Technological advances in the field of Electronic commerce (or e-commerce) and access control have been overwhelming in the present years, conceding the freedom to consumers for accessing and using these services when and where they wish, at times and places that are convenient to them. E-commerce and access control encompasses all business conducted by means of telecommunications and computer ...

The rapid popularity of mobile devices especially smart phones has changed human life style greatly. In this paper, we examine the consumer behaviors on several e-commerce platforms based on a large-scale dataset of mobile internet access records for about 3.5 months from a major telecom operator in China, which covers 126,388 users from Shanghai. We provide a preliminary study on users’ daily ...

The emergence of mobile devices and wireless networks has created a new path in the field of e-commerce: “mcommerce”. Significant research is needed, in the field of service discovery, to support m-commerce applications. Various new applications, that would use services available to a mobile device from both the fixed network backbone and peer mobile devices in its proximity, are being develope...

It is our pleasure to present the special issue of Journal of Electronic Commerce in Organizations. In this issue (Volume 11, Issue 2), we selected six papers which have gone through several rounds of review and revision, and represent a cross-section of research in the e-Commerce area that touches upon technical and managerial issues. In the first paper titled " A New User Segmentation Model f...

This chapter describes an object-based workflow paradigm to support long and short duration transactions in a mobile e-commerce (or m-commerce) environment. In the mobile computing environment, the traditional transaction model needs to be replaced by a more realistic model (called a “workflow model”) between several clients and servers that interact, compete, and cooperate, realising an interg...

Using Internet-enabled mobile handheld devices to access the World Wide Web is a promising addition to the Web and traditional e-commerce. Mobile handheld devices provide convenience and portable access to the huge information on the Internet for mobile users from anywhere and at anytime. However, mobile commerce has not enjoyed the same level of success as the ecommerce has so far because mobi...