The thirteenth AAAI Mobile Robot Competition and Exhibition was held last July, in conjunction with the Nineteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2004), in San Jose, California. The primary purpose of the Mobile Robot Competition and Exhibition is to bring together researchers and students from academe and industry to showcase the latest state-of-the-art mobile robot capab...

The majority of today’s multimedia applications and content reside on the Internet. Since the Internet Protocol (IP) is the “glue” that holds the Internet together, there is enormous interest in extending IP to multimedia mobile terminals. This would allow mobile terminals direct Internet access as well as access to intranet based multimedia. The current status of the emerging successor to IP, ...

Instant messaging and presence-systems have long been popular in the “fixed” Internet world with tens of millions of PC users. The success has come despite the heterogeneous environment of multiple incompatible IM systems. In the mobile domain, however, instant messaging and presence is a relatively young thing. Hoping to avoid fragmentation in mobile IM and presence, Wireless Village was forme...

Over the last decade, Africa has become a global leader in mobile money—cashless electronic payment that use mobile telephones as the main payment mechanism, rather than using a smartphone only as a conduit to a user’s bank or credit card account. More than half the mobile money companies in the world operate in Africa. In 2014, the most recent year for which figures are available, the mobile m...

Mobile forensic is fast becoming an abbreviated term that describes the process of applying digital forensics in mobile phones world. The rapid development in mobile phones industry has led to the emergence of the so-called smart phones which have become nearly the same as computers. Android Smartphones refer to all types of smartphones that use Android operating system. This paper aims to surv...

According to recent estimations, mobile video traffic is expected to be two-thirds of the global mobile traffic by 2014. This creates a number of significant challenges that need to be addressed and overcome before the full potential of mobile video networking is reached. After a very thorough and selective process, our workshop includes 5 papers which point out problems and propose important s...

Executive Summary The key to success in the mobile industry is creating intuitive user experiences that fulfill the specific lifestyle needs of the targeted end user. The most efficient way to accomplish this is by employing a user-centered design approach that incorporates ethnographic-based research and usability testing cycles into the mobile authoring process. Best practices for this method...

In this paper mobility and mobile information technology are discussed in the context of media convergence and the evolution of the media industry. The paper suggests that mobile information technology, in different forms, is converging with the more traditional media, i.e., mobile media. It is also claimed that visitors at different types of events are information demanding, and that mobile me...

Mobile IPv6 is a macro-mobility "universal" solution and is only adapted to the mobile's movements within its own administrative domain. As Mobile IPv6 is expected to be the basis for the third generation cellular phone networks, a solution for inter-domain security is required. What is needed is that the visited domain should be able to authenticate the mobile to grant it access, and the mobil...

Current needs of industry required the development of advanced database models like active mobile database systems. An active mobile database system can be designed by incorporation of triggering rules into a mobile computing environment in which the users are able to access a collection of database services using mobile and non-mobile computers at any location. Fuzzy concepts are adapted to th...