopted across industry sectors in developed countries, its adoption in developing countries has not been widespread. At the moment, there are relatively fewer studies of EC adoption in developing countries compared to those in developed countr...

Despite that existence of variety of electronic payment systems is among critical success factors of ecommerce, it is surprising to note that few studies were carried about the preferences of customers to these alternatives. This study evaluates the degree of current use, satisfaction, intention to adopt and perceived obstacles toward existing electronic payment systems. Data were collected fro...