Mobile Electronic Commerce (MEC) can be defined as Internet e-commerce conducted by a mobile hand-he1d termina1 and thus using the wireless telecommunications network. MEC operates in a different context than Internet E-Commerce due to the special characteristics and constraints of hand held devices and wireless networks and the different usage of the hand held devices than desktop or laptop PC...

Mobile commerce (m-commerce) has emerged as the promising approach for driving the next wave of e-commerce. A major issue facing m-commerce is the lack of flexible, adaptable, extensible, and robust architectures for mobile and pervasive application systems for m-commerce. To address this issue, our research has explored how to employ mobile agents in developing m-commerce applications. We have...

E-commerce has been one of the success stories of the last decade. Developments in wireless communications and mobile computing have heralded an era of mobile commerce (m-commerce). Though a number of successful applications and services have been deployed, these are almost invariably inherently static in nature. By augmenting m-commerce with intelligent and autonomous components, the significa...

The proliferation of mobile devices such as smart phones and Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) opens new ways for developing mobile E-commerce systems (so called Mobile-commerce or M-commerce system). In Mcommerce systems, we still see many common components that we have in standard E-commerce applications, such as web servers and database servers. However, these new applications raise some uniq...

Electronic commerce or e-commerce can be briefly defined as a financial transaction or commercial information between two parties based on data transmitted over communication networks (Soriano & Ponce, 2002). It relies upon users’ interventions to initiate a transaction and select the main steps of the process. Users’ actions stem from a succession of virtual decisions. Indeed, when shopping wi...

The document is a deliverable of the Multimeetmobile project performed by the University of Jyväskylä and financed by the Finnish National Technology Agency (TEKES), Hewlett-Packard Finland, Nokia, and Yomi Solutions. The main goals are to present the requirements for the mobile e-commerce transactions, some business cases, and a tentative implementation plan for the model. The document is comp...

In this study, interviews were conducted to derive user-centered guidelines for the interface design of mobile applications. These guidelines cover general design issues in input, display, navigation, and feedback. They address five out of seven elements that describe effective mobile commerce interface design proposed by Lee and Benbasat [7]. Compared to guidelines obtained in prior studies, t...

Mobile agents are self-contained processes, dispatched by their principal, roaming the Internet to access data and services, and carrying out their decision-making and problem-solving tasks remotely. M-commerce, the traditional E-commerce combined with mobile devices and wireless networks, is likely to become a major business model in the near future. Due to the flexibility and mobility, mobile...

In less than 15 years, the mobile phone has become an essential part of our daily lives. It is no longer a luxury item and has become one of the most commonly used daily consumer goods throughout the world. Despite its growing significance, there is still a lack of research work in many countries in this field. This study aims to make an approximation of the M-shopper profile and identify the v...

With the rapid proliferation of mobile devices, including mobile phones, PDAs, and handheld computers, mobile commerce is widely considered to be a driving force for next-generation e-commerce. Many attempted m-commerce applications have failed to meet expectations, however, with the notable exceptions of I-Mode in Japan and the explosive growth of Short Messaging Service in China. It is import...