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DHPC Technical Report DHPC-126

Middleware Issues for Mobile Business and Commerce

K.A.Hawick and H.A.James

Published in Proc World Scientific and Engineering Academy and Society (WSEAS) Int Conf on E-Activities, Singapore, Dec 2002.

Archived 10 October 2002.

Abstract

Mobile commerce is an exciting and very recent addition to modern business enterprise. M-commerce allows levels of sales and management interaction at unprecedented new turn-around times. The technologies for M-commerce are still in their infancy. While new hardware devices such as mobile telephones and personal digital assistants are now commonplace, the software for enabling such devices to support reliable timely secure mobile commerce activities requires considerable development. We are experimenting with socio-technological aspects of both M-commerce and M-business with a number of industrial partners. As well as investigating B2B and B2C scenarios, we also introduce the term ``I2I'' for internal to internal business data exchange transactions. Our particular research interest is in developing a middleware to support M-activities. We describe our experiments in this area and our prototype system.

Keywords: m-commerce; middleware; distributed systems.

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