Description
With the advent of the World Wide Web, electronic commerce has revolutionized traditional commerce, boosting sales and facilitating exchanges of merchandise and information. The emergence of wireless and mobile networks has made possible the introduction of electronic commerce to a new application and research area: mobile commerce.
Handheld Computing for Mobile Commerce: Applications, Concepts and Technologies offers 22 outstanding chapters from 71 world-renowned scholars and IT professionals covering themes such as handheld computing for mobile commerce, handheld computing research and technologies, wireless networks and handheld/mobile security, and handheld images and video. It includes research and development results of lasting significance in the theory, design, implementation, analysis, and application of handheld computing. This book is essential for IT students, researchers, and professionals seeking to better understand handheld devices and concepts, thereby producing more useful and effective handheld applications and products.
Reviews and Testimonials
The book Handheld Computing for Mobile Commerce: Applications, Concepts and Technologies is a long awaited book for readers interested in handheld computing and mobile commerce. It covers a broad range of handheld topics for mobile commerce, both in depth and breadth. It is a must-read book for IT personnel and students who want to keep up with the fast-evolving IT.
– Wenchang Fang, National Taipei University, Taiwan
Author's/Editor's Biography
Wen-Chen Hu (Ed.)
Wen-Chen Hu
received a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Florida. He is currently an associate professor in the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science of the University of North Dakota. He is the general chairs of about 20 international conferences and has been the editor-in-chiefs of the Journal of Information Technology Research (JITR) since 2023 and International Journal of Handheld Computing Research (IJHCR) from 2010 to 2017. In addition, he has acted as more than 200 positions like editors and editorial board members of international journals/books and program committee members of international conferences. Dr. Hu has been teaching for more than 25 years at the US universities and about 20 different computer/IT-related courses and advising/consulting more than 100 graduate students. He has published about 200 articles in refereed journals, conference proceedings, books, and encyclopedias, edited more than 10 books and conference proceedings, and solely authored a book. His current research interests include (mobile) data research and applications.
Yanjun Zuo (Ed.)
Yanjun Zuo is an assistant professor at the University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, USA. He
received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, USA in 2005. He
also holds two master’s degrees in Computer Science and Business Administration from the University
of Arkansas and the University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, USA, respectively. His research interests include information and computer security, trustworthy computing, survivable and self-healing
systems, and information privacy protection. He has published numerous articles in referred journals
and conference proceedings in those fields.