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Title: |
Supporting m-commerce transactions incorporating locational attributes: an evaluation of the comparative performance of a location-aware method of locations repository management |
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Author: |
James E. Wyse 
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Address: |
Faculty of Business Administration, Memorial University, St. John's, NF A1B 3X5, Canada |
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Journal: |
International Journal of Mobile Communications 2003 - Vol. 1, No.1/2 pp. 119-147 |
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Abstract: |
The growth in value of economic activity associated with e-commerce transactions is now a firmly established trend. Mobile commerce (m-commerce) has recently emerged as a significant and growing segment of e-commerce and is increasingly the subject of application development activities and the object of escalating levels of business investment. An integral component of many m-commerce applications is a repository containing location-related information (attributes) on service-providing or goods-producing organisations. Rapid access to an organisation's locational attributes is an important determinant of the level of service realised by m-commerce users of variant location. This article compares two methods of delivering transactional data associated with an organisation's locational attributes to m-commerce users: one method takes a straightforward, enumerative approach; the second method uses a proposed ''location-aware'' approach that avails itself of the locational attributes of both the m-commerce user and the organisational locations of user interest. A simulation-based methodology is employed to compare the two methods and evaluate the relative performance of the proposed location-aware method. Results suggest that the location-aware method has significant potential to increase the speed with which locational data is delivered to m-commerce users. |
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Keywords: |
location-aware database management; mobile commerce; location-based systems; locations repository management. |
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DOI: |
10.1504/IJMC.2003.002462 |
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