Advancements in wireless networks and mobile device capabilities enable ubiquitous access for Web resources anywhere anytime. Web service technologies enable rapid and low-cost development of networked and portable applications. The successful convergence of these technologies produces mobile Web services provisioning, where mobile devices can host and provide Web services. However, the resourc...

With the advancement of mobile technologies, numerous web service providers have begun to extend their web services to the mobile context. To understand users’ mobile service adoption behaviour in the context of the web–mobile service transition, this study investigates the role of consistency between web and mobile services by proposing a typology of consistency and examining the extent to whi...

Additively to the emergence of wireless networking, high technology and reliability of mobile devices have enabled the widespread use of mobile computing. Currently, this last is in vogue and booming. Today, the combination of mobile networks with Web Services called “Mobile Web Service”, opening a promising horizon for the economy. They offer (Mobile Web Service) new personalized services to c...

It is now feasible to invoke basic web services on a smart phone due to the advances in wireless devices and mobile communication technologies. While mobile web service clients are common these days, we have studied the scope of providing web services from smart phones. Although the applications possible with Mobile Host are quite welcoming, the scalability of such a Mobile Host is observed to ...

Mobile data services in combination with profluent web services are seemingly the path breaking domain in current information research. Effectively, these mobile web services will pave the way for exciting performance and security challenges, the core needto-be-addressed issues. On security front, though a lot of standardized security specifications and implementations exist for web services in...

service oriented enterprises (soes) are subject to constant change and variation. in this paper, the changes are considered from an economic perspective based on service culture notion. once a change is implemented, the costs of some member services may increase, whereas the costs of some other services may reduce. we construct a game theoretic model trying to capture the possible conflicting i...