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Subject:    [Tccc] Sp. issue of JPDC on Mobile Commerce
From:       Upkar Varshney <uvarshne () cis ! gsu ! edu>
Date:       2003-09-15 18:52:16
Message-ID: Pine.GSO.4.44.0309151446350.25197-100000 () savannah ! cis ! gsu ! edu
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Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing

Special Issue on Mobile Commerce


MOTIVATION AND SCOPE

With the emergence and wide spread adoption of wireless and mobile networks,
devices, and middleware, mobile commerce applications are beginning to
receive some interest in research and development community. According to
estimates by Gartner Group, in 2004, at least 40% of consumer-to-business
e-commerce will be initiated from smart phones. A study from the Wireless
Data and Computing Service, a division of Strategy Analytics, reports that
the worldwide mobile commerce market may rise to $200 Billion by 2004. The
report predicts that transactions via wireless devices will generate about
$14 Billion a year. In many European countries and Japan with significant
wireless penetration, the mobile commerce market is already taking off and
reaching billions of dollars a year.

It is to be noted that mobile commerce may require significantly different
approaches in design, development, and implementation of applications due
to the inherent characteristics of wireless networks and mobile devices.
Many interesting and important challenges include design of mobile
commerce applications, networking requirements and support, transactions
and security, database and software architectures, design and performance
evaluation of m-commerce systems. Mobile commerce will also significantly
benefit from research in mobile devices, mobile middleware, and wireless
network infrastructure. The special issue will bring together computing
and networking issues, architectures, solutions, and performance
evaluation for mobile commerce. The special issue will cover several
systems and computing issues in m-commerce including the followings:

·	Design and development of wireless networks for m-commerce
·	Design and development of m-commerce applications
·	Interoperability, processing and storage requirements
·	Computing and distributed architectures for m-commerce
·	Integrated wireless access for m-commerce
·	Location management support
·	Multicast support for m-commerce
·	Design of algorithms and systems
·	User and location specific service discovery
·	Devices, middleware, and operating systems support for mobile commerce
·	Security and transactions in mobile commerce
·	Scalable, reliable and fault-tolerant architectures
·	Software and database support
·	Performance evaluation of architectures, systems or networks for
m-commerce

Papers not dealing directly with m-commerce and systems will not be
considered for the special issue.

PAPER SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

Authors must submit full papers not exceeding 25 double-spaced pages
including all figures and tables by December 15 to one of the guest
editors by e-mail as pdf or MSWord document. The submission must include
the names, complete mailing addresses, telephone and fax numbers, and the
email addresses of the author(s).

IMPORTANT DATES

December 15, 2003		Submission of Papers
April 1, 2004			Notification of Acceptance/Rejection
June 1, 2004			Final Versions of Papers


GUEST EDITORS

Prof. Upkar Varshney
Dept. of CIS
Georgia State University
9th Floor, 35 Broad St.
Atlanta, GA 30302-4015
E-mail: uvarshney@gsu.edu
Phone: 404-463-9139
www.cis.gsu.edu/~uvarshne

Prof. Stephan Olariu
Department of Computer Science
Old Dominion University
Norfolk, VA 23529-0162
 Email: olariu@cs.odu.edu
Phone: (757) 683-4417
www.cs.odu.edu/~olariu

Dr. Petia Todorova
Fraunhofer-FOKUS
Kaiserin Augusta Allee 31
D-10589 Berlin
Germany
Phone: +49-30-3463-7251
www.fokus.gmd.de/research/cc/cats/employees/petia.todorova








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