---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: CALL FOR CHAPTERS: Advances in Mobile Commerce Technologies Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 14:42:12 +0800 From: "Lim Ee Peng (Assoc Prof)" ASEPLIM@NTU.EDU.SG To: ISWORLD@LISTSERV.HEANET.IE
CALL FOR CHAPTERS
Advances in Mobile Commerce Technologies
http://www.cais.ntu.edu.sg:8000/~aseplim/mcombook.html
Submission deadline 15 August, 2001
A book edited by Ee-Peng Lim (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore) and Keng Siau (University of Nebraska, Lincoln, USA)
Publisher: Idea Group Publishing, USA
As the number of mobile device users increases rapidly and exceeds that of PC users by a large margin, conducting business and services over these mobile devices, also known as mobile commerce) is becoming very attractive and is expected to drive the future development of electronic commerce. To tap the potential of mobile commerce, application providers, service providers, content providers, and technology providers have to work together to realize the future mobile commerce applications. In the process of conceptualizing and developing these applications, they have to be cognizant of the latest development in mobile commerce technology.
The book will serve as an introduction to mobile commerce with emphasis on both theory and application. It will consist of a collection of essays by researchers and developers of mobile commerce addressing a wide spectrum of technology and application issues. These essays will likely be compiled as three parts of the book. The first will review the current trends in mobile commerce applications and technology. It will provide the necessary background knowledge for readers to understand the rest of the book. The second part of the book will focus on the technological challenges of mobile commerce. The last part of the book will cover the application studies and information systems issues in mobile commerce.
The proposed book will be useful to both technical and non- technical readers. The target readers are developers of mobile commerce applications and services, e-business managers, researchers, investors, university professors and students. The book can also be used as a reference textbook for courses that cover mobile commerce.
The topics will include, but are not limited to the ones given below:
- Mobile commerce business model - Mobile Commerce application framework - System architecture for mobile commerce applications - Information exchange in mobile commerce - Mobile agents and mobile commerce - Location dependent mobile commerce services - Database challenges in mobile commerce - Multimedia mobile commerce technologies - Security issues in mobile commerce - Information management for mobile commerce - Evolution from wired commerce to m-commerce - Application case studies
SUBMISSION PROCEDURE Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit on or before August 15, 2001, a 15-25 page chapters on or related to m-commerce. All submitted chapters will then be reviewed. Acceptance/Rejection notification will be on October 15, 2001. Revised chapters are expected to be received by November 30, 2001. Final copy of the chapters must be ready by January 15, 2002. The book is scheduled to be published by Idea Group Publishing in mid 2002. Authors of submitted chapters will be asked to help in reviewing 2-3 other chapters.
Inquiries and Submissions can be forwarded electronically to:
Dr. Ee-Peng Lim Dr. Keng Siau Nanyang Tech. University University of Nebraska, Lincoln School of Computer Engineering Department of Management N4-2a-12, Nanyang Avenue 209 College of Business Admin. Singapore 639798 Lincoln NE 68588-0491 Republic of Singapore USA Email: aseplim@ntu.edu.sg Email: ksiau@unl.edu
URL: http://www.cais.ntu.edu.sg:8000/~aseplim URL: http://www.ait.unl.edu/doc2/faculty/siau/home.htm
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