Intelligent Information Management in Mobile Electronic Commerce

A mobile phone today is rapidly evolving into Personal Trusted Device with the ability to handle a wide variety of new services and applications including mobile electronic commerce. Managing and sailing the Web content to mobile users based on their preferences and location are becoming now a leading trend in mobile commerce. M-commerce services should be able to integrate different types of information with geographical data and manage different type of profiles related to preferences, security, privacy, transaction management, etc. The multilevel profiling framework discussed in this paper should be able to allow business operations based on different levels of profiles to be able to reach consensus between a buyer and a seller about general and specific features of their relationships. We consider the following main levels of profiles from the top level to basic level: international and local laws, standards (transaction management, payment, security, privacy, and so on); metaprofiles (Meta Document Type Definitions); profiles Document Type Definitions (for security, for privacy, for preferences, for transaction management, for negotiations, for orders and invoices, for shipping schedules, for contracting and billing, and so on), E-Speak Service Framework Specification, Common Business Library patterns; interpreted profiles (concrete XML documents, which describe different features of reached consensus). Some hints to measure distances (evaluate similarity) between different profiles are also given.