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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