Auctioning Bulk Mobile Messages

Auctioning Bulk Mobile Messages

The search for enablers of continued growth of SMS traffic, as well as the take-off of the more diversified MMS message contents, open up for enterprises the potential of bulk use of mobile messaging , instead of essentially one-by-one use. In parallel, such enterprises or value added services needing mobile messaging in bulk for spot use or for use over a prescribed period of time want to mini...

Auctioning Tourism Products over Mobile Devices

Mobile Agents - Smart Messages

1 The authors can be contacted at [email protected]. This work is funded by Broadcom Éireann Ltd. Abstract. Wireless communication with Mobile Computing devices is known to be problematic. It is very different in character from conventional communication over wired networks. Since many distributed applications make assumptions about network characteristics, they may not be used in a hostile ...

Does Auctioning

We use experiments to examine whether the auctioning of entry rights affects the behavior of market entrants. Standard economic arguments suggest that the license fee paid at the auction will not affect prices since it constitutes a sunk cost. This argument is not uncontested though and this paper puts it to an experimental test. Our results indicate that an auction of entry licenses may affect...

Making a mobile robot read textual messages

* 0-7803-7952-7/03/$17.00  2003 IEEE. Abstract – With all of the textual indications, messages and signs we find in urban settings to provide us with all types of information, it is only natural that we try to give to robots reading capabilities of interpreting such information. Equipped with optical character recognition algorithms, a mobile robot has to face the challenge of controlling its ...