TCP/IP was originally designed without any onsiderations for mobile omputing. The greatest te hni al di ulties are en ountered in the routing servi e of the IP layer. Mobile IP is an enhan ement to the IP proto ol whi h allows for transparent routing of tra to mobile nodes in the Internet. In this manner, mobile nodes may vary their point of atta hment between Internet administrative domains wi...

With the rapid development of the Internet and information technology, electronic commerce system is flourishing. In electronic commerce, customers use electronic money (e-money) instead of cash. E-money in wide use includes electronic cash, electronic checks, electronic coupons, and so on. E-money is fixed at face-value and is backed by banks. The fact that e-money is not issued in the actual ...

Transaction management is a major issue in Mobile Commerce (M-commerce). It enables people to order goods and access information in an anywhere and anytime fashion. Given the nature of mobile computing, there is a need for a generic approach that adapts to the needs of M-commerce applications. In this paper we propose a new multi-agent approach that dynamically manages mobile transactions which...

E-commerce is enjoying wide recognition in many countries but its adoption in developing countries is still a challenge. In such countries, m-commerce is being preferred especially due to the relative low costs associated with the deployment of the technology behind such applications. In Malawi, drivers of m-commerce such as banks and mobile network providers are gearing to implement m-commerce...

Mobile commerce relies extensively on mobile phones, which, unlike wired e-commerce client computers, can be used anywhere and anytime and consequently are often used in social situations including restaurants, theaters, and buses. Use of mobile phones in these environments affects not only the user but also co-located people who can be bothered by ringing phones, overheard conversations, and c...

Systems that support mobile agents are increasingly being used on the global Internet. An important application that is considered for these agents is electronic commerce, where agents roam the World Wide Web in search of goods for their owners. In these applications, an agent moves along some itinerary in order to search for the best ooer for the good sought by the user. The problem with this ...

The recent development of telecommunication networks has contributed to the success of applications such as information retrieval and electronic commerce, as well as all the services that take advantage of communication in distributed systems. In this area, the emerging technology of mobile agents aroused considerable interest. Mobile agents are applications that can move through the network fo...

Currently there are many different Identity Management Systems which differ in their architectures as well as use different protocols and serve different purposes and are extensively used by organisations to provide online services. With the remarkable growth of mobile phones in the last few years, both in number and computational power, more and more users are accessing an array of online serv...

The factors influencing huge divisions of wealth in society are widely studied by researchers. However, with the rapid development of the Internet, whether polarization or equalization of market shares exists in e-market among sellers springing up online, and how e-commerce affects its formation is still unknown to us. With a seller sample retrieved from Taobao, our study examines the polarizat...

As of May 2013, 56 percent of American adults had a smartphone, and most of them used it to access the Internet. One-third of smartphone users report that their phone is the primary way they go online. Just as the Internet changed retailing in the late 1990s, many argue that the transition to mobile, sometimes referred to as “Web 3.0,” will have a similarly disruptive effect (Brynjolfsson et al...