Ontological modelling of e‐services to ensure appropriate mobile transactions

Abstract

The main goal of this paper is to provide simple ontological support to mobile electronic commerce. The description of an ontology‐driven Transaction Monitor (TM) for mobile business applications is considered. The approach is based on the assumption that the transaction management tool can be implemented in a mobile terminal, allowing integration of different distributed external e‐services. We use the ontology‐based framework for transaction management so that the TM will be able to manage transaction across multiple e‐services and we consider management of distributed location‐based services as an example of such ontology‐based TM implementation. The core of the approach is very simple service ontologies. Ontologies should be ‘placed’ both in mobile terminals and in e‐services. They define common multiple clients—multiple services standards and vocabularies for the use of the names, types, schemas, default values for parameters, atomic service actions with appropriate structure of action's input and output. In our implementation ontologies help to the TM to deal with multiple services during transactions and to simplify the appropriate user interface. Copyright © 2003 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Critical determinants for mobile commerce adoption in Vietnamese small and medium-sized enterprises

“…M-commerce can be approached from the transaction perspective. Such a perspective describes m-commerce as a business transaction with an economic value using a mobile terminal (Leung & Antypas 2001;Terziyan 2002;Zhang, Yuan & Archer 2002;Sadeh 2003;Clarke III 2008). In particular, m-commerce involves the delivery of trusted transactions over mobile devices for the exchange of goods and services between customers, merchants, and across organizations (Njenga et al 2016).…”

Factors determining firms' perceived performance of mobile commerce

“…Clarke (2001) describes mobile commerce as the ability to purchase products anywhere through a device which enables wireless internet use. Terziyan (2002) defines it as a business transaction with an economic value conducted using a mobile terminal allowing communication through telecommunications or a personal area network with an electronic commerce infrastructure. As a result, according to Tarasewich (2002, p. 42) mobile commerce “is defined as all activities related to a (potential) commercial transaction conducted through communications networks that interface with wireless (or mobile) devices”.…”