Handheld Computing for Mobile Commerce: Applications, Concepts and Technologies

With the advent of the World Wide Web, electronic commerce has revolutionized traditional commerce, boosting sales and facilitating exchanges of merchandise and information. The emergence of wireless and mobile networks has made possible the introduction of electronic commerce to a new application and research area: mobile commerce. Handheld Computing for Mobile Commerce: Applications, Concepts and Technologies offers 22 outstanding chapters from 71 world-renowned scholars and IT professionals covering themes such as handheld computing for mobile commerce, handheld computing research and technologies, wireless networks and handheld/mobile security, and handheld images and video. It includes research and development results of lasting significance in the theory, design, implementation, analysis, and application of handheld computing. This book is essential for IT students, researchers, and professionals seeking to better understand handheld devices and concepts, thereby producing more useful and effective handheld applications and products.

Wen-Chen Hu received a BE, ME, MS, and PhD all in computer science, from the Tamkang University (Taiwan, 1984), the National Central University (Taiwan, 1986), the University of Iowa (Iowa City, USA, 1993), and the University of Florida (Gainesville, USA, 1998). He was an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering at the Auburn University (Alabama, USA) for several years. Currently, he is an associate professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of North Dakota (Grand Forks, USA). He is the editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Handheld Computing Research (IJHCR) and an associate editor of the Journal of Information Technology Research (JITR). Dr. Hu has participated on over ten editorial advisory/review board members of international journals/books and more than ten track/session chairs and program committee members of international conferences. He has also won awards for best papers, best reviewers, and community services. Dr. Hu has been teaching more than ten years at US universities, has taught over ten different computer/IT-related courses, and has advised more than fifty graduate students. He has published over seventy articles in refereed journals, conference proceedings, books, and encyclopedias, edited three books, and solely authored a book entitled Internet-Enabled Handheld Devices, Computing, and Programming: Mobile Commerce and Personal Data Applications. His current research interests include handheld computing, electronic and mobile commerce systems, Web technologies, and databases. He is a member of the IEEE Computer Society and ACM (Association for Computing Machinery).