With the growing popularity of mobile web service and mobile devices, mobile multitasking behaviour is becoming an important issue for mobile commerce among practitioners and academics. The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of polychronicity preference, mobile self-efficacy and anxious trait on multitasking behaviour and the multitasking post-behaviour state of mind. The result...

One of the current challenges in Mobile Computing is bringing services directly to mobile users, which is handicapped by two major hurdles: Phones and services do not interoperate as smoothly as they should and the delivered services have to be adapted to a wide range of different mobile client platforms. In order to address these problems we present a service framework that extends Semantic We...

One way of overcoming the challenges associated with mobile and pervasive computing environments involves providing users with higher levels of automation. This in turn requires capturing the context within which the user operates. In this paper, we describe ongoing research aimed leveraging Semantic Web Services in support of context awareness. This includes modeling sources of contextual info...

Adoption of mobile data services may be analyzed within the framework of two-sided markets. Service or content providers should adopt platforms for developing, integrating and distributing mobile services and end-users should adopt the offered services as well as the user platform offered. These two markets are often analyzed separately using different theoretical perspectives and models. In th...

In this paper, we try to suggest a candidate personalization service architecture for future mobile services. We tried to design the framework and to find the required software modules for a mobile personalization service, which is related with context-aware processing and user-preference information. And, we are implementing and testing the prototype system, and finding better soultion to depl...

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 pre...

Rapid growth of internet access from mobile users puts much importance on location specific information on the web. An unique web service called Mobile Info Search (MIS) from NTT Laboratories gathers the information and provide location aware search facilities. We performed association rule mining and sequence pattern mining against the access log which was accumulated at the MIS site in order ...

Telecommunication networks and the Internet are growing together. Peer-to-Peer (P2P) services which are originally offered by network providers, like telephony and messaging, are provided through VoIP and Instant Messaging (IM) by Internet service providers, too. The IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) is the answer of the telecommunication industry to this trend and aims at providing Internet P2P an...