Can M-Commerce Benefit from Pervasive Computing?

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Author(s): Stan Kurkovsky (Central Connecticut State University, USA)
Copyright: 2009
Pages: 13
Source title: Handbook of Research on Telecommunications Planning and Management for Business
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): In Lee (Western Illinois University, USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-194-0.ch030

Keywords: Information Science Reference / Media & Communications / Networking and Telecommunications / Telecommunications

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Mobile commerce is a special area of electronic commerce that utilizes mobile wireless devices to conduct commercial transactions. Unique features of these devices include their mobility, personalization, and location-awareness. These features play a very significant role in enabling a novel class of emerging applications that take advantage of recent advances in pervasive computing. The paradigm of pervasive computing environment was first introduced by Mark Weiser in the early 1990s who postulated the anytime anyplace availability of computing and information services that are enabled by miniature devices and sensors seamlessly and unobtrusively embedded in the surrounding environment. Although this vision has not been realized in its literal sense, today mobile and smart phones are commonly viewed as an enabler of a human interface to the surrounding computing and information environment. As an application area where many principles of pervasive computing have been successfully implemented, mobile commerce has reaped significant benefits from the recent scientific and technological advances. This chapter discusses a number of pervasive computing principles and illustrates how they have been implemented in mobile commerce applications. The chapter also presents some new trends in developing context aware m-commerce services that tap into the power of Web 2.0 services and digital communities.

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