An increasing number of mobile communications and wireless network users generate strong demand for new mobile commerce applications and services. Mobile communications technologies are growing rapidly and will continue to do so in future, focusing on supporting high speed data transfer over communication networks. Business organizations and mobile communications networks service providers are forced to bring in new technologies which provide customers with more reliable and secure m-commerce and user-friendly, economical and affordable mobile services. With such mobility, users enhances their lives in many ways, through communications, data sharing, entertainment, e-learning, e-commerce and mobile application services. Customer demand and mobile communications service support provides many new business opportunities and challenges to m-commerce vendors, mobile network service providers, mobile content publishers, various market places, entertainment and the information world. Innovative applications and services will ease users’ needs for m-commerce transactions.
The increasing demands of mobile commerce have also seen increasing attention from academics and researchers. This special issue aims to cover latest developments in mobile communications and internet technologies supporting innovation in m-commerce. With this special issue researchers and practitioners can exchange ideas, issues, challenges, new business models and structures, and new technologies and solutions.
Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit original and research papers addressing business and technical issues, challenges, solutions, and technologies for m-commerce systems and applications. All submissions will be peer-reviewed by distinguish reviewers.
Topics of interest include but are not limited to the following:
- Ambient intelligent frameworks, platforms and systems
- Case studies of m-commerce innovative services
- Context-aware applications for m-commerce
- Customer relationship management in m-commerce
- Deployment, experience and lessons learned reports in m-commerce and services
- Finance/banking in m-commerce
- Future of m-commerce
- Innovative communication technologies for the m-commerce (e.g. 3G, NGN, IMS, LTE, SAE, 4G, HSPDA) environment
- Location based services (LBS) for m-commerce
- M-Commerce and "mobile 2.0" and/or mobile web 2.0 technology extensions
- M-commerce and regional language support
- M-commerce business models, processes, strategies, and market structure analysis
- M-Commerce in cloud computing environment
- M-Commerce in open source software and applications
- M-Commerce in pervasive computing environment
- M-commerce security problems, technologies, solutions and privacy
- Mobile advertising solutions, techniques, systems and platforms
- Mobile agents for m-commerce
- Mobile brokerage, management and service mechanisms
- Mobile computing models, technologies and solutions
- Mobile database retrieval techniques, transaction models and caching techniques for m-commerce
- Mobile digital home environment and intelligence
- Mobile enabled architectures, middleware supports m-commerce
- Mobile entertainment services and platforms for digital music, videos, tickets, and games
- Mobile instant messaging systems and services
- Mobile payment protocols, solutions, service systems and platforms
- Mobile personalization, mobile service management, and natural language support
- Mobile service middleware and platforms for m-commerce
- Mobile supply chain management
- Mobile-based e-learning and education environments
- New mobile enterprise systems and applications
- New mobile portals, mobile-based social networks, and marketplaces
- New wireless multimedia technologies and platforms for m-commerce, (e.g., DMB, DVB-H, mobile TV)
- Pricing and cost analysis of m-commerce services
- RFID and barcodes, barcode 2.0 for m-commerce and services
- Semantic web and services for m-commerce
- Tools for design, deployment and evaluation of tag-based systems for m-commerce
- Ubiquitous computing platform and services for mobile users
Final Date for Paper Submission: 1 May, 2011
Paper Acceptance Notification: 1 August, 2011
Submission of Revised Final Papers: 1 September, 2011
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